[OOC] Penumbra - Sigil of the Damned (Page 5)

[OOC] Penumbra - Sigil of the Damned Page 5

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For strength D rank would be something like Olympic level athletes and A rank would have you tossing elephants around.

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Dang. That's more intense than I'd imagined. >.<

Sweet!

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I posted.

I was having fun and got a bit carried away. It came out much longer than expected. They won't all be like that. D:

The long and short of it though is that I'm headed for the Dreamcatcher mission. :3

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Applying for a spot in this RP! I hope Tessa is acceptable!


Tessa Sigurd

The Shadowrunner


Age
22

Sex
Female

Personality
Tessa is a smart girl who is witty in conversations and crafty in combat. Though she is bright, lots of that is masked by her aggressive and downright blunt attitude. Tessa is a very unfiltered girl and she will say whatever is on her mind. Tessa is warm towards those she trusts. She is downright harsh toward those she doesn't trust or care about, often shutting them down and blatantly telling them that she doesn't care about what they have to say.

Backstory
"There was a time when I was normal, when I wore pretty dresses and corsets, attended aristocratic functions and fantasized about my prince that would sweep me off my feet. There was a time when I had a name and a face to go with it, and everybody that I knew smiled at me and regarded me to be precious. But the issue is that that -was- a time. It's all different for me now.

When I was young, I had everything a high born daughter could ask for. My father, a renowned general, had ventured off on another one of his conquests, leaving me with my mother and uncle in our estate. I don't know why... But the day my uncle moved into the home, is the same day when I started getting these foreboding feelings of dread. I felt cold, like a chill was running down my spine and it refused to warm. I noticed that the manor had gotten bleaker and everybody in it seemed to be more downtrodden. Our estate guards were frequently being seen falling asleep on duty and nobody felt truly safe.

My mother, superstitious as always, had hired a medium on the basis that the manor was haunted. She feared her husband, my father, was killed and his spirit came back restless. We all gathered in the dining room, sitting at the large table as we watched the medium go about his work. I never believed in such things, and I looked at the medium like he was just grabbing our money and playing us for fools. We didn't see my father that night, we saw something worse.

The medium's eyes had rolled back into his head and he began to seizure. Before we could even reach him on the other end of the great oaken table, he was dead. My mother was next, foaming out the mouth and bleeding from her ears. She gave me one last look before she too fell. I looked at my uncle, who returned the gaze. I watched as his eyes faded to black and an impossibly wide grin form on his face. He approached me and I was helpless, I was eleven years old at the time.

My uncle grabbed me by the arm, despite my cries of mercy and my failed attempts at resisting, he dragged me through the manor. I had realized that my uncle was possessed by something, something the medium must've conjured and whatever it was it was going to kill her like it did her mother and the medium. I was dragged all the way to the front door of the manor, I was petrified, I couldn't even move a muscle. My uncle took a knife from the diner and slit his hand open, his blood didn't pour, it weaved through the air and drew a circle around me.

I could hear something in the back of my head, feel invisible hands take my own and keep me held to the floor. He was going to sacrifice me. I was going to die. My possessed uncle stepped up to me, oh god that grin... He placed the knife against my throat, but he didn't slit it. The front door burst open and in came my father, wearing a suit of armor with his rapier in one hand and his flintlock pistol in the other. Next to him was a hooded individual I had never seen. In the blink of an eye, a crossbow bolt had pierced my uncle's head between the eyes, the hooded man had fired it.

My father ran up his brother, distraught that his he had to die. The hooded man had told him that he was dead the instant the Dark had entered his body. Fearing that news, my father set his gaze on me. I was laying on the floor, staring at him blankly but taking in everything that was happening. He rushed to me, cradled me in his arms. I heard a voice, it wasn't him nor the hooded man, it was another coming from inside my ears. I thought I too had been possessed, maybe I was. But the man in the hood said I wasn't possessed and that I had come close. He looked me over, and saw the mark on my arm that was identical to his own.

Every word coming from their mouths sounded like they were speaking down a tube, my ears were ringing and my vision was scattered. I passed out. When I woke up, I was in a carriage. My father was sitting over me, crying into my mother's kerchief. 'Where are we going?' I asked. He looked at me, placed a hand on my head and said, 'somewhere better for you'. The entire journey was a haze, I heard whispers and that chill that haunted me the day my uncle arrived was still crawling across my spine.

I heard the hooded man speak, that's when I realized that this man was a much closer acquaintance to my father than I initially thought. They spoke as they were comrades, or rather, master and apprentice. Who was this man? Where was he taking my father and I? It didn't take long for me get my second question answered, we had arrived in the city of Penumbra.

Once there, were taken to an apothecary, somebody else my father and this hooded man knew. He took my heads, they were as cold as death. He took my temperature, just as cold. He mentioned my bright teal eyes, I was confused, my eyes were supposed to be green. He then looked at the mark on my arm, he told me that my destiny was much darker than what was originally planned. My father and the hooded man nodded to one another, and that's when they told me about the fraternity. My father was a great general, but he washed up and his usefulness withered. The fraternity offered him a place after he had his own encounter with the strange creatures called the Dark. The hooded man revealed himself to be a hunter name Balthazar, who had saved my father like he had saved me. I was only eleven, it was difficult for me to understand it all, but they took me to the Fraternity so that I could.

I lived among them, but I wasn't one of them. For years I walked the halls of the Fraternity, mingled with the people who populated them and learned from their wisdom. But my father never looked at me the same way, every time I made eye contact, I saw sorrow in his eyes and it made me worry. The chill only got colder for me as I grew older, things I touched felt like I was holding onto a flagpole in the winter time, I knew his sorrow was directed at whatever my affliction was. The whispers never went away, but I had grown used to them.

By the time I was seventeen, whatever affliction I was suffering from had changed me. I was cold, not physically, but verbally. I seemed to lack sympathy and I was often talking down to others as my own skills progressed. My father had tried to punish and discipline me for my attitude, but it never worked. He didn't understand what I was going through. I grew closer to Balthazar as he trained me in the ways of hunting. In some ways, Balthazar felt more loving of me than my own father. I knew that he knew what I was going through, like he had seen it before. He always kept the training quarters hot as he knew how terribly cold I was.

I'm nineteen years old now, and I had just passed my test to become a huntress. Balthazar cheered for me and offered me a warmth that my now distant father didn't. I feel as though the cold has left me, but I know that it is only in my mind that it has."

Aspect
Shadowrunner - Ryza's shadow is able to maintain physical form and move independently from her. While moving in a shaded area, Ryza can move quicker and her wounds regenerate. When her shadow is independent, it runs the risk of turning on its allies.

Stats
Strength – C
Vitality – D
Skill – B
Knowledge – A
Bloodlust – C
Darkness – A

Skills
- Tessa is agile and sure footed, as well as very silent
- She is quite smart, more so than she might let on.
- Her temperature has been cold since the day she was about to be sacrificed. Because of this, it is hard for Tessa to be bothered by low temperatures.

Inventory
- Two wrist claws housed in steel black  bracers. The claws are folded steel and razor sharp.
- A black lacquer hand crossbow with an auto-loading modification installed onto it.

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I kinda imagined that if E is average, D is a professional athlete, C is peak human/slightly more than peak human, B is inhuman, and A is superhuman. 

Opps, Mancala already answered.

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@whoami: sorry if it wasn't clear in the CS, but skills refer only to non supernatural talents. Your character cannot be a psychic. Also, though this is a fantasy setting, the tech level should be roughly 19th centuryish so things like titanium and chloroform would not exist. 

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I actually think Chloroform fits the bill, since commercial use and production began by the 1850's (It had been synthesized twenty years before and used mostly as a reagent/neat trick at parties) Plus its use as an aesthetic is notoriously risky, here's a quick snippit.

The anesthetic use of chloroform has been discontinued because it caused deaths due to respiratory and cardiac arrhythmias and failure. Following chloroform-induced anesthesia, some patients suffered nausea, vomiting, prostration, jaundice, and coma due to hepatic dysfunction. At autopsy, liver necrosis and degeneration have been observed.[6]

Chloroform has induced liver tumors in mice and kidney tumors in mice and rats.[6] The hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity of chloroform is thought to be due largely to phosgene.

That said I'm not so sure a chloroform soaked rag would be much use against hunters or beasts....

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Alrighty, I will make the necessary edits. :)

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For strength D rank would be something like Olympic level athletes and A rank would have you tossing elephants around.@Mancala

Silas King: Hunter, Banker, Pugilist and Elephant Juggler.

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Made the edits.

Brought down Tessa's stats so they aren't borderline god-tier.
Removed all indication of psychic power and rather made it just a power that is difficult to restrain.
Switched the metal in Tessa's wrist claws from titanium to folded steel, similar to that of a katana.
Changed the .45 caliber pistol to an auto loading hand crossbow.
Changed Tessa's fail safes to remove the chloroform and the stun gun, opting out for just anesthetic drugs of varying type. Alternatively, one could just whack Tessa over the head to knock her out.

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I think that whole power thing is a no go. Hunters, so far, only have their Aspect in terms of powers.

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@whoami: Munnin is correct. Most of the rest looks good, but I'm gonna be on a plane flight for most the rest of the day so won't be able to give you your aspect until I arrive back home.

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Alright. That'll warrant a pretty hefty background change which I'll get to in an hour or so.

As for aspects, would Bloodmancy be acceptable? My intended theme for Tessa is that she's a glass cannon bordering on evil, herself.

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@Whoami: As far as I know, you don't choose your magical aspects-y stuffs. Mancala gives you stuff based on your stats and history and whatever. And, not to be a killjoy (I'd hate to be a fun-wrecker), but I think Boggle already has the Blood-magic type of power? But maybe there's more than one type?

All that said, maybe you could PM Mancala and see if you can work something out? Just have a nice chat with him about it and figure things out. He seems like a nice and reasonable guy from what I've seen. He's probably willing to accommodate new ideas. I'm sure you can figure something out. ^-^

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@Whoami - I'd suggest simply writing a character that you'd be happy with even without any powers, that way your aspect will be just a cherry on top. That said, a few suggestions...

*I don't think their are any gas stations to crash into, since everything runs on duskstone.
*Not sure about 'high school'. Education doesn't seem standardized or mandatory, more like a privilege for the wealthy.
*I'd shy away from the seven deadly sins bit--at least until Mancala weighs in on what religion prevails in the setting
*Killing hunters--even indirectly--seems like the sort of thing the fraternity would come down on -hard-. Internally if not officially.

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I'll make the edits in a bit then. Gonna head out of the house for a short while.

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Working on completely overhauling the character with a different background to be more lore friendly and fitting. I wont even lay a finger on powers and let the powers that be decide Tessa's fate.

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Edits made, hopefully the newer version of Tessa is more fitting and flexible to the GM's standards.

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@Whoami: An Aspects is something you are born with, not something that is earned so you'll have to change that. Your stats are also on the low side, which is fine, but you can increase a few of them if you wanted. Most of the rest is good to go, your Hunter's Aspect is "Shadowrunner" which allows your shadow to maintain physical form and move independently from you. While moving in a shaded area, you move quicker and your wounds regenerate. Be wary, shadows have a tendency to disobey their masters.

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pretty short, but I'm still in the middle of finals and didn't have too long to spare. ;c wanted to get something out, though, so there it is. :V

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