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[Draignean]

Spoiler: Extended History. WARNING! Long and based off a short I did a while back, you have been warned. (click to show/hide)

For a long time Humanity continued doing the things it did best... Consuming, breeding, and generally ignoring the consequences of their actions. We did great things, we launched terraforming probes, we made leaps in medicine, architecture, and in all things beautiful. Still in the end all the beauty in the world cannot free us from the consequences of our actions. Prices were paid, blood was spilled, and reality came knocking. A slow war broke out, and like the fire that followed in it's wake, it consumed an already starving world. For 50 years world war III burned on, blood and death fueling the most beautiful and magnificent cities the world had seen. The war began to reach a pitch that began to bring people away from their simulated beauty, the war began to destroy what it had fueled. The shining cities began to burn.

In the last decade of the war we were saved by what the greatest scholars have called our greatest evil, our greatest taint, and our greatest weakness. Our ignorance saved us from death even as it damned us. The nations with the power to continue fighting realized that they couldn't end what they had begun, we desired to kill each other too much for that. The tools that our leaders had used to domesticate us would be the ones that we killed ourselves with, we were dogs choking themselves on their own collars. It is in the year 2174 A.D  that the Technocracy known as the Church of the Virgin World came to power. The Church of the Virgin World had some of the most brilliant men the world had ever seen, and together they did something  extraordinary. They disabled the weapons of nations with a single blow, using a system of satellites that were part of the civilian entertainment network. The technology made to keep secrets out of the hands of the enemy was used to create a peace, for the master stroke of the plan was that the Church of the Virgin World had an army of its own.

They did not burn, they did not kill, they did not plunder. They did something far worse, they patted us on the head and told us to go back to our rooms. They enslaved us with the chains of our own devising, our cities could not be maintained without the knowledge to do so, and most of those had that knowledge were employed by the Technocracy. We became servants to the technology that we created to make our lives better, or rather we became servants to those that still mastered the technology. For a while it seemed that the Technocracy would fall, resources were scarce and things simply could not go on as they were, but the Church of the virgin world had one last ace in the hole. The terraforming attempts made before the war had paid off, and thousands upon thousands were sent to colonies on mars, on the moons of Jupiter, almost everywhere in Sol had a little nook that could support life, even only with great difficulty. It took years, but Earth began to swell to her former glory, augmented by the resources from the colony worlds. The Church of the Virgin World used the colonies as a dumping ground for people that didn't fit into their regime. The protesters, the unwanted, the different, anyone the Technocracy didn't feel like dealing with got a letter congratulating them on getting to be part of a terraforming team.

In 2236 A.D the Church of the Virgin World Presented its third miracle. A quantum gateway, linked to a point roughly ten-thousand miles outside of Epsilon Eridani. They have yet to reveal the source of this miracle, and they have the only ships to navigate the gateway and survive. It was the perfect dumping ground, unless the Technocracy wanted to let a message through, the message would not get though. Terraforming was already underway on one of the more hospitable planets and it was only a matter of time before the first cruiser laden with bright eyed colonists went in, and they were given first class treatment by the Technocracy. The footage was paraded endlessly and more volunteers were called for, people daring to settle an entirely new solar system practically came running. The Technocracy used this to its advantage and slipped a few "additional" ships in, contents unknown.

In 2270 A.D as colonization began to peter out the Technocracy began a more, aggressive approach to colonization candidates. They decreed that earth, the world where life developed and thus the "Virgin World", should house such beauty and purity as to put the universe to shame. It sounded nice, and the Technocracy pitched as a way for the less gifted to have a real chance in life. What it meant was that anyone with a Deviation that the Technocracy did not approve of was subject to induction without choice into the Eridani colonization program. It was used as a tool for blackmail, maintaining political stability, and of course making sure that no one else knew a thing about the systems that supported their lives. The Technocracy gained nigh absolute power on earth, making sure that those who still had power not in their hands were too meek to use it. The omnipresent threat of being found victim of a Deviation kept everyone else in line, the Deviations are listed most everywhere and people are encouraged to report anyone they know that has one.

Deviation 1-3, External Deviations: Malformation, discoloration, etc.
Deviation 4-7, Mental Deviations: Stupidity or being a little to smart for comfort.
Deviation 7-10, Mental Deviations (Complex): Everything from OCD to Schizophrenia.
Deviation 11-14, Social Deviations: Alcoholics and druggies.   
Deviation 15-18, Social Deviations (Violent): Rapists and thugs.       
Deviation 19-21, Religious Deviation: Everyone who is not us, 19 is private practice, 21 is public with a following.
Deviation 22, Unspecified Deviation

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

 Primary dice rolls in Deviation-22 are done on a twenty-two sided die, while a six sided die determines skill and attribute bonuses (see stats and skills).  The lower you roll, the worse the effect. Bonuses can mitigate bad rolls, and they can turn good rolls into great ones, but it's important note that a 1 is always a 1. No matter how skilled or in how good a position you are, a 1 is always a catastrophic failure.

Example: Use the ship's external speakers to talk to the colonists. Attempt to get them to give me clearance to land.

1: You mix up the command sequence for activating the external speakers with the authorization code to launch a full spread emergency missile barrage. You fail to notice this until the colony bursts into light, your hopes of peaceful negotiations exploding in a cloud of burning ash.

2-3: You mix up the command sequence for activating the external speakers with the authorization code to arm and fire missiles. You catch it in time to realize what's happening, but the missiles are already armed and preparing to fire. You have about three seconds before diplomatic relations take a serious blow.

4-6: You turn on the external speakers and hail the colonists. Unfortunately you forgot to compensate for internal feedback. Your voice comes through in screeches and squeals, exuding all the diplomatic confidence of a handful of angry glass frogs being rubbed vigorously against a blackboard.

6-8: You get the speakers working and hail the colonists. You make your case in increasing superlatives, ladling on adjectives and emotional twangs, and turning what should have been a relatively straightforward request into the sonnet of a gratefully forgotten poet. Your clearance is denied.

9-11: You turn on the speakers and make your address. It isn't the best diplomatic speech every given, but it isn't bad either. No response comes back from the colonists, and you realize that they're deliberating on what to do. If you could give them just a little nudge, bribe or threat, that might be enough...

12-14: You turn on the speakers and read from your prepared statement. It isn't bad, it's a little wooden, but it's far from a political disaster.  After a long, long moment, the colonists grant you limited landing clearance.

15-17: The speakers power on and you make your move. You speak well, and, despite speaking through several tons of steel and circuits, you sound genuine. There's a pause where you can tell the colonists are deliberating, but they eventually send clearance.

18-19: You make a few tweaks to the speakers as you power them up, just a minor shifts here and there, but the result is impressive. You speak with skill and authority, and the modification amplify that noticeably. The colonists grant you clearance.

20-21: You flick the speakers on and prepare to make your address, but something tells you to diverge from you prepared speech. You go with it. You speak, letting it flow naturally. You tell them a lot, not more than you should, but more than you intended. There is a slight pause when you finish, but landing clearance is granted, and you're informed that the colony leaders want to meet with you immediately.

22: You flick the speakers on and prepare to make your address, but something tells you to diverge from you prepared speech. You go with it. You speak, letting it flow naturally. You tell them a lot, more than you should have, more than you ever intended. You talk about your cause, your beliefs, and what you're willing to do to achieve them. You tell them everything. The result is astonishing. You're given clearance to land, but you can barely hear it over the clamor of people trying to establish some form of communications with your ship. A surprising number seem to be rabid about wanting to join you immediately, which is going to be difficult considering you don't have much in the way of quarters on the ship, or real need of colonists whose major skills include mining, mass food production, and animal husbandry.

Spoiler: Factions (click to show/hide)

The Tehnocrats (Aka, The Church of the Virgin World): The controllers, puppet-masters, and managers of the planets. The fact that they control technology is what makes them powerful, without their support entire worlds can go dark. Without their knowledge the gateway to Epsilon Eridani would be unable to be opened. Powerful friends, a pity their regime chafes.

The Unchained: The common name for the freedom fighters that have banded together to form a coordinated resistance to the Technocracy. They try and stay low, but actions on earth are difficult to keep secret. The unchained work together to try and find enough knowledge to take a modicum of control from the Technocrats, their aims are murky and probably far from noble but they'll help most of whatever hurts the Technocrats.

The Colonists: Voluntary colonists are a mixed bunch, some practically worship the Technocrats while others decided to become colonists because they want to get out of the Technocrats direct control. The average colonists are tough, rough, and used to doing what it takes to survive.

The Exiles: Those ripped from their homes by the Technocrats are in many ways more diverse than the Colonists. Some would gladly lick the boots of a Technocrat clean for a chance to be sent home, most, however, are much more likely to put a bullet through head of the Technocrat fool enough to visit an Exile colony.

The General Public: Most Grunt workers, low level technocrats, the majority of the population of the earth, and advanced colonists fall in here. The Church of the Virgin World keeps things in line nicely, and they just have to put in a good days work for what they need, citizens will often feel compelled by duty to defend the Technocrats. It's your religion, and it's your government, any good citizen would defend that... right?

Independents: Freedom Fighters that haven't been inducted into the unchained, criminals, private security forces, etc. These are the men and women who've rejected both the ideals of the Unchained and the Technocracy, they may align themselves temporarily or curry favors, but they owe their loyalty to neither side. Ranging from anarchist rebels without a cause, to crime barons with their own miniature empires, the Independents span the moral compass from every point.

The Father (The Immortals): An unknown variable in the Eridani conflict, the Father is as enigmatic as he is inhuman. His motivations are unknown, but his methods are ruthless, efficient, and deadly. The Motherless sons number both among his first creations, and his first enemies.

The Motherless Sons (The Conclave): ?

Spoiler: Profession Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Black Hack
Background: Black Hacks are people who've tried to find out a little bit more about the machines that keep them alive, without the technocrats blessing. They are generally gifted mechanics and while their actions are illegal, they are often well liked by the surrounding area. Their work with existing systems leaves them feeling a little helpless when they don't have a "canvass" of sorts to work with.
Affiliation: -1 Technocrats, +1 General
Skill Bonus: +1 Int, +1 to all repair checks, -1 to crafting checks.

Name: Courtesan
Background: Okay, if we aren't being politically correct, you're a rent-a-buddy. It's an odd job but it's one of the few professions left that's still always private. Your job is to make people feel at ease, at your most basic level you are an untrained psychiatrist. The Unchained often use you as a messenger thanks to your ready alibi.
Affiliation: +1 to the Unchained
Skill Bonus: +1 Empathetics, +1 to all Speech checks

Name: Grunt Maintenance
Background: You carry big heavy things, you set them down. People with more brains than you do stuff with them, you eat lunch. Repeat as necessary. All you really know about machines is that you aren't supposed to touch any of it.
Affiliation: +1 to Colonists
Skill Bonus: +1 Str, -1 Will, +1 one to anything requiring sheer brawn.

Name: Red Maintenance
Background: You pissed somebody off, maybe you looked at them wrong, or asked a question about what you were doing, whatever the reason you get the worst maintenance jobs. You're used to mildly toxic environments, low light conditions, and taking bruises, whatever the job needs.
Affiliation: -1 Managers, +1 Grunt workers
Skill Bonus: -1 Char, +1 End, +1 to Endurance saves

Name: Sympathetic Scanner
Background: You're a low level member of the Technocracy, you make a living making sure everyone else keeps their heads down and their hands in their own business. Of course, members of the resistance know that you hate your job and will overlook the odd thing or two. Still even though the freedom fighters like you the general public is still scared of you.
Affiliation: -1 General, +1 the Unchained
Skill Bonus: +1 Will, Gets a +1 modifier and an additional roll on any chance to detect a lie.

Name: Fabricator
Background: You're a curious soul, not a good trait in these times. Luckily you are a cautious soul as well, and have managed to keep your head down. You like to make things you can see and feel, computers leave you staring blankly while your little machines totter across the floor.
Affiliation: -1 General, +1 the Unchained
Skill Bonus: +1 dex, +1 to mechanical checks, -1 to all software checks.

Name: Freedom Fighter
Background: Okay, you aren't really the most important member of your organization. At all. Most of the time your Freedom fighting involves drinking alcohol with your buddies, and throwing objects at empty bottles down in maintenance. Still, you are loyal to your ideals and the Unchained only need to call and you'll answer.
Affiliation: -2 Technocrats, +2 the Unchained
Skill Bonus: +1 Kinetics, +1 Dex (Quick, Hide the beer!).

Name: Dealer
Background: You're a wetworks man behind a lot of the stuff that the technocrats don't like. You supply fabricators with gadgets, tell people how to contact a hack when they need one, and tell Sympathetic scanners where they need to take heat off the grid. You're a good person, but your work is dark and occasionally brutal, you protect your connections and sometimes it's either you or them. People tend to shy away from that.
Affiliation: -1 Technocrats, -1 General, +2 the Unchained
Skill Bonus: +4 to first strikes, +1 to lying checks, -1 Char

Spoiler: Character Creation Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: (First and Last)
Appearance:
Gender:
Profession(See Spoiler Above):
Skills (See Spoiler Below):
Character Bio:
Stats,
Strength (Str):
Dexterity (Dex):
Endurance (End):
Charisma (Char):
Intelligence (Int):
Willpower: (Will):

Spoiler: Derived stats, normal stats, and skills (click to show/hide)

There are three derived stats in D22, health, stamina, and energy threshold. Health determines how long it takes you to die, stamina determines you ability to perform intense physical actions and/or use psionics, energy threshold determines how much you can spend on any one psionic attack. You start with (40+7*END+3*WIL) max health, (40+5*END+5*WIL) max stamina, and (as long as you're psionic) an energy threshold of 15+3*Control. Regeneration for stamina is quick; you'll regain stamina equal to twice your stamina skill every turn. Natural health regeneration is slow, but psionic characters can regenerate health equal to 1/3rd of their endurance every turn as long as they are at max stamina. The GM will worry about these, you don't have to have them on your sheet.

You get 26 Points to spend on your stats, for every 3 points in a stat you gain a 1 in 6 chance to get a +1 performing a related ability. So if you had an 9 Str and punched someone and rolled a 4 you would have a 1/2 chance of making it a 5 instead. Where as with 18 Str you would get an automatic +1.

Strength: Increases you base power.
Dexterity: Hand eye coordination, sleight of hand, etc
Endurance: How well you shrug off damage.
Charisma: How convincing you are.
Intelligence: How well you brain, as well as your intuition.
Willpower: Detecting lies, resisting empathetics, as well as determining your psionic ability.


You get 7 points to spend on skills at the beginning. For every point in a skill you get a 1/6th chance to get +1 to affiliated rolls.
If you play as an Unchained character, a Technocrat renegade, or any form of character that could have been oriented prior to entering the game, you get an additional 4 points to spend exclusively on psionics. (See GM for details on this one if you're confused.)


Utility,

Talking: Talking is your basic front line diplomacy skill, used to get through general conversations without lying. Can be thought of as a more active version of Charisma. (Charisma)

Diplomacy: Sometimes the best defense is a good talk. Not often, but sometimes. The Diplomacy skill does just what it says on the tin, it increases your chances of successfully being diplomatic. (Charisma)
 
Gather Information: Gather information is something like talking, except that it also covers intimidation and interrogation. (Charisma)
 
Detect Lie: Detect lie is self explanatory, increasing your chance of seeing through another person's verbal deception. (Charisma)

Lying: Also self-explanatory, determines how well you can weave a verbal deception. (Charisma)

Observation: Observation determines your ability to see, search, and remember what you've seen. (Intelligence)

Medicine: Medicine is your collective knowledge of aid based skills, first aid, surgery, even restorative psychology. (Intelligence)

Intuition Intuition determines both how strong and how accurate your gut reactions are. (Willpower)

Mechanics Your ability to perform physical repairs on machinery, as well as your understanding of engineering concepts, is reflected in your Mechanics skills. (Intelligence)

Systems Manipulation Systems manipulation reflects your ability work with programs, VR, and most all software and software interfaces. (Intelligence)


Combat,

Mobility: How fast you can cover great distance or perform macroscopic feats of dexterity. (Dexterity)

Brawling: Brawling governs your damage in melee combat and the efficacy of your holds and grapples. (Strength)
 
Fire control: How well you can hold a gun on target, for both burst and full auto, is governed by fire control. (Strength)

Marksman: Marksman determines the effectiveness of your aimed strikes with any ranged weapon or object. (Dexterity)

Stamina: How efficiently you use, and how quickly you regain stamina. (Endurance)

Soaking: Damage reduction for the purposes of fall damage, environmental damage, and some melee attacks is governed by soak. Cripple resistance is also based off soaking. (Endurance)

Dodging: Dodging, stunningly, reflects how well you can avoid attacks. Primarily used for melee, but can be used to dodge ranged attacks with a high enough p.empathetics or p.kinetics. (Dexterity)   

Fighting: Fighting shows how well you've mastered the art of fighting, whether through specific discipline or hard won street knowledge. Grants resistance to holds, trips, grapples, and most other special melee moves. (Intelligence)

Melee: Your ability to hit accurate in combat is defined by your melee skill, also governed is the chance to hit for most special melee maneuvers. (Dexterity)

Reflex: Timing, and, naturally, reflexes, are shown in the reflex skill. At the start of each combat round you get a bonus to your initiative equal to three times you reflex score. (Dexterity) 

Finesse: Finesse determines your fine motor control and the general precision of your movements. Governs your chance to confirm a critical. (Willpower)

Psionic,

Active Kinetics: Active Kinetics skill governs the field of willfully effecting molecular movement without direct physical contact. Kinetics can pick locks, light fires, shear flesh, distort light, and manipulate any form of physical object remotely. (Willpower)

Passive Kinetics: Passive Kinetics is much like Active Kinetics, except that the uses of it are instinctive, automatic, and somewhat unreliable. Passive kinetics can slow or block incoming weapons fire, sense unseen changes in the physical environment, amplify strength, or even allow the user to attempt to dodge bullets. (Willpower)

Active Empathetics: Unlike Kinetics, Empathetics governs the willful manipulation of electrical fields and signals. Empaths can dive into computers, manipulate mental states and perceptions, disrupt energy fields and electrical equipment, and can attempt to completely dominate and enslave another's conscious mind. (Willpower)

Passive Empathetics: Like Passive Kinetics, Passive Empathetics is the instinctive twin to Active Empathetics. Passive Empathetics subtly influences how other perceive you, allows the brain to send signals to the body without being effected by neural lag, and grants a limited form of precognition by sensing electrochemical impulses in an opponents body before their muscles react. (Willpower)

Control: Control determines both how much energy you can handle at once, and how well you can cope with pushing your limits. Also determines how much stamina you reclaim after using psionic abilities. Essential for dealing with large amounts of energy without taking health damage. (Willpower)

The Psionics list once stood here, now I offer you this more detailed (and more up to date) version, housed on our wiki.

Current players:

1.
Name: Dominique Wakeman
Appearance: A lean woman of average proportions. She's about twenty-four. Her hair is elbow-length and kept in a low ponytail, and her eyes are brown. One of them is usually bruised. Her skin is average in tone. She has a fair amount of scar tissue across her body.
Gender: Female
Profession: Grunt Maintenance
Skills: Stamina 4, Soaking 2, Melee 1, Passive Kinetics 3, active Kinetics 6, Active empathetics 3, Passive Empathetics 4, Control 2
Character Bio: Is earmarked as a Deviation for both Abnormal Strength and Violent Behavior, but is otherwise unremarkable. She does her job, and does it well.
Stats
Strength (Str): 9
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 10
Charisma (Char): 1
Intelligence (Int): 3
Willpower: (Will): 6
Affiliations: +1 the Unchained, +1 Colonists
Special: +1 to brawn checks
Perks,
Valkyrie: "Now awful it is to be without,/as blood-red rack races overhead;/is the welkin gory with warriors' blood/as we valkyries war-songs chanted.
Effect: When performing healing rolls you gain a bonus equal to one tenth of their missing health to the sum of your healing your healing roll, in addition patients immediately lose the Mortally wounded effect while you are actively treating them (They will of course still die if they take damage, they just won't die at the end of a turn), however you also gain a -3 penalty when attacking enemy healers or patients.

Spoiler: Technocrat File: Wakemen, Dominique (click to show/hide)

 Shows violent tendencies, possible colonization candidate if she becomes a threat to her management. May switch Wakemen to Red maintenence team for a few shifts to see if that will take her edge of.

2.
Name: James Evan
Appearance: A young guy, twenty-two, with golden-brown hair, pale skin, and mostly brown eyes with a little gray at the core of the iris.
Gender: Male
Profession: Sympathetic Scanner
Skills: Detect Lie 2 (Needed to pass by on his job) Melee 3 (He studies fighting), passive kinetics 5, Finesse 2, Brawl 1
Character Bio: Raised anti-Technocrat, although he disguised it as he entered college. Because he disguised it, he was hired early on by the Technocrats, he absolutely, absolutely HATES his job, and considers the Technocracy corrupt.
He privately worships a branch of the couple-hundred year old Episcopalian branch of Protestant Christianity. Naturally, this makes him a Deviation 19.
Stats:
Str: 18. He had to be strong in his poor childhood, and he's only got more fit since then.
Dexterity: 0. Unfortunately, he's horribly, horribly clumsy.
Endurance: 3. He's pretty tough.
Charisma: 3. He's a nice guy and pretty charismatic.
Intelligence: 3. He is about averagely smart, just a little above.
Will: 9. He was fairly strong-willed before he got his hated job. His job made him even more so.
Perks,
Shadow: You got exposed to an experimental unchained piece of bio-tech used in interrogations, you survived but it had a lingering effect on your subconscious. Your subconscious is self-aware now, a second and more primal version of yourself.
Effect: Even without psionic training the shadow can block an incoming empathetic attack on a roll 4 or better. The shadow however will also increase your aggression and can occasionally warp your actions unless you can make a will save.
Harrowed: You endured torture, repeated, nasty, brutal, and thoroughly unconventional at the hands of the Technocracy. You lived, and what does not kill you makes your stronger. No dumb punk with a gun and an ego has a chance of staring you down now.
Effect: +2 to will saves against intimidation, +1 to intimidating people. You can't stand, or take part in, any form of torture however.

3.
Name: Tyrin Laveros
Appearance: A man in his youth, about nineteen years of age. His skin is a dark tone, complementing his hair and eyes. He sports a thin physique and an angled face, his nose is broken. He wears a blue wristband.
Gender: Male
Profession: Dealer
Skills: Detect Lie(3) ; Diplomacy (2) ; Intuition (1) ; Medicine (2) ; Passive Empathetics (4); Reflex(1)
Character Bio: Tyrin was born and raised knowing much about Society thanks to his family and friends, this society was organized, utilitarian and overall sound. It was a shame that it was led by much darker powers, as he discovered when 'accidentally' passing the "Employees only" line in one major corporation due to his intuition and curiosity. Luckily, being young, his excuses were valid and he was sent home with a red wristband, marking his misdemeanor. He painted it blue and decided to help out the victims of this 'Society', now knowing the truth that lay behind the mask.
Stats:
Strength (Str): 3
Dexterity (Dex): 5
Endurance (End): 3
Charisma (Char): 4 (5-1)
Intelligence (Int): 6
Willpower: (Will): 6

4.
Name: Anna Witheld
Appearance: Anna stands at a standard 5 foot, 8 inches, has short, dark red hair and lightly tanned skin. She has a light smile, that seems to say that she always seems to know how to put you at ease, and has a smooth way of moving and talking when the need comes. Dresses up very well no matter the occasion, for some odd reason, even in military gear she looks nice enough.
Gender: Female
Profession: Courtesan
Skills: Talking 2, Diplomacy 1, Stamina 4, Marksman 1, Reflex 1, Active Empathetics 2, Passive Empathetics 1, Control 1
Character Bio: Anna is an agent for the unchained, using her people skills to get important people in the technocrat's administration system to talk about their problems at work, with other people, their orders, etc and then relaying this information to the unchained. She's been in this line of work for about 3 years now, and has been moderately successful in getting information and hasn't been caught once (which means that she's very successful overall considering who she's spying on). She joined the unchained when her family was taken away and split apart by the technocrats for various deviations, and she was luckily spared from the system as she was staying over at a friend's at the time, and had to live on the streets for awhile until she was recruited by the unchained. She generally has a calm and soothing manner, typical of one in her line of work, but can get quite passionate when she's riled up.
Stats:
Strength (Str): 3
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 5
Charisma (Char): 6
Intelligence (Int): 3
Willpower: (Will): 9

5.
Name: Ashley Fey
Appearance: Ashley's current body is tall, quite ironical as her last name means little, but with what fey had come to be known the last name is appropriate, the body is slim but compact, her hair is neck length and a striking violet colour. Further increasing her strange appearance, her eyes are two different colours, the left green, and the right crimson. Her skin however is not unusual, just pale and freckly.
Gender: Female
Profession: Fabricator
Skills: Mechanics: 4, Marksman: 2, Lying: 1
Character Bio: Ashley was always curious about the workings of machines and even created a few herself, including a gas propelled nail-gun, capable of propelling the 15 cm long nails at 500km/hour, leaving the muzzle at 3 shots per second, and she practiced with it a few hours every day, fearing the day that some-one would tip off the technocracy to her construction efforts. Eventually, she is not sure whether it was pot luck, or that the technocracy eventually caught up with her, but she was captured and used as an AI, when the voice finally freed her, she decided that she would fight for her own freedom, especially the freedom to create.
Stats:
Strength (Str): 3
Dexterity (Dex): 7
Endurance (End): 6
Charisma (Char): 4
Intelligence (Int): 3
Willpower: (Will): 3

6.
 Name: Toomas Amk
Appearance: a short, spindly, pale, almost malnourished-looking fellow, he sports an unevenly shaved head and face (hasn't even spared the eyebrows), and his most notable facial features are a set of droopy brown eyes and an aquiline nose. He appears to be covered in scars of many shapes and sizes (some of them even seem to form patterns), though these are mostly only visible when he is not fully clothed. His behavior is largely nervous and fidgety, and he is most certainly a highly conspicuous and suspicious-looking person.
Gender: Male
Profession: Fabricator
Skills:
Soaking: 1
Mechanics: 2
Intuition: 2
Medicine: 2
Restructuring: 2
Growth: 3
Character Bio: when you look at Toomas, you get the impression that he is most likely up to something. This impression is mostly correct. Toomas' primary hobby just so happens to be what he terms "deconstruction and study", which essentially means he finds things - unattended, solitary things - reappropriates them, then deconstructs and studies them. He wonders about the past of a great many things, their evolution and history, their composition and character, and he most often extends his curiosity to both objects and people, frequently to an obsessive degree. As a result, he has few acquaintances, let alone friends, and an increasing tendency to rile up Technocracy operatives.
Stats
Strength (Str): 0
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 9
Charisma (Char): 0
Intelligence (Int): 9
Willpower: (Will): 5

Spoiler: Upgrade Notes (click to show/hide)

ALR Broadbeam
Design Notes: The Modified broadbeam fires a horizontally expanding laser pulse, an effective close range weapon but the expansion of the 'blade' causes minimal cohesion at ranges in excess of 30'. Taric thinks that with a few components it might be possible to have the beam reach a lethal cohesion some distance after it is fired, allowing for lethal power at much greater distance. The integration of some simple electronics will allow for the Broadbeam to adjust the focal point to whatever target it is focused on, letting it strike out at extreme range.
Items Needed: Prisms, laser rangefinder, micro-servos, scrap metal, and a Modified Broadbeam.

Reactive Shield Armor
Design Notes: Standard shield armor is powerful, expensive, and difficult to maintain. It is also some of the best protection available to personnel against energy weapons. Taric made some last minute modifications to a suit and found a way to not only upgrade the field but also cause it to reflect the kinetic energy of a physical impact back to its source.
Items Needed: Heavy Capacitors, soldering station, superconductive wiring and Shield Armor

*My first RTD, so go easy on me.   One does apologize for the walls of text that attack from the spoilers.

[Taricus]

Name: Taric Sizier
Appearance: Young male in his early twenties, dark hair with green eyes and fair skin.
Gender: Male
Profession: Black Hacker
Skills: 2 in repair, 3 in marksman.
Character Bio: A young curious colonisation candidate, Taric is a bit too adept with technology to be considered a technocrat (due to age disparity), Is marked as a potential Deviation 6, a high functioning autistic.
Stats,
Strength (Str): 2
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 2
Charisma (Char): 4
Intelligence (Int): 11 + 1
Willpower: (Will): 3

[Draignean]

Spoiler: Lore accumulated (Unsorted) (click to show/hide)

Renfield SMG
Ranged weapon, automatic, 10 round burst.
Standard clip size: 30
1 handed, requires 2 hands to make an aimed burst.
Good at short range, poor at medium, bad at long. 
Awful to Good damage.
Caliber: .115
Desciption: The Renfield is often laughed at for its diminutive caliber, it is though a very popular weapon with the Unchained and freedom fighters. The reason for its popularity is that it is one of the most easily maintained weapons available, its magnetic accelerator is a common sturdy model able to be made from scrap fairly easily. The Charge packs it uses are the same ones commanly found in most household appliances and can be recharged in 15 minutes. It fires a 3 inch long spike of ferric metal, the unchained have experimented with putting a bead of potassium into the spike... with devastating effects. Since it uses no explosive propellant the Renfield's only sound when fired is the thin whistle of a 10 incredibly sharp spikes speeding through the air. 


Chimera Light Pistol
Ranged weapon, full auto, 15 rounds per turn
Standard Clip size: 15
1 handed
Average at short range, bad at medium, awful at long.
Poor to Great damage.
Caliber: .22
Description: The "Chimera" pistol isn't so much a designation as it is a nickname. Chimera pistols get their name from a mythical beast with the tail of a snake, the body of a lion, and the head of goat sprouting from its back. Chimera pistols got this name from being largely homemade, taking parts from whatever is at hand. The result is a surprisingly lethal firearm, most of them are designed to discharge their entire clip in a brief flash of sound and light, effective but very crude. The Chimera is well liked as a pick up and go weapon for being, cheap, effective, and easy to use.


Damaged Distortion Rifle
Ranged weapon, Single shot
Clip size: 1
2 handed
Average at short range, great at medium, good at long.
Good to incredible damage.
Field generated: 8'' radius
Description: Distortion rifles are weapons that turn gravity against itself on a limited scale, the bubble they generate is a maelstrom gravitational forces quite capable of tearing someone literally into pieces. This one was stolen from a museum restoration room, one of Tarran's buddies fixed it up for him. The damage is still extensive, it can only hold one charge and it takes almost an hour to charge it due to the patch job. Still it is a deadly weapon, and one that Tarran used to great effect during the assassination of Prelate Harold Szero.

Modified Broadbeam Rifle
Pulse
10 Charges
Cohesion Modifiers to damage: +2 close, -2 Medium, -6 Long
Negligible to Great damage
Beam: 3 Inches horizontal upon firing, expanding to a 3ft horizontal blade at maximum effective distance.
Description: Custom made by the unchained these jury rigged weapons prove brutally effective in the short range brawling fights that the unchained favor. Its destructive abilities at anything longer than throwing distance are highly questionable, but for door to door fighting it makes a formidable weapon.

Fenrir Energy Pistol
Ranged, pulse, semi-automatic
Shots per charge: 7
Cohesion excellent at short range, bad at medium, negligible at long.
Medium to Good damage
Description: The Fenrir is a solid energy pistol, designed for close in work is one of the more common energy weapons. It is a particle accelerator and is well known for the brilliant blue light created as the bolt ionizes the air. While it doesn't get many shots per charge it is still quite liked in the shadier communities for being flashy, effective, and leaving no incriminating evidence.

Abassy Heavy Pistol
Semi Automatic
7 Round clip
Range Modifiers to accuracy: +0 close, -1 Medium, -3 Long
Medium to Great damage
Caliber: .50
Description: The Abassy heavy pistol is named for a demon who had teeth of steel, and it lives up to that name. It's comparatively small clip size and dangerously bad accuracy at distance make it a poor choice for a beginning marksman. In the hands of an expert though the Abassy can reliably inflict terrible wounds, coupled with the right kind of ammunition its high caliber can be a threat to lightly armored vehicles. Often chosen as a sidearm for veterans and dumb punks who just wanted a big gun.

Taric's ALR Broadbeam
Pulse
10 Charges
Cohesion Modifiers to damage: -1 close, -1 Medium, -1 Long (+2 all When aimed in/+3 all When aimed in by Taric)
Average to great damage
Beam: Special
Description: An adapted broadbeam made by the Unchained mechanic Taric Sizier. In a standard broadbeam the bolt expands horizontally into blade causing extreme diffusion at range. Taric made a few modifications to the design, placing a second set of mobile prisms outside the barrel that were locked into a Laser rangefinder. The result was an energy weapon that when properly aimed would automatically adjust so that its point of greatest cohesion was the point of impact. The servos are a touch slow for quick shooting, resulting in lower cohesion, but a careful marksman can pick out targets at incredible range.

Irin Combat Shotgun
Pulse
6 Charges
Cohesion Modifiers to damage: +4 close, -4 Medium, -8 Long
Average to Great damage
Spreading pulse
Description: The Irin is a particle weapon that favors raw power of finesse, and it favors it in a big way. At range the Irin is about as dangerous as a popgun, making a pretty flash but nothing else. At close range the expanding mass of super-accelerated particles can tear a man in half, and the intense radiation burst all but negates armor. Well liked by those who like to get close and dirty with their enemies, the weapon has a bad reputation though for incidents where the weapon's core lost containment midshot. Usually killing the wielder and anyone nearby.

Sleipnir SMG
Gauss, Semi and burst fire.
25 round clip, 50 round capacity energy cell.
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Close, -0 Medium, -2 Long
Poor to good damage
Ballistic
Description: As is common of gauss weapons the Sleipnir requires both a clip and an energy cell to function. The Sleipnir's design is remniscent of older times, but it is still a very modern weapon. Capable at both short and mid range firefights the Sleipnir can switch between single shot and five-round bursts. It's a solid weapon, and is generally standard issue to low tier security forces and mercenary cadets.

Ichneumon Anti-Armor Rifle
Single shot
1 round clip, storage on weapon for one additional round. (+2 to speed reloads when the on weapon storage is used.)
Accuracy Modifiers: -2 close, -1 Medium, +1 Long (-3 to armor roll)
Great to Lethal Damage
Ballistic
Description: The Ichneumon is an old design, an oversized rifle designed to fire a very fast bullet to punch holes in armored targets. The Ichneumon uses a moderated recoil system but it still kicks like a mule. 10 Yards away from the barrel the sabot strips off and fires a second propulsion explosives, accelerating the small round to incredible speed. The weight and length of the weapon make it impractical and difficult to use in close quarters, but that same weight dampens barrel jitters at longer ranges.

Fuath Riot Suppresion Carbine
Spray
8 Second canister
Range: Close and Medium only, -2 at medium.
Damage dependent on load.
Cone
Description: The Fuath is a flexible weapon, when loaded with something like tear gas it is an effective crowd control device. An incendiary load turns the weapon into a small flamethrower. The sheer versatility of this rather indescriminate weapon has made it popular with the smarter pirates, some of the homemade chemical loads are quite vicious.

Jormungandr Assault Rifle
Gauss, Single, 5 round burst, full auto
35 Round magazine, 70 round power cell
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Short, +1 medium -0 long
Average to excellent damage
Ballistic
Description: Filling the same roll as the Kalashnikov of centuries past the Jormungandr is an effective and rugged weapon, effective at all but extreme ranges. A variety of attachements allow the user to customize the weapon, from simple bayonets to long range scopes and secondary gauss rails. It's only real weakness is its need of both energy cells and .220 gauss slugs.

Satyr Light pistol
Semi-automatic
18 Round Clip
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Short, -1 medium -2 long
Poor to Okay damage
Ballistic
Description: The Satyr is a fine light pistol, just don't expect it to be anything else. The large clip is useful, but it isn't the kind of gun you want to rely on during a prolonged firefight, the weapon simply doesn't pack enough punch to breach even lighter infantry armor with regularity. The satyr sees use as a sidearm, and concealed weapon, and a shiny trinket for Colonist civilians.

Odei Flechette pistol
Semi-automatic
5 Round Clip
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Short, -1 medium -1 long
Poor to Great damage
Flechette
Description: Resembling nothing so much as an over-sized revolver the Odei fires a slug that looks a great deal like large metal pill. At 10 inches from the target the canister explodes, firing a dense pack of small razors at a concentrated area. A well placed shot can turn vital organs to slop, but the low ammunition capacity has prevented it from becoming a major sidearm.

Cirri Light pistol
Semi-automatic, energy
20 round cell
Cohesion Modifiers: +1 Short, -1 medium -3 long
Very Poor to Average damage
Laser
Description: A popular little light show the Cirri is only a touch larger than a conventional pistol of the same grade, it fires a brief pulse of green light on an intensely fine point with every shot. It short ranges it can cut through light armor fairly well, and while the enhanced focus does burn more efficiently at range it still suffers from the cohesion loss that plagues energy small arms.

Wolfkin Heavy SMG
Semi-automatic, 3 round burst.
18 round magazine
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Short, -1 medium -4 long
Average to Great damage
Ballistic
Description: The Wolfkin resembles a shortened shotgun that got on a diet but fell of the wagon half-way through. Firing Immense .50 Caliber rounds the Wolfkin has a lot of Kick, both for the Victim, and the user. The large rounds will pummel their way through armor when they hit, if they hit. A solid weapon for close range encounters when you're not afraid of making some noise.

Hellhound energy SMG
7 second burst.
41 second cell
Cohesion Modifiers: -2 Short, +1 medium, -3 long
Average to good damage
Laser
Description: The hellhound is a surprisingly heavy laser weapon, usually seen on technocracy support teams. Optimized for ranges between 30 and 60 feet the Hellhound is used to protect longer ranged heavy weapons from close range assaults, and it does so with distinction. The Hellhound isn't a lot of good as an all-round weapon, but it excels in its own niche.

Cockatrice Particle Thrower
2 second pulses
4 second power cell.
Cohesion Modifiers: +5 Short, Nil Medium , Nil Long
Good to Incredible Damage
Particle Weapon
Description: Favoring sheer overwhelming force over distance the cockatrice is the quintessence of handheld destruction at a short range. Draining the power cell in just two shots the Cockatrice fires an immense storm of energy, disintegrating pretty much anything that happens to be in front of it. Deadly at a close range, but there are people who can spit farther than it can shoot.

Kapre Light rifle
Semi-automatic
15 round clip
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Short, +1 medium, -1 long
Average to Decent damage
Ballistic
Description: The Kapre is common light rifle, resisting time with an old .30 caliber bullet that has remained almost unchanged for centuries. It is a common weapon, found on technocracy light teams, colonist militias, and Merc troops.

Piru Gauss rifle
Semi-automatic
5 round clip, 5 round cell
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Short, +2 medium, -0 long
Average to Good damage
Ballistic
Description: The Piru is the most common type of gauss rifle, it is large, blocky, and inefficient. It also packs a hell of a punch. Firing a .45 ferric slug the Piru is a fair weapon for amateur snipers, though her weight keeps her from being as accurate at close ranges as she could be.

Dybbuk Flechette rifle
Semi-automatic
2 20mm tubes
Accuracy Modifiers: (Laser Guided, -1 canister accuracy)
Okay to Lethal damage
Flechette
Description: The Granddaddy of the Odei the Dybbuk looks like a large, very broad, break action shotgun. When facing the business end, or when broken open the Dybbuk displays a set of over and under tubes. These tubes contain a large 20mm flechette canister when loaded, when fired the canister deploys a tiny set of maneuvering fins and small rocket engine. The canister then rides a laser projected by the rifle itself, flash igniting the rest of its fuel when 10' from the target. The resulting explosion of long razors can take out an entire group of careless opponents. The targeting computer will refuse to fire unless it is aimed in on a target for safety reasons. 

Basilisk Pulse Rifle
Semi-automatic
10 round cell
Cohesion Modifiers: +1 Short, +2 medium, Nil long
Decent to good damage
Energy
Description: The Basilisk is a first generation paired pulse rifle. To reduce cohesion loss the rifle fires a pair of pulse that attract one another, actually increasing in cohesion at range. Until the point when the two pulses meet and equalize, at which point they disperse in a flash. The other problem with this is that it uses ammunition at twice the normal rate.

Laelaps Laser rifle
Semi-automatic
12 round cell
Cohesion Modifiers: -2 (+2) Short, +2 (+2) medium, -2 (+2) long (Parentheses for aimed cohesion)
Average to Decent damage
Energy
Description: Instead of mucking about with a complicated adaptive system that could break in the field the Technocracy circumvented the laser cohesion problem by making a Tri-barreled laser rifle and making the focal point different on each barrel. When aimed in the Laelaps will auto find the best barrel, when not aimed the Laelaps defaults to the mid-range barrel.

Gholam Energy Rifle
Semi-automatic
5 round cell
Cohesion Modifiers: +1 Short, +1 medium, -2 long
Special damage
Energy
Description: A focused EMP rifle, the best the Gholam can do to living tissue is induce a mildly painful itching sensation. On anything using vaguely complex electronics the Gholam is devastating. Blowing out computers and pads in a plume of sparks and burning plastics, causing machines to go haywire and generally making all sorts of mechanical mayhem.

Leanashe Assault Rifle
Single, 4 round burst, and full-auto
30 round Magazine
Accuracy Modifiers: +2 Short, +2 medium, -2 long
Below Average to Good damage
Ballistic
Description: A short and stocky assault rifle built in a bull-pup layout the Leanashe is meant for short to mid-range confrontations, and at those ranges it can chew its opponents bloody. Firing a Caseless bullet it can get away with firing a higher caliber round without incurring too great a weight, as well as allowing for a higher than normal magazine capacity.

Drake Beam Rifle
1.5 second beam
15 Second cell
Cohesion Modifer: +2 to selected range, -3 to others. (See description.)
Good to Amazing damage
Beam
Description: The Drake is one of the Rare, expensive, and powerful energy assault rifles. Tricky to maintain, heavy, and undeniably effective. The Drake's beam is hot enough to boils a person's brain in their skull fast enough to make it explode, its strength though lies in a small hardened computer system that allows you to manually select the range that you are going to be firing at, and the rifle will then recalibrate its focus to the selected range. Point, click, and kill.


Name: Makeshift Body Armor
Max Armor: 35
Max Soak: 7
Min Soak: 2
Enc: 3
Special: None

Name: Light Body Armor
Max Armor: 50
Max Soak: 10
Min Soak: 2
Enc: 1
Special: None

Name: Standard Body Armor
Max Armor: 100
Max Soak: 20
Min Soak: 5
Enc: 3
Special: None

Name: Heavy Body Armor
Max Armor: 150
Max Soak: 30
Min Soak: 7
Enc: 6
Special: None

Name: Hazard Suit
Max Armor: 25
Max Soak: 5
Min Soak: 1
Enc: 5
Special: Can be sealed 

Name: Hostile Environment Suit
Max Armor: 5
Max Soak: 1
Min Soak: 0
Enc: 0
Special: Can be sealed

Name: Combat fitted Hostile Environment Suit
Max Armor: 75
Max Soak: 14
Min Soak: 4
Enc: 2
Special: Can be Sealed

Name: Reinforced Combat fitted Hostile Environment Suit
Max Armor: 125
Max Soak: 25
Min Soak: 6
Enc: 4
Special: Can be sealed

Name: Carapace (Combat)
Max Armor: 150
Max Soak: 30
Min Soak: 7
Enc: 1 (6)
Special: If the Carapace's armor is reduced to <30 it has been killed, Enc spikes to 6 and it stops boosting your skills. +5 Str +5 Dex, +100 Stamina

Name: Carapace (Psionic)
Max Armor: 100
Max Soak: 20
Min Soak: 5
Enc: 3 (6)
Special:   If the Carapace's armor is reduced to <20 it has been killed, Enc spikes to 6 and you lose all benefits from it. +5 Passive Kinetics +5 Passive Empathetics. +200 Stamina, no penalty for up to 2 simultaneous psionic actions.

Name: Shield Armor
Max Armor: 100
Max Soak: 20
Min Soak: 5
Enc: 6
Special: 100 points of shielding that behaves like armor for the armor. 50 Shield points can be recharged with a power cell in 3 combat rounds.

Name: Riot Shield
Max Armor: 30
Max Soak: 6
Min Soak: 1
Enc: 1
Special: Can be held in hand

ORS, Organic Regeneration Supplement
Type: Medical aid
Use: Fast acting emergency retrieval medicine
Description: The ORS is one of the Technocracies most interesting advances in the field of medicine, being an effective treatment for anything from broken bones to third degree burns. The ORS is generally stored as a spike, the spike is actually composed of millions upon millions of dormant bacteria and must be kept in some form of sealed container. On contact with blood or similar rich organic fluid the Bacteria comes out of it's dormant state and begins absorbing the DNA of its host organism. It uses this information to 'map' the hosts correct and normal body structure. The bacteria then begin to absorb dead tissue, as they absorb dead tissue they also replicate. Unlike normal bacteria the don't make copies of themselves, they make copies of the cells that would normally occupy the body. The bacteria will spread using the bloodstream, patching damage as they go. The copies of the cells that they make will in essence patch up most wounds, they are also made to be imperfect and when the wound begins to heal the pseudo-cells will be absorbed back into the host organism to speed the healing process.

Memory foam
Type: Tech
Description: A huge advance over previous iterations of the same technology, modern memory foam is conditioned to display a broad number of characteristics, Heat, texture, firmness, smell, color, etc can be displayed. It is used in medical classes to simulate a body during surgery, in expensive clothing, and in numerous other items. It is somewhat expensive, but it is not uncommon by any means.

Armadillo
Type: Armored Transport
Capacity: 8+driver.
Speed: Acceleration 0-60mph in 6 seconds. Max Speed 80 Mph
Weapons: None
Other: 3 axels, 12 wheels. Low center of gravity. Wheels can raise and lower.
Use: Heavy offroad transport, the flying wedge shape combined with a bit of speed can plow through most of what it can't run over.

Waiting List

1. Xantalos
(No Sheet)

2. Kisame

Spoiler: Ntzom Migrurkeshin, Kisame (click to show/hide)

Name: Ntzom Migrurkeshin
Appearance: 4ft 6, 150lbs, Ntzom is a short and sturdy type, with brown hair and eyes. Covered in numerous scars, burns and bruises.
Gender: Male
Profession: Red Maintenance
Skills: 1 Intuition, 1 Mechanics, 2 Soaking, 2 Reflexes, 1 Medical
Character Bio: Ntzom doesn't remember how long he's been assigned to Red Maintenance, nor the reason he was assigned to it. Must be all the toxic fumes and other gunk. He longs to explore, and the Unchained gave him a good reason. Having mastered navigation of the tunnels, he created and marked "safer" paths for operatives to traverse undetected.
Stats:
Strength (Str):6
Dexterity (Dex):6
Endurance (End):5+1
Charisma (Char):1-1
Intelligence (Int):3
Willpower: (Will):5

 3.

Spoiler:  Sean Saul Scriven, Gamerlord (click to show/hide)

Name: Sean Saul Scriven
Appearance: 6 ft, approx 80kg, brown hair, shorn close to the scalp with a full beard. looks to be in his twenties, has a large black gear tattoed upon his left shoulder.
Gender: Male
Profession(See Spoiler Above):
Name: Fabricator
Background: You're a curious soul, not a good trait in these times. Luckily you are a cautious soul as well, and have managed to keep your head down. You like to make things you can see and feel, computers leave you staring blankly while your little machines totter across the floor.
Affiliation: -1 General, +1 the Unchained
Skill Bonus: +1 dex, +1 to mechanical checks, -1 to all software checks.
Skills (See Spoiler Below):
Mechanics - 4
Marksman - 3
Character Bio: Never really concerned with the Technocracy, Sean spent his time keeping his head down and working on his machinery.
Stats,
Strength (Str): 2
Dexterity (Dex): 9 + 1
Endurance (End): 2
Charisma (Char): 0
Intelligence (Int): 10
Willpower: (Will): 3

4.

Spoiler: Van Noble, "Hat". Xanmyral (click to show/hide)

Name: Van "Hat" Noble
Appearance: A grinning bald male, looking to be roughly be his mid twenties. He always carries a pallid tint to his skin, a man looking to need more sun than he's obviously getting, but the sickly look doesn't seem to carry over to his calculating eyes. Any clothes he wears tend to be meticulously positioned and utilitarian to a tee, often a muted and average sort that doesn't stand out.
Gender: Male
Profession(See Spoiler Above): Black Hack
Skills (See Spoiler Below): System Manipulation: 3, Mechanics: 1, Observation: 1, Fighting: 1, Stamina: 1
Character Bio: If nothing else, Van is a man of obsessions and vices. Born in the slums to an impoverished family, he was always one to seek his boundaries and then pokes them. Repeatedly. Until either he surpasses them with a scoffing pride or is constrained by them. He took an interest in the machinery that surrounded him, often taking them apart and putting them back together to see how they work, how they don't work, or how they aren't suppose to work. His true passion came about whenever he found his way onto a computer later in life, instantly taking to the digital infrastructure like a fish to water.

While adept in repair, Van is not one to delight in the tinkering of machinery but it tends to pay the bills better than mucking about with various systems on a computer. His requested payments often varied from food, money, alcohol, even bits and pieces of parts, but his work tended to be worth the price. Van was forced to move from his comfortable spot after happening to "chance upon" some more sensitive information that was under heavy Technocracy encryption, to avoid any problems that may of arose, sadly having to leave the data there after only having been given a glimpse at it.
Stats,
Strength (Str): 1
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 6
Charisma (Char): 1
Intelligence (Int): 12
Willpower: (Will): 3

5. Nav (No Sheet)

Spoiler: Villain Sheet (click to show/hide)

Not everybody is cut out for the good and friendly life of the heroes, there have to be villains and while I control the majority of the opposition a bit of outsourcing can't hurt too badly.

So you want to fight the heroes, well step right up and don't shy. As a villain you get your own character and a small squad of mooks, you'll be set up as mini-boss when I need you. You start with 500 VP (Villain points) and a standard character sheet, you fill out the sheet as normal except for your villain profession which is listed in the spoiler below.

After you've got your character you buy you equipment and mooks.

Spoiler: Villain Professions (click to show/hide)

As the game progresses more villain classes will open up.

Name: Technocracy Captain
Description: You're a captain of the military arm of the technocracy, and you've proved yourself a capable enough field officer to lead more... clandestine missions.
Special: Two free Technocracy troopers.

Name: Technocracy Specialist
Description: You've proven that you can excel with only a few men, a gun, and a mission.
Special: +3 skill points to one skill of your choice.

Name: Technocracy Warpriest
Description: You're a leader of the elite military branch of the church of the virgin world, and as such have access to enhanced resources.
Special: +50 VP at start

Name: Technocracy Operative
Description: You're a proven covert member of the Technocracy forces, skilled at slipping into enemy forces undetected.
Special: Has an alias known only to the operative and the GM, detect lie rolls against the operative are at  a hidden -1.

Spoiler: Shop Smart, shop henchmart! (click to show/hide)

You have 500 VP to spend on the following.

Technocracy

Name: Technocracy Deadhead
Cost: 25VP
Description: Filler mooks, mechanical and susceptible to head shots.
Skills: Fighting 1, Melee 1, Soak 1
Attributes,
Strength (Str): 6
Dexterity (Dex): 0
Endurance (End): 9
Charisma (Char): 0
Intelligence (Int): 0
Willpower: (Will): 0
Psionic: No

Name: Technocracy Trooper
Cost: 50VP
Description: Basic Grunts for the Technocracy legion
Skills: Fighting 1, Dodge 1, Marksman 1
Attributes,
Strength (Str): 0
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 3
Charisma (Char): 0
Intelligence (Int): 0
Willpower: (Will): 3
Psionic: No

Name: Technocracy Sniper
Cost: 75VP
Description: Long range Grunts for the Technocracy legion
Skills: Dodge 1, Marksman 3
Attributes,
Strength (Str): 0
Dexterity (Dex): 6
Endurance (End): 3
Charisma (Char): 0
Intelligence (Int): 0
Willpower: (Will): 3
Psionic: No

Name: Technocracy Acolyte
Cost: 100VP
Description: Elite troops for the Technocracy legion, mild psionics.
Skills: Fighting 1, Dodge 2, Marksman 2, Kinetics 1, Empathetic 1
Attributes,
Strength (Str): 3
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 3
Charisma (Char): 0
Intelligence (Int): 3
Willpower: (Will): 6
Psionic: Yes

Spoiler: Weapons, armor, and kit. (click to show/hide)

Technocracy

After you've bought your henchmen you buy your equipment for them. Ammo costs for each weapon is 1/10s the total weapon cost for conventional weapons and 3 VP each for energy weapons.
 
Weapons

Conventional pistols
Satyr, Light pistol 10VP
Abassy, Heavy pistol 15VP
Odei, flechette pistol 20VP

Energy Pistol
Fenrir, close range pistol 15 VP
Cirri, light pistol 15 VP

Conventional SMGs
Sleipnir, gauss 20VP
Wolfkin, heavy SMG 30VP

Energy SMGs
Hellhound, beam SMG 25 VP
Cockatrice, particle thrower 35 VP

Conventional Rifles
Kapre, light rifle 40 VP
Piru, guass rifle 55 VP
Ichneumon, Anti-armor rifle 65 VP
Dybbuk Flechette Rifle 65 VP

Energy Rifles
Basilisk, Pulse rifle 50 VP
Laelaps, laser rifle 60 VP
Gholam, particle rifle 70 VP

Conventional Assault Weapons
Jormungandr, gauss 60VP
Leanashe, standard 70VP

Energy Assault Weapons
Drake, Beam rifle 75 VP

Armor

Light Body Armor 35 VP
Standard Body Armor 50VP
Heavy Body Armor 80VP
Combat fitted Hostile Environment suit 90 VP
Reinforced combat Hostile Environment suit 120VP
Shield armor 180VP
Carapace 200VP

Other

Basic medical supplies (5), 20VP
Advanced Medical kit (5), 40VP
ORS (3), 50VP
Field Surgery Kit (5), 60VP

[Taricus]

Edited the post.

[Tarran]

Name: Tarran Smith.
Appearance: A rough, charismatic, young man. He has black hair and dark blue eyes. His skin is very slightly tanned.
Gender: Male.
Profession: Freedom Fighter.
Skills: 3 Marksman. 2 Talking.
Character Bio: Originally highly devoted to the Technocracy, in a bout of naughtiness he helped his friends crack into a top-secret channel, and when he listened he realized everything he believed was a lie. He has been against the Technocracy ever since. He's a naturally charismatic man, though he's not really the smartest gun on Earth, nor the strongest.  However, he has a natural ability with guns and tends to try out new ones every so and so. He's a Deviation 20, a enemy of the Technocracy. He has killed several Technocracy leaders, unlike most of his "buddies" who tend to do nothing.
Stats,
Strength: 0
Dexterity: 8+1=9
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 9
Intelligence: 2
Willpower: 3

[Draignean]

Updated, added your file.

This post has also been commandeered due to character limit.

Spoiler: Don't look now, but I think the intermission is coming. (click to show/hide)

Weapon Type,

Pistol: One handed as a general rule, may require two hands to aim. Low damage sidearm or concealed weapon. Makes a decent melee weapon with Gun-Fu.
SMG: Small burst to full auto weapon, maybe anything from one to two handed. Often requires two hands to make an aimed burst.
Carbine: Short rifle, medium damage and can usually be fired (though not aimed or reloaded) one handed.
Shotgun: Heavy hitter, heavier models require two hands to fire effectively. Low magazine capacity.
Rifle: Longer range weapon, strict rifles are largely antiquated and are thus ubiquitous in low tech regions.
Battle Rifle: High power burst fire rifle, heavier hitting than an assault rifle, higher recoil, smaller bursts and less flexibility. Common on Technocrat Infantry.
Assault Rifle: Very flexible weapons as a whole, usually capable of running the entire gamut from semi-auto to Full auto. Common on infantry.
Sniper Rifle: Long range high-power rifle, often very heavy and difficult to use.
Anti-Material Rifle: Heavy weapon for making big holes in big things. Often takes a penalty to shooting human sized and smaller objects.
LMG: Light Machine Gun, able to be carried by a single person. Always fully automatic. may have an integrated tripod.
MG: Machine Gun, fifty-fifty split between being able to be used by a single person and needing another person to help. Very heavy. Always fully automatic.
UO Launcher (Unpowered Ordinance): Grenade launchers for the most part, though other niche weapons fit this category. Fires a round that does not have its own propulsion.
PO Launcher (Powered Ordinance): Weapons that fire a round that does have a secondary propulsion system, canister rifles, RPGs, rocket launchers, etc.
Thrower: Flame, chemical, etc. Throwers fire a constant stream of something.
Indirect Artillery: Big guns that fire in heavy arcs, never usable by a single person effectively.
Emplaced: Weapons that are bunkered into a location, includes HMGs. These weapons can be broken down and moved but they must always be set up again before they can be fired. Also includes automated turrets and mines.
Integrated: Weapons that are built directly into a vehicle or structure, includes turrets, point defense, etc.
Hardpoint: Weapons that are socketed into a mount on a vehicle or structure, these can be switched out for another weapon with a compatible mount.

Payload,

Gauss: Uses a series of a magnets to pull a ferric round forward at great velocity. Common. Always flashless.
Rail: Uses systems of paired rails to generate a magnetic field, then magnetize a non-magnetic in reverse polarity to the rail field, literally squeezing the round out.
Conventional: Uses explosives to shoot a chunk of metal, very common.
Laser: A beam of coherent light, very varied on what spectrum is used.
Particle: A catch-all term for energy weapons that aren't quite lasers, but don't merit the other titles either. In infantry use this usually refers to the energized particle blasters, but it also covers most ship based beam weapons.
EM: Electro magnetic pulses to disrupt electronics or create pain through nerve induction.
Gravitic: Turns gravity all about in order to rip a target apart.
Sonic: Uses soundwaves to start fires, shatter bones, and rupture organs. Totally dependent on atmosphere.
---- Tank: (See directly below) Used exclusively for throwers.
---- Charge:  (Concussive, HE, HEAT, Incendiary, Cryonic, Fragmentation, chemical, Biological, etc) Used for grenades, rockets, specialized ammunition etc.

Firing Type

Single Shot: Fires once and then needs to be reloaded.
Semi-Automatic: Fires each time you pull the trigger.
Burst: Fires a short burst with each trigger pull and will not fire again until the trigger has been let up and the pressed again.
Full-Auto: Fires as long as the trigger is depressed.
Flex Fire: Can select between two or more firing types (single shot excluded) 

Damage Class

Small Arms: Most infantry weapons, some vehicle based weapons.
Heavy Weapons: Some infantry weapons, some vehicle based weapons.
Vehicle Weapons: Most Vehicle weapons.
Ship Weapons: Most Ship weapons.
Massive: Few heavy ship weapons.

Weapon Faults

Difficult to Modify,

Whoever made this thing had a serious grudge against mechanics everywhere, this weapon is difficult hard as hell to physically change, mounting things on it works well enough, but woe betide you if your try to physically change it.

-1 to all parts of the crafting check when using this weapon as a component.
Possessed by: Technocrat Hi-Technology, energy weapons, ripper weapons, custom made tech.

Problem Prone

For some reason the person who designed this gun failed to take into account the fact that this weapon was going to be used outside of a sterile testing lab. As a result it handles nature very poorly.

-1 to the Weapon stability roll following a botched shooting roll.
Possessed by: Light weapons, SMGs, prototypes, HMGs, custom weapons.

Inaccurate

No matter how good you are there is something about this gun that just doesn’t quite work, short barrel, poorly fitted optics or an unbalanced accelerator cause the weapon to always be a little off.

-1 to all quickshot and marksman rolls with this weapon.
Possessed by: Old weapons, damaged weapons, pistols.

High Recoil

This weapon kicks like a mule, enough to stagger you a little every time you shoot with it.

X/5 Recoil penalties carry over into the next turn. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: High caliber weapons, Machine guns.

Sensor Reliant

Sensor reliant weapon require a lock before they can be fired at all, this can be bypassed with time and a skilled mechanic but until then you have to aim before you shoot.

Requires you to aim in on a target for X turns before you can fire.  (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: Ship weapons, rockets, anti-material weapons, defensive weapons, launchers.

Ungainly

This weapon is not only big and blocky, it’s big and blocky with no good way to hold it.

-1 to running while carrying this weapon and -1 to the checks for mounting it into a Hardpoint, tripod, etc.
Possessed by: Large weapons, hardpoint mounted weapons. (Often overlaps with heavy.)

Slow Mag Release

The magazine on this has a complex release mechanism and requires a bit more time and dexterity to change clips than usual.

Requires a dex roll every time you change magazines, 1 to X indicates that you spend an addition turn wrestling with the clip. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: LMGs, MGs, HMGs, Anti-Material Rifles, Artillery, etc.

Heavy

This gun is just damn heavy, whether it needed super-dense osmium alloy for its shell or if it’s just big to boot this weapon is really hard to hold up for long periods of time.

Requires a str roll for each turn spent aimed in, 1 to X indicates that you lost your target. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed By: Large weapons, MGs, Sniper Rifles, launchers, Anti-Material rifles, etc (Often overlaps with ungainly.)

Delicate

This weapon just wasn’t designed for the harshness of combat, it keeps breaking when you bash it into someone’s skull.

Instead of having to make a stability roll on a one delicate weapons require a stability roll on a 1 to X. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: Prototypes, precision laser weapons, field repaired gear, etc

Soft Circuits

This weapon was designed poorly when it comes to coping with electromagnetic flux. Pulse weaponry and high energy environments have a tendency to play hell with this weapon’s electronics.

This weapon makes 1+X, rolls when subject to intense EM discharge, the lowest of the rolls is used, a 1 indicates the weapon must make a stability roll.. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: prototypes, civilian energy weaponry. Custom made weapons, damaged weapons, etc

Attenuating Damage

The shot for this weapon kind of peters out after a bit, she starts out strong but she just can’t go the distance.

This weapon functions fine at short range, but the damage class is reduced by X at medium range and by X-X at long range. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: Energy weapons, beams, etc

Power Hungry

This weapon wasn’t designed for efficiency, and she sucks down energy cells at a prodigious rate to continue working.

This weapon requires 1+X energy cells to reload fully, consumption per shot is normal. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: Large energy weapons, large gauss weapons, railguns, etc

Unusual caliber

Whoever designed his weapon made it take moon rounds, the ammunition is difficult to find, difficult to fabricate, and expensive to buy when you do find some.

Cost for fabricating or buying rounds for this weapon is multiplied by X.  (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: Rare guns, high-power sniper rifles, Railguns, etc

Older

This old girl just isn’t quite as up to speed as newer weapons, nothing wrong with her, but she just can’t match them for sheer lethality.

Critical threshold (Base 7) increased by X. (X is the level of this flaw)
Possessed by: Older models of weapon.

Weapon Traits

One handed: This weapon is one handed. It can be aimed, fired, and even reloaded with one hand.
One-and-a-half handed: Hand and a half weapons require only one hand to fire, but aiming or reloading requires two.
Two handed: These weapons require two hands for everything, and trying to work them one handed is a bad plan.
Prototype: This weapon is a hot off the line variation of the standard model, it gets 3 perks and 3 flaws.
Pintle Mounting: This weapon can be mounted on a vehicle, a tripod, or similar apparatus with matching receiver.
Heavily Modified: This weapons has had some serious work done. 1d4 perks, 1d4 flaws.
Defensive: This weapon is designed for defensive purposes, using it offensively is either impossible, or really really difficult.
Silent: This weapon is silent.
No Flash: This weapon does not create a flash when fired.
Atmosphere Dependent: This weapon requires an earthlike atmosphere to fire.

Weapon Perks


High power

This weapon packs a punch, whether through new-tech or a just a solid design this weapon has above average stopping power.

The damage for this weapon is increased by X0% per shot. (X is the level of this perk)
Possessed by: Large caliber weapons, big guns, sniper rifles, anti-material rifles, etc

Spread

This weapon’s shot spreads out in cone from its point of origin, allowing it to hit multiple people.

Can affect 1/2X people at short range, X people at medium range, and X+X people at long range. The people must be within X yards of each other. (X is the level of this perk)
Possessed by: Shotguns, throwers, pulse weapons, etc. This perk is often combined with attenuating damage. (Note, fully automatic weapons use different systems to determine the people they hit.)

Modular components

This weapon was designed to be pulled apart, swapped about, and then slapped back together. It doesn’t make it simple, but it does make it easier that normal.

Adds +1 to each phase of the crafting roll when using this weapon as a base.
Possessed by: Older weapons, custom weapons, conventional weapons, etc.

Energy Efficient

This weapon is very efficient in its use of energy, making ideal for runs when longevity is favored over stopping power.

Each power cell is only consumed by 1/X each time it is used to power this weapon.(X is the level of this perk)
Possessed by: Energy pistols, energy assault weapons, small gauss weapons.

Armor Piercing

This weapon fires ammunition designed to bypass the armor it is most likely to encounter.

Effective armor reduced by 5% per level of this perk.
Possessed by: Battle Rifles, anti-material rifles, laser weapons, etc.

Shield Piercing

This weapon as been specifically configured to be very damaging to shields it encounters.

Damage taken by shields when a round from this weapon passes through them is multiplied by 1+X.  (X is the level of this perk)
Possessed by: Heavy particle weapons, energy rifles, military pulse weapons, etc.

Hardened Circuits

The circuitry on this weapon has been specifically designed to withstand high yield electromagnetic discharges without going haywire.

This weapon makes 1+X, rolls when subject to intense EM discharge, the highest of the rolls is used, a 1 indicates the weapon must make a stability roll.. (X is the level of this Perk)
Possessed by: Military grade energy weapons, ship weapons, emplacements, etc.

Overcharge

Additional heat dispersion systems and high capacity accelerators allow for weapons that use energy cells to dramatically increase their output for short periods of time.

User may choose to add multiply the charge cost for the shot by X in order to deal X(20%) more damage.  (X is the level of this perk)
Possessed by: Energy assault weaponry, energy sniper rifles, railguns.

Smart

This weapon is fully capable of doing its job without your help, it can track, aim, and shoot without you. Granted it might not do it well, but it can do it.

System can deploy and fire on its own with an effective quickshot equal to X+1. (X is the level of this perk)
Possessed by: Mines, turrets, point defense, etc.

Redundant Systems

This weapon was built with fallback systems that can take over for the primaries should they fail, includes systems to automatically un-jam barrel obstructions and clear the breach.

When a stability roll is failed the weapon can absorb a number of critical failures equal to this perk’s rating. The weapon must undergo repairs to gain its rating back after absorbing a failure though.
Possessed by: Ship weapons, vehicle weapons, emplaced weapons, big guns, conventional weapons, etc.

Ruggedized

This gun was made to take a beating, tough parts, simple machinery, and failsafes make it pretty hard to throw a wrench in this gun’s works.

When a stability roll is made this gun gains a bonus equal to X. (X is the level of this perk)
Possessed by: Vehicle weapons, heavy combat weapons.

Deadly

All guns are designed to kill, this one just does it very well. A stunning piece of the art of murder.

Critical threshold (base 7) is reduced by one per level of this perk.
Possessed by: Representatives from all categories.

Spoiler: Examples of the above (click to show/hide)

Jormungandr Assault Rifle
35 Round magazine, 70 round power cell
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Short, +1 medium -0 long
Medium-Low Damage x1, x5, x25
Recoil: 4/6ths
Caliber: .220
Critical Threshold: 9
Traits
Assault Rifle
Gauss
Flex Fire (all)
Small Arms
Two Handed
No Flash
Older II
Ruggedized I
Redundant Systems I
Modular components I

Description: Filling the same roll as the Kalashnikov of centuries past the Jormungandr is an effective and rugged weapon, effective at all but extreme ranges. A variety of attachements allow the user to customize the weapon, from simple bayonets to long range scopes and secondary gauss rails. It's only real weakness is its need of both energy cells and .220 gauss slugs.

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Chimera Light Pistol
15 round clip
+0 at short range, -2 at medium, -4 at long.
Very Low Damage x15
Recoil: Not Applicable (Only fires in Full-auto)
Caliber: .22
Critical Threshold 7
Traits
Pistol
Conventional
Full-Auto
Small arms
One-and-a-half handed
Inaccurate II
Delicate I
Older I
Modular Components I

Description: The "Chimera" pistol isn't so much a designation as it is a nickname. Chimera pistols get their name from a mythical beast with the tail of a snake, the body of a lion, and the head of goat sprouting from its back. Chimera pistols got this name from being largely homemade, taking parts from whatever is at hand. The result is a surprisingly lethal firearm, most of them are designed to discharge their entire clip in a brief flash of sound and light, effective but very crude. The Chimera is well liked as a pick up and go weapon for being, cheap, effective, and easy to use

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Sleipnir SMG
25 round clip, 50 round capacity energy cell.
Accuracy Modifiers: +1 Close, -0 Medium, -2 Long
Very low Damage x1, x5
Recoil: 2/6th
Critical Threshold: 6
.223 Calliber
Traits
SMG
Gauss
Flex fire, Semi and burst.
Small arms
One-and-a-half handed
Difficult to Modify I
Problem Prone II
Deadly I
Overcharge I

Description: As is common of gauss weapons the Sleipnir requires both a clip and an energy cell to function. The Sleipnir's design is remniscent of older times, but it is still a very modern weapon. Capable at both short and mid range firefights the Sleipnir can switch between single shot and five-round bursts. It's a solid weapon, and is generally standard issue to low tier security forces and mercenary cadets.

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Abassy Heavy Pistol
7 Round clip
Range Modifiers to accuracy: +0 close, -1 Medium, -3 Long
High Damage
Recoil: 1 2/6th
Critical Threshold: 7
Caliber: .50
Traits
Pistol
Conventional
Semi-Automatic
Small arms
One-and-a-half handed
High Recoil II
Slow Mag Release I
High-Power III
Ruggedized I

Description: The Abassy heavy pistol is named for a demon who had teeth of steel, and it lives up to that name. It's comparatively small clip size and dangerously bad accuracy at distance make it a poor choice for a beginning marksman. In the hands of an expert though the Abassy can reliably inflict terrible wounds, coupled with the right kind of ammunition its high caliber can be a threat to lightly armored vehicles. Often chosen as a sidearm for veterans and dumb punks who just wanted a big gun.

[Tarran]

Heh heh heh, love my list of crimes.

I'll be looking forward to convincing and shooting my way out of bad situations.

[SeriousConcentrate]

I was torn between playing a courtesan or grunt maintenance, but since Tarran's got charisma covered I figured y'all could use some muscle. ^^

Name: Dominique Wakeman
Appearance: A lean woman of average proportions. She's about twenty-four. Her hair is elbow-length and kept in a low ponytail, and her eyes are brown. One of them is usually bruised. Her skin is average in tone. She has a fair amount of scar tissue across her body.
Gender: Female
Profession: Grunt Maintenance
Skills: Stamina 2, Soaking 2, Melee 1
Character Bio: Is earmarked as a Deviation for both Abnormal Strength and Violent Behavior, but is otherwise unremarkable. She does her job, and does it well.
Stats
Strength (Str): 8+1
Dexterity (Dex): 3
Endurance (End): 6
Charisma (Char): 1
Intelligence (Int): 3
Willpower: (Will): 4-1

Edit: Decided to play a female instead for variety's sake. She will tank and draw aggro. :p

[Trollan]

Name: Trol Grane
Appearance: Short, Chubby, Eye level Brown hair
Gender: Male
Profession: Dealer
Skills: +2 Melee +1 Dodging +1 Fighter +1 Lie detecting
Character Bio: Trol is a 22 year old man, who has a gambling problem. He has funded this problem by By being the casino's "Motivator". Very likely to be a deviation 12.
Stats:
Strength 8
Dexterity 2
Endurance 8
Charisma 2
Intelligence 2
Willpower 3

[Scood]

joining

[Tarran]

joining

Err, sorry, but you're too late. We've got 4 players already.

[Draignean]

Alright, the starting 4 are locked.  Scood, you can create a character but be prepared to change it later as more options become available, you'll get a slot in sometime later.

Since the party hasn't met yet your introductions will happen individually for the sake of speed.



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Character: Tarran Smith (Don't worry as the story progresses there will be fewer walls of text.)

The room you are in isn't a nice one, the place is a refurbished secondary supply room for maintenance, it's lit only by lights that can be recharged at a public port, and it smells of old metal and chemicals. Still it's safe, and for the week it's home. You and some buddies managed to wall the door off and make it look normal, and your Dealer found a black hack who was able to inconspicously lose the blueprints of the room. As far as anyone is concerned this room doesn't exist, and the building scans label it as an emergency heatsink for the local systems. The only way in is through a panel in the ceiling, linked to a false bottom in an "Out of Order" public bathroom at the Kings bounty, a small restaurant serving sea food flavored synthetics and a limited quantity of alcohlics. It might not be part of the glamorous life of a hero, but you don't really think the Peacemakers barging in arresting the bathrooms anytime soon.

In the corner is a set of makeshift over-and-under hamocs, been awhile since you had company though. On the opposite wall is a rack of tools, disguises, and weapons. When you aren't occupying it the dealers often use this place as a cache while they move illicit materials. You own a few things on the rack though, a Peacemakers sign with matching uniform, a needlegun smg, two chimera pistols, and your pride and joy; a jury-rigged military grade distortion rifle.

A small chest contains some personal effects, unobtrusive carrying belts, ammunition, as well as what little explosives you've been able to make/smuggle. Most of your food is upstairs in the kings bounty but you've got some ready to move supplies as well. Today is Feburary 9th, 2272 A.D and according to the babe calendar on the wall you need to meet with your dealer, Marcus, to see if you can grab some low-yield EM demoliton supplies. You're supposed to meet in hydroponics, twenty floors down, in about 3 hours.

Spoiler: Tarran Smith (click to show/hide)

Health: 75/75
Stamina: 60/75
Carried Weight: 10/150
Inventory:
Worn Clothing: Fashionable, fairly clean, solid shoes.
Concealed Knife
Fake Biometrics tag
Fake work order

Spoiler: Items in room (click to show/hide)

Chest:

45 rounds of .22 caliber bullets.
60 rounds of .115 spikes.
2 Light Charge packs (fully charged)
2 pounds of poor quality homemade plastic explosive.
6 Detonator spikes
1 Makeshift EMP charge.
Two Clean changes of clothes.
Rations for two days.     

Wall Rack:

Peacemaker disguise, okay quality.
2 Chimera Pistols, .22 Caliber
Renfield SMG, .115 Caliber
Damaged Distortion Rifle

Spoiler: Knowledge Added! (click to show/hide)

Knife
Melee weapon
Poor to moderate damage.
Description: Knives have been in use for a very long time, as one of man's first tools it has a long and bloody history. While not as common as they once were knives are still fairly popular for three reasons, They are easily made, they can be readily concealed, and almost anyone can use one.

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Renfield SMG
Ranged weapon, automatic, 10 round burst.
Standard clip size: 30
1 handed, requires 2 hands to make an aimed burst.
Good at short range, poor at medium, bad at long. 
Awful to Good damage.
Caliber: .115
Desciption: The Renfield is often laughed at for its diminutive caliber, it is though a very popular weapon with the Unchained and freedom fighters. The reason for its popularity is that it is one of the most easily maintained weapons available, its magnetic accelerator is a common sturdy model able to be made from scrap fairly easily. The Charge packs it uses are the same ones commanly found in most household appliances and can be recharged in 15 minutes. It fires a 3 inch long spike of ferric metal, the unchained have experimented with putting a bead of potassium into the spike... with devastating effects. Since it uses no explosive propellant the Renfield's only sound when fired is the thin whistle of a 10 incredibly sharp spikes speeding through the air. 

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Chimera Light Pistol
Ranged weapon, full auto, 15 rounds per turn
Standard Clip size: 15
1 handed
Average at short range, bad at medium, awful at long.
Poor to Great damage.
Caliber: .22
Description: The "Chimera" pistol isn't so much a designation as it is a nickname. Chimera pistols get their name from a mythical beast with the tail of a snake, the body of a lion, and the head of goat sprouting from its back. Chimera pistols got this name from being largely homemade, taking parts from whatever is at hand. The result is a surprisingly lethal firearm, most of them are designed to discharge their entire clip in a brief flash of sound and light, effective but very crude. The Chimera is well liked as a pick up and go weapon for being, cheap, effective, and easy to use.

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Damaged Distortion Rifle
Ranged weapon, Single shot
Clip size: 1
2 handed
Average at short range, great at medium, good at long.
Good to incredible damage.
Field generated: 8'' radius
Description: Distortion rifles are weapons that turn gravity against itself on a limited scale, the bubble they generate is a maelstrom gravitational forces quite capable of tearing someone literally into pieces. This one was stolen from a museum restoration room, one of Tarran's buddies fixed it up for him. The damage is still extensive, it can only hold one charge and it takes almost an hour to charge it due to the patch job. Still it is a deadly weapon, and one that Tarran used to great effect during the assassination of Prelate Harold Szero.

[Tarran]

Grab my SMG and the two spare clips, hide them in a concealable location, and get moving down the stairs until I reach Marcus.

[Draignean]

Grab my SMG and the two spare clips, hide them in a concealable location, and get moving down the stairs until I reach Marcus.

You grab the Renfield and easily concealed holster that will put the SMG parallel to your spine in easy reach of either hand. [4] It looks good and you think it should hold up to most activities, you slide two clips into the bandoleer as well. You make your way out of your safehouse and into the Kings bounty, it looks tempting and you've got time but you decide it's always better to meet a contact early rather than late. It might be easier to take an elevator down but the stairs offer you a lot more choices if something goes to hell. [4] The maintenance stairs are a good workout but you're in great shape and you make it down feeling warmed up and ready. -0 Stamina

You push open the door to an abandoned section of hydroponics, and find it bustling. Things look a little hastily set up but there shouldn't be anyone there. You are suddenly very glad you decided to get here early. The door that you need to reach Marcus too is guarded by a pair of dead heads, not a lot of chance sweet talking those. The staff regard you as an oddity [5+1] but you manage to look like you're supposed to be there with the ease of somebody practiced in lying about who they are. Unfortunately One of the Hydroponics interns sees your act and apparently thinks you are one of his superiors and asks about the proper nitrogen content of the soil. [2-2] You have no freakin' clue.

Spoiler: Tarran Smith (click to show/hide)

Health: 75/75
Stamina: 75/75
Carried Weight:25/150
Inv:
Worn Clothing: Fashionable, fairly clean, solid shoes.
Renfield SMG (30 Rounds)
2 .115 spike clips (30 each)
Concealed Knife
Fake Biometrics tag
Fake work order

Spoiler: Knowledge added (click to show/hide)

Name: Deadhead
Type: Biological Machine
Specifics: A Human body, cloned into adulthood without the brain. Computer processor inside the skull in place of the brain commands the body.
Description: Deadheads are the muscle of the Technocrats. First used in the great war as cheap disposable firepower, deadheads have been perfected by the Technocrats and are the primary recipient of jobs that would be... less effective with a human mind on the job. Deadheads feel no pain and won't stop until their body has taken sufficient damage to render it inoperable, or their CPU is damaged. Advanced deadheads can be commanded directly at a distance, allowing for command personnel to get a good view of the field without risking themselvse. 

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Character: Taric Sizier

Your apartment is comfortable, it isn't high up but it's remarkably close to the bridge that connects your building to the neighboring skyscraper. You like to watch the sunrise from the bridge, there are too many buildings to see anything but shining glass and metal unless you look straight up. Still, as the reflected light from the sun hits the horizon it sets the shining silver world on fire, it is one of the more beautiful things you've ever seen. Today was overcast though, and no sunrise. For some reason that disturbs you more than you like to admit. You wonder if anyone else even realizes the sun isn't out.

The inside of the apartment is sparsely furnished with plain goods, but it's yours and you like it. Two terminals glow in one room, and you have one that you've been taking apart hidden in a little knook behind your dresser. You know you really shouldn't but you can't understand why it isn't allowed, you smile at your hidden treasure regardless. You've already worked on it for several hours, and you feel a sort of frustrated pride in your work. You will find something, you don't know what it is but you know you're going to find it. You grab one of the pieces of real fresh fruit that was a gift from your mother, a present for your birthday last week, and sit down at your main terminal. You log on and scroll through a short list of messages, most you trash but there is one message of interest. Oddly enough it's from your mother, you frown at the apple in your hand, small world. It isn't good news, apparently she had a falling out with a Technocrat supevisor and the power to her entire section is out for "Maintenence purposes". Worse most of the people on the section seem to know it was her that somehow caused this. You shake your head, you really can't understand doing something like that because someone told you that they didn't like you. You aren't great with people but she seems scared and says that she could use your help. Her building on the other side of the city, almost three miles away, but there is going to be a magnetic train that you can catch from the floor above if you don't dawdle.   

Spoiler: Taric Sizier (click to show/hide)

Health: 70/70
Stamina: 70/70
Carried Weight:7/170
Inv:
Worn clothing: Normal, comfortable snappy casual clothing, fine condition, Dress shoes. 
Scanner
Customized Datapad

Spoiler: Knowledge added (click to show/hide)

Name: Scanner
Type: Tool
Specifics: Excellent powered Diagnostic tool
Description: Scanners are sophisticated cross-spectral cameras, comparing what they see to an extensive database of known objects. They then crossreference what they see with the blue-prints they have and highlight damaged areas, and suggest repair methods.  Since the scanner also sees in Thermal and electromagnetic fields its information is stunningly thorough. It can recommend changes in everything from damaged circuitry to the best temperature of a hot-tub. (If you have already downloaded your ideal temperature to the scanner.)

Name: Sizier's Custom Datapad
Type: Tool
Specifics: Storage and custom diagnostic device.
Description: Sizier has been playing with technology since most kids were saying Dada. As a result the Datapad he got for his 12th birthday has evolved from a simple minature computer into a repository of all of the knowledge he has collected in his illegal investigations. When used in conjunction with a scanner it gives advice on a number of treatment options that are not approved by the Technocracy.

[Taricus]

Catch a train to Mother's work section, making sure to avoid scanning stations.