Rev. Doc. Ernest “Old Testament” Kowalski MD, PhD, DD (Father Ski)

Membership: ADF, Santa Fe Ring, London Dungeon, Post Office, Sons of Liberty, Presidents Men, Rough Riders, Kingsmen

Race: Human

Height: 5’5

Weight: 180

Apparent Age: 60+

Archetype: Cybered Gunfighter Adept (Cyber Criminal)

       Circle: Unknown (Considered Extremely Lethal)

Preferred Weapon: Colt .45 Peacemaker (Highly Modified) & Ancient English Short Blade

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BIO:

They call him Father Ski and he serves within the Alexandrian Defense Force (ADF) within the Chaplain Corps alongside Levi Darkwater, Gerome Redwolf, and Harland Lieberman though to think that Father Ski is simply a Chaplin is to feign ignorance about what the ADF is truly about. Father Ski is an ordained Roman Catholic Priest, he is highly educated and holds a doctorate in theology & philosophy as well as a medical doctorate, he is a true theologian and one that on the outside screams compassion and a warm heart. Though one can easily forget that Father Ski is also part of a few other orders that are a tad more violent in their nature and others that are designed to warp and manipulate the minds of the populace through propaganda and gaslighting. Father Ski has resided in Old Alexandria for some time and has served as a spiritual leader and guide for ages now and fully understands that he is preaching to a empty choir as Alexandria is full of pagans, heathens, agnostics, atheist’s and lets not forget about the Hebrews that pollute the waters of Alexandria; so how can a good Catholic survive in that environment, well honestly they can’t and that’s were we begin with Father Ski.

Father Ski’s birthdate is unknown and his records are to smudged and faded to pinpoint the date of birth and he refuses to show anyone his identification outside his ADF credentials and those are conveniently missing the date of birth. Though based on his FIP records we can assume that he was born sometime before 1850 and that he wasn’t always a Chaplin, unless he is like Father Klopeck and simply puts his vows and collar on a shelf from time to time. Ski served the US Cavalry during the Civil War (1861-1865) and throughout the Spanish American War (1898) while eventually being transferred to the US Marine Corps come 1900 where he would serve until he was discharged in 1970 after being wounded during the Vietnam War where Ski would loose his left leg from just below the knee and end up needing skin grafts to repair the third and forth degree burns that covered his back. Father Ski would leave the Marine Corps and be unceremoniously dumped back stateside with nothing more than his uniform, duffle, and one hundred US dollars in his wallet.

Ernest would as well suffer from gunshot wounds, a frozen shoulder, and retina damage from the war. He basically would be tossed to the curb all the while still suffering from the injuries that ended his FIP career and he would be forced to find his way in the world without having anyone tell him what to do. Father Ski would hitch hike his way east and find his way to Boston where he would find work inside the police department, were it states he was hired as a police chaplain. So I can assume that he already had been ordained and is just like Father Klopeck, it would be in Boston that Father Ski would find himself at a crossroads and one that would set him on the path he currently walks. It would be sometime in the 1980’s that he would meet Father Conway O’Reilly and the two would become as thick as thieves. Conway was a retired FIP chaplain and had become a parish priest for Our Lady of the Lake in Boston a church that Father Ski would attend regularly and would even serve Mass at from time to time between 1983 to 1888, and it would be during one of there many meetings in the rectory that Conway would introduce Ski to Montgomery Palpatine and David Klopeck and from that day Ski’s life would never be the same.

They would warp the old chaplains mind and bring him into there world and before long Father Ski was playing a pivotably role in the railroad, and as well aiding the two hunters in their nightly encounters. Well his physical assistance would come once he was gifted a new leg and that was a gift that came at a hefty price, Ski was abducted by some government goons that wanted to use the old cleric to capture the hunters. They figured the old cleric would be mystified by the newly crafted and gifted cybernetic leg and he would follow them blindly as they simply pulled off a miracle and they couldn’t have been more mistaken, Ski’s loyalty to Montgomery and Klopeck wouldn’t waver and his devotion to his faith and savior was unbending. Ski knew not to trust the government and he knew that he had to simply warn the others and vanish into the woodwork and so Ski would begin his pilgrimage west and find himself in the small town of Alexandria Washington where he would put down his roots and little did he know that one day he would be fighting in a war for the survival of all Alexandrians including himself.

Basically there isn’t much to say about Father Ski pre 2018 and the Great Tragedy as he didn’t leave a dramatic impact on history like Irving, Klopeck, White, Kissinger, Beachworth, and the Palpatine family. He would earn his Masters and Doctorate from the University of San Diego in Theology & Philosophy, his  Masters and Doctorate in Physiology, Psychology, and Medicine from University of Washington. He would work part time as a parish priest within Alexandria while working full time for the King County Coroners Office where he would rise to hold the office of Chief Medical Examiner, as much as Ski was a man of faith he was as well a man of science and this would put him at odds with many inside the Christian faith and especially in the coming years when Religion and Science would collide in a head on collision that would create a rift between the scientific and devote…lets just say Father Ski would not escape this unscathed and his faith would become further tested.

One would expect that a man of god would be passive and shy away from engaging in criminal actions, murdering people, espionage, and well everything that goes against the word of god and the bible. Well not so much in Father Ski’s case, this man is old and broken his faith tested and nearly shattered through numerous near deaths in war, being forced to suffer unthinkable horrors at the hands of the Nazi’s during the Second World War, knowing that evil lurks within the shadows, and knowing that sometimes good men have to do unthinkable things to prevent evil from being triumphant. The events of the Great Tragedy would ravage Father Ski and forever change this man, his magical nature would awaken, he would be nearly killed from the ravaging magic of the Tragedy and he would find himself nearly dying when the coroners van would be t-boned by a Salish-Shidhe armored personnel carrier, the only man to survive the hail of bullets into the van would be Father Ski and lets just say he wasn’t in the best of shape.

They would say that he died on that faithful day in 2018 and would be reborn as the Father Ski we all know today, a man that walks with determination, carries a very large gun, and wields a sword with all the skill and grace of a master swordsmen. He would emerge from the wreck a reborn man, he would survive one tragedy to only witness countless others, and Father Ski would find himself a warrior for good and defender of the weak. On December 23rd 2018 is the date that would nearly end Ski’s life, he would be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and still recovering from the ravages of the Great Tragedy he would end up being called out to a crime scene to do his job and only find himself being involved in the worst accident in his life. He would basically end up in a very similar situation to David Klopeck and he would choose violence and survival over accepting death…as the reports indicate Ski would end up fighting for his life and end up killing multiple Salish-Shidhe soldiers. After the Salish-Shidhe would riddle the van with bullets from automatic fire killing Ski’s assistant, his intern, and a student that was on a ride along, he would have to amputate his gifted cyber leg and nearly tear his only working leg off at the knee. He would initially play dead in the driver seat with the steering wheel nearly piercing his chest, the airbag having clobbered him, and the drivers door pinning him to the passenger seat. Ski wasn’t in the best of shape, his vest riddled with bullets, his legs, arms, and multiple torso hits as well a handful of near hits that sliced his face, head, and neck and a large piece of glass in his left eye…of course the enemy would assume he was beyond dead and simply left him alone.

That would be their biggest mistake and one that would come back to bite them in the ass, one doesn’t ignore or assume an FIP is dead unless their head is no longer attached. Father Ski would free his legs and then himself in a manner that must have been beyond excruciatingly painful, he would remain conscious and slide out of the demolished van and bring himself to his one leg he would lunge at one of the younger Salish-Shidhe soldiers and bring the young man to the ground and end the boys life by driving his thumbs into his larynx and snuffing the life out of the soldier. Ski would take on the rest of the Salish-Shidhe soldiers on his own or so he thought, it must have been a sight to see to witness that little old polish priest fighting for his life. Witness reports indicate that Father Ski would make short work of the enemy and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he wasn’t dead yet and his skills with a rifle, pistol, and shotgun where unmatched by the younger native forces. On December 23rd, 2018 Father Ski’s hands would once again be covered in blood as he would send those that sinned against him straight to hell, it would be on this day that he would earn the handle Old Testament as his wrath was unmatched and unsurpassed. Reports indicate that Ski would eventually pass out from the pain and blood loss and awake within Seattle Mercy Hospital on Christmas Morning after undergoing over 20 hours of surgery, it was considered a Christmas miracle that he awoke at all and according to the nurses his first words were “Nurse, where are my glasses I need to finish my incident report….also sweet heart could you get me a glass of whiskey, two thumbs and dry.”

Lets just say that the hospital staff was amused by the old clerics humor and dedication and yes he did get his whiskey on that Christmas morning of 2018. Father Ski for the second time would have to undergo an amputation as he didn’t fully cut off his left leg and more tore it free and his right leg they managed to save but only barely as it would take another lengthy surgery to fully save his other leg. He would loose his left eye, have a plate put in his orbital socket, have pins, bolts, screws, rods, bars, implanted into his right leg, ankle; his spine fused and caged, lets just say Father Ski was out of the frying pan but not out of the fire. Most of his ribs were broken and it would be a very long recovery before he could leave the hospital and rehab center, and come 2020 he would walk out of the Rehab Center and straight back to his job as Chief Medical Examiner.

Okay I know you are all here wondering about this man and the other orders he serves and how can a man of faith be a spy, assassin, and work for the orders he serves? Well I am going to upset you all a bit as I don’t have any hard and clear reason why, I can only speculate and even that is my assumptions based on his past as an FIP soldier, his faith being shattered, and the fact that he must have broken his vows before…though if Klopeck can be welcomed back into the priesthood I am not sure there is anything that can strip a priest of his title and get him excommunicated. Father Ski would again simply fade into obscurity after his miraculous walking out of the rehab center and all the television news studios capturing that historical moment, it would be many years before we learn of Father Ski again and this time he had cyber and was working across the pond within England. Ski ended up engaged within the War of the Nobles (2020 -2050) and fighting on behalf of the people, he would show up on cameras when he would be engaged in a sword fight with Lord Easton Dowell. The world would watch in horror and awe as Father Ski decked out like a templar from the olden days in chainmail and his clerical collar, covered in blood and wielding a short blade in one hand and a dagger in the other cutting his way through the Duke’s men till he would encounter the Duke himself.

We would watch as Father Ski engaged in mortal combat with Lord Dowell on the cobblestone streets of Old London Town, the sounds of steel on steel echoing through the narrow streets as the two men fought for their lives. An archer on a rooftop fired an arrow into Ski’s shoulder and he kept pushing forward unbothered by the wound and focused on the noble, the rebels taking down the archer with their rifles…it was so bloody and graphic I was surprised they didn’t censor or even cutaway from the sword fight as Dowell sliced into Ski’s stomach and only to have Ski’s dagger driven into his ribs. We would watch as the two men fought for what seemed like forever until Ski drove is sword into Dowell’s torso and started to lift the old noble driving the blade deeper into him. You could see the pain and anguish in Dowell’s face as Ski pulled the blade out and Dowell fell to his knees begging for mercy from the cleric and his pleas would fall on deaf ears as Ski would sever the Duke’s head with a single swipe of his sword. Ski and his men would make short work of the rest of Dowell’s mercenaries and Ski would have them all put to the block where one by one he would take there heads and toss them into a pile. We know through the history records that Lord Dowell’s head and his men’s heads where placed on pikes within the towns square as a warning to all the other nobles that the people will not tolerate nor accept Feudalism.

This didn’t make Ski popular with the nobles, yet beloved by the people and as the War of the Nobles raged on the people would further stand behind leaders like Father Ski, Gerald Neely, Arthur Swanson, David Klopeck, and Marvin Yates. Father Ski would fight within the War of Nobles from 2025 straight through till the end come 2040 and he would send countless to the block and the good old priest would be drowning in the blood of his enemies. He was given command of the Fawkes Division of rebels that would become the most feared and loathed unit of rebels, as they didn’t give two craps about bloodshed and sending a very brutal message that the people will not be appressed. While many of the other divisions of rebels would be defeated, surrender, or simply fade away as the War of the Nobles only ended officially when the acting King of England would be shot in the chest during the execution of the rebel leaders…well it seems his majesty King Wellington failed to capture the leader of the Fawkes division and it would be Father Ski’s skilled shot that nearly ended the ruthless monarch and would end up saving countless lives. One that faithful day Father Ski would bring the War of the Nobles to a bitter end on November 5th 2050.

Though I don’t fully blame King Wellington from forgetting about the Fawkes division and Father Ski as he had already ordered the execution of Ski when he was captured by the noble forces a year earlier. Ski was dragged into the palace in chains and beaten, tortured and his thumbs crushed by screws, he had been put on the rack, and even was violated by a sharp pointed chair as he hung above it with a rope around his neck…ya he was given two really bad options, straggle of a very sharp anal penetration. The old cleric was beaten and broken, though he refused to confess, he refused to say anything to King Wellington and for that he was sentenced to death by being drawn and quartered he was to suffer the same fate of William Wallace and Guy Fawkes, the King laughed at how all traitors end up finding themselves being given a proper traitors death. All Father Ski said in response to hearing his fate was to look at the King and say in polish                               “Ty Faszyztowski Bekart!” and then he spit in the kings face and for that he was given a backhand across his face with with the kings ring cracking Ski’s other orbital socket and causing him to have emergency surgery before he could be executed…though according to palace reporters Ski remained conscience during the strike and simply retorted with “Awaria!”

So on March 15th 2049 Father Ski would be taken out of his prison cell within the Tower of London and taken to the courtyard where he would be met by sneering witnesses that paid to witness the traitors execution. The stage was set for what was supposed to be a brutal and punishing execution for the leader of the Fawkes division and one that all within attendance have felt the wrath of. They yelled rip the poles balls off, feed him his own intestines, make him squeal like a pig, basically you get the idea and for Ski he held his head high and he had a half grin on his face. The King was not in attendance as he couldn’t be bothered with Ski’s execution and was simply waiting for his head to adorn London Bridge as a warning to all who choose to rebel, also Wellington was dealing with further events of the war and it was too dangerous for him to make the trip to the Tower. Ski would be dragged up the scaffolding, his knees broken, and his hips shattered from the torture he would endure after his rushed surgery for insulting the king. He would be forced to stand on his broken knees as they read his sentence and offered him a chance to repent and confess.

Ski would once again bellow with all the strength he had left in his broken body “Nigdy!” the rope was then put around his neck and he was pushed off the bench and the crowd roared as the rope synched tighter and Ski would begin thrashing uncontrollably as the air was being snuffed from his lungs, his bladder emptied and he would begin to twitch and as it seemed he was going to pass out from lack of oxygen he would be lifted back onto the bench to catch his breath and have his trousers ripped off to expose his soiled shorts, and they even ripped those off to expose his to the crowd for further humiliation. Once Ski had regained his breath they pushed him off for a second time, this time they left him dangling for a bit longer and as he thrashed and was doing the hangman’s dance his bowels would empty and once again the crowd cheered and this time they would simply cut the rope and allow him to fall into his own feces. He would then by hoisted onto a table, his shirt ripped off, his wrists restrained to pullies, his ankles as well restrained….mind you he had a cyber leg and this was going to become a very important detail that was overlooked.

They connected the severed end of the noose to another pully system and begin the gruesome show, yes this execution is one of the worst fates that can be handed down to anyone and Ski was taking it in stride. The lead executioner Edgar Malone would begin the show as he ignited the fires within the cauldron next to the table, then as the fires burned he began his slow and methodical torturous execution. First he picked up a knife and placed it into the fire for some time as the assistant operated the crank that would cause Ski to go taught and begin to suffocate him once more, once the knife was glowing red Malone picked it up and would begin the show as he sliced off Ski’s genitals in one quick motion. Ski would scream as the pain of the burning and castration was almost to much for him to bear, the crowd cheered in a thunderous roar as Malone held up Ski’s package and then tossed it into the fire. Next Malone would make an cut into Ski’s stomach just above the pelvis and stick his hand inside, this was supposed to be were Malone pulled out Ski’s intestines’ and let the Ski watch helplessly as was eviscerated alive before being torn into four pieces and beheaded.

Well the assistant got over excited by the crowds roar as Malone started to pull out Ski’s viscera, he accidently leaned in and pushed the button that operated the crank. This caused the machine to engage and begin to tear Ski apart and further strangle him to death, Malone freaked out and went to stop the machine and suddenly Ski’s lower cybernetic leg just tore off causing Ski to go slack for a few seconds and it was in those few seconds that Ski was able to fight through the pain and free his hands, and as Malone looked on in horror as Father Ski was now half free he yelled for the guards to come. Well the guards never arrived and Ski was able to get his hands on the assistant and bring him to a brutal end as Ski ripped the mans throat out, Malone quickly cut the rope that was attached to Ski’s other leg in hopes that he would just hang and his neck would break shots would ring out and as Ski was being hoisted upwards at a rapid rate before the rope jerked and snapped his neck the gallows system would fail and Ski would fall back to the ground as the rope would break.

Ski’s old friend and fellow Fawkes division commander would emerge from the shadows and scoop up his dear leader and friend, Ski would be whisked off to safety where he would make a full recovery. Though for Malone the nightmare wasn’t over and he would narrowly escape certain death as the courtyard would turn into a bloodbath and nobody would escape that courtyard alive accept Edgar Malone, this would be his only failed execution and one he would never report as a failure. Malone would falsify the documents and claim that Ernest Kowalski would have been executed as ordered. So come November 5th 2050 when King Wellington thought he was bringing an end to the rebels and fully cementing his control over England, well it would be Father Ski that would make sure that the people prevailed in the end. Now we all know that England’s monarchs have more power then before and the damage that Wellington did during his reign would have a lasting affect within England and the United Kingdom.