October 21, Sunday, 1:55 PM, 2142
Seth Vimes (Glass)Northside Commercial Precinct Garage Station
(Presence: 2*)
You turn off your null-aura, and head towards the security booth, you see a young man with glasses, in a shaded blue suit and tie on his phone and doing college homework it seems with all the papers on his desk, not even looking at the computer screens that he set up in the security booth at the front of the desk. "Sorry, Mr. there seems to be someone dead!, and no police are on screens.", the young man is surprised by your outburst and reponds with
"Hold on dude, there isn't anyone dead your just seeing things. He goes to on his desk and where is sitting check on the computer screens,
Mother of....!!!, thanks man, I call police right away, thanks for giving the tip but how could this of happen on my watch?, oh man my pay is going to docked. I have to tell you, that your now considered a witness and will have to stay here while the local enforcement comes up otherwise you'll be fined. Well that's what I read in the security guard manual anyways." Whelp the impromptu security guard is now getting his HoloPhone and contacting the local authorities to be brought up, and now he says you have to give a witness testimony on what you saw, he says he's going to check back on the security guard recordings once the police are here. Do you keep your stay and wait for the police, however this man is rather irritating and not good at his job.
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), Dragon Turtle Martial Center Subscription (Know Receptionist, 3-week Subscription, Tuesday-Friday at 4:00 to 5:30 PM)
Experience: 1
Inventory: 1425 $ Debit Card, 2100 Plasteel Electric Compact Car (Parked), 10k Loan Credit Card, HoloLaptop Gen 2, FuturePhone
Jeremiah Nix (NRDL)Alleyway near Green Rose Apartments
(Presence Roll: 7*)You get the woman back up, the woman is still unconscious and still breathing and it takes a good shove and push to get her back on her feet.
"What happened..., I was being assaulted then I fell back here...", the brunette in a business suit starts to wake up and you tell her she was just assaulted by some masked super in a trench coat, and had some disturbingly powerful supers on him.
"Oh thanks for saving me, but it seems he taken my wallet and the folder I was carrying on me, need to cancel my card quick. Sorry the name is Carolyn, I work and is member with an OnlineBank and OnlineShipping corp-owned business that has a big building up in North Side, it seems that thug wanted to know the layout of one of the companies buildings and tracked me, you have my utmost gratitude for saving me, I think I can give some sort of reward if you need one Mr...?." After her vocal spiel, your mind-thinking powers activate and her mind states that she is very worried and disappointing in herself, with the current thought of "That man had a black snake tattoo on his arm, could that mean?...". Your mind goes back to reality, and she is staring at your response, and also asked what your name is.
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. Mutability 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: 4
Inventory: Street Clothes, 665$, HoloLaptop, FuturePhone, Collapsible Baton, Grey Hoodie, Black Cloth
Zeth ? (Darkwarlock)Eastside Warehouse, Cargo 25
(Intellect Roll: 4*)
You scavenge both of the unconscious thugs, and only get one Glock2100 10-round detachable box magazines. Hilda is looking at you weirdly and tells you to get a move on, you follow her lead. Its a good walk from the Eastside Green Rose Apartments to the Warehouse, the still-ancient grey paved sidewalks are a joy to walk around, the mass of a huge hubs of many thrift stores and the like, she takes you from alleyway to alleyway and get look at the more normal passersby as they see a weird homeless man that is also holding his pistol in the backs of his scrappy and tearing jeans. Anyways the warehouse looks pretty distinct with an aging neon sign, stating "Bill's Explosives". You follow Hildas lead and see only a tall dude wearing a cowboy hat and a fat-looking man in some weird alchemist clothing.
"Ah here's Hilda, I got your order, some remote operated C4, it costs a dime. darling. However who's this weird homeless guy tagging you, seems pretty creepy, he your lover?!.. Hilda responds backs with a
"No Bill, I got the money, this man is Zeth, he's protection sent by Stevie. Already helped me with two red silk thugs.". You get inside, seeing the warehouse full of weird explosives like frag grenades, claymores, dynamite, and even IEDs! for sale, and their's an antique RPG for sale, 2000$ dollar though. At this moment your body starts to feel the withdraw, you griped your stomach and almost have the urge to vomit but you resist, it's the Blood Spice!, you need to inject in your body before you go unconscious or do you try to force yourself against the drugs?, as this is happening Hilda is giving some dollars to Hilda, while Bill is giving her the explosives and a detonator.
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, Bandaged 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: 2
Inventory: Tattered clothes, a single penny, 2,5mg Blood Spice, 9mm Glock 2100 (3 bullets left), 1x 10-rounds detachable box magazine
Elea Maize (Naturegirl1999)Universal Wasteland Hiking
(Presence Roll: 4*)“Name’s Elea. Nice meeting you. Good luck getting the money you need”, you also give her 70 USD and she is exclaimed by your generosity.
"Elea... thank you for your support, I never knew someone can be so nice, I owe you a favor definitely and if you ever see someone with a snake tattoo, tell them that your Elea and you know me, Alexis.. The blonde woman gets back her baraclava back on, and scoots back to the alleyway, running off to distant corner where you can't see you. Thankfully no one in the side walks just saw you and that someone attempted robbery, failed, and you gave her money anyways and you deactivate the layer of water that came from the air molucules. You keep walking and trekking down the sidewalk and into the edge of the commercial hub and into a plastic-clean store with a forest camouflage paint-job around the house. With the sign a top stating Universal Wasteland Hiking, you see an skinny indian lady at the desk, helping a grizzled man with a grey beard on the purchasing of a bundle of gas masks.
"We will be with you in a moment customer, but please look around". You take a look around and see all sorts of things that would be useful with dealing with dangerous chemicals, things for survival, and for traveling in the nuclear wastelands that resides in many areas still in the USA, and what do you know superior leather backpacks for only 25 USD. Do you look for anything else?
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: 2
Inventory. 30$ in cash, street clothes, a 2020 antique “SmartPhone” no charger no service
Ethan Summers (Dustan Hache)Northside Tech Park
(Presence Roll: 1*)
”Good day Mr. Aaron, My name’s Ethan and I was hoping to talk to you about a friend of mine. Is it possible we could meet up and talk in person later today? I have a pass to the Blue Harlem neighborhood if safety is a concern.”. Aaron doesn't take kindly to this statement, and you don't have your super backing you up through a wireless phone call.
"I don't like the sound of your tone mister, I have no sort of information on why I should set-up a meeting with someone I don't know, just that their "some" friend of yours. So Ethan who exactly are you, why do you want to set up a meeting with me, and furthermore why do you have a guess pass to the gated community that I live in?, are you someone important that I should know?"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?(XP Rewards because I forgot, +2 XP for Jeremiah for surviving an encounter with an elite-super, and +2 for surviving and then even helping a criminal hustler for Elea)
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