Echo

Six months before the start of the Cowboy SMP, Pity's previous preacher was killed, right on the stairs of his own church. The same group as bandits who murdered him, left the building of the church decimated as well. After this incident, many believe the church to be haunted.

The new Preacher (Ren) came into Pity soon after to replace his predecessor, rebuild the church, and spread "The Word", the center of his beliefs. He doesn't seem to quite fit in here, as he says the townsfolk are wary of him and find him strange, few coming to his sermons. He doesn't seem to be on terrible terms with most of them though, and easily chats with most of his fellow town residents. His name, however, he doesn't share with anyone, often avoiding the question by stating his title, and the schedule of the church. When asked about his late predecessor's name, he would only tell the others it was Preacher as well, refusing to explain it.

Six months after the new Preacher's arrival a dust storm destroys the church again, right before Mayor Oli's advert of a 'gold rush' brings in a new wave of Out-Of-Towners to the ruins of Pity. Preacher is unhappy about this and very suspicious of the newcomers, thinking with new people come new problems.

Along with his general distrust of newcomers, the Preacher is concerned some of them could have links to Mayor Oli, a man who he does not trust one bit. He's seen the Mayor trying to get under the floorboards of the church, and finds him doing so again on the day the out-of-towners arrive. Preacher says 'he seems very attached to the land beneath this church', possibly implying he is not quite certain what Oli is looking for. However, he does follow this up with 'There is no chance that he knows, or at least that's what I think, that's what I hope' so whether it's beneath the floorboards or not, there is something the Preacher is hiding.

Alone after a meeting with Jackie P. Scythe, the Preacher says 'The man from the big city, bringing disturbing news of the government heading west. There's even less time than I thought. Have they not seen the darkness in the clouds, the demons in the night? There's a deathly chill in the air when the sun goes down. They know not what waits for them here.' It's not entirely clear whether he worries about the government standing in the way of his mission, or if he just thinks the government is making a grave mistake coming here.

The "demons" the Preacher talks about, which he says come from the west, are the mobs spawning at night. Their attacks have gotten worse, he says, and they didn't appear in Pity before the first destruction of the church. He says the previous preacher's spirit haunting the church might be what draws the demons here, and that he is here to cleanse the church. He does have experience fighting these “creatures of the night” though, stating 'I have been called Monster Hunter before, but not in this town'.

The Preacher often talks about his mission to bring The Word, but there seems to be more to his mission than that. He's stated things such as that there is nothing out here in Pity for the out-of-towners, "nothing that they would know of anyway". He seems to not have much hope, saying the storm set him back and he's no closer to reaching even the first step of the mission. Outside of his monster-hunting past, there is more about his role he might be hiding, saying 'or at least we seem to be a preacher, we wear the clothes of a preacher, we talk like a preacher, and we have the church like a preacher' during one of his intermissions. He does fully take up the role of a Preacher, but it is clear that is not all there is to him.

While we don't know what his mission includes, it doesn't seem to directly relate to the aliens, or at least the Preacher does not seem to know anything about them. When Sausage pulls out the UFO flag, there's no sign he has any understanding what it is. He links some of it to demons and brings up hallucinations, but it’s clear he’s not doing much more than guesses based on his beliefs and what he saw.

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