Casting call: Upgrade: Virtually out of control

[cats]

Okay last time I a situation came up that kept me from finishing the story.

This is essentially going to be starting Hacked: Bad luck in cyber space, all over again. The IC thread will be Upgrade: Virtually out of control.

Okay now the plot.

A new game has just come out using a virtual reality based on our own. The object of the game is to go around and make money to use the things you can't have in real life. Problem is among the beta testers was a group of hackers who now have power over those they hacked.

Okay players will be hacked, you have the options for a hacker in addition.

hackers can do the fallowing:
Change the appearance, clothing, gender, and pretty much any physical aspect of the hacked player, including voice. More advanced hackers can do more things, such as increase sensitivity, change likes and dislikes, and even push certain thoughts loosely into there mind.

hackers can't do the fallowing:
Take control of a character, a player always has final control of their body, so a hacker can't force them to throw coffee on some one or the like. Erase parts or pieces of the players memory or mind, so you can't blank a player and reprogram them or something.

Special hackers: Okay these hackers have more control, but require more writing skill to portray. If you want your hacker to be a more developed character you'll probably want one of these.
Herder's: The hackers wear special watches to talk to outside hacker buddies, they essentially have control over there characters appearance and stats, and nothing else. Fortunately they can call in favors. Keep in mind they are still hackable players.
Puppets: The guys can control computer generated characters, or NPCs. They can change there appearance, make them say certain things. So shop keepers, pets, police, and some random people on the streets can be made to do many things by them. NPCs: don't think, so really you can't alter there minds, and they really don't feel anything.
Housers: A certain places out of the publics view can be hacked into. Places like bedrooms, closets, stock rooms, tree houses, etc. The hacker could simply lock some one in a place, or he can completely redo the room, and say put a swimming pool in a tree house. The area hacked should be fairly small like the above examples, although once hacked can be the size of a football field.

Typically the first item hacked on a player is there ability to leave the game.

 

[cats]

IC: I had one person PM me about being a player, so I may of confused some readers.

Your main character should either be a player, or a herder hacker. I don't expect any seems to really take place in the real world, so most hackers aren't much of a writing point on there own.

Also I forgot to mention something. In order to keep things under control, please note a special status. Can another writer hack your character? Either yes, throw what you will at the character, or no, only hack my character if I give you permission in a pm.

Okay here is my character.

Name: Justin Owens
Hackable: yes, feel free.
Age: 18
Eyes: brown
Hair: short, parted to one side, brown
Build: Slim, free of muscle and free of fat.
height: 6 feet
weight: 140
Bio: Justin had a great number of friends, but then moved a few years back. After he moved he wasn't quite able to make many friends, as a result he became a hardcore gamer, and spent a lot less time out doing things. As a gamer a game were everything seems real seemed to be a fun idea. So he bought "Escape in Paradise" (EiP)

 

[little_golden]

Name: Miss Jenna Brown
Hackable: Yes, feel free.
Occupation:lawyer (district attorney)
Age: 38
Eyes: brown
Hair: long, black hair
Build: Tiny, petite, extremely thin and flat (AA)
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 93lbs


Bio: Jenna is a repressed woman. For years she has blocked out men from her life and is still a virgin at 38. She is smart, well educated and has devoted herself to her job. However, she lacks interpersonal skills and has difficulty working in a team. The men at work figure she is a nerdy lesbian. She is mean to other women and especially hates blondes.

 

[cats]

Welcome golden. I was hopeing you'd join.

 

[Bengal52]

Name: Steven Sounders
Hackable: yes, feel free. I have some ideas, pm me if interested
Age: 19
Eyes: green
Hair: Tight military cut. Dark Brown
Build: He's an army reservist, 'nuff said.
height: 5 foot 10 inch
weight: 210
Bio: Steven was a loner through most of high school. He was active on the football team, but more of a bench warmer. He was never really accepted. At eighteen, he joined the reserves and has been very active, earning respect from his commander. His military training involved computers and he discovered the joy of them, quickly becoming competent at almost every game out there. He even dabbled in writting his own programs with some mild success. Once he heard about this new game, he got interested and logged on, finding it fansinating.

He's still a virgin, exciting little from the oposite sex as an outcast football player. He joined the game thinking of meeting women, not knowing about the hacker problems.

 

[cats]

bengal if your still on feel free to post, and welcome.

 

[cats]

Okay we should try and get every one in one group. I assume Jenna is likely to still be at the law office. As for geting steven there I have no clue.

Oh well, we can have some fun before the characters meet up. But for ease of managment it may be best for every one to get into one spot with this few writers.

 

[Bengal52]

I will reveal that in my next post. I won't be able to get it up until wednesday tho.

 

[cats]

Doesn't matter to much.