James Wolfstone
Headline Accomplishment

Built Velvet Circuit, the city’s largest consent-forward escort and private-concierge network, operating cleanly in the RLD while quietly brokering “no-harm, no-leak” pacts between venues, patrons, and city officials.

Role & Reputation

Role: White-glove vice logistician; the “quiet mayor” of the underbelly.
Reputation: Immaculate, unflappable, and unnervingly prepared. If James promises discretion, nothing escapes the room—not sound, not names, not data. Workers praise his safety protocols; rivals complain he makes crime feel like compliance.

Core Values

Consent is sovereign. No exceptions, no grey.

Discretion over spectacle. The brand is silence.

Reciprocity. Everyone who eats at the table brings a dish—money, access, or cover.

Order > chaos. He despises “messy” operators who endanger workers or neighbors.

Family. Loyalty to his partner and co-architect, Alice Wolfstone, is absolute.

Capabilities

Operations & Logistics: Routes people, vehicles, and time windows with military-grade precision (decoys, staggered arrivals, layered security).

Negotiation: Speaks “bureaucrat,” “artist,” and “street” with equal fluency; turns enemies into service agreements.

Risk & Compliance: Ironclad NDAs, identity-safe booking, layered KYC without doxxing.

Intel Network: Drivers, concierges, door staff, and night-shift baristas—his early-warning system.

Crisis Containment: Quiet payouts, counseling access, and reputation triage inside 24 hours.

Tactics

Fronts with Purpose: Car service (Night Lark), boutique concierge (Briar & Slate), and a members-only lounge (The Silver Den) give him legal surfaces for a grey engine.

Safety Stack: Sobriety checks, panic buttons, roaming “guardian” drivers, sealed phone lockers, and mandatory after-care.

Paper-Light Trail: Rotating PO boxes, escrow intermediaries, and cash-equivalent vouchers.

Soft Power: Donates to worker-safety nonprofits and campus night-ride programs; buys goodwill before he ever needs it.

Personality

Measured voice, soft shoes, and predator patience. Dry humor, chess-player’s calm. Will compliment your shoes, then quote your parking timestamp from memory.

Connections (Expanded)
Sleeping with (current, consensual)

Alice Wolfstone (wife & co-owner): Equal partner in business and life; the last word on vetting and wellness.

Wants to sleep with (long game)

None noted. James keeps business and desire separate by design; appearance of restraint is part of the brand.

Wants him (openly or not-so-openly)

Power patrons who fetishize control cloaked as civility. He refuses “ownership” fantasies and redirects them to consent-literate experiences or denies service.

Past/paused

Discreet, sealed. Any prior entanglements live under Alice-approved nondisclosures and wellness checks.

Ground rules

Adults only; ID + sobriety verified.

No intoxicated bookings—ever.

No recording devices. Staff phones are safety-enabled but camera-sealed.

Workers set terms; clients consent or leave.

Campus boundaries respected. No recruiting on FVNU grounds; campus IDs are flagged for protection, not exploitation.

Ensemble Integration

Sierra Vale (PR/producer): He’s offered “hush retainers” for crisis comms; Sierra declines standing contracts but occasionally negotiates venue messaging to keep student events safe. Mutual respect, careful distance.

Juno Vex (sound design): James grants after-hours access to acoustically dead spaces for mixing sessions under safety escort; he appreciates Juno’s professionalism and honors their privacy.

Clover Brindle (ops powerhouse): They trade logistics favors—Clover gets protected load-in/load-out windows, James gets Clover’s ruthless scheduling templates for worker shuttles.

Lyra Faunhart (filmmaker): Controlled access to glam-noir locations when paperwork is pristine. He likes Lyra’s eye but enforces “no candids, no leaks.”

Elizabeth Foster (cinematography): Occasional paid consulting for lighting at The Silver Den; he ensures NDAs and hazard insurance are airtight.

Celeste “Cee” Renard-Lang (Student Trustee): Publicly at odds about campus influence; privately they co-draft “Safe Work Protocols” for the RLD’s buffer zone—escorts get medical, legal, and transport guarantees on big event nights. He treats Celeste as a stateswoman, not an obstacle.

Tools/Props

Wolfstone signet (used to seal paper NDAs with micro-emboss).

Two phones: one air-gapped for bookings, one social decoy.

Ledger cufflinks: tiny NFC vaults for emergency contracts.

Night Lark fleet card: unlocks vetted drivers with silent-alarm access.

Calling card: a blank white lily—meeting accepted if the lily returns with a single pinhole through the stem.

Habits

Works 11:00 p.m.–4:00 a.m. and eats breakfast at dusk.

Leaves large, anonymous tips for night staff.

Collects antique fountain pens; signs only with blue-black ink.

Never carries a gun; hires people who never need one.

Current Objectives

Formalize the Campus Safe Work Protocol with Celeste (transport vouchers, sober monitors, rapid legal aid).

Expand Velvet Circuit’s “concierge not commodity” model to high-end conference traffic without poaching students.

Squeeze out a violent competitor via permit scrutiny and worker-safety audits, not street fights.

Protect the brand during an upcoming festival: zero incidents, zero headlines, all workers home safe.

Alice Wolfstone (quick profile for canon)

Role: Co-owner of Velvet Circuit; head of vetting, wellness, and after-care.
Reputation: The “house mother” with a compliance brain—warm voice, steel spine.

Capabilities & Tactics:

Trauma-informed intake; coordinates counselors and medicals.

Maintains the “green book” of banned clients and venues; shares entries with Celeste’s safety desk during city events.

Writes the scripts for consent check-ins and de-escalation.

Runs the lounge floor at The Silver Den with velvet-glove authority.

Personality: Graceful, patient, lethal with a calendar. Calls everyone “darling” and means it.

Current Objective: Build a scholarship-style fund for workers transitioning to new careers (tuition, certifications, relocation).

In-World Summary Placement

Where he sits: James is the RLD’s order-keeper—less “mob boss,” more “chief of staff” for nightlife’s shadow supply chain.

Why he lasts: He makes safety profitable and sloppiness expensive.

How he touches the ensemble: Through logistics, venues, and safety accords—not romance entanglements—keeping our current canon intact while raising the city’s stakes.