This topic will list the available pregens for players to pick from.
Antiquarian:
You own an antique store on Church Street. Recently, you acquired a shipment of artifacts from a house clearance. Among the various books and small antiques was a curious item that attracted your attention: a prism of a strange pale-blue crystal. When the light strikes it, it almost looks like it’s glowing from within. Thinking it rather quaint, you’ve used it as a paperweight in your office.
Since then, your dreams have been disturbed and restless. In your nightmares, you stand on the shore of a stagnant lake. Black, stinking water before you, the pale moon above reflects off of its oily surface. An unhealthy yellow glow shines through the wooded tree line. You can feel “their” presence behind you, blocking your retreat. You’ve stood there for hours and now you know the time is finally at hand. Strange light pulses from beneath the black water. Tendrils rise slowly from the surface, writhing and twisting in the cold night air. At their ends, lids open and blink, revealing inhuman eyes that look into your soul. An array of metallic-looking spikes begins to thrust upwards as something huge, gigantic, rises to greet the night. Like polished metal, it glistens as the water runs off its surface. You feel a sickening stab as something plunges into your chest, causing you to wake screaming in panic.
Looking for some way to stop the nightmares, you’ve seen an advertisement in the Bennington Post and called the number and arranged an appointment with Dr. Thorne. He came to your home a few days later, where you told him about your dreams. The doctor’ assessment said the dreams are a metaphor for a suppressed memory. Maybe the object triggered a deeply buried memory from childhood, as there is no immediate connection between the two.
Dr. Thorne believes he can help you and has offered you a place in his dream therapy study. You are just about to arrive at the university hospital, part of the University, hoping that he can end your nightmares.
Description:
Small stature, physically fit, pensive, determined, professional appearance, honest face
Strengths:
Bright, physically fit, boxes for exercise, knowledgeable about culture and artefacts, good with mechanisms, professional skills
Weaknesses:
Better with artefacts than people, overconfident
Quirks:
Keeps to a strict daily exercise regime, habitual whistler
Author:
Your home is Bennington, Vermont, where you are one of the town’s more famous residents. You began by getting short stories published in magazines, which attracted the eyes of a major publisher from New York. You landed a deal for your first novel. You’re hoping that, after you’ve made a name for yourself with a few historical romances, you can branch out and write more experimental work.
A few months ago, you took a trip out into the Green Mountain National Forest to stay in a log cabin and get some inspiration for a story you were going to set in the area. While exploring the cabin’s basement, the floor gave way and you fell into part of an old mining system beneath. Your leg was broken and pinned down by rubble. You were trapped until a passing hunter passed by and heard you. In the hours before you were rescued, you heard the sound of rats below. As night fell, they advanced and began to bite. You fought them off before they could come back for more. Thankfully, you were rescued soon after.
Since then you have been plagued by the traumatic ordeal replaying in your nightmares. You find yourself back in the tunnel, the rats advancing as the light fades. Alone in the darkness, they swarm over you, tearing you to pieces. You awake crying most mornings. Looking for some way to stop the nightmares, you’ve seen an advertisement in the Bennington Post and called the number and arranged an appointment with Dr. Thorne. He came to your home a few days later, where you told him about your dreams. The doctor’s assessment said the dreams are born out of a deep fear of rats, combined with a form of shellshock (post-traumatic stress).
Dr. Thorne believes he can help you and has offered you a place in his dream therapy study. You are just about to arrive at the university hospital, part of the University at Albany, hoping that he can end your nightmares.
Description:
Fashionable, sympathetic, a good listener, gregarious and a chain smoker
Strengths:
Very clever, always abreast of news and current affairs, popular reputation, excellent with words, can smell a lie at fifty paces, lucky
Weaknesses:
Hates being alone, tends to focus on one thing and not pay attention, really hates rodents, nicotine dependent
Quirks:
Sensitive nose and palate (despite the smoking), can identify perfumes and tobacco brands easily
Dilettante:
You are a well-known socialite. Born to Old Money, you are always invited to the best parties and are often the centre of attention. Recently, you became engaged to Roger Gibson, a wealthy businessman.
However, happiness soon turned to tragedy. On the way home to tell everyone the good news, a tyre burst and sent the car Roger was driving into a river. Roger was knocked unconscious and you were concussed. The driver of a passing lorry was able to dive in and save you in time but Roger was not so lucky; he drowned as the car sunk out of reach.
Since then, while mourning his death, your dreams have been haunted by that fateful night. You find yourself trapped in the car as the water rises. Roger turns to you with dead eyes and reaches out to embrace you, saying that you will always be together, as the icy waters rise over your heads.
Looking for some way to stop the nightmares, you’ve seen an advertisement in the Bennington Post and called the number and arranged an appointment with Dr. Thorne. He came to your home a few days later, where you told him about your dreams. The doctor’s assessment said the dreams stem from survivor guilt. He believes you need to accept you could do nothing and free yourself from guilt.
Dr. Thorne believes he can help you and has offered you a place in his dream therapy study. You are just about to arrive at the university hospital, part of the University, hoping that he can end your nightmares.
Description:
Attractive, graceful and dressed at the fine line between fashionable and scandalous. Melodious voice.
Strengths:
Peerless at parties and general socialising, great conversationalist, talk your way into any trouble you want, spend enough time in rough bars that you can handle yourself, athletic as only the leisured rich can be, good BS detector
Weaknesses:
Bored very quickly without company, easily spooked, dyslexic
Quirks:
Broad-minded to a fault, dislike brandy, desperately want cats to like you
Doctor:
You always wanted to be a doctor. Helping people has been a calling for you for as long as you can remember. You graduated with your doctorate and moved to Bennington, Vermont to practice medicine at the local hospital. Life has been good for you, until recently.
Late last year, you were on duty at the hospital when tragedy struck. The investigation after the event ruled a broken gas main that caused the explosion, starting a fire that swiftly spread through the rest of the building. You suffered severe smoke inhalation as you tried to help as many patients escape as possible. One image has stuck in your mind and haunts your dreams to this very night.
The explosion brought down a heavy beam that blocked the exit to one of the wards. You tried to move it with some of the orderlies but, through the small windows into the ward, you could see the patients trying to force their way out as the fire swept over them. They ran through the flames looking for an escape, screaming as one-by-one they fell, burning to death. Night after night, you find yourself back in the burning hospital, failing to open that door, until the fire consumes you too.
Looking for some way to stop the nightmares, you’ve seen an advertisement in the Bennington Post and called the number and arranged an appointment with Dr. Thorne. He came to your home a few days later, where you told him about your dreams. The doctor’s assessment said the dreams stem from survivor guilt coupled with feelings of professional failure. He believes you consider yourself responsible for the deaths and cannot accept that you couldn’t save them.
Dr. Thorne believes he can help you and has offered you a place in his dream therapy study. You are just about to arrive at the university hospital, part of the University, hoping that he can end your nightmares.
Description:
Bespectacled, level gaze, smart, air of quiet authority
Strengths:
Excellent medical skills and all-round scientific knowledge, good at safely restraining patients, perceptive, language skills
Weaknesses:
A bit out of shape (long hours at the hospital), workaholic, pyrophobia
Quirks:
Gets terribly hung over after drinking, very sensitive to needs of others
Ex-Constable:
You were a policeman for years before you were medically discharged. Your career ended in the summer of 1925 on one hot summer’s night at the edge of town. Sidney Harris, a local small-time criminal, had kidnapped Jane Strong, the teenage daughter of a local industrialist. A handover was scheduled on the edge of the forest, just outside of town. The kidnappers turned up, panicked at the sight of all the cops and a gunfight ensued.
You were shot in the leg and went down. One of the gang stood over you, pointing the barrel of his gun at your face. A shot rang out and he was hit. His weapon discharged clipping you in the leg. You’ve walked with a limp ever since. You have recurring nightmares from time-to-time about that moment. In your dreams, he shoots and kills you. You wake with a terrible pain in your chest every time.
Looking for some way to stop the nightmares, you’ve seen an advertisement in the Bennington Post and called the number and arranged an appointment with Dr. Thorne. He came to your home a few days later, where you told him about your dreams. The doctor’s assessment said the dreams are a related to a form of shellshock (post-traumatic stress). After all, you nearly died; no wonder it was such a traumatic experience.
Dr. Thorne believes he can help you and has offered you a place in his dream therapy study. You are just about to arrive at the university hospital, hoping that he can end your nightmares.
Description:
Obvious limp and cane, firm handshake, penetrating gaze, almost-a-uniform style of dress
Strengths:
Finding things, reading people, criminology, being stealthy, scrapping, breaking and entering
Weaknesses:
Not much of a reader, tend to act like you’re still a copper, bad leg
Quirks:
Questioning manner of speech, touchy about your injury, very strong opinions on criminals
Journalist:
You’ve worked for the local newspaper, The Bennington Post, ever since you left school. You’ve always had a nose for a story and now you’ve made yourself a career from that skill. The only trouble you’ve ever had in your work came as a result of the kidnapping of Jane Strong in the Summer of 1925. Sidney Harris, a local small-time criminal, had kidnapped Jane Strong, the teenage daughter of a local industrialist. A countywide manhunt took place after a botched handover where several police officers were killed. Jane was rescued, but no one would talk about the specifics. You went out into the Green Mountain National Forest to search for any evidence remaining at the scene of her captivity. You found nothing.
However, after coming back, your dreams have been haunted by terrible images. In your dreams, you stand in front of a dilapidated log cabin. The door swings slowly open and figures emerge, advancing slowly with purpose, towards you. They wear strange hats and something is wrong with their clothes. You hear one of them speak, as he comes closer, “Come with us. Join us. Embrace your destiny.” Its face is lifeless, pale, and unblinking. A dark green smear of rotting corruption spreads down from his empty eye socket. When the dead man grins his skin cracks.
Looking for some way to stop the nightmares, you’ve seen an advertisement in the Bennington Post and called the number and arranged an appointment with Dr. Thorne. He came to your home a few days later, where you told him about your dreams. The doctor’s assessment says the imagery in the dreams are drawn from your experience in the forest but the figures are a metaphor for someone else, yet to be determined.
Dr. Thorne believes he can help you and has offered you a place in his dream therapy study. You are just about to arrive at the university hospital, part of the University at Albany, hoping that he can end your nightmares.
Description:
Blends in, mild, seems to know a bit about everything, easy to talk to
Strengths:
Quick-witted and bold, remembering things, watching and noticing, reading people, sniffing out lies
Weaknesses:
Nosy parker, easily distracted
Quirks:
Nosy parker, easily distracted, scribble notes absent-mindedly
I’m posting here so that I don’t interrupt the main thread, but is this game open to anyone on the forums? And is there still time to jump in? It looks like the Journalist is still up for grabs (my preferred choice anyway) 
Go for it! I will need to throw the character sheet together but you don’t need to wait for that 
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