[OOC] Open Challenge

[Schradinger]

You stated semi-humanoid, and the 14 hand style led me to believe he had eight additional limbs to use besides his actual hands. Regardless, he'll make for an interesting fight, that's for sure.

[LeeRoy]

Nah, 14 hands is to indicate everything that he actually uses as his hands.

6 hands.
6 elbows..
2 feet.

Semi-humanoid was the wrong word.

[Schradinger]

What about the knees?

And do the elbows and feet have the hit everything reflective coating as well?

[LeeRoy]

Doesn't use his knees, letting his knees get grabbed in combat is a sure way to have your leg broken. It's easy to get your foot out of someone's grip, it's hard to get your knee out.

And no, just his hands.

[Schradinger]

Alright. Sounds good. I've got a partially completed CS sitting in a stash somewhere that I'll probably pull out for this. Give me a bit and I'll have it posted.

[Vordak]

Name: Vos'stoorge Sabal Koman
Race: Ascended Human
Arcane Prowess: High Apprentice, Rank 4 of 348
Weight: 148 lb
Height: 5 feet 11 inches

Appearence

Physical Characterisitics

As an Ascended Human, Vos'stoorg has intense magic coursing through him, enhacing physical ability beyond nature's limits. Intense anaerobic exercise stimulated the growth of fast twitch muscles, leaving him with the stamina of a human warrior, but his speed, agility and burst strength are greater, the mage being able to sprint at 18 MPH, superbly move on complicated terrain, such as sand, and lift a little over 360 lb. His body is also quite tough, muscle comparable in strength to strands of bamboo and bone twice as durable as a human's. Vos'stoorge also has well trained eyes, able to measure an object by just looking at it and visualize an attacks trajectory with ease, perfecting his use of the Killer Ring spell to strike with pinpoint accuracy.

Abilities

As a High Apprentice, Vos'stoorge knows a few spells, and as he has chosen the path of a Mageblade, a couple use melee weapons as a channel, unable to be casted otherwise. The rest enhance either his physical ability and hand-to-hand attacks, or serve to dazzle and disorientate the opponent.

Offensive Spells

[Pulse]: casted through a weapon, this spell creates a mild pressure wave, strong enough to blow a wooden plank apart in close vicinity. Usualy, it cannot injure the caster, directed outwards, but one can never be too careful.

[The Killer's Ring]: an exeptionaly deadly and cunning spell, it creates energy blades that duplicate the casters strike, all of them alinged to create a circle together with the main strike.
The circle itself lies parallel to the ground (horizon), in front of the caster, and the spacing between the blades always remains equal.
The blades, including the master, have their pommels lying on the circle's perimeter as a starting point. All energy blades move independently of each other, meaning that if one is blocked, - and that surely can be done, as the energy acts as a rigid structure - the rest will continue moving. Only an interruption to the master blade will spread to the others. If any of the energy duplicates touch each other, or the master blade's aura (explained below), they dissapte in order to avoid complications.
During the casting, the weapon's blade is enveloped in a ghastly blue aura that reads its movement and translates it to the duplicates; also, an audiable humming can be heard, emmited by the constant surge of energy phasing into the physical plane.
Vos'stoorg can currently cast 4 supplementary blades, creating a star formantion; charging the spell, he can double the amount of blades with each turn: 8, 16, 32. As for the initial radius of the circle, its minimal value is 10 inches; the maximum - 20 feet.

[Ignition Strike]: an enhancing spell with a quite pellicular effect: 2/3 of the kinetic energy the caster exerts upon a surface with any part of his body is transforms into heat. This allows to ignite objects with multiple strikes, an Ascended Human's strength coming into play here. The spell ignores clothes on the caster and does not transform the kinetic energy exerted upon them.

Enhacments

[Boulder Gut]: to activate this spell after casting, the user must flex the muscle they wish to be affected. This triggers a 300% increase of its resitance to stress, negating unavoidable attacks to certain extent.

Deceptive Spells

[Pepper Mist]: this spell releases a small cloud of burning chemicals, irritating the target's skin and eyes.

[Black And White]: this one acts by creating an aura around the target, which absorbs the majority of visible (to a human) electromagnetic waves, storing them inside. The target is trapped in low light enviroment for some time (2 turns), their pupils eventualy dilating to adapt. That is when the aura releases all the built up light in a flash, harmless to anybody else - but the dilated pupils are forced to recive eccess amount of light, making it blinding for the spell's target.

Equipment

Daggers: Vos'stoorge carries around 6 high-grade steel daggers, two of which are thin stilletos; the rest are thick, 4 edged thrusting daggers with a nigh cubic cross-section. The stilletos measure 7 inches in length, the 4 edged daggers - 8. While both are well suited for thrusting, the stilletos are less rigid, yet create less resistance when stabbing, while the 4 edged daggers are used to punch through thick plate armor.

Danwarge: a little more versalite than the daggers, this shortsword is his main weapon. The blade measuring 20 inches in length and slightly less than 2 inches in width, has little taper towards the tip, exelling in cutting rather than thrusting. Made of a magical, deep violet alloy, it is flexible and
pleasantly light - yet none less durable than top-grade steel.

[Schradinger]

Sev

Name:

Subject 7, Sev

Random descriptors:

Age: At least 1,000 years old.
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 230 lbs
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Physical Description:

Personality Description:

More nuts than an entire legion of squirrels. Seriously, this guy is psychotic. Even a brief glimpse at the totality of reality has a tendency to not go so well for the human psyche.

Skills, powers and abilities:

Living Anomaly:

Sev, for all intents and purposes, cannot die. He can be cut, shot, stabbed, exploded, electrocuted, partially disintegrated, squished, crushed, mulched, smashed, mashed, melted, blasted, busted, bloated, burned, beheaded, bled out... You get the idea. Point is, his body can be severely messed up by stuff (and thangs), but never completely destroyed, and will regenerate from any damage done (though if reduced to nothing more than his skull, it'll take a while). Small cuts are healed in seconds, gaping wounds in minutes, and an amputated limb can regrow in about an hour. Yay for immortality. He's also pretty much immune to the effects of reality warping, and since his mind does an auto-reset every time it's messed with he's essentially immune to telepathy and psychic powers too (not to mention the sum total of all knowledge being crammed into his brain and making reading his thoughts an extremely risky proposition, most often causing a persistent vegetative state in the mind-reader). This anomalous-ness also tends to bleed out into anything he wears, allowing his armor and any equipment he's wearing at the time to regenerate along with him, though at a much slower rate than himself.

Enhanced Strength:

While his genetic engineering essentially made him peak human, his ability to regenerate allows him to push his muscles and bones harder than even other peak humans would be able to, granting him minor super-human strength.

Enhanced Speed:

Along the same lines as his strength, his engineered brain and nerves can stand up to the wear and tear of faster, more powerful neural impulses and allow him to react and move at low super-human speeds.

Enhanced Endurance/Durability:

Due to his body constantly re-setting itself into the state it was in just prior to his head exploding, he never seems to get tired or require food, water, or air to function. His bones and muscles can also take more punishment before breaking and tearing, though only a small amount more than any other peak human's.

Enhanced Dexterity:

He can shoot, and shoot good. Doesn't really matter what the weapon is, but as long as it shoots something he can use it with a great level of skill. A subset of this ability is that of exceptional accuracy even while dual wielding.

Character Equipment:

• Teleporter - An item he obtained in the 31st century after killing a mad scientist for a client. Teleportation within the same dimension is limited to a range of one mile, while teleportation between dimensions seems to be a fluke that happens at random. Activated by a button on Sev's belt. Takes 25 seconds to recharge between uses (5 combat posts).


• Armor - Composed of a space age alloy, the plating of this armor (partially pictured above) is capable of resisting small arms fire almost indefinitely, though will succumb to high-caliber armor-piercing rounds. It also lacks protection for his head and arms, and can be penetrated by bladed weapons between the plates.


• Whack'em'all - Slightly oversized softball bat composed of a material that when struck, redirects the force of any blow directly back at where it came from, making it an excellent defensive weapon as well as a potent offensive one, as each blow becomes twice as powerful as it would normally be.


• Combat Knives - Sev possesses four of these, carried on each calf and in two crossing sheaths at the back of his waist.

Character History:

Engineered, rather than born, into the early 22nd century, Sev was (you guessed it) the seventh of his gene sequence and the first to survive the final augmentation procedure. Though survive in this case is a fairly relative term. After being genetically engineered to be as perfect as a human can be, he was stuck in a machine that used (sciencey mumbo-jumbo) to (more sciencey mumbo jumbo) in an attempt to create what amounted to the first true super-humans. Predictably, things didn't go as planned. Instead of doing (even more sciencey mumbo-jumbo), like it was supposed to, the machine created a tear in reality that essentially stuffed Sev's head with the sum total of all knowledge in the universe, and for a brief moment, made him effectively omniscient. The only problem turned out to be the fact that a human brain wasn't made to process that kind of info, and immediately after that moment passed Sev's tiny human brain exploded into itty-bitty little pieces and splattered itself all over the walls (like, literally). Assuming he was dead, the scientists sighed in defeat and ordered the next test subject be prepped as they cleaned and re-calibrated the machine.

Unfortunately for them, a secondary effect of their mistake was the creation of what amounted to a fixed point in reality, that point being Sev himself. His brain re-grew, but his mind was still fractured, bits of universal knowledge scattered randomly throughout along with the pieces of his own life. Understandably, he had a bit of trouble coping with everything he'd experienced over the last few seconds and instinct, training, and muscle memory took over. After killing everyone in the underground facility, he made his way to the surface and for the first time in his life set foot in a place where other normal people lived (New York City). Having no knowledge of what being normal entailed (or rather, having all the knowledge of the universe but being unable to access most of it), he launched himself into a life of mercenary work that still continues even today, over a thousand years later.

Disclaimers: While he ostensibly possesses access to the sum total of all knowledge, Sev cannot use any knowledge he would not otherwise have access to (it may be referenced in character thoughts or narration, but cannot be used to influence the fight). With regards to his regeneration, any wounds that would result in instant death for a peak human will be considered an automatic loss, regardless of his ability to eventually regenerate.

[Vordak]

Hey guys. I've finished the spell section of my character, and it would be great if you gave me an okay on those spells, since some of them may be a bit too much.

[Schradinger]

I'm not quite clear on how the duplicate strikes work. Do they just spawn at the origin of the spell and follow the path of the original strike?

Aside from that though, it can't really be determined if they're overpowered or not without also seeing his other abilities.

[Vordak]

It is stated that the blades are alinged in a horizontal circle, though i still have to write in the minimum and maximum radius and add that the spacing between them is equal for all blades.

[Vordak]

I'll have to finish tomorrow, as its well past midnight for me. Might be the cause of such a sudden increase in my typo freqency.

[Schradinger]

So how are the strikes duplicated? Does the circle just spin in place? If so, for how long? And how does the user avoid getting cut to pieces? A blade spawning directly opposite their physical weapon would cut trough their own arm.

[Vordak]

Ah, forgot to add that part as well. The blades all repeat a single strike before dissapating. They exactly mimick the casters attack, real-time duplication, and if any blade happens to reach the circle's center (except the main blade), it dissapates as well. It also happens if the blades collide with each other, though that shouldn't happen if the blades are shorter than the circle's radius.

Think of it as this - when the spell is activated, the duplicates appear, all their pommels lying on the circles perimeter thogether with the master blade's pommel as well. The only diffrence between all the blades is the point they orginate from. Otherwise, they all make the same movement - the same stab, same clowckwise or counter-clockwise slash and ect.

[Schradinger]

So is the caster the circle's center? And what about vertical attacks?

[Vordak]

No, the exact opposite. The caster stands outside the cirlce, all the blades, including the master one, facing inwards.

[Schradinger]

Ah, so the idea is to place the opponent in the center and attack from four directions at once.

[Vordak]

Exactly! That is why it's called "The Killer's Ring". >:3

[Schradinger]

Why didn't you say that in the first place? :P

[Vordak]

It seemed obvious at first, and only later i realized that it isn't. Stuff happens to me sometimes.

[Schradinger]

Yeah. I know what you mean.