David Samuel Egen. A rich kid, wannabe philanthropist and all in all nice guy- or rather that's how he would have liked to have been known.

Born to a wealthy family involved in the sciences and industrial manufacturing, David might have had his future set out for him at birth, provided he simply took up the opportunity. Egen Industries, involved largely in powder metallurgy was an intergenerational project for the family, established as it was by David's grandfather, Samuel. The old man had been a German expatriate with dubious ties to either German nobility, the recently rich or both. A family secret that remained unclear to David himself. Regardless, the old man had been far closer to him than his own father, David Senior, most likely because his father had no humor nor time for the antics that his own son had a habit of getting into.

So when grandpa Samuel tragically died of a heart attack while out in the forest of Alaska, hunting bull Moose, it devastated David. Control of the company, as such passed down a generation, and that made David himself the heir apparent- a fact that did not pass muster with most. After all, the older David was a good man to lead, but his son? No, that simply wouldn't do, at least not anytime soon. As such, David was sent abroad to study the trade, learn his lessons and do away with whatever bits of humanity he had in him beyond the thin veneer required to do business luncheons and cocktail dinners.

David didn't exactly follow through, spending his early twenties partying through Switzerland, France and Germany. When he came back to the States, it was to a morose greeting and strained smiles. Well, David didn't particularly care.

A year or so later, passing through Kentucky, ostensibly to meet up with one of the company's main investors' son, David was brought on to a new business opportunity, one that could get would get him respect as well as money in droves. 'The plan' as David came to call it, on the advice of his newly made drinking buddy, James Harding, was to invest in the growing tech industry around virtual reality- there was a new kid on the block (at least publicly new), SeleneCorp, and they had something *big*. Harding got David a meeting with the leadings scientist, Langford, who eventually agreed to give David a chance to test out the whole damn thing, and when it did impress him, Langford said, David could put his money into it... with promises of at least tripling, if not quadrupling his investment.

In truth, though? David just wanted the opportunity to try out whatever Selene had to throw at him. He'd tried all the drugs, drank expensive booze and anything else his family's money could get him, but this was supposed to be something wholly new, so he couldn't refuse. Besides, if the plan did pan out, and the investment proved opportune, David could even impress his dear old dad and the company board. It seemed like a win-win move all-around.

Well, it seemed like one, at least at first. However, David was a master of making mistakes and reaping the consequences, and this?

This would turn out to be the biggest one of them all.