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William Calhoun's Plans

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This is a list of active and future plans as well as todo's for Lord Falkland

Ambitions

- Become Senectus

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Progress in research practice

  • Become a member of the Royal Society (1250 pounds)
  • Learn Anthropometry (i.e. fingerprinting etc. ) Dr. Henry Faulds (1880), [Sir William Herschel and mr. Bertillon]
  • Given that Forensics is currently underdeveloped set up a fund with colleges in order to further scientific advancement in this field.

Solve Quarantine issues in the Harbor (clan Trilion)

  • Reduce, and possibly replace the influence of clan Trilion within the Port Authority.

Business Plan

Set up partners and firms to secure a share in the English (and Dutch) ever increasing Colonial Trade to the East and West Indies. Acquire shares in trading companies, shipwrights, etc. in London and Gibraltar. Subsequently expand interests east to Malta, Suez(1869) and the Gulf of Aden into Persia and India; and south to the British Goldcoast(1867) into the Cape of Good Hope.

__Stage 1__

  • Write up a business plan, (3S)
  • Secure investors willing to back my plans
  • Set up base of Operations in London, see WJAC Shipping Ltd
  • Secure trade contacts in Constantinople and Egypt
    • target: seek partnership with or acquire companies with bills of trade
    • Send an agent in order to manage local affairs and make the necessary harbor arrangements.
    • target goods: Historic art and antiquities, Arabic Silk
  • Secure docking rights in Gibraltar and Malta

__Stage 2__

  • Expand the base of Operations with shipwright
  • Design and building own ships (ask Sir Berkeley)
  • Secure capable crews and trusted captains
  • Set up a base of Operation in Port Said
  • Secure docking rights in Barcelona, and Lisbon or Porto. (Marseille, Bordeaux, and Edinburgh)
  • Secure trade contacts in the Gulf of Aden, Persia, and India
    • Hire a retainer to handle local trade affairs on my behalf in China and India
    • target goods: Arabic Silk, Spices and Horses

Favours due

  • Mrs. Cressingham (for teaching See the Real World)
  • Lady Sue (for her knowledge regarding blood dolls)
  • Lady Northall (for her troubles introducing me to mr. Roberts)
  • Sister Clemence (for getting staff in-the-know)
  • Lord Oakley (for the introduction and arranging Taxes training)
  • Lord Oakley (for investing in the company)
  • Sir Von Dunheim (3 for Fortitude training)
  • Dr. Pembershire (2 favors - Patient care Falkland Irregular & employee screening Shipping company)

Training

  • Strength 4 (12xp)
  • Stamina 4 (12xp)
  • Dexterity 5 (16xp)
  • Survival 2 (2xp)
  • Brawl 2 (2xp)
  • Taxes 2 (2xp)
  • Taxes 3 (2xp)
  • Empathy 3 (3xp)
  • Dodge 5 (8xp)
  • Law 4 (5xp)
  • Occult 3 (4xp)
  • Occult 4 (6xp)
  • Linguistics 5 (8xp)
  • Occult Specialty: The Inquisition 1 (3xp)
  • Security Specialty: Safecracking 1 (2xp)
  • Security Specialty: Safecracking 2 (2xp)
  • Linguistics Specialty: Semitic Languages 1 (3xp)
  • Linguistics Specialty: Semitic Languages 2 (3xp)
  • Linguistics Specialty: Heiroglyphics 1 (3xp)
  • Stewardship Specialty: Moneylaundering 1 (3xp)
  • Investigation Specialty: Background checking 1 (3xp)
  • Language 9: Hebrew (5 dagen)
  • Language 10: Aramaic (5 dagen)
  • Language 11: Egyptian (5 dagen)
  • Language 12: Coptic (5 dagen)
  • Language 13: Sumero Akkadian cuneiform (5 dagen)
  • Contacts (Docks) 2 (2xp)
  • Backing (Falkland's Irregulars) 2 (2xp)
  • Auspex: Aura Sight (7xp)
  • Auspex: The Spirit's Touch (7xp)
  • Auspex: Pierce the Viel (7xp)
  • Fortitude: Stone Heart (8xp)
  • Fortitude: Hardened Skin (8xp)
  • Fortitude: Toughness (8xp)
  • Potence: Potence (8xp)
  • Potence: Brute Force (8xp)