Mortask, M'ask, AIVAS Engineer

Name	Mortask, M'ask
Gender	Male, he/they, straight
Homeworld	The Old World of Pern, though with successful landing and long-term presence of AIVAS * (please highlight for text below lol)
Species	Space-Faring Dragon-Riding Human
Totem	Horny Toad, the 'hey, baby - Owch!' totem. Constantly looking for mates, uses any means necessary. -1 S/Gm, +2 Bod, -1 RWP, +3 Luck, +2 Drive, +2 Looks, +1 Cool, -1 Bonk, +7 extra KK's.
Nut	Not really a solid nut, more like a smooth slightly-savory but still sweet Almond Butter
Class	Junior, 30kks
Smarts	7 > 6
Bod/Feet	2 > 4
RWP	2 > 1
Luck	6 > 9
Drive	3 > 5
Looks	4 > 6
Cool	6*
Bonk	4 > 3*
Powers	Technology Master - though a Pern without AIVAS is usually a Pern with trouble from the Red Star, apparently when you keep that computer around long enough it helps develop some staggeringly good computers and hardware! But someone has to fix it, maintain the mainframe, and do the coding, right? M'ask is that guy, your man for any database, computer code, even manufacturing chips and designing circuit boards. For his Pern this isn't outside any norm, it's a pretty respectable career and one he seems to enjoy already as effectively a Journeyman level training ^Computer Technology cluster and Mechanical engineering as a side venture Dragon Rider - Maybe a nerd on a dragon seems a bit improbable but he has people to look up to for the same thing back home. Engineered dragons, fit for so many duties, not just Threadfighting. Sure they have Thread where he comes from, but they have it under control whenever needed, and he's proud to be part of the non-fighting ranks on his little dragon. They can get into places that bigger fighting model...s um, dragons, can't! *Clones - is part of a cloned collective with an unknown number of members, that they can tap into for learning (^Any Skill Cluster at 3 temporarily), working, or replacement parts. This is Delos's doing, supplying parts and replacement cortical fluid to maintain their brain functions, as well as occasionally updating wirelessly to collect and relay data in the field using his onboard interface
Clusters 15	^Computer Technology +5(3) Can read and type or even hand-write code if he doesn't have access to a data tablet, understands at least three or maybe four different coding languages and is intrigued by the differences between them - AIVAS was created using this one kind and it evolved differently here on Twoarth right? But they're still similar enough! He can assemble and wire hardware including drives, power supplies, webcams, whatever is needed he can certainly figure it out if it's to do with a computer of any sort, even in a vehicle or permanent installment somewhere ^Skills On The Fly +3 Sure, it's his research! Look at this! You can learn almost anything when you put your mind to it, for real. Takes a little practice for some things, you might never be great at any of them, right? But in a pinch just try it! Use a lock pick, climb a rock wall, go sailing, you'll get the hang of it soon enough! Mechanical Inclination +3 Though he concentrates mostly on computers he can still figure out non-electronic (but mostly electric-driven) devices with ease. Sliding doors that open with a sensor when you step on a pad, lights that come on by clapping, but also conveyer belts and industrial machinery, vehicles, quite a few different applications that don't necessarily require a computer to run. He started out just doing repairs and helping replace large machine parts after all, so he has always been around machines and devices
Skills 16	Avid Reader +4 He's always got a book in his hand. Whether it's a user manual, a data tablet (one of those never leaves his vest pocket in fact, please don't peer over his shoulder trying to read what's on it, that's very rude), signage and information terminals, screens and monitors, a hardbound book, pamphlet, whatever it is with words and graphs on it, he will tear through it voraciously. He won't damage a book, hates it when someone folds a corner of a page down use a bookmark oh my soul or rips out pages of even frivolous magazines for the pictures leaving an article half-missing... He has read his school books and background information numerous times before the classes even started, and double or triple checks his work before handing it in right on time Social Strata Expert +4 While many of the titles and actual duties are modestly different from a 'traditional Pern' setting, M'ask's world is still over two thousand years worth of culture. It is fairly specific, low and middle and high born people still can mingle but are definitely encouraged to know their place among their peers or betters. It is very much to your advantage to not stir shit, upward mobility is possible but limited after all. But he is a dragon rider now, and that puts him in a uniquely advantageous position. He won't rub it in, but he definitely thinks that having a slightly-higher status than virtually any of his engineering-school friends is very good indeed
Knacks 6	Waste Not Want Not +3 Compulsively will pick things up and make sure that any useful parts or components are stripped before tossing it into whatever the correct recycling or trash bin is nearest. He's sometimes baffled that people would just throw away a broken tool, when you can hand it off to a metal shop and they might be able to fix or use it for parts? He gets antsy when there are no clear recycling bins, too. He doesn't like throwing away food either, and would prefer to keep leftovers, even if they aren't from his plate, in the fridge please? Pretty Boy Looks Older Than He Is +3 He's a Junior, a Journeyman, not a graduate and not an adult why do you ask? Fellow Kids? He definitely is a pretty boy, loves looking good and keeps what facial hair he can grow in a very nice state. Even when he's been working in the shop, he's got protective gear to make sure he doesn't get grime on his outfit or any cuts or burns. Learning to ride was far dirtier and painful than he wants to admit, so he is extra careful when he's riding almost just for this reason. *Note that most of this perfection is because he 'heals' back into a default state including his facial hair... he has no scars but he does have the hint of a small tattoo just within his hairline at the back of his head, won't let people really get a look at it though
Period	Class / Instructor / Grade (Failing, Passing, Decent, Excellent, Superb)
1	Binary Information Structure / Varnhagen (skin) / Superb
2	Advanced Technical Languages / Charybdis / Superb
3	Dragonry Recordkeeping and Data Collection / Hollis / Excellent
4	Advanced Computer Coding / Wesson / Superb
5	Multiplanar History / Freemind / Excellent
6	Website Creation / Silverfawn / Excellent
7	Technical Writing / Wheeler / Superb
8	Martial Arts for the Fashion Conscious / Alcott / Decent
Pets	For some reason flitters don't seem to like him, and he's not really all that hot on them either
Parents?	From a line of engineering and upkeep workers
Siblings?	Unknown, likely a few extended relatives, but none that he talks about
Image From	BT Male by v3rc4 (flashpoint used)
Other Info	* Note that while they are inserted into this program under the pretext of being 'from A Pern', they are actually from Delos Earth, a sentient Host with a pearl-brain capable of controlling computers wirelessly. Created originally for ShogunWorld, complete with a katana and Brown ("victim" role, -1 Cool, +5 Bonk only while reviving after 'death') robes. While they have been reformatted and slightly redesigned from their old Park style, they retain most skills and a few memories in fragments from those times, and are not particularly happy about many of those memories. To be sure: he is fully sentient and self-aware. Dragons sense something slightly weird about his mind, but only in that it's remarkably well-organized and has a strange but not unpleasant 'hum' about it. Both he and Mimi's in fact seem similar, but then maybe it's just because they're 'from the same Pern'... They live off campus, in a non-Alabaster dragon-suited apartment structure sponsored by 'some other company' (that would be Delos). They have a Squeamish disposition, due to their memories and can't stand the thought of seeing their own guts spilling out of their body again, something which isn't mere imagination for them, it was a daily occurrence.

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