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APPLICATIONS

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Character abilities: Physiology: Jetshard is, in most respects, an unremarkable adult member of her species in relative good health. Broadly speaking, her physical capabilities are within human norms, with a few exceptions:
- Sturdy: She's less prone to a shock response to physical trauma than a human would be; trolls in canon frequently survive major blood loss or the removal of one or more limbs with only minor medical attention.
- Night vision: Trolls are, as a species, nocturnal; although Jetshard can comfortably operate under the kind of lighting conditions that most humans prefer, she also has much better night vision than a human, including color vision that functions well in low-light conditions.
- Psychic stuff: Although Jetshard has none of the active psychic abilities that trolls can potentially have, she both is more naturally psychically receptive than most humans, and has better developed awareness of her own psychic boundaries and defenses. Other characters with psychic abilities that involve projecting or transmitting information to others will find her easy to clearly send information to, but difficult to "sneak up" on, as she has little difficulty recognizing when cognitive or emotional activity is coming from outside her own mind even when she can't block it out.
- Sopor dependence: Like most trolls, Jetshard has slept in a solution of topical sopor daily for her entire post-pupal life. Without sopor slime, she will sleep poorly (although she will adjust eventually), and will be dramatically more vulnerable to psychic incursion by other people while asleep.
- Jadeblood Sun Tolerance: Alternia's sun is much harsher than Earth's, giving off more intense radiation across the spectrum. As a jadeblood, Jetshard is able to safely operate under lighting conditions that would seriously damage most trolls' vision, and has moderate resistance to both the short- and long-term effects of UV radiation exposure (she will burn after several hours of consistent, direct exposure to sunlight equivalent to earth's, but takes longer to burn that most humans or trolls, heals from the burns more quickly, and suffers less long-term aging and damage from the exposure). She is still most comfortable in cool, dim conditions. Extended sun exposure causes her to develop dark green freckles.
- Latant Vampirism: Remember that rainbow drinker hategirlfriend she had while working in the brooding caverns? As a result of repeated feedings, Jetshard is currently an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen which causes vampirism in trolls. This does not alter her current quality of life, and is not contagious except in the case of direct blood-to-blood contact with another troll. In the event that she suffered otherwise fatal wounds which caused massive bloodloss but did not seriously damage either the heart or brain, and also her core temperature was allowed to fall by at least seven degrees Celsius, the disease would rapidly progress: she would gain significant regenerative capabilities (including the ability to heal massive damage in most organ systems), develop the ability to express a bioluminescent glow in her skin and eyes, and develop the dietary requirement of drinking the blood of other trolls.

Training:
- Combat: Although by Alternian standards, Jetshard is essentially a noncombatant, she is reasonably adept at hand-to-hand combat, especially techniques for holding or grappling an opponent. When she uses weapons, it's generally knives of some description; she's as handy with kitchen knives or medical scalpels as she is with more traditional fighting knives.
- Medical: Jetshard is proficient in emergency field medicine and basic surgical techniques; she has a comprehensive understanding of antiseptic and germ theories and is intimately familiar with troll biological function. With some degree of self-directed study, she will also be willing to extend her skills to non-troll patients, although initially she will be too unsure of alien physiology to openly offer her skills in anything other than an emergency situation. In general, she has a tendency to take greater risks than many human doctors would be, and has a willingness to pursue heroic measures that modern human medicine would probably consider irresponsible; the death of the patient is, of course, something she seeks to avoid if at all possible, but by troll reasoning a treatment that may kill or may cure is almost always preferable to a treatment that is less likely to kill but also provides only partial correction of the issue. She understands on a basic level the care and maintenance of the physical health of Helmsmen, psionic trolls slaved to the interstellar drives of the empire's spaceships, but is not trained in the use or function of the biotech devices that harvest the psionic power and control the Helmsmen. She's also trained, although somewhat out of practice, in the care and treatment of larval and pupal trolls.
- Auxilliatrix Skills: Again, somewhat out of practice, but Jetshard is trained in the care of the Mother Grubs and in the screening procedures by which lusii are selected to care for young trolls. She is familiar with the name, color, and likely physical and metaphysical attributes of a much greater number of identifying signs than most trolls.

Technology:
- Sylladex: Jetshard depends on a technologically-based personal hammerspace system to store those belongings she wants to have at hand. Each item is stored within its own "captchalogue card" which may be selected and physically manipulated but are of relatively little use in this form ~~without the use of devices and materials which have not been developed outside of the context of Sgrub~~. She uses an array fetch modus like a ~~chump~~ reasonable adult who wants to be able to access her property in a timely fashion and not accidentally launch anything across the room. Each card represents an extradimensional space of up to one cubic meter, although each holds only a single kind of item at a time (one card can hold multiple items of the same type, and sometimes sets of associated items can be grouped together but it's a little unpredictable what will work). The card holds the contents in stasis, although living things may suffer tissue damage if carried in the sylladex for more than a few minutes at a time. Jetshard carries a total of thirty cards, some of which are currently empty.
- Strife Deck: A subset of the sylladex, specialized to carry weapons. Each Kind Abtratus card indexes weapons of a similar type, and allows the user to draw those weapons directly from the strife deck rather than going through the main fetch modus interface. Weapons indexed by the strife deck still use capchalogue cards. Jetshard owns three Abstrata: knifekind, needlekind, and woodwindkind.

Inventory:
Wearing: Shirt, jacket, pants, belt, boots, tinted glasses (green lenses) with clip-on double loupe, underthings.

Sylladex contents:
- Three complete changes of clothes - another set of hard-wearing work clothes, a more casual sweater and leggings ensemble, and a formal dress. Four sets of clean underthings.
- A pair of glasses with blue lenses, a pair of protective goggles for high-intensity light conditions (dark red lenses), and a pair of protective goggles against chemical splashes or fumes (light gold lenses).
- An insulated, calf-length coat.
- A dual-function gas mask/short term oxygen supply, similar to a plague doctor mask in design.
- Tablet-style mobile computer (includes word processor/spreadsheet applications, internet browser, communications software (current-gen Trollian client & proprietary rebel chat program), rudimentary image editing application, audio player application and modest music library) with wireless data-readout eyepiece.
- Medical kit with emergency and first-aid supplies.
- 1L canteen of potable water.
- 150 ml vial of mind honey (confiscated from 7-sweep-old rebel Boreas Auraro, don't put the mind honey in your mouth).
- Martinet Wishgore the Motorized Scourcontraption, a low-lying circular cleaning robot, about ten inches in diameter, with a large knife taped to the top and its name written on the case in gold marker (confiscated from 8-sweep-old rebels Ammond Raidie and Chanry Deimos, after Jetshard got tired of people coming to her with graze wounds to the ankle).
- Three pulpy adventure novels in paperback.
- Playing card deck, with decidedly risque illustrations on the court cards, each suit featuring the associated quadrant. I mean, it's still a perfectly playable deck. Just maybe don't use it while playing cards with minors.
- Seven empty capchalogue cards

Strife Deck contents: Although the Strife Deck and its associated Kind Abstrata are intended for combat usage, Jetshard finds the interface useful to keep medical sharps on hand, especially in triage situations. Not that she won't shank you with a scapel in a fight.
- Knifekind Abstratus: Accepts small cutting implements, except where those items are unambiguously another form of weapon and not a knife. We know what knives are, right.
-- Ceramic-bladed scalpel with curved cutting edge.
-- Ceramic-bladed scalpel with narrow, triangular blade.
-- Large folding pocket knife; three blades, largest is just shy of five inches long.
- Needlekind Abstratus: Accepts slender piercing instruments without a sharpened edge.
-- Hypodermic syringe containing medical epinephrine.
-- Hypodermic syringe containing a rapid acting sedative & anesthetic.
- Woodwindkind Abstratus: Accepts... woodwind instruments... look she won it off a guy in a card game last sweep, ok.
-- Clarinet, which Jetshard has no idea how to play, let alone use in a fight.

Samples: beep beep it's a test drive thread.

Thank you and welcome to Phantasmal Rift! The mods will handle all the behind the scenes stuff for you - all you need to do is join

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For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;

-> A ring fit for any royalty you may or may not know.
-> This is a restaurant quality steak on a restaurant quality plate. But for some reason, it's being served with coleslaw.

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