Created Saturday 28 March 2020
A Decider.
A Warrior of a Lost Cause.
Maybe his name is Camoufler?
His ship is the Sweet Cowboy Jane, a slimmer ship covered in a skin that looks like a Tin Tin rocket, complete with red-and-white baber-pole design. It is marred, though, by several sensors and weapon ports cutting through the skin.
Weapon of Choice: A squad of Ferrets and a couple Bulldogs commanded by a 3° H0.
Before he gets his ship (and thus is evoving more int a story of him. (I guess I should have at least one real charatcter.)
A hunter researcher. (As opposed to a farmer scientist and a qualitative investigator of non-discrete, inobstensible informatics (a scavenger))
A street fighter who pulls his punches. Until he doesn't.
But who does tend to fall victim to that weakness of all clever men^[I can't find the quote, but it's from Tyrian Lannister about clever men understimating the wits of their foes. Or something like that.].
"You know we loose, right?"
"What? Why do you say that? How can you be so sure?"
"We're on the side of life. Of order. And everything dies. Everything falls into chaos."
"Oh. Yeah. That was deep."
"No, no, I don't just mean eventually. And I guess I meant it also as a metaphor or something. We may loose this war.
One of the warriors of the lost cause. The Frostie Losties they call them among the M.U.L.E.s.
A eldtrich strategist. He's kinda like a leutenant (hey,I can't even spell it--expect me to know if he's really like that?): His job is to make short-term strategies in a long-on-going war. But he believes he's more adept at longer-range planning, and sets out to make a long-term plan based on a growing contingency tree of short-term strategies. Of course, the longer it takes, hte expoentially harder it gets to keep up with whatever is happening, and he wants to get "somewhere safe" as a species before things get too deep into this growing stochastic fog. So he sees himself and his peers as on a pretty tight schedule. Too tight, in fact: His models say with great and robust certainty that there is very little chance he--they--get out of this alive. Unfortunatelky, they're not precise enough to say when or even why.
But he has survived and had some hard times, too. And his ability to even thrive srew attention in others who now trust him. He tells them they're going to die, b ut he knows they don't believe him. They see him struggle on their cause and succeed. And beleive only in that. And that he's a bit quirky, including for talking about his reductions-to-zero models.
"You know I'm fighitng a losing battle, right? Adn you will, too, if you follow me."
While he tries to keep her safe and alive.
If you can adapt to me, I can adapt to it. At least for the next two or three scenarios. (Later, he says 2-to-4 scenarios)
He's also a giver. To a Succubus--a real feeder, too.
His Research
And excellence means to always improve. So retire some day with joy and grace--and right near that moment when you say fuck it to excellence. And then go fuckimg enjoy yourself.
Tell them:
I've long set out my life goals. One of them (of which there are 6 if I remember right) was to do something significant.
I think I've hoped myself define what that means. In part it means to male history.
A lasting record of my work
And yes, it matters to me that the future's people will look upon ot favorably.
And that they damn well should, those future fyckers
The human enemy that human AI has begun to detect: Future Fyckers (not fyxkers).
And how to combat them before they get here
The prof guides the development of that AI.
The prof works into his rules long ranges with few concrete destinations. Although destinations can provide rewards (and some just destined to be a fond memory), tye6 always exact costs. A decision must be made; a degree of freedom spent.
Persona
O.K., I think he's finally coming into focus. A clever wolf. A cunning one who wears sheeps' clothing. Tweed, to be exact.
He slips in to being short-listed for Decider through an affirmative action program. He comes from lean lands. He knows what it is like. And still goes back to his old bus stop when he really needs to think. (Although now his chosen weapon isn't far away.) He keeps his network and his methods.
He machinates his position as Decider, and the Deciders are totally fine by that. Especailly since he also happens to look good in tweed.
So, his Niche as Decider---the cases he covers---are ones with lower classes and covert maneuvers. His icon is a portrait of some philosopher pointing and gazing whistfully towards the heavens with his right hand and his left hand (gently closed) over the Bible.
He's a lost cause, but no saint. Of getter of things done with just a humble self-deprecation about all he did to get it done. "I didn't have much on hand, but I used what I had to get it done. And not much to say about the little I had. Because a lot of that was just dumb luck."
He rails against "impact" as a verb, and then later in the conversation talks about the people they passed were native French speakers (which is somehow, magically important to the Pilot That Will Never Get Written, PTWNGW), "Or, at least they were impacting French accents pretty well." Or maybe affecting some kind of device, knowing something is or isn't camouflaged.
Womanizer
Yeah, put it in.
I do want their culture and mores to be a bit uncomfortable to us 2000s people. And it works with his persona.
So, once per engagement Grey Wolf can try to seduce someone. Man or woman, but outside of gameplay, that works very differently. But, to ride the cliche balls-deep, he runs the risk of truly falling for the target.
And he's liable to wander away from the engagment's objective if & when he does use this.
Actual mechanics to never be completed, well, by me at least.
Among those he lost out to---became attached to---are:
Vampire
Succubi
Skills & Stats
Abilities
Weaknesses
- Once per campaign, the Grey Wolf must complete a scenario when something from his past comes back to haunt him
- That player can determine if he wants the scenario in the first or second hald of the campaign. Wprld rules can either be for it to be determined randomly within that half before which other scenario is occurs (known to all or just hte DM), or that the DM chooses when it happens in that half (either before or after determining the natuer of this haunting scarenio), or that any competing player can spend X OP to "soummon" that scenario before the next scenario.
- The exact nature of the scenario should be determined ahead of time (if it wasn't, it's hardly be the past coming back to haunt). GM can design it and show the ground rules of it to Grey Wolf. The GM can then add that to the library of possible scenarios to be randomnly drawn from (or not, if the GM so chooses). GM can also / instead choose randomly from all of some of this list:
- You didn't really think I'd ever get around to making a good list, did you? The Grey Wolf is called upon to complete a Decider task in that system that he is not prepared to handle. Succeeding in this secanrio gains teh Grey Wolf no points, but failure of it demerits him OPs equal to the magnitidue of the failure.
- Escape from New York. teh Grey Wolf engages in a battle scenario with an old enemy. The magnitude of the quality/creativity of the story concocted to justify that person/entity's presence in the campaign at that moment is deducted from ther Grey Wolf's OPs. Other than that dermit, this runs as a norma sceanrio (and, of course, asny further OP, troop, material looses from the sceanrio are real losses).
- Attach of the Space Vampire. [typo retained] The Vampire appears. The Grey Wolf must fend her off without hurting her. No OP gains for winning, magnitude is number of loss.
- Lost! The Grey Wolf must advance his Cause. Players play a lost cause scenario.