Timemaster

The Energy Storm

"Jackpot! AGAIN! Unbelievable!" followed by the sounds of dozen slot machines ringing and indistinct shouts of glee from the would winners. Little did they knew what actually happened.

Minutes later casino workers and guards stepped in to calm the crowds that gathered and kindly ask them to leave the casino while they figure out the issue with the machinery. Of course, they couldn't. Nothing was wrong with them, it was just luck. Pure luck that everything matched at the same time.

Or in Alexis's case, bad luck. It wasn't the first time she played at this casino and it wasn't the first time her powers backfired on her. She meant only to increase her luck tenfold but instead, she increased it for everyone around her just for a few seconds. Enough to make everyone a would-be winner.
Sooner or later, someone figures out what these "accident" happen only when she's in the room and she gets banned. Most people simply believing luck is just being a fairytale and with no evidence that she's using powers, it made her hard to catch but easy to be called a cheater of sorts.

Hours later, Alexis was in her apartment counting the night's winnings. A bit over 2000$ in cash. A weak night for her but ever since she got her powers, she was living better than ever. No more house sharing, no more drunk idiots that need their asses kicked, no more squatting.

Soon after she got her powers and understood what they were she went on to make money at the biggest casino Vegas had. She made a quarter million by the time she was asked to enjoy the rest of the night at a different casino. Everyone can win at the casino but in the end, the house will always wins. Not against her.

Turning on the TV, she sees the President's speech and only uttered one word : " F*CK! ". That meant one thing for her. Soon casino's would have the blood test to be done mandatory before going in. She'd be thrown out before even setting foot inside.
As she was thinking about the speech, a few notifications on her phone broke her concentration. Looking at them, she received an update on the Reaper. Alexis has been following him on all social media (under fake names) since he came out.

A Super that advocates rebellion against the government. While not interested in the ideology behind him, she knew one thing for sure. At one point, the government will crackdown on everyone with powers due to people like the Reaper. People like Alexis would be hard to be targeted as they're powers aren't obvious and then you add to the mix those with a bit of training, those that are streewise. People exactly not like her sister.

She stopped and stared at the TV screen and realized that it was the first time since Nafisa's and her 18th birthday that she even remotely thought about her family. What if Nafisa got powers as well? What if she's going to go submit herself to the goverment? She always followed the rules, she always followed whatever mom and dad said.

That line of thinking got her remembering all the fights, all the scoldings, all the speeches that her dad made telling her to be more like Nafisa. Everything that made her promise to never return home but with the threat of the blood tests and the idea that Nafisa might be an Altered Human...she made her mind.

Doing the one thing she promised never to do.



Go back home. Back to San Francisco.

The Energy Storm

Alexis Ben'Ghazad

Alexis "Lady Luck" Ben'Ghazad

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Height/Weight: 5'9", 118 lbs

Ethnicity: Arabic-American

Sexual Orientation: Bi-sexual

Religion: None

Occupation: Recently Unemployed / Professional Gambler.

Ability: Luck Manipulation - Alexis is capable of influencing luck around herself and her surroundings (up to 1 meter around her). She can make herself super lucky for a few seconds at a time during a day but has a passive ability that makes her generally luckier than most people. Over time her ability will grow to the point where she'll be able to decrease the luck of others around her and make herself extremely lucky for a longer period of time.

Background:
Alexis's family came into America long before she was born. They started small doing odd jobs when they could and eventually managed to open up a shop. Alexis and her twin sister, Nafisa, were born there. Named as they were to represent the new world they live in but also to respect the traditions of the one they've left.

While the sisters were identical in all physical ways, everything else was different. Nafisa was always the model student, the one that people would praise and of course, the one that always prefered to stay and help the family.
Alexis was everything but that, always skipping classes, hanging out with the popular kids eventually made her the shame of her family and there would always be fights between them.

Eventually Alexis had enough and ran away from home at the age of 17 with a senior student, her boyfriend at the time. Her boyfriend left her soon after they reached Vegas for another woman and she was left stranded. No money, no shelter and no contacts. Not wanting to return home to her parents, she did whatever someone who finds themselves in Vegas can do to get money. Begging, pickpocketing from drunk gamblers and then proceeded to gamble. She learned quickly how to play and discovered a passion for gambling.

A few months before the great Energy Storm she found herself working in a casino as a dealer and then the storm came. She developed the powers soon after but didn't realize it until a few weeks later when she was fired from the casino on suspicion of "cheating".
Since then, she has been gambling at every casino, pub or whatever else she could find that didn't ban her after winning too much.

Julio Sangre

The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth

Julio Sangre

Age: 62

Gender: Male

Height/Weight: 6'1", 160 lbs

Ethnicity: Mexican-American

Sexual Orientation: None

Religion: Christian

Occupation: Priest

Ability: Blood Manipulation - Julio can control the blood of others, be them human or not as long as he can see it.

Background:

Julio is a true believer in Christ the Savior. He was raised in a monastery and grew up as a fierce preacher. Upon the discovery of his powers, he came to believe he has been blessed by God and that all who have developed powers are those who'll inherit the Earth. They are the weapon of God against the unbelievers.

The Energy Storm

@Chulance Thank you !

I'll have a post up tomorrow (it's 11 PM here now).

The Energy Storm

@Chulance Hi, not sure if you're still taking new characters but if you do :

Alexis Ben'Ghazad

Alexis "Lady Luck" Ben'Ghazad

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Height/Weight: 5'9", 118 lbs

Ethnicity: Arabic-American

Sexual Orientation: Bi-sexual

Religion: None

Occupation: Recently Unemployed / Professional Gambler.

Ability: Luck Manipulation - Alexis is capable of influencing luck around herself and her surroundings (up to 1 meter around her). She can make herself super lucky for a few seconds at a time during a day but has a passive ability that makes her generally luckier than most people. Over time her ability will grow to the point where she'll be able to decrease the luck of others around her and make herself extremely lucky for a longer period of time.

Background:
Alexis's family came into America long before she was born. They started small doing odd jobs when they could and eventually managed to open up a shop. Alexis and her twin sister, Nafisa, were born there. Named as they were to represent the new world they live in but also to respect the traditions of the one they've left.

While the sisters were identical in all physical ways, everything else was different. Nafisa was always the model student, the one that people would praise and of course, the one that always prefered to stay and help the family.
Alexis was everything but that, always skipping classes, hanging out with the popular kids eventually made her the shame of her family and there would always be fights between them.

Eventually Alexis had enough and ran away from home at the age of 17 with a senior student, her boyfriend at the time. Her boyfriend left her soon after they reached Vegas for another woman and she was left stranded. No money, no shelter and no contacts. Not wanting to return home to her parents, she did whatever someone who finds themselves in Vegas can do to get money. Begging, pickpocketing from drunk gamblers and then proceeded to gamble. She learned quickly how to play and discovered a passion for gambling.

A few months before the great Energy Storm she found herself working in a casino as a dealer and then the storm came. She developed the powers soon after but didn't realize it until a few weeks later when she was fired from the casino on suspicion of "cheating".
Since then, she has been gambling at every casino, pub or whatever else she could find that didn't ban her after winning too much.

The World of Aerion

@TheLazarus Changed her personality part. Kindly check now.
Thank you 😉

The Forbidden Planet (Timemaster x Finris)

Alexis let herself smile for a second before stopping. Noemi was calm, a bit too calm for Alexis's liking. She either had tricks under her sleve, which made sense for a bounty this big on her head. A million alive, half a million dead. Both could make her very rich and carefree.

She thought about it very hard, she could snap her spine or just put a bullet in her and be done with it. No fuss, no threats. A part of her stopped her though. If this girl wasn't the one the client was looking for, she would just kill an innocent. She done it before, many times but innocents always came back to haunt her when she went to sleep and another one to the count wouldn't make her feel any better.

" I don't know who you are, nor do I care, to be honest but you're worth enough both alive and dead. Let's try to avoid the latter, shall we? If you're not who I've got the bounty for, you'll be free to go. No problem. " said Alexis. Her spoke the truth and her tone indicated as much kindness she could offer for a possible innocent.
" Now. Move. Slowly. Hands in front of you. No funny business. " her tone was like steel now and she said one more thing before pushing her slightly with the sword in the spine. " I'm doing myself a big favor. "

She guided Noemi slowly through the ship and after two minutes, they arrived at the brig. Not a proper brig, but it was remade to look similar to a prison cell from the prison Alexis was in. Two layers of bars, one of the same metal the ship was made and another one of energy. Even if the ship would run out of power, the metal would keep the prisoner inside.
Alexis pushed Noemi inside the prison cell, closed the metal door with an physical key. Something not very common these days but it short of stealing the key or breaking the metal, the door would remain close and yelled to JV to close the energy wall too.

" JV. Keep an eye on her and tell me if she even approaches the cell walls. Also, call client 24@41!. "

The call went through in a matter of seconds and the face of a male man appeared. His face was hidden from view with encryption software.

" CFD agent - Alexis reporting in. I heard you placed a bounty of a million credits on the girl behind me. " she switched the view to the one from the cell's camera and for a second, Alexis thought that the man smiled but it was gone too fast to be sure.
" Be at 425.12557.123.15.6.6.2.2 these coordonates in 2 hours. A ship will meet you there. The prisoner will be taken in and then the credits will be transferred to your account. " the man said. His voice was like 10 people talking in the same time, the same thing. A strange way to hide one's voice but Alexis didn't care.
Before she could say anything, the comm window closed.

" Heard that? The mystery client is ready to take you home or wherever he'll take you.

JV ! Plot a course to the received coordonates but be sure to stop 50 kms before them. I want to be sure we're not walking in an ambush. " said Alexis. Her voice no longer being changed by the helmet.

She then went back to Noemi and after taking off her helmet, said " So, we've got about 2 hours until we reach the destination. First of all, thank you for the repair. It would've cost me a lot more on a starship. Second of all, do you mind if you tell me, why is there a million credits bounty on your head? Who did you piss off that high in the GN Council? " her voice was calm and steady. There was no sign of the harshness with which she spoke to Noemi before.

The World of Aerion

@TheLazarus Here she is. Let me know if she needs anything changed.
Also, what is possible by using Arcane magic?

Ashe

Name: Ashe Ben'ghazad
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Race: Half-Elf (she looks human by most people's standards)
Country of Origin: Unknown exactly where she was born, but, she was raised by the grandmaster of a Mage academy in Raelus.

Appearance


Personality: Determined, Unrelenting, Mysterious, Elusive
Those are the words that describe Ashe best. Once she puts something in her head, she will do it. Regardless of personal cost. One of the reasons she was as good as she was in practicing magic was the reason that no goal was to high, no task to hard for her. She would try again and again and again until eventually do what is needed.
She changed after she was banished from the academy and became more elusive, mysterious. Ashe never talked about herself or her past, never did engage in conversations unless strictly needed in Miracia.

History: Not much is known about Ashe's earlier days as she was left on the stairs of a Mage academy when she was only 7 months old. The grandmaster, long awaiting for a child but luck never did shine on his family, took her in and raised her as his own.
When she displayed her magical talent, the grandmaster truly believed that he was blessed. A child of his own with the arcane talent? Truly a miracle. She was truly a prodigy when it came to magic and was learning faster than the other students, eventually she surpassed those that where of her age and by the time she was 17, she was practicing offensive magic better than most of her fellow students. Truly, she would serve after graduation with pride the military and would've probably went very far in it too if, if, disaster didn't struck.

A few days before graduation, her adoptive father died of a heart attack and nothing the healers did could save him. The next in line was the mother of her rival. A student similar to her but weaker at the end of the day. It is not known how, but, she was able to expel Ashe and threw her on the street.
Ashe ran, knowing that a fight would her would mean her death. She was 19 at that time.
She knew very well that staying too much in Raelus would surely mean her death, either at the hands of an assassin or poison, she ran away towards the only place she thought to be free. Miracia.

It was hard for her to adjust to a world where magic was not accepted as well as in Raelus and without knowing the language, she struggled in the first few months. Eventually, when she was 24, she left Miracia with a traveling mercenary band that had a contract in the area she lived in.
While not comfortable with it, she talked with the captain and showed him her abilities 'thus convincing him of her value.

Weapon Preference: Primary weapon: Arcane Magic

Side: Mercenaries

The Forbidden Planet (Timemaster x Finris)

The alarm kept showing up in Alexis's HUD, over and over again. The target was moving around the docking bay then disappeared for a while then appeared again. If this was for real, then that's it. Alexis would be out of her debt and could live with no problems anywhere in the galaxy. Hell, maybe in more places at once.

As the tracker was not very precise, she spent a lot of time looking around at each face of everyone around the starport. Human, AI, Android, she didn't even knew what she was looking for. Just a blurred image of a woman. She took out the picture again and displayed it on the HUD again, making sure she didn't forget any detail.
That's when it hit her. The girl. Noemi, she has the same body shape and if zoomed a bit, it looks like...she let out another string of swear words. That's her! The girl everyone was looking for. Noemi. Alexis couldn't believe her luck. What where the chances of finding one of the most wanted people in the galaxy by mistake?

She was excited and knew that she couldn't let it show. She still needed the girl to fix the ship and then...that's it. Just call the client, something very strange, as any prisoners are usually left at the nearest CFD spaceship/office and the client can pick them up from there and then, that's it. Meet with them and get paid a fortune. Luck finally smiled upon her. Karma or whatever it's called.
Waiting patiently was one of Alexis strong suits when hunting. An ability she honed in the military as being what was known as a "Ghost Warrior". They would go behind the enemy lines, soften them up and sabotage what they could.

After about an hour, she saw Noemi climbing down from the fuel fuselage. Dirty but it was worth a shot. Even if she wasn't the real person, a call was enough to clear things up. She went behind Noemi's back and put CFD badge on.
Her sword went out from it's holder very fast and came down towards Noemi's spine, stopping a hair-length away. A simple move of her wrist and Alexis would impale her. Alexis's other hand had a pistol pointed at Noemi's legs, just in case she wanted to run.

" CFD! I've got a bounty on this person. " yelled Alexis as loud as she could so that no onlookers tried to intervene. No one was stupid enough to do it anyway but she had to be sure. A million of credits was standing in front of her.

" Noemi, I'm placing you under arrest under the GN's laws. If you move, I'll kill you. You are worth the same to me, alive or dead but let's try to keep things civil. Shall we? " Alexis's tone changed from before, she was dark, threatening. She was putting a show, of course, one that usually made people double think if it was smart to try resist. Most of the times, they didn't.

She put the pistol in it's holder, always having the sword ready to strike and activated the cuffs. She then threw them in front of Noemi and said " Put them on and rise slowly. I don't want to have to wash my sword of blood, today. ".

@Finris

The Forbidden Planet (Timemaster x Finris)

Someone that didn't charge even for a scan was something too strange for Alexis to grasp. She grew cold in prison and learned how the way really worked and this Noemi was a child in that way. Strange. But, if she didn't charge too much, who cared?

The fuel part was something she didn't know about, most of the times the engineer would fuel it up and be done with it. Has Alexis been away from a colony for so long that she forgot how things are done? Or was she simply, too used to crooks, thieves and the like? A soldier turned prisoner then bounty hunter was not one that lived in colonies like this, where not everyone is out for blood, credits or the next fix.

Noemi was fast in doing the initial scan which meant less time spent staying out in the open. She knew that a bounty hunter will probably track her down eventually and make her pay the debt. A debt of 10000 credits plus interest was way out of Alexis's reach even if she sold everything she had. Staying out in the open like this wasn't good for someone that's hunted's health. She should know, she did it herself as a living. Most would do a mistake similar to what she was doing right now and would get caught.

After Noemi's last words she let out a few swears words common on the moons of Malaria. She was cheated on 800 credits.
" Perfect. I'll give you 700 credits if you can repair the ship in less then an hour. I don't care how you do it. I want to be up in the air as fast as possible " her harsh tone could be felt even through the voice modulator she used but she didn't care. It wasn't like she would see the girl ever again.

She then went to the AI to arrange the fuel loadup and then went inside the ship, waiting for the repairs to be done. That's when an alarm came up in her helmet's HUD. Alexis had JV to scan everywhere around the ship which was not guarded against instrusion for signs of the "Mistery Girl" that was worth a forture. The program was not very complicated as there wasn't much information on her but nontheless it was worth a shot. Curious, she opened it up and the program got a hit. The woman is somewhere in a 50 meter radius around the ship. Alexis eyes lit up even though she knew very well that it was probably a false positive.

Alexis went outside the ship and started looking around. A good way to past time while waiting for the ship to be fixed.

@Finris

The World of Aerion

I'm trying to make a character today but I don't promise anything. _{look at my title and you'll understand}

Thank you for the explanation ! @TheLazarus