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[SeriousConcentrate]

Well, he was always referred to as Jamie but I'm pretty sure that's a pet name for James, PM.

[Powder Miner]

>.>

...You know, the pause has had its good effects: I'm older, more mature, and smarter nowadays, and I've become a lot better at roleplay.
Now I can play James with more of a personality, more that I intended instead of my stumbling attempts at RP.
Expect: Less suicidal recklessness because I am now capable of thinking- though it'll still be there, since that's James
About the same amount of clumsy goofiness.
Muuuch more piousness. Much more.


also i am now less whiny

[kisame12794]

Spoiler: Personel file: Ntzom Migrurkeshin, Red Maintenance. (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, 2 Mechanics, 2 Soaking, 2 Reflexes
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

Stats and stuff check out? It's late here and my tired self may have missed something.

[Powder Miner]

Reading back:
Oh my dear God was I made of stupid.
I... I got to my actions in the quarantine. Can... I reach into my own skull and crush my eye out of frustration?
James' character was honestly so all over the place that I'll pretty much have to remake his personality altogether, arrgh.

[Xantalos]

Aww, no villain sheets anymore! Ah well.
Character sheet will be posted here.
Never mind on that!
Though it'll take some deciding on whether I want to be a good guy or bad. I'll probably make a sheet for both.
...
Are we allowed psionic characters?

[Harry Baldman]

Here's a sheet for the waitlist, may expand bio as I read on.

Spoiler: Character Sheet: Toomas Amk (click to show/hide)

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

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

[Draignean]

Are we allowed psionic characters?

Yes, (I'm assuming you mean pre-oriented psionics, since psionic potential is automatic for everyone but the Motherless Sons) but that will have to effect your backstory. You could be a renegade Technocrat psionic, an Unchained soldier, an Independent who turned his back on the rebellion, or any other possibility that would have been put through an orientation machine at some point. You just can't be the guy who worked 9 to 5 servicing Technocrat ships and spent the weekends getting drunk with his friends AND have already active psionics. (Unless you've got a really good reason, in which case I may run with it.)

After I've got the synopsis done (right up to where Caine visits the party in Hensfield's Quarantine/Drunk Tank) I am going to update the character creation section to keep new characters from being quite so far behind on the grind. The actual ratios for derived statistics will also be included, which I think might be better for everyone.

Do note that there is still the re-scramble where I dump in the new skills and mechanics and let everyone shuffle their skills around once (within reason, Tarran Smith's couldn't suddenly forget marksman so he could dump his points into medicine), so get your concepts down, but don't agonize over stats.

Here's a sheet for the waitlist, may expand bio as I read on.

Spoiler: Character Sheet: Toomas Amk (click to show/hide)

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

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): 4

Like the character, curious about the scars, but I'm sure I'll find out some day.

Spoiler: Personel file: Ntzom Migrurkeshin, Red Maintenance. (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, 2 Mechanics, 2 Soaking
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. Tired of the dank tunnels, he longs to explore. The Unchained gave him this chance.
Stats:
Strength (Str):6
Dexterity (Dex):6
Endurance (End):5+1
Charisma (Char):1-1
Intelligence (Int):3
Willpower: (Will):4

Stats and stuff check out? It's late here and my tired self may have missed something.

Your numbers check out, sheet looks good.

Well, he was always referred to as Jamie but I'm pretty sure that's a pet name for James, PM.

Actually his first name was Jamie. It's one of those weird names that was originally a feminized version of a male name, then wrapped around a couple hundred years later to become a guys name again.

[Zako]

Alright, here's my character. I hope we get to choose what psionics we get later if we don't start out with any...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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 (See Spoiler Below): Talking 2, Diplomacy 1, Endurance 2

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): 2
Dexterity (Dex): 2
Endurance (End): 3
Charisma (Char): 6
Intelligence (Int): 3
Willpower: (Will): 9

[SeriousConcentrate]

Actually his first name was Jamie. It's one of those weird names that was originally a feminized version of a male name, then wrapped around a couple hundred years later to become a guys name again.

Ah. Well, in that case I have some editing to do.

[Powder Miner]

4. Taric is not the Final boss.

Are you still sure about this?

[Taricus]

4. Taric is not the Final boss.

Are you still sure about this?

Oh come on :C

Mid-game boss atleast? Or am I nominally one of the "Good guys"?

[Draignean]

4. Taric is not the Final boss.

Are you still sure about this?

Or am I nominally one of the "Good guys"?

HAHAHAHAHAHA! oh.... *Wipes tear from eye*

Taricus, you make me laugh.

Alright, here's my character. I hope we get to choose what psionics we get later if we don't start out with any...

You explicitly mention that she is an Unchained operative, thus you can start with psionic abilities. If you don't have anything in your bio about where (or who) you got your orientation from, then I'll default to her being oriented with the rest of the other known unchained at the Mahdavi prison.


Mildly Important PPE: I have long had trouble deciding how to run waitlists, and, while a "first come, first served" system is a venerable and workable system, I think it is time for something different. The new system is three-fold. The first part of acceptance is judged by how well I like your character (not you personally), the second is based off how well your character can be shoehorned into the story, and the third is based off a vote by the existing players. (A PMed vote, to avoid the obvious issues)

Example: Bob Boberton creates a fantastic character who happens to be a left-handed glass blower. The character sheet is a fun read, and it sounds like it will play well, though I'm slightly worried about the tone of the character. Luckily, it just so happens that I have the perfect opening for a left-handed glass blower during a particular scene, so there's no real problem there. However, my current players (who are all WAAAYYY more active on this forum than I am) inform me that Bob Boberton, while a creative genius, is a complete dick who has the same fun-sucking effect as a giant leech possessed by Michael Bloomberg, and thus cast their votes elsewhere.

Make sense?

[Taricus]

Well, I made the GM laugh atleast. Good sign

[Zako]

Oh good. The problem being is that I don't have anywhere enough points TO spend on Psionic abilities without neglecting the overall point of my character, which is to be a charismatic informative...

Can something be done about this? I would love to play a unchained psionic that utilizes less kinetics and more mind games than any of the other characters so far (Taric sort of doesn't count since he utilizes tech more than active psionic abilities). And I'm fine with having her orientation happen with the rest of the other unchained, since that makes perfect sense. What rolls did Dom make when she tried doing an orientation by herself on James anyway?

I can see the positives behind the new player joining system, but I don't know what you would do if you approve of the first two and the last one goes completely in the opposite direction, or any other combination of for and against.

[kisame12794]

When the team went through orientation, they all got five extra points to spend on psionics only. I assume you would get those points too.