Trying to fleece the New Inquisition would have been a bad idea in the good old days of freely flowing expense accounts and benefits for those who could prove their mettle. In the new security-minded cult that TNI has become it’s practically a deathwish. So why does Dawson risk literal life and limb pulling the wool over Abel’s eyes when he could go be a successful white-collar criminal anywhere else?
In a word: fixation.
Dawson is a part of the old guard from the original organisation, it’s a factor he has used to evade scrutiny on more than one occasion. Coming up through the ranks as a fresh MBA graduate in the company of hardened killers and criminals took a lot of bluff and guts. It taught him the value of less tangible kinds of power better than any classroom given that the consequences of failing to outmaneuver his contemporaries could have been fatal. Subtle webs of interdependent blackmail and deals protected him better than a gun ever could. It also freed him up to find a way to rob the organisation blind.
Then the Whisper War came and someone stole that pie off the windowsill before he could. Sure he could have emptied a few bank accounts then cut and run, but it was the principle. The score had been his and someone had trampled all over it. His hesitation mistaken for loyalty, Dawson found himself grandfathered into a position of seniority.
Now he maintains his position using the same tools as before for higher risk and less pay-off. Careful blackmail, leverage and owed favours carefully balanced against each other in a house of cards that threatens to take more than just him with it. His latest scheme involves manufacturing occult incidents from whole cloth and pretending to investigate them while skimming funds. The fallout from failing to produce results is starting to wear thin though and Alex Abel’s attention is now fixed on Dawson. Desperate, he’ll take any legitimising win at this point. If that means destroying a PC cabal’s goals he won’t think twice. Anything to keep his dream of one day rorting TNI down to the bones alive.
STATS
Personality: Excitable and arrogant. Dawson does his best to come across as a little spacey, all the better for people to underestimate him. Even those who know the truth about him find themselves believing it at times and leaving themselves open.
Rage: Having one of his schemes reversed on to him.
Noble: Younger versions of himself, although it’s generally hard for him to avoid trying to take advantage that’s the one situation he’ll reliably grow morals over.
Fear: Torture (Violence).
Obsession: Taking TNI for all he can get.
Wound Threshold: 50.
Sublime Con Artist 65%* (Substitutes for Lie, Coerces Self, Unique - Once per session expend a relevant passion to retroactively reveal a prepared contingency with a successful roll.)
TNI (Mis)management 55% (Substitutes for Status, Substitutes for Secrecy, Evaluates Self.)
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