- Monstrous Entity Sylvia
Sternenkind, from GURPS Monsters Supplement
From: Jürgen Hubert (jhubert@gmx.de)
Date: Wednesday November 26th , 2003
-
-
- Sylvia Sternenkind, Unique Servitor
STATS |
|
|
- STR: 20
|
- SAN: 0
|
|
- DEX: 14
|
- POW: 6
|
|
- CON: 14
|
- HP: 13
|
|
- APP: 18
|
- Move: 8
|
|
- SIZ: 13
|
|
|
- EDU: 12
|
|
|
- INT: 12
|
|
|
-
Damage Bonus: +1D6
Weapons: Fist/punch 70%, damage 1d3+db, Kick 60%, damage
1d4+db, pistol 80%, Damage varies by type
-
- Skills: Accounting
40%, Computer Use 40%, Disguise 60%, Dodge 60%, Fast Talk
65%, Hide 70%, Jump 60%, Listen 60%, Making Men Mad With Lust
90%, Martial
Arts 70%, Persuade 60%, Sneak 70%, Spot 60%, Throw 80%,
- Languages: Czech 50%, English 60%, French
50%, German 60%
-
- Armor: none
Spells: none
-
- So much for game stats. But how to integrate
her into Delta Green?
-
- For anyone who doesn't own GURPS Monsters
and Transhuman Space (and if you
don't, you should buy them - especially the latter, which has
lots of excellent examples how disturbing humans can get _without_
any Mythos influence...), Sylvia Sternenkind is a NPC written
for that setting - a pleasure bioroid (an artificial but humanoid
biological life form created as a servant for a specific task
- in this case, as a sex slave), to be exact.
She was captured during a UK police raid in the asteroid belt
and removed to the European Union for proper socialization to
make her a good EU citizen (the EU prohibits bioroid manufacture,
and gives all bioroids asylum automatically who reach their borders).
Unfortunately, she fell into the hands of the wrong people, who
instead used brainwashing to turn her into a soulless killer
machine - so that she could commit multiple grisly murders which
would fan anti-bioroid sentiments in the EU once she was found
out.
-
- Most players in a Transhuman Space campaign
will likely be sympathetic to the plight of bioroids - after
all, we are taught that slavery is wrong, and bioroids are essentially
enslaved sapient beings, even if they are conditioned to enjoy
their slavery. The horror in this case comes from the fact that
Sylvia Sternenkind is not a free, thinking individual, but little
more than a machine programmed to go on murder sprees. When learning
of her, PCs (and especially bioroid PCs) might think: "There,
but for the grace of (fill in your dominant meme), go I."
The sympathy for the plight of nonhumans is what makes this a
tragedy - and thus, horrific.
-
- Obviously, this doesn't work for Delta Green
at all.
-
- After all, DG agents, and Mythos investigators
in general, are likely to mistrust anything inhuman - no matter
how human it might _look_. And that's only sensible.
-
- So let's try this in a different way. Let's
say that a Majestic lab manages a breakthrough - it creates an
entirely artificial humanoid being. Since Majestic is full of
military and espionage guys, they promptly figure that such a
being might be great for infiltration and assassination purposes.
So they create a prototpye - in other words, Silvia Sternenkind
- who will obey any orders programmed into her. She can also
use one of several "cover personalities" to help her
infiltrate normal human societies. But then, during some test
run, things go awry - she gets seperated from her handlers thanks
to some accident, looses all memories, reverts to one personality,
and wanders off into the night on her own.
-
- Then DG agents who are nearby (possibly because
of the Majestic op) stumble across her, and suspect something
odd - apart from the fact that they found some very beautiful
woman lying in a ditch in skimpy clothing. She claims to have
no memory of who she is or where she got there, and makes a very
good impression of being very, very afraid.
-
- It helps if a male PC gets a crush on her
at this point - which is likely, since she continuously pumps
out a tremendous amount of sex hormones... She should stay with
the PCs (or at least one of them) for a while, and they should
come to like her as a human being. However, after a while some
oddities come to light - like her extreme strength and reflexes,
and possibly combat skills. And if they do a really intensive
medical examination on her (like blood tests, or MR scans), they
will have to come
to the conclusion that she was either heavily modified (by Greys,
perhaps?) - or never human in the first place. If they tell Sylvia,
she will not take this well. Nightmares might set in at this
point.
-
- At some point, the Majestic goons will find
her again, and utter some trigger phrase - at which point she
will revert to being a soulless killer machine. Even if the PCs
somehow capture her again, she will no longer have any shred
of human personality and won't even speak to them - her human
personality is gone and beyond the power of the PCs (or indeed
anyone) to restore.
-
- For maximum SAN loss, she will be captured
by the Greys and dissected before the very eyes of the PCs -
the Mi-Go want to know what made her tick, again not understanding
that the sum was greater than their parts... (And yes, I realize
that this idea has been done to death in anime - but so what?
It's fun!)
|