Brandon "Santa Cruz" Steele

[cruz]

Name (including aliases as appropriate): Brandon Steele "Santa-Cruz"

Age/Gender: 29

Position Desired: Field Support

Relevant Skills: Serving coffee, filing papers, stitching people back up, curing disease, all manner of medic support actually. A innate knowledge for arcane, if unholy, magic use and study, which is a benefit to his healing skills.

Relevant Background Information: Worked as an emergency tech at a local hospital in Santa Cruz, California hence his patients nicknamed him Santa Cruz or just Cruz. Was dismissed after convicted of providing illegal medicines to patients. Traveled down a dark path and is now looking to start over with an even darker organization.

Contact Information: Santa-Cruz

Next-of-Kin (optional): A sister. A lawyer (funny yeah).


((OOC section))


Thanks for applying! We're a group of roleplayers who find MMORPGs more fun to play when the roles of our characters are more fully developed than a list of numbers to define their survivability and damage. Members of the group will be expected to play and converse in-character (IC) for group activities, using notation such as (( )) around text intended to be out-of-character (OOC) so that it's clearly recognizable. We're seeking players who are mature, low-drama, and interested in character development as well as game progression!

Please take a minute to look over our Rules And Tone page--there's not a lot of rules, but if you're part of the group, you'll be expected to follow the few rules that we've got while you're representing us with the group's handle.

To help us get a feel for who you are and what you'd like to get out of being part of the group, please answer the following questions:

1. How much experience do you have with roleplaying? Have you played other MMORPGs? There's no wrong answer here.
Roleplayed several online games but mostly LOTRO, Age of Conan, DC Universe and Guild Wars.

2. What has brought your character to the group? Do you have any stories/ideas that you hope to develop for them as they progress through the game, and if so, what are they?
Firstly being Illuminati, secondly I was looking for a smaller group focused on rp, but having the freedom to do PvE or PvP. I liked the post on the secret world forums and decided to apply. Arcadia was full so I'm on Leviathan, which will require much meeting up. Maybe it will work, maybe not. Worth a try I guess.

3a. Fill in the blank: If my character were to meet an Eldritch Horror From Beyond Space And Time, he/she would probably turn and look for allies and if there were none...RUN.

3b. Fill in the blank: If I were to meet an Eldritch Horror From Beyond Space And Time, I would probably throw up...chuckle a bit...throw up again.

4. How did you find out about us, and how would you like for us to contact you in-game? I saw a recruitment post on the secret world forums. I talked to Shay for a bit and asked a few questions.

5. Have you ever wanted a chance to just say whatever you'd like to about yourself to a group of anonymous strangers over the internet? If so, here's your chance! Let's see I live in ummm Nebraska. Yah, exciting right. Well at least it's Omaha. Okay so that didn't help much. Oh well now you know why I play online games eh?

[sersi]

yay! more support staff!
looks good to me, as long as the other two have no concerns.

[effinfitz]

It's certainly a nicely written app, so I'm hopeful! I do have a reservation about the "providing illegal medications to patients" tidbit, tho. Can this be expanded and/or expounded upon in any detail? Ægir, for all its shadowy Sponsorship and Secret World involvement, is only about as dark and edgy as those tequila lollipops with the little scorpions in 'em. I'd hate to stamp this before making sure we're aiming for about the same level of grittiness.

[sersi]

those lollipops ARE fairly gritty. I think it's all the gravel

[effinfitz]

I'm told the chewy center tastes like peanut butter.

[yasfan]

*stays quiet about how Jean earns enough to keep supplied with fancy custom sunglasses*

I'd like to second Fitz's question--we tend to keep the tone light even if the setting is dark. So while I'm not so worried about a fictional drug pusher bringing virtual meds to the MMO world, I do wonder whether he's hoping the company will overlook a checkered past that he's trying to get some distance from, or whether he's hoping that the company will help him dig himself deeper into becoming the next drug cartel overlord.

[cruz]

Ah yes, let me clear this up a bit. The word illegal was "misleading". Prescription drugs more like it, painkillers and such. He wasn't smuggling cocaine, lsd, or any of the like. Wealthy women looking for a little something on the side. Unfortunately he fell for a married one, wanted out, she didn't, and some people found out. He spent some time in jail and was released. By meaning darker organization he is more or less looking for a place to hide out and use his medical talents. He has put his criminal past behind him and is looking for a new start.

[yasfan]

Thanks much for the clarification! Works for me!

[effinfitz]

Sweet, that'll do it! And thanks muchly for the explanation. Stamp!