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[ATHATH]

I hope I'm not too late...

Name: Unnamed, but calls himself the Enlightener, or E for short
Type: Android
Augments:
Hypnotic Screen: The screen on E's forehead can cause people who view it while it is active to fall into a hypjotic trance.
Self-Repair: E can, if he is damaged, repair himself with available materials.
Description and Background: E was a humanoid, proof of concept spy-bot prototype. He escaped being scrapped after he was no longer needed by hypnotizing the employees who were assigned to scrap him. He fled, and became a philosopher. He believes that the source of conflict was unhappiness with your place in society, and that this can be fixed by hypnotizing or reprogramming citizens to be content with their role and job in society, and to be supportive of their leader. The Enlightener believes that even if a tyrant arises from this system of government/philosophy (he calls it Blissism), no one while be unhappy with his rule. He believes that this colony will be an excellent place to test if Blissism works...

[~Neri]

((The thing about hypnosis is it does jack shit to anyone who resists in the slightest. Not to mention the likely lack of effects on synthetics and those with abnormal brains.))

[StrawBarrel]

Did the Enlightener straight up tell the colonists that he is going to hypnotize them or is he secretly plotting to take over all of them?

[WillowLuman]

Well, I do like the idealism, but it is a bit late, and the details need work.

[~Neri]

I doubt E would get a reaction from most of the people he attempted to hypnotize. If the current sample is representative of the majority of humanity, there are maybe 2-3 people with receptive brainpatterns per every 10.

[WillowLuman]

Yeah, that falls under details. Trying to spread a philosophy is fine, the hypnotism, not so much.

[StrawBarrel]

Will there be a certain posting format we have to follow like colored speech, bolding gm required actions, or stuff like that? What would qualify as an action that needs input from the gm?

[~Neri]

Isn't that standard?

[ATHATH]

Yeah, that falls under details. Trying to spread a philosophy is fine, the hypnotism, not so much.

Dang. I figured that it could be explained away via "future technology". Ah, well. Have fun, folks.

[StrawBarrel]

Isn't that standard?

Yeah it's the standard most of the time. I just wanted to "covertly" bump this thread to try to get an update.

Yeah, that falls under details. Trying to spread a philosophy is fine, the hypnotism, not so much.

Dang. I figured that it could be explained away via "future technology". Ah, well. Have fun, folks.

I think hypnotism is possible, just the way you described it sounded overpowered at least to me.

[WillowLuman]

I hope I'm not too late...

Name: Unnamed, but calls himself the Enlightener, or E for short
Type: Android
Augments:
Hypnotic Screen: The screen on E's forehead can cause people who view it while it is active to fall into a hypjotic trance.
Self-Repair: E can, if he is damaged, repair himself with available materials.
Description and Background: E was a humanoid, proof of concept spy-bot prototype. He escaped being scrapped after he was no longer needed by hypnotizing the employees who were assigned to scrap him. He fled, and became a philosopher. He believes that the source of conflict was unhappiness with your place in society, and that this can be fixed by hypnotizing or reprogramming citizens to be content with their role and job in society, and to be supportive of their leader. The Enlightener believes that even if a tyrant arises from this system of government/philosophy (he calls it Blissism), no one while be unhappy with his rule. He believes that this colony will be an excellent place to test if Blissism works...

Needs more work, but I want to get started. However, there are ways to join in later.

I am sorry for not getting this started, even a week later. I will post the writeup for Vishnu tomrrow, and with luck we can start.

Will there be a certain posting format we have to follow like colored speech, bolding gm required actions, or stuff like that? What would qualify as an action that needs input from the gm?

Anything that affects the numbers needs arbitration. So, digging/building, making things, eating, etc. I had a complicated timing system in mind, but I wasn't sure how well it would mesh with RP, so let's just do it like for every day, you state what actions you'd like to get done that day, and I see how far along with each one you can get.

[WillowLuman]

Right then, these looks alright to everyone? Any comments on that timing thing?

Spoiler:  Valerie Kain (click to show/hide)

Name: Valerie Kain
Type: Cyborg, Bio-electric power source
Augmentation: Robotic prosthetic on the left arm, from the elbow down. Robotic right eye.
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Previous Occupation: Marine Corps
Appearance: Val has regulation length brown hair, bright green eyes, and skin the color of milk chocolate.
Personality: Val is a very fiery person. If she's not angry, yelling, and cursing up a storm, she's either having a good day(unlikely), or something is very, very wrong.
Background: Val served in the Corps for most of her life, participating in a number of different campaigns. She lost her arm to an artillery strike that hit way too close for comfort, and her eye to an insurgent who got a lucky shot off with his pistol. She found herself honorably discharged, and then unable to find employment anywhere. So, she decided shed try her luck with the commune after hearing about the scheme.

Upkeep: 200 food/day

Spoiler: Terry Waterson (click to show/hide)

Name: Terry "Mech" Waterson
Type: Cyborg
-Bio-electricity
-Carapace
-Neural Interface

Gender: Male
Age: 37

Appearance/Description: A short man with gray-silver skin, a large, broken nose, thin mouth and a weak jaw line.  He is bald thanks to the augmentation, although he often wears wigs, he has brought a single one with short black hair.  His eyes are brown but covered in a reddish cover while in space.

He is generally optimistic and seeks to create a better world for everyone, he believes that scientific advancements will do that and should not be fettered by fear and superstition.

Background: Terry saw the newest advances in human augmentation first hand as a son of biotech and cybernetics engineers.  He was looking to get into that field as the first laws were passed restricting such technology to medical and military use.  He has been involved in politics around transhuman rights and science advancement for over a decade, getting small changes to the laws bit by bit.  His political party was recently outlawed as a terrorist organization and forced to disband.

Upkeep: 225 food/day

Spoiler: Fee (click to show/hide)

Type: Mutant. Specifically skewed towards feline. Along with physiological abnormalities (feline ears, tail, fangs, enhanced hearing/small, eyeshine, primarily carnivorous dietary requirements, and retractable claws) Fee has an extremely abnormal neurological makeup. To put it in simple terms. She thinks like a cat. An intelligent cat with a grasp of Sol Common/applicable English related language for setting, but still a cat. Nearly entirely technologically illiterate and difficulties grasping abstract concepts, it would take a great effort on her part to learn how to operate anything more then basic technology. An effort that odds are is she doesn't want to bother with. Often preferring to nap near something warm.

Description: Fee is 5'7, age unknown but likely between 17 and 23, rather lean, vivid green eyes (slightly more oval then one would expect), cat ears, a cat tail, finger and toenails seem somewhat off, and she definitely has fangs.,  probably a bit underweight, although that is to be expected when one's diet requires a large amount of meat. Meat is after all quite expensive. Her hair is reminiscent of a tortoiseshell cat. This coloration includes her tail and ears. Fee tends to be difficult to get close to, clearly operating on entirely different social rules then normal people. Although anyone who has spent time around cats can generally get enough to get at least semiclose. She tends to have clipped speech, often not using any more words then necessary to convey a concept. If she doesn't need to speak to convey a concept then she will point or use gestures. She gets along quite well with cats of any sort, her physiology altered enough for her to both emit and hear the extreme high and low frequency sounds most species of felines use to communicate. This was evidenced during her teenage years when she broke into a local zoo's tiger exhibit no fewer then four times before being banned from the premises. Generally, any nuzzling means she likes you. If she doesn't go near you, she probably does not like you and attempts to approach will likely end with clawmarks

Background: Fee was abandoned as a child, parents likely not wanting to take care of what appeared to be a monstrosity. (Think of a baby. Now add hairless cat ears, remove the normal ears, add a hairless tail, and add more catlike traits. Yes fur on the ears and tail grew later, but it appeared monsterous on birth.) She ended up in an orphanage, where she befriended the rather eccentric owner and their fifteen cats. Grew up. Didn't get adopted due to antisocial tendencies. Ended up running off at one point or another. Spent the next several years on the streets. Developed a number of street skills, including but not limited to: Pickpocketing, nonelectronic lockpicking, basic cooking, salvaging valuable shiny bits from broken machines, breaking and entering, and unarmed, dirty, hand to hand fighting. Eventually she attached to a semi tolerable person. Same way cats adopt dwarves. Said person happened to decide to go to space. She followed.

Upkeep: 200 food/day

Spoiler: Carla Leona Plata (click to show/hide)

Name: Carla Leona Plata
Type: Mutant- A human other than the fact she posses two skin like wings between her roughly normal human arms, torso, and legs.

Positive trait: On Earth, she could glide with cartilage webbing that extents from her wrist to her ankle. (She is more akin to a flying squirrel rather than an actual bat). When in a place with both microgravity and air, she can move around faster as she flaps her wings.
Negative trait: More frail than natural humans.
Other Mutations: Long elfish ears, can extend tongue out six inches, canine-like sharp teeth, naturally pointed finger and toe nails, but not claws.

Description: Carla is of short height and average portions for a human-bat mutant. Her skin is dark brown. Her eyes are hazel. Her straight shoulder length is black. She is 19 years of age. When Carla smiles, many will see a wide toothy doggish grin. Despite her long elflike ears and ability to make high pitched shrieks, Carla, like her former fellow cultist, can not use echolocation. She usually wears a poncho and a straw sombrero, clothes she adopted from her rodeo days. Because of her short stature and recent entrance into young adulthood, Carla is sometimes nicknamed "Kid", "Niña", "Chiquito", or some other variations. Likewise her personality reflects such names as she is often naïve, fearless, lacking inhibitions, optimistic, and a dreamer. She dreams of a future without needlessly cruel and vindictive people. When not working, this woman enjoys singing.

Background: Carla was born into a genetically engineered human-bat mutated Mesoamerican bat god cult. The fairly large Mesoamerican bat god cult is theocracy ruled by a council of high priests. As a member of the farming caste, Carla learned to farm and raise livestock. Although not part of the warrior caste, Carla was drilled in the hand to hand combat, archaic weaponry, and a military formation as part of the cult militia.
Carla could have lived a fairly subservient and highly religious life, except for one thing. One day, she proclaimed was a female rather than male; she was a transgender woman. She changed her name from Carlos Plata to Carla Leona Plata. She quickly became ostracized by the community as the council proclaimed this was against cult doctrine. When the hatred escalated to a boiling point, an 18 year old Carla fled from her home to escape the threat of execution via sacrifice to the bat god. Once safe, Carla worked as a rodeo worker for a year before joining the prospective hippie commune.

Skill recap:
-Farming and animal husbandry in a not high tech way.
-Some formal militia training.
-Knows the basics of how to fight unarmed, with clubs, swords, slings, and shields.
-Laborer (farming and working as a low paid employee at a rodeo.)
-Can sing very well.

Upkeep: 190 food/day

Spoiler: Jason Flores (click to show/hide)

Name: Jason Flores
Type: Natural
Description: A 30 year old man with light brown skin and has an average height and build. Usually wears black and gold jumpsuit and a black work cap and a tool belt. He seems friendly and socially laid-back, however he is usually obsessive about his work. He tends to forget to eat or sleep until he has finished a task.
Background: Before joining the commune, he worked as a freelance engineer on many different projects, both civil and military. When he first heard about the commune heading off into space he was dismissive about the idea. As time progressed he realized that for most of his life he had worked on building things for others, he would pour time and sweat into a project and then hand it off. He felt that for once he could help build something for himself. After some initial communication with some of the prospective colonists and a few months of internal deliberation he decided to join the commune. He helped the colonists by devising efficient and reliable plans for the initial, and future, structures and will stay to help construct and maintain them onsite.

Upkeep 200 food/day

Spoiler: Zero (click to show/hide)

Name: Zero
Type: Natural
Description: An old, bald man with light skin. A Professional under most circumstances, he can be described as cold, perhaps even cruel, but those who have befriended him see the kinder side of him, a person looking for a way out.
Background: Zero worked as a skilled and discreet assassin for nearly his entire life, but never enjoyed his work. It was all he knew how to do, and he had various expenses to meet, but eventually he saved up enough that he could think about retirement. However, no matter where he went on Earth, he could not escape reminders of his past, and so he was drawn to murmurings of a way to start anew away from global society.

He still bears a hidden microchip in his body from his days in the Outfit, but only they would know where to look.

Upkeep: 200 food/day

Spoiler: Vishnu III (click to show/hide)

Name: Vishnu III
Type: Android
Augmentation: Six arms
Gender Male
Age:27
Appearance: Blue Skin, red eyes, bald head.
Background: A servant android trained in most human languages and gardening skills. It is unclear why he was built to feel pain, rather than be content with his servitude, but perhaps he wasn't originally intended for that purpose. Or perhaps he was made more emotive than intended. For a long time Vishnu III served under various princes who had used him to translate andf work in their personal gardens, tending complicated plants. He was treated very harshly and disciplined by electrocution. Terry Waterson came into contact with the master of Vishnu III and bought him off of him for a high sum, as he could not bare to have an emotional being like Vishnu be mistreated like that. Vishnu is still recovering from traumata of slavery and in a thankful state towards Terry.

Upkeep: 210 Energy/day

Spoiler: Heigstromm Eight-Three (click to show/hide)

Name: Heigstromm Eight-Three (Security Issue) [strict designation A4247Γ, referred to as Thomas]
Type: Android (inhuman body plan)
Gender: -N/A-
Age: 20
Appearance/Description: An erratic, tall drone with the cast of a collapsing scarecrow, this Heigstromm unit boasts an unreliable control feed and suspicious, skeletal nature, concerns mitigated by its tendency to communicate back to human masters in friendly notes. The Heigstromm carries on two parallel racks of armatures all manner of articulated digits, used to carefully manipulate sensor equipment, perform extremely delicate field sampling, and occasionally force an intruder's eyes into the back of their skull. Its fragile, ectomorphic build leaves little to be desired for stability and endurance, but its speed and precision render it able to keep pace with trained humans. Has recently been showing disturbing signs of memory accumulation, due to infrequent maintenance and an occasional inability to be located.

The Heigstromm, specially designed to operate in situations that require sorting and confinement of confusing levels of external stimuli, features a cortical structure derived somewhat from that of a small insect (namely a hybrid between the Terran dragonfly and ant).

A vast array of parallel-processing circuits allow fractional processing and layering of environmental detail; the longer the Heigstromm spends analyzing a particular area, the more "filters" of color, shade, chemical composition, motion tracking, and tactile sensation drop in.

Where the human thought process primarily relies on convoluted maps of mental imagery to conduct abstract thoughts, the Heigstromm draws on memory banks and reconstructs crude mimic scenarios directly in its perception, similar to the process of hallucination in human subjects.

This approach grounds it concretely in reality, as a safeguard against the development of moral, aesthetic, philosophical, and religious concepts, all highly dangerous to the fractured and decentralized "brain" of an operating drone. It is clear that with Thomas, this design intention has failed.

Background: former operations robot aboard a comet-chaser.

Upkeep: 200 energy/day

[~Neri]

Am good.

[StrawBarrel]

Looks like a good starting 8 to me. As for the timing thing, it sounds like a practical system to me.

[crazyabe]

Works for me.