Tacticon is coming up next weekend, and I’m putting the finishing touches on the Ghost Punchers adventure I’ll be running on Saturday morning. I’m excited to be back in the ghost-punching world, and figured it would be fun to share that excitement with you by showcasing one of the heroes who will be appearing in next week’s adventure: Ricky Nash, a soldier in the war against the dead.
When Ricky’s squad was ambushed outside the middle eastern village, he was the only one to escape unscathed. Six men were dead, the rest wounded, and several of them weren’t expected to make it through the night. Ricky knew who had attacked them. He’d seen this particular group of “non-combatant locals” before, subtly sizing up the soldiers who had “liberated” them.
Ricky wanted to go back that night, to take out the insurgents before they could slip away. His superiors denied the mission, saying they didn’t have enough intel. Just after midnight, he went anyway.
Ricky got his revenge. Two days later, he was court martialed. He was convicted and sentenced to military prison, where he was tormented by nightmares that bled into daytime manifestations of terror. His cellmate, “Red” O’Conner, explained that he was being haunted. Red taught him to see ghosts, and to fight back.
Ricky’s been out of prison for just over a year, and hasn’t had an easy time of adjusting to civilian life. He’s been working odd jobs and trying to put his past behind him. Red put him in touch with some people who hunt ghosts, but they were a bunch of weirdos. One good thing, though: they dropped his name to Monica Harper, a debutante looking to bankroll ghost-hunting expedition.
