Felix-R-FDT-1 Male Research & Design Team Leader Service Firm: Botricide Investigators RD Service Firm Type: Bot Processing Security Clearance: RED Credits: 1,000 Tics: Likes to reminisce about old bot-homicide cases. Example of Tic in use: Felix-R: So I told my partner, "If this was the result of a power cell overload, I'm INDIGO!" Megan-R: Wow. How interesting. Felix-R: That's when I spotted a spent gauss round in the corner, just like I thought I would. Megan-R: I think I'll go guard that far-away wall for a bit. ACTION SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Management 07 Interrogation 11 Intimidation 01 Make people cry with a moving story about a poor, dead bot 13 Stealth 04 Security Systems 08 Sneaking 01 Casually kick a piece of evidence out of the crime scene 09 Violence 07 Energy Weapons 11 Fine Manipulation 11 Hand Weapons 01 KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Hardware 10 Bot Ops and Maintenance 14 Chemical Engineering 14 Habitat Engineering 01 Weapon and Armor Maintenance 01 Remove stubborn bot fluid stains from floors 16 Software 08 Bot Programming 12 Financial Systems 01 Replace a PDC video file with a 'That Show Trial Show' re-run 14 Wetware 04 [No specialties] Felix-R-FDT-1 Male Research & Design Team Leader Mutation: Matter Eater Society: Communists (degree 1) Secret Skills: Demolition 16, Botspotting 10, Commie Propaganda 09 Background: BI is a difficult job but you like it. Not because you like or hate bots, but investigating the scene of a bot destruction and figuring out how it happened is a wonderful puzzle. You've always liked puzzles; the ones you could figure out, that is. Sometimes a case would get frustrating and you'd swallow a valuable piece of evidence out of spite. Sometimes you'd do that to protect your comr ... fellow citizens. Either way, you usually figure out what happened to a poor bot. Finding the culprit? That's a matter for IntSec. You could care less. Secret Society Instructions: If you are lucky enough to be assigned near any forms of transportation, disable them all. The People's Soviet has decided that transbots, autohacks and the like are tools of the bourgeoisie to keep the masses flabby and soft. Always walk, comrade! You should also recruit your teammates and supervisors into the Communist Party--blackmail them into agreeing to join our cause! You say you want a Revolution? Well, c'mon! Personal Equipment (1) Five-Year Planning For Dummies on memchip (TREASONOUS) (5) tablets of suggexidrine (makes subject open to suggestion) (YELLOW) (1) gauss detector (detects use of gauss weapons up to 1 day prior) (RED) (6) Radberry-flavored meal substitute bars (RED) Assigned Equipment (1) red laser pistol (2) red laser barrels (1) series 1300 PDC (1) ME Card (1) jumpsuit red reflec armor (2) com 1's Megan-R-QUS-1 Female Internal Security Happiness Officer Service Firm: Joyful Biometrics IS Service Firm Type: Glee Quota Adjutants Security Clearance: RED Credits: 1,000 Tics: The worse the situation, the more she reminds people to "Keep smiling!" Example of Tic in use: Erica-R: We're dead. Those guys will tell on us for sure. Megan-R: Well, that's no reason to stop smiling, you sourpuss! Erica-R: Don't you get it? We're facing termination, maybe erasure! Meagan-R: Well ... er ... keep smiling! Just keep smiling! ACTION SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Management 09 Intimidation 13 Bootlicking 13 Moxie 01 Con Games 01 Make really happy events sound boring and dull with service firm jargon 15 Stealth 04 [No specialties] Violence 07 Hand Weapons 11 Energy Weapons 11 Agility 01 Use a biometric analyzer to cause mild but annoying pain 13 KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Hardware 04 [No specialties] Software 09 Data Analysis 13 Data Search 13 Hacking 01 Vehicle Programming 01 Correlate citizen happiness with decreased exposure to bots 15 Wetware 07 Pharmatherapy 11 Medical 01 Amaze people with encyclopedic knowledge of facial muscles 13 Megan-R-QUS-1 Female Internal Security Happiness Officer Mutation: Energy Field Society: Frankenstein Destroyers Secret Skills: Demolition 02, Bot Toolmaking 10, Bot Reprogramming 06 Background: You don't have a rabid hatred of bots--you just know they make people unhappy. Especially yourself. That's why you volunteered to join Joyful Biometrics IS. They developed a way to quantitatively measure a citizen's happiness by measuring facial muscles, expressions and features. Now you can prove that bots cause unhappiness in citizens. You just need more data to create a baseline group, which will allow correlated studies on such events as bot population blooms, B3 distribution patterns, anti-social behavior mandate violations ... it's all really exciting. Really. Secret Society Instructions: Code Nine! This is no drill! Some bot-loving bastard in R&D created a new, improved type of bot brain that cannot be detected! That means bots can WALK AMONG US UNNOTICED!!! All Troubleshooter agents are advised to watch for a new type of bot that uses this undetectable brain. It must be destroyed before it is put into production! If you hear about this, let us know and DESTROY THAT BOT!!! Personal Equipment (1) Bot Brain Detector (tells whether an object has a bot brain with 1 meter range) (YELLOW) (1) 200 Jokes For Any Clearance book (INFRARED) (1) biometric analyzer mask (detects levels of happiness in a face) (RED) (1) Autographed Teela-O-MLY PDC Syntheleather cover Assigned Equipment (1) Red laser pistol (2) Red laser barrels (1) Series 1300 PDC (1) ME Card (1) jumpsuit red reflec armor (6) gelgernine ('Inner Happiness') dermal patches Erica-R-BKC-1 Female Power Services Hygiene Officer Service Firm: Power Services Medical PS Service Firm Type: Power Oscillation Professionals Security Clearance: RED Credits: 1,000 Tics: Constantly overestimating the danger of a given situation unless called on it. Example of Tic in use: Doug-R: What's that box with all the blinking lights? Erica-R: Hmmm. Could be a class J tacnuke with a motion detector. That'll explain the lights. Doug-R: What? How do you know? Erica-R: Fine, I have no idea what the box is. Is that better? ACTION SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Management 07 Moxie 11 Chutzpah 01 Stealth 04 Steal valuable palm-sized power converters without others noticing 10 Violence 06 Energy Weapons 10 Jump out of the way of a citizen who didn't take grounding seriously 12 KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Hardware 09 Mechanical Engineering 13 Vehicle Ops and Maintenance 13 Bot Ops and Maintenance 01 Habitat Engineering 01 Point to the one wire that will kill people if they touch it 15 Software 06 Financial Systems 10 Data Analysis 01 Wetware 08 Medical 12 Pharmatherapy 12 Cloning 01 Suggestion 01 Use FunFoods as burn cream medications 14 Erica-R-BKC-1 Female Power Services Hygiene Officer Mutation: Deep Thought Society: Free Enterprise Secret Skills: Haggling 09, Advertising 14, Bribery 07 Background: Most citizens understand that wires can be dangerous, but they'd be surprised at how damaging they can be to the human body. Your whole job is to run from accident to accident, trying to save the poor Power Serv techs who crossed the wrong wires. Sure, there's fringe benefits, such as taking and selling any personal equipment left behind by the crispy clone. And sometimes you can even save a life. If they have the credits. Hey, it's a clone-eat-clone world out there! A girl's gotta make a living! Secret Society Instructions: Word has it that IntSec cooked up some new thing that reads ME cards from a distance. Now that could be beneficial to our operation, capiche? You Troubleshooters are always getting in trouble with IntSec, so if you see this thing ... borrow it. If you get it, call your capo and he'll send a few boys 'round to pick it up from you. Yes, and pay you handsomely for your efforts. Would we forget one of our own? Personal Equipment (1) CreditWasher Beta program loaded in PDC (launders credits) (ILLEGAL) (2) Tubes of Squeaky! all-purpose cleaning gel (RED) (6) AAAAA batteries (1) Stickies Air Freshener, C-Breeze Scented (RED) Assigned Equipment (1) Red laser pistol (2) Red laser barrels (1) Series 1300 PDC (1) ME Card (1) jumpsuit red reflec armor (1) skincore sampler Doug-R-DPL-1 Male CPU Loyalty Officer Service Firm: Volunteer Relaxation Specialists CPU Service Firm Type: Volunteer Collection Agencies Security Clearance: RED Credits: 1,000 Tics: Honestly believes screaming, "RELAX!!!" will help nervous people relax. Example of Tic in use: Russel-R: Oh, please! If we don't hurry, we're all bound for the vats. Doug-R: WILL YOU RELAX PLEASE! Russel-R: Jeez! Did you have to scream in my ear? Doug-R: Hey, I'm the relaxation specialist 'round here. NOW RELAX! RELAX!!! ACTION SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Management 05 Oratory 09 Interrogation 01 Make people nervous by telling them everything is going to be all right 11 Stealth 07 Sneaking 11 High Alert 01 Violence 10 Unarmed Combat 14 Agility 14 Energy Weapons 14 Fine Manipulation 01 Demolition 01 Squeeze someone until a lack of oxygen forces them to 'relax' into unconsciousness 16 KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Hardware 08 Weapon Ops and Maintenance 12 Mechanical Engineering 01 Use pieces of chairs, benches, and desks as make-shift armor 14 Software 05 [No specialties] Wetware 05 Suggestion 09 Biosciences 01 Subliminally plant a desire to volunteer when talking about volunteering 11 Doug-R-DPL-1 Male CPU Loyalty Officer Mutation: Charm Society: Psion Secret Skills: Power Studies 10, Meditation 13, Twitchtalk 07 Background: You remember being worried that a big, strong (and kinda violent) clone wouldn't fit into a weak service group like CPU. Man, were you ever wrong. They need guys like you to calm down people who were 'volunteered' into CPU focus groups. Some of those citizens get really upset when they wake up to find their part of a CPU study, so you help them ... relax. Sometimes to the point of needing another clone. You get in trouble when that happens, so now you use your 'hidden talent' to get them to trust you. If only you could stop trusting them in return; but that's the price of your hidden talent. Secret Society Instructions: This is Control. We have foreseen one of your team killing several mutants. We do not have an image or name, only that he or she was on her second clone. Make sure each member of your team reaches their third clone quickly. We are Control. You obey. Personal Equipment (3) red capsules of hyproxicillin (slight mutant power increase) (HIGHLY TREASONOUS) (3) red capsules of sandallathon (sleep drug) (RED) (1) red bungee cord, 1-meter long (RED) (2) tickets to next monthcycles Funball Tournament of Heroes (INFRARED) Assigned Equipment (1) Red laser pistol (2) Red laser barrels (1) Series 1300 PDC (1) ME Card (1) jumpsuit red reflec armor (1) Loyalty Officer notebook with thumbprint lock Russel-R-TGM-1 Male Armed Forces Equipment Officer Service Firm: Infinity Ammunition AF Service Firm Type: Ammunition Refresheners Security Clearance:RED Credits: 1,000 Tics: Ducks or dives for cover when there's a loud noise. Example of Tic in use: Vera-R: Little help here! 'Bout to drop these boxes ... whoops! Russel-R: Aaaah! [dives to the floor] Vera-R: Anyone ever tell you your too tense? ACTION SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Management 05 Moxie 09 Con Games 01 Convince other you didn't hear them because of all those weapons being fired 11 Stealth 10 Sneaking 14 High Alert 14 Disguise 01 Concealment 01 Dodge weapons fire when reloading someone else's weapon 16 Violence 08 Energy Weapons 12 Agility 12 Vehicular Combat 01 KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Hardware 08 Weapons and Armor Maintenance 12 Electronic Engineering 01 Polishing laser barrels until they shine brilliantly 14 Software 04 Find cheap ammunition on C-Bay 10 Wetware 05 Medical 09 Pharmatherapy 01 Russel-R-TGM-1 Male Armed Forces Equipment Officer Mutation: Empathy Society: FCCC-P Secret Skills: Alpha Complex History 14, Confession 16, Machine Empath Studies 06 Background: Most people describe you as tense. Not intense--you're personality isn't that strong. No, you just can't relax. I wonder if that's because it's your job to run around Armed Force soldiers and follow the three R's: replenish, reload, and rearm. Running around live-fire exercises with a backpack full of ordnance but no weapon would make anyone tense. You look upon Troubleshooting duty as a vacation of sorts--at least you have a weapon now. Secret Society Instructions: The Computer be with you! Church elders have proclaimed still images of Teela-O-MLY as blasphemy—there is no way to capture the glory of Saint Teela in a mere picture! The Iconostic Crusade begins today! Destroy anything you find with an image of Teela-O on it. Videos of the saint are, of course, not included in the Crusade. Go in one piece. Personal Equipment (1) metal FCCC-P flask of Holy Water (mildly TREASONOUS) (1) Equipment Logbook program loaded in the PDC (RED) (1) large gray backpack (2) cans of Armed Forces All-REDdimeals (RED) Assigned Equipment (1) Red laser pistol (2) Red laser barrels (1) Series 1300 PDC (1) ME Card (1) jumpsuit red reflec armor with microwire upgrade (1) pocket-sized multipurpose tool kit Vera-R-HHO-1 Female HPD&MC C&R Officer Service Firm: Multicorder Crew Staffing HPD Service Firm Type: News Services Security Clearance: RED Credits: 1,000 Tics: Thinks the written word is obsolete and should be replaced with video. Example of Tic in use: Felix-R: Then you take a look at our mission alert. Vera-R: See, this is what I mean! A video alert would be much more helpful! Felix-R: ... And that's important because? Vera-R: Oh, I get it. You're one of those 'readers', right? Obsolete type-head. ACTION SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Management 05 Make people feel stupid because they read 11 Stealth 07 Security Systems 11 Shadowing 11 Sneaking 01 Sleight of Hand 01 Violence 08 Energy Weapons 12 Thrown Weapons 12 Agility 01 Run while looking through a multicorder without tripping 14 KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & SPECIALTIES Hardware 09 Electronic Engineering 13 Bot Ops and Maintenance 13 Nuclear Engineering 01 Chemical Engineering 01 Understand instructions without reading them 15 Software 07 C-Bay 11 Data Analysis 01 Corrupt a video file and make it look like an accident 13 Wetware 04 [No specialties] Vera-R-HHO-1 Female HPD&MC C&R Officer Mutation: Mental Blast Society: Romantics Secret Skills: Old Reckoning History 10, Gloating 12, Twitchtalk 05 Background: You never liked reading. Even as a junior citizen in the creche, you hated doing your reading homework. Oh, you know how to read all right—but why should you? Much like the Outdoors, reading is obsolete and dangerous. Video can replace all form of the written word easily. Movies are much better than books, and interactive video more helpful than instructions. In fact, you don't even trust people who like to read. It's like they want information private, just for them only. That's suspicious. You could understand if it was an Old Reckoning comic book or something, but not mission alerts or maps. Secret Society Instructions: One of the Noble Truths taught to us by Old Reckoning videos is that ninjas are everywhere. We do not know if they survived until now, but given their immense power, they might be inside Alpha Complex as we speak! All members are asked to search out these ninjas, as they could be the allies we need to return to the Good Old Days. Remember – look in the dark corners and on the ceilings! Personal Equipment (1) picture of a group of Old Reckoning ninjas (TREASONOUS) (1) infrared multicorder program (RED) (1) multicorder case with secret compartment (RED) (2) rolls of black masking tape (INFRARED) Assigned Equipment (1) red laser pistol (2) red laser barrels (1) series 1300 PDC (1) ME Card (1) jumpsuit red reflec armor (1) multicorder I (RED) (1) visible light multicorder program(RED)