MP11-OPT.11: Character Traits and Backstory

The character for my maze game is Ben Burns. He works as a repairman in the Saint's Hotel, an old hotel establishment from years ago; when larger hotels started springing up. Its located on a small street in the now overgrown bustling metropolis it used to dominate. The hotel is now recently put on a list for potential demolition. The hotel was always rumored to be haunted, but what creepy old building isn't? Especially hotels. Ben Burns, who had been working there for years now, is late at work in the old hotel, cleaning and repairing anything that required it. He worked tirelessly, floor after floor, as he was the only remaining staff member at work besides the manager and security guard. After finishing his nightly duties, he made his way down the old worn steps to the basement. Putting away his gear in his leather tool belt amidst the lonely dark, he noticed a flicker of light emanating from a normally gloomy and nondescript corner of the room. He carefully approached the mysterious white aura leaking from the hairline cracks in the stone, and cautiously eyed the wall for any sudden movements. He reached the strange light striations at the rooms edge and slowly touched his hand to the wall. After a moments pause, there was a thud, and a distinct unlocking sound, as the wall receded two inches back into the room's side. It then slide back and left into the wall itself, and revealed the odd wonders behind. Ben stepped in through the light, and before him stood an immense room, littered with winding twisting corridors. He had arrived on an overlook, starring out at a bogglingly layered labyrinth of maze like masonry far below him. The platform lowered with a sudden jolt, and Ben slowly descended into the hallways of the stone trap, that laid sleeping below the grand hotel's ancient foundation. He panicked as he dropped lower, but with an unavoidable sense of awe as he watched the walls rise around him. As he reached his destination, he suddenly voices cry out; wavering towards him from the darkness ahead. They sounded forlorn and in pain. A shiver shot through Ben's quaking body as he took one first step off the platform. The moment he was on solid ground, the platform shot back up with high speed towards the top floor. Ben starred into the maze's maw as he heard the echoes of lost beings wailing from beyond. He didn't know if these were real people or just of his imagination. Or worse, a trick by the manic maze. All he knew was he suddenly felt compelled to progress. So he picked his tool belt up high on his waist, and proceeded into the unknown ahead of him. What Ben finds out is that the hotel is actually built on top of an eternal portal to hell, and the demons below are slowly making their way up to the surface. The deeper Ben goes, the closer he gets to meeting the devil's minions on their way to the human world.

Positive Traits- Hard worker, determined, kind honest heart
Negative Traits- A little clumsy, sometimes puts work ahead of other things, a bit hot headed
Visual Characteristics- greying hair, a tool belt, a grease spot on the left side of his face, jeans and a t-shirt.; the shirt has the words, "Angel's Mechanics" written on it.