Howard Renfield Tempest III

Howard Renfield Tempest III
…of the Nantucket Tempests!

Archetype: Moneyman
Motivation: GREED (naturally)

Health: 5
Style: 0
Experience: 0

PRIMARY ATTRIBUTES
Body: 2
Dexterity: 2
Strength: 2

Charisma: 2
Intelligence: 4
Willpower: 3

SECONDARY ATTRIBUTES
Size: 0
Move: 2 (due to being Lame)
Perception: 7

Initiative: 6
Defense: 4
Stun: 2

SKILLS (base + level = rank)
Bureaucracy (4 + 1 = 5)
Diplomacy (2 + 3 = 5)
---Persuasion (6)
Empathy (4 + 3 = 7)
Gambling (4 + 1 = 5)
Intimidation (2 + 1 = 3)
Investigation (4 + 2 = 6)
Melee (2 + 1 = 3)
---Swords (4)
Streetwise (2 + 2 = 4)
---Haggling (5)

TALENT
Jack of All Trades (Improved Untrained Skill Rolls)
(Daddy used to say "It’s good to know what the common man does, that way you can tell when he’s trying to cheat you!")

RESOURCES
Wealth I ($250 monthly income, plus investments)

FLAWS
Lame (Has a bad leg and moves slower than others)

ATTACKS
Punch (0N + 2Str = 2N)
Colt Pocket Model (Hammerless) .32 (2L + 2Dex = 4L)
Sword Cane (2L + 4 Melee/Swords = 6L)

Gear

When traveling outside "civilized" areas, Mr. Tempest carries his personal backpack, which contains a first aid pouch, flashlight, a flare pistol (with 4 flares), spare canteen, a spare box of ammunition (.32 ACP, 100 rounds, but no spare magazines), a deck of cards, several hand flares, box of cigars and a military grade knife. His porter always caries a heavy pack with his bedroll, sleeping bag and folding cot, toiletries, portable tent, along with his eating supplies.

In his pockets, in addition to his wallet (and money), he always carries a tin of cigars, lighter, a Swiss Army Knife, a deck of playing cards and his Colt pistol.
　
In Brief;

Howard Renfield Tempest III (of the Nantucket Tempests) is a middle aged gentleman, always to be found in a fine suit, who always walks with a simple hardwood cane due to an injury he sustained while in Europe years ago. He is the senior partner in Tempest, Stanley, Stanley & Brickfield investments out of Hartford. He has always had a fascination with the unknown and discovering new things (that is, after all, how the Spanish became rich, right? By plundering the "New World"), so to that end he is always willing to invest (controlling interest) in projects that may bring these new discoveries to the table of his investment firm.

He calls himself a very "Hands On" person, being on site at any project that he feels warrants his supervisory skills, making sure that the hired staff is working efficiently and not causing any loss of materials or revenue. If he is out "Exploring," he always makes sure that his porter is an honest, hard working man, and is sure to pay him a fair wage as good help is hard to find (upon completion of the journey of course).

Little is known (publicly) about his personal life. He is currently married to his third wife, and has a teenage daughter (in boarding school) from his first marriage. The only sport he enjoys is Horse Racing, and he does place a wager or two from time to time, but that is only when it best suits him to make a connection with a new client ("trusting a beast to win out over 14 other horses is more problematic than finding an honest man"). He also enjoys card games, face to face, man to man, where he can see when a man is trying to cheat him, and thus take great pleasure in leaving that man penniless at the end of "a friendly game."