In EVO, you aren't a Company Man anymore. The terminology is updated to reflect the new world, the Sixth World(s), the Awakened World(s), so says Buttercup.
You are an Executive in the Counter Terrorism Bureau. Executives come from all walks of life and are responsible for an incredibly wide range of tasks guarding EVO's interests on, and off, the planet. Executives are highly skilled, well trained, capable, responsible individuals with excellent compensation and benefits packages and corporate support. Travel required. EVO values diversity.
Assignments will be Missions tailored to active players. You may or may not be interacting or working with other CTB Executives. CTB Executives are expected to file reports once a week. CTB Executive vacation and sick leave requires notification to the CTB Executive manager in order for personal time to be compensated. Inactive CTB Executives will be "Reassigned" to the Red Planet Division.
- SR4
- Setting, wherever EVO sends you
- 2070
- Standard 400 BP
- Standard Availability Rules
- Street Magic allowed
- Augmentation allowed
- No breaking skill groups in chargen
- No cracking or pirating software in chargen
- Electronics upgrades bought at full price
- No free contacts in chargen
- 9 to 12 dice pools are considered good or excellent for core skills. e.g. Anything you have at this you would be considered "expert" at and known for. You can certainly have a larger pool, this is not a restriction on the pool size.
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- Use the Twenty Questions for inspiration
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Player - Approved PC
Konsaki - Executive Trainee Matt Freewind
Blackhat - Executive Specialist Adone
Feshy - Piers
RedJack - Alton Memphis
Abbandon - Spirit Bomb
Andrew Moreton - Mariko
Toras - Slick
Morpheus - Crank
WearzManySkins - Piet
Scope47 - Volusia (Waiting for final draft)
ChtuhluDream - Prometheus Northrop (Waiting for final draft)
IC Start Date is Wednesday January 21st 2070
Konsaki - Executive Trainee Matt Freewind
Blackhat - Executive Specialist Adone
Feshy - Piers
RedJack - Alton Memphis
Abbandon - Spirit Bomb
Andrew Moreton - Mariko
Toras - Slick
Morpheus - Crank
WearzManySkins - Piet
Scope47 - Volusia (Waiting for final draft)
ChtuhluDream - Prometheus Northrop (Waiting for final draft)
IC Start Date is Wednesday January 21st 2070
@Konsaki
Matt is asked to give a tour and analysis of his knowledge once the astral fun is over. Have fun with making stuff up.
Matt is asked to give a tour and analysis of his knowledge once the astral fun is over. Have fun with making stuff up.
A couple of questions before I start:
1. When the bodies were given over to Adone and his team, was there any background information available? I'm assuming there was no medical history or identification - but perhaps he was told how Evo came about them. Are the girls Evo products, children of employees, random Tokyo citizens, tech we "recovered" from some other corp, etc. If Adone wasn't informed of the background of the case, that's fine - maybe they wanted his objective analysis first, but if they told him anything, it might direct him as to what he should be looking for.
2. What is the general physical state of the remains. Below, I intend to make some checks to diagnose the type of nanotech, so that's not exactly what I am asking, but if the damage was localized to any particular systems, that will be important to know.
If they are available, I would like the student/assistants to help with the processing, but Dr. Adone will make his own diagnosis and examinations first. Given that these girls are, thus far, genetically identical and all died from similar if not identical nanoware, we should have lots and lots of opportunties to do this one diagnosis.
Rolls for questions I have that can probably only be answered through analysis:
1. General medical diagnosis/autopsy.
Things I especially want to look for: Estimated time of death? Consistant throughout all the bodies, or at some regular interval. Other signs of struggle/injury? Age, if I can get anything more accurate than 7years or if anything shows up as out of the ordinary there? Identical bodies, or just genetically identical (given they are the same age, and same genes, I suspect they are pretty identical)? Cause of death (what the nanites did - cut everything? target specific organs? etc)? the existance of any cyberware/bioware or any other augmentations that would show up in a typical diagnosis. plus anything else I should think of asking that I don't know OOC.
Oh, and also, a check for any identifying biometrics left besides DNA (intact retinas, , fingers, palms, faces, etc).
2. Diagnostic Genetic Analysis
Things I espeically want to look for: Genetic tagging (any particular corp/doctor taking credit for these)? General genetic profile (optimizations, in utero therapies, etc)? Basically looking to identify what genetic tampering had been done, and why, and possibly by whome (if particalr sequences are patented by particular corps - though at this point, I imagine none of it is public knowledge). Also attempting to tell if these are clones of one person, or several individuals created from the same base pattern. If someone "murdered" a specific individual's backup bodyparts, that's interesting, and points us at someone specific (probably with a very organic, non-optimized genetic pattern), but if someone made almost twenty carbon-copy test-tube babies, and someone else managed to forcibly cancel that program, that would be quite a bit more interesting. Given what you said about how none of them were interesting individually, I am suspecting that it is a fairly "normal" looking genetic structure and no modifications jumped out. Hopefully concentrated analysis confirms this.
3. Diagnostic Analysis of Remaining Nanoparticals
Given that the host died when the nanites were activated, the body didn't get a chance to go through its usual filtering and purging processes (however, I don't see why some weaponised nanites couldn't take each other apart afterwards to "disappear"). In any case, if there are any nanite parts remaining, they should be analyzed, and even if there is not, the damage they did (to where and how) might give some information about what they were, even if there arn't any in her system anymore. Also assuming we can move any remaining particles (or even active nanites!) over to a(my) cybertechnology lab/shop for scanning/dissection/analysis.
I would be especially intersted to know what kind of nanites they were (cutters, I suppose), if those nanites are branded/taged as belonging to anyone in particular, and at approximately what rating/grade they were. If there is enough of each corpse left to attempt to detect where they were inserted (if they went into affect immediately) or how long they were in there (if they stayed dormant for a while but were not filtered out before they were triggered).
1. When the bodies were given over to Adone and his team, was there any background information available? I'm assuming there was no medical history or identification - but perhaps he was told how Evo came about them. Are the girls Evo products, children of employees, random Tokyo citizens, tech we "recovered" from some other corp, etc. If Adone wasn't informed of the background of the case, that's fine - maybe they wanted his objective analysis first, but if they told him anything, it might direct him as to what he should be looking for.
2. What is the general physical state of the remains. Below, I intend to make some checks to diagnose the type of nanotech, so that's not exactly what I am asking, but if the damage was localized to any particular systems, that will be important to know.
If they are available, I would like the student/assistants to help with the processing, but Dr. Adone will make his own diagnosis and examinations first. Given that these girls are, thus far, genetically identical and all died from similar if not identical nanoware, we should have lots and lots of opportunties to do this one diagnosis.
Rolls for questions I have that can probably only be answered through analysis:
1. General medical diagnosis/autopsy.
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+ Encephelon(1) + Neocortol(3) + Control Rig(2) + Control Rig Boosters(3) = 31 dice)Things I especially want to look for: Estimated time of death? Consistant throughout all the bodies, or at some regular interval. Other signs of struggle/injury? Age, if I can get anything more accurate than 7years or if anything shows up as out of the ordinary there? Identical bodies, or just genetically identical (given they are the same age, and same genes, I suspect they are pretty identical)? Cause of death (what the nanites did - cut everything? target specific organs? etc)? the existance of any cyberware/bioware or any other augmentations that would show up in a typical diagnosis. plus anything else I should think of asking that I don't know OOC.
Oh, and also, a check for any identifying biometrics left besides DNA (intact retinas, , fingers, palms, faces, etc). 2. Diagnostic Genetic Analysis
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Things I espeically want to look for: Genetic tagging (any particular corp/doctor taking credit for these)? General genetic profile (optimizations, in utero therapies, etc)? Basically looking to identify what genetic tampering had been done, and why, and possibly by whome (if particalr sequences are patented by particular corps - though at this point, I imagine none of it is public knowledge). Also attempting to tell if these are clones of one person, or several individuals created from the same base pattern. If someone "murdered" a specific individual's backup bodyparts, that's interesting, and points us at someone specific (probably with a very organic, non-optimized genetic pattern), but if someone made almost twenty carbon-copy test-tube babies, and someone else managed to forcibly cancel that program, that would be quite a bit more interesting. Given what you said about how none of them were interesting individually, I am suspecting that it is a fairly "normal" looking genetic structure and no modifications jumped out. Hopefully concentrated analysis confirms this.
3. Diagnostic Analysis of Remaining Nanoparticals
Given that the host died when the nanites were activated, the body didn't get a chance to go through its usual filtering and purging processes (however, I don't see why some weaponised nanites couldn't take each other apart afterwards to "disappear"). In any case, if there are any nanite parts remaining, they should be analyzed, and even if there is not, the damage they did (to where and how) might give some information about what they were, even if there arn't any in her system anymore. Also assuming we can move any remaining particles (or even active nanites!) over to a(my) cybertechnology lab/shop for scanning/dissection/analysis.
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I would be especially intersted to know what kind of nanites they were (cutters, I suppose), if those nanites are branded/taged as belonging to anyone in particular, and at approximately what rating/grade they were. If there is enough of each corpse left to attempt to detect where they were inserted (if they went into affect immediately) or how long they were in there (if they stayed dormant for a while but were not filtered out before they were triggered).
Single batch of identical girls, all born approximately the same time.
Cross matching against parents interestingly shows that the girls gene maps fall within the possible result range for the parents off spring. e.g. Standard Paternity tests would return a match if used.
Nano cutters typically inserted within 3 months, but they really could have been longer if carried in inert implants.
Analysis of the gene maps show the normal differentiation even in normal clones, there's always a minor level of transcription error or mutation even in cloning, except that some parts of the neurological cell maps are all exactly identical on all expressions.
The Crash Cart ERT group has a high priority request for the autopsy results and want to know what to tell the parents. Who are all EVO employees at various levels.
Cross matching against parents interestingly shows that the girls gene maps fall within the possible result range for the parents off spring. e.g. Standard Paternity tests would return a match if used.
Nano cutters typically inserted within 3 months, but they really could have been longer if carried in inert implants.
Analysis of the gene maps show the normal differentiation even in normal clones, there's always a minor level of transcription error or mutation even in cloning, except that some parts of the neurological cell maps are all exactly identical on all expressions.
The Crash Cart ERT group has a high priority request for the autopsy results and want to know what to tell the parents. Who are all EVO employees at various levels.
So, the girls had parents that could be tested for (meaning that their genetic material is based off of two people, originally), but they belong to several Evo employees - meaning they wern't typical test-tube babies. Would Adone know of a program within Evo that does this sort of thing regularly (designer baby adoption program) or would this come off as out-of-the-ordinary?
The identical neurological cell maps bit is interesting, and wasn't lost on me, and was probably the reason for the cutter's target - but will be of little assurance to the parents, and won't serve as much of an explaination for the attacks until I can figure out what the motive was. To know that, it would help to know how and why they were created the way they were.
Oh, would his background in genetics offer any hypothesis as to why the entire genetic sequence underwent normal cloning mutation except for one very localised patch. I assume it was purposeful, but would this be something that Adone could do, or something that baffles him? Do most gene therapy treatments come off this way?
I'll probably put together an IC post tonight with the preliminary details, including the facts necesasary for the parental explaination (or cover up, as the case may be), as well as to start formulating the information required to tell if there is a terrorist threat - but at the moment, I'm goign with the assumption that Adone doesn't have access to the girl's background, medical files, or family history unless he asks for it, and probably would then require a reason why (which is probably there).
Does Adone have access to any general Evo employee genetic or medical information? Was there actually any nanites recovered? I got the jist that they wern't marked, so that must mean there was something left to look at. Also, right now I assume that Adone doesn't have access to these girl's files, specifically (if he did, he could probably bring that up and answer 90% of his question about their creation process - at least the version told to the parents, and their reasons for ordering them). If that's correct, would it be within his normal job description to dig into such a thing, given the threat of attack (in which case he could file for such information through legitimate channels) or is that sort of thing outside of his ... area or whatever, and he'd have to do some illegal hacking to sate his curiosity?
The identical neurological cell maps bit is interesting, and wasn't lost on me, and was probably the reason for the cutter's target - but will be of little assurance to the parents, and won't serve as much of an explaination for the attacks until I can figure out what the motive was. To know that, it would help to know how and why they were created the way they were.
Oh, would his background in genetics offer any hypothesis as to why the entire genetic sequence underwent normal cloning mutation except for one very localised patch. I assume it was purposeful, but would this be something that Adone could do, or something that baffles him? Do most gene therapy treatments come off this way?
I'll probably put together an IC post tonight with the preliminary details, including the facts necesasary for the parental explaination (or cover up, as the case may be), as well as to start formulating the information required to tell if there is a terrorist threat - but at the moment, I'm goign with the assumption that Adone doesn't have access to the girl's background, medical files, or family history unless he asks for it, and probably would then require a reason why (which is probably there).
Does Adone have access to any general Evo employee genetic or medical information? Was there actually any nanites recovered? I got the jist that they wern't marked, so that must mean there was something left to look at. Also, right now I assume that Adone doesn't have access to these girl's files, specifically (if he did, he could probably bring that up and answer 90% of his question about their creation process - at least the version told to the parents, and their reasons for ordering them). If that's correct, would it be within his normal job description to dig into such a thing, given the threat of attack (in which case he could file for such information through legitimate channels) or is that sort of thing outside of his ... area or whatever, and he'd have to do some illegal hacking to sate his curiosity?
While theoretically possible, the odds of genetically identical off spring born to different parents is kind of way way out there.
You're a CTB agent, you can pull all the EVO files you want on employees for whatever reason you want.
All natural births and occurred during the same week all over japan with a conectration in Tokyo of course.
No gene mods were ordered.
You're a CTB agent, you can pull all the EVO files you want on employees for whatever reason you want.
All natural births and occurred during the same week all over japan with a conectration in Tokyo of course.
No gene mods were ordered.
Ah, okay. You had me going in another direction with this. I thought that for some reason the parents all signed up for some "adopt an experiment" program. Good to know. 
Great job with this by the way, I'm hooked.
At mother-in-law's house ATM, will post something early this afternoon.
Great job with this by the way, I'm hooked. At mother-in-law's house ATM, will post something early this afternoon.
Okay, putting together my IC post as we speak. Will probably submit and expect changes to need to be made because I am still confused on one point.
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To me, that says that Adone cross-referenced the girl's genes against the parents that are on file and that they fall within the normal ranges. However,
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That part says to me what I thought originally, which is that if you have 19 sets of different people, and they all have children, it is pretty astronomically impossible that they would all end up genetically identical.
So, the conclusion that I would make from this would be that (and correct me if I am getting it all wrong again) that the children must have been designed such that their singular genetic code would fall within the normal bounds for ANY of the 19 pairs of parents they were "assigned" to... such that nothing would appear out of the ordinary if the children were genetically compaired to either of their parents, but that they could all be identical.
That seem like a fair analysis?
Posted witht the previous assumption. If I need to be corrected, I can go back and make the post make sense. Let me know if you want another barrage of dice, or if you want to work any results into thsoe previous rolls (that would, presumably, take anotehr couple of hours to complete).
Adone will move his consciousness around the two labs checking up on everyone's progress as well as helping and doing his own thing. His focus will probably be on the genetic modelling, since that piece seems to be the key.
Included in his report will be the simsense feed from the entire experiment, which I imagine is pretty typical.
One new roll is probably required. The agent's data-search.
Adone will move his consciousness around the two labs checking up on everyone's progress as well as helping and doing his own thing. His focus will probably be on the genetic modelling, since that piece seems to be the key.
Included in his report will be the simsense feed from the entire experiment, which I imagine is pretty typical.
One new roll is probably required. The agent's data-search.
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....wow. I have no idea how Blackhat came up with that IC post. Dire you just created that out of thin air for his specific character?? Or was that like something that was going to happen no matter what and you had been planning it since you started the game?
If I wasnt stuck on chosing a mentor for my mage, the spells he should have and his personality then I would be totally afraid of lowering the quality of this game lol.
If I wasnt stuck on chosing a mentor for my mage, the spells he should have and his personality then I would be totally afraid of lowering the quality of this game lol.
no, we didn't work anything out offline - and I have NO idea how much of this is off-the-cuff or not, but I think the character I made probably plays well into the hands of whatever machinations DR did have planned. Also, I probably took some liberties with things in the spirit of completeness, so I might be designing a grand conspiracy theory that is completely unfounded. Probably doesn't help that neither DR nor I have a background in RL medicine or anything (that I know of)...
Glad you liked the post, though.
Probably doesn't help that neither DR nor I have a background in RL medicine or anything (that I know of)...Glad you liked the post, though.
Oh, also. Augmentation page 108 says with a microtronics shop (despite nanotechnology falling under cybertechnology - I hope Evo has one we can use) and an Engineering (Nanotech) (12,1day) test, and a sample of a nanotech breed, one can discover what the triggering conditions were - which is information I think would be valuable (even if it takes a few days to get at).
Given that this task was mostly delegated to a contact, its up to you, I suppose, but if no clear answers arise Adone will eventually move onto this, personally.
Given that this task was mostly delegated to a contact, its up to you, I suppose, but if no clear answers arise Adone will eventually move onto this, personally.
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Also, if you're stuck, bounce your idea around the recruitment thread. Seems like a lot of people are in your position and maybe you'll get some feedback that will help you finish. I don't know a whole lot about mages, but I'd be glad to make suggestions if you'd want them.
Ok, I'm a little lost on the flow of the last IC post.
Looking at a dwarf chiphead, ok I can get that as part of the tour you wanted now.
Having Wotan saying Matt's wasting away, whatever that's RP reason to get back to the office.
Him saying "Remember we don't have jurisdiction!", that makes no sense in the flow, or lack there of.
"Your first assignment is to design a plan for efficiently using your resources for monitoring some of that activity we saw today.", ok, I'm assuming that my resorces are everything my character currently has on paper and the activities I'm supposed to monitor are basicly the general no-goodery that happens in Seattle via gangs.
I would have liked a little more guidance on what you wanted tour wise earlier. I was thinking a guide of the EVO facilities and Matt's knowledge of standard stuff, like his sidearm, etc.
Looking at a dwarf chiphead, ok I can get that as part of the tour you wanted now.
Having Wotan saying Matt's wasting away, whatever that's RP reason to get back to the office.
Him saying "Remember we don't have jurisdiction!", that makes no sense in the flow, or lack there of.
"Your first assignment is to design a plan for efficiently using your resources for monitoring some of that activity we saw today.", ok, I'm assuming that my resorces are everything my character currently has on paper and the activities I'm supposed to monitor are basicly the general no-goodery that happens in Seattle via gangs.
I would have liked a little more guidance on what you wanted tour wise earlier. I was thinking a guide of the EVO facilities and Matt's knowledge of standard stuff, like his sidearm, etc.
Sorry about that. I can reengineer the post however you want it to fit. You start by giving Wotan a guide of what Matt already knows of the Seattle Gangs he's dealt with in the past, and then Wotan adds a few of his own and some updates. Wotan will generally have an idea that Matt knows about Gang X, they now operate here, was this where they used to operate when you dealt with them, those kind of questions. Wotan doesn't care about your sidearm.
Wasting away, you do have a set amount of time you can be astral.
The comment on jurisdiction is a reminder that most of the activity you might contemplate or have considered taking would be answered with the advice to consider the jurisdiction.
This is where you can fill in some backstory about what Matt did/does for Katrina if you like. (There may also be the question of can you continue to do things for Katrina)
The "plan" is whatever creative thing you can dream up for monitoring a large city gang population and activities.
Wasting away, you do have a set amount of time you can be astral.
The comment on jurisdiction is a reminder that most of the activity you might contemplate or have considered taking would be answered with the advice to consider the jurisdiction.
This is where you can fill in some backstory about what Matt did/does for Katrina if you like. (There may also be the question of can you continue to do things for Katrina)
The "plan" is whatever creative thing you can dream up for monitoring a large city gang population and activities.
I'll write up something and send it to you.
@blackhat
Sometime late thursday night JST Adone gets the data search results back indicating approximately 56 matches, all but 5 with corresponding matching autopsies completed or underway, though none of the others have reached your conclusions yet. Distribution is world wide, concentrated in Tokyo obviously. The 5 missing ones are former EVO employees who no longer have Crash Cart contracts. 1 matching autopsy doesn't match the original parents initially, but a little more digging quickly reveals it's a high level scientist who has extracted and re extracted a couple of times and thus is on her third or fourth SIN.
You cannot ascertain what the nano cutter trigger is, however, it would appear on the timing to be signal based even if there is no physical evidence fo such.
Sometime late thursday night JST Adone gets the data search results back indicating approximately 56 matches, all but 5 with corresponding matching autopsies completed or underway, though none of the others have reached your conclusions yet. Distribution is world wide, concentrated in Tokyo obviously. The 5 missing ones are former EVO employees who no longer have Crash Cart contracts. 1 matching autopsy doesn't match the original parents initially, but a little more digging quickly reveals it's a high level scientist who has extracted and re extracted a couple of times and thus is on her third or fourth SIN.
You cannot ascertain what the nano cutter trigger is, however, it would appear on the timing to be signal based even if there is no physical evidence fo such.
The search found 56 matches for people who would pass parental tests for these girls (meaning 28 girls, total), or 56 matches for girls with the exact same genetic code (meaning 112 parents, total)?
Also, you said that the 5 missing autopsies are former EVO employees? or the children of former employees? My guess is that the parents are former employes, so that explains why their children's autopsies arn't found - but if that's incorrect, then it is eitehr very interesting (suggesting those girls are older), or I am confused.
Also, I assume the autopsies I can find are consistant with my findings, even if they havn't come to the same conclusions (age of the girls, approximate time of death, the fact that the skull is filled with uniform paste, etc).
Also, you said that the 5 missing autopsies are former EVO employees? or the children of former employees? My guess is that the parents are former employes, so that explains why their children's autopsies arn't found - but if that's incorrect, then it is eitehr very interesting (suggesting those girls are older), or I am confused.
Also, I assume the autopsies I can find are consistant with my findings, even if they havn't come to the same conclusions (age of the girls, approximate time of death, the fact that the skull is filled with uniform paste, etc).
56 possible girls. 112 parents, 56 men, 56 women.
The 5 missing can also be cases where even though the combination was possible there might not have been a birth. But you do find birth records for those 5.
The autopsies show consistent results. They just don't have the same aggregation as you've encountered in Tokyo so no alerts.
The 5 missing can also be cases where even though the combination was possible there might not have been a birth. But you do find birth records for those 5.
The autopsies show consistent results. They just don't have the same aggregation as you've encountered in Tokyo so no alerts.
Cool. When I get home from work, I'll start putting my next IC psot together.
Since 5 is the smaller number, is there anything interesting about the logistics of those 5 couples/families? Are they spread around the world too? Its a small sample size, but it seems like, statisticly, maybe 2 of them would have been from Tokyo.
Also, any results on the simulated neural models (no idea how long that would take, or even if its possible, but if its seems to be making progress, or has already hit a dead end, by the next night, I can include that in the post).
I have no idea how that sort of thing works, or how borderline superscience it is, but it seems like you meant that those genes goverened how the brain was preprogramed to be wired up (like, where your emotional or sensory nodes are located, in your brain). Assuming that's the sort of thing that geneticists of 2070 understand well enough to manipulate, I'm going out on a limb and assuming there is a way to simulate or model it beforehand (without having to regrow a new child from scratch every time the scientist wanted to tweek a number here, or debug a flawed sequence there.
Since 5 is the smaller number, is there anything interesting about the logistics of those 5 couples/families? Are they spread around the world too? Its a small sample size, but it seems like, statisticly, maybe 2 of them would have been from Tokyo.
Also, any results on the simulated neural models (no idea how long that would take, or even if its possible, but if its seems to be making progress, or has already hit a dead end, by the next night, I can include that in the post).
I have no idea how that sort of thing works, or how borderline superscience it is, but it seems like you meant that those genes goverened how the brain was preprogramed to be wired up (like, where your emotional or sensory nodes are located, in your brain). Assuming that's the sort of thing that geneticists of 2070 understand well enough to manipulate, I'm going out on a limb and assuming there is a way to simulate or model it beforehand (without having to regrow a new child from scratch every time the scientist wanted to tweek a number here, or debug a flawed sequence there.
Don't know where those 5 are now. All left EVO employ sometime in the last 7 years at different times, and no forwarding address. Though some guesses.
The model is being constructed, takes some time. Also, the model will still suffer from being unable to ascertain some items like awakened genes, or other things that haven't been modeled yet. And the final factor being there are environmental or post birth genetic modifications that can be introduced to produce unknown results. Best is to grow a bunch of real brains and see what happens.
The model is being constructed, takes some time. Also, the model will still suffer from being unable to ascertain some items like awakened genes, or other things that haven't been modeled yet. And the final factor being there are environmental or post birth genetic modifications that can be introduced to produce unknown results. Best is to grow a bunch of real brains and see what happens.
Yeah, that was the fall-back plan - but I figured if this plan told me anything sooner, that would be great. =D
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| Yeah, that was the fall-back plan - but I figured if this plan told me anything sooner, that would be great. =D |
Yes, though someone did already do this with 56 subjects obviously.
Cranked through a bunch of characters approvals (See second post in thread). Some great reading, and some great material for me to work with. I'm looking forward to some things happening. Thanks all for your patience.
You have a choice of a GM introductory post or doing your own. Up to you. There is a lot of opportunity for you to write or post as much as you like (Don't let the people who post novellas stop you from posting a brief IC whenever you want.) I also expect a lot of you can take advantage of "downtime" or between GM run events to do your own character stories and scenes, but you don't have to do that either.
What it boils down to is that we'll have a bunch of different posting styles and needs, and thats good! Don't be afraid to experiment and ask me any questions. After all, I'm also experimenting PBP GM with all of you.
I'll be concentrating on getting everyone started, and we'll go from there. I'm very much hoping this style will give everyone to fit in and interact or not as much as is desired.
You have a choice of a GM introductory post or doing your own. Up to you. There is a lot of opportunity for you to write or post as much as you like (Don't let the people who post novellas stop you from posting a brief IC whenever you want.) I also expect a lot of you can take advantage of "downtime" or between GM run events to do your own character stories and scenes, but you don't have to do that either.
What it boils down to is that we'll have a bunch of different posting styles and needs, and thats good! Don't be afraid to experiment and ask me any questions. After all, I'm also experimenting PBP GM with all of you.
I'll be concentrating on getting everyone started, and we'll go from there. I'm very much hoping this style will give everyone to fit in and interact or not as much as is desired.
What do you all think about using a GMT + format in the posting timestamps? It may make it a bit easier when some of the PC start interacting with each other. You can always look at doing both a GMT + and a local time in the timestamp header.
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| What do you all think about using a GMT + format in the posting timestamps? |
It might make a good deal of sense for a worldwide campaign like this. It's not much more difficult for each poster to remember his time offset, but it is a bit more difficult for each of us to remember and mentally calculate everyone else's offset. I think whether or not it's worth the hassle will depend on just how much we ultimately end up interacting -- and that too will likely depend on individual tastes and storylines.
Of course, I've just shipped Piers off for GMT+0, so I'm not sure my vote counts
Yeah, I was trying to figure it out just between Japan and Seattle, and realized Dr. Adone was a day into the past. Or was it the future. Yeah, I think a GMT timestamp might not be a bad idea.
Although, looking it up just now, I found out not all countries adjsut for daylight savings time (I guess Japan does not), and I'm not really sure when daylight savings time is "on" or not. Could make this more complicated.
Maybe in the future the Corps got fed up with it all and demanded everyone do it.
Maybe in the future the Corps got fed up with it all and demanded everyone do it.
My suggestion is to play it like the world doesnt use Daylight Savings Time, because studies have proven it does nothing...
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Oh no.. Studies have shown that the latest change by the US Congress has actually been incredibly expensive in terms not only of costs to conform, but it also caused an increase in energy usage (as opposed to a decrease as their flawed projections anticipated.)
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Oh no.. Studies have shown that the latest change by the US Congress has actually been incredibly expensive in terms not only of costs to conform, but it also caused an increase in energy usage (as opposed to a decrease as their flawed projections anticipated.)
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Well, I do occasionally get to sleep in for an extra hour. Surprisingly, I find more pleasure in that than I lose during those days where I lose an hour of sleep. Overall, I net some happiness - so I would say its a success.
Surprisingly, I find more pleasure in that than I lose during those days where I lose an hour of sleep. Overall, I net some happiness - so I would say its a success.
Rolls?
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Initial introductions and other stuff coming soon, I think I've gotten most peoples final draft, so I plan on doing various introductions friday. As I indicated earlier you are welcome to do your own introductory post.
Check the second post in this thread to see where I think your characters approval is at, or if I even remembered to put you on the list. If I'm missing someone or something give me a kick.
Check the second post in this thread to see where I think your characters approval is at, or if I even remembered to put you on the list. If I'm missing someone or something give me a kick.
11 PCs. You've got your work cut out for you.
You've got your work cut out for you.
Mariko is a new arrival at EVO's London Diplomatic Operations group, her first job in the company. She arrives at the london offices early on the 1st day she is due to start elegantly dressed in flatteringly tailored business suit, she is a fairly short oriental women of slender stature and elegant appearence , who speaks English with a home counties accent .
She seems freindly politely chatting with the staff at the office . Her paperwork identifies her as a You are Executive Trainee in CTB and lists her with the following
Certifications
- Executive Trainee
- Hand Gun
- Driver
- Wands
- Matrix Munitions
- Magic Munitions
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I think that is all that people should be able to tell without getting to know her
She seems freindly politely chatting with the staff at the office . Her paperwork identifies her as a You are Executive Trainee in CTB and lists her with the following
Certifications
- Executive Trainee
- Hand Gun
- Driver
- Wands
- Matrix Munitions
- Magic Munitions
OOC
I think that is all that people should be able to tell without getting to know her
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| Initial introductions and other stuff coming soon, I think I've gotten most peoples final draft, so I plan on doing various introductions friday. |
Did I lie? Maybe. Maybe I meant this upcoming Friday? I'm not telling. and I'm the only one who knows what was intended!
RL happens, one of the offspring showing up unannounced for the weekend might usually be a bad thing, but it wasn't. Unless you think it's silly to travel from Florida to Wisconsin just in time for 6 inches of freezing rain and snow on a whim and not telling anyone till your flight arrives...
Anyway, back on track now, I hope.
I'm horrible with time zones so I wanted to double check... GMT 1500 is 3:00pm local time for London, right?
Yes GMT is the time in London Greenwhich is just up the river a bit
I guess that means I'm up with you Andrew.
Yes I thinkit does.
As I am on GMT i won't be posting until tommorrow
As I am on GMT i won't be posting until tommorrow
Thumbnail sketch of Prometheus -> Nattily dressed ork, imaculately pressed suits etc.
Ex VIP protection and internal audit from a fistful of various corporations, thought to be of dubious loyalty by Evo due to said 'job hopping' Formerly ran VIP protection details for high profile people. Shinto practitioner.
Ex VIP protection and internal audit from a fistful of various corporations, thought to be of dubious loyalty by Evo due to said 'job hopping' Formerly ran VIP protection details for high profile people. Shinto practitioner.
For when you see her, here is the description of Dr. Volusia (a thumbnail description just won't work for her...):
Dr. Elena Volusia might have once been beautiful, but those days are long gone. The left side of her face and body is still that of a striking, petite elven woman with blue eyes, shoulder-length straight raven hair, full lips, and a perfect nose. Her left side however is freakishly hideous. She has grown brownish reptillian scales, the hair only remains on her head in small tufts escaping from the scales, her leg is twisted with an inhuman bone structure. Scars crisscross this side of her body from many surgeries to removed malignant tumors. The scaly left side of her face is so badly scarred that some observers claim that it looks like somebody tried to rip her eye out with barbed wire. Her eye on this side is cybernetic, so it appears to be a natural blue eye, but there is a constant white membrane over it giving it a murky appearance. Her right arm has been replaced by an obvious cybernetic one. This new arm is appropriately sized, but the thing is constantly making a whirring noise like a computer’s cooling fan and under heavy use it often emits a ticking noise not dissimilar to the sound of a bad lifter in an automobile engine. Typically she wears a black pant suit with polished knee-high leather boots.
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Dr. Elena Volusia might have once been beautiful, but those days are long gone. The left side of her face and body is still that of a striking, petite elven woman with blue eyes, shoulder-length straight raven hair, full lips, and a perfect nose. Her left side however is freakishly hideous. She has grown brownish reptillian scales, the hair only remains on her head in small tufts escaping from the scales, her leg is twisted with an inhuman bone structure. Scars crisscross this side of her body from many surgeries to removed malignant tumors. The scaly left side of her face is so badly scarred that some observers claim that it looks like somebody tried to rip her eye out with barbed wire. Her eye on this side is cybernetic, so it appears to be a natural blue eye, but there is a constant white membrane over it giving it a murky appearance. Her right arm has been replaced by an obvious cybernetic one. This new arm is appropriately sized, but the thing is constantly making a whirring noise like a computer’s cooling fan and under heavy use it often emits a ticking noise not dissimilar to the sound of a bad lifter in an automobile engine. Typically she wears a black pant suit with polished knee-high leather boots.
@DireRadiant
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<EDIT: @Direradiant: I forgot something kinda important...
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<EDIT 2: @DireRadiant: Jeebus I'm an idiot this morning... 1+2+3 is 6, not 5... +sigh+...
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I assumed that I could find at least the public figures attending the Greenwich event, even though I'll have to default to logic to use my browse program. It seems like it would be public knowledge, so I hope that's okay.
@Direradiant: The Mark and the Disguise
@Direradiant -- Conversation with Dorian
@Direradiant: The Mark and the Disguise
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@Direradiant -- Conversation with Dorian
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Confounded edit post deleting links and spoilers... rather than edit again and cause myself headaches, here are the links that went missing:
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Scope_47
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@blackhat
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@Feshy
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@ DireRadiant
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@DireRadiant
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