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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Watus" data-source="post: 2799661" data-attributes="member: 14589">Hah.  So many jokes, so little time.In any case, I think you've hit Vitus right on the head, as it were.  He is not an academic.  He is not a researcher.  He is an athelete, an adventurer, and a self-styled man of action.  I asked myself when I sat down to draw him up, what kind of physician would think a trip to the Antarctic sounded like a good idea?  What kind of doctor would leave behind a cushy, lucrative practice to freeze his buns on the ice?  Any hypothetical research value of such an expedition - say, on the effects of cold or privation - could surely be conducted a bit closer to home.  It seems the only reasonable answer to that question is someone with an overactive sense of adventure.  So then why the Antarctic?   Why not Borneo or the Gobi or the Amazon?  So, he's an alpinist.  A cold-weather athelete.  He's young and enthusiastic, and not too concerned with the possible consequences of biting off more than he can chew.In game mechanics, it's true, this does mean spreading his skill points a bit thinner than might be ideal, but I've tried to do so in a way that stays true to the character I laid out.  It's true, his bedside manner is likely to leave something be desired, but a) it's the 30's and medicine at the time took a very patrician attitude when dealing with patients, b) he's young, and c) he's a surgeon.  Not, in my experience, a very cuddly bunch.His knowledge skills are also a bit thin, but then again, he isn't a biologist.  I know a good number of doctors, and none of them would be competent to analyze anything non-human.  They might be able to make a half-a**ed guess from some half-remembered undergraduate textbook, but that's about it.  He does, however, have some ranks in Search, Spot, and Sense Motive, to reflect his diagnostic training.  His Heal is impressive, and his Knowledge [medicine] is also maxed.  Finally, I chose the offensive option to reflect his "go get 'em" attitude, as well as his compulsory military service with the Swiss Army.Hopefully, if the expedition needs a biologist, they will hire one.  Vitus, I imagine, will mostly be useful for setting broken bones and amputating frozen toes.</blockquote>

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