Well, all our sample psi-epsilon slights are purely narrative, but I'm willing to give it a shot. I went ahead and left the need to cut the victim, although that could be left out just as easily. As a starting point, how about: Weave Memory (The Book of the End) Type: Active Action: Complex Range: Touch Duration: Sustained Strain Mod: N/A (psi-epsilon) Skill: Psi Assault The exsurgent is able to rewrite the memories of its victim, inserting itself into the victim's life in the role of a friend, relative, lover, or other close associate. As far as the victim is concerned, this reflects the way things have always been -- the exsurgent has always been there, and the victim trusts the insurgent completely. In addition to the normal touch, use of this slight requires the exsurgent to draw the victim's blood, though a scratch is sufficient. If the victim succeeds on the opposed test, he is flooded by the memories, but is able to recognize them as false, suffering 2d10+3 stress from the ordeal and gaining immunity to further uses of this power for the duration of the scene. If he fails, he now believes this new version of his own past absolutely. While he suffers no stress from the manipulation immediately, the victim does if confronted with evidence that his memories are false -- old XPs that the exsurgent is not present in (but should be) might cause 1d10/2, as they obviously must have been altered, while the pleading of a spouse whose role is now filled by the exsurgent could cause 1d10+2 or even more. Multiple rewrites of the same victim are also harmful, inflicting 2d10+3 stress on the victim even if successful, and 3d10+5 if the slight is resisted. EDIT: Removed strain, moved header elements to their own line since multiple spaces get condensed.

On the collaboration front, if you don't mind me being a little slow at times, I'm game -- I'm a grad student working on my PhD, so can get swamped by school on occasion. One mistake I did make was the strain -- psi-epsilon explicitly doesn't cause strain to the user, so that +5 should be replaced with N/A. A team of Lost turned mercenary would certainly fit. Yukio: He wouldn't actually need to be a hacker, really, though he certainly _could_ be -- he could just as easily be someone obsessed with AR games who was infected and is now able to use the Exsurgent psi-gamma slight 'Scenario' that takes the form of AR games. Of course, to give him closer to the same level of power he had in the manga would take an epsilon variant of it, since his victims explicitly could be hurt or killed in his scenarios. Ginjo: He's very straightforward. Pretty much adopted the Ultimates philosophy after his escape; favors close combat and has found a TITAN relic that he uses as a sword (as for what it is really...) L2 Psi, no need for epsilon. Riruka: She'd also have scenario, though just the gamma version, to represent her ability to create environments. L2 Psi, no need for epsilon. Jackie: Again, pretty straightforward to model, since it's mostly raw unarmed combat power, with the dirty boots as a special effect. L2 Psi, no need for epsilon. Giriko: Probably back to epsilon for him. Give a command, establish a timeline, and inflict messy death if the conditions aren't met.

Yeah, the original names are just for reference. Well, the first question is whether you're wanting to make them all members of the Lost generation? Much smaller timeframe to work with on backgrounds, if so, since it's only been a few years since the end of the program. They've clearly gone their separate ways, so it also involves pulling them back together again. It also involves much less disparity between the actual age and overall experience level of each of them (which can be good or bad). Are they all exsurgents, or are they just a group who've become essentially exhumans in their outlook? Yukio/Hugo as hacker is far more essential in the latter case. In that case, he wouldn't be able to force someone onto the mesh, but he'd be very good at tricking them into taking him on there. If you don't mind cleaving a little farther from the source material, he could be an AI developed by a hypercorp, and his 'parents' are the two primary programmers on the development team. From there, your background kicks in -- they were raising him to a specific purpose, which upon gaining sapience, he decides he really doesn't like. When the 'parents' decide to punish him, he turns on them, making sure that their backups are misfiled or corrupted and getting them killed before going on the run. It can change the others quite a bit, too. Staff Sergeant Jocelyn "Jayce" Griffin (Jackie), for her part, was a decorated infantry soldier during the fall. Nine Lives obtained a copy of her ego, but while she had the skills they wanted, she was far too devoted to her duty to join with them, and she told them what they could go do with themselves. That wasn't the answer they wanted, so they used her as a gladiator instead. While it didn't completely destroy the decency she once had, it buried it pretty deeply. The dirt doesn't have anything to do with cleanliness -- quite the contrary. It's an experimental weaponized nanoswarm Nine Lives embedded in their top-earning fighter that tears apart anything that gets too close to her, providing some protection against ballistic weaponry and making her quite nasty in close combat. I can think more on them, but if you're really set on them being Lost, then I don't want to go too much more in that direction.

Erika doesn't really need to be a child, though, and might actually be a bit more sinister if she weren't -- Orphan, as opposed to the Good Son, if you will. She's actually the oldest of the lot of them. She was a child starlet in the mid-21st century who was extremely famous. Her star began to dim by her late teens, though, and had faded completely by her mid-twenties. She kept trying to make comebacks, but no one wanted to see the cute little girl now that she was all grown up. Eventually, out of desperation, she accepted an offer to do a porn vid, and spent the next few decades agreeing to do 'just one more' since it would lead to the big break that would get her back into the business again and wash away all the distasteful memories of how far she'd fallen. Now more than a century old, she actually did manage to get a deal to reprise her original role and was about to start filming on Luna...and then the Fall happened, and she was stranded in space in the neotenic morph she'd been provided by the studio, with no film deal, no home, and no resources, and she snapped. Though she'll slip and start talking about things most people weren't alive to remember, she clings fiercely to her now endless youth to the point of overacting it significantly much of the time and obsessing over cutesy things she thinks a little girl would like. And if the public doesn't care about her anymore, well, she's going to MAKE them care.