RingBRP/tools/roster.mjs

/**
 * THE DUTY ROSTER — ten ready-to-play agents for the compendium.
 *
 * Written compactly: a posting or a trade, a rank, eight characteristics and a face.
 * Skills and kit are expanded from the register at build time by the same helper the
 * starter scenario uses, so a roster agent cannot drift from the generator. Change
 * TRADE_BANDS and every doctor on this list changes with it.
 *
 * Five postings and five trades on purpose. A group picking from this sheet sees both
 * halves of character creation without anybody having to explain them.
 *
 * Portraits are generated art, one per agent, in art/portraits.
 */

export const ROSTER = [

  /* ---------------- postings: career department ---------------- */

  { key: "pc_holloway", name: "Marta Holloway", role: "lead", rank: "Senior Field Officer",
    portrait: "pc_holloway", chosenStyle: "reflex", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 44, physiological: 44 },
    ch: { str: 11, siz: 12, con: 13, int: 15, pow: 14, dex: 14, cha: 14, edu: 13 },
    talents: ["first_through", "read_room", "clean_scene"],
    bio: "<p>Nineteen years, four of them on secondment to an office that no longer "
       + "appears in the directory. Signs for everything and reads it first.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> a wedding ring she does not wear, kept in a coin envelope "
       + "in her jacket.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_okonkwo", name: "Ben Okonkwo", role: "heavy", rank: "Field Officer",
    portrait: "pc_okonkwo", chosenStyle: "reflex", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 33, physiological: 33 },
    ch: { str: 17, siz: 16, con: 16, int: 11, pow: 11, dex: 13, cha: 11, edu: 10 },
    talents: ["hard_landing", "first_through"],
    bio: "<p>Goes through the door and holds the corridor while everyone else does the "
       + "clever part. Has never once complained about being the one who is hit.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> his sister's voice note, saved and never deleted.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_sandoval", name: "Rey Sandoval", role: "overwatch", rank: "Field Officer",
    portrait: "pc_sandoval", chosenStyle: "deliberate", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 37, physiological: 37 },
    ch: { str: 12, siz: 12, con: 13, int: 14, pow: 13, dex: 17, cha: 10, edu: 12 },
    talents: ["first_through", "unblinking"],
    bio: "<p>Takes the long lane and the long view. Keeps a private list of the shots "
       + "she chose not to take, and will not discuss it.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> a paperback with somebody else's name inside the cover.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_bhattacharya", name: "Arun Bhattacharya", role: "registry",
    rank: "Senior Field Officer", portrait: "pc_bhattacharya",
    chosenStyle: "deliberate", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 56, physiological: 56 },
    ch: { str: 10, siz: 11, con: 11, int: 17, pow: 15, dex: 11, cha: 12, edu: 17 },
    talents: ["chain_custody", "debriefer", "requisition"],
    bio: "<p>Thirty years in the registry. Has read files that were withdrawn "
       + "before he finished them and remembers what was in them anyway.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> a brass slide rule that belonged to his predecessor.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_rahimi", name: "Soraya Rahimi", role: "settlements", rank: "Field Officer",
    portrait: "pc_rahimi", chosenStyle: "deliberate", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 41, physiological: 41 },
    ch: { str: 10, siz: 11, con: 12, int: 15, pow: 15, dex: 11, cha: 17, edu: 15 },
    talents: ["read_room", "debriefer"],
    bio: "<p>Writes the arrangement that everyone can live with, then holds both sides "
       + "to it. Has never raised her voice on an operation.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> her mother's tea glass, chipped, carried in a sock.</p>" },

  /* ---------------- trades: recruited from an ordinary job ---------------- */

  { key: "pc_nkemdirim", name: "Dr Chidi Nkemdirim", trade: "doctor", rank: "Probationary",
    portrait: "pc_nkemdirim", chosenStyle: "deliberate", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 32, physiological: 32 },
    ch: { str: 10, siz: 11, con: 12, int: 16, pow: 13, dex: 13, cha: 13, edu: 18 },
    talents: ["triage", "unblinking"],
    bio: "<p>Six years of emergency medicine and eleven months of this. Still the "
       + "calmest person in the room, and still startled by what the room contains.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> a pager that has not worked since 2019.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_kowalczyk", name: "Marek Kowalczyk", trade: "engineer", rank: "Probationary",
    portrait: "pc_kowalczyk", chosenStyle: "reflex", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 30, physiological: 30 },
    ch: { str: 13, siz: 13, con: 13, int: 17, pow: 11, dex: 14, cha: 11, edu: 15 },
    talents: ["hard_landing", "requisition"],
    bio: "<p>Chartered, unimpressed, and the only person who asks what a thing is made "
       + "of before asking what it wants.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> the first tool he ever bought, resharpened forty times.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_finch", name: "Wren Finch", trade: "criminal", rank: "Probationary",
    portrait: "pc_finch", chosenStyle: "reflex", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 26, physiological: 26 },
    ch: { str: 10, siz: 10, con: 12, int: 14, pow: 12, dex: 18, cha: 14, edu: 9 },
    talents: ["cover_work", "clean_scene"],
    bio: "<p>Opens things without leaving a mark, which is the part she is proud of. "
       + "Signed the Act in an interview room, which is the part she is not.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> a door key to a flat that was demolished.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_agyeman", name: "Joseph Agyeman", trade: "police", rank: "Field Officer",
    portrait: "pc_agyeman", chosenStyle: "reflex", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 52, physiological: 52 },
    ch: { str: 14, siz: 14, con: 14, int: 13, pow: 13, dex: 12, cha: 14, edu: 12 },
    talents: ["read_room", "chain_custody", "first_through"],
    bio: "<p>Twenty-six years on division before somebody handed him a file with no "
       + "crime number. Knows how a statement is taken and how a scene is lost.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> his old warrant number, written inside his watch strap.</p>" },

  { key: "pc_lindqvist", name: "Professor Åke Lindqvist", trade: "professor",
    rank: "Field Officer", portrait: "pc_lindqvist",
    chosenStyle: "deliberate", species: "baseline",
    age: { chronological: 63, physiological: 63 },
    ch: { str: 9, siz: 11, con: 10, int: 17, pow: 16, dex: 10, cha: 14, edu: 19 },
    talents: ["debriefer", "wrong_memory", "read_room"],
    bio: "<p>A chair in comparative folklore and a reading list nobody else has "
       + "finished. Was consulted once and never quite sent home.</p>"
       + "<p><em>Anchor:</em> a photograph of a lecture theatre, taken from the back.</p>" }
];

/**
 * THE SAME TEN, BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT FOUND THEM.
 *
 * Same person, same characteristics, same face — a civilian who has not been inducted
 * and has never been issued anything. Skills and tools come from the trade alone, so a
 * player can hold the two sheets side by side and see exactly what the job did to them.
 * (The linguist is the one who already speaks trade cant before she arrives. It is a
 * language, and she is a linguist.)
 *
 * Five of the ten went into the department straight into a posting rather than out of a
 * trade, so this is where they came from. Between them the ten cover all ten trades
 * exactly once, which means this set also shows a table the whole trade half of
 * character creation without anybody having to read the rules for it.
 *
 * `job` replaces the rank line on the sheet. The second paragraph of each biography is
 * the seam: what they did that got them noticed. It is the hook a GM pulls on.
 */
export const BEFORE = {

  pc_holloway: { trade: "linguist", job: "Court Interpreter", age: 25,
    bio: "<p>Interpreting at magistrates' courts and immigration tribunals. Ten hours a "
       + "day saying other people's worst sentences in the first person, and going home "
       + "able to repeat every one of them.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found her:</em> she interpreted a statement nobody had asked "
       + "her to hear, and then wrote down what the room had done while it was said.</p>" },

  pc_okonkwo: { trade: "builder", job: "Steel Erector", age: 28,
    bio: "<p>Ten storeys up on a frame with no floor in it yet, in weather that sends "
       + "everyone else down the ladder. Never late, never sick, and never the one who "
       + "says the job cannot be done.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found him:</em> he carried two men off a site that had gone "
       + "wrong in a way the report could not describe, and he did not ask a single "
       + "question about it.</p>" },

  pc_sandoval: { trade: "it", job: "Network Field Engineer", age: 31,
    bio: "<p>Alone at the top of a mast in the dark with a laptop and a flask, fixing "
       + "links for towns that only notice the network when it stops. Long climbs, long "
       + "views, long silences.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found her:</em> a relay logged forty minutes of traffic from a "
       + "site decommissioned in 1994, and she kept the file instead of clearing it.</p>" },

  pc_bhattacharya: { trade: "scientist", job: "Research Chemist", age: 26,
    bio: "<p>An industrial laboratory, a bench, and a notebook filled in the same hand "
       + "every day for four years. Slow, exact, and constitutionally unable to leave a "
       + "discrepancy alone.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found him:</em> he noticed a batch record amended by somebody "
       + "who had never worked there, and he raised it in writing. Twice.</p>" },

  pc_rahimi: { trade: "entertainer", job: "Local Radio Presenter", age: 33,
    bio: "<p>Mid-morning phone-in on a station nobody outside the county has heard of. "
       + "Six years of listening to people who rang up angry and hung up calmer.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found her:</em> she talked a caller down from something on air "
       + "for eleven minutes, and the recording of those minutes does not play back the "
       + "same way twice.</p>" },

  pc_nkemdirim: { trade: "doctor", job: "Registrar, Emergency Medicine", age: 31,
    bio: "<p>Six years of A&amp;E and the flat calm that comes with it. The one the "
       + "department turns to when nobody else will say the decision out loud.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found them:</em> a patient came in with an injury that had "
       + "healed in the wrong direction, and the notes they wrote were too good to leave "
       + "in the system.</p>" },

  pc_kowalczyk: { trade: "engineer", job: "Structural Engineer", age: 29,
    bio: "<p>Chartered, practical, and happiest with a survey and a set of drawings that "
       + "disagree. Asks what a thing is made of before he asks what it is for.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found him:</em> he condemned a footbridge on load figures that "
       + "were correct, for a span he had measured three times and got three "
       + "answers.</p>" },

  pc_finch: { trade: "criminal", job: "Between Things", age: 25,
    bio: "<p>Not organised, and not caught either — doors, locks and other people's "
       + "assumptions, worked quietly and left tidy. Rents by the week and pays cash.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found her:</em> she was inside a building she had no business "
       + "in on the night it stopped being on the street it was on, and she was the only "
       + "witness who could describe the inside.</p>" },

  pc_agyeman: { trade: "police", job: "Detective Sergeant", age: 50,
    bio: "<p>Twenty-six years on division. Takes a statement properly, keeps a scene, "
       + "and has watched three generations of the same families come through the same "
       + "door.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found him:</em> a file with no crime number landed on his desk "
       + "and he worked it anyway, on his own time, and got further than he was meant "
       + "to.</p>" },

  pc_lindqvist: { trade: "professor", job: "Professor of Comparative Folklore", age: 59,
    bio: "<p>A chair, a reading list, and forty years of stories about places that take "
       + "people and give them back wrong. Treats them as evidence rather than as "
       + "literature.</p>"
       + "<p><em>How they found him:</em> he was consulted once, as an academic "
       + "courtesy, and gave an answer so specific that he was never quite sent "
       + "home.</p>" }
};