Adams

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Adams, sometimes Jeremy Adams (mainly in bylines) is a tall white man in his mid 30s with a bad suit and unruly hair. He carries himself like a typical Fleet Street journo - loud, brash, friendly and laddish. He looks like he hails from an era of journalism that no longer exists and - though most people don't know this - that's because he does.

Adams was first thralled by a vampire in 1986 at the height of the Wapping Revolution. Unlike a lot of journalists he felt little to know solidarity with the printers' unions, but nevertheless felt like Murdoch's expanding media empire was a mess he wanted no part of. He was planning on jumping ship from The Sun when he was approached by a mysterious source, claiming he had the scoop of a lifetime.

That's the way Adams tells it anyway. He usually follows up with a quick summary of being thralled and forced to stay within the fences of Murdoch's new Wapping Fortress, and glosses over important details like how nobody has noticed he's the same person, or what happened to his un-named vampiric master.

There's two things one can be certain of with Adams - he's certainly a Ghoul; a specialised type of vampire's servant, and he serves no master. He freelances, trading information he knows for favours or more obscure payments, and does so almost exclusively within the Vampire Duchies. He still works as a freelance journalist and has a relatively decent reputation in media circles, which makes his job easier, especially when digging for blackmail.

Adams is a conniving prick. He lies as a matter of course, and will manipulate anyone and anything he needs to in order to get the next part of his "current story" to fall into place. That in mind, he's usually pretty good to people who help him out, and never fucks someone over if he thinks he doesn't need to (or he predicts that it would make his life difficult later on). He's adept at playing vampire dukes against one another and knows almost all the Ghouls in London, as it pays to keep on top of that kind of information.

He's also pretty adept at what Fleet Street journalists call "the dark arts" - illegal information gathering through use of detectives, dumpster-diving and other deniable assets, which he will do for the right price.