Rumkettle

Rumkettle is a wandering mercenary, adventurer, explorer and treasure hunter who has just arrived in Duke's Travelling Emporium. Rumkettle is a fat, although heavily muscled, average height man with a happy go lucky nature, brown hair and blue eyes, who has explored, wandered and fought his way from West Kentucky to Maryland.

He figures he's about 26 years old, give or take a couple of years, and enjoys long walks, shooting people that are trying to kill him and spending whatever money he gets on women and alcohol.

He also carries around a clay jug that is usually filled with rum, if he can get it, or the nearest local equivalent. It's also where he gets his nick name from. His real name is Barry Howson and he comes from a Kentucky survivor town before he got bored and left to sign up for a merc company that got wiped out in a battle against the Brotherhood of Steel. He was one of the few survivors having managed to run away while the rest of the company got blown to bits.

While he is at Dukes he is looking to gather a few like minded indviduals and start up a merc company, or possibly a gang, Rumkettle isn't a man to let details to get in the way of a good idea. With this gang/merc company he might just head out into the Wastelands to go exploring or maybe sign up with the Duke for a while until he gets bored and the wanderlust takes him off to see whats happening somewhere else.

Rumkettle is well trained with most regular firearms, melee weapons and explosives, and usually has a handgun of some kind and several knives on him when he's not expecting trouble, and usually wears jeans, workshirt and leather jacket with hand sewn metal plates. When he's expecting trouble he's usually dressed in home made metal armour complete with helmet, and is armed with a rifle of some kind and as much ammo as he can carry.