Eades
05-06-07, 11:32 AM
Name: Evangeline Attica Daniels
Nickname: Eades (Ee-dz)
Gender: Female
Age: Twenty-seven
Birthday: Third of Sauden (Explanation given in history.)
Profession: Eden Officer of the Peace, Division of Hydro-Autonomy
Personality
A calm, quiet woman, Evangeline is not given to hysterics or giggling. Her voice belies that calm demeanor, rising only when there is a need for volume, never in anger. Some might say that the way she faces every problem and situation with a methodical logic is reminiscent of a cyborg rather than the human that she is. She doesn’t care much for gossip, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t enjoy conversation. She can function well in both a group or alone, though she will remark with a smile that she is most at home with Artificial Intelligences. She is a terrible liar, can’t play poker, and has an addiction to archaic classical music such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Offspring. Her unfathomable love for Letters to Cleo is quite unexplainable to her friends, who prefer the synthesized sounds of modern civilization.
Appearance
With the advantage of a profession that demands physical fitness, Evangeline easily maintains a svelte, toned figure. Her shoulders, thighs and calves are even more defined due to her hobby of rock climbing. She wears a tight fitting pair of black pants, tucked into soft leather boots, made of a synthetic material that is both waterproof and breathable. The strength of the material is roughly the same as soft denim and easily cut through. Her brown tunic is made of soft linen, and belted about the waist with a black mechanic’s belt. She keeps her mid-length blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, but somehow errant strands manage to sneak out and fall haphazardly around her face. Her eyes are a steel gray, and tend to be far more expressive than she’d like.
Weapons
EJD Standard Issue Electro-Surge Rifle
A small rifle that nevertheless requires two handed use, this is a weapon that is non-lethal to carbon life forms. It’s most sinister use is for disabling electronic automatons, but a person on the receiving end of a shot probably wouldn’t enjoy the 1,000 volts of electricity that this puppy can fire off. In its current state of wear, it can fire three rounds when fully charged, and the small solar charger that goes with it must be attached for a full thirty hours of sunshine to recharge it.
Iron Crowbar
Sometimes, there just isn’t enough time for finesse. From dismantling naughty automatons, opening things that have been boarded up, and braining the annoying blind date or two, the crowbar is a wonderful example of multifunction.
Armor
None
Skills/Abilities
Mechanic’s Intuition
Evangeline has a knack with machinery. Given enough time and tools, there are few problems of a technical nature that she can’t solve.
Copper’s Intuition
When you work with/against criminals, even mechanical ones, for so long, you begin to develop an instinct for people, places, and things that are sure to cause trouble. This isn’t nearly as developed as her mechanic’s intuition, but Evangeline can usually read the average person well enough to aide in social decision-making.
Other Items
Tools
Evangeline keeps a small array of tools in her belt, including a socket wrench, screwdrivers, a small hammer, wire cutters and electrical tape.
”Lucky” necklace
On a thin silver chain, Eades keeps a remaining relic from ages past. It’s a guitar pick, scratched and worn thin from use. Found in an antiquities shop, she cherishes it as if it were the lost treasure of a king.
History
The electro-ionic shower was buzzing again. As Evangeline Attica Daniels stood before the large egg-like contraption, her normal early-morning frown turned into a downright sneer of disgust. Her fingers, rough and calloused from a lifetime spent mostly touching hot machinery and twisting tools, slid up the side of the white fiberglass edge. What her touch so diligently sought was soon found, as a small, near-invisible panel slid to the side revealing the “guts” of the unit. Wires twisted and wove around each other, but she knew just which one to pluck, checking a place covered in black glossy tape. A quick turn of the tape, and the buzzing slowly faded into silence. Satisfied, the woman stripped off the long tunic she’d slept in and stepped into the capsule. As a breath of cleansing air enveloped her, the ions tingling along her scalp as her pale hair was cleaned, she sighed happily. The shower was her favorite part of the morning ritual, though since the water sanctions of 3044 had been put into place, true showers of water had become banned. Instead, technology had stepped to the plate, and the waterless cleaning machinery and tech had been advancing in leaps and bounds. As the air slowly came to a stop, Eades stepped out of her shower, and dressed quickly. There were errands that needed to be run before reporting into Eden, and as she walked out the door, she made sure to grab a slip of paper sitting on her coffee table as she went.
The avenue in front of her apartment was a lane of cracked earth and dust that covered most of planet Earth. Unheeding the warning signs of history, humans had wiped out their resources and their environment until the planet begun to die. As the seas began to dry up, the earth opened up and the Others had come. From the core of the Earth, the dragons had surfaced, wise and powerful, and began to punish the people of earth for slaying their own home. Legacies from their awakening were everywhere in the few oasis that remained. The street that Evangeline walked along was cobbled in a pattern inspired by the dragons’ scales, the skyscrapers around her were wreathed in lizard-like gargoyles. The only high-rise untouched seemed to be Eden. In the places were water was, while scarce, still found, the Gardens rose upwards. Eden was an elevator that flew upwards ten stories until it came to the dome that crowned it. A glistening Pearl over the city of Bethseba, in it contained the coveted Garden of Eden, where the regions fruit, vegetables, and medicinal herbs were grown. A small pasture of dairy cattle occupied one section, though vegetarianism had long become the law of the land. An eggplant was far easily replaced than a cow, and required less valuable water. The sphere operated like a miniature rainforest, its own humidity recycling the water that was used to keep the plants alive. And circling the base of Eden’s pedestal - the water refining plant. Turning salt water into something drinkable was the reason automatons had been built, had been given AI.
AI was a necessary evil, most people thought. In a process as delicate and important as drinking water, human error couldn’t be tolerated. And so, a cautionary mind to the Machinae Wars of 2566, where millions of household robotics turned against their masters, the Hydro-Automatons were allowed to do that terribly human thing - think. With the HA workers built and given the delicate AI programs, the Eden Justice Department branched out from just policing the laws pertaining to the sacred Garden. The Division of Hydro-Autonomy was born. The DHA was built with the best of the best among the EJD’s ranks, and they began to train new recruits to have the same iron hand. No Sympathy for Bad Steel was the first lesson taught, and Evangeline Attica had graduated with honors.
Now she wound her way towards that tall steepled temple of prosperity that was all humanity had left of their glorious Mother Earth, a tension seeping into every step. For six days now, the automatons had been speaking of a place called Althanas. Althanas, they said, was a room with many doors. When asked to explain, some would go on to say that a doorway opened to Althanas on the night when the season turned from Sauden to Mennerhat, but most would simply remain silent.
With the death of the planet, the seasons were extinguished as well. When the dragons came, they specified for months to be abolished, and a new system emerged. Every ninety days, the dragons would re-emerge from their sleeping places in the now-cold core of the planet to take a flight around the planetary rock, to make sure that the humans were doing no more harm than had already been caused. The flight marked the transition of the new seasons. Sauden and Mennerhat, the seasons of heat, and Gelesh and Bikki, the seasons of cold winds and nights that sometimes lasted hours beyond true full days. Evangeline had been unsettled by the worker’s insistence that the mysterious door would open, less than a week before the event. Six days had passed with these strange prophesies, and now it was the day that they’d been so excitedly chattering about. The streets were empty, her footsteps scratching and echoing down the alley that led to the employee entrance of Eden. The streets were always empty on the days that the dragons flew. A warm wind blew, pulling a strand or two of her hair into her eyes. Stopping, she scanned the skies. The winds would pick up, and at mid-morning, the shadow of wings would glide over Bethseba, and Eden’s Tower. Taking a deep breath, she stepped into the elevator and began to ascend to the Gardens.
Inside the contraption, Evangeline was surprised to see an automaton standing in the corner. As the box roared to life around them and the familiar lurch beneath her feet told her that they were on their way upwards, she tilted her head to the side and questioned the out of place robot.
“3393T2, why aren’t you at your station?” her voice said, holding only a small reprimand.
“I am here to do my duty.”
“Your duty is to test the PH balance of filtered water,”
“Negative. My duty is to open the doorway.”
As his automated voice died down, Evangeline shivered, holding her arms closer to her stomach. There had to be a mistake. No malice, only fact, had been in the robot’s voice. So involved with figuring out the riddle of his cryptic words, she hardly noticed when the elevator seemed to be slowing. As it came to a halt, several stories below the rain forest destination, she gasped. The roof of the elevator sagged, and with a screech of metal, it gave in. Four other automatons dropped in, and the five began to circle Evangeline.
“I order you to explain yourselves!” she demanded as she began to pull her firearm from its holster.
“We are opening the doorway.” the robots repeated. For a moment, Eades’ breath caught in her throat. The automatons had always been made to look rather human, a way to make the true life forms more comfortable around them, but these five seemed to truly come alive before her eyes. Shaking her head, she mentally reprimanded herself for letting the tension and anxiety of the situation get to her. Instead, she let authority ring in her voice as she continued to question them.
“There is no doorway to another world in here. Why have you stopped the lift? I order you to return to your stations at once.”
Instead of words, all five lifted their hands and began to hum with energy. As Evangeline lifted the electron gun and leveled it in front of the chest of the automaton that stood directly in front of her, their hands dropped, and so did the elevator. There was no time to shoot, only scream.
Instead, however, of crashing to the ground and splattering, as she expected, Evangeline opened her eyes to a lush forest. For a moment she thought the robots had tricked her and took her up to Eden instead, but her eyes landed on a small black flower that bloomed as she watched. It was then that she registered the thick canopy of leaves that were not the comforting emerald of the Eden Gardens, but blood red. A movement made her turn, and she gasped as one of the automaton held a small dagger. He rushed forwards, and for a second time, Evangeline was sure she was looking at the end of her life. In bewilderment, she dove to the side, but the robot didn’t attack as she expected. Instead, he moved to the flower she’d admired, and cut it down quickly. As he turned, he smiled, something she’d never seen one of his kind do before.
“That time, it was for free,” he stated and began to run with superhuman speed through the trees. Evangeline was left alone in the Red Forest alone and confused. Little did she know, it was hardly the state of mind to be caught in Raiaera’s infamous forest in.
Nickname: Eades (Ee-dz)
Gender: Female
Age: Twenty-seven
Birthday: Third of Sauden (Explanation given in history.)
Profession: Eden Officer of the Peace, Division of Hydro-Autonomy
Personality
A calm, quiet woman, Evangeline is not given to hysterics or giggling. Her voice belies that calm demeanor, rising only when there is a need for volume, never in anger. Some might say that the way she faces every problem and situation with a methodical logic is reminiscent of a cyborg rather than the human that she is. She doesn’t care much for gossip, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t enjoy conversation. She can function well in both a group or alone, though she will remark with a smile that she is most at home with Artificial Intelligences. She is a terrible liar, can’t play poker, and has an addiction to archaic classical music such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Offspring. Her unfathomable love for Letters to Cleo is quite unexplainable to her friends, who prefer the synthesized sounds of modern civilization.
Appearance
With the advantage of a profession that demands physical fitness, Evangeline easily maintains a svelte, toned figure. Her shoulders, thighs and calves are even more defined due to her hobby of rock climbing. She wears a tight fitting pair of black pants, tucked into soft leather boots, made of a synthetic material that is both waterproof and breathable. The strength of the material is roughly the same as soft denim and easily cut through. Her brown tunic is made of soft linen, and belted about the waist with a black mechanic’s belt. She keeps her mid-length blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, but somehow errant strands manage to sneak out and fall haphazardly around her face. Her eyes are a steel gray, and tend to be far more expressive than she’d like.
Weapons
EJD Standard Issue Electro-Surge Rifle
A small rifle that nevertheless requires two handed use, this is a weapon that is non-lethal to carbon life forms. It’s most sinister use is for disabling electronic automatons, but a person on the receiving end of a shot probably wouldn’t enjoy the 1,000 volts of electricity that this puppy can fire off. In its current state of wear, it can fire three rounds when fully charged, and the small solar charger that goes with it must be attached for a full thirty hours of sunshine to recharge it.
Iron Crowbar
Sometimes, there just isn’t enough time for finesse. From dismantling naughty automatons, opening things that have been boarded up, and braining the annoying blind date or two, the crowbar is a wonderful example of multifunction.
Armor
None
Skills/Abilities
Mechanic’s Intuition
Evangeline has a knack with machinery. Given enough time and tools, there are few problems of a technical nature that she can’t solve.
Copper’s Intuition
When you work with/against criminals, even mechanical ones, for so long, you begin to develop an instinct for people, places, and things that are sure to cause trouble. This isn’t nearly as developed as her mechanic’s intuition, but Evangeline can usually read the average person well enough to aide in social decision-making.
Other Items
Tools
Evangeline keeps a small array of tools in her belt, including a socket wrench, screwdrivers, a small hammer, wire cutters and electrical tape.
”Lucky” necklace
On a thin silver chain, Eades keeps a remaining relic from ages past. It’s a guitar pick, scratched and worn thin from use. Found in an antiquities shop, she cherishes it as if it were the lost treasure of a king.
History
The electro-ionic shower was buzzing again. As Evangeline Attica Daniels stood before the large egg-like contraption, her normal early-morning frown turned into a downright sneer of disgust. Her fingers, rough and calloused from a lifetime spent mostly touching hot machinery and twisting tools, slid up the side of the white fiberglass edge. What her touch so diligently sought was soon found, as a small, near-invisible panel slid to the side revealing the “guts” of the unit. Wires twisted and wove around each other, but she knew just which one to pluck, checking a place covered in black glossy tape. A quick turn of the tape, and the buzzing slowly faded into silence. Satisfied, the woman stripped off the long tunic she’d slept in and stepped into the capsule. As a breath of cleansing air enveloped her, the ions tingling along her scalp as her pale hair was cleaned, she sighed happily. The shower was her favorite part of the morning ritual, though since the water sanctions of 3044 had been put into place, true showers of water had become banned. Instead, technology had stepped to the plate, and the waterless cleaning machinery and tech had been advancing in leaps and bounds. As the air slowly came to a stop, Eades stepped out of her shower, and dressed quickly. There were errands that needed to be run before reporting into Eden, and as she walked out the door, she made sure to grab a slip of paper sitting on her coffee table as she went.
The avenue in front of her apartment was a lane of cracked earth and dust that covered most of planet Earth. Unheeding the warning signs of history, humans had wiped out their resources and their environment until the planet begun to die. As the seas began to dry up, the earth opened up and the Others had come. From the core of the Earth, the dragons had surfaced, wise and powerful, and began to punish the people of earth for slaying their own home. Legacies from their awakening were everywhere in the few oasis that remained. The street that Evangeline walked along was cobbled in a pattern inspired by the dragons’ scales, the skyscrapers around her were wreathed in lizard-like gargoyles. The only high-rise untouched seemed to be Eden. In the places were water was, while scarce, still found, the Gardens rose upwards. Eden was an elevator that flew upwards ten stories until it came to the dome that crowned it. A glistening Pearl over the city of Bethseba, in it contained the coveted Garden of Eden, where the regions fruit, vegetables, and medicinal herbs were grown. A small pasture of dairy cattle occupied one section, though vegetarianism had long become the law of the land. An eggplant was far easily replaced than a cow, and required less valuable water. The sphere operated like a miniature rainforest, its own humidity recycling the water that was used to keep the plants alive. And circling the base of Eden’s pedestal - the water refining plant. Turning salt water into something drinkable was the reason automatons had been built, had been given AI.
AI was a necessary evil, most people thought. In a process as delicate and important as drinking water, human error couldn’t be tolerated. And so, a cautionary mind to the Machinae Wars of 2566, where millions of household robotics turned against their masters, the Hydro-Automatons were allowed to do that terribly human thing - think. With the HA workers built and given the delicate AI programs, the Eden Justice Department branched out from just policing the laws pertaining to the sacred Garden. The Division of Hydro-Autonomy was born. The DHA was built with the best of the best among the EJD’s ranks, and they began to train new recruits to have the same iron hand. No Sympathy for Bad Steel was the first lesson taught, and Evangeline Attica had graduated with honors.
Now she wound her way towards that tall steepled temple of prosperity that was all humanity had left of their glorious Mother Earth, a tension seeping into every step. For six days now, the automatons had been speaking of a place called Althanas. Althanas, they said, was a room with many doors. When asked to explain, some would go on to say that a doorway opened to Althanas on the night when the season turned from Sauden to Mennerhat, but most would simply remain silent.
With the death of the planet, the seasons were extinguished as well. When the dragons came, they specified for months to be abolished, and a new system emerged. Every ninety days, the dragons would re-emerge from their sleeping places in the now-cold core of the planet to take a flight around the planetary rock, to make sure that the humans were doing no more harm than had already been caused. The flight marked the transition of the new seasons. Sauden and Mennerhat, the seasons of heat, and Gelesh and Bikki, the seasons of cold winds and nights that sometimes lasted hours beyond true full days. Evangeline had been unsettled by the worker’s insistence that the mysterious door would open, less than a week before the event. Six days had passed with these strange prophesies, and now it was the day that they’d been so excitedly chattering about. The streets were empty, her footsteps scratching and echoing down the alley that led to the employee entrance of Eden. The streets were always empty on the days that the dragons flew. A warm wind blew, pulling a strand or two of her hair into her eyes. Stopping, she scanned the skies. The winds would pick up, and at mid-morning, the shadow of wings would glide over Bethseba, and Eden’s Tower. Taking a deep breath, she stepped into the elevator and began to ascend to the Gardens.
Inside the contraption, Evangeline was surprised to see an automaton standing in the corner. As the box roared to life around them and the familiar lurch beneath her feet told her that they were on their way upwards, she tilted her head to the side and questioned the out of place robot.
“3393T2, why aren’t you at your station?” her voice said, holding only a small reprimand.
“I am here to do my duty.”
“Your duty is to test the PH balance of filtered water,”
“Negative. My duty is to open the doorway.”
As his automated voice died down, Evangeline shivered, holding her arms closer to her stomach. There had to be a mistake. No malice, only fact, had been in the robot’s voice. So involved with figuring out the riddle of his cryptic words, she hardly noticed when the elevator seemed to be slowing. As it came to a halt, several stories below the rain forest destination, she gasped. The roof of the elevator sagged, and with a screech of metal, it gave in. Four other automatons dropped in, and the five began to circle Evangeline.
“I order you to explain yourselves!” she demanded as she began to pull her firearm from its holster.
“We are opening the doorway.” the robots repeated. For a moment, Eades’ breath caught in her throat. The automatons had always been made to look rather human, a way to make the true life forms more comfortable around them, but these five seemed to truly come alive before her eyes. Shaking her head, she mentally reprimanded herself for letting the tension and anxiety of the situation get to her. Instead, she let authority ring in her voice as she continued to question them.
“There is no doorway to another world in here. Why have you stopped the lift? I order you to return to your stations at once.”
Instead of words, all five lifted their hands and began to hum with energy. As Evangeline lifted the electron gun and leveled it in front of the chest of the automaton that stood directly in front of her, their hands dropped, and so did the elevator. There was no time to shoot, only scream.
Instead, however, of crashing to the ground and splattering, as she expected, Evangeline opened her eyes to a lush forest. For a moment she thought the robots had tricked her and took her up to Eden instead, but her eyes landed on a small black flower that bloomed as she watched. It was then that she registered the thick canopy of leaves that were not the comforting emerald of the Eden Gardens, but blood red. A movement made her turn, and she gasped as one of the automaton held a small dagger. He rushed forwards, and for a second time, Evangeline was sure she was looking at the end of her life. In bewilderment, she dove to the side, but the robot didn’t attack as she expected. Instead, he moved to the flower she’d admired, and cut it down quickly. As he turned, he smiled, something she’d never seen one of his kind do before.
“That time, it was for free,” he stated and began to run with superhuman speed through the trees. Evangeline was left alone in the Red Forest alone and confused. Little did she know, it was hardly the state of mind to be caught in Raiaera’s infamous forest in.