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Alisdair "Ali" Earnst

"We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering."

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a character in “All Roads: The Journey”, as played by NightyKnight

Description

Full Name: Alisdair Wesley Earnst, though from many of his cohorts he was given the alias 'Ali'.

Gender: Male, last time he checked.

Age: An experienced forty-seven years of age, exactly.

Height: Five feet, eight inches.

Weight: One-hundred and forty-eight pounds.

Hair: What hair?

Physical Condition: Fairly fit given his age, and also considering the era. While Ali is not a particularly muscular man, he is still able to hold his own in a hand-to-hand confrontation. However, in the presence of allies or friends, Alisdair finds it easier for him to push himself past the boundaires of his aging person and accomplish physical other physical feats.

Medical Condition: While his knowledge and (Now) small supply of medical equipment has kept Alisdair from absorbing large amounts of radiation, he still suffers from what bit he does contain. Since he hasn't been in a prolonged exposure as many others, his immune system's defense against it is considerably weaker, meaning it would take much less radiation to kill him than it would someone else.

Appearance: Alisdair is a crisp forty seven years of age, and not a wrinkle of stress spans on his face. He looks younger than his true age, and his lack of hair only attributes to that. Alisdair isn't an intimidating man by any means, his former occupation wouldn't allow such things. His sense of pride is easily shown by his stature.

In terms of clothing, Alisdair is dressed in layers as to help keep radiation off of him. Under a thick coating of a hazmat-suit (Which isn't beneficial in its entirety. Alisdair's carelessness has led to many holes and tears in the suit, letting in radiation.) Alisdair is garbed in multiple layers of hospital scrubs of varying colors and sizes. While his mouth is covered with a surgical mask and blue eyes kept covered via half-melted goggles, Alisdair dons no headgear.

Personality

Personality: (I really hope you don't mind me keeping this somewhat generalized and short.) Alisdair, despite his flare for fighting, pertains the uncanny ability to keep cool and calm in very stressful situations. He usually never lets his emotions grasp the better of him, thus allowing him to think rationally and logically at nearly all times. This, however, means he also has an extreme lack of empathy to other people. Viewing most as an equation, it is easy for Alisdair to make decisions other people would hesitate to make. If it weren't for his rasheness, arrogance, and somewhat dominating nature; Alisdair would ironically make a good military leader.

Fears: Though even he himself is unsure of how it developed, Alisdair pertains a bit of germophobia, and it has occured only recently, after Armageddon. He feels it is ultimately beneficial, a 'Medic' whom is diffucult to operate with is often times disregarded. Because of his previous occupation, Alisdair is also heavily conflicted with atychophobia, highlighting a fear of failure.

Habits: Alisdair has the nervous habit of running his index finger along the length of a bone white scar on his left thumb, he obtained the mark from a misplaced scalpel. He also has the tendency to rub his hand down the length of his jaw to feel his quickly growing beard.

Emotional Sensitivities: Any topic pertaining to the specific laboratory he used to work in. He often reflects back on the events that happened there, mainly he inquires with himself on what he could have done to save a few friends of his that died from overexposure to radiation while Alisdair did his best to "reinforce" the facility, though he won't talk about it much if he is asked about it.

Ethical Beliefs: Pragmatic and Righteous. He does not care too much about what someone plans to do, unless it means getting killed. Due to his past endeavors, it has hindered some of his personality from truly caring about someone, yet a new side has opened inside him, assisting those when he truly spots someone with unwavering justice, those that will not give up, no matter what the consequences. He believes that if someone does not try their absolute hardest in what they do, there is no use helping them…unless there is something in it for him.

Equipment

Notable Items:

  • Half empty bottle of 34.5 mg Potassium Iodide pills (To help absorb radiation).
  • Radiation meter, detector, and Geiger counter, each of which he keeps confined in his suit.
  • Silva brand "Landmark" Compass.
'Survival Pack': (A simple backpack that Ali has dubbed the 'Survival Pack')
  • 36 in. of surgical tubing.
  • Polythelene emergency survival blanket, also in the 'Survival Pack'.
  • Zinc Oxide sunblock, .25 oz tin.
  • One "SAM Splint", emergency splint, in the 'Survival Pack'.
  • Four "Trau-Medic" field dressings.
  • Two 4 in. Compress bandages.
  • Ten 2 in. Compress bandages.
  • One 3 in. Elastic bandage.
  • Four adhesive bandages, 1 by 3 in.
  • Two antibiotic salve packets.
  • Six Vicodin ES Tabs.
  • Six Zithromax Caps (Another antibiotic, stonger than the salve).
  • Six S.O.S. Lab Emergency Rations, roughly 1000 Calories each.
  • E.R.G. Drink Mix (Electrolyte Supplement).
  • Sixteen bullion cubes.
  • Six Global Survival Transpiration Bags.
  • Fifty Katadyn Micropur MP-1 Water Disinfectant Tabs.
  • One thermometer with a wind chill chart.
  • Twenty gauze pads, 2 inches by 2 inches.
  • Six burn dressings, 4 inches by 4 inches.
  • One 2 oz. plastic bottle of Betadine (Antiseptic)
  • One pair of EMT Shears, stainless steel.
  • One hemostat, curved.
  • Twenty Four 800 mg Ibuprofen pills (Analgesic)
  • 15 gram tube of Triamcenolone Cream (For minor dermititis (Like poison ivy), minor burns, etc.).
  • Four packages of oral rehydration salts (For dehydration, obviously.)
  • Fourty wound closure strips (1/4in. by 2 in.).
  • Twenty-four wound closure strips (1/4 in. by 4 in.).

History

Occupation Prior to Armageddon: Before he earned his medical degree, Alisdair served in the war as a combat medic, obtaining the invaluable skills he still pertains to this day. After he was discharged, he worked as a Virologist. He and a few other cohorts (A radiologist, a fellow virologist, a microbiologist, and a toxicologist) were stationed in their assigned laboratory when Armageddon happened. Alisdair did his best to "reinforce" the facility, which was inevitably useless.

Ironically, it was the radiologist whom was the first to contract radiation poisoning, from which he wouldn't recover. It wasn't that those whom were there couldn't save him, they certainly had the equipment necessary, they simply chose not to. One less mouth to feed. Alisdair and the others lived off of the fish in the decorative aquarium for as long as they could from rationing the fish, but they eventually were forced out of the lab due to the lack of food. Alisdair was lucky enough to obtain the hazmat gear (Except the headpiece), but his carelessness coupled with his clumsiness has led to many holes in such.

Formal Training: Alisdair was trained as a combat medic in the war, and is also experienced in the field of Virology.

Degrees and Minors:

  • - 4 years of Undergraduate School, witha major in Biochemistry and minor in cell biology.
  • -5 years of Graduate School (MD), pursuing a course and career in Virology.
  • -4 years of postdoctoral research training.
Languages Known: English, as well as several of the Austronesian (South Pacific) languages, which Alisdair chose to learn mainly becasue of their location relative to Australia.

So begins...

Alisdair "Ali" Earnst's Story