Character Rebuild
Character rebuild of Zed Cassel using his initial history and leveling him up through the campaigns using the new Magister EXP rules and sheets.
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Character Name: Zed Cassel
Character Age: 24 as of 2050 and joining the Archers.
Gender: Male
Birthplace: South Coast City
Religion: Catholic
Hair Color: Dark brown/black
Eye Color: Dark brown with gray and black speckles
Height: 6'1 1/4" (and damn proud of that 1/4"), 186.69 cm
Weight: 197 lbs , 89.4 kg
Handedness: Right handed
Distinguishing Features: Wears a gotee when allowed. His hair is gelled, kept combed back and spiky. He has a small scar on his chin from secondary school physical education. On the inner corner of his left eye there is a small black mole that many mistake for a bug, dirt, or any other debris.
Family: Father(Kyle Cassel) and mother(Emily Cassel) are divorced, part of the original civilian colony team. Sister(Renee Cassel) is younger and beginning secondary school. Having been accepted to the UN Spacy, they have all effectively dissowned him.
Occupation: VF Pilot
Affiliation: UN Spacy
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Character Interests: He loves to write. He is always daydreaming and writing short stories. People who knew him were confused why he joined the UN Spacy if he likes writing so much. What they don't understand is that his dreams are always of flying and fighting.
Hobbies: Reading and writing literature, flying old Earth WWII mockup gliders. Watching old Earth space movies.
Best Friend: Once thought his best friend a man by the name of Jake Hawthorne, whom he went to school with, but realized their friendship was superficial and stays away from close friendships now.
Worst Enemy: Himself. He suffers from a low social self image, feeling that in order to be liked he must change himself, but can't change himself into something his morals won't allow. Thus he is paralyzed socially. When it comes time to perform, though, he excels beyond all expectation.
Turn Ons: He likes when a woman genuinely shows interest in him. His low self image causes him to marvel at a woman being attracted to him.
Turn Offs: Prissy, selfish and self deluded woman. They disgust him with their disregard for others.
Worst Secret: Severely hurt his back during secondary school, but rehabilitated thoroughly. He worries that he will reinjure it or that the UN Spacy will find out and eject him from service.
Character Goals:
**Two year Goal - To serve with distinction during his tour of duty with the Archers.
**Five year Goal - To be the best he can be and have the UN Spacy rely on him.
Character Background:
Zed Cassel was born in San Francisco in the year 2026. His father, Kyle Cassel, is the 6th son of eight children to a Spanish family in the California central valley. His family was very religious and very controlling, which inevitably led to Kyle's disregard for all rules except those that seemed right to him. Around 2025 Kyle met a young caucasian woman named Emily Gaust. She had been working as a temp for the company that Kyle belonged to. Through their mutual longing and lust, Emily became pregnant and decided to move to the rebuilt San Francisco. Kyle, trying to be the responsible father, moved with her. With young Zed born Emily and Kyle remained unmarried. Immediately they knew that Zed was intelectualy talented, but due to their frictional homelife, did not foster his growth well. A year before Zed's younger sister Renee was born, also the year before Zed began school, Kyle married Emily out of necessity and guilt. Thus Zed's childhood was filled with hidden tension, the kind that a young child stores away in his subconcious without thinking about it. His social life suffered growing up, never fitting in. He was a dreamer, and much to his parents' chagrin, watched DYRL constantly, wanting to be a variable pilot. He let his imagination rule his mind in class, drifting away in boredom from the lessons he felt were too easy. When he was old enough, he built a replica glider of a WWII P-51 Mustang, and launched in it from the hills above San Francisco. This alarmed many a defense force soldier, and as a result he was detained and his glider impounded. Other than this, Zed's record was very clean. He never fought, never was mean. He chose to see the good in people, and to respect them no matter what. This did not mean he didn't see the bad or the faults, just he chose to ignore them.
As Zed entered secondary school, he finally met a friend. Jake Hawthorne. Jake was the son of two Defense Force career marines, and as a result, shared many of the same dreams of a military career that Zed had. Jake recognized the intellectual talent within Zed, and chose to benefit from it. While this caused Jake to excel in school, Zed floundered, still insecure and caught in dreams. At the beginning of his third year, Zed was unfortunate enough to really hurt his back. He could not walk for extended periods of time for over a month. This galvanized his resolve into bettering himself. Just as his back was fully healed, his friend Jake's parents came to Kyle and Emily, announcing they were leaving on the Colony 15 mission. Because their lives were so hectic, Zed's parents signed on at the last minute. Because of this, many school records, medical records, and personal items were left on Earth. When Zed started his final year of secondary school, he knew that he would apply for Beginhill 15. He concentrated all of his efforts into staying in shape and writing his entrance thesis. On the weekend that the thesis were due, Jake offered to take them over personally on a shuttle while he went to see his parents. On the way over, Jake changed a few things on Zed's thesis and made it his own, effectively leaving Zed's application bare. When Zed learned of this, he confronted Jake in physical education. He challenged him to a game of basketball, winner took credit for the thesis. In the last moments of the game, Jake drove his elbow into Zed's chin, giving him his small scar and winning the game. Stunned, but not too surprised at the loss, Zed walked away. He did not become angry with Jake, nor hate him. He hated himself for not recognizing Jake's manipulations of him. At the same time, his parents revealed to each other each of their infidelities, and divorced. Zed at first took sides, but then began to resent their lack of love for each other, and decided to just look out for his sister. None of his family wanted him joining the Spacy, and as he graduated and declared his intentions, they disowned him Still wanting to be a pilot, he spent his following year out of secondary school writing a new thesis and practicing his general flying skills. His social confidence was completely shot however.
His three years at Beginhill 15 went fast. He avoided most of the other cadets during offtime, but proved to be an excellent soldier and leader during classes. He avoided making new friendships and focused on being the best he could. Despite himself, the cadets in his training class did break through his resolve, and he found that he depended on them to be there. In training exorcises he made it his goal to look out for them. One cadet in particular Zed trusted, and that was his bunk mate and wingman Henry Chinaski. One other cadet became a good acquaintance to him, and that was Edward Silos. Silos ended up being fast tracked through training a few months before Zed, and found himself as part of the Macross 15 City Busters. Zed keeps a running correspondence with Silos, though that had been interrupted for a while with malfunctions in the fleet mailing system. Only once did he bump into Jake, and at that time he just kept going, not angry, but still hurt.
Zed now has been assigned to the Archers as part of the 13th Galaxy Patrol Fleet. He recently received word that the Macross 15 Fleet had been attacked, and worries about his friend Silos.
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Game Mechanics
Stats
IQ: 15
ME: 13
MA: 10
PS: 9 (+1 from Athletics)
PP: 14
PE: 12 (+1 from Aerobics)
PB: 11 (+1 from Aerobics)
SPD: 10 (+3 from Athletics)
Background
Birthplace: South Coast City, Earth
Urban or Rural Life: Urban
Social Class: Middle Class
Base Education Performance: 61-90 You're pretty much a regular person.
Modifiers: +20% to base skill chance rolls. +8% to education table roll.
Basic Skills
Language: English 98%
Language: Spanish 88%
Math: Basic 70%
Math Advanced 70%
Hand to Hand: None (Superceded by Expert) 56%
Skill Programs
Leading up to his time in Beginhill 15, Zed worked in a general aviation pilot training program.
Pilot Aircraft Skill Program
• Radio 67%
• Read Sensory Instruments 77%
• Navigation Air 70%
• Pilot Aircraft 49%
High School Education Skill Program
Note: all are at half capability unless the skill is selected again; in that case the skill reverts to normal with the normal bonuses for multiple selections)
• Astronomy 27%
• Lore: General History 27%
• Athletics 61%
• Play Musical Instrument: Bass Guitar 27%
• Computer operation 77%
OCC SKILLS
Pilot VF-11 84%
VF-11 Combat 84%
Pilot Jet 83%
Navigation: Space 81%
Weapon Systems 75%
Tactics: Air/Space Warfare 80%
Military Etiquette 85%
Parachuting 83%
First Aid 75%
Swimming 67%
Pilot VF-19 79%
VF-19 Combat 79%
Pilot VF-4 79%
VF-4 Combat 79%
Pilot Space Fighter 78%
Aerobics 62%
WP:Automatic Pistol 64%
WP:Automatic Rifle 64%
Hand to Hand:Expert 62%
Secondary Skills
Writing 45%
Pilot: Automobile 39%
Cook 45%
Computer Repair 45%
Pilot: Boats – Motor and hydrofoils 39%
EVA Zero G Movement 42%
Combat
HP: 27
SDC: 42
Hand to Hand:Expert (unarmed) 62%
3 Actions
+4 to pull/roll.
+3 to parry and dodge.
+2 to strike.
WP:Automatic Pistol 64%
+2 Aim
+1 Strike
WP:Automatic Rifle 64%
+2 Aim
+1 Strike
Mecha Combat
VF-4 Combat: 79% Average
6 attack per melee.
+0 on initiative
+3 to strike
+4 to parry
+3 to dodge in battroid mode, +4 in GERWALK, +6 in jet mode.
+4 to roll with a punch or move with an impact, reducing damage by half.
Tilt Dodge Modifier (applied to the regular dodge bonus for the mode the VF is in): -5.
Spinning leap kick, automatic critical hit.
Critical strike same as pilot's hand-to-hand.
Booster punch costs 1 action.
Body block/tackle/ram - 1D6 M.D. plus a 50% chance of knocking an opponent down, causing him to loose initiative and one attack that melee round.
VF-11 Combat: 84% Average
4 attacks per melee.
+0 on initiative
+3 to strike
+4 to parry
+3 to dodge in battroid mode, +4 in gerwalk, +6 in jet mode. When Super Parts are mounted, add +1 to dodge in all modes.
+4 to roll with a punch or fall with an impact, reducing damage by half.
Tilt Dodge Modifier (applied to the regular dodge bonus for the mode the VF is in): -5.
Transform or leap up, turn around and shoot at incoming missiles, transform back or land, and resume original heading - costs 1 action.
Spinning leap kick, automatic critical hit.
Booster punch costs 1 action.
Critical strike same as pilot's hand-to-hand.
Body block/tackle/ram - 2D4 M.D. plus a 50% chance of knocking an opponent down, causing him to loose initiative and one attack that melee round.
VF-19 E/F/S Combat: 79% Average
6 attacks per melee.
+0 on initiative (+2 when using Active Stealth System)
+3 to strike (+2 when using Active Stealth System)
+4 to parry
+3 to dodge in Battroid , +4 in GERWALK, +6 in Fighter. When Super Parts are mounted, add +1 to dodge in all modes.
+4 to roll with a punch or fall with an impact, reducing damage by half.
Tilt Dodge Modifier (applied to the regular dodge bonus for the mode the VF is in): -5.
Spinning leap kick, automatic critical hit.
Critical strike same as pilot's hand-to-hand.
Booster punch costs 1 action.
Body block/tackle/ram - 2D4 M.D. plus a 50% chance of knocking an opponent down, causing him to loose initiative and one attack that melee round.
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