Dr. Wilfred Killstone


Background


Dr. Wilfred Killstone is a rarity. A surgeon and jungle adventurer with a flair with the native races and animals of the dark contintent.
But there is a shadow that is eating away at his soul. For all the lives he has saved on the battlefields of north africa and among the tribes of the deep jungle there are the terrible half creatures he has created in his experimental surgery that disturb his waking and sleeping moments. 


Dr Killstone was born to a hard-working family. His father ran a chain of abattoirs in the home counties but was forced to raise him single-handedly when his mother died when he was just seven. He was pushed between uncles and aunts and attended various boarding and private schools. But the summers with his father were filled with joy; fishing, shooting and watching him work.  


The young Wilfred was a passable shot and at the age of only 18 he competed at the IV Olympiad held in his native London coming second to his very hero Joshua Milner  who could shoot any target moving or not. 


Graduating from St. Bartholemews as a doctor was his and his fathers proudest moment. But his father did not live long enough to see Wilfred to win the Trobridge prize and become a fellow of the royal college of surgeons.

The Great War


His life was thrown into turmoil at the worst possible time - the start of the great war.  Wilfred knew that the threat from the axis powers meant that despite his unerring skill with a gun his expertise was best used in the field fixing the broken and shattered bodies of the soldiers.  However he wasn't prepared for the trauma he saw there. Not even his father's killing sheds could compare to the horror he saw in German East Africa fighting the evil forces of von Lettow-Vorbeck under the heroic command of the Boer Jan Smutts.


Toiling for years Wilfred never lost hope that he could save a leg here or an arm there until in the winter of 1917 he made an extraordinary breakthrough.  He discovered a serum that could stop a transplanted limb from being rejected. This made him the most successful field surgeon in the army bar none but he jealously kept his discovery a secret as he knew it had an awkward side-effect that he had yet to resolve. Zombification.  After a period of time and depending on the size of the trauma, if the serum was not administered in sufficient quantity first the limb and then the entire person would become mindless and uncontrollable. 

Pulp Fiction: Dr Killstone and the Monkey's Paw

After the war his head full of the scars of battle he decided to journey to the dark depths of Africa and research the tribes and medical practices of the people there.


The journey was not without adventure. Discovering new tribes of natives while fighting head-hunting savages that he knew only too well, nothing would face Killstone. Not even the odd bout of Yellow Fever would stop him. Nothing except the vicious hornet. A beast without any sense of good. Pure evil - and Killstone would do anything to avoid them. 

There was more than mere adventure that drove Killstone though. He harboured a hope that he might find the solution to his problem of the serum. And indeed he did in the well spring of the Matu River in the Congo basin. 

There he conducted his greatest experiment. A loyal tribesman had his hand hacked off when a machete inexplicably got caught on a spring-vine and bounced back to slice through his wrist. The hand was lost but Killstone conducted a transplant. There was no human hand to use as donor - so he used the next nearest thing - the paw of a male Bonobo.  Thanks to the juice of the giant caterpillar fount in the Matu wellspring the limb took and remained good with no serious side effects.  Jiji, his aide was eternally grateful and became Dr Killstone's most trusted and reliable servant and sidekick. 

Aspects



1) There is nothing that can't be improved by use of a scalpel and thread.
2) Who says it can't be done!

3) Severed Limb Zombie Nightmares!
4) The jungle has the answer.

5) Snakes, Lions or Malaria - anything but Hornets!
6) Jiji the Monkey's Paw

Skills (?)

Science
Weapons (scalpel)
Academics
Resolve
Weapons (rifle)

Stunts (?)

Surgeon
Medic
Doctor
Aide - Jiji the Monkey's Paw
Surgical Trauma Serum

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