SCAV_crew cast info

Have a quick bit of cast page for the SCAV_crew main characters / notional “player characters.” This will of course be subject to change as the story progresses, but I wanted to give some art of these gals’ appearances, and explain what game-mechanical abilities they each start with.

L35

Full Name: C3 L35 T3 ‘Celeste.’ They’d really prefer you just call them ‘Les.’

Gender/Pronouns: Floats vaguely around futch. She/They depending.

Role in the Crew: All-rounder; Fleshspace Tinkerer; Merchantry Liason; lowkey the team lead.

Notes: Generally levelheaded and practical; would prefer to talk her way out of fights when possible.

TYPE / ability: PRIESTENGINEER - Reinforce an object or item against the FRACTALDEATHMACHINE

FORMATS / abilities:

DLVR_tower [2]

• Focus - deal +1 Hit when against impossible odds.
• Build - create an improvised tool or weapon using scavenged material

Notes: Despite the term used, the ‘priest’ in PRIESTENGINEER doesn’t have anything to do with worship, it’s more of a ‘good witch’ or ‘white mage’ connotation. L35’s body is robotic in origin with biocomponents added later, rather than the other way around.

Azdaja

Full Name: Azdaja 737

Gender/Pronouns: Exagal. She/her.

Role in the Crew: Scout; Disruptor; Gender-Affirming Care.

Notes: Selfless and supportive. Don’t mess with her friends.

TYPE / ability: FORMSHAPER - During periods of rest, reshape yourself or an ally into an advantageous new bauplan.

FORMATS / abilities:

DLVR_tower [1]

• Dive - survive an incredible leap through the TOWER.

PRPHT_virus [1]

• Worm - inject a debilitating dataphage into another operation.

Notes: Also has those biomodded wings, acquired from previous adventures, as GEAR.

Ina

Full Name: Ina K444Z

Gender/Pronouns: Answered this question with a code-poem that can’t be accurately reproduced in UTF-8 text encoding. She/it.

Role in the Crew: Data Sorceress; Deep-delve Esotericism; Specialist Social-Interface Engineering.

Notes: Mysterious and inward-turned. Can mostly hold a reasonable conversation, but you always get a sense she knows more than you (not in an arrogant way she’s just… vast). Genuinely a comforting presence to those in distress.

TYPE / ability: CODEFISHER - Hook a piece of code from a protected terminal and fabricate it in the physical space.

FORMATS / abilities:

SHDW_relic [2]

• Ritual - perform an ancient uplink rite to shift the data_clime of the area.
• Activate - stir the ancient mechanisms hidden deep within the TOWER.

Notes: She hasn’t told anyone just how she can do these things - she’s not sure she herself even knows, working off intuition.

Polly

Full Name: Polly Cyclotron

Gender/Pronouns: Monsterdyke. It/its.

Role in the Crew: Brute Force; Combat Spec; Newbie

Notes: Haunted by its recent transformation, and by whatever secrets it found in the infected zone beforehand.

TYPE / ability: RECORDEATER - Decrypt an important piece of intel from the remains of a hostile you ritualistically consume.

FORMATS / abilities:

FRGMNT_homunculus [1]

• Consume - take in organic matter to use as fuel, regain 1 hit.

PRPHT_virus [1]

• Blip - instantly jump to a new space_point you can see.

Notes: Has integrated MCGNs, one in each forearm, as Attack Mod GEAR. Terrifying to fight against, but struggles with its monstrous urges.

That’s all for now. Remember: the TOWER will GRIND YOU UP.