An US-Ranger named Hillerton. He used to be a 2nd lieutenant, but got degraded by an a-hole officer which hated his guts (but that was part of the background before we took off to play).
He also was highly decorated with medals before the game started. And later we found out, that the character seems to deserve´em!
From the beginning he behaved like a classic "hero", a term i seldomly use for the PC´s. He has a kind of a neutral alignment, with some strong altruistic undertones getting through, when it counts. Troops (and officers lately, too) like and respect him.
He wandered through the hands of two players, and it seems like that PC has some Hollywood-like magic around him...
He NEVER fucks up in a fight. He got severly wounded more than once, but ..
His first player single-handedly took out a BTR-80, by first killing an attacker with his riflebutt, waiting for the 7.62 to shoot some more rounds, running into the monster and dropping a grenade into it!
Everyone on the table went like "Yeah, he´s done..." before he started.
Jaws dropping afterwards around the table.
After the first player left the group, the second took over and Hillerton got caught and tortured by Warta-LT Paskievicz (Krakow; the KGB´s secret agent within the Warta). At that point we had almost no hope for Hillerton to get out there alive. But you know..off course he escaped.
(We are not playing the cinematic thing here, but what can i say? He´s a frigging combat-monster.)
But before he did escape, he delivered the deadliest knife-fight with a female KGB-Agent, posing as a nurse.
She was sent to kill him (injured as he was, the Warta-Troops took him into the hospital within the Wawel-Castle). She suddenly killed the unsuspecting guard in Hillertons room and than approached him.
You can´t imagine the tension of that fight...
He is still one of the main-PC´s in my current campaign (summer-break now, sigh...) and is kicking the most butts, i ever saw a PC doing, within any of the campaigns i did as a GM.
Another cool fact about Hillerton is, that his players (both did!) play him as a down-to-earth-guy with a good heart. He looks like Frankenstein, kills like Dirty-Harry in camouflage, but he´s a kind and caring man, who only wants to go back to the states to find his girlfriend.
We ´re all looking excited to see, if he´s gonna make it.
And what he´s about to find, back home.
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