Kal Jerico
By Christian Dunn
aredevil. Rogue. Outlaw.
D Just some of the words
that are uttered in the same
breath as the name of
Kal Jerico, infamous
Underhive bounty hunter of
Necromunda’s Hive Primus.
Born high up in the spires
the young Kal Jerico grew up
an orphan – his real mother
purported to be an off-world
dignitary and his father a high
ranking noble eager to avoid
a political scandal. His sense
of adventure developed early
and as soon as he attained
adulthood, Kal made the
journey downhive, choosing
a life of action and adventure
over one of tedium and
protocol. Taking only a pair
of dueling laspistols and his Underhive crime lord and
father’s ceremonial sabre,
Kal’s early bounty hunting
rumoured agent of the
Inquisition. Taking over one
career was far from of Jerico’s gambling debts by
spectacular and it was only way of blackmail Nemo
his trademark good luck that forced Kal to run a little
prevented him from meeting errand for him to retrieve a
with a grisly, premature end. box that had been stolen by
After several months of barely Ash Waste bandits and return
scraping together a living in it to him. Unbeknownst to
his newly chosen profession Kal, Cheka – one of Nemo’s
Jerico crossed paths with most trusted lieutenants –
another struggling bounty had made a pact with the
hunter, Scabbs – a pungent, faceless one that would allow
half-ratskin underhiver - who him to kill Jerico upon his
Kal instantly took pity on and return.
allowed to become his Using the locator ring that
partner. Somebody had to do Nemo had given him, Kal
the dirty work after all! followed the box’s trail deep
Together the pair succeeded into the underhive where he
where neither had been able was ambushed by none other
to individually and they than his old enemy, Yolanda
soon built a reputation Catallus. Taunting Kal,
as a competent, if albeit Yolanda revealed the contents
indiscrete, bounty of the box: the head of a
hunting partnership. datum drone, a weird servitor
Some high profile hybrid used by Tech-priests
bounties such as the for storing valuable
escaped pit slave information – information
Vandal Feg, uphive that Nemo wished to get his
renegade and Escher hands on. With a gun pointed
gang leader Yolanda to Kal’s head, Yolanda was
Catallus and crazed just about to find out who
High Hierophant of was so desperate to retrieve
the Redemptionist the drone when a rescue
crusade Cardinal arrived in the most unlikely
Crimson soon of guises: fanatical
cemented this Redemptionist preacher
reputation but also Cardinal Crimson. Since their
began to draw the first encounter Crimson’s
attention of certain hatred of Kal had grown to
factions and the same proportions as his
individuals who faith in the Emperor of
would seek to use Mankind and he had
Jerico to achieve launched a crusade to rid the
their own Underhive of the heretic
nefarious ends. Jerico. In the ensuing combat
One of these Yolanda made her escape on
individuals was the back of a motorcycle but,
Nemo the Faceless, seeing the locator ring fading,
the shadowy Kal made a last desperate
gambit to retrieve the head
and fulfil his debt to Nemo.
Spying Yolanda on an
underpass, Jerico climbed an
overlooking tower and leapt
hundreds of feet headfirst
towards the speeding
motorcycle. Grabbing one of
the many ancient Underhive
power cables before he hit
the ground, Kal was able to
kick Yolanda from the bike
and make his escape through
the cavernous tunnels that
snake beneath Necromunda.
That escape was not to be as
easy as he expected as both
Yolanda and Cardinal
Crimson took up pursuit on
‘borrowed’ motor cycles and
gave chase through the
Underhive. After a lengthy
pursuit Kal was able to shake
off the twin threats by
performing a death-defying
jump across a chasm, whilst
simultaneously unseating
both his would-be captors.
With the datum drone now
safe, all that remained was to
make the rendezvous with
Nemo but one final peril lay
ahead him; Cheka lying in
wait with a sniper’s rifle. With Having carved a reputation
Kal firmly in his sights Cheka for himself in the lower
squeezed the trigger and reaches of Hive Primus and
BLAM! From out of nowhere having already had dealings
a second assassin fired, taking with the Inquisition’s agents
out Cheka in his vantage it cannot be long before the
point high above Kal’s Order of Blessed Inquiry calls
position. With his gun still upon Jerico for his services.
smoking Scabbs stepped out Any Inquisitor’s warband that
from the shadows having recruits Kal Jerico can
received a message left for depend on a gunslinger who
him by Kal before he set off is both capable and lucky,
on his mission downhive. and who always manages to
Upon arrival at Nemo’s do things in his own
hideout Kal presented the debonair style.
crime lord with two boxes
and informed him that their
score was
settled in
full. With the
drone’s head
safely within his grasp
Nemo inquired as to the
contents of the second box.
“My fee,” replied Kal. “I
owed you a favour, you
called it in. Then you
tried to double-cross
me – but we’re even
now. Pleasure doing
business with you
Nemo. Give my regards
to Cheka next time you
see him…”

Kal Jerico is Ambidextrous.

Equipment: 2 x dueling laspistol with lasersights (standard laspistol profile except damage
3D6-1), Sabre.
Special Abilities: Fast Draw, Gunfighter, Hipshooting, Rock Steady Aim,
Plain Dumb Luck (see below).
WS BS S T I Wp Sg Nv Ld
Kal Jerico 60 81 51 48 81 65 65 62 55
NEW ABILITY – PLAIN DUMB LUCK
The Emperor smiles kindly on the character and they are able defy the odds and extricate
themselves from the most difficult of circumstances. Once per game they may re-roll any one
Difficulty test and choose to keep either result, or you may force a -60 modifier on any
opposing character’s roll that directly affects the lucky character. GM’s must be prepared to
judge if there is any incongruity in whether the character is affected by a roll.