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<blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 7747377" data-attributes="member: 6943731"><p>Adam Parfrey passing is very sad, Apocalypse Culture is like a handbook for Delta Green.</p><p></p><p>For Character building, I try to not go overboard, but to come up with something colorful, here is my last CoC investigator, Ilya Skrydlov, itinerant Russian Boyar:</p><p></p><p><strong>Investigator History</strong></p><p>Ilya, born in 1895, was raised in the fields and forests south of Gdov, summering on Lake Prepius, with some time spent at the ancestral estate at Tver. The son of Admiral Nikolai Skrydlov, and a long line of career naval officers in whose footsteps he was expected to follow; in truth, Ilya merely wanted to be a gentleman farmer. He always had more of a feeling for the peasant side, rather than the Boyar, this may have been a saving grace during the 1905 uprising, as his family's dacha was spared destruction, and was reinforced by service in the Great War. His family was a old branch of the Rurikid dynasty, more directly descendent of Vasily Tatishchev; however, more distantly of Alexander Nevsky, of which Ilya finds that to be boastful at best.</p><p></p><p> Like his father before him, he attended the Sea Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, it was there he graduated as an Ensign with duties on a minesweeper out of Reval. There also where he was introduced to his distant cousin of Baltic German Noble origin, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, by another cousin, Count Hermann von Keyserling. There it was he initiated into the knowledge of the occult, by his cousins. Soon enough at the tender age of 19, the Great war began, he was eventually attached as liaison to the RNAS Armoured Car Section operating in Russia, from who he sharpened his English. Later, commanding a Mgebrov-Renault armored car squadron, he was wounded in 1916. Recovering, he was shifted to the Caucasus region when the Russian Empire was in battle against the Ottoman Empire, here, he ran acros his cousin Ungern again, as well as meeting Cossack Capt. Grigory Semyonov. After the Bolshevik-led October Revolution of 1917, Semyonov and Ungern declared their allegiance to the Romanovs and vowed to fight the revolutionaries; Ilya felt compelled to follow their lead. Being navy, he led a communication squadron (dispatch riders on horse) between Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, nominal head of the White Russian forces in Siberia, and Semyonov and Ungern's commands. In the Transbaikal, and outer Mongolia, amongst landscapes best described in the paintings of Nicholas Roerich, it seemed a Colour Out of Space touched his soul. Eventually, Admiral Kolchak's corpse took up ignominius residence in a hole chopped in the ice after execution, and his cousin Ungern, who now carried the sobriquet of "The Mad Baron" was leading a final futile attack; Ilya followed Semyonov and escaped to Harbin, China. It was from one of Ungern's officers, Kamil Gizycki, an engineer and travel writer, that he became enamored of the idea of being an author.</p><p></p><p> Semyonov was taking money from both the Japanese an Chinese during his fight in Siberia and Mongolia; Ilya cashed in upon this as well, recieving a stipend of 1000 and 1500 pounds from the Chinese and Japanese respectively. From Harbin he traveled to Nagasaki, then Honolulu, San Francisco, through the Panama Canal to Havana, New York, and finally London. Ultimately his destination is Paris, where his sister Svetlana lives with the Russian emigre community, in the meantime, he has taken up an invitation to the Haverfeld House. His father has died in the Red Terror, buried on their ancestral estate, which also has be confiscated by the Bolsheviks, his finances straitened, and no home to call real.</p><p></p><p> In appearance, he has the large expressive brown eyes, and full mouth of many Slavs; his eyes almost seem mirthful. He is light hearted of demeanor, and would criticize too many for being too stiff for a lack of dancing; something of which he is accomplished, by either a waltz or Russian folk dances, which in turn belies a certain manual dexterity. When bored or nervous, such as walking in the dark, he has a tendancy to whistle parts of Scheherazade Movement 1, by Rimsky-Korsakov, his favorite composition. He is used to being addressed as "Gospodin" by formality, nevertheless he makes no claim on innocence. Ilya is drawn to the occult, something in it calls to him, as an author, he will follow that road until there is no end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dragoner, post: 7747377, member: 6943731"] Adam Parfrey passing is very sad, Apocalypse Culture is like a handbook for Delta Green. For Character building, I try to not go overboard, but to come up with something colorful, here is my last CoC investigator, Ilya Skrydlov, itinerant Russian Boyar: [b]Investigator History[/b] Ilya, born in 1895, was raised in the fields and forests south of Gdov, summering on Lake Prepius, with some time spent at the ancestral estate at Tver. The son of Admiral Nikolai Skrydlov, and a long line of career naval officers in whose footsteps he was expected to follow; in truth, Ilya merely wanted to be a gentleman farmer. He always had more of a feeling for the peasant side, rather than the Boyar, this may have been a saving grace during the 1905 uprising, as his family's dacha was spared destruction, and was reinforced by service in the Great War. His family was a old branch of the Rurikid dynasty, more directly descendent of Vasily Tatishchev; however, more distantly of Alexander Nevsky, of which Ilya finds that to be boastful at best. Like his father before him, he attended the Sea Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, it was there he graduated as an Ensign with duties on a minesweeper out of Reval. There also where he was introduced to his distant cousin of Baltic German Noble origin, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, by another cousin, Count Hermann von Keyserling. There it was he initiated into the knowledge of the occult, by his cousins. Soon enough at the tender age of 19, the Great war began, he was eventually attached as liaison to the RNAS Armoured Car Section operating in Russia, from who he sharpened his English. Later, commanding a Mgebrov-Renault armored car squadron, he was wounded in 1916. Recovering, he was shifted to the Caucasus region when the Russian Empire was in battle against the Ottoman Empire, here, he ran acros his cousin Ungern again, as well as meeting Cossack Capt. Grigory Semyonov. After the Bolshevik-led October Revolution of 1917, Semyonov and Ungern declared their allegiance to the Romanovs and vowed to fight the revolutionaries; Ilya felt compelled to follow their lead. Being navy, he led a communication squadron (dispatch riders on horse) between Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, nominal head of the White Russian forces in Siberia, and Semyonov and Ungern's commands. In the Transbaikal, and outer Mongolia, amongst landscapes best described in the paintings of Nicholas Roerich, it seemed a Colour Out of Space touched his soul. Eventually, Admiral Kolchak's corpse took up ignominius residence in a hole chopped in the ice after execution, and his cousin Ungern, who now carried the sobriquet of "The Mad Baron" was leading a final futile attack; Ilya followed Semyonov and escaped to Harbin, China. It was from one of Ungern's officers, Kamil Gizycki, an engineer and travel writer, that he became enamored of the idea of being an author. Semyonov was taking money from both the Japanese an Chinese during his fight in Siberia and Mongolia; Ilya cashed in upon this as well, recieving a stipend of 1000 and 1500 pounds from the Chinese and Japanese respectively. From Harbin he traveled to Nagasaki, then Honolulu, San Francisco, through the Panama Canal to Havana, New York, and finally London. Ultimately his destination is Paris, where his sister Svetlana lives with the Russian emigre community, in the meantime, he has taken up an invitation to the Haverfeld House. His father has died in the Red Terror, buried on their ancestral estate, which also has be confiscated by the Bolsheviks, his finances straitened, and no home to call real. In appearance, he has the large expressive brown eyes, and full mouth of many Slavs; his eyes almost seem mirthful. He is light hearted of demeanor, and would criticize too many for being too stiff for a lack of dancing; something of which he is accomplished, by either a waltz or Russian folk dances, which in turn belies a certain manual dexterity. When bored or nervous, such as walking in the dark, he has a tendancy to whistle parts of Scheherazade Movement 1, by Rimsky-Korsakov, his favorite composition. He is used to being addressed as "Gospodin" by formality, nevertheless he makes no claim on innocence. Ilya is drawn to the occult, something in it calls to him, as an author, he will follow that road until there is no end. [/QUOTE]
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