Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2012 10:30:21 GMT -5
Name: Penelope Corstorphine
Aliases: Her nickname would be Penny and her original surname was Forester.
Age (actual/appears): 35 and appears as such.
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Occupation/Organisation: Penelope works for the Umbrella subsidiary Umbra, which is the company’s charitable arm. She is the manager of a community outreach centre providing food, clean water, medicine and small loans to disenfranchised locals.
Allies: As a civilian, Penelope has no “allies”. She is on friendly terms with her volunteers at her centre and has several visitors that she knows well, but she does not regard any individuals or organisations with particular reverence. In terms of the game, Penelope is simply looking for someone who isn’t trying to kill her and can help her escape this place.
Enemies: Penelope has never had any enemies, living a relatively peaceful life in comparison with the other players. Her ire is almost entirely directed at those who pick on others less fortunate than themselves, usually bandits and muggers that attack Umbra shipments or her visitors at the centre. Because she has no combat training, she usually contents herself with being angry about their actions.
Physical Description: Penny is reasonably tall for a woman at around five foot ten. Unlike many in her neighbourhood, she is well-fed and rosy in complexion. Though not overweight, she is not slender either, and her body tends towards a pear shape, with wide hips and a much narrower bust. She has no scars or peculiar blemishes, though she does have her fair share of freckles. She has long, strawberry blonde hair that she keeps up in a French Twist with a simple plastic clip. Her eyes are blue in colour.
Attire: Penny wears simple civilian clothes - a light grey pencil skirt that comes down to just below knee-length and a pale blue blouse. She wears flat, functional buckle-up shoes and black tights.
Strengths: Most of Penny’s skills are not especially helpful in this situation. She is intelligent and a strong advocator of human rights, even in the current squalor of the modern United States. She is a confident orator and is used to dealing with those with self-esteem issues or addictions. She can motivate people and makes friends easily. She is unlikely to hang around in a dangerous situation - people she can manage, but physical danger will send her running for cover. Removing herself from the equation is perhaps the most useful service she can offer in a battle. If backed into a corner, Penny will defend herself, but probably by attempting to push the enemy away rather than strike it. She might use an object as an impromptu club, but is unlikely to carry a weapon around with her. Usually, she is most concerned with keeping herself alive and out of danger, and abhors violence. She also knows some rudimentary first aid.
Weaknesses: Penny’s obvious weakness is her lack of fighting skill and experience in these situations. She is not a soldier and has no training in any kind of combat. She is also used to dealing with the deprived and poor, and has had little contact with the genuinely ruthless throughout her life. In some circles, she could easily be called a coward. While she will not necessarily back away from a confrontation with another person, when there is danger - bullets flying and zombies moaning - she will run, leaving the fighting to others. In this situation, Penny is absolutely out of her depth. She is just an ordinary woman thrown in at the deep end, and it would be a simple matter for her to lose her composure completely. If someone doesn’t protect her from the creatures, she will probably die.
Personality: Penny is a sweet-natured and warm woman who wears her heart on her sleeve. She is not a deceptive soul by nature and tends to be very open and honest. Until tonight, she would never have thought of herself as a coward, as she has always challenged the status quo and is a vocal detractor of the incompetent American government that has let its country fall into such irrevocable disrepair. Ordinarily, she is quite confident in her own abilities and has always fancied herself as good in a crisis situation. But she has never been involved in a crisis quite like this. She is more used to staging interventions than fighting real battles. She has a great deal of patience and barely any temper. It is rare for her to even raise her voice. She is a team player, usually a leader. In fact, she prefers to be in a team than alone. One of the major factors for her in the mansion is the isolation she feels by not having her usual cadre of trustworthy volunteers to assist her.
Background: Penny was born Penelope Forester, the first child of an Umbrella logistics administrator and her husband. Shortly after her birth, Penny’s birth mother was made redundant by spending cuts in her sector. They sold their home for cash and moved into a squalid tenement block. Though her parents loved her, the family was dirty, hungry and largely miserable, forced to scrape by on what meagre scraps they could pull together from various places (mostly by pawning what few possessions they had).
When Penny was four years old, her father became sick with chemically-induced cancer. Poor as they were, there was little recourse for them to pursue treatment for his condition. Desperate to save her husband, Penny’s mother opted into the Umbrella Corporation’s new, and somewhat controversial, sponsored adoption service. Penny was found to be a bright and intelligent girl with a great deal of potential for future growth, and her mother was offered an incentive to give her up to the scheme that would help to cover their medical expenses. Penny and her mother parted ways, never to see one another again.
Heartbroken, Penny was hostile towards the company employees who managed the centre where she was kept. The staff were firm with her, but provided her with the affection and guidance that she needed, and her tantrums eventually subsided. Shortly after, she was adopted by a couple that worked in Umbrella’s Public Relations department. Her new family had previously adopted two boys and a girl before her, and Penny quickly became used to living her life as part of a unit.
From a young age, Penny took a great deal of interest in world affairs, and paid particular attention to the state of the world around her. She knew that her country had problems, having endured them herself as a child, and quickly came to believe, thanks to her parents, that Umbrella were the best chance to remedy them. As she grew older, she became a part-time journalist and philanthropist. Using her allowance, she put together an account to fund an outreach centre under the auspices of Umbra, Umbrella’s charitable wing, and also writes a weekly column for a national publication owned by U-Press. Unwittingly, she became one of the Corporation’s most vocal PR instruments.
Penny was fortunate enough to meet her mother, in order to see the difference that had been made to her life by the incentive given to her by the Company. She and her husband had led a simple, but comfortable, life for many years before he had finally succumbed to his illness. This meeting helped to banish the last remaining doubts about her life from her mind and cement the idea that Umbrella was the world’s best hope. At the same time, it helped her parents to see that the Company had been true to its word in delivering Penny into a better life.
Penny models herself as a real life success story of the sponsored adoption service and encourages it to be an accepted practice among disadvantaged households. Her column, charting her search for her mother and the impact the service has had on her life, was a widely read piece of journalism that has taken a great deal of heat off Umbrella for beginning the service in the first place.
One day, Penny returned to her apartment as usual, and failed to arrive at work the next day, seeming to disappear from the face of the earth.
Personal Effects: Penny’s effects are largely unremarkable. She has a watch on her wrist, and a packet of gum, a packet of paperclips, a hairbrush, a compact and a pen, which she carries in a faux leather handbag.
Played by: Lady Red
Aliases: Her nickname would be Penny and her original surname was Forester.
Age (actual/appears): 35 and appears as such.
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Occupation/Organisation: Penelope works for the Umbrella subsidiary Umbra, which is the company’s charitable arm. She is the manager of a community outreach centre providing food, clean water, medicine and small loans to disenfranchised locals.
Allies: As a civilian, Penelope has no “allies”. She is on friendly terms with her volunteers at her centre and has several visitors that she knows well, but she does not regard any individuals or organisations with particular reverence. In terms of the game, Penelope is simply looking for someone who isn’t trying to kill her and can help her escape this place.
Enemies: Penelope has never had any enemies, living a relatively peaceful life in comparison with the other players. Her ire is almost entirely directed at those who pick on others less fortunate than themselves, usually bandits and muggers that attack Umbra shipments or her visitors at the centre. Because she has no combat training, she usually contents herself with being angry about their actions.
Physical Description: Penny is reasonably tall for a woman at around five foot ten. Unlike many in her neighbourhood, she is well-fed and rosy in complexion. Though not overweight, she is not slender either, and her body tends towards a pear shape, with wide hips and a much narrower bust. She has no scars or peculiar blemishes, though she does have her fair share of freckles. She has long, strawberry blonde hair that she keeps up in a French Twist with a simple plastic clip. Her eyes are blue in colour.
Attire: Penny wears simple civilian clothes - a light grey pencil skirt that comes down to just below knee-length and a pale blue blouse. She wears flat, functional buckle-up shoes and black tights.
Strengths: Most of Penny’s skills are not especially helpful in this situation. She is intelligent and a strong advocator of human rights, even in the current squalor of the modern United States. She is a confident orator and is used to dealing with those with self-esteem issues or addictions. She can motivate people and makes friends easily. She is unlikely to hang around in a dangerous situation - people she can manage, but physical danger will send her running for cover. Removing herself from the equation is perhaps the most useful service she can offer in a battle. If backed into a corner, Penny will defend herself, but probably by attempting to push the enemy away rather than strike it. She might use an object as an impromptu club, but is unlikely to carry a weapon around with her. Usually, she is most concerned with keeping herself alive and out of danger, and abhors violence. She also knows some rudimentary first aid.
Weaknesses: Penny’s obvious weakness is her lack of fighting skill and experience in these situations. She is not a soldier and has no training in any kind of combat. She is also used to dealing with the deprived and poor, and has had little contact with the genuinely ruthless throughout her life. In some circles, she could easily be called a coward. While she will not necessarily back away from a confrontation with another person, when there is danger - bullets flying and zombies moaning - she will run, leaving the fighting to others. In this situation, Penny is absolutely out of her depth. She is just an ordinary woman thrown in at the deep end, and it would be a simple matter for her to lose her composure completely. If someone doesn’t protect her from the creatures, she will probably die.
Personality: Penny is a sweet-natured and warm woman who wears her heart on her sleeve. She is not a deceptive soul by nature and tends to be very open and honest. Until tonight, she would never have thought of herself as a coward, as she has always challenged the status quo and is a vocal detractor of the incompetent American government that has let its country fall into such irrevocable disrepair. Ordinarily, she is quite confident in her own abilities and has always fancied herself as good in a crisis situation. But she has never been involved in a crisis quite like this. She is more used to staging interventions than fighting real battles. She has a great deal of patience and barely any temper. It is rare for her to even raise her voice. She is a team player, usually a leader. In fact, she prefers to be in a team than alone. One of the major factors for her in the mansion is the isolation she feels by not having her usual cadre of trustworthy volunteers to assist her.
Background: Penny was born Penelope Forester, the first child of an Umbrella logistics administrator and her husband. Shortly after her birth, Penny’s birth mother was made redundant by spending cuts in her sector. They sold their home for cash and moved into a squalid tenement block. Though her parents loved her, the family was dirty, hungry and largely miserable, forced to scrape by on what meagre scraps they could pull together from various places (mostly by pawning what few possessions they had).
When Penny was four years old, her father became sick with chemically-induced cancer. Poor as they were, there was little recourse for them to pursue treatment for his condition. Desperate to save her husband, Penny’s mother opted into the Umbrella Corporation’s new, and somewhat controversial, sponsored adoption service. Penny was found to be a bright and intelligent girl with a great deal of potential for future growth, and her mother was offered an incentive to give her up to the scheme that would help to cover their medical expenses. Penny and her mother parted ways, never to see one another again.
Heartbroken, Penny was hostile towards the company employees who managed the centre where she was kept. The staff were firm with her, but provided her with the affection and guidance that she needed, and her tantrums eventually subsided. Shortly after, she was adopted by a couple that worked in Umbrella’s Public Relations department. Her new family had previously adopted two boys and a girl before her, and Penny quickly became used to living her life as part of a unit.
From a young age, Penny took a great deal of interest in world affairs, and paid particular attention to the state of the world around her. She knew that her country had problems, having endured them herself as a child, and quickly came to believe, thanks to her parents, that Umbrella were the best chance to remedy them. As she grew older, she became a part-time journalist and philanthropist. Using her allowance, she put together an account to fund an outreach centre under the auspices of Umbra, Umbrella’s charitable wing, and also writes a weekly column for a national publication owned by U-Press. Unwittingly, she became one of the Corporation’s most vocal PR instruments.
Penny was fortunate enough to meet her mother, in order to see the difference that had been made to her life by the incentive given to her by the Company. She and her husband had led a simple, but comfortable, life for many years before he had finally succumbed to his illness. This meeting helped to banish the last remaining doubts about her life from her mind and cement the idea that Umbrella was the world’s best hope. At the same time, it helped her parents to see that the Company had been true to its word in delivering Penny into a better life.
Penny models herself as a real life success story of the sponsored adoption service and encourages it to be an accepted practice among disadvantaged households. Her column, charting her search for her mother and the impact the service has had on her life, was a widely read piece of journalism that has taken a great deal of heat off Umbrella for beginning the service in the first place.
One day, Penny returned to her apartment as usual, and failed to arrive at work the next day, seeming to disappear from the face of the earth.
Personal Effects: Penny’s effects are largely unremarkable. She has a watch on her wrist, and a packet of gum, a packet of paperclips, a hairbrush, a compact and a pen, which she carries in a faux leather handbag.
Played by: Lady Red