[Hellions] Cyberpunk Mercenaries: A Family of Miscreants - (Closed)

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Wispyr

Quote from: Terian on August 12, 2016, 06:52:34 PM
Potentially interested, that being said, what kind of roles and tech base are we looking at here?  Generic Cyberpunk where the focus is on being sneaky and precise, or are there options for bringing in the Big Guns?
The sky is the limit. There will be stealth oriented scenes. There will be espionage scenes. There will be blow up the battle cruiser scenes. There will be ground assault scenes. There will be extraction scenes. So... Some of everything at some point. As far as roles I'm open to this and will craft, largely, around the 5 I pick to take. As far as tech goes, pretty high end sci-fi.

Terian

Good to know!

I, uh, I don't need a faceclaim right out the gate, do I?  I haven't stopped being the worst at those.

Wispyr

Nope. Right now is purely just shooting concepts for me to choose from.

Terian


Saphir

-sees Iceman's mutation- ...Mindmeld, jeeeez. Okay, okay, I shall go tweak. lmao

Lindrea

This is my application!  Read it and weep!
Gender: Female
Orientation: Pansexual
Concept: She was your everyday kid, not a lot of money, not terribly poor.  A bit of one odd one though.  She loved to torment everyone around her, to pry at them to get information she thought would be interesting.  This grew in her and she took a healthy (read: unhealthy) fascination with torture.  She loved pain, inflicting and having it inflicted upon herself.  A sadist and a masochist rolled into one.  Eventually, her dalliances into her torturing ways were found out, but she was so hard to keep pinned down.

She was caught, imprisoned and after spending a month or so in prison, she just vanished.  A string of deaths followed shortly after her escape.  Mostly those who were involved with her capture.  Some ended up tied to their beds, chests split open, blood splattered everywhere.  Organs cast aside like refuse.  To her, these people were refuse, to be slaughtered and there was nothing they could do to stop her.

She's a tried and true psychopath.  She loves killing, loves pain, loves fucking.  A hedonist to the core, but also.. more.  She has a need to torture, it's her drug of choice.. the screams.. the exquisite agony.

Specialist Skills: Assassination/Torture expert.  Expert blade user (knives, swords, energy blades, you name it she's probably tried it out at least).  Fairly skilled with guns, mostly long arms (ie: sniper rifles).

Mutation: Teleportation.  She can diffuse her individual atoms in one place and reintegrate them at another.  Though, she is limited in that she has to be fairly familiar with the place she is going to.

Cataclysmic Archangel

Quote from: Saphir on August 12, 2016, 07:12:07 PM
-sees Iceman's mutation- ...Mindmeld, jeeeez. Okay, okay, I shall go tweak. lmao

That's ok, I was all set for Technomancy, and then saw your Cybermind....

Terian

On further thought, I'm feeling a bit more writers blocked than I thought.  I'll step down for now, if you're still looking later and inspiration strikes, we'll see what happens.

Wispyr

Gathering current submissions into one spot for easy review by me and others looking to create concepts yet.



Cerevan
Quote from: Cerevan on August 12, 2016, 05:10:06 PM
I suddenly feel like I maybe wrote too much for this concept but. Uh. INTEREST.

Application HEYO
Gender: Female
Orientation: Omnisexual
Concept: Once upon a time there was a sweet princess. Then an army came and burned her kingdom down. It wasn't that the princess didn't want to weep for all that had been lost. It was just that she wanted the army to burn more than she wanted to grieve. So you see the princess became a dragon. The army burned, the world burned, the universe burned. Happy. Ever. After.

Contradictory as fuck, essentially. Most of the time she comes off as sweet and endearing and delicate. She likes pretty clothes, sparkly things, and the color pink. Half the time she can be found singing the kind of things that sound like sugar tastes. All her holodisks are fairytales. Such a princess. Then she engineers a bomb out of spare parts and blows up a half dozen people for the fucking hell of it and suddenly everyone sees the monster on a leash. (Who's holding the leash?) Probably she has some tragic backstory to justify the mass murder sprees. But she doesn't really care about justifying anything to anyone.

Okay, so she's a public menace of the first order. But that doesn't mean she doesn't have her uses. Every good band of mercs needs an engineering and demolitions expert with no pesky moral compass to get in the way, right?

[OOC Note: While it's not strictly necessary, this character could definitely use a "handler" or two. Or four. This doesn't necessarily mean someone more stable than she is or even that they necessarily wanted the job. Just someone who, for whatever reason, she's ride-or-die loyal to. The person holding the aforementioned leash to the monster.]

Specialist Skills: Highly skilled engineer. Can fix just about anything mechanical made in the last fifty or so years. It may take a while, depending on how familiar she is, but she can do it. Demolitions expert. Can build a bomb out of nearly anything.

Mutation: Fire Rebirth - Not your mama's brand of fireproof. True, she actually is fireproof. Flames won't hurt her. But when she's in (or on) fire, she actually heals. Re-energizes. Gets generally more awesome.

Dominique
Quote from: Dominique on August 12, 2016, 05:21:59 PM
This is my application. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Gender: Female
Orientation: Open to anything with a heartbeat - and even then she's open for negotiations.
Concept: The doctor. An educated, gifted surgeon with a lovely amount of crazy.

Like any good doctor, she makes the impossible happen and at first sight, she has all the aspects of your true miracle worker. This girl seems a hero in her own right, always there where people get injured, especially when things are particularly bad and gruesome. A bit too dedicated, perhaps, and combine that with a military past where things might have gotten a bit extreme and you have yourself an eccentric genius with a tendency to... augment her patients in a way they don't always anticipate or appreciate (or survive. Hah. Just kidding.). She loves a challenge and the more severe the injury, the happier she'll be to help with an enthusiasm that can be considered a little unsettling to most.  Loves to experiment, loves to improvise, loves to get creative in ways never described in any medical book. Funny enough, they usually work out far better than anyone - sometimes even herself - expected.

Specialist Skills: Certified Trauma Surgeon. Steady hands, incredible medical knowledge and a genius in their field of expertise. Can handle a ton of pressure, in fact, has a way to focus under the most dire circumstances (and I do mean MOST dire).

Mutation:The ability to see and move through solid matter. This includes organic matter, allowing her to see into the body of her patient (and reach inside of need be).

Saphir
Quote from: Saphir on August 12, 2016, 06:32:43 PM
This is my application. Hope it works!
Gender: Male
Orientation: Homosexual

Concept: Just a boy growing up as the child of a couple of Outlanders who discreetly served in the resistance against the Kintar Directorate. Having lost both and still believing in their cause, he grew up in the care of is parent's friend, an uncle figure and lived in the lower working class parts of Emperios near the slums of the capital. He had wealth in is mind; always seemed to be top of his class masquerading as a 'Know-It-All' or genius but discreetly had an advantage over his more 'normal' peers. His uncanny computer skills earned him a spot as IT tech within one of the Kintar Directorate's Prison Facilities. Spending a good year to build credit as an outstanding employee until is agenda was revealed as he initiated a system failure for the facility as a reminder that the Directorate's were not all controlling and knowing...and because he was bored on his lunch break. A riot ensued as it allowed several hundred criminals free and he taking his leave among the chaos. He's been drifting/on the run since.

Temperament is pretty laid back and surprisingly upbeat; borderline sociopath displayed with black humor that he enjoys trolling people with by giving disturbing and violent suggestions on how to deal with a situation before actually coming up with a true solution. Has a weakness for frozen drinks and gummy candies.


Specialist Skills: Strategist/Hacker. Wears a tech set of an earpiece that turns into a pair of holographic shades with a wireless broadband computer network and a wrist watch that provides a holographic iconographic keyboard. These shades can be interfaced with any external data network to further aid him in his hackalation (or so thats what he calls it). Also as basic combat skills and is a pretty decent shot with a hand gun. Can't be all brains, there has to be a tiny bit of brawn for self defense.

Mutation: Cyber Mind; his brain operates in the same manner as an computer giving him unlimited storage capacity and can perform several mental functions at once by assigning a partition of his brain to each task without losing focus on any of them; with the exception of creating his own 'Firewall' as a natural defense to prevent telepathic invasion/mental probing. Much like how Anti-Virus software slows down a computer's functions, his 'Firewall' drains most of his processing power limiting him access to his own memory banks and rendering him as mundane as a normal person's brain.

Otherwise he can specific information with incredible speed and accuracy since everything he experiences is stored as photographic memory and retrieve it immediately without pausing. Also gains enhanced computer perception that enables him to interface with computers and IT networks to manipulate, download and gather information or to sabotage them.

He also has weaknesses that a computer has, making him vulnerable to neural viruses that can spread and wreak havoc on his mind's databanks or can be rendered unconscious and brain-dead by an EMP until his mind is able to reboot. He's able to stay up several days without sleep but eventually he needs to 'shut down' and sleep to refresh his mind. And of course he still needs to eat and poop.

And yes, he as a pressure area that acts as a 'restart' button in his brain where his belly button is should he experience any difficulties in processing data.


Lindrea
Quote from: Lindrea on August 12, 2016, 07:25:05 PM
This is my application!  Read it and weep!
Gender: Female
Orientation: Pansexual
Concept: She was your everyday kid, not a lot of money, not terribly poor.  A bit of one odd one though.  She loved to torment everyone around her, to pry at them to get information she thought would be interesting.  This grew in her and she took a healthy (read: unhealthy) fascination with torture.  She loved pain, inflicting and having it inflicted upon herself.  A sadist and a masochist rolled into one.  Eventually, her dalliances into her torturing ways were found out, but she was so hard to keep pinned down.

She was caught, imprisoned and after spending a month or so in prison, she just vanished.  A string of deaths followed shortly after her escape.  Mostly those who were involved with her capture.  Some ended up tied to their beds, chests split open, blood splattered everywhere.  Organs cast aside like refuse.  To her, these people were refuse, to be slaughtered and there was nothing they could do to stop her.

She's a tried and true psychopath.  She loves killing, loves pain, loves fucking.  A hedonist to the core, but also.. more.  She has a need to torture, it's her drug of choice.. the screams.. the exquisite agony.

Specialist Skills: Assassination/Torture expert.  Expert blade user (knives, swords, energy blades, you name it she's probably tried it out at least).  Fairly skilled with guns, mostly long arms (ie: sniper rifles).

Mutation: Teleportation.  She can diffuse her individual atoms in one place and reintegrate them at another.  Though, she is limited in that she has to be fairly familiar with the place she is going to.

Orange Marmalade

Quote from: Arcannyx on August 12, 2016, 07:25:35 PM
That's ok, I was all set for Technomancy, and then saw your Cybermind....

While having a unique power probably increases your chances of being accepted, Wispyr has made it clear this isn't first come first served, so concepts don't have to be altered just because someone has submitted something with a similar power I don't think. Just sayin' (mostly because mine might have something similar to stuff already submitted, too, we'll see).

Wispyr

Quote from: Orange Marmalade on August 12, 2016, 07:34:42 PM
While having a unique power probably increases your chances of being accepted, Wispyr has made it clear this isn't first come first served, so concepts don't have to be altered just because someone has submitted something with a similar power I don't think. Just sayin' (mostly because mine might have something similar to stuff already submitted, too, we'll see).
This is correct. Having a skill set that is close to another doesn't exclude one of those two people - there are factors beyond just that to consider as well.

Lockepick

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Amarlo

Good Golly Miss Molly
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual, Demisexual
Concept: The Saboteur. What started out as a young life among gangsters and the world’s lowliest of low lives turned into a vendetta that became a uniquely satisfying career. She had a knack for sabotage and she had absolutely no problem fuckin’ other people’s plans up – Criminals, Big brother, Big brand companies, you name it. So why not get paid to do it?

Specialist Skills: She specializes in all things Sabotage – Stealth, Hacking, Infiltration, Property and Information Destruction, Information Gathering, Recon. She can get in, make a copy of a business’s latest breakthrough, destroy all of the original information and get out without leaving so much as a trace of her. Or she could just leave a bomb, or whatever. The options are limitless - in the long run it fucks over someone.

Mutation: Phantom Clone – She is capable of creating a phantom double of herself, much like astral projection. The phantom can only travel a certain range from her, it can pass through walls, collect visual information but can’t interact with anything and leaves her physical form vulnerable. However, this ability is unique in that when the double has reached its final destination she can either recall it to her instantly or call herself to its position instead.

Seduce my mind and my body will follow.
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Elf

Expressing a strong interest. I will thinking about the concept and will hopefully have something in understandable format when I get back to my computer.

Lockepick

I'm thinking of this kind of like a Heist team -- but I'm not sure if it'll be more action-y than that. Would a 'face' type character have any place here? Figured holograms could allow for a lot of disguises. If I go for a Face, I was thinking some voice/sound based mutations to go with it.
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Wispyr

Now for my character. The character sheet will likely receive some updates by the time I've approved some people... But this will give everyone an idea of who I am running - and nothing should change much about that, just some things will be added for everyone's sake.




-Hellions Character Sheet-
Mikhail Crowley Sokolov
Eclipse

Frontal Assault

Adam Cowie
Male | Heterosexual
H Standard | 24 | Russian
Brown | 6’2 | 179lbs | Brown

Description
Mikhail was born into what should have been a pretty average life, and if he wasn’t an Outlander, it probably would have been just that. Average. Mundane. Luckily - not not, depending on perspective - for him, he was born an Outlander. His early childhood was pretty quiet. He grew up with an average family, in a pretty average city, in a pretty average neighborhood with pretty average everything else. Right until he was in his early teens and his power manifested at school of all things. Some punk kid got in his face, decided to bully Mikhail and he had enough - a cloud of blackness enveloped them and only horrified screams followed. Moments later the darkness receded and Mikhail stood over his broken victim. That was also the moment that he was taken away from his family and imprisoned in a Kintari Directorate research facility; surprise, this turned out to be code for Kintari Directorate prison facility.

In this facility the Directorate had taken in others of the still only just becoming discovered Outlanders and were doing research on them, trying to identify exactly what they were in the first place. They treated them, sort of, like people. They were educated, clothed, and even fed. Which was nice except the part where they were also subjected to pretty awful testing, beatings and stress in the name of science and security. All in all it was a pretty miserable experience. One that Mikhail ended as he entered his young adult life. He’d been taken in when he was twelve, and by the time he was eighteen he’d pretty much had enough of their shit. During what had become a pretty standard rotation from one place to another, he called up his power, killed the guard and stole his weapon. Sheltered by his darkness Mikhail, along with other freed prisoners, made his way through the facility and ultimately broke out - but only after inflicting terrible vengeance upon his long time captors.

Into the world, with no home that he remembered and all but deleted from society, he had to live a very different way. He became a sell-sword of sorts, offering skills to the highest bidder. Sure the jobs weren’t always nice, or the greatest, but they earned him money and gave him a life. It took three years before Mikhail had actually defined himself as a person again. During this time he discovered that he was good at what he was doing, and that he liked it. He also realized that he could take on bigger fish, and upped his game.

Mikhail is a tall guy with a build fitting of his activities - which means he’s exceptionally well defined. Muscular might be an overstatement of his form, but certainly on that side of well toned. He’s a man with simple tastes, both in clothing and actions and typically prefers the quickest most no bullshit method of getting things done. Plans that require you to jump through hoops, cut corners and are overly convoluted tend to annoy him - especially if it can be as easy as ‘go in, get it done, leave’. Having been shown limited kindness in his life, he’s not what anyone would call a kind man, that said he isn’t one to go out of his way to be cruel either. He’s not fond of liars, and cheats - people who double cross him do not live to regret it. He’s proven that he has a penchant for surviving bad situations, even if it’s not always in the best of shape. He’s a fighter who prefers the up close and personal kill; he’s the mercenary who is driven as much by thrill and challenge as he is by profit and opportunity.

Lastly Mikhail is a lost soul with a lot of demons to fight against. His time in the Directorate facility did a serious number to him, and while he’s learned to cope and put on a good face, the truth is that he’s haunted and tormented by the past - in addition to things that have happened since then. Because of these two things he is fiercely, even savagely, opposed to the Kintari Directorate.


Know For
While Mikhail has performed a number of impressive feats, without a doubt the thing that he is most well known for - both publically and by his enemies - is the escape from the Directorate facility. It happened during a time when the public opinion on Outlanders was just forming and they were being painted by Directorate propaganda was making them out to be monsters. Mikhail’s escape and killing of many Directorate officers and scientists was a public affair that only further depicted them as monsters. While his escape has made him a person of extreme interest to the Directorate, and a desperately wanted asset to reclaim, he has not managed to make the most wanted list.

Alien Mutation
Mikhail can exude an inky blackness, the initial burst can instantly cover nearly ten feet in all directions centered on him. After that he can continue to pump the darkness out and cause his black cloud to expand, and with enough time he could fill a theoretically limitless amount of space with it. This darkness is not like night, but rather like the abyss. It is absolute and can not be seen through by normal means, and within the cloud it is almost as if things don’t exist - things such as sensory equipment and special versions of sight (night vision, infrared, etc) can’t penetrate the outer limits of the cloud. Mikhail, however, is able to see through his cloud as though it weren’t there, while gaining other benefits so long as he remains within the confines of the cloud. He is keenly aware of the location and movements of others within the cloud, able to track the slightest tremble of bodies. Further, so long as he remains within the cloud he is considerably stronger and faster then normal. Mikhail can pull all of his blackness back into himself over a few moments, literally absorbing it back into his body - though if he doesn’t recall it any blackness left after he leaves the area (such as creating the initial cloud and then moving forward enough that his continued production of the blackness is not connected to the original cloud) rapidly dissipates over roughly one minute.

Kokaine

Actually, I'm gonna go ahead and pull my interest. Enjoy all :)
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Wispyr

Quote from: Lockepick on August 12, 2016, 09:30:22 PM
I'm thinking of this kind of like a Heist team -- but I'm not sure if it'll be more action-y than that. Would a 'face' type character have any place here? Figured holograms could allow for a lot of disguises. If I go for a Face, I was thinking some voice/sound based mutations to go with it.
I would say there is absolutely a place for that type of character. The game will be spread out with a great many different focus'... Quoting myself from earlier...

Quote from: Wispyr on August 12, 2016, 06:55:01 PM
The sky is the limit. There will be stealth oriented scenes. There will be espionage scenes. There will be blow up the battle cruiser scenes. There will be ground assault scenes. There will be extraction scenes. So... Some of everything at some point. As far as roles I'm open to this and will craft, largely, around the 5 I pick to take. As far as tech goes, pretty high end sci-fi.
So there will absolutely be places for a character of that type to shine.

Quote from: Kokaine on August 12, 2016, 09:35:36 PM
Actually, I'm gonna go ahead and pull my interest. Enjoy all :)
Awww. Sorry to see you go Koka! Have fun elsewhere! <3

la dame en noir

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Wispyr

Quote from: la dame en noir on August 12, 2016, 09:47:36 PM
How is it even possible to join your games! You're one of the most popular GMers on E lol gosh!
Awwww.... -Blush- You're too sweet. <3

But... You just do! You jump in, and ride the ride! Or, if not, wait for the next car... Cause there's always another car coming up. (because I'm either a glutton for punishment, or a total sucker... Jury's still out).

Quote from: Erich Norden on August 12, 2016, 09:48:50 PM
I'm seriously considering it
I knew that someday I was going to hit another button for you :P

Intimate Ink

Quote from: la dame en noir on August 12, 2016, 09:47:36 PM
How is it even possible to join your games! You're one of the most popular GMers on E lol gosh!

Step 1: Consider how you would look dying your hair red...

Wispyr


Amarlo

Quote from: Wispyr on August 12, 2016, 10:03:21 PM
(because I'm either a glutton for punishment, or a total sucker... Jury's still out).

Both. >.>

Seduce my mind and my body will follow.
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Lockepick

This is multiple applications; we are Legion
Gender: Male
Orientation: Homosexual
Concept: Son of rich parents, he was living the life of a high profile, quasi-celebrity heir. He was a reality star, but his time in the public eye portrayed him as being a hedonist with poor impulse control, a paragon of the dumb, spoiled brat -- and it wasn't entirely incorrect. When it was found out that he was an Outlander, he was cut off from his family and forced out of the public. He originally did everything he could to stay in the spotlight, including chaos, crime, and general showing off of his abilities, but the media only wanted to show Outlanders fail and look silly.

With his old life taken away from him, his tactics for attention became more extreme. It was originally as a way to self destruct, but after so much success, he's grown to love his new life. He's taken to producing his own videos, putting them across social media and pirate channels. Joining up with the Hellions gives him a constant source of adrenaline and always something new to broadcast.

Specialist Skills: The Face: He's always been charming enough to fit into any situation, to get people to give him whatever he wants. Now, an expertise with holographic technology combined with his own Mutation allows him to assume any identity. When he's unable to talk his way in, a base understanding of current security systems allows him to bypass and disrupt them. When violence is the only option, he offers distractions and impact through sonic screams.

Mutation: Acoustikinesis: His vocal cords and lungs are enhanced to allow him to project sounds well beyond the range and force of a typical human. His most common tricks include: mimicking any voice or sound he's heard before; creating 'white noise' to effectively silence ambient or quiet noise; creating high pitched screams that can shatter fragile materials; and creating super sonic screams that can knock away with concussive force, often disorienting living targets as well as blasting them.

*As a note: The idea of Broadcasting intends to be through unofficial channel -- the equivalent of YouTube -- and would be heavily edited to not actually expose who anybody was; unless were all already living under the radar. This whole idea can be scrapped, and could just be my character filming himself -- since his identity is just one of many anyway.
Like what you see? I am currently looking for new plots!

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