Player

Dossier: John "Player" Doe, the newbie
 * Background: Mysterious mercenary with no known name. Acquaintance of Ivan Ivanov.
 * +Info: Always wearing masks or helmets covering his face. Difficulties in speech. It is speculated he lost the ability to speak properly, along with his face, during some unfortunate "accident". His spoken words consist of only "medic" and "take cover". Always yells.
 * Skills: Experienced with military grade weapons, explosives handling and rigging, but poor teamwork.
 * Reason for hire: "Medic!" (Terminal facial skin cancer, expressive aphasia and/or a strange type of tourette syndrome)
 * Appearance: Hides under a full standard orange H.E.V. suit Mk IV issued by S.C.I.

Events
During his teenage years, he took an explosion to his face, and lost his ability to speak properly. He has been using a mask ever since.

His condition led him to develop skin cancer over the years, as well as some concussions due to his job as a mercenary for hire which led him to be exposed to several more explosions near his face.

They f'kd up his face. Repeatedly.

Also the concussions made him pretty dumb and clumsy. But he still was a gun for hire and still didn't fear anything... mostly because he didn't care at all about his own life,,, or he couldn't, due to the concussions that warped his state of mind.

He was hired as a guard for Black Mesa's survey teams on Xen, where he met Ivan Ivanov. He was issued an HEV suit that he wore 24/7 which helped him extend his lifespan a little, but eventually his condition got worse before he could ever touch a single portal to Xen. At that point he was given only a few weeks to live.

Sven Co-op contacted him during this time, knowing he was perfect cannon fodder for the next big experiment.