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People never stay long, just pass through town. That's because Harmon, West Virgina has an Exxon station attached to a general store and a few clapboard houses back off the road. That's all. Estil Nathan Bedford Forrest Compton traded the ginseng he found in the mountains for food, tobacco, and shotgun shells, the only things a man really needs.

The local people talk about a secret government installation that they purport to be the destination of the unmarked, green truck that passes through every Wednesday. Estil never believed any of it, until the Wednesday that the truck stopped, steam spewing from under the hood. While the driver busied himself reattaching a loose radiator hose, Estil climbed into the back of the truck and hid beneath several layers of tarps. Back on the road, the driver called ahead ot the first security checkpoint. Estil was surprised when he made it through the first two checkpoints undetected. At the third checkpoint, Dr. Lassiter and a half dozen armed soldiers waited for him. The bright glare of the sun as the tarps were lifted was all Estil saw until he woke up, strapped to a table and surrounded by people in masks and crisp white lab coats. That was the beginning of the only adventure Estil ever had.

Estil soon realized he was the subject of biological experiments. After countless weeks of probes, needles, serums, and torturous surgeries Estil was desperate for escape. Then one day the guards slipped unlocking his enormous iron cuffs before his right arm was fully deactivated allowing Estil to quickly shoot out his enormous claw into the guard. Estil quickly lashed off the ropes binding his wings and flew off into the dark, cold mountains. On his way out, he silently promised the other victims that he would be back for them.

We created Estil because we wanted a boring character and boring place so we picked a tiny town in West Virginia. Going along with that theme of course our character had to be a hillbilly. Then we decided he was going to be an experiment for a secret government facility that breaks loose and destroys the governmental facilities. We picked a generic human form and pasted on predator arms, wings, space helmet, overalls, and boots. Then we smoothed things together and blended them, and that was about it.