Paragon Industries (OOC - Comedy / Tech / Dead)

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Guess I’ll try this

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Name: Elliot Hart

Age: Mid-Late 30s

Species: Human

Sex: Male

Personality: Detached and somewhat scattered. Somewhat Introverted.

Skills/Powers: Programming in the archaic languages that Paragon’s servers run on, which is the main reason he was hired.

Weaknesses: Focus. Gets frustrated easily.

Occupation: Keeping the servers running.

Bio: Elliot learned how to program two decades ago, and decided to pick it back up when it was time to find a job. Unfortunately, he was still mostly an expert at the languages that were popular many years ago. “Fortunately”, Paragon’s servers happen to be about as old. His job opportunities were few, and not knowing the history of Paragon, he picked it largely at random, thinking he would leave after having made some quick money, an improved resumé, and new knowledge. A year later, he’s still stuck there, having little free time to search for other jobs due to the perpetual server outages that plague his workspace.

Why Are They Here?: See Bio

Character Goal: To live a fulfilling life.

Equipment, Weapons, and Vehicles:

• An old blue sedan car that’s still in good condition despite its age, although that’s mostly because of its lack of use and not because it’s well-maintained.
• A battered, well-used laptop. He values this highly.
• A flashlight, which he uses to illuminate the poorly-lit basement.
• A fire extinguisher, in case of a server fire.

Likes and Dislikes:
Likes

• Programming
• Electronics
• Electronic Music
• Coffee

Dislikes

• Extended human interaction
• Deadlines
• The servers of Paragon, which he frequently suggests should be replaced by “something from this century”.
• Classical Music

[Talchyon]

Guess I’ll try this

Character App

Name: Elliot

Age: Mid-Late 30s
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Bio: Elliot learned how to program two decades ago,
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Nice. I like the concept. Everything looks good, maybe make him a little older is all, unless he learned how to program when he was like 15-18. Otherwise, Elliot (no last name) is ACCEPTED! Welcome to Paragon Industries!

[Talchyon]

Penguin - Nice first post. Don't worry about re-writing anything. I'll make it work.

Something along the lines of, What? Paragon Industries had multiple server rooms that were all competing with each other for bandwidth? Figures...

[Blargleyarg]

Penguin - Nice first post. Don't worry about re-writing anything. I'll make it work.

Something along the lines of, What? Paragon Industries had multiple server rooms that were all competing with each other for bandwidth? Figures...

Meanwhile, at the server installation company

"Haha I had the craziest case of deja vu on a job today boss"
"How so"
"well I coulda sworn I installed the same server room like seven times"
"Dammit Jerry I knew I should've given you leave when you bumped your head"

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Penguin - Nice first post. Don't worry about re-writing anything. I'll make it work.

Something along the lines of, What? Paragon Industries had multiple server rooms that were all competing with each other for bandwidth? Figures...

Thanks.

I have ideas for other characters working in the same room. When I have time, I’ll write the character sheets.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Here we go

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Name: Dennis Hampton

Age: Late 30s

Species: Human

Sex: Male

Personality: Outgoing and energetic. Often frustrated by waiting and roadblocks.

Skills/Powers: Hardware and maintenance work, especially on computers. Pretty handy.

Weaknesses Software and programming on computers.

Occupation: Head of Server Room B’s Maintenance Department (also the only maintenance worker in the server room)

Bio: Has a passion for fixing things. His first job was a local computer repair company founded by him and his friend. However, he was never very good with computer interfaces, and stuck with hardware repair. He enjoyed the job, but wanted to do more and started looking for a major job where he could make a difference. He tried Pinnacle, but they weren’t hiring. Not content to wait, he kept looking. Finally, he found Paragon. It wasn’t great, and maybe that was part of why he liked it. He hoped that he could help turn it around. Instead, he ended up in the seventh basement level of a dilapidated building, constantly fixing burnt servers. Despite all of this, he’s still optimistic, and tries to convince himself he’s making a difference.

Why Are They Here?: See bio.

Character Goal: He wants to have a lasting positive impact on the world, in whatever form that is. Currently, his goal is improving Paragon, however improbable that may be.

Equipment, Weapons, and Vehicles: Several sets of tools, often with significant overlap of contents. These are strewn about on the floor wherever he’s currently working (and sometimes where he isn’t, too). He also owns an old but well-maintained minivan.

Likes:

• Repair work
• Old junk
• Refurbishment
• Crafts (although he doesn’t have much time for it anymore)
• Flea markets

Dislikes:

• Waiting
• Stagnation
• Inability to help
• Being pulled away from work

[West Bromwich Holme]

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(imagine Jenna Boyd, American actress, who is 29, aged up a little bit, and with pink streaks in her hair)

Name: Józefina "Josie" Rutkoska

Age: 34

Species: Human (possibly enhanced human, but ambiguous here).

Sex Female

Personality: Josie is generally very kind, caring and friendly, but it also takes a while for her to let her guard down as she gets to know someone. Josie is also wary of new people, but this is down to where she lives now, a neighborhood that's not so good.

Skills/Powers: She has good skills in negotiating with people and customer service, having worked in those type of jobs. Josie also has excellent knowledge on products from her jobs, but her knowledge on vehicles, cars and motorbikes mainly, is high-level, in terms of product; she can't fix them, but she knows a lot about them and where to source them.
Josie is also great with computers, Mac OSX particularly, or Linux.

She has a strong moral compass, "thou shalt not kill" attitude.

Cannot die permanently, due to her enhanced human powers, but would like to lose that power if she could, has conflicting attitudes about that.

Apparently has a few clones of her in existence, but little is known publically on that.

Also, fairly strong despite looking like a tall thin supermodel (she's 6"2!)

Not really a skill, but somehow manages to get along with Vanessa Carlyle and tries to make friends with her.

Weaknesses (What do they suck at? What are the limits to their powers?) She won't get involved in murdering anyone and plots to poison or kill, considering it goes against her beliefs. She gets angry easily about racial issues, but not in a social justice warrior way; hates people trash-talking about Canada. She's not good at doing high-level deals, not got the skills for it yet. Wants to be her own boss, but knows she hasn't got the skills or experience for it yet.
Not good on Windows since she gave up using it in 2010 for Mac OSX and never looked back.

Josie is wary of people at times, and takes a while for her to fully trust people.

She's mistaken for having Asperger's Syndrome or autism, when in reality, she has no diagnosis of that; it's just due to her wariness of some people.

Her "thou shalt not kill" attitude and blunt, honest manner of speech may upset some people.

Compared to some people, far less sociopathic but not naive, just slightly paranoid; on a scale of 1 to 5, it'd be at the lower end.

Occupation: She's essentially a roundsman (roundswoman?), who does certain jobs as and when needed. But she won't do anything like murder or really dodgy stuff; she has her morals and her moral compass stops her from going off the slippery slope. She actually enjoys doing the mundane stuff at times.

Bio: Jozefina was born to a Polish-American-Canadian family, being born to a Polish-Indo-Canadian mother (who was of descent) and an American father (who was half-Scottish, half-Mexican-American) in Weston, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has dual Canadian and U.S. citizenship; to her, both citizenships are good, and she would never renounce either. She also has Polish citizenship through her mother too, who acquired it at birth, as per this link
Josie worked multiple jobs aged 18-22, mainly at fast food shops, she was too poor to get into university, and she could only afford beat-up old Dodge Spirit and Hyundai Elantra sedans, which were never considered cool, when she really wanted something like a Mercedes-Benz E-Class or Toyota Aurion sedan.

She lived a fairly normal life, working odd jobs in burger bars, pizza shops, car showrooms, Italian restaurants, was hired to cover shifts no-one else wanted, but didn't mind that.

She wasn't dirt-poor, and isn't, but is not mega-rich.

Josie has five sisters, mainly living in Toronto or Vancouver, all dual Canadian-U.S. citizens.

Why Are They Here?: She's only here for the paycheck as she lives in a poor neighborhood where it's frozen in time to the 1980s with old Dodge and Plymouth sedans everywhere and worn-out old 1990s Ford, Chrysler, Hyundai and Volkswagen cars parked up.
She's taken the job temporarily until she can become her own boss and have more skills.

Someone has got her a high-paying job within Paragon, and she hopes her contract will end soon and not be renewed.

Character Goal: Josie wants to improve her life, earn enough to become an independent, freelance businesswoman, mainly based in Toronto, and move back there, but also trading with the US and border cities. She also wants to run her own vintage fashion store too, but not be a hands-on owner, just finding the employees and stoick.

Equipment, Weapons, and Vehicles: (She owns a 2008 Hyundai Elantra 2.0 Limited sedan in red, Canadian-specification, on Toronto license plates, with 200,000 km.

She always wears a bulletproof sports bra on underneath her clothing. She has a lot of them she got for free, by somehow convincing a company she really needed them.

In general, she likes to wear crop tops (or cropped blouses) and leggings as her de facto uniform, with the bulletproof sports bra on underneath. She nearly always wears tops exposing her midriff; not sexualized, just who she is.

Josie will carry a taser when needed to do so by the company, but in general, never carries guns.

Always has food and drink, mostly emergency supplies of potato chips and diet Coke on her.

Likes and Dislikes:
Likes

Food and drink

Cars/motorbikes

Socialising

Spending time with female friends

Canadian TV dramas from CTV

Emily VanCamp, Lindy Booth (who she's fans of)

Alcohol (not an alcoholic though, genuine passion for the different types of beer and wine)

Dislikes

Misogyny

Social justice warriors

Government surveillance

Anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theories on this area

Child abusers/pedophiles

Homophobes/transphobes

Other: "One Kiss" - Dua Lipa / Calvin Harris is theme song; one of her sisters is identical to Dua Lipa in appearance.

Speaks in a weird hybrid Torontonian-New York accent with some Californian influences thrown in, uses Californian slang sometimes.

[Province of Cossack]

I will apologize in advance for my lack of activity over the next two weeks; my school choir is preparing for a big show so I have hella rehearsal. Just wanted to let you guys know.

[Talchyon]

I will be looking at apps tomorrow. Sorry for dropping out there. Things got really busy IRL.

[Talchyon]

Character App

Name: Dennis Hampton

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Likes:

• Repair work
• Old junk

Man, if Dennis likes repair work and old junk, he's never going to leave Paragon's basement. Dennis is ACCEPTED! Welcome (back) to Paragon Industries!

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Character App

Name: Józefina "Josie" Rutkoska

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Nice. A super-model wearing a bulletproof sports bra, who somehow got a high paying job at Paragon, yet doesn't have quite the skills... I like her. Josie is ACCEPTED! Welcome to Paragon Industries!

[Talchyon]

I'll be updating the roster and posting, moving this along. Thanks for being patient. Had some very busy IRL things but I'm still in it. Even if we move slow.

[Blargleyarg]

I'll be updating the roster and posting, moving this along. Thanks for being patient. Had some very busy IRL things but I'm still in it. Even if we move slow.

Glad we're still active. ^-^

[Province of Cossack]

I'll be updating the roster and posting, moving this along. Thanks for being patient. Had some very busy IRL things but I'm still in it. Even if we move slow.

That's fine! I actually like that we are on the slower side, makes it less of a chore and more enjoyable.

[Flarbinia]

Tag

[Arpasia]

Made this logo for Pinnacle Tech:

[Talchyon]

Made this logo for Pinnacle Tech:

(Image)

I like it. Any way to downsize it so it could be like notary seal size?

I will be updating both the roster and the plot today, so stay tuned.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Made this logo for Pinnacle Tech:

(Image)

I like it. Any way to downsize it so it could be like notary seal size?

I will be updating both the roster and the plot today, so stay tuned.

nice.

wait, I should probably finish making the character sheets soon

[Talchyon]

I like it. Any way to downsize it so it could be like notary seal size?

I will be updating both the roster and the plot today, so stay tuned.

nice.

wait, I should probably finish making the character sheets soon

Might not hurt. Still, I won't wait the whole day. Sometime in the next 4 hours or so...

[Arpasia]

Made this logo for Pinnacle Tech:

(Image)

I like it. Any way to downsize it so it could be like notary seal size?

I will be updating both the roster and the plot today, so stay tuned.

I'll try to make a lower size version of it, so that you can include it.

[West Bromwich Holme]

Just started posting; this is an interesting new RP to post in. Not tried being a dramedy like this.

[Tuboo Shippers]

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Name: Talatu, nickname Tally

Age: 20

Species: pure human

Sex Female

Personality:
Tally's an INFP, so she's pretty chill.

Skills/Powers: She's good at fixing anything broken, mostly tech. She can fit really, really well in small spaces, and can make jokes so corny that a kernel would laugh. Plus, She's a whizz when it comes to math.

Weaknesses Even though she's good at fixing stuff, she breaks about ninety percent of what she fixes first. Tally will also crawl in the vents to avoid people she doesn't like.

Occupation: Accountant. But since the company isn't making much money, she mostly just wanders around.

Bio: Born in a New York alley, Tally lived in a small apartment about the size of a closet, and grew up learning how to pickpocket and carjack. The money from that kept her going until college, where every scholarship she applied for was denied; which forced her to get a loan. Now, she's deep in debt and needs a better way to pay it off. After multiple tries, she finally found one company that would let her in: Paragon Industries.

Why Are They Here?: No other companies took her in due to the fact that every time they interviewed her, she stole their stuff. and she doesn't know how to code. However, she knows the first ten digits of pie off the top of her head.

Character Goal: her life goal is to get out of her debt. If that sounds lame, then you should know that by her estimates, she owes around 1.5 million dollars
Equipment, Weapons, and Vehicles: An old bike she found in an alley and repaired, plus an old notebook she uses to do math.

Likes and Dislikes:
Likes: money, sleep,music, undertale,and foxes.
Dislikes:debt, the sound of popping balloons,and taxes.
Other: Natural disasters song by CJ5

[Talchyon]

Character App

Name: Talatu, nickname Tally

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Nice. I like her a lot. Hopefully we'll get to see her crawl in vents soon. Tally is ACCEPTED! Welcome to Paragon Industries!



ALSO GUYS - This RP is still going. Slow going at times, but still going. Sometimes I just feel the need to write more seriously. But then the need to write more comedy comes back. So we're still going on. I HAVE PLANS BOTH FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE FAKE OSHE INSPECTOR, as well as THE ODD GUN FOUND IN THE BLACK OPS ROOM. P.S. - It's not a coin slot.

[Tuboo Shippers]

Tally gasps. "Awsome! Thank you so much!" She cheers as she gives you your watch, which she stole. It's a lot cleaner than it was before she gave it back.

[Barapam]

Oops, forgot I was involved in this, had my head full of exams.

[Barapam]

West Bromwich, KIM isn't at Vanessa's office. Only the papers KIM left there earlier.