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Santa Celia: Coast to Coast

@JunkMail @Lord Wraith Whew, third time's the charm, huh? Here's Driver!Andrea, AKA Slingshot, for your reviewing pleasure. Hopefully any required fixes will be easy ones this time around. As always, I'll put any updates I made since I posted this below the hider. Thanks for your time. :D

Andrea "Slingshot" Wheeler

_{"King of the Streets" by Lazerhawk}

_______________________________________________ Andrea Liana Wheeler _______________________________________________ July 20th, 1990 | 28 | African American _______________________________________________ Single | ♀ | Bisexual _______________________________________________ Technical School | Driver _______________________________________________ Physical Profile ___________________________________ [+] //Basics: • Height | 5'8" • Weight | 180 lbs. • Build | Defined, toned • Hair Colour | Black • Eye Colour | Dark Brown Alternate Image Equipment ___________________________________ [+] //Carried: • Advanced Virtual Intelligence Velocity Mk. 4 "Patches" | This entire set includes Augmented Reality glasses manufactured by Intel (with a hidden mounted camera, hidden mic and vibration sound system), AI nodes carried on Andrea's person (that allow it to connect to Andrea's glasses, as well as to the internet), AI nodes installed in Andrea's cars, and the AI mainframe in Andrea's house. Abilities and history of "Patches" is listed under the backstory and abilities section. • Microdrones | These microdrones are connected to Patches, and can be carried by Andrea in her pocket or in her vehicles. Said microdrones can help survey things that Patches cannot otherwise see, and carry out all sight-and-sound related duties. While they can wirelessly charge, they can only last about an hour in the air. Andrea often carries one in her pocket, and a few in her cars. • Racing Gear | Andrea often carries some backup racing safety gear in whatever cars she takes to a race, and often has a high-vis vest in every car with an emergency kit. Her safety gear looks a bit more like this than what is pictured, with a few sponsors and markings that signify 'Asphalt Assclowns Racing Team'. Such safety gear is only worn when racing. • Basic Repair Kit | Every car that Andrea owns has a basic repair kit stored away, so if there is anything that goes wrong that Patches can diagnose, Andrea has the tools necessary to make any quick repairs that can get the car running again. //Vehicles • 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X | This car is one of Andrea's favorites, and is driven the most. All-weather, all-terrain rally-based sports sedan, Andrea couldn't ask for much more. Maybe leather seats, but most of the gripes she has is just with some of the interior package. Bought used, Andrea uses this car for her work as a driver, using it to drive people and things to wherever they need to go. With its Super All Wheel Control system, Andrea can drive this on nearly any terrain, and with its strong performance, the car can go very fast and hug corners really well. With Andrea's experience in rally races and road tracks, she makes great use out of this car, and is probably at her best with it. It is noded to all hell for Patches, allowing complete diagnostics and AI override for several components. While the exterior is modified little, it's engine, suspension, brakes and tires are upgraded to make this car a jack of all trades, and master of a few. 360 horsepower, 175 miles per hour top speed, good luck trying to catch it, and even better luck if you're off-road. Rear shot, interior shot. • 1986 Pontiac Fiero GT Convertible | This car was Andrea's personal project growing up. This being Andrea's first car, she spent most of her free time upgrading it, and getting it to peak condition. While it is almost just as fast as her Evo, it's off-road capabilities are quite limited. It is, however, just as noded as the Evo, allowing complete diagnostics and some control over some parts. It's small frame and aerodynamic nature allows this car to corner very well and drive very fast. Some parts are added to give it a 'Retro 80s' feel to it, such as interior mood lighting and additional lights inside and out. However, this car only has two seats, one for Andrea herself, and another for her dates. Comes with a banging Bose sound system, and is perfect for driving off into the sunset with smooth synthwave tunes. Rear shot, roof up. • 1980s-1990s Burner Vehicles | Andrea may not rely entirely on her Evo for all of her jobs, especially if they are of the criminal nature. Since her consistency with the Evo may make her easier to catch for crimes she was complicit in, Andrea uses several 'burner' vehicles that she can easily dispose of to keep the cops off her trail, and her partners-in-crime safe. With their VINs filed off, license plates falsely registered and complete with other precautions, the trunks are often filled with gasoline and bleach, to make sure no evidence is left behind. These cars are lightly modified to allow Patches access, as well as keep the cars running and fast. These vehicles vary, but are generally late-80s early-90s cars purchased cheap and are given quick modifications: 1994 Ford Tempo, 1990 Toyota Camry, 1992 Buick LeSabre, 1989 GMC Sierra, 1988 Ford Taurus • 1994 Saturn SL2 (Race Car) | One of several cars of the Asphalt Assclowns racing team, this is the car assigned to Andrea, as she personally worked on it herself. Having a few connections to Patches, this car was upgraded to the point that its 90s Budget Sedan nature can be competely overlooked. Taken to rally races, endurance races and road courses all around California, Andrea placed several times with this car, making it to bronze and silver in many cases, gold twice. While not as fast or as great as the Evo, the car itself was rather cheap and Andrea and her racing crew always have lots of fun working on it. Only taken to races, not street legal.

Appearance Details ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Andrea is an African American, who can best be described as 'slightly above average' in terms of looks and body shape. Her dark brown hair and small brown eyes complete her round face, with her toned body adding to the 'greasy mechanic' look. Her slight muscle tone, due to her working out and her once physically demanding job of being part of a NASCAR pit crew. A few burns on her arms and face come from her work, as well as several other scars along her body. She often wears an 'Asphalt Assclowns' t-shirt, some jeans, her Augmented Reality glasses and some driving gloves, but she wears the stereotypical outfit whenever she shows up to work as a part-time mechanic. When she's racing, however, she wears all of the safety equipment required, including a fireproof suit, helmet and a neck brace. Such colors of her racing suit are red and black, the colors of her racing team and her race car. Personality ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Andrea is a kind soul, who normally has a positive attitude about her. However, due to her being raised in a sheltered household, she sees mostly everything as if she were in a movie or a TV show, often thinking of herself as a protagonist or a side character, whatever the situation she may be in. While she's willing to help out others in need, she tries to look out for herself first before she can do anything else, as often times she's been burned that way. Despite her friends in her racing team, she often feels pretty lonely, often talking to Patches in order to help her through certain scenarios. However, she's not a fighter in any sense of the word, and prefers to run...er... drive away from her problems, or at least drive through them, trying to end them as quick as possible. She tends to mask her fear with anger and swearing in order to look tough, but it's a little obvious that Andrea's a bit of a softie. She absolutely loves cars, cute things, ice cream and 80s music, but she hates politicians, management, traffic jams and unnecessary violence. She can be unnecessarily meta and accurate at times, but she tries to be positive and polite if she can be. While she doesn't drink, do drugs or resort to other vices... if she does, that means something is terribly wrong. (( Will likely develop personality more through play ))

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Andrea Liana Wheeler was born in 1990 in Brooklyn, New York, under two parents that she doesn't care to remember. Put up for adoption shortly after birth, a single father and card player named Joseph Wheeler took her under his wing, and raised her in New York. Shortly after she turned 4, Joseph moved to San Francisco, where he took on a new job at a game development studio. Andrea lived a relatively sheltered life growing up, getting most of her 'worldly experience' through that of movies and television, slowly giving her the mindset that her life was one big movie. Andrea's love for cars came to her when she was little, always collecting Hotwheels and Matchbox cars, playing with them on the road carpet that Joseph got her for Christmas, and she always dreamed of being a race car driver. Her idea of her life being one movie solidified in High School, where she was ousted and bullied by basic bitches and thots. However, she found some friends who were in the racing scene, and quickly joined up with them, learning how to drive at 16 and getting her license as soon as she could get it, finding her first car in a rusty ol' Pontiac Fiero. She worked on her own Fiero and her friend's racing cars, learning how to fix cars and other machines with them as she was part of their rather ragtag racing team. This racing team was affectionately referred to as the Asphalt Assclowns, as a bit of a joke, and until Andrea was 18, she worked as part of the crew for the team. When she was 18, the team was expanding, and needed new drivers. Andrea jumped on the opportunity.

Andrea's road to becoming a great driver was bumpy, but it led to greatness. Having played racing games alot as a kid, Andrea quickly learned how to drive in the racing scene, learning how to pull off all kinds of neat manuevers and stunts. She helped the Asphalt Assclowns place in various small-time races all around California, sometimes going to trips to Nevada and Oregon to place 2nd, 3rd and sometimes 1st. She found a job at 20 as a part-time mechanic in San Francisco, and worked there for several years. She had a great time and shared many great memories with her high school friends in Asphalt Assclowns, making several friends at her new job, where she brought her racing team to help with even more. Her successes in the local racing realm earned her the nickname "Slingshot", which she happily accepted and threw around jokingly. When Andrea turned 22, one of her coworkers suggested the idea of becoming part of a NASCAR Pit Crew, if Andrea wanted to become a professional race car driver. While Andrea was making chump change, she was happy where she was at, racing for a small team. However, people in that team became busy, and just as Asphalt Assclowns dissolved, she considered her friend's idea and wanted to give it a shot. SCRIM Motorsports, being based in San Fransisco, was the closest, and offered their own training programs for pit crews. Andrea and a few of her friends decided to give it a shot, shake n' bake style.

It was tough, but after some working out and some insanely intense training, Andrea and a few of her friends made it into SCRIM's NASCAR team, a few acting as technicians, and Andrea herself being one of the members of the pit crew. After taking on the job, she had a little trouble but she managed to get the hang of it. The job paid very well, but she was away from home alot, as the races her team participated in went all around the United States. She got a whole lot of first-hand knowledge and experience in tuning and fixing cars, acting as a general mechanic for SCRIM Motorsports whenever her team wasn't racing. Andrea remained part of SCRIM Motorsports for three more years without incident, helping the team win with the collaboration of her old friends and new, often goofing off with them when the time allowed it. However, when Andrea was 25, SCRIM purchased a HAT-based AI to help with driving simulations. This AI, called the Advanced Virtual Intelligence, was a versatile AI that was capable of specializing in many tasks. However, the AI purchased by SCRIM was Velocity Mk. 3, which was a driving AI that helped with racing simulations, training, vehicle diagnostics and driver virtualization. This AI was fielded by SCRIM mainly for engineering and practice runs in its first year, the programmers ironing out all of the kinks and upgrading it for NASCAR use. Since there were no rules in place for Driving AIs yet, SCRIM was allowed to get away with it on technicality. Andrea was able to get her own copy of the AI for crew use, but she wasn't allowed to take it home as it was still classified corporate property. The AI allowed SCRIM Motorsports, and by extension, Andrea, to bring their racing team up to peak performance, allowing their drivers to win several spots in the podium for many races, and earn SCRIM lots of sponsorship money. However, everything changed when SCRIM decided to incorporate the AI simulation program into the live races.

Andrea and most of the crew objected to the idea of incorporating the AI into the actual races, allowing the drivers to cheat and easily win. As it was a loophole at the time, upper management in SCRIM thought they could get away with it, but most of the crew and some of the drivers objected to the unfair advantage they had over the other teams. SCRIM forced the idea, wanting to gain the advantage and get more sponsorship deals. The NASCAR officials, however, quickly found out about the AI usage two races in after SCRIM Motorsports placed so high multiple times, and were able to lead the laps consistently. Because of this, the AI usage in a live racing capacity was banned, and SCRIM was barred from racing in officially sanctioned NASCAR events. Thanks to this debacle, a whole lot of sponsorship contracts were declared void, and a few lawsuits were filed. All of this caused SCRIM Motorsports to declare bankruptcy and fold, all of the corporate assets scuttled and sold to other motorsport companies, the AI license included. After all was said and done, Andrea and her friends lost their jobs, and returned to San Francisco, Andrea bringing a copy of the Velocity AI with her.

Andrea was 27 by the time she arrived back home in San Francisco, but due to the SCRIM scandal, she had a hard time trying to find jobs elsewhere in the professional racing industry. With nothing in San Franscisco for her to do, she decided to move to Arido Valley, where she got a job as a part time mechanic. Using the remainder of her money to get herself a nice house in Arido Valley and buy herself a new Mistubishi Lancer Evolution, she never considered using Velocity until she was stumped by one of the cars she had to fix. After hooking up Velocity, she used it's helpful ability to diagnose cars, and allow her to easily fix any problem she came across. Her boss William quickly found out about this, but thanks to his understanding nature (and profitable nature), he allowed her to use her AI (that she called "Patches") to help fix the cars. She invited a few of her friends from high school and SCRIM to the shop as it was expanding fast, and by the time Andrea turned 28, Grimm Auto Repair became one of the best-reviewed repair shops in the area. She suggested the idea to her friends to bring Asphalt Assclowns back. Her current SCRIM and old Asphalt friends were open to the idea, but they didn't have anything to work with or go by. While Andrea was making enough money to stay afloat, she wasn't nearly making enough money to bring back the racing team of old. William wanted in on the idea, and after an agreement, William became the owner and crew chief of Asphalt Assclowns, with Andrea and her friends as crew members and drivers. However, the racing team didn't start with much, and had trouble placing due to their lack of resources. At this point, the racing team was operating at a loss, as everyone was in it for the passion of racing, Andrea included. Knowing that the passion will die out once it started eating away at everyone's wallets, Andrea made a decision.

Having only been in Arido Valley for a year at this point, Andrea went into the business of some rather... illegal driving activity. Racing, getaway driving, transporting, the like. While she wasn't into the violent aspects of it, and she made a point not to work with murderers or the like, she simply just wanted to fuel the passion of racing for herself and her friends, to keep the sport of racing alive in Asphalt Assclowns. Her driving skill was awakened from the racing and the driving jobs she pulled, and while she refuses to use Patches for her racing efforts (the scandal and her personal morals making her resent the idea of cheating), she uses Patches entirely for her driving jobs, and to it's fullest extent. Because of this, she's a driver only legends can dream of. All she needs is a good car, and a destination.

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Advanced Virtual Intelligence Velocity Mk. 4 "Patches" | Developed by HAT to be a special intelligence for flight hardware in the new F-35 program, delays in the program caused the Advanced Virtual Intelligence to be put on ice. However, the intelligence was developed for other parts to be a more generalized military intelligence, and after finding little success, turned to the civilian market. The Velocity intelligence, sold under the shell company of Hudsen Tech, was designed as an intelligence for vehicle mechanics and drivers, sold to the SCRIM Motorsports racing team and several automotive companies. SCRIM modified this intelligence to suit its needs, allowing it to perform racing simulations, diagnose vehicle problems, and help design the most efficient vehicle in terms of driving. The AI was then upgraded to be fielded in driving, in both practice and live races. However, thanks to the scandal that happened when SCRIM was discovered to be cheating with this AI, Velocity Mk. 4's license was void and SCRIM had to file for bankruptcy and fold thanks to the sponsorship deals being rescinded and the lawsuits that came after. Thanks to the suddenness of SCRIM's closure, resources weren't accounted for, allowing Andrea and several others to take copies of Velocity home. Andrea's personal copy of Velocity was tweaked to suit her needs, with several other AIs added onto it to serve as a companion. Such AI's gave it a "patched" nature, and it was nicknamed "Patches", and it served Andrea well when she worked as a mechanic and a driver.

The AI itself is housed in a supercomputer disguised as a gaming computer, and it operates through an internet connection with satellites and cell towers. Since it was built for a legal civilian market, it requires an unlimited data plan for internet services on phones and computers. The AI itself is quite fast, and operates through proprietary nodes and licensed display devices, including Andrea's augmented reality glasses that she was issued for the AI when working for SCRIM Motorsports. Patches was patched with other AI codes in order to allow it to do other things for Andrea in her life, and it became an intelligence that operated on other levels as well. Patches, while using a mainframe computer that can be backed up using cloud software, normally operates through nodes, which are smartphone-sized brick-like devices that house most of the computing and transmission hardware. Such nodes normally remain connected to the mainframe and to the internet from strong cell tower connection (or satellite connection if the antennae is extended), and is USB capable. Among its abilities are:

• Find a Path | Patches can find a path through anywhere with anything. Calculating with the statistics given with any vehicle, person or object, it can find the most optimal route of travel from point A to point B, updating the path live with any incoming obstacle with all environmental concerns taken into account. This allows any driver to drive to their destination non-stop unscathed in the fastest amount of time. It normally uses microdrones to fulfill this role, in order to look at patterns through its onboard cameras.
• Mech Diagnostics | While it started with just cars, Patches can diagnose any problem with any mechanical device given what it can observe, and what data Patches can pull from the internet. With information properly displayed on any screen or augmented reality glasses, it could help any mechanic diagnose and solve mechanical problems, give instructions and allow them to carry out their tasks.
• Data Display | As a secondary power from the above two, Patches can collect and display any data on-board its system, or from the internet. This can range from anything from instruction manuals, documents, books, to videos, music, and other forms of media. It's search AI is almost unparalleled, and required for it's ability to help with diagnostics and data collecting for vehicles.
• Night Rider | Thanks to the other AIs added to Velocity, creating Patches, Andrea doesn't have to entirely alone in her driving job. Patches can tell jokes, hold conversations, and otherwise just be an overall robobuddy. With the nodes installed in some vehicles, Patches can speak through them, and use data collected through these nodes to quickly resolve issues. Through the nodes carried on Andrea, it can speak through radio frequencies and make calls.

Limitation(s) | Patches is severely limited by it's requirement to remain connected to the internet. If the mainframe was cut off from the internet, Andrea would lose her connection to Patches. Nodes for the AI, while capable of communicating through cell towers, radio frequencies and satellites, the latter two operate at such a delay that time-sensitive operations couldn't be carried out. So anywhere that doesn't have a cell tower within range would significantly hamper Patches' ability. While it does remain backed up to the cloud, Patches mainly operates through its nodes. If any of its nodes, whether it would be the ones Andrea carries or the ones in Andrea's vehicles, are destroyed, then Patches would lose its ability to act anywhere in that area.

Weakness(es) | Patches is an AI, and can be destroyed by simply wiping it from the mainframe or destroying the computer. It only periodically backs itself up to cloud storage, and it will take a long time to redownload and reinstall Patches from its last backed up state. While destroying the nodes can blind Patches, destroying the mainframe will temporarily kill it.

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Queen of the Streets | Andrea's driving ability is nearly impeccable. With experience with motorcycles, sedans, pickups and SUVs, Andrea can operate with almost any civilian and low-tier racing vehicle and use it as an extension of herself in a way. She can pull a variety of very useful, fast and even dangerous stunts with them, and can use them to get anywhere from point A to point B in the quickest way possible. Having lots of experience racing on and off roads, Andrea can bring almost any street vehicle to heel, and keep it well under control. With the help of Patches, Andrea is nearly unparalleled.

Grease Monkey | Her experience as a mechanic makes her pretty good at what she does. Having worked as a normal mechanic and part of a NASCAR team, she knows how to make a car run, and run at its best. Having pushed various cars to their limit, she knows how to make them run fast, safe and smooth. Her mechanical ability allows her to have basic understanding in other parts of engineering, allowing her to apply her knowledge to fix other things too, as well as fix simple problems on the fly. However, she's not entirely good at building things, as that's what she has very limited understanding in, though she knows how to fix things pretty well. Because of this knowledge, she can easily steal just about any car, and remove their serial numbers.

Down by the River | Andrea spent some of her free time, other than working on her cars, to fish. She enjoys doing it, as it's a time when she can relax and not be stressed about what goes where and how fast she can go. She's pretty decent at fishing, and has caught a few big ones. She's used her knowledge of fishing in order to help her get familiar with some of the bodies of water in the local area, but this is mainly done as a hobby, rather than a sport.

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Joseph Wheeler - 54, Male. A loving single father and an avid card-playing duelist, this angry man from Brooklyn works as a game dev in San Francisco, mainly developing card games, and sometimes even car games, thanks to input from his adopted daughter. Having been with Andrea most of her waking life, Joseph helped Andrea with almost anything, ranging from her homework to her depression. With his help, Andrea was able to have a somewhat positive attitude, and he made sure to keep toxic folk away from Andrea. While he is well aware of Andrea's racing life, and they do keep in touch very often, he is unaware of Andrea's criminal life, believing Andrea works part time as a mechanic and a driver, and sometimes races cars for the Asphalt Assclowns racing team. He's been really supportive of her passions, and helped her through the tough time when she was unemployed as a result of the SCRIM scandal. He continues to develop games, and continues to talk with his now distant daughter who lives in Arido Valley.

Grimm Auto Repair / Asphalt Assclowns Racing Team - Andrea works part time at Grimm Auto Repair, and her boss (William, 49 M) there is a very supportive and understanding individual. Will runs both the Auto Repair Shop and the Asphalt Assclowns racing team, using the team to help adverise his little-known but well-regarded auto repair shop. His employees, and by extension, the rest of the Asphalt Assclowns Racing Team are both Andrea's old friends from High School and SCRIM Motorsports, who were hired thanks to their skill in racing scene, allowing them to do quick and accurate auto repairs. The whole racing team is a friendly group of men and women who share a passion for cars and racing, and thanks to Andrea's work and Will's business, they are able to keep their passions running, even at at a loss. Like Andrea's father, however, they are unaware of her criminal activity, and simply believe that she works part time as a legal driver as well. They are aware of the AI she uses, and Will uses a copy of the AI given to him by the Ex-SCRIM employees to help run his business. They currently participate in races in the local area, hoping to rise back to prominence and become a big auto racing team on their own.

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Santa Celia: Coast to Coast

@JunkMail @Lord Wraith I took your guys' advice into consideration from both here and the Discord chat, and decided to take a more light-hearted approach. I'll add any edits/updates below accordingly. I may have missed a few things, as I was using the old template from the first generation sheet, so feel free to let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary, or otherwise out of place. Thank you!

Andrea "Valley Girl" Knight

_{"In The Face of Evil" by Magic Sword}

_______________________________________________ Andrea Liana Knight _______________________________________________ July 20th, 1989 | 29 | African American _______________________________________________ Single | ♀ | Bisexual _______________________________________________ High School GED | Farmhand/Mechanic/Driver/Hunter _______________________________________________ Physical Profile ___________________________________ [+] //Basics: • Height | 5'-8" • Weight | 180 lbs. • Build | Defined, toned • Hair Colour | Black • Eye Colour | Dark Brown Alternate Pics Equipment ___________________________________ [+] //Weapons: • Browning T-Bolt Rifle | One of Andrea's first rifles, she considers this one her favorite, due to how quiet it shoots, and how accurate it can be. Effective to about 100 yards, Andrea had often used this to hunt small game and take care of pests. Once she devised her special non-lethal .22LR round, she used this rifle to take down anything, ranging from sparrows to large elks. While she uses these for hunting and pest control, she has found good use out of it as a sniper rifle, and continues to do so. It's always suppressed, and thanks to the nature of the ammo, the gun is as quiet as a mouse. While it normally fires her special .22LR chem rounds, she can use standard ammunition for target practice, and other enhanced ammo. Legally owned. • Walther P-22 Handgun | A gun bought mainly for enthusiast target shooting, Andrea repurposed this weapon into a non-lethal self-defense firearm and even an offensive stealth weapon. Capable of firing her special .22LR tranquilizer ammunition, Andrea carries this gun with her at all times, and often uses it for her crime-fighting sprees as the Valley Girl. When on the offensive, she fits this weapon with a suppressor, which can turn a loud BANG! into a quiet pop!. While not as effective as its 9mm counterpart, it gets the job done. It always comes mounted with a green laser sight, which can be toggled to be only visible by her augmented reality glasses and ACI, or visible to everyone. The weapon itself, while it's normally carrying up to 10 rounds of her special .22LR chem rounds, can also fire standard rounds for target practice. Legally owned. • Stun Rod | A non-lethal personal defense alternative, this collasible baton doubles as a blunt weapon and as a functioning taser, allowing two modes of attack. When retracted, this weapon can be hidden within a small pocket, and can easily substitute for her handgun in a bad situation. Comes with an LED flashlight mounted on top. • Sleeping Gas Grenades | These gas grenades are made with a special gas that can slowly bring people to sleep by at least breathing a bit of it. The sleeping gas it releases is barely visible, though certain lights can reveal the gas and where it goes. It has a much slower effect on targets than tranquilizer rounds do, but it can put everyone in a room to sleep in about ten seconds, if the target takes two full breaths of the gas. //Misc: • Advanced Combat Intelligence Omega Mk. 4 "Patches" | A heads-up system devised by HAT and sold by 'Sentinel Tech', Andrea discovered this tech on a criminal after subduing him, reprogramming it to her liking after the original owner couldn't be located. This ACI, while manufactured by HAT, is reprogrammed to suit Andrea's needs as a seperate model called "Omega." While it remains backed up to a central computer, a mobile node is carried along with the user that can connect to smartphones, rangefinders, cameras and bluetooth headsets in order to assist the user. As such, Andrea always carries a node connected to her augmented reality glasses so Patches can help her out when the situation is required. The program speaks to Andrea directly, giving her important updates and speaking with her on a personal level. The headset that Andrea wears comes with the ACI. More details under "Supporting Characters." • Augmented Reality Glasses | With the help of Patches, the ACI utilizes these glasses to display information privately through the glasses that Andrea often wears. Such information can range from just about anything, and can be used as a Combat HUD or a computing medium. It can play audio through subtle vibrations only the wearer can hear through contact with the temples. • Light Tactical Ballisic Vest | When she dons the "Valley Girl" persona, Andrea would wear soft ballistic armor that would protect her vitals. Not effective against rifles, but it can protect her from shotgun blasts, pistol rounds and blades. Said tactical vest, while protective, also has pouches that contain zip-ties, smoke grenades, sleeping gas grenades and spare ammo. She only ever wears this when on the job, along with her 'Valley Girl' outfit. • Voice Modulating Ballistic Gas Mask | In order to eliminate the connection between her real identity and the "Valley Girl" persona she lives through, she uses a voice modulator that goes into the gas mask she wears. This makes her voice slightly deeper and a bit more robotic, but her personality that she adds to it makes it human, and... different. The gas mask itself is functioning and allows her to breath in most environments that have air in it, but the 'glass' she sees through is custom ballistic glass that could protect her face from shotgun blasts, handgun rounds and blades. • Microdrones | While Patches can operate through Andrea's glasses and her phone/nodes alone, in order to maximise its effectiveness, it must control palm-sized HD camera drones in order to keep an eye on Andrea and whatever she wishes to scout. Such drones are replacable, and can be a little expressive too. Often seen flying around Andrea. • 1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 | This retro 90's technological marvel was purchased back when Andrea lived in Ann Arbor, buying it for a solid 2 grand. It was in a state of disrepair when she first got it, but she managed to fix it and restore it to its former glory with the help of her friends. A very powerful car that can reach up to 170 miles per hour in top speed, its active aero system and all wheel drive allow it unparalled cornering speed and performance. With its somewhat modern interior, Andrea made a few upgrades in to allow Patches access to the onboard audio and computer systems. She often uses it as her car for pleasure and light-duty work. Night shot. • 1989 Ford Bronco | Andrea bought this shortly after she moved into Arido Valley, knowing that the 3000GT isn't exactly a car built for off-road heavy duty purposes. Bought it for about $600 cash from Jose, who replaced it with a different truck, Andrea got good use out of this. Often using it for her hunting and fishing trips, she hauls in what she caught through the sheltered bed in the back, keeping her rifle mounted up on the back window. She uses this truck for other things too, mainly hauling around heavier objects and grocery shopping. It always has a toolkit in the back, for whenever Andrea needs a tool to help fix something. • 1990 Toyota Camry | Built like a tank, Andrea purchased this car off the hands of an Arido Valley resident who was moving out for the low cost of $300, and used her expertise and resources to bring the non-working car back into working order. While the vehicle itself was under her name, whenever she does her vigilante work, she often switches the license plates out for ones that belonged to a long-dead man. The car itself was maintained to take lots of abuse, driven off road and through water, with the engine upgraded to make it a pursuit vehicle as well.

Appearance Details ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Andrea can best be described as an African American woman with dark mohagany skin, but with some of the facial inflections of an Asian. She has some defined muscles that make her look a little tougher than most women her size, being at 5'8". However, the only muscles on display are often her arms as she wears basic T-shirts (ranging anything from nerd culture stuff to just plain colors) and a pair of jeans, as well as some small and stylish augmented reality glasses that transition into shades (said glasses has a hidden mounted camera on it). She normally has her hair in braided pigtails, but she can change her black hair to whatever suits the occasion. She wears generic Adidas windbreakers in cool weather, using said windbreakers to help conceal her weapons. When using her Valley Girl persona, she often wears a full facial gas mask on top of her glasses (complete with voice modulator), along with some face paint, kneepads and a light ballistic vest in order to help her blend in with the night, and prevent her from being identified by eyewitnesses and CCTV. Her 'work wear' may vary from job to job, but almost always she dons on her soft body armor to allow faster movement, and to protect her from basic street-level attacks. Often times, below the armor and gear, she often just wears a tank top or T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Personality ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Andrea is a very casual and kind person, often willing to go out of her way to help others if she has nothing better to do. She tries to go about life in a somewhat positive manner, often making stupid jokes and references in order to lighten up the mood. She is otherwise pretty awkward, having not really learned how to socialize too well as a child, translating into her somewhat poor social life as an adult. Around people she's attracted to, she often doesn't keep eye contact and tries to hide her obvious attraction by looking away and changing the subject a bit. Despite her casual nature, however, she is somewhat disciplined, and abstains from alcohol, hard drugs or tobacco. When things do get rough, however, if she fails to keep a smile, she may resort to these vices. Towards people she doesn't like, she can somewhat cold, and a bit removed. She doesn't react to fear particularly well, though, as she masks it with anger and vulgarity. With that in mind, she absolutely loves cute animals and has a huge soft spot for children. 80s music and movies are up there with her likes, along with cars, guns and fishing. However, she has no room in her heart for sadists, politicians, unearned wealthy and injustice. When putting on her 'Valley Girl' persona, she feels a bit more free to express her true feelings, and thus seems either more happy or more mad as a result, often saying things she normally wouldn't in front of others. (( Will likely develop personality more through play ))

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Andrea's parents preferred to have a son, but they had a daughter instead. Born and raised in the slums of Detroit, Andrea was raised with a bit of masculinity in mind, fitting in the role that her father wanted. While Andrea wasn't aware of the ability she was born with, she did notice that she was able to take a whole lot of abuse growing up, and was able to recover from it very quickly. At least physically, many won't say that she had all of her screws on tight growing up. When she attended grade school, she tried to get along with other kids and make friends, and while she was mostly successful, bonding with several other students and learning how to socialize somewhat properly (knowing what's right and wrong through them), she did have lots of repressed emotions from her home life. She released them when she fought against asshole kids, often getting in trouble for leaving some nasty marks from a single punch. None of the staff tolerated her vigilantism, Andrea having noticed that while she was often punished for defending her friends and even other kids, they weren't even punished for bullying the victims in the first place. As such, Andrea had no respect for authorities, whether they be her abusive parents or lazy administrative personnel. By the time Andrea had gotten into high school, stories of her time in middle school made confrontation minimal, as all it took was just a few words to get everyone else to back off from her. Even in high school, however, her parents' constant belittling and physical abuse got to her, even after they had a son that they wanted. With her friends helping it stick it out for those torturous four years, Andrea graduated from High School with a GED, and she promptly moved away as an adult, never to return to Detroit again. While Andrea prefers not to talk about her childhood, the only thing she'd reveal are the parts she enjoyed about it, whether it would be cataloging cars, watching movies or playing video games. Her love for cars, movies and guns was brought into her adult life, when she moved to Ann Arbor.

Andrea tried to start off as a mechanic, working on cars, as that often kept her calm. When she moved to Ann Arbor, however, people were relatively hostile to a young woman trying to make her way on her own, but those who often touched her would find their arms nearly broken, most people backing off from confrontation with her. Andrea got along with other folks, though, and after finding someone who could train her, she worked at a run-down auto repair shop run by a nice hispanic man named Mr. Soltero. As Andrea lived on her own, now working a steady job with mediocre wages, she was able to afford to get into the shooting hobby, buying guns and taking them to the range every chance she got. She saved up enough money to trade her jalopy in for a busted Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4, and over time, she worked on it at the mechanic's shop as a personal project, learning how it works and how to drive it, with Mr. Soltero's help, of course. When Andrea turned 21, she took her car over to local races every now and then, competing with it, and learning how to drive it effectively. The first few races she didn't do well in, but with the help of Mr. Soltero (who was a seasoned street racer himself) and coworkers serving as her 'racing team', she was able to get some third and second places in, with a first every now and then. She spent five years in Ann Arbor learning how to shoot guns, drive cars, and how to fix both, and in her time off, she played video games, and tried dating. Andrea was bisexual, and while she preferred women, she was open to dating men too. However, like her time in High School, Andrea never got very far with anyone, as women (and even men) ghosted her when she tried to keep in contact with them. At 24, Andrea felt like a total loser, not really doing anything much with her life other than just mild hedonistic enjoyment. Her parents have attempted to contact her and tried to make amends (or at least pretend to), Andrea had none of it, Mr. Soltero already helping her cope with things as a better father figure anyway. At this point, she was somewhat aware of her unusual ability to survive things, and while she didn't really tell many people, she didn't think too much of it. She simply wanted to do something with her life, other than working at her dead end job, constantly working on her own car and others, and just sitting around playing video games, being single as hell.

One night, Mr. Soltero made a suggestion to her. Move to Santa Celia. He said. I can already tell that you don't belong here. My brother lives in Arido Valley, I'm sure you'll be much happier there. After careful consideration (and a bit of debate), Andrea agreed to go to Arido Valley in search of living a better life. Selling most of her assets, and only taking two guns, her 3000GT and her basic commodities with her, Andrea made the long drive from Eastern Michigan to Western California in the hopes of establishing a new life, far away from her past. She enjoyed her time spent on the road, however, seeing all of these new, wonderful sights, taking pictures with her new phone and enjoying the trip over. She arrived at Arido Valley, meeting up with Mr. Soltero's brother Jose, who owned a farm in the area. Thanks to Mr. Soltero's good word, Jose allowed Andrea to stay over at his farmhouse for the time being while she tried to find a place to actually live in. In the meantime, Jose put her to work as a farmhand, where helped do various chores and tasks on his property. Jose discovered that she was much stronger than most of his other farmhands, despite her appearance, wondering if she was one of those 'superpowered' folk that he keeps hearing about. Andrea figured that she may actually be blessed with the ability to regenerate and lift to her muscle's maximum capacity, and decided to test her limits with it working on Mr. Soltero's farm. After a few months of hard manual labour, Jose eventually had her working on his vehicles and farm equipment. Once Jose learned that she was a good shooter, and that she owned several guns, he had Andrea put them to good use by hunting pests, predators and deer. Jose had to teach her how to hunt, but in the time Andrea got her own house nearby, she learned how to hunt in her own right. She didn't feel too good about killing animals, though, so she attempted to devise non-lethal methods of pest-removal, ranging from humane traps to tranquilizer rounds, spending a lot of her free time researching ways to make her own tranquilizer rounds. In time, Andrea became known around Arido Valley as the 'fixer upper', working minimum wage at Jose's farm maintaining his equipment while she made extra fixing people's cars, shooting pests and selling her catches in her fishing and hunting trips. Once she found a decent routine, she managed to restore her lifestyle, taking her 3000GT to local legal races every now and then. She's lived this way for about four more years in Arido Valley, learning and earning new friends along the way.

One night, however, a shop nearby was being robbed by some goons. Crime had seeped from Santa Celia into Arido Valley, and the criminals were preying on the shops that didn't have the luxury of fast emergency response times. Two masked men with guns showed up to the convenience store, demanding cash. Andrea was there to witness it, and instead of standing by, she took action. Using her superior strength, she knocked over one of the shelves to stun one of the gunmen, throwing a beer bottle at the other before promptly laying a superpowered smackdown on the two, tossing them around and disabling them. She cooperated with the police once they arrived, and after saving the store from robbery and possibly the cashier's life, her prominence as a "fixer-upper" was known around Arido Valley some more, people calling her a hero. Since then, she had been called upon to take care of some latent criminals that the cops wouldn't bother tackling, donning on a gas mask and a voice modifier, calling herself the Valley Girl. After taking down a few criminals, but having suffered some painful (but easily recoverable) gunshot wounds, she made it a priority to create a non-lethal munition for her firearms so she can fight back without taking too many hits. After doing the research and contacting the right individuals, she created a special munition for her pistol and rifle that can non-lethally KO any living creature that it penetrates, with a dosage that will not leave any harmful effects when putting the targets to sleep (the round itself is small and will only go skin-deep). The tranq rounds proved successful, allowing Andrea to non-lethally dispatch criminals. However, such rounds are not only time-consuming to make, they are also somewhat expensive, and as a result, Andrea can only carry a few on her at a time. She fields these weapons as her Valley Girl persona, and thanks to their nature, are legal by California Law. However, one of the criminals she encountered in Arido Valley had his hands on some stolen tech, and after investigating it, turns out to be a neat pair of Augmented Reality glasses, as well as an Advanced Combat Intelligence. After doing the best she could in researching it, and finding the original owner to the ACI, she grabbed all of the components to it and took it to one of her tech friends who's a high ranking computer science guy (lets just call him Dave). Despite weeks of trial and error, Dave couldn't crack the code, running into CLASSIFIED every time he tried to figure out who manufactured it. Dave was, however, able to legally change ownership and reprogram some of its parameters to suit the user's needs, so since there was no known owner and no one put a missing ad out for it, Andrea decided to keep it and use it for her Valley Girl persona. The ACI was tweaked to her standards, and combined with that, she was able to become a potent crime-fighter.

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Super Regeneration | Andrea has the ability to regenerate her wounds at an unprecidented rate. Most wounds mend together within seconds, more grievous wounds taking minutes, the most severe taking hours. While they don't regenerate immediately, they regenerate quick enough to get Andrea back into the fight, or at least get her moving. Just about anything, ranging from skin to muscle mass to vital organs will regenerate at a high rate, allowing her to survive nearly anything. Such regeneration allows for an immune system that could go through illnesses much more quickly, allowing Andrea to only suffer from a cold or flu for about less than an hour at a time, and could potentially make her immune from deadlier contagions too, as the regeneration extends to the antibodies used to fight against these infections. Such regeneration allows Andrea to use her muscles at full strength (about 6-7x the strength a human her size), as her muscles can instantly heal as they tear themselves apart. Going full strength is a huge burning sensation for Andrea, but it allows her to outdo even body builders when it comes to strength contests, and can allow her to throw objects incredibly far.

Limitation(s) | Such healing power requires lots of food and water, and while a normal amount of food and water consumed each day can help Andrea regenerate from basic wounds and keep her healthy, Andrea would have to eat much more in order to regenerate large wounds quickly. Her power would still exist even if she was starving, but her body would eat at itself in order to keep her alive. Andrea would be able to regrow limbs, but she would have to consume a lot of food and take lots of time in physical therapy in order to get said limb working again. Things like lack of oxygen, whether it would be from drowning, smoke or being thrown out the airlock, cannot be regenerated from in the moment, and other constant effects would keep Andrea out of action until she were to be in safer conditions. With all that considered, Andrea can still feel pain, and her nerves regenerate with the rest of her. Getting hurt sucks.

Weakness(es) | Wounds to the head, while they can recover, would most likely cause memory loss, effectively ending Andrea as she is, 'killing' her mind. Her regeneration can slow to a crawl if she were to be on fire, and while burns can be healed, they would leave nasty scars. Freezing conditions can also slow regeneration, and can put Andrea out of action for a long time. As mentioned above, lack of oxygen and other constant conditions can easily put Andrea out of action for as long as they are there to keep her down.

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As Lethal As She Wants It To Be | Other than Andrea's super-power, what makes her such an effective crime-fighter is her ability to craft .22LR rounds that can incapacitate targets while causing minimal damage. These rounds are soft light rounds that only leave small skin wounds, never going beyond, that force incapacitation by dissolving into a very temporary paralytic agent that forces the target down, before the sleeping agent slowly takes over and keeps the target down. Such agents are in a dose that will work on small animals and large ones without killing them, though larger animals and people would take a bit more time to take down than normal. Average humans, men and women, would be downed with the next beat of their heart from these tranqs if they pierce the skin. Such agent is also used in the sleeping gas grenades she throws, though the effect is much more gradual with those. Andrea currently knows no other formulas for the .22LR chem rounds she's created, but in time she may diversify.

Speed Racer | One thing that Andrea's pretty damn good at is driving. Having learned how to drive as a racer, and how to make cars operate at peak performance, Andrea could make any vehicle into an extension of herself and turn it into a machine of precision and speed. Well, most small vehicles anyway. Once she is familiar with a vehicle, she can know its strengths and weaknesses, and how to use it effectively. She's particularly good at driving her 3000GT and her Camry, using both to their fullest extent.

Silent, But Not Deadly | Andrea learned how to become a huntress in order to take care of pests, small game and to fend off predators encroaching on farms. However, she wasn't a big fan of killing off cute animals, so with her As Lethal as it Needs to Be skill, she's successfully hunted game of all kinds without a single fatality, often capturing small game and releasing them to other parts of the wild, and bringing big game into captivity alive for a bigger price than dead. Such hunting skill gave her the ability to be quite stealthy, often approaching things silently, with both movements and firearm attacks.

The Basics Of CQC | Having practiced a little with a boxing bag (and at school against bullies), Andrea could use her unparalleled strength to give her an advantage against others when it comes to CQC, using her brute strength to disable enemies, disarm them or otherwise just neutralize them. Her fighting style is very sloppy and crude, but it is very effective, and can get the job done. Her ability to use improvised weapons using her strength can turn anything into a deadly object of blunt force or sharp steel, depending on how she uses it.

Mechanic Warrior | While Andrea went for a GED in high school, her training and subsequent job experience working as a mechanic allowed her the experience to learn how to fix cars, and just about anything else really (as long as its basic stuff). With enough know-how and basic knowledge on what she's fixing, Andrea could fix just about any simple problem given the time and resources. With her experience, she can get most vehicles up and running, and keep the lights on in most houses, and keep other machines running.

Bilingual | Andrea is very fluent in English, Andrea knows some Spanish too due to living and working with Hispanic Americans almost all of her life. (( Keep in mind, as a player, I barely know a lick of spanish, so Spanish would be 'translated' appropriately ))

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Advanced Combat Intelligence Omega Mark 6, aka "Patches" - A combat intelligence upgraded into a full virtual intelligence, this AI, connected through a mainframe and several nodes, can see and hear what Andrea most often can't, often acting as her spotter. Manufactured by HAT and sold under the brand of Sentinel Tech, the ACI acts as a combat intelligence that keeps its user up to date with relevant information in almost any way, connecting to devices and speaking to the user. This was found as a 'bootleg' from a captured criminal, where it's real origins were unknown. Andrea had it taken to a guy named 'Dave', having it reprogrammed to Andrea's tastes after they couldn't find the original owner to it. Such tastes allowed it to help her spot enemies, as well as keep her entertained with jokes and conversation. It's not sentient by any means, but at points it does seem to have some degree of awareness. Maybe. Snarky but still otherwise helpful, "Patches" acts in areas where Andrea can't, often filling in for her shortcomings. Patches' voice is often that of a caucasian female, but it can also do celebrity impressions as well. Far from the baseline ACI, Andrea had it reprogrammed by a friend in order to make it far more entertaining and useful than a combat intelligence should be.

Patches, while using a mainframe computer that can be backed up using cloud software, normally operates through nodes, which are smartphone-sized brick-like devices that house most of the computing and transmission hardware. Such nodes normally remain connected to the mainframe and to the internet from strong cell tower connection (or satellite connection if the antennae is extended), and is USB capable. It chiefly operates through augmented reality glasses and small camera drones, though it can operate through other means as well. The mainframe itself is located at Andrea's house in the guise of a (functioning) gaming computer. Among the things Patches can do are:

• Remotely control small camera drones to spot targets, collect intel or otherwise act as an alert system
• Connect to any compatible augmented reality glasses in order to display a HUD with all meaningul intel, such as enemy locations, weapon trajectory, maps and target info. If no glasses are used, it will update using audio instead.
• If connected to a radio, can scan through radio waves and listen in on conversations
• Can connect to any weakly protected bluetooth devices to search for information or otherwise spy through camera and microphone
• Play music, tell jokes, sing songs, and be an all-around robo-buddy
• (TBD)

Jose Soltero - Male, 57. An owner of a farm that he owns outside the town of Arido Valley. A friendly man who's the brother of Andrea's old boss Mr. Soltero, he runs his farm with his wife and a few farmhands, growing fruit, wheats and chickens. He had become somewhat of a father figure to Andrea, often helping her out when things get rough. He is one of very few people who know about her "Valley Girl" alter ego, and contrary to most movies and TV Shows, supports her vigilantism, knowing how much good she's done for the community already. He helps her out in any way he can, paying her under the table for extra work she puts in at the farm.

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EDIT 1: Changed TTD (Time to Down) of the tranqs from 0.5 seconds to "the next heartbeat".
EDIT 2: Fixed the wording for quite a few things, including powers, abilities, weapons, and some parts of Andrea's backstory. Also described the location of ACI's mainframe.
EDIT 3: Added descriptions for the weapon attachments (suppressor for the T-bolt rifle and laser sight for the P22 pistol).

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Santa Celia: Coast to Coast

@JunkMail I was originally going to make Andrea a cyborg (a cybercommando in the vain of Rex Power Colt), but during character creation I realized that it didn't feel right for her. I decided to go with the idea of making her normal, and play off the theme of normies having to constantly catch up to metahumans and always falling behind. That's the idea, anyway, though things can play out much differently through natural play.

If necessary I can make her a cybersoldier, but I'll need time to make the necessary changes.

Santa Celia: Coast to Coast

Hey @Lord Wraith I got a present for you

Andrea "Valkyrie" Knight

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_______________________________________________ Andrea Liana Knight _______________________________________________ July 20th, 1989 | 29 | African American _______________________________________________ Single | ♀ | Bisexual _______________________________________________ High School GED | Ex-Army Mercenary Sniper _______________________________________________ Physical Profile ___________________________________ [+] //Basics: • Height | 5'-8" • Weight | 180 lbs. • Build | Defined, toned • Hair Colour | Black • Eye Colour | Dark Brown Alternate Pics Equipment ___________________________________ [+] //Weapons: • Remington Model 700 Classic | A legendary rifle employed by many all over the world in various forms, Andrea is already familiar with this weapon and its workings through her training and experience with the M24 Sniper System. Buying the classic and getting a threaded barrel for a suppressor, Andrea uses this gun for hunting all kinds of game, whether it would be deer out in the wilds or humans out in the streets. While it's not a fast weapon by any means, its versatility allows her to use all kinds of rounds, ranging from subsonic hollow-points to tranquilizer darts, and even armor-piercing incendiaries. Chambered in .308 Winchester, legally owned. • CZ-75 Handgun | The legendary CZ-75 pistol. Cheap, accurate, reliable and deadly, this Czech pistol has been at in the holsters of many for decades. Andrea uses this as her sidearm, and always carries it with her, never knowing when she may need it. Often times, when she's on a job, she brings a suppressor for it as well, and uses subsonic hollow-tipped ammunition to make (relatively) quiet, clean shots. Otherwise, she has armor-piercing rounds at the ready. Chambered in 9x19mm NATO, legally owned. • Tactical Knife | A standard tactical knife carried on the opposite side of the handgun holster, carried as a backup weapon in the rare event if the CZ-75 fails, or a situation arises where a blade is needed. While Andrea prefers firearms, stabbing people she particularly dislikes is another option she considers. //Misc: • Advanced Combat Intelligence Omega Mk. 4 "Patches" | A heads-up system devised by HAT and sold by 'Sentinel Tech', Andrea purchased the hardware privately in between her tours as a sniper in order to help her designate targets and keep her company on her long sniping trips. This ACI, while manufactured by HAT, is reprogrammed to suit Andrea's needs as a seperate model called "Omega." While it remains backed up to a central computer, a mobile node is carried along with the user that can connect to smartphones, rangefinders, cameras and bluetooth headsets in order to assist the user. As such, Andrea always carries a node connected to her augmented reality glasses so Patches can help her out when the situation is required. The program speaks to Andrea directly, giving her important updates and speaking wit her on a personal level. The headset that Andrea wears comes with the ACI. More details under "Supporting Characters." • Augmented Reality Glasses | With the help of Patches, the ACI utilizes these glasses to display information privately through the glasses that Andrea often wears. Such information can range from just about anything, and can be used as a Combat HUD or a computing medium. It can play audio through subtle vibrations only the wearer can hear through contact with the temples. • Smartphone | Andrea carries a basic Android smartphone with her, and almost always they are burners that she replaces weekly in order to prevent herself from being tracked by authorities or criminals. As such they have basic functions like camera, GPS and whatnot, and can be synced with her ACI. • Lockpicking Tools | Andrea often carries very lightweight lockpicking tools with her, alongside her sidearm, just in case if she needs to break into a place. This allows her to pick most normal locks, though when it comes to electronic locks, she may try to rely on her ACI if it's possible. • Light Tactical Vest | Often times, when out on a job, Andrea might wear soft ballistic armor that would protect her vitals. Not effective against rifles, but it can protect her from shotgun blasts, pistol rounds and blades. Said tactical vest, while protective, also has pouches that contain zip-ties, a flashbang, a smoke grenade, a basic bomb-defusal kit and, if the job requires it, a few pipe bombs. She only ever wears this when on the job, along with her face paint, balaclava and stealthy clothing. • Acoustic Guitar | In order to conceal her Remington 700 rifle in public, she hides it under a secret panel in a guitar case, where she carries an actual lightweight guitar. Surprisingly, she knows how to play it too, but it's mostly to entertain herself and keep up the charade. • Microdrones | While Patches can operate through Andrea's glasses and her phone/nodes alone, in order to maximise its effectiveness, it must control palm-sized HD camera drones in order to keep an eye on Andrea and whatever she wishes to scout. Such drones are replacable, and can be a little expressive too. Often seen flying around Andrea. • 1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 | This retro 90's technological marvel was purchased back when Andrea returned to the United States, buying it for a solid 5 grand. It was in a state of disrepair when she first got it, but she managed to fix it and restore it to its former glory. A very powerful car that can reach up to 170 miles per hour in top speed, its active aero system and all wheel drive allow it unparalled cornering speed and performance. With its somewhat modern interior, Andrea made a few upgrades in to allow Patches access to the onboard audio and computer systems. She often uses it as her pleasure car, often driving it when she isn't on business.Night shot. • 1989 Ford Bronco | Andrea bought this shortly after she moved into Arido Valley, knowing that the 3000GT isn't exactly a car built for off-road heavy duty purposes. Bought it for about $600 cash from a local farmer who replaced it with a different truck, Andrea got good use out of this. Often using it for her hunting and fishing trips, she hauls in her kills through the sheltered bed in the back, keeping her rifle mounted up on the back window. She uses this truck for other things too, mainly hauling around heavier objects and grocery shopping. • 2002 Ford Taurus Taxicab | Purchasing this car used for about a grand, Andrea uses this car for her other form of work that she's starting to get into, which can range from any sort of criminality. Using different license plates under false identities, the taxicab is the most innocuous car Andrea could find that would attract the least amount of attention, especially if it was idling somewhere. Often parking it in an abandoned lot in Santa Celia, Andrea never uses her actual owned cars for her work, as the authorities and enemies can easily track her through them. Said car is unmodified, and bought stock, and thus doesn't perform as well as her other vehicles.

Appearance Details ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Andrea can best be described as an African American woman with dark mohagany skin, but with some of the facial inflections of an Asian. She has some defined muscles that make her look a little tougher than most women her size, being at 5'8". However, the only muscles on display are often her arms as she wears basic gray T-shirts and skinny cargo pants that match whatever environment she is in, as well as some small and stylish augmented reality glasses that transition into shades, as well as have a mounted camera. She normally has her hair in braided pigtails, but she can change her black hair to whatever suits the occasion. When on the job, she often wears balaclavas, face paint, caps, and dark tactical clothes and armor in order to help her blend in with the night, and prevent her from being identified by eyewitnesses and CCTV. She has the 'Omega Force' unit emblem tattooed on her back, though she barely lets it slip. Her 'work wear' may vary from job to job, but almost always she dons on her soft body armor to allow faster movement, and to protect her from basic street-level attacks. Personality ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Andrea is a very casual and kind person, often willing to go out of her way to help others if she has nothing better to do. She tries to go about life in a somewhat positive manner, often trying to make stupid jokes and references in order to lighten up the mood. She is otherwise pretty awkward, having not really learned how to socialize too well as a child, translating into her somewhat poor social life as an adult. Around people she's attracted to, she often doesn't keep eye contact and tries to hide her obvious attraction by looking away and changing the subject a bit. Despite her casual nature, however, she is somewhat disciplined, and abstains from alcohol, hard drugs or tobacco. When things do get rough, however, if she fails to keep a smile, she may resort to these vices. Towards people she doesn't like, she can somewhat cold, and a bit removed. She doesn't react to fear particularly well, though, as she masks it with anger and vulgarity. With that in mind, she absolutely loves cute animals and has a huge soft spot for children. While being the Army has made her somewhat disciplined, she never really lost her smooth demeanor. One of the things that sets her apart from the average person is that she thoroughly enjoys killing people. While she has a personal code against shooting innocents, she had discovered that shooting bad guys gave her a sense of satisfaction that she feels just a little guilty about. Despite her love for massacring combatants, she still tries her best to keep her head on her shoulders, often targeting 'bad guys' and bad guys only. With that in mind, combined with her social ineffectiveness, she has the idea in her head that she's a bit 'psycho' or otherwise mentally unstable. Her love for cute animals and children may balance that out, though, along with her love for movies, guns, cars, 80s music and ice cream. She has a strong dislike towards assholes in general, and while she won't shoot innocent people, those who ire her to the point of wanting to kill a bitch may end up on the wrong side of her firearms. Among her other dislikes are politicians and their stupid advertisements, social media and parties.

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Andrea was born and raised in a poor Hispanic neighborhood in Detroit. Having grown up with a very young single mother who was constantly working to make ends meet, Andrea didn't really get the best of education or attention growing up. She had a few friends throughout her life that contributed to her mostly positive attitude and a few good teachers, but they faded in and out of her life like the others did. By the time Andrea became a preteen, her mother finally had time to raise her. Having grown up around boys for most of her life, Andrea had gained an interest in sports and video games, as well as guns and cars, much to her mother's dismay. Andrea became pretty good at FPS games in high school, and played women's basketball and street football for whenever she had the time. When she turned 16, her mother passed away, and Andrea was on her own. With all of her relatives living very far away, Andrea had it tough, living on her own and with friends. She graduated with a GED in high school, and with her struggles in her early life, it was the best she could do. She didn't have much of a bright future, and Andrea had to make a choice on what she would do in her life.

Before Andrea's mother passed away, she warned her daughter about the "gangsta life", and how it wasn't so glamorous. Unfortunately, Andrea saw no other choice than to enter that kind of life when the chips came down. While she did perform misdemeanors as a kid, she got into serious crime when she turned 18, performing stick-ups, slinging drugs and burglarizing homes. However, after a mugging gone wrong, Andrea decided that she needed to be much better at this "crime" thing and decided to train and practice for it. Working out, getting a better gun and being a good shot with it, Andrea learned how to navigate the criminal underworld in her town with a little help from a few "buddies" here and there. Even with her illegal activities done to keep the lights on, Andrea still had a head on her shoulders, and only really went after deserving targets her own size (guilty conscience). Andrea performed her first murder on a domestic abuser when she turned 20, and having felt a sense of satisfaction after killing him, she wanted more. For the next several months, she killed several gang leaders and rather bad folk, learning through trial and error on how to do it effectively. Already good at the whole sneaking and athletics part of criminal life, she figured that she may as well start killing legally for the United States Military.

She signed up for the United States Army at 20, and entered a 6 year active-duty and 2 year inactive duty contract with them. Since she was never convicted of any crimes, Andrea was able to go into basic training. She struggled at first coping with the training intensity, but through her dedication and fear of failure, she managed to succeed. After graduating combat training (learning how to use weapons like the M16 and M4), Andrea was posted in Afghanistan in her first six months of service, only engaging in light combat during peacekeeping patrols. Wanting to take her ability to kill to the next level, Andrea signed up to become an Army Sniper once she returned from her peacekeeping tour. Training was rough, and she had to study hard, but she was able to pass their tests and graduate sniper school. Almost immediately after she became a sniper, she was assigned to the Omega Force unit, where she participated in various conflict zones all around the world. Throughout her 5 years of active duty, Andrea's unit was deployed to combat zones in Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific, participating in conflicts large and small. At the end of her service she made many friends, from both within the Army and the locals she met, as well as making a new friend in her own Advanced Combat Intelligence, which she purchased in between tours at a warfare conference. And in that period of time, she had 64 confirmed kills, with 88 probables, her longest kill distance being that of 1150 meters (1257 yards). Her amazing track record and ability to protect her comrades with good overwatch fire earned her the name of Valkyrie amongst her allies and enemies, a callsign that she took a liking to and rolled with during her military career.

Returning stateside at the age of 27, Andrea wanted to live a much more quieter life, wanting to make a decent living with her skills she accrued in her military career. Using the money she's saved up over time, Andrea moved into Árido Valley from her old home in Detroit, moving into a small house in the countryside to make her money going hunting and fishing. Despite being on reserve duty for two years, Andrea was never called back in that period, instead spending her time keep her shooting skills sharp by hunting in the wilderness with her very familiar Remington 700 rifle. In order to help supplement her inactive duty pay to keep the lights on, Andrea sold all of her kills and kept the surplus for food, and took up new hobbies to add some extra cash (gardening, fishing and photography). Patches, her ACI, kept her company during her time, and she fine-tuned it to her liking over the course of those two years. By the time she turned 29, she was no longer in reserve duty, and Andrea was free to pursue whatever she pleased.

In the two years that Andrea spent in Árido Valley, she heard whispers and rumors, as well as stories about the crime and corruption that goes down in the city to the west. Santa Celia, the metropolis of wonder and opportunity, saw an unprecedented rise in crime, and had a rather strange gathering of superhumans and other strange oddities. Andrea was hoping to escape the stressful life she had in Detroit, but with the hunting and fishing seasons running dry, she figured she may as well make a few bucks as an assassin, taking on jobs whenever she got too bored. After all, exploding human skulls was much more fun than taking down deer and coyotes. Andrea posted coded ads on special websites, advertising on the deep web and other seedy places as a 'mob hitwoman', someone who only targets other criminals. While Andrea did make it clear that she wasn't the type to target innocents or cops, or the type to be crossed, anyone who would bring her about should know one thing. It's never going to look like an accident, but they will never know it was her.

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Army Sniper | Andrea was trained long and hard in the Army to be an excellent marksman. Having gone on several tours of duty, and having an excellent kill record, Andrea is rather impeccable with her aim, and has great degrees of experience with several weapon systems. While her skills with rifles are par excellence, her other fighting skills are nothing to scoff at. Having learned to use hand-to-hand combat, operate all kinds of navigational and rangefinding equipment and how to track down her targets, Andrea was trained to kill above all else, and to remain alive in the process. Being trained and having a lot of experience with AR-15 patterned rifles, as well as Remington 700s and Beretta 92s, Andrea can get a lot from any weapon she familiarizes herself with. Her tours in Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific also allowed her survival experience in Urban, Desert, Woodland and Tropical locations.

Getaway Driver | In her short criminal career, Andrea learned how to make the most of the vehicles she drives. While she's great at using stickshifts, she's not entirely used to vehicles with automatic transmissions. Often having to make a clean and quick getaway from a crime she's just committed, her driving ability is nearly Hollywood.

Hold 'em Up | While the Army taught her how to use rifles effectively, she had to learn how to use handguns effectively first through her criminal career. Holding them properly in muggings, then using them for hits and assassinations, Andrea knows what kind of gun to use for what kind of job. While handguns are not as deadly accurate as rifles are, nor are they as potent or powerful, Andrea makes up for it by always aiming for the head. No brain is immune to even the smallest of calibres.

Breaking and Entering | Starting off her criminal career with burglary, Andrea learned how to be stealthy, quick and quiet. Above all else, other than her quiet movements, Andrea learned how to enter doors via lockpicks. While the Army taught her how to use breaching charges and how to kick down doors, Andrea prefers the more subtle approach of quietly picking the lock and slowly entering.

Huntress of the Woods | Andrea only spent two years of her life making a career of hunting and fishing, but applying her knowledge from her sniper life to hunting, she was able to learn how to track down animals and hunt them effectively. Her ability to remain quiet and patient was brushed up on during her hunting years, allowing her to transfer her criminal and military skills with flawless transition. While she does enjoy the thrill of the hunt and of the kill, she tries to be as humane as possible when she takes the shot, often always aiming for the head in order to quickly kill the animal with the least amount of suffering she could muster. Her ability to fish is nothing new, and while it's nothing like her hunting, she can pull quite a few large ones from the river if she wanted to.

Gadgeteer Above Averagenius | While Andrea went for a GED in high school, her army training allowed her to get a decent understanding of tech and other electronic hardware. How it works, how to fix it, and whatnot. Though most of it is basic, with more in-depth knowledge on how to fix things like rangefinders and scopes, with the help of her trusty ACI, she's able to get a decent understanding on how to fix just about anything.

Acoustic Cover Artist | Andrea often finds herself having to travel with her Remington 700 sniper rifle into more populated areas, and carrying it open in the public will raise a few eyebrows, and maybe get her cuffed. Instead, Andrea travels around with a guitar case, with the rifle hidden beneath panel, a panel covered by a real guitar. In order to keep up the charade, Andrea learned how to play decently with an acoustic guitar, and can sing quite a few covers, especially with songs people would expect the least.

Trilingual | Andrea is very fluent in English, and can speak and write Arabic pretty decently, though her accent and dialect is a mix of American and Iraqi. Growing up in a hispanic neighborhood, Andrea knows some Spanish too.

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Advanced Combat Intelligence Omega Mark 6, aka "Patches" - A combat intelligence upgraded into a full virtual intelligence, this AI, connected through a mainframe and several nodes, can see and hear what Andrea most often can't, often acting as her spotter. Manufactured by HAT and sold under the brand of Sentinel Tech, the ACI acts as a combat intelligence that keeps its user up to date with relevant information in almost any way, connecting to devices and speaking to the user. This was purchased as a 'bootleg' from a warfare tech conference from a guy named 'Dave', having it reprogrammed to Andrea's taste before deployment. Such tastes allowed it to help her spot enemies, as well as keep her entertained with jokes and conversation. It's not sentient by any means, but at points it does seem to have some degree of awareness. Maybe. Snarky but still otherwise helpful, "Patches" acts in areas where Andrea can't, often filling in for her shortcomings. Patches' voice is often that of a caucasian female, but it can also do celebrity impressions as well. Far from the baseline ACI, Andrea had it reprogrammed by a friend in order to make it far more entertaining and useful than a combat intelligence should be.

Patches, while using a mainframe computer that can be backed up using cloud software, normally operates through nodes, which are smartphone-sized brick-like devices that house most of the computing and transmission hardware. Such nodes normally remain connected to the mainframe and to the internet from strong cell tower connection (or satellite connection if the antennae is extended), and is USB capable. It chiefly operates through augmented reality glasses and small camera drones, though it can operate through other means as well. Among the things Patches can do are:

• Remotely control small camera drones to spot targets, collect intel or otherwise act as an alert system
• Connect to any compatible augmented reality glasses in order to display a HUD with all meaningul intel, such as enemy locations, weapon trajectory, maps and target info. If no glasses are used, it will update using audio instead.
• If connected to a radio, can scan through radio waves and listen in on conversations
• Can connect to any weakly protected bluetooth devices to search for information or otherwise spy through camera and microphone
• Play music, tell jokes, sing songs, and be an all-around robo-buddy
• (TBD)

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UPDATE: Reduced weapons, and changed out sniper rifle for something more familiar, and with less power.
UPDATE 2: Corrected birthdate and changed HUD's name to Patches. And added soft body armor.
UPDATE 3: Added some new equipment (drones, knife, guitar, etc.), lumped in armor with basic tactical gear, gave her vehicles to drive, improved her backstory quite a bit, updated and improved the Advanced Combat Intelligence (tying it in with HAT and giving it some more realistic abilities), added some new skills (languages, music, improved existing ones), and improved existing equipment. Also added a theme tune.

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@Lord Wraith

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