Space just to post who you are. Not your sheet - there is a separate space for that. I mean a bit about your personality, your background. Most importantly: why you're on this expedition to Peru.

Please note that this is also for other players' benefit (I have now approved 3 of the 5 applicants) so please do post here even if you are just copy-pasting from your pre-gen sheets.

Jennifer seems to always be on the go. She has an adventurous spirit and a small sense of entitlement from her English upper crust upbringing. She is Caucasian, slender with dark curlyish hair that she keeps cut short. She firmly believes the adage "You can't make an omelet without cracking some eggs."

Perry is a tall man with weathered features. He has short unruly hair that he usually keeps hidden under his hat. He is Canadian and is constantly exploring the world to the best of his abilities. He doesn't like to stay in one place very long, preferably on the move. He is a man of action and doesn't mind getting his hands dirty. He caught wind of an expedition in Peru and knew he couldn't  pass up the opportunity.

Madelyn grew up reading her father’s history books, often lost in dreaming of exotic far-away places and strange people with even stranger customs. Madelyn grew up in the company of the Aboriginal Australians who would sometimes work or pass by her father’s farm; she loved to spend time listening to their stories and learning about their culture, despite it being frowned upon by her family.

Her academic nature and love of learning meant that she did well at school, encouraged by both her family and her teachers. Madelyn discovered she could pursue her interest in foreign cultures through the science of anthropology and undertook the subject at university. Since graduation, she has be fortunate to take part in a small number of projects in Australia and also, more recently, in the United States spending time with the Arapahoe tribespeople of Wyoming. Unfortunately, what little funding she had been receiving dried up - so, when she heard that an expedition in Peru was looking for people, she jumped at the chance to see South American for herself. Having corresponded with the expedition’s leader Augustus Larkin, she packed her bags and headed south with a smile upon her face.

In reply to The Keeper of Arcane Secrets (msg # 1):

Johan Braun

Johan’s mother was a librarian and his father a language teacher, which may explain his great love of books and languages: throughout childhood, the young boy was surrounded with books on science, history, myths, and more. The top of his class, Johan pursued an academic career, reading languages and classics at the University of Würzburg in Bavaria. It was while teaching at his alma mater that the Great War broke out and Johan was called to serve on the Western Front. Surviving the horrors of the trenches, he left Europe as quickly as he could and headed to America to take up a post at the University of California in Berkeley. Despite a promising start, Johan never felt he fitted in with the American way of life and began to grow disillusioned with academia. He read with interest about the resurgence of archaeological digs taking place in the wake of the war, and discovered an article featuring an interview with a man called Augustus Larkin, who was proposing to mount an expedition into the interior of Peru to seek out a lost pyramid; the interview ended with Larking calling for experts and adventurers to contact him. Wasting no time, Johan corresponded with Larking and secured a place on the team; Larking felt his knowledge of languages would prove useful. Larkin’s last letter told Johan to meet him and the other expedition members in Lima.

Arthur Dibden

Arthur served in the Royal Army Corps for two decades but, after his child and wife died during childbirth he did not know what to do. He lost himself in his work, deciding to travel to the Americas after the war. He was giving some medical assistance in the aftermath of the Spanish Flu, Arthur came across a press notice of an expedition being organized by Augustus (who else?). Thinking he may as well go see Peru since he was already in Colombia, Arthur headed out.