[b]Name: Li Shaiming[/b] [b]Codename: Poppet[/b] [b]Gender ID: Male[/b] [b]Objective age: 47[/b] [b]Subjective age: 47[/b] Born and raised in space on a hypercorp habitat, Shaiming was directly involved in countering suborned bots and AIs during the fall. Shaiming believes in benevolent control of transhuman populations, even uplifts, but harbors intense distrust of AGIs. He believes that AGIs are a potential threat to transhumanity and should no longer be created. Shaiming still bears scars from his battles; prior damage to his cortical stack has left him in permanent ephemeral pain. To prevent such things from happening again, he now utilizes an emergency farcaster whenever possible. He frequently rigs himself with explosives in order to spite whoever killed him. Shaiming specializes in suborning automated equipment and concealing superthermite charges within the shell. When possible, he carries a fabber with him capable of constructing thermite explosives, instead of carrying actual explosives. He is skilled at blending his remote-controlled bots into the general background automata, and favors completely surrounding his target with shaped charges before detonating all the charges in the same moment. Shaiming has found it difficult to inure himself to the carnage inflicted by his explosives, and now uses a dose of Neem before an operation. He has unfortunately allowed this habit to develop into a mild addiction. [url=https://rapidshare.com/files/90668207/Poppet_v.93.xls]Li Shaiming character sheet[/url]

Is the time for submissions up? I've been fleshing out a four-person team, but can't have it up until at least Friday.

Xagroth wrote:

link1329 wrote:

Is the time for submissions up? I've been fleshing out a four-person team, but can't have it up until at least Friday.

It is not a contest... and if the OP already has what he wants, don't worry, there are more people here that can use all the antagonist ideas anybody can have :)

I sound over-eager don't I? I was not trying for competitiveness, I love Know Evil. However, Midterms have been keeping me from putting thoughts to keyboard. I didn't think much about other people wanting ideas.. That's the beauty of the CC spirit, isn't it? I think I just had an epiphany. It's an EP miracle!

Character concept: Mike. Or Jack. Or Chris. Or... Core: addict/hooked to psychosurgery as a solution to all his/her problems (equivalent to a 15 points flaw...or even 20. Not sure if Addiction at minimal would also qualify). He/she also has the advantage for easies merge between ego and forks (+10 or +20 to those test, if I remember right). Oh, and he/she has some mental troubles. Developing: Mike just likes to take the easy option. Or the hardest. Or... He doesn't know. He suffered psychosurgery because his (or her... lets keep it at his for now) parents wanted a smart, hard-working offspring that would make them proud instead of the lazy ass they got that spent almos all his time playing games (or reading... or watching holos... Can't remember). So they sent him to a professional that treated him (Focusin! XD). However, the kid concluded that the easiest way to do things would be using psychosurgery. He grabbed some money (it was a fairly high-class family) and bought some augments that allowed him to make a fork, make the fork study, then integrate the knowledge in his ego. Of couse, starts were hard, and the first succesful fork required more than 10 attempts (and it was quite mad anyway). Fast forward about 6 years: we now have a mess of a young adult that anytime he needs to do something, he will use a fork, put it to work, then reap the beneficts and deleting the fork. Being somebody without much sense of self, he has collected a wide array of knowledges and skills, and is a really good actor (think as a basic mold that can be modified easily to fit almost any desired shape). Right now he earns the money he needs for having his fun acting as hired muscle. Or as an actor. Or as... Truth behind the curtain: you will never find the "original" Mike, only alpha or beta forks of him, dispatched as needed... and sometimes those forks end paying for psychosurgery to delete parts of themselves (freeing themselves of the "programming" they were created with) and roam around, until they decide to set up their own shop. And sometimes a group of Mikes capture another Mike who is then forked and integrated in another "node"... Essentially, a mess. And nobody knows if the original Mike was a Michael or a Michelle, or even if he (or she) is still out there playing games and running this fork empire... or is dead, or is isolated, or simply was too much modified and endend mind-dead. Or maybe he grow up and is living a normal (for AF10 standards) life while one of his firsts forks is doing all this mess...

I'm sure the Red Queen or sister Alice will be making an appearance in some form (possibly turning out to be one in the same). I'm sure that whatever truth there is to B's psychosis, you already know or are going to intentionally keep it secret. Even if you aren't going to use whatever truth is behind the Red Queen, I'm sure that a properly informed enemy would pounce on the Red Queen thing to mess with Bartlby (think about the Mirror Darkly Scenario from rppr where a player drove their forks to suicide and go nuts). Definitely go with one of the Lost for Bartleby's opposet regardless so you can play up the "this could have been you and it still could be your future" and to give an easier reason to justify why this guy knows about the Red Queen and Alice. Don't go overboard on the over crazy like the guy he met on Thought; instead, make his motives and logic closer to Bartleby's (to emphasize a kinship between them and how close the PC is to the edge), perhaps there is someone he is looking for and he has been led to believe that he needs to take out the PCs to get the information he needs. I'd even go so far as to link Anti-Bartleby's delusions to Bartleby's: Anti-Bartleby: "It's all your fault! You could have saved Alice! But you just ran! I can never forgive you!" For bonus points make Anti-B an alternate personality of Bartleby (basically a manifestation of a self-destructive guilt over his sister) that was alpha-forked off around the end of the lost project and has since diverged further. Either way Anti-B probably has some information about the whole Red Queen/Alice thing to tantalize the character with. _____________________________________________ Preston can be hounded by a bio-conservative, a more "docile" uplift (of any type), or even a militant uplift that thinks he's a sell-out puppet of the corps. More interesting would be a pro-mercurial uplift promised enough money/resources to start her own Atlantica in exchance for the head of Preston Crowley (and associates). The defeated champion from the deathmatch with the vibroblades could do nicely, and may still have some animosity to work out on her killer (plus, odds are her stack hit the black market, so anyone could have it now). Of course, she needs a new body... how about a Takko (synthmorph octopus) with a delightful number of military upgrades (including some eelware to get back at her deathmatch opponent). ______________________________________________ The AGI is open source, so his opposite should either be a corporate AGI in a reaper morph, or another iteration of himself modified and upgraded to kill the player. Alternatively, the open-source AGI could have had an identity crisis and decided to become unique. As foreshadowing the PCs would get word that a certain Argonaut satalite in lunar space had a nasty tradegy resulting in the loss of MANY AGIs as well as other egos and morphs. The cause of this change in behavior for the anti-Psy, when found out, should be a mistake involving something that the character enjoys or has done, such as a cautious techno-progressive experiment with a seed AI. Perhaps the crashing of a certain server by a familiar seed AI was to blame (making the players indirectly responsible). ______________________________________________ In general, I think that opposites are easy to fight, but enemies that mirror you so closely in motive and mind can be much more disturbing, as are the villians you create yourself. How many people have the players killed in the pursuit of their goals. Was it necessary to brutally murder that octopus and let her fall into criminal hands when they had another way to get the same information (which they succeeded at)? Why did they keep a seed AI secret from Firewall and leave it in the hands of a recklace techno-progressive?