I would also like to say that I don't expect you to just die out right from this attack. Although that would be nice lol. Your characters muscular density has grown as well as his strength so I would assume he could take more than the average beating.
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Auz gets faster as he dies, strength being a requisite to keep him from falling apart at certain velocities. He is speed based above all else. Auz's acceleration and speed are, to me, superior to Xavier's by a vast quantity. Like I said, it's how competitive balance is achieved due to Xavier having the strength/durability advantage. If Xavier can achieve great speed with a foot, Auz can do far more with a full swing.
Also, Auz's death boost counts suicides as well. He died eight total times so far, the most he can possibly sustain against one opponent.
Starting Auz - 100
First death - 125
Second death - 156
Third death - 195
Fourth death - 243
Fifth death - 304
Sixth death - 380
Seventh death - 475
Eighth death - 593
Each number is multiplied by a flat 1.25 after death.
By your own estimates, this puts Auz's striking strength and speed well above Xavier's.
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But, even with all the speed in the world, Auz has pathetic durability and cannot manipulate inertia to build or stop momentum instantly. As such, I fully expect Xavier's initial slash to land, and since Auz is on his last life and far from civilisation, it'll be a mortal wound.
All that leaves is the question of whether or not Xavier can tank a full-powered Auz slash to the neck. If the sword can chop his skull, I don't see why it can't sever his vertebrae for a true decapitation.
Auz gets faster as he dies, strength being a requisite to keep him from falling apart at certain velocities. He is speed based above all else. Auz's acceleration and speed are, to me, superior to Xavier's by a vast quantity. Like I said, it's how competitive balance is achieved due to Xavier having the strength/durability advantage. If Xavier can achieve great speed with a foot, Auz can do far more with a full swing.
Also, Auz's death boost counts suicides as well. He died eight total times so far, the most he can possibly sustain against one opponent.
Starting Auz - 100
First death - 125
Second death - 156
Third death - 195
Fourth death - 243
Fifth death - 304
Sixth death - 380
Seventh death - 475
Eighth death - 593
Each number is multiplied by a flat 1.25 after death.
By your own estimates, this puts Auz's striking strength and speed well above Xavier's.
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But, even with all the speed in the world, Auz has pathetic durability and cannot manipulate inertia to build or stop momentum instantly. As such, I fully expect Xavier's initial slash to land, and since Auz is on his last life and far from civilisation, it'll be a mortal wound.
All that leaves is the question of whether or not Xavier can tank a full-powered Auz slash to the neck. If the sword can chop his skull, I don't see why it can't sever his vertebrae for a true decapitation.
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I will say, in my calculations I forgot the final 2 back to back suicides. So now back to math.
Your estimated speed outcome is off by a few numbers. Mine being an exact 581.025. I do my math using a straight .25 equation like in your CS. But at this rate thats a miniscule measurement.
Unfortunately Xaviers acceleration is based off his strength. Which is still higher than yours by 500 points. I used the average black belt strength for this measurement. As you have stated Strength is just a secondary stat.
Now when we compare your speed measurement to your strength measurement you see that your speed relies 24% on your strength. I adjusted your speed in MY calculations to 590 to better suit both sets of equations. Now what we will say, is that 24% is a trained number. Meaning Auz worked to achieve that in even average sword fights.
Your base stat of 412 Strength when 24.5% is taken out is roughly 100.
Now we take Xaviers strength stat of 3000. Xavier focused on a different type of speed than Auz, acceleration vs top speed. So we will say his speed relies 18% on his strength. Bringing his Speed stat to a firm 540. With an increase at the beginning of any focused movement.
So I would say in this one instant, speeds are matched. Yes Auz can move faster, but Xavier can get moving faster. Auz could beat Xavier in a sprint, but Xavier would get off the line first.
End Results: Auz - 590 Spd 2455 Str
Xavier - 540 Spd 3000 Str
The strength difference is where Xaviers superior acceleration comes into play. He has more muscle to move himself harder, faster. But most of the strength is in his arms so it wears thin in long distance.
As for the attack, Xaviers body is filled with the blood that creates his weapons. It moves on its own accord to defend itself when being wounded. There would also be blood covering his neck already because he never closed the throat wound. Also Xavier can call on a small amount of the metal on his chest to defend as well, softening the blow before it can connect with the neck. I wholey expect a partially severed head, but the vertebrae would stand strong. Xavier is a tank first and foremost. I only say a skull blow would do it because Xavier hardly covers his face/head with the metal. So a direct blow would be deadly. But here there is plenty of defense on hand for the neck blow. Earlier in the fight would be a different story.
Your estimated speed outcome is off by a few numbers. Mine being an exact 581.025. I do my math using a straight .25 equation like in your CS. But at this rate thats a miniscule measurement.
Unfortunately Xaviers acceleration is based off his strength. Which is still higher than yours by 500 points. I used the average black belt strength for this measurement. As you have stated Strength is just a secondary stat.
Now when we compare your speed measurement to your strength measurement you see that your speed relies 24% on your strength. I adjusted your speed in MY calculations to 590 to better suit both sets of equations. Now what we will say, is that 24% is a trained number. Meaning Auz worked to achieve that in even average sword fights.
Your base stat of 412 Strength when 24.5% is taken out is roughly 100.
Now we take Xaviers strength stat of 3000. Xavier focused on a different type of speed than Auz, acceleration vs top speed. So we will say his speed relies 18% on his strength. Bringing his Speed stat to a firm 540. With an increase at the beginning of any focused movement.
So I would say in this one instant, speeds are matched. Yes Auz can move faster, but Xavier can get moving faster. Auz could beat Xavier in a sprint, but Xavier would get off the line first.
End Results: Auz - 590 Spd 2455 Str
Xavier - 540 Spd 3000 Str
The strength difference is where Xaviers superior acceleration comes into play. He has more muscle to move himself harder, faster. But most of the strength is in his arms so it wears thin in long distance.
As for the attack, Xaviers body is filled with the blood that creates his weapons. It moves on its own accord to defend itself when being wounded. There would also be blood covering his neck already because he never closed the throat wound. Also Xavier can call on a small amount of the metal on his chest to defend as well, softening the blow before it can connect with the neck. I wholey expect a partially severed head, but the vertebrae would stand strong. Xavier is a tank first and foremost. I only say a skull blow would do it because Xavier hardly covers his face/head with the metal. So a direct blow would be deadly. But here there is plenty of defense on hand for the neck blow. Earlier in the fight would be a different story.
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There's dynamic strength and static strength, lifting vs. explosive motion. ALL motion is based off of strength. Auz, being a speed beast, has enormous dynamic strength, in other words, acceleration in addition to velocity.
Back when you said Auz had a speed value of less than 400, you claimed that he was "slightly superior" to Xavier. Now that it's 590, he's still only slightly superior. You also say that if anything, the characters are "evenly matched". I fail to see how facing an opponent that can endure a sword to the neck, overpower you with raw strength, attack from nearly any angle, and reshape his weapons at will, can be called remotely even with a simple swordsman whose only supposed advantage at this point is speed, which is also being more or less matched.
Note that I've had a solid basis for Auz's speed since the beginning of the thread, that being Bruce Lee (whose specialty was acceleration, not at all sprinting). You set a quantifiable speed stat for Xavier three posts ago.
Auz, right now, is about six times faster than a peak human striker. I can't do anything really at this point about speed, but that's kind of moot too, since the next attack may most likely decide what occurs. I'm insisting that a layer of reinforced blood won't help Xavier against Auz's slash.
Here's how I figure it.
Skip to 6:05. That kick gets clocked in at 136 mph. Since Auz's superhuman strength at his peak power makes his longsword feel as light as a part of his own body, and since the linear speed at the tip of the sword is greater than that at the base, I'll assume that his fastest swing is 136 mph times 5.9.
That's roughly 802 miles per hour, enough to supersede the sound barrier.
You say Xavier's blood can equal metal in durability. Large caliber bullets can blow holes in plate metal. Now replace that bullet. Make it a sword with the mass of a human body behind it. I wouldn't be surprised if Auz could outright cleave Xavier in two at the waist.
Xavier's bones are tough as shit, I know. There's more bone in his head than the neck, by far, and the vertebrae are segmented so it's easier to separate them. I'm thinking that if I aimed for his head, it'd be pathetically simple for you to duck the slash or let it glance off the forehead plate, especially when you claim Xavier is almost as fast as Auz.
We could probably debate over who is faster all week, but both of our character's hits are in the process of landing. I'm arguing that Auz's is far, far more lethal than you give it credit for. I'm willing to let your speed calculations stand, regardless of credibility or my opinions about my own character.
There's dynamic strength and static strength, lifting vs. explosive motion. ALL motion is based off of strength. Auz, being a speed beast, has enormous dynamic strength, in other words, acceleration in addition to velocity.
So as I said, the two, if ANYTHING, are evenly matched right about now. Please remember also that I gave your character a power boost during the final equation. Your character sheet does not say that your character is twice as strong as a normal human. According to the original math of an average human your character would fall short by even more.
I will give Auz his slightly superior speed, but throw in Xaviers ability to get moving faster and they will still be able to almost cancel one another out.
Back when you said Auz had a speed value of less than 400, you claimed that he was "slightly superior" to Xavier. Now that it's 590, he's still only slightly superior. You also say that if anything, the characters are "evenly matched". I fail to see how facing an opponent that can endure a sword to the neck, overpower you with raw strength, attack from nearly any angle, and reshape his weapons at will, can be called remotely even with a simple swordsman whose only supposed advantage at this point is speed, which is also being more or less matched.
Note that I've had a solid basis for Auz's speed since the beginning of the thread, that being Bruce Lee (whose specialty was acceleration, not at all sprinting). You set a quantifiable speed stat for Xavier three posts ago.
Auz, right now, is about six times faster than a peak human striker. I can't do anything really at this point about speed, but that's kind of moot too, since the next attack may most likely decide what occurs. I'm insisting that a layer of reinforced blood won't help Xavier against Auz's slash.
Here's how I figure it.
Skip to 6:05. That kick gets clocked in at 136 mph. Since Auz's superhuman strength at his peak power makes his longsword feel as light as a part of his own body, and since the linear speed at the tip of the sword is greater than that at the base, I'll assume that his fastest swing is 136 mph times 5.9.
That's roughly 802 miles per hour, enough to supersede the sound barrier.
You say Xavier's blood can equal metal in durability. Large caliber bullets can blow holes in plate metal. Now replace that bullet. Make it a sword with the mass of a human body behind it. I wouldn't be surprised if Auz could outright cleave Xavier in two at the waist.
Xavier's bones are tough as shit, I know. There's more bone in his head than the neck, by far, and the vertebrae are segmented so it's easier to separate them. I'm thinking that if I aimed for his head, it'd be pathetically simple for you to duck the slash or let it glance off the forehead plate, especially when you claim Xavier is almost as fast as Auz.
We could probably debate over who is faster all week, but both of our character's hits are in the process of landing. I'm arguing that Auz's is far, far more lethal than you give it credit for. I'm willing to let your speed calculations stand, regardless of credibility or my opinions about my own character.
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What I have been doing, is giving you the benefit of the doubt when it comes to Auzs speed. Regardless of the end numbers, I have been seceeding that Auz is slightly faster. Any stat that o threw down was in comparison to yours and the equations I was using. When those changed, so did the others. Right now that puts them at an almost undeniably equal point. With Auz being faster but Xavier being stronger. All I'm doing is using that strength to my advantage.
Also, Xavier has only the one life in comparison to Auzs 8. So everything he has and everything he does is just to stay alive in a fight. You knew what you were getting into and chose a character that can be on par with him at his strongest.
As far as strength, Xavier has always been superior to Auz even in his current state.
That being said, the sword attack at the end would be defended by much more than a "layer" of metal. It would focus at the impact zone in a bulb to force the blade to cut through it before hitting Xavier. Ontop of the metallic sheet that I plan yo have spring from his right pectoral.
My metal has always been special in that I can put several charges of defense into it to draw on an incredible defense at whim.
I have never argued how you defended or even initiated your attack. You'll remember that my problem was in you writing as though there was no other option. And I came here to put our power levels into perspective. To let you know that while an effective strategy, theres always a chance for it to fail or lose effectiveness.
Also, Xavier has only the one life in comparison to Auzs 8. So everything he has and everything he does is just to stay alive in a fight. You knew what you were getting into and chose a character that can be on par with him at his strongest.
As far as strength, Xavier has always been superior to Auz even in his current state.
That being said, the sword attack at the end would be defended by much more than a "layer" of metal. It would focus at the impact zone in a bulb to force the blade to cut through it before hitting Xavier. Ontop of the metallic sheet that I plan yo have spring from his right pectoral.
My metal has always been special in that I can put several charges of defense into it to draw on an incredible defense at whim.
I have never argued how you defended or even initiated your attack. You'll remember that my problem was in you writing as though there was no other option. And I came here to put our power levels into perspective. To let you know that while an effective strategy, theres always a chance for it to fail or lose effectiveness.
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Xavier only has one life, but he's tough enough to get stabbed multiple times, including through the neck, and still be in fighting shape. He can be slightly stronger, Auz can be slightly faster. Xavier, however, also has the versatility of homing, armor piercing instant whipswords.
But now Auz is at his best, and so I'm assuming both can kill each other with comparable ease. Now then... The bulb will just make the sword glance up or down after it /blasts/ through his rising chest sheet, thus still cutting his head off, more or less.
I know what I got into, and I'm telling you now, at his current power no cheap defenses summoned on a "whim" will stop Auz's attack.
That's an anti-material rifle. You can guess how big the bullets are. Do they have the weight of a longsword held by a 150 pound superhuman in full armor? Not even remotely close.
Xavier only has one life, but he's tough enough to get stabbed multiple times, including through the neck, and still be in fighting shape. He can be slightly stronger, Auz can be slightly faster. Xavier, however, also has the versatility of homing, armor piercing instant whipswords.
But now Auz is at his best, and so I'm assuming both can kill each other with comparable ease. Now then... The bulb will just make the sword glance up or down after it /blasts/ through his rising chest sheet, thus still cutting his head off, more or less.
I know what I got into, and I'm telling you now, at his current power no cheap defenses summoned on a "whim" will stop Auz's attack.
That's an anti-material rifle. You can guess how big the bullets are. Do they have the weight of a longsword held by a 150 pound superhuman in full armor? Not even remotely close.
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Just did some calculations. A .50 BMG round carries 14000 ft.lbf of energy.
Auz's sword alone, weighing 3 pounds and traveling at 1173 fps has more than 64000 ft.lbf.
That's likely a mere fraction when you add the weight from Auz himself.
It's an absolutely ridiculous amount of force.
Just did some calculations. A .50 BMG round carries 14000 ft.lbf of energy.
Auz's sword alone, weighing 3 pounds and traveling at 1173 fps has more than 64000 ft.lbf.
That's likely a mere fraction when you add the weight from Auz himself.
It's an absolutely ridiculous amount of force.
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Your mistake is in thinking its a "cheap defense". I have covered his chest with so much metal and caked so much blood to his neck that enough is there for a more than significant defense. But I am more than ready to show you exactly what you aren't paying attention to.
As for the rifle, it has no precedence here. All that power is directed to a pinpoint impact zone before mushrooming outwards. Whereas your sword has its impact point spread wider than a bullet. Leaving more area to catch. But you will see this soon enough.
So what I am going to do is work up a post with my intricately cheap defense. From there you can choose to take it for what it is or we can continue this debate.
As for the rifle, it has no precedence here. All that power is directed to a pinpoint impact zone before mushrooming outwards. Whereas your sword has its impact point spread wider than a bullet. Leaving more area to catch. But you will see this soon enough.
So what I am going to do is work up a post with my intricately cheap defense. From there you can choose to take it for what it is or we can continue this debate.
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And I say again - the .50 has its power pinpointed whereas you do not. And honestly, that FPS stat is kind of pulled out of thin air.
Take away the cutting power and all you have left is that force.
Take away the cutting power and all you have left is that force.
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Scratch that last part..... For I have an entirely new plan.
You shall see.
You shall see.
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I'm paying plenty of attention. Just check this out;
The initial metal on Xavier's chest had come from a small cut. So no, not a lot to make a sheet from unless he sacrifices the blood he'd use to make a neck bulb.
What's more, the force is concentrated along a sharp edge. It won't mushroom and make a hole like a jacketed lead bullet. Steel is harder than lead by far. It'll scythe through whatever it hits.
Even dulled, it'd whack Xavier's head from his shoulders through pure force. And no, I didn't pull the fps from thin air, unlike the stats you've been giving me for the last several posts. I clearly gave a ground from which to define Auz's capabilities at the start. It was only today that you went into math with what Xavier could do, and I have no way of knowing if you made up his exact speed on the spot to match Auz's.
Make no mistake, it is me giving you the benefit of the doubt in terms of speed, but I can't be so generous if you seek to have every possible advantage, when I literally have a sword at your character's neck. Xavier has extraordinary defence, but if he's so tough that even when Auz slashes one of Xavier's most mortal spots at full power that he can live, I'd have to call this an unsalvageable mismatch.
There's no reason Xavier can't block all his vitals, if his blood can pool and harden in any spot it is present as fast as an enemy can attack, with enough gusto to stop something carrying several times the energy of a bullet that can shoot through tank armor.
Again, I'll say it. Auz is channeling a direct slash to Xavier's throat with at a bare, bare minimum, four times the power a bullet needs to penetrate a tank.
I'm paying plenty of attention. Just check this out;
A metallic *clang* echoing as the metal of his blade collided with that on his chest. A small portion of blood began being added to the metal on his chest, in efforts to slowly increase its thickness.
Your mistake is in thinking its a "cheap defense". I have covered his chest with so much metal and caked so much blood to his neck that enough is there for a more than significant defense.
The initial metal on Xavier's chest had come from a small cut. So no, not a lot to make a sheet from unless he sacrifices the blood he'd use to make a neck bulb.
What's more, the force is concentrated along a sharp edge. It won't mushroom and make a hole like a jacketed lead bullet. Steel is harder than lead by far. It'll scythe through whatever it hits.
Even dulled, it'd whack Xavier's head from his shoulders through pure force. And no, I didn't pull the fps from thin air, unlike the stats you've been giving me for the last several posts. I clearly gave a ground from which to define Auz's capabilities at the start. It was only today that you went into math with what Xavier could do, and I have no way of knowing if you made up his exact speed on the spot to match Auz's.
Make no mistake, it is me giving you the benefit of the doubt in terms of speed, but I can't be so generous if you seek to have every possible advantage, when I literally have a sword at your character's neck. Xavier has extraordinary defence, but if he's so tough that even when Auz slashes one of Xavier's most mortal spots at full power that he can live, I'd have to call this an unsalvageable mismatch.
There's no reason Xavier can't block all his vitals, if his blood can pool and harden in any spot it is present as fast as an enemy can attack, with enough gusto to stop something carrying several times the energy of a bullet that can shoot through tank armor.
Again, I'll say it. Auz is channeling a direct slash to Xavier's throat with at a bare, bare minimum, four times the power a bullet needs to penetrate a tank.
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Oh, one more thing. My last post might have sounded a bit harsh. Sorry if it did. I tend to get a little aggressive in OOC, but it's strictly skin deep, one polititian ragging on another.
I just have this good cop/bad cop mentality, like fuckin' Sour Patch Kids. Sour, then sweet.
I'm gonna try the ref approach; when in doubt, make a settlement. How about Auz cuts Xavier's neck to the bone, but doesn't succeed in severing the vertebrae. Basically, a skeleton neck.
Auz gets his flank cut open and gets stabbed in the back, but his armor and enhanced durability helps him to survive, if at least for a minute or two more before he goes into shock.
I have my own opinions about what should happen, but I'd rather be agreeable and fun than correct (in my opinion of course), if the only thing being correct gets me is more OOC business.
Oh, one more thing. My last post might have sounded a bit harsh. Sorry if it did. I tend to get a little aggressive in OOC, but it's strictly skin deep, one polititian ragging on another.
I just have this good cop/bad cop mentality, like fuckin' Sour Patch Kids. Sour, then sweet.
I'm gonna try the ref approach; when in doubt, make a settlement. How about Auz cuts Xavier's neck to the bone, but doesn't succeed in severing the vertebrae. Basically, a skeleton neck.
Auz gets his flank cut open and gets stabbed in the back, but his armor and enhanced durability helps him to survive, if at least for a minute or two more before he goes into shock.
I have my own opinions about what should happen, but I'd rather be agreeable and fun than correct (in my opinion of course), if the only thing being correct gets me is more OOC business.
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Wrong sir. Xavier currently has 6 wounds supplying metal to his chest. Possibly just 5 since his right hand is covered in metal. A small slice on the chest, a slightly larger slice, 2 stabs to the chest and one in the back.
With Xaviers stats all I did was use the exact same math for your character on him. While giving you the benefit of the doubt. The strength stat comes directly from his CS.
My plan now is for deflection into Xaviers chest and armor. It will end up with the sword burying itselt a distance in Xaviers chest through his shoulder. Through several different means the blow will be absorbed and slowed to prevent terrible damage.
It will make more sense when you read the post.
With Xaviers stats all I did was use the exact same math for your character on him. While giving you the benefit of the doubt. The strength stat comes directly from his CS.
My plan now is for deflection into Xaviers chest and armor. It will end up with the sword burying itselt a distance in Xaviers chest through his shoulder. Through several different means the blow will be absorbed and slowed to prevent terrible damage.
It will make more sense when you read the post.
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Oh yeah, you're right. Auz stabbed at Xavier's heart and Xavier hurt his own chest. Touche'.
I have previous evidence supporting Auz's original intended stats. Xavier has had little reference in that area before today. Like I said, there are different kinds of strength. Strength is by no means a definite factor with which to determine speed alone. That's beside the point though, because I believe you. You had to set it up at some point, and this was as good a time as any.
I still consider it a highly uneven bout, given Xavier's ability to shoot blood spikes from his body at will as a repellent to close range combat, and how since his blood can act independently of his body, it's virtually impossible to disable his attacking capabilities. A.E, cut off Auz's right arm, his attack power is halved. Cut off Xavier's right arm, he can grow a blood whip from it, cut Auz's other arm off, and then haul his severed limb back into place, perhaps to solidify it into a brutish, primitive club.
Ahhh, well. That's just me being a complainer. Ol' Doc is just frumpy grumpy that his favorite grappling moves can be easily countered by a torrent of body spikes.
I know that you'll give me a good, challenging post.
On another train of thought, does Xavier require oxygenated blood to live or to power his muscles?
Does he get lightheaded if too much blood is used up?
Oh yeah, you're right. Auz stabbed at Xavier's heart and Xavier hurt his own chest. Touche'.
I have previous evidence supporting Auz's original intended stats. Xavier has had little reference in that area before today. Like I said, there are different kinds of strength. Strength is by no means a definite factor with which to determine speed alone. That's beside the point though, because I believe you. You had to set it up at some point, and this was as good a time as any.
I still consider it a highly uneven bout, given Xavier's ability to shoot blood spikes from his body at will as a repellent to close range combat, and how since his blood can act independently of his body, it's virtually impossible to disable his attacking capabilities. A.E, cut off Auz's right arm, his attack power is halved. Cut off Xavier's right arm, he can grow a blood whip from it, cut Auz's other arm off, and then haul his severed limb back into place, perhaps to solidify it into a brutish, primitive club.
Ahhh, well. That's just me being a complainer. Ol' Doc is just frumpy grumpy that his favorite grappling moves can be easily countered by a torrent of body spikes.
I know that you'll give me a good, challenging post.
On another train of thought, does Xavier require oxygenated blood to live or to power his muscles?
Does he get lightheaded if too much blood is used up?
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My evidence is only in my CS. I had written thay Xavier is capable of delivering a 3000lb punch. And if you were to actually sever the arm completely it would be useless. Yes it could be swung around but I'd rather it stay off and fight one armed. Now if it is partially severed than yes, I would probably cover the wound and then kinda puppeteer it like on his left arm.
You just need to create a fanciful powered character like Xavier and then we can have the REAL battle lol.
No, Xavier does not have oxygenated blood. When he was changed from Human to Bloodbayne his entire body was warped and changed. Now it feeds itself off any chaos in the realm. So long aa it is not a perfect utopian society he will always have power. Muscles and the like are simply powered by Chaos energy rather than Oxygen.
That being said, I have designed Xavier to have 3 times the amount of blood as an average person. In the past, my reasoning would have been like "just because".
To date I have generated the following - To become a Bloodbayne one is to be infected with Chaos cells through special means. The cells attack red blood cells and replicate 4 times. The Chaos god of his world had been trying to gain power through this means. The Chaos cells would fill a random person and take over, taking the body to a special lake where the new Chaos cells could be harvested.
Long story short, the god chose Xavier to be his vessel but it didn't work quite like he hoped.
So yes, he would get light headed if he used to much because he still has a set amount. But it is still around 5.5 gallons. I keep it liquified until impact most times so when he's in contact with it it will still flow.
You just need to create a fanciful powered character like Xavier and then we can have the REAL battle lol.
No, Xavier does not have oxygenated blood. When he was changed from Human to Bloodbayne his entire body was warped and changed. Now it feeds itself off any chaos in the realm. So long aa it is not a perfect utopian society he will always have power. Muscles and the like are simply powered by Chaos energy rather than Oxygen.
That being said, I have designed Xavier to have 3 times the amount of blood as an average person. In the past, my reasoning would have been like "just because".
To date I have generated the following - To become a Bloodbayne one is to be infected with Chaos cells through special means. The cells attack red blood cells and replicate 4 times. The Chaos god of his world had been trying to gain power through this means. The Chaos cells would fill a random person and take over, taking the body to a special lake where the new Chaos cells could be harvested.
Long story short, the god chose Xavier to be his vessel but it didn't work quite like he hoped.
So yes, he would get light headed if he used to much because he still has a set amount. But it is still around 5.5 gallons. I keep it liquified until impact most times so when he's in contact with it it will still flow.
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Sometimes matchups are like fire and ice. For example, my much beloved
Aliases: The Sleeper of the Clandestine, Shasheuss-Gux (Seminole), Salmu Pulhu (Sumerian), The Great Father
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Species: Living Nightmare, Primordial Vampire
Lifespan: As long as it can continue drinking blood. It doesn't age when it sleeps for years in-between large meals.
Age: 2,387 (Current Physical Form and Mental State), otherwise timeless and unrestricted by the concept of age.
Appearance: A piebald monstrosity with slime slicked flesh and no hind legs. Its only limbs are two craggy, winged arms and a powerful tail of prodigious size. It has four fingers on each hand, with the middle one bearing a claw eight inches long and capable of slicing through muscle like tissue paper. The other claws are half that length. It wears a dripping maw packed tightly with gruesome tombstone teeth, concealed beneath flabby lips pulled back into a knowing, dog-like grin. Childhood fears, once long forgotten, echo dimly throughout its unseeing, oily eyes. These features are accentuated by long, crinkle cut ears and wrinkled leaf nostrils. It has a sharp, hollow tongue which can extend three feet from its mouth and act as a siphon to suck in blood. Dermal branchial papulae, like the thousands of little tube-like legs on a starfish, coat its skin and protrude whenever it is beneath water or drenched in slime. When inactive the respiratory feelers retreat into the body, leaving the flesh porus and spongy.
It is without a reflection and the monster's motion and form exhibit a surreal, dreamy quality that offends the basic innermost sensibilities of any remotely natural or sane organism. From snout to tail base it's over eight feet long. The tail is fourteen feet, and each arm is six foot five to the wrist. It weighs in at about two-hundred and ninety-five kilos, as much as a Siberian tiger.
Abilities
(An untranslated 18th century copy of De Vermis Mysteriis.)
Behavior/Personality: The Magna Pater is what one would first think of when the word "monster" comes to you in the dead of night.
It may be called if one completes a forbidden ritual detailed within the ancient tome of black magic known as De Vermis Mysteriis, but nary a being would consider doing such an obscene thing. It makes no noise, has no mercy, cannot be reasoned with, and lives only to drain the blood and devour the flesh of all living things it can bind within its greasy wings. Despite its incalculable intelligence, it never makes any attempts to communicate with victims. It has no desire for social interaction or for personal expression. The Magna Pater is wise in the ways of psychological torture, and knows that it is much more traumatic for a victim to not understand the nature or identity of their tormentor. Such is its cruelty that it affords its prey not even the courtesy of acknowledging them as sentient beings.
It enjoys all manner of prey and is especially inclined to go out of its way to find toddlers and infants, but it is shy and despises the light. It prefers to remain in damp pitch-blackness, where no eyes can spy it and no light can fall upon it. Areas that it has frequented for many years are imbued with distinct, otherworldly vibes, as would be felt in a grievously haunted house. Its lairs are moreso thickened with an underlying feeling of unreality, as if partly submerged in an eerie fantasy. It holds residence in the wilds of Florida, in a basalt cavern that does not flood. When outside of its primary lair it lurks around graveyards and canals. In the graveyards it may be found squirming through the wormy soil to feast upon the dead and decaying when no live meat is available. When swimming below the canals that criss-cross through Cape Coral, it preys upon the elderly and the infirm that wander to close to the murky waters.
("The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.")
It frequently impregnates victims with its brood, keeping them alive until its malformed young are birthed. It will eat both the victim and the young, doing these things not for food but to purposefully inflict prolonged torment. The few who come into contact with it and live may never be the same as they had been before, for above all else it is a creature of persistence. Even if one leaves the Magna Pater, it will never leave them. A variety of lifelong physical complications and psychological ailments can stem from a meeting with it and it never stops pursuing its prey, even if they move far away. It will also track down any living thing that leaves its scent on a victim. This leads to the Magna Pater consuming the families of those it hunts, along with anyone those families had come into recent physical contact with. Though one may travel often and abroad, once the Magna Pater has chosen a victim their fate is inevitable. It could take days, weeks, months, even years, but eventually on some cold and moonless evening one will awaken to see a sticky face with dead eyes peering through their bedroom window.
(Drawing found in the desk of ten year old Vidya Singh, who went missing in Kanpur, India, two months after claiming to have seen a demon in his backyard.)
History:
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Once in a millennium does a creature awaken, a primal horror that represents the physical manifestation of an ethereal, reincarnating monster originating in and as a part of an eternal non-Euclidean nightmare extending past the boundaries of reality. The literal translation of the creature's name, and the name of the nightmare (for it resides within itself) is that of the "Great Father", as many other monsters come from it. In order to fully influence other spheres with its presence, it must obey most of the natural and dimensional laws present. As such, it casts forth a tangible extension of itself. Through this physical presence it may gradually submit other lifeforms and habitats to its will and alter their fundamental states of being. The Magna Pater stalks alone, for it is greedy and does not abide its own kind, but always has one lived. It is the alpha of its mindless subspecies, who thrash and writhe in a charnel chaos of endless autocannibalism amongst the desolation of the heavenly bodies the Magna Pater has ravaged. When all other life is gone, the brood eat and grow off of each other as a self-sustaining conglomerate organism that is its own ecosystem.
Only when the lone alpha dies is a new one conceived in the nightmare, as a new Magna Pater recycled. At this point in time does a special one exist, the worst that has ever lived, who was known by the humans of old as "The Sleeper of the Clandestine". Such is its cunning that it has learned to retrieve its memories via the psychic link to its vast brood scattered throughout time and space. It can live again as itself after death, when one-hundred years of incubation has passed. Only can the Magna Pater be permanently stopped if its pneuma, its true state of being, is destroyed or sealed away. Though it is exceedingly difficult to entirely destroy the full entity, as each brood carries with it a fragment of the whole, which in and of itself exists in abstract form, the Magna Pater can be ultimately contained and stopped potentially forever by capturing its pneuma, which leaves its eyes when it dies, in a stone of turquoise weighing at least five pounds. Turquoise was regarded by Aztecs and Native Americans alike to be the holiest of stones, and infinitely more potent than a woven dreamcatcher at stifling nightmares. Such is the truth.
It travels far and with little preference, drawn to whatever realm has foolishly called it via black magic. In Sumeria it was worshipped as an obscure and cruel deity to which countless sacrifices were made. Before the Seminole Wars it was dreaded by the Creek Indians, who gave it many names and forms, as it was too wicked a thing to exist under any one description. Even the most vile of devils balk at associating with it. Like each Magna Pater before it, it wields the unique capacity to share the senses, memories, and will of its subspecies, which it can use to wipe out entire populations. Fortunately it is a petty thing, and despite the magnitude of its origins, it remains content to personally antagonize one victim at a time. It treasures the world, but only for the sadistic pleasures it can derive from slowly bringing pain and grief to other living things.
Though it lingers not permanently on this planet, it is anchored here during times of inactivity. It haunts the secret places deep below ground, amidst a lichen hellscape of death and graverot. It slumbers upon a towering mountain of soggy bones, the bones of children, reigning over its decaying empire on a haphazard throne several thousand lives thick. Those who enter this wretched domain, where the blue sky transitions into a black void, do so at the risk of becoming yet another skeleton upon which the Magna Pater may sleep, with their loved ones soon joining them.
Theme Music:
monster makes virtually every flesh and blood creature its bitch. If it fought Xavier though, I honestly think he'd wreck the fuck out of it. It'd bite him somewhere and earn a spike through the roof of its mouth and into its brain for the trouble. Just goes to show how you gotta put thought into matchups.
Funny thing is, you kinda got me cornered. Grappling really is my favorite thing to use, and I typically finish all of my fights on the ground. Xavier is totally anti-wrestling.
You got me in a check bruh. I won't get checkmated without a balls to the wall fight though!
Sometimes matchups are like fire and ice. For example, my much beloved
Aliases: The Sleeper of the Clandestine, Shasheuss-Gux (Seminole), Salmu Pulhu (Sumerian), The Great Father
Gender: Male
Species: Living Nightmare, Primordial Vampire
Lifespan: As long as it can continue drinking blood. It doesn't age when it sleeps for years in-between large meals.
Age: 2,387 (Current Physical Form and Mental State), otherwise timeless and unrestricted by the concept of age.
Appearance: A piebald monstrosity with slime slicked flesh and no hind legs. Its only limbs are two craggy, winged arms and a powerful tail of prodigious size. It has four fingers on each hand, with the middle one bearing a claw eight inches long and capable of slicing through muscle like tissue paper. The other claws are half that length. It wears a dripping maw packed tightly with gruesome tombstone teeth, concealed beneath flabby lips pulled back into a knowing, dog-like grin. Childhood fears, once long forgotten, echo dimly throughout its unseeing, oily eyes. These features are accentuated by long, crinkle cut ears and wrinkled leaf nostrils. It has a sharp, hollow tongue which can extend three feet from its mouth and act as a siphon to suck in blood. Dermal branchial papulae, like the thousands of little tube-like legs on a starfish, coat its skin and protrude whenever it is beneath water or drenched in slime. When inactive the respiratory feelers retreat into the body, leaving the flesh porus and spongy.
It is without a reflection and the monster's motion and form exhibit a surreal, dreamy quality that offends the basic innermost sensibilities of any remotely natural or sane organism. From snout to tail base it's over eight feet long. The tail is fourteen feet, and each arm is six foot five to the wrist. It weighs in at about two-hundred and ninety-five kilos, as much as a Siberian tiger.
Abilities
~Limited flight. Due to its wingspan and body weight, it can only glide.
~Ectothermic: Its body temperature adjusts to match its surroundings. It can withstand the hottest or coldest environments.
~Tremendous strength, speed, and agility, the likes of which dominate the animal kingdom.
~Keen hearing and sonar. It's echolocation has a maximum distance of 6,700 meters and can detect objects moving at half the speed of sound. Its hearing is so good it can locate a victim even through miles of dense forest and with its back turned. Anything faster than its echolocation it can sense almost instantly via air pressure gradient.
~Breathing: The Magna Pater respirates via both lungs and tracheae located all over its body. The tracheae are highly developed and allow it to survive in every kind of atmosphere or lack thereof.
~Stealth: Its mucous gums up and muffles any minor sounds it may make when sneaking, and it is immune to any magical or supernatural detection that doesn't naturally or scientifically originate within the five known senses. That is to say, it cannot be located via any sixth sense. It is, however, unable to change color or camouflage itself, and as such rarely stalks during the day. One with sharp eyes or a sharper wit might be capable of finding it.
~Heat pits: Can detect all forms of heat and energy. This includes light itself.
~Tongue: Can draw in blood through a wound like a vacuum. It can also squirt or spray blood and bile. The bile is not highly acidic.
~Natural weapons: Its teeth and claws are composed of a complex chitin and protein polymer, harder and sharper than a Humboldt squid's beak, which can pierce modern body armor. The Magna Pater's bite force is superior to what a Nile crocodile can exert. Its tail has nearly 90,000 muscles, flexible enough to delicately pick up small pebbles, and strong enough to accelerate to whip-like striking speeds or strangle large animals.
~Can squeeze into any opening that it can fit its head through.
~Capable of entering a state of metabolic stasis which can last for decades. It retains spatial awareness during this "hibernation" and can awaken at will.
~Sense of smell: It can track down others thousands of kilometers away just by smelling them on the clothing of its prey.
~The Pull: The Magna Pater and the places it most often visits bear a quality that faintly arouses a victim's morbid curiosity when nearby. This doesn't work if one is aware of the monster's presence. As an example, were the Magna Pater to be waiting outside of a locked window, the victim may feel vaguely compelled to go to said window and look out, but not unlock the window after sighting the horror beyond it. The monster can decide whether or not a victim feels the "Pull". It has scarcely any effect on those with a strong will and a firm grasp of what is real, since the Pull is predominantly meant to snare children.
~Intelligence: Is far more clever that it looks. It has nearly two millennia of experience as a highly prolific interdimensional serial killer, can grasp (but not speak) all languages, and never makes the same mistake twice.
~Can quickly regenerate from wounds by consuming blood and flesh. The amount of mass healed is proportionate to how much is consumed, I.E one pound of food to replace one pound of damaged tissue. It can selectively heal different parts of its body, and any excess food it eats is stored for later regeneration. It can hold up to 110 kilos of food in its stomach.
~The membrane of its wings is tougher than Kevlar, and can easily stop bullets of the highest caliber.
~Its body mucous and saliva contains anticoagulant, cytotoxic, and bufotoxic properties. Those whom it bites or claws will suffer gradual necrosis, unstoppable bleeding, and fast-acting, nightmarish hallucinations. Supernatural forms of healing are drastically hindered where the Magna Pater's juices are concerned, the anticoagulant preventing even magic from clotting or regenerating blood cells, although the monster is immune to its own toxins.
The speed at which the bufotoxins take effect depends on how close the wound is to the head, ranging from several minutes to several seconds.
The viscosity of the mucous can be regulated, allowing the Magna Pater to be extremely slippery or adhesive. The mucous at its stickiest can bind even the strongest of life forms, deaden the momentum of heavy impacts, and tear off the skin and muscle of any victims that are unfortunate enough to come into contact with it.
The mucous functions also to mask its scent.
It can convert and excrete up to twenty percent of its body weight in mucous. It becomes significantly faster when empty, and can regain the weight by eating.
~The Alpha:
~Malocchio:
~Ectothermic: Its body temperature adjusts to match its surroundings. It can withstand the hottest or coldest environments.
~Tremendous strength, speed, and agility, the likes of which dominate the animal kingdom.
~Keen hearing and sonar. It's echolocation has a maximum distance of 6,700 meters and can detect objects moving at half the speed of sound. Its hearing is so good it can locate a victim even through miles of dense forest and with its back turned. Anything faster than its echolocation it can sense almost instantly via air pressure gradient.
~Breathing: The Magna Pater respirates via both lungs and tracheae located all over its body. The tracheae are highly developed and allow it to survive in every kind of atmosphere or lack thereof.
~Stealth: Its mucous gums up and muffles any minor sounds it may make when sneaking, and it is immune to any magical or supernatural detection that doesn't naturally or scientifically originate within the five known senses. That is to say, it cannot be located via any sixth sense. It is, however, unable to change color or camouflage itself, and as such rarely stalks during the day. One with sharp eyes or a sharper wit might be capable of finding it.
~Heat pits: Can detect all forms of heat and energy. This includes light itself.
~Tongue: Can draw in blood through a wound like a vacuum. It can also squirt or spray blood and bile. The bile is not highly acidic.
~Natural weapons: Its teeth and claws are composed of a complex chitin and protein polymer, harder and sharper than a Humboldt squid's beak, which can pierce modern body armor. The Magna Pater's bite force is superior to what a Nile crocodile can exert. Its tail has nearly 90,000 muscles, flexible enough to delicately pick up small pebbles, and strong enough to accelerate to whip-like striking speeds or strangle large animals.
~Can squeeze into any opening that it can fit its head through.
~Capable of entering a state of metabolic stasis which can last for decades. It retains spatial awareness during this "hibernation" and can awaken at will.
~Sense of smell: It can track down others thousands of kilometers away just by smelling them on the clothing of its prey.
~The Pull: The Magna Pater and the places it most often visits bear a quality that faintly arouses a victim's morbid curiosity when nearby. This doesn't work if one is aware of the monster's presence. As an example, were the Magna Pater to be waiting outside of a locked window, the victim may feel vaguely compelled to go to said window and look out, but not unlock the window after sighting the horror beyond it. The monster can decide whether or not a victim feels the "Pull". It has scarcely any effect on those with a strong will and a firm grasp of what is real, since the Pull is predominantly meant to snare children.
~Intelligence: Is far more clever that it looks. It has nearly two millennia of experience as a highly prolific interdimensional serial killer, can grasp (but not speak) all languages, and never makes the same mistake twice.
~Can quickly regenerate from wounds by consuming blood and flesh. The amount of mass healed is proportionate to how much is consumed, I.E one pound of food to replace one pound of damaged tissue. It can selectively heal different parts of its body, and any excess food it eats is stored for later regeneration. It can hold up to 110 kilos of food in its stomach.
~The membrane of its wings is tougher than Kevlar, and can easily stop bullets of the highest caliber.
~Its body mucous and saliva contains anticoagulant, cytotoxic, and bufotoxic properties. Those whom it bites or claws will suffer gradual necrosis, unstoppable bleeding, and fast-acting, nightmarish hallucinations. Supernatural forms of healing are drastically hindered where the Magna Pater's juices are concerned, the anticoagulant preventing even magic from clotting or regenerating blood cells, although the monster is immune to its own toxins.
The speed at which the bufotoxins take effect depends on how close the wound is to the head, ranging from several minutes to several seconds.
The viscosity of the mucous can be regulated, allowing the Magna Pater to be extremely slippery or adhesive. The mucous at its stickiest can bind even the strongest of life forms, deaden the momentum of heavy impacts, and tear off the skin and muscle of any victims that are unfortunate enough to come into contact with it.
The mucous functions also to mask its scent.
It can convert and excrete up to twenty percent of its body weight in mucous. It becomes significantly faster when empty, and can regain the weight by eating.
~The Alpha:
Though it would never allow its young to live unless driven to desperation by an immense threat to its existence, for it is a selfish thing that dislikes sharing its hunting grounds, it is able to impose its will upon its brood of lesser vampires via shared split-consciousness. By forcefully breeding with another organism, it can produce in one month a litter of four juveniles. The juveniles are capable of killing at birth and mature after a single month whereupon they become able to breed, weighing at that time around 100 kilos each. The brood will never grow to more than 200 kilos. They are vastly inferior to the Magna Pater in terms of physical power, albeit still capable of easily tearing an adult male polar bear limb from limb. Each one can have a litter of four young, and can breed with as many victims as are available. Any sort of living organism that weighs at least seventy pounds, male or female, can be impregnated.
At such a rate the number of mature brood would grow exponentially as follows, assuming the lowest estimate of each one breeding a single time per month.
Month One- The Magna Pater breeds and the young emerge.
Month Two- Five mature brood counting the Magna Pater.
Month Four- Twenty brood.
Month Six- Eighty Brood.
Month Eight- 320 brood.
Month Ten- 1,280 brood.
Year One- 5,120 brood.
Year Two- 26,214,400 brood.
At such a rate the number of mature brood would grow exponentially as follows, assuming the lowest estimate of each one breeding a single time per month.
Month One- The Magna Pater breeds and the young emerge.
Month Two- Five mature brood counting the Magna Pater.
Month Four- Twenty brood.
Month Six- Eighty Brood.
Month Eight- 320 brood.
Month Ten- 1,280 brood.
Year One- 5,120 brood.
Year Two- 26,214,400 brood.
~Malocchio:
It may use this power by shutting down its other senses. Before it uses the Malocchio, the intended victim(s) will have a brief premonition of the danger to come. Those who see its eyes will see also a fragmentation of its true essence, and a connection will be made. It is a thoroughly foul experience with no proper comparison. Afterwards, each time the victim goes to sleep, they will enter a trance and begin moving in the direction of the Magna Pater, wherever it may be. They will awaken at the time they normally would, such as a few minutes for a nap and several hours for deep sleep. It also allows the Magna Pater to see with the eyes of its prey whenever it uses the Malocchio, even at the same time if there are multiple victims. By using the Malocchio on one who is already cursed, the victim's sight will be replaced with that of the Magna Pater's until it deactivates its eyes. As it shares the sight of any victims cursed by the Malocchio, this enables it to mix and match the eyes of any marked opponents by proxy, without requiring them to look at it so long as it has other prey to work with. This only lasts for as long as the Malocchio is sustained.
As an example, were it to mark and capture a dog and then mark a dozen humans, it could let the humans go but then repeatedly alternate their vision with that of its own, the dog's, or with each other, by making the animal look into its eyes. The only way to break the Malocchio is to kill the Magna Pater's physical body.
It is a passive curse that has no immediate negative effects unless the victim is entirely under the influence of the Magna Pater's hallucinogens, in which case the victim will immediately lose their mind from fright as the Magna Pater fully claims them into its transcendental nightmare. If the bufotoxins haven't taken full effect then the victim will feel an intense fear which escalates in accordance to the strength of the already terrifying hallucinations.
Looking into its eyes for too long can result in the victim's body becoming riddled with cancer at a later period in time, I.E developing prostate and skin cancer two years after the encounter. It takes roughly seven seconds of eye-to-eye contact (does not have to be constant) before the dormant cancer cells begin taking root.
The Magna Pater can only keep the Malocchio active for at most sixteen seconds, and cannot use it again until the same amount of time has passed. As an example, if it only uses it for ten seconds and then deactivates, then it must rest its eyes for ten seconds. The Magna Pater is able to travel to any realm or dimension that withholds a victim of the Malocchio as well. What's more, when the Malocchio is active the Magna Pater is able to touch and otherwise harm incorporeal beings.
Those that are consumed by the Magna Pater whilst cursed by the Malocchio are reduced to their "essential salts", the physical manifestation of their very being. Their consciousness is bound to these salts, and at the monster's whim it can excrete its victims and leave them to be forever lost in the earth as inert particles, the crushing weight of the ages and of their last tormented memories forming an intimate and inescapable hell. The Magna Pater can also, by consuming enough food, give "birth" to a reincarnation of a devoured victim, altering their very essence and defiling the laws of nature and spirit to create a lesser primeval vampire that wields all of the powers it had in its past life. The stronger the victim, the more powerful the primeval thrall. They are entirely subject to the Magna Pater's will, and with the telepathic connection the Magna Pater shares with all its brood, it can gain all of the life experience and knowledge that the victim had stored up before being eaten.
As an example, were it to mark and capture a dog and then mark a dozen humans, it could let the humans go but then repeatedly alternate their vision with that of its own, the dog's, or with each other, by making the animal look into its eyes. The only way to break the Malocchio is to kill the Magna Pater's physical body.
It is a passive curse that has no immediate negative effects unless the victim is entirely under the influence of the Magna Pater's hallucinogens, in which case the victim will immediately lose their mind from fright as the Magna Pater fully claims them into its transcendental nightmare. If the bufotoxins haven't taken full effect then the victim will feel an intense fear which escalates in accordance to the strength of the already terrifying hallucinations.
Looking into its eyes for too long can result in the victim's body becoming riddled with cancer at a later period in time, I.E developing prostate and skin cancer two years after the encounter. It takes roughly seven seconds of eye-to-eye contact (does not have to be constant) before the dormant cancer cells begin taking root.
The Magna Pater can only keep the Malocchio active for at most sixteen seconds, and cannot use it again until the same amount of time has passed. As an example, if it only uses it for ten seconds and then deactivates, then it must rest its eyes for ten seconds. The Magna Pater is able to travel to any realm or dimension that withholds a victim of the Malocchio as well. What's more, when the Malocchio is active the Magna Pater is able to touch and otherwise harm incorporeal beings.
Those that are consumed by the Magna Pater whilst cursed by the Malocchio are reduced to their "essential salts", the physical manifestation of their very being. Their consciousness is bound to these salts, and at the monster's whim it can excrete its victims and leave them to be forever lost in the earth as inert particles, the crushing weight of the ages and of their last tormented memories forming an intimate and inescapable hell. The Magna Pater can also, by consuming enough food, give "birth" to a reincarnation of a devoured victim, altering their very essence and defiling the laws of nature and spirit to create a lesser primeval vampire that wields all of the powers it had in its past life. The stronger the victim, the more powerful the primeval thrall. They are entirely subject to the Magna Pater's will, and with the telepathic connection the Magna Pater shares with all its brood, it can gain all of the life experience and knowledge that the victim had stored up before being eaten.
(An untranslated 18th century copy of De Vermis Mysteriis.)
Behavior/Personality: The Magna Pater is what one would first think of when the word "monster" comes to you in the dead of night.
It may be called if one completes a forbidden ritual detailed within the ancient tome of black magic known as De Vermis Mysteriis, but nary a being would consider doing such an obscene thing. It makes no noise, has no mercy, cannot be reasoned with, and lives only to drain the blood and devour the flesh of all living things it can bind within its greasy wings. Despite its incalculable intelligence, it never makes any attempts to communicate with victims. It has no desire for social interaction or for personal expression. The Magna Pater is wise in the ways of psychological torture, and knows that it is much more traumatic for a victim to not understand the nature or identity of their tormentor. Such is its cruelty that it affords its prey not even the courtesy of acknowledging them as sentient beings.
It enjoys all manner of prey and is especially inclined to go out of its way to find toddlers and infants, but it is shy and despises the light. It prefers to remain in damp pitch-blackness, where no eyes can spy it and no light can fall upon it. Areas that it has frequented for many years are imbued with distinct, otherworldly vibes, as would be felt in a grievously haunted house. Its lairs are moreso thickened with an underlying feeling of unreality, as if partly submerged in an eerie fantasy. It holds residence in the wilds of Florida, in a basalt cavern that does not flood. When outside of its primary lair it lurks around graveyards and canals. In the graveyards it may be found squirming through the wormy soil to feast upon the dead and decaying when no live meat is available. When swimming below the canals that criss-cross through Cape Coral, it preys upon the elderly and the infirm that wander to close to the murky waters.
("The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.")
It frequently impregnates victims with its brood, keeping them alive until its malformed young are birthed. It will eat both the victim and the young, doing these things not for food but to purposefully inflict prolonged torment. The few who come into contact with it and live may never be the same as they had been before, for above all else it is a creature of persistence. Even if one leaves the Magna Pater, it will never leave them. A variety of lifelong physical complications and psychological ailments can stem from a meeting with it and it never stops pursuing its prey, even if they move far away. It will also track down any living thing that leaves its scent on a victim. This leads to the Magna Pater consuming the families of those it hunts, along with anyone those families had come into recent physical contact with. Though one may travel often and abroad, once the Magna Pater has chosen a victim their fate is inevitable. It could take days, weeks, months, even years, but eventually on some cold and moonless evening one will awaken to see a sticky face with dead eyes peering through their bedroom window.
(Drawing found in the desk of ten year old Vidya Singh, who went missing in Kanpur, India, two months after claiming to have seen a demon in his backyard.)
History:
Once in a millennium does a creature awaken, a primal horror that represents the physical manifestation of an ethereal, reincarnating monster originating in and as a part of an eternal non-Euclidean nightmare extending past the boundaries of reality. The literal translation of the creature's name, and the name of the nightmare (for it resides within itself) is that of the "Great Father", as many other monsters come from it. In order to fully influence other spheres with its presence, it must obey most of the natural and dimensional laws present. As such, it casts forth a tangible extension of itself. Through this physical presence it may gradually submit other lifeforms and habitats to its will and alter their fundamental states of being. The Magna Pater stalks alone, for it is greedy and does not abide its own kind, but always has one lived. It is the alpha of its mindless subspecies, who thrash and writhe in a charnel chaos of endless autocannibalism amongst the desolation of the heavenly bodies the Magna Pater has ravaged. When all other life is gone, the brood eat and grow off of each other as a self-sustaining conglomerate organism that is its own ecosystem.
Only when the lone alpha dies is a new one conceived in the nightmare, as a new Magna Pater recycled. At this point in time does a special one exist, the worst that has ever lived, who was known by the humans of old as "The Sleeper of the Clandestine". Such is its cunning that it has learned to retrieve its memories via the psychic link to its vast brood scattered throughout time and space. It can live again as itself after death, when one-hundred years of incubation has passed. Only can the Magna Pater be permanently stopped if its pneuma, its true state of being, is destroyed or sealed away. Though it is exceedingly difficult to entirely destroy the full entity, as each brood carries with it a fragment of the whole, which in and of itself exists in abstract form, the Magna Pater can be ultimately contained and stopped potentially forever by capturing its pneuma, which leaves its eyes when it dies, in a stone of turquoise weighing at least five pounds. Turquoise was regarded by Aztecs and Native Americans alike to be the holiest of stones, and infinitely more potent than a woven dreamcatcher at stifling nightmares. Such is the truth.
It travels far and with little preference, drawn to whatever realm has foolishly called it via black magic. In Sumeria it was worshipped as an obscure and cruel deity to which countless sacrifices were made. Before the Seminole Wars it was dreaded by the Creek Indians, who gave it many names and forms, as it was too wicked a thing to exist under any one description. Even the most vile of devils balk at associating with it. Like each Magna Pater before it, it wields the unique capacity to share the senses, memories, and will of its subspecies, which it can use to wipe out entire populations. Fortunately it is a petty thing, and despite the magnitude of its origins, it remains content to personally antagonize one victim at a time. It treasures the world, but only for the sadistic pleasures it can derive from slowly bringing pain and grief to other living things.
Though it lingers not permanently on this planet, it is anchored here during times of inactivity. It haunts the secret places deep below ground, amidst a lichen hellscape of death and graverot. It slumbers upon a towering mountain of soggy bones, the bones of children, reigning over its decaying empire on a haphazard throne several thousand lives thick. Those who enter this wretched domain, where the blue sky transitions into a black void, do so at the risk of becoming yet another skeleton upon which the Magna Pater may sleep, with their loved ones soon joining them.
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Funny thing is, you kinda got me cornered. Grappling really is my favorite thing to use, and I typically finish all of my fights on the ground. Xavier is totally anti-wrestling.
You got me in a check bruh. I won't get checkmated without a balls to the wall fight though!
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Xavier Bloodbayne The Man. The Myth. The Legend.
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Sorry man, shit gothe hectic for awhile there. Expecting a baby soon-is!
I'll post soon though.
I'll post soon though.
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I gave your post a good look over, so now I just have to reply within the weekend.
There were a few... complications with my wife's pregnancy that had me ridiculously stressed the last few says.. BUT! After an appointment yesterday with baby ultrasound specialists they told us the other Dr's just didn't know what they were looking at. So they just told us what they THOUGHT they saw and scared the hell out of us. But thankfully everything is perfect!
There were a few... complications with my wife's pregnancy that had me ridiculously stressed the last few says.. BUT! After an appointment yesterday with baby ultrasound specialists they told us the other Dr's just didn't know what they were looking at. So they just told us what they THOUGHT they saw and scared the hell out of us. But thankfully everything is perfect!
Xavier Bloodbayne The Man. The Myth. The Legend.
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We may need a judge in here for this one lol regardless of the outcome we should go at it again! Just power up a character so we can fight on another level!
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