This War of Mine (OOC/Sign Ups/CLOSED)

[Berinnica]

App:

Name: Kastytis Miniauskas
Age: 25
Appearance:

(Image)

Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Lithuanian
Occupation: Guitar Player/Former Military
Skills: Good Close Combat Fighter & Can Play Guitar Pretty Well
Weaknesses: Gets tired easily & Bad Ranged Fighter
Personal Items: Nagant M1895, Wedding Ring, Picture of Girl, and Silver Potato
Bio: Kastytis Miniauskas comes from Trakai, Lithuania. He moved when he was fifteen and then joined a band for awhile, in a nearby city. After joining the band he played for a few years, his most famous hit is "Silver Potato" written and played by him. After that song though he left and started dating a Girl. But then it all started and he was drafted to go fight in Brestyiv, after a short time he deserted. Though he was in the military he never really learned to use guns.

OP said nobody is allowed to have military backgrounds, and a severe limit on weapons. I doubt the M1895 would fall within those limits.

Oh oops, alrighty i'll fix it. Also is it fine if the guns just a fake?

[Arana]

OP said nobody is allowed to have military backgrounds, and a severe limit on weapons. I doubt the M1895 would fall within those limits.

Oh oops, alrighty i'll fix it. Also is it fine if the guns just a fake?

A fake gun? I guess that would be sort of useful for bluffing... just hope nobody calls you on it

[Soviet Farm]

App
Name: Jonah Zorotovich
Age: 23
Appearance: Young man with short brown hair, and tan skin.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Half Croatian, half black.
Occupation: Currently unemployed, former meth cook and dealer
Skills: Has decent skill with knife fighting.
Has absolutely no respect for the law or morals, and thus has no problem with killing and stealing.
Weaknesses: Impulsive
Is not a people person, and is not suited for diplomacy
Bio: Born in San Pedro, California to a mom who didn't speak English, and a dad who didn't care about him, Jonah turned to crime at a young age, and stared cooking and selling meth with a friend to pay the bills. When his friend was killed, he decided to leave the country, and moved to Vlavidonia where he had family. He lived with his aunt for two years, and moved on when she died. He had been living by himself for 4 years before the civil war broke out.
Items: Rucksack, a hunting knife, a bottle of cheap beer, and 3 cans of tomato soup.

[Arana]

App
Name: Jonah Zorotovich
Age: 23
Appearance: Young man with short brown hair, and tan skin.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Half Croatian, half black.
Occupation: Currently unemployed, former meth cook and dealer
Skills: Has decent knowledge and skill with firearms.
Has absolutely no respect for the law or morals, and thus has no problem with killing and stealing.
Weaknesses: Impulsive
Is not a people person, and is not suited for diplomacy
Bio: Born in San Pedro, California to a mom who didn't speak English, and a dad who didn't care about him, Jonah turned to crime at a young age, and stared cooking and selling meth with a friend to pay the bills. When his friend was killed, he decided to leave the country, and lived in Vlavidonia for six years before the civil war broke out,
Items: Rucksack, a hunting knife, a bottle of cheap beer, and 3 cans of tomato soup.

I feel obliged to ask... why and how did a poor American teenager move to a country on the other side of the world? Especially either part of the Soviet Union or a former Soviet state, depending on the exact time he moved there. Of course, I'm making the assumption that it was part of the Soviet Union... its borders are within modern day Ukraine and Belarus, after all.

[Soviet Farm]

App
Name: Jonah Zorotovich
Age: 23
Appearance: Young man with short brown hair, and tan skin.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Half Croatian, half black.
Occupation: Currently unemployed, former meth cook and dealer
Skills: Has decent knowledge and skill with firearms.
Has absolutely no respect for the law or morals, and thus has no problem with killing and stealing.
Weaknesses: Impulsive
Is not a people person, and is not suited for diplomacy
Bio: Born in San Pedro, California to a mom who didn't speak English, and a dad who didn't care about him, Jonah turned to crime at a young age, and stared cooking and selling meth with a friend to pay the bills. When his friend was killed, he decided to leave the country, and lived in Vlavidonia for six years before the civil war broke out,
Items: Rucksack, a hunting knife, a bottle of cheap beer, and 3 cans of tomato soup.

I feel obliged to ask... why and how did a poor American teenager move to a country on the other side of the world? Especially either part of the Soviet Union or a former Soviet state, depending on the exact time he moved there. Of course, I'm making the assumption that it was part of the Soviet Union... its borders are within modern day Ukraine and Belarus, after all.

I thought this place in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union... Oops.

[Terintania]

Added rules and restrictions. They may seem extreme, but I feel it's necessary to make this RP work smoothely.

I shall be getting up a big post soon, checking out the apps and replying to any questions or concerns in the RP.

[Arana]

I feel obliged to ask... why and how did a poor American teenager move to a country on the other side of the world? Especially either part of the Soviet Union or a former Soviet state, depending on the exact time he moved there. Of course, I'm making the assumption that it was part of the Soviet Union... its borders are within modern day Ukraine and Belarus, after all.

I thought this place in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union... Oops.

Doesn't it?

I was more confused as to why an American would move there, regardless of the time period.

[Soviet Farm]

I thought this place in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union... Oops.

Doesn't it?

I was more confused as to why an American would move there, regardless of the time period.

Maybe he had family there? I'll fix my app

[Soviet Farm]

App
Name: Jonah Zorotovich
Age: 23
Appearance: Young man with short brown hair, and tan skin.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Half Croatian, half black.
Occupation: Currently unemployed, former meth cook and dealer
Skills: Has decent skill with knife fighting.
Has absolutely no respect for the law or morals, and thus has no problem with killing and stealing.
Weaknesses: Impulsive
Is not a people person, and is not suited for diplomacy
Bio: Born in San Pedro, California to a mom who didn't speak English, and a dad who didn't care about him, Jonah turned to crime at a young age, and stared cooking and selling meth with a friend to pay the bills. When his friend was killed, he decided to leave the country, and moved to Vlavidonia where he had family. He lived with his aunt for two years, and moved on when she died. He had been living by himself for 4 years before the civil war broke out.
Items: Rucksack, a hunting knife, a bottle of cheap beer, and 3 cans of tomato soup.

There, fixed it

[G-Tech Corporation]

Hmm, so have you decided who gets guns Ter? I mean, I'd prefer to have one, but I suppose if worst came to worst I could swap it for some tools.

[Arana]

Hmm, so have you decided who gets guns Ter? I mean, I'd prefer to have one, but I suppose if worst came to worst I could swap it for some tools.

Just gonna nonchalantly point out that I only have a handgun...

[Terintania]

Construction Zone

App:
Name: Anna Kuznets
Age: 23
Appearance: Young women
Sex: Female
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Accountant
Skills: Good at Maths,
Weaknesses:
Personal Items: Hunting Rifle, 3 bullets, 1 can of corn, blanket, clothes on her back
Bio: When the war started, Anna Kuznets was the accountant for a medium sized IT firm in Brestyiv. She had only just finished university with a decree in Mathematics, and resented the outbreak in hostilities.

I will wait for you to finish it before accepting or denying, but please remove the gun. You can check out the new stuff added to the OP for why.

App:
Name: Lance Hagen
Age: 30
Appearance:

(Image)

Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Danes
Occupation: Doctor

Skills:
1. Knows medicine (able to make medicines with less materials)
2. As a doctor, it means he is able to treat sick and wounded person well, and to be able to conserve the use of medicines to the patients.

Weaknesses:
1. Not skilled at combat, both hand to hand and firearms training.
2. A pacifist, preferring diplomatic approach than violent approach.

Personal Items: 2 herbal medicines, a knife and a bandage.

Bio:
Born in Denmark, he was a good doctor, known in his own town as a kind-hearted and a pacifist doctor. Heard about the news of war in Vlavidonia, he volunteered into a humanitarian aid services to supplying the citizens with food and healthcare. It all went well and he even got a friend in form of a young girl in her twenties, freshly graduated from the medical school in Vlavidonia and now working tirelessly at the humanitarian service. Eventually, both doctors fell in love and promised to marry once the war's over.

One day, when the convoy of humanitarian aid workers tried to entered Brestyiv, they were attacked by the bandits who tried to stole their supplies and in the ensuing battle, both he and the female doctor got separated. Now, he resolved to survived the war, and the siege, and hopefully able to reunites with his lover in the end.

Accepted.

Name: Jarn Petrokov
Age: 24
Appearance: A hard-bitten whipcord man, Jarn stands two point one meters tall, very little fat upon his body, clad in rough clothing reflecting his past deprivation. His eyes are a dark steel gray that occasionally warm to a deep blue in very rare moments that he smiles, and his hair is charcoal black, cut crudely but short, his beard full and similar.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Slavic Caucasian
Occupation: Drifter - Transient
Skills:
- Engineer: Despite never formally completing his education, Jarn was at one point a very learned man about the matters of technology and mechanical matters. This academic knowledge has been tempered over the years by living rough, and so Jarn is a master of getting the most use out of unlikely resources and creating useful contraptions.
- Accustomed to Hardship: The transient has had a rough life; rarely has he had enough to eat, a safe place to sleep, or a roof over his head. Due to that his body is used to deprivation, and can get by on less than what one might expect- his mind has also been broken enough times that additional tragedy rarely gets under his skin. That's just life.
Weaknesses:
- Suspicious: He doesn't like people; for years his only human contact has tended to be negative, and competitive. Nobody makes friends of the homeless. His ability to negotiate or be charismatic is intensely limited, because he barely remembers social mores.
Personal Items: An old bolt-action rifle from his conscript days with several cartridges, a crowbar, thick winter clothing, lots of scraps of wood, metal, and several cans of horrible sustaining food.
Bio: Grew up normally, washed out of university, forged a degree and joined the army off of that forged degree, was discovered, deserted, been living rough ever since as the world fell apart.

Hmm. I'm very reluctant to accept someone who has been a soldier, but I guess since it's been so long, that's fine. However, I would ask you to remove the gun, so someone who's in a current occupation where it's reasonable to have a gun can have one. Also, please specify exactly how many cans of food he has. And he needs two weaknesses to counter the two strengths. Beyond those two somewhat minor things, looks good.

In light of the fact that every character at the moment but one has some kind of firearm (I can get handguns, but hunting rifles? In an urban area?), I feel like a limit should probably be placed on how many people can have them.

I'd happily swap my rifle for some tools, if it becomes an issue.

Speaking of which, I'm looking for a military/scavenger person to work with Jarn, any takers?

I will be choosing the households personally, so you may or may not end up with someone useful

Name: Kolya T. Kozlow

Age: 29

Appearance:

(Image)

Kolya stands at around 5 feet 9 inches. He is neither muscular nor fat, weighing around 157 pounds.

Sex: Male

Ethnicity: East Slavic

Occupation: Lawyer

Skills: Kolya has a sharp tongue, good at convincing others that his ideas are correct and will result in the most success. He is also quite perceptive, being good at noticing things others might overlook.

Weaknesses: He is overconfident, believing he is able to do nearly everything asked or desired from him, when he likely would not be able to do so. He is also a bit weaker than most men his size and age; He can't lift many things at once or things that are too heavy, and he has no combat experience. He likely would not be able to defend himself in a fight.

Personal Items: A grey digital wrist watch, a small metal flask with his initials carved into it, a worn, cracked photograph of his parents, and a small hair comb.

Bio: Kolya T. Kozlow was born in the northern Vlavidonian city of Ves, the third son of his parents. Being the youngest meant that he was spoiled, much to the annoyance of his brothers, who often bullied him. Growing up, however, he was quite popular in school, and had many friends. He had done well in school and began college at 18. During college, he was a smart student but often got into trouble, although he was usually able to convince his teachers to let him off with only a warning. He eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree in law, at 21. For about 5 years he worked at the Ves branch of a rather large law firm, Dolshoy and Co. However, he was transferred to the Brestyiv branch about a year before the war began. When the war began he attempted to leave the city and move back to Ves, but he was unable to afford the money to travel, having lost his job due to the company closing down. With the siege beginning in Brestyiv, he, like many others, have become trapped in the city.

Accepted!

Name: Alexei Volkov

Age: 22

Appearance:

(Image)

Sex: Male

Ethnicity: Belarusian

Occupation: Private in the Militsiya

Skills:

• Alexei has skill in using and maintaining firearms from his training as a militsiya officer. Although his main skill is with handguns, he has a small amount of training with heavier weapons. He also has some degree of physical training and practice with hand to hand combat, although he is on the weaker side with both.
• In high school, Alexei prided himself on his musical skills, and was able to play several instruments. Although seemingly not much of a survival ability, a little bit of music is good for morale and helps to distract people from the terrible situation, especially children. Alexei is most skilled playing the bayan, but he has played other instruments in the past, and has a few songs memorized.

Weaknesses:

• Alexei not only needs to care for himself, but also for his five year old daughter Anastasiya, who, very obviously, cannot take care of herself. As a result, he tends to put priority on her well being, often putting himself at risk in the process, even in situations where it isn't necessary.
• Unlike in peacetime, the healthy respect for the law that comes with being in law enforcement is more of a hindrance in a time of war. Although it's one thing to loot buildings that are clearly abandoned, stealing and killing to get by is another story. More morally ambiguous actions, such as trading on the black market or scavenging from the dead, are sometimes acceptable, depending on the circumstances. When it comes to his daughter though, he is willing to make exceptions.

Personal Items: Makarov PM, 5 Bullets, Bayan, Militsiya Badge, Stuffed Bear, Blanket, Pack of Cigarettes

Bio: Born in the early 1970s in the Vladvidonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Alexei Volkov, like most of his family, dreamed of being a member of the militsiya for most of his young life. Growing up with his parents and two sisters in the city of Brestyiv, Alexei had a very uneventful childhood. The only out of the ordinary experience he had growing up was in high school, when his longtime girlfriend gave birth to their daughter, Anastasiya, and shortly after abandoned her with Alexei and moved to the neighboring Ukrainian SSR. Upon graduating high school, he became a private in the militsiya, weathering the turmoil that came in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union and fall of communism in Vladvidonia. When fighting broke out in the early 1990s, however, he began seeing conflict on the streets of Brestyiv, engaging in a number of small confrontations with protesters. One by one, his family packed up and moved to the neighboring Republic of Poland, leaving only Alexei and Anastasiya in the city when rebel forces laid siege to it. Since then, he has been doing whatever possible to keep himself and his daughter alive, taking advantage of his police connections to find a safe place to live for the first few years in the war, in a neighborhood heavily protected by government forces. Recently, however, the government forces there have been overrun by the rebels, and he has been forced to take refuge in an abandoned building in a government held area near the front lines.

Accepted! Will you be making an app for the daughter, as well?

App:

Name: Kastytis Miniauskas
Age: 25
Appearance:

(Image)

Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Lithuanian
Occupation: Guitar Player
Skills: Good with Children & Can Play Guitar Pretty Well
Weaknesses: Gets tired easily & Bad Fighter
Personal Items: Nagant M1895 (Jammed/Fake), Wedding Ring, and Picture of 24 year old Girl.
Bio: Kastytis Miniauskas comes from Trakai, Lithuania. He moved when he was fifteen and then joined a band for awhile, in a nearby city. After joining he played for awhile until his fifteenth song when he quit and moved over here and met a girl. Kastytis Miniauskas was about to propose to his girlfriend, but then the war struck and he couldn't get to where his girlfriend lived which was on the other side of the city.

Hmmm. I'd say the gun being jammed makes more sense, rather than him running around with a fake gun. However, why does he even have a gun at all?

App
Name: Jonah Zorotovich
Age: 23
Appearance: Young man with short brown hair, and tan skin.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Half Croatian, half black.
Occupation: Currently unemployed, former meth cook and dealer
Skills: Has decent skill with knife fighting.
Has absolutely no respect for the law or morals, and thus has no problem with killing and stealing.
Weaknesses: Impulsive
Is not a people person, and is not suited for diplomacy
Bio: Born in San Pedro, California to a mom who didn't speak English, and a dad who didn't care about him, Jonah turned to crime at a young age, and stared cooking and selling meth with a friend to pay the bills. When his friend was killed, he decided to leave the country, and moved to Vlavidonia where he had family. He lived with his aunt for two years, and moved on when she died. He had been living by himself for 4 years before the civil war broke out.
Items: Rucksack, a hunting knife, a bottle of cheap beer, and 3 cans of tomato soup.

Accepted

[Terintania]

One one gun slot has been taken so far. As for the other people who put guns in their apps, I'm saving the last slot for someone who has a current occupation that involves guns. Like a police officer, which is why one was accepted

[Arana]

Construction Zone

App:
Name: Anna Kuznets
Age: 23
Appearance: Young women
Sex: Female
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Accountant
Skills: Good at Maths,
Weaknesses:
Personal Items: Hunting Rifle, 3 bullets, 1 can of corn, blanket, clothes on her back
Bio: When the war started, Anna Kuznets was the accountant for a medium sized IT firm in Brestyiv. She had only just finished university with a decree in Mathematics, and resented the outbreak in hostilities.

I will wait for you to finish it before accepting or denying, but please remove the gun. You can check out the new stuff added to the OP for why.

App:
Name: Lance Hagen
Age: 30
Appearance:

(Image)

Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Danes
Occupation: Doctor

Skills:
1. Knows medicine (able to make medicines with less materials)
2. As a doctor, it means he is able to treat sick and wounded person well, and to be able to conserve the use of medicines to the patients.

Weaknesses:
1. Not skilled at combat, both hand to hand and firearms training.
2. A pacifist, preferring diplomatic approach than violent approach.

Personal Items: 2 herbal medicines, a knife and a bandage.

Bio:
Born in Denmark, he was a good doctor, known in his own town as a kind-hearted and a pacifist doctor. Heard about the news of war in Vlavidonia, he volunteered into a humanitarian aid services to supplying the citizens with food and healthcare. It all went well and he even got a friend in form of a young girl in her twenties, freshly graduated from the medical school in Vlavidonia and now working tirelessly at the humanitarian service. Eventually, both doctors fell in love and promised to marry once the war's over.

One day, when the convoy of humanitarian aid workers tried to entered Brestyiv, they were attacked by the bandits who tried to stole their supplies and in the ensuing battle, both he and the female doctor got separated. Now, he resolved to survived the war, and the siege, and hopefully able to reunites with his lover in the end.

Accepted.

Name: Jarn Petrokov
Age: 24
Appearance: A hard-bitten whipcord man, Jarn stands two point one meters tall, very little fat upon his body, clad in rough clothing reflecting his past deprivation. His eyes are a dark steel gray that occasionally warm to a deep blue in very rare moments that he smiles, and his hair is charcoal black, cut crudely but short, his beard full and similar.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Slavic Caucasian
Occupation: Drifter - Transient
Skills:
- Engineer: Despite never formally completing his education, Jarn was at one point a very learned man about the matters of technology and mechanical matters. This academic knowledge has been tempered over the years by living rough, and so Jarn is a master of getting the most use out of unlikely resources and creating useful contraptions.
- Accustomed to Hardship: The transient has had a rough life; rarely has he had enough to eat, a safe place to sleep, or a roof over his head. Due to that his body is used to deprivation, and can get by on less than what one might expect- his mind has also been broken enough times that additional tragedy rarely gets under his skin. That's just life.
Weaknesses:
- Suspicious: He doesn't like people; for years his only human contact has tended to be negative, and competitive. Nobody makes friends of the homeless. His ability to negotiate or be charismatic is intensely limited, because he barely remembers social mores.
Personal Items: An old bolt-action rifle from his conscript days with several cartridges, a crowbar, thick winter clothing, lots of scraps of wood, metal, and several cans of horrible sustaining food.
Bio: Grew up normally, washed out of university, forged a degree and joined the army off of that forged degree, was discovered, deserted, been living rough ever since as the world fell apart.

Hmm. I'm very reluctant to accept someone who has been a soldier, but I guess since it's been so long, that's fine. However, I would ask you to remove the gun, so someone who's in a current occupation where it's reasonable to have a gun can have one. Also, please specify exactly how many cans of food he has. And he needs two weaknesses to counter the two strengths. Beyond those two somewhat minor things, looks good.

I'd happily swap my rifle for some tools, if it becomes an issue.

Speaking of which, I'm looking for a military/scavenger person to work with Jarn, any takers?

I will be choosing the households personally, so you may or may not end up with someone useful

Name: Kolya T. Kozlow

Age: 29

Appearance:

(Image)

Kolya stands at around 5 feet 9 inches. He is neither muscular nor fat, weighing around 157 pounds.

Sex: Male

Ethnicity: East Slavic

Occupation: Lawyer

Skills: Kolya has a sharp tongue, good at convincing others that his ideas are correct and will result in the most success. He is also quite perceptive, being good at noticing things others might overlook.

Weaknesses: He is overconfident, believing he is able to do nearly everything asked or desired from him, when he likely would not be able to do so. He is also a bit weaker than most men his size and age; He can't lift many things at once or things that are too heavy, and he has no combat experience. He likely would not be able to defend himself in a fight.

Personal Items: A grey digital wrist watch, a small metal flask with his initials carved into it, a worn, cracked photograph of his parents, and a small hair comb.

Bio: Kolya T. Kozlow was born in the northern Vlavidonian city of Ves, the third son of his parents. Being the youngest meant that he was spoiled, much to the annoyance of his brothers, who often bullied him. Growing up, however, he was quite popular in school, and had many friends. He had done well in school and began college at 18. During college, he was a smart student but often got into trouble, although he was usually able to convince his teachers to let him off with only a warning. He eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree in law, at 21. For about 5 years he worked at the Ves branch of a rather large law firm, Dolshoy and Co. However, he was transferred to the Brestyiv branch about a year before the war began. When the war began he attempted to leave the city and move back to Ves, but he was unable to afford the money to travel, having lost his job due to the company closing down. With the siege beginning in Brestyiv, he, like many others, have become trapped in the city.

Accepted!

Name: Alexei Volkov

Age: 22

Appearance:

(Image)

Sex: Male

Ethnicity: Belarusian

Occupation: Private in the Militsiya

Skills:

• Alexei has skill in using and maintaining firearms from his training as a militsiya officer. Although his main skill is with handguns, he has a small amount of training with heavier weapons. He also has some degree of physical training and practice with hand to hand combat, although he is on the weaker side with both.
• In high school, Alexei prided himself on his musical skills, and was able to play several instruments. Although seemingly not much of a survival ability, a little bit of music is good for morale and helps to distract people from the terrible situation, especially children. Alexei is most skilled playing the bayan, but he has played other instruments in the past, and has a few songs memorized.

Weaknesses:

• Alexei not only needs to care for himself, but also for his five year old daughter Anastasiya, who, very obviously, cannot take care of herself. As a result, he tends to put priority on her well being, often putting himself at risk in the process, even in situations where it isn't necessary.
• Unlike in peacetime, the healthy respect for the law that comes with being in law enforcement is more of a hindrance in a time of war. Although it's one thing to loot buildings that are clearly abandoned, stealing and killing to get by is another story. More morally ambiguous actions, such as trading on the black market or scavenging from the dead, are sometimes acceptable, depending on the circumstances. When it comes to his daughter though, he is willing to make exceptions.

Personal Items: Makarov PM, 5 Bullets, Bayan, Militsiya Badge, Stuffed Bear, Blanket, Pack of Cigarettes

Bio: Born in the early 1970s in the Vladvidonian Soviet Socialist Republic, Alexei Volkov, like most of his family, dreamed of being a member of the militsiya for most of his young life. Growing up with his parents and two sisters in the city of Brestyiv, Alexei had a very uneventful childhood. The only out of the ordinary experience he had growing up was in high school, when his longtime girlfriend gave birth to their daughter, Anastasiya, and shortly after abandoned her with Alexei and moved to the neighboring Ukrainian SSR. Upon graduating high school, he became a private in the militsiya, weathering the turmoil that came in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union and fall of communism in Vladvidonia. When fighting broke out in the early 1990s, however, he began seeing conflict on the streets of Brestyiv, engaging in a number of small confrontations with protesters. One by one, his family packed up and moved to the neighboring Republic of Poland, leaving only Alexei and Anastasiya in the city when rebel forces laid siege to it. Since then, he has been doing whatever possible to keep himself and his daughter alive, taking advantage of his police connections to find a safe place to live for the first few years in the war, in a neighborhood heavily protected by government forces. Recently, however, the government forces there have been overrun by the rebels, and he has been forced to take refuge in an abandoned building in a government held area near the front lines.

Accepted! Will you be making an app for the daughter, as well?

App:

Name: Kastytis Miniauskas
Age: 25
Appearance:

(Image)

Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Lithuanian
Occupation: Guitar Player
Skills: Good with Children & Can Play Guitar Pretty Well
Weaknesses: Gets tired easily & Bad Fighter
Personal Items: Nagant M1895 (Jammed/Fake), Wedding Ring, and Picture of 24 year old Girl.
Bio: Kastytis Miniauskas comes from Trakai, Lithuania. He moved when he was fifteen and then joined a band for awhile, in a nearby city. After joining he played for awhile until his fifteenth song when he quit and moved over here and met a girl. Kastytis Miniauskas was about to propose to his girlfriend, but then the war struck and he couldn't get to where his girlfriend lived which was on the other side of the city.

Hmmm. I'd say the gun being jammed makes more sense, rather than him running around with a fake gun. However, why does he even have a gun at all?

App
Name: Jonah Zorotovich
Age: 23
Appearance: Young man with short brown hair, and tan skin.
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Half Croatian, half black.
Occupation: Currently unemployed, former meth cook and dealer
Skills: Has decent skill with knife fighting.
Has absolutely no respect for the law or morals, and thus has no problem with killing and stealing.
Weaknesses: Impulsive
Is not a people person, and is not suited for diplomacy
Bio: Born in San Pedro, California to a mom who didn't speak English, and a dad who didn't care about him, Jonah turned to crime at a young age, and stared cooking and selling meth with a friend to pay the bills. When his friend was killed, he decided to leave the country, and moved to Vlavidonia where he had family. He lived with his aunt for two years, and moved on when she died. He had been living by himself for 4 years before the civil war broke out.
Items: Rucksack, a hunting knife, a bottle of cheap beer, and 3 cans of tomato soup.

Accepted

Should I make an app for the daughter? I can try to come up with some kind of skills and weaknesses, although she is only five.

[Terintania]

Not quoting that post 'cause it's huge

I think you should make it, since she's a character. If you have issues with strengths, I can always help.

[Arana]

Not quoting that post 'cause it's huge

I think you should make it, since she's a character. If you have issues with strengths, I can always help.

Okay then. So what strengths might a five year old girl have?

[Soviet Farm]

Just wondering, do you have a rough guess at the household sizes? Are we going to start off with 3 people like in the game, or did you have something else in mind?

[Terintania]

Not quoting that post 'cause it's huge

I think you should make it, since she's a character. If you have issues with strengths, I can always help.

Okay then. So what strengths might a five year old girl have?

Depending on her personality, moral boosting might be one if she's super happy and cheerful and cute. Others would probably not be helpful, but like, drawing, painting, endless energy, stuff like that?

[Terintania]

Just wondering, do you have a rough guess at the household sizes? Are we going to start off with 3 people like in the game, or did you have something else in mind?

Probably 3-4 people per household.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Hmm, Arana and I were hoping to establish a history between our characters, to make sense that he would leave his daughter with Jarn at night and the like.

Also, app updated.

[Terintania]

Hmm, Arana and I were hoping to establish a history between our characters, to make sense that he would leave his daughter with Jarn at night and the like.

Also, app updated.

Accepted. I don't see any particular reason why they couldn't be in the same household.

[Lendenburgh]

-App-
Name: Nadzeya (Naddie) Krupin
Age: 28
Appearance: Naddie is a rather tall girl, standing just under six foot, but not too muscular. She has a runner's body, slim and powerful, but not bulky. Her hair is shoulder length and naturally wavy, a chocolate brown. She's quite skinny, a little too skinny from lack of proper nutrition, but has enough body mass to be healthy. Her cheek bones are set quite high on her face and her ears are almost elvish in appearance, her chin is pointed and her eyes are a brown-green hazel.
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Russian
Occupation: Officially a secretary, but unofficially a thief.
Skills: Naddie's main skill is speed. She can run like the wind and her body is built to do it. Secondarily, she can be pretty resourceful with her speech, and is able to come up with things on the fly to distract people and get what she wants. By the same token she is able to pick up on language fairly easily too.
Weaknesses: Not very good at making friends, Naddie grew up as an only child that moved around a lot. This has made her pretty difficult to get close to and she often builds up a wall that doesn't let her show emotion. Naddie is also manic depressive to a point. One minute she can be very energetic and ready to get things done, but she is easily depressed which can be debilitating in certain situations. Also, since Naddie has only been in the country for three years, she isn't completely familiar with the ins and outs of the local people or culture. She know where all the streets and landmarks are though.
Personal Items: Naddie's only useful item that she was able to keep was her father's hunting knife with a wooden handle, which he used to carve up meat that he had hunted for dinner.
Bio: Naddie's family originally came from the Soviet Union. Her father was a farmer for the government and was moved around the country to work at different farms quite a bit. Her mother never worked, but was occupied caring for her sickly younger brother. She was 8 when her brother was born, they were living in Ukraine at the time. He was diagnosed with some disease she never cared to learn about, Naddie was very detached from everyone in her family except for her father. As they moved around from farm to farm, Naddie was never really able to make friends, she went hunting with her dad for fun. She never really got the concept of it, and never really got to hunt herself, but when her father died in 1989 of cancer, she got his hunting knife. For the next two years her life was a living hell. Her mother still refused to work for the sake of her brother who was on and off bedridden, and her father was dead. Naddie had dropped out of Secondary School to help out with farming when her dad had gotten sick, now she didn't have the education for a high paying job, and she couldn't very well work a field on her own. She resorted to stealing food for her family, the only good thing about the communist government was that because of their serf like status, the government payed for their housing expenses. Naddie trained every free moment she had on her running, and pretty soon she could steal basically an entire box of apples before the stand owner noticed. Then the best year of her life came, 1991. The Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain fell, she was finally free from her mother and her brother. Within a few months Naddie had moved to Vlavidonia and had rented a small apartment in Brestyiv. In the three years interlude between the fall of the Curtain and the war, Naddie was able to get a decent desk job as a secretary for a city official. She was able to get by, though it wasn't exactly her passion. The year before the war thing started to go south, but the government had stopped issuing visas for travel to Poland, and she sure wasn't going back east. Naddie was too late to get out. For two years the war stayed away from Brestyiv, and Naddie was able to keep working and living a semi-normal life. Though with the food shortages her stealing came in handy a few times. The media wasn't very informative of the war, but when shells started hitting the ground and sirens went off it didn't take a genius to know that Brestyiv was finally under siege.

[Arana]

-App-
Name: Nadzeya (Naddie) Krupin
Age: 28
Appearance: Naddie is a rather tall girl, standing just under six foot, but not too muscular. She has a runner's body, slim and powerful, but not bulky. Her hair is shoulder length and naturally wavy, a chocolate brown. She's quite skinny, a little too skinny from lack of proper nutrition, but has enough body mass to be healthy. Her cheek bones are set quite high on her face and her ears are almost elvish in appearance, her chin is pointed and her eyes are a brown-green hazel.
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Russian
Occupation: Officially a secretary, but unofficially a thief.
Skills: Naddie's main skill is speed. She can run like the wind and her body is built to do it. Secondarily, she can be pretty resourceful with her speech, and is able to come up with things on the fly to distract people and get what she wants. By the same token she is able to pick up on language fairly easily too.
Weaknesses: Not very good at making friends, Naddie grew up as an only child that moved around a lot. This has made her pretty difficult to get close to and she often builds up a wall that doesn't let her show emotion. Naddie is also manic depressive to a point. One minute she can be very energetic and ready to get things done, but she is easily depressed which can be debilitating in certain situations. Also, since Naddie has only been in the country for three years, she isn't completely familiar with the ins and outs of the local people or culture. She know where all the streets and landmarks are though.
Personal Items: Naddie's only useful item that she was able to keep was her father's hunting knife with a wooden handle, which he used to carve up meat that he had hunted for dinner.
Bio: Naddie's family originally came from the Soviet Union. Her father was a farmer for the government and was moved around the country to work at different farms quite a bit. Her mother never worked, but was occupied caring for her sickly younger brother. She was 8 when her brother was born, they were living in Ukraine at the time. He was diagnosed with some disease she never cared to learn about, Naddie was very detached from everyone in her family except for her father. As they moved around from farm to farm, Naddie was never really able to make friends, she went hunting with her dad for fun. She never really got the concept of it, and never really got to hunt herself, but when her father died in 1989 of cancer, she got his hunting knife. For the next two years her life was a living hell. Her mother still refused to work for the sake of her brother who was on and off bedridden, and her father was dead. Naddie had dropped out of Secondary School to help out with farming when her dad had gotten sick, now she didn't have the education for a high paying job, and she couldn't very well work a field on her own. She resorted to stealing food for her family, the only good thing about the communist government was that because of their serf like status, the government payed for their housing expenses. Naddie trained every free moment she had on her running, and pretty soon she could steal basically an entire box of apples before the stand owner noticed. Then the best year of her life came, 1991. The Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain fell, she was finally free from her mother and her brother. Within a few months Naddie had moved to Vlavidonia and had rented a small apartment in Brestyiv. In the three years interlude between the fall of the Curtain and the war, Naddie was able to get a decent desk job as a secretary for a city official. She was able to get by, though it wasn't exactly her passion. The year before the war thing started to go south, but the government had stopped issuing visas for travel to Poland, and she sure wasn't going back east. Naddie was too late to get out, and then the siege started.

Not that I see anything wrong with your app, but just felt I should point out that Vlavidonia was part of the Soviet Union; or rather, the Vlavidonian Soviet Socialist Republic was. Not that it matters, because it still collapsed in 1991.

[Terintania]

I will admit that I stole the first name and appearance of my favorite singer for this character *Nods*
Making my character a psychologist might be a terrible idea, but I guess we'll find out

App:
Name: Roy Koss
Age: 41
Appearance:

Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Norwegian
Occupation: Psychologist
Skills:
Strong Willed: Doesn't get depressed or upset easy. Can handle tough situations well, mentally.
Comforting: Due to his knowledge of psychology, he can be good at helping people who are depressed. Of course, this depends on how each player would react to what he says, but, yeah.
Weaknesses:
Bad at Fighting: Doesn't know how to fight at all, beyond just instinctive, which I think everyone can manage.
Over-protective: He will be protective of his group. The reason this is a weakness is because he is willing to put himself in danger to protect others.
Personal Items: A journal, which he writes the day's events in, two bottles of water and a notebook that he will sometimes sketch in.
Bio: As a psychologist, Roy knew a lot about PTSD and the like, but he never imagined he'd find himself in a situation where something like that may eventually apply to him. He had been one of the people who never would have believed that war would actually break out. Despite the war, he remained it Brestyiv, even when the war came closer. When the Siege started, and people started getting out, he decided to stay. While he had no family in Brestyiv, he considered the people of the town his people, and choose to stay and help. He's no longer sure this was the best choice, but he can no longer leave, and chooses to make the best of the situation.
Voice: https://youtu.be/GFe4xcstVxA?t=39s (The dude who does most of the talking in this video)

[Lendenburgh]

Not that I see anything wrong with your app, but just felt I should point out that Vlavidonia was part of the Soviet Union; or rather, the Vlavidonian Soviet Socialist Republic was. Not that it matters, because it still collapsed in 1991.

Yeah, I was just thinking it may have been hard to go further west than that... and a big cultural change too. Also for story purposes.