Colt Carson

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You were born Todd Carson outside Boston. Your father was a sergeant in the police department and your mother was a middle school teacher. You grew up knowing that when you grew up you would enter the Boston police force, like your father. Your mother didn't really like that idea. She hated worrying about your father every time he went out on the streets.

Your early years were mostly uneventful. You loved to explore, to climb trees and swim in rivers. Because of this, you managed to obtain plenty of broken bones, scraped knees, and bruises galore. Your mother hated you going out like that, but your father thought it was good for your 'growth.' You didn't know what that meant at the time, but you're glad he did.

In high school, you became popular for the first time as the football hero of the school. You were one of the best quarterbacks the school had seen in a long time. You found your place and you were happy with it. You didn't get great grades, but that didn't really matter, because the school loved you no matter what you did in class.

That all changed when you went to college. You just barely got into Northeastern--your SAT scores weren't great. You tried to get in to somewhere on a football scholarship, but your grades weren't good enough for any school that you liked to to accept you. You could have gone to a state school, but nothing had a good criminal justice program, which was the only thing you were even moderately interested in.

Around halfway through sophomore year, you realized that without your football fame, you really didn't have anything you could contribute to a school. You were barely getting passing grades, you didn't have very many friends, and you didn't have very much to do in the way of extracurricular activities.

So you withdrew from the school. You got a job at some retail store in the area and got a small, dirty apartment you could barely afford. You weren't very happy with your life at this point, but you didn't know what to do about it.

You applied for a position in the Boston police department. You didn't do so well on the written exam, and it was really only your father's recommendation that got you in. You weren't much liked among the other officers, everyone knew you were only there because you were Sergeant Carson's son.

That changed a couple of years later when your father retired. Once that happened, you realized just how much his presence was protecting your standing among the rest of the force. People started hassling you a lot more, and you found that a lot more of your shifts were rescheduled to be traffic duty.

Life as a police officer wasn't as glorious as you had imagined it would be. You weren't keeping the streets safe, and you weren't making all the police buddies that your father had stories about. It wasn't interesting, and it wasn't what you wanted to do. So you quit.

Your life was tough for a while after you quit, you went from job to job, staying in a multitude of run down apartments. You thought a lot about what you wanted to do with your life. You thought about what you actually wanted to get out of being a police officer.

That's when it hit you. You wanted to help people, you wanted to solve mysteries and catch the bad guy. You wanted to be the police detective you saw in the movies. But life wasn't like that. What you figured you wanted to be was the grizzled film noir type private detective, like Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe.

So you went and applied to get a licence to be a private detective. The licensing part was easy, it was setting up a practice that was difficult. You took out a loan, got an office, put out ads and whatnot. You started going under the name of Colt Carson, because you thought it would be more interesting, but it seemed that people didn't really need Private Investigators as much as they seemed to in movies.

You did some jobs for insurance companies and delivered subpoenas and other such menial work for quite a while, just to get some capital. You were thinking of giving this up and just abandoning your dream for a while until some kid, must have been only a couple of years out of college, came to your office.

He said his name was Darren and he wanted you to track his girlfriend. He had a feeling she was cheating on him, but he wanted to know for sure and with whom. So you tracked this girl, Jessica. It took you a while, but you managed to get proof that she was cheating on him, and with his ex-roommate and friend, no less. This was exactly the juicy detective work you had wanted to do.

When you organized all the information and evidence, you tried to get in touch with Darren. For two days you looked for him, until it turned out that he had died. You lost a lot of money on this investigation, and you didn't know how you were going to get it back.

It seems as though someone was listening to you because a woman entered your office the next day. She called herself Fred, interestingly enough. She was looking for someone. She wouldn't say why, but she was willing to pay well to find him. So you did. It didn't take long. You gave the woman the information and she gave you the money, praising your speedy work.

A couple days later, you were reading the paper and an article caught your eye. It seems as though the man you were sent to find was killed the day before. This surprised you and you didn't really know how to feel about it. She didn't tell you why she wanted to find him, so it wasn't really your fault, and she did pay you quite well.

You were still mulling this over a couple days later when Fred came back. She told you that she had someone else she wanted you to find, and she would pay just as well as she had last time. Something told you not to talk about the last guy. You needed the money to pay the rent and other things... so you took the job.

You worked with Fred a lot over the past year. You've even started working with some of her 'friends.' You know the work they do is anything but legal, and the work you've been doing has lead to a number of deaths, but you've come to accept that. You've been living quite well off these ill-gotten gains, and you're not about to stop now.

Because of these dealings, you've learned a great deal about the underbelly of the society you live in. For example, you've learned about how a number of the police officers you worked with in the force (and others around Boston) have been dealing with Fred and others like her. This corruption in the police force has been going on for a while, and it's only now that Internal Affairs has gotten wind of it. It's not just corruption. They're pretty incompetent too. They've gone weeks now since the big Delgado murder case without any leads or any arrests. One of your police contacts actually told you that they're getting desperate enough to put out a reward for any information leading to an arrest. He let you know early because he knew you could take advantage of the situation. He could be right.

You've also been hearing rumors about some big scandal involving the head of Gold Standard. You heard he was possibly embezzling from the company. So you looked into it on a whim. You found out something quite easily. Anyone looking even slightly closely into the accounting of the company could put two and two together and find out that something's going on. You don't have proof of anything, but if you leaked what you found to the public, they would probably go under scrutiny by the authorities and that wouldn't be good for Solomon Gold.

You should probably remember that if you ever run into Solomon Gold on the street.

Last Thoughts Before Game Start

Well, that's interesting. Not only do you walk onto the train to find someone that you had been hired to trail, but the guy she was cheating on her boyfriend with, the author who asked for your help with a book, the drug dealer you've been working with, and the media executive you have blackmail-worty evidence on.

This is going to be an interesting train ride.

Who You Know on the Train

01. Jessica Hawthorne – The cheating girlfriend of the man, Darren Gregory, that hired you to get the details on the affair. He never did pay you, did he?

02. Scott Barrister – The guy Jessica Hawthorne was cheating on Darren Gregory with, once a good friend of his.

03. - A nerdy, awkward looking young man. He's so obviously weird you actually feel a bit sorry for him.

05. - Get a load of that gypsy getup on this woman. She's probably one of those fortune-telling shysters who cold read people and tell them what they want to hear.

06. William Hughes – A writer who asked you to be his consultant on detective matters for a book he was writing, “Blood and Fire.” Naturally, he’d had all the details wrong.

07. - A young woman in professional dress. She looks like she's got a lot on her mind.

08. - It's clear from this guy's face that he's gone through some tough stuff lately.

09. Fred Matthews – You’ve done some work for him on his less-than-legal business activities. It’s been a lucrative association.

10. - This guy gives off way too much of a bigshot attitude for the way he seems to be trying not to be noticed. He may be trying to keep a low profile, but you can tell he thinks he's hot stuff.

11. - The way this guy carries himself just screams cop. Looks like one of those assholes who joined the force just to push people around. Damn, do guys like that piss you off.

12. - Another young professional kid. He seems like a mousy, wishy-washy type to you.

13. Solomon Gold – The CEO of Gold Standard Entertainment, about whom you’ve heard rumors of corporate embezzlement.

14. - Damn, is it a pain when a bum parks himself in a car on the subway. Get a job, why don't you.

15. The conductor. From the way she's so stressed and distracted, something's eating at her, no question.

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