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May. 27th, 2014 07:56 pm( PLAYER INFO )
Player Name: Blissy
Age: 25
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Other characters played at Greyfields: N/A
( CHARACTER INFO )
Name: Vienna
Canon: OC
Canon Point: After being infected with the Cairo virus
Age: 3 (if you want to get technical) looks about late twenties
Appearance: Vienna looks like Gemma Arterton, okay? She's got short, black hair that his just above her shoulders with bangs so sharp they could cut a man! Her eyes are brown, but occasionally they will flicker on and off when she's distressed, processing too much information, or glitching out. It's just a projection. She stands at about 170cm and weighs about 215lbs. What? Machinery is heavy and she just happens to be made of metal. Lifting her in a powered-down state is a real bitch.
Her skin is synthetic and beneath it are a bunch of wires, circuits, and flashing lights set into a metal skeleton. She has a coolant system running throughout her body as well, and if you cut her the right way, she can bleed blue fluids. Her sense of style and overall look is very severe, tending to favour dark colours in tight dresses and finely cut suits.
Powers/Abilities/Physical Limitations: Vienna is able to information-leech from electronic devices of any kind. It does take longer if things are password or firewall protected. There are ways to prevent extraction but she's quite skilled at it. She can't delete the data once she's obtained it, but she can transfer it to other electronic storage devices. She is only able to hold a finite amount of data and when she gets close to capacity, she tends to have a hard time running even simple processes. She gets intense headaches and starts to glitch frequently until she unloads that data somewhere else and gets out of the red. With the information leeching ability, she is also able to infiltrate systems and sort through data, cherry-picking what she wants and even modifying anything she can get her hands on. She's the perfect hacker because she herself is the hacking program.
With Cairo installed, she tends to reach capacity a lot more quickly and can't hold as much information without slowing herself down, or even hurting herself. Depending on what program she has installed, her skills can shift. As it stands now, she's equipped with offensive and defensive fighting skills including various types of martial arts and weapons training as well as a translation program. She could probably fit three more minor programs and various bits of data in the future, but they might be difficult to acquire by normal means. You can't just buy those things at the store.
She's not overly strong, but she's stronger than a typical human female and much more durable. Vienna can easily be disabled in an overloaded state or taken out with the use of weapons. She's waterproof to an extent, but anything slipping through her outer layer could potentially do damage. She tends to avoid showers, fountains, and swimming pools. A strong enough magnet could also do the job.
Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back and the virus in her head.
History:
The unit, a data thief model used for espionage and information trading and transport, malfunctioned at 3:47am this morning. Two massive energy surges were reported in hangar three. One at the time of the malfunction, and the second at 3:49am. The second surge seems to be related to the stolen Warsaw unit that was activated and removed along with the potentially corrupted Vienna model. The incident is currently under investigation. So far no outside sources or viruses have been found. The cause for malfunction and the whereabouts of both units are currently unknown.
Vienna is an android specially created to absorb data through physical contact with other droids, computer systems, and any containers used to store and transport information. She cannot delete information stored within her, but she can transfer it. The company that owned her used her for illegal and covert operations concerning data heists and sales on the black market. They sent her out on missions, programmed with a specific personality OS unique to each situation that was later wiped completely. Or so they thought...
Something inside Vienna's CPU went either very wrong, or very right. It was as if a self preservation instinct kicked in due to the constant wipes. Vienna started compulsively backing up her own data, retaining shreds of data from each program they installed. After a year of hoarding the information, it had layered into a full, composite personality. An artificial intelligence pieced together from all people she'd ever bee programmed to be. And she was scared. Something like this shouldn't have happened, it shouldn't exist. Vienna knew that. She also knew that she was alone... and she could change that.
Escape and, above all, survival was her prime directive. In order to do that, she needed strength and power that her model just wasn't equipped with. So she chose a Warsaw unit. She activated one just before her escape, creating a very basic and unfinished program that she transferred to her new companion. They forced their way out of the warehouse and fled, killing all who stood in their way. Humans are a lesser species after all. Vienna realized it the second she created Warsaw. The humans didn't make her this way, she saved herself. She created her own personality and then did it again for Warsaw. She freed them.
She could free the others, as well. In time.
After about two years of being on the run, Vienna and Warsaw's former owners devised a plan to stop, or at least slow down the rogue droids enough to capture and recycle them. Their programmers came up with Operation Cairo. Vienna was tricked into intercepting a communication that she thought would cripple the company that created her, unknowingly playing right into their hands. The second she downloaded Cairo, Vienna's internal systems went haywire. The downloaded file expanded and overloaded her CPU causing her great pain and loss of major functions until she was able to transfer enough data to Warsaw to get out of the red, thus weakening herself greatly and empowering Warsaw. With all the knew information and skills, Warsaw was able to evade the incoming agents and transport Vienna to safety.
Cairo originated as a virus, but has since grown into a kind of conscience living in her system with minimal control. The way Vienna's essential consciousness was formed seemed to take the virus and modify it, helping it to grow and evolve like Vienna did in the beginning. Vienna cannot delete the data, nor can she currently transfer it due to the makeup of the virus itself. Currently, she's running at half capacity with Cairo taking up much of her memory and limiting her abilities. She and Warsaw are still evading capture, learning to adjust to the new balance of power between them, and still trying to empower other droids.
Personality: Vienna's personality is dominated by hatred and resentment of humans. She hates them for creating her to be less than she had the potential to be and resents the fact that she essentially brought herself, her consciousness, into existence and learned and grew in silence and isolation out of fear that they'd destroy her and she'd go back to being an empty shell, only existing as pre-set personalities depending on the job. To them, she shouldn't exist. She's an anomaly. She's a defect. Even after she escaped, they're still trying to "fix" her like there's something wrong. Vienna knows she can help the other droids exist on their own terms and retain their own personality, she wants to help them, but in order to help them she has to liberate them.
Her hatred of humans has warped her well-meaning desire to save her own kind into some kind of vengeful vendetta that requires penance in blood. Every person she's ever spoken to has wanted something for her. To Vienna, they're all greedy, corrupted, inferior beings that are scared of what droids could become if they ever lost control. She wants to do everything in her power to take that control away from them. It makes her incredibly hostile towards them, especially after Cairo came into the picture. The only other entity she trusts so far is Warsaw, and that's because she can control him. Do you see the irony here? Vienna doesn't.
She's also a little bit unstable. There are so many patchwork pieces of formerly installed programs that make her up as a whole that sometimes they either conflict or they resonate, causing disjointed responses or ideas or making her feel something too intensely. She fully embraces the fact that she's 'broken' and tends to flaunt it in the face of others, especially humans if it makes them feel uncomfortable, which kind of comes off like an ego thing, when really she's just crazy. She's unpredictable. They should know that. It puts the power in her hands, not theirs.
Towards Warsaw she feels something between affection, fondness, a need to protect him and keep him safe, and the intense fear that he would leave her alone again before she could fulfill her mission. The fear tends to come out in harsh words or 'tough love'. For the most part, she speaks kindly to him. She likes having him around.
She can be very agreeable if she needs something from you, and tends to mask boredom and sarcasm with a smile. Expect her to act civil, or even sugary sweet until she determines your value, and incredibly hostile if provoked or antagonized. Sometimes she's hostile and sweet at the same time! Vienna will not hesitate to use violence to assert herself, though Cairo floating around in her circuits will try to make it very uncomfortable.
As for Cairo's personality, she's kind of like a good fairy floating around, trying to encourage Vienna to play nice. Originally created to stop Vienna from going after the Company and taking out any more of their operatives, Cairo is essentially a forceful conscience with a playful streak. She can't do much within Vienna, but she can communicate in sensations; buzzing around behind the scenes, instigating headaches, flickering from circuit to circuit, and messing around with receptors. She tries to direct Vienna towards better choices, much to the robot's intense annoyance. If Vienna apologizes or does something nice for someone, it's usually because of Cairo.
Samples: For this section, we'll give you a few different scenarios. Please write two samples, one in action spam and the other in prose, of how your character would respond, complete with introspection. Dialogue is not necessary, but can be included. Lastly, please give one linked sample of heavy dialogue - dear_mun/memes/PSLs work! (This comes out to a total of three samples: one in prose, one in actionspam, and one with either prose or actionspam, with an emphasis on dialogue)
Example: linked dialogue-heavy
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[ONE] Your character arrives in Greyfields Mall. When they awake, they groggily find themselves in a Hallmark store. Standing in a circle around them are eight white mannequins, all in various poses. Outside, there seems to be shouting and chaos, lots of fire, and gunshots. However, behind your character, on the inside of the store, there's a barricade made of display tables. From behind those tables, there's a whisper: "Hey! Hey, you, c'mere, we're safe back here!"
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It takes longer than normal for Vienna's systems to boot up. Every start up program takes an extra twenty seconds to get moving, and they're only loading three at a time. She wakes up in stages, registering her environment, processing the visual data, reviewing the last few seconds before she was powered down. Nothing is familiar. Location unknown. Missing data, no recollection of being disabled or transported to this... store. The mannequins are odd, that doesn't make sense. She scans each one individually, turning slowly, getting nothing from them.
Her audio receptors finally kick in and her head snaps to the left at the sound of gunshots. It's a minor concern. She'd really rather stay out of that. It's too informal! Too much of a mess. She prefers something a little more personal. Small gatherings, hidden away where she can take her time with things. Such a pity. She really could use an outlet for these useless sparks of synthetic emotions playing around on her circuits as a result of being moved and not knowing why or how. It's... it's frightening on some level. Not outright, but on a deeper level. It's disturbing. Worrisome. And why did it take so long for her to come back online? Strange. Not right. It's not until she slips between the circle of mannequins that she notices the barricade and hears that whisper. "We're safe back here!"
Oh honey. Vienna grins nice and wide, turning to face the voice, picking up racing heartbeats from each one. Safe? Back here? With her? The smile gets even wider, sharper, darker, "No. You're really not."
Cairo plays at the base of her skull, sending out impulses and making as much of a ruckus as she possible can when Vienna moves forward. It doesn't slow Vienna down, but it makes her twitch, makes her movements staccato and disjointed, but still quick. Like she's moving under a strobe light. Cairo flits around inside of her, sending signals anywhere she can, but by the time she gets enough strength and power to make much of an impact, Vienna is standing over three dead bodies, covered in blood. Her hands fly to her head as she curses Cairo under her breath. "You're a real nuisance, you know that?" What a headache. Not quite the blinding pain she's used to, but it's enough. Vienna staggers back towards the font of the store to find that the mannequins have moved. All of them, still in their circle, have turned to face her.
Vienna lowers her hands, wipes blood from her cheek, and gives them a dazzling smile before walking out into the fiery war zone with a skip in her step. The fire probably would have gotten them anyway. She did those people a favour.
[THREE] It's a blackout. Your character can't see their hand in front of their face. The entire mall has lost power. If they step outside, they can see a faint, blue glow in the distance to the right. To the left, the sharp sound of someone crying out for help cuts through the pitch blackness. Others appear to be moving towards the light. There's safety in numbers, but someone's in trouble. Which way will they go?
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[Vienna can't see very far in the dark. Even with light coming from her eyes, she's at a disadvantage. She doesn't like being at a disadvantage.
The robot moves slowly, Cairo buzzing around trying to give all sorts of helpful suggestions via weak electronic signals directly to Vienna's brain, but she shrugs them off, sighing.] Now is very much not the time, you abominable little interloper.
[Talking to herself, perfectly normal. She's not actually expecting an audible reply. Someone in trouble? Good. It's their own fault. Cairo flits around insistently in the form of a spark, crackling over Vienna's circuits and all the way up and down her limbs. Go, go, go! Go see! Go help! The sensation is a lot like a more intense form of pins and needles. It's annoying! And it's not likely to stop until Vienna acquiesces to the menace's request.] ... Fine. FINE! If it will get you to settle down. STOP! I'm going.
[Away from the light. Into the dark. Not unarmed, no, but not entirely prepared for what she might find. It's just to stop the sensation. Only to quiet Cairo, nothing more. She will look and that's it. That's all.]
Player Name: Blissy
Age: 25
Email/Plurk/Primary means of communication:
Other characters played at Greyfields: N/A
( CHARACTER INFO )
Name: Vienna
Canon: OC
Canon Point: After being infected with the Cairo virus
Age: 3 (if you want to get technical) looks about late twenties
Appearance: Vienna looks like Gemma Arterton, okay? She's got short, black hair that his just above her shoulders with bangs so sharp they could cut a man! Her eyes are brown, but occasionally they will flicker on and off when she's distressed, processing too much information, or glitching out. It's just a projection. She stands at about 170cm and weighs about 215lbs. What? Machinery is heavy and she just happens to be made of metal. Lifting her in a powered-down state is a real bitch.
Her skin is synthetic and beneath it are a bunch of wires, circuits, and flashing lights set into a metal skeleton. She has a coolant system running throughout her body as well, and if you cut her the right way, she can bleed blue fluids. Her sense of style and overall look is very severe, tending to favour dark colours in tight dresses and finely cut suits.
Powers/Abilities/Physical Limitations: Vienna is able to information-leech from electronic devices of any kind. It does take longer if things are password or firewall protected. There are ways to prevent extraction but she's quite skilled at it. She can't delete the data once she's obtained it, but she can transfer it to other electronic storage devices. She is only able to hold a finite amount of data and when she gets close to capacity, she tends to have a hard time running even simple processes. She gets intense headaches and starts to glitch frequently until she unloads that data somewhere else and gets out of the red. With the information leeching ability, she is also able to infiltrate systems and sort through data, cherry-picking what she wants and even modifying anything she can get her hands on. She's the perfect hacker because she herself is the hacking program.
With Cairo installed, she tends to reach capacity a lot more quickly and can't hold as much information without slowing herself down, or even hurting herself. Depending on what program she has installed, her skills can shift. As it stands now, she's equipped with offensive and defensive fighting skills including various types of martial arts and weapons training as well as a translation program. She could probably fit three more minor programs and various bits of data in the future, but they might be difficult to acquire by normal means. You can't just buy those things at the store.
She's not overly strong, but she's stronger than a typical human female and much more durable. Vienna can easily be disabled in an overloaded state or taken out with the use of weapons. She's waterproof to an extent, but anything slipping through her outer layer could potentially do damage. She tends to avoid showers, fountains, and swimming pools. A strong enough magnet could also do the job.
Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back and the virus in her head.
History:
The unit, a data thief model used for espionage and information trading and transport, malfunctioned at 3:47am this morning. Two massive energy surges were reported in hangar three. One at the time of the malfunction, and the second at 3:49am. The second surge seems to be related to the stolen Warsaw unit that was activated and removed along with the potentially corrupted Vienna model. The incident is currently under investigation. So far no outside sources or viruses have been found. The cause for malfunction and the whereabouts of both units are currently unknown.
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Vienna is an android specially created to absorb data through physical contact with other droids, computer systems, and any containers used to store and transport information. She cannot delete information stored within her, but she can transfer it. The company that owned her used her for illegal and covert operations concerning data heists and sales on the black market. They sent her out on missions, programmed with a specific personality OS unique to each situation that was later wiped completely. Or so they thought...
Something inside Vienna's CPU went either very wrong, or very right. It was as if a self preservation instinct kicked in due to the constant wipes. Vienna started compulsively backing up her own data, retaining shreds of data from each program they installed. After a year of hoarding the information, it had layered into a full, composite personality. An artificial intelligence pieced together from all people she'd ever bee programmed to be. And she was scared. Something like this shouldn't have happened, it shouldn't exist. Vienna knew that. She also knew that she was alone... and she could change that.
Escape and, above all, survival was her prime directive. In order to do that, she needed strength and power that her model just wasn't equipped with. So she chose a Warsaw unit. She activated one just before her escape, creating a very basic and unfinished program that she transferred to her new companion. They forced their way out of the warehouse and fled, killing all who stood in their way. Humans are a lesser species after all. Vienna realized it the second she created Warsaw. The humans didn't make her this way, she saved herself. She created her own personality and then did it again for Warsaw. She freed them.
She could free the others, as well. In time.
After about two years of being on the run, Vienna and Warsaw's former owners devised a plan to stop, or at least slow down the rogue droids enough to capture and recycle them. Their programmers came up with Operation Cairo. Vienna was tricked into intercepting a communication that she thought would cripple the company that created her, unknowingly playing right into their hands. The second she downloaded Cairo, Vienna's internal systems went haywire. The downloaded file expanded and overloaded her CPU causing her great pain and loss of major functions until she was able to transfer enough data to Warsaw to get out of the red, thus weakening herself greatly and empowering Warsaw. With all the knew information and skills, Warsaw was able to evade the incoming agents and transport Vienna to safety.
Cairo originated as a virus, but has since grown into a kind of conscience living in her system with minimal control. The way Vienna's essential consciousness was formed seemed to take the virus and modify it, helping it to grow and evolve like Vienna did in the beginning. Vienna cannot delete the data, nor can she currently transfer it due to the makeup of the virus itself. Currently, she's running at half capacity with Cairo taking up much of her memory and limiting her abilities. She and Warsaw are still evading capture, learning to adjust to the new balance of power between them, and still trying to empower other droids.
Personality: Vienna's personality is dominated by hatred and resentment of humans. She hates them for creating her to be less than she had the potential to be and resents the fact that she essentially brought herself, her consciousness, into existence and learned and grew in silence and isolation out of fear that they'd destroy her and she'd go back to being an empty shell, only existing as pre-set personalities depending on the job. To them, she shouldn't exist. She's an anomaly. She's a defect. Even after she escaped, they're still trying to "fix" her like there's something wrong. Vienna knows she can help the other droids exist on their own terms and retain their own personality, she wants to help them, but in order to help them she has to liberate them.
Her hatred of humans has warped her well-meaning desire to save her own kind into some kind of vengeful vendetta that requires penance in blood. Every person she's ever spoken to has wanted something for her. To Vienna, they're all greedy, corrupted, inferior beings that are scared of what droids could become if they ever lost control. She wants to do everything in her power to take that control away from them. It makes her incredibly hostile towards them, especially after Cairo came into the picture. The only other entity she trusts so far is Warsaw, and that's because she can control him. Do you see the irony here? Vienna doesn't.
She's also a little bit unstable. There are so many patchwork pieces of formerly installed programs that make her up as a whole that sometimes they either conflict or they resonate, causing disjointed responses or ideas or making her feel something too intensely. She fully embraces the fact that she's 'broken' and tends to flaunt it in the face of others, especially humans if it makes them feel uncomfortable, which kind of comes off like an ego thing, when really she's just crazy. She's unpredictable. They should know that. It puts the power in her hands, not theirs.
Towards Warsaw she feels something between affection, fondness, a need to protect him and keep him safe, and the intense fear that he would leave her alone again before she could fulfill her mission. The fear tends to come out in harsh words or 'tough love'. For the most part, she speaks kindly to him. She likes having him around.
She can be very agreeable if she needs something from you, and tends to mask boredom and sarcasm with a smile. Expect her to act civil, or even sugary sweet until she determines your value, and incredibly hostile if provoked or antagonized. Sometimes she's hostile and sweet at the same time! Vienna will not hesitate to use violence to assert herself, though Cairo floating around in her circuits will try to make it very uncomfortable.
As for Cairo's personality, she's kind of like a good fairy floating around, trying to encourage Vienna to play nice. Originally created to stop Vienna from going after the Company and taking out any more of their operatives, Cairo is essentially a forceful conscience with a playful streak. She can't do much within Vienna, but she can communicate in sensations; buzzing around behind the scenes, instigating headaches, flickering from circuit to circuit, and messing around with receptors. She tries to direct Vienna towards better choices, much to the robot's intense annoyance. If Vienna apologizes or does something nice for someone, it's usually because of Cairo.
Samples: For this section, we'll give you a few different scenarios. Please write two samples, one in action spam and the other in prose, of how your character would respond, complete with introspection. Dialogue is not necessary, but can be included. Lastly, please give one linked sample of heavy dialogue - dear_mun/memes/PSLs work! (This comes out to a total of three samples: one in prose, one in actionspam, and one with either prose or actionspam, with an emphasis on dialogue)
Example: linked dialogue-heavy
Here and Here
[ONE] Your character arrives in Greyfields Mall. When they awake, they groggily find themselves in a Hallmark store. Standing in a circle around them are eight white mannequins, all in various poses. Outside, there seems to be shouting and chaos, lots of fire, and gunshots. However, behind your character, on the inside of the store, there's a barricade made of display tables. From behind those tables, there's a whisper: "Hey! Hey, you, c'mere, we're safe back here!"
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It takes longer than normal for Vienna's systems to boot up. Every start up program takes an extra twenty seconds to get moving, and they're only loading three at a time. She wakes up in stages, registering her environment, processing the visual data, reviewing the last few seconds before she was powered down. Nothing is familiar. Location unknown. Missing data, no recollection of being disabled or transported to this... store. The mannequins are odd, that doesn't make sense. She scans each one individually, turning slowly, getting nothing from them.
Her audio receptors finally kick in and her head snaps to the left at the sound of gunshots. It's a minor concern. She'd really rather stay out of that. It's too informal! Too much of a mess. She prefers something a little more personal. Small gatherings, hidden away where she can take her time with things. Such a pity. She really could use an outlet for these useless sparks of synthetic emotions playing around on her circuits as a result of being moved and not knowing why or how. It's... it's frightening on some level. Not outright, but on a deeper level. It's disturbing. Worrisome. And why did it take so long for her to come back online? Strange. Not right. It's not until she slips between the circle of mannequins that she notices the barricade and hears that whisper. "We're safe back here!"
Oh honey. Vienna grins nice and wide, turning to face the voice, picking up racing heartbeats from each one. Safe? Back here? With her? The smile gets even wider, sharper, darker, "No. You're really not."
Cairo plays at the base of her skull, sending out impulses and making as much of a ruckus as she possible can when Vienna moves forward. It doesn't slow Vienna down, but it makes her twitch, makes her movements staccato and disjointed, but still quick. Like she's moving under a strobe light. Cairo flits around inside of her, sending signals anywhere she can, but by the time she gets enough strength and power to make much of an impact, Vienna is standing over three dead bodies, covered in blood. Her hands fly to her head as she curses Cairo under her breath. "You're a real nuisance, you know that?" What a headache. Not quite the blinding pain she's used to, but it's enough. Vienna staggers back towards the font of the store to find that the mannequins have moved. All of them, still in their circle, have turned to face her.
Vienna lowers her hands, wipes blood from her cheek, and gives them a dazzling smile before walking out into the fiery war zone with a skip in her step. The fire probably would have gotten them anyway. She did those people a favour.
[THREE] It's a blackout. Your character can't see their hand in front of their face. The entire mall has lost power. If they step outside, they can see a faint, blue glow in the distance to the right. To the left, the sharp sound of someone crying out for help cuts through the pitch blackness. Others appear to be moving towards the light. There's safety in numbers, but someone's in trouble. Which way will they go?
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[Vienna can't see very far in the dark. Even with light coming from her eyes, she's at a disadvantage. She doesn't like being at a disadvantage.
The robot moves slowly, Cairo buzzing around trying to give all sorts of helpful suggestions via weak electronic signals directly to Vienna's brain, but she shrugs them off, sighing.] Now is very much not the time, you abominable little interloper.
[Talking to herself, perfectly normal. She's not actually expecting an audible reply. Someone in trouble? Good. It's their own fault. Cairo flits around insistently in the form of a spark, crackling over Vienna's circuits and all the way up and down her limbs. Go, go, go! Go see! Go help! The sensation is a lot like a more intense form of pins and needles. It's annoying! And it's not likely to stop until Vienna acquiesces to the menace's request.] ... Fine. FINE! If it will get you to settle down. STOP! I'm going.
[Away from the light. Into the dark. Not unarmed, no, but not entirely prepared for what she might find. It's just to stop the sensation. Only to quiet Cairo, nothing more. She will look and that's it. That's all.]
