[OOC] Era of Epoch (Open and Accepting)

[ScreenAcne]

- I expect details and hints onto character life. Most races has some sort of relationship with others, in lore. Even if by discrepancy in numbers. How does your character cope and process with these differences.

- I expect up to 2 paragraphs per post unless you are replying or doing something mundane (answering a simple question. Walking after someone. Not really doing anything/listening to someone talk) although some effort in the length presented is still required.

- You don't have to know a lot about the lore, but when if your character has pertinent relations with the general public. Know the lore so you can get a vague feel of the attitude it may realistically be.

- That's it. Have fun.

credit for race logos go to @silverdawn

[Eviledd1984]

Just a quick question would Skeleton be apart of the Revived race?

[ScreenAcne]

@Eviledd1984

Revived are souls in machine that have "orbit" aka. keeps them in the living world. They are able to have nothing inside them, but most of them have remains of some sort. And yes, literally a shit load of them are spooky skeletons lodged inside a cyborg like suit.

Think lots of glass domes/windows and eerie blowing single colors around inside. But it can be just hearts, eyeballs. Dead brains. Nerves. Even skin or nothing. Remains in lore give you a stronger "orbit" which may or may not give you any real debuffs or benefits in practice.

The only rule is said remains can't be exposed. They got be kept in some sort of jar or overall helmet system or dome. Fish bowl ectr.

So, yes. Absolutely. They are.

[BayRat]

Barebones race submission of stats and traits.

Race: Gorgas

Average height: 9-18 ft.

Average weight: 805-1,237 lbs.

Stats:

Intelligence: 1

Health: 4

Dexterity: 1

Strength: 7

Constitution: 5

Natural Armor: 5

Lifespan: 240 years

Racial Abilities

+ Cannot be burned by any degree of heat, this does not include other damages resulted from heat-based weaponry such as the explosive force of powerful plasma guns, however no molecule of their body can be seemingly burned, melted, or otherwise damaged by extreme natural temperatures, even those of magma or medium ranked plasma weapons, but can still be obliterated by high end beam weaponry namely Blazing and Sun.

+ They can fly with their powerful wings in gravity around earth's level or less.

+ They can breath flames from their mouth that is hot enough to melt steel.

+ They have a natural spear-like tip on their tail, sharp claws on all six limbs; I.E. Hands, feet, and tail, and have a jaw-strength that can bend iron bars.

+ They have a great sense of smell and vision, their eyes glow like dim candle flames in dark lighting, essentially allowing them to see in the dark.

Racial Downsides

- Being coldblooded they cannot tolerate cold temperatures, nor are they acclimated to anything but tropical or extreme heat environments. They get disadvantage at any degree below room temperature, at temperatures either near, at, or below freezing I. E. 45 F or lower, without any sort of protection from the cold can be fatal.

- The paler scales along the front chest, and underside of the body are half as durable as the rest of their natural armor.

- Their awkwardly large hands make it nearly impossible for them to wield conventionally weaponry or equipment made by other races. They are for the most part, forced to use their natural weaponry in addition to whatever primitive equipment or make-shift armor they can craft with natural elements, such as a stone spear or minimal iron-cast armor. The only exceptions are any very fortunate and very wealthy individuals who could receive custom-made equipment from engineers, as they themselves are too primitive to make their own advanced technology gear.

- While they have a strong sense of smell with their forked tongue foul-smelling chemicals and other strongly odored scents aside from rotting flesh can irritate them, giving them temporary disadvantage.

- Their large size can make it difficult to maneuver in even the average sized hallways or rooms of smaller races without having to crawl or hunch over.

-They take a very long time to mature, about 60 years. This also makes them effectively lowly populated.

@ScreenAcne

How's this in terms of stats and whatnot for the race?

[LordofthePies]

What are some of the careers your character can have?

@ScreenAcne

[ScreenAcne]

@LordofthePies

Whatever their long term means of survival or earning money will be their career. Be space pirate, criminal. Solder ectr. If you're not sure of their career stats from it, I'll make a judgment on it when you submit it.

If your career translate to no stats. I'll just translate it to some starting points/credits.

some examples:

doctors.

surgeons.

software engineers.

station guards.

ship pilot.

[LordofthePies]

Hope this is alright. @ScreenAcne

Name:
Light Savath

Age:
20

Race:
Epoch Human

Career:
Biologist/Scientist for Hire.

Biologist Buiseness

studies living organisms, often in the context of their environment. Biologists involved in fundamental research attempt to explore and further explain the underlying mechanisms that govern the functioning of organisms.

Personality:
Ever since Light was able to know about such things, he was interested in how everything worked. Constantly asking questions. He was a man of science and studied practically anything when he could. Although, wanting to learn about everything made it so he collected and dissected whatever he could get his hands on. Light isn't really one of the most sociable people, especially due to the fact he's a sociopath. He gave up on trying to understand why people do things, adding that to the rather small list of things he will never quite grasp. When he does understand something, he tends to get extremely excited about it. He was raised to be the best, so he rarely will tolerate anything else when it comes to himself. Light also has some crazy trust issues, so much so that he rarely even trusts the air around him to be clean.

Background:
Light didn't really care to make friends or understand his family, so he doesn't have very many social memories. He remembers the harsh white of the facility he grew up in, and he remembers the tests he went through. He also remembers the good times, like when he got a puzzle right the first try and was rewarded with a cookie. Failure = pain and completion = cookies is how he remembers most things going, and not much of anything else other than that. Due to the near constant social tests, he developed trust issues and some minor paranoia. Light remembers his first betrayal. A little brown haired boy named Chris. He was his first best friend, but he was jut a test. Light trusted Chris with everything and thats how he failed. Chris delivered the news and everyone in the facility knew everything that was wrong with him. From then on he recognized others were not to be trusted since trust leads to hurt. From the way you talked to others or just the way you ate. Everything was a test. Everything is a test.

Faction Relations: N/A

Equipment:

Head
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Roamer 053

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Chests

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Chemical Covers

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Weapons
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Corelia Handgun

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Tools
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Campers Backpack: A simple backpack that has 2 side pouches, a back pouch and a large inventory space. It can hold to 20 general items such as ammo, tools, masks and weapons as long as they are not bigger than than 2 feet. Cannot be worn over bulky armor class items.

Tent: A basic tent with special fibers and netting to assure that it can keep it out most forms of weather, including sand storms, mist and a large variety of known and unknown small bugs that resemble the same pests on Earth like planets. When in this tent, the camper is able to sleep. The tent can be extended and pulled out to account for up to 10 people in total. A good place to sit in to escape the elements and do little things like prepare equipment, sleep, eat or heal. Very good at insulating heat.

Basic Tools: Most basic DIY tools that are needed to repair items such as wrenches, hammers, spanners and pliers. Including a multi-tool and a number of bolts and nails.

Automated Tools: Domestic drills for quickly making holes. An electric sander, a paint sprayer and a hot glue gun.

Solderer: A soldering iron that is regularly used to connect wires, modify and deconstruct circuits. Comes with the necessary flux and wire for it to be used for a a long time. Needs and outlet to function and functions like a pen.

Flash Light

Flares x5 (Disposable flares that light up an area for 20 feet in a red hue. Will last for 10 minutes and can take extreme fall damage)

First Aid Kit: Provides basic medical equipment that can heal basic burns, bandage limbs and help prevent infection of wounds, however, it lacks any serious medical supplies. Only treating immediate injuries that can be accessed without any surgery or treated with specific chemical solutions.

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BackPack
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General supplies and consumables

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[ScreenAcne]

@dragonmancer

I'll need to balance out that beam resistance a bit since sun beams could melt through most atom engineered up hulls for energy to energy combat. We're talking tank top weaponry here.

How about this:

He can be immune naturally to hot and blistering weapons and not suffer any sort of heat stroke/ organ failure from heat side effects. This, pretty much means he can take on small and medium sized heat weapons and not be bothered. Like at all, he's effectively able to charge most beam basic infantry with impunity if they don't have other weapons. Keep in mind, he most likely will get armor of some sort later on that will buff him against higher rank of beam weaponry too.

even if its expensive for him. Because shekels come to players. Is the way of life.

Also, I'm giving you 5 extra points for his stats. Because I realized I'm kind of shafting the aliens a little on the stat department and there is no reason a bad ass dragon shouldn't have strength higher than 5.

[BayRat]

@dragonmancer

I'll need to balance out that beam resistance a bit since sun beams could melt through most atom engineered up hulls for energy to energy combat. We're talking tank top weaponry here.

How about this:

He can be immune naturally to hot and blistering weapons and not suffer any sort of heat stroke/ organ failure from heat side effects. This, pretty much means he can take on small and medium sized heat weapons and not be bothered. Like at all, he's effectively able to charge most beam basic infantry with impunity if they don't have other weapons. Keep in mind, he most likely will get armor of some sort later on that will buff him against higher rank of beam weaponry too.

even if its expensive for him. Because shekels come to players. Is the way of life.

Also, I'm giving you 5 extra points for his stats. Because I realized I'm kind of shafting the aliens a little on the stat department and there is no reason a bad ass dragon shouldn't have strength higher than 5.

@ScreenAcne

Done, I'll fix that in a jiffy!

[LancerOfBlue]

I'll make a race for my mechanical overlords character

Concept

Race:
Androids, were created by people who simply have enough of implanting a human consciousness into a mechanical body and went further into questionable territory. Creating purely mechanized beings who have programmed and given AI sufficient enough to pass as humans depending on how detailed their systems are.

Average height:
5'7 - 6'4, their forms are meant to represent the average human

Average weight:
160 lbs - 250 lbs, despite their appearance their internal systems tend to make them weigh more than what is expected

Stats:

Intelligence:
8, essentially they are programs advance enough to surpass mortal minds simply due to their nature of having no limit of mortal flesh

Health:
15, Androids and their shells are sturdy as expected but due to their very delicate nature are in reality more vulnerable

Dexterity:
7, lacking in physical strength they are surprisingly nimble and move elegantly with a calculated grace

Strength:
4, delicate creations that their mechanical shells aren't supposed to be used for physically taxing things unlike their Cyborg-counter parts

Constitution:
N/A, biological effects will simply fail against Androids due to their pure mechanical nature

Lifespan:
Indefinite, as long they keep up their repairs on their mechanical body or transfer their core to other systems which can support them they can live forever

Personalized Protection:
+5 to Hacking Defense as Androids closely maintain their bodies and make sure there are adequate measures of defenses to protect them from outside influence on their body.

Born from Code:
+3 to Hacking as Androids have an innate talent for peeking at the source wall and exploiting security flaws that they find.

Racial Abilities

Androids are immune to all biological attacks and effects due to their pure nature as machines and anything that attempts to biological affect them are rendered useless.

Androids and their bodies are basically a huge walking computer which allows them to install a variety of programs to use in their technological exploits if they so wished to. They come with a modified Interloper Connection Cable for free as a plug-in to charge from an electrical energy source and a Virtual Well due to their sophisticated programming inside of them.

Due to their nature as machines, Androids possess an internal memory bank which records everything which they can review both visually and audibly. With these memories, they are able to compress years and years into data which can be packed away in storage for later review if needed.

Androids are capable of surviving in vacuums and atmospheres which may be incompatible for most.

Racial Downsides

Androids cannot handle extreme temperatures and if exposed to such conditions, the issue of overheating themselves into a state of unconsciousness until the ventilate themselves. Exposure to 'Blistering' heat will visibly impact them and sustained exposure to this heat and above will be sufficient to start throwing -1 in 'Dexterity' and 'Intelligence' periodically until it hits 0 where the Android shuts off.

Androids as an artificial race do not have any natural healing capabilities and must buy new parts and repairs in their downtime. Due to the nature of their body, their parts cost more than Cyborgs but less than the sophisticated Revived. Fatal hits while indeed deadly are capable of dealing severe damage to the core of the Android which is their head, but can be recovered extensively with a large amount of data lost which requires further repair.

As a purely mechanical race, damage to their internal system severely messes up the electrical work and programming inside of them which can provide a variety of errors. Every 5 points of damage take -2 from intelligence and -1 from dexterity in the form of errors and damaged data which will result in sluggish performance from the Android. Anytime an Android is disabled, their electronic defenses are disabled and are vulnerable to viruses along with other programs which may be timed to invade them when their systems reboot.

The armor of Androids are capable of blocking the most dangerous amount of EMP waves that would fry electrons but still cause more than enough extensive damage to an Android's complicated part and consciousness. Suffering from temporary nausea and disorientation along with -1 to both 'Intelligence' and 'Dexterity' at first until they fully recover. Receiving another EMP attack during this time frame will occur another -2 to both stats and repeating until both stats stop at 1 resulting in a barely functioning Android. Strong electrical attacks will also replicate the same difficulties that an Android faces with EMP waves.

Androids are forced to charge if they wish to function normally in replacement of the consumption of food, while it's preferred to use a charging station it is fine to use their built-in generator which places them in a sleeping state that is hard to rouse. After 12 hours of activity, it is required for androids to recharge themselves fully or face intensifying issues. Every two hours past this limit siphons -2 intelligence and dexterity to keep the main core running, until both of these stats hit 0 which the Android shuts down to forcefully recharge.

As a pure mechanical race, every biological and sentient thing seems to hate Androids due to their mistrust of technology seemingly eclipsing humanity. The main purpose of Androids was to integrate within the complex ecosystem that they were in and find the loopholes to slip through. Still both humans and Aliens despise Androids for their pure form as a machine.

Androids like their Cyborg have a crippled charismatic talent due to their unique situation but have the necessary features to emulate both emotions in speech and in facial features. All they have to do is simply learn the vast amount of emotions that humans go through, which can take some time. Making the newest of Androids seemingly shy and awkward when talking...

A redundant race really, but the terminator-styled Cyborgs are not tech savy enough with me. So hopefully this is fine, I tried to offset its advantages equally.

[ScreenAcne]

@LancerOfBlue

I'll allow this on the terms of:

You are a made AI from the transhumanist community. They have sentient machines and code all over the place there. It's just not normal for them to leave the planet because as a rule, humans and cyborgs normally do so of their own accord and settle most of the economic and culture needs that migration might provide. There COULD be a reason an AI was made, by natives or even AI there but I'll leave that you to make up for your background.

I'm counting your recording software as a program slot. Your brain has 5 slots- 3 are already used-

I'm going to be treating your human like appearance as t3 cosmetic mods that cyborgs can get down the line. So, I'm charging you for that out of your beginners stats.

Most sentient and thinking people won't really mind that you are an android. Some colonial and isolated human stations might be worried of you and think you will do something crazy because of the horrors of the Humanist war that happened a long, long time ago but mostly people are aware it's a bit paranoid. They're pretty accustomed to smart robots. Keep in mind, these same intelligent AI pretty exist in planetary size data banks with full on galactic naval ability and the peace/cooperation between the two has been long standing.

even if they are paranoid of each other.

Factions types though......ehhhhh. Evolutionist wouldn't care. They hate cyborgs on the count of they had weaken their themselves as a race for external hardware. An AI is software so they wouldn't be too miffed.

conseratives...ehhhhhhhhh.....expect it to wobble a little bit. But only extreme or rash pockets would really dislike you out of historical guilt tripping.

I'm ok with all the other stuff in exchange for your loss of the ability to buy direct modifications for your body like cyborgs. To reflect your focus on human imitation, decrease your health stat to 12 due to your change in body design. This is still pretty good health.

Finally. This won't be a race. It will be a lone AI, I'm ok with say...another....50 existing in lore but you will be the only playable one.

@everyone
This is my only exception for custom races outside of aliens. No more augmented custom races after this one. That includes genetic augments

[ScreenAcne]

@LordofthePies

Shit. I'm all sunny for this idea that you, motherfucking. man martian has developed this achievement centered complex from his time at the facility, I'd like to see you build up a bit more back story alluding to this. Maybe there was a moment specifically that stuck to him.

The facility was a more ruthless tester than cruel. So they might of used some waterboarding or psychological mess about to see how they handle stress. Think real life tests, telling kids not to talk to the one who stutters or seeing how a teenager copes with a rumor of sexual disease for a genetically tailored line.

You could link this to his sociopath and paranoia a bit more strongly. He has a brief time out of the facility at this point so alluding briefly to what he's been up to now that he is out of care. His line is an avatar, all eyes are on him. Many might know him instinctively but his strongly sculpted human appearance and registered name.

All EPOCH are only 20 years old, give or take a year or 2. This is because at this time period the first line of them has been let out to the world for the first time. Your character would still be very young in terms of outside experience.

[Eviledd1984]

Richard Clementine

Name: Richard Clementine

Age: 75

Race: Revived

Career: Chef, Medic

Personality: Richard is very eccentric always commenting on things out loud making a awkward situation out of it, He strangely enough loves to talk about food and could ramble on and on about it even though he does not have a digestive track nor a tongue.

Richard is a very caring person always making sure people are okay or well fed, But because of his appearance and being a revived he is quite feared or yelled at for being a undead. Of course this does not bother him and he is Being apart of the civil war and being revived he is quite sentimental and reflective of his past and wanting to keep people close to him or keep their memories in his head.

Background: Richard was born on Earth and at a early age he was obsessed with cooking, At a young age cooking and working his way through high school and college to get his degree and becoming a top chef for a few restaurants.

At the age of 24 he joined The Triangle Society and worked for them until his death, During his time with the Triangle Society he has been studying as a medic to expand his work with the group as much as possible. During this time also he was apart of many civil wars as both a medic and chef.

How he died was at the age of 72 of a heart attack. When he was revived he was still working their helping feeding the people in needed.

Faction Relations: N/A

Equipment: NOTE:

Head
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Dome Helmet V3.

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Chests
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Includes armor, exoskeletonos. Clothes. Mods to chest.
Chemical Covers, Rumbler, Device Nervous System, Domestic Support Servos, Kinetic Stabilizers.

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Weapons
Corelia Handgun, Orient 045.
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All your weapons and mods.
N/A
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Augmentations/medical robots and genetic alterations.
N/A

Anything currently inside your body. Goes here.
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Tools
Flashlight,Gravity Boots.
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General tools and medical tools go here. Along with electronics and hacking equipment.
First Aid, Biothread.
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BackPack
N/A
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General supplies and consumables
N/A

[LordofthePies]

Alright. I'll fix it as soon as I get the chance.

[LordofthePies]

I hope the new one does alright for now. I've been kind of brain dead this week.

@ScreenAcne

[BayRat]

Ready for review! @ScreenAcne

Barebones race submission of stats and traits.

Race: Gorgas

Average height: 9-18 ft.

Average weight: 805-1,237 lbs.

Stats:

Intelligence: 1

Health: 4

Dexterity: 1

Strength: 7

Constitution: 4

Natural Armor: 5

Lifespan: 240 years

Racial Abilities

+ Cannot be burned by any degree of heat, this does not include other damages resulted from heat-based weaponry such as the explosive force of powerful plasma guns, however no molecule of their body can be seemingly burned, melted, or otherwise damaged by extreme natural temperatures, even those of magma or medium ranked plasma weapons, but can still be obliterated by high end beam weaponry namely Blazing and Sun.

+ They can fly with their powerful wings in gravity around earth's level or less.

+ They can breath flames from their mouth that is hot enough to melt steel.

+ They have a natural spear-like tip on their tail, sharp claws on all six limbs; I.E. Hands, feet, and tail, and have a jaw-strength that can bend iron bars.

+ They have a great sense of smell and vision, their eyes glow like dim candle flames in dark lighting, essentially allowing them to see in the dark.

Racial Downsides

- Being coldblooded they cannot tolerate cold temperatures, nor are they acclimated to anything but tropical or extreme heat environments. They get disadvantage at any degree below room temperature, at temperatures either near, at, or below freezing I. E. 45 F or lower, without any sort of protection from the cold can be fatal.

- The paler scales along the front chest, and underside of the body are half as durable as the rest of their natural armor.

- Their awkwardly large hands make it nearly impossible for them to wield conventionally weaponry or equipment made by other races. They are for the most part, forced to use their natural weaponry in addition to whatever primitive equipment or make-shift armor they can craft with natural elements, such as a stone spear or minimal iron-cast armor. The only exceptions are any very fortunate and very wealthy individuals who could receive custom-made equipment from engineers, as they themselves are too primitive to make their own advanced technology gear.

- While they have a strong sense of smell with their forked tongue foul-smelling chemicals and other strongly odored scents aside from rotting flesh can irritate them, giving them temporary disadvantage.

- Their large size can make it difficult to maneuver in even the average sized hallways or rooms of smaller races without having to crawl or hunch over.

-They take a very long time to mature, about 60 years. This also makes them effectively lowly populated.

The Gorgas Mercenary

Name: Jackal Westari

Age: 94

Race: Gorgas
9'5" in height, 821 lbs.

Career: Mercenary

Personality: Jackal was born a runt of the litter, though even being smaller then the lowest average Jackal is still a fierce monster in combat. He follows much of the race's ideology of honor. While he works as a mercenary, he refuses to work for tasks that would involve shady business. He is more so a wandering soldier. He loves the thrill of 'hunting', as he treats targeted enemies as 'prey' in a sense. However, he is quick to develop a 'brotherly' companionship with allies. As part of his honorable ideology, those that he is allied with are often treated initially as friends, and he is strictly against any sort of idea that would suggest betraying an ally. Those that break his trust will be the victims of unrelenting fury. He is of little words but of much action, though he isn't shy to converse with others if prompted to do so. Outside of his friends however, he has a thrill of violence and bloodshed, especially with the thought of consuming the raw flesh of his enemies.

Background: Jackal was much smaller then most Gorgas, and as such, he was treated as a runt by the rest of his kin on his home planet. Seeking better treatment he took to the stars to explore the stars and make a name for himself in the likes of other factions, be it friend or foe. However so far his jobs have been minimal effort and not very influential. It is difficult to find those that are even willing to calmly speak to Jackal, who even as a runt towers above most other intelligent races.

Faction Relations: N/A while he has performed some tasks for smaller groups of pirates and even joined different mercenary groups, he has no proper influence with any of the large and important factions as of yet.

Equipment:

Head
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He has an iron-cast helmet that offers more so of decoration then protection, as his tough scales are just as durable as the gear.

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Chests

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He has an iron-cast chest piece that does protect his vulnerable, soft scales on his front facing torso, a pair of iron leggings, and a traditional leather belt of his culture. (as seen in the photo) Which were all hand crafted and smelted by Jackal himself and his fire-breath.
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Weapons
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He has a steel wrist-shield the shape of a triangle and a large 7 ft steel sword that were also hand-made and large enough to fit the large proportions of the Gorgas.

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Augmentations/medical robots and genetic alterations.

N/A
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Tools
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N/A

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BackPack
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3 large hand-crafted canteen bottles, packets of several various meats of unknown origin, like an amalgamation of flesh from aliens he has killed in the past and storing for consumption with an abundance of salt as a preservative for the meat. He also has a pendant with a frame of his home planet's sun that has a serpentine dragon coiling around it, a religious symbol.

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[Mae]

Sorry for the wait on my sheet, @ScreenAcne!

[MonstrousMan]

Got space for a Monster?

[ScreenAcne]

@MonstrousMan

Sure, brother. I'm all more, motherfucking. accepting new guys right now than a insecure single mother who's on the rebound.

The only custom races I'm accepting from now on though are aliens which can't be genetically or cybernetically advanced(even if space age themselves) everything else has to be one of the normal races.

[MonstrousMan]

@ScreenAcne

Can I PM you on my idea then?