About Arthur CarterHuman Male - Archaeology Professor Size - 40 (20/8)
Strength - 55 (27/11)
Luck - 75 Magic Points - 14
Skills: Skill Points Occupation - EDU x 2 = 110 + STR x 2 = 110 = 220
Skills Occupation (8): Anthropology (01%) + 13 = 14%
Credit Rating (00%) + 15 = 15% -------------------- Hobby Skills: First Aid (30%) + 30 = 60%
------------------ Skills Non-Occupation: Accounting (05%)
------------------ Cthulhu Mythos (00%) ------------------ Background: Carter is a professor of Anthropology at Miskatonic University. Concept - Indiana Jones Arthur was born in Kensington England to Martha and Roger Carter, the older brother of the man who would one day be world famous as an Egyptologist. In his youth, Arthur had a keen intellect and the knack for manipulating those around him even where they were more powerful of build. As the Great War loomed, the studies of Arthur at the Oxford Medical school were interrupted by the call of all young men to Europe to defeat the menace of the Huns. Arthur took the opportunity to push for a position on the Battlefield as a Medic rather than as a foot soldier. The influence of his Uncle enabled him to pull just enough strings to get the job done. By the end of the Great War, Arthur became a modestly successful physician. He won numerous awards for his calmness of heart and mind in the worst of situations. The men that served near him though knew that the man was cold blooded and despite being respected, he was feared by his peers. Death interested Arthur at this time and once discharged, he wrote to his Uncle in Egypt requesting a position with him investigating the mysteries of the past. The medical world held no more interest for Arthur. Howard Carter agreed to bring his young nephew, a War hero, near physician, and brilliant young analytical mind to the dig site in the Valley of the Kings. Before the dig could be completed Arthur was weary from life in the desert, he applied for a position at the American Miskatonic University as he had heard that the Archaeology Department wanted someone with real life field experience. In the next year when the dig did reveal the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun Arthur was disappointed that he had left before he could be a part of history. A few weeks ago, Augustus Larkin who is planning an archaeological expedition to Peru contacted him to ask if he would make the travel south to uncover further golden artifacts after a previous dig found a treasure trove in the area. Arthur leapt at the chance and asked for a Sabbatical from his Department head. A second crack at glory awaited Arthur and no doubt a much less sandy and windy digging experience! v20 Character:
Arthur Carter
True Brujah | 8th Generation | Will 8/8 | BP 6/15 - 3 PT Nature - Chameleon
Clan - True Brujah Gen - 8th Generation XP earned - 9
Strength 1
Charisma 2
Perception 3
Talents:
Skills:
Knowledge:
Conviction 2
Path of Scorched Heart 5
Backgrounds:
Gear: A flashlight, a cigarette lighter, a flask of booze of your choice. A skeleton key. $1,764. 5 Stakes. A sharp Antique Sword. Family Ties: The records there indicate he has eight people technically either of his family blood or married into.
Disciplines: Temporsis 5 Hourglass of the Mind
•• Recurring Contemplation
Successes Duration
Entranced victims are oblivious to their surroundings
••• Leaden Moment
•••• Patience of the Norns
Successes Duration
Suspended objects retain all energy in their suspension,
••••• Clotho’s Gift
Ash Path 2 • Shroudsight
•• Lifeless Tongues
System: To use Lifeless Tongues requires a roll of
Vitreous Path 1 • Eyes of the Dead
Rituals: System: To perform a ritual correctly, a player must succeed
[spoiler=Foxfire] The celebrant must burn a small green candle down to
Flaws:
Background Arthur Carter: Concept - Demented Indiana Jones Arthur was born in Kensington England to Martha and Roger Carter, the older brother of the man who would one day be world famous as an Egyptologist. In his youth, Arthur was considered callous to the extreme, a slight boy with a keen intellect he had the knack for manipulating those around him even where they were more powerful of build. There was always something a bit, off, about Arthur and children seemed to know better than to cross him (Eerie Presence). As the Great War loomed, the studies of Arthur were interrupted by the call of all young men to Europe to defeat the menace of the Huns. Arthur took the opportunity to push for a position on the Battlefield as a Medic rather than as a foot soldier. The influence of his Uncle enabled him to pull just enough strings to get the job done. The Oxford Medical school breathed a sigh of relief as Arthur was sent off to the War, normally a young man of his talents would not have been sent to the front lines but behind the scenes string were pulled to get him into the War! His direct advisor, perhaps the only mortal man who truly understood Arthur, wrote in his report that Arthur would more likely use his skills to replicate the works of Jack the Ripper then well anyone else really. Perhaps they thought the War would either kill or humanize Arthur, it did neither. Oh there is no doubt that Arthur suffered from “shell shock” but his unique personality seemed to relegate the terrors that shocked soldiers into daytime difficulties to his dreams only (Nightmares). By the end of the Great War, Arthur became a modestly successful physician. He lost many of his patients on the battlefield, this was attributed to their wounds rather than the truth of the matter, that Arthur murdered them to gain a better understanding of death and the effects of certain experiments upon them. His goal was to keep them hovering on death’s door as if frozen in time. Arthur generally experimented with those who would have soon died anyway having had a knack for recognizing which wounds were recoverable versus which would be fatal. He won numerous awards for his calmness of heart and mind in the worst of situations. The men that served near him though knew that the man was cold blooded and despite being respected, he was feared by his peers. Death interested Arthur at this time and once discharged, he wrote to his Uncle in Egypt requesting a position with him investigating the mysteries of the past. The medical world held no more interest for Arthur. Howard Carter agreed to bring his young nephew, a War hero, near physician, and brilliant young analytical mind to the dig site in the Valley of the Kings. By 1922 the excavation was successful and Howard and Arthur finally gazed upon the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The find was accompanied by great drama as many involved in the excavation began to perish, in fact, Arthur made sure a few perished to increase the publicity of the event and to weigh whether superstitions could override scientific judgment, it did. Soon after the discovery, Arthur’s Uncle retired and the creepy young man was soon thrown off of the dig. Or at least that was the story that was told as to why he disappeared. The truth is that Arthur never died. Arthur became an immortal. In the year 1924 Howard and Arthur working late together one night discovered something, something that would have put the discovery of Tut to shame. They discovered that “Mummies” who referred to themselves as the Undying, did indeed exist. All of the Occult that Arthur studied could not have prepared him for this revelation. Even faced with such a creature who had been trapped in a tomb for Millennia, the man’s pulse did not race. The creature recognized the stone cold ice water in the young man’s veins and knew that the young man would make an excellent servant in the land of the Living. Howard was forced into retirement and pushed out of Egypt, no doubt the Undying, who refused to give his True Name, had altered the old man’s memories to forget not only what he saw, but that his nephew existed. The Undying, King Fethas as he asked Arthur to address him was not in the crypt for Millennia as Arthur has postulated, just for a mere set of decades. Fethas was allied with an ancient eastern death cult, the Tal’Mahe’Ra and Fethas knew that Arthur would be a useful addition. The man whose mind could block out the horror of the Great War and bring the horror of his own evil core to those halpless victims had found a true home. Even his first step into the Shadowlands did not disturb Arthur, Enoch was a greater find than uncovering the Tombs of the Pharaoh’s could ever have been. By 1925 the aide to the Undying became a Ghoul in the service of the Hand. The True Brujah member Taslynn Kincaid selected him for his cold detachment from the world and the underworld around him. By 1935, Arthur was given the greatest gift of all, that of Immortality by a scholar warrior who had lived ages that Arthur had only read about as a child. After another decade of serving in a Kamut, the Hand determined that Arthur, who began to ask questions that disturbed the Liches, should rejoin the land of the living. With Fethas once more interred in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, his new life cut short by a pack of werewolves no less, Arhur’s sire was simply not influential enough to keep him assigned to Enoch. Arthur’s assignment disturbed him greatly, he was to become a Prince in a Camarilla city! The same city as his birth, Kensington. It seemed that the Prince of that city died in the bombing raids of the Germans and being familiar with the city, Arthur was selected to be placed into the city as a double agent in Mithras’ domain no less! Arthur’s reign at first was peaceful, as a long lost childe of the Prince, the few Kindred of the city were happy to maintain stability of rule and the Primogen, small as it was, was given great leeway by Arthur who was clearly more interested in being a scholar than leader. Indeed, Arthur was busy experimenting, experimenting with a power gifted to him by one of his Nagaraja allies, the Ash Path of Necromancy. His interest in the Underworld and by promising a favor from Fethas when he woke, gained Arthur access to the underworld! The problem came with the arrival of Gina Giovanni (Enemy 1). Arthur welcomed her into the city and due to his lack of political savvy attempted to befriend her in the name of securing more access to Necromantic powers. Gina did not share the enthusiasm for sharing that Arthur encouraged. By 1955 once she was truly convinced that Arthur did indeed have some rudimentary powers of Necromancy, she used her ties to the Primogen to have Arthur deposed as a spy from across the Iron Curtain, she claimed that Arthur was never a Childe of the Prince and was in fact a spy sent by the Brujah Council of the USSR! Unable to prove his lineage, Arthur was forced to concede his seat. However, he had gained some insight into Mithras’ Court during his decade as a Prince so the True Hand extracted him. Still, the Hand dislikes failure and punished Arthur by placing him into Torpor. For over 30 years, Arthur was so punished, it was only the rise of Fethas from his sleep that Arthur was reactivated once more. Serving one of the Liches in research and politics Arthur was once more serving in Enoch. Still the same problem arose once more, Arthur believed that the Aralu should be woken! Not only to learn what they actually wanted but to prove whether they were alive or even in their crypts at all! Fethas this time saved Arthur by banishing him from Enoch for suggesting such blasphemies. This was the better result from what the Liches had I mind so Arthur accepted his fate. This time though he was assigned to the Sabbat of Mexico City in the early 90’s and quickly rose through the ranks to become an advisor to Melinda Galbraith as Brujah Antitribu. Indeed, by now his Mastery over Temporsis allowed him to duplicate the abilities of his lesser cousins. He was always a bit out of place as if too old to understand the modern world around him (Anachronism). As in life, in death Arthur was intensely curious and began to participate in archaeological digs in Mexico and South America. Over the next decade he delved into the mysteries of death of the west just as in life he delved into the mysteries of death of the east. By the early 2000’s being freed from the Regent as she had been slain, he was one of the Sabbat that uncovered the existence of the Harbinger’s of Skulls. He was unable to leverage that credit to gain further power in the Sabbat or to gain further knowledge in Necromancy. In fact, his Necromancy had to be limited as to not around questions by the Sabbat. It was bad enough he was a Pack Priest that never participated in the Vaulderie! Then it happened, the “True” Hand went silent, months went by with no contact until finally Arthur’s Nagaraja ally turned up in Machu Picchu with a story to tell. The Hand was no more! A roiling storm in the Shadowlands had overtaken Enoch and if any were still inexistence none knew. That meant that few knew who Arthur truly was! He of course took full opportunity of the situation and utilized his own powers to stake and diablerize the Nagaraja, wiping out two problems, having to convince someone to teach him Necromancy and two destroying one of the beings who knew who Arthur truly was. When plans were drawn up to overtake Atlanta from the Camarilla, Arthur forced his way onto the planning council. During the chaos of the attacks, he faked his own death and left the Sabbat to become an independent Kindred. Arthur began to roam the small towns and large towns of the south interacting with the spirit world almost as much as he did the living world! Then another opportunity presented itself, Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the southern United States. The city of Perle Perdu changed hands. With the existence of the True Brujah having become less rumor and more certain with the destruction of the Black Hand that sheltered them, many had to out themselves and the Bloodline has started to slowly become known. Arthur knew that it was the place to which he should settle down. In addition, Arthur believes that he has a built in food source there, it seems that the descendants of his Mortal Family have set roots in the city, why can’t Arthur be a long lost child of, well, himself! First though, to present himself to the Prince… Long term goals, settle into a location and increase his own personal power and understanding of the world around him both seen and unseen. Then, if he can impart such Wisdom on others, so much the better! [/spoiler] |
