Noah Hawthorne
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| IC Information | |
| Full Name: | Noah Hawthorne |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 27 (October 30) |
| Hometown: | ? |
| Hair Colour: | Brown |
| Eye Colour: | Hazel |
| Height: | 6'3" |
| Class: | Troublemaking Relic Hunter |
| Role: | Drifter |
| Bounty: | 0 |
| OOC Information | |
| Theme: | Original Character |
| Groups: | Adventurer's Guild (?) |
| Voice Actor: | Nolan North (as Nathan Drake) |
| Player: | soph |
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Like many drifters Noah Hawthorne appears to have a past that dwindles into inexistence if one traces his name back far enough. Is it probable that 'Noah Hawthorne' isn't his name? Sure. Does it really matter, though..? Arguably not. Drifters exist to fill a need, and when it comes to chasing obscure lore in the pursuit of ancient mysteries few do it better -- or with greater style, he would argue -- than Noah. Underneath that rakish facade, if one can look past his predilection for causing mayhem at every available opportunity they'll find that there exists a razor-sharp wit and a shockingly intellectual disposition, wrapped around the soul of an academic. Granted, it's very difficult to look past the troublemaking, if only because it's so god-damned difficult to see through chain explosions and angry mobs.
He isn't the type to go looking for violent trouble, but rumor has it he's better with that pair of gunblades he wears than his wisecracking, take-nothing-seriously attitude might imply. Good enough, maybe, to suggest there are more interesting things in his past than broken hearts and burning buildings.
History
More mystery than history, if anyone bothers to try looking -- and why would they? Like most of his ilk Noah seems to have come into sudden and fully-formed existence no more than two or three years ago. Determined hunting may turn up an alias or two, rumors of exploits and towns where his name appears on a blacklist of persona non grata as a result of some wild or difficult-to-believe incident, but Filgaia is wide and scoundrels many: rooting around in his past is a supremely unrewarding activity.
A Very Particular Set of Skills
- ARMs Duelist: He carries a pair, one on each hip, and they do several different things, none of them very nice. He claims that most of the people who've seen them in use are dead -- a convenient story, if a man were setting out to build a legend around himself. It is verifiably true, though, that he isn't quick to draw them.
- Well-Educated: In spite of his penchant for causing a ruckus wherever he goes and a palate that appreciates the taste of mischief and mayhem, Noah is a veritable font of information, most notably in the areas of history and culture. In the right company and for the right reasons, he can expound at length about even the most esoteric of subjects, shockingly academic when the mood strikes. Related to this...
- Relic-Savvy: ...he has a remarkable, extensive knowledge of ancient artifacts, relics, and ARMs, as one might expect from a man who makes a living by trading on that very same quality. He has no interest in setting up shop or embracing anything even remotely like a respectable job, but if he ever abandoned his reckless lifestyle he could probably make a fine living doing appraisals and fencing other people's finds. There are few complex machines he's incapable of fixing, given the proper resources and enough time.
- Well-Traveled: He seems to have been everywhere worth visiting and most places that aren't, and brought back with him stories enough to keep him in free drinks at saloons the world over.
- Polyglot: Languages. Lots of them. All of them, very possibly. His own accent is difficult to place, less the product of one region than a hybrid of countless places, his speech indelibly stained by what has presumably been a lifetime of travel.
- Sleight-of-Hand: Mandatory know-how for any scoundrel worth their salt.
- Horsemanship: Life on the road requires a good horse if a man wants to avoid sore feet. Noah's developed a hell of a seat for the saddle, and he's as comfortable in combat from the back of a horse as he is on his own two feet.
- Bottomless Charisma: He's got a silver tongue and the tendency to lay the charm on thick. Some love it, some loathe it, but nobody can deny that he's got buckets of whatever it is.
- Adrenaline Junkie: Any moment spent doing anything other than squeezing every last drop of excitement out of the life he's living is one he considers wasted.
- Womanizing: He does it. A lot. He tends not to stick around after the fact.
- Friends in Low Places: Well...not all of them are in low places, to be fair, but Noah knows people -- lots of people. He's been places, seen and done things. Some of the faces he's run into have been worth keeping around, even to a man with a deep-seated dislike of commitment.
The Search for Fact, Not Truth
- There's a longstanding rumor in Aveh that Noah Hawthorne is linked in some way to the character at the center of a dreadful series of books -- Jack Dove. They're horribly written things, borderline bodice-rippers, and so of course they sell like mad. Then again, recent rumor says that the character is based on one Vin Barrett, whose face lately graces the lurid covers. Who can say which is true?
- It wasn't more than a day after Noah arrived in eastern Ignas before the Mamma Mia riverboat casino sank straight to the bottom of a canyon river.
- He appears to have taken up traveling with a ferret he's taken to calling Lio (shortened from 'Imbroglio,' which is much to do with the circumstances of their first meeting). He never wanted a ferret, but he doesn't seem to have the heart to get rid of it after it was foisted on him -- on his face, specifically -- by a blonde in a tragic dress.
- There was an incident in the Starfall Saloon involving bees that he swears was not his fault.
- He's been telling a wild story about delving into the Grotto in Port Timney. He swears there was a blind tentacle-monster wielding a bearcat, and that the water that runs through the cavern is sentient and has an agenda. He also says he wasn't drunk at the time it happened and that he isn't drunk at the time of the retelling, either. Not many people believe him.
He Chose...Poorly
| Face | Who | What | Why |
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| Ambrose Montagu | Professor | Ambrose Montagu, Professor at the University in Linga, has been an unusually stable fixture in Noah's otherwise fluid circumstances, a presence that goes back years -- long enough that he's known Noah by other names and heard him spin a hundred different stories about who he is and where he really came from. Montagu's unwillingness to aim his professional interest in ancient history at Noah's own past plays no little part in that longevity of association, and there seems to be some real and genuine fondness between them, though it's a relationship built on affection and exasperation in almost equal measure. For a man of well over sixty years of age, he manages to keep pace with his young friend more ably than most might expect. | |
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Cassidy Cain | Little Miss of the Missing Littles | Mercurial, reckless, deeply driven people with a taste for excitement and a real horror of dropping anchor: at first glance they're an awful lot alike, separated in character by deeper and less obvious but certainly fundamental qualities. The first time they met she probably saved him from drowning after he was dragged down into the bowels of a sinking riverboat by a half-dead Mercy Killer. Of course, she was the reason the boat sank and the Mercy Killer, who stabbed Noah in the leg, was originally after her, so if asked he'd say it's a wash as far as favors owed. They were on the Mamma Mia for different reasons, but in the end they both got what they wanted, even if the same can't be said for anybody else who was on board at the time. Chances are good that repeat encounters will produce the same results, with the world around them taking the brunt of the consequences for whatever exothermic reaction inevitably follows their occupation of the same space. |
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Emma Hetfield | Prof | A new contact, made as part of an investigation into events surrounding the Artifacts Exhibition. She responded to Noah's characteristic flirting by pouring gas on that fire...and then chucking high explosives into it for good measure. If she hadn't made the mistake of comparing him with a brainless automaton, who knows where things would have gone? For the best, one assumes, with all of the work that needs doing. |
| Greta Kentwiller | Restorer (and forger) of Antiquities | An aging hurricane of a woman with several workshops throughout the Badlands. One might think the Badlands are a poor choice of location for a restorer of art objects and ancient artifacts, and one would be right, if one did not also know -- as a very few people do -- that she's also a forger of those very same things. The remote countryside suits her just fine. How she and Noah became acquainted is a story neither one seems to have yet told. | |
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Gwen Whitlock | Courier | Noah hired Gwen to help move the substantial amounts of materials and perishables he arranged to stockpile before the catastrophe at Adlehyde. She managed to get the work done in time, and shortly after the incident, Noah handed over to (read: foisted upon) her the supervisory position for distribution of those resources and management of the security forces that Morgan Newkirk arranged through the Adventurer's Guild. The way to Noah's heart is surely through shouldering responsibilities that he'd rather not -- a promising start. |
| Ida Everstead-Rey | ? | She was on Layna's ship. Friends with Talise, obviously. Pretty. Didn't say much, though. | |
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Josephine Lovelace | Client..? | Josephine Lovelace turned up in Noah's life just a day or two after Adlehyde burned with a mysterious Zeboim tile and a note of reference from Ambrose Montagu. Working with her promises to throw Noah headfirst into the kind of adventure he lives for, but two people died the first time they met and there might've been a third if she hadn't read Ambrose's letter out loud and convinced Noah to stop holding her at gunpoint. Whether this working relationship bears fruit or ends in tragedy is anybody's guess. |
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Jude Moshe | Simple Country Reporter | Cassidy Cain's partner, and some-time co-conspirator along with Noah and Morgan in the events leading up to the destruction of Adlehyde by the reemergence of the Metal Demons. He's got an exceptionally nice shotgun, a very interesting mechanical companion, and a dry sense of humor that makes him good company. His mellow reserve is nothing at all like Noah's constant need for engagement but he's not uptight, and isn't that what really matters? |
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K.K. | ? | Some jerk who stabbed Noah for absolutely no reason. What the hell? Seriously. |
| Layna Manydays | Lunar Ship Captain | Somehow wound up sailing her ship straight from the oceans of Lunar into the deserts of Filgaia. Strange things happen to Noah all the time, and even Noah finds that bizarre. Fun fact: they make really good booze on Lunar. Noah is probably still working off the hangover. | |
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Lily Keil | Kislev Medic | They met in a bookstore, each researching different intrigues. Information was exchanged. Use may be made of this. ...She sure is a long way from home, though. |
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Morgan Newkirk | Adventurer's Guildy | Noah doesn't limit himself to Adventurer's Guild jobs -- he crosses the line of the law regularly -- but the Guild is still a steady source of income for most drifters, and it was through the Guild that he first met Morgan Newkirk, some handful of years ago. Their relationship has been for the most part passing, but Morgan's had enough experience with Noah Hawthorne to expect trouble whenever he turns up. ...Not that it requires much in the way of experience, really. |
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Talise Gianfair | Lunar Something | Noah was investigating reports of a ship crashed in the desert. Turns out it was from Lunar. And he met two other people while he was there. Talise was one of them. Friendly. ...really, really friendly, actually. |
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Vin Barrett | IMPOSTOR | There are these terrible books out there about this really over-the-top, ridiculous character called Jack Dove, see, and the author of these books claims that they're based on a real-life Drifter whose exploits were so absurd, so impossible, so bizarre that while she'd wanted initially to write them as a series of biographies, she'd been forced into the bodice-ripping adventure genre because no sane member of the public would ever buy that they were true. She remains mum about the identity of the inspiration for those novels, but recently the covers have started to feature Vin Barrett's face. And Noah, for no reasons he is immediately forthcoming about, finds this supremely irritating. |
| Music for Mayhem | ||
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Harry Gregson-Williams - Light of Life (Ibelin Reprise)
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo
Darren Korb - Bastion OST'
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| Dedications | ||
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Logs and Cutscenes
Chapter 1 Logs
- 2017-04-17: Twenty Four Hours of Ridiculous
- 2017-04-20: Noah Problem
- 2017-04-26: Three Dicks in a Wagon
- 2017-05-07: The Place Where Physics Goes To Die
- 2017-05-13: Fertile Soil
- 2017-05-14: The Past Never Dies
- 2017-05-15: Unofficial Inquiries
- 2017-05-17: Demons, Golems and Malevolence, Oh My
- 2017-05-17: Fifteen Percent of a Plan
- 2017-05-17: The Landlocked Empress
- 2017-05-18: All's Fair in the Fair
- 2017-05-18: Hawthorne's Guide to Opening Doors
- 2017-05-19: Puzzles and Traps and Secrets
- 2017-05-22: A Dungeon Run Where All The Wits Scores Clearly Apply To the Party Banter Only
- 2017-05-23: Skyfall
- 2017-05-26: Flight of the Jailbirds
- 2017-05-26: Just a Nice, Normal Commission, Nothing To See Here
- 2017-05-29: Mr. Hawthorne I Presume
- 2017-07-08: Zeboim Linguistics 101
- 2017-07-17:A Request From Noah
- 2017-07-20: To A Life Worth Living
- 2017-08-12: Revenge Is An Act of Passion
- 2017-08-13: It's A Breakthrough Everyone
- 2017-08-16: Whacking At Beehives
- 2017-09-24: Purely Academic
- 2017-11-17: A Ruin Eaten By Time... Or Maybe Just Worms