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3rd to 5th Feb 2006
A Wilcox, Wilcox, Cooper & Sims event for Werebadger in the spirit of H P Lovecraft and August Derleth
Liberal
leader Herbert Henry Asquith lost his Paisley seat, and was only able to retain
the party leadership by accepting a peerage. Lack of funds for the election
campaign, following on so soon from the 1922 and 1923 General Elections, as
well as support for reopening diplomatic relations with Russia are blamed for
the disaster.
The Liberal Party is in crisis and Asquith holds onto the leadership by the skin of his teeth as David Lloyd George's faction within the party vies for power. Asquith looks to his friends outside of the party for help in revitalising both the party and his hold upon it.
Colonel Henry Coode has been stationed at Horseguard's Parade since the end of the war in 1918.
As he nears his 45th year he tires of military life and looks to retire from the army and find new challenges. Being a close friend of Asquith's, having married Asquith's neice, Colonel Coode is rumoured to be about to announce his entry into the political fray, following his retirement from military life. Political commentators have predicted that he will launch a campaign to wrest his home constituency, Torrington, from the Conservatives.
It is January 1926. You receive an invitation from Colonel Henry Coode to his retirement party to be held over the weekend of 3rd to 5th February 1926 at his family home, Coode Hall, in Devon.
Your character is likely to be one of the following:
Friend or colleague from Coode's military career
Friend of the family
Local gentry
Well-to-do acquaintance or society figure, in the Liberal Party or with known Liberal sympathies
Please use the online character generator to derive your character stats and forward it with your character background to Rob (rwilcox@microsoft.com).