Eclipse Phase Signup - We, who are about to die...

[Arhra]

Hmm, a lot of interest!

I'm afraid I shall have to restrict sign-ups to five or six people. Such is the difficulty of running a game where people can use future-Google any time they want.

But first come, first served is so passe.

Therefore I shall evaluate you on your worth as a human being!

It's extended concept judgement time!

I require the following:

Overview: Summarise all key features of your lovely character in twenty-five words or less. One trick ponies will be shot.

Personality: You... do have one, right? Notes on how you'd tend to act in a few different situations are a good idea!

History: Not hugely important at this early phase, but I'm curious to hear any thoughts you've had about where your character came from.

Goals: Any grand plans? Obviously you're not here for the quiet life.

Roles: What do you bring to the table? Why would you be considered for the Earth mission? Why would you be considered for entry into Firewall? Think beyond just "I'm a medic and the world's greatest lover".

No rush, I'll wait a week or so.

[Overcast]

AND YET I RUSHED ANYWAY!

Overview: Micah is someone who uses social techniques and an understanding of the mind to get his way. Failing that he is good with spray weapons.

Personality: Micah is firm believer in being confident in everything you do, and follows this philosophy with most of his decisions, acting with a smiling certainty that causes many people to believe him when he has no idea what he is talking about. When this philosophy fails though he is fairly quick to become aggravated, and even angered depending on how great his mistake was. He is considered harsh by many due to his very low tolerance for failure, but overtrusting by others due to his tendency to give people he does not know yet the benefit of the doubt.
In sum, he is confident and trusting, but sits on a short leash and will not hesitate to bite if you pull it.

History: Born on a scum barge with very little to his name and a flat body. Micah was more than little bit stunted growing up, physically weaker due to his inferior body, he found that at times the only way for him to get what he wanted was via subversion. He had to be smarter than the people he wanted things from, had to be more clever than the people who wanted to get things from him, and he did well turning many an obstacle on its head with a few choice words and a knowing grin. Eventually he was picked out by a boss looking for a good kid to do talking and interrogation for his little band of criminals. He went along willingly, and it was there he learned the first instances of psychosurgery. Initially only being taught primitive things such as torture and tasping and a bit of interrogation he grew to understand the full range of possibilities. Greatly inspired by the kind of power one might be able to take by knowing how to control the human mind. Working in the group got him a name amongst the less than reputable, but he grew tired of hurting his own kind, and soon worked his charms on the boss to get out. With a fistful of credits, a smooth voice, and a grand knowledge of psychosurgery he set out to create his own legacy. He found it in the philosophy of the Extropians. He fit in with them like flies to shit. Working good to either cement deals between the two extremes of anarchism and the hypercorperations, or using his skills to subvert both of them for his own personal profits. Often without nary a trace at all. He found himself in good fortunes and finally moved himself out of the old flat that he was born to and pulled himself into the new tomorrow with a custom Remade. A testament to the progress of his life. Recently he had come upon an offer of a few of the individuals he dealt with in the hypercorps, a dangerous but if successful EXTREMELY profitable mission down to Earth. He'd be serving as the mental aid there, and while the danger set even his strong nerves on edge...he could not say no to that kind of money.

Goals: Personal advancement has always been a part of Micah's ideals, believing that to help others he must first help himself or else he will be too weak to do anything. He also has a soft spot for where he comes from, often contributing to the advancement of scum anywhere. Standing between these two ideals is what made him what he is today, and often any games he plays in business are meant to benefit the scum above all else.
+Wealth +Personal Career +Charity(Scum)

Roles: Earth is a hellish land filled with old atrocities, and plenty of new ones that have somehow survived the waste. The strain on one's psyche can be incredible, and having someone around who knows how to help people deal with that was one of the main reasons for his drop. Though even before this Firewall likely had caught wind of some of his actions he had taken in the name of personal gain. Between brainwashing and training secret killers for criminal agencies, gathering insider information for hypercorps, interrogating those same criminals that might be harming freedoms in a scum barge. He is a capable molder of the mind. And he isn't half bad in battle either, years of using his trusty freezer to incapacitate and capture certain individuals have given him quite the skillful hand at spray weapons.
Therapist. Brainwasher. Face. Support skirmisher.

[Geminex]

If it's no rush, lemme throw my name in. I might get something done, might not, but I have a few ideas.

[Aldurin]

Whelp, time to get thinking.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Arhra

Overview: Summarise all key features of your lovely character in twenty-five words or less. One trick ponies will be shot.

Specializes in research, programing, and hacking, with alot of knowledge skills. As well as maneuvering in zero-g and hardware use, with decent piloting skill, not that it will help him much

Originally Posted by Arhra

Personality: You... do have one, right? Notes on how you'd tend to act in a few different situations are a good idea!

On the clock he's learned to keep his mouth shut, thats because deep down he is a snarky know it all with a chip on his shoulder. Since he's rarely able to speak his mind he quips in any chance he gets. Despite all that he's a decent guy, but lifes made him very jaded and cynical, he'll help you out every time, and berate you the whole time for needing his help in the first place

Originally Posted by Arhra

History: Not hugely important at this early phase, but I'm curious to hear any thoughts you've had about where your character came from.

Before the fall he was an engineer and general tech guy for Earths many orbiting satellites. Primarily he was a programmer down on earth but occasionally went up to fix hardware issues.

During the Fall he was one of many infugees that made it off and found his way to Planetary Consortium. His skills quickly netted him a job in a hypercorp, his mouth and fact they dont honestly want to let him go, keeps him as an indentured infugee.

Originally Posted by Arhra

Goals: Any grand plans? Obviously you're not here for the quiet life.

Immediately, get a morph and a place to live, preferable as far from the hypercorps as possible, he's really grown to hate them. Long term he'd like to make sure no one else suffers like he is and do whatever he could to weaken hypercorps responsible. He is no idiot though, for now he'll play the loyal desk jockey until he can get out
(+getting a life, +infomorph rights, -------Hypercapitalism)

Originally Posted by Arhra

Roles: What do you bring to the table? Why would you be considered for the Earth mission? Why would you be considered for entry into Firewall? Think beyond just "I'm a medic and the world's greatest lover".

He's cocky for good reason, very intelligent and clever. While he is great at researching the net he makes sure to commit alot of what he can to memory in anticipation to leaving the inner system. He doesn't want to rely on a network that might be limited when the time comes. This makes him useful on just about any kind of mission that doesn't require a physical body.

If he got a physical body he'd be useful on maintance of physical systems, getting around in zero-g and piloting if need be.

[PhoenixFlame]

Overview: Marisa is an entertainer, focusing on the oldest forms of leisure that man outlawed before transhumanism. Gladitorial combat for one, amongst others.

Personality: Upbeat and smiling, Marisa tries to make the most of the world she lives in. This is often quite difficult, but she is strong-willed and hides it well. Has been living in her fantasy-world since the fall, and is quite comfortable there. You can pick yourself up from anything with the right connections, after all. On the job, Marisa acts how her employers want her to act. It's for the audience's benefit.

History: Marisa was born on earth, about 20 years before the fall in Italy, where she was pressganged into corporate security by her family, whom held control of valuable CM blueprints. Despite a relatively comfortable life, she was unwilling to participate in the subjugation of the lower classes, and left to pursue a profession that took advantage of her skillset. She eventually participated in the Olypmics, which had been made somewhat a farce due to the augmentic nature of mankind, but managed to achieve success in unaugmented rifle marksmanship. When the fall came, she stowed away aboard a surface-to-orbit shuttle lucky enough to not be destroyed, and has since embraced the transhuman lifestyle.

Goals: While anyone who knows her might believe Marisa's goal is fame and fortune, in truth, she has been very much alone since the Fall. Due to the sudden shift in societal paradigms and the fact that the vast majority of humanity has been destroyed and the rest seperated into solid social strata, it is very hard to find something to call one's 'true love.' In fact, many have abandoned the idea altogether.

Roles: Marisa is a professional warrior who has fought more than just human beings. She has an X-casting channel with thousands of followers, an impressive Rep in @-circles, and is proficient with a wide array of weapons, from seeking missiles to sharp sticks. Has a good 'job' that allows her access to things most people would balk at letting people have, regardless of their reputation. Knows the way to a man's heart. Both situations could use these, really.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlame

Overview: Marisa is an entertainer, focusing on the oldest forms of leisure that man outlawed before transhumanism. Gladitorial combat for one, amongst others.

Fury?

[Krylo]

Overview: Sexy (wo)man beast, trained in martial arts and gun fu. He works as a high class escort and bodyguard. Also, general future life stuff.

Personality: Generally, he is unflappable and suave. Calm and collected. When working he's something of a social butterfly, but he's always ready to take a bullet for a client. Though, the only reason he chose to be a bodyguard instead of a more 'normal' escort, is because he loves danger and risk. He's also fond of fame and fortune as well, which is why he's decided to go on this expedition. He knows it will be broadcast for the hypercorps, and he plans on doing his own x-cast as well. There's the fame. The wealth will be in using it the entire expedition as a make-shift advertisement for his business (If I can keep these people alive on Earth, imagine what I can do for you), and the 'danger' is implicit in going to Earth.

As that the whole thing is being broadcast, he'll also be doing his best to act calm, cool, and collected in the face of danger.

History: An ex-pirate who got tired of the poverty, anonymity, and lack of real connections implicit in the life, but not the danger. One day he realized that the 'dream' the 'last big score' would never happen if he kept on running attacks against scavengers and Jovian scout ships and whatever else, and that the only way he was going to get to live the good life is by going out and living it.

And so he dropped himself into a pleasure pod in hypercorp space and started working as an escort to high class parties... and other places. After foiling an assassination attempt on one of his clients, word spread and he found work as a 'low-profile' bodyguard, as well. He was perfect for when the elites of society needed someone who could keep them safe from barsoomian terrorists or Jovian assassins, or whomever they had pissed off this week, but couldn't be seen with a giant trained ape following them around.

Reapers and Furies do tend to be rather... uncouth, after all.

Goals: He mostly just lives in the moment. Thinking ahead is for other people--so long as he keeps a steady supply of money, sex, and danger in his life, anyway.

He'd like to be rich and famous someday, but deep down he knows he wouldn't be satisfied with that, and would probably keep doing what he's doing, or join a dueling ring, or some other such thing.

Roles: What does he bring: necessary combat and survival skills, seduction (though he's better with women than men), and a complete willingness to take a bullet for someone else (he hardly even thinks about it after being a bodyguard for so long). Why would he be considered: a combination of the necessary combat and survival skills along with hypercorp connections. Why would firewall want him: He is the solar system's greatest lover. And also those other things mentioned. Plus, I suppose the fact that I plan for him to be perfectly sane might be a good qualifier in this crazy solar system... and if we survive earth long enough, definite bonus points.

[Aerozord]

Oh I just thought of perfect name for my infomorph, Sissel

[Sifright]

I intend to build psi infiltration specialist. bit woozy from pain meds though and reading through the book slowly.