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Name: Kander Jattle

Appearance: A heavily built middle aged man with a gentle look in his eyes, that contrasts with a silver scar on the right side of his face which runs from his temple to his chin.  He's a veteran of a relatively minor uprising on a border planet, during which time he worked as a low level field officer.  He retired most of a decade ago after a severe head injury, and has been living comfortably and quietly off of his earnings from service.  He's enjoyed his quiet life, and isn't eager to go on dangerous adventures... but he was more or less begged to go on this expedition by his adoptive daughter, who was a child soldier he rescued during his military service.

Stats:
Str: d8
Dex: d4
End: d4
Spd: d4

Kno: d8
Wis: d4
Per: d10
Cha: d12

HP: 20/20
SP: 32/32

Armor: None!

Items: 6/8
War Drum (1d8 str, +1d12 Cha Buff)
Autoharness
Liquidoplas Bomb
Liquidoplas Bomb
Filament Gun

Small Autocage
---Carries 4 Filament Cartridges, 1 arclamp, 5 bait, 1 stimulant, 1 biogel, 1 logbook

Money: 320

((Hipoint is well known for making just about the cheapest handguns out there, and quality is generally perceived to track with that.  That being said, "low quality" in firearms generally means things.  Low effectiveness, in terms of accuracy/recoil/handling, which largely don't matter that much for a home-defense handgun.  People don't get into firefights in their homes, while accuracy does not really matter within ten meters*.  And low quality control, meaning a cheap gun might be about as accurate and reliable as the mid-to-high end ones, or might be trash that jams every couple magazines even with ammo it likes.  Some people get reliable C9s that work great, some get crappy C9s that jam relatively often.  Pay twice as much, a lot of the practical benefit comes from making it more likely you land on the good end of that roulette.  Pay five times as much, you're basically ensuring it (and also probably getting some other features, that may or may not really matter!).

There's also the element of some guns dealing with bad conditions/lack of maintenance better or worse, as well as some being so shoddily designed that there's serious errors like firing when the trigger isn't pulled, but these are more issues of specific designs, and you can find both in designs that are expensive as well as designs that are cheap.

Were I to mechanically represent it in an RTD like this game, I'd probably say having a "low end" pistol means your gun jams on a 1, and you don't know how to fix it rapidly.  Higher end would mean a 1 fucks you over in some other way, but the pistol itself isn't responsible.  No matter what handgun you get, it... otherwise behaves the same, because honestly at the end of the day all pistols violently insert a chunk of metal into something, and the slight differences in how well they do that aren't really different enough to represent.))

Name: Wilfred Seven
Physical Description: An exaggerated eight-foot tall linebacker-shaped machine constructed out of slabs of white metallo-ceramic armor, laid atop a barely visible metallic undercarriage.  Its legs are stumpy compared to its arms, with a bulbous body due to the double rocket jump pack embedded between its shoulders.

Inside, he is an upsettingly poorly clothed buff catgirl.  Who still sounds identical to Wil Wheaton.
Background: He was batch manufactured along with nine other Wil Wheaton clones, for use in some film that he's never heard of and was never involved with; only the three "best" clones were actually selected for use in the film, while the other seven--really, the other six, Wil Three survived less than a week--were sold to OMNITECH as cheap labor.  Somehow, OMNITECH decided to hire Seven, rather than just enslave him, although he's not really sure what the difference is.  Notably, Wilfred's flaw that disqualified him from being selected is that his mind is nothing like the famous actor, and he actually hates being compared to the man.
Class: Class 02 weapon of mass destruction. (Always starts missions with a cognition copier)
Senior Xeno-Ambassador (+150 omni per mission)
Life: 2d8 Hardsuit
Attack: 4d4 Acidthrower

Stats:
Str 1d6 1d10 hardsuit
Dex 1d8
Spd 1d8
End 1d10
Wil 1d12
Kno 1d6 1d12 Subspace Library
Fte 1d12

Skills:

Mel d4
Gun d12
Exp d4
Imp d4
Mec d4
Tec d12
Med d4
Occ d12
Spc d4

Status: Drunk!

Inventory:
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)

TTS Earplugs
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) (Three d4 magazines)

OMNITECH Hardsuit (2d8 life, d8 jumpjets)
---Can skim on smaller rockets
---Built in binocular view

Cat-sized woodlouse named "Rolly-Polly"
Anomaly detection watch
Hacked observation drone from Detroit
Psychometric Reconstructor (Occult tool)
Subspace Library Search Engine (Replaces know with tech)
Spiderbot
Glowsticks
Glow spraypaint
2x Nutrient paste
Transient psychokinetic stim
2x Euphoria generator grenades
Placed charge
Jerry can of monkey pump alcohol
Shock collar.  Should've made a doggirl body, not a catgirl body.

Advanced Cleaning Apparatus (4d4 ranged attack) and 3 magazines (d6,d6,d6)
2x Smiles Rifles (d6 ranged attack) and 5 magazines (all d6)


Fragile Darkness artifact gun () (Given to Baldwin)
"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Five d8 magazines) (Given to Baldwin)

Money: 150

Disasters caused:
--Attacked a ghost god and maybe accidentally broke the barrier between ghosts and reality, I've never understood what happened there.
--Opened a portal to HELL during the Derp mission, between that and... other actions, directly caused the deaths of six or seven teammates?  Didn't kill Derp, which could be considered to be a disaster!
--Accidentally destroyed a hospital and army with a ghost nuke and a fifteen foot tall skeleton kaiju.  Murdered or destroyed almost everyone and everything with significant details about our mission goal.  Animated a good chunk of a dead city into a colossal mecha in order to fight a former teammate who went full evangelion.  Generally killed a lot of civilian NPCs, but the only PC kill definitely deserved it!
--Gave Derp control of the pain dimension while trying to get him tortured.  Caused the executions of almost all our supervisors.  Wasn't specifically punished, somehow.

Helped cripple big pain elemental.
Caught and threw back a giant bone projectile that was going to crush the team
Threw Bob jaw-first into a pain-elemental's face.  Was is particularly useful?  Nah.  Was it totally fucking awesome?  Yes.