Lost In Fiction: Back To The Roots

Lost in Fiction: Back To The Roots

I have been wanting to play a good, old-fashioned, Lost In Fiction SD for a while now and some of the good people on #lords managed to convince me to go ahead and put this up. I'm going to try and go back to the basics, the early LiFs, for this SD. In that vein I am keeping this opening post fairly simple, but feel free to ask any questions you want to.

Background:
The basic story for this Lost In Fiction is that a motley group of individuals, taken from factions across the omni-verse, have been dumped onto an Akira class starship from the United Federation of Planets, the USS Resolute, by some strange anomaly. Their goal is to simply manage to survive, including not blowing themselves by messing with the warp core or other bits of tech and getting supplies, while trying to figure out just what the hell is going on here and how they can possibly return to their homes.

Characters:
I am not going to forbid any particular characters or set a 'do not cross' power level out of hand– for example I am thinking about playing a D or C ranked grunt mage from the TSAB in Nanoha. The main rule is that the character cannot be overly powerful – it must be capable of being severely threatened if not out right killed by regular B5 groups. My decision is final on what is and is not overly powerful and I will look at each character separately.

However I would not recommend that you take a character focused entirely on combat and more dakka dakka dakka. There will be times when diplomacy is needed and/or when the characters will have to think things through rather then just recklessly charge in.

Ship Stats:
This link goes to the page with the basic stats I will be using for this SD. Note, however, that while the Resolute is a powerful ship it will not be ripping willy nilly though B5 verse ships by itself.

http://techspecs.startrek.acalltoduty.com/akira.html

Character Bio:

Universe of Origin:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Faction and Rank in Home Verse:

Appearance:

Powers: Just a Basic Rundown. To use my char as an example I might say she is a mage and describe her combat style etc etc.

Equipment:

Background:

Universe of Origin: Final Fantasy IV
Name: Zhadarahn
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Faction and Rank in Home Verse: Lunarians, a Wizard

Appearance: Darth Vader like armor, with a black cloak, his armor and cloak are embroidered with golden color, although it's actually blue, his armor is set with a horned helmet as well

Powers: The power of lightning, and a Wolverine like healing power from Zhad are his main powers, although he is also an expert on white and black magic. Lightning is his specialthy though, he can use lightning bolts at will. In addition to all of this, he has mind control.

Equipment: His armor and cloak, and helmet is all he has

Background:
Zhad was a victim of the civil war on the Moon. Much of Lunarian civilization was destroyed, and he was forced to enter into a deep sleep. When he awoke, he found himself in the Lost In Fiction universe.

During the civil war Zhad worked for Zeromus, he was a well known, infamous war criminal until he turned to the side of Good through a series of visions and epiphanies. He attempted to defect to Fusoya's side, but he was trapped in his hidden chambers by a meteo spell, which sealed him for what he thought might be forever. The only choice he had was to enter into a deep sleep.

Universe of Origin: Destroy All Humans
Name: Acrodermatitis 53
Gender: Male
Age: 783
Faction and Rank in Home Universe: Furon Empire, Warrior

Appearance: Classic 'Grey' alien, mirror like eyes, sharp teeth, glowing areas on side of head, white/silver jumpsuit.

Powers: Mental powers include telekenesis capable of lifting an Abrams Tank, reading surface thoughts, Possessing another life-form whilst slowly killing them, Causing selective amnesia, Mind controlling one life-form at a time, and Transmuting matter into ammunition for weapons.

Equipment: Personal Shield, Jetpack, Modular weapon capable of alternating between a zap-o-matic, ion detonator, desintegrator, and reanimatron.

Ah the old LiE. Havent seen one in years. Might join in.

I might join.

I'm in. Character will be posted as soon as I get up.

I'm in.

Thinking either a Marvel type character or, Gray Jedi...although possibly a Phase World character but that may be too powerful

Sounds like fun can I be my nietzschean bounty hunter same guy I used for strangers in a strange land.

I'm in.

Universe of Origin: Halo
Name: Joshua G229
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Faction and Rank in Home Verse: UNSC, Private in SPARTAN-III Gamma Company

Appearance: Unarmoured, an athletic young man of mixed Lebanese/Scots-Canadian ancestry in his late teens or early twenties, with close-cropped dark blonde hair and green-metallic gold eyes, and a few shallow knife scars on his face (somewhat like so). His armour looks like this.

Powers: Like all the SPARTAN-IIIs, Joshua is heavily augmented, although less so than the SPARTAN-IIs. He's approximately three times as strong as a normal human of his size and mass (which is higher than normal due to the ceramic bone reinforcement and increased muscle density), with decreased reaction times, improved colour perception and night vision, and bone reinforcement treatments that render his skeleton nearly unbreakable.

Equipment: Mk. II Semi-Powered Infiltration armour; SRS99C-S2 AM Sniper Rifle & Oracle scope; MA5K carbine; combat knife; M9 HE-DP fragmentation grenades; Jackal shield armband

Background: Born on the planet New Boston, one of the Inner Colonies of the UNSC, in 2540, even as a child Joshua knew of the all-out, genocidal war raging between humanity and the alien alliance known as the Covenant - a war everyone knew was going badly for the UNSC. But nobody was prepared for the Covenant fleet that shattered New Boston's orbital defences and disgorged its cargo of Brute shock troops, least of all a four-year-old child. Joshua's entire family died that night, and he would have as well, if not for a Lieutenant in the UNSC Army with more compassion than sense who couldn't make himself leave an injured child to die.

Some time afterwards, a man from the Office of Naval Intelligence asked Joshua if he wanted a chance at revenge. The answer was an unambiguous yes.

Eight years of training on Onyx have moulded Joshua into a calm, focussed young man who's one of the best scout-snipers in Gamma Company. It has not, unfortunately, produced someone who could honestly be called sociable. Joshua isn't exactly antisocial, but he rarely speaks (preferring to use Spartan combat-sign with those who can understand it) and isn't known for associating with anyone outside of Team Kukri. Despite that, he can be remarkably sensitive and gentle, given the right circumstances.

I'll bring up my Malvoren.
I cant believe Strangers in a Strange Land bit it.
Pisses me off.

Name: Engine
Species: Malvoren
Age: 40
Hieght: 8'2
Wieght:300 pounds

Major Pyschic:
Telemechanics
Telemechanic Paralysis
Telemechanic Operation
Machine Ghost
Telekinetic Push
Telekinetic Lift
Telekinetic Leap
Telekinetic Acceleration Attack

Skills:
Fighting
Engineering
Weapon Mechanic
Tinkering
Inventing

Cybernetics: (Melded)
Bio-Boosters
Bionic Lung with Gas Filter& Oxygen Cell
Language Translator

Senses: Ultra Ear Bionics and Sound Filteration
Eye Multi-Optics

Gear:
Rifles:
A variety of small arms,grenades,rail guns, heavy weapons, lasers and etc not to mention various pieces of body armor.
Armor: Several pieces of body armor and exo-skeletons.
Normally wears a heavily modified FQ Enviormental Body Armor suit with it's materials replaced with Thermo-Kinetic with a Matte-Black finish with a Multi-HUD built into the helmet he's even added a jetpack to the design.
P.A.
NE-X4-LH Sun Chariot
V-SAM Aerial PA
A refurbished Classic Glitterboy.


Companion: Bio-Synthetic German Shepherd. "Sheila."
Early in Engine's career he participated in a number of contracts on the planet earth. One day while looking for a possible contract in one coastal human town, a Splugorth raiding party made landfall and started a brief but highly destructive battle. Along with the local militia Engine managed to push the Raiders back. However the toll on the town was immense. Deciding to help aid the survivors he found a dog in the rubble. A female German Shepherd lying heavily burnt and mangled, yet somehow still holding on. Amazed at the animals willpower and tenacity he stabilized the animal and brought it back to his ship where he then began to put the animal back together using cybernetics, robotic dog parts and bio-tech he began the painstaking process of putting her back together.

After several days of working, along with several upgrades the animal was finally rebuilt, along with its new body he had even taken the time of increasing the animal’s intelligence and even gifting it with sentience with the addition of cybernetic parts and various experimental devices Engine had collected during his explorations and various contracts.

After several years the animals personality finally developed and matured into that an extremely intelligent albeit loyal and utterly dog-like personality with an overly protective of her rescuer.

Hey Oseng, do you consider Sphere a written universe?

Name: 3 of 14
Gender: Male
Race: Betazaed
Universe: Star Trek
Age: 26
Appearance: TNG Era Borg
Powers & Abilities: TNG Era Borg, Betazaed racial traits.

Backstory: Assimilated during the battle of Wolf 359 then transited to the Delta Quadrant via a subspace interpass shunt, 3 of 14 was assigned as a tactical unit to primary unimatrix complex. As a drone, his waking hours were spent running complex simulations, submitting proposals for the assimilation of hostile species, and your general office drone bullshit.

At 'night', however, he was a member of Unimatrix Zero, which allowed him to have a... relatively... normal upbringing, having been only 12 when he was assimilated. When Voyager destabilized the Unimatrix network and introduced the modified viral strain, 3 of 14 woke up entirely in control of his facilities, and amidst the most secure area of borg dominance in the sector.

So he played it safe. As a gestalt life form, the Collective is remarkably lax about internal security. As 3 of 14 made sure to stay away from the Queen, the only one with the awareness to notice that he did not exist within the collective, he was able to survive. In the six months that passed he learned much about the Borg, more than he had known as his time as a drone, or an individual.

Then his opportunity came. The woman known as 'Admiral Janeway', from a potentially alternate future was captured, her shuttle impounded. 3 of 14 had been part of the group who had executed those orders, and rather than being destroyed- as it was possessed of advanced technology, the shuttle was to be infected with nanoprobes which would carefully analyze and discover the shuttle's secrets.

However, what the Borg missed, which 3 of 14 noticed, was the remnants of a very familiar neurolytic pathogen on board the shuttle. As a thinking being, he could come to but one conclusion.

As such, his path was simple: After infecting the shuttle as ordered, he stole it. Assuming direct control via neural link- a technique that had allowed him to survive in the months since his awakening- 3 of 14 raised shields and went to warp just as the Unimatrix Complex exploded.

However, the Borg are nothing if not relentless, and a Cube, damaged and isolated from the rest of the collective, veered onto an intercept course. While the nanites gave him superb control of his captured vessel, 3 of 14 was as yet unfamiliar with it's systems. What modifications he could enact would be unable to escape the cube, damaged though it was, and his weapons were woefully lacking. Finally, the vessel's cloaking engine was damaged, and 3 of 14 would be unable to repair it in time to escape the cube.


That left... one viable option. The vessel was equipped with a subspace interphase generator... of Klingon origin. Plotting in a string of coordinates that would lead to a point in the Alpha Quadrant, 3 of 14 engaged the generator, and escaped the Cube.

Unfortunately, for every piece of good luck, there comes a piece of bad. The emergence point was occupied, by a vessel. the USS Resolute, an Akira class vessel of federation origin. Reigning in the shuttle as it slid across the Resolute's flight deck, 3 of 14 discovered himself surrounded by federation marines.


Then, everything changed. A coherent tetryon pulse of unknown origin blanketed the ship. The shuttle's sensors told 3 of 14 that it was being draggged into a rift similar to the interphase rift he himself had opened to escape the Borg. Taking advantage of the momentary disorientation of his captors, 3 of 14 activated his personal shielding to spectral filtering mode- and vanished from visible sight. As the ship tossed and turned, dragged kicking and screaming into the hole in reality, 3 of 14 found an out of the way cargo bay, assimilated the door controls, and went into a personal regenerative cycle.


EDIT: Possibly thinking of a different char- we'll see how I feel and what the other entries look like.

I'll bite.

Also, FBH, no mirror-mask lesbians from toxic waste world if he says yes.

Universe of Origin: Phase World Three Galaxies
Name: Wu ‘Furious’ Chang
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Age: 86 (looks 25)
Height: 5’6”
Build: Toned
Bio: Starting off his career as a Chun Tzu allowed for a fusion of armed and unarmed combat him to a master great number of martial arts like Ninjutsu and Tien-Hsieh. Immersing himself deep within his studies began the long drawn out path of mastering his chi, or potential psychic energy however he could. He travelled for years killing D-Bees to fund his search unfortunately this last search was to prove his undoing.

Abilities:
Peak Human Conditioning
Heightened Senses

Psychic:
Sensitivity
Physical adept

Magic:
Has a variety of magical skills which work by drawing on electromagnetic energy.

Key Skills:
Martial Arts Master/Assassin:
Master acrobat
Weapon Master
Master of Stealth
Multi-lingual
Skilled Engineer, ships and weapons

Weaknesses:
Dislikes cybernetics and knows his body will reject them.
D-Bees or anything else that takes advantage of another beings usually feeling compelled to help.

Ship: CAF Assault shuttle was taken when the previous owner died. This has become his home over the years where he stores and keeps everything. Any money he can make is ploughed back into the upkeep and maintenance of the vessel. Inside is not just an array of weapons, but clothes, a bed and other things one would expect in a home.

Note for GM: Used the Palladium Ancient Master template and gave him a few magic and psychic abilities- otherwise they are totally OTT.

Usually wears
Weapons:
Vibro-blade knife
HW-19 stun pistol
EP-5 Energy pulse pistol (like PPG’s)
C-12 Heavy Assault Laser rifle
Plasma sword
Bushman full composite body armour
Standard survival gear

@ Oseng

How long until we are good to start?

Wait till the dude's had a chance to look the thread over, mang.

Name: Alicia Tourville
Species: Ariadne III Parahuman
Setting Gurps Transhuman space (+23 years) Gurps Biotech
Job: Freelance trouble shooter, engineer, and technologist
Date of Birth: 2101
Age 25
Description: Alicia is a medium height Caucasian Brunette who keeps her hair short to avoid it getting in her way. She's fairly muscular and very fit looking, and customarily wears clothes that have a lot of pockets and zips which can carry the massive number of gadgets which she keeps about her person. She is accompanied by a small cybershell which carries additional gear and helps her work on things, with an NAI inside it.

Equipment: Alicia has a whole host of 2123 equipment including a small 3d printer, a 10mm pistol with several different magazines, a police arm gun, tool kits, several microbot swarms and a ton of other things. she has an implanted LAI (Miriam) and an NAI in a wearable virtual interface. She is clad in a light battlesuit, though she has a smart nanosuit and clamshells somewhere in her kit.

Profile
The product of turn of the twenty second century biotechnology Alicia is an extremely dexterous, strong and intelligent, and has many adventuring and engineering skills. Alicia grew up on Earth, but after gaining a master's in engineering left to travel around the solar system and find out about the world. She fell in with the wrong people almost immediately and did a variety of jobs ranging from collecting space junk to helping posthumanist rebels in the main belt to petty crime on Mars, to becoming a terraforming engineer on venus.

Alicia recently had an accident in which she got blown out of a ship with only her cybershell for company, and then she was here.

Don't see why not.

I personally find Power Rangers a little silly, but I would not forbid anyone from playing one. Might even be interesting if you drew from the Japanese versions some.

I'll be looking over posted characters in-depth tomorrow, as I just got in the door about a half an hour ago, but I will say that some you might want to push the power levels down a hair. Remember the main rule on characters is that regular B5 powers must be able to pose a significant threat and potentially kill said char.

@FBH:

I probably would not have much of a problem with a char from Sphere, as long as it isn't too far into the transgene etc end of the things. I'll catch you on #lords tonight or tomorrow to talk about it.

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Can I play a Valeran?