Name: Antonio Solari
Male PhD Maths Student, Professor, defensive option, Italian, 1st level
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Str 11 (+0)
Dex 14 (+2)
Con 14 (+2)
Int 14 (+2)
Wis 14 (+2)
Cha 13 (+1)
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Hit Points 6 (
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AC 12, Touch 12, Flat 10
Init +2
BAB +0, Grap +0
Speed 30 ft (base 30 ft, load 0/33)
Fort +2, Ref +0, Will +2
+0 Melee, pocket knife, 1d3+0, 20/x2
+2 Ranged, Rifle, 2d20, 20/x3, 200'r
5'10" tall, 165 lb. wt, 34 yrs old
black hair, dark brown eyes, white skin
Core Skills: Concentration, Craft (writing), Diplomacy, Gather Information, Knowledge (Accounting), Knowledge (Mathematics), Knowledge (Physics), Research, Speak Other Language (English), Speak Other Language (French), Speak Other Language (German), Spot
Skill List (* can't use the skill)
+0* Animal Empathy
+2 Appraise
+3 Balance (1 rank cc acp)
+1 Bluff
+0 Climb (acp)
+4 Concentration (2 ranks)
+4 Craft: writing (2 ranks)
+0* Cthulhu mythos
+0* Demolitions
+2 Diplomacy (1 rank)
+0* Disable Device
+1 Disguise
+3 Drive (1 rank cc)
+2 Escape Artist (acp)
+2 Forgery
+3 Gather Information (2 ranks)
+2 Handle Animal (1 rank cc)
+2 Heal
+2 Hide (acp)
+2 Innuendo
+1 Intimidate
+0 Jump (acp)
+4 Knowledge: Accounting (2 ranks)
+6 Knowledge: Mathematics (4 ranks)
+3 Knowledge: Occult (1 rank cc)
+5 Knowledge: Physics (3 ranks)
+4 Listen (2 ranks cc)
+2 Move silently (acp)
+0* Open Lock
+0* Operate Heavy Machinery
+0* Performance
+0* Pilot
+0* Psychic Focus
+0* Psychoanalysis
+0* Read Lips
+0* Repair
+5 Research (3 ranks)
+3 Ride: horse (1 rank cc)
+3 Search (1 rank cc)
+4 Sense Motive (2 ranks cc)
+0* Sleight of Hand
+6 Speak Other Language: English (4 ranks)
+3 Speak Other Language: French (1 rank)
+5 Speak Other Language: German (2 ranks)
+4 Spot (2 rank)
+2 Swim (acp)
+0* Tumble (acp)
+3 Use Rope (1 rank cc)
+3 Wilderness Lore (1 rank cc)
Feats
-Expertise
-Sharp-Eyed
BACKGROUND: Antonio was born in Messina in 1897, third of 7 sons. His family was relatively rich, and he was intelligent enough to be allowed to continue his studies, despite the ruinous earthquake that hit the town in 1908. After taking the high school diploma in Palermo, in 1914, he met Rachel Small, a 23 year old painter, and her family. They fell in love, and after the blessing of his father, he decided to move to the U.S.A. with the Smalls in January 1915. The Smalls lived in Cambridge, close enough to Arkham to allow Antonio to enroll to the local university, and taking a degree in Mathematics in 1919. He was fascinated by the misteries of prime numbers and to the new paths of mathematical explorations opened 50 years before by Riemann, a German mathematician who demonstrated how different parts of the mathematic universe are related.
After the graduation, Antonio married Rachel, and moved back to Cambridge, to help the Smalls with their farms. He was sorry to leave Arkham and the college, but Colin, Rachel's sister, died in the Great War, and he felt that it was his responsability to take care of the family, and act like their son. He kept in contact with some close friends of his college years, but he generally withdrew from the academic scene, and concentrated on play his accountant and devoted step son role. His interest on mathematics was only fostered by some numerology occult books in the Smalls library, that he read in his spare time. In 1921, Rachel gave birth to her only child, Lucy.
Everything seemed to be destined to be quiet and serene, but the Black Friday changed all that. Mr Small committed suidice after loosing the great majority of his money, and Rachel, for the great psychological strain, fell ill. Her mother had died when she was only 3, and she had formed a special bond with her father.
After two years of continuous cures and medical cares, she finally passed away six months ago, leaving Antonio and Lucy as the only remaining Smalls.
Antonio, battered and maimed by the loss, decided to try and find some shelther in Maths, the only thing remaining. It was true that he had kept in touch with his familty, too, but after more than 15 years, his relatives were little more than distant memories and images. He managed to be accepted for a PhD post at Arkham for the following year, and decided to sell the farm and move to Arkham with Lucy, living with the money.
PERSONALITY: Antonio used to be a happy and loud italian, in his youth. The recent sufferings have turned him into a silent, melancholic and sad man. He doesn't speak too much, and he doesn't care for making new friends, even if, when approached, he tries his best to be nice. He relises that he will be older than the other PhD students at the university, but he is determined to finish his degree and, eventually, getting a place as reader at the Arkham University. That would allow him to concentrate on the demonstration of the famous Riemann hypothesis on the function Z, that will shed firther light on prime numbers. He thinks that this task is the most important in the history of Maths, and he is determined to complete it.
He loves Lucy profoundly, but he understands that he is not in the position of giving her all the attention and the cures that she needs. For this reason, he is eager to speak with father James Cromwell to see if he could find a respectable and loving girl to marry, so that she could take care of Lucy (and of him, too).
Politics are unimportant for him, but he is profoundly religious and a good roman catholic.
Antonio's english is quite good, but his italian accent is still quite thick. Sometimes he can't help to comment out of the ordinary news or views in italian.
LOOKS: Despite keeping his italian family name, Antonio was deeply in love with Rachel. He is still wearing black, somber clothes. In official circumstances, he wears a black suit and a hat. Normally, he is happy to wear his country clothes (as far as they are black or dark brown) and his coppola (a present of his father, when he left sicily).
His complexion is healthy, and a bit tanned. He loved to have long walks in the country, before Rachel died. He didn't have the time afterwards.
He wears round glasses and a thick pair of moustaches.
Equipment Carried
Item (location, wt, cost)
always some kind of mathematics book (lately: the 1906 Mathematische Annalen) - (his handbag, 4 lb., 5$)
handbag, leather - (in his hand, ?,?)
notebook - (his handbag, ?, ?)
pens - (his handbag, ?, ?)
pocket knife - (his handbag, ?, ?)
umbrella - (his handbag, ?, 1.49$)
Money
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