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The Variable Project: VECTOR

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

@Sketcher

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

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

Name:

Andrade, Raul

Age:

35.

Sex:

Male.

Biography:

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

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

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

Personality:

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

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

Variable Efficiency and Control Test (VECT) Results:

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

Relationships:

-to be determined-.

@Shizuochan

Approved! Go add that mon to Characters.

The Variable Project: VECTOR

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

File : ‘Gwynt, Oliver’

Name :

Gwynt, Oliver

Age :

19

Sex :

Male

Biography :

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

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

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

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

Personality :

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

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

Variable Efficiency and Control Test (VECT) Results :

Long-Range Spatial: Fabric

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

Short-Range Spatial: Swap

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

Relationships :

TBD

Other :

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

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

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

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

The Variable Project: VECTOR

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

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

The Variable Project: VECTOR

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

The Variable Project: VECTOR

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

The Variable Project: VECTOR

Score based system? In regards to what aspect?

The Variable Project: VECTOR

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@Sketcher

Going 1950s on me here. I like it.

Love that world you've made and just the way you organized the interest check, am interested.

@Bombardier

Alrighty! Link to the OOC is a couple posts up. I'll be editing it into the first post in a bit.

The Variable Project: VECTOR

Killing myself, bye.

The Variable Project: VECTOR

Then why haven't you filled out a sheet? Is it because you don't love me? :^(

The Variable Project: VECTOR

Everyone coming out of the woodwork when I'd started to give up hope (being the impatient, bored buttfuzzle that I am). Whelp, that's five of us, which I dare say is enough for me to provide a link to the, now probably buried, OOC thread. And finally buckle down and decide on what type of character I'm going to play exactly.

And whaddya know, here it is: roleplayerguild.com/topics/172326-the….

You might be thinking it's exactly the same as this thread, but with a character sheet template. Well, I'm here to tell you that you're 100% correct. I might edit it later, but for now please don't shoot me.