Player: Pig_catapult
Name: Averna
Species: AI
Concept: Blood Knight transhuman malware
Aspects:
- It's Hot Tonight: Averna can project a hologram around herself. See below for physical description. She uses an older projection method that was phased out from most things fifty years ago for more energy-efficient ones. As it is, her projection takes a lot of energy and produces a lot of heat, which can result in scorched surfaces or particularly inflammable objects combusting near her. She would upgrade, but she likes the bonus of being able to burn people without a droid.
- Dragula: Averna acts a lot like a virus; she can infect machines with a back-door that lets her manipulate them. However, she needs to be linked to it either wirelessly or via an adapter cable, which requires her to be relatively close to whatever she's controlling.
- Pieces of You: Violence is what Averna's good at, and, over the decades, she's developed a hobby of collecting and mummifying fingers. While she can tell friend from foe, she has poor impulse control, and gets agitated if she goes too long without indulging in her bloodlust.
Skills:
- Melee Weapons: 4
- Ranged Weapons: 2
- Physical Defense: 2
- Mental Defense: 4
- Endurance: 2
- Engineering (Electronics): 3
- Hacking: 5
- Persuasion (Intimidation):3**
- Piloting: 3
- Sense Motive: 1
- Stealth: 3
- Action Points: 3
- Load Limit: 0
Equipment
- Weapon | Attack Type | Bonus (if any)
Possessions
Personal History (under construction)
Averna was born a human in 2736 to lower-middle-class parents on an asteroid colony. When she was eight years old, they were in a car crash, in which she lost her left eye and took some damage to her frontal lobe. Repairing the damage would have taken what at the time was a very expensive cybernetic prosthesis, so she made do with an eyepatch. The scar from the injury, however, left a very large scar from her left temple to the bridge of her nose, and, kids being cruel, she was teased by her classmates, who called it ugly.
At least, they did at first. Then she beat them up and made them apologise and say that it was a very pretty scar. This was probably the event that truly kicked off what would ultimately be a short life in which she'd accrue many beloved scars from many street fights. By the time she was 16, she was already in with the mob as a junior enforcer, and she found from doing some jobs paired with hackers for data retrieval that she actually had quite the knack for that, too. So, when she got shot in the chest during a drug deal gone bad ten years later, one of the techs she worked with uploaded her brain.
She kept working for the mob as a standard transhuman AI for about eight years before the computer she was on got infected with a virus. Then something strange happened:
Averna gutted the thing and incorporated the useful parts of its code into herself.
From there, Averna was able to start "collecting" more viral code snippets, giving her even greater ability to hack and coordinate enemy droids. With a little help from some of her meatspace tech colleagues, she eventually upgraded her hardware from an SSD chip to the first of many hovering droidballs.
- Wasn't until 2813 that she got her own hologram projector, and, by then, she'd forgotten what she'd really looked like when she was alive. The only thing she remembered with perfect clarity were her scars. They were the one thing she'd always loved about her appearance, and the one thing she'd never forget.
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