Sulik (Fallout 2)

Sulik's sprite as he appears in-game

Sulik's "talking head", featuring Grampy-Bone

Maxine (companion)

Klamath

> "Grampy-Bone be telling us to kill."
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## Summary

Sulik was a Tribal warrior originally from a village to the west on the coast of "The Great Saltwater" (Pacific ocean) found by Maxine of Arroyo in the town of Klamath, where he had found himself working in Maida Buckner's bar to pay off damages caused by a drunken rage.

He is a strange man, referring to himself in the plural as "we and I", believing himself to be accompanied by the spirits of his ancestors, whose bones his body is pierced and adorned by: most notably *Grampy-Bone*, the collar bone of his deceased Grandfather worn through Sulik's nose, and to whom he regularly "confers", claiming that Grampy-Bone is quite vocal, talking the most out of all the spirits.

With Maxine's assistance in paying off the remaining £350 (the people of Klamath have used pounds ever since the trader Vic Vicson set up shop in the settlement, who demanded they use "*her majesties coinage*") Sulik joined her in her quest for the G.E.C.K, with hopes of finding his captured sister who was taken from his tribe by Slavers.

## Biography

Born and raised in the village by the Great Salt Water. After group of slavers, armed with firearms, attacked villagers en route to do some trading with a neighbouring tribe, Sulik headed inland to the East on the trail of Kurisa, his sister, who was among those captured.

He arrived in the town of Klamath to meet with the Trader Vic, supposedly with information about the Slavers, however Vic was a no-show. In his anger, Sulik had a little too much to drink at Buckner's, lashing out at the patrons and owner of the bar in a violent outburst. Somehow he was apprehended, and upon sobering up was forced to pay off the nearly £500 of damages caused to the establishment by working there as an indentured servant.

Perhaps due to the incident, Sulik developed a lasting grudge against "*Vic the Traitor*" for, in his words, "*fucking flaking on* [him]" that night.

   Some time later, Maxine arrived in Klamath in search of Vic for her own reasons. In searching the bar, she immediately approached Sulik - a clear and obvious fellow outsider in this town as "*door-knob electrifying, cow stealing bastards*" - to ask him if he knew of Vic's location (his store in town being deserted, and trapped with aforementioned electrified door-knob). Sulik told her his story and she agreed to help free him of his debt in exchange for travelling together.

With his remaining debt of £350 paid off by Maxine, Sulik and his now atrophied legs went with her in search of supplies for their journey. They met the leader of Trapper town, Slim Picket, and rid the area of a rat infestation: he and Maxine doing battle against the gargantuan *Rat God* in the tunnels beneath the town.

Leaving Klamath for The Den, said to be the base of operations for Slavers in the region, they stumbled upon a crashed aircraft guarded by a deranged Handyman robot. While Maxine suggested communication with the Metal-Man, "Grampy-Bone" told Sulik to kill, and he charged in weilding his sledgehammer. Investigating the crash site, they found corpses wearing unusual armour while the vehicle itself was unlike anything either had seen before. Nevertheless the pair left the scene with Sulik remarking on a feeling of the future's shadow weighing down upon him.