Jorie Grey

Content Warning: Jorie uses psychic abilities to edit people's memories, leading to a lot of Manipulation and Gaslighting

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Jorie Grey

Why don't we sit and have a chat?

Status

In Nierbicity, Nisora

Birthdate

November 27, 3205

Home planet

Xeros

Aliases

Marjorie Eckhart, Jorie Grey, Jojo Charcoal, Marge White

Skills

Talk Diplomacy

Psionics

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Telepathy

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Metapsionics

Associated campaigns

Campaign 2: The Gal Pals

Summary

Jorie Grey never learned to respect anyone's privacy. She's used her telepathy to find hidden truths and expose crimes committed by multiple powerful individuals.

Now, however, she manipulates people into following her as prophet for the Mother of the Stars church. The few who know what's she's doing don't know how far she'll take it. Or how to stop someone who can read your mind.

Nisora

This article is focused on Nisora, the lawless black market planet.

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Player Character

History

Diving In

Marjorie was born on the planet Xeros to Blue Spire Academy professors Patricia and Zachariah Eckhart. She grew up learning

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telepathy from her mother and

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metapsionics from her father. By the time she started at the Academy, she already knew most of the staff. She joined the school paper and frequently broke the "don't use psionics on classmates" rule to get the real truth.

In Too Deep

Then Jorie pried into what she shouldn't - cases of classmates who were suddenly not on campus anymore. Officially, they'd dropped out or had to return home for "personal reasons", but when a close friend disappeared without a word, Jorie knew that wasn't the full picture.

As she investigated, she found more missing members of the BSA community, and not just students. She brought her findings to a dean she trusted, and instead of support, she got strongly-worded advice to leave the planet immediately. Without even a goodbye to her parents, she left for the planet Nisora, becoming the investigative reporter Jorie Grey.

The Gal Pals

Psion of Truth

Jorie was the catalyst that started everything. Wanting to investigate the mysterious research base orbiting Nisora, she hired the networker Trey and mercenary/pilot Atticus de León. They found every researcher murdered for their efforts in bringing an alien back to life.

Popular Articles by Jorie Grey

• The Silent Mystery of the Research Station | January 2, 3228
• Galendran Gala to Protect Our Neutrality | February 12, 3228
• A Reporter's Confession | June 18, 3228
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Unlike her companions, Jorie sought to protect the alien, Bry, and bring the culprits of the attack to justice. They soon learned those culprits were the Perimeter Agency, and Sergeant Major Lawrence Anders saw both Bry and his saviors as threats to galactic safety.

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Appearance

Jorie looks the part she needs to fulfill, whether a reporter, an innocent cafe patron, or something more suiting to one of her aliases.

• She dyes her hair blonde, but not often enough to hide the dark roots. It serves the purpose of making her look different from who she used to be.
• Having grown up on Xeros, where there is no sun, her eyes remain light-sensitive. The glasses she wears become dark sunglasses when exposed to sunlight.
• Her below-average height is an inconvenience at times, but mostly it lets her hide within crowds, and appear less threatening.

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Now calling themselves the Gal Pals, Jorie and the others needed to evidence to prove their innocence, knowing Anders would have ample that proved the opposite. Thankfully, Jorie was very skilled at finding hidden truths. Between her telepathy, Trey's contacts, and Atticus' strength, they began to unravel a conspiracy far beyond what Perimeter hunted.

Shifting Perspective

Six months later, the Gal Pals had stirred up enough trouble to need to lay low. With help from local retired pirate Alice, they evaded Perimeter and fled Nisora. Their destination was Xeros, where Jorie's mother had fallen deathly ill. Psi-med founder Tavari Zima confirmed the illness was psionic in nature, and likely due to illegal experimentation.

By retracing her mother's steps, Jorie uncovered the truth: Academy President Norah Everdin had been using spa to secretly test cures for torching on clients without their knowledge or consent. When treatments caused debilitating side-effects, the victims were sent to a locked wing of the hospital for dedicated care. This was the cause of the missing BSA members Jorie investigated two years prior.

Despite risk to herself and her parents' livelihood, Jorie exposed Everdin, who was then arrested and removed from her position. The Gal Pals and Tavari helped ensure Patricia got the medical she needed to save her life. Because of her dedication to truth-seeking, the Mother of the Stars church ordained Jorie a prophet. A decision they may one day come to regret.

Psion of "Truth"

Back on Nisora, Jorie had no shortage of support from the church, whose headquarters was just outside Galendra. She further cultivated this following using telepathy to find what would most make them want to listen to her. Realizing what power that gave her, she stretched herself further, and began manipulating non-members' memories to make them more sympathetic to the church.

She'd planted the memory in K-Ra's mind that the church helped her through alcoholism. For Kristos and his wife, that the church supported them through a risky pregnancy. She had plans for Skullder. Islae, Emil, Atticus... they'd be easy. They already trusted her.

But Trey? He was going to be a problem.

— Jorie's plans

Initially, her intentions were to protect Nisora. Her methods did save lives, and exposed the crimes committed by both Lawrence Anders and Cordelia Isoto, whose illegal surveillance was the real problem.

Yet now she shows little indication of stopping. She insists her manipulations for the greater good, to preach non-violence and diplomacy, but she ignores the violence she undertook to make people follow her. Unknown to everyone, she even smuggled Isoto to safety in exchange for access to those illegal surveillance feed and records.

With just a bit of power, Jorie's shown that the real truth she's interested in is her own.

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Timeline

3205

Year of birth

3226

Started at and fled from Blue Spire Academy

3228

Founded the Gal Pals & Became Prophet

Abilities

Skills

Talk Diplomacy
Jorie prefers to avoid violence wherever possible, and uses clever speech to direct others toward compromise.

Cybernetics

Holoskin
Though she's has come to revel in her new fame, she still at times needs to travel incognito. Where her other abilities won't suffice, she uses holographic disguises to be where she needs to be.

Psionics

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Telepathy

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Metapsionics
Jorie relies on telepathy to get material for her articles, with metapsionics making her more effective at it. Over time, she's come to rely less on her words and more on manipulating people's thoughts and memories to better suit her wants.

Trivia

Despite having the means to improve her diet, Jorie mostly survives off Cup of Noodles.

Jorie spends most of her free time in coffee shops, telepathically eavesdropping on everyone.

Jorie is 15-30 minutes late for everything.

Author Commentary

Breaking Bad

Jorie's descent into villainy was her player's idea, and was so much fun to support. As much as I love happy endings, this tense one was much more interesting.

Connections

Jorie is a charming person even without the psionic support. She's never struggled to make friends, and rarely fails to convince someone to see her way. Her petit stature and pacifist philosophy combine to make her seem thoroughly unthreatening. It's also true that she has no respect for others' privacy, whether it's reading their thoughts, browsing their diaries, or asking prying questions. These days, she has no problems getting people to relax around her. All it takes is bit of manipulation. Sometimes they start to question it, but that's easy enough to fix, too.

People

Atticus de León
Tic's predilection for violence was always a problem for Jorie, but she's more than willing to telepathically force him to see her way.

Trey
Trey was Jorie's charismatic counterpart, but she's severed ties with him upon realizing he's far too suspicious to be manipulated.

Bry
Bry had been a good friend. She still maintains a tenuous connection to him, but he's too close to Trey for her to trust or twist him.

Emil Gonzales
Jorie has become open about her romance with the former Perimeter agent, but will he rejoin Perimeter or remain on Nisora with her?

Islae
Though no longer roommates, the two remain friends. Perhaps because they both have questionable means of "helping" others.

Mys. Yasmin Ada
The mysterious psionics tutor is too powerful for Jorie to manipulate, and may prove a significant obstacle in the future.

Patricia & Zachariah
To her parents, Jorie is still their beloved and intelligent daughter. If they stay far away on Xeros, they'll never know otherwise.

Organizations

Galean Gazette
Though the Gazette ended Jorie's contract after she publicly outed herself as a telepath, she's kept in touch with several members of staff.

Mother of the Stars
Despite not being religious herself, Jorie takes her role as Prophet seriously, and her dedicated following in Galendra and its suburbs grows.

Gal Pals
Though she's a founding member, Jorie's philosophy of non-violence is at odds with the new Gal Pals under Atticus and Hester's leadership.

Blue Spire Academy
Between her self-expulsion and her later reveals, Jorie's ties to the Academy are thoroughly burned. Her only connection now is through her parents.

Places

Nisora
Jorie has fully entrenched herself on the black market planet, where she has the most support from the church. Though she maintains residency in Galendra, she's more commonly in Nierbicity where the church headquarters is.

Xeros
The night planet will always be her home, but it's unlikely she'll return. She can't easily hide her actions from her parents, and she's not yet so far gone that she'd manipulate their memories without feeling guilty about it.