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GM: follycle
Posting Expectations: Two or more paragraphs; proper grammar and punctuation.
Posting Speed: One to two posts per week.
Genres: Action, Futuristic, Sci-Fi, Superpowers
Players: Four to six.

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The Variable Project: VECTOR is a roleplay that takes place in the Variable Project universe, following a small, specialized group, recently recruited by a top secret organization known as VECTOR, as they undertake several missions to take down what few Corrupted Constants remain around the world. What Variables and Constants are will be explained below.

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Psychokinesis (henceforth referred to as PK) is an ability that humans evolved to possess around the year 2100. The father of first human to demonstrate an ability to use PK would become the director of the then called Psychokinesis Project. The ability had manifested itself at the age of 12, and granted the young girl the ability to levitate, speak telepathically, and use telekinesis. Scientists closely monitored the girl's condition. Realizing the danger involved with such an ability, work was quickly started to develop a means of controlling this power.

A specialized chip was designed and implanted at the upper tip of the girl's spine, just where it connected to the brain. This allowed the scientists to disrupt the signals in the part of her brains that showed activity during PK use, thus allowing them to stop her if she went out of control. Unfortunately, the girl died shortly thereafter, proving unable to deal with the stress PK placed on her brain. A pill, named Psyche, was developed to offset the effects of PK usage, which included a shortened lifespan and extreme migraines.

Further noting the combat capabilities of such a skill, and noticing a slow increase in the number of individuals capable of PK, the government began hoarding orphans to use as military super weapons. Thus, research into making weapons compatible with their newfound powers began. It wasn't long before they found a highly malleable metal that reacted extremely well to Psychokinetic abilities. Harvesting this metal, they fashioned it into a small sphere for easier portability.

During the year 2127, the first Variable was created. From that point on, those capable of using PK were deemed Constants, and the Psychokinesis Project was renamed the Variable Project. In the decade that followed, several new types of variables would be created, each of them reacting differently to an individual's unique brainwave patterns. Those would be the long-range physical type, the short and long-range mental types, and the most dangerous of all, the spatial type.

In the year 2142, the International Variable Organization (IVO) was created. Best thought of as a top secret UN that focuses exclusively on variable laws between countries, it was their way of maintaining a peace. They enjoyed it for a time, until a Russian Constant went rogue and headed towards the US. The US sent out a Constant of its own in retaliation, but the rogue Russian destroyed the chip that regulated the Constant's PK usage and convincing her to run away with her. In the year that followed, the two made various enemies and allies in their quest to expose the corruption of the Variable Project to the world. It was during this time that Anti-Psychokinetic equipment came into development, as a means of combating rogue Constants.

In the year 2147, everything came to light when an S-rank Corrupted Constant by the name of Cortice launched an attack on the US. With enough combined power with her variables to level a major city in a matter of minutes, there was no hiding this from the world. It was only thanks to the combined efforts of the US, Russia, France, and China Constants that they were able to subdue the out of control Corrupted. The directors of the Variable Project as it was known around the world were forced to give the public answers. In 2148, the Variable Project underwent reform.

That's the history up until the start of this roleplay. Set during the year 2151, a top secret group known only as VECTOR has been established to deal with what Corrupted Constants have managed to escape and still roam the world. To speak of the technological advancements mankind has seen in other areas, due to global warming, most of what has been being looked into, namely flying cars and the like, have had their research either delayed or forsaken altogether, in efforts to maintain what little stability the planet has left. As such, you can expect that most things in the roleplay work just as they do in the present day.

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Constants are those capable of using Psychokinesis. Among their abilities include levitation, telepathy, and telekinesis, as well as compatibility with Variables. As of the start of this roleplay, only 0.0005% of the living population has demonstrated an ability to use PK. As a safeguard, those gifted (or cursed) with this ability are segregated from the general population, and are housed on the same island as the International Variable Organization summit, with the promise that a solution that will enable them to safely live among others will swiftly be found.

Excessive use of PK has displayed a number of side effects. For one, it shortens one lifespans. Another side effect is near unbearable migraines. The Psyche drug counteracts both of these. If one exceeds the limits of what they're mind has proven capable of, or if they use it for a continuous, prolonged period of time, individuals begin to lose their mind and enter a deranged state, at which point they are deemed Corrupted. Corrupted individuals have enhanced PK abilities, stronger than those of their sane counterparts, but they very often don't live longer than a few years at best. They're swiftly dealt with, though a few have managed to escape, some of them with variables no less...

There is currently no way to salvage someone that has become Corrupted.

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Variables are crafted into spheres from a special metal that is highly malleable and very reactive to Psychokinetic abilities. Currently the strongest substance known to man, nothing has proven capable of breaking a variable other than another variable. Variables require a user to "sync" with them before they can be used, which means they must be touched, and the user must pass their PK energy through it to have their particular energies accepted by the metal. Only variables compatible with one's particular brainwaves may safely be synced with. If one attempts to sync with an incompatible type, corruption is the likely result.

Variables come in three varieties thus far: physical, mental, and spatial. Furthermore, each of these three exist in both short-range and long-range variants.

Physical


Mental


Spatial

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As mentioned several times before, your role in the story is as a newly recruited member of VECTOR, a top secret organization that claims to be tasked with eliminating what few Corrupted Constants are still on the loose. Your character will, obviously, be capable of using PK, and they'll have already undergone training with variables and the like before the roleplay's start, at which point you'll be considered graduates ready for their first mission. This roleplay will follow a mission based format, with the story developing the further along the characters get. As things progress, the characters will be left to question what and who they're really fighting against, and the morality surrounding what they're doing, all whilst engaging in kick-ass battles that will hopefully prove to be both interesting and entertaining.

If you have any questions, do feel free to ask, preferably in this thread so that others can see the answer.

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Just open the hider and copy the thingies inside, fill it out, and get approved for that car loan you've been wanting! I mean, await character approval!

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Is this a score based system or something more of a narrative abstract?

Score based system? In regards to what aspect?

"Max of 2"

Part of CS

Does that mean max 2 variable powers, or is there like a score system? Like a table top game has scores that let someone know if they pass/fail?

Nope, you just pick up to two variable types you're compatible with. You don't need to have two, but the option is there.

Have an idea of a character that plays around with portals. Jumps in one out the other, make others drop through them, redirects attacks? Would this concept work?

It would.be possible via spatial, but I'm still contemplating whether or not I want to allow spatial types, as they have a tendency to be particularly OP. OP enough that the governments banned them even before their project was exposed and they were forced to reform. Did you have plans on using it alongside something else?

I'm aiming for something clever rather than OP. If it's too powerful then nox that would be their only power aside from the PK.

It's not a problem, I can think of something else if it's something you are planning.

It would be pretty powerful if you were using it alongside a long range physical type, unless the enemy you were facing specifically had a counter for it. Most of the early ones we face don't, so it'd be quite the curb stomp.

I wanna say that as long as everyone else interested is okay with it, that it'd be alright. Definitely wanna come up with a good way to limit it (like line of sight or something) as I'm sure someone else will make a long range physical type you could abuse with it.

Teamwork makes the dream work. I'll throw I'm a WIP and see if you're good with it. Thank.

I'm a little conservative on characters now so I'm trying to ask questions first.

I'll get my character up first thing tomorrow

"Oh, you've got a little red left on you."

File : ‘Gwynt, Oliver’ [+]

Name :

Gwynt, Oliver

Age :

19

Sex :

Male

Biography :

Before joining VECTOR, Oliver Gwynt, known only as “Ollie” to his former associates, lived in a ruined neighbourhood of old Glasgow, which was destroyed by a corrupted constant as the record will recall, several years prior to our estimate of his age. He seemed to have been living with a rather troublesome group who have, if nothing else, done a proper job preparing an agent for us. While his telekinetic abilities are sub-par for our standards in terms of raw power, he has demonstrated a fine control and speed when manipulating smaller objects, which we attribute to his membership of the aforementioned troublesome group.

[For the sake of clarity, the following considers what Mr Gwynt has told us as fact]

Mr Gwynt, then only Oliver, doesn’t seem to have a clear recollection of where he was before he was adopted into this group. From what we understand, this group had some dealings somewhat more lethal than purse snatching. Oliver has explained in length several of the jobs he was assigned to carry out, which appears to be the only time he would leave the group’s shelter. Up until he turned 15, he had been working as asked of him, but he had “cleaned house,” so to speak, at that point. We discovered their base of operations on that day, assuming the sightings were referring to a low-rated corrupt. However, we instead found the young boy and the corpses of his “employers,” so to speak, as well as his fellow “employees,” riddled with knives during the night, in their sleep. He hasn’t been very open about why he has chose to do such a thing, but he has been quite cooperative with us all the same.

We had him monitored in an academy that could help foster some skill for our cause. After he came of age, he trained at VECTOR’s own academy, just up until recently.

Personality :

While he has shown that he has the skills to be useful for VECTOR, Oliver isn’t the most agreeable person. While he doesn’t seem to mean ill, he has a tendency to annoy some with a rather blatant disregard of others’ feelings at times. He doesn’t appear to understand why some of the things he says would cause someone offense, or at the very least bother them. While at times he can be conscious of these things, his rather happy-go-lucky manner isn’t particularly fitting for certain topics of conversation at VECTOR’s academy.

Unfortunately, his anti-social behaviour doesn’t extend to a complete lack of empathy, which would have probably been quite a bit more convenient. Nonetheless, he doesn’t appear to have a problem with what the job entails, which is not quite surprising, considering his work in the aforementioned group.

Variable Efficiency and Control Test (VECT) Results :

Long-Range Spatial: Fabric

With Fabric, Oliver is able to recreate the effects of space-time warping in a mild manner. This extends mostly to the speed of passing of time. He can make objects experience time in various ways, where to an observer it would seem as the object’s time is moving very fast, or very slow, without creating a force resembling gravity. With larger objects, the effect is weakened. On objects as complicated as animals, the effect is infinitesimal, but larger objects made of inorganic matter can be slowed down or sped up more easily. He can only sustain such a region for a second at a time (from his point of view) and can only do it once every ten seconds.

Short-Range Spatial: Swap

With Swap, Oliver is able to warp space-time in a manner that allows him to switch places with objects or people he has ‘Marked’ with his PK, or switch the place of two such objects. While the distance of the items doesn’t matter, his PK ‘mark’ only lasts twenty minutes before it expires.

Relationships :

TBD

Other :

His neck, ankles, wrists, and back have some deep scarring that can be clearly identified when inspected closely for but a moment.
Character Theme
Battle Theme

For your long range spatial, does it just alter the target's perception of time, or time itself? Variables and PK aren't capable of altering time itself. Only how others perceive it. Which would make it a long range mental type.

As for your second one, that falls under teleporting, which PK and Variables also aren't capable of providing. Portals, like those suggested by Shwiggity, are possible, though even that's a bit wonky.

Sorry if that puts a huge wrench in your plans. Just hard to explain the exact limit to how much PK / variables can warp space / time.

Name:

Age:

Sex:

Biography:

Personality:

Variable Efficiency and Control Test (VECT) Results:

Relationships:

@follycle
I edited the variables a bit. Hopefully they work better now? ^^'

@follycle
I edited the variables a bit. Hopefully they work better now? ^^'

Works a lot better, thanks! Tempted to suggest a physical type due to how hectic things will be later in the roleplay, but I understand if you just wanna have a mental type. Other than that suggestion, yeah, add him to Characters!

To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Name:

Andrade, Raul

Age:

35.

Sex:

Male.

Biography:

Born amid the wealth and riches of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Raul Andrade was a close, if measured, acquaintance of privilege. The latest son of a line of government officials and media personalities alike, his father was a Coronel of the state police, a position he gained entirely through nepotism, like his own father before him. The boons of name and blood had dulled his father’s pride, and ensured that he knew the idea of ‘merit’ only as a fleeting shadow. Raul Andrade would come to know the influence of nepotism differently, only in the sense that it made him an outsider, an observer.

And as an observer, Raul was endlessly studious, and even prodigious. Inserted into the state military police, he demonstrated an aptitude for civil service and enforcement alike. He became a vaunted member of the BOPE, a world-class exponent of urban warfare.

Born PK-capable, yet never formally initiated into the world of constants and variables, Raul was nonetheless approached for his talent as an operative.

Personality:

Raul is deliberation incarnate. Every thought carefully weighted, and every word measured, delivered at half-speed with perfect enunciation. He operates within his own pace, thorough and cunning in equal measure, preferring deft solutions over explosive measures. His choice of tempo lends itself towards what appears to be a general dispassion and disconnect, although Raul is, more accurately, simply adept at framing the darkest happenings in pragmatic contexts, accepting that matters of the near past are significant only as frameworks for what comes next.

Endlessly courteous, Raul is cordial if not particularly emotive, and rather forgiving in his interactions with colleagues and comrades.

Variable Efficiency and Control Test (VECT) Results:

Short-Range, Physical. Long-Range, Physical.

Relationships:

-to be determined-.

Approved! Go add that mon to Characters.

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Works a lot better, thanks! Tempted to suggest a physical type due to how hectic things will be later in the roleplay, but I understand if you just wanna have a mental type. Other than that suggestion, yeah, add him to Characters!

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Approved! Go add that mon to Characters.

Oh, I had added a long range one but should I go into detail about how he'd use it?

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Oh, I had added a long range one but should I go into detail about how he'd use it?

You can if you want, but I imagine it'll change a lot depending on whatever the current battle demands.

Sigh, I might have to back out.

Im going to be taking my summer to get my house ready to be sold and to move.

I think I probably have another month of rping max and then I have to go on an extended hiatus.