Ramaj

Ramaj is a trenchcoater created by Scott Emery.
Alter Ego:	Ramaj Singh
Aliases:	None
Primary Writer:	Scott Emery
Status:	Member of the Net.Trenchcoat Brigade
Usability:	Usable With Permission

History

From the original NTB Roster:

   Has done a little professional thieving for various governments, and a little monster chasing. He "retired" from monster chasing when the organization he was a member of was destroyed by attack from without and within. Carried on the work part-time, mostly as a form of self defense. His studies of monsters broadened and now he steals information where he can get it from whoever isn't looking.

His mother was of the Brahmin class in India, but fell for a certain British Spy named Clive Reston. (Master of Kung Fu reference, He kept talking about how his (uncle?) was James Bond and his great grandfather was Sherlock Holmes... Never quite lived up to his lineage, save in the ladies man dept. Though it was never documented in the comic, Clive can probably keep a mean bee, too.) Clive was gone before Ramaj was born. Though technically out caste, Ramaj was educated as a Brahmin and sent to Oxford (it helps to be related to money) on condition that he not acknowlege his parentage. Some oriental sect captured and killed his mother sometime later. Ramaj is sure that his father is indirectly responsible. The sect had been known to be working for Fu Manchu... As Fu Manchu is supposed to be dead, I guess he is not a dangler in Ramaj's history...

He specifically started thieving for (fill in CIA analogue) and worked for them for three or four years (long enough to develop some powerful antipathies) until he was assigned to infiltrate a monster stalking organization. Once infiltrated he realized that there was a nameless force that seem to be guiding the appearances of vampires and werewolves et. al. that would be happy to smoke him if it found him. This is about when the severe paranoia (nutured by the non-specific governmental organization) soaked him through... He now sleeps very lightly and will wake if his name is mentioned.. (your mileage may vary depending on exhaustion and city miles. He will cycle into deep sleep sometimes but for no more than 15 minutes at a time.) The organization was really poorly run but had a great library. This was a esoterica finishing school for Ramaj, who had a lot of the material transfered to microfiche (for the easier pilfering). This is where he was cursed with a wierdness magnet as part of becoming an operative. The org lost members so fast that Ramaj started recommending that his enemies become members of the organization on some pretext or other. He developed a group of people that he could trust within the org and now he feeds them info to keep them alive as well as himself. His sign (to them) is a bent backwards paperclip. Of course he will also use them on occasion to get a job done.

As he lost contact with the research organization that was his previous associates only good feature, Ramaj found he needed other sources of information about the movements of the Dark. His own attempts were no replacement for a cadre of researchers. His involvement with Trenchcoats started with some info about the Eye of Abraham (see, trenchcoats didn't actually have to enter into it, both characters assumed that the event was weird enough that the other MUST be a trenchcoater, of course this brings up echoes of the ending of the first Batman movie and can be preconned). He utilized the Eye to find a perfect hiding place, a house with a void floor attached to the Room-Continuum and a source of endless plot complications. Soon after moving into the house the Eye of Abraham was stolen from him. Desperate to maintain himself in the flow of information to which he had become accustomed, Ramaj befriended a young recently fired executive...

When he smokes, he smokes a turkish blend so nasty that HE prefers to do it out of doors. He drinks on occassion but rarely to excess.

Ramaj and Deft lived together in the mysterious Room-Continuum. Deft saw the coming of a force that was trying to control Access, and when Ramaj realized this would upset their dinner plans, they went off to Chicago to face it. They joined the big gathering of trenchcoaters, and ended up sucked into one of the Universal Office's Pocket Bureaucracies.

Personality

The thoughtful kind, but does violence to soothe his nerves. Definite social anxiety. He much prefers getting other people to do the dirty work, but if you want a job done right...

Powers and Abilities

Highly educated, and chock-full of sometimes-practical occult knowledge. A good thief, a decent shot, and fairly knowledgeable in the ways of dispatching monsters and the undead. Knows a bit of prestidigitation. Skilled at convincing people of things and excellent at bullshitting. Has a photographic memory.

Appearance

A thin middle-aged man of Indian descent with prematurely grey hair. Prefers tweed trenchcoats.

Appearances

• First Appearance: Wrath of the Administrator