Name: Jinx
Background: Uplift
Faction: Titanian
Morph: Neo-Avian
Concept: Titanian born Neo-avian, was a forward scout during their mandatory social service. Skilled tracker, rifleman and survivalist, Jinx joined the gatecrashers after leaving Titan in search of fame and adventure. Promotes uplift rights, mercurial advocate, doesn't like the inner system politicos.
Submitted by jackgraham on
Update (12/13): It looks like I'll also be running this scenario as an event on Infrno.net (so you non-North Americans will have a chance to jump in) some time in February or March. I'll announce the date when I know for sure.Have your 2 @-rep on the pregens for Xenovore, the scenario I'm writing to run at TempleCon this spring in New England. Here's the scenario description:
'Xenovore.' Four hour slot. Gatecrashing -- exploration of xenoplanets via Pandora gates -- can be both fabulously rewarding and unspeakably dangerous. The Iktomi ruins on Vishnu IV looked like the find of your careers... at first. But now you're going to need some luck if you don't want to end up another layer of dust atop this dead civilization.
Help me put together the perfect Gatecrashing team. 'Xenovore' is being written for a team of six gatecrashers. If you were at the table, who would you want to play? Two of the PCs will be developed by me using material from the forthcoming Gatecrashing book. The other four are up to you! Here's how it'll work:
- Submit no more than one character description in the comment thread on our blog by 12/16/2010.
- Character descriptions should contain only the following:
- Name (optional, and I might or might not use it)
- Faction
- Background
- Morph
- Concept (in 50 words or less)
- I'll ignore any suggestions that go beyond the information specified above.
- If your suggestion is used, I'll give credit. If Posthuman ends up releasing Xenovore, I'll request that they include credit, as well.
- You assign all rights to your character description to me (Jack Graham) upon submission. I agree that they will be used only for Eclipse Phase products, or for Eclipse Phase material released independently by me under Creative Commons licensing.
- If you're reading this on Facebook, please click through to the actual comment thread on eclipsephase.com so that I only have to look in one place. Thanks.
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Thu, 2010-12-09 11:28
#1
CodeBreaker
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Thu, 2010-12-09 12:00
#2
Quincey Forder
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Travers
background: Re-instantiated
faction: Criminal
Concept: in the chaos of the Fall Travers broke out of jail and managed to get re-instantiated, thought amnesiac of his name, on Mars. When Pathfinder recruited the current batch of Gatecrasher killed the real Travers and took his place. There is no extradition treaties off-system, right?
Thu, 2010-12-09 15:07
#3
Rhyx
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Riley Brooks
Background: Lost
Faction: Argonaut
Morph: Exalt
Concept: Riley had limited prospects in her home system. She's part xenoarcheologist and biologist. She keeps being Lost as a dark secret from her colleagues, who have come to rely on her excellent intuition regarding potential dangers and the workings of alien artifact through grok, omni-awareness and psi slights.
Thu, 2010-12-09 13:36
#4
UnionJackal
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Kiyomi Drosselmeyer
Faction: Scum
Background: Original Space Colonist
Morph: Synth
Concept: Signed up for a new morph and a new life outside the Solar System- though didn't read the fine print about behavioral modification and now finds herself compelled to throw the body she got as advance payment in the line of fire for people she doesn't particularly care for.
Thu, 2010-12-09 16:26
#5
Axel the Chimeric
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Wakefield
Faction: Argonaut
Background: Hypercorp
Morph: Splicer
Concept: Wakefield remembers the Fall clearly. A technician in an egocasting facility on Earth, his cortical stack included the vivid memory of a struggle as a head-hunter claimed him. Now free of an indenture to Cognite, his paranoia is driving him to get away from the solar system at all costs.
Thu, 2010-12-09 21:55
#6
The Doctor
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Palantir Valaquen
Faction: Ultimates
Background: Original Space Colonist
Morph: Remade
Concept: Crack engineer. High-orbit satellite mechanic. Accompished poet and author. Feared by Venusian gladiators and Martian rugby players for bringing a hand-forged kukri to barroom shootouts and walking away without resleeving, Palantir's greatest regret is that he was too far away from Earth to see much action during the Fall of Transhumanity. Always seeking to test his mettle against the harshest the universe has to offer, Palantir saved credits and worked to build his reputation to take a shot at the great unknown as a gatecrasher.
Swearing that he would make the attempt only once, he has deactivated his cortical stack, the better to motivate himself to evolve or die trying.
Thu, 2010-12-09 23:27
#7
Slicer
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Yussef Johansson
Faction: Anarchist
Background: Re-Instated
Morph: Splicer
Concept: Yussef died escaping Earth during The Fall. His stack was salvaged by a reclamation project years later. Discovering he was an infected async, he fled the inner system, eventually reaching Oberon and the Fissure Gate. Both his archeology background and the otherness in his mind drew him to gatecrashing.
Fri, 2010-12-10 11:26
#8
Skimble
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Stargazer
Faction: Argonaut
Background: Infolife
Morph: Flexmorph
Concept:
Stargazer was an AI designed to correlate data from probes all over the solar system, seeking exoplanets and investigating the universe. Stargazer evolved, awakened and eventually became a free AGI. Now it seeks to build a home among the stars for others like itself, away from the prejudice of transhumanity.
Fri, 2010-12-10 13:49
#9
RFrazee
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Maheen
Faction: Mercurial
Background: Re-Instantiated
Morph: Steel Morph (Masked)
Concept: Made it off Earth and sleeved to metal perfection on Luna. Maheen desires to improve herself and promote her version of transhumanity throughout the System, and beyond. Her idea of fun is showing her Gatecrashing team that she is not only as good as them, but better—much better.
Fri, 2010-12-10 19:57
#10
Rabbitz
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Xander "Flatliner" Biggs
Faction: Anarchist
Background: Fall evacuee
Morph: Infomorph
Concept: After escaping the Earth as an infomorph, Xander worked as an indentured worker until a gruesome accident destroyed his rented body and couldn’t get a resleeve. He currently resides in a ghostrider module carried by another character and interacts with the world via the mesh and several small independent drone
Sat, 2010-12-11 10:30
#11
kindalas
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Edward "John" Johnson
Faction: Titanian
Background: Original Space Colonists
Morph: Octomorph
Concept: John died during the fall and unlike so many others he had backup insurance and an Exalt morph waiting. When he was finally re-sleeved it was into the wrong body. It took years to adapt. John has signed on to a Gatecrashing team out of a sense of reckless self-loathing.
Sat, 2010-12-11 14:52
#12
jackgraham
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
"My name is Yon Yonson, I come from Wisconsin, I work in a lumberyard there..."
And he's Titanian. Not sure if you were actually making that joke, but I laughed anyhow. :)
Sat, 2010-12-11 15:02
#13
kindalas
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
You had said that the names were optional so I figured why not be funny with it.
Mon, 2010-12-13 11:57
#14
sndwurks
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Alain Lockheed
Faction: Argonauts
Background: Fall Evacuee
Morph: Steel Morph
Concept: Originally an engineer of the next generation of space flight technology, Alain was lucky during the Fall to make it out with as much as he did, including his body. He lost that on an exoplanet, only to be recovered several months later as the only "survivor" of his team.
Tue, 2010-12-14 07:00
#15
Simulacrum0
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Jic-Al Haiyude
Background : Original Space Colonist
Faction: Ultimate
Morph: Slyph
Concept: Once a renowned Xeno-Semioticist, disgraced Dr. Jic-Al now hustles a life preying on the enthusiasms of Iktomi-fanatics and trashy media-circuits who are sponsoring his 'multi-sensor-documenting' of this Gatecrashing event. Envisioning academic redemption, Mr. Haiyude is chugging various neuro-chems to quell his recent spat of blackouts...ever since that last tainted download...
Wed, 2010-12-15 02:42
#16
Breedlove
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Slink
Brinker
Fall Evacuee
Hibernoid
You had it all before the fall: every luxury trans-humanity had to offer the human condition. During the fall you escaped but your loved ones didn't. You've travelled around the solar system ever since taking whatever jobs came up: whatever jobs kept you moving. Suddenly you have the oppurtunity to go gatecrashing and leave this solar system. You're doing this because you need a new start, right? Really new start, touching something alien to us. Of course deep down you wonder if you're not doing this to pursue a life long gone. Your family was in one of the major cities the TITANs uploaded... and this is your only connection.
Wed, 2010-12-15 13:07
#17
Chaplain Exmortis
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Freud
Faction: Ultimate
Background: Hyperelite
Morph: Remade
Background: An old man survived The Fall. An old man had left his wife behind to explore orbital mechanics and deep spatial mathematics. An old man hobbled home while the world ended around him only to find his quiet street of academics an ash covered rubble. An old man went back to the stars. He made himself young. He started to paint as she had. Then he applied his mathematical genius to the images of flowers, streams, and trees. What he saw has driven him out of the solar system. And possibly a little out of his mind.
Wed, 2010-12-15 21:55
#18
Gorbash
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Name: Shrike, "The Butcher of Paris"
Faction: Hypercorp
Background: Re-Instantiated
Morph: Fury
Concept: Called a war criminal for abandoning the final evacuation of Paris. One backup from before Paris survived and "acquired" by Direct Action, leashed with behavioral modifications to make perfect suicide mission operative. Resigned to her fate to atone for unremembered misdeeds. Competent, deadly, but without regard to her own survival.
Wed, 2010-12-15 22:19
#19
jackgraham
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
Thanks for all of your ideas. I'll announce which I'm using in the next few days.
Tue, 2010-12-21 11:08
#20
jackgraham
Re: Xenovore: Pick Your Gatecrashing Team (Open Design call ...
I'll be using the following five ideas (I know, I said four, but there were too many I liked). If yours was picked, please message me (via this site) with your real name and e-mail address so that I can give credit.
TEAM LEADER: Jic-Al Haiyude (Simulacrum0)
ASSISTANT TO MR. HAIYUDE: Kiyomi Drosselmeyer (UnionJackal)
MISSION SECURITY: Shrike (Gorbash)
SURVEYOR/SITE SECURITY: Jinx (Codebreaker)
MISSION SPECIALIST (XENOLINGUISTICS): Travers (Quincy Forder)
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! There were some ideas here that I really liked but had to pass over because I couldn't see how they'd work for this scenario.