#certacyborgleader

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If all 8 skill slots are filled up, would it be possible to replace a skill with one that requires that skill as a prerequisite?

Yes! This is one of the intentions behind the prerequisite system. Once your character qualifies for the upgraded skill’s given level, they can replace the prerequisite with its stronger version once they hit its rankup requirement. This is the most straightforward way of powering up skills:

Agi -> Agilao, and so on.

However, you also have the option of replacing a different skill with the upgraded version of an existing prerequisite, if you’d like. As long as you possess a skill, you can branch off of it until you overwrite it. This is to enable characters to gain a variety of different abilities within the same skill type.

So, for example, a character who has 8 abilities already, but wishes to gain multiple high-tier Fire skills might go about it like this:

Possessing Agi, they replace a different, existing skill with Agilao upon their next qualifying Social Link rank-up. At this point, they now possess both Agi and Agilao.

After this, they replace Agi with Maragi. Now they have both Agilao and Maragi! Nice.

This would later enable them to upgrade these skills to Agidyne and Maragion, respectively. Talk about firepower!

Do note that they need to have the prerequisite skill at the time they wish to gain the better version. If you replace Agi with a different skill and later decide you want Agilao, you’ll still have to re-learn Agi even if you had it in the past.

No matter which way you want to go about it, if you wish to get a high-tier version of a particular skill, it’s best to hold onto the lower-powered version until your character achieves the level necessary to upgrade it. If they don’t need it anymore, feel free to replace it!

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starter for @certacyborgleader

“Huh, it’s another one...?”  A ways away from her, a fairly human-looking—er, android?  Cyborg?  She’d have to ask about the proper terminology later.  Anyways, the person walking looks quite human, unlike the other one she’s seen walking around.  In fact, the only reason she can tell the person isn’t human is... well, she’s not wearing enough clothes.  Any, actually.  Except for a utility vest.

“Um, excuse me.”  Nothing to do but to inform her directly, Lyra supposes.  “What’s your name?  And by the way, isn’t it cold?  You’re... a robot, or an android, right?  But, uh, you should probably still get some clothes on your lower half, even if you don’t need it.”

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@certacyborgleader

“You.” His voice was somehow loud despite how raspy it sounded.

“You’re going to show me around town. Or else.” Reaper pulled out one of his guns to threaten them. He didn’t care how it came off, he needed to know where things were if he was going to be living here and asking one of those Overwatch pansies was more like a joke to him than anything else.

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Contractus Incorporated and Certa’s Rebellion

In short, the former is the evil megacorporation that has been mentioned every so often in both Certa’s and Adnunt’s blogs, while the latter is a rebellion Certa formed against it because of long-held resentment towards its evil deeds. 

A longer explanation is best started with the faction that came first, Contractus Incorporated. 

While the exact details of how Contractus Incorporated came about have been lost to time, a general narrative is well known amongst the inhabitants of Absinthium. In their ever increasing drive for more and more profits, the megacorporation completely drained their home planet of resources. In order to keep their home planet going, and to reap even more profits, the megacorporation set its sights on the stars and began extracting resources from other planets. It didn’t take long for the inhabitants of those planets to start fighting back, but the technological prowess of Contractus Incorporated allowed them to quickly produce weapons and cybernetics for war to crush the opposition. 

Fast forward a couple millennia of seizing and draining more planets of resources and developing better and/or easier to produce cybernetics for war, and Contractus Incorporated has become a formidable threat capable of standing against the most dangerous threats in the multiverse. Their indoctrination procedures became better as well, forging each of their new members into remorseless killing machines through conditioning, technology, or both. The entire time the agents in charge of the corporation had managed to crush any rebellion that came up before it spread, keeping control of them with an iron fist. At the same time, they also paid their ‘employees’ with a digital currency that allows them to rank up and buy more effective cybernetics. Insidiously, this system pays the cyborgs more the more effective a killer they are, and actually pays a substantial amount of money to any employee who voluntarily accepts the installation of one of a number of cybernetics which curtail free will. 

Contractus Incorporated’s undisputed reign over the Cuniculators (who were by then forged into cybernetic warrior scavengers) worked perfectly and detected every potential rebel before they became a threat. Until Certa came along, that was. She resented what Contractus Incorporated did to her when she was first ‘recruited’, and refused to fight for them initially. But then when they forcibly implanted a cybernetic which influenced her thoughts to seeing other races as lesser than her and repressing any desire she had not to kill, she knew. 

She knew just how far their control extended. She knew trying to rebel now or at any point in the foreseeable future would get her killed. She knew she had to avoid getting any further cybernetics that would curtail her free will. She knew she had to pretend the one cybernetic of that nature she had worked and did its job. She knew it would be a liability to trust anyone with her resentment of the megacorporation. She knew she’d have to find a way to free the other Cuniculators before a rebellion had any chance of success. She knew she’d have to gain her own mode of transportation to break away from them. She knew she’d have to earn their trust and rise up the ranks to get there. She knew she had to be the one to bring Contractus Incorporated’s reign to an end. She ultimately knew she had to play the long con. She knew. 

The end result was that it worked, and worked spectacularly, but not without a cost. She adopted the ruthless efficiency and remorseless attitude towards killing all of Contractus Incorporated’s top employees displayed. She has only begun to relearn how to use more than the minimum number of words required to get her point across. The secret she kept for so long has forged her into a secretive, manipulative, stubborn soul. But after Contractus Incorporated had thought she was indisputably loyal and there was no way she’d rebel for a few decades, she successfully managed to break away from them and rebel. Twice. While making off with the prized flagship they put her in charge of building. 

The growth of Certa’s Rebels began with her developing a way to disable all the technological means of control Contractus Incorporated implemented. Striking at one of the planets where Contractus Incorporated had sent a small force to begin the scavenging process, Adnunt was the first Cuniculator she ever freed, and proved to be a massive aid to the cause. Massive enough that she gave him the ability to disable such devices as well. She continued striking at various locations where Contractus Incorporated was only beginning to extract resources, to cut them off from the resources they needed and to gather more members by freeing them from the megacorporation’s control. 

Now Certa’s Rebels definitely contrasts against Contractus Incorporated, even if very few people officially know about them in Absinthium. The rebels are allowed to take non-combat positions so long as they still contribute to the effort of the rebellion, and the Engies amongst them are allowed to upgrade and optimize the technology of the other Cuniculators freely. While upgrading is optional, it’s highly recommended, especially to get one to the point they can operate without food, water, or air. That said, the Rebels do go out of the way to accommodate the more organic cyborgs (even if the accommodations are very basic), and there’s a greater variety of upgrades available to them. Eligibility for upgrades is based on merit rather than money, with the most deadly weapons and upgrades going to the deadliest rebels, but with efforts taken so that everyone can get some form of upgrade at regular intervals. 

The organization is not without its own flaws, the most notable of which is how the majority of the Rebels are put to work like machines, hopping from battle to battle with no time for rest. Only those who need the rest are allowed to do so, and the food supplies they have are designated primarily towards those who need to eat. Even these members are often put onto the field of battle whenever their bodily needs have been satisfied. The other notable flaw is that this organization is still composed primarily of Cuniculators. Even if they fight to free the other Cuniculators from the control of Contractus Incorporated, they’re still remorseless killers, and almost everyone but the Comms amongst them are very stunted socially. It is the nature of their race that makes the tight ‘work’ schedule they adhere to acceptable, and all the better, for it allows them to make a quicker dent in the large amount of space and forces that Contractus Incorporated controls. 

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For those who have multiple characters in Persona Cataclysm, are the limits on new social links and the like on a per character basis?

Yes. Social Links function on a per-character basis, not a per-RPer basis. If you have multiple characters, their Social Links are their own; the benefits and rank-ups do not cross over between your characters.

It is possible that we may allow cross-over between mun characters for participation rewards for such things as dungeons in the future, but this is very much a tentative and undecided idea.

Hope that helps!

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Is it possible to have a Social Link at the start of this RP with another character that has canonically interacted with them at the start of the RP? If so what are the limits on such?

Beary sorry but, nope!

Not that you can’t have bonds with characters before entering the setting, feel free to go crazy with your castmates! But in regards to the social links and leveling up your persona, no.

For the sake of balance, the only interactions and development that’ll count towards leveling up your social links and your persona will only be the ones that happen within Cataclysm.

However, I will say that forming a social link with someone your character already has a strong bond with will probably be easier do! 

I hope that response is bearcceptable!

~ Mod [ Teddy ]

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What's your stance on two related characters being roleplayed together within these RPs?

Characters with canon companions are very dependent on if said companion has enough personality, information, and involvement to count as a lone character. I’ll give a couple examples.

Companion characters, such as Daxter from the Jak and Daxter series, and Clank from Ratchet and Clank, count as separate characters in our eyes, since both Daxter and Clank have very heavy involvement in their respective canon stories, and even have their own story arcs and spin-off games.

But if the companion is less “plot-important”, or have been shown to strictly stick around with their “owner” character, such as Hewie from Haunting Ground, or Kivat from Kamen Rider Kiva, then that is applicable for having two characters applied together, since they are attached to each other.

To make things shorter: You can app two characters at once if they aren’t significant to the plot, have little use other than being a companion character, or in very specific cases. If you’re curious, just ask!

~ mod [ y ]