[OOC] Crisis: Mars! [Full unless you're Brilliant]

[Unknown100]

Alright, I've done my best to edit my CS.
Can I interest you, Sep, in another look? :)

[Sep]

@Zambu

I believe we established that the mutations have only just started a month ago.

@t2wave

You are correct.

Will get to it in a sec unknown, eating my tea the now.

[Sep]

Name: Rose

Age: 24

Gender: female

Equipment:
Home-made night-vision goggles.
A tablet with lots of little useful functions. (nothing major like hacking)
A battery-less taser only she can power.

Ability: Energy absorption (Elemental)

Abilities Strengths:
Rose has the ability to absorb energy (limited to electricity at first), store it in her body, and convert it. She can then shoot it from her hands. Being about 2000 degrees, the blue beams can blast clean through walls and turn steel into butter.
Rose can also use the energy to power machinery, though mostly small devices and lamps.
Her third option, with the energy she stores in her body, is to create forcefields for protection; for herself or friends. These are energy bubbles that only stop fast-moving things like bullets, but not slow moving/walking targets. It takes energy to sustain, how much depends on the time Rose has to sustain it and the amount of force hitting the protection.


Abilities Weaknesses:
As the human body itself is energy, Rose can actually kill herself by spending all of her energy. Exhausting her power can also weaken her greatly, and make her unable to fight or escape. Once exhausted, Rose will not be okay right away even if she is able to recharge.
Her powers are not very subtle either; the beams light up and make a certain sound.

Personal Skills: An experienced tech-genius, resourceful and a skilled thief/scavenger. She’s also a skilled parkour free-runner; having escaped danger on several occasions down in the junk containers. Her physical fighting skills however don’t exceed the occasional kick-and-run strategy, not against trained soldiers.

Personal Weaknesses: Short tempered, reckless and inexperienced in fighting military guys.

History:
Rose had a hard time even before she discovered her powers; growing up at the edge of the outer wall was no easy life. Rumor had it she had been left in the poor district as an infant in some pretty expensive baby clothing. Whoever had done so was long gone, and as soon as she was able to walk she was expected to pull her weight. No one around did anything for free, not even the act of taking care of a child. Like so many others Rose was taught to mine and steal, yet somehow Rose never got caught.

While many poor kids spend their free time playing ball and such, Rose spend her time with the Educations synthetics. These results of charity were outdated, slow-thinking robots bolted to the floor. But they were working, and if you had years of patience, they could teach you to read free of charge.

Finally at the age of 12 Rose found comfort - comfort I books. Their cover might have been old and worn, but the words were still strong. Rose fended for herself now and educated herself further in the hopes of one day escaping the life of a simple miner and thief.
Early morning she got up to chop stone for The Coalition Mining Group, and late evenings she snuck down and stole. Not jewelry or money. Rose stole scraps, garbage and abandoned machinery from the great junk containers of Aire. One had to be quick in mind and body to avoid the sweltering recycle-fluid and the U.S.F surveillance. Luckily Rose had trained both. The things she uncovered down there she traded for food and supplies, or disassembled them to create new useful contraptions.

Then one month ago, at the age of 24, the unthinkable happened. Rose discovered she could do things others couldn’t. With the seemingly random bursts of energy, her body projected, having a job was no longer safe. Not for others and not for her. She had heard what they did to “freaks”. So she simply stopped showing up for work. No one knew or cared where she lived anyway.
There have been "little" accidents, but for now Rose has been able to keep her explosive gifts to a minimum. Time will tell Whether or not the U.S.F is on her trail.
Now without a job, stealing is suddenly more important than ever. It’s important for her in order to feed herself, and it’s important in order to learn what is going on. Books are still a part of Rose’s life, but now many of them revolve around the same subject: Energy. Rose seek knowledge about the force that drives her. However volumes about physics are not easy to come by for someone in society's lowest class, but where there is a will, there is a way.

@Unknown100

She's good to go, I like the explanation of the school system.

Throw her into the character sheet tab.

[Tatsua Aiisen]

Spooky Little Girl Alert

Name: Lynne Everest AKA, "The Beast"
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Ability: Physical - Complete Biological Manipulation (Self)

Ability Strengths

Lynne's power is a step above many others, as she is capable of modifying and repairing virtually any aspect of her body in order to suite the situation or need. Theoretically, she is invincible, capable of taking massive amounts of continuous damage and regenerating all of the harm done, without issue. She is able to consume and store massive amounts of "Mass", and then make use of this mass to expand or reinforce her bodily structure.

Hardening, strengthening, sharpening, regenerating, even adding new attributes altogether, all of these things are possible with her ability and more. A truly versatile, and excellent power that, given her weaknesses were not so drastic, would turn her into the ultimate human weapon.

(Warning: Long)

Ability Weaknesses

Because her ability is to unimaginably complex and unwieldy to use, it comes with a great number of side-effects and crippling weaknesses that make it fundamentally impractical.

Firstly, all of her manipulations that involve "Increasing", whether it's adding new attributes, regenerating damaged tissue or reinforcing the attributes she already has, take up an associated amount of "Mass" for her to accomplish. If she wishes to regenerate a lost arm, she must have an amount of "Mass" equivalent to the lost arm in order to completely repair the suffered damage. She can divert "Mass" from other places on her body, but she cannot conjure it from thin air, and must eat more in order to replenish what was lost.

While she may seem invincible, if she is forced to fight a battle of attrition in which she is forced to continuously take large amounts of damage, she will eventually run out of regeneration and simply be killed like any other animal.

Second on her long list of problems is that, well, brains are kind of complex. If her brain is critically damaged, she will not die (as long as she has regeneration left to repair it), but there will be some... defects, with the final product. With each regeneration of her brain, some information is lost, and she comes closer to a more primal, beast-like existence, as her name seems to indicate. Additionally, the shock of having her brain suddenly injured will more than likely stun her significantly, leaving her fatally open to being executed or captured afterwards.

For as powerful as her ability is, even she is not so stupid as to try to manipulate her brain outside of regeneration, lest she accidentally cause herself unnecessary brain damage or receive some kind of terrible, permanent mental defect.

And then there's the Hunger. Needless to say, the strain put on her body and the energy it requires to continuously repair, alter and reinforce Lynne's body is great. The result of this massively increased demand for energy is that, when she is running low on mass, she begins to experience a gnawing, ever-present hunger, a need to replenish her stores so that she can regenerate more freely.

Of course, she will never actually be full.

Personal Skills Her list of technical skills is very limited, but fortunately, the last month of trials have left her changed. For better, or for worse. Her instincts have been honed greatly, giving her an almost bestial nature, able to sense incoming danger long before an ordinary human would feel anything. She's grown accustomed to running, hunting and hiding, and while she does not want to fight, she can certainly cause some damage when forced to.

She's decent at singing, too.

Personal Weaknesses Being constantly hunted, exposed to unimaginable amounts of pain on a daily basis, and having been completely alone since the start of the incident has taken a great toll on Lynne's mind. She may someday devolve into a feral existence, a girl who possesses no trust for humans and who will completely fail to understand a great number of obvious social cues. Even if brought into normal society as she is, she will never truly be able to integrate herself into ordinary human life after what she has endured, and getting along with humans is still a long, long ways off.

Besides what's been said already, she is very much still a child, and possesses what flaws you would expect from a child given the circumstances.

History

Cited as being among the first ever recorded "Powered" individuals, Lynne was unfortunately among the largest driving forces behind the quarantine and crackdown on powered people in Aire. Due to her strength, mental instability and unstoppable urge to consume everything around her, she was quickly hunted down and has been effectively on the run since the very start of the incidents.

She was not, however, always this way. Before gaining her abilities, Lynne was the daughter of a rather wealthy family, one whose ancestors were among the early adopters of the Mars Colonization Program. The Everest Family wasn't the most influential on Mars, but they were no pushovers when it came to funds, and they often backed the other, more well connected corporations who came after them, securing their place as one of the wealthy elite on the new planet.

Lynne's direct family was quite closely knit, and she was happy to experience both a close and nurturing relationship with her parents. Maybe her father was out of the house a bit often, but that couldn't be helped, he still had plenty of business to deal with even long after their stake on Mars had been set.

Her childhood was much like many Mars-born children would have experienced. Things were dull, from time to time, and adults always seemed to be doing something, and things always seemed just a little too "Red", but overall, things were swell. She attended school normally, had a few close friends, and even planned on signing up to learn ballet from one of their female teachers.

Some things don't change, regardless of the Era.

But, some things do.

Suddenly gaining superpowers may have been an exciting, or wonderful opportunity for many others, and good on them for finding some purpose in their suddenly twisted lives. Lynne, however, has never thought of her powers as anything but a curse. Since the moment she first awoke with them, her abilities have caused her nothing but suffering, hurt and despair.

Her powers took her family away from her. They took her friends, her future, and her very life. She was forced to run, to escape into the ventilation systems and hide deep in the gutters of the settlement. Always hunted, never given a chance to feel safe, even for a moment. That was what her life was from that point on, and that is how it will continue to be going on into the future.

She is called "The Beast" by many of those who hunt powered individuals. To them, she is a menace, a prized prey that would bring whoever took her down much glory if she were to be captured. She is considered less than human, because of these powers of hers, which make her like a living, breathing monster.

Maybe, bit by bit, she is beginning to become just that. A monster. And that is the scariest thing of all.

Is this fine, Sep?

[Sep]

I am yet to re-read it all, as I must sleep.

I should get you a verdict before I go to work, lunch tomorrow at the latest (Between 12 and 2 GMT+1)

What I do remember I had an issue with was

Additionally, specialized weapons for killing her have been developed, the most lethal of which are bullets containing substances which cause rapid freezing in her tissue upon entering her body. Such weaponry is able to completely cripple her, as a single stray shot from such a bullet could completely destroy parts of her body and cause her to be unable to repair the damaged tissue.

Tatsua Aiisen

Weapons won't have been developted to specifically hunt powered people yet.

[Tatsua Aiisen]

What I do remember I had an issue with was <Snipped quote by Tatsua Aiisen>

Weapons won't have been developted to specifically hunt powered people yet.

@Sep

Well, alright. At least you have an idea of what they'll be once they are developed.

[twave]

Hemotoxins would also probably be pretty devastating.

Also I believe I am rethinking what character I will make. Something temporal would be interesting but I realize how slippery a slope that can be. I have a base idea but I want to make sure it will play well in the grand scheme of things.

[Peaceless]

@Tatsua Aiisen

Dang. I have been working on a similar concept, though from a slightly different angle and with much less power. I wonder if our chars can exist together without overlapping... What do you think,@Sep?

[Tatsua Aiisen]

@Tatsua Aiisen

Dang. I have been working on a similar concept, though from a slightly different angle and with much less power. I wonder if our chars can exist together without overlapping... What do you think,@Sep?

@Peaceless

I personally would rather not have any overlap at all, but that's just my opinion.

[Sep]

@Tatsua Aiisen

Dang. I have been working on a similar concept, though from a slightly different angle and with much less power. I wonder if our chars can exist together without overlapping... What do you think,@Sep?

@Peaceless

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I personally would rather not have any overlap at all, but that's just my opinion.

@Tatsua Aiisen

I have no problem with characters existing with similar powers. From how I took it Tatsuas focuses a lot more along the regeneration aspect rather than the alteration of muscles or senses as well, and it has a nasty side effect that isn't mentioned but we discussed elsewhere.

If you two would rather no overlap then I'll wait till your app is done Peaceless then decide between the two.

Hemotoxins would also probably be pretty devastating.

Also I believe I am rethinking what character I will make. Something temporal would be interesting but I realize how slippery a slope that can be. I have a base idea but I want to make sure it will play well in the grand scheme of things.

@t2wave

Tis indeed, however at the same time just cause it's a time power doesn't mean that it needs to mean you can travel through or stop time, perhaps you can speed it up or slow it down in a localized field making yourself seem really fast or something else really slow.

[Peaceless]

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I personally would rather not have any overlap at all, but that's just my opinion.

@Tatsua Aiisen

Very well. I suggest a fight to the death over the Biomod slot.

@Sep, I will use this opportunity to suggest you manage a checklist of powers, so people won't step on eachother's toes by accident. You'd usually expect people to ask if a certain power is taken, but when they don't and there are two highly elaborate char sheets you need to choose from, it can be quite tragic.

[Tatsua Aiisen]

Very well. I suggest a fight to the death over the Biomod slot.

@Peaceless

First come first serve get in line scrub huehuehue .ect

[Peaceless]

<Snipped quote by Peaceless>

First come first serve get in line scrub huehuehue .ect

@Tatsua Aiisen

I suggest not following this line of thought, as I have been discussing my char's power with the GM since yesterday and thus have a day's advantage on you.

But to be honest, I don't think our character powers collide. I am going for a more supportive role. I've just been thinking about Wolverine and Deadpool: Their healing is a very big part of their power, but they don't really replace one another. Yeah, it will be fine.

[Tatsua Aiisen]

I suggest not following this line of thought, as I have been discussing my char's power with the GM since yesterday and thus have a day's advantage on you.

@Peaceless

It would do you well to not try to play that card as well. Because I was doing the same thing.

[Sep]

Technically Peaceless did PM me first but lets not start a pissing contest. Both chars follow a similarity in powers, but they are two very different characters with different strengths and weaknesses. Which I think makes them interesting.

On your point Peaceless I shall put the powers for the accepted chars on the OP, I won't put the ones people are working on as just incase someone for whatever reason needs to drop off the Guild.

[Unknown100]

Well, I hope to rp with both Tatsua Aiisen and Peaceless. So I hope for a solution :D

[Sep]

The three of us will do a joint PM to try and resolve the issue.

[Unknown100]

Cool.
I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way, but have you had a talk with Zambu too?

[Sep]

Pm hathe been sent, DW. I'm not new at the Gming thing.

I'm on top of things :P

Though at this rate I may need a co-gm :L

[Zambu]

@t2wave My apologies, i'll change that up. I'll just say she was a very active child.