Post by Thomas Gregory on Jun 30, 2016 1:54:14 GMT -5
Full Name: Thomas Gregory
Aliases:
-Tom
-TG
-Deuce
Avatar Photo:
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Appearance: Lean and rangy, about 6'3" and maybe 160 lbs; narrow-boned face with an almost perma-stubble appearance
Occupation (studies and job before the outbreak): Radio Talk Show Host, The Thomas Gregory Show, which aired on 106.9 WKVP-FM, The Answer locally (and nationally via Salem Radio Network).
Hometown (city, state, country): Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.
Relationships (relatives, friends,...):
-Mike & Denise Gregory (parents, deceased)
-Darnell Gregory (older brother, presumed deceased)
-Clint Gregory (younger brother, fate unknown)
-numerous pre-apocalypse acquaintances
Weapons (currently in possession):
-Marlin Model 336 lever-action (.35 Remington)
-Remington Model 51 semi-automatic (.35 Remington)
-Crowbar (used for breaking into homes when necessary)
Items (clothing, backpacks, first-aid kits, etc...):
-Jeans, boots, various short-sleeve shirts
-Philadelphia Flyers jersey
-Philadelphia Flyers hat
-backpack stuffed with some extra clothes and a couple boxes of .35 Remington bullets
-fishing rod w/lures, reels and lines
Mode of transportation:
-Philadelphia Gas Works Ford Econovan
List 3 or more good personality traits:
-Adaptable
-Forthright
-Intelligent
-Personable
List 3 or more bad personality traits:
-Abrasive
-Opinionated
-Paranoid
-Cloud cuckoolander
List 3 strengths:
-Ability to think big and to see big-picture things
-Charitable
-Prodigious intelligence
List 3 flaws:
-Hot tempered
-Quick to judge others
-Immodest
Describe your character's life before the Apocalypse: "The Mouth of Philly." That is Thomas Gregory in a nutshell - if there's an issue or an event taking place somewhere, he has an opinion and he will state it, whether you like it or not (and most people generally didn't). However, that didn't stop him from becoming class president at Northeast High School in Philadelphia as he combined that opinionated self with both an intelligent mind and a knack for rhetoric that could give local politicos' heartburn, something he would use to great effect as both a college radio host at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually onto local - and later on, national - radio as one of America's rising conservative talk show hosts. When he wasn't blasting politicians over the airwaves, he'd take a few days off every so often and head out to central Pennsylvania for some fishing, of which he was very good at.
What happened to your character on Outbreak Day?: As the first months of 2013 began, Gregory was one of the first talk-show hosts to discuss the growing pandemic, often debating the issue with doctors and other officials in an effort to figure out, in the words of a former Philadelphia mayor, "just what the hell is going on out there"...sometimes to no avail, sometimes with more questions than answers. As time went on, though, even he started to think there was something there...but like most post-Outbreak Day survivors, his story is a mix of panic and horror.
As was his habit most days in 2013, he had just begun his show (which aired from 6-9am during the week) when on that day reports began to filter in of mass riots and panics breaking out across the City of Brotherly Love; from a few hours, he tried to report on the events in Philadelphia when an injured person stumbled into the studios of the radio station his show was hosted from. As his engineer tried to help the person, to his horror the individual turned and bit down right into the engineer's neck...after a desperate fight, Thomas eventually killed the turned person with blows from a crowbar that they kept in the office. Realizing there wasn't any point in continuing the show - and knowing his fight for survival had been aired on live radio (whether anyone heard it, though, was another story entirely!) - he decided just to get the hell out of town. That, of course, was easier said than done: while the studios were in West Philadelphia, his rowhouse was in NE Philadelphia...so, for several days, he dodged rioters, walkers and other incorrigibles - occasionally having to kill any who crossed his path, unfortunately - and made it to his rowhouse; after packing what clothes he could and grabbing a few weapons, he scrambled outside and 'borrowed' his neighbor's PGW van (it wasn't like his neighbor was going to need it, having been killed in the rioting and all...), just barely making it out of Philly before the military shut down everything entering or leaving the city....
Describe your character's life after the Apocalypse: At best - hardscrabble; at worst - near starving. Unfortunately, the skills that had made him such a great speaker and talk show host also tended to make him paranoid as hell at times, so as the weeks and then months went on and on he tried to stay as far away from other survivors as possible, sticking to rivers and streams so that he would both be near water and would have places to fish as well. Eventually, though, even he needed to find other survivors to be around, both to preserve his own sanity and because he was getting tired of trying to survive by himself; he'd had way too many close calls and the odds were increasingly going against him...so, sticking to his typical post-apocalyptic routine, Thomas started making his way along the Juniata River, hoping to find some solace of civilization along the way....
Aliases:
-Tom
-TG
-Deuce
Avatar Photo:
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Appearance: Lean and rangy, about 6'3" and maybe 160 lbs; narrow-boned face with an almost perma-stubble appearance
Occupation (studies and job before the outbreak): Radio Talk Show Host, The Thomas Gregory Show, which aired on 106.9 WKVP-FM, The Answer locally (and nationally via Salem Radio Network).
Hometown (city, state, country): Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.
Relationships (relatives, friends,...):
-Mike & Denise Gregory (parents, deceased)
-Darnell Gregory (older brother, presumed deceased)
-Clint Gregory (younger brother, fate unknown)
-numerous pre-apocalypse acquaintances
Weapons (currently in possession):
-Marlin Model 336 lever-action (.35 Remington)
-Remington Model 51 semi-automatic (.35 Remington)
-Crowbar (used for breaking into homes when necessary)
Items (clothing, backpacks, first-aid kits, etc...):
-Jeans, boots, various short-sleeve shirts
-Philadelphia Flyers jersey
-Philadelphia Flyers hat
-backpack stuffed with some extra clothes and a couple boxes of .35 Remington bullets
-fishing rod w/lures, reels and lines
Mode of transportation:
-Philadelphia Gas Works Ford Econovan
List 3 or more good personality traits:
-Adaptable
-Forthright
-Intelligent
-Personable
List 3 or more bad personality traits:
-Abrasive
-Opinionated
-Paranoid
-Cloud cuckoolander
List 3 strengths:
-Ability to think big and to see big-picture things
-Charitable
-Prodigious intelligence
List 3 flaws:
-Hot tempered
-Quick to judge others
-Immodest
Describe your character's life before the Apocalypse: "The Mouth of Philly." That is Thomas Gregory in a nutshell - if there's an issue or an event taking place somewhere, he has an opinion and he will state it, whether you like it or not (and most people generally didn't). However, that didn't stop him from becoming class president at Northeast High School in Philadelphia as he combined that opinionated self with both an intelligent mind and a knack for rhetoric that could give local politicos' heartburn, something he would use to great effect as both a college radio host at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually onto local - and later on, national - radio as one of America's rising conservative talk show hosts. When he wasn't blasting politicians over the airwaves, he'd take a few days off every so often and head out to central Pennsylvania for some fishing, of which he was very good at.
What happened to your character on Outbreak Day?: As the first months of 2013 began, Gregory was one of the first talk-show hosts to discuss the growing pandemic, often debating the issue with doctors and other officials in an effort to figure out, in the words of a former Philadelphia mayor, "just what the hell is going on out there"...sometimes to no avail, sometimes with more questions than answers. As time went on, though, even he started to think there was something there...but like most post-Outbreak Day survivors, his story is a mix of panic and horror.
As was his habit most days in 2013, he had just begun his show (which aired from 6-9am during the week) when on that day reports began to filter in of mass riots and panics breaking out across the City of Brotherly Love; from a few hours, he tried to report on the events in Philadelphia when an injured person stumbled into the studios of the radio station his show was hosted from. As his engineer tried to help the person, to his horror the individual turned and bit down right into the engineer's neck...after a desperate fight, Thomas eventually killed the turned person with blows from a crowbar that they kept in the office. Realizing there wasn't any point in continuing the show - and knowing his fight for survival had been aired on live radio (whether anyone heard it, though, was another story entirely!) - he decided just to get the hell out of town. That, of course, was easier said than done: while the studios were in West Philadelphia, his rowhouse was in NE Philadelphia...so, for several days, he dodged rioters, walkers and other incorrigibles - occasionally having to kill any who crossed his path, unfortunately - and made it to his rowhouse; after packing what clothes he could and grabbing a few weapons, he scrambled outside and 'borrowed' his neighbor's PGW van (it wasn't like his neighbor was going to need it, having been killed in the rioting and all...), just barely making it out of Philly before the military shut down everything entering or leaving the city....
Describe your character's life after the Apocalypse: At best - hardscrabble; at worst - near starving. Unfortunately, the skills that had made him such a great speaker and talk show host also tended to make him paranoid as hell at times, so as the weeks and then months went on and on he tried to stay as far away from other survivors as possible, sticking to rivers and streams so that he would both be near water and would have places to fish as well. Eventually, though, even he needed to find other survivors to be around, both to preserve his own sanity and because he was getting tired of trying to survive by himself; he'd had way too many close calls and the odds were increasingly going against him...so, sticking to his typical post-apocalyptic routine, Thomas started making his way along the Juniata River, hoping to find some solace of civilization along the way....