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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1906861" data-attributes="member: 4144">A.C.G. (Arthur Charles George) "Hightower" LlewellynMale Detective (defense option) 4Height: 6'1"Weight: 195 lbs.Hair: White, baldingEyes: BlueAge: 55Str: 9 (-1) Dex: 8 (-1) Con: 12 (+1) Int: 15 (+2) Wis: 17 (+3) Cha: 14 (+2) Hit Dice: 4d6+4HP: 34AC: 12 (-1 Dex, +2 defense)Init: -1 (-1 Dex)Speed: 30 ft. Current Sanity:  80 Max Sanity:  9920% sanity:  16 Saves:Fortitude +5 [+4 base, +1 Con]Reflex +3 [+4 base, -1 Dex]Will +4 [+1 base, +3 Wis]BAB: +2Melee Atk: +1Ranged Atk: +1 SkillsForgery +9 [7 ranks, +2 Int]Gather Information +9 [7 ranks, +2 Cha]Intimidate +6 [4 ranks, +2 Cha]Knowledge (Arkham) +9 [7 ranks, +2 Int]Knowledge (London) +9 [7 ranks, +2 Int]Listen +12 [7 ranks, +3 Wis, +2 Alertness]Move Silently +2 [3 ranks, -1 Dex]Open Lock +3 [4 ranks, -1 Dex]Research +5 [3 ranks, +2 Int]Search +9 [5 ranks, +2 Int, +2 Sharp-Eyed]Sense Motive +12 [7 ranks, +3 Wis, +2 Sharp-Eyed]Spot +10 [5 ranks, +3 Wis, +2 Alertness]Feats:Sharp-Eyed (1st level)Alertness (1st level)Weapon Proficiency: pistol (3rd level)LanguagesEnglishEquipment:Original savings - $8,000.  Yearly income - $4,000.Wardrobe6 button-up white shirts - $6.00Patent leather shoes - $4.95Overcoat - $19.954 pair pants - $8.00Fedora hat - $8.959mm pistol - $30.00150 rounds, 9mm - $20.85Shoulder holster - $1.25.38 Special revolver - $25.00 100 rounds, .38 Special - $5.95 12-gauge shotgun - $55.0025 12-gauge slug shells - $0.92 Fleabag hotel - $0.75 per nightGold pocket watch - $32.50Expensive trunk - $13.95Bible - $4.00Crucifix - $2.00Umbrella - $1.796 packs matches - $0.60Padlock - $0.95Meerschaum pipe - $1.00Savings left - $7769.99Appearance:  A.C.G. Llewellyn is an aged man.  Although in his 50s, he is still imposing physically and still maintains the great size that gave him the nickname "Hightower".  He has a very noticable limp, and if asked about it will go into great detail telling the story of how he acquired it.  He has piercing blue eyes which seem to look right through you and add to his considerable presence.  He also has a long, drooping white moustache, stained yellow by his Meerschaum pipe, which he is almost never without.Personality:  Arthur has no qualities about him that set him apart from any other old man.  He is rather impulsive and prone to change, however, resulting in his transformation from son of a wealthy family, to laborer, to policeman and finally to miser.  Despite his family's wealth, he spurned his inheritance and after leaving England took up residence in a squalid little hotel in Massachusetts.  No-one would ever guess what he once was.Arthur has a trunk in his room which he keeps padlocked at all times.  The trunk contains his shotgun and .38 revolver, as well as family papers and old photographs.Background:  Arthur Charles George Llewellyn was born March 21, 1867 in Liverpool to the English branch of the Llewellyn family.  These Llewellyns were shipbuilders and fish merchants, and were quite well off.  When he turned 18, Arthur spurned university life and began helping out in the family business.  The Llewellyns made many trips to London, and it was during one of these trips that Arthur chose to stay in London.  He became a fish-buyer and fileter at the Billingsgate Fish Market.  In 1887, the indecisive Arthur abruptly switched professions, dropping his family's legacy and enrolling in the Metropolitan Police.  He soon became a junior member of H Division, and so began the next episode of his life.When Arthur was 21, in 1888, he married Eliza Hayes, daughter of a wealthy judge at the Old Bailey.  Arthur was also a mere patrolman in the Whitechapel district.  Soon, like every other policeman in the vicinity, he was assigned double patrol duty, on guard against "Jack The Ripper".  The criminal got away, but Arthur remained on duty.  In 1892, he was shot by street-thieves.  The stubborn Arthur stayed on his beat as long as he could, finally taking the job of inspector two years later once the injury had become near-unbearable.So from 1894 on, Arthur maintained a desk job at Scotland Yard's new buildings in Whitehall.  In 1917, Eliza died of a fever, leaving Arthur with two children (Alfred and Katherine).  After they moved on, he formally retired from Scotland Yard in 1919, leaving behind a distinguished record.  In that year, he boarded a ship bound to New York, to visit his cousin William, who had become a well-known author stateside.  After staying with William for a few months, he made his way to Arkham, Massachusetts.In Arkham, Arthur --  who still had policework in his blood -- became a detective once more.  It is then (1920) that Arthur became a miser.  Though he has money enough to afford decent lodgings, he lives in a seedy boarding-house known locally as the "Witch-House" after a supposed sorceress who lived there.  But Arthur doesn't believe in such things.</blockquote>

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