Player: lurkd
Profession: Exploration, Surveillance, and Mapping
Demeanour: Eben is happy-go-lucky for the most part. He is rather timid and doesn't handle confrontation very well. He is also pretty gullible and has a bad habit of looking at things face-value. But in his calmer moments he has a good sense of humor and enjoys his quiet time.
Nature: Combat is not his thing; he is very comfortable not being in the line of fire and will do what he can to make sure he doesn't get shot at. Eben doesn't believe in karma or fate, rather that things happen randomly and there's not much anyone can do about it (a thought which can keep him up at night).
Description: Eben is of average height but on the lanky side. He has thick medium length black hair that is permanentley bedhead with a touch of grey in it. Typically has a little scruff around the face. Likes to wear rugged jeans and hiking boots for almost all occasions.
Stats
Health
- Physical Health: 14
- Mental Health: 14
Attributes
- Physical Defense: 4
- Mental Defense: 4
- Strength: 1
- Agility: 4
- Perception: 5
Skills
- Melee: 0
- Ranged: 0
- Stealth: 2
- Academics: 3
- Science: 4
- Medical: 1
- Engineering: 5
- Social: 0
Specialties
- ♫ Blackbird singin' in the dead of night ♫: (4) Eben has spent years working out the skills, equipment, and software to fly drones indoors and outdoors remotely. Eben's drone can be programmed in auto-pilot reconnisance mode in order to track targets, spot threats, or map the surrounding areas/buildings. Used in this way, the drone's perception (4) becomes a passive ability. As long as it has power and signal, Eben can track its position/route and see what it sees in real time (which includes nightvision). The drone has the following applicable stats:
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| Manta Mk IV Dual-Mode Recon Drone (aka Matilda) |
|---|
| PDef | 3 |
|---|---|
| Agility | 4 |
| Stealth | 3 |
| Perception | 4 |
- ♫ I've seen fire and I've seen rain ♫: (3) Eben may not be a great in combat, but he has a penchant for being a quick learner by observation. Eben is able to bank the cumulative -1's from his team's fudge die rolls and use them later as +1's for either himself or others if gives any pointers (to a max of +5). The exchange rate of -1's to +1's is 3:1 as detailed below:
| -1 Banked | +1 Equivalent |
|---|---|
| 3 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 |
| 9 | 3 |
| 12 | 4 |
| 15 | 5 |
- ♫ Country roads, take me home ♫: (2) Eben has an uncanny sense of direction even in unfamiluar or disorienting environments. +2 to an applicable skill in order to either avoid being lost or find his way toward an objective.
- ♫ I am a man of constant sorrow ♫: (1) Eben is used to the hard life and steeling himself when the chips are down. Whenever Eben reaches half of his PHP, he get +1 added to his MDef
Gear
Onsite
- Radio
- Pocket multi-tool
- iPod
- Blackberry phone
- Set of keys
Offsite
- Remote-controlled UAV with camera, light, and sensors (audio, thermal, EM, UV, hume)
- Spare battery pack
- Touch screen control and interface software with programmable route marking
- Headset
- Beretta Laramie revolver, .45 long colt1
- Tablet PC
- Small waterproof field book
- Orion flare gun
- GPS receiver
- Pack of chemlite glowsticks
- Pocket multi-tool
- Small tool and sample extraction kit
- Portable XRF scanner
- Radio
- Laser rangefinder
- Antique compass (still works!)
- Helmet
Personal Belongings
- Antique sextant
- Rolls of vintage maps of the USA
- Books on navigation, geology, wildlife, and computer science
- Collection of god-awful 70's folk country/rock music
- Collection of 70's spaghetti western movies
- Theodolite and tripod
- Clothes
- Harmonica
Background History
Eben was born in Lowgap, North Carolina on Dec. 19th, 1979. His father worked as a geologist for the Bureau of Land Management while his mother, of Chowanoke descent, worked as a cashier at a hardware store. Eben grew up in a household with three older brothers and was pummeled daily. He had an uneventful childhood otherwise and frequently played in the wilderness alone to get some peace from the noisy household. He eventually graduated and went on to a university to earn a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and a minor in general earth sciences which he then used to cut a career as a survey consultant for construction companies.
After a few years his father asked him if he'd like to work under him, which he quickly learned that his father never worked for the Bureau of Land Management but rather a Foundation front that catalogued various unexplained locations. He agreed and spent a few more years investigating and exploring strange locations across the United States. Eben has currently applied for a position at Site-212 that offered better pay and slightly less travel.
Misc. Details
Languages
- English
- Functional but broken algonquian
Facts
- Eben can ride a horse
- Eben is an exquisite whistler
- Eben is uncomfortably allergic to cats
- Got married February 28, 2005 to Beretta Ramos.
Music/Artwork
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Blackbird - Beatles
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
John Denver - Country Roads
Bob Dylan - Man of Constant Sorrow