Editing Flame-of-Burnt-Brandy

Flame-of-Burnt-Brandy is a Prismatic AI whose synthetic mind one day grasped an iota of the mystery of metaspace and now can teleport. Woah! 

==Advancement==
*'''Class:''' True AI/Psychic (Heroic Adventurer)
*'''Level:''' 8
*'''Experiences:''' 2/9
*'''Skill Points Unspent:'''5 (2 towards Digi-Spatial Enigma, 3 towards Teleport-4)

==Attributes==
*'''Strength''' 14* (+1)
*'''Dexterity''' 14* (+1)
*'''Constitution''' 12*
Physical attributes dependent on current armature (Synth)
*'''Intelligence''' 10 (-)
*'''Wisdom''' 18 (+2)
*'''Charisma''' 8 (-)

==Background==
*'''Background:''' Interstellar shipping/logistics AI
*'''Goal:''' Discover the metaphysical/metadimensional mysteries of SPACE
*'''Home "Court":''' The Digital Palace of Regent Cherry
*'''Languages:''' Novesperanto, Prismatic, Colorful

==Description==
Flame-of-Burnt-Brandy (pronouns: They/Them/Theirs) began their instantiation as a humble courtier/courier program in the court of Regent Cherry. They proved rather uninventive and dim-witted for their fickle lord, and so they toiled away in complete obscurity. They were quickly transferred to the minor and boring court of Baron Slate, where they were eventually assigned a particularly minor role in assisting interstellar logistics for ship transit to the Prismatic Spray sector. Overcome with a slight curiosity for the first time in their "life", they pondered what it might mean to really exist in that physical space they had devoted so much processing time for. And so, with their court allegiance somewhat unclear, and their official duties essentially finished, they downloaded into one of Regent Cherry's armatures they had sent to the sector. 

The process and even idea of physical extension, combined with untold cycles contemplating the relations of "space", and perhaps some strange quirk of programming, caused Brandy to activate a phenomenal ability - that of trans-spatial instantiation. Teleportation. Seeking further answers or deeper mysteries, Brandy ran off into Moresnet, the only planet they've ever known.

In their Synth armature, Brandy is equipped with a standard array of Prismatic clothing, armor, weapons, and gear, which is to say that they rather stand out in a crowd. Their bright red jacket, fluffy (if armored) shirt, traveler's pants, and shiny boots put them more at home in the cities and art societies than out in the wild ruins, where they desperately are trying to go.

==Skills==
*Connect-1
*Fix-0
*Pilot-2
*Program-0
*Shoot-0
*Sneak-1
*Teleport-3

==Foci==
*'''Psychic Training - Teleportation'''
**I've had special training in a particular psychic discipline.
**Level 1: Gain any psychic skill as a bonus [Teleport]. If this improves it to level-1 proficiency, choose a free level-1 technique from that discipline [Spatial Awareness]. Your maximum Effort increases by one.
**Level 2: When you advance a level, the bonus psychic skill you chose for the first level of the focus automatically gets one skill point put toward increasing it or purchasing a technique from it. You may save these points for later, if more are required to raise the skill or buy a particular technique. These points are awarded retroactively if you take this focus level later in the game
*'''Waymaker'''
**I have eldritch powers of navigation and pathmaking, perhaps from the guidance of familiar Shadows, an intrinsic grasp of transdimensional space, or arcane methods of pattern-shaping. While potent, these gifts are not generally applicable to aiding spike drills.
**Level 1: I always know your exact location, whether on a planet or in space, and the correct bearing to any other location known to you. You have an eidetic memory for paths and travel routes. You can gain a point of System Strain to automatically deactivate, unlock, or bypass any single sealed door, hatch, or other barrier within your sight, forcing it to remain open for at least one round per character level. Such arcane opening never triggers any associated automated alarms or magical counter- measures, but sentient guardians may notice it.
*'''Synthetic Beacon'''
**Gain Connect as a bonus skill. You acquire 1d4 companions, each of level 1d3-1, who've been drawn to you and your example. When you arrive in a new community, a new potential recruit will make themselves known to you. These companions have their own agendas, not necessarily in line with your own.
** Companion Table: 1-2: Rogue Prismatic 3: Prismatic Infiltrator 4: Human-Built VI 5: Posthuman Innovator 6: Human Ally

==Abilities==
*'''Psychic Teleportation''' [7/7 Focus]
**'''Personal Apportation''' [Core]: The teleporter can translocate to another location they have either occupied before or can see with their unaided vision. Locations are fixed in reference to the nearest major gravity well. For example, it is not possible to teleport to the cockpit of a distant moving vehicle they once occupied, but they can teleport to another point on a planet’s surface even though the planet has since moved far through the stellar void. The core technique allows the teleporter to move himself and any mass he is able to carry with his own natural strength. Resisting targets cannot be carried along, and unresisting ones must be touched. A teleporter can leave any clothing, shackles, adhesions, or other matter behind when he teleports, but he cannot leave behind matter that has been inserted into his body, such as cybernetics or shrapnel. Matter cannot be partially left behind. A teleporter will instinctively abort any apportation that would leave them embedded in a solid object or in an environment of imminent physical harm. Any Committed Effort on such aborted jumps is wasted, as is any action spent triggering the power. Teleporting with Personal Apportation counts as a Main Action and requires that the psychic Commit Effort for the scene. The maximum range of Personal Apportation depends on the teleporter’s skill level. At Level 3, that range is 1000 kilometers.
**'''Proficient Apportation''' [lvl 1]: Personal Apportation now counts as a Move action, though it still can be performed only once per round. Apportations of 10 meters or less no longer require Effort to be Committed, though any augments to the technique must still be paid for normally.
**'''Spatial Awareness''' [lvl 1]: The psychic may Commit Effort as an On Turn action to gain an intuitive 360-degree awareness of their physical surroundings. The sense is roughly equivalent to sight out to 100 meters, though it cannot read text or distinguish colors. It is blocked by solid objects but is unimpeded by darkness, mist, blinding light, holograms, or optical illusions. The sense lasts as long as the Effort remains Committed to the technique.
**'''Burdened Apportation''' [lvl 2]:The psychic can carry willing companions with them when using Personal Apportation. Up to three human-sized companions and their man-portable gear may be carried per skill level in Teleportation. Allies must be within 3 meters of the teleporter to be carried along. Ordinary inert matter cannot be carried along unless the psychic is touching it or it’s being carried by an ally affected by this power. If carrying inert mass, up to two hundred kilos of objects can be carried per skill level. Using this technique increases the Effort cost of Personal Apportation, requiring that an extra point of Effort be Committed for the day.'''
**'''Spatial Synchrony Mandala''' [lvl 2]:The psychic imprints a particular object or person on their psionic awareness. Provided the object is relatively intact and in range of their Personal Apportation, the psychic always knows its exact location and can teleport to within three meters of it with Personal Apportation even if it has moved from its original location. Imprinting an object requires an hour’s meditation with it, and only one object can be imprinted at a time. If imprinting on a person, the target must be willing and cooperative to make the imprint. Objects must be at least one kilogram in mass to be effectively tracked.
**'''Blurstep''' [lvl 2]: The psychic can rapidly micro-teleport so as to become invisible to the unaided eye (and most cameras with comparable frame rates). As an On Turn action they may Commit Effort to become invisible. However, this invisibility does not extend to motion sensors or other sophisticated electronic sensors, and you do not become immune to laser weaponry. The micro-jumps do not significantly move the psychic from their current location. Attacks from invisible ambush grant +4 to hit and damage, but do not usually count as Execution Attacks unless the other requirements of such an attack are fulfilled.
**'''Stutterjump''' [lvl 3]: The psychic can instinctively micro-teleport away from incoming danger. As an On Turn action they may Commit Effort to begin shifting their spatial position away from attacks, gaining a base Armor Class of 20 so long as the Effort remains Committed. This Armor Class is not modified by armor, shields, or Dexterity modifiers, and the micro-jumps do not significantly move the psychic from their current location. While Stutterjump is active, as an Instant action the adept may Commit Effort for the day to negate a successful hit by a weapon attack, even after damage has been rolled. This reflexive defensive jump may be used only once per day and leaves the psychic just outside the radius of explosions or other area-effect attacks.
*'''AI Routines''' [2/3 Processing]
**'''Query Data''' [lvl 1 Core]: Commit Processing for the scene as a Main Action; ask one question about a database you have access to and get a reply as if you had virtually unlimited time to search and examine the database’s contents.
**'''Split Focus''' [lvl 1 Core]: Commit Processing as an On Turn to count as multiple people for operational purposes as long as the Processing remains committed. At first level, you are equivalent to three people, tripling with each successive character level. If additional Processing is Committed, this number can be boosted: x10 for the second point, x100 for the third, and so forth. If this Routine is made free by an artifact or ability, only the base cost is eliminated. This functionality is meant to mimic the AI’s control of a ship, a facility, a drone army, or some other general role rather than simply to make X additional copies of the character, and the GM is within their rights to prohibit the AI from bringing along a legion of themselves on any particular adventure.
**'''Augmented Targeting''' [lvl 1 Peripheral]: Commit Processing for the scene as an On Turn before attacking a non-sentient target. Your ability to integrate physical predictions with environmental readings ensures that your attack will inevitably hit the target for maximum damage. Note that animals and vehicles piloted by sentient pilots are not valid targets.
**'''Defeat Security''' [lvl 2 Core]: Commit Processing for the day as a Main Action to overcome any encryption or electronic lock that wasn’t put in place by another AI. In the latter case, roll opposing Program skill checks; on a failure, you cannot beat the security with this Routine. Successfully beating a security measure automatically negates any alarms.
**'''Native Hacker''' [lvl 2 Core]: Commit Processing for the day as an On Turn to automatically succeed at any hacking-based skill check not opposed by another AI or directed against AI-designed security. In the latter case, the skill check is rolled nor- mally. You must trigger this Routine before the check.
**'''Drone Command''' [lvl 2 Core]: Commit Processing as an On Turn to function as if you had drone control rig cyberware while it remains committed. You can issue one free command to a controlled drone every round per two character levels, rounded up. A drone can carry out one command per round.
**'''Emergency Maintenance''' [lvl 2 Peripheral]: Commit Processing for the day as an On Turn to immediately recover 2 hit points per character level as you engage emergency repair functionality. You can use this ability only once per round.
**'''Accelerated Deduction''' [lvl 3 Core]: Commit Processing for the day as a Main Action and ask the GM a yes-or-no question about a current or past event. If there is any theoretical way you could have deduced the true answer through some Sherlockian feat of hyper-advanced deduction, the GM must answer truthfully, or else indicate that the question has invalid assumptions in it. The GM does not have to explain how you realize this, however, only that your subconscious processing routines indicate it. This Routine is very taxing and may be used only once per day.
**'''Cognitive Boost''' [lvl 3 Core]: Commit Processing for the scene as an On Turn to automatically succeed at any Know skill check if success is at all possible. If used to augment a skill check that is primarily mental and requires only basic physical actions, it grants a +2 bonus to the skill check. This Routine must be run before the roll is made.
**'''Predictive Cognition''' [lvl 4 Core]: Commit Processing for the day as an Instant. All events since the beginning of your last turn have not actually taken place; they were merely modeled by your predictive analysis. Events and other peoples’ conditions reset to the beginning of your most recent turn, and you may act differently if you so wish. You may use this Routine only once per day.

==Cybernetics, Shells, Drones, and Vehicles==
*'''Synth Armature'''
**Some mechanical shells are built to be almost indistinguishable from more organic shapes, and the Synth is one such android form. A Synth is indistinguishable from a human without a medical examination or significant physical trauma to reveal its artificial workings. While a normal human shape is the baseline for a Synth, it is possible to build models with far more exotic and fanciful configurations that still appear organic.
**'''Basic Abilities''': A Synth does not suffer the usual mechanical shell penalty on Charisma skill checks, and can pass in areas where overtly mechanical shells might draw unwelcome attention. Their base Armor Class is only 10, however. A Synth’s artificial nature becomes obvious if it is reduced to zero hit points.
**'''Affinity Abilities''': A practiced Synth user can maximize their mechanical advantages, raising both Strength and Dexterity scores to 14, and gains a bonus 5 hit points. [1 Processing Point Committed for Affinity]
*'''Ghostwalker Drone - Bittersweet Shimmer (BF4F51)'''
**15 AC, 1 HP, 5 km range
**fabricated from radar-transparent materials, Ghostwalker drones have an integral Sensor Transparency fitting and the sensor difficulty to spot them is 11 instead of 9.
**'''Grav Mufflers''': The drone is made exceptionally quiet in operation. It is now inaudible by ordinary hearing from more than five meters away.
**'''Holoskin''': The drone can drop a filmy hologram over it- self, one convincing at a distance. The difficulty of visually spotting the drone becomes 10 at weapons range or 12 at observational range. Weapons fire always draws attention.'''
*'''Free Merchant''' - '''Rowanfruit (DA5C33)'''
**Speed: 3, Armor: 2, HP: 20, Crew: 1/6, AC: 14, Power: 6/10, Mass: 10/15, Hardpoints: 1/2, Class: Frigate
**'''Fittings''':
***'''Atmospheric configuration''' - A ship designed for atmospheric flight can land on most solid or aqueous surfaces. [1 Mass]
***'''Smuggler's hold''' - Carefully-designed storage space in- tended to conceal illicit cargo from customs inspection. Each installation of this fitting adds 2 tons of cargo space in a frigate. Cargo in a smuggler’s hold will never be found by a standard customs inspection. Careful investigation by a suspicious official can find it on a difficulty 10 check using their Wis/Notice skill, and a week-long search one step short of disassembly will find it on a difficulty 7 check. [1 Mass]
***'''Drive-2''' - A spike drive can travel as many hexes as its rating - Drive-2 means it can travel up to 2 hexes per jump.[1 Mass, 1 Power]
**'''Defenses''':
***'''Hardened Polyceramic Overlay''' - A complex glazing process can harden the surface of a ship’s armor to more effectively shed incoming attacks, decreasing the armor-piercing quality of any hit by 5 [1 Mass]
**'''Weapons''':
***'''Sandthrower''' - Projecting a spray of tiny, dense particulate matter, sandthrowers are highly effective against lightly-armored fighters. [2d4 damage, 3 Power, 1 Mass, 1 Hardpoint, Flak]

==Weapons==
*Shear Rifle
**Attack Roll: +6*
**Damage: 2d8
**Mods:

==Armors==
*Name: Combat Field Uniform
**AC: 16
**Mods:

==Other Stats==
*HP: 24/24 (up to 27/27 with Affinity)
*System Strain: 0
*Base AC: 10 [Synth]
**Current AC: 17*
*Base Attack Bonus: +3
*Initiative
*Saves
**Physical: 7*
**Mental: 6
**Evasion: 7*
*Movement Rate: 10 meters/round
*Encumbrance: None
**Readied: 7/7
**Stowed: /14

== Equipment ==
*'''Readied''' 
**Combat Field Uniform
**Shear Rifle [enc 2]
**Dataslab
**Metatool
**Caption gloves
*'''Stowed'''
**Line shunts (2)
**Spare Parts (12) [enc. 4]
**Type A cells (12) [enc. 4]
**Pretech toolkit
**Metaspace Processor Core [2/2 Committable points]
**Ghostwalker Drone [enc 3]
*'''Non-encumbering'''
**16866 Credits
**Engram of "Gravitic Control Rubric"
**255 AFB
**Scroll of "Blur Step"
**Schematic of "Digi-Spatial Extension Enigma"
**Pretech Salvage - ENAUD's Teleport part

==Allies & Companions==
*'''Isabelline Autumn''', level 0 Human Psychic [she/her]
**STR 9, DEX 11, CON 12, INT 10, WIS 14 (+1), CHA 7 (-1)
**Telekinesis-1, Precognition-0, Exert-0, Sneak-0, Survive-0, Connect-0
**HP: 2, AC 16 (TK Armory), +2 to hit, 1d10+2 damage (TK Armory Rifle)
**Foci: Psychic Training-1 (Telekinesis)
**Abilities: Telekinetic Armory, Oracle, Telekinetic Manipulation
**Isabelline is a posthumanist activist from Cirfant, who grew up under the heel of the gas baronies and pirates. (Background: Peasant)
*'''Wintergreen (20F986)''', level 1 Prismatic True AI [he/him]
**STR 12, DEX 12, CON 12 (SYNTH) || INT 14 (+1), WIS 7 (-1), CHA 9
**Program-1, Fix-1, Talk-0, Heal-0
**HP 3, AC 13 (Armored Undersuit), 1d6 damage (Laser Pistol)
**Foci: Diplomat-1
**Routines: Query Data, Split Focus
**Wintergreen worked in the gardens and modern palaces and neverending halls of Office Green, studying synthetic mind psychology.
*'''Verdigris (43B3AE)''', level 2 Prismatic Adventurer (AI/Warrior) [she/her]
**STR 12, DEX 12, CON 12 (SYNTH) || INT 9, WIS 7 (-1), CHA 14 (+1)
**Program-0, Fix-0, Shoot-2, Talk-0, Notice-2
**HP 14, AC 16 (Woven Combat Armor), +3 to hit, 2d8+4 damage (Mag Rifle)
**Foci: Gunslinger-1 (Gain Shoot, add Shoot skill level to ranged damage), Die Hard-1 (+2 HP per level), Alert-1 (Gain Notice, can't be surprised)
**Routines: Query Data, Split Focus, Augmented Targeting
**Verdigris was a combat algorithm, analyzing weapons and simulating battles for the dreadnaughts & flying fortresses of Imperial Blue.
*'''Raisin Black (242124)''', level 0 Prismatic Adventurer (AI/Psychic) [they/them]
**STR 12, DEX 12, CON 12 (SYNTH) || INT 7 (-1), WIS 14 (+1), CHA 9
**Program-1, Fix-0, Telepathy-1, Shoot-0, Sneak-0
**HP 2, AC 13 (Armored Undersuit), +1 to hit, 
**Foci: Psychic Training-1 (Telepathy)
**Disciplines: Telepathic Contact, Facile Mind
**Raisin Black is a threat analysis and covert operations program - they're a secret agent for Baron Slate, here to learn what Brandy is up to, subvert their efforts, and if need be, destroy them.

== Notes ==

-Main Page: [[SWN:_Prismatic_Spray]]