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Jun. 28th, 1994 07:22 pmPlayer Information
Player name: Jess
Contact: You know where to find me
Are you over 18: I am more than 231500 hours old
Characters in the game already: 1000 NPCs and two Peters
Proof of Reserve: No.
Character Information
Character Name: Charles Xavier
Canon: X-Men Movies
Canon Point: DoFP
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History: Okay
Charles' father died when he was very young. His mother, withdrawn into her grief, fell to alcoholism and Charles was left to his own devices in a mansion that was too large and too empty for a young boy. His powers emerged at an early age, and though he never believed he could be the only one, it was a lonely burden to bare. Finding the young Raven in the Mansion's kitchen was one of the happiest moments of Charles' life when he truly realized there were others like him. He invited her to stay, taking her in as his sister and making sure she never had to go hungry again.
Although Charles is a bit hypocritical around Raven, even snapping at her for using her abilities in public, he truly cares for her dearly. His harsh words are only a result of his need to protect her from what would happen if her concentration slipped. Unfortunately, Charles' ability is well hidden, and he doesn't fully understand Raven's frustration with having to hide, and it leads to tension between them.
His abilities allowed him to be both an excellent student and athlete in school, though he dropped the latter, feeling that he had an unfair advantage thanks to his powers. By the age of 16, Charles had graduated from High School, and gone on to earn Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, and Psychology from Oxford. He completed his Thesis on genetic mutations from Oxford shortly after. It was during a celebration of this at a local pub with Raven that Charles was approached by CIA agent Moira MacTaggert about Shaw and the Hellfire Club mutants. Fascinated and intrigued by the images of the other mutants he caught a glimpse of in Moira's head, Charles agreed immediately.
Although the CIA did not take his and Raven's abilities particularly well, a member of them agreed to take Charles and Raven to his facility. Before that, however, Charles went with the CIA on a lead from Moira to arrest Shaw. After being blocked by Emma Frost, another telepath, Charles feels the mind of another mutant in the water and connects with him. The connection shows Charles all of the rage and agony behind Erik's actions, his thoughts of everything Shaw had done exposed on the surface in his rage, and it shocks Charles. He dives into the chilled waters with little more than a thought and rescues Erik from a suicidal attempt to stop Shaw's escape in a submarine. The realization that Charles is a mutant like him surprises Erik, as Charles reassures him that he is not alone. Together they return to the Man in Black's facility, where they are to stay while the government decides what to do with them. After an introduction to the facilities and another mutant, Charles managed to convince Erik to stay and help him. Together, the two of them traveled the world seeking out mutants that Charles had located using Cerebro, a machine built by Hank to extend the reach of Charles' abilities.
Shortly after gathering a handful of young mutants, Charles, Moira and Erik follow another lead on Shaw to Russia, where they find Emma in Shaw's stead. Charles learns Shaw's plans to spark WWIII from her, as well as Shaw's location, back at CIA headquarters. Their return finds Darwin dead and Angel having joined Shaw's group.
Charles relocates the mutants to his family mansion where they all begin training to face Shaw, with Charles instructing the young mutants, and Erik. Charles provides each of them with guidance to help them along, and though he does hit a few rough patches with a still guilt ridden Havok, overall Charles' assistance helps the young mutants to realize more of their potential. The most impressive of these instances occurs when Erik allows Charles in his mind and the telepath reaches out to the happiest memory in Erik's mind, bringing it to the surface to help Erik locate the point between rage and serenity, and unlocking a much greater power than he had been able to find in rage a lone. Eventually, the training reaches a halt when the President announces the stand off of the Cuban missile crisis. During the time between rescuing Erik from drowning himself, and the President's address, Charles and Erik grow to be close friends, spending much of their time between training with intellectual debates and chess matches. The night before they go to face Shaw, Erik confronts Charles about his intention to kill Shaw, leaving a disappointed and flustered Charles to seek out the comfort of a bottle of scotch. He's interrupted by Raven, who is once again cross with him for wanting to fit in with the rest of society, rather than stand against them.
The next day Moira and the mutants leave to face Shaw and avert the potential war. Charles averts near nuclear disaster by taking control of one of the Russian fleet members and launching a missile at the ship nearing the embargo line, nearly knocking their jet out of the sky in the process. With Banshee's help, they locate Shaw's submarine beneath the surface and Erik, with Charles' guidance, pulls the ship from the sea. Together, both vessels crashed on the shore after n attack from Riptide. After the wreck, Charles quickly throws together a plan of strategic attack, sending Beast and Havok to help fight off the Hellfire mutants while he guided Erik to the center of the ship in search of Shaw. Unfortunately, Shaw's mind is blocked from Charles, both by the metallic helmet the Russian's had created, and the mirrored room on board the sub. Charles loses track of Erik when his friend steps into the room, not understanding what is causing the void and why he can not touch Shaw's mind. The fear of his limitations is nearly crippling, and it is only after Shaw's attacks on Erik begin to shatter the glass, that Charles manages to get a hold of Erik again.
Erik manages to trick Shaw and steal the helmet from his head, giving Charles the opportunity to freeze Shaw in lace. Unfortunately, the man's power is so great, it takes nearly all of Charles' strength just to hold him. To his horror and mortification, his friend and ally slips the helmet on, breaking their trust and blocking the telepath out of his mind. Realization of what Erik is about to do slams into him as the master of metal withdraws the reichmark he has kept on him all these years, and he pleads with an unhearing Erik not to do this. Despite his desire for Erik to stop, and his fear for what is about to happen, Charles knows he can not release Shaw. The man is far too dangerous and powerful, and could easily kill Erik and start the war, actions Charles will not allow. He continues to plead even as the inevitability of Erik's actions sink in, right up until he is forced to share the pain of Shaw's death as Erik shoves the coin through his skull at a slow, torturous pace. Through all of it, Charles holds Shaw in place, allowing Erik to kill the man rather than unleash Shaw upon Erik again.
When Moira and Charles emerge from the wreckage of the jet, Charles regards the 'new' Erik with painful regret and betrayal in his eyes. Even though Erik had informed him that he planned on killing Shaw, Charles had held on to the hope that he could convince Erik to do otherwise. However, he does not have long to dwell on this when the first blow to his faith in humanity is struck by Erik's observation that the ships in the water, Russian and American alike, have aimed their missiles at the beach. A quick sweep of their minds reveals the truth of Erik's statement, and Charles can only look on in shock and horror as the massive volley of missiles approach the beach. Erik manages to stop the disastrous impact, turning the missiles back on the men who sent them to Charles' further horror. In spite of the fact that they had just nearly been killed, Charles fights the retaliation, pleading for Erik to prove that he is the better man by letting the men on those ships live. He makes a fatal flaw, when his argument turns to the poorest choice of words he could have used to plead with a holocaust victim. "They're just following orders." In spite of everything that had happened, Charles refuses to let Erik kill all the men on those ships, tackling Erik bodily to the ground to stop him.
DOFP SPOILERS
In the time between the two movies, Charles creates the school for gifted youngsters with Hank's help, and even manages to get a decent number of teachers and students. Then the war happened and he lost most of his staff and students to the draft. The loss hit Charles hard and sent him into a depression. In his attempts to help give Charles something of what he lost back, Hank created a serum like the one he used to keep his own powers in check to give Charles back his legs. However the Serum's side effect becomes far more addictive to Charles than its assistance in restoring his ability to walk. It takes away his telepathy, giving Charles the first moment of quiet he has had from the pain and misery in the world around them since the war started, and really, since his mutation manifested. The fear and pain constantly in his mind terrifies Charles and causes him to fear and hate his own ability to the point of making him unwilling to let the serum fade enough for them to come back. The thoughts are enough to bring him to tears within seconds of his powers returning.
I'll be taking him from just after meeting Pietro and before breaking Erik out of prison.
Personality:I made an effort this time. Does that count?
Charles was an optimist once, and theoretically he still is. But Charles has succumbed to the biggest killer of optimism there is. Despair. He has lost nearly everyone and everything that ever mattered to him, had his trust broken by humanity and his best friend, his family ripped apart, and his school stripped away from him. On top of that he lost his ability to walk and his powers ensure he hears all the pain and suffering of a world full of fear, anger and war.
It's easy to make excuses when your life seems too terrible to face. Charles has allowed himself to retreat from the world and cut himself out of the pain and agony of those around him. Once, he would have tried to reach out to those people until it killed him. Now, he drowns his pain, and theirs, in alcohol and a serum that cuts his mind off from the rest of the world. He is a shadow of the brilliant, good-hearted optimist he was. Even Hank has difficulty seeing the man Charles has become, but feels too sorry for him to truly do anything about it.
The man Charles was is still in there. He still wants to help people, he still wants to believe that people can change. But reality and loss have made him bitter. And the fear he has of facing his own pain has turned him to a cowardly path of trying to hide rather than face the world and the things he has lost. He has lost his path, but he is not completely broken.
Although he comes from before his turning point in canon, it is shown that Charles is capable of choosing the right path, even before his conversation with the older Xavier. He gives up his safety blanket and prepares to face his fears in order to save the people who are important to him. Try as he might, Charles can not ignore the spark of good in himself that pushes him to reach out to others and try to make things right. He can become the man he once was again. He just needs to face his own fears and pain, before he can take the steps to healing his broken heart.
Items on your character at canon point: I'm giving him a prison uniform and he can deal with it. He gets nothing else.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
Charles is a highly powerful telepath.
His abilities allow him to:
Read the minds of others
Navigate through them
Erase and create memories within their mind
Take control of centers of the brain to the point of imposing his own will on others such as:
✧ Snatching away their senses temporarily
✧ Making them see, hear, smell, feel, etc, things that are not truly there
✧ Or, inversely, making them NOT see/hear/etc things that ARE there.
✧ Freezing them in place
✧ Borrowing their bodies/senses for his own purposes.
He is also a genius with an eidetic memory and the ability to learn languages, or other important chunks of information, directly from the minds of others.
He is a master Chess player, a Professor, and capable of holding his liquor fairly well.
I will obviously have a permissions post up for his abilities and be working with anyone he might use them on
Charles' main weakness is opening his mouth. He has a severe case of foot-in-mouth syndrome in that he has a habit of always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. And not just the wrong thing but often the worst possible choice of words.
His greatest weaknesses have always been his heavy reliance on his gift and his difficulty relating to others. Without using his abilities, Charles has a hard time finding the right words to say, often choosing exactly the wrong words at the wrong time. He doesn't fully understand the difficulties mutants like Raven and Hank, with visible abilities, suffer, and this often leads to a rift between them. Because he promised never to read her mind, Raven and Charles often bump heads about certain aspects of their lives when he does not see just how much having to hide bothers her. He might be smooth as silk when skimming the minds of those around him, but without that crutch, Charles is far less talented at reading people.
As of DoFP we can now add addiction and abandonment issues to Charles' weaknesses. Alcohol and the Serum featuring heavy in addictions while the abandonment issues are really just an extension of his already present fear of being alone. Charles has felt isolated his entire life, but he is able to ignore that isolation when he surrounds himself with people he can help and trust. (Trust apparently optional)
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: I'm Dumb
Prose Log Sample:
He could already feel it starting. The voices coming back. He could hear the fear and confusion in his mind, still distant and muffled, but returning. It terrified him. Without Hank or Hank's lab, Charles couldn't make the serum for himself. Even if he had paid attention to what was in it, he had been far too absorbed in his own pain and misery and the devastation of the world at war to even think about following what went into creating it. His legs had already begun to numb, and as they grew weaker and harder to feel, his mind cleared more and more. It was terrifying. His hands had begun to shake. A neural response. One he refused to acknowledge for the withdrawal it clearly was.
He wet his lips and gripped his leg, trying to force himself to feel the squeeze he gave the muscles, but there was no response. They were already too far gone. He tried to stand, only to stumble and collapse back to the ground, his legs too far gone for walking. Without Hank, and with no feasible way to get more of he serum, Charles was quickly realizing the true horror of the situation, for him, was not in becoming handicapped in a violent and dangerous environment, but in regaining the use of his mutation in a town of death and horror.
The future did not look bright. It looked like a gaping black hole of screams and despair. And Charles wanted no part of it.
He would have very much preferred to wake from the nightmare of the world he now found himself in.
Instead, he found himself dragging his body pathetically to the tattered old couch and leaning back against it, watery eyes staring up at the ceiling. He was going to need to find a wheelchair eventually. Until then, he was going to drown his misery in the rest of the half-opened bottle of scotch and hope it shut the voices out a while longer.
Player name: Jess
Contact: You know where to find me
Are you over 18: I am more than 231500 hours old
Characters in the game already: 1000 NPCs and two Peters
Proof of Reserve: No.
Character Information
Character Name: Charles Xavier
Canon: X-Men Movies
Canon Point: DoFP
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History: Okay
Charles' father died when he was very young. His mother, withdrawn into her grief, fell to alcoholism and Charles was left to his own devices in a mansion that was too large and too empty for a young boy. His powers emerged at an early age, and though he never believed he could be the only one, it was a lonely burden to bare. Finding the young Raven in the Mansion's kitchen was one of the happiest moments of Charles' life when he truly realized there were others like him. He invited her to stay, taking her in as his sister and making sure she never had to go hungry again.
Although Charles is a bit hypocritical around Raven, even snapping at her for using her abilities in public, he truly cares for her dearly. His harsh words are only a result of his need to protect her from what would happen if her concentration slipped. Unfortunately, Charles' ability is well hidden, and he doesn't fully understand Raven's frustration with having to hide, and it leads to tension between them.
His abilities allowed him to be both an excellent student and athlete in school, though he dropped the latter, feeling that he had an unfair advantage thanks to his powers. By the age of 16, Charles had graduated from High School, and gone on to earn Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, and Psychology from Oxford. He completed his Thesis on genetic mutations from Oxford shortly after. It was during a celebration of this at a local pub with Raven that Charles was approached by CIA agent Moira MacTaggert about Shaw and the Hellfire Club mutants. Fascinated and intrigued by the images of the other mutants he caught a glimpse of in Moira's head, Charles agreed immediately.
Although the CIA did not take his and Raven's abilities particularly well, a member of them agreed to take Charles and Raven to his facility. Before that, however, Charles went with the CIA on a lead from Moira to arrest Shaw. After being blocked by Emma Frost, another telepath, Charles feels the mind of another mutant in the water and connects with him. The connection shows Charles all of the rage and agony behind Erik's actions, his thoughts of everything Shaw had done exposed on the surface in his rage, and it shocks Charles. He dives into the chilled waters with little more than a thought and rescues Erik from a suicidal attempt to stop Shaw's escape in a submarine. The realization that Charles is a mutant like him surprises Erik, as Charles reassures him that he is not alone. Together they return to the Man in Black's facility, where they are to stay while the government decides what to do with them. After an introduction to the facilities and another mutant, Charles managed to convince Erik to stay and help him. Together, the two of them traveled the world seeking out mutants that Charles had located using Cerebro, a machine built by Hank to extend the reach of Charles' abilities.
Shortly after gathering a handful of young mutants, Charles, Moira and Erik follow another lead on Shaw to Russia, where they find Emma in Shaw's stead. Charles learns Shaw's plans to spark WWIII from her, as well as Shaw's location, back at CIA headquarters. Their return finds Darwin dead and Angel having joined Shaw's group.
Charles relocates the mutants to his family mansion where they all begin training to face Shaw, with Charles instructing the young mutants, and Erik. Charles provides each of them with guidance to help them along, and though he does hit a few rough patches with a still guilt ridden Havok, overall Charles' assistance helps the young mutants to realize more of their potential. The most impressive of these instances occurs when Erik allows Charles in his mind and the telepath reaches out to the happiest memory in Erik's mind, bringing it to the surface to help Erik locate the point between rage and serenity, and unlocking a much greater power than he had been able to find in rage a lone. Eventually, the training reaches a halt when the President announces the stand off of the Cuban missile crisis. During the time between rescuing Erik from drowning himself, and the President's address, Charles and Erik grow to be close friends, spending much of their time between training with intellectual debates and chess matches. The night before they go to face Shaw, Erik confronts Charles about his intention to kill Shaw, leaving a disappointed and flustered Charles to seek out the comfort of a bottle of scotch. He's interrupted by Raven, who is once again cross with him for wanting to fit in with the rest of society, rather than stand against them.
The next day Moira and the mutants leave to face Shaw and avert the potential war. Charles averts near nuclear disaster by taking control of one of the Russian fleet members and launching a missile at the ship nearing the embargo line, nearly knocking their jet out of the sky in the process. With Banshee's help, they locate Shaw's submarine beneath the surface and Erik, with Charles' guidance, pulls the ship from the sea. Together, both vessels crashed on the shore after n attack from Riptide. After the wreck, Charles quickly throws together a plan of strategic attack, sending Beast and Havok to help fight off the Hellfire mutants while he guided Erik to the center of the ship in search of Shaw. Unfortunately, Shaw's mind is blocked from Charles, both by the metallic helmet the Russian's had created, and the mirrored room on board the sub. Charles loses track of Erik when his friend steps into the room, not understanding what is causing the void and why he can not touch Shaw's mind. The fear of his limitations is nearly crippling, and it is only after Shaw's attacks on Erik begin to shatter the glass, that Charles manages to get a hold of Erik again.
Erik manages to trick Shaw and steal the helmet from his head, giving Charles the opportunity to freeze Shaw in lace. Unfortunately, the man's power is so great, it takes nearly all of Charles' strength just to hold him. To his horror and mortification, his friend and ally slips the helmet on, breaking their trust and blocking the telepath out of his mind. Realization of what Erik is about to do slams into him as the master of metal withdraws the reichmark he has kept on him all these years, and he pleads with an unhearing Erik not to do this. Despite his desire for Erik to stop, and his fear for what is about to happen, Charles knows he can not release Shaw. The man is far too dangerous and powerful, and could easily kill Erik and start the war, actions Charles will not allow. He continues to plead even as the inevitability of Erik's actions sink in, right up until he is forced to share the pain of Shaw's death as Erik shoves the coin through his skull at a slow, torturous pace. Through all of it, Charles holds Shaw in place, allowing Erik to kill the man rather than unleash Shaw upon Erik again.
When Moira and Charles emerge from the wreckage of the jet, Charles regards the 'new' Erik with painful regret and betrayal in his eyes. Even though Erik had informed him that he planned on killing Shaw, Charles had held on to the hope that he could convince Erik to do otherwise. However, he does not have long to dwell on this when the first blow to his faith in humanity is struck by Erik's observation that the ships in the water, Russian and American alike, have aimed their missiles at the beach. A quick sweep of their minds reveals the truth of Erik's statement, and Charles can only look on in shock and horror as the massive volley of missiles approach the beach. Erik manages to stop the disastrous impact, turning the missiles back on the men who sent them to Charles' further horror. In spite of the fact that they had just nearly been killed, Charles fights the retaliation, pleading for Erik to prove that he is the better man by letting the men on those ships live. He makes a fatal flaw, when his argument turns to the poorest choice of words he could have used to plead with a holocaust victim. "They're just following orders." In spite of everything that had happened, Charles refuses to let Erik kill all the men on those ships, tackling Erik bodily to the ground to stop him.
DOFP SPOILERS
In the time between the two movies, Charles creates the school for gifted youngsters with Hank's help, and even manages to get a decent number of teachers and students. Then the war happened and he lost most of his staff and students to the draft. The loss hit Charles hard and sent him into a depression. In his attempts to help give Charles something of what he lost back, Hank created a serum like the one he used to keep his own powers in check to give Charles back his legs. However the Serum's side effect becomes far more addictive to Charles than its assistance in restoring his ability to walk. It takes away his telepathy, giving Charles the first moment of quiet he has had from the pain and misery in the world around them since the war started, and really, since his mutation manifested. The fear and pain constantly in his mind terrifies Charles and causes him to fear and hate his own ability to the point of making him unwilling to let the serum fade enough for them to come back. The thoughts are enough to bring him to tears within seconds of his powers returning.
I'll be taking him from just after meeting Pietro and before breaking Erik out of prison.
Personality:I made an effort this time. Does that count?
Charles was an optimist once, and theoretically he still is. But Charles has succumbed to the biggest killer of optimism there is. Despair. He has lost nearly everyone and everything that ever mattered to him, had his trust broken by humanity and his best friend, his family ripped apart, and his school stripped away from him. On top of that he lost his ability to walk and his powers ensure he hears all the pain and suffering of a world full of fear, anger and war.
It's easy to make excuses when your life seems too terrible to face. Charles has allowed himself to retreat from the world and cut himself out of the pain and agony of those around him. Once, he would have tried to reach out to those people until it killed him. Now, he drowns his pain, and theirs, in alcohol and a serum that cuts his mind off from the rest of the world. He is a shadow of the brilliant, good-hearted optimist he was. Even Hank has difficulty seeing the man Charles has become, but feels too sorry for him to truly do anything about it.
The man Charles was is still in there. He still wants to help people, he still wants to believe that people can change. But reality and loss have made him bitter. And the fear he has of facing his own pain has turned him to a cowardly path of trying to hide rather than face the world and the things he has lost. He has lost his path, but he is not completely broken.
Although he comes from before his turning point in canon, it is shown that Charles is capable of choosing the right path, even before his conversation with the older Xavier. He gives up his safety blanket and prepares to face his fears in order to save the people who are important to him. Try as he might, Charles can not ignore the spark of good in himself that pushes him to reach out to others and try to make things right. He can become the man he once was again. He just needs to face his own fears and pain, before he can take the steps to healing his broken heart.
Items on your character at canon point: I'm giving him a prison uniform and he can deal with it. He gets nothing else.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
Charles is a highly powerful telepath.
His abilities allow him to:
Read the minds of others
Navigate through them
Erase and create memories within their mind
Take control of centers of the brain to the point of imposing his own will on others such as:
✧ Snatching away their senses temporarily
✧ Making them see, hear, smell, feel, etc, things that are not truly there
✧ Or, inversely, making them NOT see/hear/etc things that ARE there.
✧ Freezing them in place
✧ Borrowing their bodies/senses for his own purposes.
He is also a genius with an eidetic memory and the ability to learn languages, or other important chunks of information, directly from the minds of others.
He is a master Chess player, a Professor, and capable of holding his liquor fairly well.
I will obviously have a permissions post up for his abilities and be working with anyone he might use them on
Charles' main weakness is opening his mouth. He has a severe case of foot-in-mouth syndrome in that he has a habit of always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. And not just the wrong thing but often the worst possible choice of words.
His greatest weaknesses have always been his heavy reliance on his gift and his difficulty relating to others. Without using his abilities, Charles has a hard time finding the right words to say, often choosing exactly the wrong words at the wrong time. He doesn't fully understand the difficulties mutants like Raven and Hank, with visible abilities, suffer, and this often leads to a rift between them. Because he promised never to read her mind, Raven and Charles often bump heads about certain aspects of their lives when he does not see just how much having to hide bothers her. He might be smooth as silk when skimming the minds of those around him, but without that crutch, Charles is far less talented at reading people.
As of DoFP we can now add addiction and abandonment issues to Charles' weaknesses. Alcohol and the Serum featuring heavy in addictions while the abandonment issues are really just an extension of his already present fear of being alone. Charles has felt isolated his entire life, but he is able to ignore that isolation when he surrounds himself with people he can help and trust. (Trust apparently optional)
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: I'm Dumb
Prose Log Sample:
He could already feel it starting. The voices coming back. He could hear the fear and confusion in his mind, still distant and muffled, but returning. It terrified him. Without Hank or Hank's lab, Charles couldn't make the serum for himself. Even if he had paid attention to what was in it, he had been far too absorbed in his own pain and misery and the devastation of the world at war to even think about following what went into creating it. His legs had already begun to numb, and as they grew weaker and harder to feel, his mind cleared more and more. It was terrifying. His hands had begun to shake. A neural response. One he refused to acknowledge for the withdrawal it clearly was.
He wet his lips and gripped his leg, trying to force himself to feel the squeeze he gave the muscles, but there was no response. They were already too far gone. He tried to stand, only to stumble and collapse back to the ground, his legs too far gone for walking. Without Hank, and with no feasible way to get more of he serum, Charles was quickly realizing the true horror of the situation, for him, was not in becoming handicapped in a violent and dangerous environment, but in regaining the use of his mutation in a town of death and horror.
The future did not look bright. It looked like a gaping black hole of screams and despair. And Charles wanted no part of it.
He would have very much preferred to wake from the nightmare of the world he now found himself in.
Instead, he found himself dragging his body pathetically to the tattered old couch and leaning back against it, watery eyes staring up at the ceiling. He was going to need to find a wheelchair eventually. Until then, he was going to drown his misery in the rest of the half-opened bottle of scotch and hope it shut the voices out a while longer.
