Deus Ex Machina: The Xenogears Tale ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONA SHEET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Player Information ------------------ Name or Alias: Lord Bob Age (optional): 17 Sex: Male E-mail address: lordbob@alltel.net ICQ/AIM/Yahoo! Pager/etc. (if applicable): AIM- pm LordBob Character Information --------------------- -Name: Robert Solvario -Age: 20's(dosn't tell people, really 28,) -Sex: M -Occupation(s): Engineer, Drafter, Agent -Substitutes which Xenogears Character? (if applicable): Citan -Birthdate: 11/17/(unknown) -Height: 6'1" -Weight: 168.5 lbs -Eyes (colour and shape): Normal shaped, bright blue -Build: Thin & athletic -Complexion: lightly tanned -Facial Features: Fairly normal face. Wears glasses. Clean shaven. -Identifying Marks: Glasses -Hair (colour and style): Brown, short(crew-cut) -Voice: Bariton/tenor -Dress/Attire: For the current section of the IF, Robert is 'on call', and so he wears his own 'uniform' most of the time: black pants tucked into ankle-high, thin-soled black shoes, a long-sleeved black shirt, and (at times) a black cloak. -Jewelry (if any): none -Weapons/Tools (if any): His favorite weapon is the Katana. He's rather good with it, but not the best. He also has all the tools you'd expect from someone in his trade. Also, as an engineer, he has many 'gadgets' he's made, such as bombs, etc.(but rarely uses them). He is also slightly skilled in unarmed combat: not enough to go at it with a real martial artist, but enough he could live through a bar fight without getting beat up. Darius has recently been trying to help Robert out, though. -Armour (if any):Worn over his shirt, Robert has a fine, polished chain-mail vest. It's quite tough, and fairly hard to cut through. It dosn't do much to soften blows, though. -Personality: Robert is just one of those non-too-assertive people, prefering to, as the adage goes, "talk softly, but carry a sharp sword". However, he is rather strong-willed, and will not back down once he's promised to do somthing or gotten into an argument. It also takes quite a lot of pushing to get him to react, but when he does get angry, he's the type of person that goes all out in a rage, although his training lets him control it to make him even more deadly in a fight. This inability to back down, and a tendancy to ignore people who like to puff themsleves up, has gotten him into many fights, and landed him an overnight in the town jail twice. However, he hasn't killed anyone in any of these fights, and has always been a gentleman outside of a fight. -Background and History: Not much is known to the poeple of Roberts village, as he just seemed to show up, before moving a little ways away from the town to build his house. How many people know more of his history can't be guessed, but the ones who know all of it are few. His father, an Imperial Agent for the Emperor, died in the line of duty when Robert was 13. Robert, after going through normal schooling, was then asked to go to a special collage, where he studied for six years. After that, he became one of the secret agents of the Emperor of Solaris, and quickly outdid many of the others, untill he reached one of the top positions. Then, entering his 20's, he was given a major assignment: to find the 'Contact', and observe him for signs of danger to the Emperor. Also, being one of the top agents, he's a member of what is called, by the public, 'Cains Angels' or 'Cains Demons', depending on the persons point of veiw. They have veary high access levels, and are completely trusted by the Emporer to carry out delicate assignments, such as monitoring government-appointed officials, and deep-cover work. Now, though, as Robert is starting to find out, there's an even higher level of special agents. His part-time nemesis, Kaun, seems to be running the top level, but Robert won't know more untill he passes his 'initiation'. -Birthplace: Solaris -Mother: Mary (Last name withheld) -Father: Lew (dead) -Siblings: John -Mate: none -Children: none -Other relations: Many freinds, but no intimate relations. -Secondary Skills: Strategic planning, Sword fighting, some unarmed combat skills. -Abilities/Disabilities: Near sighted(20/40). Intelligent and a quick learner. Has very little Ether ability, though he can use it to keneticly 'lift' small objects (such as keys, nothing bigger than what he could hold in his hand). -Hobbies: Strategy games, tinkering. -Current residence: Has a rural acerage. Current 'hideout' is basicaly a hole in a mountain, lined with anti-EM/IR metal to make sure it can't be found on sensors. -Current Life Conflicts: His 'test'. Kaun seems to want to kill him, to make sure he stays 'on his toes'. He is also worried about his friend, Darius, but can't go looking for him due to his missions. -Other notes: Is always on a mission. Later in the story, Akuma goes Omni, but I'll handle it. Note to other players: If ANY questions arise about my charecter, please ask me! It sucks getting somthing profoundly wrong(little mistakes are okay), and it takes excess time to fix them. -Gear name: Akuma -Gear description: Biped. The legs look tipicaly gear-ish, slightly boxy and obviously mechanical. The upper torso/arms were designed to look like a rather strong human, with the same general porportions. Also, the designers decided to make it look like a demon, wich is why the head, sittign squarely over the torso, has slanted 'eyes', pointed 'ears', and a big grin full of pointy teeth. They also made it look like Akuma was wearing armor, with somthing like plate-mail covering the chest and hips, shoulderpads, and 'guards' for the lower arms and legs. On the back, for use with the right hand, is a magnetic scabbard for a Nodachi. The left hand is replaced with a magnetics-based cannon, there's a long-ranged missile launcher, round, on the left shoulder and a shorter-ranged one in the middle of the chest, and a pair of lasers, one on the cannon arm and another in the right torso area. Akuma usualy has a white/gray/black paint scheme, although right now the entire gear is covered with pattern-breaking cammoflauge. Akumas' Stats: Height: 18.86 Sharls (59.9748 Ft.) Weight: 24 Karns (25.6 Tons)(It IS Assault-Class) Speed(On Ground, Max): 54 Repsols (52 km/h, TOP)(~x4 in air, but can only go for 412 Sharls)(~400+/- meters) -Class: Assault -Primary function: Destroying miscellaneous objects, taking a licking and still beatin' up other gears. -Weapon(s): Nodachi(longer/heavy-er version of a Katana), Missles(20 Long-range, 10 short), Gauss cannon(large magnetic-acceleration cannon), two medium-sized lasers. -Abilities/Disabilities: Akuma relies mostly on ranged combat, as indicated by the massive array of weaponry mounted on the gear. However, it is also capable of doing immense damage in close-ranged gear-to-gear combat, as the Nodachi is special-issue, designed by Robert. By incorporating a technique of 'folding' incredibly thin sheets of metal over and over again, up to the actual thickness of the sword, it has multiple edges, and dosn't dull. It was also laser-sharpened in construction, allowing it to slice through most substances. However, being an assault gear, Akuma lacks as much agility and speed as other gears. It has a slow top speed, and very limited flight, enough to send it over rivers/buildings, but not much else(only 400 meters, compared to some gears near-infinate flight range). Also, due to the physical focus of the gear, the Ether Machine/Enhancer is exceptionaly crude, even for an assault mech, giving Robert almost no boost at all. -How your character acquired the gear: The basic parts were sent down with Robert when he went on his first mission, and he's built Akuma by hand in his hangar at his house. The base design was provided for him, but he made a few modifications on his own, and, because he built it, he knows how it works and how best to maintain it. Later in the game, Akuma becomes an OmniGear(like in the game). BTW, all credit for the bas design of Akuma goes to FASA & Ral Partha, as the Akuma is my own personal robot in many of FASA's games, and the modle came from RalPartha.