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Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Outside of a rundown dormitory in the city of Krakow, a worker in a patched up overall paced nervously, around one meters seventy centimeters in height, he is nervously nursing a cigarette in his calloused hand, his clothes and skin and dirty blonde hair still covered in the distinct residue of burned coal, as his blue eyes roam the paved road. He doesn’t look much older than twenty years old.
Behind him, another worker speaks up.
“Calm down Miłosz, everything is going to be fine, the old lady helped every family from the factory deliver their kids, she know what she is doing.”
The nervous man-Miłosz- stops his pacing to look up at his colleague, eyes wilds.
“Shut up Kazimierz! It’s my first one, let me be nervous you dupek! You weren’t any better when it was your turn!”
Kazimierz raises his hand in surrender.
“Alright, Alright, you keep it up, just remember not to spend too long, the foreman isn’t in the best of mood today, we can’t cover for you too long.”
Miłosz only answer was to irritably wave his colleagues away, resuming his pacing.
With a chuckle and a shrug, Kazimierz left the place, leaving the place.
But before he could leave, a piercing cry could be heard from inside the building, startling both men, leaving them rooted on the spot.
It took a few moments before a veiled old lady made her way out, wiping her wrinkled hand with a clean cloth.
“Congratulations, it’s a boy.”
She barely had the time to finish, before Miłosz rushed in, almost knocking the old lady
down and leaving her grumbling about overexcited youngsters.
Inside the building, a young lady in a white nightgown lay on the bed, her dark long hair clinging to her forehead as perspiration rolled down her face down to her neck, her fair face smiling down tiredly at a bundle a clothes held in her arms, her bright blue eyes staring into it.
“Maria!”
She looked up at Miłosz, keeping her smiling face.
“Come Miłosz, hold your son.”
Trembling, he approached the bed, holding out both arms to take the bundle, looking into it, a small face with blue eyes greeted him, a small tuft of dark hair on his head. From the doorway, Kazimierz smiled.
“My son, My son” cried the new father, holding his infant close to his chest.
Maria looked softly at the two.
“What shall we name him?” she asked.
The worker paused for a moment, looking at his wife and child, before exclaiming in excitement.
[X] Filip Kowalski
But tell us young child, how shall you spend your first years?
6 actions to spend as you wish + 1 locked on learning polish.
Martial: “Fighting is fun”.
Diplomacy: “Approaching others is a bit embarrassing.”
Learning: “Those book things look interesting”
Behind him, another worker speaks up.
“Calm down Miłosz, everything is going to be fine, the old lady helped every family from the factory deliver their kids, she know what she is doing.”
The nervous man-Miłosz- stops his pacing to look up at his colleague, eyes wilds.
“Shut up Kazimierz! It’s my first one, let me be nervous you dupek! You weren’t any better when it was your turn!”
Kazimierz raises his hand in surrender.
“Alright, Alright, you keep it up, just remember not to spend too long, the foreman isn’t in the best of mood today, we can’t cover for you too long.”
Miłosz only answer was to irritably wave his colleagues away, resuming his pacing.
With a chuckle and a shrug, Kazimierz left the place, leaving the place.
But before he could leave, a piercing cry could be heard from inside the building, startling both men, leaving them rooted on the spot.
It took a few moments before a veiled old lady made her way out, wiping her wrinkled hand with a clean cloth.
“Congratulations, it’s a boy.”
She barely had the time to finish, before Miłosz rushed in, almost knocking the old lady
down and leaving her grumbling about overexcited youngsters.
Inside the building, a young lady in a white nightgown lay on the bed, her dark long hair clinging to her forehead as perspiration rolled down her face down to her neck, her fair face smiling down tiredly at a bundle a clothes held in her arms, her bright blue eyes staring into it.
“Maria!”
She looked up at Miłosz, keeping her smiling face.
“Come Miłosz, hold your son.”
Trembling, he approached the bed, holding out both arms to take the bundle, looking into it, a small face with blue eyes greeted him, a small tuft of dark hair on his head. From the doorway, Kazimierz smiled.
“My son, My son” cried the new father, holding his infant close to his chest.
Maria looked softly at the two.
“What shall we name him?” she asked.
The worker paused for a moment, looking at his wife and child, before exclaiming in excitement.
[X] Filip Kowalski
But tell us young child, how shall you spend your first years?
6 actions to spend as you wish + 1 locked on learning polish.
Martial: “Fighting is fun”.
[X] Pick a fight with the other kids in the neighborhood– The older kids in your street like to pick on the younger kids like yourself, no way you are letting them get away with it!
Time: 6 years
DC: Autosuccess/15/55/100 Cost: None Reward: Bonus to Personal combat. Possible Traits. ???
Roll: 78+5=83
It was hard, at first, you were three when you first decided to fight back, the older kids on the other hand were five to six year old, they easily beat you up and left you covered in bruise and shivering in pain, your mother cried when she saw you, and your father looked ready to storm the kids house and take it up to their parents when he learnt of what happens. He did. The next beating was worse.
Now, maybe you should have gone see your parents once more, surely, this time their parents would not put a with it.
But even at a young age, you were stubborn as a mule, and refused to back down from the challenge.
You spent the next three years picking fight with them, six against one, and hiding your bruises from your family.
At age four, you managed to get one of them alone, and promptly gave him a taste of his own medicine, he never showed up in front of you ever again.
At age five, you beat two more on your own, their parents came to complain to your father about it there was a lot of yelling, and your father gave you a stern scolding after they left, though there was a strange gleam in his eyes. Those two never looked you in the eyes again.
At age six, you fought the last three in a brawl right in the middle of the street, you gave as good as you got until eventually the Bundesgendarmerie had to intervene and separate you. This time, your father got really angry and spanked you a lot, making you promise not to do it again.
Those three never came close to the factory again.
Fighting REALLY is fun.
Reward: +2 Personal combat, Trait Natural fighter +3 personal combat +5 to combat rolls
[X] Play battle! – A favorite past time of youth find a few sticks and lead your fellow hero to glorious battle against the vile Turk/Russian, or whatever struck yours fancy at the time, winner get to take the other side buttons. (necessitate the Action Go outside and play with your peers.)
Time: 6 years
DC: Autosuccess/ Autosucces/ 40/100 Cost: None Reward: Possible Traits. small chance of a personal combat bonus. ???
Roll:80+5=85
Battles are glorious things, or at least, that what you think of them, you spend your first years of life with your fellow factory brats in battle, first fighting as a little foot soldiers and quickly becoming the leader thanks to your charisma and natural head for conflict, defeating first the others group of kids in your street, then the kids from the street adjacent yours, by the time you reached six you were the undefeated leader of several streets of children (in the play) and owner of a large button treasury.
Needless to say, a lot of parents were quite unhappy about their children clothes being messed up.
Reward: Trait Leader of Men +2 Martial +1 Personal combat +5 to all rolls for troops fighting alongside you.
[X] Go bother the men in blue – You see them from time to time, the strange men in blue walking neatly in the street with those strange tube made of metal and wood hanging off their shoulders. They look so…incredible, perhaps you should talk to them?
Time: 6 years
DC:40/80/100 Cost: None Reward:???
Roll: 41+5=46
The men in blue were quite annoyed when you showed up and started asking question, most of them took to ignoring you some even shooing you away, fortunately, you were quite a persistent kid, and some of them warmed up to you over time.
That’s when you learned that they were actually soldiers! You didn’t know what soldiers looked like until then! Seeing you so excited the soldiers regaled you with tale of battle and glorious deed, they even let you touch their rifles and tried to explain to you how they work!
In the end, while you did not learn much of use, you managed to get closer to the soldiers.
Reward: Reduced DC for further, some knowledge about guns, slightly increased reputation with local garrisons.
Time: 6 years
DC: Autosuccess/15/55/100 Cost: None Reward: Bonus to Personal combat. Possible Traits. ???
Roll: 78+5=83
It was hard, at first, you were three when you first decided to fight back, the older kids on the other hand were five to six year old, they easily beat you up and left you covered in bruise and shivering in pain, your mother cried when she saw you, and your father looked ready to storm the kids house and take it up to their parents when he learnt of what happens. He did. The next beating was worse.
Now, maybe you should have gone see your parents once more, surely, this time their parents would not put a with it.
But even at a young age, you were stubborn as a mule, and refused to back down from the challenge.
You spent the next three years picking fight with them, six against one, and hiding your bruises from your family.
At age four, you managed to get one of them alone, and promptly gave him a taste of his own medicine, he never showed up in front of you ever again.
At age five, you beat two more on your own, their parents came to complain to your father about it there was a lot of yelling, and your father gave you a stern scolding after they left, though there was a strange gleam in his eyes. Those two never looked you in the eyes again.
At age six, you fought the last three in a brawl right in the middle of the street, you gave as good as you got until eventually the Bundesgendarmerie had to intervene and separate you. This time, your father got really angry and spanked you a lot, making you promise not to do it again.
Those three never came close to the factory again.
Fighting REALLY is fun.
Reward: +2 Personal combat, Trait Natural fighter +3 personal combat +5 to combat rolls
[X] Play battle! – A favorite past time of youth find a few sticks and lead your fellow hero to glorious battle against the vile Turk/Russian, or whatever struck yours fancy at the time, winner get to take the other side buttons. (necessitate the Action Go outside and play with your peers.)
Time: 6 years
DC: Autosuccess/ Autosucces/ 40/100 Cost: None Reward: Possible Traits. small chance of a personal combat bonus. ???
Roll:80+5=85
Battles are glorious things, or at least, that what you think of them, you spend your first years of life with your fellow factory brats in battle, first fighting as a little foot soldiers and quickly becoming the leader thanks to your charisma and natural head for conflict, defeating first the others group of kids in your street, then the kids from the street adjacent yours, by the time you reached six you were the undefeated leader of several streets of children (in the play) and owner of a large button treasury.
Needless to say, a lot of parents were quite unhappy about their children clothes being messed up.
Reward: Trait Leader of Men +2 Martial +1 Personal combat +5 to all rolls for troops fighting alongside you.
[X] Go bother the men in blue – You see them from time to time, the strange men in blue walking neatly in the street with those strange tube made of metal and wood hanging off their shoulders. They look so…incredible, perhaps you should talk to them?
Time: 6 years
DC:40/80/100 Cost: None Reward:???
Roll: 41+5=46
The men in blue were quite annoyed when you showed up and started asking question, most of them took to ignoring you some even shooing you away, fortunately, you were quite a persistent kid, and some of them warmed up to you over time.
That’s when you learned that they were actually soldiers! You didn’t know what soldiers looked like until then! Seeing you so excited the soldiers regaled you with tale of battle and glorious deed, they even let you touch their rifles and tried to explain to you how they work!
In the end, while you did not learn much of use, you managed to get closer to the soldiers.
Reward: Reduced DC for further, some knowledge about guns, slightly increased reputation with local garrisons.
Diplomacy: “Approaching others is a bit embarrassing.”
[X] Go outside play with your peers – the basics of being a child, go outside
with your fellow kids and play around, observe the world, and just socialize.
Time: 6 years
DC:20/45/85/100 Cost: None Reward: Friends, bonus to diplo. Possible Traits. ???
Roll:85+5=90
You quickly become friend with the other kids on the street, playing games, discussing the happenings in the city in a way only children can, fighting it out with kids from others street. Over the years, you become the leader of your own group of unruly children, the other’s factory brats, some even older than you, gathering around you to form your own clique, in particular, Gustaw, youngest son of your uncle Kazimierz, hung around you a lot, 2 years older than you, he’s been sticking with you since you were a toddler and now continue to clean up your mess when you get in trouble.
Reward: Diplomacy+2, Gain trait Gregarious +2 Diplomacy +1 Intrigue.
with your fellow kids and play around, observe the world, and just socialize.
Time: 6 years
DC:20/45/85/100 Cost: None Reward: Friends, bonus to diplo. Possible Traits. ???
Roll:85+5=90
You quickly become friend with the other kids on the street, playing games, discussing the happenings in the city in a way only children can, fighting it out with kids from others street. Over the years, you become the leader of your own group of unruly children, the other’s factory brats, some even older than you, gathering around you to form your own clique, in particular, Gustaw, youngest son of your uncle Kazimierz, hung around you a lot, 2 years older than you, he’s been sticking with you since you were a toddler and now continue to clean up your mess when you get in trouble.
Reward: Diplomacy+2, Gain trait Gregarious +2 Diplomacy +1 Intrigue.
Learning: “Those book things look interesting”
[X] Learn Polish – Your mother tongue, of course you can speak it!
Time: 6 years
DC: Auto success Cost: none Reward: Perfect polish
Roll:Autosuccess
Your naturally learned how to speak polish by listening to others speak it around you as a baby.
Reward: Speak perfect polish
[X] Learn German – It is the language of the Emperor and the Empire, everyone important speak it, learning it seems like it would be interesting, if only you could find someone to teach you.
Time: 6 years
DC:10/35/75/100 Cost: None Reward: can speak Germans to varying degrees. Possible Traits. ???
Roll:58+5=63
It was difficult to find someone to teach you, but one of the soldiers you befriended turned out to be a German, he was quite happy to learn of your interest in what he call “The Imperial language”, and took to teaching you when he had some time, while you are by no means a linguistic genius, you still progressed quite well, by the time you reached six, you could understand most of what was being said in German if people did not speak to fast and speak it in a way that was somewhat understandable, if a bit slow, accented and grammatically incorrect…
The German soldier looked quite pleased with himself, your parents, on the other hand, seemed to have mixed feeling about this.
Reward: +1 Learning, Can somewhat speak and understand German, probably best not to speak it in upper class company just yet.
[X] Learn how to read and write – it is how you put word on papers so that you can see them, according to your mothers. This seems like an absolutely magical thing to you! luckily, both she and your father seem to know how to do it!
Time: 6 years
DC: Autopass/25/65/100 Cost: None Reward: Varying degrees of mastery over letters. Bonus to Find work action. Possible Traits. ???
Roll:12+5=18
This is hard.
You try, you really do, but understanding just seems to slip out of you hand ever so slightly, your mother, who seems to appreciate your interest in learning more than your father and has taken to teaching you , encourage you by saying that others kid your age do not know as much as you do.
But you feel that you should be better than this, other kids may not know as much about Letters than you, but they also do not try nearly as hard.
You are slightly disappointed in yourself.
Reward: Learned alphabet and can read and write a few words.
[X] Learn numbers – Numbers apparently help for many things, like counting people, or money, something really important in short! You’re supposed to learn this in school, but it doesn’t hurt to start early right?
Time: 6 years
DC: Autopass/25/65/100 Cost: None Reward: Varying degrees of mastery over number. Bonus to Find work actions. Possible Traits. ???
Roll :99+5=104 (Critical success)
It started easily enough, when you asked to learn numbers on top of Letters, your mother was delighted to teach you, somewhat hoping it would take you away from all your fighting and direct you to a more academic future.
Within a year, you had mastered counting, addition, subtraction and basic geometric shapes, surprising your mother, who quickly ran out of things to teach.
Within the next two years, you manage to infer multiplication and division to a significant extent, this time which not even your parents could do. Your mother was both shocked and excited, even your father looked flabbergasted and they would speak to each other in hushed voice every time you showed them your progress in mathematics.
At some point, they brought you to the Foreman of the factory, and asked you to show him how you did mathematics, he looked quite interested and spoke at length with your parents once he sent you out of his office.
Turn out numbers are fascinating.
Reward: +4 learning, Trait Mathematical genius +3 learning +2 Stewardship+1 Martial +5 to rolls involving Mathematics. New job option. Stuff happening in the background.
Time: 6 years
DC: Auto success Cost: none Reward: Perfect polish
Roll:Autosuccess
Your naturally learned how to speak polish by listening to others speak it around you as a baby.
Reward: Speak perfect polish
[X] Learn German – It is the language of the Emperor and the Empire, everyone important speak it, learning it seems like it would be interesting, if only you could find someone to teach you.
Time: 6 years
DC:10/35/75/100 Cost: None Reward: can speak Germans to varying degrees. Possible Traits. ???
Roll:58+5=63
It was difficult to find someone to teach you, but one of the soldiers you befriended turned out to be a German, he was quite happy to learn of your interest in what he call “The Imperial language”, and took to teaching you when he had some time, while you are by no means a linguistic genius, you still progressed quite well, by the time you reached six, you could understand most of what was being said in German if people did not speak to fast and speak it in a way that was somewhat understandable, if a bit slow, accented and grammatically incorrect…
The German soldier looked quite pleased with himself, your parents, on the other hand, seemed to have mixed feeling about this.
Reward: +1 Learning, Can somewhat speak and understand German, probably best not to speak it in upper class company just yet.
[X] Learn how to read and write – it is how you put word on papers so that you can see them, according to your mothers. This seems like an absolutely magical thing to you! luckily, both she and your father seem to know how to do it!
Time: 6 years
DC: Autopass/25/65/100 Cost: None Reward: Varying degrees of mastery over letters. Bonus to Find work action. Possible Traits. ???
Roll:12+5=18
This is hard.
You try, you really do, but understanding just seems to slip out of you hand ever so slightly, your mother, who seems to appreciate your interest in learning more than your father and has taken to teaching you , encourage you by saying that others kid your age do not know as much as you do.
But you feel that you should be better than this, other kids may not know as much about Letters than you, but they also do not try nearly as hard.
You are slightly disappointed in yourself.
Reward: Learned alphabet and can read and write a few words.
[X] Learn numbers – Numbers apparently help for many things, like counting people, or money, something really important in short! You’re supposed to learn this in school, but it doesn’t hurt to start early right?
Time: 6 years
DC: Autopass/25/65/100 Cost: None Reward: Varying degrees of mastery over number. Bonus to Find work actions. Possible Traits. ???
Roll :99+5=104 (Critical success)
It started easily enough, when you asked to learn numbers on top of Letters, your mother was delighted to teach you, somewhat hoping it would take you away from all your fighting and direct you to a more academic future.
Within a year, you had mastered counting, addition, subtraction and basic geometric shapes, surprising your mother, who quickly ran out of things to teach.
Within the next two years, you manage to infer multiplication and division to a significant extent, this time which not even your parents could do. Your mother was both shocked and excited, even your father looked flabbergasted and they would speak to each other in hushed voice every time you showed them your progress in mathematics.
At some point, they brought you to the Foreman of the factory, and asked you to show him how you did mathematics, he looked quite interested and spoke at length with your parents once he sent you out of his office.
Turn out numbers are fascinating.
Reward: +4 learning, Trait Mathematical genius +3 learning +2 Stewardship+1 Martial +5 to rolls involving Mathematics. New job option. Stuff happening in the background.
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