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Dr. Andrius has overspent Experience Remaining: -17 Exp. (Earned: 153 - Spent: 170)
A 1-Victory Newbie Contractor played by rakadishu as a Free Agent
He is 54 years old, and often appears as a pale, balding man in clean white clothes.
2 Alertness
0 Animals
0 Athletics
0 Crafts
0 Culture
1 Drive
2 Firearms
0 Influence
2 Investigation
5 Medicine
0 Melee
3 Occult
0 Performance
3 Science
2 Stealth
0 Survival
2 Technology
0 Thievery
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Summary: Brilliant Doctor who wants to improve beyond the norm to help even more people with even more dire cases, begins delving into occult and creepy stuff. Gets caught doing Frankenstein things and is imprisoned. Works illegally now for clients who bribe the justice system to let him provide them with medical aid.
Longer Bio:
Above all else, Dr. Hector Andrius is an expert in medicine. From his youngest days, he had an interest in the field and using it to help others, and he pursued the subject with a hunger that fueled his every endeavor. He studied every subject in school with an unyielding focus, treating each required topic unrelated to his interest as a rung on the ladder to higher education. In college, he took every medical course that he could physically manage, earning multiple degrees to cover the entire range of medicine.
In his professional career, he was a master, and was sought after by many of the world's wealthiest - who he would often deny. He knew they did not need him, and he only took cases that truly required an expert. Both to provide as much aid as he could, and to hone his own skills, Dr. Andrius took on the most extreme cases, and the most obscure.
Of course, he suffered many failures - many of the cases he took were truly hopeless, and despite his success and fame, the lives that he could not save occupied his thoughts more than anything else. Lives that ended unfairly, too soon, too young, because he had failed them. Was he missing something? Of course he was - he could do better. He knew that he could do better.
Dr. Andrius began to open his mind to a wider range of medicine - he studied the most obscure and dismissed fields, delving into snake oils and panaceas to test for even a grain of truth. He looked into myths and folk tales, and observed each rumored cure with as much focus as he used for the peer-reviewed textbooks he had read in his college days. He sifted through many lies and tricks, and still hunted, diving deeper and deeper in his research and experiments until the work he was looking at was the sort of things even the most common of people regarded as pure fiction.
Over this time, Dr. Andrius's peers began to see his passion as something more like a mad obsession, and his glory began to fade away. Eventually, rumors began to spread - was the doctor really spending so much time in the morgues? Why did he spend so long staring into the bodies of his surgery patients - especially those he had failed to save? What was the doctor up to when he spent so long in his home without making any contact with the world?
Finally, the rumors spread enough to fuel an investigator to break into his home and search the place, documenting everything they found within. At first, it was innocent enough - medical texts, notes on various cures and anatomy, and honest studies and research. As the investigator looked deeper in, though, things became more troubling - books on the occult, hypothetical theories about undeath, and collections of supposed relics and videos of supernatural phenomena. Finally, the investigator made their way into the basement, and found the damning truth they were after.
It only took one video recording of the investigator's search through the house to convince the world - if just to give proof that the basement was truly his. The stitched and bound arrangement of bones and flesh that was secured to the medical table in Dr. Andrius's basement lab was more than enough to do the rest of the job. Very few could make sense of the runes and words carved into the thing, but that didn't matter much. Dr. Andrius was instantly disgraced - his licenses were removed, and he was imprisoned once a proper investigation took place to reveal his malpractice. In the end, trials passed very quickly - the doctor openly admitted to everything, denying only that he had killed anyone for the parts. His assurance that they had only come from medical patients that had already died and were scheduled for cremation did not save his case, and he was locked away in solitary confinement, never allowed to practice any kind of medicine again.
Officially, at least. Dr. Andrius certainly was kept in prison most of the time, and was not recorded as doing any kind of medical work, but now, those wealthy who desired "the best" had someone who had very little else to do. Through bribery and favors to the right people, they secured his services as a doctor off the record, and his aid became exclusive to those who had little to fear from the law. Of course very little of the money that was paid went to him, but his conditions were made a little more comfortable in exchange, and he was happy just to be back in practice, even if he wasn't satisfied with the ailments he treated or the people that suffered from them. For now, he is forced to cope, at least until a more interesting agreement falls into his lap.