The Key -OOC-

[iByaah]

Name: Jack Grimsem
Sex: Male
Age: 29
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian

Appearance:

Spoiler

Jack stands at 6'1" with a lean, muscular frame. He has short brown hair and grey eyes. Grimsem usually sticks to his faded jeans and work jacket for every day wear, though he does switch out t-shirts every day. During fights, he dons old, worn leather gloves, the kind where the fingers have been torn away from years of use. Of note, he also almost always has a worn dark green canvas military messenger's bag slung over his right shoulder.

Personality:
Jack has a dryly sarcastic demeanor, usually never going a conversation without fitting in a quip here or there. However, he also possess' a quick mind, very capable of picking out important details at just a glance. Underneath it all though is a man who prefers avoiding trouble before it starts and finding a solution immediately once one is needed.

Equipment:
In his jacket, Jack carries a 6 inch hunting knife, a bit of flint, and half a pair of binoculars he'd salvaged from one of his first runs. In his messenger bag, he also carries a spoon, canteen, extra shoelaces, pen, notebook (containing a list of past runs, clients, and log of days needed for trips), magnetic compass, U.S. road/highway map, and a collapsible wine key. Attached to his belt, hanging from a lanyard, is a tonfa improvised from a steel bar and a wooden baseball bat handle. A weapon of last resort, really. Jack's only needed it once so far (knocks of tonfa), he'd much rather bail and outrun whatever's attacking than fight if at all possible.

Biography:
Jack was raised as a Courier, someone who took over transporting important parcels and correspondence between cities when convoys became prime targets for marauders. As his father and mother taught, 'one person may succeed where a line of targets fail.' He was taught to ride horses, survive in the harshest of environments, and fight, his parents having been trained in Wing Chun and Muay Thai by their parents before them.

Jack himself is a highly sought after Courier, known for his speed, reliability, and discretion. 'Grimsems get the job done,' his mom would always say. With the passing year, Jack has taken up the family trade, letting his parents relax in their twilight years. His longest run has been from Boston to Phoenix, a run that grabbed a certain Doctor's attention.

In his spare time, Jack likes to hone his skills, play 'hacky-sack' with local children, and dive into libraries for any and all maps they might have hidden away. Furthermore, he also moonlights as a bartender, his favorite drink to make being the AMF. When it comes down to it, he's neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with life, just making each day count.



If there's anything that needs to be changed, just let me know!

[Serge Drevlan]

You need a battery though and those need to be charged with electricity.

The beautiful thing is, my dear, that you only need a battery for the computers that keep the engines running on modern cars. It is still possible for people to build a working engine without the need of computers. The only electricity needed for those engines is at the start which can be done with a tesla coil. They would be shitty cars and planes, but they would work. They still need has, though, which is a true commodity.

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Character accepted, iByaah. Very well done!. I'll include him on the op tomorrow afternoon. It's 3 in the morning here.

[vslayer]

The beautiful thing is, my dear, that you only need a battery for the computers that keep the engines running on modern cars. It is still possible for people to build a working engine without the need of computers. The only electricity needed for those engines is at the start which can be done with a tesla coil. They would be shitty cars and planes, but they would work. They still need has, though, which is a true commodity.

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Character accepted, iByaah. Very well done!. I'll include him on the op tomorrow afternoon. It's 3 in the morning here.

I just touched up the Bio, hopefully it makes more sense now

Oh right, yeah they'd be pretty cruddy. I guess we could think of another mode of transportation they use. I like the idea of gliding transportation, like a scooter, but futuristic-like.

[Whelp]

Apologize my lateness, I'll get to work proper. Thanks for the reminder.

[Serge Drevlan]

No problem, Whelp! Happy to have you.

V, Gen is obviously accepted and has been added to the accepted character hider. Same with Jack, iByaah.

[ruler710]

I'll get working on a CS sometime tonight.

[Serge Drevlan]

Sounds great.

[CidtheKid]

You need a battery though and those need to be charged with electricity.

Get a magnet, and a lot of metallic wire, like copper. Coil the wire around the magnet, find a way to make it spin, like attaching it to a windmill or a something, and you now have an electrical generator, no complex circuitry necesary. Proceed to charge your battery. Not that you need one to run a car or a plane or a train.

So, what about fiber optics for communication? Those don't fry.

Also, I'll get a CS about tommorrow ish

[Serge Drevlan]

Get a magnet, and a lot of metallic wire, like copper. Coil the wire around the magnet, find a way to make it spin, like attaching it to a windmill or a something, and you now have an electrical generator, no complex circuitry necesary. Proceed to charge your battery. Not that you need one to run a car or a plane or a train.

So, what about fiber optics for communication? Those don't fry.

Also, I'll get a CS about tommorrow ish

Right, you just described a tesla coil. Thats what the people would use to recharge batteries. The issue is-- and this relates to your fiber optics question-- is that the things that would use the batteries and the things that connect to the optical fiber cables are made useless when the pulse goes off, so people have had to continue rebuilding motherboards and the like from factories that simply cannot run on electricity, or would be subject to the pulse and would have to be rebuilt everytime. So the computers and phones that connect to the optical fibers are the real issue here. People have to continuously rebuild these things and then rebuild an uplink to the network which already exists just waiting to be used again. It isn't a question of whether long range communication will be possible again, but when it will be possible again. It just takes the inhabitants time to rebuild after this debilitating pulse.

You see, the people of this world are incredibly intelligent because they existed in a far more complex world than we do now. There was a higher percentage of much smarter people because of this. I think it is an amazing thing to think of what happens when you take these people and present something that continually keeps them at the bare bones stage of civilization. They know what they can become, and given the time they would become a great civilization again, but they just cant do it. It is a huge hit to moral when everything that you work for is smashed in a few years.

If anyone has any more questions please ask, I like how we are building this world together, and I continue getting new ideas when you all present these interesting questions.

[CidtheKid]

Umm, Tesla coils are these lovely things:


They don't actually make electricity, however cool they may be.