Blackjack's People #070
Preacher Brothers
By Blackjack [Blackjack's Shadowrun Page: www.BlackjackSR.com] [BlackjackSRx@gmail.com] [@BlackjackSRx]

Posted: 1998-10-26

Dale Preacher

Archetype: Human Former Preacher

Dale and his brothers were once hardcore preaches of the Baptist faith until somebody decided to detonate a bomb in their church, killing just about everybody, and causing the brothers to acquire a new purpose: That of tracking down the bombers.

To say they’ve had little luck with this endeavor would be an understatement. They have no idea how to interact with people outside of the church environment, how to search for information, or how to fight in a strategic fashion. This would make them a pretty weak foe if it wasn’t for the fact that each has so much cyberware in them they’re a datajack away from being zombies. How they acquired the money for such ware is unknown, but some believe it actually came in as donations from the families of people who were killed in the explosion.

So what do they do? Mainly just hang out in bars and try to communicate with street types. Unfortunately they have the social skills of cabbages so little is getting done. Occasionally somebody will pick them up and pay them a few bucks for guard duty and give the brothers some sort of dead end information regarding the bombers.

Max Preacher

Archetype: Human Former Preacher

Max is the only brother who is making any concerted effort to learn how to use the numerous pieces of metal he has inside of him. He’s also managed to pick up a few social skills but rarely has a chance to use them effectively before his older brother, Dale, chimes in with a statement that makes them all look like idiots. It’s getting so bad that he’s considering abandoning the rest of his brothers in order to pursue the bomber on his own.

Stan Preacher

Archetype: Human Former Preacher

Stan wasn’t especially pleased at the prospect of getting cyberware and, now that he has it, he’s about nuts from the effects it has had on his mind. Usually he just sits around, staring at a cyber arm, and shouting “No! I will not give you oil!”. Sometimes his own brothers have to sedate him when he tries to rip his wired reflexes out with his steel fingernails.

Henry Preacher

Archetype: Human Former Preacher

Henry thinks they all should just go back, rebuild the church, and get on with preaching. At his request, all of the cyberware installed in him was head and memoryware which he has utilized to memorize just about every piece of religious literature thus turning him into a finely tuned, and rather annoying, preaching machine. If the group ever gets into a fight he usually just stands back and recites a passage from the bible explaining why they shouldn’t be doing what they’re doing followed by another passage from the bible that JUSTIFIES what they’re doing until finally he gets into an intense, and audible, argument with himself over why he is and is not committing an act of blasphemy.