Name:  Cliff Marsland (The Shadow's underworld insider)

Val	Char    Cost
20	STR	10
14	DEX	12
15	CON	10
15	BODY    10
10	INT	
10	EGO	
15	PRE	 5
 8	COM	-1
 9	PD	 6
 3	ED	
 3	SPD	 6
 7	REC	
30	END	
33	STUN    

Characteristic Rolls: STR: 13-, DEX: 12-, CON: 12-, INT: 11-, EGO: 11-, PER: 11-
Run: 6", Swim: 2", Jump: 4", Lift: 400 kg

Cost    Powers  END/Roll


Cost    Skills, Talents, Perks  Roll
3	Bribery 12-
3	Climbing 12-
3	Conversation 12-
3	Eavesdropping 11-
3	Forgery 11-
3	Gambling 11-
3	Interrogation 12-
3	Lockpicking 12-
2	LS:  Criminal Slang, fluent
3	Streetwise 12-
3	Tactics 11-
4	KS:  Criminal Underworld 13-
2	KS:  Horse Racing 11-
2	Familiar with Common Melee Weapons
2	Familiar with Small Arms
10	+2 Levels with Hand-to-Hand Combat

50+	Disadvantages
15	Obeys The Shadow
10	Tough Guy
10	Reputation 11-:  Killer
10	Watched 11-:  The Police
10	Watched 11-:  The Mob
 5	Looks Like a Thug

OCV: 5 (7 with HTH); DCV: 5; ECV: 3; Mental Def.: 0; Phases: 4, 8, 12
PD/rPD: 9/0; ED/rED: 3/0  

Costs:  Char.:  58	Disad.: 60
	Powers: + 52	Base:  + 50
			Exp.:  + 
	Total:  = 110	Total: = 110

Background: 

Diamonds in the rough don't come much rougher than Cliff Marsland.  He 
returned to the United States after combat duty in the Great War under 
circumstances that forced him to change his name.  Later, he served time for a 
robbery he didn't commit in order to protect the brother of a woman he loved.  
Marsland had a shady past, but The Shadow knew the murder charge against him 
was a false one.  In exchange for a promise of complete obedience, The Shadow 
arranged to have him released.  Marsland returned to the seamy neighborhoods 
of New York as a supposed mob slayer, feared and respected by the criminal 
community, but actually an agent of The Shadow.  His reputation enables 
Marsland to get into gangster hang-outs that even crime reporter Clyde Burke, 
another agent, can't gain access to.  And when The Shadow assembles a team to 
bust up a crime boss's headquarters, Marsland  is usually the leader.

Chances are pretty good that the player characters really will meet Cliff 
Marsland in a dark alley.  Unless they're posing as crooks, however, he'll be 
there to protect them.  He's not the most personable of The Shadow's agents -- 
he can be rather intimidating -- but he's a good man to have on one's side in 
a fight.

Powers and Abilities:

Marsland picked up most of his unsavory skills -- brawling, bribery, forgery, 
gambling, interrogation -- trafficking in the black market in France during 
the war.  Since returning to the States he has become a fan of horse racing, 
since so many of his gangdom contacts are involved in the gambling associated 
with the races.  In combat, Marsland is an inelegant, vicious brawler.  What 
he lacks in technique he makes up for in brute strength.

Disadvantages:

Marsland's role is a dangerous one.  He must constantly guard against arousing 
the suspicions of the criminals he is spying on.  At the same time, New York's 
police are still trying to figure out how he avoided the gas chamber.  He's 
not being actively sought be either side of the law, but that would change 
quickly if he should ever slip up.  Marsland is also the sort who would run 
two blocks with the PCs before admitting that the persuing gangsters' last 
shot had wounded him.

Height:    cm (6' 6"), Weight:   kg (265 lbs), Sex:    Male, Race: Caucasian

Appearance: 

Marsland has the brutal, broken-nosed sort of face that makes babies cry and 
adult opponents want to cry.  He's got the bulk and muscle to back up his 
fearsome reputation.  He almost always has a cigarette clamped between his 
jaws.

Acknowledgement:

Some of the details for this write-up were gleaned from John Olsen's "The 
Shadow Magazine" web site at http://www.spaceports.com/~deshadow/.
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Hero System write-up by Kevin Scrivner