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[Name: TBA]
While I’m making this character for you, I feel like you should at least name them. You can come up with one at your leisure.
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[Race: Lachii] [Size: Small]
[Stat changes: +8 Health, -5 Grace]
A gremlin species of space sharks that seem to want to terrorize the galactic community but more just frustrate and annoy. They are infamous for their inclination to bite things in anger, curiosity, or affection. Thankfully, they seem to bear no grudge to getting punted in response, and their cartilage bones make them quite bouncy in zero-G.
They originate from the planet Katchaka, making their homes in the tide pools and atolls. They share the world’s vast ocean with their cousin species the Sela. with their relationship being a bit too complex to be put in a simple blurb. Semi-aquatic in nature, Lachii take to space environments fairly well and their omnivorous diets have allowed them to adept to new colonies in equal measure.
Starting skill: Bites You
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[Sex: Male, Male, Female]
The Lachii are a hermaphroditic species possessing three different sets of chromosomes, with your sets being XY, WZ, and HH. So this means you can reproduce with other Lachii who are male, male, male; male, female, male; fe- actually, I’m not going to go through all that.
We both know you’re just going to go after whichever alien cutie gives you attention first anyways.
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Alright, now I’m just going to do some quick rolls for your stats. Well, they’re called stats in this system even though they’re more of health bars, especially the “Health” stat... Really though, it’s best to view these not as how well you can do something but rather how well you can handle different kinds of failure.
Anyways:

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[Health: 33/33]
What you’re most familiar with, this stat represents how many physical and constitutional trials your body can handle at any given time.
I should probably note here that dropping to zero in any of these stats isn’t going to be a game over or even put you in a “dying” state. You’ll, obviously, fail the challenge you were doing and end up with a “Scar” that’ll take time to recover from. Dropping to zero in health will also probably send you to the hospital.
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[[b[Lucidity:[/b] 22/22]
The capacity of your mental faculties. This stat is for when you’re doing hacking checks, handling stress, or even just trying to do really good in a videogame. Dropping to zero in this stat would probably look like a panic attack.
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[Financial: $16TBC]
Even in the hypothetical future the world still runs on money and there will be checks where your cash is on the line. This is the only skill that isn’t capped for fairly obvious reasons.
Also, TBC stands for Treaty Backed Currency and technically represents a wide range of moneys of mandated similar value. For ease though I’m just going to use the dollar sign.
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[Grace: 18/18]
A mix of your reputation, how much people tolerate you, and your emotional well being. Taking damage here could be anything from badly flirting to finding out a love one died. Depending on the situation, this stat can be the most forgiving for dropping to zero as that will often just mean getting ejected from the party.
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Now onto your character’s background traits. You get one negative, one neutral, and one positive trait and an associated starting skill. I believe all the skills are beneficial, but I haven’t read them all yet.

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[Debt Man Walking]
Your colony was in serious trouble when it came to money. Having suffered from decades of of compounding debt spirals your home planet an economic zombie waiting to be put to rest. All the various governments and boards were desperate to do something and, unfortunately, you were chosen to be the solution. All the world’s debts and bills were bequeathed to you and then you were promptly exiled from the sector to sever all legal ties back to the ruling bodies. So here you are now, an outcast in a strange land with a negative account balance worth more than the station you’re residing in. You have no idea if the planned worked nor do you particularly care.
All Financial DCs are at a +1. In addition, all formal sources of income give -1 bonus die to a minimum of 0.
Starting skill: Pauper Roach
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[Scoliophile]
While most have trouble living in the compact and noisy conditions of the Spine, you tolerate it well enough to almost be comforted by it. The constant elevators have become white noise to lull you to sleep, the cramped living feels like physical assurance, and the deranged neighbours as free entertainment. Unfortunately, what was once desirable, wealthy spaces feel so out of your comfort zone and unnatural as to be outright distracting.
You ignore the usual penalties for making checks while in The Spine. Instead, apply those penalties while in affluent locations such as the Emerald Mall, the Corona Towers, or the entirety of the Mishiga Plate.
Starting skill: Second-Hand Proficiency
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Velocitude
Put it simply, you like to be on the move. Whether it’s running at top speed, weaving through crowds, or even basic parkour you are driven to always be in motion. Not to say you can’t enjoy a moment of stillness, but you get a special kind of stimulation from feeling the air move around you as you push your body.
During situations or activities where you are quickly moving via your own power, you may choose to take 1 damage to Health to reroll any or all dice in a DC.
Starting skill:[/] Shmoovement tech
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And then we end this section with your secret objective. The “secret” part is a bit more relevant if we were gaming with more players, but it should still give you at least a starting goal.

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[[b]Coerced by the Mafia]
Through threats and blackmail, the mob sent you to the station to do a “favour” for them. (Given your financials, I’m guessing you owe them money.) They say if you do this one little thing for them, then they’ll reconsider things. They very notably did not promise anything. All you have to do is get access to a mainframe terminal or some mainframe data cables of the station and insert their data packet.
Gain item: Data Limpet
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Here are your associated skills. Pretty straight forward; they do what they say and if you want to use them again then you’ve got to meet the recharge condition. Easy-peasy!

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Bites You
It’s your natural instinct to bite someone during a social encounter.
After any Grace check involving another person and where you were to take damage, you may instead choose to take a Health check with DC equal to that damage. If you do, you do not take the damage to Grace.
Recharge: Whenever you take damage to Health. This includes the potential damage from using this skill.
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Pauper Roach
With your outflow of cash being a blackhole the size of the galactic core, you’ve made do with your inflow being anything and everything.
You may look through any bit of trash, refuse, or debris and roll a Financial bonus die. On a crit, gain an item instead.
Recharge: When you start a new day with less money than the previous day.
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Second-Hand Proficiency
The saying “one’s man trash is another man’s treasure” isn’t exactly true, but you’ve long since learned that people will still pay for trash over nothing.
When an an item’s price is a Financial DC you may reduce the number of dice by 1, to a minimum of 1; or when selling an item you may increase the number of bonus dice by 1.
Recharge: When you acquire an item by means other than purchasing.
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Shmoovement Tech
While they may be different skill sets, your inclination is to go fast in all situations.
You may apply the Velocitude traits to situations involving digital avatars or vehicles too.
Recharge: After preforming a relaxing or resting activity.

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Finally! We can get into the game...


You awaken in your apartment comfortably buckled into your zero-G hammock. The place is tiny, but thankfully you’re tinier. “The regulatory minimum” is probably the best way to describe your current living conditions. On the one side you have a kitchenette wall complete with Guup dispenser. All the cupboards and food storage lay bare and empty. (Well, with one exception...) On another surface you have your Home Terminal System. From there you can access the stations intranet for various services and entertainment. Communicating beyond the station, however, will cost you so be careful. Then, besides the hatch out, the only door in the place is the one to the toiletry closet where you can do all your hygiene activities. Other than that... there are some drawers with spare clothes and the one nook where you keep your cash.

It’s a brand new day for you! You’ve been on the station for a few weeks now, so you’ve got a vague idea of the layout and some spots to visit, but there are still so much to explore and people to meet. Truly, you feel like you can do just about anything today.
So, what would you like to do?

Frankly, I resent the assertion that the mafia has any true control over whats-his-name. Look up information about the mafia on your terminal, so we can plan on how to destroy them.

>>1126589
Where are the mainframes and mainframe data cables?

Consume Guup

check the news over a serving of guup

take a shower to both get more comfortable and to not smell.

Hit up the trash collection tanks for some dumpster diving.

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>take a shower to both get more comfortable and to not smell.
Unfortunately, you cannot afford the luxury of a shower. Water baths are a bit more complicated in zero-G and, consequently, are more expensive to have installed. You make do with a wet clothe instead. It’s neither relaxing nor comforting, but at least for the time being you won’t smell like you dumpster dive on the regular.

>Consume Guup
After your bath, you drift over to your Guup dispenser, open it up and hook up a pouch to the nozzle. As per usual, your only choices are Tropical Tripe and Chum & Pulses Medley. The company boasts over 160 flavours, but when take in to account that they service every species out there that turns out to be only two or three per alien. Still, it’s always free and each pouch contains roughly a third of your daily nutrients and calories.

>check the news over a serving of guup
Once you have your Guup dispensed and heated in your pouch oven, you drift over to your HTS to check up on the news. You hit the closest power button to orientate it to yourself and instantly your previous windows and ads pop-up. The news tab is usually nearby as you browse the headlines.
Station Still Searching For New Vendor After 11th Meat Printer Malfunction
Counciller urges caution when using any vending machine from Astro-Butchers as they continue to look for new contracts.
New Study Out On What Stones And Grit Are Best For A Gizzard
While the precise answer will differ between species, new study shines light on the lava stone debate.
New Poll On Climate Change Post Referendum
While most residents of the station seem content with the higher temperature, there already some that are having regrets.
And many other such news posts that are even worth less of your time.

>Look up information about the mafia on your terminal,
Folks you are already a bit too familiar with already, the Nuriti crime family. Surprisingly this group of Huntoons didn’t start out as a criminal organization but as a semi-successful shipping company TooZoom. They were always willing to get a bit dirty though, and over time the profits from the side-hustles overshadowed the main business. As the reigns of the company kept getting passed down from parent to child things slowly drifted more and more to the illegal. Rampant nepotism slowly morphed the employees into cousins, and corporate values became family traditions. Now it’s a full blown crime syndicate with fingers and agents operating across several sectors. TooZoom is still technically around, but merely as a shell and a front to the real family business.

Now I will say that taking down the mafia is... a bit too big for this planned campaign, but if that’s where you want to steer things towards I fully support you.

>Where are the mainframes and mainframe data cables?
It appears that the mainframe cables run up and down the spine and out to, but not into, the habitation plates. Then there’s the Top Hub near the communications array at the top and the Main Hub down at the bottom near the Corona Towers in the administration wing. Now accessing these spots will take a bit more than just stumbling across an unlocked door and getting into the maintenance tunnels. The station seems to have a policy of sectionalising and compartmentalizing it’s utility corridors. Pretty much to prevent exactly what you’re trying to do but also including the air and water. So the mainframe cables are in the Tier 3 corridors, which of course have the most security to them. Pretty much the only ways in are at the hubs, but let’s not exclude any creative solutions you might come up with later.


Phew, more info dumping! Sorry about that, at least it’s lore this time. But yeah, just a heads up, if you want more lore you do have to do access a terminal and search the intranet. Can’t just ask for a knowledge roll on anything you don’t know. Though if it’s something that your character would legitimately know I’ll just tell you.

>Hit up the trash collection tanks for some dumpster diving.
Certainly! Though the actual collection tubes run into a similar issue as above, just a lower tier. If you’re looking to use your skill though there are plenty of unguarded candidates out there. I am going to say your local trash chute doesn’t count for what I hope are obvious reasons. Within this part of the spine there may be an air filter where enough trash piled up to count, but your best bets are up in the market where there’d be netted piles of trash, waiting to be collected, or you can head downwards towards the Corona Towers where there are actual bins and dumpsters to search. Either way, you’d be heading towards a mainframe hub too!

So, do want to
Head up to the market
or
Head down to the Corona Towers

Actually, is it up and down? It’d change depending on your perspective in zero-G, right? They’d use ship orientation terms for like starboard, port, fore, and aft, but what about the Z axis? Oh well, it’s up and down for us so that’s what we’ll go with...

Head [marketwards]

>>1126685
>up and down???
Probably better replaced with "(whatever's at the top)wards" and "(whatever's at the bottom)wards"
Like, enginewards, bridgewards, etc. In this case I guess it's marketwards and towerwards, and once you get to those destinations then optimally everything's oriented such that "up" and "down" make sense for local directions.

Also yeah let's head marketwards. If we can scrounge up some currency maybe we can spend it before it falls into the black hole of debt.

to the market, to see what people have dropped. always something to find on the floor.

>Corona Towers

this way when you go to sell the junk you find in the market they are far less likely to figure out you're selling them the same stuff they just threw away.

Market time!