Before all this mess, it had been a really good year for me. I was appreciated at work and finally got promoted. Even though everyone around was worried about the threat of war, I found the notion that it might reach us here very improbable. One day, shortly after I came home to tell me parents about my promotion, we heard alarm sirens. We managed to hide in our basement just before the first explosions shook the ground and everything got covered by dust.
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–Pharmacist bio
The pharmacist can be selected when setting up a custom game. The player is allowed to choose the gender of the character, name, in-game appearance, and character picture- either from a small library of included pictures or from a user-supplied picture placed in the Documents/This War of Mine/Portraits folder.
A pharmacist character with custom name, and a stock photograph
Endings[]
Dead
[Name] died befoe the war ended. His/Her parents joined him/her shortly after, kiled by lig disease they had conracted while living in the basement.
Suicide
Abandoned
Karma
When [Character] got back to his/her parents, it turned out they were both dying of disease. Several months after the war, [Character] buried them at Pogoren cemetery. With a heavy heart he/she resumed work at the pharmacy, but all the joy of success was gone, replaced with deep, lingering sadness.
Sad
Although [Character] and his/her family survived the war, not all was well. Living in the basement made [Character's] parents contract a serious lung disease. Most of their retirement money went to buying necessary medicines, and [Character] had to take the burden of supporting them.
Good
[Character] and his/her parents survived the war.They retired to the country,while she resumed work at the pharmacy,and is doing really fine.As Pogoren slowly healed from the destruction,so did most of it's inhabitants.