Competition: Create-an-NPC

Finished
Create-an-NPC

Specifics

The Voice is in need of a few good men and women for a special project. While we just filled some spots on our staff, we're looking now to fill some spots in fiction.

What do I mean by that? Well, DB members will always have cameos in official fiction, but a few of us think it would be awfully nice if we had some NPCs around for members to include in their own writings. What we want are NPCs with character sheets, developed back stories, good descriptions, and even Wiki pages, that will grow and develop fictionally the same way our characters do.

To that end, the Voice and I are commissioning a new competition: Create-an-NPC!

How's this going to work?

Simple. Think up a character! Feel free to be creative here, but you can also use some basic archetype ideas. For instance, we're looking for characters that might fall into the role of a covert operative, an investigator, a researcher, a tech specialist/slicer, or some kind of seer/mystic. But we're also open to innovation!

Platform

Word processor! Include graphics if you want, but make sure to give credit if they aren't original work.

Details

Subscribe for what exactly we want!

In addition to Crescents to winners, we will be giving DSSes based on a measure of effort (related to the length of the Aspects, Description, and Character history you wrote). You'll be designing a mock character sheet, as well as a character history that will end up on the Wiki if you win!

Competition Information
Organized by
Telaris "Mav" Cantor, Mandalorian Declan Roark
Running time
2014-02-19 until 2014-03-19 (29 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Design
Awards
Second Level Crescents
Participants
34 subscribers, of which 13 have participated.
Results
1st place
Aidan Kincaid
Member
Aidan Kincaid
Submission
Aidan Kincaid opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
1st place
Member
Seer A'lora Kituri
File submission
Create-an-NPC.docx
Textual submission

A'lora Kituri, 12049

(There should be instructions in the top of the first page.)

Placement
2nd place
Member
Keirdagh Taldrya Cantor
File submission
83-CreateNPC_ColynSkybender.docx
Placement
3rd place
Member
Lord Idris Adenn
File submission
3783-CreateNPC.docx
Placement
4th place
Member
A deleted dossier
File submission
Create_NPC_1653.docx
Placement
5th place
Member
General Kenath Zoron Ad Vizsla
File submission
Jorvin_Cacto_NPC.docx
Placement
5th place
Member
Lucyeth
File submission
Yen_Bunya.docx
Textual submission

DJK Lucyeth
#13700

Placement
No placement
Member
Sildrin Lyonsbane
Submission
Sildrin Lyonsbane opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
No placement
Member
Master Aramis Taelyan
File submission
CreateanNPC_-_9118.pdf
Textual submission

I submitted a pdf to the site, but you can request access here if you want to view the gdoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yLFnNNEd7Pu48f70jaosUbjPTCxYrqpU11KWKZDpIiI/edit

Placement
No placement
Member
Archangel Palpatine
File submission
7589-NPC.docx
Placement
No placement
Member
Corvus Corax
File submission
CreatanNPC-KejaTulok.pdf
Placement
No placement
Member
Marduss
Textual submission

Name: Satto Verkeres (Sat-Toe, Ver-care-ees)
Born: 17 BBY (Age 51)
Place of Birth: Dantooine
Species: Human
Hair Color: Dark Brown (Now steely Grey)
Eye Color: Hazel
Profession: Operative for Hire, Mercenary Hacker
Force Abilities: No real connections to the force, but he can sometimes see parts of future events
Preferred Weapons: DC-17 Hand blaster pistol, 434 Death Hammer Blaster Pistol, Firelance Blaster Rifle, His self-engineered wrist mounted multi-use computer.
Skills: Programing, hacking, and computer expert, basic marksmanship, exceptional cunning.

Family Relations:
Satto Verkeres was born on Dantooine in 17 BBY and is the eighth of nine children. Of his siblings, he has five older sisters and three older brothers, with one younger sister, Mina. He has icy relations with all his siblings, specifically his oldest sibling and sister Cara, but is lovingly attached to his young sister Mina. Four years older than Mina, he has always taken up the role of her protector from whatever came her way. Satto has never known his father, much the same with his other siblings and the whole of his family has been raised by his mother. A sickly woman, the term 'raise' should be used loosely, as she often could never fully care for her children. As Dantooine could not provide Mother Verkeres with proper medical facilities or medicine, the family was forced to make a desperate move away from home. With little money, the Verkeres family could not travel further inward toward core worlds or expansion territories, and were forced to seek a new home on outer rim territories. This lead the family traveling to Tattooine, where Satto’s life developed.

Adventures so far in life:
A year after his arrival on Tattooine, at the age of 10, Satto’s family was in danger of becoming slaves to local gangs and slave owners due to accumulative debt of Ms. Verceres medicine. Seeking a way to prevent this, Satto sought out a local scrap dealer who had too little money to buy droids after purchasing half destroyed starships. Convincing the alien to allow himself and his family to scrap and dismantle these ships would be cheaper than doing it himself, Satto effectively found a paying job that saved his family from slavery. More importantly, it allowed him the chance to work with ship computers, where he taught himself to learn and master programing, software, and hacking.
He did this for over a year, up until his oldest sister Cara had an idea. A bully from birth and now 16, Cara contacted the Hutts with a deal: She would get her intelligent brother alone to be taken for slavery for a decent price and a better paying job. A shrewd negotiator, her demands were met, and Satto was taken from Tattoine to Nal Hutta, where he was used as a tool to undermine the other Hutt clans by the young, but ruthless the ruthless Jabba the Hutt. With Satto constantly improving his skills, he eventually found a way to escape through manipulating the schedules of freighters to arrive on Nal Hutta, but was sold again before he could enact his plan. Satto was 13 at the time.

No longer was Satto a free roaming prisoner of Hutt’s, he was now a forced laborer in an Imperial slave camp on Kessel. Here where air was not fit to breath and no real atmosphere existed and his ability to use technology was stripped away from him. While he did not wan to remain a prisoner, he had constant dreams of help coming to his aid and for some reason, headed these dreams. Soon after these dreams began to occur, their prophecies came to fruition: a group of pirates came in search of spice and raided Kessel. The battle was short lived, but many laborers, including Satto, joined the pirates in their fight and flight from Kessel. Quickly befriending them, Satto would stay with the pirates and cause raids on the empire and occasionally some undeserving victims, for 4 years. Here he learned the basics of marksmanship and finally mastered his computer skills by reprogramming an assassin droid who was designated 2L-37 M, which Satto renamed ‘2 Long’ in accordance with the droids height. He was 18 when he left their company and returned to Tattoine in search of his sister Mina and his now former sister Cara.

On his arrival he found Cara enjoying life with the Hutt’s, three of his other siblings dead, three working either as moisture farmers or scrappers, and Mina about to be sold into slavery. This time, Cara was not the cause, Mina had just inherited her mother debt. The collectors were a group of petty criminals and small time criminals who no one would miss, and so Satto took care of them as he saw fit. Seeking to remove Mina away from Tattoine, he grudgingly searched for work with his sworn enemy and former captures, Cara and the Hutt’s. Satto’s work included some smuggling, but revolved around ripping of banks, aliens, and anti imperial computer skirmishes, which he did very well at. He wished to take revenge on Cara before he departed from Tattooine, but never did, since he had more prophetic dreams of someone else taking her life for unknown reasons. After two years, he made enough money to take Mina into the Core worlds of the empire, where she has lived a comfortable life ever since. The the two’s new home was established on Coruscant in 3 ABY.

Modern day:
With the fall of the empire and the rise of the many factions of the Empire remnants and rebellious factions, Satto often finds himself in the employment of the Dark Brotherhood or Galactic Alliance. He owns a starship called the Free Bird, and has a crew of three other individuals:

2 Long: His faithful Assassin droid companion who he constantly updates and upgrades, the two share a close bond even though 2L is only a droid. In fact, it’s because of Satto that 2L even has a personality at all.

Barthyeous (Bar-thee-os): A Bothan who Satto bonded with over drinking. He serves specifically as an infiltrator and a representative of the crew, as he often finds the crew various lucrative missions.

Ferrga: A Gran who was a former mercenary. The crews only real combatant, she is often seen talking to her rifle, as she has spent much time alone and views her gun as her only true companion.

Satto has never been married and has no children, however, he is extremely fond of his sister Mina, and is an adoring uncle of his niece, Ofina (O-fee-na).

Placement
No placement
Member
Sala Fe
Textual submission

Create-A-NPC Competition
Kah Manet
8343

Character Name: Frats Dotch
Species: Ryn
Path: Consular
Discipline: Sorcerer
Rank: EQ1
Age: 62
Physical Description: Frats Dotch is a Ryn in his early sixties, his left hand suffering from arthritis which places it in a permanent claw. He is skinny, and there are heavy bags under his eyes, which have been replaced by cybernetic implants. His skin is light blue, and he keeps his hair trim but his beard shaggy. He can always be seen wearing the usual Jedi robes and he always has his lightsaber with him.

Bio: Frats Dotch is known as “The Eternal Padawan”, the reason being he has failed his Knighting Trials every time he had taken them in his youth. Because he was taken at an age where he remembered a family but couldn’t remember the details of them, he never felt like he belonged in the Jedi Order and it always lingered in him during his Trial of Emotions. Now, he is in charge of the libraries located on New Tython and humbly accepts this post. During his time within the libraries, he has read almost all of the texts and teachings which has garnered him a wealth of knowledge. While he has stopped attempting the Trials, he never stopped training and practiced the things he read and learned during his time in the libraries. He wears a small crystal around his neck, which belonged to his master.

He was taken as a small child from his home planet, having no memories of family or friends outside the Order. When Order 66 was executed, Frats was with his master on a diplomatic mission, and due to the quick actions of his master was able to evade the shots of his unit of guards. They both narrowly escaped their attackers, but his master was fatally wounded by one of the troopers and collapsed right before they reached safety. He quickly went into hiding and did his best to live a mundane life. Having been in hiding during the Galactic Civil War, he got work with members of the Rebel Alliance hacking into Imperial databases and stealing information.

It wasn’t long until Frats decided he wanted to try and locate his home and learn who is family were, and so he took to the stars in pursuit of that goal. Having entered a miscalculation in his computer, it brought him to New Tython and because he could feel a strong presence in the Force, he deemed it was the Will of the Force acting through his ship. He safely landed and tried to make discover the presence. He discovered House Odan-Urr, who quickly captured and questioned him. After discovering he never fell to the Dark Side and still fought for good, they asked if they’d join their cause.

When New Tython came under attack, Frats proved his worth and helped Odan-Urr fight against the invaders. He single handedly defended the library until reinforcements could secure it.

Unit: Odan-Urr

Aspects
Combat
1. Duelist
2. He's No Good To Me Dead

Personality
1. Cowardly Lion
2. We Must Protect This House!
3. Resourceful Researcher

Prefered Weapon: Lightsaber
Lightsaber Style: Shii-Cho, Banlanth
Force Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis, Illusion

Placement
No placement
Member
Warlord Brimstone aka Seabr'imsto'nedansr
Textual submission

Create a NPC

Here's my suggestion

Name : Seato'mbsto'nedansr aka tombstone

Race : chiss
Age : 30
Height : 6'1"
Weight : 220 lbs
Home : Csilla, Chiss Ascendancy
Relative : Seabr'imsto'nedansr aka Brimstone

Weapons : charric blasters, charric rifle, stiletto blades, poison

Ship : Nsiss Clawcraft fighter.

Training : exceptional pilot, military genius, commander

Aspects :
Personality - straight shooter, we must protect this house
Combat - hokey religions and ancient weapons, assassination
General - due diligence, combat medic

Skills : pilot, poisons, blasters, bladed weapons, dual wielding, investigation, perception, interrogation, intellect, leadership, assassination

Powers : none, he's not force sensitive, but could change like Leia did

Feats : Assess The Situation, Cry no more

History : Tombstone is the brother of Brimstone, he is a few years younger. He at one point tried to have him killed. Brimstone kept him alive till he finally learned the truth of his powers.

He is a major in the CEDF and has worked with Brimstone on special assignments. He came to help lead the investigation into the predominant's destruction and tend to his brother's injuries.

He could be used as a new fleet commander or an operative working closely with us against enemies.

Placement
No placement