Ambrose Isaac Townsend

Basic Information

Birth Name: Ambrose Isaac Townsend
Aliases: Isaac Ray
Place of Birth: St. Louis
Age: (real and apparent) Born February 3, 1854 appears about 27 is 152
Male/Female: Male
Current Occupation: Studio musician, drums and guitar
Past Occupation: farmer/rancher, gun fighter, saloon owner

Appearance

Hair Color: Dark brown, just starting to have a salt and pepper look
Length and Style: Shortish just brushes his collar, had a rather prominent mustache when turned but has been keeping it shaved
Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: dusky tan
Height: 6 ft 1in
Weight: 180 lbs
Nationality: American
Race: (I.E. Vampire, human etc.) Vampire
Body Type: Average

Description (if an NPC) or name of your creator(if a PC) : Damaris Hunnisett was born somewhere along the border of England and Scotland in 1013 AD. Her father was English, her mother Scottish and she was in the middle. She was the oldest of eight children and was a bit of a quite rebel, a trait that stayed with her. She is the sort that didn’t take no for an answer and wouldn’t allow herself to be confined by societies expectation. She learned to fight, to lead and to do everything her brothers and male cousins did and had the athletic build to prove it. She is rather tall for a woman, especially at that time, standing about 5”9’ and was very striking with black hair, that refused to grow more than an inch or so below her shoulders, and blue eyes. She was turned when she was eighteen. A warrior and a leader in her life, and after, she was part of Anantya.
Personal Questions

1. Describe your character's personality: He’s a cowboy, but he doesn’t wear a white hat. He has a cocky arrogant independent streak and a certain respect for tradition Ambrose is mostly honest and polite but has no problems picking a fight. He’s not exactly shy but hardly a social butterfly.

2. Describe how your character would appear to a stranger (I.E. typical dress, way they carry themselves etc.) Casual cool, neat dark jeans button down shirts, he’d wear cowboy boots but they seem to be hard to walk in although he sucks it up and wears them on special occasions, every once in a blue moon he does wear a cowboy hat but not often. If you were to meet him on the street, he’d seem nice enough, relatively easy going but a little reserved.

3.What does your character like? Music has a fondness for the blues and metal. Enjoys the X-Files, fishing, handicap parking

4. Dislike? Stairs, being treated as a cripple, spinach, standard transmissions

5. (For humans) Describe what abilities you see your character having if they were turned.

6. What are your fears? Rattle snakes, closed spaces, car crashes and falling down stairs

7. What is your character's strengths and weaknesses? He’s good with figures, not CPA material but good enough to manage a small business, good bartender/listener, excellent marksman and poker player, solid memory for music (hum a few bars and he can tell you what the song is and who wrote/preformed it), very talented with a guitar, well above average on the drums and good harmonica player, allergic to cats, arrogant, impatient with indecisive people

Hobbies & Skills: Fishing, good with a gun, Has been known to play with the cowboy shooter groups, but only the night events for obvious reasons, speaks Spanish, good poker player, musician plays guitar, drums and the harmonica

Abilities: Command and Perception

Flaws: Missing a limb, his left leg from mid-thigh down. Has taken to wearing a pretty good prosthetic but gets around better with a cane than with out.

Cosmetic Traits(These must be minor, see the rules)

Quirks and Habits worthy of mention: won’t drink beer that has had anything to do with a can, vaguely superstitious carries a rabbits foot, keeps an upturn horse shoe where he lives, won’t pick up a coin tail side up, tosses spilt salt over his left shoulder, pepper over the right, knocks on wood etc

Personal History: He was born in St. Louis, but barley remembers it. His parents took he, his older brother and sister off for the New Mexico Territory when he was only five. His mother was pregnant at the time and gave birth to his second brother on the trip out there. He was young enough that over all he has no memories of the trip west, just that it was long, hot, dusty and tense.

Once they were settled in the new territory his parents, and by default the children, began working to establish their home. It wasn’t much, just a few hundred acres, but enough to scrape by with some farming and ranching. Ambrose always felt confined by the ranch and his family. He was a middle child and felt that his father was more interested in teaching his older brother Tobias and preparing him to take over than with him. To compensate for this he began developing some bad habits. It wasn’t intentional, but they would effect how his life developed.

He began hanging around the saloon in town rather than working on the ranch. Things started innocently enough with just a few too many drinks and a lot of poker, but debts began to mount up. At first, Ambrose could hide these debts from his family with some minor pilfering from his parents. This soon lead to letting the occasional head of cattle or other livestock ‘wander off’ and be claimed by the right people.

Soon enough though Ambrose was caught in a spot that he couldn’t get out of and was forced into acting as an assassin. He owed a great deal of money to the owner of a neighboring ranch. The owner in question agreed to let the debt go and not to tell his parents if Ambrose killed his foreman. Ambrose was only 16 and didn’t see that he had any choice in the matter and so a week later shot the foreman as he was riding back from town, alone in the dark.

Having taken a life was very disturbing to the youth, who soon confessed his sins to his parents. His parents, however, rather than being supportive quickly disowned Ambrose and literally chased him off the property. All he was left with was a horse, hat, and gun.

Unable to stay in town he drifted, hungry and alone. It only took a few months and those same bad habits and poor choice of company to start him down a new road. The gambling and hanging around in saloons were things that Ambrose just couldn’t, or didn’t want to shake. He started playing poker to earn his keep, but that wasn’t a steady source of income. What he found at the poker tables was opportunity. Opportunity in terms of a hired gun. While his first murder had been very distressing to him, he slowly got used to the idea and got better at his new trade. He eventually developed a reputation. He was fast, not the best ever, but well above average. Enough so that people came looking for him, either with job offers or just to challenge him. It wound up being an OK living even if he did have to move around a lot. Although he is glad, with few exceptions, that history has over looked him and hasn’t trapped him in the same bubble as Billy the Kidd and Jesse James.

Ambrose, who in his gun slinger days was known as Isaac Ray, found his way to Tombstone in about 1879 or so. That is where he met Sarah Brennan. As cliché as it, sounds Ambrose found himself falling in love with her. Sarah’s father, on the other hand, wouldn’t stand for it. There was no way his daughter was getting involved with a no good hired gun who’d get himself kill inside of six months. Ambrose had to agree with that assessment, even though there was a fantastic argument between he and Sarah’s father (he did not appreciate being told how to live his life), and agreed to hang up his guns.

His attempt to leave the wild side of the Wild West was moderately successful. Ambrose took over one of the saloons in Tombstone and was able to run it at a profit. After a year on the straight, well mostly straight, and narrow Sarah’s father finally agreed to allow them to marry. The date was set for a Christmas wedding that year, 1881.

As a saloon owner, Ambrose knew about the issues between the Earps and the Clantons. It wasn’t exactly a secret. That and Ambrose and Morgan Earp were close. On top of Doc Holliday was the gambling, drinking trouble making type and Ambrose had dealt with him on more than one occasion even throwing Holliday out of the saloon once or twice. Either way Ambrose stayed clear of it, he was set on getting married and being ‘ordinary’. Things didn’t quite work out that way.

One October afternoon Ambrose was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even being caught in the middle of the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral, he isn’t quite certain how it happened or what started it. What he is certain of is that he was caught by a stray bullet. While he’d been shot before, this was different. The bullet hit him just above the knee and shattered the bone. He was found and treated relatively quickly, although part of treating him was amputating his leg from mid thigh down. This proved to be less than sufficient and despite everyone’s best effort, he was dying.

Left alone at the Doctor’s house that night, one of his regulars showed up, a long time customer named Damaris Hunnisett. Damaris rather liked Ambrose, although she thought he was wasted as a bar owner and was more suited to being a hired gun, and offered him a choice, try to fight off the fever maybe live but probably die or try something else. Not delusional but finding the option of death less than appealing Ambrose took the gamble. He’d always known Damaris was slightly less than traditional but he’d never guessed she was a vampire.

Once turned he, with her help, staged his death and left Tombstone. He never even considered taking Sarah with him; it wasn’t something he’d wish on her. Twenty years later, he did go back and found out, she had moved on, married and had children. Satisfied she was well, Ambrose was able to completely move on. He’s kept primarily to the west coast.

Suddenly having a lot of time on his hands, and rather limited in what he could do physically Ambrose took up the guitar and later the drums. Oddly enough he’s never really liked country music but is quite adept at the blues and has since found out he has a talent for rock and metal. This has lead him to a successful career as a studio musician. Known once more as Isaac Ray he’s played with some very big names but has no interesting in being a star himself. One of the things he really appreciates about the music scene is how easy it is to command groupies. If he can be seen with the band, he is guaranteed a good meal.

Recently his work has been on the east coast, especially New York, so he has moved here to Nachton.

OOC Checklist

Player name (online is fine) Mike, Michelle, ‘hey you’… it all works
Other Characters you play Pakpao, Valentine
How you came to SA … continues to blame Rae
Have you read all the Rules? Yup and read them again while working this one out too…
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