Do you ever have the feeling that you're missing something?

I do, a great deal of the time, because I can't hear what you're saying to me. My hearing was taken from me when I was twenty-four.

No surgery, no procedure, no alternative medicine has ever been able to give it back.

Just shows how wicked karma can be.

Do you know who Pete Townshend and Jimmy Page are? That was the road I was on, many years ago now.

The world at my feet, natural talent, and more money than I knew what to do with. People wanted to be with me, be like me, they begged me to use them.

So I did.

Not a very nice guy back then.

Don't feel sorry for me, though. I'm one of the lucky ones. I can speak clearly, so that by my voice, you'd never know. I've learned sign, though it's not primarily what I use to communicate. It's still natural to answer back with speech. Only instead of hearing you, I have to lip read.

I can still hear the music in my head, I still know what things sound like. And I've found that even the simple process of learning a new city can be an adventure.

((Player is open to spontaneous play. Just remember that knowing he's deaf before interacting with him, is cheating.))