Gribbit

First Event: Event 9

Header: Brawler

Professions: Chemist (3), Tinker (3), Scavenger (2)

Other Affiliations: Brotherhood of Reason (Born into), Aldebrandi (Knighted, unofficially crowned King and Queen on separate occasions), DVO (Employee), Dendrites (Symbiosis)

Backstory:

Gribbit was born in the brotherhood of reason. His mom liked to explore ruins, but she was eaten by a mutant, so his dad made him stay inside and study. Gribbit didn't like that so he ran away from home and became a duster. He has a hard time dealing with the concept of death, so he carries around mementos from all his friends who died and talks to them. Sometimes, if he listens really hard they talk back. His most prized memento was a necklace that belonged to his mother.

Claims to Fame: Starting the Fundertakers and recruiting an army of Cannibals, Licking both of the Aldebrandi crowns, inventing "blanks", "bubble guns", "glitter guns" and the "wendigo mask".

History:

Gribbit started out in a duster gang called the Dirty 7's, which split over creative differences. After this he drifted for a few months before forming a new gang: The Fundertakers. For a long time he was the gang's only member. It was tough to find recruits. As of year 3, the Dusters weren't doing so hot thanks to Johnny Bennett and Assistive Technologies press-ganging them into service with the Red Hammers and using the gang as their own private army. Nothing had improved under the leadership of Gribbit's friend Patches. Most Red Hammers / Crimson Stars were starving and / or cannibals, many were dead. The popular suggestion to solve the cannibal problem was to put them out of their misery, but Gribbit recruited them into a new Gang instead. He armed them with Aldebrandi Swords of Fire and invented Wendigo Masks that let them be more effective cannibals. His friend Izzy recruited a bunch of Lassano serfs to swell the ranks. His army joined the other Dusters as they took back the Duster Oasis from the ORC, and the Oasis later became their very first Fungeon, where they did whatever the hell they wanted. He had a very minor role in defeating The Family, during which he convinced many Dusters to undergo Dendrite Symbiosis so they could breathe the native Karstian air.

Epologue:

After Beacon's victory, Gribbit devoted his time to building Fargates based on teleporter pad technology to connect Karstian colonies on distant worlds together. The Postmaster's Union would map these gates and use them to travel back and forth between worlds on scouting missions. He lived to an extremely old age thanks to his Dendrite Symbiosis. He also backed up his storred memories of Izzy from the time they spent Brain-Linked and developed an AI based off of her personality. He installed it on a joking machine she had once given him (which he had kept as a memento). It is the only memento he as that DOES really talk back to him.

Behind the Scenes:

Gribbit was created as a troll character who was only supposed to last two games, just so I could bridge the gap between crunching for Steam and Cinders MK 1 and crunching for Steam and Cinders MK 2. Ultimately I got too attached to the character and the setting to give it up and kept playing.