Etiology:Kaisen

Biographical Info

• Name: Kaisen
• Motivations: +Exploration +Uplift Rights +Thrillseeking
• Languages: Cantonese & English & French
• Ego Traits: Enhanced Behavior (Obedience) Level 2; Enhanced Behavior (Curiosity) Level 1; Morph Familiarity (Neo-Avian); Morphing Disorder 1; Restricted Behavior (Violence) Level 1
• Background: Uplift
• Career: Explorer
• Interest: Rogue
• Faction: Mercurials
• Gender: Male
• Sex: Male
• Age: 7
• Muse: Jacques Cousteau
• Ego Flex: 1

Aptitudes

	COG	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WILL
Apt	20	15	25	15	15	10
Check (x3)	60	45	75	45	45	30

Derived Stats

Stat	Formula	Value
Initiative	(REF+INT)/5	7
Lucidity	WIL x 2	20
Trauma Threshold	LUC/5	4
Insanity Rating	LUC x 2	40
Infection Rating (Async)	Psi x 10	~

Pools

Pool	Total	Spent
Insight	2	1
Moxie	1	0
Vigor	0	0
Flex	1	0

Rep

Network	Value	Min (3/week)	Mod (1/week)	Maj (1/arc)
@-rep	60	1
c-rep	0
f-rep	0
g-rep	0
i-rep	0
r-rep	0
x-rep	40

Morph

• Type: Biomorph
• Ware: Neo-Avian
• Traits: 360 Degree Vision; Anti-Glare; Chameleon Skin; Claws; Drug Gland (Phlo); Drug Gland (Kick); Enhanced Vision; Exotic Morphology (Level 3); Medichines; Non-Human Biochemistry (Level 2); Polarization Filters; Radiation Sense
• Wound Threshold: 5
• Durability: 25
• Death Rating: 38

Active Skills

Skill	Value	Apt	Total	Specializations
Athletics	65	SOM	80	~
Deceive	40	SAV	55	~
Fray	30	REF x 2	80	~
Free Fall	0	SOM	15	~
Guns	0	REF	25	Behavior Restricted
Hardware [Type]	0	COG	20	~
Infiltrate	55	REF	80	~
Infosec	0	COG	20	~
Interface	0	COG	15	~
Kinesics	30	SAV	45	~
Medicine [Paramedic]	20	COG	40	~
Melee	0	SOM	20	Behavior Restricted
Perceive	50	INT x 2	80	See
Persuade	0	SAV	15	~
Pilot [Nautical]	20	REF	45	~
Program	0	COG	20	~
Provoke	25	SAV	40	~
Psi	0	WIL	10	~
Research	0	INT	15	~
Survival	65	INT	80	Hunting

Know Skills

Skill	Value	Apt	Total	Specializations
Astrobiology	30	COG	45	~
Gatecrashing Ops	40	COG	55	~
Mercurials	30	COG	45	~
Surveying	60	COG	75	~
Uplift Rights	60	COG	75	~
Zoology	30	COG	55	~

Muse

• Name: Coustau

	COG	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WILL
Apt	10	15	10	10	10	10
Check (x3)	30	45	30	30	30	30

Skill	Value
Hardware: Electronics	30
Infosec	30
Interface	60
Know: Accounting	60
Know: Psychology	60
Medicine: Psychosurgery	30
Perceive	30
Program	30
Research	30

WT	DUR	DR
4	20	40

Gear

Autocook
Breadcrumb System
Electronic Rope
Healing Spray
Mission Recorder
Portable SolArchive (Astrobiology)
Pressure Tent
Saucer
Standard Vacsuit
TacNet App

Combat Gear

• Armor: Standard Vacsuit (AV 8/6)
• Ranged Weapons: None
• Melee Weapons: Claws (2d6+1, Melee)

Miscellaneous

• Gear Pack 1: Gatecrashing
• Gear Pack 2: Explorer
• Other Gear: Refunded Medium Pistol, Scout Missile, Direction Sense, Enhanced Vision

Character Notes

Kaisen was never supposed to have a body. He, and several hundred other uplifts and AGIs, were intended to populate the next smash-hit multiplayer simsense game. Wild Kingdoms would see players step through a magical portal to an alternate Earth where kingdoms ruled by uplifts were under attack by evil alien machines. Only the humans could wield the invaders' strange techno-magic and save the planet! It attracted the predictable protests, from Mercurials who claimed it was a gross exaggeration of their goals and a smear on their capabilities; from anarchists who decried the use of sapient beings for pleasure; from Argonauts who advised that transhuman-equivalent minds would break down psychologically from living in a fake, constructed reality.

The hypercorp didn't care and the news didn't report on protests from beyond the asteroid belt. When the game launched, millions of players logged in and stepped through their portals and watched as Mercurial and anarchist hackitvist/terrorist teams tore the game apart from the inside. Castles were redecorated with offal and human waste; the fluffy clouds were reshaped into stick figures performing pornographic acts; and the NPCs shook their genitals and screamed anti-corporate epithets. And those were just the teams tasked to disruption! Others infiltrated the game codes and the physical server-satellites, liberating as many of the uplift and AGI minds as they possibly could.

Kaisen got his first taste of corporeal reality in a habitat orbiting Jupiter. After he stopping heaving his guts out, he loved it. He was a Mercurial die-hard from day one, but the psychosurgery embedded in his brain kept him from being a field operative. Instead he put his love of flying and exploration to work as a gatecrasher, and in the meantime funnels as much of his rep as he can to Mercurial and anarchist causes. When he's not flying above alien planets, he's stumping for Mercurial causes on social media or experiencing the latest march on Titan via simsense.

Last Backup

A few days before the lastest gate-trip. Kaisen is careful to back up before each trip, and to leave himself as many notes as he can.

Psychosurgery

Kaisen's ego has been extensively modified by hypercorp interests to make him the perfect servant and bit-character in someone else's story. He has yet to save up enough rep to undo it.

Forks

Kaisen isn't aware of any official forks he has, but he's sometimes bothered by the idea that his brain remains on a hypercorp server somewhere, ready to be chopped up for some other project that needs a neo-avian perspective.

Fake IDs

Kaisen has no fake IDs, but if he went back to the inner system he stands a good chance of being seized as stolen property.

Additional Notes

Customization: 20 CP
Enforced Behavior Level 2; +2
Enforced Behavior Level 1; +1
Morphing Disorder; +2
Restricted Behavior Level 1; +1
Refunded

• Scout Missile; +2
• Enhanced Vision; +1
• Direction Sense; +1
• Medium Pistol; +1

Morph Familiarity -1
INT +5; -5
REF +5; -5
Drug Gland (Phlo); -5
Drug Gland (Kick); -4
360 Degree Vision; -1
Anti-Glare; -1
Polarization Vision; -1
Radiation Sense; -1
Chameleon Skin; -1
Medichines; -3
Specialization Perceive (See); -1
Specialization Survival (Hunting); -1