Return-path: Received: from DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU by DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #7763) id <01HZW4IHVCC090N23L@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU> for sw-rpg@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:24:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from arl-img-5.compuserve.com by DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #7763) id <01HZW4I4Q75W90MXVM@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU> for jae+sw-rpg@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:23:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by arl-img-5.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id RAA17770; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:24:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:23:30 -0500 (EST) From: Fritz Moye <75262.1315@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: List PC's To: "(unknown)" Errors-to: jae+sw-rpg-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Reply-to: jae+sw-rpg@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Message-id: <960111222330_75262.1315_GHI78-2@CompuServe.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Here is a Slicer that I came up with for a PBEM game. Name: Kineley Kinderek a.k.a. "Kin-Kin" Species: Human Ht: 5'5" Wt: 122lbs. Template: Slicer Sex: Male Age: 15 Quote: "Anything you could ever want to know is stored in a computer someplace." Dexterity: 3D Knowledge: 3D Mechanical: 3D Blaster Bureaucracy 4D Communications 4D Dodge Business (S)Code breaking 5D Running Cultures Repulsorlift Ops Vehicle Blaster Streetwise 4D Swoop Ops 4D Value Languages Perception: 3D Strength: 2D Technical: 4D Bargain Climbing/Jumping Blaster Repair Forgery 4D Stamina Computer Prog/Repair 6D Hide (S)Computer Security 7D Investigation Droid Programming Sneak First Aid Repulsorlift repair Security Move: 10 Force Points: 1 Force Sensitive: No Character Points: 5 Equipment Hold-out blaster Microthrust portable computer Computer tool kit 5 memory sticks Security systems kit microthrust computer spikes comlink glow rod medpac pocket computer chronometer vibro pick Description: At first glance Kin-Kin looks like a typical street urchin. He has medium length uncombed black hair, his eyes are gray and his skin is well tanned. He is wearing a set of tan coveralls that have several pockets, a black pair of boots and he is carrying a brown leather satchel. Upon closer inspection though Kin-Kin is washed and his clothes are clean. He is a little thin but he is healthy, he even has all of his teeth and there is a bright look in his eyes. Background: "Hi. I'm Kineley Kinderek but everybody calls me 'Kin-Kin' and I'm the best slicer this side of the core worlds. I can slice into the Imperial net, get the Emperors underwear size and be out before anyone knows what happened. I can also get secret docs and other classified stuff but it's more fun to send the Emp fifty pair of underwear that is two sizes too small. Yeah, when I need money I'll slice into a system and steal some data that's important to somebody. Most of the time though I slice just for the heck of it. I'll break into a system just to see if I can do it and I'll leave em' a little message saying that their computer security stinks. Sometimes they even upgrade and give me a little more challenge. Sometimes I can't get in at all or worse, I set off some kind of alarm then I'll have to beat feet away from whatever terminal I'm using. I learned from the best though; Zak Hackin. Zak used to be a slicer for the Empire until he got wise to the scam they were pulling. It was nothin for him to get travel docs and false ID's though. After that he went to a small backwater planet called Dantooine and laid low for a while. Then he moved on to a planet called Deneba*. That's where he met me. I was an orphan living on the streets, scrounging for water. I followed Zak one day because I thought I might be able to lift his purse. Then I saw him plug his deck into a public terminal and start typing on the keyboard. In less than a minute the machine started spitting out credits. Zak grabbed them and left. I then followed him back to his place. Feeling daring I walked up to him and said, "I want to do what you do." After all, the guy just stole credits from a machine which looked a lot easier than stealing them from a person. The machines can't grab you and turn you in to the police. At least that's what I thought at the time. Zak took me in and started to teach me. He didn't just teach me about computers though. He taught me about governments and business and forging stuffand communications stuff and a lot more. Zak always said that, "the more you know about your target the better the slice will go." Most of it seemed kind of boring but I learned it anyway. I wanted to be just like Zak. Then we did some planet hopping. Zak would pick up an odd slicing job to keep us in creds and pretty soon he got me my very own deck. My first solo slice was against a local shipping business. Zak just wanted me to get the shipping manifests for every ship leaving within the next twenty four hours. Getting in wasn't to hard and eventually I found the data but I got sloppy on my way out and tripped an alarm. Zak said I did a pretty good job though. He told me, "Burn and learn. That is, if you survive the burn." We did more planet hopping an eventually ended up at Moltok. Zak had heard about a big job here. He said we would have enough money to last for a long time. Being closer to the core world Zak was a little more cautious. He said he wanted to stash me away for a while and do this slice solo. I laid low for a while and when the time for the job had come and gone I started poking around. I looked on the news nets and was horrified when I read the article. It said the Empire had captured a traitor and a spy named Horus Bilnarny but the picture was of Zak. It also said that he had resisted and the stormtrooper had been forced to kill him. I was scared and angry and confused. I wanted to do so many things to the Imperials but they were all dumb ideas that would have gotten me killed. In despair I arranged for a seat on an outbound freighter headed for the rim. Since then I have been slicing for a living and planning for the day when I go to Coruscant and crash the main Imperial computer.