This week in the Robotech game I play in at the Game Castle, my plan for character obsolescence finally came to fruition. Let me start at the beginning…
When I first thought of a character concept for the game, which was taking place during the Invid Invasion, I had a plan to play a civilian. In this case, the civilian was a scientist, specifically a doctor of physics. This is a bit of a stretch for me since I tend to be the butt kicker type of player. Sure, I like story, and sure I like to stay in character, but I want a character that isn’t a total wimp. My final creation was Dr. Augusta Weatherspoon, a high energy physicist of impeccable caliber. Prior to the arrival of the Invid, she was the president of a major corporation working out of Oslo. Augusta was brilliant, somewhat irrational, and had a really bad temper and a habit of punching people in the face/head.
I also figured I would make a backup character due to the potential for painful, fiery, burning death at the hands of the GM. Thus her twin brother James was born. James was everything Augusta was not; he was intuitive, quick on his feet, strong and a highly trained soldier. James is also incredibly polite, even to his enemies and an all around good guy. Augusta was far from a bad person but also far from a good person. She took care of herself and the few “friends” she had but in the end she looked after herself first.
So after two seasons of play, Augusta was retired from play to live on the island of Hawaii with millions of dollars in her pockets. The whole story is VERY long and is detailed in Banzai’s blogs. Augusta is obviously known as the "good" Doctor.
James is heavily influenced by Michael Westen from the show Burn Notice. James has certain abilities that let him not only figure out how people tick, he can also perform minor “script” rewrites. I used this last ability to pull out a pair of night vision goggles while sneaking around trying to find on of the other PCs, who somehow eluded me. He can also beat up someone with a Cat Fancy magazine or any other improvised weapon laying around.
All in all I really enjoyed playing him; he was a nice change of pace from his rather selfish sister and honestly a string of characters lately that have not been the nicest people.
Tags: Robotech Invid Invasion RPG
