Broken banks is a cannon location in North Carolina based on outer banks. This is an excerpt of a concept character.
Lee Becker:
Lee Becker was born in the year 2253, the second child of a pair of brahmin farmers in Broken Banks N.C. He has very little memories of his mother, who died giving birth to his youngest brother when he was only six years old, but described her as a sweet, kind woman who wasn't afraid to role her sleeves up when the time came. He describes his father as a hard working man who had a penchant for the bottle, but never laid a hand on his children and tried to raise them to be self sufficient men of the wastes. Lee's father and older brother Riley taught Lee and his younger brother Ray how to shoot, track, skin/clean an animal, fight, grow crops, just about everything you'd need to know to survive. His life took a tragic turn, however, when he and Ray went hunting with their father when he was 13. Their father had been drinking all day as they were stalking a herd of bighorner through the wetlands when he carelessly stumbled into a cazador nest, an area he knew to avoid. He recalls the horribly shrill sound of his father screaming as the cazador surrounded him, and watching has he curled up on the ground as he was pierced over and over by their dagger like stingers. He and his brother fired into the swarm, killing only one but frightening the others prompting them to fly away. When they approached their father, he was still breathing, but the amount of poison in his body left him unable to talk or move, on top of the horrible pain it was causing him. Coupled with the massive blood loss, they knew he was dying a slow, painful death and that he couldn't be saved. After much debate with his brother, he knew that they couldn't save him, opting to euthanize via gunshot. Lee said that moment shattered any innocence he had left in him and that he no longer took the horror of the wastelands for granted.
They carried their fathers body back to the farm, burying him next to their mother. The next year was extremely difficult for the boys. Responsibilties fell to Riley, him being the oldest of the three. He was still a young man, however, and try as he might wasn't the rugged survivalist his father was. Their crops died and most of their brahmin due to malnourishment, causing the brothers to more often than not go hungry. When Lee was 16, he woke up finding a note from Riley saying that he had left Broken Banks to go out west where he would try to start a new life. He was sorry it had to be this way, but he could no longer stand sitting in an old, forgotten farm starving and waiting for an inevitable death. Lee never understood how his brother could just walk out on the only other two people he had in this world and blames himself, wondering if he had made more of an effort to help his brother out as an equal instead of relying on him as a care giver. Not long after his brother left, Lee realized he and Ray would surely die if they stayed on the farm and decided to travel to the colony Croatoan, a pre-war tourist destination that was turned into a trading post.
Lee and Ray's skills were not particularly suited to living in a colony, so it was hard adjusting to a less self-sufficient lifestyle. Lee worked with Ray in the town general store where they both found life to be monotonus and boring, opting to spend all their free time and caps getting piss-drunk in the bar and gambling; both frowned upon in the town leading to problems with "law enforcement" if you could call them that. They found their purpose when a local raider leader nick named "The Swamp Fox" after a pre-war historical figure raided the colony trying to take supplies from the prosperous town. Armed with only a pair of .30-06 bolt action rifles, Lee and Ray established a permimeter and fought off wave after wave of raiders, saving the towns supplies. The town was only slightly damaged by a small fire that the raiders lit, but there were quite a few civillian casualties. After the battle, they established the "Minutemen", a small, poorly armed militia that they personally instructed on shooting and wasteland survival. With the damage to the city repaired, they started taking the Minute Men out of patrols, hunting raiders and laying traps, which discouraged raiders from attacking Croatoan.
Finally finding their place in the town, they each got married; Lee to a girl named Ashley McCourt and Ray to a girl named Melanie Burch. Life seemed relatively normal, with the Minute Men rarely being called to action and the two becoming family men. Ray had a young son whom he loved dearly and swore off drinking forever so as not to make the same mistakes his father did, and Ashley was infertile. One day they got a report of heavy raider activity in the Wetlands, and assembled the Minutemen to lay an ambush for them. The Swamp Fox, however, knew they would attempt something and still wanting to avenge the losses he had taken due to the militia, established a counter ambush. As they trudged through the murky waters to the raider's last known location, gunfire began to rain down on them from the forest. They were caught out in the open, and men began to drop like flies. As they returned fire on the forest line, Ray began to shout at the men to advance and ran forward, but was shot multiple times in the chest and died instantly. Raiders began to charge out of the woods armed with blades, and a hysterical Lee took two machetes off the corpse of two dead Minutemen and started slaughtering scores of raiders, screaming how he would "Rip every raider limb from limb and rape their fucking corpses" before he was pulled away by the surviving militia.
Lee didn't return to Croatoan. He instead decided to wander around Broken Banks hunting and killing raiders, mutilating their corpses and leaving them as an example. He considered going west and trying to find his brother, but couldn't bring himself to leave his home or all these memories behind. Tiring of revenge, Lee returned to Croatoan two years after Ray died learning that Ashly remarried and Melanie killed her and Ray's child and commit suicide when she learned of his death. The Minutemen were surprisngly still around, being taken over by a mysterious man who Lee never actually met, but heard he was part of the remnants of the USMC. Though he tried to settle back down, he was vilified by the towns people for abandoning his wife and leaving the militia leaderless, causing a spike in raids leading dozen of innocent civillians to die. Left the town again, finally settling down in Kill Devil Hills, a city where people worship the Wright brothers as gods due to the memorial they found which was another popular pre war tourist attraction. Lee sits around in the bar all day, drinking his troubles away, now a relic of his former self looking for a purpose in life and trying to get revenge on the raiders who took his brother away.
Description: Lee is caucasian and an average height with a rugged build and sports black 5 o'clock shaddow and a shaved head. His signature weapon is his scopeless .30-06 Springfield, but also pulls out his duel machetes when he is backed into a corner. He wears a flannel shirt and blue jeans, and is very rarely seen without a cigarette in his hand.
Quests: Does Baby Need His Bottle?- Help Lee quit drinking by either passing a speech check, medical check, or aquiring four fixers.
Rewards: Aquire Lee as a companion
My Brother's Keeper (5 history points required)- Hunt down and kill the Swamp Fox and his men.
Rewards- 1200xp. Special weapon "Ray's .30-06" found on the Swamp Fox's corpse.
Perk: Lee gives you the Country Tough perk, increasing your over all damage resistance by 10%