Dan McNeely

Adjective: Steely

Player Name: VelociRapper

Age: 37

Gender: Male

Species: Box Turtle

Height & Weight: 5'8", 192 lbs.

Physical Description
Dan's dress is rather unusual for the Desert. He wears a yellow banyan (old scholar-type robe) with a green scarf. Dan's scales and shell coloration are a splotchy mixture of yellow and black, the yellow considerably brighter and less faded than the color of his banyan. His irises are tinted red. Dan's posture is unsurprisingly stiff, and despite his weighty shell he keeps his back straight. While Dan is not remarkably strong, quick, or dextrous, he's tough. Although few have ever gotten a clear look at his body and shell, it is marked by a surprising number of dents, scratches, scars, and discolorations, all a testament to his fortitude.

Mental Description
Dan has a caravan to run, and as the leader of the caravan in the field, he takes his responsibilities seriously. Whatever Dan was before, he took from it an impeccable work ethic, and seems to be constantly working or otherwise doing something to help in whatever way, be it minutiae like paperwork or planning how to cross the entire Desert. Many in the caravan have complained that Dan is 'a hard one to read.' Feeling that displays of emotion are largely unnecessary, the box turtle practices an imperturbable expressive stoicism that has yet to crack. His expression and voice are rock solid when he is joking, bored, excited, even when under assault by a brigade of bandits. He's seen a lot of things, and walked away from them all. Whatever the caravan encounters, there's a strong chance Dan's been through something like it before.

History
Dan is tight-lipped about how he came to be on the planet. One theory on the caravan gossip mill is that he committed some heinous crime that he simply refuses to talk about, and withdrew. All the turtle has said is that like everyone else, he came on a shuttle. Inquiring minds were unsatisfied. What Dan will talk about is what he has done on Sutekh so far. He has been instrumental in making Gouge's Caravan the fourth most successful trade company in the Desert in only 6 years when most other companies have had an 8 decade head-start, closely following Clunk & Clank, Food n' Booze, and The Rogue Traders. Despite Gouge owning the caravan company, no one has actually seen him except supposedly for Dan. Despite this, the caravan performs just as well under the current leadership. While Dan is not an expert on most subjects, he seems to know at least a little about everything, a consequence of taking an active role in leading. Dan quickly acquired his nickname 'Steely' for maintaining his stoicism under all sorts of pressure.

Possessions
Dan mostly uses caravan equipment, but he always has a silenced .45 automatic hidden away under his banyan along with a knife, a radio, and a strange featureless black cube. Nice!