Sleuth Home - Detective Jet Blacke

Title:
Sleuth
Experience:
506300
Archetype:
Tough and Smart
Age:
4504 days
Gender:
male
Background:
Disillusioned Police Detective
Sleuth Theme:
Shady Character
Last Login:
Dec-4-2022
Account Status:
Inactive
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Unsubscribed
 
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Equipment

Leather Eye Patch Cloisonne Harmony Orbs Leopard Banded Fedora Full Length Possum Coat Black Dress Shoes

Completed Missions

  • Packages Delivered: 1
  • Overdue Books Returned: 6
  • Nemeses Captured: 0
  • Secret Plans Revealed: 0
  • Artifacts Unearthed: 0
  • Journal Pages Found: 1
  • Brass Rings Won: 79

Detective Biography

Sooner or later being a cop disillusions everyone. You see a lot of the worst of humanity; crooks, people who're sad, vicious, angry, and usually stupid too. When that's what you experience from people day in and day out, it's easy to lose your idealism, if you started out with any.

But what'll really kill the idealism of young cops is the fact that you'll see a lot of the worst of humanity in other cops too.

Cops, it turns out, are just as vulnerable to greed, prejudice, corruption and just generally being a scumbag as anyone else. But they get things most people don't, like the power to get away with it, and an entire chunk of society that's willing to back them up if they misbehave. Worse, lots of cops think they're entitled to abuse their position for "perks".

"I'm fighting the good fight", they say to themselves, "Why shouldn't I be rewarded for it? Who cares if a stack of bills from a bust goes missing? If a couple of those seized, untraceable, and illegals guns get resold to my pals or their relatives? And what harm is there in shaking down some of the lowlives on the street, the drug dealers, the pimps, the thieves, and the smugglers, why should they go home with plenty of cash while I'm sweating my bills every month?"

And just like that, a lot of cops start stealing, or getting kickbacks, or shaking down people who are in The Game. And even if you aren't doing any of that, you're supposed to look the other way and pretend you don't see others doing it all around you. Other cops, even dirty cops, are part of your Team, and you're supposed to cover for the Team.

I didn't.

I spent over a year secretly recording the corruption that went on in my unit, the orders for false arrests, the illegal quotas for fines and tickets we had to write, the racist ways we approached the community, the brutality, the manipulation of crime statistics to make the politicians and the higher ups look good, and more. I recorded it all. Then I went and turned it in to our Internal Affairs Department.

Looking back now, I laugh at myself. I was an idealist back then. It never even crossed my mind that Internal Affairs was part of the Team too.

I'll save you a lot of boring and sad details and just say it didn't end well for me. I wasn't completely screwed, because I thought to bring some of my recordings to the press too, but when it was all over, so was my career as a cop. I was a rat. A traitor to the Team. And it caused too much of a stink for me to go be a cop somewhere else. I still had a few friends on the force, some other idealists or guys that I'd done big favors for, but they were definitely exceptions.

So when I had to pick up the pieces, I decided that if I was going to make use of the skills I learned as a detective, I was going to do it my way. On my terms, and nobody else's.

I'm Jimmy "Jet" Blacke, private detective. What can I do for you?

(Note: Some inspiration taken from Adrian Schoolcraft)

Politics

Order o Socrates:  Good(10)
Arcanum Brthrhd:  Poor(-3)
Cosa Nostra:  Poor(-3)
Eastern Triads:  Good(10)
Circle of Light:  Fair(4)
Green Hand:  Fair(2)
The Tea Steepers:  Neutral(0)
Shangri La Tigers:  Neutral(0)

Contacts

Waitress (New York)
Banker (New York)
Tea Merchant (London)
Tailor (London)
Stage Manager (Shanghai)
Calligraphist (Shanghai)
Pianist (Sleuthetania)
Chief Purser (Sleuthetania)

Arch Villains

None Caught

Books Collected

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie