[HOE] A new favorite villain

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I just started a new HoE party,
  And I just ran a *New* villain, and I just wanted to see what you guys  
thought.  So far, he's good, but I want some ideas on where to go from here.

He's Dr. Chick Valentine,
   The concept:  Chick Valentine: Marine Medic was the #1 show on UBC (Union 
Broadcasting network) when the bombs fell.  And it's star, Wycliff Savoy, was 
one of the biggest celebs around.  When the Last War happened everything gets 
cut off and survival becomes a dreadful and horrid thing.  Mr Savoy is an 
actor (Not much in the lines of useful skills in a post apocalyptic 
wasteland, 'Less you believe David Brin.), but as people are wont to do, they 
mistake him for his role on TV and ask him for help with sick people.  At 
first, all he's doing is first aid and some blarney to make them feel better, 
but as time goes on, his patients become beyond the skills of his Thespian 
M.D..  But what does he do?  He begins to fake it, he throws some 
technobabble, tries his best, and when the person dies (from the injury or 
from poorly done care), he gives a big performance ("I tried my best, but God 
had other plans.  Oh God, why does it never get any easier?"), takes the 
food, and leaves.  
       As time goes on, Savoy takes his role from town to town, and gradually 
he just starts introducing himself as Dr. Valentine and 'helping' people.  
Between rad sickness, near starvation at times, and the constant facade, Mr 
Savoy begins to go a little nuts and begins to think he actually *is* Chick 
Valentine: Marine Medic.  And here is where arcane forces come in.  The 
travelling hoax doctor gains the attention of Death and the Horseman begins 
making things 'easier' for Valentine to do his stuff.  Monsters dont attack 
him as much, the 'knowledge of medicine' begins to come easier and his 
treatments become more severe.  This goes on until, well, you pretty much 
have a full fledged servitor on your hands.  

The adventure:
    The party comes to a town (The party has a Law Dog and a Sawbones in it 
among others), they trade, they schmooze, and they see a boy with a crooked 
arm.  The Sawbones looks at the arm and finds that it was broken, and then 
splinted, POORLY.  When they ask, the townsfolk are willing to talk about 
travelling Dr. Valentine and how he saved the boy's arm and how it was broken 
nearly in two by a rockslide and Dr. Valentine risked life and limb to save 
him.  Arcane types could find that these people have had some mild mojo used 
on them.  The Law Dog finds a note from the previous Sherrif of the town 
saying that this Sherrif 'Doesn't trust Dr. Valentint', but finds that the 
Sherrif was dead (he was wounded by a wildcat and died of infection.  Dr 
Valentine tried his best, but the wounds were too severe).  Dr Valentine left 
a week ago.
     Now, if the party is good, they want to find this Dr. Valentine, and 
inquire about his medical license.  Tell party members who are older that the 
name sounds familiar, but they just can't place it.  Now the party probably 
goes off after Valentine.  Valentine's on foot, they have a car, should be no 
problem.  They drive after him but on the way to the next town, they are 
bushwhacked by some very ornery beasties (Pick an orney beast).  In this 
case, they stopped to scrounge an old tourist site (The Bass Museum) and were 
attacked by mutant land bass (HoE, fish, sharp teeth, spiderlegs, big fun).  
But in the Museum, they see a poster of... Chick Valentine advertising 
Bluejeans/Candy/cars/etc.  And NOW you tell them why the name sounds 
familiar.  And they know what he looks like (at least what he looked like 13 
years ago).  
     When they get to the next town, they find Dr Valentine has been there 
and he did some 'Medicine' on the Sherrif with a bad tooth.  Here is where 
you get grizzly, think about all the bad things that could happen if a 
non-qualified person decided to play dentist and think of a grizzly way to 
portray and describe it (I used wrench, tooth, caught bit of the tongue, you 
get my drift).  AND that Dr. Valentine left 2 days earlier.  Here's where the 
Law dog wanted to revoke Valentine's medical license (And he wanted to revoke 
it *hard*).     
     they leave, but on the way to the next town, they're attacked by a 
Radwraith.  BIG, NASTY, HOMOCIDAL (But why didn't it bother Dr. Valentine?).  
Big fight, and they made it.  
    Next town, big fun again with botched medical procedures (improvised 
kidney transplant.... ooooh fun... make is Grisly and a half!).  And they're 
right on Valentine's tail.  He left yesterday morning.  
    Hard road, maybe more beasties (it was getting late, so I wrapped it up), 
and they find that Dr. Valentine was there, heard about a child trapped in a 
nearby cave, and went to help.  If they ask, Valentine asked for a pen, some 
tubing, and a razor (followers of medical drama know that that's how you do a 
tracheotomy in TV land), and the party needs to beat him there. 
    They go to the cave, and find Dr Valentine kneeling over the body of a 
moaning child (Make sure he's moaning) and he's holding the razorblade.  He 
bends over to 'treat' the child (my party, bless their souls, just shot him 
down like a dog) and he goes down in a huge bloodsplatter.  Here's where they 
look at the kid, but the kid is a week old corpse.  What?  Then they see Dr. 
Valentine standing right there, healthy and vibrant.  He's throwing mdical 
jargon and how he must go on to 'Heal the world'.  
     So, the party knows, he's unkillable and, they have to stop him.  My 
party was brilliant, so the stepped into his brain and said
   "Dr Valentine, We have bad news, you have a brain tumor"  A good plan, 
major kudos and experience for the brave men and women of the HOE.  Well, Dr. 
Valentine wanders off to a cave, where our brave compadres find him, his head 
screwed open like a pop-top jar working on himself with a dull razor blade.  
He looks at the party, his one uncut eye covered in his own blood and says "I 
will beat this, medicine will find a way".  They collapse the cave, and all 
goes well.  
    Whacha think?
        Damon