Hello everyone! I'm Karin, and these are my two losers for this game:
George Smiley—this guy here—from John le Carré's spy novels. Mostly the Karla trilogy, but Call For the Dead, A Murder of Quality, and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold figure in his background too. He comes from just after the end of the third Karla novel, Smiley's People. He's been here about a week, and is comfortably ensconced in the role of assistant manager at an antiquarian bookstore (taking suggestions for names). But really this is a secondment, and his primary employer is the Security Staff, who cajoled him into being an investigator. No one knows this yet.
Una Persson (una_persson), from a crapload of novels by Michael Moorcock. No, really, it's terribad. She comes from a point shortly after the end of the novella "The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera", for what that's worth in her extremely non-linear timeline. She's a time-travelling adventuress and woman of the world, and generally game for any kind of adventure. Still trying to figure out a job for her. She's a shiny new arrival more or less as of yesterday.
Smiley is going to be super-closemouthed about his background as a spy—if asked, he will admit only to having been a civil servant in the Foreign Office back where he came from. I'd like someone to get the truth out of him eventually, though—perhaps the Neuralflu can come into that? I don't think Una will catch it it's too early in the game for me to be messing with her head, but she's available to catch anyone else's random thoughts.
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George Smiley—this guy here—from John le Carré's spy novels. Mostly the Karla trilogy, but Call For the Dead, A Murder of Quality, and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold figure in his background too. He comes from just after the end of the third Karla novel, Smiley's People. He's been here about a week, and is comfortably ensconced in the role of assistant manager at an antiquarian bookstore (taking suggestions for names). But really this is a secondment, and his primary employer is the Security Staff, who cajoled him into being an investigator. No one knows this yet.
Una Persson (
Smiley is going to be super-closemouthed about his background as a spy—if asked, he will admit only to having been a civil servant in the Foreign Office back where he came from. I'd like someone to get the truth out of him eventually, though—perhaps the Neuralflu can come into that? I don't think Una will catch it
it's too early in the game for me to be messing with her head, but she's available to catch anyone else's random thoughts.