Darrug Lazarn
Darrug was... Well. Darrug was a playtest character, and over the
course of the campaign, he demonstrated to the GM and game designer
exactly How An Ogryn Could Become Overpowered. (It should be noted that
I was, to an extent, trying to find holes in the system for just such a
purpose. However, half of this was accidental.) These holes have since
been plugged, and one or two of the lessons learned in plugging them
have been useful in other places.
Darrug Lazarn was brother to Jinkar Lazarn, who worked at the time as a
rating in the Imperial Navy, presumably on security detail. (Why the
hell else hire someone whose entire race is big and dumb?) Darrug's
occupation, by contrast, had up until the point of campaign beginning
been a bodyguard; he'd ultimately killed his employer over a pay
dispute, and the story opened with the brothers on a bus from the city
Darrug worked in (which also boasted Logan's World's biggest spaceport)
to visit their dear old ma.
Also on the bus were a Squat bandit, a cult muscleman, and a
smooth-talking conman. During a shootout at the halfway mark diner, the
five became friends, and managed to make it the rest of the way in a
police wagon. On arrival, Darrug and Jinkar found that their mother was
seriously ill, needing a kidney transplant, and the family kitty didn't
have enough to cover it. Accordingly, they set out looking for
profitable work. Darrug turned to assasination, doing only very mildly
well at it.
And it turned out the conman was hiring, looking for muscle; looking
for a retinue that'd be suitably imposing while he struck a deal he
needed to strike. The four went along with him, Darrug doing the full
'professional bodyguard' bit. They negotiated, the conman got away with
it, and the group came away with a contract; some vastly illegal drugs
back to the capital. The Squat drove, Jinkar and Darrug provided the
semblance of force with the cultist's firepower and Darrug's ripper gun
to back it up, and they were ready to move out.
The conman smelled a rat in the capital, which is more than the rest of
us did, and he vanished. The rest of us hired on briefly with the
organisation we'd made a delivery to; security enforcers, under
Darrug's direction.
They'd put the case to us that they were a splinter faction of the
Imperial Cult with much more liberal leanings than was usual; the
cultist, I think, was looking to turn one or two of the organisation's
bigwigs and funnel the money to his own setup, but it didn't
wash. Other things happened.
We were to protect the life of some keynote preacher giving a speech in
a couple of days time. And we worked for our money; a well-equipped
Redemptionist hit squad broke in at night. Darrug and his friends woke
up and fought them off.
And on the day of the speech...
The cultist was killed - telekinetically tossed over the edge of a tall
building - by an inquisitor that the Squat, just about, managed to take
down.
The crowd burst into an orgy of violence, which - combined with a spell
and the drugs in the censers - summoned a number of Khornate daemons.
If Darrug hadn't spotted that his employer was planning to start a
rampage with explosive and taken action, he and Jinkar would have been
overwhelmed. As it was, they managed to lock the compound down with the
man they were protecting sealed in. Darrug had Jinkar watch him while
he killed the owner in an underground temple to Slaanesh and then
systematically hunted down every other living thing in the compound.
The Squat made his way back in to the compound via the sewers, and they
regrouped, killing two of the daemons as they assaulted the house. With
those already dead, that left four. And a huge mob.
Darrug prepared to sell his life dearly...
And then a Thunderhawk gunship swooped in from overhead. A second
Inquisitor had come to investigate. Darrug and his companions attached
themselves to the Inquisitorial group, and accompanied him down to the
temple for protection. (The Squat, being slow, fell behind. Gradually
his penchant for slaughter drew Khorne's attention and he was mutated
into a massive killing monstrosity).
Darrug watched as the Inquisitor readied himself; his brief was to
protect the Inquisitor as the man worked to end the peril.
And then he realised the Inquisitor planned to summon a daemon of his
own - a Slaaneshi daemon -to counter the forces of Khorne. (The
motive, of course, he didn't know. He didn't know daemons picked sides.)
So he and his brother attacked the Inquisitor, wounding him and causing
him to turn into a Keeper of Secrets - though, with the spell completed
prematurely, not as strong a Keeper as he might have been.
The squat burst into the room. The three managed to kill the daemon.
There followed a long pause. Darrug arranged for the Squat to be
stranded in the wilderness, reasoning this was the best he could do for
his former friend. Jinkar went to the stars, eventually settling on
Necromunda. And Darrug...
We don't know. We presume he went on to be a respected killer, and he
had vague thoughts of working for an Inquisitorial coterie, which might
or might not happen.
We do know that the Lazarn boys raised the money for their momma's
kidney, and the operation was a success.