Profile- Disaster Area

[jayphailey]

For not apparent reason, yet


Disaster Area

Disaster Area is not a Thrash metal band - it's a Thrash EVERYTHING band. Although this bands music wanders in ADHD style through several genres, sometimes in the same song, their reputation has them a dangerous punk style band.

Musically literate people enjy the surreal mix of elements and musical references. Pop music consumers like the literate hooks and catchy pop rythms.

Punkers like the insanity and property damage.

Teenagers enjoy how badly they antagonize anyone over 30 years old.


Group Name:
Disaster Area

Created by:
Jay P Hailey, Riffing off Douglas Adams

Appearance:
Jay's Traveller/Star Wars Game of 2001, Garry's Trek Game of 2005

Number of Members:
five

Nature of Members:
Products of a deranged imagination. Usually humanoid.

Organization:
Not very.

Game Role:
Dangerous cargo. Interesting encounter. Loopy back ground.

World Role:
A band who's music is good, and behavior is very bad.

Relative Influence:
Slight. Teenagers the galaxy over with go to incredible lengths to associate with them. They have added some surreal elements to Popular music.

Public or Secret?:
As public as they can get, thank you.

Publicly Stated Goal:
Various. From rocking individual cities right off the planet to innocently exploring the realm of musical creativity, to scoring the worst drugs in the cosmos, to having sex with as many groupies of as many different species as can be imagined to becoming rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Relative Wealth:
Large - they can hire PCs ships to ferry them around.

Group advantages:
Well known and relatively combat worthy rock and roll band.
Popular.
Has the ability to whip out catchy and surrealistic, pleasant music for hours on end.

Special Abilities:
Property damage, enjoyable music. Makes young girls extremely randy.

Group disadvantages:
Property Damage. usually hunted by boyfriends, husbands and fathers.

Special disadvantages:
Often the drugs, waton sex, and large property damage are illegal necessitating huge fines, bribes and occasional daring escapes.

Those who favor them:
Pop Music fans. teenagers. People who for whatever reason like their music. People who believe that freedom of speech is sacred. People who think Chaos is fun.

Those opposed to them:
Classical music fans. Older people. People who for whatever reason hate their music. People who believe that freedom of speech is not served by a half hour jazz influenced improvizational riff on various body functions. People who think Order is preferrable to Chaos

Area of Operation:
Known space. Where ever they can score a gig.

Headquarters Location:
Usually a touring starship or a hotel.

Public Face:
A chaotically destructive, fun and sex drench rock band.

Notable Members:

Nigel Violent is tougher than 95% of humanity, and in the 99% percentile for loud and offensive. Other wise Nigel is somewhat below average. He also has a strange talent for electronics and deep lack of knowledge about what is an isn't possible. Nigel Violent can out drink any three 300+ pound long shoremen in sequence.

Nigel lives up to his name by being a scrappy loudmouth who's always ready for a fist fight, and once challenged an entire stadium crowd of over 15,000 people. Nigel has moderate skills in hand to hand combat, and is strong enough for someone his size, but his main advantage is that he's been pounded flat by about everyone he's met for the last ten years and in now pounded to approximately the consistency of shoe leather. Nigel would be of no threat whatever to someone like George Foreman, but Foreman would have a frustrating half an hour of pounding ahead of his if he wanted to knock Nigel out. And three minutes later, Nigel would crawl back to his feet, declare it a lucky shot and dare Foreman to do it again.

Nigel is decent at operating electronic PA and communications equipment.

Goth Darkamuk is very literate and intelligent but firmly believes that these qualities are essentially futile in his existential angst. He has the talent of taking very self absorbed, pretentious and depressing lyrics and making them into catchy tunes, doing untold damage to the minds of young people everywhere. He is also quite good at taking cover and hiding. Darkamuk is excellent at running electronic PA and communications equipment.

Keith... Something. (GM's Note. Glaze your eyes over, stare into the distance, Say Keith slowly and hold silence for three beats as thought you're trying desperately to remember, and then trail of into "something" As though the attempt to recall has you totally befuddled) Keith has an almost supernatural resistance to chemicals and is essentially poison proof. He is so saturated with mind altering chemicals that smelling him violates most drug control laws and any monster that ate him would have to enter rehab. Keith is very good at conveying his blissed out, surreal mental state in music and listening to him play for any length of time can invoke a mental state similar to being pleasantly buzzed with none of the unpleasant side effects (Unless you're standing to close to him). Keith doesn't recall his own name and may not be aware that he's in a band currently. Keith has an almost mystical ability to improvise powerful hallucinogenics from household or shipboard cleaning supplies.

Keith can't identify electronic PA or communications equipment although he may try to smoke it.

The Drum-Bot is an old manual labor robot that has been hacked to an state that would make any sane engineer cry. It's a semi-cylindrical central body with spindly arms and legs at about the human positions. It has a head with sensory apparatus and vocorder, and a face that at one time was supposed to be whimsically mechanical, yet friendly, and now looks haunted. The Drum-bot's brain and power supply are located in it's chest. The Drum-bot's original businesslike tan color is now long gone underneath layers and layers of graphitti, grime, scorch marks and what all else. Most of it's pieces don't fit together well having been abused and dented.

The Drum-bot mercifully is not sentient, but has a complex brain and occasionally malfunctions in an entertainingly unpredictable way. The rest of the band occasionally tries to alter the Drum-bot to perform other tasks for the performance. Thus, if hooked up to the right kinds of compatible instruments and equipped with enough samples, the Drum-bot can keep a techno/industrial rave going until it's batteries die, or until it's program crashes. Despite all this cumulative damage, under most circumstances the Drum-bot is a solid, and dependable if unimaginative drummer. It's main flaw is a tendency to explode during high pressure gigs.

The Drum bot *is* electronic PA and communications gear.

Zag Saymore comes off as a slimy creep. Imagine Herb Tarlek from WKRP in Cincinnati. Zag Saymore is actually a handsome man with a square jaw, dimpled chin and shock of blonde hair that waves. But he insists on talking like a bad AM deejay, and dressing like a used car dealer. Zag used to be, in fact a used vehicle salesman and until he heard Disaster Area he was a sales manager at a local radio station. Zag smelled piles of money and jumped on the band wagon.

Zag is a skilled if not terribly talented businessman, and if he makes all his skill rolls he's on the way to the riches of Croesus with Disaster area. And a Massive case of PTSD.

Zag, in his heart of hearts is actually a human being with a heart, and some reasonable sensibilities. Breaking through his salesman persona is a lot of work though.

Zag Saymore has some experience with electronic PA and communications gear.


History of the Organization:
Nigel Violent has been fighting, screeching and making music since he was a toddler. He is driven by something in his soul, that he doesn't fully understand.

Nigel has been gathering and loosing band members since he was in Elementary school.

over the last ten years a relatively stable band has become technically competent and is beginning to achievce pop music success.

Fate of the Oganization:
Mostly tragic death and disability, with music acclaim and piles of money for the survivors.

[Innkeeper]

Nice to see them again.

[jayphailey]

They aren't appearing directly yet.