Joe Kerr
- Location
- Stone Harbor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- VILE Agent
- Full Name
- Joseph Salvatore Kerrigan
- Known Aliases
- Joey, Joseph,
- Age
- 33
- Birthday
- April 1st,
- Physique
- Average
- Height
- 176 cm
- Weight
- 65 Kg
- Eye Color
- Amber
- Hair Color
- Reddish Brown
- Appearance
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When out on heists, Joe sometimes opts to use a jester's costume complete with a custom Jester's staff and mask. According to Joe, the costume serves both a theatrical and practical purpose.
Outside of his costume, Joe pretty much looks like an average guy and blends into the crowd. He uses this to his advantage when scouting locations, grifting, escaping or just trying to lay low.
- Character Background
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Joe was born to a woman named Lisa Salvatore, in a small town in Northern Italy. Lisa, a single mother, died almost immediately after childbirth due to a combination of malnutrition and procedural complications. Before she died, she managed to name her son after the hospital - St Joseph's.
An infant Joe was brought to the local orphanage and raised by the local nuns. The nuns noticed that Joe was an exceptionally bright kid who had a knack for puzzles and mischief. He also seemed to like playing with the animals and had a gift for befriending them.
When Joe was about 8 years old, he was adopted by a foreign businessman who promised to give him a good home. The man would turn out to be the infamous Gentlemen Thief, William 'Willy' Kerrigan.
William became both a mentor and father figure to Joe and trained him to be his protege. Whilst raising Joe to be a gentlemen of the old school, William would teach Joe the fine art of grifting and heisting. William had strict rules about what could be stolen and what could not, and Joe would later learn that William's rules were mostly adapted from the unwritten code of thieves' honour.
(An example of one such rule instilled into young Joe was that works of art, statues and historical items were all considered priceless treasures due to their cultural value. Such treasure, once obtained, should not be sold for monetary gain but rather returned or donated to a worthy museum or other such establishment. Such treasure should only be stolen for the challenge or thrill of the theft.)
William was also a tinkerer and inspired a love in Joe for tinkering with odd gadgets and re-purposed magic tricks and pranks. William would often use these gadgets (such as his trademark cane which hid a smokescreen) in his escapades and Joe would adopt this technique in his own future endeavors.
When the time was right, Willy released Joe and told him to carve his own path. Joe spent a year travelling around Europe and pulling small heists while trying to find his own style and niche. Joe would eventually settle upon a Jester's costume, combining magic tricks, re-purposed pranks and grifting trickery in order to pull off audacious heists. Joe would adopt the moniker "Joe Kerr" a pun on the combination of his own first name and Willy's last name.
Joe returned to Italy to search for Willy and found him in the local cemetery of the town he had grown up in. Willy had apparently been hiding his cancer from Joe and finally surrendered to the illness a month after Joe had left on his journey of personal discovery.
After settling affairs and paying a final goodbye to Willy, Joe moved out of Italy and took his 'show on the road' to Denmark. Using Tivoli gardens as his base of operations, Joe would pull a string of heists in Scandinavia that would put him at odds with an up and coming Swedish detective.
Sometime during this game of cat and mouse, Joe would run into the only thief other than William whom he truly respected - Carmen Sandiego. Having heard a lot about Carmen through Willy's stories as well as the news, Joe was only too eager to join up with the Queen of Thieves and soon became VILE's resident Jester.
And the rest, they say, is history.
- Personality
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Joe has a warm but quirky personality. Joe is normally jovial in demeanor but his Italian temper can flare up to a degree if he is faced with a situation he deems serious or heinous.
He is a gentleman at all times and abhors the loss of human life. He generally despises all forms of crime that bring grievous hurt to others and always plans his crimes to avoid harming others as much as possible.
- Aspirations
- Joe wants to carry on Willy's legacy and pass on the thieves' code of honour to future generations of thieves; He feels that the best way to do it is to aid Carmen in 'the game'. He therefore hopes to ensure that the game is played the right way by future generations on both sides and that the 'fun' element is never lost.
- Medium of Means
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Joe's jester mask hides a gas mask and built in eye protectors. Joe's custom jester staff is a tribute to Willy's old cane and contains a couple shots of smokescreen.
Joe also sometimes carries a knife hidden in a strap on right leg. The knife is only to be used in an emergency and never to inflict harm on another person.
When in his Jester's costume, Joe elects to use a variety of souped up gag bombs and smoke grenades in addition to his antics of distraction and misdirection.
Out of costume, Joe prefers to use disguises and other tools of the grifting trade.
Joe is also known to sometimes tinker with small objects like Jack-in-the-boxes and playing cards and modify them to suit his heisting needs.
Joe is not fond of physical confrontation but is stronger and faster than his appearance would lead one to believe. He is not exceptionally athletic by any means but he is able to hold his own in a small fight if the need should ever arise.
- Color #
- 8a2be2
Signature
Failure is only evident in the lack of trying - CS
Trophies
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10
Smart Cookie
You've gotten your 5th best answer in a guessing game. -
15
Questioner
Created 5 Guessing Games -
5
Game Starter
You've created your first guessing game. -
5
First Score
You've gotten your first best answer in a guessing game. -
20
Oh stop it, you!
Your content has been liked 500 times. -
10
Post Junkie
You've posted 100 messages, you Post Junkie! -
5
Terrible Twos
You have been registered on this site for two years! -
5
One Year
You've been registered here for 1 year! -
1
Happy Birthday!
It's your birthday! Have a trophy! -
5
Post Dependancy
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15
Seriously Likable!
Content you have posted has attracted 100 likes. -
5
Post Dedication
30 messages posted! Now that's dedication! -
10
Likable
Your messages have been liked 25 times. You're in the cool crowd now. -
1
First Like
Somebody liked one of your messages. Keep posting like that for more! -
1
Phisiquely There
You've chosen a physique for your character! -
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First Post
You've posted your first message! -
1
Oh boy!
You've selected the male gender.
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Jon Eckart:
((IRL: @Lucy2... You may have to just start a new account (if the system lets you)... we don't know who all has admin access, so 'password recover emails' might not get seen or dealt with. If you do, I'd suggest a new account, and a series of posts linking to the old account. Keep in mind, we're in Minnesota, so cold is a thing... if you wanna trade, we're open to place tickets! We can't really do anything until we hear from the appeal guy... anytime between the 19th and December 5th, so in theory move-out could be end of December (unless it gets here before the end of this month) or maybe they can stay... no idea. So, the other place door... that's what we'd have to fit everything through.)) -
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L (Guest) Lucy2:This was interesting to watch this new Zeland congress did a Haka protesting a bill... learn something new every day hehe. Māori MPs perform haka and disrupt NZ parliament debate on treaty rights changes
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L (Guest) Lucy2:I just watched a show, I think it was from The History Channel? It was talking about how they think the 2 escapees from Alcatraz didn't need to build a raft. They hitch
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L (Guest) Lucy2:They think the guys hitched a ride so to speak on one of the boats leaving Alcatraz.
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Jon Eckart:
((So... the latest is that the woman who reported the folks to the police, called the guy who handled the appeal (after we left the room) and told him that if he doesn't make sure to get the folks out of the building, she'd make things difficult for him. The property manager told ma a few days ago, and ma told me today. So, anyone know what that would be called? Coercing, bribery, influence peddling? Would that invalidate the eviction? This is Section 8 housing, so low-income housing. The appeal decision should in theory get here next week or maybe Friday, and they can appeal again, maybe this one would be in real court... don't know. I will advise the folks contact legal aid and see what they say.))
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Jon Eckart:
((Correction: the parents are caving, they are planning for the move ON January 1st, without waiting to hear what the appeal decision is, and not willing to fight it. I stormed out of their place tonight (punched the call button for the elevator... they may have heard it), because I know they could win the second appeal hands down (they don't want "more of the stress from all this", they would discuss shit when I went to the bathroom tonight). I reminded them they may not get the entertainment center through the door to the apartment, we probably will have to take the claw legs off the table for the first time ever, but they have their heart set on it. ))
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Jon Eckart:
((Sorry for language... it's a copy-and-paste from conversation with my sister. I'll sit in the corner))
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Jon Eckart:
((My right middle finger, behind first knuckle, left a bit of skin on the button... I was that angry. They decided this without talking to me, saying they were "tired of the stress". They're set on a two bedroom apartment ($154 more than the current, at least), it's up to me if I want to move, they said. Once we leave this place (section 8/low-income housing, the waiting list is over 2 years), that's it... the building manager retires later 2025... she pulled a string to get me in here))
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Lucy:
Notre Dame Cathedral In paris is going to open its doors in less than ten days woot woot -
Jon Eckart:
((So... my Facebook got password hacked, and the recovery options aren't working. And, over the last two days, haven't slept more than half an hour total, despite my trazodone. Had like 6 beers tonight, have a couple left, will take a full pill tonight, and hope to sleep. And, finished the application for the new place, probably will have to help the folks tomorrow.))
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Jon Eckart:
((Log into Facebook <-- the person who found a way to hack my password... don't report it and nuke it... I want to get the pics from it if I can))
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Lucy:
Did you know.....The original candy canes were straight sugar sticks that were often used to decorate Christmas trees. The first historical reference to the cane shape was in 1670, when the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral in Germany bent the sugar sticks into the shape of a shepherd's staff. Candy canes remained white until the early 20th century when red stripes and peppermint flavor became popular.
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Lucy:
@Tenchi Masaki when i open the website on my phone I immediately get a "translate page" pop up. Is this from my own settings ?
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Jon Eckart:
((So... the folks called me upstairs to help figure out how to get their SSI paperwork to the new landlord... we were discussing it, when the landlord emailed that all three of us are denied... mostly the main thing was "poor rental history; insufficient income (they're on SSI); no credit file; if no judgment was rendered on them after they appealed the initial eviction notice, then they gave their 30 days notice, can they rescind that (this is Minnesota, ya shure, ya betcha) and stay?
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Jon Eckart:
(my question depends on someone knowing legal loopholes... will look into that tomorrow)
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Lucy:
Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel...One translation of the poem he sent to his friend begins: I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy(or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).
maybe one of the curators could dress up like him
