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Vo Cari, Mirialan Penitent

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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:16 am

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Character Name: Vo Cari - -Player: Boutros
Concept: Penitent Drunk- - - - - Species: Mirilan
Career: Smuggler - - - - - Specialization: Pilot
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Soak Value: 2 Wounds: 13 Strain: 13 Defense R:0 Defense M:0

Brn: 2 Agi: 3 Int: 2 Cun: 3 Wil: 3 Pre: 3
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Experience Points Starting: 110 (100 starting + 10 from obligation)
Experience Points Unspent: 0 (110 characteristics)
Credits Starting: 500 (500 Starting + 3 ROll)
Credits Remaining: 23 Encumbrance Capacity: 1/7 Cybernetics Capacity: 0/3
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Astrogation: Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - -|Athletics: Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Brawl: Grn Grn
Charm: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Coercion: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Gunnery: YelGrn Grn
Computers: Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Cool: YelGrn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Lightsabre: Grn Grn
Coordination: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - - - -|Deception: YelGrn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Melee: Grn Grn
Discipline: YelGrn Grn - - - - - - - - - - |Leadership: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - -|Ranged Heavy:Grn Grn Grn
Mechanics: Grn Grn- - - - - - - - - - - -|Medicine:Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Ranged Light:Grn Grn Grn
Negotiation: Grn Grn Grn- - - - - - - - -|Perception: YelGrn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Core Worlds:Grn Grn
Piloting Planetary: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - |Piloting Space: Yel YelGrn - - - - - - - - - - - |Education:Grn Grn
Resilience: Grn Grn- - - - - - - - - - - -|Skullduggery: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Lore:Grn Grn
Stealth: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Streetwise: Grn Grn Grn - - - - - - - - - - - |Outer Rim:Grn Grn
Survival: Grn Grn Grn- - - - - - - - - - -|Vigilence: YelGrn Grn- - - - - - - - - - -|Underworld:Grn Grn
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No Talents
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TT24 Holdout Blaster: HP 1, Ranged Light, Medium Range, Damage 6, Crit 2, Stun Setting (350 credits)
Heavy Clothing: HP 1 (50 Credits)
Sabacc Deck (40 Credits)
Model 58 Concealment Holster: (40 Credits)
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Gender: Male | Age: 29 | Height: 1.7 Meters | Build: Medium and Lean with a Ghastly countenance| Hair: Black
Eyes: Dark Brown and Bloodshot| Complexion: Fern Green with Olive undertones

Noticeable Features And Characteristics: Vo wears the mark of Ihcari and bears the surname of Cari just as all who bear the mark do. His personality is rather fatalistic, seeing an inevitable end for himself. He knows that despite what the hopeful say, those who bear the mark are never meant to find redemption, and as a result, he doesn't have the will to hope when he's sober.


Background:


All peoples have their folktales; foibles meant to pass on their history and instill in their children a sense of morality that would allow them to be a part of society. Amongst the Mirialan, who prize one's accomplishments above all else, the most important of these folktales is the story of Ihcari Tor, a semi-mythical figure who lived during the time just before the Mirialan discovered hyperdrive. The story follows that Ihcari was a brilliant inventor, brighter than anyone else in his generation, but he was also hasty and imprudent. There were many inventors at the time who wanted to beak the hyperdrive barrier and take the Mirialan further than they had ever dreamed of going, and in that way cementing their position amongst their people's history forever, and it was considered the smart opinion to believe that Ihcari would be the one to do it.

That didn't change when a lead rival in the effort announced that they had made a major breakthrough which would allow them to make a jump test within the month. People talked, most not taking it seriously and assuming it was just the words of an overzealous braggart, but Ihcari took his rivals words very seriously. He began to cut corners, take shortcuts, and the work he should have finished in a cycle was cut down to a few weeks, all in an effort to be the first. When he made his jump it caused a spectacular light show as the explosion sent a trail of light across the sky that lasted for months. He had broken the barrier but died in the process, and half a cycle later the rival who had made the announcement before was able to use Ihcari's notes to break the barrier safely, and his name was lost in obscurity while Ihcari's was immortalized not for his accomplishments but for his pure foolishness and lack of prudence.

All children of the Mirialan grow up knowing about the failure of Ihcari. They're told that when one seeks to gain status through their accomplishments that they should do so wisely and with a measure of prudence, and the mark of the Ihcari has been the signs of all those who have come close to greatness only to burn up too soon due to their own foolishness or rash behavior. Some see the mark as an obstacle to overcome, looking forward to the day when they will redeem themselves by earning marks of redemption, but others realize that the task is too monumental of one to recover from and abandon hope. Vo Cari would count himself amongst the latter group for some time.

Vo Rashiel was a skilled young man with a promising future and the ability to fly circles around anyone who set out to best him. There was always a great deal of talk in his family about how he would put that skill to use and what tattoos he would gain in the process, but he had already had his eyes set on using his flying abilities to help others from a very early age, so despite his family's wishes he became a blockade runner. He quickly showed how good he could be at his job, and people everywhere began to take notice, buying him drinks in taverns he would frequent, calling him the piloting ace who was spitting in the eye of the empire when he brought supplies to the peoples they tried to besiege. Over time the praise would get out of hand, going to his head and being overheard by some who would go on to inform the Empire. Vo became something of a braggart, accepting larger smuggling operations by taking money from loan sharks and then making a public display of what his plans were, boasting that it didn't matter who overheard because no one could stop him anyway. It did matter, however, and he was stopped.

The wrong people overheard him one too many times and on his last mission to take supplies to the people of Rodia after they had been blockaded by the Empire, he was intercepted. His ship and the supplies that were meant for people in a remote region of the planet afflicted by a protracted drought were confiscated. The people had given the last of their money to Vo to purchase the supplies and without his aid, most of them succame to starvation. Vo had no way of knowing this at the time however because he spent the next few years in a prison camp, forced to do hard labor as punishment for the crimes of opposing the Empire. It was not long after he had arrived that a Mirialan woman with dark clothes and piercing yellow eyes came to him, informed him about the costs of his foolishness, and tattoed the Mark of Ihcari across his face. Several times this woman would return to remind him of his failures, and the shame they brought to his people, but also sometimes just to talk. Vo was not much for conversation, but mostly she used him as someone to talk at rather than to talk to, to vent frustrations without ever having to worry about him betraying what she said.

Then suddenly she stopped coming and was gone for many months until eventually, a guard came to his cell and told him that he had been pardoned before giving him a small wooden box with alabaster ornamentation that looked like it could be home. He checked Vo out of the prison and shoved him out the front gate, and only then did he check the contents of the box. It contained only three items, new credentials that listed his name as being Vo Cari, a deposit receipt for the Banking Clan, and a note. The note simply read, "This is the price of your failure, remember that." When he checked on the status of the account Vo found that it had been set up in his name by the Mirialan woman who had visited him, and it contained the liquidated assets from his ship and the shipment of supplies he was supposed to take to the people on Rodia with a note that it should be put to good use. Immediately he began to feel overwhelmed with shame as if the events had just happened all over again. How was he supposed to do anything worthwhile with his history, what could he do to redeem his actions?

Vo Rushiel, now Vo Cari decided that his best course of action was to disappear into a bottle and never leave it again, but it wouldn't be as easy as all that. The debt collectors soon came calling, the loan shark he had done business with in the past having heard he was released and not be easily fooled by his fake credentials. Vo knew that he could be rid of him if he just turned over the bank slip, but the thought of it was more than he could bear. He couldn't bring himself to use the credits, but the thought of giving them away to save himself was even worse. He went from one form of imprisonment to another, having to slowly pay off his debt to the man, taking employ with a cruise liner the loan shark had arrangements with, and taking a position in the ships security offices, his criminal record providing a sense of intimidation and therefore legitimacy to his capacity as a "peace" officer. It was drudging work, but not worse than Vo felt he deserved, and it let him crawl so far into that bottle that he didn't even have to think of his past sometimes. It wasn't all bad though, he made friends with some of the crew, one in particular by the name of Buimo who worked as a navigator for the ship, and he also got to do some good here and there, like the time he found out about a stowaway Jawa after seeing him make some repairs, that the ship's mechanic later took credit for, and then not reporting him, But there were worse days too. The day this all started felt like one of those worse days; when the stowaway he pretended he didn't see got caught and thrown in the brig, and all he could think of was that he used to be a person that helped others in these situations, but now he was nothing. That night he was getting drunk with Buimo and everything seemed to black out and next thing he knew he was in a ship with Buimo and the stowaway and he was being told that they had bought it together.
Obligation: Debt: Being a smuggler offers little security, but acquiring a ship and keeping it functioning costs a lot of credits.(10) Obligation: Oath: The character has sworn some sort of oath that dictates his thoughts and actions, shaping his moral view of the world. This could be an oath to a deity, a way of living (such as the Jedi Code), or a willingness to sacrifice for the betterment of some group or cause. Whatever the case, the Oath should be both serious and make life difficult in some ways for the character. It is a personal and deep undertaking, possibly without a truly obtainable end goal in sight. Characters who do not live up to this oath face an internal and moral struggle.(5) Addiction: The character has a strong addiction he must keep feeding. Whether it’s a physical addiction to stims, dust, or alcohol, or a mental addiction such as gambling, law-breaking, or priceless antiques, the character devotes a lot of time, energy, and resources to pursuing or obtaining the object of his addiction. Avoiding this Obligation has an almost immediate result—withdrawal. The exact nature depends on the addiction, but the character finds it increasingly difficult to concentrate on even mundane tasks, often reflected in the GM adding anywhere from ∫ to ∫ ∫ ∫ in skill checks. (5)Motivation:
Vo wasn't just working on the cruise liner for no reason, he wanted to crawl into a bottle and he could have done it anywhere, but he had a significant debt that he owed to a particular loanshark who had financed his exploits in the past, money paid in exchange for occasionally using his skills for less than altruistic means. he had still been in the red with him when he was captured, and he could he could have paid it off with the receipt from the Seventh Sister, but he was wont to give it up, so instead, he paid his debt through working for the cruise line.
And so, when the group decided that they needed money in order to buy this new ship they had their eyes on, in his drunken stupor Vo knew exactly who he could turn to. At first the loan shark was reticent to trust them with such a large sum, but when Vo put up the receipt as collateral that quickly changed.
Vo has been forced to face his past by the recent encounter with his new crewmates and he is disgusted by the man he has become, but why were things happening like this for someone like him, surely he was irredeemable and fate should have just left him to rot on that ship, but it didn't, and Vo started to wonder why. He thought of the stories of his childhood, and of the guiding hand of fate and its instrument the force that had been so prevalent in his household and started to think that maybe this was fate pushing him in a different direction. It was then that he swore to himself that he would become a better man, and redeem himself for the wrongs he had committed in his foolishness. He vowed to try only to ever increase the good in the world. He still hates himself, but he honestly can't let that get in the way of what he needs to do.He is an alcoholic, it is bad.Vo has avoided his past for as long as he feasibly could, not wanting to deal with the seemingly insurmountable task of making amends for his actions, but now things are in motion that wont let him just be Vo the drunkard any more, and he has to find a way to fix his life, he needs to become better, to do better, and to make up for his past, even if the only one who will know about it is himself. For now that means racing, becasue that is the path fate has placed him on, and it is only through racing that he can recover the bank slip he fronted as colatoral for the groups shared loan.
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Re: Vo Cari, Mirialan Penitent

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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:18 am

Working on background right now, just wanted to make sure i had the base character concept up right now,

10 obligation is going to go towards the ship with the other ten towards his past, already got a back story set up for him but can't type it up right now,

Kal since you also have a smuggler it would be nice if we could tie our two characters together some how, let me know.
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Post by ThreeBFour » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:23 am

110 xp spend, 90 on characteristics, no talents, 6 career skills, + 1 I assume racial (total 7). It seems something is missing.

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Post by kanila » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:26 am

Looking good so far.
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Post by Kal Drahr » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:51 am

I was figuring they met while working on a cruise ship or something and hit off a fast friendship with a shaared love of racing or something similar.

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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:04 am

ThreeBFour wrote:
Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:23 am
110 xp spend, 90 on characteristics, no talents, 6 career skills, + 1 I assume racial (total 7). It seems something is missing.
the species starting is 2 brn 3 agi 2 int 1 cun 2 wp 2 pre

20+30 to bring cun up to 3, 30 more to bring wp up to 3, and 30 more to bring pre up to 3 totalling 110
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Post by SavageBob » Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:55 am

Yeah, I think the only question is what you and Sol's roles were on the cruise ship. Buimo was in the navigation pool, and Runt was a stowaway, but you two could have been either in some service-oriented job or in among the piloting corps.

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Post by Kal Drahr » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:54 am

I thik Sol was probabaly somethong along the line of flight attendant, but I'm sure there would be something along the lines of an employee lounge so no matter what Vo did, they still could've met

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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:02 am

agreed, haven't decided what vo would be up to on the ship yet, it's got to be something that he would have been a bit of an underling, out of the way, and yet still have reason to know that runt was in the brig and that he was the one doing the repairs the mechanic was taking credit for, to have an acquaintance with sol, and to be getting drunk with buimo, I'm thinking ships security maybe, the opposite of what he did before and the only place where his infamy might be seen as a bonus to the job but still wanted to be kept under wraps by his employers?

anything is really fine with him, based on what we all discussed and came up within the initial start thread i think that he's in a state of mind at the beginning where he is trying to crawl into a bottle and forget himself as well as having everyone who ever knew who he was or could recognize his shame from his markings forget him, that is until he wakes up hung over as a partial owner of a new racing ship.
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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:06 am

his backstory is pretty much going to be that he was a famous blockade runner that supplied food and resources to needy people negatively affected by the empire, but that he got so cocky that he would brag about what he was going to do before he did it, claiming that it didn't matter who found out because no one would be able to stop him even with forewarning.
That is until they did, and he lost his ship, and he lost his supplies, and the people who were depending on him ended up suffering a great deal for it. Being a Mirialan he took the tattoo mark that showed how greatly he had failed, the mark of Icarus we can call it for now, and since then he's been trying to forget himself.
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Post by ThreeBFour » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:31 am

Boutrose Saba-Norr wrote:
Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:04 am
ThreeBFour wrote:
Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:23 am
110 xp spend, 90 on characteristics, no talents, 6 career skills, + 1 I assume racial (total 7). It seems something is missing.
the species starting is 2 brn 3 agi 2 int 1 cun 2 wp 2 pre

20+30 to bring cun up to 3, 30 more to bring wp up to 3, and 30 more to bring pre up to 3 totalling 110
I forgot most species started with a 1 somewhere.....duh.

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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:08 pm

very rough draft back story up right now, i'm going to polish it up later.
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Post by kanila » Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:16 pm

Looking good so far.
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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:55 am

updated with some character descriptions and what the obligations will be called, really only need to flesh out the obligations and decide on the motivation and he'll be good to go, I will, of course, do a final draft of his backstory as soon as I have the time.
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Post by kanila » Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:21 am

Sounds good buddy, just let me know.
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Post by Boutrose Saba-Norr » Mon Apr 02, 2018 6:10 am

kanila wrote:
Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:21 am
Sounds good buddy, just let me know.
done
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Post by kanila » Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:51 am

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