GAVIN SHAW
Description
Gavin Shaw, 41, leads a double life—insurance adjuster by day, amateur historian by night. His weekend volunteer work at the Ironhaven Heritage Institute caught Director Hardwell’s attention through her network of academic contacts. She personally recruited him in 1971, recognizing that his meticulous nature and access to historical archives could prove invaluable.
Shaw approaches his Bureau work with the careful precision of someone processing insurance claims, though his reports tend toward excessive footnoting and hand-drawn diagrams. The horn-rimmed glasses and brown tweed jacket he wears to the Institute mark him as trying perhaps too hard to look scholarly. While he understands the general nature of what the Bureau faces—Hardwell was surprisingly frank during recruitment—his enthusiasm often outpaces his field experience, as the September incident demonstrated when Subject #2 caught him off-guard.
Character Statistics
GAVIN SHAW, Age 41
Insurance Adjuster / Historical Society Volunteer
STR 50 CON 60 SIZ 60 DEX 50
APP 40 INT 70 POW 60 EDU 80
Hit Points: 12
Sanity: 60 (started at 68)
Luck: 45
Magic Points: 12
Damage Bonus: 0
Build: 0
Move: 7
Skills:
- Accounting 65% (professional)
- Anthropology 25%
- Appraise 40%
- History 55%
- Library Use 70%
- Listen 45%
- Occult 20%
- Own Language (English) 80%
- Other Language (Latin) 25%
- Photography 30%
- Psychology 25%
- Spot Hidden 60%
Backstory: B.A. Business Administration, University of Missouri (1953). Divorced 1969, no children. Recruited personally by Director Hardwell through historical society connections.