[Paradise] Who are you?

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DeusExAlice

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In here we'll go over just what you claim to be, maybe a concept you have and if anyone has any ties with each other. The good, the bad and most especially the ugly history you all have.
 
I'm not sure what I should place here, but I'm going to make it up anyway.


Name: Specialist EL-AMIN, FAREEDA M.


Emerged from Stasis a few weeks prior to Paradise


Remaining in Stasis are her colleagues


Her totally-not-a-vault and its stasis remained untouched due to being securely hidden.


A colleague, Specialist JACKSON, TAMMY M. was killed in self defense after first exposure to the psychic maelstorm rendered her dangerously psychotic. This prevents El-Amin from wishing to revive the rest of those in stasis, even if she could recall how.


Her basic concept thus far is that of an amnesiac waking after a long sleep. Knowledge comes in spurts and faded blurs, patchwork and disconnected. She can recall how to operate the medlab facilities, but spent several days with horrible, scratching pain in her throat before she realized this meant she thirsted. She recalls the conversion formulas for many Imperial to Metric measurements, but not who she is. She knows she and the other familiar but nameless people are here for a purpose, but that purpose is lost to her.


Although the stasis she's in looks to be built for longterm habitation, she's forced to decide whether to remain in the safety of what might become her mausoleum or set out into a world she knows is dangerous, even if she doesn't know how.


The most history I've thought of for her would be meeting the Hardholder that resides over the stasis's hiding place and potential front back when the Golden Age reigned, either due to her followers finding the evidence or El-Amin emerging on her own only to discover the gang of masked thugs surrounding her.


If anything here needs adjustment, or you have ideas as to how your character and El-Amin would get to know each other, feel free to share.
 
Violet! A Beast Master from the wilds further south (assuming we're still going with Hooper's hardhold we talked about in the convo). Maybe she came to Goldpond fairly recently. Keeps to herself but is still kind of gauging people to see if this'll end up being a good place to stay or if she should move on and try to find something better. Her appearance might be considered a little intimidating or unfriendly-looking, but in an actual conversation she tends to be quiet, respectful, and ends up showing off a lot of submissive body language -- not sure if that's an unconscious, conditioned behavior or an intentional one based on discipline.


I also rambled a basic concept in the conversation that I'll just copy and paste here:

In the south – the Glades – we did things different. None of this skulking knife-in-the-back bullshit. There was real solidarity down there. I never had to question the motives of my lord or elders. Hell, I never even had to think. Maybe you find that terrible. That's okay, but you'd change your mind if you really lived in the wilds. You could survive, sure, but without any hivemates – and no strong foundation of leadership, someone who called all the shots and called them very well – could you really flourish, or be happy, or feel safe, ever?


For all my reminiscing, you might wonder why I'm here in the first place. Long story short: I made a mistake. Can't go home. I went north looking for something I value almost as much as Pugnax. I want -stability-. Comrades who deal with threats head-on, who'd put their faith in me and vice-versa. And I want to follow someone unstoppable.
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Basically, her loyalty is pretty much ironclad for as long as her current superiors can avoid messing up. How much it ends up shaking when things go to hell depends on how bad the screw-up was. She'd probably find the solidarity of Hooper's cultlike Faced to be interesting instead of creepy.


Pugnax is the name of her beast, a massive Hive Eater insectoid monster. I put his description in Violet's character sheet. Hope it's not too presumptuous to post up the sheet already, just let me know if there's anything wrong and I can change it. This is my first AW game.
 
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Hey El-Amin, do you prefer that or Amin?


Anyways, could you go ahead and roll for you Weird?


If you don't know how yet, just look on the bottom right of any post you made for "Roll Dice"
 
Rolled for it. I'm -1 on Weird. Take that, psychic maelstorm.


So just reread the thing and it was roll and add in your Hard stat, which is negative one. Rerolled, and I now have Weird: nil. I can't even touch the maelstorm. D:


As for names, she only really knows hers because of her dogtags. She's mostly guessing they are, in fact, hers, and that Specialist is a title, not a part of her name. She doesn't even know what the M. stands for. So if someone wanted to call her Amin instead of El-Amin, she'd likely acquiesce to the nickname, especially if they had guns. I think she'd prefer the full El-Amin, however.
 
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I’m Midas. I run this place, this curio, whatever the hell you wanna call it, and I got what you need. I do, I really do, just give me a second to look in the back and I can find it, no problem. You buy it, fine. You break it, I break you. You lose it a day or a week or a month later, tough shit. I’m not your mother. Keep track of your own fucking things, I’ve got my own problems. Don’t wave your money in my face, I don’t want your stamps or caps or gold or cash. Idiot. Show me something good, something that doesn’t look like shit, something pretty, something useful, something I freaking want and I’m sure we can reach an agreement. Oh, you don’t got anything like that? Well then get out, why you wasting my time? Maybe the other hacks around got what you need, but I doubt it. I’m Midas, and I got it all.
Where’d I get all this stuff from? Don’t you fucking ask that. Who the hell do you think you are? Why do you care, I got it, nothing else matters. Maybe I got friends who get it for me, maybe I run the ruins myself, maybe I gotta fairy godmother chained up in the back wired to a grenade who doesn't wanna get blown to pieces. And maybe I pull it out of my own ass, you prick. None of your business, any case. Asking questions isn’t going to make you no friends in these parts, not in my fucking shop. There’s no secret, nothing I’m hiding but this shotgun under the counter. Ah, you noticed that, did you? Well get out. You come back, I’ll blow your goddamn brains out and feed it to the dogs.


‘Where’d I get it from,’ indeed. Asshole.
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Midas is a Hoarder. He sells pieces from his collection, but that's alright, because they always come back to him. Always. He's got the guns, the tech, the loot, but not the nerve. He stole this hoard, and he's afraid you're going to steal it back in turn, and that makes him nervous as hell.
 
I wish I could Like posts. All of my likes for Midas.


One of Pugnax's impulses is "hoard." It'd be hilarious if he kept trying to steal Midas' stuff or just really, really one-sidedly liked Midas. Or his hoard, rather.
 
Anyway, Midas keeps his hoard a secret, but I'd be alright with Pugnax sneaking bits and pieces out of it. Or somehow always ends up with things that Midas wants but can't get becuase it's being played with by some unholy abomination.
 
For those you haven't read Desolation, Hooper is a Faceless. Hardholder is a secondary title so as soon as I get the XP I'll flip back over officially.


Since this is post Desolation, I'd venture to say Hooper is around 35-40 years old maybe. Lean, muscualar and hulking. She runs Goldpond like she lives life. Most problems she doesn't deal with. Like an abusive father, she steps in to administer justice. The rest of the time, her cult/gang takes care of things.


The Faced are a group of 40 or so extremely violent, silver bowl masked, Hooper worshippers. They have families and are the only ones allowed in Inner Goldpond. A chain link fence seperates Inner and outer, the fence is covered in bodies of those that tried to take things from Hooper or the Faced.


The Faced are the silent enforcers but when things get out of hand, they act just like their patron. A want for bloodlust travels through their ranks but they are unwavering in support for Hooper. Their families are raised to be just as reverent of Hooper as they are.


Now one of you knows Hooper from before, who is it?
 
Not me, sorry. Timeline doesn't work at all. Is my idea okay, though? I'm guessing the secret entrance might be in a tiny storage basement in one of the cabins or something, somewhere they just shoved old crap and forgot about once Hooper's gang moved in. Again, just wanna check to see if there's any chance of them accepting the surrender of a strange woman who's suddenly in their place and not shoot her on sight. That last bit's important to me.
 
The Faced don't use guns. So don't worry about beig shot. And we aren't xenophobic, Goldpond is open to anyone really. If you show up, you fall under the Hooper doctrine of I don't care.


Now if you have secret rooms under her town, that may make her care a bit. Hooper isn't a thief though, or a wanton murderer either. She has a track record because people try and kill her. Or fuck with her. Don't do it.
 
El-Amin wouldn't wanton murder, would be feeling lost and confused, and will be trying to convince Hooper that her being there with a previously unknown catacomb under her holding was an okay thing, or at least not a reason to kill her. She's still got her other colleagues in stasis down there, so she wouldn't be up to leaving, and she could offer services as a healer (with the medlab) so she'd have a purpose there.
 
Hooper might tax her if she's healing. And it would take some serious bribing for Hooper to not take the rest of the catacomb as her own property.
 
o__O Charge for the healing? Hadn't thought of that...


And fat lot of good the place would be for Hooper without someone who knows how it all works. D:< Unless she just wants to dismantle it and sell it for scrap....


Hmmm...might need to just be somewhere adjacent to Golden Pond to ensure autonomy....
 
There must be more settlements around. Goldpond is kinda supposed to be a 'Vegas' style town. Lots of decadence, wealth, and perverse brutality. They protect several smaller communities that do manufacturing/agriculture/etc
 
Midas needs a good place to hide his hoard. It needs to be close to him and somewhere fairly secure. I'd like it within Goldpond, but if the Faced and Hooper have under such tight control that might be tough.
 
Ah, good then. I think I will claim a building for him, with a storefront on the main level and the hoard in the basement. No need for a bed, he sleeps with the hoard.
 
You know you want to hang out in outer Goldpond with Violet, Midas! =D


Pugnax doesn't need any special holding area or anything. He probably sleeps in the boonies. Outer outer Goldpond. Who knows, Violet might even do the same.
 
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This prompted me to poke about some thoughts rattling in my skull.


At first I always figured the voice from Hooper's face was just a broken psyche, maybe something empowered by the psychic maelstorm.


But you hinted that the cult's masks might communicate, which kinda suggests these are more widespread.


What if it's an AI?


I was musing on the idea that that Heckler might hav an AI rather than Koch projecting her loneliness onto her prized possession. It could be that the golden ages AI don't have the correct interface. Like Koch's MGmight be able to -talk- to people if they had the correct cybernetic implants on their hands that connect on the handle. Likewise the masks might be like an intense visor...if the user had the correct implants.


So now they're shadows of their proper use, but their owners intuitively make use of a portion of their capability.


Just a thought ,_,
 
Ohhh I like that. It's a bit different than what I imagined but it's given me an idea.


Hoopers mask was something she found, dug up by bloody hands while trying to escape the Grey. When she put it on, it started to protect her, merge with her. Hence why others cannot remove her mask by force.


I had planned the mask to be a sort of minor psychic entity of its own, merging with weak hooper and forming a deadly bond. Maybe the AI thing works but maybe even AIs can be afraid of the maelstrom
 
Maybe it can detect the maelstorm as a potentially lethal phenomena? I imagine they might all be a little crazy themselves anyways between the apocalypse, having their processes erode over time and throw in a psychic maelstorm.


Plenty of reasons for a quirky personality? =D
 
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