RE: Masks 2
09-05-2018, 07:18 AM
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Name: Kenjiro “Ken” Isekai
Aliases: Hackerman, Jack George Eli David, Old Man, Gramps, Grandpa.
Date of Birth: January 1st, 2032.
Place of Birth: San Jose, California.
Aliases: Hackerman, Jack George Eli David, Old Man, Gramps, Grandpa.
Date of Birth: January 1st, 2032.
Place of Birth: San Jose, California.
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SpoilerPlace of Residence: Albatross City, Connecticut.
Appearance: A scrawny, shorter than average (5’5’’) teenager. He has prematurely grey hair (which he obscures in black hair dye) and sunken brown eyes indicating constant sleep deprivation. He is terrible at positive expression but amazing at evil ones. Suffers constant nosebleeds.
Ken dresses different degrees of functional and/or bland. He is never seen without eyewear or some sort of eye-obscuring accessory. He favors aviator shades, purposely dulled to remove shine.
Personality: Ken does not know how to properly socialize outside a paramilitary environment. Ken is friendly but keeps a large divide between his emotions and his actions. His sense of humor is often at the expense of others. Ken uses humor to cope with his lifestyle because jokes are free, therapy is not. Sometimes it is a bit too dark, too much.
Ken wants to be a good person. He needs to work on it.
While he has a long career of corporate espionage, he ironically despises dishonesty and secrecy.
Powers, Skills, and/or Resources:
Biography:
Friends, Family, Acquaintances, Rivals, Enemies, and anybody else:
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SpoilerAC has suffered greatly over the past few decades and as of the 2050s barely indistinguishable from the surrounding industry. Albatross City is somewhat unique for housing one of the few nature reserves remaining in United States and the only dire seagull (Diomedea exulans carnifex) rookery in the world. Their seafood cuisine is well regarded even if ingredients are imitation these days.
Appearance: A scrawny, shorter than average (5’5’’) teenager. He has prematurely grey hair (which he obscures in black hair dye) and sunken brown eyes indicating constant sleep deprivation. He is terrible at positive expression but amazing at evil ones. Suffers constant nosebleeds.
Ken dresses different degrees of functional and/or bland. He is never seen without eyewear or some sort of eye-obscuring accessory. He favors aviator shades, purposely dulled to remove shine.
Personality: Ken does not know how to properly socialize outside a paramilitary environment. Ken is friendly but keeps a large divide between his emotions and his actions. His sense of humor is often at the expense of others. Ken uses humor to cope with his lifestyle because jokes are free, therapy is not. Sometimes it is a bit too dark, too much.
Ken wants to be a good person. He needs to work on it.
While he has a long career of corporate espionage, he ironically despises dishonesty and secrecy.
Powers, Skills, and/or Resources:
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Spoiler Powers
Technopathy. Ken can control and bend machines to his will. He can interface with electronic systems without any intermediary. He does not need to vocalize or make gestures.
Skills
Computer hacking. Comprehension of information security and social engineering techniques (phishing, baiting, et cetera). Skill level comparable to high-end corporate hacker.
Drone operation. Technical familiarity with drones including manual operation, repair, sourcing of parts, et cetera.
Paramilitary quality-of-life skills. Crime scene cleanup. Proper and discreet disposal of suspect evidence (corpses, vehicles, et cetera). Maintenance and basic operation of small firearms.
Language proficiency. Fluent in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Japanese in addition to English.
Resources
Polybius. A reinforce-armored aerial drone with a “dog-brain” AI. Equipped with a range of sensors and the latest stealth technology, rendering her all-seeing yet nigh-untraceable. Strong enough to clumsily carry a man away. Capable of suppressive fire but the drone is ultimately more for scouting and rescuing than for combat. The only thing Ken refuses to sell off.
Lower-tier apartment. Shared with Kindness and Shaun. Cramped but livable. Ken’s bedroom is literally a bare closet much to the concern of his roommates.
“Shawn’s Pawns” Employment. Ken works as a technician and cameraman.
Miscellaneous resources
Deepweb contacts.
Commercial drone license (very legit counterfeit).
Gun license (very legit counterfeit).
Driving permit (legit).
Moderate amount of cash.
Gray-legal hunting rifles.
E-cigarette.
Technopathy. Ken can control and bend machines to his will. He can interface with electronic systems without any intermediary. He does not need to vocalize or make gestures.
Skills
Computer hacking. Comprehension of information security and social engineering techniques (phishing, baiting, et cetera). Skill level comparable to high-end corporate hacker.
Drone operation. Technical familiarity with drones including manual operation, repair, sourcing of parts, et cetera.
Paramilitary quality-of-life skills. Crime scene cleanup. Proper and discreet disposal of suspect evidence (corpses, vehicles, et cetera). Maintenance and basic operation of small firearms.
Language proficiency. Fluent in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Japanese in addition to English.
Resources
Polybius. A reinforce-armored aerial drone with a “dog-brain” AI. Equipped with a range of sensors and the latest stealth technology, rendering her all-seeing yet nigh-untraceable. Strong enough to clumsily carry a man away. Capable of suppressive fire but the drone is ultimately more for scouting and rescuing than for combat. The only thing Ken refuses to sell off.
Lower-tier apartment. Shared with Kindness and Shaun. Cramped but livable. Ken’s bedroom is literally a bare closet much to the concern of his roommates.
“Shawn’s Pawns” Employment. Ken works as a technician and cameraman.
Miscellaneous resources
Deepweb contacts.
Commercial drone license (very legit counterfeit).
Gun license (very legit counterfeit).
Driving permit (legit).
Moderate amount of cash.
Gray-legal hunting rifles.
E-cigarette.
Biography:
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SpoilerProject INDIGO
Packrat Inc.
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The Beginning
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SpoilerProject INDIGO is a strain of fully organic supersoldiers intended for countermeasures against technology. INDIGO was created in response to the AI invasion of 2018 by black-ops skunkworks. The project made considerable progress but stagnated as society became more receptive to the rapid advancement of technology. INDIGO passed through ownership of many corporations before ending up in the hands of the private security company DRAGOON, who revitalized and completed the project – guaranteeing a monopoly over the strain.
Ken is the latest supersoldier created and trained by the INDIGO project.
He is not the only one.
Ken is the latest supersoldier created and trained by the INDIGO project.
He is not the only one.
Packrat Inc.
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SpoilerPackrat Inc. was a mid to low-tier subsidiary company of DRAGOON. Packrat Inc. was formerly an independent recycling plant in Albatross City. They enjoyed a brief prosperity from trading salvage of the alien invasion and AI uprising. The rise of the omnicorp and normalization of exotic technology gradually pushed them into a life of crime and strange codenames. A path made easy by their now-worthless still potent wares. They eventually joined up with DRAGOON to stabilize and legitimize themselves, staying there until their miserable end.
Ken transferred from DRAGOON to Packrat Inc. at the behalf of his superiors. Packrat members reacted with mild hostility at first, assuming him a passive-aggressive insult from DRAGOON. They eventually warmed up to him (as he was a Literal Child).
Ken regarded most Packrat contractors well but only really became friends with Kindness and acquaintances with Compassion.
Ken transferred from DRAGOON to Packrat Inc. at the behalf of his superiors. Packrat members reacted with mild hostility at first, assuming him a passive-aggressive insult from DRAGOON. They eventually warmed up to him (as he was a Literal Child).
Ken regarded most Packrat contractors well but only really became friends with Kindness and acquaintances with Compassion.
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SpoilerPackrat Inc. was destroyed in a “testing run” against cutting-edge military technology of some unknown origin. The opponents came in all shapes and sizes. The contractors of Packrat realized they were fodder too late. They never stood a chance.
The survivors were given a pitiful deposit and told to never speak of this situation ever again – not they have the power to do so. They were bottom-rung quasi-criminals with an inability to function in normal society. They had blood in their history and on their hands. Help is unlikely to come in an America dominated by disdain and consumption.
Ken, Kindness, and Compassion managed to survive the end of Packrat Inc. The three pooled their deposits, selling off the military hardware they did not need. They met up with an old friend, Shawn, who let them into his apartment indefinitely.
Compassion despaired and ran off, disappearing into the surrounding urban decay.
The remaining two mourned, but what could they do?
The survivors were given a pitiful deposit and told to never speak of this situation ever again – not they have the power to do so. They were bottom-rung quasi-criminals with an inability to function in normal society. They had blood in their history and on their hands. Help is unlikely to come in an America dominated by disdain and consumption.
Ken, Kindness, and Compassion managed to survive the end of Packrat Inc. The three pooled their deposits, selling off the military hardware they did not need. They met up with an old friend, Shawn, who let them into his apartment indefinitely.
Compassion despaired and ran off, disappearing into the surrounding urban decay.
The remaining two mourned, but what could they do?
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SpoilerThe two remained in Albatross City, helping Shawn make ends meet with gray-legal activities. Ken started to chafe under this peaceful but miserable, hand-to-mouth lifestyle. He was stagnating. He was getting bored. He was good at nothing that would not get him into trouble.
Unless the trouble is targeted towards acceptable targets – local supervillains, less well-liked subsidiaries of omnicorp, et cetera. He can indulge his boredom, do a little good, and scoff off with some valuable data and military hardware on the side. The plan was impossible to resist.
And that is how Ken got into casual vigilantism.
He needs to work on it.
Unless the trouble is targeted towards acceptable targets – local supervillains, less well-liked subsidiaries of omnicorp, et cetera. He can indulge his boredom, do a little good, and scoff off with some valuable data and military hardware on the side. The plan was impossible to resist.
And that is how Ken got into casual vigilantism.
He needs to work on it.
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SpoilerFriends
Shawn Whatchamacalski
“Kindness”/Kill Them With Kindness (RL name: Amrita Sharma)
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“Compassion”/No Need For Compassion (RL name: Emilia “Emily” Flores-Sharma)
Enemies
Alloy Husk
“BEEOWOLF” (Michelle Rodriguez)
Shawn Whatchamacalski
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SpoilerDOB: 2000’s.
Place of Birth: Somerville, Boston.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, with Ken and Kindness.
Height: 5’11”
Build: Heavyset.
Hair Color: Short, black hair with greying temples.
Eye Color: Bright blue.
Description: Full, trim beard. Tattoos.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Shawn hosts “Shawn’s Pawns,” a reality TV series on YouTube chronicling daily activities in his pawnshop which is also called “Shawn’s Pawns.” The series has shoddy production but moderately successful due to its memetic potential. He has some difficulty with technology and camera work, which is why he hired Ken.
Shawn hosts a pawnshop. He has easy access to grey-legal goods (hunting rifles, unlicensed cybernetics, chemotherapy drugs, et cetera) at affordable prices. He can tap access to black-market goods (military grade weaponry, combat-stim drugs, et cetera) but he does not want to push his luck unless necessary.
Personality: Friendly, but chaotic and a little too much sometimes. Indifferent to criminal activities but cannot stand egregious evil.
Shawn thinks Ken is a little weird but treats him like a normal teenager.
Biography:Shawn was a private military contractor who made big and retired to fulfill his lifelong dream of owning a pawnshop and hosting a reality TV series about the aforementioned pawnshop. Knew Compassion before she was Compassion.
Place of Birth: Somerville, Boston.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, with Ken and Kindness.
Height: 5’11”
Build: Heavyset.
Hair Color: Short, black hair with greying temples.
Eye Color: Bright blue.
Description: Full, trim beard. Tattoos.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Shawn hosts “Shawn’s Pawns,” a reality TV series on YouTube chronicling daily activities in his pawnshop which is also called “Shawn’s Pawns.” The series has shoddy production but moderately successful due to its memetic potential. He has some difficulty with technology and camera work, which is why he hired Ken.
Shawn hosts a pawnshop. He has easy access to grey-legal goods (hunting rifles, unlicensed cybernetics, chemotherapy drugs, et cetera) at affordable prices. He can tap access to black-market goods (military grade weaponry, combat-stim drugs, et cetera) but he does not want to push his luck unless necessary.
Personality: Friendly, but chaotic and a little too much sometimes. Indifferent to criminal activities but cannot stand egregious evil.
Shawn thinks Ken is a little weird but treats him like a normal teenager.
Biography:Shawn was a private military contractor who made big and retired to fulfill his lifelong dream of owning a pawnshop and hosting a reality TV series about the aforementioned pawnshop. Knew Compassion before she was Compassion.
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SpoilerDOB: 2010’s.
Place of Birth: Somewhere from India.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, Connecticut.
Height: 5’0”
Build: Stout with a bit of musculature.
Hair Color: Long, salt-and-pepper hair.
Eye Color: Sad, brown eyes.
Description: Light augmentation.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Combat medic. Kindness has a “jack-of-all-trades” wellspring of medical knowledge. She can do first aid, implant basic cybernetics, identify and administer proper medication, and so forth. She has a fair amount of reliable networks and contacts in which she sources grey-legal medication, cybernetics, and specialized help from.
Kindness knows maintenance and basic operation of small to medium firearms. She is proficient in Indian, Arabic, and Russian in addition to English.
Personality: Kindness is personable if a little absent-minded. She wants to do good. She is idealism tempered by experience and setbacks. A lot of them.
Kindness disapproves of Ken’s shenanigans but doesn’t exactly stop him.
Biography: Kindness worked as a Packrat combat medic for most of her life. She was hit hard by the loss of her former workplace as she knew a lot of people well over there. Lover of Compassion.
Place of Birth: Somewhere from India.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, Connecticut.
Height: 5’0”
Build: Stout with a bit of musculature.
Hair Color: Long, salt-and-pepper hair.
Eye Color: Sad, brown eyes.
Description: Light augmentation.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Combat medic. Kindness has a “jack-of-all-trades” wellspring of medical knowledge. She can do first aid, implant basic cybernetics, identify and administer proper medication, and so forth. She has a fair amount of reliable networks and contacts in which she sources grey-legal medication, cybernetics, and specialized help from.
Kindness knows maintenance and basic operation of small to medium firearms. She is proficient in Indian, Arabic, and Russian in addition to English.
Personality: Kindness is personable if a little absent-minded. She wants to do good. She is idealism tempered by experience and setbacks. A lot of them.
Kindness disapproves of Ken’s shenanigans but doesn’t exactly stop him.
Biography: Kindness worked as a Packrat combat medic for most of her life. She was hit hard by the loss of her former workplace as she knew a lot of people well over there. Lover of Compassion.
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“Compassion”/No Need For Compassion (RL name: Emilia “Emily” Flores-Sharma)
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SpoilerDOB: 2010’s.
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico.
Place of Residence: Unknown, on the run.
Height: 5’6”
Build: Lean, athletic build.
Hair Color: Fading brown hair.
Eye Color: Brown, glazed-over eyes.
Description: Moderately augmented. Scarred.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Compassion is a low-tier empath. She can detect living beings and give herself supernatural analogue to combat-stim boosts. This is useful in high-stress situations like being under enemy interrogation or shooting a rifle in a distracting environment, but not useful in other situations like coping with a career of exploding the heads of people.
Compassion is excellent at marksmanship and close-quarters combat. She is presumed to be adequately armed. She is proficient in Hindi, Arabic, and Spanish in addition to English.
Personality: Compassion is cold. She only shows her vulnerable side to close friends and family. Despite her air of stoic professionalism, Compassion is bad at handling emotions without her empathy superpower.
Ken never really knew Compassion well. Ken at least respects her attitude towards work.
Biography:Compassion is a mid to higher-tier paramilitary contractor, known even out of the mediocre Packrat Inc. Her success rate is high – although not at a detrimental cost to her well-being. Lover of Kindness.
Compassion is currently AWOL, as she despaired and her reputation drew in unneeded attention.
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico.
Place of Residence: Unknown, on the run.
Height: 5’6”
Build: Lean, athletic build.
Hair Color: Fading brown hair.
Eye Color: Brown, glazed-over eyes.
Description: Moderately augmented. Scarred.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Compassion is a low-tier empath. She can detect living beings and give herself supernatural analogue to combat-stim boosts. This is useful in high-stress situations like being under enemy interrogation or shooting a rifle in a distracting environment, but not useful in other situations like coping with a career of exploding the heads of people.
Compassion is excellent at marksmanship and close-quarters combat. She is presumed to be adequately armed. She is proficient in Hindi, Arabic, and Spanish in addition to English.
Personality: Compassion is cold. She only shows her vulnerable side to close friends and family. Despite her air of stoic professionalism, Compassion is bad at handling emotions without her empathy superpower.
Ken never really knew Compassion well. Ken at least respects her attitude towards work.
Biography:Compassion is a mid to higher-tier paramilitary contractor, known even out of the mediocre Packrat Inc. Her success rate is high – although not at a detrimental cost to her well-being. Lover of Kindness.
Compassion is currently AWOL, as she despaired and her reputation drew in unneeded attention.
Alloy Husk
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SpoilerDOB: 1990’s (?).
Place of Birth: Unknown.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, Connecticut.
Height: 7’0”
Build: Inhuman.
Hair Color: None.
Eye Color: Glowing cyan pits of hate.
Description: A fully-mechanized, insectoid cyborg. The armature is monochrome and minimalistic. What little articulation framed by a cyan border. Wings jut out his back and can fold away at his leisure.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Flying brick standards (flight, super strength, super toughness). Moderate regeneration. Armor is bulletproof and magic-resistant. Can shoot concussion beams of variable strength and width from outlets on hands and chest.
Alloy Husk is the representative super of AlloyTek, a high-technology research subsidiary of the omnicorp. AlloyTek is infamous for their crypocultist zealotry to holistic purity and technological singularity. Their products are potent and bleeding-edge, but replete with dirty history.
Personality: Professional and polite. Below that friendly veneer is a man consumed by a desire to uplift the mankind to the next stage of evolution, regardless of the environmental or ethical cost.
Biography: A humble venture capitalist who acquired a bug alien symbiote. The symbiote gave him many esoteric and alien technologies, gradually pushing him to close the gap between human and alien. Now they are a singular being – impossible to separate until death.
Place of Birth: Unknown.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, Connecticut.
Height: 7’0”
Build: Inhuman.
Hair Color: None.
Eye Color: Glowing cyan pits of hate.
Description: A fully-mechanized, insectoid cyborg. The armature is monochrome and minimalistic. What little articulation framed by a cyan border. Wings jut out his back and can fold away at his leisure.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: Flying brick standards (flight, super strength, super toughness). Moderate regeneration. Armor is bulletproof and magic-resistant. Can shoot concussion beams of variable strength and width from outlets on hands and chest.
Alloy Husk is the representative super of AlloyTek, a high-technology research subsidiary of the omnicorp. AlloyTek is infamous for their crypocultist zealotry to holistic purity and technological singularity. Their products are potent and bleeding-edge, but replete with dirty history.
Personality: Professional and polite. Below that friendly veneer is a man consumed by a desire to uplift the mankind to the next stage of evolution, regardless of the environmental or ethical cost.
Biography: A humble venture capitalist who acquired a bug alien symbiote. The symbiote gave him many esoteric and alien technologies, gradually pushing him to close the gap between human and alien. Now they are a singular being – impossible to separate until death.
“BEEOWOLF” (Michelle Rodriguez)
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SpoilerDOB: Unknown.
Place of Birth: Unknown.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, Connecticut.
Height: 5’4”
Build: Slim.
Hair Color: Black.
Eye Color: Brown.
Description: Her alternative form resembles a giant anthropomorphic wasp with a chrome-blue sheen.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: She is a “mad scientist” who enjoys creating insectoid robots and military weapons of various size and potency. She can shapeshift into a wasp with superhuman abilities if all else fails. She is also a talented actor.
Has a gang of young adults who do tasks for her in exchange for access to cool technology. It is not known how she manages to get the resources for her creations.
Personality: Hedonistic for technology with no higher purpose. She wants to create and destroy. Hates when people steal her creations.
Biography:She is a fan of her relative, Dr. Mantweest. She attempts to emulate him with a combination of alien and esoteric technologies both in meat and spirit.
Place of Birth: Unknown.
Place of Residence: Albatross City, Connecticut.
Height: 5’4”
Build: Slim.
Hair Color: Black.
Eye Color: Brown.
Description: Her alternative form resembles a giant anthropomorphic wasp with a chrome-blue sheen.
Skills, Powers, and/or Resources: She is a “mad scientist” who enjoys creating insectoid robots and military weapons of various size and potency. She can shapeshift into a wasp with superhuman abilities if all else fails. She is also a talented actor.
Has a gang of young adults who do tasks for her in exchange for access to cool technology. It is not known how she manages to get the resources for her creations.
Personality: Hedonistic for technology with no higher purpose. She wants to create and destroy. Hates when people steal her creations.
Biography:She is a fan of her relative, Dr. Mantweest. She attempts to emulate him with a combination of alien and esoteric technologies both in meat and spirit.