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[u]Basics[/u]

[b]Name:[/b] Everett Walsh Luden
[b]Nickname/title:[/b] The Sailor
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Age:[/b] 30
[b]Build/physicality:[/b] Stands at 6’1”, a lean, almost contradictory build that comes from years of deckhand work and being underfed.
[b]Appearance:[/b] [hider=Mugshot from 1924 arrest - no longer has head bandage][img]http://i2.wp.com/petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2013/07/wanted2.jpg?resize=620,408[/img][/hider]

[u]Background
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[b]Psychological status:[/b] While somewhat dejected by his recent history, Everett is more shocked by what has just occurred than anything else
[b]Quirks, ticks, conditions, sensitivities to the paranormal:[/b] Chews lip when anxious and often looks about his surroundings, symptoms rendered by undiagnosed paranoia. While not necessarily sensitive to the paranormal, he has seen his fair share of anomalies at sea, and harbors a guilty interest in the occult. [i][b]Everett is a former morphine addict.[/b][/i]
[b]Magical potential:[/b] Mild potential
[b]Personality:[/b] Reserved and suspicious, but plain in speech, Everett gives the impression that he's trying not to crack under a self-imposed discipline. At times, his paranoia may become apparent and cause him to withdraw himself in otherwise casual settings. When not subject to this, he is quaint and polite.
[b]Hometown:[/b] Baton Rouge, Louisiana
[b]Education:[/b] Attended a segregated primary school in Baton Rouge, but did not reach high school. Received a mixture of general education and training in marine transportation at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
[b]Occupation:[/b] Merchant mariner (Second mate rating)
[b]Achievements:[/b] Getting out of Louisiana, gaining an applied education, reaching second mate status
[b]Sexuality:[/b] Bicurious
[b]Religion/philosophy:[/b] Formerly Protestant Christian, is now agnostic. Holds the philosophy that there is a mixture of fate and divination that shapes history and the world.
[b]Marital status:[/b] Single
[b]Family status:[/b] Had a girlfriend and a daughter by her in Southern Massachusets, whom disowned him after his arrest. Immediate family has since passed.
[b]Biographical writeup:[/b] Everett Luden was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the Summer of 1895. His father was a longshoreman and deckhand for the barges and steam vessels that were headed up and down the Mississippi River, often doing dangerous, unpleasant tasks that were set aside for non-whites. His mother was a seamstress, whom worked for practically nothing in the small riverside part of town Everett was born in. Seeking to follow after his father, he acquired an affinity for the water and sea vessels at a young age. His older brother was with him not but a few years before he was beaten to death during the New Orleans race riot of 1900. Given the circumstances, Everett would normally have learned to deal with the role prejudice would play in his life, but fought these problems at every avenue. While trying to work alongside his father, his defiant attitude often ended him up severely reprimanded and left shore side, hauling rope.

When Everett's mother died in 1914, he and his father left Baton Rouge as part of the "Great Migration", following an opening in maritime jobs in Massachusetts. Working to become an ordinary seaman and apprentice aboard a very generous captain's breakbulk lumber ship, he again found himself stuck on land with the United State's involvement in World War 1, wherein his father was conscripted aboard a merchant vessel resupplying American forces abroad. Tragically, the vessel carrying his father and mentor captain was sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic. Resolute to make up for his stagnation prior to his father's death, Everett managed to become an unofficial student of the Massachusetts Nautical Training School, earning his third mate's credentials in 1922. 

Diligent and irrevocably determined to overcome the obstacle that race represented in his career, Everett worked on a variety of near-coastal and sea vessels, often doing work that was not befitting of his now second mate ranking until he earned the confidence of a seasoned, white crew. Long hours, physical and emotional strain and access to surpluses of sea-bound medical supplies resulted in Everett developing a gradual addiction to syringe morphine to cope with his work. As addictions do, Everett's became worse, sapping the gratification he received from his work and distancing him from his new family in Massachusetts. In early 1924, he was arrested for attempting to smuggle morphine aboard a vessel, though he was released after some few months after falling out of addiction and having his credentials revoked.

Everett left Southern Massachusetts, alone and aimless in the wake of his personal failure. With no other applicable skills, he traveled to Northern Massachusetts, to Gloucester, where a need for longshoreman there gave him his only real direction. As his talent at deckwork was detected by a coastal breakbulk steamship captain much like the one he'd known so many years before, Everett found himself aboard the [i]Almira[/i], headed up the Miskatonic River - towards Arkham...


[u]Miscellaneous information[/u]

[b]Combative belongings:[/b] [url=http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mxmymr3TocFE9__FDUBO8vg.jpg] Diving knife and marlin spike (used for tying knots)[/url]
[b]Noncombative belongings:[/b] Length of rope
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