Linda
Member of: The Heroes of St. Louis, Current Adventuring Party
Name: Linda
Origin: Super Mutant
Age: 16
Level: 11
Attributes: S 11, P 4, E 11, C 4, I 4, A 6, L5
Skills: Athletics 5*, Big Guns 5*, Melee 5*, Small Guns 2, Sneak 1, Speech 2, Survival 5, Throwing 1, Unarmed 3
Perks: Strong Back, Pain Train (Rank 2), Intense Training END x2, Barbarian, Life Giver, Atomic Storm (see the Homebrew Origins and Perks page.), Slayer, Intense Training AGI, Communion
Derived: HP 37, Init 10, Def 1
Linda was born in 2301 on a little farm just east of the ruins of Quincy, Illinois. Her parents were adherents to a very fervent chapter of the Children of Atom religion. Their congregation would gather in the old Chomp Foods plant. Before the war, the facility was used to irradiate military rations, and the Atom worshippers used the radioactive projector as a type of altar. This group were very strict, refusing to use Rad-X or RadAway, but were still a peaceful, tight-knit community.
Linda was fairly sheltered in the community. She learned the basics of reading and writing, mostly exposed to Children of Atom literature. Her parents were well-versed in nuclear physics, but Linda was always a simpler person, more attuned with people and animals. The Children interacted with their irreligious neighbours in Quincy very rarely, but the relationship was always friendly.
After years of tranquil living under the protection of the Midwest Brotherhood of Steel, a feeling grew in the group that they should intensify their worship. They decide to pursue the religious concept of Division by throwing themselves into the reactor core of an old nuclear plant. They joyfully set their affairs in order and set off for their final journey, including Linda.
The worshippers stood around the ring of a reactor core, holding hands. The entire community jumped in together. Even 200 years out of operation, there was enough radiation in the core to kill everyone in seconds - everyone but Linda. The teenage girl was somehow immune to the radiation, Atom's Blessing. She had to stack the bodies of her congregation to escape the core.
After weeks of living feral, Linda was found by a group of scavengers, nomads who survived by searching ruins and selling the salvage. They weren't Children of Atom, but they were a community. Linda barely picked up on it, but they were always moving, always afraid of something following them. She came in handy, as her radiation immunity meant she could go places the others couldn't. A day came when they apologetically, sorrowfully explained to Linda that she had to leave their group. They were giving her over to Dr. Harding, who would take care of her now. Linda was taken away in a flying machine and never saw the scavengers again.
Linda was brought to a scary place with doctors and strange machines. There were other people there, strangers gathered from across the Midwest. They were all given medicine, strapped to tables and exposed to radiation. Dr. Harding was a mean lady, who only visited the scary place occasionally. When she did, even the doctors were frightened of her. Atom blessed Linda again, she grew in size, turned green and surged in strength.
Linda was tired of the scary place and the constant medicine. In a rage, she smashed out of the building, freeing the other people and setting off on her own. She looked for other Children. But by then, the Confessors in Holy Toledo had ruled that super mutants were unholy abominations. When followers of Atom saw Linda, they were scared of her, calling her names or even using violence. Linda tried to explain that she was blessed by Atom and didn't understand why they called her a mutant.
Mother Sage, the leader of the Children in Emancipation, heard there was a super mutant believer in the area who needed help. She searched for Linda, found her, and brought her to live at the Altar of Atom in Emancipation. Linda was a valued member of the parish, keeping the altar grounds and helping with her extraordinary strength.
But word got back to the Confessors that Mother Sage was harbouring a super mutant on holy ground. Elements within the faith in Holy Toledo petitioned High Confessor Leo to make an official ruling, but their leader remained silent on the issue. That left the Confessors free to order Mother Sage to expel Linda, and ordered the other members of the Emancipation believers to kill Linda if she ever stepped on holy ground.
In tears, Mother Sage tried to explain to Linda that she had to leave and never come back. Sage lead Linda into the office of John Giscala, asking him to take care of her. By chance, Lex Garridan, Mister Man and Zero were in the office, ready to go on a mission to St. Louis. Seeing that Linda could be helpful and needed a place to go, Mayor John suggested they join The Heroes of St. Louis. Linda didn't understand and was deeply upset, but they all agreed.
Story Arc 1 (The St. Louis Summit)
Setting out for St. Louis was a time of enormous growth for Linda. She was valued by her friends and not just used. On the road with Paladin Hector, the group came across an Atom worshipper from The Rustlands. He was angry and offended that a super mutant would claim to be Child of Atom, hurling insults. The Rustlands group attacked Paladin Hector, and combat ensued. After the combat was over, Linda continued to assail the bigot's body, filled with rage.
The group took special care to keep Linda away from the Children of Atom temple in St. Louis. Zero kept her preoccupied by taking her to the Venice Power Plant, where she was given a special gift - a chunk of spent fuel rod. While in the caverns beneath the Anheiser Booch Brewery, the city experienced the St. Louis Attack. Linda emerged to see a mushroom cloud, Atom's glory right before her eyes!
Story Arc 2 (Caesar's Lands)
On the mission to retrieve Doctor Antyllus from Caesar's Legion, Linda remained friendly and energetic. She always advocated for helping people and enthusiastically told everyone they met about the glory of Atom. The group made sure to bring Linda to the old Folk Nuclear Plant so she could feel Atom's Glow.
Story Arc 3 (Gravestone)
On the trip to Gravestone, Linda continued to be upbeat and evangelical. At Pyro City, the group pooled their caps to buy her a flamer. In Gravestone, an Inquisitor named Actus tried to manipulate Linda into bombing the Gravestone Cathedral. With help from her friends, she resisted the pressure. She won a professional cattle prod fight and the city's grand melee, to a cheering crowd.
Story Arc 4 (Return Home)
Leaving Gravestone, Linda got the opportunity to meet Lyle, a ghoul who was fighting over religion with his wife. It turned out that before he was ghoulified, Lyle was one of Confessor Cromwell's first four Inquisitors. In his duty to the faith, he had been exposed to intense radiation and was turned into a ghoul. Cromwell had gifted the Inquisitors each a uranium ring as a sign of their authority. But to Lyle, he gave a lead ring. Lead atoms don't fuse, they can't experience Division. Lyle was slowly pushed out of the religion, eventually settling south of Gravestone.
Seeing Linda's faith and having no use for the ring himself, he gave the holy relic to Linda, who accepted it gladly. He warned Linda that not everyone in their religion was kind and cooperative like her family. Some were bad people who would lie. Linda was honoured, but also very angry at the bad people.
Linda didn't understand much about the changes in Vault 40 and Emancipation, but she could tell her friends were upset. She wrote a note to Mother Sage, letter her know that she was alright. Sage promised Zero that she was doing what she could within the faith to reverse the ban on super mutants. But High Confessor Leo was still silent.
Story Arc 5 (Traveling East)
Heading to Gamma Town, the group came across a man stranded on a roof. Linda recognized him as Rex, one of the human experiments from her lab. He warned that Dr. Harding was still out there, hunting for all of the experiments, especially Linda. Soon after, Rex and his friends were murdered, struck by a strange weapon that ghoulified them. Harding was out there, and well-equipped.
Crossing the Mississippi, the group came to the old Chomp Foods plant where Linda's family went to worship. She didn't have long to reminisce. The area was bugged with Enclave robots ready to capture Linda again.
Story Arc 6 (Gamma Town)
Getting closer to Gamma Town, Linda got the opportunity to spend more time with children. In the post-vault community of Silence, Linda played baseball with its students and in Gamma Town, she brought a game called "Atomic Blast" to the local orphans (throwing children up in the air and catching them.)
Linda didn't understand much about the Midwest Brotherhood's trial against Mayor John, but was proud to see her friends stand up for the people of Emancipation.
Story Arc 7 (Westward)
Leaving the trial at Gamma Town, the group was determined to do whatever they could for the developing situation in Caesar's Legion. That meant traveling to Flagstaff, hundreds of miles away. The group took a Brotherhood vertibird to Gravestone, where they discovered that the local Children of Atom Inquisitors had armed and amassed for an attack on the Gravestone Cathedral. Zero was interested in brokering a peace between the two groups, which Linda supported greatly. But the local Children were resistant. Mister Endtimes, a local crime boss killed the city's Children of Atom Confessor, triggering outright war in the streets.
It looked as though the chaos would result in the destruction of the city, with even the Brotherhood of Steel being called in to stop the violence. Linda was able to confront Actus, the leader of the local Children of Atom Inquisitors. Linda accused him of being bad an unholy. Insulted, Actus challenged her to holy single combat. Linda entered an intense religious frenzy, known in the religion as the Atomic Storm, and defeated Actus. Faced not only with Actus's loss in the duel, but with the miracle of Linda experiencing the Atomic Storm, the other Inquisitors abandoned the fight immediately. Linda was the first ever non-human to experience the Atomic Storm, and it changed many minds about the religions policy of non-human exclusion. The newly elected leader of the Gravestone Inquisitors renamed himself Lindon in her honour. Linda had created a new school of the Children of Atom religion, known as Lindavism which preached universal membership and drinking Loose Juice. The Gravestone Children asked Linda to stay, but she explained that she needed to help her friends fix the Legion.
Linda didn't understand the political intricacies of the interregnum in the Legion, but she wanted to support her friends. She tried to be helpful and inform people of the glory of Atom. When the group hosted a party for the elite of Flagstaff, Linda amused the guests by wrestling with Ignus, a famous bullfighter. Linda was victorious over Ignus, which people found very entertaining.
Story Arc 8 (Enduring)
With most of Linda's friends lost in Caesar's Legion, Linda did her best to keep up her spirits and serve Atom. The Dixie region was new and exciting for Linda. Very few people there had even heard of Atom. Linda had lost her personal items, except for the false Inquisitor's ring she received from Lyle the ghoul, so she needed a new pamphlet to explain the virtues of Atom worship. Lex helped Linda write out a new pamphlet from memory.
Linda found Dixie pleasant, but confusing. She did her best to help along the way, which included doing favours for many ordinary folk who were having troubles. In the Voodoo Authentica shop, Linda picked out a coral pink candle, which Eshu the shopkeeper explained was la cierge Agwe. Things were strange, but they were making their way back to the Midwest. That was until one day when they were walking through Memphis and were attacked by Gen 2 Synths. Linda called on the Atomic Storm and fought back, but she was overwhelmed and knocked unconscious, almost dying. When she awoke, Lex, her last friend from Missouri, was being stolen away through the air on a jetpack.
Story Arc 9 (Kentucky Dam)
With Lex gone, Linda's usually upbeat demeanour changed. She was upset and anxious. Linda had called upon the Atomic Storm, but Lex was taken anyway. All of her old friends were gone, and she may have lost the favour of Atom. Morag the hunter found Linda lying injured in the street and tried to help. And Morag's talking rifle Beau did his best to console her. Linda agreed to continue on toward Kentucky Dam, but she was sad and lost. Beau made for good conversation, but she missed her old friends. One night, Linda decided to light her special candle, perhaps making a deal with the spirit Agwe.
Story Arc 10 (Betrayal)
Linda was eager to get back to Kentucky Dam in order to find Lex. But she also wished to support her new friends Morag, Patch and Andy. Andy especially needed guidance and help. Here in Dixie, there were almost no adherents to Atom. Linda pressed on, quieter than usual, but still upheld her obligations to her faith.
Story Arc 11 (War!)
When the totality of the Inquisitor's and The Capitol's betrayal of Dixie became clear to Linda, she was furious. She hadn't seen people behaving so badly since she had escaped the Scary Place. But surrounded by enemies, she helped the group escape northward. Speaking Atom's name was dangerous in The Capitol, but she would not be suppressed. Meeting a Confessor named Kean, she was warned about Mother Isabella in Holy Toledo. She lead the exclusionary faction there, and had deep ties to the Inquisitors. He commented that he was disappointed that High Confessor Leo I was such a delinquent leader. He also recommend that Linda find Mother Dorothy, who was a fiercely pro-inclusion.
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Name: Linda
Origin: Super Mutant
Age: 16
Level: 11
Attributes: S 11, P 4, E 11, C 4, I 4, A 6, L5
Skills: Athletics 5*, Big Guns 5*, Melee 5*, Small Guns 2, Sneak 1, Speech 2, Survival 5, Throwing 1, Unarmed 3
Perks: Strong Back, Pain Train (Rank 2), Intense Training END x2, Barbarian, Life Giver, Atomic Storm (see the Homebrew Origins and Perks page.), Slayer, Intense Training AGI, Communion
Derived: HP 37, Init 10, Def 1
Background
Linda was born in 2301 on a little farm just east of the ruins of Quincy, Illinois. Her parents were adherents to a very fervent chapter of the Children of Atom religion. Their congregation would gather in the old Chomp Foods plant. Before the war, the facility was used to irradiate military rations, and the Atom worshippers used the radioactive projector as a type of altar. This group were very strict, refusing to use Rad-X or RadAway, but were still a peaceful, tight-knit community.
Linda was fairly sheltered in the community. She learned the basics of reading and writing, mostly exposed to Children of Atom literature. Her parents were well-versed in nuclear physics, but Linda was always a simpler person, more attuned with people and animals. The Children interacted with their irreligious neighbours in Quincy very rarely, but the relationship was always friendly.
After years of tranquil living under the protection of the Midwest Brotherhood of Steel, a feeling grew in the group that they should intensify their worship. They decide to pursue the religious concept of Division by throwing themselves into the reactor core of an old nuclear plant. They joyfully set their affairs in order and set off for their final journey, including Linda.
The worshippers stood around the ring of a reactor core, holding hands. The entire community jumped in together. Even 200 years out of operation, there was enough radiation in the core to kill everyone in seconds - everyone but Linda. The teenage girl was somehow immune to the radiation, Atom's Blessing. She had to stack the bodies of her congregation to escape the core.
After weeks of living feral, Linda was found by a group of scavengers, nomads who survived by searching ruins and selling the salvage. They weren't Children of Atom, but they were a community. Linda barely picked up on it, but they were always moving, always afraid of something following them. She came in handy, as her radiation immunity meant she could go places the others couldn't. A day came when they apologetically, sorrowfully explained to Linda that she had to leave their group. They were giving her over to Dr. Harding, who would take care of her now. Linda was taken away in a flying machine and never saw the scavengers again.
Linda was brought to a scary place with doctors and strange machines. There were other people there, strangers gathered from across the Midwest. They were all given medicine, strapped to tables and exposed to radiation. Dr. Harding was a mean lady, who only visited the scary place occasionally. When she did, even the doctors were frightened of her. Atom blessed Linda again, she grew in size, turned green and surged in strength.
Linda was tired of the scary place and the constant medicine. In a rage, she smashed out of the building, freeing the other people and setting off on her own. She looked for other Children. But by then, the Confessors in Holy Toledo had ruled that super mutants were unholy abominations. When followers of Atom saw Linda, they were scared of her, calling her names or even using violence. Linda tried to explain that she was blessed by Atom and didn't understand why they called her a mutant.
Mother Sage, the leader of the Children in Emancipation, heard there was a super mutant believer in the area who needed help. She searched for Linda, found her, and brought her to live at the Altar of Atom in Emancipation. Linda was a valued member of the parish, keeping the altar grounds and helping with her extraordinary strength.
But word got back to the Confessors that Mother Sage was harbouring a super mutant on holy ground. Elements within the faith in Holy Toledo petitioned High Confessor Leo to make an official ruling, but their leader remained silent on the issue. That left the Confessors free to order Mother Sage to expel Linda, and ordered the other members of the Emancipation believers to kill Linda if she ever stepped on holy ground.
In tears, Mother Sage tried to explain to Linda that she had to leave and never come back. Sage lead Linda into the office of John Giscala, asking him to take care of her. By chance, Lex Garridan, Mister Man and Zero were in the office, ready to go on a mission to St. Louis. Seeing that Linda could be helpful and needed a place to go, Mayor John suggested they join The Heroes of St. Louis. Linda didn't understand and was deeply upset, but they all agreed.
The Game
Story Arc 1 (The St. Louis Summit)
Setting out for St. Louis was a time of enormous growth for Linda. She was valued by her friends and not just used. On the road with Paladin Hector, the group came across an Atom worshipper from The Rustlands. He was angry and offended that a super mutant would claim to be Child of Atom, hurling insults. The Rustlands group attacked Paladin Hector, and combat ensued. After the combat was over, Linda continued to assail the bigot's body, filled with rage.
The group took special care to keep Linda away from the Children of Atom temple in St. Louis. Zero kept her preoccupied by taking her to the Venice Power Plant, where she was given a special gift - a chunk of spent fuel rod. While in the caverns beneath the Anheiser Booch Brewery, the city experienced the St. Louis Attack. Linda emerged to see a mushroom cloud, Atom's glory right before her eyes!
Story Arc 2 (Caesar's Lands)
On the mission to retrieve Doctor Antyllus from Caesar's Legion, Linda remained friendly and energetic. She always advocated for helping people and enthusiastically told everyone they met about the glory of Atom. The group made sure to bring Linda to the old Folk Nuclear Plant so she could feel Atom's Glow.
Story Arc 3 (Gravestone)
On the trip to Gravestone, Linda continued to be upbeat and evangelical. At Pyro City, the group pooled their caps to buy her a flamer. In Gravestone, an Inquisitor named Actus tried to manipulate Linda into bombing the Gravestone Cathedral. With help from her friends, she resisted the pressure. She won a professional cattle prod fight and the city's grand melee, to a cheering crowd.
Story Arc 4 (Return Home)
Leaving Gravestone, Linda got the opportunity to meet Lyle, a ghoul who was fighting over religion with his wife. It turned out that before he was ghoulified, Lyle was one of Confessor Cromwell's first four Inquisitors. In his duty to the faith, he had been exposed to intense radiation and was turned into a ghoul. Cromwell had gifted the Inquisitors each a uranium ring as a sign of their authority. But to Lyle, he gave a lead ring. Lead atoms don't fuse, they can't experience Division. Lyle was slowly pushed out of the religion, eventually settling south of Gravestone.
Seeing Linda's faith and having no use for the ring himself, he gave the holy relic to Linda, who accepted it gladly. He warned Linda that not everyone in their religion was kind and cooperative like her family. Some were bad people who would lie. Linda was honoured, but also very angry at the bad people.
Linda didn't understand much about the changes in Vault 40 and Emancipation, but she could tell her friends were upset. She wrote a note to Mother Sage, letter her know that she was alright. Sage promised Zero that she was doing what she could within the faith to reverse the ban on super mutants. But High Confessor Leo was still silent.
Story Arc 5 (Traveling East)
Heading to Gamma Town, the group came across a man stranded on a roof. Linda recognized him as Rex, one of the human experiments from her lab. He warned that Dr. Harding was still out there, hunting for all of the experiments, especially Linda. Soon after, Rex and his friends were murdered, struck by a strange weapon that ghoulified them. Harding was out there, and well-equipped.
Crossing the Mississippi, the group came to the old Chomp Foods plant where Linda's family went to worship. She didn't have long to reminisce. The area was bugged with Enclave robots ready to capture Linda again.
Story Arc 6 (Gamma Town)
Getting closer to Gamma Town, Linda got the opportunity to spend more time with children. In the post-vault community of Silence, Linda played baseball with its students and in Gamma Town, she brought a game called "Atomic Blast" to the local orphans (throwing children up in the air and catching them.)
Linda didn't understand much about the Midwest Brotherhood's trial against Mayor John, but was proud to see her friends stand up for the people of Emancipation.
Story Arc 7 (Westward)
Leaving the trial at Gamma Town, the group was determined to do whatever they could for the developing situation in Caesar's Legion. That meant traveling to Flagstaff, hundreds of miles away. The group took a Brotherhood vertibird to Gravestone, where they discovered that the local Children of Atom Inquisitors had armed and amassed for an attack on the Gravestone Cathedral. Zero was interested in brokering a peace between the two groups, which Linda supported greatly. But the local Children were resistant. Mister Endtimes, a local crime boss killed the city's Children of Atom Confessor, triggering outright war in the streets.
It looked as though the chaos would result in the destruction of the city, with even the Brotherhood of Steel being called in to stop the violence. Linda was able to confront Actus, the leader of the local Children of Atom Inquisitors. Linda accused him of being bad an unholy. Insulted, Actus challenged her to holy single combat. Linda entered an intense religious frenzy, known in the religion as the Atomic Storm, and defeated Actus. Faced not only with Actus's loss in the duel, but with the miracle of Linda experiencing the Atomic Storm, the other Inquisitors abandoned the fight immediately. Linda was the first ever non-human to experience the Atomic Storm, and it changed many minds about the religions policy of non-human exclusion. The newly elected leader of the Gravestone Inquisitors renamed himself Lindon in her honour. Linda had created a new school of the Children of Atom religion, known as Lindavism which preached universal membership and drinking Loose Juice. The Gravestone Children asked Linda to stay, but she explained that she needed to help her friends fix the Legion.
Linda didn't understand the political intricacies of the interregnum in the Legion, but she wanted to support her friends. She tried to be helpful and inform people of the glory of Atom. When the group hosted a party for the elite of Flagstaff, Linda amused the guests by wrestling with Ignus, a famous bullfighter. Linda was victorious over Ignus, which people found very entertaining.
Story Arc 8 (Enduring)
With most of Linda's friends lost in Caesar's Legion, Linda did her best to keep up her spirits and serve Atom. The Dixie region was new and exciting for Linda. Very few people there had even heard of Atom. Linda had lost her personal items, except for the false Inquisitor's ring she received from Lyle the ghoul, so she needed a new pamphlet to explain the virtues of Atom worship. Lex helped Linda write out a new pamphlet from memory.
Linda found Dixie pleasant, but confusing. She did her best to help along the way, which included doing favours for many ordinary folk who were having troubles. In the Voodoo Authentica shop, Linda picked out a coral pink candle, which Eshu the shopkeeper explained was la cierge Agwe. Things were strange, but they were making their way back to the Midwest. That was until one day when they were walking through Memphis and were attacked by Gen 2 Synths. Linda called on the Atomic Storm and fought back, but she was overwhelmed and knocked unconscious, almost dying. When she awoke, Lex, her last friend from Missouri, was being stolen away through the air on a jetpack.
Story Arc 9 (Kentucky Dam)
With Lex gone, Linda's usually upbeat demeanour changed. She was upset and anxious. Linda had called upon the Atomic Storm, but Lex was taken anyway. All of her old friends were gone, and she may have lost the favour of Atom. Morag the hunter found Linda lying injured in the street and tried to help. And Morag's talking rifle Beau did his best to console her. Linda agreed to continue on toward Kentucky Dam, but she was sad and lost. Beau made for good conversation, but she missed her old friends. One night, Linda decided to light her special candle, perhaps making a deal with the spirit Agwe.
Story Arc 10 (Betrayal)
Linda was eager to get back to Kentucky Dam in order to find Lex. But she also wished to support her new friends Morag, Patch and Andy. Andy especially needed guidance and help. Here in Dixie, there were almost no adherents to Atom. Linda pressed on, quieter than usual, but still upheld her obligations to her faith.
Story Arc 11 (War!)
When the totality of the Inquisitor's and The Capitol's betrayal of Dixie became clear to Linda, she was furious. She hadn't seen people behaving so badly since she had escaped the Scary Place. But surrounded by enemies, she helped the group escape northward. Speaking Atom's name was dangerous in The Capitol, but she would not be suppressed. Meeting a Confessor named Kean, she was warned about Mother Isabella in Holy Toledo. She lead the exclusionary faction there, and had deep ties to the Inquisitors. He commented that he was disappointed that High Confessor Leo I was such a delinquent leader. He also recommend that Linda find Mother Dorothy, who was a fiercely pro-inclusion.
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