{"id":777,"date":"2024-02-13T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:20","slug":"reintroducing-the-pcs-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Reintroducing the PCs, Part 1: Red and Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As my gaming group moves toward resuming play in Kaserne on the Borderlands, it’s probably time to refresh my three loyal readers on who the player charcters are. I have eight players, all but one of whom is running two characters. As a result of events that occurred shortly before the hiatus, the PCs have split into two teams. One team is staying in Ponikla, the village in which the campaign began, to continue with local stabilization and infrastructure recovery efforts. The other team is headed to Krakow by way of Czestochowa, seeking answers to a few different mysteries that have reared their ugly heads over the course of the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I’m going to do this as a series of eight posts, each one focusing on a single player’s PCs. We’ll start with Player M, who runs Red and Cowboy. Red is an original PC; Cowboy is a liberated POW NPC who was adopted and fleshed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William “Red” Grayson, M.D.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lieutenant, U.S. Navy Medical Corps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ponikla Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cRed\u201d was doing his residency when the war began. Drafted and direct-commissioned as a Navy trauma surgeon, he was attached to an infantry battalion in 2nd Marine Division. With the collapse of anything resembling international law and treaty enforcement, he\u2019s picked up a rifle to defend his patients\u2026 and himself\u2026 and, really, anyone else who needs it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the campaign, Red has emerged as one of the party’s leaders (though not necessarily its tactical commander). He’s also been at the forefront of scientific inquiry into the various weird phenomena that the PCs have encountered. When the team split, he chose to stay in Ponikla to help drive regional recovery, as he’s the only known physician within at least a 50km radius. He’s established a decent pocket clinic in the one house in Ponikla with a geothermal climate control system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Appearance<\/strong>: Tired, definitly has seen better days, with greying auburn hair and a scar across one cheek from flying shrapnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buddy<\/strong>: Ellis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moral Code<\/strong>: Never turn your back on family. Friends are just family that you choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Dream<\/strong>: Find a place to settle down, be a doctor, raise a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strength C: Close Combat D, Stamina D (Load Carrier)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agility C: Mobility D, Ranged Combat C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligence B: Recon C, Survival D (Herbalist [homebrew]), Tech D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Empathy A: Command C (Logistician), Persuasion C (Trader), Medical Aid B (Combat Medic, Field Surgeon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coolness Under Fire A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Permanent Rads 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armament: M4A1, Glock 18C, axe, entrenching tool<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Key Equipment: all the medical supplies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kira “Cowboy” Lopez<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Private First Class, U.S. Army – MOS 13F (Forward Observer), attached to 4th Ranger Battalion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expedition Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kira was raised on a cattle ranch in the Texas panhandle by an impatient, frequently drunk, father and her Hispanic mother.  Until her mother died in a car accident in the late ’89.  Her father became unbearable and she blamed him for the accident.  Their relationship got worse as she got older, and spent as much time away from the ranch as she could get away with.  She left Texas for California as soon as she graduated from high school in ’93.  She was sick of rural life, sick of her father, and everyone else knowing your business, and wanting to live pretty much anywhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Los Angeles, she apprenticed to an electrician, thinking it would be a good way to make a living doing gigs for rich people (or something like that) and it was alright for awhile.  She worked hard, often being willing to work from before dawn until it was too dark to work safely.  On the weekends she partied hard, hanging out with the metalheads and goths, going to concerts and night clubs.  On Sundays, once she kicked out anyone she might have come home with the night before, and if she wasn’t too badly hung over, she’d go to church, thinking her mother would be even more disappointed in her if she didn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the war broke out, she had the misfortune of having an early draft number.  Cowboy won out as her nickname in bootcamp because she was absolutely willing to throw fists over “Cowgirl” innuendos, and somebody else already got to be “Texas.”  She ended up in artillery when her math skills and understanding of trajectories and coordinates indicated she’d be good at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the war is effectively over, Madga’s speech has her reconsidering her desire to live anywhere other than some rural shithole, realizing that now…everywhere is a shithole, and it’s going to be mighty hard to find food in an urban shithole.  For once, a small, close-knit community might be okay.  Besides, if she ends up back in the States, they’d probably send her somewhere else to fight…and she knows she doesn’t want to get involvd in a civil war back home.While she used to think she’d prefer someplace like Valhalla for an afterlife, Kira always remembers to light a candle for her mother and her ancestors on Dias de Muerte, and has included people from her unit who’ve died over the course of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Appearance<\/strong>: 5’3″ & dusky skinned, she has surpisingly light hair, and hazel eyes.  She has a number of tattooes, a mix of pagan, hispanic culture, and heavy metal.  She’s outwardly cheerful & reliable, and has an excellent singing voice, even if her music preference is heavy metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moral Code:<\/strong> She isn’t a Ranger, but never leave someone behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Dream:<\/strong> Motivated by Madga & Red, maybe help make at least a small part of the world a better place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strength B: Heavy Weapons B (Redleg), Close Combat D, Stamina D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agility B: Driving D, Mobility D, Ranged Combat C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligence B: Recon C (Scout), Tech B (Chemist, Electrician)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Empathy C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coolness Under Fire A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Permanent Rads 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armament: PKM, Sa vz.26, pearl-handled switchblade<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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