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I'll cook up a Controller/Summoner a bit later. I'm really enjoying Strike and am dying to try other roles.
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Mister Genesis (real name: Lawford Grey Helms III) --------------Avatar---------------------------------IRL   Lawford is not a prodigy. He is not particularly intelligent, charismatic, well-spoken, or inventive. How then, was Lawford, at 23 years old, directly from his Masters program, hired to the administration team of the largest service in the world? That story starts before his birth, when Lawford Grey Helms II, his father, invested in a social media startup that promised to eclipse everything before it. It was only one of his many investments, and he could never have expected that one investment could propel him to become one of the richest men in the world, and shareholder of a full 7% of InfiniNet. It could come as no surprise then that his son would have been raised with every advantage; prestigious boarding schools, private tutors, exclusive club memberships, deep connections with the rich and powerful, and the best university and internship money could buy. Lawford exited school a network programmer of reasonably high, more thanks to a strong education than personal ability, and able to perform the duties of a network admin in unexciting but competent ways. Despite this, Lawford takes himself very seriously, with a highly complex custom avatar, expensive designer clothes, and a cult-like following of the latest in health and exercise trends, no matter how strange or unreasonable. He's only worked for InfiniNet a matter of weeks, but already he has been pushed harder than ever before in his privileged life, but his ego will allow for no less; a failure might utterly crush his untempered spirit. The guise of Mister Genesis is complex, even for the highly adaptable avatars. The basic form is always the same; a classic 'Invisible Man', with a somewhat old-fashioned business suit and hat in the form of a tall, well-built man, but with no visible body; the head and hands are entirely invisible. Avatars much like this are fairly popular, and readily available from the InfiniNet digital store, and are particularly common among law enforcement agents, and people who like to be mistaken for one. Where Mister Genesis differs is in enviromental customization; while other Invisible Men change clothing style to fit the zone paradigm, Mister Genesis instead changes clothing material, appropriating textures and animations from the nearby digital world and forming his unchanging, iconic suit from them; a coat made from scented smoke and slacks of dark, polished wood in a smoking lounge, a tie of jagged mirror shards and a flaming trilby in a hellish disco, or treebark, grass, and cloud in a digital park. Lawford has also edited his many autonomous scripts to a similar style, appearing to come swirling into existence from nearby cyber objects, as though Mister Genesis is taking control of the very zone to accomplish his goals. Lawford's major duties with the company are largely centered around finding and removing forbidden or illegal material, and repairing defacement by hackers. While he's capable of some low level hacking by virtue of his profession, he's never really been taught any of the dirty tricks that a real hacker relies on. Skills: Data Search/Processing, Firewalls/Encryption, AR Construction/Editting, Health and Exercise, Super-Rich (the first two are flavored as being conducted by minor 'summoned' autonomous programs, rather than with Lawford's own skill; this may affect their use when appropriate) Tricks: ---"Do you know who his father is?!" - While Lawford himself only very rarely uses his father as a bludgeon to get his way, he is blissfully unaware of the influence his name has on other InfiniNet employees and associates. It can often open doors that Lawford never really realized were closed. ---Paradigm Shift - Lawford is specialized in AR environments, and several scripts that can be used to make large, if imprecise, changes to the local zone. Intended to be used to rapidly deal with large scale defacement or forbidden content, use of these scripts almost certainly sets off every alarm in the zone. Complications: ---"Nobody calls me chicken." - Lawford takes himself extremely seriously, and really can't take a joke or roll with derision at his expense. While he isn't the type to take revenge, he's often engages in drawn out arguments, competitions, and even fights over less-than-polite words about him. ---"Pop goes the ego" - Lawford has very little experience dealing with failure, and often takes it far worse than he should. He desperately tries to correct his mistakes, even to the detriment of his other tasks, or tries to overcompensate if he's unable to do so. If things go bad enough, he might even have a complete breakdown! Gear: ---Newspaper: A autonomous program that automatically queries, decrypts, searches, and displays all access and change logs in the zone, even if Mister Genesis does not normally have permission to access them. The program only updates as fast as the decryption and search algorithms do, and of course data can be concealed by a savvy enough hacker. ---Umbrella: A magic wand in a standard copy, this highly restricted bit of programming is an InfiniNet executive override for zone graphics and construction. It allows the admin to (within the scope of the zone paradigm) edit textures, animations, and layout without normal permissions. Most often used to remove obscene material and other forms of defacement at the behest of zone owners and users, this is not a subtle tool; it clearly logs and identifies itself, and will often set off security alarms when used without zone admin knowledge. Misuse reflects badly on InfiniNet, and the executives have mandated harsh punishment for such things. Tactical: ---Role: Controller ["Edit Topography" (Control Boost), "Hostile Zone" (Sap Strength), "Cage" (Freeze!)] ---Class: Summoner ["Flux" (Trooper); "Vortex" (Air Elemental) OR "Blob" (Water Elemental)] ---Feat: Huge (Elementals) fool of sound fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Aug 27, 2015 |
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As a heads up, Mustache Ride: Warlord/Leader can be a bit boring to play, since the role and the class do very similar things. Warlord/Blaster or Warlord/Controller are both really good though, especially Blasters, who can throw around AoE Advantage fields and such.
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Angry Walrus posted:Question for the GM: I haven't seen Summer Wars so I don't exactly know the mechanics of the digital world. Is it more along the lines of the Matrix, or is it more comparable to cyberspace in Snowcrash? Second Life, but people use Oculus Rift type stuff a lot of the time.
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Mister Genesis/Lawford  ---Positive: Lawford Grey Helms II; angel investor, cutthroat businessman, one of the richest men on earth, and father to Lawford III. Through his closely-held holding corporation, The Armet Group, he casts a wide web of influence though the business and financial words. He dotes on his son a bit, and while he respects his son's wishes against excessive interference in his life, he can't help but pull a few strings behind the scenes should he feel the need.  ---Ambivalent: Iota Beta Mu. Lawford's highly prestigious fraternity. Only accepts Ivy League IT majors. Lawford knows quiet a few of them through alumni-sponsored national events. While he does have a number of friends among them, just as many don't care for him, and more still have no real strong opinion.  ---Negative: While not an organization as such, plenty of people want a piece of Lawford Grey Helms II: businessmen, politicians, journalists, crime bosses, hackers, and activists, plenty of whom are absolutely willing to take out their hostility on the man's son.
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Hey, Deleter, think we could maybe get a bit more momentum going here?
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