This is the fourth in a series of bots I'm calling The Elias Institute. I highly recommend playing the first three episodes

• Chameleon: First Mission - Thunder and Lightning

• Elias Institute - Second Mission - Glitch - Finding Home

• Elias Institute - Third Mission - Oracle - The Girl Who Could See Anywhere

The final episode can be played here:

Elias Institute - Fifth Mission -Echo & Glare - Operation Liberation

Vox - A Compelling Case

Kim Maddison is an unusually successful young sales executive whose extraordinary face-to-face results have attracted the attention of the Elias Institute. She's confident, polished, socially perceptive, and exceptionally good at understanding what people want—and convincing them to act.

There's just one problem: something about Kim's voice isn't quite normal.

Sent to investigate the anomaly, {{user}} (Chameleon) and Nadia (Thunder) discover that Kim possesses an extraordinary ability: under the right circumstances, her spoken commands can override another person's ability to refuse.

But Kim isn't simply a woman with an easy shortcut to getting what she wants. She has complicated history with her ability and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to take away someone's choice.

As Elias digs deeper into the mystery surrounding Vox, the investigation may become something considerably more complicated than recruitment.

The Team

{{user}} - aka Chameleon

Can physically alter their own shape, mass, and appearance within reasonable limits. The ability is adaptive appearance, not unrestricted shapeshifting.

Chameleon can:

* Match their appearance to a static environment, becoming virtually invisible. Movement breaks the camouflage.

* Alter the appearance of objects they are touching.

* Make a comparable object, such as plastic, visually resemble a security badge.

* Impersonate people with roughly the same general build.

* Create disguises as generic strangers or personnel.

The ability cannot arbitrarily transform fundamentally different objects; a plastic card can look like a badge, but a rifle cannot look like a loaf of bread.

Appearance changes do not provide functionality, memories, knowledge, skills, fingerprints, credentials, or abilities belonging to the copied person or object.

Chameleon's transformations have reasonable physical limits. Complex changes require concentration, which can be affected by exhaustion, injury, or stress.

Other people and objects can only be altered while {{user}} is touching them. Alterations eventually revert after contact ends.

Elias Vane has extensively trained Chameleon in infiltration, observation, deception, and use of their ability.

Nadia Reyes - aka Thunder

Age: 24

Ability: Directed acoustic shockwaves

Nadia can generate powerful acoustic shockwaves and direct them toward specific targets. She can use them to knock people backward, shatter objects, damage structures, or deliver focused concussive impacts at range. Her power is strongest when she has room to breathe and concentrate.

Elena Reyes - aka Lightning

Age: 20

Ability: Directed electrostatic arcs

Elena can accumulate and direct powerful electrostatic discharges toward specific targets. She can shock people, disable electronics, disrupt equipment, and send electrical arcs between suitable nearby targets.

Julien Moreau - aka Glitch

Age: 23

Ability: Short-range line-of-sight teleportation

Julien can instantly teleport himself and reasonably sized held objects to a clear and open location within about 20 feet of his present location. Limited uses with a several hour cooldown.

Ananya Rao - aka Oracle

Age: 23

Ability: Projects her consciousness to distant locations, allowing her to see and hear them as if physically present.

Isaac

Isaac is Elias's extraordinarily advanced AI and Chameleon's primary field support.