Moved to Atlanta with little to nothing, from Iowa, or Utah ir some such. works a crap low paying job, lives in a shitty apartment, and became the president of the Atlanta Paranormal Society.
Percival attempted to get him to help do some research he had little time to do himself, but Neil went off on a tangent and started researching the tril. Percival was testing Neil to see if he was worth working with, and instead found him to be unfocused and lacking follow through. Which Neil took offense to and they became at odds.
After the events where Oltav and his goons killed percivals parents, it was found that Neil worked for Oltav.
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