Thomas Dennison

[Picture of Dennison] Thomas Dennison is my character in Ryan Franklin's Mage game, which we are playing alternately with my own Wraith game on Wednesday evenings. (Link to the Wraith game coming soon.) The Mage game is set in San Francisco, a fine little town.

What The Sleepers Know

Very little. Few Sleepers have heard of Cathedral Hill Clocks, the shop Dennison owns, operates, and lives above. A few historians or horologists (clock scientists) who are extremely specialized might know about Aaron Dennison, his brother, who developed the first assembly line for watches, (and, in 1850, founded the Waltham lines of pocket watches made in this manner) and maybe one somewhere might know about Thomas himself and his disappearance in 1855.

When ordinary people see Thomas Dennison, they probably think he's some kind of weirdo (they're right): dressed in neo-Victorian clothes, wearing three watches per wrist and carrying several more pocket watches. [Time Flies, by Gamini Kumara]>

What the Tradition Mages know

A little more than the Sleepers. Dennison is a strange and notorious figure in the Tradition community, being a former Iteration X-er. (Very former.) Through some means which nobody is quite sure about, he skipped over the years from 1855 to 1992 and was allegedly steaming mad when he found out that the Technocracy had completely changed directions in the intervening time. This means that in a very practical way, he is a Son of Ether (though he has little in common with their attitudes towards science.) He is a Victorian-era gentleman, with all the good and bad things that implies. (Good, for instance, is his sense of personal responsibility and his civility. Bad, for instance, is his almost-casual sexism and racism.)

Dennison's Opinions, if You Want Them

His opinion of other mages in San Francisco.

In-Character Journal

What's really going on

WARNING TO OTHER PLAYERS (this means you, Greg and Kim). Spoilers ahoy. DO NOT USE THESE LINKS.

Links

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