<A Work in Progress><br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Edward "Dee" McReary<br/><strong>Age:</strong>27<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Job:</strong>Officially Unemployed<br/><strong>Speciality:</strong>Robotics and Metalworking<br/><br/>(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/rcburner/FeminineGuy-1.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Attributes:</strong><br/><br/>Appearance: Great<br/>Charisma: Terrible<br/>Intelligence: Great<br/>Dexterity: Superb<br/>Hit Points: Poor<br/>Luck: Superb<br/>Magical Aptitude: Terrible<br/>Perception: Poor<br/>Size: Good<br/>Speed: Superb<br/>Status: Terrible<br/>Wealth: Terrible<br/><br/><strong>Skills:</strong><br/><br/>Engineer (Clockwork): Superb<br/>Engineer-Electrical Work: Superb<br/>Mechanic-Clockwork and Small Gadgets: Superb<br/>Scrounging: Superb<br/><br/><strong>Gifts: </strong><br/><br/>Perfect Timing<br/>Ambidextrous<br/>Accepting of the Abnormal<br/>Survivalist<br/><br/><strong>Faults:</strong><br/><br/>Absent-Minded<br/>Poor Hygiene<br/>Curious<br/>Coward<br/>Gullible<br/>Obsession<br/>Relates more to Inanimate Objects / Machines<br/><br/><strong>Description and Personality</strong><br/><br/>Edward McReary epitomizes the term 'recluse', hiding away from both high and low society in favor of his loner lifestyle.  He is a penniless wanderer of his own volition, an eccentric who travels from city to city in search of useful scrap metal and other doodads.  He is known to remain in any one location for up to three years at most, and a few weeks at least, depending on the availability of salvageable parts.  Once he has found a suitable and abandoned location, he retrofits it into a makeshift workshop for piecing together his so-called 'art'.<br/><br/>To Dee, engineering is not a science.  Everything he knows has been self-taught, from books or from experience.  He is deceptively intelligent despite his somewhat crude manner of speaking, though he is entirely unaware of more advanced engineering techniques.  Despite this, the mechanisms he creates are often superior functionally to that of university-learned engineers, if not quite as streamlined aesthetically.  His methods are highly irregular bizarre, and often devolve into attaching bits and pieces together at random.  Oddly enough, they always seem to work in some way or another, perhaps in a fashion that he never intended in the first place.<br/><br/>When out and about, Edward is generally followed about by his clockwork constructs.  They range from fluttering little things no larger than a hummingbird, to spindly terrors about the size of a large dog.  He is quite peaceful by nature, and mostly uses them as a deterrent for violence or for carrying around any junk that doesn't quite fit into the basket strapped to his shoulders.<br/><br/>