Elta

Elta Delta
Player	Q
Ancestry	Orc
Class	Inventor

Elta Delta. Orc.

Known Variants:

• Elta Alpha
• Elta Beta
• Elta Delta
• Elta Virtual (alternate universe)

Personality

Elta Delta

Elta Delta is many things. She's impulsive and reckless. She is quick to shoot and fire when in danger. She talks to her mortar like it's her mom, and she takes the chance to make outlandish acronyms whenever one comes up. By all means, Elta is a wildcard that people are regularly confused about, with each action of hers often put into questioning.

However, compared to the other Eltas introduced to the party, Delta ends up being the most safe and sane of the Eltas. She's kind and creative. She's reserved and polite. She's often softspoken compared to the rest of the party, choosing to just listen for a good 80% of the time. In her downtime, Elta Delta retreats to her inn room or somewhere else quiet, often waiting for when the party needs to retrieve her - if they need her technical and mechanical expertise, or whatever else she can help with. As odd as Delta is, she's quite thoughtful of everyone around her, and is willing to help whenever she can.

That is exactly why Delta has the protocols to begin with. When Delta's mind isn't enough, she can deeply trance herself as necessary. Delta depends on her earbuds a lot.

Elta Beta

Elta Beta is "designed". At her very core, Beta is supposed to be a mindless and soulless vessel meant to carry out another's will. Her compliance is attuned to the standards of the Sinner's Chalice, roughly, and she thrives in settings of pure deception and espionage.

Given free will, however, Elta Beta is a nuisance. She's taunting and mocking, overly proud She shows complete disregard for all organic life.

Elta Alpha

"The Alpha Protocol", a program active when an Elta becomes Elta Alpha, is the third addition to the party's Elta arsenal. Its activation came when Elta Delta and Elta Beta were knocked unconscious, causing Alpha's existence to take hold of both bodies.

Alpha, by design, is cold and cruel. taking an aggressively calculated approach to its very existence.

There's a distinct difference between The Alpha Protocol's mannerisms depending on which Elta she's in. In Delta, Alpha is in her default state, speaking in her full natural voice with freedom to act as she wishes. In Beta, Alpha takes more of a subdued and submissive tone.

Speech Mannerisms

The Eltas have an interesting... quirk. They're not fully proficient with Common as a language, and sometimes trip on their words in weird ways.

Delta's failings is misusing certain words, to unfortunate degrees. Her first meeting with Leah is the earliest known case in the campaign, referring to hiring Leah for a job as "going into labor". Later on, she spoke with Danalyth and referred to Danalyth being upset about a paper from her backpack as being "sore from taking it from behind".

Beta's quirk is struggling with vocabulary. Once in a while, when Beta encounters a big or unknown word, she ends up mispronouncing it and using a similar yet different word. Chipper becomes "chopper" by accident, for example.

With Delta brainwashed as Beta, this trait is very exaggerated. She calls Barbarians "Barbies", chakra as "chalka", pep talks as "peppy speeches", uncomfortable as "uncomfy", and assume as... "ass yum". Pronunciation-wise, she struggles to pronounce "vigilant" and "suspicious" - despite Beta handling these words perfectly later on.

The Alpha Protocol's speech quirk is far too subtle to notice, but she struggles with semantics in Common. Alpha is blunt and direct, taking absolutely no thought or care in the words she uses, leading to the meaning of her words being completely different from her intentions. For example: "The sister is practically lost to us, now" simply meant "I cannot find her", but has a far more intense and anger-inducing meaning.

Furthermore, Alpha has the tendencies to refer to people by species, class, or occupation rather than their actual names. Shard was referred to as a "dysfunctional kineticist" once, Danalyth is consistently called "sorceress", and Serris is "sword" to her. While Crimie is "rat" to her, Alpha HAS called Crimie by direct name. Names may be directly connected to her emotional state towards each individual person.

All of these are more noticeable during text channels, when the player (Q) is typing instead of speaking all of this out loud.

As of right now, Samirah is the only one directly aware of Common not being the Eltas' first language, as only she knows about Elta Delta's earbuds supposedly translating all Common to an Elta-compatible language.

Background

The tale of Elta Delta is as simple as any other. Born under a mother of the same name, Elta Delta wanted nothing more than to be a good daughter. She studied the same interests,

However, Delta ended up committing a grave mistake.

So now, Elta Delta set off into the world to make up for her mistake, to gain forgiveness from her only mother. She prepared herself with programs meant to shield her from the (mind controlling) dangers of the world, dedicating herself to a routine brainwashing for her own safety.

Campaign 3

Elta Delta had the task of breaking out Shard from prison.

In seeking allies to carry out said task, she found an alchemist named Leah who joined her under the guise that Elta was - and this is quoted, by the way - "GOING INTO LABOR." The linguistic mix-up caused the two to go to the prison via rowboat.

Elta had been considered by many to be... a mystery. Many roll their eyes at her numerous comments, and her destructive tendencies tended to make the party on high alert every time she came up with an idea. She held the desire to tame a lobotomizing mask as a pet (only for it to perish due to neglect), caused a sudden life-threatening incident with shooting open a waterfall, attempted to intimidate two dwarven workers only for them to almost be excused of all their debts, so on and so forth.

On the other hand, Elta had strong skills in tinkering with machinery, repairing various trinkets and objects, and creating things like a flying umbrella and a giant massive tank (before it blew up).

Elta Beta

At some point, the party needed to infiltrate the Sinner's Chalice, with a special urgency after Kaisume and Shard's fall. Thus, Elta Delta tapped into the "Beta Protocol" and tranced herself into becoming Elta Beta, attempting to infiltrate the Chalice with all the pre-programmed information Beta has.

While in the Chalice, Beta was active for the longest while.

She and Serris went back to Leah's alchemy shop, to which they encountered the guy who believes they're ghosts. Yay yahoo funny little scepter is in their possession.

???

Stuff where I don't remember what happens between Beta and the Archives

Archives

Elta Delta TURNED INTO A DRAGON yay

Eye of Immortality Nonsense

During the party, the Eye of Immortality started to switch blah blah blah.

At some point, Elta Delta and Elta Beta ended up becoming two different bodies.

Around the time Elta Beta was with Kaisume and Shard, Beta's own suspicions resulted in her checking to see the earbuds were NOT recording anything. Beta was calmed by the logic that everything before that point was recorded, but it turns out that they recorded everything AFTER.

After the boss fight, Elta Delta and Elta Beta were rejuvenated by a shock from the earbuds, their hearts continuing to beat. However, Elta Beta was disabled by the arbuds, and Elta Delta was overwritten by the Alpha Protocol. Elta Alpha, taking control while events were unfolding, put the immobilized Beta into a restraining hold with a gun in Beta's mouth. The party proved to be competent, however, meaning that Alpha's threat is null and void.

Alpha explained to everyone that, with Delta and Beta separated, there is no Elta to take over the body when entranced. Thus, the Alpha Protocol was downloaded to both earbuds, with potential results that have been yet to be discovered. With Danalyth uttering the deactivation phrase, both Delta and Beta were freed from the Alpha Protocol's current control, and... yeah.

Blah blah blah, they're at the tavern 9/13/2026.

... That is, until Elta Template:Strikethrough activated. The Alpha Protocol took back control at some point from the party to the tavern.

In the argument, the Alpha Protocol took an aggressively paranoid stance on everything going on, promptly being told to shut up. Following this, details were revealed, and Shard took over with her fit of anger. The Alpha Protocol argued for Danalyth's actions being in the right, promptly departing with Beta to leave the party to their utter nonsense.

Before the portal room's teleportation, Crimie was sent to go retrieve one of the Eltas. Alpha used chalk all over the room, drawing up schematics to defend the tavern while Elta Beta was restrained. The Alpha Protocol switched from Delta to Beta, and Delta accompanied the group.

The tracker in Danalyth's letter was promptly reverse engineered, and was now made to track in the opposite direction. Delta needed to be reminded this several minutes beforehand.

"Oh! Wait, trackers are technology!"

The tavern got teleported, leaving Delta active to fight.

Trivia

• Elta Delta wanted to raise a sentient lobotomy/amnesia mask as a pet. Unfortunately, it starved to death.
• Elta fluctuates in terms of switching. Elta Delta is a sub. Elta Beta is a dom. Alpha switches these, making Delta a dom and Beta a sub.
• Whenever The Alpha Protocol is in control of an Elta, their name will be crossed out.

Elta Delta's Acronyms

• M.A.M.A. is the acronym for Elta Delta's mortar. It stands for "Massive Artillery for Mobile Assembly".
• P.H.O.N.E. is the acronym for the device connected to Elta Delta's earbuds and tech in general. "Programmable Handheld for an Operational Nexus Excellence."
• "O.O.R.P.H.A.N." is apparently Elta Delta calling herself an orphan? Stands for: "Orc or Otherwise Representing Personification of Handmade Activity Neural-Networks."