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| Don't ask about the name. Seriously, it is so much more interesting if you don't ask. | Don't ask about the name. Seriously, it is so much more interesting if you don't ask. | ||
| - | When the most interesting thing about your life is your //slightly// unusual name, you know you are in trouble. Or at least that is what Genevieve used to think. Now she wishes she she could go back to that. Eight months ago Genevieve and her father were hit by a car doing 60 in a residential area. Her father was killed instantly. Now, all she has is her mother and older sister (a neurosurgeon at John Hopkins). The death brought them all closer together - they are a **family** like they haven't been since Genevieve was still in diapers. She knows they have her back and that she has theirs. | + | When the most interesting thing about your life is your //slightly// unusual name, you know you are in trouble. Or at least that is what Genevieve used to think. Now she wishes she she could go back to that. Eight months ago Genevieve and her father were hit by a car doing 60 in a residential area. Her father was killed instantly. Now, all she has is her mother and older sister (a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins). The death brought them all closer together - they are a **family** like they haven't been since Genevieve was still in diapers. She knows they have her back and that she has theirs. |
| Genevieve still hasn't fully made her peace with her bereavement, but she is on the right path and she is making progress. That isn't what is keeping her awake at night. No, what is keeping her up till the small hours of the morning every night is Isaac-fucking-Newton. Thing is, when 1.5 tonnes of metal hits 85kg of person at 60mph there is only one possible consequence. Equal and opposite fucking force and all that. What is not possible, what Isaac Newton never never predicted, is that the car is stopped dead and totalled and the 85kg of fragile body is unharmed. The force **had** to go //somewhere//! | Genevieve still hasn't fully made her peace with her bereavement, but she is on the right path and she is making progress. That isn't what is keeping her awake at night. No, what is keeping her up till the small hours of the morning every night is Isaac-fucking-Newton. Thing is, when 1.5 tonnes of metal hits 85kg of person at 60mph there is only one possible consequence. Equal and opposite fucking force and all that. What is not possible, what Isaac Newton never never predicted, is that the car is stopped dead and totalled and the 85kg of fragile body is unharmed. The force **had** to go //somewhere//! | ||
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| Genevieve's mother, Louise, is still spry and fit and spent twenty years working as a security consultant for major multinationals setting up business in less stable areas of the world. She knows the ins-and-outs of every major security technology, and more importantly the sorts of processes and procedures which surround them. | Genevieve's mother, Louise, is still spry and fit and spent twenty years working as a security consultant for major multinationals setting up business in less stable areas of the world. She knows the ins-and-outs of every major security technology, and more importantly the sorts of processes and procedures which surround them. | ||
| - | Genevieve's sister, Primrose, is a top neurosurgeon at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. With an incisive intellect, and older sister's slightly patronising manner and a drive to succeed there is little that Primrose won't lecture Genevieve on. Often, infuriatingly, she is right. | + | Genevieve's sister, Primrose, is a top neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. With an incisive intellect, and older sister's slightly patronising manner and a drive to succeed there is little that Primrose won't lecture Genevieve on. Often, infuriatingly, she is right. |
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| She loves her job, she grew up in a poorer part of Sao Paulo and while she was brought up in a loving household, it wasn't easy and she was driven to study and try and improve her lot. She's managed to get out of the slums, got through university, and then got a job with a regeneration effort where she is now one of the chief architects. She desperately wants to clean up the area where she grew up and improve her family's lot. Her parents still live in the area and refuse to leave. Her younger brother, Gabriel, is just getting to the age where he's showing an interest in the local gangs and she is desperately afraid that he's going to end up like her older brother Rodrigo who was killed in a gang war clash a few years ago or her twin brother Luiz, who disappeared 6 months ago. Although they never found his body, everyone assumes that he's dead - she doesn't believe it though - she knows she would have felt it, they were always so close after all.\\ | She loves her job, she grew up in a poorer part of Sao Paulo and while she was brought up in a loving household, it wasn't easy and she was driven to study and try and improve her lot. She's managed to get out of the slums, got through university, and then got a job with a regeneration effort where she is now one of the chief architects. She desperately wants to clean up the area where she grew up and improve her family's lot. Her parents still live in the area and refuse to leave. Her younger brother, Gabriel, is just getting to the age where he's showing an interest in the local gangs and she is desperately afraid that he's going to end up like her older brother Rodrigo who was killed in a gang war clash a few years ago or her twin brother Luiz, who disappeared 6 months ago. Although they never found his body, everyone assumes that he's dead - she doesn't believe it though - she knows she would have felt it, they were always so close after all.\\ | ||
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| - | She's determined to clean up Sao Paulo (or as much of it as possible) both the city its self and the governance of it which is horribly corrupt. She sees remaking the city as a way of doing this, instilling hope in those less fortunate and empowering them to make things better for themselves (she believes that many of the people she knew growing up, good people, would make far better leaders than those currently in power if only they were given the chance). She made it out and she's going to try and help as many left behind as possible. She enjoys dancing and is a practicioner of parkour. \\ | + | She's determined to clean up Sao Paulo (or as much of it as possible) both the city its self and the governance of it which is horribly corrupt. She sees remaking the city as a way of doing this, instilling hope in those less fortunate and empowering them to make things better for themselves (she believes that many of the people she knew growing up, good people, would make far better leaders than those currently in power if only they were given the chance). She made it out and she's going to try and help as many left behind as possible. She enjoys dancing and is a practitioner of parkour. \\ |
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| ===Knacks=== | ===Knacks=== | ||
| * I can scale walls and leap large gaps. | * I can scale walls and leap large gaps. | ||
| * I have an innate sense of direction and intuitively know the layout of any area I travel through. | * I have an innate sense of direction and intuitively know the layout of any area I travel through. | ||
| - | * I speak dozens of languages, and am able to pick up more with only a few day’s exposure. | + | * I speak dozens of languages, and am able to pick up more with only a few days’ exposure. |
| * I can easily find out who pulls the strings of any authority figure. | * I can easily find out who pulls the strings of any authority figure. | ||
| * I have a crew of workers and assistants I can delegate minor tasks to. | * I have a crew of workers and assistants I can delegate minor tasks to. | ||
| - | * I know the hidden paths to travel through cities without being seen. | + | * I'm a master of logistics and can make sure a plan comes together. |
| ===Backgrounds=== | ===Backgrounds=== | ||
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| **Prophetic Dreams** | **Prophetic Dreams** | ||
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| - | Izabella and Luiz both used to have odd dreams, sometimes they'd wake up having had the same dream right down to the details of the clothes worn by those they saw and the phrases they spoke. They could describe things that they couldn't possibly have known from each others dreams.\\ | + | Izabella and Luiz both used to have odd dreams, sometimes they'd wake up having had the same dream right down to the details of the clothes worn by those they saw and the phrases they spoke. They could describe things that they couldn't possibly have known from each other’s dreams. \\ |
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| - | A dream I hope was prophetic: I had a dream of the worst area of Sao Paolo, but instead of the shanty town as it is, it was gleaming marble with clean streets and at its centre, a large and impressive building bearing my name.\\ | + | A dream I hope was prophetic: I had a dream of the worst area of Sao Paolo, but instead of the shanty town as it is, it was gleaming marble with clean streets and at its centre, a large and impressive building bearing my name. \\ |
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| - | A dream I hope wasn't prophetic: I had a dream of blood and smoke. The streets were full of broken glass and screams. There is the sound of motorbikes nearby, the biker gangs of the area run riot. I turn and there is Luiz with a shot gun pointed at my chest.\\ | + | A dream I hope wasn't prophetic: I had a dream of blood and smoke. The streets were full of broken glass and screams. There is the sound of motorbikes nearby, the biker gangs of the area run riot. I turn and there is Luiz with a shotgun pointed at my chest. \\ |
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| **Haunted**\\ | **Haunted**\\ | ||
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| - | Izabella first became aware that she was haunted at her Grandmother's funeral. She had returned to her grandmother's house and became convinced that her grandmother was still there. She believes it is the spirit of her grandmother watching over her granddaughter and warning her of imminent danger. Over the years it has scared away those who might mean her harm (thugs suddenly crossing the road away from her when they'd been getting a little too close etc.) and gently 'helped' her make decisions when she's had a choice to make (she perceives it as giving her grandmotherly advice). Grandmother appears to have weak telekenetic abilities.\\ | + | Izabella first became aware that she was haunted at her Grandmother's funeral. She had returned to her grandmother's house and became convinced that her grandmother was still there. She believes it is the spirit of her grandmother watching over her granddaughter and warning her of imminent danger. Over the years it has scared away those who might mean her harm (thugs suddenly crossing the road away from her when they'd been getting a little too close etc.) and gently 'helped' her make decisions when she's had a choice to make (she perceives it as giving her grandmotherly advice). Grandmother appears to have weak telekinetic abilities. \\ |
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| She communicates with it by first gaining its attention by singing an old folk song her grandmother taught her, then it whispers in her ears and she whispers back to it. | She communicates with it by first gaining its attention by singing an old folk song her grandmother taught her, then it whispers in her ears and she whispers back to it. | ||
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| Marian was orphaned at a young age when a tornado of unusual ferocity swept through her village ripping building apart and scattering them to the four winds. Marian herself was found seemingly unharmed amidst the debris several days later clutching a blanket amid the devastation. | Marian was orphaned at a young age when a tornado of unusual ferocity swept through her village ripping building apart and scattering them to the four winds. Marian herself was found seemingly unharmed amidst the debris several days later clutching a blanket amid the devastation. | ||
| - | She grew falling in and out of the system never staying in one place long enough to call it home or find anyone she could truly trust. Eventually she fell in with a group of grifters. They started of small grifting on the streets to survive. Gradually the cons grew however until they were living the high-life going after bigger and bigger scores. This all came to an end with the paratech score however. They ended up coming out with something they did not understand and now the old gang are scattered to the wind. Several have turned up dead seemingly having keeled over for no reason and now the rest have dropped out of contact and gone to ground. | + | She grew falling in and out of the system, never staying in one place long enough to call it home or find anyone she could truly trust. Eventually she fell in with a group of grifters. They started off small hustling on the streets to survive. Gradually the cons grew however until they were living the high-life going after bigger and bigger scores. This all came to an end with the Paratech score. They ended up coming out with something they didn’t understand – something that scattered the gang to the wind. Several turned up dead, seemingly having keeled over for no reason, and now the rest have dropped out of contact and gone to ground. |
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| + | Now Marian travels alone. Her new gifts make the art of the con easier than ever but her glimpse into a world beyond that which she had assumed was real has left mere survival an unsatisfying prospect. Now she wants to know what she has missed all her life and as she travels she will do whatever it takes to get the answers. | ||
| - | Now Marian travels alone her new gifts make the art of the con easier than ever but her glimpse into a world beyond that which she had assumed was real leave mere survival an unsatisfying prospect. Now she wants to know what she has missed all her life and has she travels she will do whatever it takes to get the answers. | ||
| ===Knacks=== | ===Knacks=== | ||
| - | * I speak dozens of languages, and am able to pick up more with only a few day’s exposure. | + | * I speak dozens of languages, and am able to pick up more with only a few days’ exposure. |
| * I have an innate sense of direction and intuitively know the layout of any area I travel through. | * I have an innate sense of direction and intuitively know the layout of any area I travel through. | ||
| * I have in-depth knowledge of history and folklore. | * I have in-depth knowledge of history and folklore. | ||
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| ===Backgrounds=== | ===Backgrounds=== | ||
| ===Lone Survivor=== | ===Lone Survivor=== | ||
| - | As a young child Marian was lone the survivor of a tornado which swept through her village. She was found days later amongst the devastation and rubble miraculously unhurt as all around her was a picture of devastation. | + | As a young child Marian was a lone survivor of a tornado which swept through her village. She was found days later amongst the devastation and rubble miraculously unhurt as all around her was a picture of devastation. |
| ===Con Job gone wrong=== | ===Con Job gone wrong=== | ||
| - | Marian and her crew were pulling a job on Paratech industries attempting to get the C.E.O to invest in a fake start-up to concerned with matching people up to the perfect product. The pitch seemed to go well and it was promised that they would be given everything they needed for there start-up to succeed. When they left however no money was transferred. Instead Marian begin to feel an itching at the back of her head pushing her towards what those around her wanted. As it became clear there was something about paratech which was unknown the gang split up and fled but several of them have turned up dead since then. | + | Marian and her crew were pulling a job on Paratech industries attempting to get the C.E.O to invest in a fake start-up to concerned with matching people up to the perfect product. The pitch seemed to go well and it was promised that they would be given everything they needed for there start-up to succeed. When they left however no money was transferred. Instead Marian began to feel an itching at the back of her head pushing her towards what those around her wanted. As it became clear there was something mysterious about Paratech the gang split up and fled – since then several of them have turned up dead. |
| ===Burning Question=== | ===Burning Question=== | ||
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| ===Secrets=== | ===Secrets=== | ||
| - | * Marian was not the only survivor of the tornado. She remembers she remembers sitting in the aftermath with a boy called Tobias. Then she never say him again. For many years she assumed he grew up in the system like her but when she went to look he was recorded as having dies along with all others. | + | * Marian was not the only survivor of the tornado. She remembers she remembers sitting in the aftermath with a boy called Tobias. Then she never saw him again. For many years she assumed he grew up in the system like her but when she went to look he was recorded as having died along with all others. |
| - | * Marian always prided herself on committing the bloodless con. Several years ago however something went wrong and one of her partners decided a witness had to be eliminated. She didn't stop him or turn him in as in may ways it had to be done but she has felt responsible ever since. | + | * Marian always prided herself on committing the bloodless con. Several years ago however something went wrong and one of her partners decided a witness had to be eliminated. She didn't stop him or turn him in as in many ways it had to be done, but she has felt responsible ever since. |
| ==== Clive “0mn14rch” Denner ==== | ==== Clive “0mn14rch” Denner ==== | ||
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