@Migyudon My character Piper, is a Technopath (Cyber Witch is her Class). Though I have no problem with you having a similar concept. In fact, it could be fun! We could start an IT Club :P

@Leslie Hall
I'd like to see Piper and James interact, one actually earned her craft while the other just kinda... coasts on their crazy science force.

@Ghost Queen They'd be an interesting duo, I reckon. I've designed Piper to be less combat focused and more of a Central Intelligence/Hacker character. I'm hoping I'll have a chance to flaunt that aspect of her throughout the story in a way that can have an impact.

EDIT: So on that note, I wouldn't expect to see her in many Ranked battles.

@Leslie Hall
James isn't one for fighting against people either since he's pushed his tech to be used more against Monsters. Besides, he's more interested in making harmless things than anything else, like a hair tie that's always the perfect amount of tightness or the golden ratio of a PB&J.

@Redward I made the changes to Piper's CS.

TL:DR -

- Cyber-Familiar was moved from Active Skills to Passive Skills.

- New Active Skill, Thermoptic Camouflage, to give Piper more of a chance to successfully use Scramble against foes.

- Widget's Flight now has a weight limit on how much he can carry while flying.

- Added Elemental Weaknesses whilst Piper possesses a Machine.

Name: ERROR

Nickname: Icarus

Age: 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111



Appearance: Image uploaded by Dr. Deborah Johannes on 4/14/2012



Occupation: First Year Student

History: Icarus was found wandering a Port Crescendo train terminal dazed, confused, with his physical appearance shifting every few minutes with a noticeable flicker. No onlooker reported seeing him enter the train terminal and the footage of the security camera doesn't show his arrival. Several concerned onlookers attempted to check the boys Enlil Network profile and were immediately struck by the same symptoms, whereupon emergency services were contacted.

After cordoning off the area the police, fearing some sort of unprecedented Network based virus, contacted the Port Crescendo Institute of Technology to get an experts opinion and delivered Icarus and the victims to the Institute for observation. A day later it was clear that while sleep cleared up the onlookers symptoms, with no lasting damage, Icarus's condition was not improving. Weeks of study and cautious probing through the Enlil Network found them the boys profile, completely corrupted corrupted save one passive Class Skill and his Tablet Power, which they were able to coax him into using it.

The resulting encounter with the entity now known as "Sasaki Kojiro" resulted in severe injuries to four staff members, through it did seem to stabilize Icarus. When questioned, Icarus claimed to have no knowledge of his past, anyone named Sasaki, or how he had ended up in his current state. Later interviews under more controlled conditions with Sasaki proved fruitless, as he outright refused to provide any information on his past.

Class: ERROR



Class Skills:

[Active]

• Sure Kill Flash Strike* - What appears to be an Iaijutsu quick draw sword technique. Should the attack land the actual damage will not be inflicted until after the users sword has been sheathed, as demonstrated by Sasaki. Icarus's version has a noticeable time lag. When his attack hits the damage will be inflicted randomly some time within the next four hours.
• Killing Field Flash Strafe* - A Skill seemingly designed to allow the user to move around their opponent extremely quickly to disorient them. When Icarus uses this Skill it is effectively random teleportation. Icarus locks on to one target and can then teleport to a random spot within a small circle around his target, always facing them. If that spot is already occupied by something he will "glitch out" for a moment before being launched out and away from what he teleported into at great speed. Icarus can carry up to one person while using this Skill.
• Shocking Kill Flash Step* - A teleportation Skill designed to place you right behind your target. Icarus can seemingly only target himself with this skill. When used Icarus is teleported a step back from where he previously was and spawns a clone in his place. The clone is usually of a strange coloration with melting facial features. This clone mimics every move that Icarus makes precisely. Has a three second cooldown period.
• Duel Kill Flash Blades* - A Skill designed to duplicate the users sword so they could use two at once. This Skill seems to have lost its focus and can now be used to duplicate any object that Icarus can hold in his hands. It should be noted, however, that duplicate will have properties consistent with Icarus's Unstable Sword Passive Skill.
  
  
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  Skill names and descriptions were hopelessly garbled when found, with the notable exception of Sword Fighter. Skill descriptions were gathered through experimentation. Names were provided by Sasaki.

[Passive]


• Unstable Sword - Any sword that Icarus fights with is unstable in his hands. Should he block with it, clash with another weapon, or even press it up against a hard surface, it has a chance to "glitch out" and suddenly start bending and stretching in impossible ways before snapping back to its real shape. This wild shape changing is equally as likely to impale him as his opponent. Possibly a mutation of a skill that improved the quality of any sword wielded by the user.
• Bug Infection - Icarus's problems are so severe that they're infectious. Anyone with Class Skills that's hit with one of his Active Skills has a chance to have one of their Skills corrupted like his. Going to sleep will repair the corruption like a normal Network error, and it seems like there's some kind of safeguard that only allows a single skill per person to be corrupted.
• Sword Fighter - A skill representing Sasaki's, and Icarus's by extension, immense skill with a blade. The only part of Icarus's profile not to be corrupted by whatever happened to him.

Tablet Power: BugFix - A self diagnostic Tablet Power, seemingly capable of repairing errors in the Enlil Network without the user having to go to sleep. When used it tries to repair the damaged Network in Icarus's body and reverts him to his glitchless state, a ruthless and powerful swordsman who calls himself Sasaki Kojiro, for five to seven minutes. His speed, power, and technique increase dramatically as Sasaki, along with the quality of his blade. Icarus has no awareness of what happens when he's being Sasaki, and Sasaki likewise does not remember his time as Icarus.

After this five to seven minute period BugFix breaks under the strain and can not be used to bring out Sasaki again until Icarus has gotten a good nights sleep. BugFix can be used in its broken state, but it results in Icarus's glitches becoming much more severe and harmful to himself.

As far as I see, I think the only issue I have with James is that all of his active skills are based off of technology instead of an ability given by his class. Should that be something I fix or...?

Numbers on abilities can be changed to balance as needed as I have no clue what is fair.

@snake153

Well, isn't that a coincidence? I was thinking of using that same character as an oni themed PC before settling down for Aria. That actually made me laugh.

Anyway, so many monster hunters... poor Aria will have a hard time making friends when she's because of her everyday girl's persona.

I always post a preliminery CS, one that's meant to give you a taste but not the full course on the character. I'm hoping for your input!

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@Migyudon
The only things I can see as being problems is the age and the whole "actual wires in the skin" thing. We're a bunch of highschool kids with superpowers as a focus of the RP, and the wires in the veins thing would just electrocute your blood to death. Would probably flow better if your Electric Surge ability is something that you either do as a class ability or through purely technological means.

Shocking.

Nice.

@Migyudon
The only things I can see as being problems is the age and the whole "actual wires in the skin" thing. We're a bunch of highschool kids with superpowers as a focus of the RP, and the wires in the veins thing would just electrocute your blood to death. Would probably flow better if your Electric Surge ability is something that you either do as a class ability or through purely technological means.

Discounting the fact that the wire part can easily go into body horror territory (I mean, if she get's hurt a bunch of bloody wires would be poking and dangling from her skin and tissues), I don't think that it has any actual problem given that we aren't going realist on any accounts here.

The age may indeed be an obstacle for character interaction, but it depends mostly on the player's skill to overcome it, so it's not supposed to be that much of an issue.

@KoL
Fair enough, I read it as the electricity comes from the wires which are embedded in her body. Which is pretty dope but I don't know how they are going to fire lightning bolts without cutting themselves open... or maybe that's the point.

@Ghost Queen

Figured she needed something to use as a ranged attack, considering how close-up I made her into.

I could just make it so Ringo the ringblade does the electric shock thing, so if she wanted to zap anyone without the ringblade, she'd have to actually touch them to form a circuit.

How's that?

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Actually, now that I think about it, class skills should be something specific about her isn't it? So that could mean fighting prowess was something she learned, not an inborn ability like the other 3.

@KoL
Fair enough, I read it as the electricity comes from the wires which are embedded in her body. Which is pretty dope but I don't know how they are going to fire lightning bolts without cutting themselves open... or maybe that's the point.

I kinda see it more as Frankenstein's Monster, to say the truth. Especially with the potential for body horror being there as well because of subcutaneous wires and technology focus.

Shooting electricity isn't that weird in such a concept:

@Migyudon
Ultimately I may not be the best authority on this because I may or may not have missed the ball completely with my own skills. The whole technology thing as skills is a grey area, I think, until we get some GM clarification.

@Migyudon You can use magnetism as a really versatile ranged attack, all you gotta do is make it stronger so you can throw stuff that'll actually deal damage. You could even make an improvised rail-gun if you already have magnetism, just get 2 metal tubes and something else metal that'll fit in between, and it'll make a pretty damn good ranged attack.

You could even limit the better ranged attack stuff to when you use your tablet skill, if you have to.

EDIT: Yeah, two tubes for a railgun... (KoL's version down there's the original of mine btw)

@Migyudon You can use magnetism as a really versatile ranged attack, all you gotta do is make it stronger so you can throw stuff that'll actually deal damage. You could even make an improvised rail-gun if you already have magnetism, just get a metal tube and something else metal that'll fit, and it'll make a pretty damn good ranged attack.

You could even limit the better ranged attack stuff to when you use your tablet skill, if you have to.

You don't need a conductor to make a railgun, really. Also, a tube would be far more like a coilgun, than a railgun (there's a difference between the two of them). All you'd to make a railgun is the ability to break the electrical resistance of the air and create a "rail" of ionized air to apply the current to and... you have this: