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Quick5ilvr

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Name: AT-390 ‘Jonathan’

Skin: Jonathan appears as a caucasian male

Height: AT-390 stands at a height of 6’

Weight: I really don’t know how much androids weigh...

Eyes: Jonathan’s eyes are a sky blue color

Physicality: Designed to emulate the peak of human physiology, Jonathan appears to be strong but not overly muscular. A healthy amount of tone without quite approaching superhero physique.

Psychology: Cold and calculating, Jonathan has developed a more human understanding of the world over the past years of his existence. Despite these advancements, he can still be awkward in social settings but many look past it on account of the resources available to him. Recently he has begun asking more existential questions as he searches for meaning in a ceaseless life in which he has already achieved great things.

History:

While not the most advanced android alive, AT-390 was one of the first models of androids to pass the advanced Turing test, able to fool most test participants into believing he was human in person. His initial function was to operate in manufacturing facilities and oversee the creation of more androids, but as civil rights movements began to push for recognition of android rights and agency, Jonathan found himself able to choose what he wanted to pursue despite his initial indifference.

After many years of pursuing funding, Jonathan was able to start the company Phoenix Power Inc., using advanced technologies to convert waste and landfill areas into profitable power plants to fuel the new age. Despite obstacles in dealing with humans, Phoenix Power grew into a corporate giant in its own right under the calculated guidance of Jonathan. Whether generating fossil fuels from processed trash or capturing electricity in processed chemical waste, Phoenix Power become a household name as both a green and accessible form of energy, distinguishing itself for its high number of android employees. Cower, worship, or beg. All are valid choices.

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Quick5ilvr

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Finding himself amidst the upper echelons of society, Jonathan is learning to navigate the privilege he has earned and leverage it correctly. Philanthropist, billionaire, and searching for meaning, Jonathan is situated in the City of Big Shoulders where he built his empire.

A small landmark of note, Phoenix Tower houses a sizable bank of Jonathan’s thoughts and experiences. With a back-up of his life secure, the next logical step was to create a number of physical back-ups that would activate upon the destruction of his form. The ethics of this set-up are dicey at best, but a number of these AT-390s are active to run the business, allowing Jonathan Prime to politic and ultimately do as he pleases. Cower, worship, or beg. All are valid choices.

10-Jan-2020 01:12:18 - Last edited on 10-Jan-2020 04:48:14 by Quick5ilvr

Riniya

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Name: “Willow” (unknown legal name)

Skin: Willow is a Caucasian Female who looks to be about 23

Height: 5’6”

Weight: 156lbs

Eyes: Amber

Physicality: Willow is lean but slightly toned. She wears a light blue short sleeved shirt and jeans with black boots. Her hair short black pixie cut with purple highlights. She has a black tattoo on her left wrist in the shape of the “Power” Symbol.

Psychology: Willow is highly independent. She is stubborn and once she sets her mind to something nothing can easily sway it. She can be very cunning and calculating. She knows how to manipulate people due to her looks and her personality. She can easily befriend people and then if needed uses the information given to her against them and others.

History: Willow was born into the “privileged” life. Her parents were very well off and spent their days lounging around and going shopping. As Willow aged, she began to notice the smaller things peeking through in life. Going shopping with her parents one day she saw a homeless man on the streets and began to get interested in the other sides of life that she doesn’t see from her position of privilege.

At the age of 15, Willow’s parents purchased her a top of the line computer, expecting her to do trivial things. Willow instead began to delve deep into the life she knew nothing about. What she found opened her eyes. Willow then began to spend more and more time on her computer learning about the world around her. Soon she became very skilled at hacking and finding hidden information.

At the age of 16, Willow went shopping with a friend when a rouge android attacked them. The Android took them away and began to run experiments on them. The android “plugged” Willow into the network and it overloaded her human brain. Thinking that Willow had died, the android abandoned her in the slums.

Willow remained there for a year unmoving before something triggered a synopsis to fire in her brain awakening her.

There isn't one.

11-Jan-2020 16:49:42

Riniya

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She woke confused with her memories gone, but she felt pressure at the edge of her senses that she couldn’t quite place. She moved her way through the slums and as she got closer to technology or other robots/androids the pressure increased and caused her pain. She screamed and noticed a Robot nearby collapse, releasing the pressure she experienced.

Over the next few years, Willow gave herself a name (never having her memories return) and learned to understand the power she had after her “Death”. She could easily access any and all technology with her mind and control it to her desires. She got the tattoo on wrist to symbolize the power she has over technology. She decided to stay in the slums instead of moving up to the higher levels as she figured she could remain hidden better. She began fighting against the suppressive system by stealing information and money and dispersing it where needed.

There isn't one.

11-Jan-2020 16:49:50

Inferi

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Name: Aisa Mello

Skin: Mostly caucasian with perhaps 20% asian mixed in

Height: 5’ 9”

Weight: 177 lbs

Eyes: Standard tint: blue-gray. Color may shift depending on circumstances.

Physicality: Well-built, with toned musculature that is due to rather intense personal training. Save for that, her appearance is average enough, making her tend to blend in to most crowds when not in uniform. She has brown hair tied back in a ponytail, and sharp emerald-green eyes slanted slightly due to her ancestry.

Psychology: Overall, a bit shy around most people. She finds it hard to speak her mind anywhere except while she is working because she feels her words have no weight. Despite that, she has a strong sense for justice, wanting to right what is wrong and stop criminals from hurting others.

History: Born to a lower-middle class family, Aisa’s ambition was to take what was wrong with her home - crime and the like, as she saw it - and fix it. That was the drive, at least, that led her to become a police officer, but unfortunately for her it was harder than she had hoped due to her innate shyness and general nervousness. She couldn’t fully transition from a life where she had no say in anything to one where she had at least some authority, but she managed to get by simply by forcing forward a more stern persona while in uniform.

Even so, it was difficult. She barely made it into the police academy itself, and nearly dropped out three times due to how stressful it was for her. However, she managed to keep hold of her ambition, of her drive to fix so much of what was wrong with the world, and just barely scraped through the final tests to become a rookie officer.

Overall, she was fairly successful at her job. It was a bit difficult at first, but once she managed to actually speak up while on duty it became quite a bit better. Unfortunately, this only lasted for a few years before she was part of a serious incident that had an effect on her entire department. Done in by the dubious doings of destiny.

13-Jan-2020 19:02:14

Inferi

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The call was for a simple disturbance: strange lights and noises coming from a home. The first officer to respond to it went silent on the radio, and then never showed back up. Concerned, the department sent in three more, Aisa being one of them. What they found was horrifying: the home was the base of a cult, and that cult had taken it upon themselves to bring the supernatural into the world. What exactly they were trying for wasn’t clear, but what was clear was the amount of bloody bodies and the strange creature lurking behind the four cult members still alive.

From that point on Aisa remembers nothing, her memory only coming back when she regained consciousness in a hospital bed. According to the backup that one of her fellow officers had called for - part of what she doesn’t remember - she had been the only one alive when they arrived on scene. All of the cult members were dead, as were the other two officers, and she had several injuries that were serious although none that were fatal. Unable to provide an account, and still rattled by what had happened, Aisa was given some time on paid leave to recover from what had happened.

It was during that time that she began to hear the whispers, and experience short bursts of memory loss. They did not seem malicious, at least not most of them, but hearing voices speaking in her ear was not exactly something she wanted to have. However, every specialist she went to about it assured her that there was nothing wrong with her, and so she was forced to accept that this had to be normal if she didn’t want to think that she was crazy.

Still, something about it didn’t seem right...but with nobody she could really turn to about it, Aisa had no choice but to keep it to herself. Done in by the dubious doings of destiny.

13-Jan-2020 19:02:28

Azi Demonica

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Windy City , the City of the Big Shoulders , Heart of America , Second City , Chi-Town , The 312 … Chicago had quite a few nicknames. For most modern residents, it’s simply the City of the Big Shoulders: pork butchery, toolmaking, wheat stacking, endless railroads, neverending freight handling… All of this a stormy, husky, brawling chant of defiance against New York, Boston, Philadelphia and London.

The riot is one night… ...but metadata lasts forever.

AT-390 Jonathan

January 10th, 2080
The Loop, City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
5:00PM

By five PM, most humans throughout America finished their eight hour ratrace and went off home. Robotic employees, however, would not necessarily complain about long hours, especially those determined to improve all things around them. Curious indeed that robots can have more empathy than most living beings.

Phoenix Power Inc. solved many issues for Chicago’s energy and power consumption. Indeed, amidst the risks of total blackouts over the years, Phoenix Power solved them before they came. Jonathan’s androids saved the city plenty of times thusly. He often got thank you letters from various residents and departments, perhaps he read some even now?

AT-390 was in his main office in Phoenix Tower, a minor landmark under the shadows of Aon Center and Willis Tower. Farther down Chicago stood two other immense structures: the Vista Tower and the Trump International Hotel and Tower.

Jonathan was rather disturbed by the most unusual report he had seen. A while ago, three officers and four fanatics were found dead amidst a sole survivor, another officer. The report indicated many blooded bodies, high levels of electromagnetism, and even some radiation and anti-gravity which faded away.

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Azi Demonica

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It was customary for Phoenix Power to extract as much energy as possible from waste, which they detected from this incident, but despite working with the Chicago Police Department, what really happened remained unclear.
What else did he feel or know?

Jonathan abruptly received a message from a trusted friend sent to his internal communications:
Sir, the chief operating officer of AT&T is urgently requesting to see you in person. He has some staff, including the executive vice president of The Blackstone Group Inc. and the chief financial officer of Huron Consulting Group. They cannot disclose additional details due to privacy and security issues. They are ready to come in person.

Willow

January 10th, 2080
Lakeside slums of western Lake Michigan, City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
5:00PM

Even without memory or luxury, the lakeside was still beautiful. There was something about nature that lasts forever—this did not need memory to understand. Gulls honked up above, impoverished children playfully ran to and fro from the splashing waves.

Naturally, Lake Michigan and its piers should be frozen over. With change in climate past several decades, winter barely existed. The fortunate consequence was that the homeless did not freeze to death as often.

Normally, garbage and discarded drug-related items would be littered along the beach. Indeed, next to garbage bins, driftwood logs, or overturned vehicles sat slummies, drug addicts, outcasts, who knows what else… Many of them Willow had helped, one way or another, though it was hard for losers to ascend to a better life.

But, the usual Phoenix Power cleaners worked to keep the beaches clean. It was nice for Willow to know that she was not the only philanthropist around. Better yet, Phoenix Power was a corporation dedicated to improvement, something an individual like she could not do.

16-Jan-2020 00:03:17

Azi Demonica

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However, what Willow could do, that Phoenix Power could not...had its own uses, represented by a symbol on her wrist.
Did Willow have a history with Phoenix Power?

She wanted to help people, even if it meant hacking to steal money and give to the poor. At times, tho, the police were sent after her, but she always managed to evade, or fool them by manipulating their electronics, one way or another. Corporations rule commerce and finance, it was only a matter of time before they used better technology to find out who was stealing their money.
Did Willow have any notable encounters with the police?

Amidst Willow’s existential thoughts, she felt something tug at her sleeve. Next to her stood a little boy, one of the street urchins she helped. He shyly smiled, one arm kept behind his back.

“Hi, Willow!” His smile disappeared. “Why can’t there be more people like you? We all like you here. It’s not much, but…” He placed his hands together and presented to Willow… “I made you a cupcake!” He cocked his head and grinned. “It’s not much, but we just wanted to say thank you, for everything you’ve done for us.” His grin widened in anticipation…

Aisa Mello

January 10th, 2080
Public Safety Headquarters Building, South Michigan Avenue, City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
5:00PM

Pictures of those three officers who did not return that night remained on the wall of the police station. Strange that nearly two weeks ago, they celebrated New Years’ Eve, and now, they were gone, forever.

Many other officers had put up their own messages and best wishes. Nobody wanted those pictures gone. Everyone wanted answers, though none were found.

Phoenix Power Inc. had sent its best android personnel to clean up the mess. Despite the corporation's reputation, not even they could figure out what had happened. They did, however, note unusually high levels of electromagnetism. Anti-gravity and radiation were also noted but they faded away.

16-Jan-2020 00:04:46

Azi Demonica

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The incident made headline news. Bloody bodies, mysterious deaths of both police officers and the fanatics… Nobody knew what happened. Those who experienced it were dead save for the sole survivor, who unfortunately had very little memory.

Despite the best psychiatrists Chicago had to offer, nothing was found wrong with Aisa. Sure, she had symptoms, but despite brain scans, nothing was out of the ordinary. Then again, everyone works hard in America, it’s not easy to get days off. There’s too much crime, not enough officers, and the powers above want everything rolling.

Thoughts flowed in Aisa’s mind; the voices; stress in the academy and wanting to drop out a few times; waking up in hospital; doing her job; that lurking thing behind the cultists…

Nevertheless, the police department provided Aisa with a few small bottles of medicine.
First bottle: anti-psychotics, popular for treating schizophrenia
Second bottle: antidepressants
Third bottle: sertraline
Fourth bottle: Modafinil
Mixing medication wasn’t a good idea, but if she wanted, Aisa could help herself to which ever she felt would be best, if she wanted.

A ringer briefly wailed, snapped Aisa out of her thoughts. A holographic screen erupted before Aisa, depicted crowds in the streets smashing windows, putting cars on fire, throwing things… Dispatch had predictable orders incoming.

Computerized, echoing beeping noises sounded in Aisa’s communicator. “404, 10-20 The Loup, Code 2,” the broadcast’s robotic voice spoke. The holographic screen shifted then zoomed-in on a suspect of some sort. He didn’t look like much: a shirtless bum with rather long, messy hair? What was so special about him? “UTL UPI. Final verdict: locate and apprehend 10-107 with assistance.”

404 = riot
10-20 = location
Code 2 = proceed urgently but not emergency
UTL = unable to locate
UPI = unidentified person of interest
10-107 = suspicious person

16-Jan-2020 00:05:07 - Last edited on 16-Jan-2020 16:07:06 by Azi Demonica

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