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Description

Arnold stand about five feet and nine inches tall, with dark completion from years in the African sun. His build is muscular but slim, all the better for trekking about in the wild places of the world. Short dirty blond hair covers his head, cut to a few inches most of time and combed back. Most of his facial hair is shaven off each morning, save for a large, bushy walrus moustache, which he is very proud of and often spends time stoking it. Light blue eyes are set in a only slightly handsome face, although he does process a squarish jaw. Several scars dot his body (luckily none of his face), caused by a number of reasons. One on his side is some a Zulu Iklwa, to where his chest was raked by a leopard's claws. When back home in England and at the Over-Seas Explorers Culb, he can be found wearing black shoes, black trousers, a white shirt and his old sky blue jacket, from where he served as an officer in the Natal Native Horse. When out on the hunt, he dresses in khaki pants, a white shirt, khaki bush jacket, slouch hat and boots.

Personality

Friendly, always willing to gamble or take a challenge. Easily bored with city life.

Equipment

An Enfield Mk I revolver with thirty rounds

A Safari rifle (modified Mauser Spanish Model 1893) with forty rounds

Knife with five inch blade

Welt stone

Bedroll

Backpack

Quinine tablets

Canteen

Two days worth of rations

Two changes of cloths

Twenty feet of rope

Box of matches

History

Arnold was born in London, in 1859 and had a pretty much normal and safe childhood for a member of the gentry. When he was fifteen years old, his father took him hunting in Africa, where he fell in love with big game hunting, after killing his first Greater Kudu. Over the next five years, he would take three more trips to Africa, with the third being in January of 1879, just in time for Anglo-Zulu War. Feeling patriotic, he volunteered and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Natal Native Horse. He survived the battles of Isandlwana, Kambula and Ulundi, earning himself several small battle woulds, save for at Isandlwana, where a Iklwa was slashed into his side. After mustering out of the native horse, he returned to London and joined the Over-Seas Explorers club. For the next sixteen years, he continued to travel back to Africa for hunting trips but also enjoyed a few voyages to India and the American West. The trophies he took from those trip decorate his family home and also several rooms within the clubhouse.

Lord Arnold Meyer's Story