Sector 102 // Gorgone Locke – The Shotgun Horror

Gorgone Locke, aka the Shotgun Horror, is what happens when you spend just a little too long in the Cursed Earth.

Before the scars, the shotgun and the rather unfortunate nickname, Locke was a trader. He travelled the wastes of the Cursed Earth, making a living from whatever 20th-century junk he could dig out of the ruins. Old tech, battered machinery, forgotten consumer goods, if someone in the Mega-City wanted it, Gorgone could probably find it. Then one deal went very, very wrong.

Locke was ambushed by a gang while crossing the wastes. They took his goods, left him for dead and dumped his body into a radioactive pit. Unfortunately for them, Gorgone Locke wasn't quite finished. He dragged himself out of the Rad Pit alive, although what came out wasn't quite the man who went in. His face had been burned beyond recognition, his body scarred by radiation and his old life was gone in the blink of an eye.

All Locke had left were the clothes he could find, and a discarded shotgun, but that was enough.

Gorgone Locke picked up the weapon and made himself a promise: he would find the gang that left him in that pit. And so the Shotgun Horror was born.

These days, Locke wanders the wastelands surrounding Sector 102, trading when he has to, hunting when he wants to and generally making himself everyone's problem. Some say he's just a travelling trader. Others call him a bounty hunter. A few simply refer to him as the thing with the shotgun.

Nobody is entirely sure what the Cursed Earth did to Gorgone Locke. Nobody really wants to find out. But if you're travelling through the wastes and see a scarred figure carrying a shotgun...

You might want to keep walking.