Simon "Ghost" Riley

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## Simon Riley

### Rank

Lieutenant (Until 2021)
Field Commander of the Task Force 141

### Killed By

Martin Li by detonated explosion and mortal wound from debris.

### Relatives

Unnamed Father (Deceased)
Unnamed Mother (Deceased)
Unnamed Brother

### Equipment

Frag Grenade, Knife, Smoke Grenade, Flashbang

### Timeline

Roleplay Timeline

*"An expert in clandestine tradecraft, sabotage and infiltration. He lives with a redacted past and an undercover present, marked by a concealed appearance to hide his identity and maintain anonymity in the field."*
— Character Information
*"You cannot kill what is already dead."*
— Ghost's most famous line
**Simon "Ghost" Riley** is one of the two deuteragonists of Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 alongside Frank Woods.

He is a professional and experienced Task Force 141 operative who was an Ex-SAS operator. He has a history with Sarah Mcfield, and also is on friendly terms with most of the squadron. After Jason Hudson's death, he became the new Field Commander of the Task Force until his demise came later by the hands of Martin Li.

## Biography

### Early Life

Simon Riley had a very traumatic childhood while growing up in Manchester, England because of his heartless father. On most days, his father brought dangerous animals back and taunted him with them, even going so far to force him to kiss a snake or threaten to kill him with them. When he and his younger brother Tommy got older, Tommy would always wear a skull-mask at night to scare Simon. Simon's father would sometimes take him to the Bone Lickers concerts. At one concert, his father made him laugh at the death of a prostitute who was addicted to drugs.

### War Against the MCP

#### The Oil Rig

Ghost was present when the team went to the oil rig. They clear out most of the rooms, and securing the main area where they find a container with nuclear cargo in it, they are about to obtain it however enemy MI-28's arrive and start taking out the rig, Ghost is able to escape alongside most of the squad.

#### Eliminating Garrick

*"All more reason to string him from his intestines."*
— Ghost about Anslo Garrick.
Ghost plays a more important part in this mission. He assists Alex Mason on the capture of Jamal Rahar, he and woods sneak through the backalleys and are able to push through into the hospital, securing the reception area, then they went after Rahar who they eventually captured, then handed over to Spetznaz.

Ghost leads the infiltration team to Garrick's supposed hideout with Phylax, where it is found out to be a trap when a double of Garrick is killed and it is rigged with explosives. He later tries to follow the real Garrick but crashes into an alley, having to go on foot to when he reaches him and assists Henry and Mason.

#### Tracking Down Arash Kadivar

*"Mason and Woods will come from the south for a pincer on him, our Spetsnaz friends will stay in the Heli and provide air support where needed. Remember we need him alive!"*
— Ghost going over the plans to capture Marco Guzman.
During a chat with Hudson, Ghost revealed an operation that he went on with the USMC rangers a few months back, there was a man that resembled Arash Kadivar who was running cartels down in brazil. Hudson takes the information and decides to make Ghost in charge of this op, they go to the favelas and track down Marco Guzman who gives them the location on Arash, and they track Kadivar down. however he shoots himself before ghost is able to apprehend him.

#### Stopping Zakheav

Ghost and a squad go into an ac-130 and skydive out of it into a village where they clear houses and eventually find griggs, rescuing him and heading to the nearby nuclear silo once seeing that Zakheav sent out nukes.

Not too long after, they make it to the silo and push through, dealing with BTR-90's and countlesss mercs, they eventually made it to the silo and blew it open, pushing through the nuclear station and getting to the war room where they were successful in stopping the nukes. After this, they were chased by Zakheav's men and boarded a highway with cars, having to avoid mi-28's in the process. They made it to a bridge where they were cornered by Zakheav's men, Ghost gets hit in the blast radius of a explosion from a tanker, and shrapnel hits him , He slides a gun to Henry and Henry shoots zakheav, Ghost suffers major wounds.

### Fighting Al-Qatela and Shadow Company

#### Capturing Volk

After getting news about Victor Zakheavs ring of targets Ghost along with Zero, Gary "Roach" Sanderson, Frank Woods, and Alex Mason head to a city in urzikstan in order to locate Volk. They fight through a couple groups of mercs, reaching the target building and despite heavy resistance, they were able to apprehend and capture Volk.

Back at base, he gave up information revealing the mole general who has been manipulating the war alongside the Zakheavs being General Shepard. However Volk doesent know who the general was; only being allowed to say a certain name who wasent shepard.

#### The Banker

Two days later, they went after a close ally of Victor Zakheav, in order to find who the mole is; tracking the banker down to a bank where he was planning to make a money transfer. They fight through tanks, juggernauts and guards before reaching the banker on the roof. He talks about a deal with Shepard which ghost is confused by, before ghost can ask any more questions the banker leaves in a helicopter to another part of tavorsk district.

They see Shepard there already trying to get to the banker first, along with Mason, Henry and Phylax, he goes inside to find the banker and find more information. They fight through multiple groups of mercs and reach him, before he is able to reveal anything Shepard steps in and shoots at The banker killing their only lead which draws Ghosts suspicious.

#### Ramos

Later, they go after a possible link to al-qatela who has now defected and after a brief confrontation Unkown Hostiles and Al-Qatela ambush them, taking out Ramos's wingmen and then Ramos tries to escape.

Ghost and Phylax split up from Henry and Mason. Heading to another part to try and corner Ramos; however they are overrun and forced to exfil given orders by Mason which ends up in Henry being captured.

Back at base, Ramos gives the intel about Shepard which confirms everyones theories that Shepard was manipulating them.

#### Rescuing Henry/Escape From Shadow Company

After noticing Shepherds betrayal and locating a shadow company warehouse, Ghost and Gary "Roach" Sanderson went on an operation to rescue their comrade Henry. They fought through and found the dead body of Viktor Ramos, and later a security station which allowed them to pinpoint his location in the warehouse. After rescuing him they fought through and Phylax and Zero arrived with exfil.

After being airborne, a shadow company RPG hit them and they crashed in a nearby forest, being split up. Ghost and Zero were able to find their way to the regroup place and they snuck through the forest until they were rescued by a strike team led by Frank Woods and Alex Mason.

#### Rust

A day later, Ghost and Roach went on another mission to an oil yard to find a DSM on Shepherds whereabouts. They succesfully snuck in and got the intel, on their way out Shepherd was mistakenly thinking they were still on his side and attempted to get the DSM from them. But they knew who he really was and they shot and killed him, they later were overrun by a shadow company invasion and had to escape from the oil yard with a car.

During their escape, an enemy chopper was in pursuit attempting to take them down, after the hostile got a direct shot the door of the car broke open and Ghost hands Roach a grenade launcher while attempting to hold the car steady with one hand. Roach was able to hit the chopper and it crashed in their path making them fall into the water. They swam up and were rescued by a Sentinel team who brought them back to their headquarters.

#### Failed Operation in Verdansk

After Mason and Woods came back to the headquarters with intel on Zakheavs missle attacks, the team launched a full assualt having an advantage during the first half; taking over Tavorsk District and almost got the stadium before multiple cruise missles were dropped in and Victor Zakheav captured the team.

After being transported to another place in verdansk using a prison bus, Gideon did the team a solid once again planting C4 on the prison bus to have them escape. After the team began escaping they had to encounter several al-qatela operators throughout the city using makeshift knives and stealing enemy guns against them. They were able to escape after stealing enemy helicopters.

#### End Of The War

One day before the planned ICBM launches, Roach and Ghost went on an operation to Al-Asad's compound in Kastovia in order to kill him once and for all, having to sneak through multiple enemy meetups and buildings they reached his compound and were met with many resitance. They were succesfully able to reach him, however he put up a fight; getting Roach and Ghost seperated in order to kill Roach first however this was foiled as Ghost came from behind Al-Asad and stabbed him, but he pulled a pin on a grenade and tackled Roach out of the window, presumably "killing" both of them.

During the day of the missle attacks, the team launched another invasion on verdansk having way more firepower and air support at bay. They succesfully took over the military base, the riverside and later the airport which they used the radio tower in order to hack into Victor's comms.

After the team located the exact missle silo; they split up to do different missions. Ghost and Phylax were in charge of creating a diversion which they succesfully did, blowing up an oil tanker to keep the al-qatela away from Alex Mason and Henry who were able to kill Zakheav and barely stop the ICBM.

### Stopping Al-Asad For Good

#### Rescuing Roach

After getting a tip on where Roach was, Ghost led a team into the headquarters, he and Sarah Mcfield breached the outpost, quickly rescuing Roach. They then were overrun and almost killed by the rest of the mercs, but an unkown group saved them.

#### Weapons Factory

They then infiltrated Al-Asad's weapons factory in South America. Once inside the Atrium, they saw several hover tanks, without any time to react, they went towards the control room as Mason started the information download. It seemed as all hope was lost, but Ghost used the hover tank and shot down all of the mercs, just enough for Mason to complete the download and they then exited the factory, detonating C4 to explode the hover tanks and other weapons. They then moved towards exfil point where Roach rescued them.

#### London

With intel from the briefcase Andrew Zimmer had on him, it was intel about a massive bomb being moved into Piccadilly Square to be exploded. Ghost, Mason, Phylax and Zero, alongside some CTSFO operatives attempted to stop the bomb to no avail, the bomb detonated causing several civilians to die, and terrorists took hostages, Ghost assisted in rescuing the hostages and neutralizing the terrorists.

They were able to track the terrorist cell to a townhouse in Camden Town, Ghost again, led an SAS operation into the townhome. Killing all the terrorists then finding an intel tube with a location of a compound inside Urzikstan.

#### Urzikstan Compound

Using the intel, they raided the compound in order to locate Al-Asad's Assistant, Ghost secures two buildings, then has a conversation with a woman, finding out that The assistant is hunkered down inside a tunnel system underneath the teahouse. After Woods and Mason go down the hole, a suicde bomber detonates their vest, collapsing the tunnel behind them. After it collapsed, Ghost worked on securing the rest of the compound while Woods and Mason made their way to the assistant.

#### The Estate

Despite the assistant dying to prevent anymore information to get leaked, she told info about Al-Asad's estate. They went to the estate, and Ghost provided overwatch for Roach as he found several tortured interrogation victims, which turned out to be Al-Asad's relatives. After finding out there was intel on the third floor of the main house which could lead them to Al-Asad, they regrouped at the stairwell and made their way to the third floor bedroom where they secured the intel and barely escaped Al-Asads forces.

#### Georgia

After this, they raided Al-Asad's weapon factory with the help of the spetsnaz. Ghost and Henry went to the main area and planted the explosives, as Roach went after Al-Asad in his helicopter. He killed him, and Al-Asad gave him a USB chip before his death.

### Betrayal And Search

#### Panama

With the USB, it gave them info on Martin Li's true nature, so they went to a location where Martin Li was supposed to be, only for the main infiltration team, consisting of Roach, Phylax, Henry, and Ghost to get ambushed, and Woods to accidently injure mason with a sniper, and for Hudson to get killed publicly. They were able to escape, but Mason and Woods were captured.

#### Supply Ship

After the capture of Mason and Woods. A Task Force 141 squadron went to a Supply Ship in Väljakutse, Bering Strait in order to cripple the CAJ weapon supply. Infiltrating and securing the Bridge, and Crew Quarters, then making way towards the cargo hold, securing a mysterious Weapon X package. However, CAJ MiG's arrived to take the ship down, knowing that they were in there. They ran out and barely escaped in a helicopter.

#### TV Station

After Mason and Woods escaped Vorkuta, and with a possible location on where Martin Li was, Ghost led the team into the broadcast room which ended up only being a trap, Li revealed a captured Sarah on a TV screen, plus explosives hidden all around the room. Ghost pushed everyone out, then got trapped in the blast radius, injuring him mortally. They managed to escape, but Ghost was then put into a coma.

### Back into Action

#### Russia

Ghost initiated an unsanctioned "black" operation to capture Velikan and rescue Sarah in Russia, getting help from the Spetsnaz, Ghost and Roach chased after Velikan, and with the help of Minotaur they subdued him and brought him back to a warehouse where they interrogated him, but he didint talk, prompting Ghost to bring the package which was revealed to be Velikan's wife and kids. Desperate not to get them killed, Velikan told the location of Sarah, and Martin Li. Ghost then executed Velikan in front of his familly for his crimes.

A day later, Roach and Ghost infiltrated a farmhouse and eventually, found Sarah inside. They succesfully rescued her, securing the rest of the farm grounds and getting exfiled out by Frank Woods and Alex Mason.

#### Death

Using the information from Velikan, they went to Prague where the supposed location of Li was. Zero and Ghost setup sniper positions as Roach infiltrated the Hotel Lustig, however Martin Li knew about their plans, and trapped them with C4, Ghost pushed Zero out of the building, but was caught in the blast opening up his wounds. Roach escaped and helped Zero get them back to the safehouse, but Ghost died to his injuries.