Ignatius Hopper
Doctor Ignatius Hopper is a former director of Bishopsgate Mental Asylum.
Overview
The man who originally turned Reverend Bodycombe's farmland into an institution, Hopper made his purchase in 1861, with the Bishopsgate Sanitarium opening the next year, against the recommendations of his architect, Jonathan Teesdale. Following the American Civil War, Hopper acquired yet more properties nearby to the sanitarium, permitting him to construct further buildings.
Hopper's living influence on Bishopsgate ended soon after, in 1870, when he suffered a breakdown and took a leave of absence from his position, with Doctor Albert Cave taking over in his absence. On returning, Hopper officially named Cave his deputy, a state of affairs that would continue until Cave's death-by-horse-trampling in 1894. Doctor Edward Brake took Cave's place until ascending to the position of director proper when Hopper died, supposedly of a heart attack, in 1898.
Currently, Hopper is a ghost haunting Bishopsgate, working as one of the ghostly board of directors, having been recruited by Bodycombe himself after the latter frightened him to death in his office, currently a patient room in the East Wing. That office now acts as Hopper's Anchor, permitting the ghost to travel freely between that room and the director's office in Chesterton Hall, where the desk at which he died was moved.
Character Sheet
The following has been described as the statistics for the average Bishopsgate ghost, bar the morality, virtue, vice, and numina, which are specific to Hopper:
Attributes: Power 3, Finesse 2, Resistance 3
Willpower: 6
Morality: 4 (Paranoia)
Virtue: Fortitude
Vice: Pride
Initiative: 6
Defense: 3
Speed: 16
Size: 5
Corpus: 8
Numina:
| Numen | Dice Pool |
|---|---|
| Ghost Sign | 5 |
| Ghost Speech | 5 |
| Magnetic Disruption | — |
| Telekinesis | 5 |
| Terrify | 5 |
