Gypsy Band

ME: Fan of JB, then recruit, monitor, animal trainer and father to her baby

Skills - Easy learner, easily misled, animals.
Personality - Young, in love with JB, do anything to be with her, psychically inclined.
Additional info - In love with JB, father of the child born to her and taken from her when Diane stabbed her and threw her in the hole to die. Picked up alot of knowledge about monitoring people from watching Diane. Victor and Diana did their best to keep me and JB apart.

JB: Stage actress, token

Skills - Actress before being recruited into the band. In the band, stage presence/token.
Personality - Light, gullible, naive, beautiful.
Additional info - In love with me in that life and mother of my child. This life, my second wife.

LON: Recruiter, con man

Skills - Responsible for bringing in new talent, keeping things happy, training and indoctrination. Maybe retarded, savant/naive/simpleton/innocent.
Personality - Around band long enough to have become medium black-hearted. Gave impression of being just sorta along for the ride, and curious. Amiable. Lack of respect for others.
Additional info - This life, married to Diana.

DIANA: Fortune Teller

Skills - Used fortune telling as a front for her psychic abilities. Ran the whole operations. Always watched over all activities. Orchestrated the actions of all involved.
Personality - VERY black-hearted. Control freak.
Additional info - Was the woman who put the curse on me in the previous life in the 1650s – in that 1650s life she was Victor’s mistress. In band life, married to Victor. This life, married to Lon.

FAYE: Victor & Diana's son. Peacekeeper

Skills - Generalist.
Personality - Kinder.
Additional info - Befriended and protected Ann and Deb, the "beasts-of-burden", brain-damaged, male twin animal keepers.

ANN & DEB: "Beasts-of-burden", brain-damaged, hulking, male twins, animal keepers

Skills - Almost none, due to brain damage at birth, followed orders mostly.
Personality - Almost none, gentle with animals.
Additional info - Kept the animals, raised tents, moved heavy items, had a kitten they loved dearly, raped a girl. They would have been lynched, had Faye not stepped in and convinced people they didn't know the difference. In this life they hulk over her, protecting her from men, "knowing" what men are capable of.

BOB: Con man, pick pocket

Skills - Would size up the customers and plan the con and pick pocket activities. Bag man.
Personality - Total lack of respect for anyone outside of the gypsy circle, and even then, only respected the one with the power (Diana). Very dark soul!
Additional info - Thief, kept the "books" and skimmed anything he could from everyone else involved. This life, Diane's husband. I get physically nauseated in his presence this life, though he seems a nice enough guy (I guess I remember too well - imprinted).

DIANE: Monitor, enforcer, terminator

Skills - Sat back, listened and controlled the energy surrounding the group. Responsible for doing away with people who didn't accept the band's activities.
Personality - Cold, emotionless, calculating, black-hearted and murderous.
Additional info - Killed JB and took her baby. Hung for this. This life, Bob's wife.

BRUCE: Strong man

Skills - Sorta dumb, catcher for the tumblers and trapeze artists. Rigger for the wire acts.
Personality - Slow, somewhat black-hearted.
Additional info - Was the cause of the lameness in the arm of Sharon from an accident in the ring. Now they are married so he can make up for the damage he caused.

SHARON: Wire act, later "freak"

Skills - Distraction. Wire walker. Later freak show star (Fat Lady and Deformed).
Personality - While not directly involved in the stealing, black-hearted, with an understanding of her mission to distract the customers, while the rest of the workers moved around robbing them.
Additional info - Lame in the arm from earlier ring accident. This life, married to Bruce, so he can pay back the karma for the damage he caused.

DIANA'S CO-WORKER: Token

Skills - Token, distraction through looks. Distracting customers for the picking.
Personality - Very black-hearted, knowing exactly what she was doing with her body.
Additional info - Replaced JB as the "alternate" token with Denise, when JB was found to be pregnant and started showing.

THE BOYFRIEND: Pick pocket, pimp

Skills - Pick pocket, con man and pimping. Skilled with a knife.
Personality - Black-hearted. Devious. Dangerous.
Additional info - Bob and he are in same line, and alike.

ALZIE: Front, lead man, crier

Skills - Going into a town a few days before the band arrived to start building crowds. Casing stores and other businesses for the picking.
Personality - Amiable, but black-hearted. A "veg-a-matic" salesman.
Additional info - Gold and glitz. Medusa... (Was not at river.)

OLDER LADY: Predecessor to JB

Skills - Stage, actress.
Personality - Over the hill.
Additional info - Killed after usefulness.

NICK: Patriarch, miser

Skills - Retired, counts the money late at night after everyone has gone to bed, sitting alone in trailer with a candle and the curtains drawn tight. By day, sits in trailer, peeking out through curtains so he won’t miss anything, though he is actually operationally useless to the rest of the people.
Personality - Miser, geezer, thinks he controls the world beyond his curtains by sheer will.
Additional info - Diana's elderly relative in that life. Current life - my father, then my grandson through my second marriage. (Was not at river.)

ROGER: Financier, grubstaker

Skills - Financier. "Respectable" businessman. The grub-staker behind the venture, for a BIG piece of the action.
Personality – Money first.
Additional info - (Was not at river.)

VICTOR: Snake-oil salesman, ring master

Skills - Maker and seller of the elixir of life. Master of ceremonies, skilled knifeman, handled the money.
Personality - Harsh, VERY black-hearted, hating, distrusting, slimy.
Additional info - Diana's husband in band life. My father in curse life. Intrinsically hates me in band life for having caused the problems in the curse life. He and Diana got together in band life. JB’s first husband in this life. (Was not at river.)

WALLY: Frontman

Skills - PR man.
Personality - Slick.
Additional info - Denise’s husband in band life; still has hots for her this life. (Was not at river.)

DENISE: Replaced JB as token

Skills - Stage performer.
Personality - Bubbly, naive, a definite LEO personality.
Additional info - Wally’s wife in band life. Doug’s wife in this life. (Was not at river.)

DOUG: Hawker

Skills - Mile-a-minute mouth.
Personality - Slick
Additional info - Admired Denise, then; now, married to her. (Was not at river.)

JOIE: Horseback performer, handler

Skills - Horse expert
Personality -
Additional info - (Was not at river.)

YVONNE: Inspector

Skills - Chameleon, independent police work.
Personality - Persistent, light-hearted.
Additional info - She saw something the band people did, and got permission to go independent to prove her suspicions. She followed the band throughout their travels, collecting evidence on murders, robberies, con artists, etc.

GLORIA: Police

Skills -
Personality -
Additional info - Possible friend of JB's then, with suspicions about her death. Arlene's partner. Current life, JB’s mother. (Was not at river.)

ARLENE: Police

Skills -
Personality -
Additional info - Possible friend of JB's then, with suspicions about her death. Gloria's partner. Current life, JB’s sister. (Was not at river.)

JAMES: Apprentice to Victor, then snake-oil salesman

Skills - Fast talker, salesman
Personality - Slick
Additional info - Learned snake-oil and "the chatter" from Victor, then took over the Medicine Show. Victor's and Diana's 'son-in-law'. Marilyn's boss/mate in that life and this. (Was not at river.)

MARILYN: Snake-oil Show Assistant

Skills - Looks, ability to distract, acting
Personality - Submissive, abused
Additional info - Medicine Show assistant. Mate to James. Victor's and Diana's daughter. Current life, James' wife. (Was not at river.)

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THAT LIFE

      JB was a stage performer.
      I often came to the performances and was in love with her.
      The gypsy band came to town, and needed a new token. (The last one seems to have been killed, too.)
      They approached and recruited JB. I decided to join, as well, to be near her, and took off with them.
      JB recognized them for what they were and what they were doing. She wanted out and was also pregnant, which took away from her service as a token.
      Meanwhile, I was getting into the "operations" and being drawn away from JB by Diana, Diane and Victor, and further into the darkness. I was also learning how to monitor by watching Diane, although I was not meant to be acquiring these skills (I actually got very good at it later).
      As soon as the baby was born, Diane stabbed JB in the chest with a knife, took the baby, and threw JB in a deep hole where she later died.
      JB went into a ghost state, rather than transitioning. She repeatedly tried to talk with me, and often got angry that I couldn't hear her, as she tried to tell me what had happened. Her murder involved ritual killing and black magic.
      Diana’s co-worker and Denise were recruited to replace JB as the attention-getters/tokens.
      Faye was Diana's and Victor's son. He was actually a pretty nice guy, but lived the life of the gypsy, with everything that entailed. He was good for his age at trying to balance the dark things going on between the band and the outside world with what was going on within the band itself, so the band's attitude towards the outside world did not infect the band. A natural peacekeeper.
      Ann and Deb were the "dumb muscle" of the band - huge, hulking, retarded, male twins. They did everything in the band that required heavy lifting and moving - tent raising, moving carts and wagons without hooking up horses - and they cared for the animals. They had a kitten that was the center of their attention.
      They raped a young girl (I remembered who this girl was, but have forgotten again, since the recall).
      The band and some town-folks were about to tear them apart; but Faye stepped in and saved them, by talking the group out of it, proving that the two of them had no real concept of what they were doing. Faye took over responsibility for watching them, and keeping them out of trouble.
      People in the band continued to tease and bait them, often picking on the kitten. For the most part, Faye succeeded in keeping the group at bay.
      I trained and showed animals, so I was around the three of them fairly regularly, and became friends with Faye.
      James became involved with Marilyn, Victor's and Diana's daughter.
      Victor liked James, so trained him to be the replacement Medicine Show snake-oil salesman, freeing Victor to be the Ring Master full-time.
      Marilyn had already been working in the Medicine Show, as Victor's assistant, so easily transitioned to a new "master".
      Marilyn was good at playing the cripple, suddenly cured by the magic elixir. They sold lots of it through her acting. And, once she was "cured", she stood tall and quite beautiful, distracting the audience, so the pick-pockets could work the crowd.

      Yvonne was an international inspector who had been following this troop to get evidence of their criminal activities. She was also hoping they would lead her to the money man.
      After JB was killed, I approached Yvonne with inside information, including the murder - much of it passed on from JB in the ghost state, though I didn’t recognize it at that point. The operation was finally shut down.
      Gloria and Arlene were police in JB's hometown, where the murder also took place. The band had traveled and was making its way back through at the time.
      Diane was hanged for the murder.

[A footnote: That Diane was hanged showed in this life. Whenever she looked at JB at the river, she would begin rubbing her neck and try to smooth her hair down along it.]

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One final comment.
If you identify yourself in this life, don't get angry.
It happened. It's past. You can't change it.
Rather than fretting over it, accept it as something you did.
Recognize it as over, something you don't need to repeat -
a lesson learned - "Been there, done that."