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The start of the video was a cheesy splash screen, obviously created in photoshop. The survivor logo dropped down from the top of the screen while Nesos rose up from the bottom, meeting in the middle as a quick sound effect played. A slow fadeout revealed a late 20something sitting on a leather couch with his arms spread. The first thing that grabs your attention is... nothing. This man could be from anywhere in the United States. Slightly pale, dark brown hair, green eyes. His nose sticks out a little more than is normal, continually drawing your eye to an otherwise plain face. Quite frankly, you are surprised that he is not wearing glasses. He is slightly overweight, but not enough to be called fat. IE, about 70% of America. The impression that he is not in good shape is reinforced when he pushes against the back of the couch to stand up. He is surprisingly tall, pushing a little more than 6 feet. Dressed slightly casual, he is wearing a pair of khaki pants and a blue button up shirt. An ID card from a tech company hangs around his neck.

"Greetings survivor crew! You are in luck, because you just found me! My name is Greg Staffold, and I am a Survivor! I am an engineer by day, and an adventurer by night! I am always up for a challenge. Dave's Insanity hot sauce, hang gliding, mountain climbing, I have tried it all once. I would be the perfect candidate because I will always try something new. You may think that engineers are all boring, but I do plenty of things other people don't even know about. Strategy, cryptology, and experimental physics are my hobbies, and trust me, it makes for great conversations."

What a bunch of bull. If this guy has ever climbed a mountain I am the pope, the reviewer thought. Confidant though. Always makes for good arguments before the jerk is kicked out. Good speaking voice, no pauses. That shows a little public speaking experience, if nothing else, which generally means they aren't camera shy.

The video transitioned into a park. Greg was sitting in a tent. "I am quite familiar with the outdoors. I was a boyscout, got up to Life. I know enough about Wilderness Survival that I will be able to support the group, and possibly even use it to manipulate the tribe." A wry smile appeared on his face.

Smug. Doesn't sell too well with audiences. Overconfident though, that is always entertaining.

The video transitioned back to the house... Or more likely apartment. The couch was visible in the background, as well as a small LCD TV. A coffee table was covered in papers, and had a chess board on it, with the pieces set up as if they were in the middle of a game. Greg was standing in front of a giant laminated sheet of cardboard, roughly 4 feet tall and 3 wide. It had dozens of pictures of plants, diagrams, and more. "As you can see, I am well prepared with my 'luxury item'." I can't believe he actually did finger quotes. "I am ready, I am eager, I am a survivor. Peace!"

The video faded to black.

The reviewer turned to his partner. "This one is tough. I would like to push him into the next round, because we don't get a lot of office drones looking to give up their laptops. He seems confidant, and looks like he wouldn't be camera shy. But something about him bugs me. Probably the 'I am smarter than you' card. Does he honestly think we would let him take that? What do you think, does he go into final selection?"

His partner thought it over for a minute, then responded. "The smugness bothers me too. I would say skip him. But give me the tape. He looks like just the guy for side project I am recruiting for..."

Name: Greg Staffold
Age: 28
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 226

Appearance: Greg is the type of person you could meet at a party and then need to be reintroduced to 20 minutes later. Slightly tall, but not too tall. Overweight, but not enough to be called fat. It is much more likely that those arms are flab, not muscles. He has the kind of tan you can only get under years of fluorescent lights, and is fairly obviously out of shape. In short, a cubicle farmer. It is almost a surprise he is not wearing glasses.
Greg's head is crowned by a thick coat of dark brown hair. Usually long enough to look out of style, it is too thick to comb effectively. He has dark green eyes that somehow always manage to look vacant, even when he is paying attention. The only really prominent feature on his face is his nose. It sticks out slightly more than it should, drawing attention to an otherwise plain face. His teeth are white, obviously taking advantage of the recent advances in home whitening kits. This is easy to see, because he is always smiling.

Style: Clothing is kind of a non-issue for Greg. He has 2 styles of clothes, work and casual. Work has a dress code, meaning that he will always be wearing button up colored shirts and khakis. Occasionally he goes crazy and gets black pants instead. He is never without his corporate ID badge, and he is so used to wearing it that he occasionally wears it when he is off duty.
Casual clothes are even lazier: Greg dresses like he just got out of college, in jeans and a T-shirt. He has a large supply of those shirts that you see on the internet, but never buy. The ones with clever slogans pasted on to plain black shirts and sold for way more than they are worth. His favorite is the shirt he got from the local curling club. It has a picture of a curling stone and the slogan "Real sports use rocks." The jeans generally have paint stains or holes he has gotten from attempting various projects, unsuccessfully.

Personality: Greg is a very easy going guy. He is generally quiet, although quick to laugh at jokes, even bad ones. He will actually listen to people, maintaining eye contact and not interrupting, which is usually disconcerting to the speaker. He is quite gregarious, and sometimes feels nervous or short tempered after he has been alone for a while. He self-confidant, which can be seen by the fact that he always has a smile on his face. He actually had to train himself to repress it when hearing bad news, because people who barely know him often take it the wrong way.
Greg has no problem with public speaking, beyond the usual nervousness that everyone feels. In fact, he tends to take charge of groups when no one else shows initiative, or when he is frustrated. This brings on the next point: Greg is smart. Not super genius smart, but smarter than the average bear smart. He is easily frustrated with slow or stupid people, and will try to extract himself from their presence with a minimal amount of social niceties. His preferred method, however, is to take charge and minimize their inputs, hopefully driving them off instead of him.
Greg is also a helpless innovator. He is fairly creative, but his efforts are doomed to failure. Every week he comes up with an incredibly interesting idea that he is definitely going to stick with this time (tm) which lasts precisely 5 days. If half finished projects sold, he would be a millionaire, or at least better off than his tiny apartment. He will always try something new, once, and he loves to get involved in things he knows little about.

Likes: Cryptology, Experimental Physics, Philosophy, and Strategy. Basically, mental hobbies that let him show off his brain.
Dislikes: Anything physical, except curling (the laziest sport on Earth). Slow People. Failing to finish a project (inevitable though it is, it still makes him angry). American Food. Television, especially Nascar.
Fears: Greg's strongest fear is the fear of being alone. He has nightmares about being the last man on earth. He is also slightly scared of snakes and heights, although he can overcome them with enough concentration.
Life Goal(s): To get to upper management, hire a hot secretary, and build a mansion with a waterslide to get from the top floor to the bottom floor.

Early History: Greg was the second of four siblings. When he was young, just him and his brother, he was well cared for. His parents could afford to send him to a private elementary school, where he got a great education. They went to all the popular attractions, and Greg had a blast. However, when his two younger sisters were born, his parent's attention drifted away, and Greg lost much of the spark from when he was little.
Greg was a total follower in high school. He was always getting in to trouble as his friends would do stupid teenager things like smashing mailboxes and he would get caught because he couldn't run as fast. He never made the connection though, and kept getting repeatedly busted. This never seemed to bother him though, as his parent's were now occupied with new younglings, meaning his parents rarely payed attention to him. He tried all the clubs, including chess, but none of them struck his fancy: He wanted a group he could stick with. Luckily, his intelligence was enough to let him cruise through with good grades, which got him into a decent school.
Always one to cruise whenever possible, Greg selected the job with the highest starting salary for his degree and never looked back. Electrical Engineering proved more difficult than he anticipated, but thankfully he had help. The easiest way to get friends in college is to join a Frat, which he did at the first opportunity. He never really fit in at Delta Gamma Kappa, but he got along well enough that he wasn't kicked out, and in fact was elected president in his senior year. The resources of the frat helped him cheat on tests when his intelligence wouldn't suffice, so he graduated with fairly good grades. Thankfully, he learned from his mistakes in high school, so he kept all of the expulsion worthy pranks he pulled off of his record. Be sure to ask him about the time the Dean's car exploded, or the revenge of the cows.

Present Life: Greg graduated with honors (not top honors, those type of people never save their tests for future cheating) and was quickly snapped up by an established technology firm. After a long period of review, he was granted a security clearance and spent a little over a year working on an unnamed project for the government. Apparently it wasn't working out, because Greg quit before he was even included in the 401k plan and moved to California.
Seeing the prodigious name on his resume, he was hired by another generic tech company where he still works. His dream of becoming manager is hampered by his laziness: Whenever he is about to succeed, he cuts a corner and makes himself look mediocre. While his work is interesting, he hates talking about it, believing in a clear distinction between work time and play time. He makes a good amount of money, but still lives in a tiny apartment, so he can save money to do more exciting things than sleep.
Greg loves to travel, and frequently saves his money and his vacation time to visit exotic places. His first trip was to Thailand, and his second to China. He has plans to visit Brazil, but recently he has been on a tech binge, picking all the newest electronic toys to raise his status at work. This, coupled with his habit of paying for meals when out with friends, has left him with little savings. He was never the type to plan ahead, and despite his salary he has almost nothing stored for a rainy day.

Getting to Taurica Nesos: Greg saw an ad in the newspaper for a Survivor Nesos recruitment drive. Never having been to Europe, he saw it as the oppertunity for a free trip. Even if he gets voted out, they put him up in a hotel for the duration, so it was win/win. He was rejected, but they sent him a ticket for another project, which he hasn't heard anything about yet...

Preferred Species: My definite first choice would be an attempt at a dragon. A cross between a lizard and a bird. I would like to see him in scales, and I would love to see him with a beak. I have a couple ideas on how that would evolve him as a character that I will bring up later, but the beak is a pretty important part. The lizard part is because I want his new form to feel really alien, and nothing should do that like having 4 legs. It would be great if he had wings, especially non-functional ones (because realistically, any tauric being would weigh way too much to fly without magical enhancement), just for the imagery. I can provide specific species if you wish, but really I would just like a bird with a short hooked beak (for cracking nuts and tough insects) and a crest.
If you are not doing combinational species, my second choice would be a kangaroo, for entirely different character development reasons.

Sample RPs: Above is a fiction example, I have never done a group thing before, but I have done collaborative projects.