Cable (SCUM Investigator)

[Frank]

Welcome to the game; you are Cable[/i]

REAL NAME: Nathan Summers
YOU LOOK LIKE THIS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cable-promo-image.jpg

ALIGNMENT: Scum
GENERIC: Investigator
WIN CONDITION: Anti-Registration forces control the voting (ie, there are an equal or greater number of Anti-Reg players alive than all other players combined).

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BACKGROUND:

Unlike many of your fellow mutants, whose lives have been so exhaustively chronicled that the at-large public knows everything about them short of cape size, you remain a bit of a mystery even to those who work with you every day. You'd explain, but... it's complicated. You were born the son of Scott Summers (the X-Man Cyclops) and Madeleine Pryor (a clone of Jean Grey, also called Marvel Girl and Phoenix, and we TOLD you it's complicated). Shortly after your birth, you contracted an exotic techno-organic virus that began to take over your body, gradually turning you into a machine and eventually threatening your life. Your parents, helpless to save you, sent you into the future, of all places, where you were partially cured.

You returned fifteen years older than your parents, a warrior hardened by the strife of the future in which you grew up and determined to forge a better future for mankind. Your natural gift for telepathy and telekinesis, coupled with your hard-won control over the sentient machinery that makes up about half your physiology, makes you a formidable weapon in combat and a formidable asset in other areas - notably in the collection of information, where your powers allow you to directly interface with and control a variety of electronic devices and systems.

You see in the SHRA a potential trigger for the future misery you hope to avoid, and have joined with Captain America in the fight against it. You will do so by attempting to gather information about the forces arrayed against you - and by liberal use of energy-based firearms, if such becomes necessary.

SCUM INFORMATION:

1. You may discuss the emerging situation with your fellow Anti-Registration crusaders at psychopathgame.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=game18scum3445, password lukecage. Scum discussion is enabled at any time, Day or Night.

2. You may be chosen to execute the Scum Night kill on any given Night. If you are, you are unable to use your special ability (below) for that Night.

ABILITIES/POWERS:

1. Each Night, you may use your unique powers to connect with the security system around Ryker's Island for the purposes of surveillance. You may choose either of the following options:

1A - Interface with the security cameras in the room of a particular player. This will allow you to Watch this player and see if they are visited at Night, by whom they are visited, and what their visitors do. If your target engages in an action that Night, you will not know it.

1B - Use the various security cameras throughout the complex to Track the movements of a given player as (s)he moves. In this way, you will determine whether your target targeted anyone else, who (s)he targeted, and what (s)he did or attempted to do. If others target your target, you will not know it.

[sachertorte]

Cable's kinda hot.

[sachertorte]

Still hot, but kind of missing info.

[sachertorte]

Again I think scum are getting overpowered roles. Not only are you giving Watcher Power AND Tracker power to scum, but you are giving the information about what actions they see. Is this typical of a watcher or tracker? By my recollection, the classical watcher simply sees who visited the watched, NOT what they did. Further, the classical tracker follows the target and sees who they visit, but NOT what they do.

You know what's going to happen? Cable is going to Watch Iron Man on Night One. And he will see a WHOLE BUNCH OF TOWN targeting him. But since you are going to tell not only who, what what actions are being performed, you might as well just send scum all the PMs and be done with it.