The End of Days [OOC]

[Skullcrusher]

I updated my character and added equipment...just his boots and a small foldable knife with a belt clip. I see people walking around with those all the time...not sure if he can transport that in his checked luggage or not....but figure he'd have it. Let me know if that is ok?

[Skullcrusher]

Here is the link to the sheet. I raised his swimming and knife skill

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1N...it?usp=sharing

He also has everything I described in his intro post.

[Darklim]

Here cometh Emmanuel Lopez, aka "Craft Kiddie", the party make-and-repairman. Because you'll NEED someone to make that fence last more than a day.

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Name: Emmanuel Lopez
Race: Human

Attributes [60]
ST 10
DX 11 [20]
IQ 12 [40]
HT 10

HP 10
Will 12
Per 12
FP 10

Basic Lift 20
Damage 1d-2/1d

Basic Speed 5,25
Basic Move 5

Ground Move 5
Water Move 1

Social Background
TL: 8 [0]
Cultural Familiarities: Western [0]
Languages: English - Native [0]

Advantages [37]
Acute Touch (1) [2]
Gadgeteer (Aspected: electronical gadgets only, -20%) [20]
High Manual Dexterity (2) [10]
Single-Minded [5]

Disadvantages [-55]
Bad Sight (Nearsighted) (Glasses) [-10]
Chummy [-5]
Compulsive Behavior (Tinkering) (-1) (12 or less) [-5]
Easy to Read [-10]
Pacifism (Cannot Harm Innocents) [-10]
Post-Combat Shakes (6 or less) [-10]
Skinny [-5]

Quirks [-5]
Allergic to peanuts [-1]
Collects pieces of electronics [-1]
Minor Social Stigma (Kid) [-1]
Thinks melee weapons are more badass than guns [-1]
Wants to be called "Craft Kiddie" [-1]

Skills [38]
Crafting:
Armoury/TL3 (Body Armor) IQ/A - IQ-1 11 [1]
Armoury/TL3 (Melee Weapons) IQ/A - IQ-1 11 [1]
Electrician/TL8 IQ/A - IQ+0 12 [2]
Engineer/TL3 (Body Armor) IQ/H - IQ-1 11 [2]
Enginner/TL8 (Electrical) IQ/H - IQ-1 11 [2]
Engineer/TL3 (Melee Weapons) IQ/H - IQ-1 11 [2]
Engineer/TL8 (Bicycle) IQ/H - IQ-2 10 [1]
Engineer/TL8 (Clockwork) IQ/H - IQ-1 11 [2]
Machinist/TL8 IQ/A - IQ+4 16 [16]
Not crafting:
Bicycling DX/E - DX+0 11 [1]
Lockpicking/TL8 IQ/A - IQ+0 12 [1]
Mathematics/TL8 (Applied) IQ/H - IQ-2 10 [1]
Scrounging Per/E - Per+1 13 [2]
Search Per/A - Per-1 11 [1]
Shortsword DX/A - DX-1 10 [1]
Stealth DX/A - DX-1 10 [1]

Stats [60] Ads [37] Disads [-55] Quirks [-5] Skills [38] = Total [75]

Armor & Possessions
A swiss knife and a watch he made himself.

What does he looks like
A small and skinny bearded 17 year old, in jeans and ordinary T-shirt. His hair are black, and his eyes brown behind his squarish glasses.

(Relevant) background
Son of a not-downright-rich-but-certainly-not-poor family, he usually lives in a world-forsaken village with a next to non-existent internet connection, but a geek mindset; thus, he started making stuff, and in particular fake melee weapons, for LARPing and the likes. He's technically still a kid, albeit he's already physically and mentally buit like an adult. He spent enough time in his cave making and breaking stuff to pretend that he's good at doing so.

Explanations for our GM
I only put "Gadgeteer" to justify things like making a flamethrower out of an extinguisher, fuel and a lighter, or using cables, wires and a car battery to electrify the fences. If it's judged as too cinematic, well too bad.

I put "kid" as a quirk because I don't expect to encounter a huge infrastructure where being a kid would refrain me from doing stuff. As in, if he knew how to drive a car, I don't think anybody would insist that a teen shouldn't take the wheel, even if doing so make it possible for the previous driver to take a gun and shoot at zombies. But I do expect that someone would say "don't put a gun in the hands of a kid".

I didn't put things like "Computer programming" or "Electrician", because 1. I dont think we'll find that much working electronics, and 2. Electrician + Gadgeteer + "dead" batteries = Breaking the whole "no more energy" stuff. And I want to keep my Gadgeteer.

I put "Shortsword", "Engineer/TL3 (Melee weapons)", "Engineer/TL3 (Body armor)", "Armoury/TL3 (Melee weapons)" and "Armoury/TL3 (Body armor)" because I depict him as a fervent LARP stuff maker. As in, fervent enough to actually know how to make stuff from this era. This might make him able to actually turn, say, a poolroom pole and a butcher knife into a light spear.

[ThatMusicWriter]

Originally Posted by Skullcrusher

I updated my character and added equipment...just his boots and a small foldable knife with a belt clip. I see people walking around with those all the time...not sure if he can transport that in his checked luggage or not....but figure he'd have it. Let me know if that is ok?

My dad carries one of those all the time, so that'll work.

[the_matrix_walker]

Originally Posted by Darklim

Here cometh Emmanuel Lopez, aka "Craft Kiddie", the party make-and-repairman. Because you'll NEED someone to make that fence last more than a day.

Umn..... You may want to have a look at my character, Carlos Esposito

[Darklim]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

Umn..... You may want to have a look at my character, Carlos Esposito

For my defence, it didn't exist at the time I posted mine.

I'd like the GM approval for something along the "Weird science" power modifier, which normally let a super scientist produces formidable effects out of "normal" weird machinery (e.g turning a jetpack into a blaster), except here, it would be for revived "dead" electronics, but that will only works in HIS hand. Per example, he could technically make a lamptorch work; but he won't be able to make, say, an electric fence (except if he stays here to electrify the zombies coming). See where I'm getting at? I'm willing to take a costly Unusual Background in order to be able to make electronic stuff work (I promise I won't use it to revive everything electric in the hotel, it's really just to have gadgets).

Alternatively, I could also have "Gadgeteer (only funny gadgets)", or "Gadgeteer (electronics)", and then I WILL go out of my way to get energy sources in order to make my stuff work. So there will be a "theme" difference between me and Carlos.

If all else fail, alas! I'll make another concept.

[ThatMusicWriter]

Weird Science is more of the ability to come up with new scientific theories that are beyond the thoughts of others. You seem to be aiming more for repairing and gadgeteering. You could, I suppose, use weird science to think of new uses for technology, like the Idea attribute in Call of Cthulhu. In THAT case, you wouldn't need the unusual background. But gadgeteering (electronics) basically covers that, so that's all you need.

[momothefiddler]

Originally Posted by Darklim

For my defence, it didn't exist at the time I posted mine.

That's not true: Last edited by the_matrix_walker; 12-31-2013 at 04:27 PM.

Originally Posted by Darklim

I'd like the GM approval for something along the "Weird science" power modifier, which normally let a super scientist produces formidable effects out of "normal" weird machinery (e.g turning a jetpack into a blaster), except here, it would be for revived "dead" electronics, but that will only works in HIS hand. Per example, he could technically make a lamptorch work; but he won't be able to make, say, an electric fence (except if he stays here to electrify the zombies coming). See where I'm getting at? I'm willing to take a costly Unusual Background in order to be able to make electronic stuff work (I promise I won't use it to revive everything electric in the hotel, it's really just to have gadgets).

Alternatively, I could also have "Gadgeteer (only funny gadgets)", or "Gadgeteer (electronics)", and then I WILL go out of my way to get energy sources in order to make my stuff work. So there will be a "theme" difference between me and Carlos.

If all else fail, alas! I'll make another concept.

I certainly understand the desire to play a Gadgeteer in a post-apocalyptic setting! In fact, that sort of tinkering as a concept encompasses a majority of the appeal that such settings have for me. Add in the fact that the more people with those sorts of capabilities in the group, the more likely we are to survive, and I'm all for it, as long as everyone's still having fun.

[Skullcrusher]

Originally Posted by ThatMusicWriter

My dad carries one of those all the time, so that'll work.

Cool I figured he carried in case he had to cut himself out harnesses or seat belts after or during his stunts.

[ThatMusicWriter]

I have to agree with momothefiddler. More tinkerers make for more ways to outwit me.