— one guy left with one eye | cash colfax

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❝WARNING - DANGER

UNDERGROUND MINE FIRE

Walking or driving in this area could result in serious injury or death. ❞

Cash grew up in a tiny bumblefuck town nestled deep in the hairy armpit of Appalachia. He's one of six known survivors of what's known as the "Gnawbone Mine Disaster", a string of devastating fires, subsidence collapses and sinkholes that (ostensibly) took out the entire population of Gnawbone, Kentucky in 2015. The underground fires still burn, to this day.

Spoilers, the townsfolk were already dead before the first fire started. And the disaster wasn’t (entirely) an accident. It was the spiraling last ditch effort of a group of terrified rednecks to take out the eldritch bullshit that’d overrun their homes and killed their families. Cash was a traumatized kid, then, but he got swept up right in the middle of it.

Most of the survivors were residents of a separatist alt-right militia group that lived on the land adjacent Gnawbone proper. The leader of the group – ex-special forces, dubiously sane, conspiracy theorist – took in the newly orphaned Cash while overwhelmed municipal emergency services tried to mount rescue efforts. 

Cash made zoomies out of the ... compound... when he was 16 because he’s not the Proud Boy type but along the way he forgot what it was like to be a normal kid, and he learned that he has an exceptional talent for chemistry ... and cooking felonious substances ... and improvised explosive ordnance. 

His “uncle” still gets in touch sometimes, when his group's looking to crowdfund through illicit means or to terminate supernatural bullshit with extreme prejudice. Now 19, Cash really just wants to save up for culinary school, maybe – or for an old van he can gut and convert into a food truck, travel around in. Unfortunately, he has few skills that are marketable for decent money, and once you know that preternatural horrors are out there, it’s hard not to see them everywhere you look. And the more you know about how they affect people’s lives… the more you want to do something about it.

wip, etc, excuse my laze

 

 

 

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