Post by Specialist290 on Mar 23, 2007 12:16:46 GMT -5
Not much is known about the figure everyone calls "Specialist290," and he doesn't volunteer too much to fill in the gaps of what is known. To anyone who asks about his life before coming to Malton--his name, his family, any jobs he may have had--he will almost invariably respond that he left them on the other side of the Quarantine. What he has said, however, is that he was part of a task force deployed to Malton, that this task force was wiped out, and that he spent days trying to rejoin his group--and managed to succeed, although not in the way he had been anticipating.
When not "on duty," as he still likes to call it, he gives the impression of being a lazy, sarcastic ne'er-do-well. However, whenever there's something to be done, he'll be one of the first to volunteer, even if he's not entirely sure of how to go about doing it. His pack's almost always full of useful items, a product of his "be prepared for anything" mindset. He's also a fairly friendly guy to anyone who takes the time to try to get to know him.
Even on his apparent downtime, when he seems only to be sipping on a drink at his dark corner table without a care in the world, he's always attentive to the conversations around him. He also seems to know a little more than some about what's going on in other, distant parts of the city, though whether this is due to his attentiveness to gossip or having (or being part of) a network of city-wide informants is unknown.
Despite the tough front he puts on in public, Specialist appears to have a genuine concern for others, including those he knows personally. This may bear some relation to the fact that, whenever he thinks back on his past life, his mood takes a sudden serious, sad edge to it, but the specifics of this are, again, unknown.
When not "on duty," as he still likes to call it, he gives the impression of being a lazy, sarcastic ne'er-do-well. However, whenever there's something to be done, he'll be one of the first to volunteer, even if he's not entirely sure of how to go about doing it. His pack's almost always full of useful items, a product of his "be prepared for anything" mindset. He's also a fairly friendly guy to anyone who takes the time to try to get to know him.
Even on his apparent downtime, when he seems only to be sipping on a drink at his dark corner table without a care in the world, he's always attentive to the conversations around him. He also seems to know a little more than some about what's going on in other, distant parts of the city, though whether this is due to his attentiveness to gossip or having (or being part of) a network of city-wide informants is unknown.
Despite the tough front he puts on in public, Specialist appears to have a genuine concern for others, including those he knows personally. This may bear some relation to the fact that, whenever he thinks back on his past life, his mood takes a sudden serious, sad edge to it, but the specifics of this are, again, unknown.