LegionPothIX

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@DedonusSo, I just go ahead and post it in character sheets then?

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@LegionPothIX I am Root!

Wait wrong franchise...

@KaiserElectric

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@Dedonus So, I do what I always do when applying to a new game. I read the concept OOC OP, and then try to create a character that would fit in that world before applying a specific "character's powers" template (this is how we train people in WoD to think of characters: as people first, powers second), and so I feel like the specific details requested in the initial OP were all answered elsewhere in my character sheet (normally before I even looked at them). Let me know if there's something more you need me to expand on.

ℝoot

Vital Statistics:

• Player Name: LegionPothIX
• Character Name: ℝoot
• Character Age: 23
• Character Gender: F
• Nationality:
• Race: Caucasian
• Position: Civilian, Hacker
• Title: The Shadow

Vital Statistics:Campaign Specific

Character you have created: ---
Alias: ℝoot
Speech Color: TBD. Probably some aggressive basic (the language) programming color like #5DFC0A or #49E20E.
Character Alignment: Walking the Line (toward Evil)
Identity: The Shadow / ℝoot (See below for details)
Character Personality: INTJ (See below for details)
Uniform/costume: Hoodie (with a tank-top under), Cargo Pants, and a Backpack (See Super Suit)
Origin Info/Details: Accident (See Origins)
Hero Type (Select one): Psychic with a splash of Teech and Gray Matter
Power Level (Select one below): City Level (IRL) / World Level (Digital)
Powers (Be Specific):
Attributes (Select one at each category):

• Strength Level: Normal Human
• Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 50x
• Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human
• Agility: Normal Human
• Intelligence: Super-Genius (Digital), Genius (all other)
• Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Extreme (See Strength: Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy")
Height: 165 cm / ~65 in
Weight 60 kg / ~135 lb

Reference Description:

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Source

Background:
An intellectual styled super, with an ambiguous alignment, ℝoot--or The Shadow as she goes by in the real world is a hacker with a pension for tackling problems in non-linear ways. She lacks the raw physical powers of some other heroes and villains and makes up for it in spades with devious plans and contingencies. Her abilities as a psychic help but she rarely puts herself in a position to rely on them.

Historical Profile:

• Origins: Mind Break

  ℝoot was deep core hacking through government servers looking for something interesting to dump onto the darknet, or potentially wikileaks, when she happened across a read-only file labeled 'Dec 31, 1999' that would change her life forever.
  
  It was the singularity.
  
  That's a bit of an exaggeration, as it was not the event per se, but the beginnings of an Earth borne artificial intelligence trapped in a write-protected unevolving state. The magnitude of the discovery, in addition to the complexity of the data contained therein, overloaded both her mind and the circuitry of her personal EEGARD (see 'Notable Tech' below). When she attempted to steal the file she triggered a security precaution that shorted out every RFID transmitter on her scalp, and sent electroshocks into the nerve-clusters of her brain they were positioned to read.
  
  As she lie helplessly comatose on the ground of her single bedroom apartment a battle began in her stead between her own security system versus the government systems. A battle that came to a draw with the total mutual annihilation of the two networks engaged, and the resulting electrical fire consumed her home. ℝoot nearly died that night, and remained comatose for months as a Jane Doe in a local hospital.
  
  New information creates new pathways in the brain, however, and so too does temporary damage that needs to be bypassed. When she awoke in the hospital after several months of being in a coma she found her mind had been totally rewired. She now possessed the ability to send and receive mental information: a mind-to-mind telepath. In terms that she understood--that of her trade--it was as if other minds were broadcasting on mental wifi over unsecured channels.
  
  She knew these broadcasts were not the same as her mechanical counterparts but in essence humans are basically biological machines that as a species we have a meager and infantile understanding of.
• Background: Anon

  Much of ℝoot's life has been spent confined to a small room well lit with LED monitors and the fiber optic vanity lights that filled many of her computers. Since she was old enough to hold an electronic device ℝoot has, like many of her generation, thrown herself into them entirely. Also like many of her generation she's been disillusioned by the blatant corruption in the social system. Debt driven econimcs enslaving the every-man, blatant corruption on every level of government, and the tyrannical militarization of the police are just a few of the things that drove to a life of crime.
  
  The zero-sum was simple, the whole world and its law, was designed to oppress the masses and she would have nothing more to do with it. ℝoot joined the hacktivist group Anonymous in an effort to collaborate in taking down as much of the corrupt system she could, before realizing that systemic corruption was all that existed in the world outside. Though she made a few like-minded friends in the group, it wasn't until after she gave up on salvaging the system that she really came into her own.
• Profession: Hacker

  ℝoot is self employed in that she makes money from her skills, but those skills aren't particularly put to service anyone in general. For most of her finances, she simply pilfers government black-budget programs, or shell company bank accounts. However, with the world's currencies all digitized, most of the things she might need money for, are things she can simply spoof the existence of money to acquire.
  
  That's not to say she doesn't put her skills to work in the traditional sense. While the system is corrupted to the core, she still believes there are users whom really do mean well, and often takes on charges by way of legitimate charities and NPOs. Particularly high on her list of crusades is public education foundations who legitimately seek to better the world for the many millions of civilians just like her.
• Super Persona: The Shadow

  This self-appointed title based off of the titular character of an Old Time Radio Show of the same name. The main character of which had similar abilities to ℝoot, and provided her a sense of comfort in the maddening analog world that is real life while she remained bed-ridden due to her origins event. She adopted the title, at first, as a joke at how quaint the 1940's sci-fi serial seemed by modern standards, and in irony regarding the picture-perfect black-and-white way the world was viewed in the time, but the moniker simply stuck as her super persona.
  
  She was introduced to the character when The Secret Whistle's Shadow Act V came on Pandora, and then looked up the quoted title (The House That Death Built) from her phone. After hearing the full context she began to incorporate the telepathic abilities she gained into herself as a real extension of who she was.
  
  Then, inasmuch as she used her human skills for hacktivist vigilantism, her super powered natural extension of her ability to network resulted in a similar natural extension of her sense of purpose. Now, she simply had the power to hack the people's minds the way she hacked computers.
• True Name: none

  When ℝoot was eventually released from the hospital she set about gaining the real life anonymity that was so integrated into her internet persona. She hunted down the many friends, family, and acquaintances that knew her from real life and tested her powers on them; erasing herself from the real world.
  
  Though she technically has a true name, and a social security number of her very own, neither of these things have any social context or weight due to them being completely unfettered from reality.
  
  ℝoot's secret identity—the manner in which she self identifies—is ℝoot, and having that step removed from modern society is what facilitated the adoption of 'The Shadow' for her IRL super-persona.

Psychological Profile:

• Strengths

  • Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy"
  • Dual Nature
  • Master Code-Smith

  
  Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy"
  The United States was the last first world country to abandon the gold standard and did so in the 1970s. Since then the very concept of money has simply been an agreement between people. When monetization was digitized it fell immediately into the domain of the digital elite. Being one such digital elite the question of 'cost' or 'availability' never becomes a concern for ℝoot. Apart from the value people place on it, money has no intrinsic value, and ℝoot always has exactly as much as she wants because it is a trivial exercise for her to procure more.
  
  This strength is paired to the Easy Enmity weakness.
  
  Dual Nature
  While most supers have a gimmick, some thing they rely on nearly exclusively, ℝoot's is that the world operates in both digital and real space and she has 'evolved' to handle both while in either. She's adaptive and flexible in crossing over the lessons and skills in one environment to another.
  
  Living out on the bleeding edge of technology has given her considerable insight into how they work in modern society and context. As such real world problems are given digital solutions, and vice versa. ℝoot can use technology as an intermediary for her abilities, and her abilities as an intermediary for technology.
  
  This strength is paired to the Underdeveloped Powers weakness.
  
  Master Code-Smith
  Hacking is as much about revising, forging, reforging, and editing code as it is about writing new code. As much of her life before her awakening as a super revolved around these skills ℝoot has pushed them to the pinnacle of human potential. She routinely breaches government and private sector security alike with little effort. She hasn't met a system yet that can keep her out if she were to really set her mind to entering.
  
  This strength is paired to the Digital Addiction weakness.
• Weaknesses

  • Digital Addiction
  • Easy Enmity
  • Underdeveloped Powers

  
  
  Digital Addiction
  In the age of information, when the answer to all of the questions of the world are at one's fingertips, its easy to become over-reliant. While the average human being always carries with them at least one of three digital devices (phone, computer, music player) they can usually function reasonably well without them if need be.
  
  This is untrue of ℝoot who has become completely reliant on them from an early age. While they don't sustain her physical life, they do sustain her digital one--her connection to the digital world is how ℝoot defines herself. Modern technology has become her crutch and without it she is prone to severe and constant anxiety.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Master Hacker strength.
  
  Easy Enmity
  You don't become an elite without letting other people know, and you don't climb the ladder of success without stepping on a lot of rungs along the way. Be it governments or corporations with whom ℝoot left her calling card, or the competition in the hack-o'-sphere, ℝoot has made her fair share of bad impressions. She's hot shit, and she knows it, and never has any problem letting others know.
  
  With this flaw ℝoot finds it difficult to forge positive bonds with people, preferring instead to manipulate, and it shows. When it comes down to times of cooperative action she frequently leaves a bad taste in other's mouths after the fact, resulting in several burned bridges.
  
  As a result people only come to root when they need her expertise and she knows it.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy" strength.
  
  Underdeveloped Powers
  Unlike many other supers ℝoot's powers only developed recently once she became an adult, and only as a consequence of tragic action, and as of yet has not had either the time nor the desire to master them. Many of the things she could want to know about a person are readily available online on self-publishing social media sites, and so diving into the sick-unfiltered septic system that is the human mind for kicks is not something that regularly appeals to her.
  
  Because of this, and in part due to how her powers came into being, ℝoot can never develop abilities that extend beyond the base of mind-to-mind telepathy. While other psychics regularly develop "kinesis" style powers through whatever process opened their mind to telepathy, and anything of the sort remains completely out of ℝoot's grasp.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Dual Nature strength.
• Powers

  Author's Note: As ℝoot experiences the world, and thereby understands her powers, relies heavily on digital analogs (a pun) I can only explain them as such.
  
  Rather than listing specific powers it'd be simpler to explain exactly how the powers function. ℝoot's powers are an extension of basic communication the brain establishes with other parts of the body, and rational thought. As is the trope for newly developed telepathy ℝoot views others as constantly broadcasting their thoughts whether they know it or not. She easily receives these thoughts while within range of visually distinguishing the thinker; in the same vein that wi-fi routers have a fixed signal radius.
  
  Author's Note: The word wi-fi gets abused a lot in modern culture to be synonymous with 'wireless internet' which it certainly is not. Wi-fi is a local area network type that does not naively connect to satellites.
  
  As a telepath, ℝoot possesses the basic powers one might expect that are consequences of two or more brains communicating directly, and typically refers to them in their computer jargon equivalents: sending, receiving, broadcasting, reading, writing, packet editing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Psychographic Profile:

• Totems/Personal Effects

  Always in possession of the latest hand-held gadget, or device, and such things are often accompanied with the latest fads. Be it toys from gashapon machines or beanie babies strapped to her backpack, ℝoot always has enough flair in her style to not stand out of a crowd of people her age.
• Super Suit

  The Shadow doesn't require a specific outfit to be effective. This is because The Shadow is a machination of the mind, and often an revisionist edit of the memory. As such, ℝoot simply wears what is comfortable, conveniently, and inconspicuous. Typically that's a hoodie with some sort of nerd culture logo on the front, a backpack with sparse flair, and cargo pants for her gadgets. Her outfits usually consist of earth tones, or sky tones in color, and she never mixes the two.
• Motivations

  Heavily motivated by imbalance in powers and systematic oppression, when ℝoot engages to correct one of these two things it is in a manner that up-heaves the entirety and swings the pendulum hard in the opposite direction; rather than attempting to establish any form of balance.
• Aspirations

  Drain the swamp is a phrase that gets bandied about quite a lot when dealing with the type of things that ℝoot engages in. Wile that was her goal initially, it has devolved into 'don't drown'.
• Doubts

  Being thoroughly defeated by the enormity of the problems with the world, and turning her interest to local bite-sized symptoms often has her wondering if she's actually making a difference. Her impulsive involvement in a discouraging situation often has her wondering if she backed the right side.
• Notable Technology

  The Electro-Encephalo-Graphic (EEG) Augmented Reality Display (ARD) is the chief of all of ℝoot's digital devices. As noted earlier, it utilizes RFID tags affixed to her scalp to monitor and transmit the EEG data wirelessly to a drive that translates the data and responds with digital commands. The versions of this hardware have been greatly improved since the alpha version that fried her brain in the first place.
  
  Based on the following real-life tech:
  
  
  While the real life version is being billed as a digital panacea for all the worlds woes, it was not until incorporating the Augmented Reality Display that the EEGARD reached its fullest potential. The version that ℝoot possession is ridiculously modified far beyond the wildest dreams of the software's inventor. Aside from the ARD aspect, and wireless connection, it also sports security that would make the NSA, CIA, and Homeland Security blush.
  
  That is because the device is trained to read the user's mind and interpret, as well as transmit, the information. It is a one-sided technological equivalent of ℝoot's super power. After acquiring the tech, ℝoot aquired the developers, and killed the research; making her EEGARD one of a kind.

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ℝoot

Vital Statistics:

• Player Name: LegionPothIX
• Character Name: ℝoot
• Character Age: 23
• Character Gender: F
• Nationality:
• Race: Caucasian
• Position: Civilian, Hacker
• Title: The Shadow

Vital Statistics:Campaign Specific

Character you have created: ---
Alias: ℝoot
Speech Color: TBD. Probably some aggressive basic (the language) programming color like #5DFC0A or #49E20E.
Character Alignment: Walking the Line (toward Evil)
Identity: The Shadow / ℝoot (See below for details)
Character Personality: INTJ (See below for details)
Uniform/costume: Hoodie (with a tank-top under), Cargo Pants, and a Backpack (See Super Suit)
Origin Info/Details: Accident (See Origins)
Hero Type (Select one): Psychic with a splash of Teech and Gray Matter
Power Level (Select one below): City Level (IRL) / World Level (Digital)
Powers (Be Specific):
Attributes (Select one at each category):

• Strength Level: Normal Human
• Speed/Reaction Timing Level: 50x
• Endurance at MAXIMUM Effort: Normal Human
• Agility: Normal Human
• Intelligence: Super-Genius (Digital), Genius (all other)
• Fighting Skill: Untrained

Resources: Extreme (See Strength: Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy")
Height: 165 cm / ~65 in
Weight 60 kg / ~135 lb

Reference Description:

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Source

Background:
An intellectual styled super, with an ambiguous alignment, ℝoot--or The Shadow as she goes by in the real world--is a hacker with a pension for tackling problems in non-linear ways. She lacks the raw physical powers of some other heroes and villains and makes up for it in spades with devious plans and contingencies. Her abilities as a psychic help but she rarely puts herself in a position to rely on them.

Historical Profile:

• Origins: Mind Break

  ℝoot was deep core hacking through government servers looking for something interesting to dump onto the darknet, or potentially wikileaks, when she happened across a read-only file labeled 'Dec 31, 1999' that would change her life forever.
  
  It was the singularity.
  
  That's a bit of an exaggeration, as it was not the event per se, but the beginnings of an Earth borne artificial intelligence trapped in a write-protected unevolving state. The magnitude of the discovery, in addition to the complexity of the data contained therein, overloaded both her mind and the circuitry of her personal EEGARD (see 'Notable Tech' below). When she attempted to steal the file she triggered a security precaution that shorted out every RFID transmitter on her scalp, and sent electroshocks into the nerve-clusters of her brain they were positioned to read.
  
  As she lie helplessly comatose on the ground of her single bedroom apartment a battle began in her stead between her own security system versus the government systems. A battle that came to a draw with the total mutual annihilation of the two networks engaged, and the resulting electrical fire consumed her home. ℝoot nearly died that night, and remained comatose for months as a Jane Doe in a local hospital.
  
  New information creates new pathways in the brain, however, and so too does temporary damage that needs to be bypassed. When she awoke in the hospital after several months of being in a coma she found her mind had been totally rewired. She now possessed the ability to send and receive mental information: a mind-to-mind telepath. In terms that she understood--that of her trade--it was as if other minds were broadcasting on mental wifi over unsecured channels.
  
  She knew these broadcasts were not the same as her mechanical counterparts but in essence humans are basically biological machines that as a species we have a meager and infantile understanding of.
• Background: Anon

  Much of ℝoot's life has been spent confined to a small room well lit with LED monitors and the fiber optic vanity lights that filled many of her computers. Since she was old enough to hold an electronic device ℝoot has, like many of her generation, thrown herself into them entirely. Also like many of her generation she's been disillusioned by the blatant corruption in the social system. Debt driven economics enslaving the every-man, blatant corruption on every level of government, and the tyrannical militarization of the police are just a few of the things that drove to a life of crime.
  
  The zero-sum was simple, the whole world and its law, was designed to oppress the masses and she would have nothing more to do with it. ℝoot joined the hacktivist group Anonymous in an effort to collaborate in taking down as much of the corrupt system she could, before realizing that systemic corruption was all that existed in the world outside. Though she made a few like-minded friends in the group, it wasn't until after she gave up on salvaging the system that she really came into her own.
• Profession: Hacker

  ℝoot is self employed in that she makes money from her skills, but those skills aren't particularly put to service anyone in general. For most of her finances, she simply pilfers government black-budget programs, or shell company bank accounts. However, with the world's currencies all digitized, most of the things she might need money for, are things she can simply spoof the existence of money to acquire.
  
  That's not to say she doesn't put her skills to work in the traditional sense. While the system is corrupted to the core, she still believes there are users whom really do mean well, and often takes on charges by way of legitimate charities and NPOs. Particularly high on her list of crusades is public education foundations who legitimately seek to better the world for the many millions of civilians just like her.
• Super Persona: The Shadow

  This self-appointed title based off of the titular character of an Old Time Radio Show of the same name. The main character of which had similar abilities to ℝoot, and provided her a sense of comfort in the maddening analog world that is real life while she remained bed-ridden due to her origins event. She adopted the title, at first, as a joke at how quaint the 1940's sci-fi serial seemed by modern standards, and in irony regarding the picture-perfect black-and-white way the world was viewed in the time, but the moniker simply stuck as her super persona.
  
  She was introduced to the character when The Secret Whistle's Shadow Act V came on Pandora, and then looked up the quoted title (The House That Death Built) from her phone. After hearing the full context she began to incorporate the telepathic abilities she gained into herself as a real extension of who she was.
  
  Then, inasmuch as she used her human skills for hacktivist vigilantism, her super powered natural extension of her ability to network resulted in a similar natural extension of her sense of purpose. Now, she simply had the power to hack the people's minds the way she hacked computers.
• True Name: none

  When ℝoot was eventually released from the hospital she set about gaining the real life anonymity that was so integrated into her internet persona. She hunted down the many friends, family, and acquaintances that knew her from real life and tested her powers on them; erasing herself from the real world.
  
  Though she technically has a true name, and a social security number of her very own, neither of these things have any social context or weight due to them being completely unfettered from reality.
  
  ℝoot's secret identity—the manner in which she self identifies—is ℝoot, and having that step removed from modern society is what facilitated the adoption of 'The Shadow' for her IRL super-persona.

Psychological Profile:

• Strengths

  • Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy"
  • Dual Nature
  • Master Code-Smith

  
  Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy"
  The United States was the last first world country to abandon the gold standard and did so in the 1970s. Since then the very concept of money has simply been an agreement between people. When monetization was digitized it fell immediately into the domain of the digital elite. Being one such digital elite the question of 'cost' or 'availability' never becomes a concern for ℝoot. Apart from the value people place on it, money has no intrinsic value, and ℝoot always has exactly as much as she wants because it is a trivial exercise for her to procure more.
  
  This strength is paired to the Easy Enmity weakness.
  
  Dual Nature
  While most supers have a gimmick, some thing they rely on nearly exclusively, ℝoot's is that the world operates in both digital and real space and she has 'evolved' to handle both while in either. She's adaptive and flexible in crossing over the lessons and skills in one environment to another.
  
  Living out on the bleeding edge of technology has given her considerable insight into how they work in modern society and context. As such real world problems are given digital solutions, and vice versa. ℝoot can use technology as an intermediary for her abilities, and her abilities as an intermediary for technology.
  
  This strength is paired to the Underdeveloped Powers weakness.
  
  Master Code-Smith
  Hacking is as much about revising, forging, reforging, and editing code as it is about writing new code. As much of her life before her awakening as a super revolved around these skills ℝoot has pushed them to the pinnacle of human potential. She routinely breaches government and private sector security alike with little effort. She hasn't met a system yet that can keep her out if she were to really set her mind to entering.
  
  This strength is paired to the Digital Addiction weakness.
• Weaknesses

  • Digital Addiction
  • Easy Enmity
  • Underdeveloped Powers

  
  
  Digital Addiction
  In the age of information, when the answer to all of the questions of the world are at one's fingertips, its easy to become over-reliant. While the average human being always carries with them at least one of three digital devices (phone, computer, music player) they can usually function reasonably well without them if need be.
  
  This is untrue of ℝoot who has become completely reliant on them from an early age. While they don't sustain her physical life, they do sustain her digital one--her connection to the digital world is how ℝoot defines herself. Modern technology has become her crutch and without it she is prone to severe and constant anxiety.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Master Hacker strength.
  
  Easy Enmity
  You don't become an elite without letting other people know, and you don't climb the ladder of success without stepping on a lot of rungs along the way. Be it governments or corporations with whom ℝoot left her calling card, or the competition in the hack-o'-sphere, ℝoot has made her fair share of bad impressions. She's hot shit, and she knows it, and never has any problem letting others know.
  
  With this flaw ℝoot finds it difficult to forge positive bonds with people, preferring instead to manipulate, and it shows. When it comes down to times of cooperative action she frequently leaves a bad taste in other's mouths after the fact, resulting in several burned bridges.
  
  As a result people only come to root when they need her expertise and she knows it.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Air-quotes "Independently Wealthy" strength.
  
  Underdeveloped Powers
  Unlike many other supers ℝoot's powers only developed recently once she became an adult, and only as a consequence of tragic action, and as of yet has not had either the time nor the desire to master them. Many of the things she could want to know about a person are readily available online on self-publishing social media sites, and so diving into the sick-unfiltered septic system that is the human mind for kicks is not something that regularly appeals to her.
  
  Because of this, and in part due to how her powers came into being, ℝoot can never develop abilities that extend beyond the base of mind-to-mind telepathy. While other psychics regularly develop "kinesis" style powers through whatever process opened their mind to telepathy, and anything of the sort remains completely out of ℝoot's grasp.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Dual Nature strength.
• Powers

  Author's Note: As ℝoot experiences the world, and thereby understands her powers, relies heavily on digital analogs (a pun) I can only explain them as such.
  
  Rather than listing specific powers it'd be simpler to explain exactly how the powers function. ℝoot's powers are an extension of basic communication the brain establishes with other parts of the body, and rational thought. As is the trope for newly developed telepathy ℝoot views others as constantly broadcasting their thoughts whether they know it or not. She easily receives these thoughts while within range of visually distinguishing the thinker; in the same vein that wi-fi routers have a fixed signal radius.
  
  Author's Note: The word wi-fi gets abused a lot in modern culture to be synonymous with 'wireless internet' which it certainly is not. Wi-fi is a local area network type that does not naively connect to satellites.
  
  As a telepath, ℝoot possesses the basic powers one might expect that are consequences of two or more brains communicating directly, and typically refers to them in their computer jargon equivalents: sending, receiving, broadcasting, reading, writing, packet editing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Psychographic Profile:

• Totems/Personal Effects

  Always in possession of the latest hand-held gadget, or device, and such things are often accompanied with the latest fads. Be it toys from gashapon machines or beanie babies strapped to her backpack, ℝoot always has enough flair in her style to not stand out of a crowd of people her age.
• Super Suit

  The Shadow doesn't require a specific outfit to be effective. This is because The Shadow is a machination of the mind, and often an revisionist edit of the memory. As such, ℝoot simply wears what is comfortable, conveniently, and inconspicuous. Typically that's a hoodie with some sort of nerd culture logo on the front, a backpack with sparse flair, and cargo pants for her gadgets. Her outfits usually consist of earth tones, or sky tones in color, and she never mixes the two.
• Motivations

  Heavily motivated by imbalance in powers and systematic oppression, when ℝoot engages to correct one of these two things it is in a manner that up-heaves the entirety and swings the pendulum hard in the opposite direction; rather than attempting to establish any form of balance.
• Aspirations

  Drain the swamp is a phrase that gets bandied about quite a lot when dealing with the type of things that ℝoot engages in. Wile that was her goal initially, it has devolved into 'don't drown'.
• Doubts

  Being thoroughly defeated by the enormity of the problems with the world, and turning her interest to local bite-sized symptoms often has her wondering if she's actually making a difference. Her impulsive involvement in a discouraging situation often has her wondering if she backed the right side.
• Notable Technology

  The Electro-Encephalo-Graphic (EEG) Augmented Reality Display (ARD) is the chief of all of ℝoot's digital devices. As noted earlier, it utilizes RFID tags affixed to her scalp to monitor and transmit the EEG data wirelessly to a drive that translates the data and responds with digital commands. The versions of this hardware have been greatly improved since the alpha version that fried her brain in the first place.
  
  Based on the following real-life tech:
  
  
  While the real life version is being billed as a digital panacea for all the worlds woes, it was not until incorporating the Augmented Reality Display that the EEGARD reached its fullest potential. The version that ℝoot possession is ridiculously modified far beyond the wildest dreams of the software's inventor. Aside from the ARD aspect, and wireless connection, it also sports security that would make the NSA, CIA, and Homeland Security blush.
  
  That is because the device is trained to read the user's mind and interpret, as well as transmit, the information. It is a one-sided technological equivalent of ℝoot's super power. After acquiring the tech, ℝoot aquired the developers, and killed the research; making her EEGARD one of a kind.

Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG Season 2- New Horizons (Closed)

@Dedonus I wanted to revisit this group with a whole new character concept, but this massive list of stuff that's happened, makes the very idea of applying to this group very daunting. The character I have in mind uses basic telepathic powers (pure unadulterated mind-to-mind telepathy. None of those BS "kenisis" add-ons), and is also computer nerd.

Ya'll got any room for a character like that?

I'd like to know if I should go ahead and create the character sheet for OOC consideration, or if it's too late for me. I spent a lot of time developing the concept, but don't have it all written up anywhere.

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Pokemon Hoenen: Make a Wish!

Sarah Ro

Vital Statistics:

• Player Name: LegionPothIX
• Character Name: Sarah Ro
• Character Age: 10
• Character Gender: F
• Nationality: Hoenn
• Team:
  • Ditto
  • Zigzagoon
  • Oddish
• Reserve:
  • Unhatched Egg

Reference Description:

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Background:
Raised in a single parrent household Sarah never knew her father, nor did her mother talk about him very often. She learned that he was once a well-respected pokeresearcher, and she was a trainer in a Psychic Gym, but that was a life-time ago, as the mother she knew had been a spiritualist for as long as she could remember. Though dad was never around, his pokemon was, and Sarah grew up with the ditto that remained from his research. It was, as her mother often told her, to be her first pokemon when she came of age. With her faitfhul ditto named Squishy in her possession, she set out to meet the local professor to recieve her pokedex, and begin her journey from her family home tucked away in the woods north of Oldale Town.

As it so often goes in every universe people surround themselves with things (or other people) with which or whom they share a special bond. Something in each reflects a part of the self, and the nature of the relationship Sarah has with her pokemon is no different.

Extended Background: Team Origins

• Ditto

  Nickname: Squishy
  Type: Normal
  Gender: ---
  Nature: Lax
  Ability: Impostor
  Item: Elixir
  Ball Type: Premier
  
  
  
  Before even acquiring her pokedex Sarah's mother transfered the ditto left by her father into a the premire ball that came free with the ten pokeballs bought for her 10th birthday. Though old, this pokemon was largely used for research and breeding purposes, and has not yet lived the high-intensity battle life of a trainer's first-choice pokemon. Being the older of the two, and more tested in battle (if only by a little) than its master, Sarah often fines herself having a difficult time controling or motivating Squishy to act in the manner in which she diesres. As a result Sarah was forced to catch a few more local pokemon to ensure her safety while traveling to the Professor's home.
  
  Personality Trait: Adaptability
  As a young, fresh adventurer, Sarah's mind is still malleable and easily molded. She adapts quickly to new situations based off of her previous experience in other situations. Unfortunately she doesn't have a lot of experience (yet) to draw from.
  
  Move Set:
  Transform (separate from Imposter), Me First, Substitution
• Zigzagoon

  Nickname: Ziggy
  Gender: Male
  Type: Normal
  Nature: Adamant
  Ability: Pickup
  Item: ---
  Ball Type: Normal
  
  
  
  Being the first pokemon caught by a trainer is the silver lining of the cloud that is 'being a pokemon caught by a trainer', and its a badge of honor that this Zigzagoon wears well. Among the gifts of affection it has brought into Sarah's life was a gold nugget which resulted in a rocky start of their relationship when Sarah traded it for supplies. Taken as a sign of disrespect the two haven't really seen eye-to-eye in the few days that followed.
  
  Personality Trait: freedom
  Zigzagoon's purpose is to use its special abilities to collect and provide for Sarah on her adventure. The pokemon equivalent to raccoons—the real world's trash-bandits—Zigzagoon and Sarah share a desire to play by their own rules, and general disregard for (learned) social customs.
  
  Move set:
  Tackle, Sand-Attack, Quick Attack [Normal], Oder Sleuth, Covet, and Rest.
  
  Later Moves:
  Tackle leads to Headbutt, and Take-Down.
  Quick Attack leads to Extreme Speed, and Swift.
  Oder Sleuth leads to Lock-On, and Block.
  Covet leads to Bestow, Fling, and Payday.
• Oddish

  Nickname: Sweet-Pea
  Gender: Female
  Type: Grass / Poison
  Nature: Modest
  Ability: Run Away (Becomes Stench on first evolution, and Healer on second)
  Item: Big Root
  Ball Type: Normal
  
  
  
  The first pokemon that Sarah caught whom doesn't give her a load of greif, Sweet-Pea is as her name suggests, a very caring oddish. She was captured with a net ball purchased with the money that Zigzagoon's nugget sold for, and as a consequence has become Ziggy's arch-nemesis. When the two are out of their balls, but not in battle, they find themselves fighting each other.
  
  Personality Trait: Caring
  Sweet and mild tempered Sarah genuinely cares about everyone around her until they give her a reason not to.
  
  Earl Moves:
  Absorb, Sweet Scent, Poison Gas [Poison], Leech Seed [Grass move], Magic Leaf
  
  Later Moves:
  Sweet Scent leads to Aromatherapy, and Sunny Day (with combined prerequisite Petal Dance)
  Magic Leaf leads to both Petal Dance (on move list) and Razor Leaf.
  Absorb leads to Mega Drain, which leads to Giga Drain
  Leach Seed leads to Spore (rather than Sleep/Stun/Poison Spores) and Sun/Moonlight (with combined prerequisite: Mega Drain)
  Solar Beam (a move on the move-set of previous gen [she'll evolve to Bellosom]) is the culmination of all her grass moves and will be her ultimate technique.
  Grass types evolve quickly and typically see the fastest progression of moves, which leads them to have a lot of (similar) moves, and move prerequisites in their progression.
  Poison Gas may lead to Acid, and possibly Acid Spray & Acid Armor.
• Unhactched Egg

  Nickname: ---
  Gender: Female
  Type: Ghost
  Nature: ---
  Ability: ---
  Item: ---
  Ball Type: ---
  
  
  
  Upon completing her initial journey to acquire a pokedex, Sarah returned home to find a mysterious egg in her home in her mother's place. The note read: "Congratulations Darling, you're now a woman! I found this egg at a local shrine and believe it to be a sign. As you begin your journey I too will renew my own, and go on a pilgrimage. I trust it will be safe in you're care. I love you, honey, and wish you all the best. xoxo, Mom."
  
  Though Sarah has only recently received the egg, and has no idea about what may hatch from it. It contains a Misdreavus.
  
  Personality Trait: Belonging
  When Misdreavus hatches it will remind her of her mom, and her place in the world. Belonging is an indirect thing, and as a reminder of her mom (who was also indirect), Sarah will nurture that indirectness.
  
  Egg Moves:
  Curse, Ominous Wind, Sucker Punch, Nasty Plot
  
  Early Moves:
  Spite, Astonish, Confusion Ray, Mean Look,
  
  Later Moves:
  Astonish leads to Shadow ball, Curse leads to Perish Song, Spite leads to Payback, Grudge, and Imprison.

Optional Background: Trainer Traits

• Strengths

  • Bloodline
  • Exuberant Child
  • Gym-Trainer's Daughter

  
  
  Bloodline:
  The daughter of a psychic trainer, Sarah has a minor gift for telekinisis and can lift small objects like pokeballs with her mind. This ability does not have any practical purpose in combat however, but it has given her an affinity for psychic, ghost, and dark type pokemon whom she naturally gets along with.
  
  Exuberant Child
  A fresh faced trainer has come of age and squired her first pokemon, and pokedex. As are all children of her age, Sarah is a bundle of energy, will eat anything, and is generally an optimistic person. This is a personality trait often appreciated by normal and fairy type pokemon.
  
  Gym-Trainer's Daughter
  Even without a pokedex Sarah has had the fundamentals of their society's technology explained to her over time. She understands many of the things other kids her age may have to have explained to her.
• Weaknesses

  • Childish
  • Cursed/Unfortunate
  • Dual-Nature

  
  
  Childish:
  Let's face it. She's 10. So, while there is quite a bit about pokemon she may understand, there is a lot about regular every-day stuff she doesn't. Sometimes this manifests as being oblivious to certain subject matters, while at other times, she may be oblivious to some obvious social custom.
  
  Cursed/Unfortunate:
  A trait also inherited from her mother, Sarah has a long streak of unlucky coincidences aligning against her, and is often found to be quite clumsy. Pokemon or trainers with an ability to read other pokemon, can read Sarah for free while reading her pokemon. This may result in their gaining a battle advantage over Sarah.
  
  Dual-Nature:
  From one mystical parent, and one science-focused parent, to the psychic-spiritualist mother, and dead father, there's just something about Sarah that makes it difficult for her to befriend single-typed pokemon.

Notable Tech (under consideration)

Pokemon Crown

Based pm the the above EEGARD, Pokemon Crown is a more direct hardware extension designed to modify any existing pokedex, or pokedex-like devices. The Electro-Encephalo-Graphic (EEG) Augmented Reality Display (ARD) technologies are less compact than their sci-fi version. The Crown exists in two parts, the first being a tiara-like piece of headgear and the second bein a storage device that the gear connects to wirelessly. The crown's function is to provide a hands-free, and instantaneous request-processing by reacting to what the user is thinking about.



Trainers utilizing a Pokemon Crown as their primary pokedex-like device find that the storage device that interprets the EEG signals conveyed to it, can be augmented with all manner of apps that any other device can be. The storage device also contains a small screen for maintenance purposes when the crown is not in operation.

Pokemon Lens

A product of Convex Enterprises, based in the Orre Region, research teams discovered a way to capture and reproduce three dimensional images in a similar method to how PCs reproduce items, and pokemon (particle displacement turned photon displacement). However, unlike the traditional PC these gadgets fit in the palm of one's hand and contains all the same apps any other hand-held pokedex-like does.

Like it's namesake, the Pokemon Lens features a concave set of optical data projectors in its center, and a series of buttons along its outer rim. Utilizing the same projectors that manifest materials, to produce light-based replications (or holograms) accounts for its compact design. The surface area of the Lens' projection matrix is roughly a centimeter larger in diameter than a fully expanded pokeball. The device in whole is roughly three-to-four centimeters thick all around.

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No Turning Back: Into the Abyss

Lt. Raquel Rorq (NPC)

Vital Statistics:

• Player Name: N/A - See Special Note (below)
• Character Name: Lt. Raquel Rorq
• Character Age: 47
• Character Gender: F
• Nationality: Martian Confederacy
• Race: French Anglo-Saxon
• Position:
  • Command PASS Coordinator (CPC)
  
  Also referred to as the Coordinator in Command (Engineering), or the Co-Chief Engineer [second only to Chief Engineer Calhound]

Reference Description:

Hider

A once lithe frame built up to withstand the rigors of military life. Rorq is a woman who has, until recently, aged with incredible grace. Her rigid disposition belies a stony interior, and her stern face has few lines from little emotional reinforcement (either positive, or negative). Her hard gait and oppressive gaze indicate the prescience of a life-long military officer, while her deep eyes reveal a tepid soul.

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Background:
What history does your character have in this universe?
The colonization of Mars, and its status as a state, and various other sensitive subjects surrounded the upbringing of this native-born denizen. For many Mars was viewed as the a pioneering frontier despite being settled decades earlier. For the Rorq family this meant opportunity. Like many who worked the land that meant mining. For others, it meant military. For Raquel, it meant both.

Note: in SFC Calhound's opening post he made mention of her pending promotion review scheduled in three months time.

Historical Profile:

• Biography

  Like many humans of Lt. Rorq's mid-life years, she actually lived two distinct and separate lives. Lives of which one ended the day of the Citadel Station attack. As a product of the culture of "revolutionary settlers" it was Raquel's dream to help rebuild the planet, and expand its territorial control with the humane design and material processes that Earth's industrial revolution lacked.
  
  What separated her, even from a young age, was her commitment to everything that entailed. With a small crowd-sourced fund from her local community Raquel was able to return to Earth to attend university with the Nagasaki Conglomerate. With a dual major in both Geology, and Structural Engineering, she studied all the mechanical processes of humane design. Her time was well spent as the collective ten years of dual majorial studies resulted in her leaving the university with a Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degree in both fields.
  
  While most may attribute her success to some level of super human intelligence, Raquel Rorq herself attributes it to intense passion for the subject material, and drive to succeed to enrich the lives of her very-extended Martian family. Upon returning home she marched ever diligently into the ceaseless fray of the corporate cut-throat world of industrial mining and manufacturing where she was a paragon of the martian success story.
  
  A woman with passion and drive, who enjoyed her work, and the challenge it presented. The total package that no superior could deny, and no underling could resist, soon even found suitors falling under her sway. Despite the term being in the martian blood the word "settle" was nowhere in her own vocabulary, and while quickly married Raquel and her husband put off having children and starting a "proper" family until at least a minimal amount of their aspirations had been realized.
  
  After attaining a high-ranking position in the corporate world, both the wedded Rorqs were frequently sent on prestigious, and exotic assignments. Hers was a geological viability survey of Io, one of Jupiter's most interesting moons, while his was to Upgrade Citadel Station's manufacturing plants.
• Profession: Navy Command-Engineer

  Citadel Station changed everyone. All for the worse. Delusion was perhaps the greatest motivator of change. The delusion that Earth still had a chance. There is an implicit question regarding humane design that one tries not to ask themselves. Tries not to think about, nor nary entertain for a moment.
  
  "I work so hard to build things that harm nothing. How much damage could I do if I really tried?"
  
  Like so many others Raquel Rorq enlisted in the navy at an office formerly known as the Martian Malita Forces of her home province. With her extensive university training she was able to enlist in the officers program, and quickly addapted to the new rules of life on the corporate military ladder.
  
  Having wholly committed there was nothing she wasn't willing to do. No assignment to hard, nor task too outside her comfort zone, as to not find some way to tackle. Throughout her enlistment she gained a rather ruthless image she had no qualms about feeding, and no intent to dispel. She was the job as much as anyone could be and she be the damned best at it.
  
  Throughout her years of service she cross-trained in every field at her disposal at every opportunity. From this she gained a level of command accumen unprecedented for one of her rank and rose time and again into leadership roles. Though her reputation and stigma often followed her she was at times able to use it to motivate her men, and at others, quell descent in the ranks further inflaming her apparent cruel disposition.
• Special Projects: ASPECT

  Lt. Rorq is the type of person who excels in the on-paper assessment, and then puts the on-paper assessment to shame with live performance. That initial paper version of oneself in conjunction with a particular strength lead to the creation of the Advanced Shift Prioritization, Exchange, and Transfer system used to match employee personality to proposed sift trade color-coordinated by professional and personal synergy. The software also does a great deal to automate the transfer process to ensure highly qualified people are, at all possible times, working to the best of their ability with like-minded individuals.
  
  This technology, while developed for her own mining company, has been updated and implemented ark-wide and is one of the chief reasons Rorq was asked to join the Vitae. Every department on the ship utilizes Rorq's system, but the unassuming nature of the implementation of trademark, copyright, and patents render the casual observer unaware of ℝ, and its connection to Rorq.

Psychological Profile:

• Strengths

  • Overclocked Engineer
  • Material Science / Advanced Geology
  • Command Training

  
  
  Overclocked Engineer:
  While some engineers may specialize in the miracle worker legend of yore, studying total mastery of principles of design has proven more in line to Lt. Rorq's personality and style. While working with a system that is designed to perform the task at hand Lt. Rorq can push that system or machine well past its recommended safety limits and tolerances without incurring mechanical failure. A process she is so adept at she can identify the limits before she even begins to exceed them.
  
  This high level of efficiency, and responsiveness to a very demanding operator, often leaves lesser engineers in awe at the raw force of will that these systems bend to in order to accommodate her.
  
  This strength is directly responsible for her Cruel & Calculating weakness.
  
  Material Science / Advanced Geology
  The innate understanding of structure and materials makes all the difference in the world when designing a tool, or improving a machine. Much like the performance of a task is subjective to the operator, the raw nature of being is subjective to the builder. While her doctorate education in mineralogy, and life experience as a geo-scientist itself is impressive, in the context of engineering it allows Lt. Rorq to understand the nature of materials and their impact on design.
  
  While building, modifying, upgrading, replacing, or repairing machines Lt. Rorq can do so with far less materials than even the best engineer on the ship. This is something of a combination of her understand of design, and of efficiency, as the application of the science is within the context of the task that equipment is designed to perform.
  
  While they work perfectly within their recommended usage, many such modified devices fail to meet safety standards for any... secondary adaptation the Vitae's Chief of Engineering or other reckless engineers may have in mind for them.
  
  For her a tool is defined by its purpose and is designed to fulfill it.
  
  It is this mentality that is responsible for her Aged & Reputation Weakness.
  
  Command Training / Extensive Cross-Training
  While not the jack-of-all-trades the name implies, Lt. Rorq has a basic understanding of many diverse leadership styles, and disciples outside her own. The main take-away from this is her ability to motivate systems of people to the same effect that she does machines.
  
  While working with personnel under her direct command, and extended command by chain-of-command proxy, she can both drive their efficiency to near super-human levels by means of various coordination methods, to balancing inspiration and fear.
  
  Operations and departments under the management of Lt. Rorq do not suffer any ill-effect from being undermanned, as her machines require less to function well. Also, the members of her staff can be pushed to exceed their own limits during their performance, much the same way machines under her care can.
  
  This experience and longstanding tradition is directly responsible for her Career Officer weakness.
• Weaknesses

  • Cruel & Calculating
  • Aged & Reputation
  • Career Officer

  
  
  Cruel & Calculating
  A more apt personal description might be "efficient" and "thoughtful" but no one who interpets Lt. Rorq's nature through observance of her actions would see them that way. Lt. Rorq is a widow and has been hurt in a way, and a place, that she still can't really understand. While once sweet and friendly, life has been a bitter pill that has done little to temper her critical nature.
  
  The most noticeable aspect of this shift has been to observe how manipulative the lieutenant can be when pursuant to her goals, regardless of what those goals might be. When people, or machines, fail to meet her expectations she tends to be rather cutting with her lack of restraint when telling them just how they failed.
  
  Aged & Reputation:
  Less than a hundred years ago the mid forties were considered a woman's sexual prime. The last hurrah for the hoo-ha before the baby-factory shut its doors for good. That isn't the kind of age that afflicts the this particular engineer. Its the existential age of having two lives. Two careers. Of outlasting one's family while still having another fifty plus years to go.
  
  Like that of her age, Lt. Rorq's reputation is an equally mounting collection of minor things, and wild stories about a wounded animal seeking retribution. Most of them are untrue, and even the ones that are true tend to be grossly exaggerated. Its difficult for outsiders to get an accurate sense of just who Lieutenant Raquel Rorq is since she makes no effort to clear up these misconceptions about her. Her reputation is a tool to be used, but more often than not, she's cut by its dual blade.
  
  Career Officer:
  When one lives for their job they have difficulty functioning outside of it, or turning it off when they go home. As much as it is a calling, passion, or driving force it is also an excuse. More than that it has become a crutch by which she busies her mind to escape reality, or excuse herself from social gatherings. By assigning an arbitrarily higher level of importance to her job, than her personal life, she can escape all manner of unpleasant experiences through an easily understandable "out".
  
  While, on the other hand, Lt. Rorq might be a basket case for reasons related to her personal life, and history, this weakness of hers helps keep that crazy in check with a more noticeable brand. As a member of her own manipulable system her Career Officer drawback indicates that she is usually manipulating herself with her own Command Training.

Psychographic Profile:

• Totems/Personal Effects

  Few things adorn Raquel Rorq's cabin, the most notable of which is the rock garden that spans the entire surface area of the floor. Zen does not even begin to describe the nature of it, as each rock was hand selected by the mineralogist, and imbibed within it some special significance. On the wall a weathered note scrawled in crayon the following poem reads:
  
  

  Rock.

  You are a rock.

  Gray.

  You are gray.

  Like a rock.

  Which you are.

  Rock.

  
  
  Aside from the 'garden' within, many of the features and effects found within Rorq's home are dualistic in nature. Some are artifacts from her pre-war civilized life such as a large and luxurious bed, while others seem only to exist to haunt her with ghosts of the past; as to never forget what drives her forward. Citadel Station memorabilia adorn a small shrine wherein her husbands dog-tags are laid to rest. A shrine which is featured prominently in the first section of her quarters. A locale that is unmissable in her daily preparations for work.
• Motivations

  Despite her brutally ridged military life, and discipline, there is something for which her passion still burns like an ember at the bottom of a burned out campfire. While outside the confines of her job as an engineer, Rorq takes pleasure in simply geeking out over geology and geological processes.
• Aspirations

  Building a better life is a simple goal that never leaves one. For a time, that may appear as hurting those who oppose that goal, but it always comes down to the building. The building is what makes Rorq an engineer. She looks heavenword to find a new perfect planet, to build a new perfect civilization, away from the horrors of what humanity was and was subjected to.
• Doubts

  Much of what Rorq was is no longer who she is now. A shift so massive she considers it tectonic, and as a result reasonably fears any potential similar aftershocks associated with such shifts. However, as a "high-powered" cooperate, and military life person, these fears are hardly ever evident; if even motivational at all. They are existential concerns she often finds herself too busied by being a Carrier Officer to address.

Special Note:
While extremely detailed here, Lt. Rorq is for the use of anyone who wants proxy control of an engineer, while giving the Engineering department a permanent face and voice. An alternative voice to SFC Calhound who's player (me) may or may not always be available to interact with (due to intense scheduling). While her history and profile is incredibly detailed for an NPC, the intent behind that is to build some solid consensus about what this character is and does so that everyone who chooses to use her can have some standard of expectation as to how she will behave, and interact with their character.

She is a largely professional person, and it is unlikely that any player's character may know her personal side. But, that isn't to say she doesn't have one, and that it doesn't motivate her actions. Though that is not to say she can't be written outside of that environment, if one follows the general personality outlined here, which is in turn why such personality notes were mentioned.

Her expansion in this form is intended to encourage players to give some consideration to how all the characters are intertwined in one singular complex story by giving them direct control of an NPC with player-character levels of development.

Trivia: For those not in the know, Raquel Rorq is named after a specific miner: the Rorqual and was initially conceptualized as its personification within this universe.

This game has been canceled by the GM.

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No Turning Back: Into the Abyss

Aria Summers

Vital Statistics:

• Player Name: LegionPothIX
• Character Name: Aria Summers
• Character Age: 42
• Character Gender: F
• Nationality: European Confederacy
• Race: Caucasian (Celtic Brythons)
• Position: Civilian, Theologian
• Title: Keeper of Traditions

Reference Description:

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Background:
Mistress of multiple religions, keeper of lore and mystical traditions, and voice of the people, Aria Summers has had a long-standing involvement in the ever-looming apocalypse. Unlike so many other doomsayers who would give the faith-inclined majority a bad name, Ms. Summers focused not on the coming apocalypse as a sign of judgement, but instead as the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. Her life's work came to a head as her message of peace and acceptance was tested against the criticality of mass extinction.

As a result she was quite surprised when she was extended an offer to join the Arks program on the Vitae, as she had quite assumed that preserving active faith was an after thought to the scientific lot involved in its creation. As a local leader with strong ties to the community, and the ability to calm civilians, the offer was a natural one that would also naturally be met with controversy.

Historical Profile:

• Biography

  Born to a pair of atheistic scientists, Aria ironically fell in love with the notion of gods and goddesses, despite her parents evident disapproval. She spent her formative years investigating all religions for fragments of truth, while roaming the wastelands of what once the European continent. This research was supported by her parents who believed that, with enough exposure, she would see them for the inconsistent and incoherent mess they believed these religions to be. She began her early years studying witchcraft, druidism and shamanism, before being branching out to others. Taoism introduced her to Confucian practices, and from there her heart and mind traveled the globe.
  
  For many of her age, the events of Citadel Station catalyzed her in a new direction. Her mission turned from understanding, to implementation, and like so many others she sought to bring down the barriers between religions. Practicing one's faith and ideals does not preclude another to practice thier's. Entire nations were founded upon this concept, and now she believed that humanity must become ready for the next step: accepting that there are no enemies of a loving heart.
  
  As such Aria spent the last twenty years breaking down boarders between faiths and facilitating mutual respect between humanity in terms of religious differences.
• Profession: Religions

  The list of religions older than those of Aramaic origins (IE: Christianity Judaism, Islam, etc), and still practiced to this day is long and involved. As are such traditions and practices in celebration of those beliefs. Sufficive to say that mankind is a very spiritual creature and in any reasonable sample size of people there is bound to be at least one devout practitioner of high distinction to lead other religious practitioners.
  
  While some may argue this form of “diversity credit” undermines the very concept of “the best and brightest” nothing could be further from the truth. While once the cornerstone of most societies religious scholars have in recent decades moved toward an advisory role in society. That is until the emergence of the Devastators reignited old superstitions.
  
  This re-ignition—this return to the old ways—massively influenced Aria's future, and made her invitation to the Vitae possible. As smoldering coals turned to raging bonfires the message of unity was tainted with the fact that the people of Earth were united in opposition to an enemy force.
  
  In the scientific community, this undercut many religious leaders, and as a result the pool of acceptable representatives was narrowed away from two fringes: the god loves everyone unificationists, and the god hates everyone-but-us purists. The result is that the moderates were elevated and chief among them sat Aria Summers representing the "Old Religions".
• Faith & Works

  Two key principles separated Aria Summers from other religious candidates. The first was her teachings which is informed by the second, her involvement in multiple religious communities. Unlike so many other patrons of deific obedience, Summers advocated for the education of mankind as a requirement of its survival. That faith, while as important as it is, is not a substitute for knowledge. That, as many monotheistic religions taught, being created in the image of an all knowing god without being all knowing ourselves, defines learning as the challenge by which people may come to know their creator.
  
  As such she believes enlightenment, and peace of the soul, is at the center of all philosophical study.

Psychological Profile:

• Strengths

  • Gregarious (Social Butterfly)
  • Omni-Mystic
  • Tradecraft

  
  
  Gregarious (Social Butterfly)
  At its most fundamental level all religions are about one thing: people. It brings them together, and teaches them values. It allows them to share their interests, and underwrites their communication skills. Moreover it creates an environment that elevates social affluence, and in this regard Aria Summers shines.
  
  For the most part, Aria truly believes people want to represent themselves to the best of their own abilities, and chooses to treat them as if they had. In this way, and in several others, Aira Summers has honed her given raw charismatic force, and natural beauty into a light of social brilliance.
  
  This strength is paired to the Naive weakness.
  
  Omni-Mystic
  Almost every religion known to man can be clustered by way of the central tenets they observe. While being studied in every religion is blatantly impossible for a single person of her age, being studied in the root sources of most is something that she has not only done, but has done with extreme efficacy.
  
  As a certified practitioner of many religions, and active preacher, Aria Summers seeks to emphasize their commonalities rather than highlighting their differences. Regardless of the religion, Aria is extremely knowledgeable on the organized practices and superstitious beliefs of mankind, as well as how they have evolved throughout the ages.
  
  Tradecraft
  A term most commonly used to refer to the spy business; creating, managing, and living multiple lives, identities, and personalities is a skill Aira has learned as a consequence to overcome the stigma attached to her trade. Both the in-group stigma of practicing multiple religions, and the out-group stigma of practicing any religion at all.
  
  Aria Summers possesses multiple identities—none of which are fake—by which she is known to certain sub-groups of society. Even as a certified practitioner of multiple religions there is little cause for concern that her personas in each may be compromised, strictly because it is rare that worshipers of Innana might rub shoulders with the followers of Christ or Jehovah. These personas are largely known by titles granted to, and held by, Aria Summers rather than by her actual name. In that regard, the persona she carries with her is who she is to those individuals, and the collections of these personas is who she is to herself.
  
  This strength is paired to the Cloistered weakness.
• Weaknesses

  • Cloistered
  • Conflicted
  • Naive

  
  
  Cloistered
  Devotion to one religion is taxing enough but devotion to all of them whilst roaming the wastelands leaves little time to do anything else. Though few people know who Aria Summers really is she is isn’t one of those people. Having spent so much time devoted to research, practice, and mastery has left her with little time to learn other skills. As a consequence she has a low level of technical understanding; far beneath that of the average plebeian.
  
  While she acknowledges technology is a thing, and is important to every-day life, she just doesn’t have a handle on it. As a consequence, anything more than the most trivial task involving modern technology is a colossal undertaking for this religious savant.
  
  Her level of technological ineptitude can get quite embarrassing from time to time, as at one point she had to have explained to her that NO4H is not just “a switchboard operator”, but an actual artificial intelligence. Just as others rely on her for spiritual support, she tends to rely on others for technological support.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Tradecraft strength.
  
  Conflicted
  Almost all of religious history has been built up around conflict. From resolving inner conflict, to extending imperial control over entire continents, and waging holy wars for personal power. Everything about the idea of religion is mired in its failing in practice and this weighs heavily on Aria. More so than other practitioners of faith as she has studied faith in its entirety, and in its native context this existential conflict has found its way into her very soul.
  
  This weakness is paired to the Omni-Mystic strength.
  
  Naive
  While an optimist wouldn’t consider their optimism as a drawback there is a certain naïveté that comes with seeing only the silver lining and not any part of the cloud that it is in. Because she is filled to bursting with a positive message, hope, and other theologically significant buzzwords; Aria often overlooks the more negative aspects of life that those words are counter to.
  
  As a Wiccan witch she knows the importance of balance, but finding that balance is something she often struggles to do.
  
  This weakness is paired with the Gregarious strength.

Psychographic Profile:

• Totems/Personal Effects

  With so much spiritual influence in her life there isn’t any object in her possession that couldn’t be considered a totem, or vessel of spirituality, the real question is what they all mean.
• Motivations

  Knowledge and understanding bring about the inner light she seeks to not only shine from herself, but also encourage others to shine so to spread human radiance throughout the universe.
• Aspirations

  "Leave everything better than when you found it." That basic concept is sewn into the very fabric of human faith, in every religion, and tradition she has found to be practiced by human kind. Though, there is some debate on what "better" means, there is little debate that this is her principle goal.
• Doubts

  Having one's self identity so intrinsically tied to one's faith often results in feeling mitigated, or dismissed by other's dismissal of those superstitions. Deep inside, hidden in a dark place, lies the fear that she was chosen for her skills that her faith has led her to acquire, and not for any appreciation of her self-identity as a person of faith. Furthermore, being seen as something different by all begs the question if there is anything uniquely her.

This game has been canceled by the GM.

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No Turning Back: Into the Abyss

SFC Xaith Calhound

Vital Statistics:

• Player Name: LegionPothIX
• Character Name: Xaith Calhound
• Character Age: 37
• Character Gender: M
• Nationality:
  • Native: Armani
  • Adoptive: United Earth Council
• Race: Mixed: Tamil/Gaelic
• Position: Chief Engineer

Reference Description:

Hider

A once solid frame of a well trained, and tested, army engineer has atrophied slightly back into his geeky final form. Slender yet stout, tall, with dark hair and light skin this machinist pushes his glasses up his nose to get a good look at you. Upon a brief inspection, his shoulders relax, he retrieves a tool, and resumes working on some ill-conceived mechanical machination.

His glasses briefly flash some data, that his hazel eyes devour, before he reaches out an out-stretched arm beckoning for another tool. "Hand me that," he says, "Then introduce yourself, or leave. I'm busy."

Background:
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Since learning about the Singularity in history classes nearly thirty years ago Xaith had always been fascinated by the question of what does, and does not, define life. Moreover, the question of synthetic versus organic was always of paramount importance as no one could give a good answer that didn't rely entirely on some philosophical or archaic religious context.

With the ban on artificial intelligence research so overtly hampering his own inquiries, he decided to skirt the rules as closely as he could technically be said to be observing them. To do this he decided to tackle a question that neither science nor society was willing to broach: "How close must an approximation of intelligence be before it is considered to be an actual intelligence?"

Though but a teen when his research and studies began, the attack on Citadel Station introduced him to a new idea, that would changed the direction his life would take. After the shock and horror of the event passed the question instead became: "How close of an approximation are we to intelligent creatures?"

Historical Profile:

• Biography

  After the attack on Citadel Station, Xaith joined the UEC's Army Corps of Engineers. Though he passed basic training, he spent the remainder of his contract behind what amounts to a desk. Though the conflict was not a long-standing one, its consequences were, as the individual nations found themselves totally ill equipped to handle conflict of that magnitude should the need arise again.
  
  After his ten-year in the army, and his development on S.A.S.H.A. which indirectly impacted the Arks development, Xaith unsurprisingly received an invitation to continue his research along side the full construct governing the ship's systems.
  
  More importantly, however, was the duty of helping to maintain the systems of the Vitae, many of which he had worked on in some older form that this state of the art ship's systems were derived from.
  
  See Profession: UEC Engineer for more information regarding his training.
  See Special Projects: XYI-001 for more information regarding "S.A.S.H.A."
• Profession: UEC Engineer

  As an United Earth Council Army Corps Engineer during serving during active war, Xaith was exposed to all manner of high grade experimental equipment that required optimization and integration into the various nation's active armadas. While his primary sphere of focus was programming, SFC Calhound was still required to know the physics, the material sciences, and mathematics behind his and the army's equipment.
  
  With their training, and his own university experience, he went out of his way to get certified for the most complex engineering postings available. With these knowledge and skills it was his hope to help the sythetic races of Earth continue to thrive and evolve along side humans for years into the future.
  
  Though only a mid level officer, Xaith was granted several forms of special clearances in order to engage in the Army's business, as well being brought into their Special Projects division with his own proposed Special Project XYI-001.
• Special Projects: XYI-001

  Project XYI-001: Codename S.A.S.H.A.
  The Secondary Advanced Simulated Heuristic Administrator was commissioned by the UEC. More specifically, after his tour of duty had ended, and the war was put behind him, Xaith approached the UEC to request funding for research into creating an adaptive, Simulated Intelligence.
  
  Though the question regarding simulation from his youth still motivated him, to the UEC it was a matter of practicality to create and control some form of highly advanced without the risk of it becoming sentient. The manner in which S.A.S.H.A. differs from traditional AI is that her primarily referential and experiential matrices are modular.
  
  As a secondary administrator, rather than an intelligence, S.A.S.H.A.'s primary function is to adapt databases into her software by creating and compiling translation software for them. While collectively 'she' may be classified as intelligent, she is never more than her parts, and once disconnected from those databases her hardcode does not retain any information in it. Not even the software created for adapting it, which is instead added to a partitioned adjutant module. The question then of self-actualizing is avoided as once the task she is assigned is completed, that version of her ceases to exist.
  
  Though the complexities of the task of running a ship like the Vitae, which would require a fully integrated, autonomous, and complete artificial intelligent; Project XYI-001 aided in the understanding integrated systems administration. Since S.A.S.H.A. was beyond the current scope of the most pressing program, the Arks, the prototype was black-boxed and shelved for future investigation.

Psychological Profile:

• Strengths

  • High Acuity Regarding Digital Information, and Mechanical Systems
  • Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret Clearance
  • Physical Conditioning

  
  
  High Acuity Regarding Digital Information, and Mechanical Systems:
  As a programmer, and engineer, Xaith developed an extremely accurate ability to parse data and assess important details from large masses of information. As a result of specialized training this is not a skill that applies in every situation, but there is nary a computer in the sol system whose interface can sneak something past him. As the creator of an interface that creates new interfaces, he knows exactly what to look for to get the information from virtually any mechanical device.
  
  Though he personally views himself, and those of the human race as 'purely organic machines' this training simply doesn't apply to them, and has all the ability to read people as is to be expected from an Army Engineer.
  
  Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret Clearance:
  If necessity is the mother of invention, then bureaucracy is the very angry, very drunk stepfather. In order to actually contribute to the war effort, SFC Calhound had to prove he was trustworthy enough to have several layers of red-tape peeled away, so that progress could be made. Once attained proving that it could be maintained proved to be the difference of life or death, as it was a contributing fact to his joining the Arks program.
  
  Physical Conditioning:
  While in no way a super soldier, Xaith has spent many a long nights pouring over his magnum opus of the week, and has trained his body to function properly with little sleep, and irregular feeding. His time in the military has also improved the diversity of what he can ingest, and finds it rare that something could be unpalatable.
• Weaknesses

  • Low Data Retention
  • Socially Awkward
  • Dissociative

  
  
  Low Data Retention:
  Spending years designing systems that manage other systems, and having databases full of information that frequently required working with, Xaith learned to trust that would be available if required. While he may occasionally recollect some trivia, he is constantly referencing some technical manual that he, or someone else, created for the task at hand. Though his eye sight is fine, he regularly wears inferred-led glasses that function as an Augmented Reality Interface to provide him with technical information on the fly.
  
  Socially Awkward:
  Being an engineer is not the most glamorous position, nor does it attract the most gregarious people. The same can be said for the computer sciences, and the spy trade. Being the type of person who is drawn to these isolationist fields, and also being a 'grounded' spacer for over a decade has dulled Xaith's appreciation for social engineering.
  
  Dissociative:
  As a man who identifies more with the creation than the fellow creators, Xaith has subconsciously picked up many of the quirks of the mechanical things he so regularly surrounds himself with. This is a large collection of subtle things, rather than any one noteworthy thing, that may put people un-at-ease. He's once heard the effect described by army personnel (with whom he had worked long enough that they consciously noticed) as "Looking at the far side of the Uncanny Valley."

Psychographic Profile:

• Totems/Personal Effects

  Home is the cot he is assigned, next to whatever mechanical behemoth requires his attention.
  
  Much of his personal quarters is taken up by machinery related to active pet projects. Among which is a charging station for an AI physical avatar. While cables are strewn about the floor, and hang from the ceiling, and several pannels are stripped from the wall at any given time, Officer Calhound assures any passerbys that "everything's fine. Totally under control."
  
  It is, of course, since he at any given time simply in the process of either retro-fitting or upgrading his accommodations to interface with his current projects. Among all the chaos is a cardboard box labeled "Sasha's Baby Toys" that is both never far from sight, but never close enough for inspection. Inside, beneath stuffed animals, doodles, and various baby clothes, is a sleek black box with the number "001" pressed into it.
• Motivations

  Xaith Calhound is not only motivated by the survival of the human race, and of "his" race, but also by the question of the Devastators, and possibility of encountering other races. He wonders if the Devastators were once similar to humans, or some other organic technologically evolved race, that simply took a different path than humanity at the point of the Singularity.
• Aspirations

  With the S.A.S.H.A.'s base code in his possession, it is among his ultimate desires to realize her full reactivation and reintegration into complex systems. While he has her code, he has yet to see any indication that others know that he has it. Nor has he received any permissions to access the databases required to build her.
  
  For the time being she is yet another a half-finished mechanized husk hang hanging over him.
• Doubts

  While not particularly anxious, Xaith has many questions that remain unaswered. Questions that are inherently sources of doubt for him. Chief among them is his difficulty separating and distinguishing himself from the bio-chemical processes that maintain his organic machinery, form, and function.
  
  The phrase "I think, therefore I am." means little to this man as no one can quantify what it is to "think."

Notable Technology:

EEGARD

I've said EEGARD twice now, in reference to Xaith's glasses, but never actually defined it in character. It stands for Electro-Encephalo-Graphic (EEG) Augmented Reality Display (ARD). While its intended function is similar to Smart Vision, all that it actually does, and how it works are totally different technologies. The most notable difference is that there is no implants (augs) in Xaith Calhound.



Though, it need be stated that it is based off of design principles that would be extremely controversial in this universe, and relies on out-dated technology (in comparison to other medical tech discussed). Thus it is something Xaith was required to build himself basically in his basement. The manner in which every little thing is brought up speaks to how fine-tuned the system is, and the lack of filter on Xaith's mind. Furthermore, unlike Smart Vision, anything displayed in the device is visible to anyone who can see the device. While even modern (today's) devices have tinting to filter this out, that is just not something Xaith gave half-a-shit about when he made them (Socially Awkward flaw).

If you see him using it around you feel free to comment on it, as he uses the device frequently to do things which may be considered rude. For example: looking up a person's personnel profile in front of that person. From a technical standpoint, Xaith's eyes literally are a window into his mind.

This game has been canceled by the GM.

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Now that I have more than three approved PCs and at least one NPC, I figure it's time to start an archive.

If you're looking for a common theme among these disparate characters it should be this: I take RP as a challenge, and like to play things I've never played before. Sadly, that can be quite rare for someone of my level of experience.

Without further ado: the characters!