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 ** Antiquarian, Collector, or Genealogy:  30-50% (probably specialized to a narrow interest)
 ** Book or Antique Restoration:  20-40%
-** Language/Translation (Latin, Old English):  20-40%
+** Language/Translation (Latin, Archaic or Old English):  20-40%
 ** Research or Library Use:  30-40%
 ** Spot Hidden:  25-30%

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 ** Security Guard/Beat Cop:  20-40% (Includes security, crowd control, rounding up the usual suspects, writing tickets, verifying ID, etc.)
 ** Listen/Spot Hidden:  30-40%
-** Persuade/Intimidate:  20-40% (may be susceptible to bribery, intimidation, etc. by a more intimidating or persuasive investigator, investigator with a higher credit rating, etc.))
+** Persuade/Intimidate:  20-40% (may be susceptible to bribery, intimidation, etc. by a more intimidating or persuasive investigator, investigator with a higher credit rating, etc.)
 * Combat and Weapons:
 ** Hit Points (HP):  10-15
 ** Damage Bonus (DB):  1D4
-** Dodge:  25-30% (Untrained), 30-40% (Mediocre), 40-50% (Effective)
+** Dodge:  25-30% / (Hard 12-15% / (Extreme 6-7%)
 ** Brawl:  30-40% / (Hard 15-20%) / (Extreme 7-10%) / Damage (1D3 + 1D4)
 ** Truncheon:  25-30% (Hard 15-20%) / (Extreme 7-10%) / Damage (1D6 + 1D4)

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 === Collector or Expert ===
 === Country Doctor ===
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 == Police and Detectives ==
 === The Beat Cop/Security Guard ===
 === Nosy Neighbor/Amateur Sleuth/Conspiracy Theorist ===
 === County Sheriff or Police Chief ===
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 == Criminals and Thugs ==
 === Generic Cultist ===
 === The Rowdy, The Drunk, Member of an Angry Mob ===
 === Crooked Surgeon or Veterinarian ===
 * Can patch you up with no questions asked, for a price, but don't count on the results being pretty:  this doctor is just a step up from a butcher.  Paired with The Thug to provide some Intimidation, the Crooked Surgeon might do double-duty as a reluctant torturer.
 == Townsfolk ==
 === Village Elder or Wise Man ===
 === School Teacher, Scout Leader, Priest, Governess, Nanny ===
 === The Hermit, The Eccentric Loner, The Fortune-Teller ===
 === Local Yokel ===
 === Street Urchin ===
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 === The Lookie-Loo ===
 * A person who goes somewhere or stops to look at something (such as the scene of an accident): an intrusively curious onlooker.

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 === Coroner or Crime Scene Investigator ===
-* Quotes:  "Unlike the living, when the dead speak, they do not lie!"  "Every crime scene tells a story.  For example, the story this stiff tells me is...."  "Blood stains, the charred remains, the poor bastard who blew out his brains:  I've seen it all, it's routine to me at the crime scene...."  "I thought I'd seen it all until tonight, but this ain't a crime scene, it's a horror show!"  "Oh no, not you guys again... the last time I talked to you, the stiff went missing and the Chief chewed me out for a month.  You wanna get information from me, you gotta give me something in return...."
+* Quotes:  "Unlike the living, when the dead speak, they do not lie!"  "Every crime scene tells a story.  For example, the story this stiff tells me is...."  "Blood stains, the charred remains, the poor bastard who blew out his brains:  I've seen it all, it's routine to me...."  "I thought I'd seen it all until tonight, but this ain't a crime scene, it's a horror show!"  "Oh no, not you guys again... the last time I talked to you, the stiff went missing and the Chief chewed me out for a month.  You wanna get information from me, you gotta give me something in return...."
 * Stock Character Role Description:  Middle aged, drily sardonic, and desensitized to the horrors of death, perhaps eating a sandwich while casually examining a mutilated body or a gory crime scene, or engaging in one-sided banter with a corpse. The Coroner or Crime Scene Investigator might be a valuable source of information for Mythos investigators, but, depending on the investigators' Credit Rating, or relationship with this character or the police department in general, may be reluctant to talk to the investigators without a little Persuasion, Fast Talk, Intimidation, or creative bargaining such as doing the Coroner/Crime Scene Investigator a favor, or providing a bribe in the form of a gift, or an addition to the character's eccentric or even morbid collection.
 * NPC Skills/Stats:

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 === The Absent-Minded Professor ===
 * Quotes:  "Extraordinary!"  "Preposterous!"  "It's theoretically possible, but that would mean... no, no, it would rewrite the very laws of physics!"  "Yes, yes... who did you say you were, again?"  "Now, if you don't mind, I really must get back to my work, and I really must not be disturbed!"
 * Stock Character Role Description:  An eccentric scientific genius who is so focused on his work that he has shortfalls in other areas of life (remembering things, grooming). This is the benign version of the mad scientist.  The Absent-Minded Professor might be consulted by investigators for his expertise in a scientific matter, analyzing or researching a scientific question, translating a tome, etc., but due to the focus on his work, he may have little time, attention, or even patience for the investigators' distractions.  A particularly interesting distraction, however, may drive the Absent-Minded Professor to begin ignoring the investigators while his full concentration is turned on the extraordinary implications of the question the investigators have posed for him.

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	=== Sole Survivor ===		=== Sole Survivor ===
	=== Arrested Cultist ===		=== Arrested Cultist ===
		+	=== Innocent Bystander ===
		+	=== The Lookie-Loo ===
		+	* A person who goes somewhere or stops to look at something (such as the scene of an accident): an intrusively curious onlooker.

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 * NPC Skills/Stats:
 ** Absent-minded Scientist (any specialization):  40-50%
-** Other Scientific fields, or Medicine/Psychoanalysis:  20-30%
+** Other Scientific fields, or Medicine/Psychoanalysis:  15-25%
 ** Language/Translation (Latin, Greek):  20-40%
 ** Library Use or Consulting with his Colleagues:  30-40%

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	=== Maid ===		=== Maid ===
	=== Cook ===		=== Cook ===
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		+	== Eye Witnesses ==
		+	=== Asylum Inmate ===
		+	=== Mythos Victim ===
		+	=== Sole Survivor ===
		+	=== Arrested Cultist ===