October 21, Sunday, 12:20 AM, 2142
Seth Vimes (Glass)(Presence Roll: 2*)
You apologize the girl, getting an almost glimpse of her face and that she is a super with some sort of mind power, remembering you left a call to voicemail you head towards a obscure alleyway and leave the other girl to herself of the commercial hub with little foot traffic, you pick your FuturePhone up and get the recording and remembering the cheeky voiceline you.
"Hey Seth, Nathalie here at SpaceExio corps making sure your ready to be available at the meeting on monday at 7:00 Am at the SpaceExio Main Spaceship Manufacturer and Fabrication Center, send a text or call me back to make sure you will be there, we have disclosed blueprints of another attempt on a private spaceships being constructed to Mars, but sadly can't tell more before the meeting, just gives a heads up" With that your PHONE VOICEMAIL ends, and you remember that she's some Super Tinker genius based on propulsion systems or material research, you can't remember what her specialty is. With that you get your phone up and call Nathalie. "Hey sorry, I accidentally saw a woman almost collapse... it was very bizarre" and Nathalie responds
"Hey Seth that sounds rather freaky, with all that supers around the metropolis it seems the that things aren't as safe anymore. Anyways I hope you got the message and will be readily prepared for the conference and work tomorrow, and that where will be no other interruptions?”. You think of a professional way to reply. (+1 XP with the flawless socialization with the other super)
Name: Seth Vimes
Age: 20
Appearance: Wiry, about average height, has a perpetual flat expression on his face. Tends to wear muted colors. Seems to fade into the background when there's other people around. Red hair, pale skin, grey eyes. Usually has earbuds in his ears.
Personality: Introverted, helpful, steady
Background: Seth has spent most of his life not being noticed. He'd wander around from place to place, picking up odd jobs for whoever needed stuff done, not drawing much attention to himself. Occasionally, while people were talking about an issue, he'd pipe up with some new perspective, everyone would be startled, think on it, and decide it was helpful, and then forget about him and his contribution within the week. This was fine. If anyone had ever asked his opinion, he'd have given it, but nobody had, and that was ok.
Location: NAC York
Stats:
Physique: 1
Intellect: 1
Presence: 0
Assets: 1
Mutability: 1
Powers: Power-Nullifier Shield: An invisible shield that you can generate on/off through mental concentration and creates 10-meter power-nullifying radius most powers are reduced to nothing, however the stronger might be able to break the jamming wavelength it creates
Wounds: Healthy
Residence: Diamond White Apartment Room 101 (1000$ Rent, three week remaining)
Known Acquaintances/Factions: Nathalie Henderson (Super Supervisor with SpaceExio), Desmond Qiu (Normie Freelance Engineer, hooks you up with bids), Eastside Local Patrol (Somewhat Violent/Vandalizer/Somewhat respected vigilante gang)
Experience: 1
Inventory: 1500 $ Debit Card, 2100 Plasteel Electric Compact Car (Parked), 10k Loan Credit Card, HoloLaptop Gen 2, FuturePhone
Jeremiah Nix NRDL(Presence Roll: 7*)
Devon adds back to the questions you ask,
"Oh we have a meeting for Monday at 10:00 AM, their willing to due a 1500$ monthly bid for two of the suckers, they just want two-three hours for four of the weekdays. However they have an irrational fears of supers is why their paying so high and are even scared of meeting with me! with such a weak super and want to get swole. Anyways something come up, gotta go, send a text or call back if you want confirmation. As your call ends, you try to hang around pillars and walls around people you can see behind FuturePlastic screens trying to see if your power works through walls and such. You focus your mind and reach out your hand, it doesn't even get weird looks at the customers that pass by. You can hear surface thoughts of what their surface thought is behind a wall of concrete of a store, you need to search for their mind a further and you hear another person thoughts on what they are trying to buy however the words are even more subtle and harder to focus on, however you definitely have a "mind-radar" as you refer to it, however it somewhat more taxing on the mind to keep it up. (+1 XP for training your super)
Name: Jeremiah Nix
Age: 18
AP: A bored fellow, wanting to find some purpose in his life. Big fan of existentialist thinking and other pretentious crap. Rather short, with a stocky build and buzzcut blond hair.
Background: A fairly normal kid, without much in the way of real life experience. Very big into escapist fiction, as well as solitary pursuits like weight training and dabbling in the arts. But he slowly learned to make friends and interact with people and society as he reached the end of his adolescence.
Location: NAC York
You start with 7 points, use them wisely. Most stats range from -1 to 2 and take only a single point to upgrade. Mutatibility is the exception where it starts at 1 and goes to a max of 3, and takes 2 points to improve.
Stats:
Physique: 2
Intellect: 0
Presence: 1
Assets: 0
Mutability: 1
Powers: Empathy Sense (Thinker): By concentrating on a human’s mind, you can see the surface thoughts, their current emotions, and current needs of a human. With physical touch and concentration, you can get the memories of people, things they have attachment too, and even long-term goals and describing characteristic traits that their not even aware of. With more focus you can create a "mind-radar" that tries to search through thoughts of your 3-4m radius, thoughts can go through solid surfaces but you only get the barest hints of what they are thinking.
Wounds: Healthy
Residence: Green Rose Apartment - Room 79 (300$ due in three weeks)
Occupation: Unemployed/Freelancer
Known Acquaintances/Factions: Devon Lanes (Personal Trainer, Super, Knows Vigilante Faction), Kaitie Galvins (Librarian Assistant, Criminal Connections, Super?), “The Hand” (They gagged you but why?)
Experience: 2
Inventory: Street Clothes, 665$, HoloLaptop, FuturePhone, Collapsible Baton, Grey Hoodie, Black Cloth
Zeth ? (Darkwarlock)(Body Roll: 8*) VS! CC Thugs (Body Roll: 2*)You focus your mind and the air molecules slow down, and you prepare a nice jab to the closest gentleman's face and his hand reaches for his forehead in pain and a slow-motion shriek of pain happens, your punch was enhanced by not only your muscles but by the speed of time as well. The other red thug shouts
"Friiickk, He'sss a supeeer!!, the words in slow motion as your body is enhanced in the feedback of time, and reached for his pistol while the other man tries to get a knife even in pain, in which you try to go for another jab
(Body Roll: 4*) VS! CC Thugs (Body Roll: 6*)Even during this temporal slow-down the other thugs wincing in pain, tries to tackle and wrestle you, he is slower at it than usually and you feel like your strength was only halted by a bit, however that's when you see the other thug hold a pistol and lay a 9mm towards your direction, the bullet is slower than usually but still freaking fast by your standards as you see the tiny explosion the pistol created. You barely were able to dodge it, and it scraps your shoulder but it still hurts. You throw the other thug easily to the ground, and the other thug is trying to get another bullet before, you feel as the apartment door their in is forcing itself out and is breaking, could that be Hilda?. You have a few slow-downed moments to think but your body still feel the sting of the bullet scraping on your shoulder. (You will get about 3 XP if you handle these thugs)
Name: Zeth ?
Age: 19
Appearance and Personality: fit for a 6'2ft fellow, his eye color is green, his hair black. his personality is one that enjoys solitude and not interacting with others makes his introductions quite rude
Background: was born an orphan. his life was rough through the foster homes he went to cause him even more hardship, finally having enough he left. not knowing much about life outside and not having any friends to help him he was quickly plunge into the life of a homeless man
Location: NAC York
Stats:
Physique: 1
Intellect: 0
Presence: -1
Assets: -1
Mutability: 3
Powers:
Temporal Displacement (Breaker): With mental concentration you can slow down time around you or manipulate it to go faster, during this event things are about ~25% slower to you and you move faster. This requires concentration, and you don’t know what will happen if you combine it with a Doppelganger and lasts about ~5ish minutes before time slowly alters back and your brain starts to get a ringing sound and hurts. Remember even the air molecules in the atmosphere are slowed down during time manipulation, so it feels like your trying to force yourself through the air and move somewhat slower and it feels difficult to breath.
Time Doppelganger: With the manipulation of at least two minutes you can make a clone of yourselves that follows your mental command almost automatically but there is a time lag, it is a out-of-body experience and hurts your brain a lot, and will deactivate after a minute or so of continued use and your brain will be seriously stressed out after this. The duplicate looks like you but their is like this “time haze” around it and looks like if the person was a 144p version of themselves on youtube.
Power Suck: You can concentrate energy on your hands and with physical contact with another Super you can take a power at random, however this version will be a weakened version of that power based on what it is and last about ~10 minutes before the power starts to fade away
Wounds: Severe Blood Spice Addiction, Scrapped Shoulder
Residence: Cardbox Home in Eastside Homeless Shelter.
Known People/Factions: Skull Gang (Hit Mark), Local Police (Hit Mark), Steve Felin (Leader of the Homeless Shelter), Anne (Trump Super, can detect supers, is mentally… questionable)
Experience:
Inventory: Tattered clothes, a single penny, 2,5mg Blood Spice
Elea Maize (Naturegirl1999)(Presence Roll: 2*)
You shout out a phrase of "Oh yes, I would love to research here again. Maybe some of them take longer to kill their host? I might be able to selectively breed for parasites that keep their hosts alive. I’m assuming human hosts are still illegal, so we would need other animals, preferably larger ones, maybe chickens?..." before the Director interrupts.
"While yes the cadavers and your research will greatly profit us, you also need to remember that its currently Sunday and that our work won't be effective and in full effect until Monday or tomorrow for what have you. I think we have stored these parasites and we will have suitable biological organisms for your studies, however we can't fully monitor with our current lack of staff as of today and our current advanced means of refridgeration will mean the parasitic cadavers won't die Maize. We will have the suitable metallic and advanced equipment you will need to research the organisms and anything else, even takes this lab coat on us". Director Jaime instructs one of the security guards to give you a white lab coat with a DNA symbol of Biotech Inc plastered on it and the Director speaks again.
"Now I think we will be ready for you tomorrow for the more dedicated research, now anything else Maize?, and will you be available for here tomorrow?". Two security guards, one giving the lab jacket to you, the receptionist, and two fellow tired-seeming trainees, as well as the Director are looking at you to make your statement.
Name: Elea Maize
Age: 20
AP: A pale frail woman with white hair
Background: She did experiments involving parasitic organisms, contributing to why she is as skinny as she is
Location: NAC York
You start with 7 points, use them wisely. Most stats range from -1 to 2 and take only a single point to upgrade. Mutatibility is the exception where it starts at 1 and goes to a max of 3, and takes 2 points to improve.
Stats:
Physique: -1
Intellect: 2
Presence: 0
Assets: -1
Mutability: 2
Powers:
Silent Steps: Elea’s footsteps are silent, no seriously your legs and feet no matter how you hard you try will never make any form of noise, they just can’t make sound vibrations. Can't turn this off currently.
Water Shield: Can take water from nearby and condense it into a liquid to surround her body in water. There is air inside since the water is a circle around her, not like a bubble. This can be activated for an entire hour or so before the brain gets stressed out and deactivates, using this in the middle of lava or poisonous smoke will still make you able to breathe and “move around”, however it seriously hurts your brain and the water shield can protect for so long. The water can also possibly protect against knives and bullets but that is currently untested.
Wounds: Healthy
Residence: Eastside Sophisticated Tent in Homeless Camp
Known Acquaintances/Factions: Steve Felin (Healing Super, Homeless Camp Leader), Kara (Greenrose Tenement Residence, Local Patrol Member), Biotech Inc. (Corporation based on genetics and human-research, were a research associate before the “accident”)
Experience: 0
Inventory. 100$ in cash, street clothes, a 2020 antique “SmartPhone” no charger no service
Ethan Summers (Dustan Hache)(Presence Roll: 5*)
You take the uneventful HoloBus trip to Tech Park in the Northside, and only a few stares as if you think some of the passersby heard your mysterious phone call, which you don't even know if you will go too, your thoughts direct themselves toward a source of income to make and why the world also to be so cryptic, and with a self-driving thud, the Bus reaching your stop and you take your leave to the Tech Park, in which self-fabricated grass and tech hobbyists wander, some with their HoverBoards or with their advanced Plasteel Quadcopters, and even a group of people are in advanced virtual reality set with their weird futuristic helmets, you see that "Cass" is on a plasteel table under a pavilion with her HoloLaptop setup and you direct yourself to her.
"Your about forty minutes too early Ethan, and I wanted to just meet you back and see how things were doing, however that crazy story you say about my SO trying to kill you was so bizarre, is everything okay?...". You ponder for a moment before you make your response.
Age: 21
Appearance and Personality (shortened to AP): thin, brown haired man with brown eyes. fairly quiet and shy until he gets to know people.
Background: Former firefighter and odd-job person, bouncing around between various forms of work.
Location: NAC York
Stats:
Physique: 1 (2)
intellect:0 (1)
Presence:0 (1)
Assets: 0 (1)
Mutability: 2 (2)
Powers:
Subliminal Suggestion (Master): When speaking a suggestion, anyone who hears it feels compelled to do whatever is being suggested unless it would injure them. this includes irrational things such as getting a cup of tea in the middle of an armed standoff.)
Death’s Chill (Striker): When Ethan makes physical contact with a person or object, he can drain the energy out of it, leaving people feeling temporarily lethargic and causing heated objects to cool and even ice over rapidly. the lethargy caused also makes people slightly more susceptible to manipulation, and not just by Ethan.)
Wounds: Healthy
Experience: 0
Residence: Green Rose Apartment (300$ Rent, 3 Weeks Remaining)
Occupation: Unemployed/Freelancer
Known People: Richard Glein (Fire Station Chief, Specialized Super for Firefighting), Old Flame, “Cassie” (You can describe this character)
Inventory: Street Clothes, 500$, FuturePhone
What do you yall want to do next?
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