<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong>Lord Mayerling<br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Maxwell Langdon (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178815.0)<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>Mid thirties<br/><strong>PROFESSION:</strong>Journalist<br/><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong>United States<br/><div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7c/Maxlangdon.jpg)</div><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong>Typically American in demeanor and outlook, Max typically has an expression of optimism mixed with opportunism on his face. His hair is dark and combed back from his face his forehead has distinctive creases from his expressive brown eyes and thick brown eyebrows. Like most Americans he shaves his face clean. He prefers an informal tweed sport coat and fedora to a tailored suit, but he’s not afraid to wear a tuxedo from time-to-time to make an appearance or gain a scoop. He smokes incessantly, and speaks French and German fluently.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong>Also typically American, Max has an optimistic personality. He’s gregarious and friendly, keeping him easy to approach and trust. He’s curious but skeptical by nature, but always willing to hear a story. Entrenched in capitalism, he thinks everything has its price, and all problems can be negotiated to a fruitful end for both parties. He’s not a big patron of the arts, but he’s fallen in love with Berlin’s care-free and easy-going nightlife. He knows his dollars are valuable, and that money can buy anything.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong>Max was born in Akron, Ohio, and got his first job working for the Akron Sentinel when he was 12 years old as a street hawk. He was never much interested in school, but he loved the news business. Eventually he became a beat writer for the Sentinel. When times got rough the Sentinel he joined the Indianapolis Star just in time for the first Roosevelt Administration. He worked as a political correspondent, and moved to Washington. Eventually the chief editor of the Detroit Free Press noticed his work, and Langdon leapt at the chance to be in one of the country’s widest circulating dailies. After some time covering local politics, in 1914 Langdon was made a foreign correspondent in the paper’s Paris bureau. Dark fortune smiled on him again when war broke out in August, and he found himself on the front lines of the most horrific war the world had ever seen. In 1919 Max moved to the Berlin bureau, where he’s been attached ever since. He’s still active with his paper, and is currently writing a memoir of his experiences in Weimar Berlin that he hopes to publish back in the States. With any luck it’ll make enough money that he can retire comfortably.<br/><br/><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong>Max hopes to hit it big by writing a book about Weimar Berlin. He’s never had much of an inkling to settle down, but it’s not beyond him if he found the right kinda girl. He likes a good drink, fast cars, and a good cigar now and then. Max enjoys the life he has, and he enjoys living it. Mostly, Max enjoys making and spending money.<br/><br/><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong>Max spends a lot of time with the Berlin Press Corps. The central office is located downtown in Reinhardstrasse facing the River Spree, near the Reichstag. He lives nearby in a small four room flat in Friedrichstrasse.