So much for the Hippocratic Oath.

History

David “Ox” Floyd was once an ordinary man. Well, an ordinary doctor. Okay, an ordinary maverick doctor. He was read up on all the new therapies and theories, had a steady hand, and a passable bedside manner. A prominent neurologist and surgeon, his key interest was repairing nerve damage and doing such things as restoring eyesight.

He stopped being a doctor and started being something else when he was called in to do a kidney transplant. He was just starting to wash up when the police came and tried to take the organ. Apparently it wasn’t donated, but sold. Not a good thing, or a legal one. The police went of with the kidney, the patient died a few days later, and Ox was very, very unhappy.

He took a leave of absence, and nobody knew where he’d gone or what he was doing. A few people started getting suspicious after a few members of the police ended up savagely mutilated and crippled. All of them were present at the hospital to take the kidney away, except for one who was also on the case of the organ-peddler that provided the kidney.

Ox left his nice house, nice car, and rewarding job behind to exact his own personalized style of revenge. The style is fairly distinct: The victims have their eyes gouged out, their tongues ripped out, and all fingers cut off. Both thumbs too. They’re alive when he drops them in the street, but that can change depending on weather and the neighborhood before anyone finds them.

The FBI have a fairly large file on him, but they have had next to zero luck finding him. The guy who got closest was shoved down a flight of stairs. He’s paralyzed from the waist down now.

The New Inquisition, on the other hand, has gotten much closer. Enforcers have taken pot shots at Ox and scored some torso hits, but they can never seem to actually hit something vital. Alex Abel and his staff think that Ox is some sort of variation on the Thanatomancer — a butcher kills other people and draws on the power of their life force; this guy takes away peoples’ voices, sight and ability to manipulate their surroundings, and this gives him their lost abilities.

As for Ox, he has no idea that magick exists or there’s an occult underground. He’s just a guy on a massive revenge kick. He seems to pick people randomly from fields that exploit humanity or profit from human suffering. He’s gone after other doctors, pimps, pornographers, repo men, lawyers, and most recently, human traffickers.

Vital Statistics

Name: David Floyd

Age: 32

Obsession: Justice

Personality: Think Michael Douglas as D-FENS in the movie Falling Down.

Wound Points: 60

Body 60 (Tall and Lanky)
General Athletics 40%, Scalpel of Doom 50%

Speed 55 (Steady Hands)
Dodge 35%, Drive 25%, Initiative 25%, Surgery 40%

Mind 60 (Cutting Edge)
Neurology 50%, First Aid 35%, Set Elaborate and Cunning but Surprisingly Non-Lethal Traps 40%

Soul 45 (Cold as a Stethoscope)
Charm 15%, Lie 30%, Calm Hysterical People Down 35%

Madness Meters

V: 6/2
U: 0/1
H: 2/3
I: 1/2
S: 3/3

Notes: The single Unnatural Failed Notch came from a patient, pronounced dead, sitting up and demanding to know where he was. He was missing a few important organs at the time. They put them back in and stitched him up and the guy went on to become a very successful college basketball player. Ox never really got over it.

Gear: Surgical tools, a large first aid kit, sunglasses, set of tools, lots and lots of ether, cruddy station wagon.

What You’ve Heard

Ox was supposed to be dead in Europe after running into a roomful of men with full auto firearms. If that’s true, then there must be a copycat killer, because there’s a whole assload of guys messed up the same way he did it over in Egypt.

Use in Campaigns

Primarily as a red herring. PCs end up running around trying to figure out what the mystic significance of his attacks are, if he makes talismans from the body parts, what kind of blast he’s got packing, and then maybe they drop him like a barrel of bricks because he’s just a very vindictive guy with something sharp.