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Cute Kids Fighting Big Wars

Here's my first draft CS for Trixie. Please let me know if anything needs to be changed.

Beatrice 'Trixie' Tanner

Age: 21
Height: 5'6" (168cm)
Weight: 56kg (124lbs)
Hair: Blonde (usually dyed red)
Eyes: Hazel

Role: Mechanic, crafting specialist

Personality:

Beatrix is a girl of two halfs. On the one hand she can be incredibly focussed and precise, especially when working on new equipment she's 'discovered', on the other she can be loud, rambunctious and excitable to an annoying degree. She has a habit of playing practical tricks on people, often through the use of her mechanical skills, but always knows where to draw the line ensure no-one even gets intentionally hurt by any of her pranks.

Appearance:

Most of what Beatrix wears is homemade, patched together from discarded industrial gear and salvaged pieces of tech, and none of it looks the same from one day to the next as pieces are added, replaced or 'upgraded' by newly discovered junk highly valuable items. Most of it doesn't quite fit right, but Trizie always argues that even if it doesn't look stylish, every piece is functional and useful. As long as she remembers what its function is.

Abilities/Weapons:

» Multitool - Trixie always carries her 'specialised crafting tool' with her into combat. Part pry bar, part weighted impact device, this tool helps her strip down and salvage any tech she finds. Okay, it's just a big hammer, but I'll let you be the one to tell her that. Along with this Trixie carries a collection of small devices which she's built, salvaged or bartered for, allowing her to carry out repairs and safely dismantle equipment for valuable components in the field. Failing that, she just hits things with her hammer until the bits she wants fall off.
» "If it ain't broke, it needs an upgrade!" - Forever tinkering with pieces of technology she's found, Trixie's never happier than when she's elbow deep inside a new machine, or preferably waist deep. Sometimes her devices help out her companions, other times... well, there was the incident with the storage shed. Or at least the crater that used to be the storage shed.
» Trixie's Lil' Helpers - Whether out of necessity or simple boredom Trixie is almost constantly building small mechanical automatons to assist in tasks. These range from small devices for making breakfast for her, to battle-ready combat drones designed to protect her and her friends in combat. While not capable of taking on enemies by themselves, these helpers can often provide a much needed distraction and can prove vital in tactical operations at times. At other times they just get in the way and go 'beep' at irregular intervals.

Background:

A child of The Village, Trizie was raised by her parents until their untimely death in a accident on site when she was a young teenager. With nowhere else to go, she was permitted to stay in The Village, and was placed under her own care, having proved to be level headed enough to not be too much trouble to those around her.

Trixie took this as permission to have free rein over the settlement, and soon got into the habit of working her way into every nook and cranny, investigating and studying anything she could lay her hands on. While at first the people in charge were a little worried about the young woman's behaviour, when they discovered that Trixie had also gotten into the habit of performing small acts of maintenance on any equipment she found not working properly she was soon accepted into the engineering team on a probationary basis.

With access to the toolshops and warehouses, Trixie began putting her skills to less constructive uses, experiementing with any leftover scraps of technology she could beg, barter or steal 'borrow', crafting some truly innovative devices, some of which became standard field equipment for teams leaving the village.

When the opportunity came for 'Mechanics' to join the Birthed programme Trixie was one of the first to volunteer, not only to help out her community in a more pro-active manner, but also to get a chance to explore the world outside, and obtain even more technology to play with constructively analyse.

Notes:

» In her spare time Trixie is working on building her own hover cycle, using similar technology as used in some of the Birthed, however due to the lack of supplies, and the fact that the higher-ups don't approve of the project, so far it's been slow work.

Cute Kids Fighting Big Wars

I'd be interested in playing as a mechanic as well, but what role do they take in combat?

Are they just there to support the Birthed, getting them into position and activating their powers before standing back and enjoying the fireworks, or do they have combat skills and specialty weapons of their own to help out with in a fight?

Depending on your reply, I have three concepts for characters:

• Sylvia 'Silver' Monroe - A calm and calculating young woman who always keeps her head in battle, armed with a broad-range scnanning device to help diagnose faults in damaged units, along with a light pistol for self defence when needed.
• Beatrix 'Trixie' Tanner - Battlefield tech expert, trained to locate and acquire interesting machines and devices for later study and repurposing. In her spare time she builds small mechanical robots to help out with minor tasks.
• Justine Soong - Heavy gear specialist, Justine brings the power to bear when constructing or deconstructing heavy emplacements. Equipped with her servo-gauntlets she can match the strength of most small mecha she faces, but prefers to leave the fighting to the Birthed.

Numenera: The Ninth world (Interest Check)

I'm a little interested in this, but will you be using the Tides system for personalities and conversations?

In the Court of the High Queen

Who do you think would have proposed the pact initially, War Chief Kam'Till or King Childeric?

@Major Sharpe

I was hoping Maximillian Laurens III was the one who proposed it, while trying to forge trade links with the tribals. :D

They might be less common in areas that are less advanced, or where skilled smiths and iron are in shorter supply.

@Major Sharpe

They aren't as common in Laurensia either, since the dense forests make it difficult for a fully armoured person to navigate quickly. Most armoured knights who enter the area tends to wander out again several weeks later, minus their armour and with their arms filled with 'magical' items.

No gunpowder, though.

@Major Sharpe

~a Laurensi trader suddenly appears beside you~

Trader: "Gunpowder? Do you mean huoyao? If you do, I think I know a man who can get some for you."

[Reboot]Ｔｅｒｒａ ＿ ｒ：Ｅｖｏｌｕｔｉｏｎ[Cyberpunk]

Good evening prospective citizens, we noticed you've all been on your best behavior, which we most certainly do highly appreciate.

@Briza

~Susie smiles mischievously to herself, glad no-one noticed what she's been up to lately~

Neon Lights

Ok if you could please beef the backstory to meet the standards atleast.

@DeadDrop

I couldn't find anywhere where you've defined what standards I need to meet for the backstory, and since I'm a little late to the party and don't feel I have a firm enough grasp of the setting coming up with something which wouldn't give away information which would compromise what I had in mind for the character I think I'll bow out of the RP.

I have several others starting up soon, both here and on other sites, so I'll probably not be able to commit the amount of effort others seem to be putting into their stories, and I'd hate to drag the team down.

Plus you already have a fixer who can fill in for GG's absenmce so you shouldn't suffer too much if she decides to move to the Moon instead of remaining local. :)

In the Court of the High Queen

Dibs on the dark green patch to the far right lol

@ReusableSword

I was thinking that would be reserved for the barbarians of Aborim, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind some snacks neighbours.

The rest of the map might look something like:

Political View

In the Court of the High Queen

I'm planning for my province to be centrally south along the river if that helps :D

@northern lights

How far south?

I'm just in the process of moving my province down to the Great River to give Vrelan and Kem room to breath and was planning on settling it over to the east, on the shores of the great lake shown on the map I just posted.

Would your province also be on the Great River, or could it be on the banks of the smaller river just north of it on the map?

In the Court of the High Queen

Something like this might work as a basis:

Viexmeur

Neon Lights

That was kinda the idea with GG. As an information broker any history she has would be under tight lock and key, and probably entirely fictitious. I wanted to keep the details here vague until I was able to fill in the blanks in character during play.

As an example, I don't want to come out and say exactly how her family died since it might play into the plot at some point, especially if she's holding the details as a marker against someone. I'd be more than happy to confer with you privately to make sure you know what's what, but letting everyone in on the story right from the start may force your hand on where to take the narrative later on.