{"id":782,"date":"2024-02-14T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:20","slug":"reintroducing-the-pcs-part-2-alexei-and-pettimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Reintroducing the PCs, Part 2: Alexei and Pettimore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Continuing our string of character introductions, we move on to Player B’s PCs, Alexei and Pettimore. Pettimore is an original PC (and the only one who was ported from a previous iteration of this campaign – with some unsettling story implications. Alexei is a later addition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexei Brandt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

East German civilian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Before the war, Alexei Brandt was a teenage metalhead, yearning for the freedom that his bootleg Western albums spoke of. He made a living doing odd jobs, anything from farming to radio repair (and he may or may not have been involved in pirate radio). As things broke down, Alexei became a drifter, trying to stay one step ahead of the war as he traded and worked and salvaged for food and shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexei linked up with the team more or less by accident, as he was a bystander in the Battle of Radom<\/a>. Minka recognized him from their prewar acquaintanceship and recruited him (which didn’t take much convincing). When the team split, Alexei elected to remain in Ponikla for the chance of a stable life, putting his hands to work on the village’s infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Appearance<\/strong>: Alexei is an ’80’s metalhead in his late teens.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Moral Code<\/strong>: You don’t have to be a bad guy to be metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Dream<\/strong>: Don’t get shot. Make money. Get girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strength C: Close Combat D, Stamina C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agility B: Driving D (Biker), Ranged Combat D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligence B: Survival D (Jerry Rig [homebrew]), Tech C (Electrician)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Empathy B: Persuasion B (Storyteller [homebrew], Trader)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Permanent Rads 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armament: AK-74, double-barreled shotgun, Mister Morgenstern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Key Equipment: Walkman and collection of bootleg punk albums and mixtapes, denim vest, bicycle with cargo trailer full of assorted salvage and trade goods<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Album List: Black Sabbath – Paranoid; Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at the Star Club, Hamburg; Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry; Motorhead – Ace of Spades; Dio – Holy Diver; Panzerfaust der Wahrheit (Bazooka of Truth) – LAUF UM DEIN LEBEN, ER HAT EINE PANZERFAUST!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John Lee Pettimore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Staff Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps – MOS 8541 (Scout Sniper)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Pettimore hails from the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Born in coal-mining country, he saw the Corps as an escape from his home county\u2019s endless cycle of poverty and outside exploitation. For a man who grew up hunting to put food on the table, scout\/sniper school was a natural progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point during the war, Pettimore found himself in the orbit of an intelligence operative who called himself Broadstreet. Broadstreet\u2019s small team bounced around the northwestern Poland area of operations, handling a variety of specialized tasks. When the U.S. Army\u2019s 5th Infantry Division moved out for the summer 2000 offensive, Broadstreet\u2019s team was attached to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the 5th ID died at Kalisz, Broadstreet, Pettimore, and their associates were behind enemy lines, extracting a U.S. State Department physician from Soviet custody. With no friendly forces to rejoin, the team fled south into a darkening world. His subsequent experiences, recounted in a conversation with Ellis<\/a> and supported by the Broadstreet Dossier<\/a>, are not entirely synchronized with the surrounding world\u2019s understanding of linear time\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Appearance<\/strong>: Preeetty much Chris Kyle, but lankier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Moral Code<\/strong>: Never leave a man behind. Everybody goes home. God gave you the strength to ensure that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Dream<\/strong>: Home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strength C: Close Combat C, Stamina D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agility B: Mobility D, Ranged Combat B (Sniper)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligence B: Recon C (Scout), Survival C (Hunter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Empathy B: Persuasion D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coolness Under Fire: C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Permanent Rads: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armament: Thoughts and Prayers (SVD with the occasional uncanny ability of its own), hunting bow, M45 MEU(SOC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Key Equipment: Bible, prayerbook, bear claw necklace<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing our string of character introductions, we move on to Player B’s PCs, Alexei and Pettimore. Pettimore is an original PC (and the only one who was ported from a previous iteration of this campaign – with some unsettling story implications. Alexei is a later addition. Alexei Brandt East German civilian Ponikla Team Before the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,106],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaserne-on-the-borderlands","category-characters","tag-let-me-tell-you-about-my-players-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}