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Leslie Stanton Les was off in his little corner of the room with pen and paper, finishing up a logistical diagram for processing the massive influx of people; lines go this way like so, admission stations go here, direct the cars there and so on. It was efficient, but with this many people, that only went so far. More importantly, it was designed to give the impression of forward momentum to the people waiting in line - hopefully cooling some tempers. He had just handed it off to Lazenby for his review and opinion; Les was a little fixated on the man as an intellectual puzzle to be solved. Every twitch, every sigh, every micro-expression, everything Lazenby had done in the short time they'd known each other had been subtly observed and then added to an increasingly complex cognitive model Les was constructing in his head. Well, 'subtly' wasn't quite true; he'd been varying degrees of subtle and obvious about it, and then he collated and quantified Lazenby's reactions to being observed to further aid in his understanding. Les perked up as Harvey came in. Counterfeit tickets were definitely an issue he'd anticipated, but if not dealt with properly, it could further agitate the crowd. When they went out to deal with this, Les would hang back a bit unless absolutely necessary. The police near the gate would definitely recognize him as their boss's son, though with these crowds they'd have to be practically on top of him. pre:Name: Leslie Stanton Race: Caucasian Nationality: United States Height: 4'7" DOB: May 13, 1957 Weight: 85 lbs. Passion: Personal Growth (4) Loyalty: My Family (2) Disadvantage: "Just a Kid" Career (Layabout) Stats Body: 2 Coordination: 2 Sense: 2 Mind: 2 (+6WD+4HD) Command: 3 (+4) Charm: 3 (+5+2WD) Base Will: 6 Skills Dodge 2 (+10HD) Empathy 11HD Language 2 Lie 3 Knowledge: Artistic 1 Knowledge: Psychology 2 Perception 2 Performance (Fiddle) 1 Persuade 3 Stability 10HD Stealth 3 Streetwise 2 Tactics 1 Power Suite Hypermind (6WD+4HD) (128 points) Just absurdly god-drat brilliant. Hyperempathy (11HD) (22 points) An innate and seemingly instinctual understanding of the behaviour of those around him. (Hyperskill) Hyperstability (10HD) (20 points) As above, except turned inward. Constant mental inventory and self-analysis. (Hyperskill) Hypermind (5HD) (30 points) He's coming to find it doesn't take much to change people's minds when it comes right down to it. The right words, the right sounds, even a carefully drawn picture if you do it right. Hyperstat (+4), If/Only (Only applicable to Syntergenes) Hyperknowledge: Psychology (2d) (2 points) There were some old Freudian psychology books at the town library. Completely incorrect, of course, but bless them, they were trying. Hypercharm (2WD+5d) (52 points) When you understand how people work, it's surprisingly easy to make them believe or like you. Hypercommand (4d) (16 points) He's not really the commanding type, but he can fake it if he has to. Hyperdodge (10HD) (20 points) Calculates trajectories, probabilities, and probably most importantly, patterns of human behaviour to get him out of harm's way. (Hyperskill) Rube Goldberg's Revenge (10d) (10 points) Little thing knocks over a bigger thing knocks over a bigger thing until the bad guys get a chandelier dropped on them and no one's any the wiser what you did. Attacks (+2), Subtle (+1), Slow (-2) Green Bean fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Leslie Stanton Leslie filed away Lazenby's response to his diagram for future reference; his model was getting better. Then he handed the paper over to Ed, smiling a little at his praise. "Maybe you should take it - they'll be more likely to use it if it comes from you." He was trying to maintain a façade of relative normalcy for Ed's benefit - Les didn't want to alienate him with how much his mind had developed, especially not a powerful person like Ed. And even as he thought that, his brain produced a little metaphorical file card breaking down Les' actual reasons for doing that; avoiding alienating a powerful metahuman was part of it, but so was a deep-seated desire to maintain a semblance of his old life and relationships as long as he could, and a genuine human response to praise from authority figures.
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