Sleuth Home - Detective Cekuray

Title:
Well-Connected
Experience:
1678710
Archetype:
Very Tough
Age:
4691 days
Gender:
male
Sleuth Theme:
The Circle of Light
Last Login:
Sep-17-2012
Account Status:
Inactive
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Equipment

The Queen Fightin Jacks Newsie The Colonel Rattlesnake Cowboy Boots

Completed Missions

  • Packages Delivered: 12
  • Overdue Books Returned: 12
  • Nemeses Captured: 0
  • Secret Plans Revealed: 0
  • Artifacts Unearthed: 0
  • Journal Pages Found: 1
  • Brass Rings Won: 0

Detective Biography

Shanghai.
I had gone into hiding. I am running driven just by my instinct now. No shadow on the dark streets but mine. I know he is chasing me, out there, somewhere. My lungs are screaming for oxygen and my exhausted muscles keep responding to my brain's command ''run you fool, or this is the end''.
He is behind me restless, relentless, focused and insanely precise in his reason. I had nightmares all my life that somebody like him might arrive at some point, somebody not worldly. He became my worst fear and greatest adversary.
I embraced an ugly life (some might say) of killing and vandalising, but who could blame me? Who could judge my deeds? We live rough times. I am very good at this, harming people. It is the very essence of life for me. By killing I am alive.
He is chasing me, urging me to confess all my sins and end my ''artist'' life. I can see him in the newspapers, on the streets, in the bar, talking to people, interrogating them, using his unique technique of persuasion, always getting his answers. He is new to the town, but he already has a reputation here €that he always gets his thug. And he is after me now... He is well-built, six feet ten, slim and trained, straight, short hair. His jaws are strong and his face grave and determined. Always wears a funny looking hat and that colonel-like attire. He doesn't have yet the deep wrinkles on his face of a long life of trials, not a young-one either. He is an ex-butcher boy who turned detective when he lost his loved-ones at the hands of an insignificant murderer. He started chasing us, the ''wrong ones'' since that day, judicious as a robot, almost made this himself an ''art'', a ''counter-art'' to my talent, close to reaching perfection.
Now he is chasing me. I can see the green shirt he favoured and feel his presence so close to mine, almost grabbing me. He is strong and has a menacing air - a tough character. Would I free myself from him?
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All around me is dark and still. No sound. Suddenly I realise that I am not alone anymore. A noise... My left leg stiffened. I feel a shudder of chillness. I am hit. I cannot begin to grasp the meaning of the bitterness failure gives to you when it comes. I failed. I stop, falling. I crawl for another 15 yards and rest myself on the wall of an old house. A sureness is overwhelming me - my end is here. At least he is the worthiest adversary one can have. The game was good, but now is over. I see his shadow approaching, noiseless, not running, not breathing. He reaches in my coat's pocket and drops something in it and quickly vanishes into the dark. I cannot move. I am petrified. I look into my pocket, take out a piece of paper with two lines written and read it. It was his mark, his signature, his stamp on all ''delivered contracts'':

CEDRIC KURT RAY
cekuray

Politics

Order o Socrates:  Poor(-3)
Arcanum Brthrhd:  Poor(-3)
Cosa Nostra:  Poor(-3)
Eastern Triads:  Poor(-3)
Circle of Light:  Poor(-1)
Green Hand:  Poor(-3)
The Tea Steepers:  Bad(-25)
Shangri La Tigers:  Good(25)

Contacts

Fish Monger (Shanghai)

Arch Villains

Trixie "the Viper" Scroggs
Captured

Lucinda "the Hawk" von Schneider
Captured

Marshal Olaf Rowe
Captured

Violet "Praying Mantis" Metaxas
Captured

Count Gorka Boucher
Captured

Countess Dolores Buranek
Captured

Alexander "the Hawk" Grimm
Captured

Captain Vivian Buranek
Captured

Trickster Ludwig Chandler
Failed

Caesar "the Centipede" Aryaman
Failed

Scholastica "Diamondback" Adler
Failed

Books Collected

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie

Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Empty House
Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle

The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe

The Art of War
Sun Tzu

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins