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Seven years ago, all of humanity began to live inside of dense cubes, known as the "Cubes of Utopia", seeing as housing was free and the standard of living was very high. Roughly 250 of these monolithic cubes were constructed around the globe, each holding massive numbers of humans and extending far underground.
AIs were built in each one to enforce the laws and watch over the needs of its human occupants. As fate would have it, the machines began to corrupt and took an authoritarian rule over the living inside. The life of each and every human was planned out, they were kept extremely heavily sedated in order to make sure that they continued doing this.
You, however, are one of the few special ones. For some reasons, like having a minor mutation, an especially strong will, or just having a really, really good immune system, you aren't affected by the toxins.
A group was created by people like you: The Hand of Humanity. Made up of smugglers, hackers, thieves, and so on, their ultimate goal is to take back control of the station.
Of course, not all who can resist the drugging doesn't necessarily agree with the Hand, and so choose to associate with the AI, and works as infiltrators. So, who are you?

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

You can choose from one of 8 classes. These classes will decide your starting equipment, skill set, and proficiencies.

Demolitionists: Demolitionists, or "Demos", are a cleaning bot's worst cyber-nightmare. They possess the fearsome ability to reduce things to rubble, and often do so. A mechanic is a natural partner for a demo, seeing as they're one of the primary producers of scrap metal. They have proficiency with rifles and all forms of explosive. Once per day, demos can make a blast shield with some nearby scrap, to protect anyone behind it from any explosions.

Gunslinger: Gunslingers like to get up close and personal, but have no taste for melee weapons. Instead, they tend to use pistols and revolvers to get the job done. More often then not, they rely on picking off enemies one at a time. They only get limited proficiency with blunt melee weapons, but have full proficiencies with pistols and revolvers. They can use "Trigger Happy" in order to fire two shots in one turn, but at an additional -2 penalty (-4 without any proficiency).

Hacker: Hackers are similar to mechanics, but while mechanics focus on droids, hackers focus on systems, sub routines, and other electronics. Their prefferred method of attack is something along the lines of "Sneak by enemy troops, override security protocols, remotely open locked doors, cut off power to the robotic bays, and open the blast doors so the warrior can clean up." They have full proficiency with energy weapons and pistols. Once per day, they can instantly succeed at hacking into a terminal, bypassing the roll.

Mechanic: Mechanics hate to fight. They always look for alternatives to conflict, like "reducing the entire enemy base to rubble via a suicide drone crawling through exhaust pipes and detonating the reactor". They can deploy, hack, and should they have enough raw wiring and scrap metal, create drones of various use. They don't have any weapon proficiencies other than half proficiency with blunt weapons. They can use all one-use mechanical items twice.

Medic: Medics, while not actually threatening, are any droid's worst cyber-nightmare. Sure, a gunslinger might be able to cover his armor plating in holes in a matter of seconds, but a medic can make it nigh-impossible to kill said gunslinger. Medics can restore lost HP, although they only have half proficiency with slashing weapons and proficiency with pistols. Once per day, they can bring one living friendly back to life at half health.

Smuggler: Smugglers excel in getting themselves and items past guards. They're expert infiltrators, though they can't hold their own in a fight. They have half proficiency in blunt weapons and pistols. Twice per day, they can be perceived as authorized unless the guards have already recognized him as hostile.

Thief: A thief loves to get behind enemy lines and take them out with a well placed backstab. They are frail in a fight and aren't skilled with machines, but should one sneak up on you, don't bother making prayer for your life. Even a deity can't save you from that. Thieves have full proficiency with daggers and knives, sneaking, and backstabs. Once per day, a thief can turn invisible for 1d3+1 turns.

Warrior: Warriors don't like to over complicate things. Rather than use a metal tube that goes boom to shoot a metal bit at things, they just take the metal tube and hit things with it really hard. Warriors are tough and strong, but have no proficiency with guns, bows, or anything else at ranged. They do have full access to blunt, piercing, and slashing weapons, plus improvised melee weapons. They can use "Raw Strength" once per day in order to ignore all damage and automatically hit and critical for one turn.


Proficiencies: Each character gets one half proficiency and one full proficiency of their choice, as well as their classes starting proficiencies. A half proficiency can also be used to get a full proficiency in a specific type of one proficiency (Example: Daggers and knives in "slashing weapons", moving silently in "sneaking". With no proficiency, you get a -4 to hit. At half proficiency, the penalty is reduced to -2, and at full there is no penalty. The proficiency are as below:
Slashing weapons
Blunt Weapons
Piercing Weapons
Energy Weapons
Pistols
Revolvers
Rifles
Sneaking
Smuggling
Unarmed

There will be two randomly assigned traitors, who will know who the other traitor is, and both will have a secret mission, which can be anywhere from making backups of a file on a computer to assassinating a medic in the group. Because some players will be taking secretive actions, please send actions to me via PM. If you want to communicate with anyone in the group, simply say so in your action and it'll be relayed to the recipient when the turn comes up. This is mainly so that I know who had what information.

Please try to stay in character, and not use OOC knowledge.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender:
Appearance:
Personality:
Bio (Optional):

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Name: Alex Sanderson
Gender: Male
Appearance: Well built but not bulky, Alex has a shaved head with grey eyes, and a square jaw. He has a long, badly healed, scar running along his cheekbone.
Personality: Alex is resolute and determined not to give in. He regards loyalty to his friends and his own values above all else, and will do whatever he feels must be done for them. One of his key flaws is his inability to quit. He will never back down unless he has to to satisfy his loyalties. His loyalties, however, are difficult to earn.

Class: Mechanic
1/2 proficiency: Blunt weapons (for a total of 1)
Full proficiency: Revolvers.

Bio: Alex was working in a scrapyard when the cubes were built. His father had been raised in a highly rural area, and had a large mistrust of technology. Whilst Alex was not so inclined, he was always reluctant to leave a job entirely to computers, and the cubes spelled disaster. But he needed a job, and like it or not, machines was what he was good at.
 His predisposition towards human input led him to learn to use his father's, and of course his trusty wrench, for defense as much as his drones. And he always made sure that if he put something together, he damn well knew how to take it apart again.


Name:  Kyle Johnson
Gender:  Male
Appearance:  A tallish man with brown hair and eyes. He has a small scar on his cheek. He also has a smattering of stubble on his face. He has a preference for long clothes.
Personality:  Kyle is kind and likes enjoys doing his job. He also doesn't like people trying to use violence all the time.
Class: Gunslinger
Full proficiency:  Sneaking
Half proficiency:  Unarmed.

Bio (Optional): Maybe later


Name: Kaja Lagle
Gender: Female
Appearance: Not all that tall, really, and looks a bit too thin for her own good, and her naturally pale skin -tanned somewhat as it may have been- doesn't help. She is, however, deceptively wiry. Her hair is grown down in (messy) braids to her shoulders, and is dark blonde. Her eyes are hazel.
Personality: Kaja is actually quite extroverted, happily striking up conversations and friendships, and usually works with, -not against-, society. However, her one true hate is the one that makes the cubes, and ESPECIALLY this current situation intolerable- she hates being enclosed. She harbors a sort of affinity with the outdoors, and being trapped in a cube with an AI that wants her trapped in a cube makes her panicky and above all else angry.

Class: Demolitionist
Full proficiency: Unarmed
1/2 Proficiency: Slashing weapons

Backstory: Kaja grew up in a rural area of Estonia, and preferred to stay outside whenever she could. This went well, really, until the cubes became a thing. They practically had to drag her into the cube. And just when she'd miserably begun to settle in, the AIs went all dictator. That was the last straw- she basically went on a campaign of terrorist training- bombs, rifles, fists, knives. She'd blow her way out of this miserable dump, and woe betide those who get in her way. ...However, it really was plainly obvious she wouldn't be able to get out alone. And so, for the meantime, she joined the Hand of Humanity.


Name: Cole Gray
Gender: Male
Appearance: In his 60's and short for his height, Cole has an slightly wrinkled, trustworthy face with very little hair and always appears to be a slightly lost janitor, no matter what he is actually doing.
Personality: Usually genial, but dislikes the concentration of power in anything less than the whole of a society.

Class: Mechanic...? (Are two mechanics too many? I could probably do smuggler or maybe a hacker as a backup with the rest of the sheet the same.)
Full skill: Mostly recoilless weapons (tasers, laser weaponry etc. If it blends categories too much I'll change it)
Half skill: Appearing harmless (Like a smuggler's ability, but with a roll and more like sneaking.)

Bio: He doesn't know who he was, but Cole was told[i/] that he'd had a stroke, destroying any knowledge of his past life while leaving other areas of his brain (such as the skills  ) unharmed. Assuming the name 'Cole Gray' as that as how he was listed in the hospital records, Cole decided that without any memories from his past life, trying to pick up the pieces would only feel forced, like he was living someone else's life.


Name: 'May'
Gender: Female
Appearance: May is slender but strong, and has an athlete's build. This is because she was a yoga instructor before she 'woke up', and also knows several forms of martial arts, though martial arts are rarely taught anymore.
Personality: Often quite bitter, and rails against the AI for trapping her. A great love of freedom and a ferocious personality are all that can be seen currently, though she might have a softer side once the AI is beaten.
Bio: I put a bit of her bio up above. So no thanks.

Smuggler
Full Proficiency: Unarmed
Half Proficiency: Sneaking

Spoiler: Waitlist (click to show/hide)

Name: Sacha Maxim

Gender: Female

Appearance: A slim build with no outstanding features other than her shoulder length red hair.

Personality: A somewhat reserved woman who seeks only to further her own goals. Dedicates herself whole-heartedly to those whose goals coincide with her own.

Bio: WIP

Class: Gunslinger

1/2 Proficiency: Blunt Weapons, Sneak

Full Proficiency: Pistols, Revolvers, Smuggling

[sjm9876]

Name: Alex Sanderson
Gender: Male
Appearance: Well built but not bulky, Alex has a shaved head with grey eyes, and a square jaw. He has a long, badly healed, scar running along his cheekbone.
Personality: Alex is resolute and determined not to give in. He regards loyalty to his friends and his own values above all else, and will do whatever he feels must be done for them. One of his key flaws is his inability to quit. He will never back down unless he has to to satisfy his loyalties. His loyalties, however, are difficult to earn.

Class: Mechanic
1/2 proficiency: Blunt weapons (for a total of 1)
Full proficiency: Revolvers.

Bio: Alex was working in a scrapyard when the cubes were built. His father had been raised in a highly rural area, and had a large mistrust of technology. Whilst Alex was not so inclined, he was always reluctant to leave a job entirely to computers, and the cubes spelled disaster. But he needed a job, and like it or not, machines was what he was good at.
 His predisposition towards human input led him to learn to use his father's, and of course his trusty wrench, for defense as much as his drones. And he always made sure that if he put something together, he damn well knew how to take it apart again.

[flame99]

Name: Alex Sanderson
Gender: Male
Appearance: Well built but not bulky, Alex has a shaved head with grey eyes, and a square jaw. He has a long, badly healed, scar running along his cheekbone.
Personality: Alex is resolute and determined not to give in. He regards loyalty to his friends and his own values above all else, and will do whatever he feels must be done for them. One of his key flaws is his inability to quit. He will never back down unless he has to to satisfy his loyalties. His loyalties, however, are difficult to earn.

Class: Mechanic
1/2 proficiency: Blunt weapons (for a total of 1)
Full proficiency: Revolvers.

Bio: Alex was working in a scrapyard when the cubes were built. His father had been raised in a highly rural area, and had a large mistrust of technology. Whilst Alex was not so inclined, he was always reluctant to leave a job entirely to computers, and the cubes spelled disaster. But he needed a job, and like it or not, machines was what he was good at.
 His predisposition towards human input led him to learn to use his father's, and of course his trusty wrench, for defense as much as his drones. And he always made sure that if he put something together, he damn well knew how to take it apart again.

Accepted.

[kj1225]

Name:  Kyle Johnson
Gender:  Male
Appearance:  A tallish man with brown hair and eyes. He has a small scar on his cheek. He also has a smattering of stubble on his face. He has a preference for long clothes.
Personality:  Kyle is kind and likes enjoys doing his job. He also doesn't like people trying to use violence all the time.
Class: Gunslinger
Full proficiency:  Sneaking
Half proficiency:  Unarmed.

Bio (Optional): Maybe later

[Powder Miner]

Name: Kaja Lagle
Gender: Female
Appearance: Not all that tall, really, and looks a bit too thin for her own good, and her naturally pale skin -tanned somewhat as it may have been- doesn't help. She is, however, deceptively wiry. Her hair is grown down in (messy) braids to her shoulders, and is dark blonde. Her eyes are hazel.
Personality: Kaja is actually quite extroverted, happily striking up conversations and friendships, and usually works with, -not against-, society. However, her one true hate is the one that makes the cubes, and ESPECIALLY this current situation intolerable- she hates being enclosed. She harbors a sort of affinity with the outdoors, and being trapped in a cube with an AI that wants her trapped in a cube makes her panicky and above all else angry.

Class: Demolitionist
Full proficiency: Unarmed
1/2 Proficiency: Slashing weapons

Backstory: Kaja grew up in a rural area of Estonia, and preferred to stay outside whenever she could. This went well, really, until the cubes became a thing. They practically had to drag her into the cube. And just when she'd miserably begun to settle in, the AIs went all dictator. That was the last straw- she basically went on a campaign of terrorist training- bombs, rifles, fists, knives. She'd blow her way out of this miserable dump, and woe betide those who get in her way. ...However, it really was plainly obvious she wouldn't be able to get out alone. And so, for the meantime, she joined the Hand of Humanity.

[flame99]

Both accepted.

[Harry Baldman]

Not really signing up, just offering a bit of advice - instead of relying on the honor system, perhaps you could just have people PM their actions?

[flame99]

Not really signing up, just offering a bit of advice - instead of relying on the honor system, perhaps you could just have people PM their actions?

I didn't think of that. I'm editing the main post now.

[The Ensorceler]

Okay, here you go:

Name: Cole Gray
Gender: Male
Appearance: In his 60's and short for his height, Cole has an slightly wrinkled, trustworthy face with very little hair and always appears to be a slightly lost janitor, no matter what he is actually doing.
Personality: Usually genial, but dislikes the concentration of power in anything less than the whole of a society.

Class: Mechanic
Full skill: Mostly recoilless weapons (tasers, laser weaponry etc. If it blends categories too much I'll change it)
Half skill: Appearing harmless (Like a smuggler's ability, but with a roll and more like sneaking.)

Bio: He doesn't know who he was, but Cole was told[i/] that he'd had a stroke, destroying any knowledge of his past life while leaving other areas of his brain (such as the skills  ) unharmed. Assuming the name 'Cole Gray' as that as how he was listed in the hospital records, Cole decided that without any memories from his past life, trying to pick up the pieces would only feel forced, like he was living someone else's life.

[Remuthra]

Reserve.

[Rolepgeek]

Name: 'May'
Gender: Female
Appearance: May is slender but strong, and has an athlete's build. This is because she was a yoga instructor before she 'woke up', and also knows several forms of martial arts, though martial arts are rarely taught anymore.
Personality: Often quite bitter, and rails against the AI for trapping her. A great love of freedom and a ferocious personality are all that can be seen currently, though she might have a softer side once the AI is beaten.
Bio: I put a bit of her bio up above. So no thanks.

Smuggler
Full Proficiency: Unarmed
Half Proficiency: Sneaking

[Nerjin]

Name: Sacha Maxim

Gender: Female

Appearance: A slim build with no outstanding features other than her shoulder length red hair.

Personality: A somewhat reserved woman who seeks only to further her own goals. Dedicates herself whole-heartedly to those whose goals coincide with her own.

Bio: WIP

Class: Gunslinger

1/2 Proficiency: Blunt Weapons, Sneak

Full Proficiency: Pistols, Revolvers, Smuggling

[flame99]

Accepting Cole and May. Nerjin, welcome to the waitlist.

You enter the Operating Station, which contains a mainframe with highly sensitive files. It's your job to recover these. In the corner, you see a small terminal. There's also a keycard-locked door and a small vent without a cover.

[Nerjin]

Could we get a little bit more detail about the room and building in general?

[flame99]

Not much is available. Resistance shouldn't be too great, though there will be some.

Also, I forgot to put your equipment, so here it is now.

Spoiler: Alex Sanderson (click to show/hide)

Hacking Tools
Mk.II Pitbul Revolver [6/6, 12 bullets spare]
2x4

Spoiler: Kyle Johnson (click to show/hide)

Sagaya pistol [13/13, 50 bullets spare]
Sagaya pistol [13/13, 50 bullets spare]

Spoiler: Kaja Lagle (click to show/hide)

C4 packsx15
Bredden Rifle [8/8, 15 bullets spare]
Small knife

Spoiler: Cole Gray (click to show/hide)

Hacking Tools
Stun Fist [100/100] (Brass knuckles with electric contacts on the knuckles to deliver a non-lethal charge. Recharges over time)
Lead pipe

Spoiler: 'May' (click to show/hide)

Sagaya pistol
Lead pipe