"A Brush with Fear" Character Introductions

Welcome! This blog will be dedicated to recording the many exploits in our Call of Cthulhu campaign, tentatively entitled A Brush with Fear. In this campaign, set in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1926, we will encounter and investigate many otherworldly beings and try to survive as best that we can. This first post will introduce our characters

Baxter Leighton: Played by Micah Schow, Baxter is a 25-year-old surrealist painter. Though he grew up in England, he moved to France after the Great War to both help rebuild the country and to study art. There, he became a respected student of the surrealist school, rubbing shoulders with the greats. About a year ago, he moved to the United States with the intention of being one of the first to spread his school in the region. He is fairly humble, but also very eccentric, and sarcastic at times. He has been having troubling dreams recently, inspiring many of his recent, most popular, works

Leroy Scruthers: Played by Stephen Stannard, Leroy is a 48-year-old veteran of the Great War, and his since gone into an unscrupulous business of vague intent. He's also portly and self-centered. When this campaign starts, he is beginning a lawsuit against Baxter, claiming that his latest painting, depicting a grotesque monster, was stolen from his dream journal.

Rosalee Hartmann: Played by Vanessa Ledbetter, Rosalee is a 35-year-old single lawyer. In her youth, she worked both with the Red Cross and as a social worker  Though intelligent and attractive, she is also impatient and, at times, quite mean. She has been hired by Mr. Scruthers in his lawsuit against Baxter.

Alexander St. Jacques: Played by me, Christian Swenson, Alexander is a 21-year-old monk, adhering to the Order of St. Dionysius. A native of Boston, the loss of his brother to the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918 caused him to turn forever from the world and toward God. Alexander is genuinely devoted to his religion, and, although quite naive, is extremely kind and sincere. Just before the campaign begins, Alexander had a troubling experience where he saw the very being depicted in Baxter's painting.