"Mikołaj" - (Player-Made Character)

## Bill's Character Sheet (WIP)

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**NOTE FROM BILL:** *This'll be in the works for some time, as I'll have to spend some time getting elbow-deep into the systems you guys have strung together. Work will be slow.*

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Mikołaj
 Spoken Languages

Character Info
 Drowning
 **Character Bio (WIP):**
Putting aside his first moments of life, which he experienced during the twilight years of Brezhnev's term in power and Gorbachev's early ruling years, it must be said that Mikołaj is a man that grew up in an 'enclosed' system during the calamities of the late 1980s and early 1990s. This 'enclosed system' was known as a now-bygone settlement that previously existed within the compound of a petrochemical processing plant located some ten-odd kilometres southeast of Żurawica. This place in which Mikołaj grew up - before space heaters fuelled by petrol-fired generators - was an insignificant little holdout for the local populace that lasted until the high mortality rates, low birth rates, dwindling supplies and the increasing inability to counter the occasional raids coaligned, causing social fission in the local community in the September of 2003.
To summarise his years after 2003, Mikołaj and his few friends from Żurawica - coupled with the remaining youths of a family from Przemyśl - engaged in a slow and gruelling death march towards the Ukrainian heartlands, but came to pay with their health and lives with each town they drained of resources. By 2005, the group's remaining stragglers were forced to settle three kilometres southeast of Lviv. The ruined outskirts of the metropolis kept the group alive, but the absence of varied foodstuffs and ammunition forged Mikołaj and his few remaining friends into human cockroaches. Engaging in combat was comparable to suicide, and if it was avoided, illnesses like influenza claimed the few remaining lives. By March 2008, the group's numbers had dwindled to two men; *Mikołaj Kocoń* and *Khvaram Andronikashvil.* Khvaram chose to return to the thawing earth of Poland, and Mikołaj chose to head North, passing through Lviv, Lutsk and Kovel into Belarus. His specific whereabouts had become a mystery until he'd entered Pinsk, Baranovichi and Salihorsk, but he had - for extensive periods of time - avoided the capital city of Minsk.
After spending some months in the Minsk region, five at most, accompanied by acquaintances both new and old, the growing numbers of attacks delivered by the Uzhastiki across Belarus - even before their zenith - sent a strong warning blaring across the Polack's subconscious. Spurred on by a near-animalistic desire to avoid conflict at all costs, Mikołaj decided to evade both Poland and western Belarus by means of traversing along Magisterial Road 8 (M8) towards the Ukrainian border. During this time, the Polack seemed to vanish off the face of the earth, wandering across unnamed rural territories across Chernihiv and Zhytomyr. God knows what he did in that corner of Europe, but what is known is that once news began to surface about the collapse of the Warsaw Hive, he chose to crawl out of his hiding place(s) to the light. His arrival in Czechoslovakia took its time and toll, the tour across the M06-M08 route having starved him of supplies, coming close to killing him from starvation.
In any case, he's arrived in his target country, but his motivations for coming remain largely obscured. Chances are, however, that they have to do with a human desire to connect with whoever's been left alive since the downfall of those few settlements across Eastern Europe. Hiding in holes in the ground like a damned rat must have had its consequences on one's psyche.

Body Condition
 **Afflictions/Injuries** | -
 **Condition Stats** | Sanity: 100% / 100%

Cotton working trousers.
 *Physical Description*:
The years following the abominable incursions into Belarus and much of Ukraine have left this particular sewer- and cave-dweller in a diminished state, though he still remains a man of many juxtapositions, both physically and mentally. Much has changed in terms of sinew and skin, with his body - due to severe malnutrition and ceaseless abuse - having become one dotted with the signs of wounds inflicted upon him by both men and beasts alike. However, as before, little details such as childhood pox scars, freckles and small, cryptic tattoos marking his body remain.

   As for the specifics, a severe reduction in Polack's daily nutritional intake and a disproportionately demanding and combative hunter-scavenger lifestyle have torn his fat percentage - and musculature - to an unhealthy imbalance. His body has little to no fat left, with muscles and ribs pressing against his roughened skin as if trying to claw through his flesh. His senses, however, have been left mostly untainted, with his eyesight and hearing still remaining pristine. As before, the downside of this is the fact that Mikołaj struggles with adapting to being in high-lux environments, and is quicker to experience psychological and psychosomatic discomfort in crowded areas. This extends itself to combat, in which his post-traumatic stress disorder being exposed to the flashing of muzzles and thunderous bangs of firearms, and the occasional sparks of clashing arms may turn his well-calibrated motoric functions into twitchier ones.
Outside of matters psychological and superficial, there are signs of significant bodily deterioration. Kicking up and inhaling the radioactive dust buried in the earth and between the grass blades found in much of northern Ukraine have led to visible degrees of cellular and genetic damage, which reveals itself through many facets, including anemia, the diminishing of his immune system, and hair loss. Had it not been for his face, Mikołaj would have been left largely unrecognisable.

Saves

Combat Skills (10)

Technological Skills (2)

Vehicular Skills (0)

Stealth Skills (23)

Speechcraft Skills (0)

Misc. Skills (7)