Rob Strainer (Gerosha Gaming Universe)

Rob Strainer was a devout family man, who loved to keep things simple: God, guns, family, church, hard work, etc. Alas, he found himself embroiled in a world where nothing was ever simple. He could be a bit abrasive and strict, even with his wife, but much of that was due to his military history.

Convincing corrupt CPS that Strainer was a threat to his own wife and children, Sheriff Chad Estahm set to work grooming Estahm's oldest son - while making life Hell for the rest of the Strainer family! The family soon found themselves facing all manner of civil rights violations, as part of an endless harassment campaign. Why? Because Strainer's piety irritated the sheriff. And...because Strainer's kids looked appealing to Estahm's Gleeful-N'-Young connections. Yet, anyone who could help or advise the Strainers, turned up dead! All that was left, were the lawyers and public defenders that Estahm had on his side!

Leah found herself forcibly separated and moved to another town, pressured to divorce the man she loved "for her safety." She saw through it - but worried that she may not have a choice in the end. Rob and Leah were allowed no contact with one another.

Realizing that exposing himself as an Icy Finger ritualist would be tantamount to career and personal suicide, Estahm instead set to work with state authorities, trying to use everything down to as petty a detail as Strainer's beard as reason to associate him with white supremacy groups, such as the Aryan Nation.

Writers for the local paper, frequently chanting "The Finger...is chilling!" behind most of the town's backs, even wrote a hit piece - which Strainer attempted to sue them for. This retaliation, however, led to a full-scale raid on Strainer's home. Strainer fought back, even attacking an intruding agent with a pot full of steaming hot water! It was all for naught.

Strainer's adult son, seduced to the dark side, cooperated with Estahm to secure the illegal sale of Strainer's pickup truck. He also set to work to ensure Strainer was forbidden by police order from entering his own home! The other children were sent to foster homes, where they were treated horribly - with the fosters awaiting orders to have the children trafficked into Gleeful-N'-Young!

Finally succeeding at posting bail after a month in jail, Rob finds himself a homeless man facing up to an additional year or three in prison, if he can't turn things around - but discovering the full extent of Estahm's diabolical agenda! How far to go to reveal the truth, to what extent, how soon? Because regardless of the system, and the railroading, Rob could get himself - or his children - killed, if he speaks up about too much too soon!

He sets to work driving a truck, trying to maintain a low profile, and staying in whatever housing he can secure, pending his trial date - for trumped up charges! Meanwhile, the radio alerts that more and more changes are coming, as Ameristan rises from the remains of the United States, which collapsed after the eruption of Yellowstone due to Kropimak Duzerit.

Things come to a head for him when he has a run-in with Anton Estahm - who wishes to get Rob in touch with the Navyropes to send a militia after the corrupt sheriff. Krampus also arrives, but breaks free of the wristband. Anton and Krampus come under fire, and Rob is able to save Krampus. The Screwworms dead or forced to retreat, Krampus and Rob now have to forge a shaky truce to stop Estahm's ritual.

Rob's rage begins boiling over even further, when he learns that Perchta's failure to save Jemma from human traffickers led to an incident that got Jemma killed! Jerry and Luca are able to save Ted, however, resulting in Rob being reunited with his youngest son. However, it soon becomes clear that the Strainers and the Horrorday Gang are going to have to work together, if Estahm is to pay. Rob has a simple condition for the Horrorday Gang: the innocent are off limits for their feeding frenzy! Estahm and the Screwworms? Free game!