Romeo Slasher

Joseph Ramone Barren, better known by his self-adopted alias Romeo Slasher, was a former Tulanese businessman, an ex-member of the Saugerdese Mafia, and a sociopathic serial killer.

Becoming "Romeo"
After being abducted by Sarkello, Barren became one of the subjects of his experiments with Viper Serum. During the experiments, Barren was injected with extreme amounts of Serum, always just slightly under the lethal dose. This level of exposure to the serum caused severe psychological trauma to Barren, causing many of his innate sociopathic tendencies to reemerge.

After forty days in captivity, Barren escaped by breaking out of his cell and murdering three of Sarkello's vassals. Once free, he traveled to a local underpass, where he killed a vagrant and a prostitute who were sleeping there for the night. After these inaugural murders, Barren disappeared for over seven months.

Reemergence
On March 6, 2007, Fxceless was alerted to a quadruple homicide that bore similarities to the murder of the two people at the underpass. After searching around the crime scene, Fxceless discovered a deteriorating cabin located deep within the Black Forest of Tulan that he believed was serving as Barren's temporary hideout.

He came back during the late night hours of March 7 and broke into the cabin. However, to his surprise, he discovered the cabin completely empty. As it turns out, Barren had left the cabin only a half-hour after committing the nearby murders. After examining a few clues left in the cabin, Fxceless determined that Barren was traveling to the Western Saugerdese Empire in order to execute members of the Saugerdese Mafia.

Before he could leave however, Fxceless was ambushed by a Saugerdese Mafia agent who had mistaken him for Barren.