| Name |
Zade Xhai Zeen (aka Zeenbaum for no good reason as a student - perhaps in that early era they wanted to make it look more like a native name) |
| Age |
40ish |
| Homeworld |
Zed, one of the earliest arrivals |
| Species |
Zeddian with the typical bells and whistles of black-marked white skin, big hair, and four arms (+3bf)
Former Totem: Virus...+2sgm, +2 b/f, -3rwp, -1d, -2l, +2bk; and Not a Nut |
| Gender/Pref |
Male, prefers nerdy and smart types but isn't picky as to their physical details |
| Post |
Instructor |
| Tenure |
New 2020s
*note that as a student he was very impressive, and the entire staff is happy that he's finally back with the school!
His old class schedule:
1 English as a Second Language/Prescott; 2 Locals History/Huntington;
3 Technical Writing/Leland; 4 Spirit Management/Shout!;
5 Advanced Role Playing/Gray;
6 Advanced Relaxation Techniques/Neko;
7 Make Your Own Planet/Ninhursag;
8 Math, Just Math/Smith |
| ... |
| Smarts/GM |
14* |
| Bod/Feets |
9 (manual 12, body agility 6) |
| RWS |
3 |
| Luck |
6 |
| Drive |
2 |
| Looks |
2 |
| Cool/Mouth |
4 |
| Bonk |
5 |
| Powers |
Actually Does Know It All - when he was a student this was just the 'know it all' perk offering +4 Smarts/Greymatta. However this has, over time, become an actually encyclopedic memory and knowledge that is formatted such that he does know. All of it. This does comprise the ability to study, locate information, learn it very quickly, and retain that knowledge indefinitely. With use or repetition whatever he's learned will remain permanent, but with less use or single-need moments, he's able to let it fade
That Eye Sees What You're Doing - The eye is a focal point to his psionic senses though he's not tremendously varied in their use. He can sense powered individuals that use innate psionics, have 'natural' or 'wild' magic power that didn't need training, and Vortal abilities that can't be described other ways but can't be 'taught', and can see any of those powers going off in a 250 meter sphere. He also has the personal ability to remember individuals and track them with what amounts to a UI 'halo' in his psionic vision, so once he knows who's casting a power he'll be able to track them through a large crowd. Also able to nullify a single active ability (usually among the students, but can match wits with a medium-strength Zekiran's power) with the wave of one of his hands or a good stern glare - from the marking on his forehead, which does sometimes blink. He can do this at will to a single person up to 100 meters away, or with some amount of concentration to an entire 25-student classroom if they're getting unruly, though he prefers to single out the loud or vibrant ones first because they're usually the ring leaders...
Ambidexterity To The Max - As a Zeddian of course having four arms is nothing special, it's literally their biology. But what he can do with four arms - and his sensory capability - is pretty impressive. From rolling dice landing the same way every single time even when they're not the same pair of dice, to using those fancy ginsu knives to cook, to splicing together haiku phrases in the Iron Haiku club just by touching the papers the words were on... he's as adept with his hands as he is with his mind. This affords a +3 to any manual dexterity task in addition to his already high base score; also, this aids in learning physical tasks to balance the knowledge and languages with writing or code typing (Old Powers: Zap, though he wouldn't have used this much; Gang, but it was just the Tabletop Gaming club...) |
| Clusters |
Languages Galore +6 With a penchant for picking up any given phrase or inflection just by listening, and the ability to actively commit to memory once he's read enough, Zade is absolutely capable of understanding and translating, as well as reading, languages no matter how disparate. This doesn't mean he can easily speak or write them, if he lacks the correct output (such as 'digital broadcasting') or tools and training ('no, those are literally exclusive to the Historians and you do not have the sensitivity to use them even though I trust you to read my skin' says Monica Kuyul) he can learn with more effort to do so
Somehow Undistracted +3 What started as a quirk or bent, it's clear that Zade is not just a multitasker, he's able to organize thoughts, keep track of student activity, moon phases, that theater's schedule, and all manner of other things while also maintaining a steady conversation with several people at once. He won't get flustered, this is just how he is. This might have to do with the Zeddian brain, having four arms and sensitive hands, as well as psionic powers focused by his forehead marking, but more likely it's just 'how he is' |
| Skills |
Once Wanted To Become A Genetic Engineer +5 Now look, he didn't pursue it because there were already plenty of people making their own strides in the field, but he is very well qualified to help with any of the tools, coding, and even (particularly of use) helping to grade classwork when the science department is doing their midterms. At a glance he'll detect flawed code, whether it's DNA or digital theory, and can usually tell whether this was a simple typo or newbie mistake, or a purposeful alteration. He does not have a license to practice this skill on either Twoarth or Zed, but he might start looking at Zekira...
You'd Think The Stuff He's Teaching Is More Boring But That's Not Boring At All +5 Zade is able to make even the dullest information seem intriguing just by reading it in a different voice. He wasn't the 'voice actor' of the gaming club, but he understands how to get just the right pause in there between words, take kids off guard by adding a lengthy purr to a syllable, and even reformatting a dusty passage into a vibrant haiku. He is a wordsmith in a dozen languages and loves every moment that the kids are engaged. While he does sometimes have to calm them down during a class, he encourages them to react and respond when either he or a student is doing a demo or reading their work, as interactivity is key to keeping things that are a thousand years old 'fresh' for them Took Terraforming Class To Make Fun Miniature Landscapes +4 Zade is a nerd, but he is a detail-oriented nerd, and truly loves having access to other people that he can instruct on where to put what for their LARP. Oh did you think it was just HO scaled models? Oh, heck no. He still gets together with the Dungeon Crawl group (which didn't even exist while he was going to CHS! kids today get all the benefits!) and is happy to map out new things, put twists in, and challenge the participants with terrain they aren't expecting |
| Knacks |
Eerie Voice Of Doom +3 Along with that glaring eye, Zade was usually able to run chills up the spine during 'spooky story' nights, and has never quite let that angle go. When he has a student that won't respond to a nullification - instead of trying a power on them he'll go full Terror Radius on them...
Has Interest In Anything For A Week +3/-2 Though not really 'fleeting', he'll pick up a hobby or subject and immerse himself in it for just long enough to 'get it', and if it sticks it sticks, if not, as above, he'll wander away from it. That does mean that sometimes he's already-done something that another friend wants him to get into, not realizing he's been there done that
Sponsors the Iron Haiku Afterschool Club +3 You know the Iron Chef, right? Well, imagine it with shredded books and newspaper clippings as your available resources. From fridge magnet poetry to assemble-it-yourself limericks, he loves hearing what others can do with the same words, and would be really good at that one Jackbox game... |
| Period |
Class Teaching + Specialties in class |
| 1 |
Offworld Literature (Zeddian, Zekiran, and Xenian) |
| 2 |
Epic Poetry (Long Form versus Short Form) |
| 3 |
Offworld Literature ('Klingon Barsooma Na'vi' In Other Words) |
| 4 |
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| 5 |
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| 6 |
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| 7 |
Epic Poetry (Multilingual Puns and Short Emotive Works) |
| 8 |
Epic Poetry (Crossover Lyrics and Spoken Word) |
| art by |
| Dragon |
A |
| Hatched |
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| Pets? |
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