Captain Det. Bernard Beachworth (Ducky, The Wolfsbane, Steampunk)

  Membership: Wolf Pack/SPD/Sons of Odin/Sons of Liberty

Race: Human

Height: 4’11

Weight: 120

Apparent Age: 70+

Archetype: Mercenary Gunslinger Adept

Circle: Unknown (Running Will Only Cause You To Die Tired!!)

Preferred Weapon:  Custom Patriot Edition Talon Hell Bringer

Runner Song:

UPDATE 08/01/2085:

Well this page is a tad out of date and needs some serious updating, looks like the previous reporter was a tad generous when it came to reporting about this little bastard. Beachworth has been around for some time and has been a thorn in the sides of anyone that has ever crossed paths with him, from law breaker to lawmen it doesn’t matter he simply makes their lives a living hell. Now I can hear the readers screaming at the page that of course Beachworth is a pain in the ass to the criminal, he is the legendary wolf pack detective that always closes his cases and has a 100% conviction rate, I can hear that he is a by the book pit-bull and once he clamps down on a case well it’s already solved and the criminal is heading straight to jail. Yes you will be right about this little detective, he is one hell of a cop and has locked up some of the worst offenders and this includes Donavan Trask of the Harbingers, helped close the case of the Gingerbread Killer, slapped the cuffs on the crime boss Hoff, ended the reign of terror of Padre…mind you that one ended with Beachworth killing the drug kingpin and well it was considered a justified shooting, and there was the take down of the legendary mafia don Kingpin that Beachworth sent straight to the gallows.

While those cases above have made this man’s career and left him severely mentally and physically scarred, this is only the icing on the cake for this life long and I mean really long detective. Throughout his career in law enforcement he worked for Scotland Yard, Capital Police, NYPD, LAPD, Detroit Police Department, FBI, Texas Rangers, and served within the Royal Secret Service. He has worked as a private investigator and acted as a sheriff and Marshall in the days when the west was wild alongside his life long partner and friend Elliot Ness, this mans roots can be traced to England and was the only man to nearly slap the cuffs on the Whitechapel murders….yes he nearly arrested Jack the Ripper! His law enforcement career would come to a close temporally when he joined the Union Army during the Civil War and would end up injected with the FIP serum during a visit to the field hospital in July of 1863 when he would be severely wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg. Yes this little bastard is old and besides his stint in the FIP he would go back to working for the police not long after the Battle of the Lochs in 2018 and the siege of Denver come 2033…yes that means he is a Stormrider and that is news to most people.

Beachworth would rejoin the police alongside his partner Ness come 2040 and once again the mean streets of Houston would be safe once again as Beachworth and Ness were once again on the case. Though it wouldn’t be long before Beachworth would be recruited to the Texas Rangers and for the first time in a long time he would be without his buddy Ness at his side, and this would be the worst decision that the Rangers could have ever made…you see Ness and Beachworth are like the Ying and Yang, Ness has worked alongside Beachworth for long enough to fully understand his little buddies issues and issues he has. The first is rarely spoken off and that is Beachworth is technological inept, yup he never grasped the changing times and computers aren’t this mans favorite thing….though he managed to crack a phony SIN card of legendary proportions and seize the ill-gotten gains of Maximillian Yates, and to date is the only suspect to ever evade capture and only stayed out of cuffs when he was pardoned by Mayor Kingsbury.

Beachworth’s technological ineptitude includes charging his phone, operating a vehicle with computer ignition systems, and even burning food in the auto-cooker…hell reports indicate that he nearly burned down his apartment complex trying to cook diner. Now when it comes to the technology of the police department, that he understands and has no issue with, though he prefers the old school method of beating the street, street corner interviews and interrogations, classic film based photography, and well you get the point he is very old fashioned and a tad antiquated. The other issue is his frustration and anger, Beachworth has a very short fuse and it doesn’t take much to set him off. This is well known about the little firecracker and when he goes pop…well people die. Ness on the other hand is very tech savvy, level headed, and has an uncanny ability to focus and redirect Beachworth’s legendary temper. Look I read the report from the Rev. Francis “Megadeth” Young case and let me tell you…..yup Beachworth popped and what remained of Young was the result, there is a reason nobody is talking about this case and it’s end result.

Okay now the Texas Rangers only had one spot open and they wanted the little bulldog, his years of experience, his veteran status, and his unique style of investigation and they simply didn’t have the spot open to higher Beachworth’s handler and long time partner Elliot Ness. Something the Texas Rangers would go onto regret and regret quickly, from the reports and stories well Beachworth took to being a Ranger quickly and was brilliant when it came to tactics, stakeouts, investigations, and basically doing his job, though inside the squad room he was a nightmare to behold. He crashed the computer systems, he killed the power somehow, he wrecked multiple radio cars, and went through countless coffee pots….through chucking them at someone when he got angry, yes the only tech Beachworth understands fully is the coffee maker and trust me from what I read he needs to stay off caffeine. Next situations almost always escalated to violence and somebody getting shot when he was on the case, criminals would simply end up dead or worse and after his forth shooting in under six months the Rangers asked him not so nicely to retire and after Beachworth broke the Chiefs nose and after a night in the slammer he would leave the Rangers and reunite with Elliot Ness and rest is history…though in the 2070’s Seattle Police Department made the mistake of putting Beachworth in charge of Public Relations and separated him from Ness, ya that didn’t end well and thanks to Anthony DiCane the acting commissioner at the time he solved the situation before it became a serious problem.

Now you would think based on the reports above this is basically open and shut he is a good cop with a really bad attitude and case closed, well you would be very wrong. Beachworth’s story gets a bit darker and has many of our contacts very nervous that he has reconnected with Dr. Klopeck, Sherman Willard, Maxwell Irving, Orson White, Montgomery Palpatine, and Maximillian Yates. This man has a history that goes a long way back in time and one that places him directly within the history of both America and England, Beachworth is someone you really don’t want to engage and someone that will send you to the morgue quickly. He might be modern technologically inept that doesn’t mean he isn’t a brilliant craftsman, gunsmith, silversmith and swordsmith, he fully understands the inner workings of clockwork and steam technology and basically was part of the steampunk resonance of the early 1800’s. His clockwork mechanisms would be ingenious, he figured out how to make a fully functional steam powered machinegun and even more unique toys that would cause our contacts to have nightmares, and his watch and clock creations would be desired by Kings and World Dignitaries that would pay a hefty sum for his creations and unknowingly finance his extracurricular activities.

Beachworth would be also known as “The Wolfsbane” or “Wolfsbane” for short, he was a world renowned hunter of wait for it……Werewolves! Yes you read that right Werewolves and not shifters….yup the Werewolf in London, the Wolfman style of being. Now if I hadn’t witnessed the events I witnessed I would say BS and right this entire section off as hogwash, though if I can believe that Vampires are real and I mean Dracula style vampires “I drink your blood…blah.” style not the VITAS ones that walk among us. Beachworth was one of the best in the business and would bring down countless of wolves and others as he protected the human species from these blood thirsty monsters, legends state that he as well went after Vampires and other things that went bump in the night. Even taking down the wolf beast known as Loki that terrorized New York City during the late 1800’s now according to the reports from our contacts Beachworth was nearly killed in that engagement as the wolf stalked the hunter and slammed the little man through a stone wall and tried to stuff him into a raging furnace and yet Beachworth managed to defeat the beast by shoving a burning red coal directly into the beasts heart….mind he also stabbed and shot Loki.

According to reports he had his molars and canine teeth coated in silver and killed one werewolf by simply biting the beast on the nose while it had it’s claw into Wolfsbanes stomach, Vampires were no match for this little hunter as he turned many to ash with ease and according to our contacts Werewolf hunters are extremely dangerous as they are used to fighting a blender of claws, teeth, and rage…so a Vampire is a little outclassed when it dances with a hunter that normally dances with a pack of wolves. Wolf hunters are known for there planning, quick reactions, and sheer violence…lets just say they shoot first and never ask questions, though this is also why the Wolf Hunters are one of the rarest breed of hunter as they normally die quickly or are to mangled to continue. Either way it’s good for those that would end up as targets for the hunter, now I am not disparaging the Vampire Hunters as they are the best of the best from what I have heard just don’t pack the level of violence needed to hunt down a pack of rogue wolves.

This man is one of the rare breeds of Werewolf hunters, he survived and cross trained with the Vampire Hunters. Yes he trained alongside the Hellsing’s and Belmont’s and was there go to guy when dealing with the furry evil and would train the Vampire hunters in the skills needed to take down the werewolves that were working alongside the vampires at the time. He would work directly alongside “D” and the two would make a very dangerous and lethal team, they would train their apprentice known as “C” and Beachworth would prove time and time again that he is crazy, violent, and a juggernaut packed in a tiny frame. Yes he was short like he is today, though according to our contact Agent White he was once captured by the Sons of Ether and tortured before his planed execution…ya hunters were not loved by anyone considered “Special” during those days and Fredrick Wilson would make one simple mistake and that was he didn’t simply behead Wolfsbane. During the torture magic would be used to elongate the suffering, and this would include time spent on the rack as Wilson tried to rip Beachworth in half and well dislocate all his joints and spine…well Wilson used a rare magical ability and inserted infused pithing needles into the hunters joints and well something happened…..yup the all the torture, suffering, and well the pain of those needles simply enraged Wolfsbane and Wilson learned a valuable lesson don’t use untested magical torture equipment on a legendary hunter and well Fredrick Wilson would find himself on the receiving end of those needles and succumbing to the wounds and perishing; though he would create the worlds forth Avatar Slayer, and this people has Agent White terrified that all four are back together again…who are they you ask? Well I will tell you: Maxwell Irving (The Original), Orson White, David Klopeck, and Bernard Beachworth, according to my contacts there are others that have the ability to slay mages but they are still very few in number but the Avatar Slayers are the real deal and one arrogant son of ether would make a very big mistake.

Wolfsbane would be rescued from the cemetery were he was being held captive by his fellow hunters and carried off by C, Bernard would have one side affect from the torture he actually ended up taller and his joints and bones would heal and for the first time in his life Bernard would be of normal height, this would end up being a blessing in disguise as he was able to fight faster, jump higher, and run faster, though he had to relearn to fight and perform his unique talents like diving off spires and landing in haybales…yup they are all crazy! Now we all know that Bernard is under five feet tall and that story about what happened to him in 2018 is medically and historically accurate, yup he is only now closer to his original height, and that didn’t slow him down nope simply made him angrier and more focused…though according to our contacts he would have long forgotten and walked away from the life of hunting. Now all these years later the Wolfsbane has returned and returned with a vengeance, when Wolfsbane, C, and The Dragon Emperor took down a hive of Markov’s finest and lived to tell the tale.

Now as for his time in the FIP would go as well as to be expected when he was recalled into service to fight in the Spanish American War and would end up stuck like the rest of them till Vietnam when he would nearly loose his life at the hands of falling out of a chopper and having his legs run over by a MASH jeep…yup he was already on a litter and on his way to medical after being shot to hell, Beachworth was one of those crazy and brave souls called “Tunnel Rats” and he would be the one that would crawl into enemy bunkers, tunnels, and the like alone and butcher the enemy, steal battle plans, troop movements, disarm booby traps, and basically make life easier for our boys above ground. Though the life expectancy of a Tunnel Rat was not long and Beachworth would beat the odds numerous times and even being sent to medical over a dozen times he kept going back out and medical staff would have to physically restrain him to make sure he stayed in bed…stealing his pants didn’t work and even taking his boots wasn’t enough to keep Bernard in bed. Reports indicate he like the rest of the FIP were simply trying to get killed and end the pain and suffering and for Beachworth this didn’t end as he planed and take it or leave it he is still alive and if he hunts wolves and vampires then I am glad he is alive.

Though according to Agent White Beachworth would be sent to China Beach a medical camp that was run by the US Government directly under the direction of the US Navy and he would find himself on the table of a government doctor Mr. White….okay they need to work on the naming game. This was during the summer of 1967 and the tunnel rat was once again wounded and needing medical attention for his grave injuries and well lets just say these government doctors wanted to experiment on Beachworth and well from what I am reading Dr. White and his staff wasn’t prepared for what was about to happen and well seems they got what they deserved. Bernard was a soldier and deserved respect and not to be experimented on, well according to the report the operating theatre would become a grisly scene of blood and gore and Beachworth would walk out, well crawl out with those needles coming out of his palms and covered in blood and gore. He would be found by a Naval doctor who would finish stitching up and putting Bernard back together again, before shipping him off to one of the Army MASH units and back to his unit.

Yes I know Bernard is a Marine and not Army, though he was deployed with the 82nd and one of the few US Marines to fight alongside the US Army, now his time in Nam wasn’t over till 1973 when he would be once again shot to hell as he disabled an enemy bunker and aided in the rescue of a few POW’s. He would find himself in a close quarters knife fight with a Viet Cong and after making short work of the enemy it would be only after he emerged from the bunker with the POWs cut to shit that he would be shot numerous times…according to Beachworth it was by Seymore Kissinger who tried to murder him, but the US War Department stated that the Staff Sargent was mistaken and it would be enemy fire. Though after being loaded up into a chopper and flown to medical his litter would slip out of the chopper and he would fall face first into onto the dirt roadway near the helipad and while the medical staff were rushing to meet the chopper the didn’t stop in time before running over the legs and hips of Bernard and well bringing his military career to an end and nearly ending his life. how he survived the landing is a miracle but seems to be a trend with these FIP soldiers somebody needs to look into this.

Bernard was shot to hell, impaled on a bamboo shaft that pierced his shoulder, and now he had his legs, hips, and pelvis run over by an army jeep at speed further impaling him with the broken metal of the litter. It would be Dr. David Heath that would notice the falling litter, bellow for the jeep ahead to stop, and when the accident happened it would be Dr. Heath that would jump into action and save Bernard from a most certain death and then he would go to hell and back to make sure Bernard was sent home….Well lets just say when Dr. Heath would leave the medical field after his experiences in Vietnam and became a private detective it would be his kinship with both Montgomery Palpatine and Bernard Beachworth that would help further his career and allow the once doctor become a detective of legend. Little did the detective know he was allied with two of the most legendary hunters of all time and well maybe Dr. Heath should have just stuck with medicine as he never noticed the crazy that seemed to follow those two.

Now I am not going to go through all the suffering Beachworth endured through his time in both World Wars, and Korea though I will mention that he was a prisoner within the Nazi Concentration Camp Chelmno and would narrowly escape with his life. Beachworth would be forced to endure unthinkable torture, survive being hanged, forced slavery, starvation, and manage to escape minutes before being sent to the gas chambers. He would escape the camp alongside Sherman Willard in the nick of time as the Nazi Guards where coming to round up the American GI’s for their date with the gas chamber and well Beachworth and Willard would fight off the Nazi’s with what fight they had left in them, steal their uniforms and not only escape the camp with a stolen truck they would end rescue over a dozen Jewish, Polish, and American prisoners…and wounded mind you, these men are hero’s and why haven’t they been recognized as such. Seriously if Agent White wanted me to further hate Beachworth this wasn’t the way to do it, I am Jewish and my ancestors survived the Holocaust and from what I read here and from what my parents and grandparents told me…it would be Beachworth and Willard that rescued my Great Grandparents as children, according to them there was many children that would survive the Nazi’s do to the actions of these men and for that I thank them as I wouldn’t be here without them.

Now I need to clear one thing up, this Agent White is not and I repeat not Johnathan White from the Harbingers, nope this guy has a full head of hair and is also much younger. I felt I needed to mention that as I don’t want to upset the apprentice of Wilhuff Palpatine and I really don’t want to piss of the Horsemen nor the Harbingers….though I am more scared of the Horsemen. Now with that cleared up lets get back to Beachworth and the suffering this poor man endured, okay I can now understand why he is so angry and I would be too if I went through just one of these countless horror stories. Beachworth never gave up fighting for the people of this country and he never stopped defending us from the true evil and I don’t just mean the Vampires and Werewolves, and everything else that goes bump in the night. I mean the evil that is the corporations, governments, and the criminals that plague this world. He would eventually leave the hunting game sometime after Vietnam but he wouldn’t officially be off the radar of my contacts till 2001 and and even then Beachworth’s gifts from his centuries if not longer of hunting would lead him to become one of the worlds finest detectives and he would happenstance his way into a situation that involved one of these creatures of the night and still be able to bring them to there untimely end.

After his discharge from the USMC in 1973 and after being unceremonious dumped back stateside he would find himself hitchhiking to Texas to find his friend Elliot Ness as Beachworth was a broken and beaten man and he knew that Ness was home from the war and back at the Ness Family Ranch in El Paso region of Texas and seeing Beachworth had no family (So he thought, more on that later) he would seek out his blood brother Ness and hope that he could recover and rebuild his shattered life with Elliot and his family. Once in El Paso Beachworth would arrive at Elliot’s door and for the first time in many years Beachworth would see his old friend who like him was also worse for wear and after the two old friends hugged it would be Elliot’s wife Mildred that would invite Bernard in and offer for him to stay as long as he wanted. Well in Texas it’s the wife who really rules the henhouse and the husband only thinks he is in charge, well this would be the start of both men’s recovery and return to law enforcement. Bernard and Elliot would return to uniform within the El Paso PD September of 1975 and it would be a long and bumpy road as they eventually made their way to the Seattle Police Department and eventually the US Elite Criminal Investigation Division. By 2005 Bernard would end up working for the FBI and being a regional commander of the Houston Office where he would hire Elliot and after the Great Tragedy and the purge they would once again find themselves on the bad end of history.

Beachworth and Ness would leave the FBI in a hurry after being targeted for assassination and still reeling from the affects of the Ghost Dance, they would seek out medical aid in the one place they thought was safe the VA Hospital in Tulsa Oklahoma and well for the two former FIP ya things didn’t end well, they were forced back into uniform and shipped off to the Scottish lochs and the rest is history. After we know that Bernard was a changed man, and he had to have his feet basically attached to his knees and Ness wasn’t much better off, we know that at some point Bernard ended up with the 67th Stormriders and I am still wondering how he ended up joining that paramilitary group but it must have been sometime after he returned from the Scottish Lochs. Though he would simply go from the frying pan and into the fire when he stormed Denver with the rest of the Fathers of Armageddon cementing his place in history and forever making it clear that Bernard Beachworth is a true force to be reckoned with.

Now onto the family issue, Bernard had a brother that well we thought was a brother and might have actually been a son and was living in Hyde Park NY while Bernard was off playing solider boy and fighting in the Nights of Blood and escaping the purge. We know Hal Beachworth can’t be his brother or he as well would have been really, and I mean really old, though what we do know is that Hal would look up to his brother or father and want to be just like him. Hal would end up following in his brothers footsteps sort of and well at least having Bernard’s temperament and would eventually join the US Elite to be just like his big brother and end up getting himself killed trying to emulate his brother Bernard. According to reports Bernard did try everything to protect Hal and even tried to convince him that a life of a mercenary, soldier, and cop wasn’t all it was made out to be. Bernard helped his brother with college tuition, his mortgage, and basically everything an older brother or father should do; he even went as far as to convince Hal to join a non combat division. Though Hal would still find his way to the streets to become just like Ducky and without the backup of the Wolfpack, without the centuries if not more of experience, and expertise Hal would find himself in a situation that would snuff out his life and upon finding out about the death of his brother Hal…well lets just say Bernard didn’t handle the situation well at all and it would be his friends in the Pack that would keep Bernard from going on a murderous killing spree.

Lets just say the man that did kill Hal, well he met a death that would be perfect for a horror movie…lets just say in involved a industrial woodchipper, a pully system and a some rope as he was fed into the chipper feet first being forced to say Hal’s name. Lets just say when Bernard snaps he can be a vindictive bastard and after learning about what this man went through I can fully understand his anger but seriously a woodchipper, ya that’s got to be a horrible way to die and knowing it’s a cop doing the killing is even worse it will be ruled justified if investigated at all. Does Bernard have some questionable things on his record, yes he does and anyone that has been alive as long as he has will have black marks. Though in Beachworth’s case they are well earned and we hope he does have some remorse for those vile actions, but grief mixed with anger can be a volatile concoction and when you toss in a short fuse and a killer instinct it’s going to be explosive.

Though one final item of note when it comes to Beachworth’s family, how do we know that his parents are long dead well easy he is the twin brother of David Klopeck and that means he is as well the half brother of Sherman Willard. So basically Hal had to be his son, or nephew and not his brother seeing how old we know Klopeck is and that means Beachworth is just as old…so does this mean Bernard was Dawnguard as well and our contacts were too scared to mention this werewolf hunter before today. Or was it that they figured this legendary hunter was retired and had forgotten about his past and hence wasn’t an issue worth concerning themselves over and now that he is back in action they are now panicking. Beachworth is a legendary steam engineer, his clockwork engineering is unmatched, he taught many of the worlds best silversmiths and that includes Paul Revere….yup he is old. He is a master swordsmith and is on par with Sherman Finesilver and Albert Schwartz with gunsmithing, just don’t give this little man a phone or a computer as he seems to be a natural gremlin for technology.