Nicolas Fausto's Authorization Application

[Elions]

Player Section

Steam Name: Elions
Age: 19
How long have you been Roleplaying? (can be any game): 4 years
How long have you been playing Serious GMod RP?: 3 years

Character Section

Authorization(s):
- Knowledge of Spanish (complete fluidity)
- Extensive knowledge of drugs their manufacturing and their respective derivatives/replacers
- Gasmask with 3 Filters
- The ability to Quick-Draw with pistols
- Basic knowledge of firearms in general
- Survival and Scavenging Guide.
- Small ammount of chemicals for the manufacture of Heroin and derivatives.


Name: Nicolas Fausto
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Affiliation: None

Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
Life and death... Many people ponder on these, Many people lose their minds over it, some cannot handle the consequences of their actions in life, or the consequences of death... Arguably, no one knew this better than Nicolas Fausto.

The man's life had been less than good, less than adequate, much less than what life should be according to most 'normal' people... And yet, it seemed at many times that the only person who truly understood life in this world was him.

Nicolas was born in odd circumstances. His father was from Mexico and his mother was from Chile. His father, Mauricio Fausto, worked for one of the biggest drug cartels in Mexico, specializing in Cocaine and Heroin, suplementing their profits with Marihuana trades.

Due to his job as one of the Cartel leader's personal bodyguards, Mauricio had to keep his wife and son in the compound. The man never did like this job, he had always been forced to work in the drug business since he was little, but he had planned to retire from it as soon as he could. Sadly however the condition of his wife didn't let him, she suffered from a strange, unidentified disease for which he could only pay the treatments for with the excessive ammounts of money that came from the drug business.

Growing up in a world of drugs and danger had it's perks for young Nicolas however, they were able to afford private lessons for him (anything more public could have endangered his father's boss) through which he was able to learn English and some other critical thinking skills. From a young age he showed an excellent aptitude for Chemistry, something which unfortunately attracted the attention of the Cartel's boss

As soon as he had the age to properly wear a gasmask and operate equipment well, Nicolas was put to work in the Cartel's labs, small things at first such as controlling the substances and managing the equipment required to create the mixtures. They did not allow him to directly work on the drugs untill 3 years into his work in the labs, which he never seemed to have much issue with since he knew he was helping his father bring more money into the table, which meant a better treatment for his mother.

He slowly worked his way through marihuana to the more hard hitting drugs as he worked there, learning how to process and create a decent ammount of Cocaine and Heroin and most of their derivates or replacement drugs, these extra "recipees" allowed the Cartel to cater to an international demand, being able to supply to many countries with different sub-cultures and addictions.

It took years for him to understand and develop his knowledge over these drugs and understand just what was the difference between the types of the same drug (Such as knowing the difference between normal heroin, desomorphine and regular morphine or spiked cocaine and purified cocaine) But by the end of it at his 23 years of age, he was more than capable of reciting the cartel's drug preparation techniques by memory (and prepare himself if he so needed it).

Ironically, working with drugs so close caused him to dislike the idea of ever using them, being full aware of the consequences and side effects of them as well as their addictive nature.

During the course of his work in the cartel, Nicolas was being taught by his father how to use certain weapons, mainly to help him in the case that he ever needed to defend himself. He never gave him truly extensive training so much as he taught "what did what" when it came to guns, meaning that he knew enough to use a weapon properly for self defense, but never to excell in it. All except for one kind of weaponry, which Nicolas oddly enough took a liking to. Pistols.

It mainly had to do with the fact that during his childhood, Mexican television had a bit of a "theme" for old bandit movies and cowboy related shows, which made little Nicolas fascinated with the idea of handling a revolver (or any kind of pistol) like the heroes and villains he looked up to (he never did like picking sides).

Years of training with his father's old M1911 allowed him to develop an affinity for a specific ability, quickdrawing. It took him years to develop it properly but by the time he was done (roughly after 5 years of trying this "technique" with every other handgun his father allowed him to use) Nicolas could do a very fast drawing motion and fire 3 consecutive bullets in a cluster without much issue.

The years went by, Nicolas was about 25 years old when his mother passed away, after almost a decade of suffering from her mysterious disease. His father had no reason to stay anymore now that he'd only have to care for him and Nicolas who was also in the age to work for his keep, but the Cartel's boss had a different idea.

Nicolas was threatened, specifically they threatened that if he left the Cartel and took his outstanding drug making skills elsewhere his father would suffer. Unable to turn his back against his father, he agreed to stay, forced to say goodbye to his father one last time before he left the compound. He knew that the Cartel bosses would keep an eye on him, and the only way to keep him safe was to stay working with the Cartel.

A year or so before the 7 hour war, Nicolas was sent to Romania to learn of some new procedures when it came to preparing Heroine and Cocaine, the cartel was looking for expansion towards Rusia as their clients slowly moved there (mainly to avoid taxes and easily bribe police) He was set to stay there for the year then head back to Mexico, however those plans were stopped dead on their tracks as the 7 hour war exploded.

At the time, He was located in a house miles away from any important city, working with one other man on a small batch of heroin for one of their bigger clients.

As they saw the destruction going on in the distance and the portal storms, Nicolas and the other man figured it would be best to investigate what was going on, unfortunately they had no way to find out since the house was disconected from everything to avoid being found. Nicolas and his partner took some of the chemicals they were using with them in case they needed them, as well as the gasmasks they normally worked with with 3 extra filters each
"Better safe than sorry" was the Motto for situations like these.

Their experience wasn't too different from the rest of survivors from the 7 hour war, they had to witness the extent of the damage caused by the Combine, their occupation, the dismantelation of all criminal and governamental organizations... At this point, Nicolas and his partner had separated, Nicolas had no family in Romania and no way to go back to Mexico, certainely not with the new combine occupation, and his partner needed to find his family, an imperative need to keep them safe.

Nicolas thankfully was able to go back to the old house, pick up some small supplies (He tried to travel light) Including an old survival guide for Romania. It did not talk about how to operate weapons or anything of the sort, but it did talk about what to do in case of disasters and where to find shelter/supplies in case of a total disaster.

So it was that Nicolas was left alone once more, but this time his enemy was not the forcing hand of the organization that had nurtured him into the "man" that he was now, but against nature, his fellow humans and the outworld's threat.


What will these authorizations give your character in regards to perks or defects?
Perks
- The Drug knowledge and Gasmask would allow him to create drugs of these 3 types, given the time to obtain and cultivate/cook the ingredients.
- The basic firearm knowledge would allow him to defend himself with most firearms, letting him get a good enough feel for them quickly without much expertise.
- The Spanish would simply be used as an IC mean to spice up RP a bit, it /is/ something that is unescapable of his character after all
- The quick-draw skill would allow him to protect himself more efficiently with a pistol or revolver in the case he ever was forced to
- The survival and scavenging guide would allow him to survive alone more efficiently in the pass, as well as know where to find supplies or hunt for food.
- The small ammount of chemicals would be to allow him to create small, personalized ammounts of drugs in the case he ever needed to trade for certain things, since he does not use the drugs himself.

Defects
- A drug dealer in outlands would attract a lot of attention, many a times unwarranted attention
- He cannot do proper quick-drawing if he has any sort of heavy armor on him, meaning he can only use this technique when carrying light stuff on him
- The survival guide is obviously not updated with what has happened in the world, meaning he could put himself in danger by following it
- The knowledge of weapons is limited, meaning he will make mistakes at times with the weapons that he will not be able to prevent untill he gets a bit more experience with said weapons.
- The chemicals he's carrying can be dangerous if used wrong, or if exposed in their pure form to someone who's not wearing a gasmask.
- The "cooking" process for the drugs can be dangerous, any interruptions or mistakes could cause trouble, and while Nicolas is experienced he is not perfect at these procedures.
What do you plan to do with these perks/defects?
I plan to roleplay this character as a survivalist, going with the morally grey ground at most times and dealing with people using his knowledge of drugs to adquire things that he would not be able to scavenge on his own

Will anyone else need these auths? (If so, list OOC and IC name(s))
no

Which server does this apply for?
Outlands

Extra Notes (optional):
Eeeyup.

[Statua]

Add the risks of "cooking" the drugs and I'll support. Just please don't run around with the gas mask on for looks.

[Elions]

That would be silly, the filter would degrade faster that way.
Edit: Added the cooking part to the defects, any other criticisms would be appreciated

[Statua]

Looks good. Dont blow up the inn now.
+support

[Elions]

Heroin and cocaine aren't actually explosive (at least not explosive like meth can be). They /are/ however severly toxic. Hence the gasmask

[Sexy Frog]

Gonna go ahead and throw my support in here as well. Elions is an amazing role player in my book, by far one of the best I've ever seen. That being said, I think the idea of a drug concocting character would be very interesting to see. Bring some addiction into the outlands and constant need for drugs. I may just make a new character on OL that would be a customer. Never tried a crack head before.

[Elions]

Thanks for the support Frog.

I don't want to be rude but it's been a while already since this Auth's been up and all the other auths have already been accepted/denied, i could use a judgement here :T

[Dallas]

Only been four days... Patience sir.

[Lone Wanderer <??"?]

I can understand why he feels frustrated. Having to wait for the auths while others get reviewed can be upsetting. Aside from that factor, I think Elions is a responsible roleplayer and wouldn't abuse this stuff. Could also create some RP that would probably realistic in the situation of HL2,  and overall unique/interesting. I give my support if it matters 

[Statua]

4 days is a long time for pending SA approval. Ill poke some.

[jonco]

I'll go ahead and accept this. Eli knows what he's doing and is a good roleplayer.

Someone move this please, I'm on phone.