Solomon Gold

Character Sheet

Life is good. It has been for a while. That's what happens when you're the CEO of a major multi-million dollar media corporation. You weren't born rich, it was one of those rags-to-riches stories you hear about on talk shows.

You were born in New York to a shop owner and a house wife. Your family wasn't well off, and you didn't have very many luxuries. You lived in a small apartment with two younger brothers and a younger sister. You and your siblings were the first in your family to go to high school, even if it was a public school.

You got much better grades in high school than your siblings did. When you graduated, your father asked you to help him run the family store. You, however, had different plans.

You applied to different schools all around the northeast, asking every one of them for scholarships and financial aid things. Unfortunately, few schools actually offered anything to you. And the only one that looked good at all was UMass. You would have to take out a loan and you'd have to move to Massachusetts, but that didn't matter to you. You wanted to be the first person in your family to go to college, you wanted to make something of yourself, you wanted to have a future that wasn't just working in your father's store like your siblings were planning on doing.

So you went to UMass, you majored in business. You struggled with taking classes and working most days. You only had a couple of friends. One of your best friends was your freshman year roommate, Henry Frasier. He was a good guy from a different background from yours. He too wanted a future different from that of his family, though, and he worked hard than you had to get to this point.

The two of you stayed friends throughout your time there and you worked together on a lot of your class projects. You supported each other and both managed to graduate on time and with good grades. A few weeks later, you were hired to be an accountant for a small advertising firm in Boston. They were looking for more people, and you suggested Henry.

After working there for a couple of years, you and Henry started talking about starting your own company. You didn't really know what you wanted to do, but you wanted to branch out on your own. So you brainstormed for a while, coming up with some interesting ideas, until settling on a publishing agency. You liked the idea and you thought it was potentially lucrative.

So you started up Grasier publishing. It was quite small at first, you only published a handful of books in your first few years, but they sold well, and business started to pick up. After a few years you had a steady flow of books.

So you had the idea to expand. You thought it would be good to start looking into the music industry. Not necessarily start a record label, but have a couple of agents, some scouts looking for fresh talent, that kind of thing.

That idea flourished and Grasier publishing became Grasier media. Things went well and you and Henry started making lots of money. Things were good. but you wanted more. So you started planning more expansions, such as your own record label and so on. Henry was worried that you were becoming too greedy, that you were expanding faster than the company could handle. He just didn't see the potential and the profit that could be had.

He also didn't agree with the amount of money you'd been skimming off the top of the accounting. You'd been doing it for a while, and he just recently found out about it. He was ready to go to the authorities about it. He told you that you were getting too greedy and this needed to end.

So you ended him. You ended his career and his wealth and anything else you could do. You had made many connections over the past years and not all of them were the legal kind. With their help, you made it so he couldn't access any of his assets, his house, or anything. You made him a persona-non-grata in the area.

You haven't heard from Henry since.

But you've been quite productive, nonetheless. The recently renamed Gold Standard Entertainment Corporation was doing swimmingly. You had expanded the company further than you could have imagined. It now represented all the major entertainment personalities from authors, musicians, movie makers, magazines even psychics and street performers.

Henry might have been a little right, though. You might have been getting a bit greedy over the past couple of years. Your accountants had to be personally overseen by you to make sure they knew what they were doing and the correctly innocuous amount of money.

Though you don't think the last one did such a great job about it. He was catching on to what was going on, and was getting a little sloppy. You even heard news that one of the people working for Nation Magazine was looking into what was going on and was getting close to the truth.

So you fired your last accountant. You're in the process of training the new girl. Her name's Frances or something. She's got a good head on her shoulders, and that might be a problem. She hasn't shown any sign that she knows what's going on, though.

But she's not the only one you need to worry about. The cops are starting to get wind of what's going on, and you're going to need to talk to this new accountant of yours about keeping all of this under wraps.

To that vein, you've been trying to move all your ill-gotten gains to a more secure place. You were in process of getting a large sum of money to someone you trust who can get it out of the country surreptitiously.

Well, you were, before the car broke down. So now, you're on the subway. You hate the subway. You haven't been down here in years. It smells and you have to talk to people and be around homeless people.

You hope you don't get mugged.

Last Thoughts Before Game Start

Why do you have to ride the train again? These people are all looking at you. And it smells. Thankfully you only have to be here for a couple minutes

Who You Know on the Train

01. Some prissy little girl, probably just out of college, probably off on a "shopping adventure" with her boyfriend.

02. The boyfriend who was dragged along to go shopping. He doesn't look thrilled about it.

03. A nerdy, awkward looking young man. He reminds you of the kind of guy that never seems to figure out how to be normal around people.

04. Colt Carson – A private detective who’s been sniffing around you lately. He may become a problem.

05. Madam Zostra – She plays a psychic on a call-in show that is a very lucrative property for your company. She has no idea what you’ve been doing.

06. William Hughes – A successful writer whose work your company publishes. His agent may have an inkling of what’s up.

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

08. This guy seems a little nervous. Maybe he doesn't like trains. You can understand.

09. A rough-looking street thug type. Probably not involved in the most legal of things.

10. You know a bigshot pretending to try to look inconspicuous when you see one. This kid clearly thinks he's pretty damn important, even if he is acting like he doesn't want to be noticed.

11. Patrick Doyle – A tough local cop. He may know something, but you don’t know how much. That could be very troublesome.

12. Phillip Zabrensky – A nice young kid who’s going to be your new accountant. He should serve nicely.

14. Of course, the one day you'd have to ride the subway, there would have to be a bum hanging around. Get a job, why don't you.

15. The train conductor. She looks like she could use a vacation.