Zenolea Answer

The founder and chairman of STATIC

### Abilities

Masterful Psionic Abilities to the point where he's capable of forcing other powerful psions to assimilate with each other, and able to replicate a simulated Dreamscape within his own. Eventually reached the point where creating living independent beings from his imagination was possible.

## Political Information

### Enemies

The Interparty, Maximillion Lazuli, Storyteller?

### Alignment

True Neutral

> *"You are looking upon the most powerful psion in the world! Prove to me you are worthy of opposing my will. This final test, shall be your end... and our new beginning!"*
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**Zenolea Answer** was the founder and chairman of STATIC, along with the true antagonist and final boss of Crisis of Static Thoughts. After discovering the existence of The Dreamscape, he'd begun recruiting many powerful psions to research and explore the mysterious realm, eventually using it to alter the thoughts of individuals in the real world.

Whilst STATIC was an organization of questionable morality, Answer found himself fascinated by the Dreamscape and the people he'd met as the organization grew. His priority of maintaining a standardized code of morality in STATIC kept the hierarchy of those who ran it stable, and his kind nature and excellent psionic power made him a highly respected figure from those who worked under him. It's been stated that Answer never married or had children, though he'd taken care of a homeless child and puppy after he'd found them freezing on the street, unfortunately ending with both of them unable to recover. This loss devastated Answer, leading him to the mindset that both mortal and divine can be cruel to those they have power over, wishing to grow himself and his organization into those who can free the world from this suffering. He'd found many incredible psions to work with him over the years, including Khamsin Fargon and Maximillion Lazuli, inheritors of the powerful Avalon Gene, Sequitor Bludhaven, a shifter who carried a powerful psionic weapon, and Gavin Espen, a researcher with great potential in the Dreamscape.

However, after the recruitment of several new powerful psions, the organization felt it was an opportune time to take down Lazuli, who'd recently defected. While the large squad should've been more than enough to take down Lazuli, he was able to foresee this attack on his Dreamscape and set a trap to mentally subdue everyone. Horrified at this prospect, Answer forcefully recalled the minds of most of the operatives to prevent Lazuli's efforts, the only ones unaffected being those being the most successful squad in the organization, The α-Team, and the group of recent recruits who'd eventually make up The Interparty, aided by an unexpected reaction from one of their members.

Wanting to prevent such a situation from happening again, and in pursuit of pushing the limits of what the mind is capable of, Answer began to force everyone working for him into a series of simulations, with few being able to resist. He'd trapped everyone in his own Dreamscape, made to represent the Dreamscape in its entirety, having full control over it. Any minds unable or unwilling to participate were assimilated together into a swirlling collection of thoughts he'd kept in a large glass orb. Soon, the two groups of survivors were put into a looping series of missions, collecting data and slowly polishing their abilities with every loop. To assist him, he'd managed to get the only two members able to withstand his powers, Sequitor and Gavin, to manage the simulations and keep them running smoothly. On top of this, he'd eventually create two beings made from pure thought, Voex and Spudley, in an experiment to have living beings spawned from mere imagination. Answer created these two as representations of those he wants to protect, taking up the roles of ideal protectors, and begun using them as his way to monitor the simulations without being directly involved. These loops went on for a long, unknown period of time.

However came a loop where things became disrupted. A being from the Dreamscape known as Judgement had entered the simulations, curious by the beings that had been kept there. Answer's connections to Spudley and Voex were cut, and he was left unable to communicate with Bludhaven or Gavin, thus leading him to only be able to observe how the simulation progressed. The Interparty began their simulation once again, with many new factors coming into play. A series of missions with Judgement introducing himself to the party and the eventual defeat of Lazuli, which would normally restart the simulations, eventually lead to a new possibility unaccounted for in this simulated world. Bludhaven's powers would start consuming him, and Voex would eventually come to realize the horrifying truth of the world he occupies, and his existence. This lead to Voex killing Bludhaven when he was about to reveal Answer's true involvement in a hope that everyone could die in this simulation and be spared from any of Answer's further experiments. This did not playout however, as the group was able to reach Voex, and eventually talk him out of his plan. This however, was when Answer was finally able to reaffirm himself in the simulation.

Answer, now finding himself in an unprecedented position, allowed the Interparty to come to him for a final test to see if he'd be able to use them for his ultimate experiment. Seeing Voex as defective however, he'd forcefully caused him to self destruct, and prepared the α-Team to be used as his enthralled assistants in the final test. Gavin, now making his status known to the interparty, returned to Answer, but seemingly not cooperating with him. When the full Interparty arrived, their unwillingness to follow his instructions drove him to test them in trial by combat, seemingly maddened after years of experimentation were disrupted. After a long fought battle, Answer attempted to destroy Spudley the same as he did Voex, but was impaled by Judgement before he could do so. In a last ditch effort to preserve his work, he'd forced himself and all of the thoughts he accumulated into Judgement's body, trying to become a being of incredible enough psionic prowess to even largely alter the real world directly. This was stopped by Gavin however, as he'd frozen time in his Dreamscape just long enough to explain to the party was he was doing, and allow them to get into position to finish him off. The Interparty unloaded the full force of their abilities onto Answer, causing his existence to rupture, and eventually disappear into nothingness, thus freeing them from his false world for good.

At one point in the campaign, it was revealed another founder of STATIC existed alongside Answer, a mysterious figure known only as the Storyteller, but he had left the group some time before the events of the campaign. While Answer did not divulge much, it was revealed Gavin was working for Storyteller the entirety of his time at STATIC, and eventually reported to him of Answer's downfall. What Storyteller's true nature and motives were during these events, are currently unknown.