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The pouring rain beat down on the cold cobblestone streets of London; this was summer in England. The young woman that had been watching the percipitation left the window and meandered over to the table, her delicate hand covered in a lacy fingerless glove picked up the morning's paper her father had left there.



Spying her maids carrying a trunk she knew her ride must have arrived. She followed them she stepped out in to the rain, throwing up an umbrella. A horseless carriage awaited her; it's shiny brass engine was hot, the rain turning to steam as it hit it.
The driver gave a curt bow and opened the door for her. "Miss Weston. We will be at your uncle's country home within the hour."
She gave him a nod and looked out the window, watching the dirigibles float lazily to their own destinations as her driver began their journey.

Name: Theodora "Teddy" Mercy Weston
Age: 17
Sex: Female
Appearance: Too tall, too headstrong, and too modern. She often prefers trousers to dresses.
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Occupation: none
Relationship to Franklin Eckhart: Niece (He is her mother's brother)
Bio: Miss Weston recently graduated from the Spence Academy for Girls where she was forced to learn to be an acceptable woman. While intelligent, she almost didn't graduate because she preferred exploring and reading her books to studying the latest dances and working on tedious needlepoints.

Name: August Levi Goodwin
Age: 31
Sex: Male
Appearance: Handsome, with kind brown eyes and a handlebar mustache. (Which Gaia lacks. Shame shame.)
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Occupation: Inspector
Relationship to Franklin Eckhart: Friend of the family's
Bio: Inspector Goodwin has worked for the police force for the last seven years. He was born in India where his father was stationed with Col. Eckhart during their military days. He is kind and well to do, but not yet wed because he is far too absorbed in his work much to the dismay of many mothers in London with marriageable daughters.

Name: Barnabas E. W. SinClaire
Age: 57
Sex: Male
Appearance: Elderly, but strong, with graying hair that is usually pulled back into a low ponytail, reaching between his shoulder blades. He usually wears a pair of goggles on his head, and often smells of gunpowder and various engine oils. He wears a brown dust coat and a white long-sleeve undershirt with a tan vest and a canary yellow tie. His eccentric blue eyes haven't faded at all in his old age. He sports a pair of brown breeches and gold-tipped brown boots. His entire outfit is line with gold trinkets and contraptions. Barnabas stands about six-foot, four inches tall and is rather narrow in build.
Occupation: "Wizard"
Relationship to Franklin Eckhart: Franklin's personally funded inventor.
Bio: Once a respected scientist, Barnabas SinClaire ruined his reputation with ingenuity. His infamous "Intrinsic Transmitter" was rejected as pure myth and a sign of insanity by his peers, who cast him into exile. Branded as a mad man, Barnabas E. W. SinClaire sought out private investors who would be willing to fund his experiments.
When he met Franklin Eckhart, he knew that his search was finished. The kindred spirits found themselves discussing what others would consider pure lunacy, ideas that only the "mad" could conceive. After convincing Eckhart to fund his infamous contraption's actual invention, Barnabas's dream finally became reality. And it was upon the completion of this masterpiece, after several years of failed research, that he was delivered the news that his funding was to be cut entirely, the reason being the death of one Mr. Franklin Eckhart.