PhoenixFlame Presents: Eclipse Phase

[Krylo]

OC you're a brinker.

Which is slightly different.

Gem is an isolate, a background that is completely set around the idea of never talking to ANYONE, yet the autonomists are willing to (via rule book) commit mass murder for him on a word and then some.

He's also both a transhuman and a mercurial, which makes very little sense.

Gem--be honest, you weren't thinking of background when you chose those were you? You were thinking '60 free skill points with no restrictions on where to put them, and dick all for disadvantages!' weren't you?

[Geminex]

I'm still working on the backstory. Right now, it's probably going to be:

Part of an isolate colony

Colony collapses (probably disease or raiders, not sure)

Few survivors escape (including spectre)

Get taken in by Mercurials (Which are autonomists, yes? It didn't say anywhere, but they didn't fit into any other group)

Get used as test subjects for a variety of social experiments involving human nature and the suppression thereof. (which accounts for a few of his negative traits, namely the modified behavior and uncanny valley)

Experiments seem sucessful, employed by mercurials as part of a covert commando. (The members of this commando are all the results of such social experiments, and they've been stripped of names as part of these experiments, instead being called "Spectre 1-8". My character was Spectre 3. They're also all resleeved into ghost morphs)

These dehumanized commandos turn out to be very good at what they do.

This, in turn, is used for propaganda purposes by some Mercurial groups, since it shows that even a human whose humanity has effectively been stripped, can fight very effectively, and this, in turn, indicates that humanity doesn't convey practical superiority.

Additionally, word gets put out that the Spectre series have support from the higher echoleons of Mercurial leadership, increasing the support they get, even from non-mercurial autonomists.

Finally, Spectres begin to fall out of favor (unbeknownst to them), since they're gradually beginning to regain their human traits. During one operation, against several high-ranking media moguls, they're resleeved into splicer morphs, for the purposes of blending in more easily, and kitted out as usual. Unfortunately, after completing their mission, their mission controllers break off contact, the extraction vehicles aren't in place, and they have no way of escaping. Some spectres are killed, some are caught, some escape (spectre 3 being among them). This also results in the level-3 Fame Black Mark against them.

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It's not the most elegant (there's a few holes in it, I'm aware), but I'll work on it. Does that sufficiently justify 90 @-rep? When he regains his body and blows up the facility it was kept in, I'm guessing those rep will drop quite quickly as well.

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

PF, you said before having multiple tech guys was always good, and that got me to thinking. Since their score doesn't help with teamwork, how does having multiple people skilled in anything help?

Because if one if you dies, you have a backup.

To the above, Gem: You don't need to be human to fight effectively. The TITANS showed us that. In fact, they seem pretty damn poor at it, relatively speaking. O mai, what a background. I'm not sure I'd take you, but I guess I don't have much of a choice. Your character is, after all, a gigantic liability in huge need of reconditioning, and unlikely to be loyal to anything, seeing as he's both a escapee and an exhuman.

Better vet another Erasure team while I'm at it.

[Overcast]

For any odd reason or another when you said that I got a nice little rim shot in my head.

And cool I thought that I was getting a bit paranoid about how my character was set up. He pretty much runs on his own program...to be honest he might be the one who uploads all their adventures onto XP. Because it plays on his hedonism simply for the amount of amusement it causes.

EDIT: Dammit stop using words that make me want to peek at the back of the book.

[Geminex]

Oh yeah, that's really reassuring.

And Krylo, your baseless accusations...
are not entirely incorrect.

I was planning the "humans among mercurials" theme, because
a) my characters do usually seem quite inhuman (at first, anyway) and this was a good was to justify that
and
b) I wanna do the whole gradually-becoming-human-and-developing-moral-qualms bit.

The isolate was purely stats-based, I'll admit, but I'll make it plausible, if I haven't already.

Edit:

I'm not sure I'd take you, but I guess I don't have much of a choice.

What d'you mean? You're not sure you'd take me? If you (or anyone, really) has much of a problem with it, I guess I could go over my background and faction again.

[Dracorion]

Which reminds me, I need to come up with a background for Ellen.

Balls.

[Krylo]

Ellen's background:

Socialite slut. Turns out Watts MacLeod is sexually transmitted.

[Overcast]

Dear god it is PERFECT.

[Dracorion]

Krylo wins. Forever.

But I might give her a bit of a background in Hypercorps. And shift some rep there to boost it up to 80, just so she can call in some pretty big favors to further her objectives.

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Geminex

What d'you mean? You're not sure you'd take me? If you (or anyone, really) has much of a problem with it, I guess I could go over my background and faction again.

I'm judging your Bios from Nyx's viewpoint (your Proxy), and I have to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of bringing said character into the fold. For example, by making this guy a Sentinel, I risk...

1.) Breaking the conspiracy if he decides to go rogue, which he has, to my knowledge, done before.

2.) Risk of him becoming an exhuman, if he isn't already, since he has throughout the course of his life been broken of his humanity and placed in highly modified morphs used to commit acts that are generally associated with sociopathy and calculated murder.

3.) The great deal of difficulty it would be to terminate him, thanks to his stealth skills and extreme combat focus. Unknown if he would be suceptable to [REDACTED] or not, or if utilising [REDACTED] would be necessary or worth the risks incurred there either.

In return, I gain what is possibly a very good infiltrator with experience. I need that, but I don't know if he's worth it.