The silence was deafin….
“No, no no,” she savagely scratched out the cliché and tried again.
The office was quiet enough you could hear a mouse sneeze.? The rattle-tap of keyboards the only noise in the dimly lit building, its few occupants watching time march slowly away, anticipating the long weekend.
“Much better,” she clicked the save button only to howl in despair as the program crashed, her work gone.
To put himself through school, CJ started to intern at Red Mountain Games, working as a play tester on one of the new adventure settings. Less then half the year later the job and he was co-writing adventures under a pseudonym, taking great pains to not run these same modules with his group at home.? Using some of what he was learning in school, CJ helped RMG begin an intense advertising campaign and even started a new product line of video adventure.
Upon graduation with a degree in film editing and production CJ could have gone to work for anyone but instead interned with the school he’d graduated from, re-working their whole advertisement campaign.? His work was seen by Capital Tours and picked up only six months after graduation.? President Davis, impressed with CJ’s work with Capital Tours’ video on the museums, was able to get him into the Capital and the White House to shoot exclusive footage for the tourism company with private access to the presidential bedroom and Oval Office, as well as the senate floor.? From his short film, White House tours have increased ten percent in the two years it has been in circulation, despite the general disgust people have with the nation’s current administration.
CJ is the kind of person who others expect to be the silent type. Instead he voices his opinions on everything from movies to politics. He is quick to laugh and share a joke, but careful not to offend the audience.
He is hard working and never far from his desk for long periods of time. Co-workers accuse him of overworking as he evens spends weekend hours in the office, studiously attending to his deadlines. An award winning editor for his audio-visual work with the tourism board he doesn’t let the acclaim go to his head and has often turned down higher paying employment that would take him from Capital Tours and shows no real ambition to leave the company or his home.
CJ is well liked by his co-workers, always willing to lend a hand when possible. His open mindedness, free flowing ability to talk and wild parties have people believing he’s a man of no secrets. His gaming group often begs him to lead the bi-weekly adventures due to his imaginative thinking and creative mind.
Ever popular he proves that geekiness isn’t a social disability.
Edge’s Challenge to me: “A male corporate wageslave with a dangerous secret.”
Name: Cristian Jansen Daines
AKA: CJ Daines
Eyes: Green
Hair: Sandy Blond in a shaggy cut, often falling in his eyes
Age: 28
Known to his friends as CJ, Cristian gives new meaning to the phrase ninety-eight pound weakling. At six foot three inches he appears to be a scrawny, malnourished geek whose shaggy hair is often shading his eyes and scratching against his glasses. His ghostly complexion screams of hours spent away from sunlight and leads many to think he was the typical Goth while in college.
The scrawny appearance is not from lack of exercise however, the amount of weight he carries is all in muscle, but he tends to try and hide this fact by wearing loose fitting clothing. This usually comprises of jeans and anime or gaming related tee-shirts with the occasional long sleeved button up and suit pants when the occasion calls for it.
There appear to be no identifying marks, at least none he’s let anyone see. Most of his co-workers only comment on his remarkable green eyes; when they can actually see them that is.