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Old 07-06-2009, 08:29 AM
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Nate,
Seemed like checking in here was a better idea than the main forum. Great job setting all of this up. I am quite impressed with the level of prep for the campaign.
You'd asked what sort of character I'd be interested in playing. I'm quite flexible depending on where the narrative and the other players come down, but it looks like you're leaning toward us filling out the Officer / NCO ranks for the company. That's fine with me, just means a lot of NPCs flying around. Here is the outline of a character I developed for another project that never got off the ground. More behind ths, just the highlights here. I can easily cook up stats for v.1-v2.2 but would need to get up to speed if you're planning on d20 or 2013. Let me know what you think.

1st LT, S-2 Heather Cox
Background - Upper middle class private school background in the mid-atlantic. Attended university (soccer scholarship) and graduate school as a slavic lit major. Background / educational skills include soccer, equestrian, eastern european languages, history and literature as well as research, writing and persuasion. Enlisted after graduation in 1996 to take advantage of a loan repayment program as she found jobs in her field few and her student loans cripling. She was hoping for a desk job in DC but found that thinks changed rapidly as the US entered the war in the fall. After basic infantry school, intelligence training and OCS, she shipped to Europe in the summer of 97. After a brief stint in SACEUR staff, she was transferred to the 5th ID in the fall, at that time on rest and refit in southern Germany after the Summer campaign.
Military History - Initial work was more traditional Division staff - studying and translating signal intercepts, putting pins in maps, etc. As the war dragged on and EMP made the electronic side of intel less possible, assignments moved Lt Cox closer to the front. After 98 she has been working a combination of local outreach (hearts and minds), prisoner interrogation and front line recon. She was in demand around the batallion catonment as a translator and problem solver. As such she has also picked up limited farming and construction knowledge. Still by no means a combat specialist, she has seen and acquited herself fairly well in several firefights and ambushes her work took her to. She is handy with a rifle and pistol and decent in hand to hand, but she has only basic heavy weapons skills. She was attached to D Company on their recent mission to provide real time estimates to Division on whether their path was a viable breakout route.
Outlook - While she is becoming a better soldier, she is still ambivalent about what that means. Poland and being this deep in the shit seems like a long way to go to pay off student loans. She has been increasingly crossing lines she would never have thought of in interrogations and it is making her more and more uncomfortable. She is increasingly disillusioned about the idea of the war or that there is still one to be fought. Life in the catonment seemed better than this. Now the farms they worked to build are shot, and the workers likely were as well as the russians moved in. She is interested in survival first, making some sort of positive contribution to the world second and in striking a blow against the global communist threat as a distant third. She hasn't been speaking up a lot about this yet, but may attempt to discourage more heroic interpretations of the group's mission.
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