Introducing James "Bicky" Bickmore...

This is my character for Pete's Top Secret S.I. campaign that the Tuesday Knights started earlier this month.

I haven't played, or read, the Top Secret books for a good couple of decades but there are some very useful websites out there to help guide people through the process of playing this old school game, such as Spys R Us.

James "Bicky" Bickmore
British
Age: 36
Height: 6ft 1"
Eyes: Dark blue
Hair: Black

STRENGTH: 38
REFLEX: 64
INTELLIGENCE: 76
WILLPOWER: 34
CONSTITUTION: 63
MOVEMENT: 51
DEXTERITY: 70

Psychological Profile
Cruelty: low; Loyalty: high; Sanity: some; Selfishness: some; Passion: high; piety: low; slight paranoia and pipe smoker.

ADVANTAGES:
Fearlessness
Sixth Sense
Internal Compass
Toughness (1pt)

DISADVANTAGES:
Addiction (pipe tobacco) 2pt
Dependents (wife and daughter) 3pt

SKILLS:
Basic Firearms (0) 70%
Basic Melee (0) 35%
Pistol (1) 75%
Wrestling (1) 51%
Cryptography (2) 86%
Pilot (Jet) (0) 70%
Computer Use (0) 76%
Basic Science (0) 38%

Following in his father's footsteps, both as career-military and a keen pipe-smoker, James went into the RAF straight from Cambridge and put his sharp mind to working at cracking codes and ciphers. During a training flight with his commanding officer, Captain Harold ‘Windy’ Miller, he was involved in an encounter with a supposed UFO (chance are it wasn’t anything extraterrestrial, really!).

Shortly after they’d reported the incident, ‘Windy’ Miller was killed in a motorbike accident and James began to get paranoid that “the authorities wanted to silence him as well”. Ignoring the fact that Windy had always been a bit of daredevil, James became obsessed with UFOs and things that were generally out of the ordinary.

Not that it affected his job or social life in any way. He still married the gorgeous, half-Swedish Anja – but it was her father, Matthew Talon (a former CLASSIFIED for Orion) who took note of James’ excellent analytical skills and suggested to his ex-employer that James might make a good recruit.

James and Anja have been married six years and have a two-year-old daughter, Tabitha (aka Tabby).

NOTES: I realise the campaign is straight (not sci-fi/X-Files), so the whole “UFO” obsession is simply a quirk of his character – I don’t expect him to actually meet any aliens!!! But if this campaign should run and run I think there are plenty of 'hooks' in the character's background to tie in future plots and sub-plots.