Antediluvixen

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Name: Adéla Láska

Alias/Nickname: Revenant

Appearance:

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Adéla wears the dilatant armored base of her armor fairly often, though just as commonly she walks around fully armored or clad in simple daytime clothing without much in the way of protective value. Her eyes are a deep crimson and she wears a faint hint of similarly colored eyeliner to compliment them. Her body is well toned and muscle is evident througought and gives the impression of power, which shows through in the way she strides briskly when she walks.

Age: 86

Race: Aberration Blood

Personality: Classified.

Biography/History:

She rarely discusses it with those she does not trust completely. Even basic details like her birthplace are kept under lock and key. What she has divulged, solely to a small handful of high level members of the Tower, essentially amounts to being raised in foster care, her parents apparently having given her up for it for unknown reasons.

At the age of eighteen she had been set out into the world with no preparation and subsequently floundered for over twenty years, even going so far as to work as a prostitute in order to feed herself. However that was not all she had done, and in her downtime she would dabble with technology, showing an almost innate skill with it.

This was mostly a gimmick that was occasionally acknowledged with a nod and a grunt before forking over money for some time alone with her. Until, that is, one customer happened by who took more than a passing interest and, after paying for his time with the remarkably young looking woman (who was by this time in her 40s and still looking 20, the whole reason she had managed to stay at a relatively respectable establishment. Or at least, as respectable as a brothel could be) asked if he could take her off their hands. Ostensibly for his own personal attendant, but the man happened to be an weaponsmith in the Stygian Blade, and had taken a keen eye to the modifications she'd made to an old low end pistol that made the gun run as if it was brand new and under a much higher price tag.

And so Adéla started her nearly forty year long stint in the Stygian Blade. Beginning as simply a weaponsmith, albeit a phenomenally skilled one, she soon showed an aptitude for backroom deals and shady business, and began to rapidly climb the ranks of the organization. However, the more she learned, the less disillusioned she became, and soon began working with other similarly bitter individuals to foil the SB's plots.

One success, though only partial, saved countless lives. As the SB plotted to bomb a major landmark, let first responders and concerned citizens flock to the scene to help, and then detonate an even larger bomb to kill thousands within a multi block radius and bring down the landmark at the same time, while using the explosions as a distraction to steal high profile artifacts, she and other members, including one Ludelle Glowren, plotted against them, saving untold lives in the prevention of the detonations. However the thefts still occurred, and their counter organization began to splinter, distrust festering among them.

At least some of that distrust was justified, because Adéla's role in the prevention of the bomb plot was uncovered, betrayed by a former colleague, though she didn't know who. On a routine skirmish with various opponents, she was caught off guard as her own squad unloaded their weapons into her back, her second in command personally kicking her apparently lifeless body in the face.

Miraculously, she didn't die, a fact that will never not perplex her. Instead, she lay there for over four months as her body healed itself, with no way to contact help, and no way to leave until she could at least do more than weakly crawl. Living off of contaminated water and rats, by the time she managed to drag herself out, she was essentially an emaciated skeleton. Normally she would pride herself on her looks, long silky hair, full figure, and so on. None of those have fully or even mostly recovered. However her muscle did, thanks to the muscle augmentations, and she was able to move around just fine after getting enough to eat.

Not long after she went to the Tower, one of the Stygian Blade's greatest enemies, and asked to join. She's been in the Tower for about six months at this point.

Reason for recruitment: Money mainly, perhaps a chance to get revenge on her former “Friends”.

Strength of Will: Greater (Or not?)

Magic: Aberrant Magic
Currently limited to physical manipulation of her body - Tentacles!

God relations: None so far.

Tech:

• Carapace Model 40 Modular Graphene Armor System - Graphene, the wonder material that never stops giving. This armor is composed of several interlocking 8mm thick plates of graphene composed of almost twenty million layers of the material bound with sealing agents and other structural integrity boosting additions - shockingly strong for their size. The armor incorporates a shear-thickening dilatant base and self-repairing nanotube weave over which the nigh indestructible plates are placed. Underneath this base is a gel padding designed to negate as much energy transfer as possible from a hit on the armor, minimizing damage to the wearer. The armor is incredibly protective and augments her skill at resisting incredible damage, she has seen it shrug off direct impacts from full powered battle rifles.
• Machina Model 52 Nanoblade - A brutal weapon roughly a meter in overall length, with about 30 centimeters devoted to the handle and its components. The nanoblade operates on a principle far different from a typical vibroblade - instead of microvibrations increasing cutting power, the cutting edge of the weapon is in fact moving back and forth at the molecular level. The weapon will shear through most materials with enough force behind it. And if the power pack somehow runs out it can still be used as a good old fashioned sharp stick - albeit infinitely more complex than a regular steel sword.
• Mars IV Pattern Railgun Revolver - Savagery in the palm of your hand! The Mars IV is what some might call overkill, and others might call a broken wrist. Designed with relatively compact rugged firepower in mind, the Mars IV answers the call. Eight shots of pure carnage and a kick like a mule. The weapon operates using a standard railgun principle, using the Lorentz force to accelerate a projectile to incredible speeds. Unlike many energy based weapons in this era, the weapon does not have an internal power pack, and gains its fearsome raw power and kick from its used of self contained capacitor-projectile charges. 10mm in diameter, these charges provide one shot per projectile, and consequentially an increase in energy delivered to the target that can be at times measured in orders of magnitude. The weapon is reloaded by breaking open the action and inserting the self contained eight shot capacitor-projectile revolving “magazine”. Excess energy from the shot is also used to cycle the next round and to activate kinetic dampeners to prevent the weapon’s recoil from tearing its user’s arm off. Capable of firing several varieties of rounds from standard anti-personell tungsten slugs to fragmenting “Carnage” rounds to electromagnetically charged capacitor shots designed to damage or disable powered armor and similar systems.
• Mars XII Pattern Hybrid Plasma Rail Rifle - The Mars XII Pattern is an interesting hybrid of plasma and rail weapon merged into a rugged and heavy duty frame to form a reliable and terrifying all-purpose battle rifle. Operating on a modified version of the railgun mechanism, the weapon still uses the Lorentz force to propel a projectile along magnetically conductive rails at extreme velocities. Where the Mars XII differs from the norm is in its use of a hybrid superheated liquid metal projectile and superheated plasma to deliver a one-two kinetic/directed energy punch. The weapon operates by arcing a powerful volt of electricity through an aluminum slug and various inert gases surrounding it, melting the aluminum and actually vaporizing a small portion of it, as well as superheating the gases and converting them into electrically conductive plasmas. Things proceed relatively normally from there, as the weapon as the weapon contains the projectile via electromagnetism and then uses the Lorentz force to accelerate the plasma/molten metal projectile along a pre-ionized flight path (pre-ionized by a laser fired nanoseconds before the projectile leaves the weapon. Without it the plasma would conflict with the atmosphere and essentially turn the weapon into a suicidal flamethrower.) to its intended target. The weapon is notorious for being able to punch straight through armors designed to halt kinetic weaponry or plasma weaponry, and delivering the devastating twin effects to the squishy bits inside.
• Nanobionic Strength and Enduance Enhancements - We can make her faster, stronger, better, we have the technology. Except this technology leaves few if any traces visible to the naked eye. Muscles are enhanced by the presence of nanites which work themselves into the myofibral tissue, working with the body and boosting strength enormously as well as drastically increasing the ability of the muscles to function at high intensity for long durations of time, a vital ability in combat. The nanites are also capable of actual physical modification of the muscle itself with nanotube augmentation of the myofibrils and sacromeres themselves, and modifying the tissue to supply the augmentations with the proper energy to operate. The end result is muscle tissue capable of feats of superhuman strength for superhuman durations of time. It also enables her to easily fire the Mars IV Revolver. Unfortunately as with all augmentation, metabolism skyrockets and the user must consume far more food.
• Nanobionic Regeneration - You don’t need to be made better, faster, and stronger if your body is capable of bringing itself back from the brink of total annihilation with no outside assistance. While total reconstruction is energy intensive and lengthy, it is possible. But the nanobionic regeneration nanites’ main purpose is not to salvage someone from the brink of death, their purpose is mainly to heal more minor injuries on the battlefield, such as lacerations, gashes, and other flesh wounds. Even some gunshot wounds can be relatively quickly healed compared to recovery without, though those still take considerably longer. The regenerative nanites work by, as well as stimulating fibrin production and platelet relocation, actively aiding in the healing of various injuries. They’re even capable of independently diagnosing internal bleeding and working quickly to repair damage to prevent situations from going critical.
• Smartphone - Because even when wading through the blood of your foes, sometimes you want to take a break and look at cat pictures when there’s no Wi-Fi around.
• Laptop - A laptop. Not as slim as the laptops others might carry around, this laptop is far bulkier, but also far tougher and packs just a bit of excessive computing power.

Possessions/items/property: Very little. All she had acquired when she worked for the Stygian Blade was lost in the months it took for her to simply walk away from the field of battle.

Skills:

• Combat Marksmanship - Adéla may not be a laser precise instrument of long range death, but she can reliably hit her targets in the heat of battle with plasma and lasers whizzing overhead.
• Endurance - Where part of the “Revenant” aspect comes in, Adéla can endure incredible punishment before going down.
• Engineer - While Adéla lacks impressive hacking skills she more than makes up for it with her skill at modifying the physical world. All of her weapons have been refined and tweaked by hand and she is quite capable of learning the internal workings of something on the fly.
• Intelligence - Adéla may be a frontline armored heavy, but she also sports a razor keen mind.
• Manipulative - Adéla didn’t get to where she got in the Stygian Blade through pure merit, just as much backroom intimidation and backstabbing went on to elevate her to a lofty position within. Almost high enough to find out what she wanted.
• Heavyweight - She can drink a lot.

Misc: (Anything else the character sheet doesn’t seem to include that you think is important to the character)

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I've got a plan for breaking into it already.

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Trump Card

Themerlinhawk & Monochromatic Rainbow

Day 1, Morning

Christian & Adela

Christian brought up his master list and selected a member with a file listed only as Revenant. “Senechal, Would you please alert this member and have her report up here for me? Have Archive put a lock on her file, create an Ops file and compile a personnel list for selection.” With that Christian stood and stretched. “Have Revenant report as soon as possible. I’ll be here. Pushing open the window of his office Christian climbed into the thick sill of the window to enjoy the spotty sunshine through the clouds of last night’s storm. “Oh and when you’re done have Archive send Raven the Op file so she knows what is going on.”

Adéla started slightly when the AI in the corner popped up, the hard light flickering to life with an electronic hum as the unit booted itself up after a long period of disuse. She made a mental note to use it more, the features of the S14V3 model were fascinating, R&D alone had taken nine years if she recalled correctly. Still in use today, with some slightly modernizations.

She was also aware of the letterplay that had gone into making that model number. Someone had clearly planned that.

The AI waited patiently for her to acknowledge its presence, which she did, eventually. Grumbling as she pushed herself away from the computer, she walked over to the hologram, smacking her hand on the small panel near it, “Play message.”

Her personal AI wasn't the best at understanding human speech it seemed, and it needed to be given clear, and boring, instructions to function properly. No slang, no swearing, just speaking in a dull monotone that sounded like the speech-to-text machines of the previous centuries. She sighed, reclining against the wall as the AI began to speak, “Guild Master Christian Highfell is requesting your presence in his office. At your convenience.”

“The fuck?” Adéla muttered in surprise as the AI delivered its message. The Guild Master was summoning… her?

“Invalid command. Please restate your command.” The AI beeped at her, apparently it’d heard her muttered outburst. She’d have to fix that.

“Turn off.” Adéla snapped, striding briskly over to her equipment locker and stripping down, and just as briskly donning her armor. She also clipped her revolver to her waist, mainly a formality but she’d seen too many fiction plots start like this and devolve into a shootout, not that she was expecting that but…

Within ten minutes she was fully armored, with identifying insignia, and marching out of her quarters, barking a quick order to the AI to lock the door behind her.

Making her way to the elevators, she deftly avoided the streams of bodies that constantly flowed throughout the building, making her way against the current and towards the desired lift. She poked the button marked “Penthouse” and huffed in exasperation as the elevator began its ascent to the top, jolting her with the acceleration - someone had forgotten kinetic dampeners. Even though it was state of the art and traveled at speeds she’d really rather not think about, the trip still took a minute or so, and she pulled out her phone from its armored compartment under her arm and flicked through… whatever. The deceleration nearly shot the device out of her hand, and lifted her off the floor several centimeters.

She left the elevator grumbling about kinetic dampeners and made her way to Christian’s office, knocking as politely as she could on the door. “You wanted to see me?”

Christian looked up from his perch in the window and climbed down putting the deck of storms back in its case at his hip. “Yes I did. You’re ex Stygian Blade yes?” His hands flew across the projection above his desk and he snagged the list of on duty Knights as well as the transfer order to southgate prison. Turning them both so that Adéla could see what he had in front of him on the projection.

“I have a blackout transfer order for someone from the Stygian Blade Guild. I want to know who the government of Angel’s landing would have covered up like this and I want to know why they would be transferred to a prison like Southgate.” Christian sat down and steepled his fingers as he watched Adéla for a reaction. “Oh and when you’ve figured out who it is, will they defect and do you think you can break them out of Southgate.”

“Archive pull the blueprints and 3D render of Southgate prison.”

Adéla nodded, “That’s me.”

Looking down at the transfer orders she pursed her lips, mulling it over. “Now I’m not a complete authority on this. They literally shot me in the back before I could find out too much, but I can reliably say that it’d be one of three people, two actually, since I shot one of them in the face a year ago.”

She looked back up, “One is just a high level enforcer who got too big for his boots and managed to nearly bring a lot of things down and make off with enough money to buy a small fleet of private yachts. The other would be Ludelle Glowren, Elf and elemental cross, brilliant hacker, too much along the good side of the alignment chart to be allowed to roam free once she found out some of the nastier details of the Stygian Blade. I’d bet you that’s who they’re transferring.”

Looking down at the blueprints and 3D rendering, she traced out several potential paths with her finger, a plan taking shape in her mind. Slowly a devious grin came to mind, “Oh yes I remember this. I pointed out this flaw in their security once actually, granted it wasn’t to anyone who would be in a position to fix it since I anticipated having to escape at some point, never thought I’d be breaking in.” She looked back up at Christian, “Yeah, I can break her out. And from what I know of her she’d be happy to help. I’ll do it on one condition, I get to kick in the doors.”

Christian smiled at that. “Good, then you’re going to need Megelis and you two will need to start picking people for your team.” Christian started typing on his hard light keyboard. “Archive give me all the active members exclude Masters and Mistresses other than Master of Blade, add a potentiality for an inclusion of the Master of Steel.” Christian looked up. “Hmmm, firepower. Include provisional Master of Arms credentials for Revenant allowing access to the armory.” Christian started typing again “Is there anything else you will need?” Archive constructed itself and produced a chunk of smooth rectangular glass writing the information to it via a series of different colored wires. “When you need access to the armory, Sentinel will assist you.”

Adéla already had some impressive firepower of her own, the Mars IV and Mars XII pattern rail weapons were in fact top of the line premium - but there was top of the line premium, and holy shit this isn’t even on the market yet and Good gods I could build a tank with the equipment here!

Somehow a plain old premium rail revolver just didn’t match up to what she knew lay in store for her in the armory. She grinned like a particularly devious child who’d just been given the key to the world’s most dangerous candy store, rubbing her hands together in anticipation. “Oh, this’ll be cake now. And here I thought I’d be making do with the bare minimum.”

Christian looked up at her and gave her a long look. “Please, I have the heart of storms and the Ace of Storms. There is so much I’ve collected in my time that others can make better use of. Don’t forget Megelis. I think he’s down in the training grounds.” Christian went back to typing. Adéla had been dismissed.

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@Wraithblade6 Mine should be quite interesting too.

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@Wraithblade6 I've been speaking with Merlin and Wind myself and my own character might well start out in the prison as well, or something along those lines. (Or lead a breakout or whatever.)

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@Themerlinhawk No no I was just amused. The color scheme is so similar I keep mistaking you two :P

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@Wraithblade6@Themerlinhawk

The avatars you two have are so similar in color scheme.

@Grin
Nah.

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I'm working through my stuff as fast as I can, but it nonetheless prevents me from typing up a CS and joining the fun.

Just so you know I'm not dead.

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@Themerlinhawk I should have a CS up in a day or two, work is piling up on me, as usual.

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@Themerlinhawk Well I mean, I suppose you could write a fascinating blend of technology and magic that reminds me of something I myself was planning to create, but since you already did that...