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<blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2878759" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>Hi Sollir,</p><p></p><p>I'm going to work out a concept around the erratic genius theme I floated over in the Generation Legacy thread. Here's the present concept, subject to future revision and in a semi-IC context.</p><p></p><p>[sblock]Josh was a genius from birth, so far as he or anyone else can tell. Talent like his must be born. No amount of teaching would grant his innate understanding of music. He showed interest before he could walk and was in violin and piano lessons by the time he turned four. Josh excelled from the first time he touched an instrument. Within a year his parents packed him off to a conservatory in Britain that rarely had a student body of more than sixty and specialized in the training of the extremely gifted. </p><p></p><p>As Josh was born into affluence and his parents took little interest in his day-to-day raising, he had little difficulty adjusting to the conservatory. He thrived under the high pressure and high expectations and leaped far beyond even his elite peers over the next several years. By age ten he'd performed with the orchestra for royalty and begun building a reputation as a soloist on violin and piano alike. Critics praised his intensity and energyon top of his skill.</p><p></p><p>But as Josh's solo career took off he took less and less interest in his inferiors in talent among the orchestra and finally came to dislike playing among large groups of other musicians entirely. They drowned out his own work with their plodding. They were technically proficient, Josh supposed, but had nothing on him. By fifteen he'd convinced his parents that he needed an agent, who promptly got him regular bookings as a solo performer. </p><p></p><p>Josh's solo career took off and he spent most holidays away from the school showing off his talents to increasingly appreciative audiences. His time at school became more of a chore and he started frequently skipping classes to practice alone. At sixteen, he left the school without graduating, convinced it no longer had anything to teach him. He started performing full time and lived out of a series of hotel rooms and suitcases.</p><p></p><p>Up into his twenties, Josh performed and recorded steadily and thrived on the appreciation of the crowd. He made a prosperous, comfortable living for himself and enjoyed collecting his own press clippings as much as his royalty checks. But it all slowly turned from virtuoso performances where he sweated profusely and left the state exhausted to simple competence, to finally the point where he could count heads in the audience while playing. The quality of his performance didn't change, but it was all so easy that he felt like he wasn't doing anything. Composing his own pieces didn't help. Nor did switching from violin to piano and back. He could do it all in his sleep.</p><p></p><p>Josh became increasingly tempermental, losing much of his old interest in performing. He missed engagements, showed up late, occasionally drunk. He built up a new reputation as a rock star violinist, though he never reached the excesses of drugs or sex worthy of the label. His career continued to climb, but Josh lost interest. A lifetime of frenetic energy poured into performance, he felt spent. All of the accolades sounded the same. When he was twenty-three, Josh declared his intention to cut back and focus more on recording than live performances. He released two compilations of original works to good sales, but soon abandoned plans for more and went into semi-seclusion.</p><p></p><p>Josh played every day, but only for himself. He thought about taking a job teaching at a conservatory or pursuing further education. He read and tried to teach himself languages. But he continued to drift. New compositions couldn't meet his standards and he could find nothing else to distract him. Collaboration was impossible; Josh hadn't worked with another musician in almost a decade.</p><p></p><p>Then he met Bastien and Angel.</p><p></p><p>"So you don't want me to perform. You don't want anything to do with music. You don't want to write a book or do an interview."</p><p></p><p>He reached the peak of human achievement, and reached it early, they told him. Josh couldn't disagree. He hadn't heard another musician in his league since he was eighteen. But he could go further, he could become transhuman, posthuman. Then they proved it. A new start, another place to excell. Josh could hardly pass it up.</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers</strong> </p><p></p><p>I see Josh as a developing telekinetic/telepath with the focus on the TK. The telepathy would almost surely be subtle. I'd buy up the TK suite as the first priority in powers, a force field for defense, with telepathy coming later and depending on how the math works out.</p><p></p><p><strong>Personality</strong></p><p></p><p>Josh probably looks damned radioactive judging from his background, but I see the transformation as having a very positive effect on his outlook. He's very competitive, but just being powered gives him a permanent edge over most of humanity so he feels fairly secure. Likewise he's very much in the learning phase, so his obsessive drive to meet his own rather high expectations is keeping his ego well in check. It's also pretty much impossible to have a natural talent for powers, so he would be starting at the same level as everyone else even in his own mind. He's not in the process of burning out or feeling like his life's work is over anymore. So it works out to more driven, eccentric, and a bit obsessive than arrogant, abrupt, <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. He'd be well-disposed towards other transhumans, especially given their rarity. The goal is that he's about average in his likeability.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>I'll gladly take suggestions and criticism. I especially have only a vague idea of how musical education for the extremely gifted works out. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>EDIT: Tentative stats, again always welcoming feedback.</p><p>EDIT2: Realized that he couldn't use a computer and has a lot of combat skill for a guy who went to music school. Took a point out of attack bonus and tossed it into skills and the selective feat on the force field.</p><p></p><p>[sblock]JOSHUA LUCAS TREVIN</p><p>PL: 6 (90 pp)</p><p></p><p>ABILITIES: STR: 10 (0) DEX: 16 (+3) CON: 10 (0) INT: 16 (+3) WIS: 14 (+2) CHA: 8 (-1)</p><p></p><p>SKILLS: Bluff (-1), Computers 4 (+7), Concentration 11 (+13), Diplomacy (-1), Disguise (-1), Escape Artist (+3), Gather Info (-1), Handle Animal (-1), Intimidate (-1), Art 5 (+8), Notice 7 (+9), Keyboards 11 (+10), String Instruments 11 (+10), Search (+3), Sense Motive (+2), Stealth (+3), Survival (+2) </p><p></p><p>FEATS: Benefit (1), Eidetic Memory, Skill Mastery (1), Dodge Focus (2) </p><p></p><p>POWERS: *Telekinesis [6] - DC:21:tough, Damaging [6], Perception [6], Precise [1], *Force Field [6], Subtle [2], Selective [1], </p><p></p><p>COMBAT: Attack 2 [Unarmed +0 (Bruise)] Defense 16 (12 flat-footed) Init 3</p><p></p><p>SAVES: Toughness 6 (6 flat-footed) Fortitude 3 Reflex 6 Will 8</p><p></p><p>DRAWBACKS: </p><p></p><p>Abilities 14 + Skills 13 (52 ranks) + Feats 5 + Powers 34 + Combat 12 + Saves 12 – Drawbacks 0 = 90 / 90</p><p></p><p></p><p>Explanation of Stats</p><p></p><p>Benefit: personal fortune from a career performing and recording classical music.</p><p></p><p>Skill Mastery: Concentration, Knowledge (art), Perform (keyboards), Perform (stringed instruments)</p><p></p><p>All powers are psionic.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samnell, post: 2878759, member: 130"] Hi Sollir, I'm going to work out a concept around the erratic genius theme I floated over in the Generation Legacy thread. Here's the present concept, subject to future revision and in a semi-IC context. [sblock]Josh was a genius from birth, so far as he or anyone else can tell. Talent like his must be born. No amount of teaching would grant his innate understanding of music. He showed interest before he could walk and was in violin and piano lessons by the time he turned four. Josh excelled from the first time he touched an instrument. Within a year his parents packed him off to a conservatory in Britain that rarely had a student body of more than sixty and specialized in the training of the extremely gifted. As Josh was born into affluence and his parents took little interest in his day-to-day raising, he had little difficulty adjusting to the conservatory. He thrived under the high pressure and high expectations and leaped far beyond even his elite peers over the next several years. By age ten he'd performed with the orchestra for royalty and begun building a reputation as a soloist on violin and piano alike. Critics praised his intensity and energyon top of his skill. But as Josh's solo career took off he took less and less interest in his inferiors in talent among the orchestra and finally came to dislike playing among large groups of other musicians entirely. They drowned out his own work with their plodding. They were technically proficient, Josh supposed, but had nothing on him. By fifteen he'd convinced his parents that he needed an agent, who promptly got him regular bookings as a solo performer. Josh's solo career took off and he spent most holidays away from the school showing off his talents to increasingly appreciative audiences. His time at school became more of a chore and he started frequently skipping classes to practice alone. At sixteen, he left the school without graduating, convinced it no longer had anything to teach him. He started performing full time and lived out of a series of hotel rooms and suitcases. Up into his twenties, Josh performed and recorded steadily and thrived on the appreciation of the crowd. He made a prosperous, comfortable living for himself and enjoyed collecting his own press clippings as much as his royalty checks. But it all slowly turned from virtuoso performances where he sweated profusely and left the state exhausted to simple competence, to finally the point where he could count heads in the audience while playing. The quality of his performance didn't change, but it was all so easy that he felt like he wasn't doing anything. Composing his own pieces didn't help. Nor did switching from violin to piano and back. He could do it all in his sleep. Josh became increasingly tempermental, losing much of his old interest in performing. He missed engagements, showed up late, occasionally drunk. He built up a new reputation as a rock star violinist, though he never reached the excesses of drugs or sex worthy of the label. His career continued to climb, but Josh lost interest. A lifetime of frenetic energy poured into performance, he felt spent. All of the accolades sounded the same. When he was twenty-three, Josh declared his intention to cut back and focus more on recording than live performances. He released two compilations of original works to good sales, but soon abandoned plans for more and went into semi-seclusion. Josh played every day, but only for himself. He thought about taking a job teaching at a conservatory or pursuing further education. He read and tried to teach himself languages. But he continued to drift. New compositions couldn't meet his standards and he could find nothing else to distract him. Collaboration was impossible; Josh hadn't worked with another musician in almost a decade. Then he met Bastien and Angel. "So you don't want me to perform. You don't want anything to do with music. You don't want to write a book or do an interview." He reached the peak of human achievement, and reached it early, they told him. Josh couldn't disagree. He hadn't heard another musician in his league since he was eighteen. But he could go further, he could become transhuman, posthuman. Then they proved it. A new start, another place to excell. Josh could hardly pass it up. [B]Powers[/B] I see Josh as a developing telekinetic/telepath with the focus on the TK. The telepathy would almost surely be subtle. I'd buy up the TK suite as the first priority in powers, a force field for defense, with telepathy coming later and depending on how the math works out. [B]Personality[/B] Josh probably looks damned radioactive judging from his background, but I see the transformation as having a very positive effect on his outlook. He's very competitive, but just being powered gives him a permanent edge over most of humanity so he feels fairly secure. Likewise he's very much in the learning phase, so his obsessive drive to meet his own rather high expectations is keeping his ego well in check. It's also pretty much impossible to have a natural talent for powers, so he would be starting at the same level as everyone else even in his own mind. He's not in the process of burning out or feeling like his life's work is over anymore. So it works out to more driven, eccentric, and a bit obsessive than arrogant, abrupt, :):):):):):):). He'd be well-disposed towards other transhumans, especially given their rarity. The goal is that he's about average in his likeability.[/sblock] I'll gladly take suggestions and criticism. I especially have only a vague idea of how musical education for the extremely gifted works out. :) EDIT: Tentative stats, again always welcoming feedback. EDIT2: Realized that he couldn't use a computer and has a lot of combat skill for a guy who went to music school. Took a point out of attack bonus and tossed it into skills and the selective feat on the force field. [sblock]JOSHUA LUCAS TREVIN PL: 6 (90 pp) ABILITIES: STR: 10 (0) DEX: 16 (+3) CON: 10 (0) INT: 16 (+3) WIS: 14 (+2) CHA: 8 (-1) SKILLS: Bluff (-1), Computers 4 (+7), Concentration 11 (+13), Diplomacy (-1), Disguise (-1), Escape Artist (+3), Gather Info (-1), Handle Animal (-1), Intimidate (-1), Art 5 (+8), Notice 7 (+9), Keyboards 11 (+10), String Instruments 11 (+10), Search (+3), Sense Motive (+2), Stealth (+3), Survival (+2) FEATS: Benefit (1), Eidetic Memory, Skill Mastery (1), Dodge Focus (2) POWERS: *Telekinesis [6] - DC:21:tough, Damaging [6], Perception [6], Precise [1], *Force Field [6], Subtle [2], Selective [1], COMBAT: Attack 2 [Unarmed +0 (Bruise)] Defense 16 (12 flat-footed) Init 3 SAVES: Toughness 6 (6 flat-footed) Fortitude 3 Reflex 6 Will 8 DRAWBACKS: Abilities 14 + Skills 13 (52 ranks) + Feats 5 + Powers 34 + Combat 12 + Saves 12 – Drawbacks 0 = 90 / 90 Explanation of Stats Benefit: personal fortune from a career performing and recording classical music. Skill Mastery: Concentration, Knowledge (art), Perform (keyboards), Perform (stringed instruments) All powers are psionic.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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