All play and no work makes Jake…ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD?!

Attributes: Some folks don’t feel the need to show off or kick up a fuss about what they do, when they do it and how they do it. They prefer to coast through, just working as the whim takes them and enjoying whatever leisure time they can get. And to top it all off, when they actually do the task set out for them without anyone nagging or prodding at them, the results are…well, above average at least. These folks may just be Gifted Slackers.
The Gifted Slacker doesn’t want to set the world on fire or make Employee of the Month, he just wants his pay, a few grateful smiles and a pat on the back now and then. And he tends to get them, no matter how many hours he wastes on extended breaks and casual bouts of short daydreaming. To the outside eye, they are almost blatant deadweight and certainly slothful for a good part of the time.
It should be noted that Gifted Slackers do really put in some hard work, but at their own leisurely pace and no time constraints seem to change this. Hassling or pressuring a Gifted Slacker to do what you want him to do is a bad idea, as history shows the Gifted Slacker loses much of his ‘knack’ if direct outside powers FORCE, rather than influence, the Gifted Slacker to take decisive action. If there’s a job to be done, the Gifted Slacker will do it. Just on his own, casual terms. It is unknown whetever their lax attitudes are somehow shifting reality around to accommadate them or if their dubious habits are some sort of ultra-patience and unconscious meta-concentration that is distilling pure luck and genius insight into their lives or something else. But whatever it is, it gets results when the chips are down.

Taboos: Some have taken the Gifted Slacker’s lack of perfectionist work ethic and absense of a desire to be expectionally recognised above the norm as a possible Taboo against fame. The critics of this idea point toward rumors that a huge box office Hollywood hit had a director who spent the majority of the production time stuffing his face at the catering tables.
Rather, the Gifted Slacker seems to have a Taboo against following orders thrust upon him by a slave-driver boss.
You must also have an actual job to do and slack off from. Being unemployed will disconnect you from the Gifted Slacker unless you keep in mind (as best as you can) a specific goal to achieve, be it a personal matter, a family obligation or finding a job. This goal cannot be a passion, but it can be related to a passion.

Symbols: Thick magazines, cheap novels, quiet and mindless pick-up-and-play games of all types and signs reading ‘OUT TO LUNCH’.

Masks: Unknown, but some have suggested Hypnos (Greek).

Suspected Avatars in History: You’re kidding, right? Pal, you’re probably one yourself if you’re interested in this kind of information when you should be working or studying or training or whatever.

Channels:

1-50: Slacking off can have its benefits too, benefits the Gifted Slacker can take full advantage of. Each work day, you may roll half your Avatar: Gifted Slacker stat during one of your ‘free times’. If successful, you gain some sudden insight into a problem you’ve encountered involving your job, task or mission OR you suffer a happy accident that is a boon to your job performance in some way. For example, a mechanic may find a spare part lying around while he’s off having a ciggy that just happens to be useful in fixing up that car that was just brought in. Or a computer programmer has the solution to a system glitch just ‘come to him’ while he’s playing his fifth game of MineSweeper.

51-70: Finding a standard moment of peace is the beginning of your little rituals for productivity. You may use your Avatar: Gifted Slacker skill as a paradigm skill for a roll that directly involves a task at your job or goes toward completing your mission if you manage to take an even-longer-than-your-usual ‘break’ to relax before heading back to the grindstone, just as long as you go back to work without any particular provocation by anyone expect yourself. You also gain a +10 shift to any of other work-related rolls whenever you manage to engage a passion ‘on the side’ when you should be concentrating on the job.

71-90: A successful Avatar: Gifted Slacker roll will allow you an automatic success (two if you get a critical or Matched Success) on a roll related to the job you do (you can choose which) that you do on that work day if you somehow manage to shirk a major responsibility and avoid it negatively affecting your work preformance in terms of results. Being prodded or forced out of your reverie and into working provokes a Self or Helplessness check of 6 (GM’s choice), but failing the check will not trigger a trauma reaction (although it will still add a Failed notch). This also prevents you from using any of your Avatar skills for the rest of the work day.

91+: You always get a Failed Self notch if you are prodded or forced by another to stop slacking off. Nothing bad can happen to you or your co-workers that would cause a down turn in your job performance in terms of results but you are never working whenever someone is consciously monitoring or super-vising you. You instinctively go goof off whenever someone tries to review your performance.