Jack Harmon, "Hannibal137" is a Hunter of the Defender Creed. Dole7 bans him from hunter-net and Vigil.
Overview[]
Jack Harmon grew up in a poor area of Floyd County, Virginia, where folks trying to lay low went to escape proper society. Jack's father left when the boy was a few years old, leaving him, his mother and his younger brother, Brian, to cope with poverty.
When Jack was 14, Brian disappeared. Jack obsessed himself with finding his brother. He spent days combing the woods, far longer than the half-hearted police and a handful of concerned neighbors did. They didn't find Brian. Eventually, even Jack had to admit defeat.
Jack's anger over the loss engulfed him. He became a troublemaker. He'd been arrested twice by the time he was 16. He dropped out of school at 17, got a girl pregnant and was saddled with a loveless marriage. He lived off his mother for nearly a year after that, spending his time frustrated and drunk. That is, till the police called with information that Brian's body had been found. A county worker had found the boy partially exhumed in the back 40 of the Kendrick place. Even the locals considered the Kendricks "hillbilles." Some stories were even less... gracious.
Jack didn't wait for the police to investigate. He decided to take justice into his own hands and went to the Kendrick place himself. There was a dog in the yard, but Jack took care of it. Some kid answered the door and Jack beat him aside with a bat. His shouts of "Who killed my brother?" went unanswered as other family members overwhelmed him and nearly beat him to death. Jack recovered in police custody. The sheriff did his usual lame-ass job investigating the family and turned up no connection to the dead boy. Meanwhile, Jack went to prison.
Not surprisingly, jail time didn't do anything to alleviate Jack's anger. If anything, the abuse he suffered inside hardened his heart and soul. He was determined to make his brother's murderers pay, but he wasn't sure how to go about it without winding up in jail again. It would have to look like an accident...
When Jack was finally paroled, he really hadn't learned any lessons. He went back to his hometown and learned what had changed in his absence. His mother had died. His ex-wife had moved on. He had no immediate family left. All he really had was a taste for revenge, and he was pleased to heat that at least some of the Kendricks still lived up in the hills.
This time Jack went better armed. Turned out he didn't really need to be. The only members of the family still living there were old and senile, grandparents wallowing in their own shot. They didn't even have the presence to confront him when he barged into the dilapidated house.
Although the couple were past their prime, their legacy lived on. Jack found a box in the bedroom filled with a shitload of money. That was a start, he thought. He felt only slightly more mollified when he emptied an oil lamp and started a fire that burned the place to the ground.
Although the face of the local law had changed, its dedication hadn't. Harmon was questioned as to his whereabouts during the fire, but he couldn't be placed there. When no other Kendricks could be found to inherit the land, it went up for auction. As the ultimate irony, he used the money he'd stolen to buy the property and build a house on the foundation of the old one.
It was during this time that Harmon discovered the cavern hidden off the root cellar. Bizarre, terrible visions of child torture and murder assailed him, as if the ghosts of the dead wanted their story to be known. He was confronted with the horrible acts that had been perpetrated there in the past. He buried the remains of the bodies he'd found and hoped he'd laid their souls to rest. He finally understood what might have happened to his brother years before, and he vowed never to let it happen again.
Little did he know that not all the Kendricks' kin are dead or gone. At least one has returned to discover the loss of the property, house and cavern, and has tried to take it back by trickery and force. Fortunately, Harmon's years of hardship and bitterness have made him a dogged, ruthless defender of his home and his brother's memory.
Character Sheet[]
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 2, Stamina (Determined) 4, Charisma 1, Manipulation 3, Appearance 2, Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits (Unsurprisable) 4
Abilities: Alertness 2, Athletics 1, Awareness 2, Brawl 2, Computer 1, Crafts (Improvised Tools) 3, Demolitions 1, Dodge 3, Endurance 2, Firearms 3, Intimidation 2, Intuition (Hidden Motives) 4, Medicine 1, Melee 2, Occult 2, Security 3, Stealth 2, Streetwise 1, Subterfuge 1, Survival 3, Technology 1, Traps (Stairways) 4
Backgrounds: Arsenal 2, Exposure 1, Iron Willed 3, Resources 2, Stronghold 3
Edges: (Defense) Alram, Ward, Rejuvenate; (Judgment) Discern, Burden
Zeal: 7, Conviction: 5, Willpower: 7
Derangement: Xenophobia
References[]
- HTR: Hunter Book: Defender, p. 5, 23-25, 27, 29, 33-37, 39-42, 44-45, 47-48, 50-54, 56-57, 59-61, 63, 68, 92-93
- HTR: Hunter Book: Visionary, p. 9, 25
- HTR: Hunter Book: Judge, p. 37
- HTR: Hunter Book: Martyr, p. 31
- HTR: Hunter Storytellers Handbook, p. 154-155, 164
- HTR: The Spellbound, p. 98
- HTR: Fall From Grace, p. 68
- VTES: Nights of Reckoning