Duff

# **About**

Duff is a Novelian police officer who investigated the globe cultists. He is first seen in Harming after getting a 911 call about the nearby church. He is mostly seen with Daniel.

He has been doing normal police work and the entire globe cultist investigation has left him puzzled and confused. Duff has sometimes even questioned the police department after he figured out about the AOD.

Not much is known about Duff's personal life although he has discussed a few things with primarly Daniel about his past such as his previously job as a fireman. Duff grew up in Agane City where he lived with his parents until he became 18 and moved to Goldencity to be closer to his at the time job. He later moved back into Agane City in his own apartment where he still lives.

# **Personality**

Duff is quite curious and can sometimes loose focus on his job and instead decide to investigate things himself without direct orders. Usually this goes in his favor. Duff realizes when he messes up and doesn't attempt to hide his failures. Duff is a very active man and needs an adrenaline boost once in a while, which is why he is a police officer. This is possibly due to his job as a fireman which was tense and so he wanted more of it. Duff's goal is to directly neutralize a threat and help others around him.

# **Globe cultists investigation**

During his investigation into the church together with another officer, he finds 6 dead globe cultists. He also investigates their nearby headquarters where he finds burnt clothing among other things. He eventually finds a photo from a CCTV camera of one of the members, Mark Tupraz, inside a bar in Retuff.

After arriving at Retuff, Duff talks to a bartender (Charlie) who tells him that Mark is a regular and is partly friends with the owner. After talking to the owner, Duff learns that Mark lives in a nearby building and he hasnt been in the bar for a while. Duff also learns that Mark had offered money to the owner in return for letting a barrel of unknown liquid stay in the backroom.

Duff and Charlie head off into Mark's apartment and find Mark dead in his own bathtub filled with the unknown liquid. He also finds multiple scribbles on the wall relating to Ey. He sends Charlie off to the hospital and is visited by Daniel due to him having a similar case. They both discuss Craig's investigation of Seadale and conclude that they are connected to Mark and the suicide in Harming.

Duff and Daniel track down a boat with a passenger who could be connected. On the boat, Daniel shows Duff the last phone call that he could find connected to Mark's phone. Duff figures out that the suicide of Mark was unplanned and happened on the spot while Duff was investigating it. While Daniel is somewhere else, a man in a suit talks to Duff and asks him to exchange information. Duff refuses and states he will simply arrest the man but as he is talking to him he falls over dead. Daniel explains that he has been dead for a long time.

Daniel and Duff arrive at a bar in Retuff to discuss an email traced to the globe cultist. He also reveals that he found a brazilian newspaper that talks about Mark's metal company. Duff had been investigating something unrelated the previous day and had found text on a wall that was written as he was down in a tunnel. They come to the conclusion that the wall writing is a reference to the 6 dead people originally found at Seadale. They both conclude that theres a high ranked person in the police force that is apart of the globe cultist or are helping them.

Duff later comes back to the bar and talks to Charlie. He asks if Charlie he can put the barrel back in case the person who was intended to pick it up hasn't done it yet. Charlie reveals someone already took the barrel right after they went to Mark's apartment.

Duff manages to trace the e-mail back to an apartment which they investigate. They find a note relating to someone called Lemut who was taken into prison recently. Daniel goes to talk to Lemut but Duff reveals that Lemut died in prison 2 days earlier and Daniel was just hallucinating.

Duff helps Daniel bring Frederick Lampton to the hospital before he dies. He stops investigating the cult for two weeks before invesigating an old Hilmer facility with Daniel. Inside he finds more drawings and a corpse.

Duff and Daniel investigates a homocide in Agane City and finds two globe cultist drawings from 3 year earlier showcasing two future events. One showing a larger blue comet over Park Alon and another one showing an event happening in Retuff. A drawing also shows a signal from saturn which Duff ties back to the Unity Research Center. He calls the center and makes a deal with Cornelius to help eachother. They both visit the center but Daniel quickly takes off when it is reported that a truck carring the fixed model of the unknown material from the unknown satellite has crashed and the model has been stolen. (This might have been the Cult or the AOD) Duff and Cornelius explain their finding and Duff gets suspicious of Smith and suggests he might be a globe cultist. During Duff's hunt for Smith, Cornelius gets a vision and they both flee the island.

Duff is later called by Daniel (who is currently hiding from law enforcement), about globe cultist activity in the Retuff port. Duff goes out to investigate with a college who he lies to and claims it is a drug bust. They are both ambushed by globe cultist but they fight them off. They then take a computer at the scene which Duff brings to Cornelius. The Computer reveals multiple logs and blueprints of some sort or transmitter or tower, Cornelius however needs more Blueprints to fully piece it together.

Duff is contacted by Smith to investigate the Conductor. The Conductor, apparently aware of many things involving the case explains that it wasn't him and that it would be best if he kills or arrests him. He explains that he is just there to 'put things in motion'. Duff, puzzled instead focuses on confronting Dr Goldstein, a scientiest and globe cultist at the URC who attempts to kill himself but is arrested by Duff.

Duff conducts a private investigation in Retuff with Daniel watching over him on a body camera from his house. Duff manages to get past the first line of military with the help of documents given to him by Cornelius. He has to take out a globe cultist who recognises his face, who he then steals the clothes of. He manages to get into a secret meeting where he takes an envelope which describes a train with necessary supplies for the globe cultists. Duff leaves the island safely while Daniel figures out a plan to stop the mentioned train.

Weeks later Daniel tasks Duff with going to Retuff immediately. Duff, unsure of what he will encounter goes to Retuff and is greeted with a Retuff in ruins as gunfights are happening between Globe Cultists and Military Personal. He fights a few cultists and makes his way to the hotel in Retuff and heads for the top. He sees Ey in a frozen state but he is forced to drop his weapons as Azure shows up from behind with a shotgun. Comet arrives and explains to Duff his plan and what he is actually here to do. Duff taunts Comet as Daniel suprisingly attacks from behind, having broken the glass. He shoots Azure and Comet and throws a grenade which sends the two flying. Luckily they land on a truck full of mattresses and survive.

# **Trivia**

Duff commonly forgets to wear his glasses.

Duff became a fireman around 2013 and quit in 2017 to become a police officer instead.

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