Post by vonpenguin on Oct 10, 2015 9:49:35 GMT
It’s late/early and I’m bored so just as a bit of a thought experiment/writing practice. I’ve decided to take the character from the campaign I’m in, and show the experience/ personality changes that I expect would occur as time went on if I was building her at different experience levels. So for your excuse to kill ten minutes or so I present to you Alex Wallace and her journey from novice one year post the worst of the epidemic to year five survivor. (Years are just for my benefit, I’m pretty sure the campaign with my novice version is several years out).
Pre infection backstory: Alex was always a Tomboy, in some ways more rough and tumble than her two brothers, one older, one younger, sports, digging in the dirt, helping her carpenter father with his at home projects. She wasn’t a complete jock and did enjoy reading and school, which lead to a fascination with fencing. Which she eventually turned into a scholarship at a top tier where she was majoring in Architecture. She camped on the weekends and worked as a lifeguard for some extra cash. At heart she cares deeply about others problems so despite her social awkwardness she tries to be a good listener, a shoulder to lean on, and has put her modest medical skills to use once people began to get ill.
Novice sheet:
Attributes:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 7
Constitution: 5
Charisma: 6
Tact: 5
Beauty: 5
Intelligence: 6
Awareness: 5
Wisdom: 4
Resolve: 5
Courage: 5
Luck: 4
Health: 9
Morality: 14
Skills:
Athletics: 6
Animal Handling: 3
Construction: 5
Computer: 1
Deduction: 2
Diplomacy: 2
Dodge: 5
Hand to Hand: 2
Investigation: 3
Knowledge: 5
Medical: 4
Melee: 5
Observation: 5
Perform: 2
Pilot (light vehicle): 4
Presence: 3
Ranged (simple): 2
Ranged (Firearms): 2
Stealth: 4
Wilderness: 4
Circumstances:
Allies:
Jennifer, a friend from before the infection spread, brilliant, less athletic than Alex, and lost an arm during the first few weeks after the barricades of the Collage fell.: 4
Wealth: 3
Reputation: 1
Equipment:
Good medical supplies (4) (A good quality first aid kit+ some scavenged supplies)
Fair amount of survival gear (4) (Tent, sleeping bag, canteen, very basic rock climbing gear, backpack)
Basic changes of clothes, good quality work boots (3)
Portable toolkit (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1996229315/Household-tool-kit-versatile-metal-toolbox100pcs-set-carpentry-repair-manual-tool-sets.jpg)+ multitool. (6)
Pocket knife (1)
Fencing safety gear (4)
Bowie knife (Short sword stats) (1)
Advantages:
Sense of Balance(3)
Double Jointed (4)
Machine (2)
Disadvantages:
Bad with words (5)
Soft hearted (5)
Trusting (5)
Nightmares (4)
Angry (4)
XP (available/total): 6
Year one: The campus of Alex’s school was made into an quickly slapped together Military base/refugee camp just over a month after the first reported cases, a sense of safety briefly fell over the students and staff that didn’t get to their own homes before martial law was declared. That sense didn’t last long as people trying to flee to quarantine zones started to pour in with horror stories and the sounds of soldiers shooting beyond the premade walls became more commonplace. Alex, for her part, volunteered at some of the medical tents, using her first aid raining to help the injured and those with illnesses that weren’t ending the world. During this time she picked up some pointers and tips from medical professionals and military medics to refine that basic knowledge, as well as a stare that could take a scared and hurting patient that couldn’t be calmed more gently and force them to sit still..
This quarantine camp was low on the government’s priority list compared to those in major cities, and eventually a group of people desperate for the safety of the walls used a semi-truck to force open the gates, damage that couldn’t be repaired and resulted in a large group of screamers getting through the walls, no longer safe, the zone was abandoned in mass, Alex, three classmates, and soldier who had decided to go AWOL disappeared into the outskirts more the next few months, scrounging off a mix of survival skills, and having their numbers lowly whittled down until it was just her and one other.
Salvation came in the form of a walled up settlement just inside the city that let them in, though they kept them separate for a few days to make sure they were “clean”. The pair had a number of skills that the community needed and the managed to set themselves up with passable lodgings and a share of the communities rations.
Experienced Alex, 3 years in:
Attributes:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 8
Constitution: 6
Charisma: 6
Tact: 5
Beauty: 5
Intelligence: 7
Awareness: 5
Wisdom: 4
Resolve: 6
Courage: 5
Luck: 4
Health: 10
Morality: 14
Skills:
Athletics: 6
Animal Handling: 3
Construction: 7
Computer: 1
Deduction: 2
Diplomacy: 4
Dodge: 5
Domestic: 2
Hand to Hand: 3
Investigation: 3
Knowledge: 5
Medical: 6
Melee: 5
Observation: 5
Perform: 2
Pilot (light vehicle): 4
Presence: 4
Ranged (simple): 2
Ranged (Firearms): 3
Stealth: 4
Wilderness: 4
Circumstances:
Allies:
Jennifer, a friend from before the infection spread, brilliant, less athletic than Alex, and lost an arm during the first few weeks after the barricades of the Collage fell.: 4
Wealth: 3
Reputation: 3
Equipment:
Good medical supplies (4) (A good quality first aid kit+ some scavenged supplies)
Fair amount of survival gear (4) (Tent, sleeping bag, canteen, very basic rock climbing gear, backpack)
Basic changes of clothes, good quality work boots (3)
Portable toolkit (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1996229315/Household-tool-kit-versatile-metal-toolbox100pcs-set-carpentry-repair-manual-tool-sets.jpg)+ multitool. (6)
Pocket knife (1)
Fencing safety gear (4)
Bowie knife (Short sword stats) (1)
Advantages:
Sense of Balance(3)
Double Jointed (4)
Machine (2)
Disadvantages:
Bad with words (5)
Soft hearted (5)
Trusting (5)
Nightmares (4)
Angry (4)
XP : 0
Years 2-3.5:
That past year and a half has been, all things considered, not bad for Alex, Her regular practice at carpentry and first aid, her two most marketable skills, lead to them being refined by use, and the critical thinking, long hours, and hard labor lead to her growing generally sharper and hardier. Word of her talents got out to some of the neighboring communities, wanting to recruit or “borrow” her for projects they needed done. This lead to a good amount of supplies for the town and an eventual move to a slightly larger and safer holdout a few days away. This travel and negotiating did sharpen her skills a bit. She still refuses to carry a gun since in her words, “I’m not good enough with it to keep someone from taking it, no need to look like I’m worth stealing from.”
Veteran Alex:
Attributes:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 8
Constitution: 6
Charisma: 6
Tact: 5
Beauty: 5
Intelligence: 7
Awareness: 5
Wisdom: 4
Resolve: 7
Courage: 6
Luck: 4
Health: 10
Morality: 14
Skills:
Athletics: 7
Animal Handling: 5
Command: 3
Construction: 7
Computer: 1
Deduction: 2
Diplomacy: 5
Dodge: 6
Domestic: 3
Hand to Hand: 4
Investigation: 3
Knowledge: 5
Medical: 6
Melee: 6
Military: 2
Observation: 5
Perform: 3
Pilot (light vehicle): 4
Presence: 4
Ranged (simple): 2
Ranged (Firearms): 4
Rouge: 1
Stealth: 5
Streetwise: 1
Wilderness: 5
Circumstances:
Allies:
Jennifer, a friend from before the infection spread, brilliant, less athletic than Alex, and lost an arm during the first few weeks after the barricades of the Collage fell. : 4
Associates: 3
Pets: A young Newfoundland named Brunel, accepted as payment from a grateful parent who wouldn’t take no for an answer. (3)
Wealth: 3
Reputation: 3
Equipment:
Good medical supplies (4) (A good quality first aid kit+ some scavenged supplies)
Fair amount of survival gear (4) (Tent, sleeping bag, canteen, very basic rock climbing gear, backpack)
Basic changes of clothes, good quality work boots (3)
Portable toolkit (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1996229315/Household-tool-kit-versatile-metal-toolbox100pcs-set-carpentry-repair-manual-tool-sets.jpg)+ multitool. (6)
Pocket knife (1)
Fencing safety gear (4)
Bowie knife (Short sword stats) (1)
9mm Pistol+ 2 magazines of ammo (3)
Advantages:
Sense of Balance(3)
Double Jointed (4)
Machine (2)
Disadvantages:
Bad with words (5)
Soft hearted (5)
Enemy (5)
Badly Healed Jaw (4)
Partial Amnesia (4)
XP : 0
Years 3.5-5:
Missing a 6 month period of time from her life Alex is still trying to piece some puzzles together. She is still altruistic but has come to the reluctant fact the she is the aberration in this day and age, not the people that will stab you in the back for a sleeping bag and a half a decade old power bar. Another change is that she has learned to hold her tongue against people that she’d much rather tell off or sucker punch. She has come into her own as someone the community will look to in an emergency, especially in her areas of expertise, even if she has no official authority. Enough people respect her that she can keep her ear to the ground and she has managed to piece together that at some point during her blackout she got on the wrong side of some fairly dangerous raiders. She has improved enough with a gun that she does keep one for herself. Her old friend Jennifer was ousted from her old settlement in a bit of a political coup and is now staying in town at Alex’s request.
Pre infection backstory: Alex was always a Tomboy, in some ways more rough and tumble than her two brothers, one older, one younger, sports, digging in the dirt, helping her carpenter father with his at home projects. She wasn’t a complete jock and did enjoy reading and school, which lead to a fascination with fencing. Which she eventually turned into a scholarship at a top tier where she was majoring in Architecture. She camped on the weekends and worked as a lifeguard for some extra cash. At heart she cares deeply about others problems so despite her social awkwardness she tries to be a good listener, a shoulder to lean on, and has put her modest medical skills to use once people began to get ill.
Novice sheet:
Attributes:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 7
Constitution: 5
Charisma: 6
Tact: 5
Beauty: 5
Intelligence: 6
Awareness: 5
Wisdom: 4
Resolve: 5
Courage: 5
Luck: 4
Health: 9
Morality: 14
Skills:
Athletics: 6
Animal Handling: 3
Construction: 5
Computer: 1
Deduction: 2
Diplomacy: 2
Dodge: 5
Hand to Hand: 2
Investigation: 3
Knowledge: 5
Medical: 4
Melee: 5
Observation: 5
Perform: 2
Pilot (light vehicle): 4
Presence: 3
Ranged (simple): 2
Ranged (Firearms): 2
Stealth: 4
Wilderness: 4
Circumstances:
Allies:
Jennifer, a friend from before the infection spread, brilliant, less athletic than Alex, and lost an arm during the first few weeks after the barricades of the Collage fell.: 4
Wealth: 3
Reputation: 1
Equipment:
Good medical supplies (4) (A good quality first aid kit+ some scavenged supplies)
Fair amount of survival gear (4) (Tent, sleeping bag, canteen, very basic rock climbing gear, backpack)
Basic changes of clothes, good quality work boots (3)
Portable toolkit (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1996229315/Household-tool-kit-versatile-metal-toolbox100pcs-set-carpentry-repair-manual-tool-sets.jpg)+ multitool. (6)
Pocket knife (1)
Fencing safety gear (4)
Bowie knife (Short sword stats) (1)
Advantages:
Sense of Balance(3)
Double Jointed (4)
Machine (2)
Disadvantages:
Bad with words (5)
Soft hearted (5)
Trusting (5)
Nightmares (4)
Angry (4)
XP (available/total): 6
Year one: The campus of Alex’s school was made into an quickly slapped together Military base/refugee camp just over a month after the first reported cases, a sense of safety briefly fell over the students and staff that didn’t get to their own homes before martial law was declared. That sense didn’t last long as people trying to flee to quarantine zones started to pour in with horror stories and the sounds of soldiers shooting beyond the premade walls became more commonplace. Alex, for her part, volunteered at some of the medical tents, using her first aid raining to help the injured and those with illnesses that weren’t ending the world. During this time she picked up some pointers and tips from medical professionals and military medics to refine that basic knowledge, as well as a stare that could take a scared and hurting patient that couldn’t be calmed more gently and force them to sit still..
This quarantine camp was low on the government’s priority list compared to those in major cities, and eventually a group of people desperate for the safety of the walls used a semi-truck to force open the gates, damage that couldn’t be repaired and resulted in a large group of screamers getting through the walls, no longer safe, the zone was abandoned in mass, Alex, three classmates, and soldier who had decided to go AWOL disappeared into the outskirts more the next few months, scrounging off a mix of survival skills, and having their numbers lowly whittled down until it was just her and one other.
Salvation came in the form of a walled up settlement just inside the city that let them in, though they kept them separate for a few days to make sure they were “clean”. The pair had a number of skills that the community needed and the managed to set themselves up with passable lodgings and a share of the communities rations.
Experienced Alex, 3 years in:
Attributes:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 8
Constitution: 6
Charisma: 6
Tact: 5
Beauty: 5
Intelligence: 7
Awareness: 5
Wisdom: 4
Resolve: 6
Courage: 5
Luck: 4
Health: 10
Morality: 14
Skills:
Athletics: 6
Animal Handling: 3
Construction: 7
Computer: 1
Deduction: 2
Diplomacy: 4
Dodge: 5
Domestic: 2
Hand to Hand: 3
Investigation: 3
Knowledge: 5
Medical: 6
Melee: 5
Observation: 5
Perform: 2
Pilot (light vehicle): 4
Presence: 4
Ranged (simple): 2
Ranged (Firearms): 3
Stealth: 4
Wilderness: 4
Circumstances:
Allies:
Jennifer, a friend from before the infection spread, brilliant, less athletic than Alex, and lost an arm during the first few weeks after the barricades of the Collage fell.: 4
Wealth: 3
Reputation: 3
Equipment:
Good medical supplies (4) (A good quality first aid kit+ some scavenged supplies)
Fair amount of survival gear (4) (Tent, sleeping bag, canteen, very basic rock climbing gear, backpack)
Basic changes of clothes, good quality work boots (3)
Portable toolkit (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1996229315/Household-tool-kit-versatile-metal-toolbox100pcs-set-carpentry-repair-manual-tool-sets.jpg)+ multitool. (6)
Pocket knife (1)
Fencing safety gear (4)
Bowie knife (Short sword stats) (1)
Advantages:
Sense of Balance(3)
Double Jointed (4)
Machine (2)
Disadvantages:
Bad with words (5)
Soft hearted (5)
Trusting (5)
Nightmares (4)
Angry (4)
XP : 0
Years 2-3.5:
That past year and a half has been, all things considered, not bad for Alex, Her regular practice at carpentry and first aid, her two most marketable skills, lead to them being refined by use, and the critical thinking, long hours, and hard labor lead to her growing generally sharper and hardier. Word of her talents got out to some of the neighboring communities, wanting to recruit or “borrow” her for projects they needed done. This lead to a good amount of supplies for the town and an eventual move to a slightly larger and safer holdout a few days away. This travel and negotiating did sharpen her skills a bit. She still refuses to carry a gun since in her words, “I’m not good enough with it to keep someone from taking it, no need to look like I’m worth stealing from.”
Veteran Alex:
Attributes:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 8
Constitution: 6
Charisma: 6
Tact: 5
Beauty: 5
Intelligence: 7
Awareness: 5
Wisdom: 4
Resolve: 7
Courage: 6
Luck: 4
Health: 10
Morality: 14
Skills:
Athletics: 7
Animal Handling: 5
Command: 3
Construction: 7
Computer: 1
Deduction: 2
Diplomacy: 5
Dodge: 6
Domestic: 3
Hand to Hand: 4
Investigation: 3
Knowledge: 5
Medical: 6
Melee: 6
Military: 2
Observation: 5
Perform: 3
Pilot (light vehicle): 4
Presence: 4
Ranged (simple): 2
Ranged (Firearms): 4
Rouge: 1
Stealth: 5
Streetwise: 1
Wilderness: 5
Circumstances:
Allies:
Jennifer, a friend from before the infection spread, brilliant, less athletic than Alex, and lost an arm during the first few weeks after the barricades of the Collage fell. : 4
Associates: 3
Pets: A young Newfoundland named Brunel, accepted as payment from a grateful parent who wouldn’t take no for an answer. (3)
Wealth: 3
Reputation: 3
Equipment:
Good medical supplies (4) (A good quality first aid kit+ some scavenged supplies)
Fair amount of survival gear (4) (Tent, sleeping bag, canteen, very basic rock climbing gear, backpack)
Basic changes of clothes, good quality work boots (3)
Portable toolkit (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1996229315/Household-tool-kit-versatile-metal-toolbox100pcs-set-carpentry-repair-manual-tool-sets.jpg)+ multitool. (6)
Pocket knife (1)
Fencing safety gear (4)
Bowie knife (Short sword stats) (1)
9mm Pistol+ 2 magazines of ammo (3)
Advantages:
Sense of Balance(3)
Double Jointed (4)
Machine (2)
Disadvantages:
Bad with words (5)
Soft hearted (5)
Enemy (5)
Badly Healed Jaw (4)
Partial Amnesia (4)
XP : 0
Years 3.5-5:
Missing a 6 month period of time from her life Alex is still trying to piece some puzzles together. She is still altruistic but has come to the reluctant fact the she is the aberration in this day and age, not the people that will stab you in the back for a sleeping bag and a half a decade old power bar. Another change is that she has learned to hold her tongue against people that she’d much rather tell off or sucker punch. She has come into her own as someone the community will look to in an emergency, especially in her areas of expertise, even if she has no official authority. Enough people respect her that she can keep her ear to the ground and she has managed to piece together that at some point during her blackout she got on the wrong side of some fairly dangerous raiders. She has improved enough with a gun that she does keep one for herself. Her old friend Jennifer was ousted from her old settlement in a bit of a political coup and is now staying in town at Alex’s request.
