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[b]Character Name: [/b]
Zenobia "Zeni" Gataki 

[b]Physical Description:[/b]
 5'6", dark of hair and eye, with a slight build & (quite a few) tattoos.  Her skin is a medium bronze, showing her Mediterranean heritage - with deep, slashing scars slanting diagonally across her left collarbone and shoulder from her attack.

[b]Age: [/b]
28

[b]Role: [/b]
Scrapper/Nerd

[b]Psychic: [/b]
N

[b]Skills/Abilities of Note: [/b]
Research/History (fluent in Latin & Greek); Perception; Climbing; Resilience

[b]Willpower: 8[/b]
Zeni is mentally & emotionally battered, matching the scars on her body from her attack, but these experiences have changed her – she looked into the abyss and had the spine to tell it to go fuck itself in several tongues.

[b]Fear: [/b]
N/A until played.

[b]Background: [/b]
	Zeni grew up on the South side of Chicago, the beloved daughter of a Greek family who refused to allow the predominantly Irish Catholic neighborhood influence their child.  As a result, she spoke only Greek in the family home.  After completing a degree with a double major in Classics & archaeology, she pursued a PhD in Archaeology – barely two years into her tenure at the postgraduate level when she was attacked.  

	Since recovering from her physical wounds, she has worked remotely to complete her thesis while obsessing over her true focus privately.  Combing through the literature of both primary academic sources and the firsthand accounts available on the internet, she has made a study of cryptozoology for the past year, desperately trying to find an explanation for what happened to her.  Zeni refuses to believe it was a wild animal attack, as the impotent authorities had suggested (often with sidelong glances at her wounds).  In her personal time, she used to enjoy rock climbing & playing the violin… but now prefers Irish punk rock, urban exploration (“urbex”) & excessive amounts of coffee.     

[b]Previous Encounter/s: [/b]
Y

[b]Encounter Summary:[/b]
 	On a balmy night this past April (about a year & a half ago), Zeni was attacked whilst crossing her university's quad.  A humanoid creature with bizarrely stretched features & elongated incisors ambushed her, clumsily tearing into her throat & shoulder.  Eventually the grisly scene was interrupted by the scream of a fellow student, drawing the creature's attention and gifting Zeni precious moments to crawl to the nearest dorm.  After being found by members of the hardest partying fraternity on campus, she woke in the hospital to the twin sensations of physical pain... and incoherent rage at being made a victim.  
	
She later found out that the creature killed five students & faculty members during its rampage across campus – never entering a physical domicile, but attacking any person who crossed its path out of doors.  She was the only survivor.
  
[b]Resources:[/b]
 Climbing equipment (rope, carabiners, anchors, harness, etc), climbing axe, laptop, online connections in the dark web as a result of her research.  She always wears  her father's dog tags and her devout mother's silver Orthodox cross on a chain around her neck.  

[b]Odds of Survival: [/b]
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