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Welcome to James Kemp's Wiki
This is a collaborative web platform that allows people to edit1) the web pages to provide additional content for some of the stories I have written and the roleplaying games that I am involved in, whether as a player or GM.
There are several namespaces operating slightly different wiki subjects. These are, in no particular order:
- Skyss - Story Background - a fantasy novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2016.
- Perfects - background for the near future story and some police roleplaying that I ran in that universe
- Theocracy of Daprav - A D&D campaign that I ran with Glasgow University Games Society around 2002-3.
- Jim Wallman's Universe - a roleplaying by e-mail campaign that I play in, this is an unofficial wiki and none of it is canon unless Jim says it is.
- Interstellar Freelance Unlimited - subset of the Universe pages covering the activities of a mercenary company that we are currently roleplaying every Full Moon.
- Earth Imperium pages. These cover the activities of the Government of the Solar republic (aka Earth Empire) in Jim's Humanity Will Prevail campaign, including the Earth Imperium News Items.
- Free Worlds Alliance - covering the activities of another emerging polity in the Humanity Will Prevail campaign. Mostly contributed by Eric Moroney.
- Universe Background - page collecting the various bits of background info that have come up in various e-mail discussions for the campaigns set in Jim Wallman's Universe.
- Master map of the Universe (6Mb PDF, as at 3212).
- Delta Green - some roleplaying campaigns about horror and conspiracy. The main one was set in Berlin in 1953.
- Free games rules - a collection of free rules for wargames and other sorts of face to face games that I have designed or run.
- Wargames rules - I'm not just a player of games, I also do rules for them from time to time as well as one-off games. A primary outlet for this is through Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group.
- Other free rules - at the moment just those for the 1689 (Orange or Lemon? and Bonnie Dundee, respectively about the debates in the Scots Parliament and then the military campaign of Viscount Dundee during 1689) and The Other Side of the COIN (about what makes people become insurgents). All games that I have have produced for Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group.
- Background for a near future universe where I have written some fiction and also run some roleplaying games in.
Comments and complaints to me at webmaster@full-moon.info please.
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Lower Harwood Stories
So far there are two stories set in the fictional British village of Lower Harwood. The first of these was a short story called Rounds which was written for my Open University Creative Writing course. Rounds was also included in my book Themself.
The second follows on directly from Rounds and was written for the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge 2017. It is called Down the Harbour and had to be written as a romance set in a harbour with a bandage in the story. It seemed reasonable to set it in Lower Harwood given that I only had a few hours notice to write it. The Challenge gives you 48 hours, but I was at cub camp that weekend and it left me only a couple of hours of writing time to get in a 1,000 word story that met the requirements.
Lower Harwood
I deliberately chose to label these as being set in a village rather than by character as I think there may be scope for a range of interesting short stories about vilage life. Lower Harwood is completely fictional, yet completely real at the same time. All of the locations set in the book are heavily based on real places, but they aren't all in the same place, nor do they all still exist. Using my memories of real places lets me give realistic descriptions and also fill them with authentic detail.
What I have done is move these around spacially and temporally. Most of the locations are drawn from the village I grew up in, and ones I've spent time in as an adult. Notably Old Kilpatrick, Merstham and Godstone have all contributed more than one location. What I need to do next is draw a map that shows how these lay out next to each other.
Characters
Both stories have the same main character. Alice (surname as yet unspecified) is a recently qualified midwife who works in the local community, her Granny Jack was a midwife pre-dating the NHS (she might be Alice's great grandmother, and would be in her mid-nineties at least if the story is set in 2017).
Other characters that feature are:
- Fiona - a childhood friend of Alice's, expecting twins. Her mother Gena died giving birth to her.
- Davie - a young man that does gardening for the elderly
- Rachel - a young woman, who likes Davie, neighbour of Granny Jack
- Billy Fleming - a Scot and a keen gardener who lives in Stuart Street, divorced with a four year old child (AKA Little Jock) he watches while his ex-wife is at work.
- Dianne Dowding - younger sister of a friend of Alice's. Just turned 18 and studying at the college. Has a crush on Ed Cairns.
- Mrs Dowding - Dianne's mother. Well meaning and concerned.
- Ed Cairns - a serious student with a wish to go to Cambridge. Usually found in the library.
- Mo - new chef at The Harbour. Shoulder length dyed green hair and striking hazel eyes. Early twenties (about the same age as Alice).
- Harry the handyman - a handyman, as his nick-name suggests…
- Debs - a work colleague of Alice's
Jafnadr the Sword
Jafnadr is a famous sword, blessed by the Goddess Malfin - Goddess of the Darkness. The name, in translation, means both equality and justice. It was made for Jafnadr, the daughter of Malfin - Goddess of the Darkness and fafnir by frijdodr.
Appearance
Like a slice of darkness. It is completely black, and the blade absorbs light, apart from a round matt white stone on the pommel. It can also disguise itself when asked to so that people don’t notice it (it still looks like a sword, but not a remarkable one).
Abilities
It is super sharp, and will slice through armour like it isn't there. Also Jafnadr absorbs the memories of its wielder, and those in the close vicinity (albeit more slowly, and it can have difficulty with anyone attempting to resist or with significant divine powers). As a sentient sword it can speak to its wielder via a mental link, but only when the wielder is touching any part of the sword.
Restrictions
Only those descended from the original owner, Jafnadr (a daughter of Malfin and Fafnir) can use it. Additionally it needs to be used without malice.
Other notes
Currently Yngvild Helgasdotir is the wielder of Jafnadr, she inherited it from her father oddmundr (who she has never met).
Mark Whitely
Whitely was shot dead by Chief Inspector Sophia Young in a dawn raid on a terraced house in East London on 23rd April 2046. The body was stripped of ID but running fingerprints and facial recognition (on what was left after a headshot) gave a 1:1 match with this identity.
Warning Flag
Whitely triggered a GREEN REPORT flag on the police watch list when the ID was matched. The reason given was 'Foreign Military Contractor in UK'. Links to UK Border Security Command and UK Visa data show his employer as Monck Security.
Biography
Mark Whitley was born in Newfoundland 26 Jul 2009.
He joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 2028 and served as an infantryman. He did the Commando course and then trained as a mortar fire controller. He left the CAF with the rank of Corporal in 2034.
He worked for Monck Security from late 2041 until just before his death.
Immigration History
He has been a regular visitor to the UK over the last ten years, mainly in transit. However in the last five years he has had a year of working out of the UK where he spent most of the time here in FY 2043-4. At the time he was contracted to Monck for a two year period which finished early.
In the last two years (since the visa was curtailed early, for administrative reasons) he has visited on a three monthly basis for 3-4 weeks at a time. All of the travel recorded is either direct flights to Tripoli from Gatwick or train travel to the continent.
Criminal Record
none.
Known Associates
none.
Other information
Characters
These aren't notes on all the characters, just the ones that I needed to share with other people. The primary characters in the story Perfects aren't listed here, these are just supporting characters, some of whom aren't even mentioned directly in the stories.
NB the list is auto-generated by tags.
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| 4 Jan 2015 23:00 | James Kemp |
Regulations on Police Evidence 2045
Commonly referred to as RoPE 45. The regulations were updated following the UKIP manifesto commitment from the 2044 General Election and are intended to strike the right balance between the powers of the police and the rights and freedoms of the public. Maintaining that balance is a central element of RoPE.
The RoPE codes of practice cover:
- stop and search
- arrest & detention
- investigation
- identification
- interviewing detainees
