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Proin Drakenzol:

--- Quote from: AceHigh on March 22, 2011, 07:21:51 AM ---
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on March 22, 2011, 05:15:23 AM --- Also, a hacker.

Basically a psi-fi rogue-type character.

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I knew that someone would pick that.

I would like to have a bit more passive powers for my character, a supernatural sense of awareness. I am not talking about X-ray vision or shit like that, but more like: if I touch a wall, I would immediately know how thick it is and if there is a room behind it... Short version: I want to have a sci-fi version of the Auspex power. At least it's not overpowered and not "like warping reality or summoning" after all  ;D

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 :P

I like rogues. Rogue-type characters are my go-to after wizard-type characters.

And I think the whole monomolecular shield thing is actually OP in retrospect, my character will just carry around weapons or have an ability to create daggers or something.

JoonasTo:
@Pingry:
So playing together as a team or towards a common goal, that's what I had in mind too. Competetive RPGs tend to need a much closer knit group.

@mAh:
You're free to make any kind of character you want. I'm going to modify, or reject it if it doesn't fit.

@Ace:
Freeform RP so it's up to the whims of me and the players, ultimately, me. If all goes well I don't have to do much than play along after setting the premisis, maybe a few touches here and there for things to not go too smooth. If not, I might have to guide you through the whole of it. That's why I have to use so much time in preparing this.

@Undetz:
Anarchy,
if I keep the timedate at that it will be pretty much what you described. Authority access could practically solve 99% of crimes but it would also make a police state. Also, having an implant isn't necessary so criminals could just not have one. Should authority access be allowed should all people be made to have one? That would be stepping on not just privacy rights but forcing physical changes to people, marking them like criminals on parole. An interesting issue indeed.

Powers,
I'm going to limit powers to what they can touch. So shooting lightning out of your fingertips with good aim is going to be real tricky unless your enemy is charged with a huge mount of static electricity but if you take a small ball, charge that and then throw it...
This will limit powers quite a lot in itself but otherwise you're free to go wild and be creative. If I see something that's too much, I cut in.

@Proin:
Anarchy,
is easily introduced if the tree factions were to go to war. Or if there were to be an outside invasion. Or we can timeskip and find ourselves in a world where sources for fusion are ending/ended, they've only got solar power left and technology is on a downroll.
Aftermath of all of those three would create a nice apocalyptic world with huge amounts of anarchy.

Character,
No limits, you can play anything you like, I won't have anything to say even if you play a 200 year old gay transvestite. So if you're rich enough, your mother took you to the old layers to give birth and you've lived there etc. you can be a gifted outside of the military but expect your life to suck then. The more powerful you are, the more you can expect it to suck. Hiding a five year old who can blast a wall by accident isn't exactly easy or cheap while the military would likely let someone with the power to shine dim light from his forehead retire early.

@Ace again:
I have no qualms about that.
You could actually get X-ray vision with cybernetic implants but that would be like RL X-ray then, kinda sucky, IR would be much more useful.




Sounds like most are for the treasure hunt adventure. Alright, I'll roll with that one then. It's just my experience that treasure hunts tend to die unless people get really good chemistry.



Useless fact:
-Average life span of a person is around 250 years. 170-180 years being the time when they turn into elderly(like modern 50-60). You're considered an adult against the law when you're 17. Physically you grow up just like people on earth, however, don't expect to match hundred year older people in skills or knowledge in their area of expertise.

Proin Drakenzol:

--- Quote from: JoonasTo on March 22, 2011, 07:41:09 PM ---@Proin:
Anarchy,
is easily introduced if the tree factions were to go to war. Or if there were to be an outside invasion. Or we can timeskip and find ourselves in a world where sources for fusion are ending/ended, they've only got solar power left and technology is on a downroll.
Aftermath of all of those three would create a nice apocalyptic world with huge amounts of anarchy.
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Thus creating a power vacuum for the characters to fill?


--- Quote ---Character,
No limits, you can play anything you like, I won't have anything to say even if you play a 200 year old gay transvestite. So if you're rich enough, your mother took you to the old layers to give birth and you've lived there etc. you can be a gifted outside of the military but expect your life to suck then. The more powerful you are, the more you can expect it to suck. Hiding a five year old who can blast a wall by accident isn't exactly easy or cheap while the military would likely let someone with the power to shine dim light from his forehead retire early.

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In that case let me present: Eleor Nilin, professional assassin (aspiring), hacker extraordinaire (self-proclaimed), and ex-military (by way of desertion).

Height: 5'3"
Weight: ???
Age: 24
Three sizes: 32A-24-33
Hair color: Black (natural) with blue highlights (dyed)
Eyes: Red (artificial optics, passive light gathering(night vision), can see infrared, x-ray, built in optical zoom), Black (with contacts inserted to hide telltale red)
Skin: porcelain white (gets almost no sun) with no tattoos or significant skin blemishes

Her powers allow her to become invisible on all wave spectra (visible, UV, IR, etc), causes near-perfect absorption of radio and sound waves (making her almost impossible to detect using radar or sonar), and makes her scentless. She is still audible, she has trained to breathe very quietly and move nearly silently; if they're available she'll use a sonic damper to make detection even more difficult but since it's a blanket effect the sonic damper gives away her presence (though not her exact location) and so she won't activate it until her presence is revealed. Her other power allows her to manifest two long daggers with monomolecular edges, she also carries a fire-arm as a back-up/ranged weapon when possible.

She has also learned how to pick conventional locks in addition to knowing how to take care of electronic ones. She also is a trained hacker/cracker.

She was born in territory controlled by the Vandorians. Her powers developed at puberty and she was taken to a military training camp for talented youngsters. There she was further marked for Internal Enforcement - State Police of the worst sort - and was trained as an assassin. She was taught how to hack/crack, one of her assignments was to hack her own implant and remove the tracking function (which she accomplished), in order to better police the people. As part of her training the government made her an unperson, erasing her from all but the most highly classified of military systems.

She committed her first assassination when she was 17 and has engaged in various forms of internal espionage, counter-intelligence work and the like for the last seven years; however, rather than being treated as a valued asset she was treated as just another tool, degraded and abused by her superiors. Eventually she had enough and effected her escape, not too difficult after being given the training to do just that.

At the start of the game she'll have been on the run for about two weeks, long enough to establish several cover identities. Her current destination is GreFac territory, from there: who knows?

pingryanime:
So what am I supposed to do? Write a bio? If that's the case I can write one up tomorrow.

Proin Drakenzol:
Couple questions:

By "no money" I assume you mean "no hard currency, money is handled entirely digitally." If that is the case then what is the effective currency of the black market? I doubt drug and illicit arms dealers would want some electronic trail leading to them. Some sort of high-value, low-bulk item that someone walking through an inspection point wouldn't be stopped for. Jewelery maybe?

What kind of government does each group have? For some reason I picture the ULCU as being a restricted democracy, the Vandorians as being a Single-Party Stalin-esque Communist government, and the GreFac as being an Oligarchy, but some official word would be nice.

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