Run Like Hell Character Feature: Part Two

Our second look at the characters of Interplay's upcoming survival-horror game, Run Like Hell, focuses on Craig O'Feargal, an employee of the Forseti Company. Given a management position on Forseti's space station as a reward for loyal service, Craig appears to have finally settled into a good life. So, of course, he's due for a shake-up in the form of the packs of bloodthirsty aliens who show up to make his life interesting.

Name: Craig O'Feargal
Rank: NA
Race: Human
Age: 39
Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 245 pounds
Birthplace: Regal IV

Craig was born into poverty on the border world of Regal IV. His father, the renowned xeno-biologist Sirus O'Feargal, was an overbearing man who ruled his family with an iron fist. Because of this, Craig started rebelling early in life. At age 15 he was arrested for petty theft. At 16 he was hauled in for starting a drunken brawl in one of the colony taverns. Throughout his 17th and 18th years, he got into a slew of problems with the local police, to the point that at age 19 he was kicked off the planet.

After this exile, he joined the Hegemony Marine Corps, but this became a very short stint because he punched his commanding officer. For the next five or six years, Craig went from job to job, sometimes working as a hired mercenary, sometimes as a bouncer for local merchants. His most notorious job was when he worked for the noted gang lord Darex'Nar in the border worlds. It was here that he was arrested again, this time for smuggling and laundering money.

Craig then spent the next five years in the Baldur Prison Colony. It was during this time that he finally got his life together, to an extent. When Craig was released from prison, he followed up on a tip that a fellow inmate had given him, and he settled down in the diamond mines of Alaisiagae. For once in his life he had finally found his passion. Working deep in the mines, armed with explosives and high-tech mining equipment, he had found a home. Never intent on promotion, he worked in the mines for about five years. Over the next three years, the Forseti Corporation shipped him to various parts of the galaxy.

He worked in the comet belt of Hodr, mining precious water and hydrogen from the frozen planetoids there. He kept a mostly low profile, just doing his job to the best of his abilities and keeping his head down. After the comet belt, Craig was shipped to the nitrogen fields of Nertha VII. During the Nitrogen Riots a year later, Craig was one of only three who did not strike against the Forseti Company.

In reward for his loyalty, he was sent to the Forseti Station to help mine the asteroids nearby for plutonium and other precious materials. For the first time in his career, he was given a management position and a significant pay increase.