By Care
ReVolutionary Theory is the magazine that’s all about you – whether you’re a chatter, a player, or even a character! For this issue, Care examines the circuitry of Keifer Jeffries.
It’s time again for the quarterly periodical, and that means a new character interview. This time, we are sitting down with Kara and her character, Keifer Jefferies. Kara and Keifer can be found in the Creative Dimensions section of the whochat, in the room The Aftermath: New Vegas, which is based around the video game Fallout. We’ll take a few moments to learn a little about the out of character person before we go into the character.
So we will start off with some OOC stuff.
Kara: sounds good to me
Ok, so first off, how long have you been roleplaying?
Kara: Oh, geez. Hmmm. Probably close to 15 years now, I think.
How did you come up with Keifer Jefferies?
Kara: At the time, I knew of the series, I knew the basics of it, but not enough to where I could make a character worth playing there. So I had jokingly said I was going to use Nebula, from the movie, as a character, and then pieces started just slowly fitting into place. The character began taking shape as a bridge between the different games.
Well, that answers a bit of the second question I had – you weren’t a big fan of the games, to really fall into place?
Kara: It wasn’t even that, really. It’s funny, I actually own all the modern games. It’s just that I hadn’t really played them up to that point to feel confident enough to make a character in that world. So when I don’t feel comfortable making a character, I tend to go fringe.
Tell our readers a little about the world that Keifer is in before we switch to her for the rest of the interview.
Kara: It’s a post apocalyptic world, the result of a great war between all nuclear capable nations, but the main parties were the US, China, and the USSR. It’s set roughly 200 years after the war, and the world is still soaked in radiation fallout. We have to deal with mutated creatures, mutated humans, bandits, robots, and just the world in general. The remaining population is still trying to rebuild, trying to get back to some form of normalcy, but of course that’s hard with all that’s stacked against it.
Thank you for that, Kara. Now, if you don’t mind me asking, is Keifer ready for a little fun in this interview? -laughs-
Kara: I don’t think she is ever really ready!
-laughs- Okay, well, here we go!
Keifer, it’s great for you to take some time out of your day to do this for us. Tell me a bit about yourself?
Keifer: Hmm, well, that is a bit of an odd story, really. I was actually born before the war. I was a scientist who had been contracted to work at Big Mountain Research and Development Center – or as it’s referred to now, Big MT or the Big Empty.
Oh, really? Do you remember anything about the war, then? It would be interesting to tell our readers a bit about that, if we could.
Keifer: I do remember some of it. We had already been working for a little while at the time and weren’t really focused on what was going on. There had been tension for some time between the different countries, over typical things, but the war itself only lasted a matter of hours. That’s kind of when things shifted a bit in the Big MT as far as what was being worked on.
So the actual war only lasted a few hours? That’s interesting. So, what did you do after the war? How did you handle the changes?
Keifer: Well, after the war, the focus shifted to survival. We knew the nukes had dropped and there was mass hysteria, so we needed to find a way to survive the fallout. I was scared, obviously, because how could you not be when it comes to war on a global scale?
And how long as it been since the war? How long have you been in this new world?
Keifer: Ummm. I think it’s been about 208 years since the war, if my math is correct. I may be off by a year or 2. I myself have been in this new world maybe a year. It’s hard to keep track of days and months sometimes.
How is that possible? I thought you said you were born before the war.
Keifer: Well, that is where things get a little foggy, unfortunately.
Oh, so, you don’t remember? Does that mean you just woke up, then, from a sleep of some sort?
Keifer: Well, back when I said things shifted to be about survival, that meant experimentation. As we were locked down for the most part, you didn’t necessarily always have a choice. I remember being volunteered, and I remember flashes here and there. It’s like trying to repair a shattered mirror – there are splintered cracks all throughout, and that’s what it’s like for me. I get these splinters of a memory. I remember mostly being in cryo stasis between experiments, but for how long, I couldn’t tell you.
And now? Are you still in this experimentation station, or – ?
Keifer: No, thankfully, I am not. Through some involvement from someone or something, the entire station became exposed. I am not quite sure of the details. I do not even really recall how I escaped. I think there was probably a failure in the cryo pod and I thawed and found my way out. The first memory I really have is coming across the New Vegas strip.
New Vegas – that is what is left of Las Vegas in your time? So what year is it exactly?
Keifer: Yes, unfortunately, it’s pretty much all that’s left. It is still mostly functional as far as casinos and such go. It’s still at heart the same, it seems. As for the year, I have been told somewhere around 2285.
Wow, that’s a long time ahead of where we, the readers, are at. How are your days now? What’s a typical day for you?
Keifer: Well, that’s kind of hard to say, really. Most of my time, I spend just wandering from town to town. Most places are somewhat accommodating, but at there are also those who quite clearly aren’t because of how I look.
And how do you look, Keifer?
Keifer: Well, there is the blue skin, the bald head; there are the cybernetic implants, the all black eyes, and of course, my entire right arm was removed and replaced with a metal one. I am still curious what happened there myself.
Oh, so that creates a problem for you? Are there others like you in this new world?
Keifer: In a way there are, yes, but as far as I am aware, there is no other person close to being exactly like me out there.
Interesting. Well, it’s just about that time, so is there anything you would like our readers to know about you? Or your world?
Keifer: Well, I hate to use the cliché, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” because that has been beaten to death, but we are mostly good people trying to recreate a good world for people to live in once again.
Thank you for your time! Hope to see you around sometime!