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David MacMillan

A a world-weary gun-for-hire with a professional demeanor and a quiet distaste for the supernatural

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a character in “The Multiverse”, as played by SylentStand

Description

Name: David MacMillan

Species: Human
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Weight: 198 lbs
Current Occupation: Security Consultant
Allignment Neutral Good

Affiliations:
Security Advisor to PMC 'Searchbloc'

Armament:
- Concealed Snub-nose .38 (Extra loaders w/ silver-nitrate leaf available)
- Collapsable aluminum walking stick

Overview:
A tall and lanky man with a deeply lined face and regulation black hair graying at the edges. Built conservatively and slightly haggard from a lifetime of overwork. Despite this, he is well versed in combat strategy and hand-to-hand techniques accumulated over a long and dangerous career, though slightly hobbled by injuries and disfigurements. The ex-soldier is commonly attired in a threadbare charcoal-gray bush jacket and a commercial-grade kevlar vest for personal protection. Stiff leather work boots offer a professional appearance and a stout kick alike. Grown old before his time, he walks with a limp and a cane on a warped and twisted leg.

Personality:
Once a young idealist who recklessly pursued the career of a bounty hunter, MacMillan has matured into a tactful and professional businessman through his later years, though he has not lost his soldier's edge. No longer confident in his immortality, he relied on tact and cunning to avoid tricky situations, often going to great lengths to assauge ill will and maintain professionalism. Now wearied and disillusioned by the hardscrabble life of the amateur mercenary, he has become a careful man who wishes only to see the job through and keep himself alive.

Skills:
MacMillan comes from a military background and was once a competent marksman. Holds an up-to-date certification in EMT training as a matter of rote. Through the years he has taken on (often inadvisably) many foes with unnatural abilities and traits, leaving him with permanent scarring and a healthy respect for the unknown.

So begins...

David MacMillan's Story

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David MacMillan stood atop the lofty pinacle of an obsolete but functional M113 scout vehicle, a relic from a bygone age and property of Searchbloc Military Solutions Inc. Its cracked and fading royal blue paint scheme was at odds with the drab grays and browns of the Terran cityscape. They'd have to fix that if they ever wanted to be taken quite seriously. Not designed for sustained combat, but still decked out with an armament suitable for in-close urban warfare, it was the most potent weapon currently in their arsenal.

MacMillan glanced down between his legs at vehicle commander and loader Gavin Street, a soon-to-be-created member of Searchbloc.

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After briefly conferring with Street, the veteran mercenary gave the order for the assembled company to take up firing positions. Just shy of forty strong, the entire combat arm of SMS had turned up for the exercise, trading their more subtle vinyl jackets for navy blue fatigues and body armor. Almost completely free of insignia, they looked akin to a police SWAT team save for their armament.

With each man responsible for the aquisition and upkeep of his weapon, the variety and configuration of armament was baffling. AR and AK series weapons were in good showing, and there were two SAW-type weapons in evidence though most rifles were civilian-legal semi-automatic variants.

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David MacMillan stared fixedly into his drink, swirling it lightly with a gloved finger. Something dark and crusty drifted away and sank to the bottom. He shrugged glumly. It could only improve the flavor.

"Fuckin' dragons," he muttered crossly, half-alert to the conversation around him. "It's a bloody infestation."

Not that the veteran mercenary had any particular beef with the winged reptilians, but he was in a generally disgruntled mood and their cheerful sincerity galled him.

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David MacMillan shook his head dourly and turned away from the spectacle. Dragon foreplay. Unique. But as much as he was loathe to admit it, the sight dredged up some unwanted introspection.

The veteran mercenary was not yet so old that he could not appreciate the idea of companionship, but he no longer cared to think about such things. To be sure, the fire of youth was fading fast and he'd long since sworn fealty, body and mind, to the lone-wolf mentality of the special operations soldier. Loneliness just didn't factor anymore, he told himself. As long as he remained able-bodied and sound of mind, there was no need to settle down. Reasonably, he'd probably fall in battle behind some hovel or dive like this one. He reached for the pitcher and poured another drink.

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Lost in thought, the ex-soldier reached for another memory-killer. His hand found only an empty glass. Puzzled, he glanced up for the first time in several minutes and frowned at what he beheld. So many sparkling shot glasses in a row, all empty. And he was barely even buzzed.

So this is what his life had become. Damn. Where to next?

From his time in uniform, spit-and-polish and "de opresso liber"; to the piss-and-vinegar life of a hardscrabble merc, he could scarcely remember a time when he had drunk so much and so often. He glanced down at his twisted leg and snarled. It was a joke. When had he become such a bloody invalid? Time had really passed him by.

The .38 special prickled on his thigh, eliciting a smirk of bemusement. What the hell was he supposed to do, turn it on himself? Gun down a patron, 'just because'? What a joke. He keyed in for another round of drinks, but was stymied by a brief notice that informed him that his method of payment had been declined due to insufficient funds. Feh.

Casually, he turned to observe the meeting of dragons for lack of anything better to do. Magical breaths and hidden treasures were a hell of a lot more interesting that getting smashed day in and day out.

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David MacMillan sat listlessly, observing the goings-on in the bar through the lens of a CCTV camera from a back room, not thirty feet from the conflict, feeling as much as hearing the shuddering impact of every blow. His rifle sat nearby, a round in the chamber, but he didn't see any point in adding the semi-automatic 5.56 carbine's insignificant bite to the maelstrom. The PRC-77 at his feet was alive with animated chatter on emergency and guard frequencies, but none of it was saying anything that he hadn't already heard in the last thirty minutes.

"--conflict is still ongoing, anyone have a direct feed?"

"Can't respond, not our jurisdiction..."

"--too dangerous. Request Aschen intervention?"

"Nearest first responders twelve miles out, stand by..." and so on. Gambits bar had the misforutune of occupying a curious piece of real-estate wedged firmly in the multiverse. Terran authorities could not or would not touch the matter, and the powers that be were simply disinterested. So the loss of life and property continued, much to the veteran mercenary's chagrin. If the situation spiraled any further out of control, he'd probably have to intervene in the interest of his own safety, though this was hardly a company matter. Damn.

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David MacMillan stalked in at the head of a three-man squad of security men. Unusually well-equipped for the low-key corporation, they`d eschewed typical civilian attire and concealed pistol caliber weapons for a great deal more firepower and protection in the form of shoulder arms and protective vests. Indeed, their collective loadout represented nearly a third of the company armory. Their black shades came kit-standard--no mercenary looked quite complete without them. David MacMillan himself cradled a cut-down short-barreled MP5 variant for imminent use should the night turn sour.`

"Spread out and sweep," he grunted, inclining his head toward the crowded watering hole. "Go easy, but be careful. We're not those jackboot Aschen, hooah?"

His charge grumbled a less-than-motivated affirmative, but he did as told, dispersing his men into the smoky gloom. It was a subtle show of force as requested by a shady benefactor of Gambits; protecting some vested interests and investments. If they could subdue a troublemaker and cash in on a bounty, it would just about cover operating costs.

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David MacMillan approached briskly, arms folded lackadastically over a rigid bulge that his jacket couldn't quite hide.

"A-drian Black-heart..." he drawled phonetically, mulling the words over in his mouth like cheap wine. He had no love for the shapeshifting vampire. However, his employer had been reasonably specific on the sanctity of the man's life. He intended to intervene. "You going to stand yourself down, or are you going to thrash the place?" he muttered nearly inaudibly. He cooly broke cover and drew a cut-down submachine gun from his vest, chambered just highly enough to annoy the beast and ventilate the others swarming his scales.

"You! You! You!" he called, gesturing to Raiden and Madeos in turn. "Drop and clear your weapons, or I will fire on you!"

His foes were armed, irritated, and evidently dangerous. He would not make the command a second time. The human mercenary's only advantage lay in fire-superiority, and that was an advantage that could evaporate in a second if not properly leveraged.

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David MacMillan recoiled as if struck.

"You shittin' me, kid? Why don't you do as I say, AND SHOW ME SO GOD-DAMN HANDS."

A vein stood out in the mercenary's forehead as he marveled at the woman's callous disregard for the thirty rounds of fully-cyclic death leveled at her sternum.

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"So you know my name," MacMillan grunted, briefly favoring Raiden with the muzzle of his weapon. "So that we can remain on a first-name basis, I'll call you boot, parlance for 'dumb as a'--" he began. All pretense at conflict resolution ended a split second later as the woman made the brave and equally foolish choice to bum-rush the tense soldier.

Training took over, and MacMillan let her have it without another word. Often lost on the young and foolish, the true speed and force with which a bullet can leave the chamber of a weapon is mind-boggling to comprehend. Within a nanosecond of the shooter's finger applying pressure to the trigger, an automatic weapon will have sent a white-hot piece of metal sailing down range with bone-crushing force, outrunning its own sonic boom as it breaks the speed of sound.

Utterly invisible to the naked eye, a bullet's passage is well beyond the ability of a mere mortal to dodge, deflect, or even comprehend. David loosed thirty.

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"Firing, firing, firing, speed-reload and--holy shit!" MacMillan grunted as a sheet of blue flame exploded toward him with a crackling hiss. There was no time or room to avoid the attack. He instinctively shielded his face as white-hot pain swept over him for a brief instant.

Blessedly, the flame attack was short lived, expanding up and out as projected flame is wont to do. Lacking kinetic force, the attack succeded in blistering the mercenary's face and singeing away his eyebrows, leaving him staggered and guttering as the Nomex underlay in his clothing resisted ignition.

He barely had a moment to compose himself as his weapon suddenly gave a terrific jerk in the sling, toppling him off his feet--and right under the bifurcating blow from Maedos' axe.

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David MacMillan was only a man. Hard-drinking and occasionally negligent in the upkeep of his own body, he was not even quite the man he' been ten years ago. But when the rubber met the road, moving entirely on instinct and intensive training, he could be a hard man to kill.

She had a weapon. He did not. Remove the advantage from the equation.

With a sweeping kick that extended his leg to its painful limit, he knocked her legs out from beneath her and took her to the floor. He was now beneath the range of her axe. Equal footing and a fighting chance.

Grunting with the exertion, teeth bared, he attempted to grapple her on the ground, going for a submission hold to starve her brain of oxygen and cause brief, un-ignorable pain. If successful, the fight should cease in four to ten seconds depending on the mettle of his opponent.

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MacMillan grunted in agony as he was slammed to the ground, the wind leaving his lungs in a violent rush. A rib cracked audibly, sending his vision wild with stars. Still, he held on, sweat and blood creating a slippery seal between her unprotected neck and his straining biceps. He clung like a limpet, knowing that his continued existence demanded it. By death or incapacitation, he was going to hang on until her struggles ceased or his body failed. Either seemed a likely enough scenario.

"-elp m'..." he gasped to anyone who would listen.

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In stark contrast to the wild ground-fighting of just a moment before, MacMillan readily released his hold on the woman, sagging back to roll onto his knees. He coughed violently, spitting up blood and sputum from a ruptured lung. He sensed that the fight was over, ended as senselessly as it had begun. Now it was time for reparations.

Taking heavily to his feet, the mercenary glanced around the bar for any further threat, though he knew he would be ill-at-ease to guard against it.

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David MacMillan stood in the corner stripped to his sand-colored undershirt, with a bloody plug of gauze up his nostril. He froze, halfway through the application of a contact bandage over his chest wound.

That aenemic swordsman, Raiden, had slunk back from whatever hole he'd crawled to during the fight. If he was hankering for a round two, he wouldn't find one in MacMillan. The mercenary quietly turned and slunk out the back.

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David MacMillan stood up from where he'd been sitting passively, throwing a thick burlap cloak from his shoulders. Since the beginning of the drone's exercise to the discharge of weapons, he'd said nothing, but now that company property had been destroyed and shots exhanged, he was royally pissed.

The simulated target of the exercise and a senior employee of Searchbloc Military Solutions Inc., it was his job to make sure that everything ran smoothly.

"Hey!" he barked, striding over to the confrontation with a hand on his weapon. "End exercise, stand down!" He gestured angrily to the drone operators, directing them to stand clear of Faron Jasperson.

He bent down and took up the man's arm, drawing him to his knees. "Are you alright, sir? Can you stand?" He stooped closer, listening. "What is it? What are you trying to say?"

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The mercenary glanced up from the prostrate man just in time to recieve a gloved palm to the face. The impact was sharp and abrupt, and sent him canting backward. Though the blow was forceful, it didn't have much weight behind it, and he was able to recover into a low fighting stance.

"What the hell..." he grumbled, not entirely sure what he'd gotten into or why he was being attacked. He wondered if he could get in on some time-and-a-half compensation for his troubles. He didn't much like playing the enforcer.