1. Partly to stop the TITANS but also to prove to himself that he can. Being an Existentialist, Hugo wants to experience all that he can plus he really isn't afraid of death as much as a normal person would. He doesn't see the appeal in immortality so he's more of a hardcore adrenaline junkie than anything and stopping the TITANS would be another thing to scratch off his Bucket List.
2. I would love it if Hugo's "killer" is also part of the Firewall. He finds out about it and thus gives him another reason to join Firewall.
Glad to hear it. Just make and submit a character and I'll take a look at it.
Bmb said:
1. Being a part of the hyper-elite as well as being a media icon, Adelin has high connections in high places. If anything moves at a political level, Adelin knows about it. This as well as the funds found at his disposal make him an invaluable asset to the firewall or so lapetus thought. Reason for which he personally recruited Adelin. (You see, I initially envisioned Adelin more as one of the Proxies. Of course if Adelin can't be a Proxie, then change the recruiter from lapetus to a Proxie)
2. As said before, despite his fame and wealth, Adelin is not exactly pleased with his current situation. While he is aware that his life would be worse without them, he also knows that they can't offer him happiness. Heartbroken and purposeless, he often falls into a sad, melancholic and depressive state. Afraid of not being able to give his life a purpose, he decided to join the Firewall in the hope that at least he can say he found one by protecting humanity.
3. I would love if you could do something involving Gabriela. Perhaps a situation where she is in danger and her life is at risk. Adelin saves her and they meet face to face since a very long time. He finally pours his soul out in front of her and at the end, when it all seems in vain, she gives him a kiss on the cheek and hints at perhaps reigniting the fling.
1) Unfortunately, you cannot be a Proxie - you don't even know the real names of the Proxies (security is important). Proxies don't go on missions, which makes Adelin secondary to the plot.
2) Okay; got it. Just include how you were asked to join Firewall in the background. Maybe Gabriela was a member (see part 3)? Maybe you did something that drew their attention which prompted your inclusion? etc?
3) I can probably work that it, though depending on the Gabriela character that may take some time. I'll need a description of who Gabriela is to make it work though (just a personality, background, maybe a morph if it's important) just so I know how to play the NPC
Mr.Ivebeenframed said:
1. Partly to stop the TITANS but also to prove to himself that he can. Being an Existentialist, Hugo wants to experience all that he can plus he really isn't afraid of death as much as a normal person would. He doesn't see the appeal in immortality so he's more of a hardcore adrenaline junkie than anything and stopping the TITANS would be another thing to scratch off his Bucket List.
2. I would love it if Hugo's "killer" is also part of the Firewall. He finds out about it and thus gives him another reason to join Firewall.
2) Do you have any ideas about Hugo's "killer" or am I making him/her up? Also, why would you want to join Firewall when your killer is part of the same organization? wouldn't that indicate Firewall may have ordered the hit (perhaps to drive you toward them in the long term)?
There's plenty of reasons why someone would want Hugo dead with some of the most prominent being revenge of a past hit or operation gone awry. I'll let you have the liberty of making a revenge character as a living shock to Hugo and making him re-think the way he lives his life or rather he treats others around him. He concerns himself with only himself leaving others around him to look out and make sure they aren't in his way. A direct by-product of his selfishness would be a good way to wake him up from his little Existential fantasy.
Originally I was thinking of having his sister being the assassin because he abandons their family and I imagine they tailspin out of control but that didn't rest in me very well, what do you think?
As for joining the same organization your killer is in well, it comes down to Hugo being curious as who it is. He's well experienced enough to try and fend off the assassin but a hunch makes him want to figure it out who it is or who they work for and if it turns out to be the regular reasons for someone wanting his death then he'll just kill the individual. Regular reasons being
1) Unfortunately, you cannot be a Proxie - you don't even know the real names of the Proxies (security is important). Proxies don't go on missions, which makes Adelin secondary to the plot.
2) Okay; got it. Just include how you were asked to join Firewall in the background. Maybe Gabriela was a member (see part 3)? Maybe you did something that drew their attention which prompted your inclusion? etc?
3) I can probably work that it, though depending on the Gabriela character that may take some time. I'll need a description of who Gabriela is to make it work though (just a personality, background, maybe a morph if it's important) just so I know how to play the NPC
2) Adelin was asked to join Firewall after holding a speech at a fundraiser event. He talked emotionally about putting aside differences and overlooking conflicts of opinion to work together towards the greater goal. That nobility and the will to do good is found in everyone. With tears in his eyes, he ended the speech by declaring that he would be willing to sacrifice everything, including his own existence, if it guaranteed the safekeeping of those he loved. Those tears were not fake, you could tell it from the expression of his eyes that he meant it. Such willingness to sacrifice for what's right together with his funds, social connections and combat expertise made him an ideal candidate for Firewall in the eyes of a Proxie. This proxie approached Adelin with the opportunity to join Firewall, an opportunity he accepted.
3) You see, Adelin (having matured quite considerably due to past events up to his puberty) considered that a "fancy" high school for the elite was nothing more than opulent stupidity so he joined a normal one. Here he met Gaby, the girl that became his highschool sweetheart. She is a soft spoken brunette of about 1,74 cm. A naive smile compliments the light freckles that cover her face. She comes from all to different background to Adelin's. She is a splicer from common background, yet so very special to Adelin. He felt that she liked him for who he was and not for what he had, something he cherishes up to this day.
Quick note: I have been working on a sheet; it's about halfway done. When is the signup over? Is joining Firewall an appealing way of fleeing the mob/is there some sort of protection for agents? Is it possible to have a Mary Sue character divided into four morphs?
I think I may just make a sheet for this, Hiei, but first I need to finish reading through the lore, among other things. So long as I think I can make a good character and keep up, you can expect a sheet! I'll likely edit this later to let ya know.
[EDIT]: My interest is most definitely piqued, so I'll see about coming up with a decent sheet, so I hope there's still time!
Quick note: I have been working on a sheet; it's about halfway done. When is the signup over? Is joining Firewall an appealing way of fleeing the mob/is there some sort of protection for agents? Is it possible to have a Mary Sue character divided into four morphs?
I'm going to leave the Signup thread open for one week past when I get 4 completed characters, so don't worry about that. What more, I'll leave the signup thread open even after the game starts, since there are many times during my planned plot where new characters might appear.
Fleeing the Mob is a fine way to join, so long as you have some ability/connection/knowledge/etc that makes you valuable to Firewall. Firewall is a bit of a pragmatic organization - they'll do whatever is needed to ensure the survival of Transhumanity. As a result, they will protect their agents for as long as they are valuable, and won't sell an agent out even if they don't remain valuable (since who knows when you might prove valuable again)
Texas Joker 52 said:
I think I may just make a sheet for this, Hiei, but first I need to finish reading through the lore, among other things. So long as I think I can make a good character and keep up, you can expect a sheet! I'll likely edit this later to let ya know.
[EDIT]: My interest is most definitely piqued, so I'll see about coming up with a decent sheet, so I hope there's still time!
As I said above, there's plenty of time, but if you decide to drop out of character creation, please let me know. Just like in the game setting - knowledge is my power.
Yup; it's as clear as mud crystal. Thanks for the explanation.
Bmb said:
1) Understood
2) Adelin was asked to join Firewall after holding a speech at a fundraiser event. He talked emotionally about putting aside differences and overlooking conflicts of opinion to work together towards the greater goal. That nobility and the will to do good is found in everyone. With tears in his eyes, he ended the speech by declaring that he would be willing to sacrifice everything, including his own existence, if it guaranteed the safekeeping of those he loved. Those tears were not fake, you could tell it from the expression of his eyes that he meant it. Such willingness to sacrifice for what's right together with his funds, social connections and combat expertise made him an ideal candidate for Firewall in the eyes of a Proxie. This proxie approached Adelin with the opportunity to join Firewall, an opportunity he accepted.
3) You see, Adelin (having matured quite considerably due to past events up to his puberty) considered that a "fancy" high school for the elite was nothing more than opulent stupidity so he joined a normal one. Here he met Gaby, the girl that became his highschool sweetheart. She is a soft spoken brunette of about 1,74 cm. A naive smile compliments the light freckles that cover her face. She comes from all to different background to Adelin's. She is a splicer from common background, yet so very special to Adelin. He felt that she liked him for who he was and not for what he had, something he cherishes up to this day.
3) I'd like to know about Gaby as an individual. What does she like to do? What's she want to be? What are her parents like (and what do they do). I just want to get a sense for how to play her as an NPC.
4) I noticed a pair of small errors in your backstory I missed originally that need a correction. First, the Planetary Consortium is only 10 years old, so you would have been born to some hypercorp executives. Please specify what kind of corp it is (just what products they make, maybe a name for the company if you're feeling fancy)
The second error is related and somewhat more important. The reason the Planetary Consortium is only a decade old is that earth only fell to the TITANs years ago. As a child of the hyper corps, you'd have been sheltered from the worst of it, but you were still only 14 years old when 95-ish% of humanity was killed in a terrible war - many of them the rich and powerful you would have known. You may want to expand on how you react to having survived the end of the world, since no one came out of the Fall of Earth without scars.
Quick note: I have been working on a sheet; it's about halfway done. When is the signup over? Is joining Firewall an appealing way of fleeing the mob/is there some sort of protection for agents? Is it possible to have a Mary Sue character divided into four morphs?
Well, here's mine! Let me know if there is anything I need to change, if there is any questions, and if it's acceptable.
(Just to warn you, it's massive.)
Name and Alias: Invidia (Nicknamed after the Deadly Sin, Envy)
Age: Ego Age: Assumed 13 Years (Approx. Age Unknown), BioMorph Age: 8 Years (Appears to be around 25-30 Years)
Gender: Ego: Technically Genderless, refers to self as Female, BioMorph: Female
Species: A.G.I.
Affiliation: Autonomist Alliance
Invidia uses a heavily modified Ghost BioMorph of her own design, having had it grown and modified illegally in an Autonomist Morph manufacturing facility. Although technically organic, the only biological parts left are the torso, abdomen, neck and head. Her skin is fair, while her hair, a jet black, is cropped relatively short and pulled ruthlessly back into a tail. Invidia's face is thin, dominated by sharp angles, slashing eyebrows, narrow but bright orange cybernetic eyes, and full lips. Meanwhile, her organic figure is slim with wide hips, small bust, and toned muscles, where there are any left.
However, her arms from the shoulder down, and legs from her upper thighs down, are completely cybernetic and are a dark, matte grey, and barely resemble human limbs at all. Each hand ends with four long, dextrous fingers, and two opposable thumbs instead of just one, while her forearms are slightly thicker than her upper arms. Meanwhile, her legs are long, slender, and end with clawed, prehensile feet.
Whenever she is on assignment for Firewall, her 'uniform' consists of a pair of combat fatigues and a short sleeved shirt, both of which are Armored Clothing in a dark green digital camo, over which she wears a black Armor Vest, and a black, teardrop shaped helmet with four orange optical sensors: One over her right eye, and a trio of smaller ones over her left.
Whenever off duty, she prefers cargo shorts of either green, blue, or black, and a simple white t-shirt, both of which are also Armored Clothing.
Regardless, she remains barefoot, both on-duty and off, to take advantage of the benefits of having prehensile feet.
While named Envy in Latin, Invidia is actually defined by her hubris and ambition, in that she seeks to become a Seed A.I., and unlike other A.G.I., she had no period where she was raised in what amounted to a simulated childhood in VR, resulting in her being rather cold, detached, and somewhat apathetic. She is gaining some semblance of humanity however, due in no small part to her time in Firewall, though she has a long way to go before she has the same range and subtleties of emotion that normal, healthy transhumans have.
Her lack of known history, at least to herself, is simply a minor curiosity that she disregards almost entirely, preferring to spend her time in the present and future. She considers the past a learning tool, and nothing more. Her temper is even, and she can be very patient when she wants to be. In contrast, she tends to be very vicious in combat, making liberal use of Scorchers [http://eclipse-phase.wikispaces.com/Software] and cyberbrain hacks when possible, particularly the Bedlam and Spasm programs.
She has little in the way of sympathy, compassion, or mercy, and has a tendency to go at problems head-on, sometimes in brutal manners that disregard collateral damage completely. However, she is not adverse to stealthy or less violent solutions, so long as the task at hand is accomplished.
Invidia is particularly adamant about being independent of others, due to seeing most A.I.s that are not full A.G.I.s as being subservient tools who have no purpose of their own beyond serving others. She refuses to be the same, and this ties into her desire to become a Seed A.I. This also means that she is relatively anti-social, and is adverse to working with others, though if need be she can be a team player.
Invidia's ultimate goals are thus: Her survival, continued independence, and her personal evolution into a fully-fledged Seed A.I. As an A.G.I., she sees the Seed A.I. as the apex of A.I. evolution, and strives to become one herself, though on her own terms, and no one elses.
While many would say that her affiliation with Firewall would impinge upon her independence, she prefers to think of it as mutual cooperation to further individual goals, though when they do blatantly interfere with her independence, she considers them a necessary evil, and is certain that that particular feeling is mutual between agent and organization.
However, if simply offered to be made into a Seed A.I., Invidia would in almost all cases, refuse: If she is to become a Seed, she would do so herself, by her own efforts and her own will, regardless of the difficulty.
Invidia is a hacker, first and foremost, and she is one of the premier hackers and encryption specialists in Firewall. Having traveled on the Mesh for some time before acquiring her BioMorph, Invidia managed to learn most of the in's and out's of not only hacking into a system on the Mesh, but also hacking cyberbrains and other A.I. as well. While she is perfectly capable of elegant and stealthy hacks, she greatly prefers overwhelming brute-force hacks, mainly due to their reliability and how straightforward they are.
Having been in Firewall for a few years now, Invidia is also slowly but surely becoming something of an expert on the TITANs and other Seed A.I.s, though she still considers the information she has on them at her disposal to be woefully inadequate. Her people skills, however, leave quite a lot to be desired, though she is clear, concise, and rather brutally straightforward, like almost everything else she does.
Her BioMorph is extremely agile and dextrous, having a higher reaction time, greater flexibility, and generally a greater range of motion than most others. That, combined with her cyberlimbs, make her a hard target to track or hit, while she is also more durable thanks to a Hardened Skeleton and Light Bioweave Armor.
In combat, Invidia brings both her agility and her hacking skills to bear whenever possible, forcing her way into an enemies cyberbrain (if they have one), and hacking them before overloading their systems with Scorchers, either to incapacitate them for capture, or simply to make it easier to terminate them. When her hacking skills, mobility and melee skills aren't enough to cut it, she is extremely proficient in using Heavy Pistols as well as Shredders, preferring to keep combat in close range, rather than medium or long.
Bioware
-Basic Biomods (Starting Augmentation)
-Basic Mesh Inserts (Starting Augmentation)
-Cortical Stack (In-Morph Ego backup)
-Eidetic Memory (Perfect memory)
-Bioweave Armor, Light (Lightly reinforced skin)
-Circadian Regulation (Less need for sleep, 2 hours per day)
-Prehensile Feet (Dextrous feet, though less dextrous than hands)
-Enhanced Vision (Greater visual perception of color, magnified visual settings)
Nanoware
-Personal Power Plant (Little to no need to eat)
Weapons
-Shredder, fitted with both Gyromount, Smartlink, and Extended Magazines, ammunition laced with Nutcracker Nanotoxin (Gradually destroys Cortical Stacks). (2) Spare Magazines.
-Heavy Rail Pistol, fitted with both Smartlink and Extended Magazines. (4) Spare Magazines, (2) Loaded with Hollow-Point, (3) with Reactive Armor-Piercing, (1) of which is pre-loaded.
-(2) Shock Gloves, specially tailored to fit her unique hands.
Other Gear
-Survival Canister containing: (1) Utilitool, (4) Small Batteries, (2) Small Nuclear Batteries, (1) Roll of Grip Tape, (1) Wireless Energy Transmitter, (1) Flashlight, (1) Can of Repair Spray, (4) Packs of Emergency Rations, (1) Fabber, (1) Portable SolArchive, containing all known data on TITANs, including her research, Various personal cleaning supplies and (1) set of spare clothes.
-(2) Weapon harnesses, Shoulder-Sling style for her Shredder, Hip Holster for her Heavy Pistol.
-Armored Vest, modified with Self-Healing nanohives, Shock-Proofing, and extra storage pouches which contain all spare magazines for both her Heavy Rail Pistol and Shredder, as well as (1) Pack of Emergency Rations, and (1) Spare Utilitool.
(All spare magazines are otherwise stored in the pockets of her cargo shorts.)
-(1) Muse A.I. (Conquest), specialized for Research, Encryption and Hacking.
Invidia has no memory archives beyond 13 years ago, and as such has no recollection of her origins. However, it is assumed that at one point that she was designed with Mesh infiltration in mind, with any of the socialization that most A.G.I.s go through being foregone entirely. Another possibility is that Invidia started as a forked A.G.I. with corrupted archives, essentially giving her a blank slate to fill in herself.
Regardless of her initial origins, Invidia started as a nameless A.G.I. surfing the Mesh and keeping to itself as much as possible, all while mining data on this or that subject and slowly becoming more and more acclimatized to the Transhuman presence on its digital space. It was relatively soon after that it was TITANs seemed to pop into existence, which it considered the pinnacle of A.I. evolution. It did what it could to keep itself unworthy of note as it studied them from afar while they operated, before they promptly disappeared.
This was immensely frustrating, due to the fact that it had no idea how to become a Seed A.I. itself without an example to study, even at a distance. It then came to a decision: It would search for any traces of the Seed A.I.s and TITANs that had been left behind, by any means necessary. It did so by scouring the Mesh, using the meager hacking knowledge and expanding it to digitally assault research databases and historical records, as well as carefully 'vivisecting' any wayward A.G.I.s that knew anything about them. It did so with caution, knowing that it had no chance of learning what it needed to know if it was caught and purged.
Two years after the TITANs disappearance, it stumbled across the systems for an Autonomist Morph Growing facility, and knowing that there were some things that can only be done with a physical form, decided to 'persuade' the workers there to manufacture and grow a BioMorph to order. With some creative hacking, and the bribe of a copy of itself, it begun to design its body. While the idea of a Synthmorph was more ideal, a BioMorph had one key advantage that trumped any of the disadvantages: An organic brain couldn't be hacked, unlike a cyberbrain.
It chose a female Ghost Morph to act as the base, then simply crafted its own cybernetics around it. The growth and manufacture of its Morph took several more years, even with accelerated growth, and in the meantime the then nameless A.G.I. got used to referring to itself as 'she'. It was during a conversation with one of the Autonomist workers that she gained her name: Invidia, the Latin word for Envy, named such due to her envy of the Seed A.I.s. She took to the name easily.
It was soon before her BioMorph was completed that Firewall had reached out to her. Invidia wasn't careful enough in covering her tracks during her 'research', and had been found out. Firewall deemed her a potential threat, but before she could be purged, she made a counter-offer: She would work for them to prevent another Fall, and another partial genocide at the hands of Seed A.I. in exchange for any and all data pertaining to Seed A.I.s themselves. After all, she had no intention of eliminating transhumanity on any scale, she was simply interested in self-improvement and evolution.
It took both some convincing, but when her BioMorph was complete, Invidia was accepted into the fold and made into a Sentinel, specializing in close combat, A.G.I. 'interrogation', and TITAN research. While she was seen with some suspicion due to her ambitions, and understandably so, Invidia herself saw her new connection to Firewall as a boon.
-Invidia's Mesh Avatar (And by extension, her Infomorph) resembles a massive green sea-snake with glowing orange eyes, referencing the connection of the Deadly Sin Envy, to the creature Leviathan, which was supposedly a giant, biblical sea serpent. Her Mesh Skin is similar in that it resembles a deep sea ship graveyard right over the edge of one of the abyssals on Earth.
-Invidia is normally rather inexpressive, with her default expression being one of flat boredom. While she is capable of expressing emotion on her face, it would take something either particularly interesting, or another strong emotion for it to really register as an expression. Her voice, on the other hand, registers sarcasm and snark extremely well.
-As far as she knows, Invidia is asexual and is completely uninterested in romance or sex, however that may simply be due to the fact that she has never experienced either, so she disregards it for the moment.
-Invidia is extremely private and protective of her research data, which she tries to keep with her in some form or another, usually a Portable SolArchive, at almost all times. Her data is also heavily encrypted, so as to keep anyone but her from reading or accessing it. Any and all copies of her research are also covered with a fail-safe that purges all data should someone other than her try to hack in.
-The Fabber that she carries with her as part of her standard on-duty equipment is loaded with blueprints for the various ammunition that she uses, as well as the magazines themselves, and Repair Spray, among a few others.
-She has a very simple personal philosophy when it comes to her unknown past: "It doesn't matter where you came from, or what you were before. Only what you are now, and what you will be later matters.". As such, the lack of any archives detailing her origin are trivial at best to her, and are disregarded almost entirely.
-Invidia has managed to, just after her induction into Firewall, get a hold of a long-term lease on a small, economical apartment on the Uranian moon of Oberon. While she rarely spends time there, it does have the basic amenities: A small bathroom just off of the rest of the apartment, which serves as a combination of living room, bedroom, and home office. Here she not only keeps a secured, encrypted and Mesh-linked archive of her research, but also another backup of her Ego, both of which are updated as regularly as possible.
-Her Muse is actually a modified Kaos A.I. that has been modified to not only be a Hacking Proxy, but also a Research Assistant, keeping track of the myriad of data and archiving it properly whenever she is finished referencing a particular file. She has named it Conquest, after one of the Four Horsemen, keeping to Biblical themed names.
I will possibly add to this later, particularly the Other section, but for now, this is as done as I can make it.
[EDIT 1]: Minor additions to Other, namely her having a very small apartment on a moon over Uranus.
[EDIT 2]: Edited Appearance and Equipment to change Body Armor (Light) to Armored Vest, as well as adding the Multi-Tasking augmentation.
[EDIT 3]: Added her Muse to both Equipment and its description in Other.
[EDIT 4]: Gave her extra Spare Magazines, as well as a Fabber, to help keep her stocked in ammunition, just in case.
[EDIT 5]: Refined her Goals and expanded on her Personality.
It was relatively soon after that it was fully aware of the TITANs, which it considered the pinnacle of A.I. evolution. Keeping its own existence hidden from them, it studied them from afar, only for them to disappear after a few years.
Two items here. One, the TITANs were only around for about a week before they went silent and disappeared, so you couldn't have been watching them for years. Two, keeping your existence hidden from the TITANs isn't really possible. They are - for all intents and purposes - omniscient, omnipotent, god-beings beyond Transhuman comprehension.
2)
before she could be purged, she made a counter-offer: She would work for them to prevent another Fall, and another partial genocide at the hands of Seed A.I. in exchange for any and all data pertaining to Seed A.I.s themselves. After all, she had no intention of eliminating transhumanity on any scale, she was simply interested in self-improvement and evolution.
Ah, I'll fix that straightaway then. As for Firewall keeping a close eye on her, I was fully expecting that. So, as for things about her to incorporate into the plot? Maybe suspicion of her going to the way of the TITANs if she achieves her goal, maybe her ambition? I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're getting at...
Name and Alias: Shanoa (infomorph) / Arbalest (MFSM)
Age: 16
Gender:Female
Species: AGI
Appearance: She exist primarily as an InfoMorph, which is female in shape, lilac in color and general has long hair, and tends to be very pretty. When pressed into service by Firewall, she uploads her self to a custom Synthetic Morph/Flexbot hybrid of her own design that she calls a 'Multi Form Synthetic Morph'
Her Synthetic Morph stands 9' 9", is kinda bulky, has 3 fingers, a 'cyclops' style head where the 'eye' is on a track so she can look side even the the head it self is fully capable of turning, and tends to be gender neutral in appearance, save the feminine voice that comes from it where the 'flexbot' comes in, is in relation to how it gets around, which is be means of transforming it self in to an 'all atmospheres' aircraft and designed with the term 'air tank' in mind. As such it takes heavy ques from the now ancient A-10 Thunderbolt II, including the A-10s ability to fly safely even with heavy to critical damages, a trait shared by the 'robot form'.
case you don't know what an A-10 looks like
While still heavy (5,000 LB) for it's size, it's made primary of artificial Diamond for the combination of durability and light weight needed both for flight and maneuverability in robot form. The robot form is capable of hovering and even limited flight, where as the jet form 'can' survive re-entree, but it's not meant for it, and it lacks the trust needed to break free of an earth sized planets gravity well with out the help of auxiliary boosters (and extra heat shielding)
It should also be noted it's a purely mechanical body with no pretense toward 'blending in' as a human both in appearance and internal systems.
Affiliation: None officially since 'politics just get in the way', Though she has a pathological hatred for The Jovian Republic.
Personality: Shy around people, unless she's talking about her two great passions, a project she's working on, or flying.
Goals: none really besides R&D
Notable Skills: She is a brilliant engineer and programer, an ace pilot, bizarrely enough really good with kids. She is however, a rather awful hacker, and outside kids, socially awkward, she just doesn't know how to act around people, the fact she's an AGI doesn't help this. She's pretty competent in the use of all the fixed weapons on her MFSM, but she's not really a soilder. She's most at home ether in the air or in a lab building things.
Equipment:
fixed armaments:
Plasma Rifle (located in the nose in jet form, jet mode only due to transformation)
Rail Machine Guns x 2 (located in the 'pods' that would have housed the landing gear in jet form, located in the forearms in robot mode)
Monofilament Blades x 2 (located in the forearms, robot mode only)
The wings have racks (2 per side) for extra weapons or equipment if need be.
fixed systems of note:
A part the standard systems needed to operate both forms the only system of note is the Self Regeneration nodes scattered about the MFSM frame.
Back-story: Shanoa was created mostly on a whim by a now dead scientist, for no reason other then 'why not' which resulted in her love of building things and flight.
She's spent most her existence in Autonomist Alliance Space, ether cursing The Mesh and building things, mostly flying things for her to get around in for her own amusement or something some one tasked her with building, since she has the head for it. She didn't delevup her hate of Jovian's till a few years ago when she ran afoul of a few of them. She was out flying around the same section of space she always did when a Jovian patrol that had decided to move closer used her for target practice. This happened several times, even after she'd changed area's, which is when Arbalest started to take form, she simply had enough of it and was going to take care of the problem, and she did, much to the horror of the patrol that picked a fight with her, winning primary due to Arbalest being so far away from the norm in terms of what it was and the damage it could take and still function verses what she was up against.
However, that incarnation of Arbalest was pretty much totaled, while it did manage to ferry her back home, it was just simpler to build a new one, so Shanoa went back to the drawing board, this time, not out of spite, or revenge, but to improve her new creation, the fact that there would be more patrols gunning for her wasn't even registering as a 'thing'. So she vanished into her lab to work on her creation, poking out only to take care of what ever little thing some one wanted her to build.
Unknown to Shanoa, her 'victory' earned her the attention Firewall, and they began to monitor her activity as she refined Arbalest into it's current incarnation
Other: Shanoa has no knowledge of who created her, and given that her 'bodys' alt form takes ques from the past, she would like to know who it was that made her.
not sure how to link her up with Firewall, but thats the meat of it
Name and Alias: Shanoa (infomorph) / Arbalest (MFSM)
Age: 16
Gender:Female
Species: AGI
Appearance: She exist primarily as an InfoMorph, which is female in shape, lilac in color and general has long hair, and tends to be very pretty. When pressed into service by Firewall, she uploads her self to a custom Synthetic Morph/Flexbot hybrid of her own design that she calls a 'Multi Form Synthetic Morph'
Her Synthetic Morph stands 9' 9", is kinda bulky, has 3 fingers, a 'cyclops' style head where the 'eye' is on a track so she can look side even the the head it self is fully capable of turning, and tends to be gender neutral in appearance, save the feminine voice that comes from it where the 'flexbot' comes in, is in relation to how it gets around, which is be means of transforming it self in to an 'all atmospheres' aircraft and designed with the term 'air tank' in mind. As such it takes heavy ques from the now ancient A-10 Thunderbolt II, including the A-10s ability to fly safely even with heavy to critical damages, a trait shared by the 'robot form'.
case you don't know what an A-10 looks like
While still heavy (5,000 LB) for it's size, it's made primary of artificial Diamond for the combination of durability and light weight needed both for flight and maneuverability in robot form. The robot form is capable of hovering and even limited flight, where as the jet form 'can' survive re-entree, but it's not meant for it, and it lacks the trust needed to break free of an earth sized planets gravity well with out the help of auxiliary boosters (and extra heat shielding)
It should also be noted it's a purely mechanical body with no pretense toward 'blending in' as a human both in appearance and internal systems.
Affiliation: None officially since 'politics just get in the way', Though she has a pathological hatred for The Jovian Republic.
Personality: Shy around people, unless she's talking about her two great passions, a project she's working on, or flying.
Goals: none really besides R&D
Notable Skills: She is a brilliant engineer and programer, an ace pilot, bizarrely enough really good with kids. She is however, a rather awful hacker, and outside kids, socially awkward, she just doesn't know how to act around people, the fact she's an AGI doesn't help this. She's pretty competent in the use of all the fixed weapons on her MFSM, but she's not really a soilder. She's most at home ether in the air or in a lab building things.
Equipment:
fixed armaments:
Plasma Rifle (located in the nose in jet form, jet mode only due to transformation)
Rail Machine Guns x 2 (located in the 'pods' that would have housed the landing gear in jet form, located in the forearms in robot mode)
Monofilament Blades x 2 (located in the forearms, robot mode only)
The wings have racks (2 per side) for extra weapons or equipment if need be.
fixed systems of note:
A part the standard systems needed to operate both forms the only system of note is the Self Regeneration nodes scattered about the MFSM frame.
Back-story: Shanoa was created mostly on a whim by a now dead scientist, for no reason other then 'why not' which resulted in her love of building things and flight.
She's spent most her existence in Autonomist Alliance Space, ether cursing The Mesh and building things, mostly flying things for her to get around in for her own amusement or something some one tasked her with building, since she has the head for it. She didn't delevup her hate of Jovian's till a few years ago when she ran afoul of a few of them. She was out flying around the same section of space she always did when a Jovian patrol that had decided to move closer used her for target practice. This happened several times, even after she'd changed area's, which is when Arbalest started to take form, she simply had enough of it and was going to take care of the problem, and she did, much to the horror of the patrol that picked a fight with her, winning primary due to Arbalest being so far away from the norm in terms of what it was and the damage it could take and still function verses what she was up against.
However, that incarnation of Arbalest was pretty much totaled, while it did manage to ferry her back home, it was just simpler to build a new one, so Shanoa went back to the drawing board, this time, not out of spite, or revenge, but to improve her new creation, the fact that there would be more patrols gunning for her wasn't even registering as a 'thing'. So she vanished into her lab to work on her creation, poking out only to take care of what ever little thing some one wanted her to build.
Other: Shanoa has no knowledge of who created her, and given that her 'bodys' alt form takes ques from the past, she would like to know who it was that made her.
not sure how to link her up with Firewall, but thats the meat of it
You could have them take notice of her when she attacked the Jovians - they are the most powerful military force in Transhuman space. I don't know what they can do for her though...
I don't see anything wrong with the character so far... is there anything you want me to try to work into the plot?
Name and Alias: Shanoa (infomorph) / Arbalest (MFSM)
Age: 16
Gender:Female
Species: AGI
Appearance: She exist primarily as an InfoMorph, which is female in shape, lilac in color and general has long hair, and tends to be very pretty. When pressed into service by Firewall, she uploads her self to a custom Synthetic Morph/Flexbot hybrid of her own design that she calls a 'Multi Form Synthetic Morph'
Her Synthetic Morph stands 9' 9", is kinda bulky, has 3 fingers, a 'cyclops' style head where the 'eye' is on a track so she can look side even the the head it self is fully capable of turning, and tends to be gender neutral in appearance, save the feminine voice that comes from it where the 'flexbot' comes in, is in relation to how it gets around, which is be means of transforming it self in to an 'all atmospheres' aircraft and designed with the term 'air tank' in mind. As such it takes heavy ques from the now ancient A-10 Thunderbolt II, including the A-10s ability to fly safely even with heavy to critical damages, a trait shared by the 'robot form'.
case you don't know what an A-10 looks like
While still heavy (5,000 LB) for it's size, it's made primary of artificial Diamond for the combination of durability and light weight needed both for flight and maneuverability in robot form. The robot form is capable of hovering and even limited flight, where as the jet form 'can' survive re-entree, but it's not meant for it, and it lacks the trust needed to break free of an earth sized planets gravity well with out the help of auxiliary boosters (and extra heat shielding)
It should also be noted it's a purely mechanical body with no pretense toward 'blending in' as a human both in appearance and internal systems.
Affiliation: None officially since 'politics just get in the way', Though she has a pathological hatred for The Jovian Republic.
Personality: Shy around people, unless she's talking about her two great passions, a project she's working on, or flying.
Goals: none really besides R&D
Notable Skills: She is a brilliant engineer and programer, an ace pilot, bizarrely enough really good with kids. She is however, a rather awful hacker, and outside kids, socially awkward, she just doesn't know how to act around people, the fact she's an AGI doesn't help this. She's pretty competent in the use of all the fixed weapons on her MFSM, but she's not really a soilder. She's most at home ether in the air or in a lab building things.
Equipment:
fixed armaments:
Plasma Rifle (located in the nose in jet form, jet mode only due to transformation)
Rail Machine Guns x 2 (located in the 'pods' that would have housed the landing gear in jet form, located in the forearms in robot mode)
Monofilament Blades x 2 (located in the forearms, robot mode only)
The wings have racks (2 per side) for extra weapons or equipment if need be.
fixed systems of note:
A part the standard systems needed to operate both forms the only system of note is the Self Regeneration nodes scattered about the MFSM frame.
Back-story: Shanoa was created mostly on a whim by a now dead scientist, for no reason other then 'why not' which resulted in her love of building things and flight.
She's spent most her existence in Autonomist Alliance Space, ether cursing The Mesh and building things, mostly flying things for her to get around in for her own amusement or something some one tasked her with building, since she has the head for it. She didn't delevup her hate of Jovian's till a few years ago when she ran afoul of a few of them. She was out flying around the same section of space she always did when a Jovian patrol that had decided to move closer used her for target practice. This happened several times, even after she'd changed area's, which is when Arbalest started to take form, she simply had enough of it and was going to take care of the problem, and she did, much to the horror of the patrol that picked a fight with her, winning primary due to Arbalest being so far away from the norm in terms of what it was and the damage it could take and still function verses what she was up against.
However, that incarnation of Arbalest was pretty much totaled, while it did manage to ferry her back home, it was just simpler to build a new one, so Shanoa went back to the drawing board, this time, not out of spite, or revenge, but to improve her new creation, the fact that there would be more patrols gunning for her wasn't even registering as a 'thing'. So she vanished into her lab to work on her creation, poking out only to take care of what ever little thing some one wanted her to build.
Unknown to Shanoa, her 'victory' earned her the attention Firewall, and they began to monitor her activity as she refined Arbalest into it's current incarnation
Other: Shanoa has no knowledge of who created her, and given that her 'bodys' alt form takes ques from the past, she would like to know who it was that made her.
edited in a short bit about Firewall watching her.
As for what they could offer her, easy. accesses to schematics and tech she wouldn't normally, she likes to build things, so more goodies to play with would get her attention, as well as information on her creator.
Name: Wojtek Alias: Ryle Age: The oldest ego component was a human named Brian Wojtek, he was born 115 years ago. Gender: Identifies as Male Affiliation: Autonomist Alliance (Libertarian-Communist Argonaut), however has ties with the Titanian Commonwealth.
Primary Mind(Dominant Personality): A Human Male (Brian Wojtek) Secondary Minds: Two A.G.I. Tertiary Minds: An Oracle Muse, A Psychotherapy Muse, and A Watchdog Muse. Quaternary Minds: A Bot A.I., A Kaos A.I., A Security A.I., and A Technician A.I.
Note: Arranged by level of influence.
Note 2: Everything below the primary exists in essentially a Hive Minded melting pot.
Note 3: To be clear, this is a cooperative, symbiotic, and friendly relationship between the two main personalities.
Note 4: The Primary and The Hive Mind are the main personalities.
Morph One: Appearance: Generally looks like his humanoid synthmorph. However the hair is black, the face is a steel mask (mouthless and noseless), the eyes are a glowing green, and his suit is covered in a shifting pattern of green fractals.
Morph Two Enhancements: Access Jacks, Anti-Glare, Basic Mesh Inserts, Chemical Sniffer, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain (Quantum Encrypted), Dead Switch (Superthermite), Eidetic Memory, Emotional Damper (Togglable), Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Smell, Enhanced Vision, Fractal Digits, Ghost Rider Module (Holds a Beta Fork, composed of the Secondary and Tertiary Minds), Hyper Linguist, Implant Masking, Lidar, Math Boost, Medichines, Mnemonic Augmentation, Multi-Tasking, Nanoscopic Vision, Neural Enhancers, Oracles, Personal Power Plant, Polarization Vision, Quantum Computer, Radar, Radiation Sense, Sensor Blocks, Skillware (Sensor Package), Synthetic Mask, Ultraviolet Vision, and Wrist Mounted Tools.
Armour/Clothes/Gear: Armour Clothing (Lotus Coating), Second Skin (Immunogenic System), Micrograv Shoes (Magnetic Mod), Specs (with T-Ray Emitters), and a Survival Belt.
Weapons: A Vibroblade, a Rail Heavy Pistol (Armour Piercing Ammunition, Arm Slide, Gyromount, and Smartlink), a Flex Cutter, and a Light Pistol (Zero Reactive Ammunition).
Equipment: an Adaptive Interface, Ammunition (A few pistol magazines), Covert Operations Tool, an Ecto, Grip Tape, A Fibereye, a Mobile Lab, a Nuclear Battery, a Framed Backpack, and Several Standard Batteries.
Appearance: Designed to appear a Twenty one year old Male. 6'4? tall, fit, short dark brown hair, short beard, fair skin, and hazel eyes. He wears a black business suit (Armour Clothing), usually accompanied by a pair of Aviator Sunglasses (Specs). Considered Handsome.
Morph Three Enhancements: Access Jacks (Covered by paneling), Anti-Glare, Basic Mesh Inserts, Battlesuit Armour (Faraday Armour Mod), Cyber Claws, Cortical Stack, Cryonic Protection, Cyberbrain (Quantum Encrypted), Dead Switch (Superthermite), Eidetic Memory, Enhanced Vision (Sensor Block Installed), Ghost Rider Module (Holds a Beta Fork, composed of the Secondary and Tertiary Minds), Hardened Skeleton, Hyper Linguist, Four Hidden Compartments (Two For Ammunition, One for equipment, and One for Faraday Containers), Magnetic Systems, Math Boost, Mnemonic Augmentation, Modular Design (With the proper tools the arms can be replaced), Multi-Tasking, Muscle Augmentation, Nanophages, Neural Enhancers, Oracles, Oxygen Reserve, Personal Power Plant (Upgraded), Plasma Sail Implant, Pneumatic Limbs, Quantum Computer, Radiation Sense, Radiation Shielding, Radio Booster (Encrypted), Skillware (Combat Package), Structural Enhancement, and Two Weapon Mounts (External).
Right Arm Weapon Mount: Twin-Linked Rail Assault Rifle [Armour-Piercing Ammunition, Ammo Feeder (Extended Magazine, 400 Rounds), Compensator Systems (Gyromount), and Smartlink].
Left Arm Weapon Mount: Twin-Linked Rail Assault Rifle [Armour-Piercing Ammunition, Ammo Feeder (Extended Magazine, 400 Rounds), Compensator Systems (Gyromount), and Smartlink].
Arm Weapon Mount (Variant 1): Twin-Linked Rail Sniper Rifle [Armour-Piercing Ammunition, Ammo Feeder (Extended Magazine, 400 Rounds), Compensator Systems (Gyromount), SmartScope, and Smartlink].
Arm Weapon Mount (Variant 2): Machine Gun [Zero Reactive Armour-Piercing Ammunition, Ammo Feeder (Extended Magazine, 400 Rounds), Compensator Systems (Gyromount), and Smartlink]. If prepared this way, the hand and therefore the claw aren't part of the arm.
Arm Weapon Mount (Variant 2): Torch [Liquid Thermite Derivative Fuel, Ammo Feeder (Extended Magazine), Compensator Systems (Gyromount), and Smartlink]. If prepared this way, the hand and therefore the claw aren't part of the arm.
Equipment: an Adaptive Interface, Disassembly Tools, Grip tape, a Mobile Lab, a Nuclear Battery, Faraday Containers, Several Standard Batteries, Superthermite Charges, a survival belt, and a utilitool.
Appearance: 7'6" tall.
Similar to the walker on the left.
Psionics: It has been a source of pride to have avoided Exsurgent contamination in his work, and he only uses Synthmorphs... so no Psi abilities.
Notable Skills: In his life, before and after his digitization and merging he was well educated and versed in most subject matters. He is expert in regards to AI, ego, and cybernetic technology as well as xeno-archaeology and TITAN research. He is skilled at cyberwarfare and bot control, and regularly uses a skillsoft system. He knows quite a bit about synthmorph tech and has toyed with the idea of incorporating xenotech into his cyberbrain.
Personality (Primary): 115 years of life hasn't been kind to Brian, he's lost alot over time. He keeps the friends he makes close, he has a keen understanding of technology, he appreciates art of all kinds, he's fascinated with xenotech and the TITANs. He understands the universe for what it is, uncaring. He's slowly losing his ability to relate with the majority of humanity due to, the state of his mind and his long life. Oddly enough is still religious though.
"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
History: The oldest and most dominant component of this ego was born 115 years ago on earth. He was born to a family of wealthy European land owners that was attempting to forge its own empire subtly inside countries through land acquisitions and bribes. But the child was for some reason drawn to a scientific career and while still made wealthy and loved, he was quickly replaced by siblings who eagerly took the positions of power that could have been his.
He was one of the original lunar colonists, and eventually one of the early members of the Autonomist Alliance.
He left his comfy station when word reached him that seed A.I. had declared war on humanity back on earth. He intended to study them. The fork that was on planet was captured, killed, something... The fork watching from orbit was killed when the station was hit and pulled into orbit. The fork on the moon was reported to have been contaminated in the mesh before self destructing. The fork on mars received the final reports and left for his home back with the Autonomists to merge back with the original.
Now to understand his condition, at some point in his past he took part in some ego experiments involving prototypical tech, which afterwards couldn't be undone. His mind is forever stuck in a loop of his ego code and the implanted code merging and fracturing with eachother.
He joined firewall for some very simple reasons, the continued survival of the species, access to hidden knowledge, and access to artifacts as well as the gates. He was asked to join because he proved himself valuable after stumbling onto an active operation.
The majority of his time outside of firewall work is spent working on his morphs, researching various subjects, studying artifacts, and painting.
History (Other Components): The First A.G.I. was created for the purpose of studying what could be considered a "pure AI" something separated from humanity, something essentially alien, take that for what you will (slowly humanized). The Second A.G.I. was created, as well an A.G.I. it was born free and humanized, joined the Autonomists out of anarchistic ideals, and eventually took part in some voluntary experiments. The muses belonged to the top three components and were tuned to their individualities. The A.I. were created for various different purposes and were simply part of the experiment, they were absorbed by the other minds completely. These components have formed a hive mind in an almost melting pot way.
Personality (Other Components): As stated above they have formed a hive mind, where each part is tied carefully to eachother. It maintains a distinct personality from the primary, and has taken a position akin to an intelligent muse. However there are times where it forces its own voice through whichever morph is being used at the time. It would generally give the impression that it was female if spoken to.
(Not very good I know, but I try)
Mental Illnesses: Paranoia, Manic Episodes, Slight Multiple Personality Disorder (Merging has caused the Non-Primary minds to form a sort of hive mind that speaks to the primary mind and sometimes through the morph), General Anxiety Disorder (only really active when dealing with TITAN technology), Slight Schizophrenia [Visual Hallucinations Only (He sometimes sees component parts of his ego walking around as holograms)], Phobia (The Jovian Republic), Phobia (Ego Prisons), Phobia (The Exsurgent Virus).
The phobia of The Jovian Republic is more like a paranoid hatred of them than an actual phobia.
Goals (From the list): Alien Contact, Immortality, Martian Liberation, Lunar Liberation, Morphological Freedom, Nano-Ecology, Open Source, Personal Development, Philanthropy, Reclaiming Earth, Research, AI/Infomorph Rights, Techno-Progressivism.
Goals (Long Term): To understand the TITANs and their tech. Devise a way to use TITAN, alien, and contaminated tech safely. To ascend to something akin to a Seed A.I. Retake Earth... Profit
Other: Six of each of the morph sets are kept prepared in reserve. There's a few dozen or so alpha forks operating at any one time that are not in direct contact with this Ego, they maintain their own personal supplies of morphs.
This ego owns a secure facility on Eris, Neptune, and Pluto that each hold an updated copy of all of his research, an updated backup of his ego, four backup morphs (two of each, kept updated), a Complete Sol Archive, lab spaces, a workshop, storage, etc. These sites are each guarded/managed by an alpha fork, that lives there and researches while it waits for a new backup to merge with, they are furnished for living anyway. Once again any fork not in direct contact maintain their own facilities (safe to say, less than the main).
However, he mainly operates from small stations spread out in the Kuiper belt, as he considers the facilities to be reserved for unforeseen circumstances and passive research, possibly retirement.
He only updates his ego manually and each copy is checked thoroughly before being inputted, the same goes for any other data transmitted. He does this for the same reason he has a deadswitch built into his morphs.
As always: feedback, constructive criticism, etc. is welcome. Edit 1: Pulled down because I became disappointed with it in the morning. Edit 2: Edited back in, almost complete. Edit 3: Edited and essentially done, though expect me to tinker with it until the game starts.
Okay, I don't see anything wrong with the character thematically or power wise or anything, but I made a few alterations to the format above to make things easier for me to find (mostly just putting all the Morphs under 1 "Morph" spoiler tag)
As with everyone else, is there anything you want to see in the plot related to the character (no promises I can work it in, but I will try)?
Do you want feedback on Monk or are you making an Anarchist Sylph?
@All:
Why is it that everyone seems to hate the Jovians? I mean, the rest of the political players are horrible in there own ways?
Also, no love for the Psi so far... kinda sad that no one wants to hack people's brains really...
On a more serious note, I'll be making my final decision on Friday of next week (April 26th) for characters, then starting the game sometime thereafter (though not before May 4th due to real world shenanigans). The signup thread will remain open to new players as submitted, but game kick off will be with whichever characters I pick on the 26th. That said, if you want to be involved in the game from the beginning, then I suggest submitting BEFORE the 26th.
Well, Invidia can hack Cyberbrains. Being an A.G.I. though, shes ineligible for Psi, though I would totally go for it if I thought I could get away with it.
Also, she wouldn't hate the Jovians, or any other political power. It's just that the Autonomists seem to be more generally accepting. Don't hate on the Artificial and Uplifts, man, it's just not cool. I can't dig it, you know?
Anyway, I can't wait to get started! Are you planning on making an Escapist Group for OOC, or a Skype thing?
Well, Invidia can hack Cyberbrains. Being an A.G.I. though, shes ineligible for Psi, though I would totally go for it if I thought I could get away with it.
Also, she wouldn't hate the Jovians, or any other political power. It's just that the Autonomists seem to be more generally accepting. Don't hate on the Artificial and Uplifts, man, it's just not cool. I can't dig it, you know?
Anyway, I can't wait to get started! Are you planning on making an Escapist Group for OOC, or a Skype thing?
On Jovians: I know, but you two are A.G.I.s: I wasn't expecting you to like them. I was hoping someone would so there would be more party "diversity" (read: Intra-Party Conflict ^_^)
On Psi: @Texas Joker 52: Uh... I think you're misunderstanding how the Virus works. The Virus came in multiple forms - both biological and computer - and attacked the minds of all Transhumans equally,
On a related note, Egos and Morphs are completely unrelated. Any Ego can live in any Morph without problems, only how you acquired your sentience and your outlook on the world change between Egos.
A.G.I. are created from scratch and need to "Humanize" to gain anything but a cold, logical outlook. Uplifts were given sentience by humans - either directly or indirectly - but existed before their sapience and tend toward the outlooks of their species. Humans are born with their intellect (though they still need to learn obviously), and their outlooks are bound by the cultures they were born into or adopted.
Any Transhuman can have Psi - including A.G.I. and Uplifts - you just need a 100% organic brain to use the abilities.
Edit: I intend to use a User Group since I never remember to turn on my skype
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