Meat Machine Goes Quarking

He’s a man’s man—what Byte Wrangler isn’t?—but he’s got a heart of gold. Actually, about 24 carats now, after his silver one got ripped out during a particularly bloody battle in the outer Sledgelands. To Meat Machine’s credit, it was a sizable Swamp Hedger, but he doesn’t find much consolation in that. “The only excuse in life is death.” And since his Original Birth-Body Composition (OBC) was down to 36.5% the last time he got Quarked, that line’s starting to Blur a bit.

These days, he’s usually wandering the hills of Stamish, picking up the occasional skeleton-cleaning job, chatting about The Previous with anyone who’ll lend an ear, and quietly grateful to still be human enough to qualify for Tokem rations.