Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts I
In reply to Ken Jenkins (msg #42):
Character description:
Thomas Walker, or Thomas to his friends, is a sun and wind burnt outdoorsman. He's frequently seen with an unlit cigar in his mouth, or going over his rifles.
He's pushing 6 feet tall, and has a stance that comes from long hours in the saddle.
He's dressed in tall brown boots, with khaki pants tucked into the tops. He's wearing a white shirt, that's seen better days, it's stained with sweat and trail dust, and he wears a khaki vest over it. On his chest, the vest has 10 rounds for his rifle, in loops, and he rotates them through his rifle, so they don't 'go bad.' His broad-brimmed hat is also the color of dust, and he's rarely seen without it. In the place of a pistol, he wears a large, coffin-handled bowie knife, that he could shave with, if he felt like it. In accomodating weather he wears a heavy canvas bush jacket, which looks like a civilian version of the M-65 field jacket, with the exception that it has a heavy leather pad on his right shoulder, to reduce the abuse of his shoulder when he's shooting.
When he's travelling, or on his way to either the range or to do a little hunting, he carries his rifle and his shotgun in a leather case, lined with sheepskin. He'll tell you that he shot the sheep that the case was made from. Both the rifle and the shotgun have leather slings, which have come from animals he's kiled in the past, and there are little trinkets at the points where the slings attach to the rifles.
What he doesn't talk about is the times he's worked with local law enforcement to hunt down dangerous criminals.
