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Sunglasses at Night (Deus Ex / Exalted Modern)

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This is a near-future Exalted quest, but it isn't the Exalted Modern in Shards. This is Exalted...
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This is a near-future Exalted quest, but it isn't the Exalted Modern in Shards. This is Exalted in Deus Ex.

"You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands."

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It used to be that anyone you saw walking down the street was exactly what they looked like. A man was a man, a woman a woman, and everyone had a time and a place to die. Everyone had the same human limits that everyone else did.

Oh, some people were smarter, or stronger, or faster, but that was a byproduct of genetics and how they were raised, and the great browning of nations was sorting that out too.

The twenty-first century changed everything.

When you walked down the street now there are humans that barely were humans in amongst the rest, more machine than man, but they're only the most obvious cases of divergence. Through the efforts of UNATCO, the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition, a world-spanning combination of old defense treaties, national security agencies, and civilian agencies, you were selected. You were enlightened.

The stories you heard about people gifted with vast power by mysterious benefactors, changed to be somehow more than they were that are whispered in the subway, derided on television, that are everywhere online?

All of them are true.

After all, you're one of them.

Your name is J. C. Denton, and you wear your sunglasses at night.

But what kind of augmented human are you?
[] Biologically Augmented. Your very DNA has been changed, altered, and you've been imbued with something cutting-edge that will carry on to your children, should you have any.
[] Mechanically Augmented. You're a bit of a throwback. You've got issues with versatility, but you're more reliable than the newer, shinier agents, and have a bit more raw power to boot.
[] Nano-Augmented. Your body is maintained and healed by nanites, but far better ones than the man on the street can get. Versatility is your strong point, and you can take hits too in a pinch.
 
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Skills[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif] [/font]range from untrained/trained/advanced/master
- Computer Use: Advanced
- Breaking and Entering: Untrained
- Stealth: Advanced
- Medicine: Untrained
- Swimming: Untrained
- Weapons (Demolition): Trained
- Weapons (Long-Range): Trained
- Weapons (Small Arms): Advanced
- Weapons (Melee): Trained
 
are biological and nano-augments mutually exclusive?
 
[X] Nano-Augmented. Your body is maintained and healed by nanites, but far better ones than the man on the street can get. Versatility is your strong point, and you can take hits too in a pinch.
 
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[X] Biologically Augmented. Your very DNA has been changed, altered, and you've been imbued with something cutting-edge that will carry on to your children, should you have any.
I like this one, even if Nanomachines Son is another stuff.
 
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Carrnage said:
are biological and nano-augments mutually exclusive?
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Nano-augmentations are mutually exclusive. The Terrestrial Exalation would burn them out.
 
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[X] Biologically Augmented. Your very DNA has been changed, altered, and you've been imbued with something cutting-edge that will carry on to your children, should you have any.
 
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Nano-augmentations are mutually exclusive. The Terrestrial Exalation would burn them out.
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oh that explains it.

[X] Nano-Augmented. Your body is maintained and healed by nanites, but far better ones than the man on the street can get. Versatility is your strong point, and you can take hits too in a pinch.
 
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[X] Mechanically Augmented. You're a bit of a throwback. You've got issues with versatility, but you're more reliable than the newer, shinier agents, and have a bit more raw power to boot.

More raw power, and reliable to boot? Even if at the expense of versatility, it sounds like we'll be part of an organization. We can just take jobs fitting our skill selection.
 
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Oh lord what is this I love it all of my yes.

[X] Biologically Augmented

I will note that Deus Ex is famous for lovely little things like kill switches and broadcast disables. Bioware means someone's going to have to hit us with a retrovirus or something to really fuck us up (which is totally in setting too) but at least we can't get shut off with a fucking one-liner.
 
[X] Biologically Augmented
 
[X] Biologically Augmented

Because Dragonblooded as Quest Protags are super rare.
 
Jans said:
Oh lord what is this I love it all of my yes.

[X] Biologically Augmented

I will note that Deus Ex is famous for lovely little things like kill switches and broadcast disables. Bioware means someone's going to have to hit us with a retrovirus or something to really fuck us up (which is totally in setting too) but at least we can't get shut off with a fucking one-liner.
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Also true! Each choice has hidden (and not-so-hidden) costs and benefits like that.


As to your job, you work for UNATCO at the moment, and you hunt terrorists. That can change, though.
 
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[X] Biologically Augmented. Your very DNA has been changed, altered, and you've been imbued with something cutting-edge that will carry on to your children, should you have any.
 
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[X] Biologically Augmented

I'd rather play a TAW or Infernal rather than a DB.
 
[X] Biologically Augmented

Prefer an Infernal too.
 
[X] Nano-Augmented. Your body is maintained and healed by nanites, but far better ones than the man on the street can get. Versatility is your strong point, and you can take hits too in a pinch.
 
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[X] Nano-Augmented. Your body is maintained and healed by nanites, but far better ones than the man on the street can get. Versatility is your strong point, and you can take hits too in a pinch.
 
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[X] Nano-Augmented. Your body is maintained and healed by nanites, but far better ones than the man on the street can get. Versatility is your strong point, and you can take hits too in a pinch.
 
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[X] Mechanically Augmented. You're a bit of a throwback. You've got issues with versatility, but you're more reliable than the newer, shinier agents, and have a bit more raw power to boot.
 
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[] Biologically Augmented. - Dragonblooded Exalted

[] Mechanically Augmented. - Classical Alchemical Exalted

[] Nano-Augmented. - Possibly Lunar Exalted
 
Biigoh said:
[] Biologically Augmented. - Dragonblooded Exalted

[] Mechanically Augmented. - Classical Alchemical Exalted

[] Nano-Augmented. - Possibly Lunar Exalted
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That last one, it's actually heroic mortal!


Yes, just the normal J. C. Denton from the game.
 
[X] Biologically Augmented
 
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