Sheet:Reginald Spenser

Overview

 * Name: Reginald Spenser
 * Virtue: Prudence
 * Vice: Sloth
 * Concept: Havoc adverse quantum programmer
 * Foundation: Scholastic
 * Catalyst: Staunen
 * Aesthetic: Crystal Future
 * Experience: 0/0

Attributes
Power:      Strength  ●●       Presence       ●●    Intelligence ●●●● Finesse:    Dexterity ●●       Manipulation   ●●    Wits         ●● Resistance: Stamina   ●●       Composure      ●●●   Resolve      ●●●

Skills
Mental                  Physical                 Social (-3 Unskilled)          (-1 Unskilled)          (-1 Unskilled) Academics:    ●●        Athletics:              Animal Ken:   ● Computer:     ●●●●      Brawl:                  Empathy:      ● Crafts:       ●         Drive:     ●●           Expression:   ●●● Investigation: ●        Firearms:               Intimidation: Medicine:               Larceny:                Persuasion:   ● Occult:       ●         Stealth:   ●            Socialize:    ● Politics:               Survival:  ●            Streetwise: Science:      ●●        Weaponry:               Subterfuge:

Specialties
Computer: Quantum Programming Crafts: Electronics Science: Havoc

Axioms

 * Apokolypsi (favoured): ●●
 * Metaptropi (favoured):
 * Automata (favoured): ●

Traits

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 * Inspiration: ●
 * Mania: ●●●●●/XXXXX
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Merits

 * Mane: ●●●
 * Resources: ●●
 * Energy Channeller: ●
 * Utility Belt (Science, Computer): ●

Resources
Reg works by email as a reviewer for several different "peer reviewed" journals where parroting the popular opinions and sounding impressive is more important than a proper understanding of facts?

He runs a system quite like the post modernist generator. Not quite a Wonder but not entirely sane either. He's emailed an article to review, the email is directed to the software which reads it for key phrases. Then it spits out a review full of trending in-phrases and incomprehensible but profound sounding language.

Reg's contract is very strict about deadlines, if he misses a month he's fired.

Flaws

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Obligation

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Combat

 * Size: 5
 * Speed: 9
 * Init. Mod: 5
 * Defense: 2
 * Armor: 0
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The Countess
Automata ● Construction: Intelligence (4) + Crafts and Computer (1) + Speciality (1) + Inspiration (1) + Favoured Axiom (1) + Rank (-1) = 7 dice Bound Mania: 1 Mania Cost: 1 per day. Mania Storage: 2 Size 12 Core Modifier: Size (+3) Equipment Bonus: +5 (Automata 1 + Inspiration 1 + Core Modifier 3) Fault: Much like the privileged ladies of yore, the Countess's underdeveloped AI requires that she be adressed formally before every attempt to connect with her or before running any programs on her (every command must start with "Your royal highness" or similiar phrases, though the more extravagantly the command is given, the better!). Failure to do so will cuase her to shut down immediately in protest.

Description: The Countess (named after Countess Crey from the game City of Heroes as a pun, her name sounds like the Cray series of supercomputers) is a hybrid of traditional and quantum computing methods. Physically it consists of a large collection of cheap outdated commodity hardware. Inside the ram has all been replaced with entangled crystal matrices to share data, the more crystals the more memory available to all the nodes. The processors have also been modified with the same entangled crystals for the registers and cache. A operating system of Reginald's own design uses functional programming techniques to keep the nodes all working together nicely. A visualisation layer runs Linux, one person can't program all the tools you need.

A single node named holds the storage module. A data crystal that uses quantum uncertainty to store all the information in the universe; observing the crystal collapses the waveform into a finite but readable data store. Any amount of information, be it a few kilobytes or a few terabytes, can be easily converted into a few kilobytes of instructions for the correct way to observe the waveform. Sadly for Reginald, even though he has all the data in the universe, it would take all the time in the universe to find anything. Until he acquires a copy through other means to build a set of instructions, he may as well not have any data at all.

The Countess is more than just a computer. By running simulations of quantum mathematics The Countess can create entanglement between computer code and physical matter around the world, change the simulation, change reality. Most of Reginald's Wonders take advantage of this principle.

[Note: the mechanical representation of this is a lot less complicated than it sounds. Reginald carries Size 0 Wonders as software on his phone which use the usual rules for range. These Wonders have the Peculiar Requirement Variable, with the requirement being that Reginald must have an active Apokolypsi connection to The Countess. Fluff wise the Countess contains the Wonders; mechanically Reg carries them around like any other Genius.]

Pearly Gate
Apokolypsi ● Construction: Intelligence (4) + Computer (4) + Speciality (1) + Inspiration (1) + Favoured Axiom (1) + Rank (-1) = 10 dice Bound Mania: 1 Mania Cost: 0 Size: 0, Range: 10 miles Variables: Charge up Time (30 seconds, +2), Narrow Focus (Only connects to The Countess, +2), Onboard Storage Core Modifier +2: Narrow Focus (+2), Size (-2), Charge Up Time (+2) Fault: For one to pass beyond the gates of pearl, he must be without sin, right? Well, these gates happen to abhor swearing. Whenever a swearword is uttered by anyone, the device will refuse to function for the person that uttered it. The effect lasts a day.

Description: The Pearly Gate (Named for Alexander Graham Bell, who shares a name with a summonable monster from the Final Fantasy series of games, a castle powered by holy energies not too unlike the gates of heaven) is a software program designed to use the same principles of simulation to quantum entanglement as The Countess.

Because the Pearly Gate runs upon an ordinary phone it's abilities are far more limited than the formidable Countess. In fact it can't really do much but signal the Countess, which will then takes over responsibility for maintaining the entanglement.

Athena
Apokolypsi ●● Construction: Intelligence (4) + Computer (4) + Speciality (1) + Inspiration (1) + Favoured Axiom (1) + Rank (-2) = 9 dice Bound Mania: 2 Mania Cost: 0 Size: 0, Range: 1 mile Variables: Charge up Time (30 seconds, +2), Peculiar Requirement (An Apokolypsi connection to The Countess), Onboard Storage Core Modifier +1: Charge up time (+2), Size (-2), Peculiar Requirement (+1) Fault: Though the device only shares the name of the greek goddess of the clear sky, Athena has difficulties functioning during weather conditions that blot out the sky. As long as the weather is entirely cloudy or worse, a chance die must be rolled to use Athena. The effect can be removed somewhat by moving underground, though Athena must be at least 10 feet beneath the surface to ignore the weather conditions aboveground.

Description: Athena (named for the Encyclopedia Britannica, which sounds like Britannia who in turn was based on Athena) is not a “Scanner”. Reginald already has all the information he needs locked away in The Countess. What Athena is is much simpler, it's the routines that can turn real world data into a recipe for accessing The Countess' infinite store of information. Once the Waveform has collapsed Reginald has access to far more information than what he needed to access his own hard drive.

Horatio
Apokolypsi ● Construction: Intelligence (4) + Computer (4) + Speciality (1) + Inspiration (1) + Favoured Axiom (1) + Rank (-1) = 10 dice Bound Mania: 1 Mania Cost: 0 Size: 0, Range: 1 mile Variables: Charge up Time (30 seconds, +2), Peculiar Requirement (An Apokolypsi connection to The Countess), Onboard Storage Core Modifier +1: Size (-2), Charge Up Time (+2), Peculiar Requirement (+1) Fault: Much like the Horatio of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the device appears to have some sense of justice, or possibly even a conscience. Whenever it is used to break into another device, but fails in the attempt, both the device being hacked and the device that contains the Horatio program will begin by (very loudly) quoting Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Description: Horatio (names after the legendary hcker John Draper, who went by the nickname Captain Crunch, a naval man outranked by Horatio Nelson) is an early application of Reginald's work into quantum entanglement between computer simulations and physical matter. Horatio runs two entanglement streams in parallel, one connecting to computer hardware and one entangling to the software. Being able to make changes to both hardware and software Reginald can tear through any mundane computer security.

A note on Reginald's Wonders
Most of Reginald's Wonders are based on a short conversation I had with Moochava about the possibility of protecting against Havoc by building wonders as pure software. The origonal E-mails are copied here:

Hello Moochava

I have a random quick Genius question: Could a Genius write size zero wonders as pure software and run them on a mundane computer and if so would the computer be vulnerable to Havoc or is it safe until a mere mortal tries to run the software?

You can indeed create Size 0 software wonders. A mere mortal accessing or interacting with the file would trigger Havoc, as would a mere mortal opening up the computer (since the magic blue smokewould get out). Regular use of a computer that happened to have wondrous software on it wouldn't trigger Havoc, but it's still not safe to have it there: even running your mouse pointer over the name of the file might trigger Havoc, since computers and mad science are a dangerous combination.

To prevent the risk of Mortals accessing the file and triggering Havoc Reginald stores all the icons and files behind layers of secrecy. To activate any wonders you have to change the ringtone on his deceptively android phone, selecting the correct 16 ringtones in the right order unhides the icons for the Wonders. Once the Wonder's are booted up they're run through a psychic user interface, putting another layer of secrecy between his Wonders and Havoc.

Char-gen
Attributes: 5/4/3 // Skills: 11/7/4 (+3 Specialties) // Merits 7 (5th dot = 2 dot cost) // Health = Resolve or Stamina + Size // Willpower = Resolve + Composure // Size = 5 for adult humans // Defense = Lowest of Dex or Wits // Init. Mod = Dex + Composure // Speed = Str + Dex + 5 // Morality = 7