The Foreman

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The Foreman is a gang leader in the Kennet Undercity.

Personality[edit]

He's big, brutish, sexist and racist.<ref name=":0" />

He planned to make all of Kennet his.<ref>“Nah,” he replied. “One day all of Kennet will be mine. All versions. I don’t know if this gets in the way of that-”- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.9</ref>

Relationships[edit]

Bracken used to work for him but left after Bag got hurt.<ref>“Foreman took charge, wanted to make other stuff, they still called it the smoke factory, still. Put Bag to work. Put me to work. Bag got burned, we left. Tried to find another spot.”- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.3</ref>

He hired a bogeyman at one point to test his limits.<ref>Setting her bag down, she put out two of the eco-friendly water bottles, spirits inside, and a pair of rusty black nails she’d pulled out of some guy’s eyes in the Undercity. A bogeyman, supposedly acting on his own, probably working with the Foreman as he tested his reach.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.5</ref>

He worked with the Kennet trio for convenience but didn't form a lasting relationship.<ref name=":0" />

Appearance[edit]

He's a giant of a man with blunt features. His hair and eyebrows have been burnt off and his skin is covered in burn marks. His teeth are made of metal.<ref>A giant of a man, blunted in features, hair and eyebrows burned off from exposure to heat. His flesh was lightly scarred with faint burns in most places, and those burns set in deeper elsewhere, with bits of metal embedded in the scar tissue. His teeth were metal.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.11</ref> He wears home made armour created from sheet metal.<ref name=":1">The Foreman was the first to come up. He was huge, wearing some homemade armor with sheet metal bent and welded together, most of it focused on covering things from the front, leaving the back of the legs exposed. At his left was something that looked like a nailgun, except if regular nailguns were pistols, this was a cannon loaded with a row of railroad spikes.- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.1</ref>

Abilities[edit]

He's armed with a massive nail gun loaded with rail spikes.<ref name=":1" />He also carries a large wrench slung over his back<ref>He had a large wrench he liked to carry with him, slung over his back with a chain connected at the end and most of the way up its length, but he didn’t draw that weapon. Instead, he drew out a gun that he had strapped to one calf. A cannon of a weapon, with a barrel Verona could have stuck her hand and most of her arm into.- Excerpt from Left in the Fust 16.9</ref> and explosives.<ref>The Foreman grabbed an explosive from a front pocket of his vest, and tossed it up-- Excerpt from Left in the Fust 16.9</ref>

His men are similarly fitted with sheets of metal for armour. Some use guns, industrial tools or home made cannons as weapons.<ref>He whistled, pointing. All of his people, many in improvised armor with sheet metal welded into shapes to loosely fit around body parts, strapped on or bolted on with leather and hinges, some with guns, some with workshop tools as weapons, others with workshop-made cannons that looked like they might blow up in people’s hands if they fired.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.11</ref>

Chronology[edit]

He took charge of the Smoke Factories and used them to make various good to trade with local Others.<ref name=":0">The Foreman:

Big, brutish, racist, sexist, mean. Also enterprising. Started up the factories, makes a lot of local goods. Clothes & raw materials to trade to some Others. Knotting is making him tougher. Is only cooperating for now, to keep us from getting in his way. Will evict later.- Keeping tabs, Kennet</ref> He also sold arms and armour to people.<ref>“And last, we have the Foreman. Supplies many of the other Kennet’s goods. Armors and arms soldiers, holds the factories,” Verona finished. - Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.1</ref>

After the trio cursed the Family Man he moved in to take some of his territory.

He refused the deal with the Kennet Others to join their council but agreed to work with them against the Family Man.<ref>“And you?” Verona asked the Foreman. “Deal with us?”

He shook his head.- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.1</ref> A fact that they were happy about because they wanted to replace him later.<ref>Okay. That was not only expected, but it was halfway to the desired result. Verona had known this jerkwad wouldn’t follow easily after the other two. The fact they’d agreed first made him less likely to follow.
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There they had it. The other half of the desired result. They didn’t want him on board, because that would mean they had a member of the Undercity on their council who they didn’t want sticking around. A man who made children into slaves to work his factories, a homophobic, racist, misogynistic asswad.

But if they’d refused or been unfair, that’d be a red flag for the Vice Principal and Witch. It’d be saying they were only in because they were playing ball, and it would feel like a threat. Or it would make them buck at the idea of being too easy to work with or too complacent.

The trick was to let them get their wins, but also let the big guy screw himself over. His intolerances were a weakness. Talking to girls, and to a woman and a little girl who were his peers, he wanted to rise above it, somehow. Show his strength.

Now, if he continued to refuse to get on board, they could remove and replace him. But that was a thing for after they dealt with the Family Man.- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.1</ref>

The Foreman challenged Verona's claim to her demesne, to resolve the dispute Verona suggested a battle of champions, the Foreman calls on a man named Stew Mullen and Verona answers with Lucy. The two of them fight and at one point the Foreman kicks Lucy giving Verona an excuse to throw a bottle of alchemy liquid at Stew that makes his flesh more malleable. Next the Foreman tries to shoot Lucy but misses due to a spell card thrown by Verona. After Stew is defeated the Foreman tried to continue fighting but was killed by the Family Man. His death was partly due to the bad karma he'd accumulated for continuing to fight after he'd lost.<ref>- Left in the Dust 16.9</ref>

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