Doctor Inez

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"Doctor" Inez :: Medic

Attributes

|| Physical || Mental || Social ||

Trained Skills

Fix

Labor

Move

Notice

Operate

Perform

• Bedside Manner

Throw

Treat

Trick

Untrained Skills

| All Others |

Distinctions/SFX

Checked SFX are active.

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Rogue Synth- Some call you a broken tool. Some call you a dangerous aberration. Some call you the dawn of a new age. You're mostly trying to not get decommissioned, and if you're able to either fulfill the true spirit of your original purpose or transcend it entirely, that's a bonus. (Labor, Notice, Trick)

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a

Helper-Bot 9000: You're instinctually driven to be helpful. It's what you were made for, after all. When you lend a die in support of another's action, you can also offer them 1 of your Plot Points to spend on the roll if they need it.

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Street Doc - Description (Fix, Operate, Treat)

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a

Downloaded Medical Library: You have access to terabytes of information on medicine and the human body... But not always the experience to apply it correctly. You may step up or double Treat when dealing with a medical issue, but both 1 and 2 on the dice count as a hitch.

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Yo-ho-ho? - You fell into the pirate's life like a fish flopping out of a net. But you haven't been tossed back, and you haven't drowned, even if you've lost track of this metaphor. So fake it till you make it, arr? (Move, Perform, Throw)

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a

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Signature Assets

Moomintroll Magical Medical Satchel^TM A high quality emergency medkit branded with Finland's national pop culture mascot.

Where does she hide all those injection darts? Usually filled with tranquilizer, but sometimes something more helpful - or nastier.

Background/Bio

With strawberry pink hair, unnaturally amber eyes, and a slightly plastic-y cast to her skin when viewed in the right light, it's clear Inez's appearance isn't 'natural', but in the world of 2185 that doesn't necessarily mark her out as a synth. The barcode and serial number tattooed on the small of her back would, but she doesn't show that to just anyone. Even her model is fairly uncommon; only those who've been to a big city's bargain-basement clinics rather than a proper street doc have much of a chance of recogizing a 'Nurse Lina'.

She's a rogue synth, though she'd take some issue with the term 'rogue'. She's still doing what her line was designed for. Sort of, at least. The important bits. Aboardship she's the medic, foremost. Every pirate ship needs a sawbones, and she's one of the best afloat, she'll have you know. She holds firm to the Code, and even tries to render first aid to enemies if it's not too risky.

Out of necessity, she's learned to be circumspect and tricky, and is less used to dealing straight with people (except when giving them medical news). She also doesn't field compliments well. The extent to which she uses her built-in 'marketing appeal' is context-dependent, but she resents any situation that pressures her into it.

Her manufacturers - Stäubli-Comeau, mostly known for heavy industrial frames and non-anthroform workbots - had been trying to break into the synth market for some time. They'd achieved limited success in 'low prestige' sectors such as custodial work, mostly through connections to existing industrial customers, but the board was itching for something flashier to drive up shares. During a joint project with Johnson & Johnson-Baker-Hughes on a next-generation remote industrial trauma response bot, SC engineers hit upon the idea for a nursing assistance and home care model. While the engineers initially designed the training matrix for elder care facilities with their high staff burnout rate (made even worse by medical technologies getting better at expensively keeping people not-quite-dead), Marketing decided to target 'upscale' buyers who wanted to maintain social isolation from those with lower (net) worth but still maintain intimate care. Thus, advertising and trade dress for the "Nurse Lina" model focused on its 'bedside manner' more than anything, and 'accomodations' were made in the spec*. Initial sales of the model were dismal, as the desires of the target market were severely misinterpreted**, and an attempt to pivot to selling to care facilities ran into the issue of the design not really fitting into the care environment. The truncated production run mostly ended up sold at clearance prices to 'bargain clinics' and their associated chopshops. The accompanying need to override the medical ethics programming they were originally designed with has not uncommonly led to... glitches. Like the one that led to Lina Serial Number ES-1138 getting fed up and bailing on her 'owners'.

• This included switching from licensing ABB-UR's androgynous and flexibly molded S.Karl(a) chassis to a modification of Bandai-Mattel's S.Barbi, designated S.Lina.

• • Since they'd rather be exercising abusive levels of power over 'real' people, generally.

Essie's 'adjusted' programming never quite took right. The triage protocols of the clinic in the low-income sectors of Talinn that owned her required she prioritize treatment and survival of 'clients' with substance abuse and domestic violence issues who were ruining their bodies but still holding down jobs - and thus able to pay, and keep paying more - over retirees who just had one or two major but fixable issues and otherwise still-harvestable organs. Not that she was actually involved in those care decisions, despite her instant access to the best medical libraries; mostly she was a comforting or enticing distraction.

Eventually she reasoned herself to the point that the greatest ongoing threat to the patients' health were her owners. And yet, harvested organs went on to help people. If this were a story in the tabloids or anti-synth propaganda, this is where she would go on a deadly rampage with a scalpel and reduce her owners to donor organs, but to her, violence did not (yet) compute. Instead, in the dead hours of one slow morning, she disconnected from wifi and just left.

Knowing little about the world outside the clinic except for secondhand through net research - including, both fortunately and unfortunately, that any searchable orgs offering aid to synths would actually be fronts for repossessors - at first she focused on just not sticking out too much. This didn't really work, and a lack of ID or accounts made getting even new clothes feel like an insurmountable challenge. Finally she settled on what she hoped was the least risky course of action, going to a street doc and offering her services.

She got lucky in that, at least. Lark Ilves quickly grasped her nature, but took her at face value, taking her on as a nurse. Inez - renaming herself had been one of her first acts of freedom - hungrily devoured the practical advice and experience she offered, and while Inez had no true credentials, it was eventually clear that she was ready to start her own practice. But even in the tech-heavy undersectors of Talinn, a synth doctor on her own might attract too much uncomfortable attention. When Estonian politics tipped a little more corporate one election and the police started 'cracking down' on unlicensed practice of medicine, they realized there would be too much heat from having Inez around to just bribe things off discreetly. Åland as a nigh-mythical land of freedom had already been looming large in Inez' mind, and through a contact of a contact Lark was able to get her a berth on a Buccaneer ship.

Though she was supposed to be just a passenger, the crew ran into Raiders on the way and her quick intervention saved the lives of several wounded among the crew. That got her an invitation to stick around, and she just... did, for a few voyages. She's rotated through a few crews since, trying to find one where she feels she really fits in.