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Jake

Aliases: #REDIRECT [[Jake]]

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[[Jake Underhill]] :: [[Jack Daniels]] :: [[JD]] :: [[Jade]] :: [[Jake]]

Aspects
High Concept: We are the hivemind Robocop/cybernetic technician par excellence
Trouble: More Clever than wise: We are clever but we don't always see the down side to a clever plan
Aspects:
  • Biomimicry inspires my designs
  • Hardened Distributed Mind Protocol: Wrapping the DMP in hard crypto using a big PSK means the machines are not extensions of my body. They embody my consciousness.
  • We Plurals have to stick together: We side with other plural/hive/AIs.
  • Hive to Hive Communication: We can meld minds with other hives to communicate.
  • CAF: Because of the integration, we can form and act like a being or structure of our imagining
  • Novice of Clank Fu: Modeled after the swarming attacks of birds and insects and more than a touch of old Kung fu movies, with the addition of tools, small arms, and explosives, the horde can sense, defend, and attack. The electronic senses and emitters can also be added to this.
Fate Points
Refresh: 5 Current Total 5
Approaches
Careful Clever Flashy Forceful Quick Sneaky
+1 +6 +4 +3 +2 0
Sophant Characteristics
Stunts
  • Brilliant technician: Because I am brilliant with technology, once per session I get +2 to Cleverly adapt an existing device or design (Overcome +8 Total)
  • More than Jake: Because I am a hive I am able to use the resources of the distributed tech to Cleverly access information and solve problems (Overcome +8 Total)
  • We are Everywhere: I am the clank horde and experience the compound senses of the full horde, this gives me a +2 to Forcefully observe something within range of the Clanks (Advantage +5 Total)
  • Nevermore: The loss of corpus from the MechaJesus episode has created a strong drive to never be vulnerable again. When defending Ourselves or taking steps to make Us less vulnerable, this drive allows us to focus to Forcefully accomplish our goal (Overcome +5 Total)
  • Ensnare: As thousands of points of consciousness, we can Cleverly capture and immobilize opponents in physical and cyber space (Overcome +8 total)
Magic: Spells and Powers
Augmentation: Genetic and Cybernetic
Damage Resistance and Healing
Teams:
Stuff
  • Military crypto implant identifying me as the Creator to all my creations (upgraded from past work)
  • Approximately 50,000 Clanks in CAFEL and 50,000,000 distributed across the Eastern US. These are currently being IOTA.
  • Bitcoins: 10.
  • Optogenetic Smart Dust Neural Lace: Very high resolution brain-computer interface (BCI). Invoke with one fate point to temporarily induce +2 to one Approach. Additional aspects:
    • Blurring human and machine: Intelligent devices and agents become part of my mind and self - as effortless as breathing and moving and seeing.
    • Magnetic Disruption: Strong (1T+) magnetic fields can disrupt or damage the lace.
    • Heavy Jelly Liquefaction: Any physical stress or consequences taken comes with an additional 2 point Consequence: Concussed.
    • Not Quick: Not practiced enough to be that Quick.
    • Not Sneaky: Not practiced enough to be that Sneaky.
  • Hydrogen Ground Burst (6/6/7 to 18): A large thin layer of space produces hydrogen gas at a huge rate, creating the conditions for a massive explosion, but weather conditions and sparks and flames can render the spell ineffective. Casting Time: 30s (-2). Components: Hydrogen Sample (m): Enough hydrogen to inhale a full breath while reciting the verbal component. (-4 common, destroyed). Declaration (v): A well tempered F (349.228Hz) held for 30s while casting. (-2 reusable, rare). Circle Line (s): With one hand, draw a circle horizontally in the air. With the other draw a line toward the target. Hands must stay in lock step for casting time. (-1 common, reusable). Sacrifice: An active part of my body removed forever (includes fluids, may cause damage) (-8 rare, destroyed). Damage: 2 pt Consequence: Confusion for duration (-8). Detailed: Pure simple substance (-3). Duration: Up to 12s (2). Mass: 5kg/s for 15s (12m3 per kg) (8). Range: 100m (10). Source: Wizard. Volume: Cylinder 1mm tall, 128m radius = 60m3 (6).
Stress: Mental Max 3 Stress: Physical Max 3
1 2 3 1 2 3
Consequences (Max 6)
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Appearance

I'm not exceptional physically--average height, slightly slimmer build. I have pale green eyes behind my glasses and sandy blond hair. I usually give people the impression that I'm distracted or detached and, well, honestly, I am. My eyes move around a lot and I'm starting to make eye contact with people but it's a cold gaze.

Backstory

My name has long been a sore point but my parents had a horrible sense of humour and cursed me with a horrible name. "Jack Daniels" has been a thorn in my side my whole life and has been the cause of a lot of ridicule. This has probably been part of why I've been a loner and not let people get too close. As I kid, I didn't get why everyone laughed but now I just go by "JaDe" or lie about my name and say it's "Jay" to save me the trouble.

Parents were popular and heavy drinkers so I spent my formative years reading and playing with building toys. Relationships with people haven't been successful and, while I'm not unattractive, my lack of personal skills has limited my romantic entanglements and kept friends at arms length. People are messy, uncontrollable, and unpredictable and I much prefer to keep to myself most of the time and definitely prefer technology because I can make it what I want, control it, and know what will happen.

Growing up in the big city was brutal. I was surrounded by so many people all the time and I never felt comfortable. My parents were fairly well-off, if absent, so I had a lot of time with technology. After college, I bounced around a bit, taking odd jobs that no human would do and making new 'friends' to do what was needed. I've worked in mines, offshore, and helped with a few government projects that "never existed" (lost a few very special friends in those and don't like doing them). When the opportunity came up to move to the mine in Sudbury, it seemed like a perfect fit for us. Far from the crowds, steady work, lots of people who understand science first. For the first time in my life, I'm content.

All of my robots are programmed to recognize me and obey. It's tied to an implant I've had for many years at it's simplest, but that's just the final failsafe. Many can recognize me in more general terms. I've designed too many dangerous and deadly machines, not to mention too many that I cherish, to ever trust anyone to have authority over them. It's always and exclusively me, no matter what I say to them.

Birth Date: July 4, 1999 Born in New York City, NY

Updates

2017-07-28 Updated aspects with Smart Dust aspects (not the intrinsic thing that doesn't exist except as a concept).

Since the Vatican incident, the clanks have been decimated. Jake is taking it very personally and is reeling at the loss of his peaceful hive and is developing anger. There are new clanks coming and they won't be defenseless.... never again to feel that loss...

Jake is getting tired of hiding. It hasn't worked out well and they are feeling a loss of presence in the world. They are drifting back to using "Jade" because, well, why not? but a new identity is growing and they don't have a name yet.

References


Personal Events

Date Description
Date Description
2034-03-15 1817EDT (2317UTC+1) Gathering Forces Escaping from the rain of rock, the scientists hang back in an attempt to not be killed. For a brief moment they thought they were safe. They were wrong.
2034-03-15 1812EDT Run For It Local Time: 2312h UTC+1

Summaries from different character perspectives.

Jake

We opened the session with 10,000 Splodyrats (tm) and 1,000 Terminators headed towards our cadre of heroes near the drop point. Q hacked into the rats and handed the keys over to the clanks. It explained that
2034-03-15 1811EDT Everybody Has Incoming Outside, a host of 'sploderats - spaced out far enough to make picking them off a one-by-one the only option - became visible as they crossed the roadway between the drop site and the mountain. They were heading toward Taylor and team. HC soldiers advanced to positions of cover, but there are not en
2034-03-15 1807EDT Mycophage Taylor created an anti-fungal vector in the form of a weaponized mycovirus that can be printed in labs around the world. This feat took the combined effort of Taylor, Willow, the ABC Team, Jake, and several AIs. There were a LOT of rolls. Many advantages were created:
2034-03-15 1805EDT Mountain Assault The HC² and 288 HC assault on the mountain was costly, even for super-soldiers with a slowest running speed of 40km/h. 13 died on the way up, caught by heavy machine gun fire, mortar shells, and various robotic attackers. This left 275 to assault the base. The four HC2 showed their extraordinary ca
2034-03-15 1746EDT A Shadowy Mind Droo used his ability to walk through encryption to investigate Shadows' network of dirigible drones. Shadows recognized that something was transmitting out of it's closed network so it began to hunt for the intruder. Droo experienced this through the metaphor or a giant wave of darkness closing in
2034-03-15 1745EDT Chewie is fired on The attack was a surprise to everyone on board. Chewie dodged most of the damage, but had to work hard, including using the BUMPS to stabilize the passengers. The entire CAF Board were in the Council of Sophants meeting, but six of them were physically in Chewie. Willow, Sutton, AJ,
2034-03-15 1700EDT Council of Sophants Urgent Session The discussion was intense and heated, but it was also mostly positive. There was surprisingly little animosity among nations, but within them Mayors were often at odds with provincial and federal governments, and more aligned with the Corporations that ran the cities. IOTA raised a new kind of con
2034-03-15 0900EDT Meet the AIs While Biggs and Droo were on their way to NYC to figure out what happened to Mother, CAFIA made it clear that she and Biggs were both sophants, newly hatched from the SCIFI team's tendency to not ask 'what's the worst that could happen?' She called a nine o'clock meeting for
2034-03-13 2100EDT Induction into HMSS Storm and Vic induct the others into HMSS by the simple process of telling them about it and about Storm's history of service to CSIS and INCIS. They have a mission now: kill Ellen and destroy the Cyborg Collective in every manner. They are given access to much of the [[
2034-03-13 1615EDT Council of Solar Powers - First Session Six minutes after Storm and Princess Victoria locked themselves away, the door to the conference room opened. “We have a lot to talk about,” Storm said. She posted an agenda in the CAF Board virtual space, along with an address in UCANZ controlled network space. "Uh, Storm?" [[A
2034-03-13 0100EDT Turns out Clanks is scary AF The people of the world did not take big MechaJesus into theor hearts as the new messiah. Likely just as well, since the world was already turning into Shadowrun and didn't need a a shot of Paranoia to liven it up. As the monks and priests beat and stomped Clanks into glittery parts, a growing
2034-03-12 2300EDT Jake Makes MechaJesus After discovering that his Clanks can be taken over by adding a crypto layer to their interfaces, Jake freaked out. He began to gather the Clanks in the Vatican City - indeed, in all of Rome - into a giant Clank Ball. Despite the hour, a swarm of 'bots completely ignoring their programming r
2034-03-12 2300EDT Droo meets Seg at the Vatican and NO GOOD COMES OF IT Droo heads to Rome. After some skulking about he ends up in Vatican City in a men's washroom with SegFault because meeting a little boy in the men's for a precious exchange of confidence is just too funny.

Seg has taken over 4 Clanks with add ons.

Jake's Trouble comes into play, st
2034-03-12 1200EDT A busy morning and menagerie. Vince and JJ are a gorilla and a dog who can talk and appear to be quite intelligent. They chose to talk to a local Clank to request extraction from the secret base they are in, what with the humans all dead. Jake observed the situation for a while as the clank was passed around and
2034-03-12 0900EDT Storm creates an MI that improves NeuraLace Performance Storm steps in to help Jake through the challenging task of securing his lace. In the process she creates a machine intelligence that works as a guide and hammer-tester for the NeuraLace team and for the person receiving the lace. She immediately sold this product to NeuraLace. The CAF Legal
2034-03-11 1910EST Escape From Atlanta On approach to Atlanta, Sutton, AJ, and Genie teamed up with two homo celestes soldiers each, using VBFS to fly in to each of the three safe houses to collect the extended family of our recently acquired scientist Taylor. Dan joined up with Genie's team when they
2034-03-11 0945EST Jake Introspects and Chats With Mycroft Jake has had a lot of time to think and heal and work with the interface. During this time, he has been thinking a lot more about what the clanks can do, what has been accomplished, and what can really result from becoming integrated with millions of clanks. The "ant ball" with Kaleb, the ongoing
2034-03-11 0800EST Arrest warrant for Jack Daniels
2034-03-11 0000EST Overview Today:
  • 2034-03-10 0600EDT Jake continues training (free 1h 0900, 1300, 1700)
  • 2034-03-10 060
2034-03-10 0000EST Overview Our MITOs gain +1 Healing factor today. This restores the sight of Dan and Genie. Unfortunately this means splitting eye aches for AJ and Sutton as their modified eyes are rejected by their bodies, and regenerated from the inside out.

Also,

  • 2034-03-10 0600EDT Jake continues t
2034-03-09 0000EST Overview Luna Colony Alpha has had some time to deal with the fallout from King Henry's outburst.
2034-03-08 0000EST Overview Today,
2034-03-07 1630EST Elon Meets The Board The board meeting went well. Elon made a pitch to support CAF as good neighbours, The proposal includes a non-voting board seat for Elon Si he can provide guidance and strategic support to CAF. a relatively low cost lease on Boring machines and a clone of his Architectural AI are included as we
2034-03-07 0000EST Overview Val secures a network of trade agreements and alliances that make his company safe for the foreseeable future. MITOs pick up an additional point of Forceful. Willow verifies that the pheromones used in OBCo are not malicious or robbing people of free will.
  • [[2034-03-07 0600EDT Icky Ne
2034-03-06 0700EST Jake Neural Lace Installation Prep: No issues after some assestence from Willow.

Install Lace: Roll was -1 so mesh was installed at a cost. One point of physical stress to Jake.

Install Perfusion: Installed without problems - after several Quick assistance from Ouri and Google. NeuraLace p
2034-03-06 0000EST Overview Much of what happened today.

NeuraLace

Early in the morning Willow gets a call from NeuraLink wanting to discuss her proposal. They have been running simulations and live tests over the last 24h. They are impressed.

They are also unclear on how to generalize the process for [[Optod
2034-03-05 0000EST Overview Different characters have different tasks and goals.

PCs

  • Droo: Assist in design and testing of security. That contract from Tank.
  • Icky: Repair and arm Chewie. Be upgraded by NeuraLace and Willow. Assist design and d
2034-03-04 1300EST Aftermath and Construction Different characters have different tasks this afternoon.

PCs
2034-03-04 1100EST World events continue to escalate while the heroes try to get a base of operations set up.

World Events

This day saw relatively little military action between nations, who are still trying to figure out what happened to their missiles. Much of the Middle East conflict came to a sudden stop when
2034-03-04 0600EST Construction At this point the characters have some short term goals.

1. Defensive Power: Build a facility that will keep you and yours safe through the oncoming storm. At the same time, make yourselves a very expensive target to attack.

2. Offensive Power: Personally and collectively increase your
2034-03-03 2200UTC Hideout The flight to Elliot Lake is uneventful after the mess with Storm, Vernon, and Chewie right after takeoff.

2034-03-03 1800EST

  • Land at Elliot Lake
  • Begin repairs to Chewie
  • Begin unloading Chewie
  • Design new micro-fusion reactor
  • Rest
  • Watch in wonder and horror as the Cash
2034-03-03 1700UTC Meet the Board The morning started cold, bright, and calm. It didn't last.

1130EST

Refreshed and healing, the team met before the board meeting to go over their approach to dealing with the PD and Genetek.They realized that Willow would have no value as a political piece in the maneuvering that wa
2034-03-01 2100EST A secret meeting in the dark (2034-03-01 2100EST) Jenkins is going to hand control of the facility back to Colonel Islay once he seems fit, and call you all to meet in a local pub - in a dark zone. Colonel Islay reports that the fresh line of fibre that was run down the pipe is somehow still not working for internet access
2034-03-01 1900EST Chasing Ellen (2034-03-01 1900EST)

The hunt for Ellen is on.

Jade, from the VR rig in Ring 2 uses the Clank-swarm to unbury Val, contain the zombified soldiers, and track Ellen into her bolt hole.

Miranda runs into the dark area speakers briefly with Storm and brings her our
2034-03-01 1300EST Kaleb deals with chain reactions (2034-03-01 1300EST / 2034-03-01 1800UTC / 2034-03-01 1800LT) Recovering slowly from his wounds, Kaleb takes manual control of an AMAV and heads to the fusion reactor. The vehicle is fast, but the journey is long, especially with the security protocols in the conduit connecting the reac
2034-03-01 1145EST The enemy has a suitcase nuke (2034-03-01 11345EST / 2034-03-01 1645UTC / 2034-03-01 1645LT)

At this point:

  • Deke, Grace, Red, Jenkins, Kaleb, and Val are on the Ring 0 landing platform with the attackers. The platform is 50m x 50m square, 10m tall. It is carved into the side of the central pillar,
2034-03-01 1130EST Bertha is under attack (2034-03-01 1130EST / 2034-03-01 1630UTC / 2034-03-01 1630LT)

A lot happened in a short time.

  • 11:24 EST: Bertha is informed of an incursion into her body, uncovered by B and Google in the patterns of the internet.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000002-QINU`"' The incursion is believed to
2034-03-01 0800EST Breakfast conversations and biorepairs (2034-03-01 0800EST / 2034-03-01 1300UTC / 2034-03-01 1300LT) I'm going to need help filling in these blanks. There were several conversations over breakfast, including Miranda revealing that the MITOs were targeted by Boeing, though without her knowledge. The eye surgeries, biopsies, Clank pro
2034-03-01 0230EST Clanks come together (2034-03-01 0230EST / 2034-03-01 0730UTC / 2034-03-01 0730LT)

Kaleb and Jade spend some time figuring out how to put a few failsafes into the Clanks that Jade has improvised.

Discussion copied here from Slack for reference.

tl;dr

Clanks:

  • recognize and avoid humans.
  • ar
2034-03-01 0200EST Moonscape Protocol (2034-03-01 0200EST / 2034-03-01 0700UTC / 2034-03-01 0700LT)

The narrative of these events is found in Chapter 0030. Quite a lot happened in five minutes.

Ralston, Droo had a confrontation, w
2034-03-01 0100EST Kaleb catches hell (2034-03-01 0100EST / 2034-03-01 0600UTC / 2034-03-01 0600LT) played on 2017-03-08

PCs

2034-03-01 0000EST Characters arrive at BURF (2034-03-01 0000EST / 2034-03-01 0500UTC / 2034-03-01 0500LT)

PCs

  • Deke wakes up in a quarantine room at BURF. He has a very ugly headache.
  • Droo lands in Sudbury Airport on a suborbital flight from [[Halif
2034-02-28 2300EST Eastern Asian Meet the Tetras (2034-02-28 2300EST / 2034-03-01 0400UTC / 2034-03-01 0400LT)

PCs

  • There is a pause in the action as the players continue what they were doing the last
2034-02-28 2200EST Characters converge on Sudbury (2034-02-28 2200EST / 2034-03-01 0300UTC / 2034-03-01 0300LT)

PCs:

  • Deke and company are transferred to a biohazard-grade ambulance for transportation to Jenkin's work. He pa
2034-02-28 2100EST MITO Infection Contained while Tetras Spread West (2034-02-28 2100EST / 2034-03-01 0200UTC / 2034-03-01 0200LT) As the first major population centre to experience the Spawning, Syndey was completely unprepared for the Tetras manifesting everywhere. The initial rumours settled on Tetras being the product of a bizarre gengineerin
2034-02-28 2000EST The World Begins to React to the Tetras (2034-02-28 2000EST / 2034-03-01 0100UTC / 2034-03-01 0100LT)
  • Russia: The small city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was the first significant population centre to meet the Tetras. There was mass panic from citizens, who generally fled from the alien invaders.
  • Japan welcomes the
2034-02-28 1900EST The Tetra Wave Begins (2034-02-28 1900EST / 2034-03-01 0000UTC / 2034-03-01 0000LT)
  • Tetras start to appear in Russia not far West of the international dateline.
  • North Americans realize the Tetras are real, and start to prepare.

Characters:

1999-07-04 Jack Daniels is born in NYC.


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Training Outcomes: Clever 1 (succeed at cost), Clever 2 (succeed), Careful 1 (succeed), Careful 2 (succeed), Secure 1 (succeed), Secure 2 (succeed) Removed "not Clever" by successful roll (on 13th) Removed "not Flashy" by successful roll (on 14th) Removed "not Careful" by successful roll (on 15th) Removed "not Forceful" by successful roll (on 16th)

Two boons (free activations) for Clank Fu aspect

Moved Neural Lace aspects into Important Items.

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