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About Jacques Corbett

Name: Pvt. Jacques "Docteur" Corbett
Country of Origin: France

Attributes:
Agility d6, Smarts d10, Spirit d6, Strength d4, Vigor d6

Skills:
Climbing d4, Fighting d6, Healing d8, Knowledge: Battle (d4), Knowledge: Medicine (d8), Notice d4, Persuasion d4-2, Shooting d6, Stealth d6, Throwing d4

Derived Stats:
Charisma: -2
Pace: 6
Parry: 5
Sanity: 4
Toughness: 5

Edges:

Jack of All Trades: Can roll any smarts based skill at a d4 if untrained.
Linguist: Thinky speak language good. Dutch, English, French (native), German, Hungarian, Italian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
Medic!: Can save a downed extra if he reaches him before the end of the round

Hindrances:

Heroic (M): Jacques has a strong sense of justice, and works as a medic to benefit people. He's not a happy man, but he feels that by saving lives he can make others feel the happiness he can't.

Mean (m): He'll save your life, but he won't shake your hand if you go to thank him afterwards. He probably wouldn't be a bad-looking man if it wasn't for his thousand-yard stare and surly demeanor.

Shell-Shocked (m): Jacques was present during the initial battles of the Frontiers.

Gear:

Backpack, Bed Roll, Bullet pouch, Canteen, Medical Pack, Mess Kit, Uniform

Weapons:

Enfield No. 2 Mk I 12/24/48 2d6 (.38)
+18 spare bullets (total of 24 including the ones loaded)

Backstory:

Jacques comes from a poor neighborhood, but he had his sights set high when he joined the military. Unlike his brothers, who joined as infantrymen, Jacques was smarter, though his only true talent was a knack for languages that he picked up over time. He hoped to be able to someday make a better living as a translator. Unfortunately for him, the military had other plans. Convenient to the imminent German invasion of Belgium and having scored relatively high within medical drills, Jacques was placed near the front lines of the initial invasions that kicked off the Great War. Thrust immediately into combat beyond his wildest imagining, Corbett watched almost every person around him die in the skirmish fighting of the Battles of the Frontiers.

Jacques worked tirelessly throughout three nights with a never-ending stream of bullet wounds and broken limbs occupying his vision. He stopped only once, when the body of his youngest brother, an infantryman, was laid before him on his table. He had bled to death while waiting for a medic. As Germany relentlessly advanced, his brother laying dead, the small chunk of hope and happiness that existed in the core of the mostly dour Jacques Corbett shriveled and died. Driven by a sense of purpose and duty he continues to save as many lives as he can, to make up for the ones he couldn't.

Advance 1: Stealth/Shooting to d6

Advance 2: Jack of All Trades Edge