This is an attempt to capture for reference a character paper snapshot of the character Joseph Wade Kondor, a major character in the Multiverser novels who debuts in Verse Three, Chapter One and returns in Old Verses New.  This character sheet includes everything that is confirmed about him, plus a few extrapolations, in that first book, and thus represents him as he is in the last chapter.

The picture was dug up on the Internet as an approximate image of him; it's not completely accurate, but it will suffice.

To assist the referee, most entries include at least one coded reference to a chapter or chapters in which the item is mentioned; thus by cross-referencing with the story you can determine the details.  The chapters are identified by which character's story is being told, and thus most of those here begin with "K"; this is followed by a three-digit number indicating the chapter number for that character, not the chapter number for the book.  Thus if you want to find the first reference to his cybernetic eye, you read here that it appears in K003, and on the index page for the novel you search for the text "Kondor 3" and that will take you to the link for that chapter.  Obviously the chapters beginning "H" are Lauren's story, and thus "Hastings", and those beginning "S" are Bob's story, "Slade".  The first novel ends with Kondor 41, Slade 42, and Hastings 43.

Joseph Wade Kondor

A.K.A.: Kondor K001

A.K.A.: Jo-Suede Candor, by the people of the Vorgo world, who didn't get his name right K021

A.K.A.: Joe K063, by Lauren Hastings H037 and Bob Slade S037

WEAKNESSES:
Atheist, will not recognize existence of magic.
Nervous about cemeteries and places where the dead are kept; says it's a reminder of his own mortality, but knows that's not true.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height:  Near 6' K001
Weight: 
Current Hair Style:  Army Short
Hair Color:  Brown/Black K001
Age:  Young K001 About 19 or 20 H037 near Slade’s age who is older than 21 S037
Eye Color:  Brown K001
Facial Hair:  Unshaven K001
Birthmarks, Tatoos, or other unusual markings: 
Other Description:  Black K001 well-muscled K001

SKILLS:

TECH

PSI

MAG

BOD

Equipment

Known Exclusions

World List
Stage 1

NagaWorld:  killed by unidentified attacker in glass city
Mary Piper (beta):  killed by grenade blast
Sherwood Forest:  killed by arrow to throat
Quest for the Vorgo:  killed by attacking undead
Parakeet Valley:  killed by spear thrust
Mary Piper (alpha)

Identified Characteristics

Personal History

Joseph Wade Kondor was a bachelor, a U. S. Soldier, a medic, versed out by some type of military experiment.  In NagaWorld, he was killed by a giant spider; he didn't get a good look at it beyond shooting it.  His stay in NagaWorld was probably short; there is no evidence he saw anything other than the spiders in the glass city.  His Uncle Ty was a hunter and a woodsman, first mentioned in Sherwood Forest.  He had an Uncle Whit who used witticisms and proverbs, first mentioned while he was seeking the Vorgo.  He doesn't often curse or swear; his mother washed his mouth out with soap for doing so, and he remembers.

Versed out because of army electronics experiment using scriff.

In Mary Piper (beta) he was able to hide among the crew for some time by borrowing some clothes and pretending to be one of them.  When caught, he used the "strange woman in a bar" explanation for his presence.  Following an accident, his left eye was replaced by a Meritronics Cybereye.  The controls for it are on the inside of his left forearm.  He can adjust the range of the rod-like sensors to receive light at a wider or narrower range of frequencies, and adjust each of three sets of cone-like sensors to almost any radio frequency, perceiving these as red, blue, and green.  He is teetotal, avoiding alcohol and any other substance which affects his mind more than caffeine.  In the end, he caught a grenade so that a friend, Walters, would not be hit by the blast.  It was during that event that he began to realize how precious the lives of indigs were.

He has an Aunt Zakiya, in her mid-thirties, younger than his mother, who tried to get him to go to church, and made good chocolate chip cookies.  Uncle Ty taught him to shoot and gave him his first gun, and also taught him about hunting.  Uncle Whitney, his grandfather's brother, is married to Aunt Mary.  There was lots of extended family and friends around.

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