The Sad, Grim, Pointless Trajedy of Coffey the Berzerker

[Barley]

Once he was a common Gangster on a "civilized" world. He was the lowest of the low: A mook to be beaten and abused by fellow gangsters, enemy or not, and scorned by the rich and educated. He learned no productive skills and became totally asocial. Then, after a raid destroyed his gang, he was captured by a corrupt business with a need for muscle. Mindwiped, and given a meaningless purpose, Coffey became despensible drone to kill those who slighted the company.

Eventually, he broke free, and killed his captures, but without anywhere to go and no skills beyond the art of death, Coffey quickly fell back into the underworld and joined a pirate gang. But even among fellow brutes Coffey still couldn't escape abuse. The pirate gang stripped Coffey of all his possessions -which at this point consisted of raggy, stolen clothes, gave him a shield and a shank, and told the berserk to hold up wanderers for money.

So now our naked pirate friend is chasing a passer-by for her possessions. Maybe, if he's lucky, he can aquire enough wealth to gain repect among his fellow pirates. At the very least he could get some damn clothes! As luck would have it, however, the survivors of a recently destroyed voidship explosion had settled nearby. The passer-by,named Vang, offered to throw in with the colony in exchange for sanctuary. The colony accepted, and Coffey was beaten within an inch of his life.

But the refugees showed mercy on the Mindwiped Maniac. They threw the pirate in a cell with two other raiders from a rival gang, and over time tried to convince Coffey to join the cause and make a better life for himself. If only here, Coffey had chosen to leave behind his grudges and past sins, things might have gone very differently.

Instead, Coffey threw himself at the rival gangsters. He beat both of the captives nearly to death -twice- and each time had to be subdued by the colonists. The colonists tried to reason with him, but by now Coffey new only violence, and threw himself at anyone who shared a cell with him the moment they tried to sleep. Unwilling to put up with him any longer but unhappy with the concept of cold murder, the colonists released Coffey bound and into the wild -without his shield, of course!

What could Coffey do now? He could not return empty-handed to the pirates; They would have lost what meager investments they had been willing to give him, and without the shield he would be killed long before he could get within stabbing range of any loner worth mugging. Lost, alone, and naked, the berserk stood hungry in the center of the camp.

And then, an angry rabbit bit him.

This apparently sent the would-be assassin into a berserker rage, and he began stomping every rodent in the camp. Over time he accumulated a long list of bruises, bites, and cuts from retaliating animals. Fall arrived. He got Hypothermia. Coffey the lost pirate lunged and attacked anything in site, but he was too wounded to effectively pursue and the colonists simply ignored him. He got an infection. He started to starve. The end was fast approaching for poor Coffey.

The death blow came in the form of a psychic wave that stirred a trio of Muffalo into a frenzy. As they approached the only nearby living creatures; the colonists, Coffey the Berserk, Abused, Mindwiped, Naked, Shivering, Hungry, Sickly, abandoned Pirate prepared to protect the only people to ever show kindness to him.

He didn't even get a single punch off. The Muffalo surrounded and Gored him to death.

The Muffalo were subsequently picked off by a hunter with a survival rifle.

Coffey's corpse was unceremoniously thrown into a dumping pile with some other rotting corpses. He wasn't even cremated; the colony had sold its Molotov's for silver.

Yea, this was one of those random events I got during one of my playthoughs of Alpha 11. When I released him, he wouldn't leave to the pirates for some reason. That was his ACTUAL backstory, by the way.

[Specialist290]

Fare thee well, Coffey.  Your life was hard and your death was pointless, but you shall live on in our memory until wait, who are we talking about again?

[Segrog]

Rip in peace

[Bencololy]

I think what you have to tell. It will be used in the future as well.

[Zork]

very nice man.