My name is Den "Lizard head" Machinegun, why they call me that isn't important. The rumors are usually more fun then the truth, one goes i slept with a Leaper woman and half my face rotted off, another says my mother once let the ghost clan raise me and one of them chewed my nose and eye lids off. That one is half true, but it was a half breed mutant and member of my own family. I was born in the Dead City about 38 years ago when mutants weren't as different from us as they are now. Back then the Authority was just a bunch of corrupt politicans and crooks trying to profit from the hard work of others, well i guess they still are. When i was about 5 my mother was looking for blankets and food in the old housing blocks around the outskirts of the city, even then downtown was to be avoided. She came across a bunch of mutants getting ready to eat a baby, using the barter system and some "mutant-speak" she was able to rescue the baby, you can already guess the outcome. The Baby was me, and part of her bartering is how i got my first mortal enemy, my little brother charlie. Charlie was always causing trouble, hurting animals, mistreating girls and eating things that would make any normal person sick. He kind of fit in, he got beat up a couple times in Gunbarrel for sniffing peoples laundery, a few years back stabbed the butcher of Wellspring after a stealing incident, the thing that made our family unwelcome in the settlements was he took a nasty bite out of the Mayors daughter in the Wellspring Restroom, poor girl had to be put down by the Sheriff because her arm war infected and she started eating strange things too, seems mutant-bite is contagious. Any way by then the settlements were losing more and more people to the bandit clans, seems people would rather be on the taking side then the recieving. Since my mother was well known as easy to make friends with, she dated a guy from the Ghost Clan until she realized kids and girls ended up sacraficed to their strange gods, spent some time with the Wasted Clan until one of them beat her so bad she walked with a limp the rest of her life. So moving on, she decided to try out Subway Town, only thing is alot of open terrirtory was inbetween, savage gangs of bikers and half breed mutants roamed the "lost sea". The lost sea, also known as the "Tropical Ocean of Cancer" was once a sleepy group of islands. After the comet hit, refugees of the cities turned the area into a haven for criminals, freaks and sadistic outlaws. The place is called the "radioactive crab ocean" because it is shaped like a crab, not because of any crabs prowl its depths. Setting out we settled for a small while in a pineapple orchard, was great for getting boozed up, the women were good and by this age i could partake of advlt vices. So we stayed a while, the local city, under fuedal rule by an angry rastafarian pirate named "Dead eye" was a place you came to trade. The lush fruit and water was a secret for a while, and the cities high walls kept the bad elements from laying seige. This wouldnt last, an islamic biker gang called the "Severe Sultans" one day got in a fight with Dead eye, next thing we knew hundreds of motorcycles were at the gates, burning the fields. The fighting went on for years, at the end of it you could buy a motorcycle dirt cheap and Dead Eye became leader of a larger area. So we moved on, a new threat was Mutants that would sail the coast kidnapping kids and women. You could smell their stink before they came, skinned dogs and goats were how they decorated their vessels. These guys were vicious, you think dumb mutants are mean. Imagine ones that know better and cause hell on earth any way. On the other side of the ocean is more comet fragments, this is where the people are really wierd. You got people there that grow to 12 feet tall, even bigger i hear. But any one so different is usually taken by the authority to join their military medical program. If you make it across all this hell, maybe you can make it to the eastern wasteland. We thought we had reached the promised land. As soon as we arrived my mother was taken by Redstone and sold to a brothel. This created a vendetta between myself and Redstone. In these days Redstone was just a thug and a pimp. The old mayor Warren was a good guy, took us in when our mother decided brothel life was more fun then raising kids. My brother charlie who had grown fond of the Mutant Pirates was now joining the mutants when he could. They would maul him and he would come back crying. But the bigger he got the more bold he got. One day after we had fought over the possession of a hover craft he had found, but i had fixed up. I woke up to my face being chewed off. I didnt realize i was disfigured or that instead of swallowing what he bit off he mixed in with our hamberger, i just got up and beat him until i had lost some fingers, he had his jaw so broken he refused to speak any thing other than "mutant speak" from that day forward. Mayor Warren made me deputy of subway town, but i wasnt cut out for lawwork, first time i had suspicion of Redstone hurting another girl i broke both his arms. This got me thrown in jail for 6 months, time for Redstone to be healed and have gained support of various sleezeballs from the settlements. He tried to frame me for opening a hatch to the lower levels of the city. Mutants came in and slaughtered half the town. This made me banned forever, in the melee Mayor Warren was killed. I live in the abandoned city above, some day i will have my revenge. Someday i will sell Redstones organs to the bandits for a sunday feast. Remember your old pal Lizardhead, im a good partner to have when stuck out in the wasteland. And as for my brother charlie, i suggest you steer clear of him and his gang of half breed mutants. The fact they speak english, know how to drive and can pass for human makes them a new breed of dangerous.