Game Characters Options

[bulmabriefs144]

Okay, we should decide on characters for the project. We may not use them all, but let's have them.

Character Name: (Duh, what you wanna call the character)
Graphic: (Use http://www.geocities.jp/kurororo4/looseleaf/ for XP design, and printscreen the results)
Type: (Hero/Villain/NPC. And What role do they have, as in are they a shopkeeper, a cute witch, what?)
Backstory: (Where do they come from, what do they want)
Personality: (Kinda self-explanatory)
Current History: (How does the party meet them. Possibly subject to change)
Powers: (Specific abilities, and also immunities/resistances)
Weaknesses: (For villains this is an actual strategy of defeat, for heroes it's mainly the drawbacks of their powers. NPCs might not have a Powers or Weaknesses section)

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Character Name: Ambrosia Brahmin (from Oracle of Tao)
Graphic:
Type: Villain. (Former hero, now an evil shopkeeper)
Backstory: She used to be a hero that saved that universe on a mission from God. But, she kind of got bitter, and a bit crazy, after her journey ended and her boyfriend left her (her bf looks like Cloud Strife).
Personality: Sugar and Ice Personality. Why the heck someone like this is running a tavern adds to the strangeness.
Current History: Recently, she became the manager of a local tavern that sells items and beds. When the party asks her for information, she flips out and decides her former boyfriend has sent them to spy on her, and has a battle with them.
Powers: Sorta like a summoner, except she calls energy rather than actual summons. Her powers are strong but very slow to use (delayed effect). Alexander (light spell), Apollo (defense effect), Chronos (a slow effect), Thanatos (death effect, plus some dark damage), Lilith (dark spell), Four Gods (elemental damage), Michael (physical, plus some light damage), Aiken (does damage based on the same element that controls healing), Tao (yin-yang nonelemental damage to all targets, powerful, so takes several turns to cast)
Weakness: Besides the fact that her casting is slow (and some of it does no damage), she's got pretty low hp, and low defense. This is to make up for the fact that most of her attacks almost kill the party.

[Sparrowsmith]

I don't really like the idea of multiple characters for the rogue program. I have an idea for how the programmers made their world.
Basically they have a programming language that runs on variation, one they possibly developed themselves. They make a draft of whatever they're making (a door, an AI, etc) that functions, but isn't quite real. Then they program renders hundreds (possibly thousands) of variations, and the programmers select the more realistic ones, and define irregularities that should never be used. The program itself eventually learns what features a door or person or television should have, and what properties they shouldn't have. Eventually it can render randomly and always give a perfect sense of reality. A door that FEELS and creaks and breaks like a real door. A person that talks, and acts, and can even bleed like a real person.
Lets remember, layer 2 is a complete virtual reality. I don't think anyone could ever just code a perfect reality, which is why the programmers actually don't do that much, they just tell the program if what it has rendered is real-feeling or not, and then it tires again, or improves on the design.
This isn't complete BS either, lots of AI companies use this kind of natural selection to design AI that can walk. Well, I saw one do it once.

However, the game recognizes Johnny as a tester, so he unconsciously makes the world (and the people he hangs around with) more realistic.
So the Junkyard owner is so real because Johnny sees him quite often.

Anyway, this would mean the programmers didn't actually code the personalities of any of the characters, they just talked to the people the program rendered and checked to see if they seemed real. So the Junkyard Owner really is a junkyard owner. Not just some variable.
Also, I feel like the programmers should be able to speed things up or slow things down in layer 1. So the junkyard owner (and all the characters) have had entire lives, even though it's only be a decade or two for the programmers.
It is just a program after all. If you're in the program, you don't notice if time is running faster or slower (no frame of reference) but it isn't exactly the same as layer 3.


As for the robot, I was never too sure either. Originally he just escaped into the security systems, took control of doors and sentry guns and started trying to kill the programmers. However, the plot benefits if he has a body to try and escape with, and it would be possible for him to download himself into a robot, if one existed.
The robot isn't a terminator or something, it's actually a very brittle thing, much like robots we have nowadays.
I mean... we have robots today, and we're talking about super advanced AI, it's not too big a leap of the imagination for the rogue program to end up in a robot.

If we don't do the robot though, we need a new plot resolution.