Hey, it's been a while since I've done anything so I was hoping I could fit in here. It all sounds rather interesting. I tried to join an RP a while back but a bunch of stuff came up and I had to drop it. Hope everything in the character sheet is acceptable, let me know if I need to change anything.


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[b]Name:[/b] Pieter Gunn (aka Ian Denford, aka Pieter Cecil, aka Johanns van der Byl)

[b]Age:[/b] 56

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Appearance:[/b] Pieter has dark leathery skin, heavily tanned by a long time under the punishing African sun. Standing 1.72m with a full-face beard and speed dealers, Pieter would be a relatively nondescript character from a distance if not for the maze that covers his left forearm and the lighter texture of a burn scar that covers his right arm. Up close, however, the left corner of his lip draws up from a scar that crosses his chin and up towards his eye, and burn scars are visible poking up above the collar of his shirt. Despite four decades of abuse and burns that cover most of his upper body, Pieter is in good shape (though his knees complain about the cold). Muscular through constant use rather than body building.

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[b]Agency/Organization:[/b] Global Response Staff [CIA Contractor] (previously: South African Defence Force, Executive Outcomes, Sandline International, Aegis Defence Services)

[b]Education:[/b] Grade 10 High School completion.

[b]Background:[/b] 
Pieter Gunn was born in Sailsbury, Rhodesia, in 1961. His parents were both killed during civil war conflicts in Rhodesia, and he was sent to South Africa as an orphan. At the age of 18, he enlisted in the South African Defence Force, and upon completing basic training Gunn went on to Parachute Selection Course school. He served various roles within the Parachute Brigade in South-West Africa, Nambia, and on domestic COIN operations. In certain parts of Africa things still weren’t… modern.

Shaman and Witch Doctors still held sway over some villages – and, for some at least, there was a reason to fear them. Patrols would be stalked by inhuman whispers as they set up their bivouac - surely the locals trying to freak them out. Armored vehicles would be flipped, armor tore as though rend by claws - landmines. Crazy men that could survive their legs being blown off and keep fighting - a cocktail of atropine and epinephrine could keep a man going forever. Entire villages found at the bottom of their well, all missing their eyes and lungs - fucken communist savages. If you kept your eyes on the horizon, if something strange was happening you'd likely see one of these elders watching. The deep bowels of Angola was not somewhere that anyone wanted to stay for long.

Eventually he was posted as a Sergeant within the Signals Platoon in the 44 Brigade HQ. After majority rule was established in South Africa in 1994, he became disenfranchised with the work he had spent his life doing and what now appeared to be the permanent loss of his homeland and left the SAA, finding work alongside many of his former comrades working with various PMCs that operated out of Central Africa.

Pieter avoided the Sandline affair in PNG but worked for the company in Sierra Leone and Liberia. When the company folded, he found work during the second golden era of PMCs, sucking on the teat of the US Dept of Defence with Aegis Defence. At various points between his retirement from the SAA and employment with Delta Green it is believed he was also operating as a smuggler of diamonds, arms (both weapons, and the body parts), and various items of interest in and out of African conflict zones for different warlords, corporations or governments.

During the latter period of his employment with Aegis he was working in a Signals specialty role, assisting coalition forces in tracking down insurgent leaders through SIGINT. From this role he transitioned into logistical support for a CIA operation hunting Al Shaabab members in south-western Somailia alongside the Somailian NISA. Late nights and long days led into an abundance of information spread a bit loosely in the small, overworked team - reports and images bringing up deeply buried memories from his days as a Private in the SAA. The same whispers, destroyed vehicles, men that took too long to die and mutilated villages. After six months the operation was packed up and a specialist CIA direct-action team took over, managing to wrap everything up in days. It was a short time after that operations conclusion that Delta Green snatched him up.


[b]Personality:[/b]
For the most part, Pieter is a grounded, emotionally stable character, well adapted to life in the African bush. During his off times he's prone to abuse alcohol and light drugs, and has used morphine and heroin in the past. He is an open character and easily creates bonds with his comrades, eager to be in the company of others, although still can be very dismissive when dealing with black Africans. Pieter is a quick thinker, and will often consider several out-of-the-box ideas however once he has decided on a course of action he is very stubborn on following it through. He has a lot of patience when dealing with stressful events however will get very short with people.

[b]Likes:[/b] Outdoors, Alcohol, Football (Soccer), old technology

[b]Dislikes:[/b] Coffee, ‘this whole social justice bullshit’, Poachers

[b]Fears:[/b] Abandonment, loss of home. Ever since he was young he was bouncing from one home to another. His country no longer exists. His adopted country is a far sight from what he remembered, and every group of contractors he ends up with folds in a couple of years. He considers Africa his home and is loathe to leave it because he fears that he will never return.

[b]Skills:[/b]
Gifted(+5): Computer Science, Marksmanship (long guns)
Adept(+3): Stealth, Tactical Driving, Awareness
Average(+2): First Aid, Military Science, SERE
Novice(+1): Interrogation, Marksmanship (handguns), Hand-to-Hand, Demolitions
Languages: Afrikaans, French, Arabic (partially)

[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
Racist: Despite decades working alongside blacks, Pieter still doesn’t fully trust them nor accept their opinion outright. Of course he has worked with some who eventually became his friend, however it took a lot of work for them to get that title.

Old: Pieter has been ‘on deployment’ since his eighteenth birthday. If he wasn’t in a warzone he was preparing to go to one. A body can only take so much abuse before it starts to crack and crumble.

Stubborn: Once set on a course of action it takes a lot to get him off it. In a subject he's knowledgeable about he often wont accept that there is a better way to do things that is not [i]his[/i] way of doing things.

[b]Off-Duty Clothing/Equipment:[/b] 
Clothing: Casual everyday clothing, he doesn’t have an ‘outfit’ he just wears whatever is lying around.
Weapons: Skorpion vz 61 or Beretta 92F
Tools/Equipment: Phone, Rugged Tablet

[b]Operational Clothing/Equipment:[/b]
Clothing: Again, whatever is lying around. May be all black, may be camoflague, depends on mission requirements.
Weapons: Whatever is issued to keep consistency with team ammunition. Prefers the AK series of rifles.
Tools/Equipment: RREP SS-3 / Radio Reconnaissance SIGINT Suite (R2S2) manpack case, and JTRS Manpack (AN/PRC-155); Rugged Tablet; Ballistic Helmet, with a dual-channel headphone, attachment points for lights and NVGs (also in equipment pile, but not always equipped); Grathik vest, fourteen STANAGs with six side-arm magazines. Various other necessary equipment attached including hydration equipment.
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