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James O'Connor
Topic Started: Dec 4 2013, 11:48 PM (190 Views)
Johnny
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Name: James O'Connor

Age: ?

Race: Ghoul

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

4,7,4,8,5,7,5 = 40

Personality:

James is a sly bastard, rarely dealing his cards straight, and always keeping an ace in the hole. He is well educated and due to his many years of surviving the harsh wasteland he has had many an opportunity to find ways out of conflicts by sneaking, talking, or just some good ol' throat slitting. He seems very friendly when you first meet him but he has had so many smoothskin friends die of old age and premature bullet holes he tries to stay unattached.

He's charismatic and outgoing, but can play you like a harmonica. He's much like a used car salesman from the days of old. Not that any smoothskin humans know what a car dealer is. He is also intelligent from years of life and wise from years worth of mistakes.

Unfortunately, James often fights with inner demons, the threat of Ferality looms on the horizon. This can lead to him showing many signs of a split personality disorder. He combats this with reading many books, the more he learns the more weapons he wields to fight this Ferality.


Appearance:

James stands at about 5' 7", and weighs only 150 pounds. Although he is short and light, it helps him stay inconspicuous and look non-threatening. It's advantageous in helping him sneak and although he's not built and strong, he's quick, agile, and precise.

His ghoulish features dominate his complexion, his eyes brown but hazy. He appears to have cataracts but his vision is actually pretty sharp, a product of the radiation. He wears jeans, which are surprisingly intact for the amount of abuse they've undergone. Patched and padded on the knees and tattered toward the feet, they fit well but are loose enough to barely affect his agility. His shirt however is a much thinner material and is starting to tatter and fray. To cover this he wears a poncho over his shirt.

He picked up a spaghetti western cowboy hat to hide the fact he is a ghoul as they are highly looked down upon in many places in the wastes. His shoes have long since fallen apart and now he wears boots without the soles, the bare pads of his feet making contact with the ground but the rest of the shoes covering the top of his foot.

Starting Equipment:
Armor:
Dirty Pre-war clothes

Weapons:
Switchblade: 4 inch blade
Rudimentary Revolver: 3.5 inch barrel, chambered in .357 Magnum

Backstory:

The last memory James has is his time in San Francisco. He remembers living there at some point. San Francisco was a terrible place for him, his family being killed there. He remembers holding his wife and daughter as they slowly passed into the ethereal. The image is so haunting that even thinking of it makes him want to move. In his distress he began walking, a great force pulled him North. He must head North.

Following the great remnants of the American highway system he eventually found himself in Portland. The city grasped him, he felt like he had been here many times before and he was just returning home. But after a time his heart felt heavy and restless. He knew it was time to move on again. East, He must head East.

In the east he found the border of the Commonwealth, a war-torn area marked by a ravished landscape with a great resemblance to Hell. He knew to stay away from this hellhole somehow so he followed the border south and found himself in D.C. Again this place was reminiscent of something long past to him, perhaps his life as a smoothskin? Here he befriended a mortal, they went on many adventures together but too soon the man became old and died in his sleep. South.

The roads gently eased him more into the country and away from the coastline. A great highway brought him to Atlanta. Atlanta smelled familiar to him, bringing an image to the peripheral of his mind but just beyond the light and obscured by the shadows he could not remember exactly what it was. This played with his mind so bad that he had to get out of there as it was causing him to jump in and out of Ferality more often than usual. West, how much could it have changed over a hundred years?


Strengths/Weaknesses

James is a very good speaker, able to turn people to his cause, rally a crowd, and defuse most hostile situations. He is also sly and sneaky, able to easily sneak around and get in real close as he excels at close quarters. He is also very aware of his surroundings due to his high perception. His traits align to make him a cunning assassin if ever the need arises.

However, James is not very strong. Unable to handle big guns and isn't able to steady a rifle for long shots. He despises heavy clunky weapons anyways as he prefers to be up close and personal. His lungs are weaker than an ordinary man due to smoking and this causes his endurance to be lower. He is also very distant from people and places, although he acts very friendly he rarely gets attached to any place in particular.

James also suffers urges to succumb to his primal instincts that will force him to go Feral. Although sometimes he loses the battle, he usually comes back from it. His feral side becomes tenacious and powerful like a Feral Ghoul Reaver, any companions of his should not risk a chance and try to put him down immediately.

Traits:

Duelist
Revolving Killer
Fast Shot
James O'Connor
Level: 1
Bucket Town Reputation: 10

Special: 4,7,4,8,5,7,5
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Patrick Flynn
Level: 1
Bucket Town Reputation: +25

Special: 4,8,4,4,5,8,7
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Current Inventory:

Switchblade Knife (Tier 1 GC)
Rudimentary Revolver
.357 Magnum x18
EMF Detector
Regular Hide x1
James O'Connor
Level: 1
Bucket Town Reputation: 10

Special: 4,7,4,8,5,7,5
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Patrick Flynn
Level: 1
Bucket Town Reputation: +25

Special: 4,8,4,4,5,8,7
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Adventures:

Full Circle - Tag with ETR

Technically Speaking - Solo
James O'Connor
Level: 1
Bucket Town Reputation: 10

Special: 4,7,4,8,5,7,5
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Patrick Flynn
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Bucket Town Reputation: +25

Special: 4,8,4,4,5,8,7
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