I don't have a lot of experience doing full write-ups for non protagonist NPCs so I'd like a little feedback. This is my first attempt at an NH NPC.
Feliks Pajak, Sitting NH Rada Representative from ____________* (insert settlement name here)
41 years old, Veteran NPC, Spades King (Deceitful); Jack 10 (Very greedy)
Level: Elite
Skills: Leadership 15, Persuasion 14, Disguise 13, Small Arms (Pistol) 7
Initiative: 2
Before the war, Feliks Pajak was a treasurer with his local chapter of the Solidarity Union. He was also a paid informant for the state security apparatus. With the outbreak of WWIII, he was drafted into the Polish Air Force, where he served on a ground crew being wounded and captured by NATO forces. During his brief captivity as a POW, Pajak saw capitalism in action first hand. He liked what he saw. He escaped from a road repair work party and fled to[*] where his intelligence and resourcefulness were recognized by the local provisional government. He spent the rest of the war working his way up through the municipal bureaucracy, achieving a leadership position which he parlayed into a seat on the NH Rada. His wartime experiences have completely corroded any pre-war idealism that he might have clung to. His charisma and intelligence have allowed him to maintain a false front as a dedicated civil servant when, in fact, the only person he seeks to serve is himself.
As a founding member of the NH Rada, Pajak has quietly amassed considerable wealth and power. This taste of the good life has only made him hungry for more. He's willing to risk his career and his life to get what he wants. He will offer the PCs employment, at a substantially higher rate of pay than anything else available in town. The first job will be a fairly simple fetch mission. Once Pajak feels that he can trust the PCs, and has gained their trust in return, he will give them a considerably more difficult and risky mission, asking them to assassinate his Rada counterpart (each member settlement sends two representatives to the Rada). He will tell them that his counterpart is secretly blackmailing him but, in reality, Pajak fears that he is about to be exposed by his colleague for embezzling significant sums from NH coffers. If the PCs do the job, he will pay them in NH scrip and ask them to leave town quickly and quietly (if they dally or leave and then return, he'll have them arrested on trumped up charges). If pressed, he will pay in gold instead. If the PCs attempt to blackmail him, he will concoct a cover story and have the PCs arrested by NH security forces, claiming that they are agents of a rival polity bent on sowing chaos and discord in the local NH chapter. If the PCs reveal his treachery to the local government or the Rada, providing some sort of hard evidence to support the accusations, Pajak will leave town in a hurry, attempting to flee to a rival polity to which he will offer NH secrets in return for safe haven and material comforts. If this occurs, the local government or NH Rada will try to hire the PCs to track him down and bring him back, paying a substantial bounty for his safe return, and a substantially lesser amount for his dead body.
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