[center][h1][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2800337]John[/url][/h1][/center]
An alien world indeed! John was so excited! And as luck just happens, some sort of mutant bear stood in their way, looking forward to make him and his dull companions it's lunch. It seemed to be fused with vines, and even the bear's tongue was a vine. That's not how biology works, at least on Earth. It would be wonderful to examine and dissect it, to learn it secrets! But the lot of them were woefully unarmed. Or were they?

Ever since he awoke, John felt a bit different. Or rather, felt something completely new within him, something that was hard to explain. Some sort of power. Magic. Of course it was magic. But how to use it, John did not know. But somehow, he wasn't worried. The scientist felt that it will all come to him naturally. What would he do if he possessed power of magic? Probably emulate and enhance something that occurs in nature. After all, most of humanity's problems were solved by looking back at nature. You simply can't ignore millions of years of evolution. But human flesh is weak and fragile, with neither scales nor thick fur to protect it. Scales, yes, if only John had reinforced scales. Like a reptile. But looking at fiction, there is the well-known Xenomorph and it's acidic blood. While acidic blood sounds neat, it would mean John has to be hurt first, which is not ideal. But what if scales had two layers, with a softer one on top, and acid in the middle? Provide protection and punish the attacker. Ideal. In these seconds John spent visualizing all of his possibilities, it actually started happening. A tingling, pulling sensation all over his body as skin hardened and turned into black scales. Within them could be seen some sort of... liquid? Moreover, his all body was numb, yet just as flexible. But aside from the fact that he just magicked away the nerve endings in his skin and turned it into black scales, it felt awesome!

But now he needed something to go on the offensive. Tooth and claw - the most used weapon in the animal kingdom, sometimes combined with venom. Claws. Turning his hands into huge claws, coated with venom? Or maybe not venom, a paralytic. After all, John doesn't know what exactly is venomous to this... bear. Paralytics are rather universal since they target the nerves instead, which this creature should possess. And with that line of thought John's hands changed into huge bone claws, something akin to a monster movie. As expected, they were covered in and excreted a thin layer of something, which most likely was the paralyzing agent.

Full of confidence, he started walking towards the bear, considering his avenues of attack. [b]"Let's do science, kiddos!"[/b] He shouted as his battle cry, charging towards the bear. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? If worst comes to worst, he'll be reborn anyway.