Isaint thought for a moment, than took a handful of gummy bears himself.
"As you wish. I got my training with the KSK - Kommando Spezial Kräfte - in the ADL. Decided shortly afterwards that the private sector would be more lucrative. Made a few unprofessional decisions while working as a bodyguard that landed me ultimately in intensive care.
That's when my mentor found me. St. George the dragon slayer. Turned my life around and gave me a purpose again.
Got myself back on my feet and started as a free lancer. Turns out that you need my kind of talents a lot more if your opponents are super humanly fast or tough - and that happens to be what the infected are by and large.
Some time later I was recruited into a team - shadow runners - who specialized in the same thing: Hunting horrors.
Nex, Carnifex and Interfice. Nex was the leader, gorgeous elven lady and a very accomplished street sam. Carnifex was a human shaman. He is the one who told me about blood spirits. Interfice was the dwarven decker, teached me a few things about computers and matrix searches.
They had specialized in finding and eliminating predators. I was hired as a sharp shooter.
In our first mission together we rooted out a bunch of feral ghouls - easy job in retrospect, but I was as nervous as a virgin before her wedding night. They have no special powers beyond being able to perceive you in absolute darkness and being slightly tougher than a normal human.
There followed a few other gigs until we were hired to hunt down a serial killing vampire. Turned out to be an unfortunate teen that got a bit more goth than he expected. Really, no sophistication - only raw speed and strength. And regeneration. That is the crux with those infected, you can't subdue them, you have to kill them, or the next second they are up and kicking again. Destroy the brain or the spine - that's the only solution if you don't want to fiddle around with stakes and UV-lamps. Or be a mage with some killer spell - that works too.
That boy had created himself some kind of blood doll collection of all the girls he liked in school, but rejected him. Most where to far gone to really ever come back. Had to nail the kid with before he could kill Interfice. Took of the dwarf's ear actually, but got one in the kid's head.
I didn't sleep well for a few weeks after that. Nex helped me deal with that.
It was three months later that I had my run in with Shedim. We got hired to investigate rumors of a ghoul infestation beneath a children's hospital in Prague.
Carnifex noticed immediately that something was wrong with the place.
To make a long story short, a Master Shedim had taken over the head chirurg of the clinic.
He was killing kids in his care and filled them with Shedim. It ended with us having to fight our way out of the morgue. That was the worst day in my life - worse than when I was shot. And as if that wasn't enough, Nex hesitated at a critical moment and was killed. Than it was my turn and it's only due to the intervention of my patron, that I found the strength to shoot her body, before the spirit inside could use it as a weapon against us. Carnifex made us run out before he leveled the whole building with his bound earth elementals.
Since than I've been working on and off as investigator for cases like this one. Some things just can't be tolerated in this world."
