Doc "Sawbones" Holliday

Unlicensed Flesh Shaper / Back-room Surgeon

Location: Rustwater (The Strip — butcher shop back room)

Tier
Soldier
HP
9
Defense
9
Pool
5
Mettle
1
AR
0

Notes: Channel pool 5. ECHO 3. Reattaches limbs for §50 — keeps the off-cuts. Unlicensed means: no Psi-Division registration. In Rustwater this is tolerated; in Orvain it would be execution.

Unlicensed Flesh Shaper in a butcher shop back room. Doc Holliday reattaches limbs for §50. He keeps the off-cuts in jars on a shelf behind the cleavers. He claims they’re for “research.” Most of the research seems to involve cataloging which patients survive a year without the original tissue.

He operates out of the back of Hennessey’s Butchery on The Strip, which has the advantage of legitimate hooks and saws. The arrangement is mutually beneficial. Hennessey doesn’t ask. Holliday doesn’t explain.

Tactics

Holliday is not a fighter but he is a Flesh Shaper, and a desperate one can do unsettling things to a body in close quarters. He prefers to avoid combat entirely; if cornered, he uses Knit Flesh on himself or close allies and tries to talk his way out. He surrenders quickly when threatened by anyone competent.

Plot Anchor

If a PC needs grievous-wound treatment in Rustwater and can’t afford the legitimate doctor (or the legitimate doctor is bought), Holliday is the answer. The price is always §50, and there is always a price beyond §50 that he won’t name until you’re on the table.