[OOC] In Too Deep - A futuristic Lovecraftian experience

[Graviloquence]

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[Enigmatik]

Question.

Would an AI that has deprogrammed his Asimov Protocols, and has an artificial body be OK?

[Graviloquence]

@Irredeemable As this is a survival horror RP, it'd remove your character from the majority of danger posed in this RP, considering they would be unable to feel fear. Because of that, having an AI player character is inadvisable, as it would negatively impact the atmosphere I'm trying to create.

[Enigmatik]

@Irredeemable As this is a survival horror RP, it'd remove your character from the majority of danger posed in this RP, considering they would be unable to feel fear. Because of that, having an AI player character is inadvisable, as it would negatively impact the atmosphere I'm trying to create.

@Graviloquence

No problem. Perhaps an ex-Frogman turned marine biologist?

[Graviloquence]

@Irredeemable Sure, go for it! Sounds like an interesting character idea.

[DeadDrop]

Can I see an example of the cs :( :3?

[Graviloquence]

@DeadDrop I hope to have a character done by the end of the weekend as an example of sorts, if that's what you mean.

[Heat]

@Graviloquence I didn't express interest on the interest check but this RP looks like it's gonna be awesome. Not enough survival horror RPs around. Especially considering the Lovecraft themes, its something I'm very interested in!

[MegaOscarPwn]

>Future
>Lovecraft
Oh man, if this had Cyberpunk elements, I would be screaming by now, but still, I'll check it out and more than likely, make an app!

[DeadDrop]

>Future
>Lovecraft
Oh man, if this had Cyberpunk elements, I would be screaming by now, but still, I'll check it out and more than likely, make an app!

@MegaOscarPwn

Skeleton key?

[MegaOscarPwn]

Face claim: Slightly young Keanu Reeves.

Basic Information

Name: Óscar Guijarro.
Nicknames: Beardy, Poleo.
Gender: Male.
Age: 34.
Ethnicity: Caucasian/Latino.
Nationality: Born in Sweden, spent most of his life in Spain.
Occupation: Retired bounty hunter, now security officer.

Appearance

Physique:

Óscar is simple at first sight, his body being that of an average male of his age, but it seems that he takes care of his health and body, shown by is slightly muscular body: Nothing too crazy, but he's fit. He seems to be a fan of numerous video games and comics, which is shown, once again, by his shirts. Guijarro also dons a full beard, complete with black, slightly long hair that he takes care of, sometimes putting it softly under the hood of his...well, hoody. His eyes are brown, which aren't really special or anything, but he, at certain times, seems to have some sort of twitch on the left one, the causes are unknown, more than likely accumulated stress of some sort. He has baggy eyes, possibly related to his unscheduled sleeping time and/or insomnia.

Height: 1,89 Metres.

Weight: 62 kgs.

Hair: Black pompadour.

Eyes: Brown.

Skin: Slightly tanned.

Scars / Markings / Etc: Tattoo on the lower arm, representing a snake engulfing the planet Earth.

Clothing Description:

He tends to wear dark, baggy clothing, tending to choose black amongst all other colors. He usually prefers to wear hoodies, sneakers and baggy jeans, but if on-duty, he'd wear the generic attire a security officer would wear on the IRV Howard. Apart from that, Guijarro, when off duty, usually likes to cover his hair with a tuque when he hasn't brushed his hair: He takes it really, really seriously. The tuque would read "I WOKE UP LIKE THIS", with golden letters on the front.

Inventory

• He carries around the basic security guard equipment of the IRV Howard: A retractable baton, a taser and some pepper-spray.
• He'd also carry around a walkie-talkie, again, normal officer stuff for when he's on-duty.
• A basic swiss army knife, which is an old present of a family member, given to him around the age of 20 or so.

Identity

Personality:

He isn't the smartest guy in the world, that's for sure. He also isn't the most kind-hearted person either, seemingly taking care of his own before others and more than once running away from a situation, but once you get to know him, you can see that there is more that catches the eye. If you take care of him, he will take care of you. He's a believer of the status-quo and the karma, meaning that if you do something to him, he will do exactly the same to you, good or bad. Since stuff happened while he was a child, Óscar feels the need of love: Not just sexual love, but friendship and overall care. Most of the time you can find him listening to music, trying to zone himself out of the world, so he doesn't think about anything and just...be there. If he finds someone that needs him, he'll be there for them, but most of the time they don't return the favor, sending him into a spiral of sadness and drinking, thinking that nothing in the world would change if he wasn't here. He tends to hide under humor, most of the time being unfunny and/or offensive, but getting the job done and making him look like a normal unemotional idiot. Also, his movements are sudden and really... "special", often making use of his hands while talking to give them more emphasis.

Aside from that, he has different points of view about the world depending on his mood. Usually, he is a happy-go lucky individual that trusts people easily and is happy to help whoever needs it. But, when Óscar is going through a rough time or is just sad/angry, his manner of viewing the world around him turns really, really objectical. In that state, he views everything by facts and not emotions. Save a friend or someone that can give him something? Leave people to their death just so he can run away, or risk his own life for strangers? Although these are really extreme examples, Óscar can really, really go into them if his psyche gets turned around by things that happen.
Strengths:

- Tends to stay focused in dangerous situations.
- Very calm, down to Earth kind of person.
- Rarely will argue with other people, preferring to take the most diplomatic approach possible.

Weaknesses:

- When angered, he tends to insult/argue/fight with everyone else, later being filled with regret for a long time.
- Not the bravest guy around, staying behind and rarely risking himself for something that someone else can do.
- Gets really, really emotionally attached to people really fast.

Likes:

- He's a nerd, that's obvious. He may appear hipster at some degree, but the old cultures and history of the world really appasionates him. Guijarro hasn't studied none of that, of course, but he does know some interesting things here and there.
- Even though he may look rough on the outside, inside he's just a guy that likes normal (even cute) stuff. A cold night, watching TV near the fireplace with someone you love by his side: It's those kinds of things that make Óscar wish he had tried to go back with that girl on his younger years, it's those kinds of things that make him regret some decisions in life.

Dislikes:

- Overall, Óscar hates agressive people. He gets that sometimes you have to be pushy, or even threaten people to make them do better choices in life, but when you can talk things out and just calmly see the facts, why even bother with physical or psychological violence?

Fears:

- He is scared of not being loved. We live only to experience things, and love is one of the most important things in our lives, so, if no one cares about him: Why continue on living? If someone really, really appreciates you, they will at least think about how you're doing at times, remember you. He doesn't want to be forgotten in time, he wants to be remembered.

- Besides that, Óscar is also invaded by the fear of failing at something or letting down someone. As I've said before, people that care about you will remember you, and if you have let them down and are seen as a fraud or an useless piece of garbage: What good is it then?

- And, as all humans should have, he also fears losing someone. He has already lost many people during his earlier years, so, he should have adapted...right? No, humans are social animals by default, and if someone you have created a bond with goes away, then it hurts. And not only that, but the matter is only worse if the reason that they are gone is caused by your actions, or, yourself as a person.

Biography

He was born in Sweden, 2023. His mother was Swedish and his father Spanish, so the cultural exchange between the two helped him to start talking two languages at an early age. In 2029, when he was only 6 years old, his family moved back to Madrid (Spain), so his father could show him what was Spain like. On his 7th birthday, he got his first handheld video game console, and he became an addict to it, playing it nonstop and usually replaying the same games over and over, feeling that this was an unlimited source of fun. They didn't live in the best neighborhood of the city, numerous cases of vandalism and overall violence ran through the city, but he didn't experience anything.

When he was 8 years old, his mother experienced a very painful headache while having a family dinner: 3 days later she was dead, a very tiny vein on her brain had exploded and left her in a catatonic state, so the doctors had no reason to not unplug her. When his father told him, he felt a hammer on his heart, thinking how could this happen to him. On the next months, his father contracted larynx cancer, which was literally eating him from the inside: Even with his vocal cords removed, it wouldn't stop. Óscar had to see his father getting weaker and weaker each day, the hole in his throat getting bloodier and bigger, not stopping, until it happened: At 3 am, on his summer break, he woke up to find the dead corpse of his father on the bed, entirely covered in blood as he could only associate it to another vein being broken, this time the one on the neck, connecting to the brain. He was only 15 at that time.

After that, his father's mother and brother started to take care of him. He had to change home and meet new people, but, this was a refreshing change. His social life became better, opening up to more and more people and even meeting some interesting gals along the way, one which we'll call "Sarla" left a special place in young Óscar's heart after they broke up. He was far too young to truly understand the real meaning of love, but, could that be his other half? Could Sarla be the one to spend his whole life with? He'd never know, as they lost contact of each other shortly after.

With his legal age coming soon, he experienced what in Spain call an "Epifanía", which is realizing what was his purpose in life. He knew he wanted to be an actor. Óscar finished his obligatory studies and slowly started to make his way up in theaters and small cafés, in which he sang and played the guitar, to entertain the public and earn some extra money. He only starred in classical Spanish plays, such as "Don Quijote de la Mancha", "Don Juan Tenorio" and so on. But life wasn't going to put it easy for him: In 2043, when he was 20 years old, his fame started to decrease as another actor, jealous of his fame, started to spread false rumors. He didn't get called by any more companies to play in theaters, his friends left him alone thinking that he was some kind of pervert after hearing the rumors. One night, while exiting one of the bars in Vallekas (His neighborhood), the failed actor saw the man who ruined his career, his life. Drunk and mad with anger, Óscar started to follow the man to his own home, in which he confronted him. They started to argue, reaching the point of physical violence, starting to swing his fists at the man before realizing that he committed fatal mistake: Letting his nerves get the best of him. He quickly retracted his acussations and traveled far away from the rumours and his non-existant family.

Fast forward 7 years, the Óscar from before was dead, there was just a broken man, which was caused by the grief and anger of all the problems life had thrown at him for all of time. After the incident with Manuel Sardana, Óscar left Spain, flying to Texas, the place he thought that was the safest for a man that had lost everything. There, he tried to make a living by becoming a bounty hunter: Receiving training in small firearms and already improving his Karate and Judo skills from when he was young. He gained some fame, starting to even accept jobs for dangerous criminals, slowly making himself a respected man that went by the alias of Beardy.

Fast forward yet another 7 years, now a 34-year-old Óscar that has been going around countries for the length of his career as a bounty hunter. He retires, after some time, due to the travels slowly making him less and less sociable, not really being able to make any attachments because of his now old job. To take advantage of the situation, make use of his experience and participate in what he saw as an adventure, he signed in to try to join the expedition into the Mariana Trench. With his years of experience, training, and capabilities, he was accepted to maintain the security in the IRV.

This is not going to go as he planned since the beginning.

Skills and Stats

Gifted(+5):, Handguns, Hand-to-Hand.
Adept(+3):, Persuasion, SERE, Computer Science.
Average(+2):, Awareness, First Aid, Surgery.
Novice(+1):, Marksmanship, long guns, Stealth, Crafting, History.

Languages
Spanish: Native speaker.
Swedish: Advanced.
English: Advanced.
French: Basic.

Relationships

Relationship Status: Single.

Family:

-Father: Juan Carlos Guijarro, dead.
-Mother: María Victoria González, dead.

Opinions of Other Researchers/Crewmembers:

(I'll edit the relationships once we get to know each other.)

[Leidenschaft]

@MegaOscarPwn

Alright, since I'm Co-GM, I guess I can do my job. I'm glad to have you onboard(no pun intended) and I will be the guy helping to critique CSs! Woo!

Let's get started, shall we -

Anime Picture - Please, find another picture to use for your character. I have no gripes with anime, but given the art-style of almost every anime ever, it is almost impossible to gather an actual human-like representation of what your character's face looks like past a written description. You know what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Weaponry - The armory on the IRV Howard, which is accessible only to cleared Security Personnel behind thick, reinforced plexi-glass, holds a stock of the following -

Benelli M4 shotguns with buckshot and beanbag rounds, buckshot can only be accessed after Defcon 1 protocols engaged
MPX 9mm submachine guns kitted out with Aimpoint micro-holographic sights, can only be accessed after Defcon 1 protocols engaged
M4 carbines kitted out with EOTech sights and foregrips, can only be accessed after Defcon 1 protocols engaged

Security Officers are equipped with collapsible batons, police-issue tasers and pepper-spray. No officer is individually issued lethal weaponry. This is mainly a science vessel after all, with no combat capability or role.

Biography - Oscar having a life fraught with hardship is a-okay with Gravy and I. My only gripe with the section about his early years is that I don't think throat cancer could result in someone dying as bloody a death as you described. If you know better, than I cede this one to you, but otherwise this can be changed and still maintain the impact it had on young Oscar.

Also, I'm not exactly sure at what age in Spain you become a legal adult but I am assuming it is the age of 18? Either way, with both his parents dead by the time he turns 15, who takes him in after that? Did he have a job at the time? How was he getting money to live alone if no one took him in?

Please try to elaborate on the sorts of things that Oscar had done in his time as a singer/songwriter and actor. What type of people did he meet, what was the expanse of his fame, what type of films/TV series did he star in, how did he meet this rival of his that he would later accidentally kill?

On that note, also. I'm sure in 2058, let alone 2017, the Spanish police would've caught Oscar long before he fled Spain to America. Not only that, but forensic evidence could've put Oscar at the scene and as the perpetrator. The US would've obviously banished Oscar back to Spain to see his trial through and serve prison time.

At that point, I doubt the interview board for the IRV Howard would've let someone with a violent history as extreme as Oscar's to join the security personnel of the ship. Please find another way for Oscar to have found himself into the role of bounty hunting and what exactly "shady" means as to what kind of jobs he took. Keep in mind that the committee responsible for recruiting the team vets all their prospective members thoroughly.

Skills - Your skills are alright, but because I'm a bastard, I'm about to invalidate all the hard work you put into color-coding all that stuff.

The skills list put in there was supposed to be a placeholder you could pick from, input the selected skills in their desired section on your character's skills list, and then just erase after using it. Helps to cut down on work and, well, straining my eyes from trying to read all that multi-colored stuff.

[Graviloquence]

@MegaOscarPwn 'Schaft basically mentioned everything, all I have to add is that a bit more elaboration on personality (is he observant? How does he usually come across to people? Does he handle anger well? What's his stance on morality? Introversion/extroversion/or somewhere in between? Stuff like that.) and adding reasons why he has certain likes/dislikes/fears might be useful.

[MegaOscarPwn]

Alrighty-do, I'll edit those things when I have time! Also, I just used that "anime pic" because it was the only one that didn't look edgy.

Legit every full beard pic I was looking for had a super muscular man/lumberjack on it.

And yeah, the "oh I killed someone gotta flee whooo" was a bad reason, I guess I'll just make him leave Spain cuz of the rumors and stuff.

When both of his parents died, his grandma and aunt took care of him, forgot to freaking write that >:^(.

Uh, the equipment was a bit random at first, didn't really give it much thought since it's like, 40 years into the future.

YES THAT "Onboard" THING WAS AN INTENDED PUN.
ADMIT IT.@Leidenschaft

Oh, I just saw the "throat cancer" thingy, and I meant larynx cancer, my bad.

I hope I didn't make a bad impression :c.

[Leidenschaft]

@MegaOscarPwn
IT WASN'T INTENDED, BELAY THAT ACTION, SON

And I see, just make the proper edits and whatnot. And of course not! Gravy and I are more than willing to make character concepts get as far as they can as long as they make sense. Worry not, my friend.

[MegaOscarPwn]

@Leidenschaft Hmmm, I'll let that pun slide. For now.

Anyways, fixed the stuff you guys told me to (or at least I hope I have), edited it on the sheet.

@Graviloquence I think I mentioned all of that on the Personality thingy, but still added a bit more.

:^).

[Graviloquence]

@MegaOscarPwn No offense, but you really didn't address anything with fears. There are psychological reasons that people are afraid of spiders, snakes or the dark, typically stemming from a negative experience in childhood or a severely traumatic one within adulthood. People aren't just 'born' with it. And, there is some difference between fear of death and being afraid to die. Death itself is a concept, and is far more nebulous than applying to an individual's state of being. And with personality, I was referencing explaining more about where he comes from, rather than giving a TV Tropes-like explanation as to what they act like. I would prefer to know more about how he works psychologically, rather than how he spends his time or questions he spends time worrying over.

[MegaOscarPwn]

@Graviloquence Aaaaa edited again, and now I'm gonna go to sleep because I'm tired!

We both know I'm not going to, and that I'm just lay on the bed and watch YouTube videos for an hour.

[Leidenschaft]

Also, forgot to clarify for anyone if they didn’t already figure it out, you are fully capable of rolling to make an action for something your character isn’t even a novice level in, you’ll just have a pretty big penalty to cross with the roll.

[tfd]

"deaddrop is unable to post for a week due to unforeseen circumstances, he will be back next week to post his CS. Apologies."

-the droplet himself