Adelbert

The man who now calls himself Adelbert was originally an agent of the Polish internal intelligence service. Recruited from Warsaw University where he was studying for a double degree in sociology and computer science, he spent a few years working as a technology officer, but his true talent was for interrogations and soft recruitment. He spent several years infiltrating the Polish Catholic church and was able to turn several anti-communist activists into informants by blackmailing and bribing them. In the late 1970s he transferred to an active measures squad. He was involved in the murder of at least one activist priest in Lodz in 1983.

Exactly what happened to Krystian Slimak between the start of the war and the present day to turn him into an apostle of millenarial violence may never be known. Some survivors of attacks by The Flock claim they recognise Adelbert from an ad hoc Polish militia squad that operated in the rear areas of the central Polish front in 1985 executing looters and anti-party activists. It is not clear whether he really believes the insanity he preaches or if it is just a way to amass a following from the traumatised and pyschotic who would not follow a more rational or pragmatic leadership. Whatever the case, Adelbert has the unquestioned loyalty of several hundred heavily armed and motivated Marauders. If The Flock can survive winter, they may yet bring armageddon a little closer.

Adelbert is a short man with a lean, wiry build that looks like he could be a mechanic or carpenter. He has a bland, oval face that would be forgettable if not for the vicious looking scars on his cheek. He shaves his head bald and dresses practically in Polish army recon fatigues and a flak jacket and American kevlar helmet. He carries a Czech-made submachinegun.