Douglas Kingsbury (Splinter) or (Seventy-Sixer)

Weight: 190

Apparent Age: 60

Archetype: Mercenary Adept: Circle Unknown

Preferred Weapon: DAOD Assault Pistol

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Bio: Well it’s time to discuss the man known as Splinter, this killer for hire has been lurking within the shadows for decades. I have only come to learn about his existence while researching the nefarious Taskmaster, so I am sorry it has taken me some time to post this article about Splinter as I wanted to double check my facts and make sure everything was spot on, no need putting myself or my loved ones in jeopardy for falsified information and rumours. Though when it comes to Splinter there are more than a handful of rumours about this man, so sifting through the legends for the truth has turned out to far more difficult then previously thought. Well without further delay, I will begin my reporting on the killer that has haunted the UCAS for generations, sending more then a fair share of honest men to an early grave and single handedly prevented Boston from falling to the UCAS under the attacks brought on by Secretary Robert Grant now referred to as the Shepherd. Splinter would eventually partner up with the Taskmaster and another old timer known as the Dozer. These men would terrorize the Federal District for many years until they would part ways, though according to reports the Taskmaster and Splinter are back in action together, witch means only one thing Dozer is lurking in the background somewhere and I will begin working on the research for Dozer to keep you my readers up to date and informed. Though I might not be long for this world by working on this article, many of the Beats reporters have already perished for their submissions to this site. Also under the new laws of the Ratification publishing on this site is constituted an act of treason and hence forth punishable by death. So we now must worry about the UCAS as well as angering the criminals we are writing about, 2074 has turned out to be a very bad year to be a journalist.

         Well sorry for my ranting, so now onto Splinter, this man is first and foremost a Kingsbury, yes that means he is related to both Archibald and Lyndon one an only assume that he is as well a brother since he scarily resembles Lyndon. This has allowed the mystery an myth that is Splinter to grow, as people easily mistake him for his political relative. So this is where things get weird, Splinter has been able to pass himself off many times as the Beholder and slip into locations that normally would be nigh impossible to gain access to, then when investigated Lyndon is cleared do him being on the Senate floor giving an address at the given time. Thus clearing Splinter to strike yet again, and the cycle continues you would figure that the UCAS would learn to keep tabs on the Beholder in an attempt to stale or stop Splinter but this isn’t the case. This man is a legendary assassin and thief, an has become so infamous that he has entire classes at many universities dedicated to studying the work of this killer, and many criminologists have dedicated an entire lifetime to trying to stop and predict Splinter and well that has only ended with lonely nights in the stacks and drowning their woes in cheap gin.

        Splinter has become such a household name in the UCAS that many new recruits are warned about him in the academy and many are told that one day he will be the one that brings them to an unfortunate end. The thing about Splinter is that this man just doesn’t kill his subject and move on, now this man kills in such a manner that he has caused many to quit the force just at the thought that one day they may come face to face with Splinter. Death at the hands of Splinter is reported to be very painful from the many reports from various medical examiners and the reason being stems from the specialised form of ammunition this man deploys into his target, besides it being a hollow point bullet made of some unknown matter, it’s what it conceals inside that is the problem, The bullet deploys a device referred to as the spider inside the target once it breaks the skin, this device latches itself onto the targets bones and begins to unravel inside tumbling around and opening up using it’s own momentum to keep the process going and creating an almost spider web like structure as it bounces from bone to bone and eventually breaching out of the target if lucky. The problem here is once it unravels it begins to expand and constrict, crushing bones, tendons and muscle as it tears it’s through the subject. The fibbers of this web are monofilament so not only do they crush as they expand they as well cut and tear through organs and flesh with ease. Causing extreme pain and suffering and eventually death, even a team of surgeons will be unable to repair the damage caused by Splinters deadly web, their have been reports of victims being sliced in fine thin slivers as the web unravels from within, also reports of those that killed themselves by attempting to pull the wire out of their own body like one would a splinter.

          Once a target has been shot by Splinter it takes mere seconds for the device to do it’s dirty work, though death still takes it’s sweet time to come unless the target is lucky enough to be decapitated or have there heart punctured. Splinter is not done with his victims at this point either, no this man doesn’t let the dead rest peacefully, no he will continue to desecrate the body further and placing it on display for all to see. He is not shy about his work and doesn’t care if he strikes in broad daylight or the dead of night. To him all is the same as long as his target is vanquished and the world knows who is to blame, Splinter uses terror to control his victims and actually prefers to alert them that he is coming for them and so would begin the cat and mouse game, with Splinter being the big cat and the target being the lowly field mouse. He plays with his victims for sometimes weeks or months before brining them to the final rest, he allows them the time to say goodbye to their loved ones and make all the proper arrangements for their funeral. All the while using mind games to terrorize them and break their will down before giving them the sweet release of death, many of Splinters victims have been reported to welcome death when the time comes. Though there are many that try to resist and fight back against the inevitable these targets normally die a even slower and far more painful death, though Splinter does at times actually pay for the victims funeral an makes all the arrangements himself including the date. Nothing can strike fear in someone’s heart then receiving their own funeral announcement and card in the mail.

          So when it comes to Splinter this man is the entire package and doesn’t leave anything to chance, everything is planned an prepared even the exact timing of the targets death, always public or with some sort of witnesses and never in a manner that doesn’t induce the most amount of pain and prolong the death. Just because he tells the victim of their death, doesn’t mean he is going to be humane about and let them pass away peacefully, no for Splinter the death is the grandees show of all. For him it’s the main event and the more painful and the more brutal the death is the better since others will witness his handy work and so the fear will spread like a wildfire. Thus bringing us back to those poor souls that enter into the academy all bright eyed and naive only to have their spirits broken when they are told that one day they might become a victim of Splinter and that day could be tomorrow since he does prowl the academies targeting these new recruits as a form of terrorism. He has been able to slip passed the security numerous times, either portraying himself of as Lyndon or even just another instructor and picking his targets for them only to perish the day before graduation and never achieving their dream of becoming an agent.

          Now when it comes to his work during the raids on Boston, Splinter was less an assassin and more just a brutal soldier that would travel around dressed as a colonial officer in all the regalia of the bygone era and act as a spirit of vengeance fighting off the various military camps with nothing but his knife and musket, yes I said a freaking muzzle loading musket and he would bring death to the highly trained soldiers of a modern military. The Soldiers would begin to call him the Ghost of 76 or just the Seventy-Sixer for short, Splinter would simply break the spirits and will of the men thus reducing moral and eventually allowing Archibald’s men to defeat the UCAS and secure Boston for the Patriots without any resistance. Even today the UCAS commanders refuse to even engage Boston do to the fear of the Seventy-Sixer, cause if getting shot with a modern bullet wasn’t bad enough, a musket ball is devastating and if hits a bone that bone is shattered an the balls begins to play pinball inside the human body. It even tears of cyber limbs with a single shot, these weapons where not known for their accuracy or speed, but Splinter is deadly accurate and can fire off faster then humanly possible.

         So do to the fear of the Seventy-Sixer the UCAS won’t attack Boston and those that do have obviously forgotten about the legend of the Seventy-Sixer and are willing to gamble with their lives and the lives of their men. If this didn’t already make Splinter a serious threat, the fact that he has been allowed to travel around throughout the years with no contest and no one daring to challenge him, he has been able to spread his legend from coast to coast sending the innocent UCAS agents, military and elected and appointed officials to an early grave. Thus forcing the False Flag to rotate there officials around in a vain attempt to spare them the fate that could await them if Splinter sets his sights on one of them. This man has even slipped into the under fortress of NORAD and taken a victim, that he subsequently brought out of the base and murdered by affixing restraints to the arms and legs of the target and hoisting the subject up in the Vitruvian man pose at the entrance of a train tunnel. Well you can imagine what that man went through and you an bet Splinter would find a way to make sure that death was prolonged. This is what I mean by if they try to avoid there fate, Splinter makes sure death is far more painful and gruesome, as well as very public.

           How he would come to be with the Taskmaster and Dozer is unknown but one can say it was destiny since these men all harbour an extreme hatred for the UCAS for various reasons, and what better location to hunt then in the direct backyard of the False Flag. With the Taskmaster already claiming it as his turf and the direct political connection to Lyndon it would be almost destiny that the two would eventually align and begin to wreak havoc on the fledgling government and if wasn’t for the quick thinking of the original leadership of the False Flag to move it’s founders out of the city this trio would have brought the entire system crumbling down in the early days. Though the most ironic aspect to the entire situation is, the one man that is know a sworn ally of the Patriots is the direct cause for the failings of the these three men and yet managed to stay off there radar for decades. The Shepherd would eventually prove to be a great asset to the Patriots, but at one point he was a very serious advisory that would keep the Splinter from being able to fully seize control of the cities lawmakers an use his direct terrorism to bring the entire system crashing down. How this is possible is unknown, but they have Dozer to thank for bringing them directly into the Shepherds radar. When the Dozer would murder the Director of the NSA the Shepherd would become his replacement and begin his crusade against the rebels, thus making life hell for the trio and as well making life hell for anyone who rose up in resistance against the False Flag. Why Splinter didn’t just kill the Shepherd must have had something to do with his kinship with Lyndon and thus bringing us to the prophecies of the Prophet, so one can say the Kingsbury’s have been pulling the Shepherd’s strings for generations.

        Well the trio would go on to strike DC with terror as they would use there unique talents to grind the city and eventually the nation to a standstill, with the Taskmaster’s ability to manipulate the minds and break the will of the people to act as his puppets, Splinter being the thing that nightmares are made of and Dozer being able to bring certain death at a moments notice to anyone as well as his ability to manipulate explosive devices to cause the most personal damage but not cause much structural damage. This trio would go on to cause the nation to grind to a halt numerous times as law enforcement would be forced to close down transportation, shut down government buildings and even put the entire country under a mass curfew and cancelling many major events out of the fear of a massive attack from this trio. Lucky for all of us these men would eventually go about there own and allow the country to breath a sigh of relief, seeing that in one year these men caused almost as many deaths as the Vietnam War all throughout the UCAS. These men would directly cause an election to shift, creating the False Flag to loose their poster child and bringing in a new President, though this would eventually prove to be a big mistake and would eventually be dealt with by the Human Resistance Movement. When they would have to assassinate President Jonathan O’Brian, once it was proven that the O’Brian’s were working directly with the Elves of the Tir Na Nog and working in direct association with the False Flag. Though the damage was done and nation was further splintered and it would be left to Splinter to pick up the pieces, the trio no longer together would send Splinter and Dozer back to being roving killers and the Taskmaster to being to guardian of the Federal District.

         Well throughout the years Splinter would continue his personal war against the UCAS and continue to modify his technique of the perfect murder. He would target any high profile subject of the UCAS or NAN and continue to subject the people to his special brand of justice, thus allowing the legend to grow and causing a entire generation of law enforcement to quake under the threat of this one man. His legend is still being taught in the academies throughout the nation, and Splinter is still targeting these poor cadets, forever keeping the ghost stories alive and well. Though the scariest aspect of this entire legend is like the return of the Bards, Splinter is back in business an he has Seattle in his sights, he has paired back up with the Taskmaster and Dozer to strike totalitarian terror on the UCAS forces here in Seattle. Also according to my sources, Splinter has once again donned his colonial uniform and has returned this time not just as the legendary assassin Splinter, no he has returned as the master of war himself the Seventy-Sixer has begun to prowl the streets of Seattle. Though this time he has paired up with another old timer that was long since forgotten about a man that fought along side the Ghost of 76′ back in Boston. A man that is just as scary as Splinter and just as deadly, Splinter has joined forces with the warrior known as Enigma the master of the unknown.

         So it seems that Seattle has become a staging ground for some of the worst of the worst of the olden days, and they all have there sights set on restoring the city back to it’s former glory. They are destined to return to the days of Old Seattle, the days before the UCAS occupation, the days before the War of the Shadows and the days when just going to the grocery store could be fatal for an average citizen. Seattle might be where the big dogs prowl, but we have grown past their brutal days and we need to move past the days of the runners and let their ilk fade away like outlaws of the Old West. What the future holds is uncertain, but what is certain is that Splinter is back in action an this means that fear will once again paralyse the city with uncertainty and rivers of blood flow in his wake. This is one Kingsbury that needs to be removed and forgotten, to vote for Lyndon is to reinforce the actions of Splinter and Colonial, these men are terrorists their brother is the Beholder a domestic terrorist himself  yet allowed to remain in elected office. Unless you want to be placed under the nightmarish regime of the Kingsbury’s, vote for Johnson. The Kingsbury’s are criminals with criminals in there pockets, they can call down far worse then the government storm troopers. These men can unleash the likes of Category 5, The Unforgiven, The Rough Riders and even the likes of Dozer and Enigma if this doesn’t bother or frighten you then take a quick look around at what these men have done to our fair city. The Patriots are a plague that need to be cured before they infect and kill us all, they may call the UCAS a cancer that needs to be removed but these men are fighting an illegal war, killing innocent civilians and setting race relations back over 200 years to call them anything but a parasitic plague is being nice.

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