Editing Brahnamin's Characters) - Katerina

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==Katerina d'Katayev: Engineer==
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|'''Hindrances:''' Curious (M); Small (m); Quirk [Tall Tales] (m)

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|'''Pace:''' 8 [d8]; '''Size:''' -1; '''Parry:''' 4; '''Toughness:''' 6 (1)

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|'''Attributes:''' Agility d8; Smarts d8; Spirit d6; Strength d4; Vigor d6

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|'''Skills:''' Athletics* d8; Common Knowledge* d4; Drive d6, Electronics d6; Fighting d6; Notice* d8; Persuasion* d4; Repair d8; Shoot d4; Stealth* d6

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|<u>'''Edges'''</u> 
(Professional): ''McGyver'' [N, Sm 6, Repair 6, Notice 8] Quickly create improvised devices from scraps. 

(Background) ''Fleet Footed'' [N, Ag 6] Pace +2, Running Die d8 

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|'''Gear:''' AK 47 (3 clips); Makarov Pistol (2 clips); Survival Knife; Kevlar Vest (not worn); Winter Clothing; Da's Toolkit (folding canvas kit that fits in jacket)
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|'''Played by:''' [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/brahnamin.70442/ ''Brahnamin'']
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Daughter of an Eastern Orthodox Priest and a simple Farmwife, Katerina's upbringing was rural, but not entirely sheltered. While neither a radical nor a dissident, her father was arrested in her teenage years and died in a Siberian prison. Her mother, a practical woman, remained on their farm and kept her head down.

Katerina was less inclined to toe the line. She took up her father's secular profession as a mechanic and engineer, but she was unable or unwilling to hold her tongue in public spaces, earning her the unwanted attention of certain officials who decided they were best served removing her to the ass end of nowhere.
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-|'''Skills:''' Athletics* d8; Common Knowledge* d4; Drive d4, Electronics d6; Fighting d6; Notice* d8; Persuasion* d4; Repair d8; Shoot d6; Stealth* d6
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-|'''Gear:''' AK 47 (3 clips); Makarov Pistol (2 clips); Survival Knife; Kevlar Vest (not worn); Kevlar Helmet; Thick Jacket; Winter Clothing/Gear; Camouflage Fatigues; Flashlight (10” beam); Lighter; Winter Boots
+|'''Gear:''' AK 47 (3 clips); Makarov Pistol (2 clips); Survival Knife; Kevlar Vest (not worn); Winter Clothing; Da's Toolkit (folding canvas kit that fits in jacket)
-'''Contraband:''' Da's Toolkit (folding canvas kit that fits in jacket)
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 |'''Played by:''' [https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/brahnamin.70442/ ''Brahnamin'']
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 Katerina was less inclined to toe the line. She took up her father's secular profession as a mechanic and engineer, but she was unable or unwilling to hold her tongue in public spaces, earning her the unwanted attention of certain officials who decided they were best served removing her to the ass end of nowhere.
-'''1) What did your character do to get sent to this base?'''
-Religious dissidence was always a thing with Kat. Her father had taught her much of his own faith and introduced her to the foundational beliefs of many other faiths. For him faith wasn't a crutch of blind beliefs to hold him up against the weight of the world but a grand Mystery to unravel and improve the human condition. It was a way to reach people through archetypes and common symbolism and come together for the common good.
-Unfortunately, even as subtle and soft spoken as Kristov d'Katayev was, he died alone and forgotten in a gulag for speaking and teaching as he did.
-Katerina utterly lacked her father's soft touch. She ran afoul the machine of Russian bureaucracy early. Her conscription was not the harsh sentence her father had earned, but she still remembered the flabby quivering lips of the gleeful party official who sentenced her. "You wish to pray, little котенок*? I have just the foxhole for you to use as sanctuary . . ."
-<nowiki>*</nowiki> ''kitten''
-'''2) After a long night’s patrol, what does your character do to relieve the stress?'''
-Katerina loves to run and takes every chance to do so. She's more careful where she chooses to run within the compound now, after pelting through sections that got her reprimanded and/or disciplined for invading, but she still runs every chance she gets.
-'''3) Which other soldier on the base do you have a special connection with, and why?'''
-Old Boris was a soldier well past his prime and nominally in charge of keeping all the machines, electronics, lights, and plumbing running on the compound. He often got young conscripts for a time when they'd broken minor rules to man his 'Shit Brigade' cleaning and unstopping toilets and backed up pipes.
-"Boris," Katerina once told him fondly when she managed to pull such duty, "you must be six years older than god." Of course, Boris had only laughed at her. "Six years older than a figment, young Katerina? I shall surely live forever."
-Katerina often works with Boris in her free time, burying herself in the furnaces, conduits, and pipeways of the compound.