Richard Anderson

[Iota]

Name: Richard Anderson
Nick Names or Alias: Rick, Spooks, Doc.
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Sexual Preferances: Straight
Employment: Yes
Job Title & Description:

Columnist, investigator

Derangement(s):

N/A

Misc.:

Has a PHD in Paranormal Psychology and the Occult.

Ghoul?: No.
Hunter?: No.
Mage?: No.
Powers:

N/A

Endowments:

N/A

Foci:

N/A

Appearance:

Fashion Sense/Style:

Tweed, very professor like. Leather elbow pads, and the like.

Personality:

Prim and proper, likes to use more complicated words then that are usually required, quite pompous and arrogant yet curious and intrigued by everything that isn’t “normal”. Very sarcastic and finds some sort of humour in most situations.

Physical-Strength: 4
Intelligence: 8
Speed: 5
Leadership: 8
Melee: 2
Unarmed: 3
Ranged: 4
History:

Born and raised in Stanford, Kentucky. Richard had a fairly quiet child hood, he was born and he grew up. It was a fairly dull in comparison with most people, he was a nerd of mass proportions, spent his hours locked away in his bedroom deep in books about ghosts and other things relating to myths of the underworld. Sufficed to say, Richard was quite the academic, scoring the highest in his year at school every year for Math, English and various other subjects too, but scoring fairly low in psychical education, as one may expect.

The years passed, he never had a girlfriend, barely ever drunk alcohol, never smoked or took anything that was frowned upon, not to be a goody two shoes, but it didn’t see the relevance. He went to University and eventually acquired a dual degree in paranormal psychology and the Occult. With these degrees, he was fairly limited as to what he could do for a living, but he knew this already. His child hood dream was coming to fruition, which rarely happens.

Richard decided to take leave and investigate whatever he could get his hands on; this “vacation” took him from the land of the inca’s and mayan’s, all the way to mainland Europe and the United Kingdom. A hive for supernatural oddities as the USA was a baby in comparison to the rest of the world. He was like an excitable school boy and reveled in all the artifacts he found and the lore pertaining to it. Still, Time went on and he needed a more stable income. He returned to the United States and took up a teaching job at The University of New York.

A few years had passed, enjoying life, but looking for more in his work life. Richard would sit in his office, it was usually quiet as paranormal psychology and the Occult weren’t that popular of a subject. So he would spend his day looking at artifacts and surfing the internet for various amounts of information regarding to anything Occult related. As he was surfing, he skimmed across an advert for the Major news paper in New York; they were looking for someone to write a page in their paper regarding the supernatural. Slightly odd, as main line news papers don’t tend to cover that particular genre, but it was more money on the side, so Richard applied. He got the job, relatively quick, he would spend his evenings writing for the paper and even when it was a low point during the day, it kept him busy. He was truly in a world of his own and he loved it.

As the years went by, the students dwindled away from paranormal psychology and the occult, so much so that the University closed down the department. Richard was made redundant, shocked and somewhat upset about this as anyone would be. Instead of searching for another university placement, he concentrated more so on the articles for the news paper. He eventually earned quite a high position within and became a co-editor. Even with this prestigious position, he still loved to investigate and write in his column, I doubt he would even leave the column, even if he was the director of the company he like it that much.

[Hax]

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