HalcyonKnights:Sound
| Sound Judgment of Externalities | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Labels | |||
| Danger | −1 | Freak | +1 |
| Savior | +1 | Superior | +2 |
| Mundane | 0 | ||
| Conditions | |||
| Afraid | Angry | ||
| Guilty | Hopeless | ||
| Insecure | |||
| Has Influence Over | |||
| Invincible Sword Princess! Sunstar | |||
Contents
Sound Judgment of Externalities ("Sound")[edit]
the Outsider
A Player Character in Halcyon Knights.
Look[edit]
- woman
- neon body
- metallic eyes
- no human clothing
- practical costume
Sound appears to be a short, curvy young woman made of henna-colored ceramic streaked with circuitry of variously colored metals, though her skin is warm and soft to the touch. She wears practical clothing from her native land (modified for North American concepts of modesty—it's much hotter in Erganon), essentially a vest of pockets and web gear over a tailored uniform blouse and cargo shorts. Her disposition is generally cheerful, though she can turn stern in a moment if she sees destructive waste or inefficiency.
Abilities[edit]
- alien weaponry
- vibration control
Outsider Moves[edit]
- Belong in two worlds
- You have the resources that come with your station. Whenever you contact your people, roll +Superior. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7–9, hold 2. On a miss, hold 1, but your people make an uncomfortable demand of you. Spend your hold 1 for 1 to:
- receive a useful piece of alien technology that will allow you to use any ability from another playbook once (choose the ability when you spend the hold)
- consult your people's knowledge to ask the GM a question about the current situation
- clear a condition through the comfort of contact with your home
- Alien tech
- When you alter a human device with your alien technology, roll +Freak. On a hit, you create a device that can do something impossible once and then fizzle. When you roll a 10+, choose one:
- it works exceptionally well
- you get an additional use out of it
- On a miss, the device works, but it has a completely unintended side effect that the GM will reveal when you use it.
- Alien ways
- Whenever you openly disregard or undermine an important Earth custom in favor of one of your own people's customs, shift Superior up and any other Label down.
Backstory[edit]
- Where do you come from?
- My people dwell in the parallel dimension called Iapetos (not to be confused with the similarly-named moon of your planet Saturn), which is the reified body of the Titan Iapetos who departed Earth many thousands of years ago. Your myth of the Titanomachy is, to be polite, not consistent with our histories, but there is a germ of truth in it.
- Why did you come to Earth?
- The nation of Erganon made contact with the Earth dimension four years ago to trade for certain mineral resources, supplies of which were running short in our area of Iapetos. I was among the vanguard of Operation GOLDEN SPEAR, the first wave of contact.
- Why do you want to stay here (for now at least)?
- It's—it's fascinating! So much open space, so much life! It's nothing like home. So many new things to see!
- Why do your people want you to come home?
- Renewed war with Telekhar is likely within the next few years, according to the Prolepsis. All of Erganon's Champions will be needed. But I don't see why I should have to go home yet—I'm learning so much that could be useful to us! And…coffee!
- Why do you care about the team?
- Your people's Champions are so…disorganized. Together, our team can be a model of synergy, an example from which your so-called "Exemplars" could stand to learn. We will learn together, work together, teach together, and if even a few of Earth's Champions come to understand their proper role in society, my decision to stay here for the time being will be vindicated.
- So you've been here a few years now, but how long have you been off your government's leash, so to speak?? Did any of your family come to stay here with you or do you live in, like, some kinda government funded Alien Envoy/Displaced Weirdo housing?
- Family…? Um, you mean my assembly? For sure not! No, I'm kind of couch-surfing with the team and their friends since I refused to obey the last recall order. I don't have a lot of money, but then, with my Nutrient Replacement Engine and my Recalibrating Neural Coprocessor, my biological needs are pretty minimal, so it's just a question of somewhere to hang out when I don't want to spend money on coffee. I watch a lot of Netflix and such while people are asleep.
- Coffee. Did I mention I love Earth? Mmmm.
- That Silver Age guy who claimed to be the reincarnation of Atlas is still kicking around I think, have you had any run-ins with him? Gotta be weird talking to a guy who's convinced your god is sort of his dad.
- Yeah, that was a weird conversation all right. What a maroon. Is that the phrase? Totally delusional. It was really awkward trying to be polite about it. We didn't part on good terms.
- What major social faux pas did you unknowingly make, and what parent revoked your couch surfing permit for it?
- We don't have pets in Erganon. There are some nations in Iapetos where animals do play a significant cultural role, but not as pets. So…the only time I visited the Walker household (as a friend from school, of course, not a fellow superhero), their dog didn't like me. I mistook it for a macroparasite that had invaded their home, consuming their food and water resources, potentially dangerous to the young one, so I put it out on the fire escape. Fortunately Mrs. Walker saw and let it back in before it froze to death, but she says I'm not welcome there any more.
- Stupid yappy dog.
- How do the folks back home contact you, and have you made any excuses for ignoring that pesky recall order?
- They call me on my cell phone. Your planet's telecommunications systems are primitive compared to the electrophotonic nervous system of the Great Maker Iapetos! We tapped into your Internet and your telephone network within days after penetrating the Tartarus Lock. As for the recall order, at first I made up stories like having been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations of Earth so it would be an international incident if I disappeared, but now I just swipe left. Usually they don't bother leaving voicemail.
- Ah, do you have a disguise of some sort you wear when you're not heroing it up, or are there just enough weird meta-human folks running around that no one really questions the fact that you're made of squishy ceramic and colorful metal?
- Oh, I don't have a Husk-Sculpting Apparatus or a chameleon suit or anything. There aren't that many obvious metahuman teenagers around, even in Halcyon City, but I'm one of them…
Relationships[edit]
- I've been learning about Earth by spending time with Sunstar.
- I have a crush on Indestructible Girl but I keep it under wraps.
- Invincible Sword Princess! will have to prove herself to me before she feels like a real hero.
- Sunstar once hurt me when he lost control of his powers.
- I knew Superstring from his civilian life first.
Additional Information[edit]
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