Arthur Havelock, Marquis of the Lost

Arthur Havelock, Marquis of the Lost

(as portrayed by Timothy Reed)

A fifty-ish man in a fedora and pale trenchcoat, Arthur looks like he is playing a detective.

Attributes

Aspect 2 (Legendary) - 5 Aspect Miracle Points

Arthur is, after all, an action hero. He is expected to do what it takes to succeed.

Domain 3 (Marquis of Lost and Found) - 5 Domain Miracle Points

Arthur has settled comfortably into his new role. Perhaps because there was so little of Timothy left.

Realm 1 (Radiant) - 5 Realm Miracle Points

Arthur is just starting to find his way around the Realm. Much of his attention has been focused on the 'outside world'.

Spirit 1 (Hearthfire) - 5 Spirit Miracle Points

Arthur's creation from the Lost Timothy Reed has left him burning, perhaps, not as brightly as he could. With time and luck, this may improve.

Gifts

Secondary Domain: Found

With the Lost Domain comes Found. Arthur is a Marquis of both.

Finder of Lost Paths

Arthur has the Wayfinder gift, but only for paths that are Lost.

I Found It!

Arthur can Find any object that was Lost, conveniently at hand, provided there's room.

I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found

Arthur can Lose himself, then Find himself at any Lost and Found collection.

2 Gift: Find it NOW Find lost physical objects nearby, no matter where they were lost (Lesser Creation, Simple Miracle, Almost Anywhere, Wide Variety, Common)

1 Gift: Lost & Found Get lost, then found. Effectively teleport to any "Lost & Found" (Lesser Change, Simple Miracle, One Person, One Trick, Uncommon)

1 Wayfinder Find lost path

Handicaps

Restriction: Wayfinder. only on lost paths Price per "Cannot Cross Running Water" when invoked

Restriction: Truthful. Does not lie; may mislead with true words "faery truth"

Virtue: Dramatic. Follows the practics of TV mystery shows

Affiliation: Personal Code

Justice Must Be Served

A job Worth Doing is Worth Doing Well

What Goes Around Comes Around

20 Bonds

4 Anchor: EX-WIFE (Janice; old and bitter)

3 Anchor: ACTOR (Will Ferrell Type)

5 SON (David, runs a gay club in San Francisco)

1 SECRETARY (Della, efficient but not respectful)

4 JOB (Managing and protecting the Estate)

3 "LOST & FOUND"s (Key nodes in the Lost/Found balancing network)

Other Notes:

>Your Gift "Lost & Found." When you say teleport to any >Lost & Found, are you talking about actual Lost & Found >boxes like they'd have at schools and train stations and >airports? Or where you referring to teleporting to TVs that >are playing the show, or something?

The boxes. Or coat closets. Any collection of unclaimed stuff that is actually calls a "lost and found". So "the junk drawer" or "behind the couch" won't do, no matter how much unclaimed stuff might be there.

>Same question applies to your Bond "Lost & Founds"? The >show, or actual rooms full of lost objects? Also I'm not >sure what "Key nodes in the Lost/Found balancing >network" means.

Yup, boxes. Same qualifications as above. (There is apparently an important difference between "lost" and "misplaced" here.)

Key nodes. Yeah. Well, I'm not really sure what it means. Neither is Arthur, but he knows they're important.

Here are my thoughts on the matter:

The universe is a balance between Lost and Found. If everything is Lost, it's the Void -- game over. If everything's Found, it's Heat Death -- game over again.

On the quantum level, this works pretty well without active supervision. Particles and antiparticles do their little dance, disappearing and appearing wherever they like. On the cosmic level, pretty much the same. You have black holes and quasars, missing matter and dark matter, all in balance to let the game go on for quite a while.

On the human level, though, things can get messed up pretty quick. Humans don't just blindly follow the laws as laid down, they get Involved, and try to change things. Humans have this nasty habit of thinking that having their car keys and being able to go to work are more important than the balance between Void and Entropy. Worse yet, they use logic and memory to figure out where things cannot be, which (barring intervention) means those things are not free to be Found there.

Lost and Found boxes are a compromise. When an object's time as a Lost item is done, it it free to come back to one of those boxes, preventing the possibility of too many objects staying Lost because some poor sod had eliminated any place they could not be, and searched any place they could be, thus establishing that they weren't anywhere.

[Short version: There is a flow of things being Lost, then Found. Those boxes keep the process from getting jammed up.]

>Talk to me about Janice, Timothy Reed's ex-wife. Is she >Anchored out of love or hate, or kind of both? What does >she think about "Arthur Havelock"? What does she do for >Arthur?

Kind of both. I'm not sure either of them could figure it out, at this point. (It was hate when he made her an Anchor, though.) She believes Tim is dead, and that Arthur is a sort of guilt-induced hallucination. She is a writer, and finds things for him on the internet, as well as giving him news of their son.

>The re-make actor Anchor needs a name. Love him or >hate him? What does he think about "Arthur Havelock"? >What does he do for Arthur? Is he still a working actor?

Name. Yeah, he probably has one. Most people do. Hmm..

Will Robitaille. He thinks Arthur is some sort of subconscious manifestation of his Muse, brought out by too many drugs. He's still an actor, currently working on Crime Lab: NYC. Arthur needs him in New York, to keep an eye out on the many losses invoked there by the events of 9/11.

>What about David Reed, the son? Why is he not an >Anchor, while the actor and Janice are? He runs a gay >club, is he gay himself? How was his relationship with his >father? Does he know about Arthur Havelock?

David is not an Anchor because (a) Tim doesn't want to destroy him, and (b) Arthur feels that this part of Tim's life needs to remain "Lost" to him in order to keep himself in balance in his new life.

He is probably gay. Arthur doesn't know for sure (and doesn't want to), and deep inside Arthur, Tim is hoping for a next generation of Reeds.

He was young when his mother took him away, and has only vague memories of his father. He secretly has a collection of all his father's work on DVD, and is curious about the man and what became of him.