Clint Henderson is a man who knows which way the wind is blowing. Back in the ‘70s, he started out as a paranormal researcher, specializing in whatever would get him big money as a lecturer on the fruitcake circuit: Bigfoot, space aliens, the Bermuda Triangle, whatever. Clint didn’t have a Ph.D., nor did he have much in the way of investigative experience, but he did have a nose for the hot new trend in the weird. Even more importantly, he was a great draw as a lecturer. He never took his subject matter seriously enough to think twice about punching up his talks with ridiculous claims and inflammatory remarks, working the crowd in a manner that would make P. T. Barnum shed a tear of pride. Clint didn’t give a rat’s ass about mainstream acceptance. He just wanted a quick score from the gullible morons who paid to hear his talks and devoured his trashy, highly sensationalized books on the occult.

Anyone less mentally agile than Clint would have eventually crashed and burned, undercut by either the mainstream media’s drive to debunk him or his colleagues’ smoldering jealousy. Clint pulled the rug out of everyone one a daytime talk show. When the producers were anonymously given an audio tape of Clint expounding in exact detail his disdain for the "freaks, lunatics, and losers who need to stop chasing UFOs and get laid," they leapt at the chance to lure Clint on to their show and publicly humiliate him on live TV. The show started off well enough, until, just before they were to play the tape, Clint launched into a morally righteous rant, tearing into the frauds who were so eager to fleece the pathetic (you guessed it) "freaks, lunatics, and losers who need to stop chasing UFOs and get laid." The producers were stunned, their expose of Clint Henderson, occult fraud, turned into a veritable infomercial for Clint Henderson, occult debunker.

Overnight, Clint doubled his lecture fee, and his book sales went up across the board.

Since then, Clint has steadily descended back to anonymity, joining a long line of media May flies who burn so brightly before fading away. Sadly for Clint, he developed quite an appetite for high living during his prosperous years. He’d blow through Vegas and leave forty grand in his wake, while his royalty checks routinely went up his nose.

Today, Clint is desperate for his next greatest hit, in both senses of the word. He’s strung out and eager to develop a new schtick. Anticipating the rise of millennial cults, he’s now marketing himself as a cult investigator and deprogrammer. A half page ad in several trashy supermarket tabloids has given him enough work kidnapping wayward sons and daughters, emotionally and physically torturing them to the point that they renounce whatever group they’ve joined, and then dumping the newly shattered bundle of nerves on mommy and daddy’s door. All for a steep, yet reasonable, fee. Then he blows it on drugs and his extravagant lifestyle and starts all over again.

Clint comes from a lower middle class upbringing. He got the usual line about hard work yielding success from his parents, then watched them toil in dead end factory jobs without ever really getting anywhere. As far as Clint is concerned, hard work only benefits some faceless executive behind a desk in corporate America. The American dream is dead, but that’s not going to stop him from picking at the corpse.

Personality: (Capricorn) Clint stands ready to reconfigure his beliefs, passions, and social circle if he stands to profit from it.

Obsession: Comfort. After growing up poor and clawing his way up to a high lifestyle, Clint is ready to do anything to avoid going back.

Wound Points: 45

Rage Stimulus: People who outthink or trick him.

Fear Stimulus: (Helplessness) Meeting and getting bested by a superior scam artist.

Noble Stimulus: Clint feels a true camaraderie with fellow scam artists, and he’ll help one out if he can. You gotta be able to trust somebody, after all.

Body: 45 (Scrawny)

Speed: 50 (Wiry)

Mind: 60 (Cunning)

Soul: 65 (Social chameleon)

Body Skills: General Athletics 25%, YMCA Judo Course Graduate 30%

Speed Skills: Dodge 40%, Drive 25%, Guns 30%

Mind Skills: Deprogramming Techniques 40%, Notice 55%, Fringe Lore 45%

Soul Skills: Charm 45%, Lie 55%