The Book of Knots - Jags

such, he is one of the few Caretaker-type-beings that does not have an
agenda.
Encounter Threat
Low to none. He may be confusing or maybe helpful—his dialog may
sometimes give a person a sense of where to go or what to do.
Operations
Interestingly, a discontinued and sterilized project run in the wake
of Pilgrim but developed separately in England, “contacted” an
information source identifying itself as “Mad Hatter.” This was using
radio frequencies and random number generators and high-level
cryptographic sequences so no one could be sure if the “messages”
were actually “innate as a transmission” or if random phrases were just
being “interpreted out of thin air.” For a few weeks, point-source Hatter
carried out several possible (if extremely disjointed) conversations with
personnel and claimed, among other things, to be Jack the Ripper.
The facts surrounding the project are murky but it seems that some of
the project was ‘compromised’ (Infected? It seems likely) and vanished,
looking for it. There are still echoes and rumbles from this in the annals
of conspiracy theory today.
Dramas
The time-bubble around the Hatter prevents him from creating dramadriven
actors. Usually he is encountered as a separate entity.
The Duchess of Knots
Side: Caretaker
“The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and
whiskers! She’ll get me executed as sure as ferrets are ferrets!”
-- The White Rabbit, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
Overview
From cottages to grand musty castles and sprawling estates, the Duchess
hurries on with her retinue
of sycophants and servants
fleeing from one crisis to
another. There’s a ball to
attend, a theater show that she
must be seen at, a disaster in
the kitchen to look after …
and the Duchess (a large, ugly
woman of nasty temper and
prone to physical abuse) is
terribly in charge of it all.
Name: The Duchess Caretaker
PHY 15 STR 15 BLD 16 CON 15
REF 12 COR 12 REA 12 AGI 13
INT 13 RES 13 MEM 13 WIL 13
DP 90 Minor Major Critical
Wounds 30 90 180
To Hit 14-
To Be Hit +1
Armor None
Damage 6 IMP
Description: She is a large, exceedingly ugly woman dressed in regal clothes with a massive
headdress. Her voice is a dissonant shriek and she is given to cuffing and striking servants as
well as throwing things when enraged (which is often). She stands over six feet tall and tops
seven with her headgear.
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Book of Knots - The Caretakers