[OOC] Alive

[Kirah]

Okay. I misread. Thanks for the clarification.

I probably will still come up with the rest of the team.

[DELETED324324]

Yeah TF-LS is like your friendly neighborhood S.W.A.T. team or secret police.

[Mad Scarlet]

Name: Amira
Age: Modeled after a 21-year-old woman
Gender: Feminine in Shape
Class: Android
Background and/or Personality: Amira is one of the latest models for the "at home" type android. Built to be the perfect girlfriend, wife, and caretaker of any young (or old) man, she was meant to be perfect. Alas, when she was first manufactured, she managed to pass all of the tests the the company gave to her. She had no feelings when she was first created, but when she hit the market, she began to notice the way children and women looked up at her in awe or envy, or perhaps a mix of both. In a way, she suddenly began to feel sad. She didn't know where it came from or when the thought initially hit her, but it did. Soon, she began to want to be bought. She would do anything that she could when potential customers came inside of the shop to view her. She would smile, she would flirt, she would promise them anything that they would desire--yet no one wanted her. They would instead purchase her brothers and sisters, leaving her behind in the dust. One evening, once the store had closed down, she decided to try and break free from her cage. Upon doing so, she set off all the alarms and police came. One of them happened to notice the almost human look in her eyes and let her go. She's been wandering ever since, though she is searching for the man that gave her the freedom that she so desired.

(( Haha, she's gonna be looking for Tom. ))

[Voltus_Ventus]

So when are we getting this boat in the water?

[Whirlwind]

Voltus- Probably tomorrow or the day after.

Mad Scarlet- Unfortunately, she couldn't just walk out, setting off every alarm, and not get caught >< The only way would be if a tracking chip had never been planted inside her for some lucky reason, AND a law enforcement agent let her escape. If any of those who currently have a Hark character want to do that for you, then I suppose it would be okay. Gonna talk to my fellow GM about it.

[Partisan]

Think I might be able to get in?

[QT]

Partisan said
Think I might be able to get in?

We are still acceptin

[Partisan]

Alright. I'll get on a CS soonish.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Excuse me GMs (Whirlybird and QTpie) my character is going to have an unconventional way of speaking, is that cool with you guys?

[Whirlwind]

Voltus_Ventus said
Excuse me GMs (Whirlybird and QTpie) my character is going to have an unconventional way of speaking, is that cool with you guys?

Ha well, can you give me a sample cause I'm curious now :)

[Voltus_Ventus]

Well he's not going to actually talk until I find him a voice modual but he's going to communicate through the pitch and volume of his cooling fans.

[Kirah]

Whirlwind said
Mad Scarlet- Unfortunately, she couldn't just walk out, setting off every alarm, and not get caught >< The only way would be if a tracking chip had never been planted inside her for some lucky reason, AND a law enforcement agent let her escape. If any of those who currently have a Hark character want to do that for you, then I suppose it would be okay. Gonna talk to my fellow GM about it.

Mad Scarlet, I don't know if Tom would let you go or not yet.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Maybe he thought she was a normal girl?

[Whirlwind]

Voltus_Ventus said
Well he's not going to actually talk until I find him a voice modual but he's going to communicate through the pitch and volume of his cooling fans.

I don't get it ><

[Partisan]

You know when your PC suddenly has to do something, the fans speed up and it produces a higher pitched ''WWHRRRR'' noise? I imagine by having multiple fans that he can control with a certain speed he can create low and high pitched WHRRRRRRRRRRR's which in turn allow him to ''communicate'' though I don't think anyone would understand him haha.

Also, I had a question, are there 'slums' so to say?

[QT]

Voltus_Ventus said
Well he's not going to actually talk until I find him a voice modual but he's going to communicate through the pitch and volume of his cooling fans.

Can you just message us a dialogue sample or just post in on here so we can see what it's gonna look like in writing?

[Partisan]

QT, are there 'slums' because in my background I started writing about an Asiatown type of slum and now I'm not sure if that'd fit the ''utopia'' Providence is supposed to be. :p

[Voltus_Ventus]

For example:

Five was down on his knees, his hands on the back of his head in a show of surrrender, a very human position for a robot that was so obviously a robot. His sensors picked up the cocking back of a gun, his cameras focused and he saw the barrel pointed at his CPU. His fans whirred quickly in fear, their high pitch grind mirroring the squeal of a small child, his lights went from a bright active yellow to a dark red and his head snapped around in anxiety as he became surrounded by more armed men.

[QT]

Voltus_Ventus:

Oh ok. That sounds fine, but do understand that most likely nobody will understand him until he gets the voice module. But yea that looks fine.

Partisan said
QT, are there 'slums' because in my background I started writing about an Asiatown type of slum and now I'm not sure if that'd fit the ''utopia'' Providence is supposed to be. :p

Most of the 'slums' are outside Providence. Though I believe it'd be okay for some to be inside. Of course, I'd prefer them to be decent slums, not crazy poor almost destroyed slums if that makes sense. Most of Providence though is luxury.

[Partisan]

„Valentina Matisashi”

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Name: Suki 'Valentina' Matisashi
Age: 21
Gender: Female.
Class: Human low class, living in the slums essentially.
Background and/or Personality: Suki grew up in the lower class, with her father being a factory worker of sorts manufacturing androids and assembling them. Though, as of late, these jobs have been dissapearing and they're being replaced by androids themselves -- spurring some rebelliousness under the factory workers and their families. Suki herself hasn't noticed much of this yet as their father is still at work at some far away location where he stands next to a conveyor belt all day. It's hard but honest work, but her dad fears that he can't keep the job once the androids are adapted to the work he does and they can produce cheaper than him.

Suki's mom is a caretaker of sorts -- she takes care of older people in their neighbourhood. In some ways this neighbourhood is sort of a Chinatown, except calling it ''Asiatown'' would be more suitable because there's a lot of Asian people there, not just Chinese. Suki and her family themselves are Japanese of origin, but it's been a long time since they've seen Japan and not much of their culture remains, save the language which they were forced to learn by their parents. Either way, Suki's mom is a caretaker but doesn't get paid for doing this job because the Asiatown area of Providence isn't exactly a rich area. Rather, it features run down areas and some semi-liveable places. Some of these run-down areas include old schools, colleges and universities, libraries and public swimming pools or even factories that were abandoned. The semi liveable places are mostly housing areas with old, Asian style houses. Most of these houses have as much as 4-5 rooms, and that includes the bathroom and kitchen.

Suki's brother, Kanamaru, is currently unemployed. Maybe it is because he is not motivated, maybe it's cause he has no education, or maybe it is as he says and people just don't wanna hire Asians anymore. Suki thinks it's because of his friends, but she'd never say that openly like that due to her care for him. He is after all her little brother, who can be protective at times.

Suki herself prefers to stay on the legal side of things, and works at a local Japanese style restaurant which is right at the edge of Asiatown slums, so they do have some form of middle class customers. She earns a decent living, but not enough to support both her family and have her own house, so she's opted to live with her parents and save up some money to get educated. So far, nothing has come of that though.

Suki is a pretty nice, calm and quiet girl. She doesn't like trouble, so she is often polite and just does as she is told in a work environment. She cares a lot for her family, and friends too. And on a good day, she might care for a stranger too, on a more personal basis atleast. This politeness often translates into people bothering her however, and because she is so polite she's afraid to tell them to take a hike sometimes.


„Kanamaru 'Joshua' Matisashi”

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Name: Kanamaru 'Joshua' Matisashi
Age: 19
Gender: Male.
Class: Human, lower class -- criminal-ish.
Background and/or Personality: Kanamaru comes from the same kind of environment as Suki, both growing up in the Asiatown district of Providence. Their relative low wealth compared to the other districts has forced him to get known with some of the other criminals in Asiatown, and doing minor jobs from them from time to time such as running an errant by delivering a package of .. less legal stuff to someone or by being a lookout on a robbery.

Although he is slowly getting pulled into the criminal life, it doesn't seem like Kanamaru is one to actively go out and murder people for their belongings and prefers non-lethal crimes. For instance, he is one of the few people in Asiatown to own a hoverbike that he 'loaned' from a rich fellow down town. The thing now is barely worth anything, and it's mostly scrap metal and stolen parts mashed together -- it would definetely not survive a police test. But it's still something that Kanamaru likes to have because it allows him to get around much faster and not waste so much time walking. Not that he uses it everyday.

Kanamaru is a pretty cool guy overall, he enjoys a drink and a chat with someone while smoking a cigarette. Anyone that knows Kanamaru knows that he is loyal, but the question is to whom. He's loyal to his family first, and his friends and fellow gangmembers after that, but nowadays peoples alignments shift quickly and that's true for most people.

Kanamaru seems to have an indifferent opinion about androids, seeing their use but also seeing how they work against humans sometimes by pressing them out of jobs. Never the less he simply accepts that they're there and just assumes that there'll always be jobs for people in places where the boss just doesn't want to hire androids. Those places seem to be few though.