Name: Carl Pierce (Carl Maas)
Nature: Conniver
Allegiance: Aeon
Strength 2;
Dexterity 2; Firearms 1, Legerdemain 1, Melee 1,
Stamina 2; Resistance 1,
Perception 4; Awareness 1, Investigation 3 (specialty;
Interviews),
Intelligence 2; Academics 2, Bureaucracy 1, Intrusion 1, Linguistics 0
Wits 4; Meditation 2, Rapport 1,
Appearance 2; Style 1,
Manipulation 3; Interrogation 1, Subterfuge 2 (specialty;
Deception),
Charisma 3; Perform 1, Savvy 2 (specialty; Information),
Willpower: 5
Psi: 5
Aptitude: Clairsentience
Basic Techniques: The Sight
Modes: Psychometry 1, Psychonavigation 1, Telesthesia 1
Auxiliary Modes: The Babel Effect (Mindshare), Sense Emotion
(Empathy)
Backgrounds: Citizenship 0 (Luna), Contacts 3 (the Ministry,
Aeon and
the Ductran ISRAns), Mentor 1 (Aeon), Resources 2, Status 1
Weapons: Banji Lightning Taser Baton (Dmg 6B, RoF 1)
Armor: Armor Vest (1/3, 0), Reinforced Clothing (0/2, 0)
Other Equipment: Assorted spy crap. :)
Carl was born to a
single parent from the FSA who moved to Luna to get away from her overbearing
militant/religious husband (Carl was only 2 at the time and remembers none of
this). He learned to pull simple cons
and shakedowns on the tourists fairly young as a child, growing up fairly poor as
his mother had little in the way of resources when she left and took almost a
decade to get back on her feet (and remarried). It was on the streets of Luna that he learned that knowledge was
power. Those who knew things could make
money, those who knew safe places to hide were immune to attack and those who
knew the right people and, more importantly, what they wanted and what they
would do for it, were able to have anything they wanted. Carl was in lockup for some minor offense
when he was pulled aside by a robed member of the enigmatic ISRA'n Order and
run through a series of strange tests.
They smoothed things over with the authorities and suddenly Carl was
free to go, on their recognizance. The
Order kept his scores secret as Carl had tested powerfully latent, but in two
Aptitudes! Still he could tell that he
was the 'goose who laid the golden egg' and had something that all these bozos
wanted pretty bad so he played it cool and made lots of unreasonable requests, mainly
to see what he could and could not get away with. When he received the formal request to join ISRA he had scoped
out the situation and felt quite on top of it when he said that he wanted to
join Orgotek instead!
The beautiful young
woman who was his mentor at this point just laughed and told him that he had
brass, but he had guessed wrong, he hadn't shown any potential for
Electrokinesis and that his special potential would be wasted there.
He was beaten and
he knew it so he salvaged the situation by becoming a member of ISRA, after
being told his choices (that or the somewhat spooky Ministry). He didn't really like either of these
choices (having set his heart on a cushy Orgotek job), but the Ministry sounded
far too uptight and hard-work oriented, so once it was made clear that he
didn't have to become a Baha'ist, Carl accepted their offer and became Clairsentient,
receiving Auxiliary training from an ISRA'n Telepath and developing the skill
to understand any one other foreign speaker or to make himself understood
through the most basic of Mindsharing Techniques.
He hooked up with
his recruiter, in a romantic sense.
Elise was a gyre-surfing hedonistic thrillseeker, heavily into Bang,
although not currently touring or having an international following (she was
mainly popular on Luna and toured local venues, being more notable for packing up
and touring *anywhere*). Their
seemingly random wandering finally landed them at Eyrie station just before the
[Spoiler]. When it happened they were
standing ready at a viewing port and the Attunement backlash was like nothing
Carl had ever felt. It was like his
brain was a baby and was being born amidst violence and blood from his heaving
skull, the last thing he saw before he blacked out was Elise weeping blood and clutching
for her eyes as if to tear them from her skull. When he woke up it was all over, he had missed everything and
Elise was not only unhurt, she had recovered almost immediately and taken
action to aid the other residents of the station while he lay helpless, a
burden on their already taxed resources.
She seemed changed after this encounter and left him behind when they
returned to Luna, hardly talking to him, as if it were somehow his fault for
passing out (actually she simply can't deal seeing him and thinking that she
could have been wiped out similarly for her stupid gyre-surfing stunts and she
could have as easily gotten him killed!).
It was this act
more than any dissatisfaction with ISRA that led Carl to pull out and join the
Aeon Trinity. So far he has managed to learn
the most basic Technique of the Empathy Mode from an Aeon Telepath as well and
eventually he will try to learn an Auxiliary Technique in Psychbending as well.