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Name: Aleister Lord Ravensgate a/k/a "The Daring Magpie!"

• Player: Dave Hill
• Concept: Gentleman Thief

Aspects

1. The hand is quicker than the eye
2. "I think you need to learn your betters."
3. So clever he could cut himself.
4. "To the Manor Formed"
5. The Daring Magpie!
6. A weakness for ... pretty things.
7. Inspector Javits
8. Sword Cane!
9. "A bit of a wastrel, don't you think?"
10. Things get ... complicated.

Skills

• Superb: Sleight of Hand (111)
• Great: Burglary (92), Resources (108)
• Good: Rapport (106), Resolve (107), Weapons (114)
• Fair: Alertness (88), Athletics (91), Stealth (112), Deceit (95)
• Average: Contacting (93), Art (89), Empathy (96), Gambling (99), Endurance (97)

Stunts

1. Burgle: Criminal Mind (128)
2. Burgle: Tripwire Sensibilities (128)
3. Rapport: Five Minute Friends (182)
4. Sleight: Cool Hand (195)
5. Bump and Grab (195)

Health: (from base of 3) 4 [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]

Composure: (from base of 3) 5 [ ] [ ] [ ]

Phases

Phase One: Early Life

• Events: Growing up as an orphan street rat in London, running mostly on his own, pickpocketing and shoplifting and staying one step ahead of the police -- and, along the way, learning to despise the arrogant and self-righteously entitled.
• Aspects: The hand is quicker than the eye; "I think you need to learn your betters."

Phase Two: The Great War

• Patron: Rupert Lord Ravensgate ("The Daring Magpie!")
• Events: Crossed paths with Rupert while on a job, and taken on as a promising irregular assistant, later as an apprentice and protege -- dealing with Boche spies, war profiteers, anarchists, gangsters, and elitists.
• Aspects: So clever he could cut himself; "To the Manor Formed"

Phase Three (novel):

• Novel: The Daring Magpie and the Contessa of Death!
• Guest starring: Andre Treksev, Celeste Cloud
• Events: The new Lord Ravensgate has a secret - he's the gentleman thief known to the international police as the Daring Magpie. But when he becomes enamored of a Continental beauty, will he be too besotted to foil an assassination plot against King Edward? Will Celeste Cloud, running across the plans while stealing the Contessa's jewels, be able to sway him? And will he be in time to rescue Andre Treksev, who himself has been duped into dropping the bomb that might very well kill the King?
• Aspects: The Daring Magpie!; A weakness for ... pretty things

Phase Four (guest starring):

• Guest starring in: Captain Andre vs. the Bolsheviks of Berlin!
• Events: In Berlin to "assist" in restoration of German war spoils, the Daring Magpie must ally with his nemesis, Inspector Javits, to combat a Bolshie plot to steal those riches for their own nefarious purpose! Will his sword cane be sufficient to hold them off aboard a hijacked treasure train unti Andre Treksev can come to the rescue?
• Aspects: Inspector Javits; Sword Cane!

Phase Five (guest starring):

• Guest starring in: D.L. Curtiss and the Black Opal of Singapore!
• Events: Lord Aleister becomes mixed up with the Singaporean crime lord, Luk Sin. He steals the Black Opal from Sin, only to have it stolen in turn by Celeste Cloud. Banding together with DL Curtiss, can the three of them give Luk sin his come-uppance?
• Aspects: "Bit of a wastrel, don't you think?"; Things get ... complicated.