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it won't survive me.

dusk of the gods, temple of technology

TECHNOLOGY

(Court of the Abstracts)

THRONEHOLDER ⇢
Raven Reyes, from the 100.

Born on the Ark space station, plunged to Earth in a shuttle of her own reconstruction.

The youngest zero-G mechanic in 50 years, and the go-to gal for anything technology-related in the last vestiges of humanity.

CONTACT ⇢
IC contact link here when I make one!

Overview As far as Raven is concerned, the only technological progress they're going to make is the kind they piece together with their own hands. She recognizes that there's some legitimacy behind the presence of 'gods' here, but the amount of power they (and thus she) actually hold is way too nebulous for her liking. If you're going to worship the throne of technology, you'd better be ready to get grease on your hands. Tiers (0 pts) TIER 1: Survivalist technology. Aside from the communication devices each character has, this baseline tier allows characters to piece together approximately the same level of technology you'd have in the wake of an apocalypse. Which is to say: CB radios, lighters to create fire (when we have a Fire God), generators and occasional batteries to power low-tech lights, wood stoves, running water sometimes, flushing toilets, etc. Scrap metal, wires, and various other odds and ends for technology-based engineering or mechanical projects can be found only in the Temple of Technology. TIER 2 (25 pts): Congratulations! We're no longer living in a dilapidated shithole. Electricity now functions in homes. New technologies include cassette tape players, a dozen different music-oriented radio stations of unknown origin, hot water heaters (with limited capacity), refrigerators, and gas/electric stoves. Running water is now reliable, and batteries are easier to find. Scrap and supplies for technology-based engineering or mechanical projects can now be located sparsely throughout the city. TIER 3 (75 pts): Technology is becoming more convenient! We now have bicycles, microwaves, television, 16-bit video games, and MP3 players that still list songs as "Title_Artist_Name.mp3". For everything else, just assume a late 80's/early 90's level of technology. TIER 4 (150 pts): We are approaching the digital age! Laptops and tablets have become readily available. Also, motorized vehicles! Motorcycles and cars are now reasonable possessions to have. Homes can have surveillance systems. Video games are insanely realistic. Aircrafts are in early stages of development. At this tier, we've essentially caught up to 2018 America in technology. TIER 5 (250 pts): Technology is looking to the future. This stage is nebulous so far, but it definitely provides the supplies to dabble in stuff like rocketry and fully synthetic replacement organs (assuming Medicine has reached that tier yet). Think: Basically anything in the Information Age section. Also, knowing Raven? Probably some form of zero-G technology, too.

Temple

Stepping inside the temple, you'd almost forget that you're living in a modern-day city. The inside of the temple is a pretty decent facsimile of the Ark, the space station on which Raven grew up. Surfaces are metal or nonskid plastic substitute. Throughout the temple, heavy steel doors open and close by motion sensor (90% of them), keypad, or key card. Hoses line the walls and ceilings, reminiscent of a time when they transported necessary oxygen or other such supplies. The throne room itself appears to be a workshop, littered with half-completed mechanical projects that Raven fully intends to come back to. The throne itself is a simple black swiveling stool, backless and wheeled, typically occupied by Raven's butt.

Worship & Offerings

The best thing you can do to win Raven's favor is to get your hands dirty. Show an interest in mechanics of any kind, or even just a willingness to give her a hand with whatever project she's elbow-deep in at the moment. Aside from that, any kind of interesting scrap makes a great offering. Broken appliances, bits of metal and wire, anything really. She's good at this. She'll improvise.

Demigods & Followers

Currently? Nobody. She's pretty much alone in her Temple of Tech, but it probably won't be that way for long.

GALLERY CODE BY TESSISAMESS

+ false memories (pines)

█ RAVEN + FALSE MEMORIES.

raven is a veteran of the times when residents were pressured to believe their false memories and discount their real ones as 'fake' or 'side effects of cryogenic stasis', and as a result, she has a knee-jerk rejection response to most false-memory-related things.

that being said, she still has false memories, and will grudgingly respond positively to people she had positive false memory cr with, regardless of how she feels about the presence of memories in general.

█ FALSE MEMORIES SO FAR.

her life growing up kind of parallels her life in canon - raven had a single mom who only really looked out for herself, who never stocked the fridge or turned on the heat in the house but always had plenty of alcohol on hand. just like in canon, one of the neighbor kids was a few years older than her and had plenty to eat and a warm place to crash, and basically took raven under her wing. ironic, considering her name was crowe.

crowe altius is her family. it's the only actual family she can remember having, since her mom obviously didn't count. by now, about a decade after they effectively adopted one another, raven now lives with crowe and has developed some definite feelings in her general direction. not that she intends to act on it, or expects anything to come of it.

raven has a bit of a reputation around wayward pines. she's a mechanic with entirely too much pride than she can afford, and there have been any number of occasions when she's hijacked repair jobs in order to do them quicker/better/more affordably than the alternative - maybe she was shopping for parts and heard a professional mechanic quoting a price, or maybe she heard a vehicle pull into the parking lot nearby and informed the driver that their ball joints were about to quit on them, or any number of other scenarios, all culminating in her basically taking the project over for herself for baseline prices. the more challenging the project, the better. she has also built a couple of bikes from the ground up.

it would be hilariously easy to say she did a repair job or fixed a bike for your character at some point in the past. on the flip side, if your character is a mechanic she undercut and/or someone who would've been offended by her tactlessness, that could be a source of negative CR!

the garage of her house with crowe (house 5108) is pretty conspicuous, almost always open during the daytime and filled with parts and tools and loud noises and various other neighborhood-disrupting things. this one's relevant to neighbors and/or anyone who may have driven by and stopped to chat (or maybe someone was a former neighbor and moved because of the noise? idek).

i have yet to figure out why her leg is paralyzed (in canon, she got shot next to the spine and that was the after-effect once they surgically removed the bullet with no anesthetic to speak of). i'll probably go with 'some sort of mechanical incident' but i'm also open to alternatives if you have an idea.

█ WISH LIST.

i'm not really going ham on the hella in-depth false memories with her aside from maybe one or two key ones, but i'm down for any number of simple, easy-to-remember touchpoints!

neighbors
former/current mechanic-work clients and/or people who bought bikes off of her
people (probably older folks) who knew her mom and thus are aware of the past she Doesn't Talk About
people who work at the hospital and were there when shit went down re: her paralyzed leg
more ideas tba