[OOC] NPC Investigations-Tales From The Junior Associates (Case 1-Nora de Santos)

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jmucchiello wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:57 pm So, there are three owners. Three senior associates. An unknown number of junior associates. And someone named Sofia whose job is unspecified, right?
Sofia is the receptionist. Junior Associates include all three of you who are currently approved, the five listed below, and yes, an unknown number of extras. Don't worry about the extras. It's like TV. They're just there to fill out the scene in nonspeaking roles. I apologize, I was assuming everyone had read the Overview I have linked in the OP. Actualy speaking roles, so to speak, are listed below. They may not all come up, but it's nice to have a big cast available at need.
EternalPhoenix wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 11:37 pm The members of NPC Investigations are as follows

The Partners
Penny Nihara
Carla Perkins
Edwin Christian

Senior Associates
Sonya Harmon
Harmony Perez
James Scott

Junior Associate Rotation (small sampling)
Ricardo Alvarez
Teresa Maria Amarista-Mcleod
Elinah Monroe
Immortia (Tia Hammond)
Eiko Takanouchi

Other Titles
Willa Hawke (culinary specialist)
Kazuma Nihara (Clan Nihara Trainee)
Rumiko Nihara (Clan Nihara Trainee)
Sofia Harmon (Receptionist)
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EternalPhoenix wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 4:58 am To be specific, Blast 8 with one Power Feat is 17PP. Visual Dazzle 8 is 16PP, so there's room on that AP for an Accurate if you want one. Paralyze 5 and Stun 5 with one Extra and one Power Feat each are also each 16PP. So you can add an Accurate to each of these as well.
Alright! Updated build below! Can I assume then that I am approved to join the game?
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Cecil Mortlake, Scientific Detective!

Power Level: 8; Power Points Spent: 120/120

STR: +0 (10), DEX: +1 (12), CON: +0 (10), INT: +6 (2), WIS: +5 (20), CHA: +0 (10)

Tough: +8/+0 (without Vest), Fort: +5, Ref: +5, Will: +8

Skills: Computers 4 (+10), Concentration 6 (+11), Craft: Chemical 8 (+14), Craft: Electronic 8 (+14), Craft: Mechanical 8 (+14), Diplomacy 4 (+4), Disable Device 10 (+16), Gather Information 8 (+8), Investigate 10 (+16), Knowledge: Behavioral Science 8 (+14), Knowledge: Civics 4 (+10), Knowledge: Earth Science 8 (+14), Knowledge: History 6 (+12), Knowledge: Life Sciences 6 (+12), Knowledge: Physical Sciences 8 (+14), Knowledge: Technology 10 (+16), Language 4, Notice 8 (+13), Ride 4 (+5), Search 8 (+14), Sense Motive 8 (+13)

Feats: Dodge Focus 4, Eidetic Memory, Equipment 1, Improvised Tools, Inventor, Quick Draw, Skill Mastery (Knowledge: Physical Sciences, Craft: Electronic, Craft: Mechanical, Disable Device)

Powers:
The Mind of a Scientific Detective! (Quickness 4 - Flaw: Limited to Mental Tasks)

Lightning Pistol (Device 4, Easy to Lose)
Blast 8 (Feat: Accurate)
AP - Dazzle 8 (Visual, Feat: Accurate)
AP - Paralyze 5 (Feats: Reversible, Accurate; Extras: Range, Alt-Save [Fort])
AP - Stun 5 (Feats: Sedation, Accurate; Extra: Range)

Magneto-Field Vest (Device 2, Hard to Lose)
Force Field 8

Equipment: Smart Phone (Camera / Cellphone / Computer / Video Camera / Flashlight),

Attack Bonus: +6 (+8 with Lighting Pistol Blast)

Attacks:
Lighting Pistol Blaster Setting (Blast 8): +8 to hit, DC 18 Toughness Save
Lightning Pistol Dazzler Setting (Dazzle 8): +6 to hit, DC 16 Reflex Save (Fort Save for recovery)
Lightning Pistol Paralyzer Setting (Paralyze 5): +6 to hit, DC 16 Fort Save
Lightning Pistol Stun Setting (Stun 5): +6 to hit, DC 15 Fort Save

Defense: +8 (Flat-footed: +2), Knockback: -8

Initiative: +1

Languages: English (Native), French, German, Russian, and Latin

Totals: Abilities 24 + Skills 37 (148 ranks) + Feats 10 + Powers 16 + Combat 20 + Saves 13 + Drawbacks 0 = 120

Complications:
  • Cryosleep Side Effects: Cecil was on ice for 115 years. That he’s alive at all is a miracle. There were a number of complications. His hair isn’t growing back (he once took pride in his stylish locks and mustache) and he looks pale white, but more seriously he sometimes deals with dangerous side effects. These can arise without warning - coughing fits, headaches, muscle spasms, etc.
  • Man Out of Time: Cecil spent a few years catching up before he went back in the field, but he’s still wildly out of his comfort zone. Catching up on technology was easy enough (though he still has hardly had the chance to read every scientific journal he missed), but the social and political changes are a whole ‘nother thing. He thought of himself as forward-thinking for his time. And he was! But sometimes his lack of knowledge shows. Especially with pop culture.
  • Motivation - Justice: Ultimately, it’s why Cecil became a detective. “Science advances. Crime has always been the same.”
Age (as of Jan 2019): Chronologically 153, appears & mostly physically 38
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 180 lbs.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Hair: None, formerly black
Eyes: Brown

Background: The second son of the wealthy Mortlake family, Cecil was born in 1866 in the United Kingdom. He was a bookworm, and obsessed with the latest developments in the sciences, a real believer in scientific progress and the hope that it might lead to social progress as well. But he also came to know that human nature is fallible, and a technology only as good as its user. In this era of rapid societal and technological development, there was a spate of crimes and offenses committed via novel, never-before-seen means.

Thus, he turned his wealth towards financing his career as the first Scientific-Detective! He was a minor celebrity helping Scotland Yard deal with strange machinery and unusual chemicals. Mortlake was also a contemporary (and acquaintance) of the likes of H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw, and developed a strong social conscience, and took on many cases pro bono to help out those who could not turn to anyone else, perhaps especially the law, for help.

In 1901, not long after the death of Queen Victoria, during an investigation into several missing persons, Cecil found that a mad scientist had been attempting early cryogenic storage efforts, to try and freeze and restore organs. While struggling with the mad scientist, Mortlake was himself sealed in one of the cryopods, and left buried.

Mortlake spent more than a century frozen, until 2016 when Carla Perkins was on a “business trip” to London. Carla stumbled across the long-abandoned lab while following up on potential lead for Dr. Chromium (which turned out to be a bust - different mad scientist, looking for inspiration/resources). This included the frozen Mortlake. He was (mostly) successfully thawed out, and aided Carla in closing the case. Left with nowhere else to go - the Mortlake family had died out over the World Wars, and Mortlake Manor had become a decrepit ruin - Cecil accompanied Carla back to New York. There, he worked for a few years doing various forms of research, occasionally as a sort of paralegal for NPC, to start catching up on the science and technology of the modern age, and more slowly catching up on the social and cultural changes.

Then came the Eternity War, the Dusting, and the Endgame. Cecil was somewhere in the background of one of the crowd shots, firing his lightning pistol at alien warriors. After the Dusted returned, he felt a need to become more active, taking a position as a junior associate. After all, Cecil is all-too-aware of how it feels to discover one has lost time, with the world moving right out from under your feet.
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Commander Titan wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:26 am Alright! Updated build below! Can I assume then that I am approved to join the game?
Yes, you're approved.
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EternalPhoenix wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 9:14 pm Sofia is the receptionist. Junior Associates include all three of you who are currently approved, the five listed below, and yes, an unknown number of extras. Don't worry about the extras. It's like TV. They're just there to fill out the scene in nonspeaking roles. I apologize, I was assuming everyone had read the Overview I have linked in the OP. Actualy speaking roles, so to speak, are listed below. They may not all come up, but it's nice to have a big cast available at need.
That thread is big. Didn't occur to me that the company would in the listings.
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I plan to post tonight. Work last night, and friends over today.
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I'm a bit rusty on posting etiquette, are we to converse back and forth or wait for the story to progress?
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Chat each other seemed to be the expectation. (Not that I did any chatting, I see.)
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Miracle wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 10:34 am I'm a bit rusty on posting etiquette, are we to converse back and forth or wait for the story to progress?
To be specific, I had the idea that you'd all do a post or three talking to each other to get into the swing of things, and then approach James. Kind of a video game RPG style opening scene. Exploration of your hub area? Fine. Talking to other people? Fine. But speak with James to progress to the next scene. I can work with what's currently been posted, don't misunderstand, but yeah.

And if all of you would prefer to just "get on with it", so to speak, we can do that too.
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FuzzyBoots, the post was not meant to be an attack on your character. It reads kind of rude.

Side note, I took attractive 2 after seeing two (of the then three) other characters had it :mrgreen:
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Do we feel ready to move on and get our first assignment? I'm game.
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Yes, please bother me about it if this is dragging.
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Not everyone has met one another, but that isn't necessarily bad. I'll see about rectifying that with my character later this evening.
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If nobody else has anything, I'll move this forward on Monday.
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Please don't decline this case. I don't have another one ready. :sweat_smile:
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What is today's date? How long since NYE? And are there company cars or do we need our own transit?
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