Artemis Richter
Name: Wilhelm Artemis (Arty) RichterPlayer: Ritterton
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Occupation: Researcher/Antique Dealer
College, Degrees: B.S., History, Minor in Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 1923; B.S., Engineering, 1928, University of Pennsylvania
DOB: 5 Jan 1900 in Germantown, PA
Address: 3029 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Military: Enlisted on 7 Jan 1918, 168th Observation Corps, wounded in left thigh and side in the Battle of Ypres (Oct 1918), healed and returned to duty, left France/Germany in 1919.
Single
Artemis Richter
* 5 Jan 1900]
[% Jan 1937 - Beatrice (Trice) Hjanstadt
1. Elizabeth Appolonia Richter * 1938
2. Artemis Richter * 1939
Artemis Richter - Fists and 45 Character sheet
Fitness - 5 Vigor - 29
Brawn - 5 Toughness 2
Deftness - 7 Initiative 7
Moxie - 7
Smarts - 8 Damage Modifier 0
Empathy 7 Lift - 50/100/200
Luck 6
Movement 7"
Sprint
Leap
50 Points
Fitness
Athletics 2
Swimming 0
Moxie
Endurance 1
Interrogate 3
High Society 4
Mental Disc 3
Streetwise 2
Empathy
Sense Motive 3
Leadership 2
Persuasion/Deception 3
Smarts
Awareness 3
Disguise 1
Electronics 1
Expert/Aviation 3
Knowledge Gen 3
Language/Germ 3
*Navigation 1
+Mechanics 2
*Photography 2
Research 4
Deftness
Dance 1
Drive 3
Fighting 1
*Trench Knife 1
Firearms 2
Pilot 2
50
* Bonus per GM from time in 168th Observation Corps
+ Bonus per GM from Engineering College
Shticks
Death Defiance - 5
Must have 1 pt Luck - you survive
Steely Gaze - 3
+2 to Interrogate/Intimidate; +2 Persuade/Deceive
Well Connected - 3
+3 to Streetwise, General Knowledge, and Research
Other items per GM
Employment at Goodyear
Professional drafting tools
Engineers Notebook
Mechanical Engineering Reference booklet
All with the Goodyear logo on them
Parents - Wilhelm Artemis Heinrich (Henry) Richter was born in Koblenz and died in Philadelphia in 1919 Flu Epidemic. He married Appolonia Elisabeth Wendt of Fulda who died in 1931.
Mother's Father's Brother - Wilhelm (Willy) v Isenberg - * 1854 % 1914 (wife and son died in 1919 flu epidemic) + Oct 1936
a very minor German nobleman that had studied at Count v. Zeppelin's factories before the War. Believed to be a Captain in a Hessian Observation Corps unit.
Sister - Elisabeth (Elise) Viktoria Richter, wife of Albert Thricewood/
Great Uncle - Wilhelm (Willy) von Isenberg, mom's family, a very minor German nobleman that had studied at Count v. Zeppelin's factories before the War. Believed to be a Captain in a Hessian Observation Corps unit.
Appearance & Personality: Wounded in battle, walks with a limp and occassionally uses a walking stick or sturdy umbrella. Returned and went to college in Philadelphia. Gained a reputation for researching unusual events and artifacts. Smaller in stature, thinning black hair, green eyes and mustache.
1. Leather journal cover with a pocket flap in the back cover. Gift from parents with a picture of the family tipped into the front that was given to him when he went over seas. It has a series of notes written on the inside in dark ink from his parents and sister. The pocket contains a list of various clients, bank address, and also some "emergency funds" ($100). He also has kept his military identificaton.
2. Small 1 1/2" stirling silver cross on a rather thick chain that he wears. Design is a bit unusual with there being a small silver disc at the center which is nearly worn smooth on the front. However, unbeknownst to Artemis, the disc is actually a silver coin of the Augustan vintage that has been passed down in some form for nearly 2000 years with this cross being a few hundred years old. Chain is relatively new.
3. Lucky coin - a silver chain cent from the American Revolution that he found in an old box in the attic of his parent's home. He carried it all throughout the war, and continues to do so.
Traits:
More cautious, and tries to find a solution that doesn't require use of force, mainly because of his limp.
Artemis returned to college in 1925 after efforts to find the killer of a colleague, famed researcher and adventurer Elias Jackson, failed with his colleagues having their leads just evaporate. He received an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and was fortunate to be hired by the Goodyear Company to help develop lighter than air blimps for use by the military. His work allowed him to witness, and even fly, upon the masters of the sky, the rigid airships of the Zeppelin corporation. He played a small part in the development of mobile moring masts and the K-blimps developed for the US military.
During this period, he continued to correspond with the friends of Elias Jackson who shared with him hopes for a clue as to who killed the talented writer. He also continued his dealings in antique books and ephemera. This proved to be his passion. The airships and blimps were amazing projects, but it was the letter from a satisfied customer or the finding of a lost letter from one of the Country's founding fathers or mothers that could become the center piece of one of Sotheby's auctions. Even during the extremely lean period of the Great Depression, with many, many individuals out of work, Artemis was able to continue to at least work and care for his ailing mother. They took solace and comfort that her husband, his father, passed before having to watch the massive parade of Klansmen and Silvershirts marching down...in Philadelphia.
Mother died in 1931. Artemis and sister Elise, now married to Albert Thricewood, inherited the family home with Artemis taking the third floor as his lodging point when in town. His mother had maintained a life insurance policy, gold and silver, and various valuable stocks that also provided both of her children an influx of cash during the Depression that allowed him to purchase his own brownstone in Philadelphia when real estate prices in the more established neighborhoods fell with the stock market. He rented out rooms in the large brownstone to graduate students that allowed him continued connections to and access, vicariously, to the libraries at the various universities in Philadelphia.
Participant in Cox's Army protest - drove group to DC. Used mother's Big Six Studebaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Big_Six
[After Lake Placid Game]
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While others in German community took pride in the rise of Adolf Hitler and a strong Germany, Artemis saw only growing reasons for concern. He was able to attend the 1936 Munich Olympiad as a Goodyear Company representative and had the chance to ride on the Hindenburg while in Berlin. What he saw, and what he observed was a nation rushing headlong into a dicatorship that was anything but benevelont. He visited with his Uncle Willy one last time, the baron dying shortly after the visit, and both men shared a collective concern about the direction the world was headig with both fascism and communism spreading quickly across the globe. Willy was equally concerned about the growing black magic societies that were weaving their theologies into that of the Nazi party. Not only did the Thule Society worry the old Baron, but also another more sinister group he called the Order of the Rising Silver Theophant. Willy had fought in various ways with one of its leaders, a Baron von Alteisenstein. Willy gave Artemis various family histories, small antiques, and papers before Artemis sailed back to the United States aboard the Steamliner Oceanus. He received a telegram from the Isenberg that indicated that he was his Uncle's sole heir, Willy having lost his only child and wife in the flu epidemic after the war. He was sent a signet ring for the family and the right to be called a Freiherr under the old rules of the German Empire, but those days are long gone. The family manor house was rented to a local family for a very, very small sum in US dollars.
In the Summer of 1937, he married a young lady, ten years his younger, Beatrice Hjanstadt who had ancestors that served in the Pennsylvania Militia during the British siege of Philadelphia and another in Fusiliers Regiment von Knyphausen during the American Revolution and were prisoners of war in Lancaster County. In 1938, they welcomed their first child, Elizabeth Appolonia Richter, into the world. A year later, the next male in the Richter family was born and with his arrival the name Artemis was set to go forward into a 12th generation according to the papers from Uncle Willy.
War came to Europe while the United States dithered about whether or not to help France and England. When the Axis powers attacked their neighbors, Goodyear was asked by the White House's military advisors to send teams to England to observe the English' use of blimps to respond to the increasing air strikes the German Luftwaffe were sending against the British. Artemis was choosen to participate, inspite of British concerns about his German name and heritage, due to his involvement in the K-Blimp program for the US Navy. Trice was less than enthusiastic about the situation, however, Goodyear ensured Artemis that his pay would have a travel incentive and bonus that was suffiicent for him to live off of that extra and Trice and the children on his regular wages. The advancement of the German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe was not surprising, but equally terrifying. All that he and his departed Uncle feared was becoming reality and Artemis continued to wonder whether the Third Reich were coming to the shores of England.
Older History
Military Information:
Private. Enlisted on 7 Jan 1918 and reported to the 168th Aero Squadron, 2nd Army Air Service when it mustered into service at Hoboken, NJ. Their regiment then arrived in Liverpool on the 16th of February, and traveled to Ramsey Rest Camp in Winchester. Due to his mechanical interests, and quick study abilities, he as put into Company D and sent to Doncester/Yorkshire to be trained in basic engine repair, motor vehicles, and winches. After five months of such training, his Squadron shipped out to France arriving at the St. Maixent Replacemet Barracks in France on 14 Aug 1918. The 168th arrived at the Gengault Aerodrome near Toul in early October and joined the IV Corps Observaton Group. Survived the Battle of Ypres with a wound to his right side and to his left thigh that has left him with a permanent limp.
Ideology/Beliefs:
Lutheran with practical applications, and very interested in new ideas. Fine with the use and consumption of alcohol being raised in a German household. He was active in his Lutheran Church serving in various roles including alter boy after his confirmation. Very interested in symbology used in both the church and mythology. He attends lectures at a Theosophical Society in Philadelphia, and continues to visit the University when ever there are unusual lecture offerings. During the war, his squadron had come across what looked to have been some for of occult activity in a portion of the lines they had taken during one of the American pushes over the top from a portion of what had been French held trenches but a mysterious mombardment had decimated most of a French militia company. Artemis had recognized some of the symbols and such in the seized ground, but could not place any of them well in his mind having been wounded in that effort. He went to one of Jackson Elias' lectures on the occult organizations and after the lecture approached Mr. Elias about what he had seen in the trenches in France. Elias didn't know much about the limited information Artemis could recall and share, but the two continued the discussion with a few others after the lecture at a local pub. Artemis the started a correspondence with Mr. Elias sharing information he could learn and discover from his fellow veterans and from his research efforts. He has also had some occassional assistance from Mr. Elias as Artemis has taken on research efforts for som eof Philadelphia's wealthy and eccentric members of the Theosophical Society.
Being a member of the International Order of the Odd Fellows, Artemis is familiar with the basic workings of such a lodge. Politically, he was a big supporter of Woodrow Wilson and believes that "America has so much to teach the world" and that "America is the land of opportunity." When he came back from the war, his views were dampened, but still feels that "Wilson had it right" so votes for the Democrats.