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Noble Arms: The ASEAN War - Thread Three, the Darkest Hour

Michaela "Mikey" Rangel

Appearance:

Height: 5'9"
Weight: 170lb
Eyes: Brown-hazel

Name: Michaela "Mikey" Rangel

Age: 20

Nationality: Mexican-American; US Citizen

Noble Arm Name & Appearance: [Angel Duster] is an M1 Carbine. In most respects it looks like an ordinary weapon, but it has two cosmetic modifications. One is wooden stock, which has been carved on both sides into a relief of an angel's wing; the other is the sling, which embroidered with fractal patterns in subdued, unsaturated colors.

Noble Arm Rank:

Overall: C

Power: D (It's Bullets^TM)
Speed: C
Range: B (~300m effective range, no splash effect)
Persistence: B
Precision: S (Precision is dependent on Mikey's own marksmanship, rather than any property of Angel Duster itself)
Potential: C

Noble Arm Type, Element, and Range: Transposition / Support / Long Range

Noble Arm Abilities:

Note: Maximum range of all abilities is the maximum effective range of the weapon, i.e. 300m

• [Get It] - Objects shot with Angel Duster can be "captured" and stored in its automatically reloading magazine. The objects captured this way are not harmed by the impact of the bullet. Angel Duster cannot capture anything with a soul (i.e. people) or any object larger than Mikey herself, and it can only store 15 objects maximum at any time. Objects stored this way are frozen in time until they are freed. Objects can be freed either by Mikey manually ejecting the magazine and finding the bullet containing it, or via the ability below.
• [Love Again] - Objects stored using Get It can be loaded into the chambered bullet and fired; when the bullet they are loaded into impacts something, the object appears again.
• [Panther Like a Panther] - Mikey can load herself into Angel Duster and shoot herself at a target as with Love Again.

Misc Abilities:

• Though barely a soldier, Mikey has had intensive training; in addition to basic military training, she's received additional training as a designated marksman, in addition to the intense small-unit training given to all NA wielders in the US Armed Forces.
• Related to the above, Mikey is a talented (though not supernaturally gifted) marksman, and is only getting better as she gains more experience.
• Mikey's favored sport of choice is free-running; she's been doing it since she started high school, and she's pretty good at it
• She has a pleasant singing voice, and can play the harmonica

Personality:

*Likes:
- Fruit cups with tajin and chamoy
- Kimbap
- Freerunning
- Trashy fantasy/romance novels

*Dislikes:
- Chocolate
- Overbearing commanders
- Violence
- Horror movies

Fears: Losing her family; being stuck in the military forever

Bio: Mikey was born in 2002, to immigrant parents living in Santa Ana, CA. The oldest of five and the first person in her family to have US citizenship, she lived a relatively normal childhood--going to school, getting decent grades, and so on. Her parents' undocumented status caused them some hardship, and her family was never wealthy, but overall her life was a happy one. The summer before her senior year in high school, her future looked bright, and she was beginning to apply to colleges where she planned to pursue an engineering degree.

Unfortunately, that same summer was the one in which her parents were threatened with deportation. Worse yet, Mikey was partially responsible; she had fallen in with a crowd of troublemakers, and her arrest for trespassing was the event that led the authorities to zero in on her famliy. Yet, regardless of whose fault it might be, the important fact was that her parents, both brought over from Mexico when they were young children, were at risk of being ripped away from her and her siblings, and there was no way her family was going to stay together in the aftermath.

Those months where her parents were held in detention were the worst of Mikey's life (at least, up until then). It was the stress of that situation which led Mikey to manifest her Noble Arm, and in turn for an Army officer to approach her with a deal. Join the military--become a gun in the hand of Uncle Sam--and the Army would keep her family together.

It would be a lie to say she didn't hesitate, but she also didn't see any other choice. She dropped out of her senior year of high school, enrolled in the army, and was put through intense training to bring out the potential of her Noble Arm. She did not exactly excel at this; though she had always been athletic and turned out to be a natural marksman, she was temperamentally unsuited to military discipline, and likely would have been discharged before the end of basic training were she not considered a vital military asset.

The last time she saw her family in person was during her Basic Military Training graduation, at age 18. Once the ceremony was complete and her bags were packed, she was shipped across the country to be attached to a special forces unit.

The last two years for her have been filled mostly with additional training; she has yet to get any experience in the field, due to factors including the US's isolationist military policy, her relative inexperience, and her superiors' lack of faith in her abilities. However, with the US now entering the ASEAN war, she has been earmarked as a "unit" that the Joint Chiefs can deploy as a show of support for their new allies without diverting any of the Arms masters they consider more valuable, and it's in that capacity that she's been seconded to Task Force Obsidian.

Current Goal: Survive, without running away.

Rank: Warrant Officer (WO1), US Army

Mikey's color is 7b8973

Noble Arms: The ASEAN War - Thread Three, the Darkest Hour

yep, here it is

Michaela "Mikey" Rangel

Appearance:

Height: 5'9"
Weight: 170lb
Eyes: Brown-hazel

Name: Michaela "Mikey" Rangel

Age: 20

Nationality: Mexican-American; US Citizen

Noble Arm Name & Appearance: [Angel Duster] is an M1 Carbine. In most respects it looks like an ordinary weapon, but it has two cosmetic modifications. One is wooden stock, which has been carved on both sides into a relief of an angel's wing; the other is the sling, which embroidered with fractal patterns in subdued, unsaturated colors.

Noble Arm Rank:

Overall: C

Power: D (It's Bullets^TM)
Speed: C
Range: C (~300m effective range, no splash effect)
Persistence: B
Precision: S (Precision is dependent on Mikey's own marksmanship, rather than any property of Angel Duster itself)
Potential: C

Noble Arm Type, Element, and Range: Transposition / Support / Long Range

Noble Arm Abilities:

Note: Maximum range of all abilities is the maximum effective range of the weapon, i.e. 300m

• [Get It] - Objects shot with Angel Duster can be "captured" and stored in its automatically reloading magazine. The objects captured this way are not harmed by the impact of the bullet. Angel Duster cannot capture anything with a soul (i.e. people) or any object larger than Mikey herself, and it can only store 15 objects maximum at any time. Objects stored this way are frozen in time until they are freed. Objects can be freed either by Mikey manually ejecting the magazine and finding the bullet containing it, or via the ability below.
• [Love Again] - Objects stored using Get It can be loaded into the chambered bullet and fired; when the bullet they are loaded into impacts something, the object appears again.
• [Panther Like a Panther] - Mikey can load herself into Angel Duster and shoot herself at a target as with Love Again.

Misc Abilities:

• Though barely a soldier, Mikey has had intensive training; in addition to basic military training, she's received additional training as a designated marksman, in addition to the intense small-unit training given to all NA wielders in the US Armed Forces.
• Related to the above, Mikey is a talented (though not supernaturally gifted) marksman, and is only getting better as she gains more experience.
• Mikey's favored sport of choice is free-running; she's been doing it since she started high school, and she's pretty good at it
• She has a pleasant singing voice, and can play the harmonica

Personality:

*Likes:
- Fruit cups with tajin and chamoy
- Kimbap
- Freerunning
- Trashy fantasy/romance novels

*Dislikes:
- Chocolate
- Overbearing commanders
- Violence
- Horror movies

Fears: Losing her family; being stuck in the military forever

Bio: Mikey was born in 2002, to immigrant parents living in Santa Ana, CA. The oldest of five and the first person in her family to have US citizenship, she lived a relatively normal childhood--going to school, getting decent grades, and so on. Her parents' undocumented status caused them some hardship, and her family was never wealthy, but overall her life was a happy one. The summer before her senior year in high school, her future looked bright, and she was beginning to apply to colleges where she planned to pursue an engineering degree.

Unfortunately, that same summer was the one in which her parents were threatened with deportation. Worse yet, Mikey was partially responsible; she had fallen in with a crowd of troublemakers, and her arrest for trespassing was the event that led the authorities to zero in on her famliy. Yet, regardless of whose fault it might be, the important fact was that her parents, both brought over from Mexico when they were young children, were at risk of being ripped away from her and her siblings, and there was no way her family was going to stay together in the aftermath.

Those months where her parents were held in detention were the worst of Mikey's life (at least, up until then). It was the stress of that situation which led Mikey to manifest her Noble Arm, and in turn for an Army officer to approach her with a deal. Join the military--become a gun in the hand of Uncle Sam--and the Army would keep her family together.

It would be a lie to say she didn't hesitate, but she also didn't see any other choice. She dropped out of her senior year of high school, enrolled in the army, and was put through intense training to bring out the potential of her Noble Arm. She did not exactly excel at this; though she had always been athletic and turned out to be a natural marksman, she was temperamentally unsuited to military discipline, and likely would have been discharged before the end of basic training were she not considered a vital military asset.

The last time she saw her family in person was during her Basic Military Training graduation, at age 18. Once the ceremony was complete and her bags were packed, she was shipped across the country to be attached to a special forces unit.

The last two years for her have been filled mostly with additional training; she has yet to get any experience in the field, due to factors including the US's isolationist military policy, her relative inexperience, and her superiors' lack of faith in her abilities. However, with the US now entering the ASEAN war, she has been earmarked as a "unit" that the Joint Chiefs can deploy as a show of support for their new allies without diverting any of the Arms masters they consider more valuable, and it's in that capacity that she's been seconded to Task Force Obsidian.

Current Goal: Survive, without running away.

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

The Crow catches sight of his target from the skies, and as he does so, feels the buzzing in the air increase. So many shiny things here! So much more than he previously realised! It's almost overwhelming as the Crow sees all the ways he could attempt to stop this man in his tracks. However, when he took a closer look at the individual in question, something about him drew the Crow's focus.

Something shiny in one of the man's pockets.

Suddenly, the goal he had been given by Ashley vanished from his mind as curiosity and pride in his newfound abilities took over.

He motions with a talon as if he was trying to scoop something up, trying to hone in on that object in the man's pocket and pull it towards himself.

@XxFellsingxX

Strength - Positive - You triumph through force

The Crow, if the pile of cutlery laying on the floor of Mario's is anything to judge by, your skill with your new power still falls short of your full potential. In this situation, though, that turns out not to matter. You beckon the shiny object you spotted within the man's jacket. It responds to your command as if it were Thor's hammer, being called by its rightful owner (and when you think about it, if this guy can't hold onto his stuff, don't you have a better claim to it anyway?) The force you exert throws the man off balance for a second--he can't have failed to notice the pull on his clothing--but whether by coincidence or corvid cunning, you timed your move just as a teenager brushes past your target, and you see him turn to bark an angry word rather than follow the object's flight up into the sky.

What reaches your talon is a smallish leather wallet. It folds in half, but is currently inverted. The glint you saw was a shield-shaped object, painted in gold and inlaid with various other colors, silver predominating. You've seen these before, pinned to the clothing of strangely dressed humans, but you're not sure you've ever seen one carried in a wallet like this. Across the top, silver letters read IDLN; another line curved along the bottom reads FIELD AGENT. There's something in the other flap of the wallet, but you can't see it right away, because a cheap plastic smartphone has been attached to that flap with a thick rubber band.

Game Stats

Phantom Clock: 1 PM
Party Experience: 0
Fate Deck: 15/22

Luka Durand

Damage Track: Fresh

Emily Sanderson

Damage Track: Fresh
Other:

• -1 Forward

Ashley Whitlock

Damage Track: Fresh
Ready For Anything:

• The Fool - Neutral - You become who you are needed to be in this moment
• The Hermit - Neutral - Your actions isolate you
• The World - Positive - For a single moment, the world bends to your will

The Crow

Damage Track: Fresh

Noble Arms: The ASEAN War - Thread Three, the Darkest Hour

Not sure if we're supposed to post char sheets here for review, but here's what I've got.

Michaela "Mikey" Rangel

Appearance:

Height: 5'9"
Weight: 170lb
Eyes: Brown-hazel

Name: Michaela "Mikey" Rangel

Age: 20

Nationality: Mexican-American; US Citizen

Noble Arm Name & Appearance: [Angel Duster] is an M1 Carbine. In most respects it looks like an ordinary weapon, but it has two cosmetic modifications. One is wooden stock, which has been carved on both sides into a relief of an angel's wing; the other is the sling, which embroidered with fractal patterns in subdued, unsaturated colors.

Noble Arm Rank:

Overall: C

Power: D (It's Bullets^TM)
Speed: C
Range: C (~300m effective range, no splash effect)
Persistence: B
Precision: S (Precision is dependent on Mikey's own marksmanship, rather than any property of Angel Duster itself)
Potential: C

Noble Arm Type, Element, and Range: Transposition / Support / Long Range

Noble Arm Abilities:

Note: Maximum range of all abilities is the maximum effective range of the weapon, i.e. 300m

• [Get It] - Objects shot with Angel Duster can be "captured" and stored in its automatically reloading magazine. The objects captured this way are not harmed by the impact of the bullet. Angel Duster cannot capture anything with a soul (i.e. people) or any object larger than Mikey herself, and it can only store 15 objects maximum at any time. Objects stored this way are frozen in time until they are freed. Objects can be freed either by Mikey manually ejecting the magazine and finding the bullet containing it, or via the ability below.
• [Love Again] - Objects stored using Get It can be loaded into the chambered bullet and fired; when the bullet they are loaded into impacts something, the object appears again.
• [Panther Like a Panther] - Mikey can load herself into Angel Duster and shoot herself at a target as with Love Again.

Misc Abilities:

• Though barely a soldier, Mikey has had intensive training; in addition to basic military training, she's received additional training as a designated marksman, in addition to the intense small-unit training given to all NA wielders in the US Armed Forces.
• Related to the above, Mikey is a talented (though not supernaturally gifted) marksman, and is only getting better as she gains more experience.
• Mikey's favored sport of choice is free-running; she's been doing it since she started high school, and she's pretty good at it
• She has a pleasant singing voice, and can play the harmonica

Personality:

*Likes:
- Fruit cups with tajin and chamoy
- Kimbap
- Freerunning
- Trashy fantasy/romance novels

*Dislikes:
- Chocolate
- Overbearing commanders
- Violence
- Horror movies

Fears: Losing her family; being stuck in the military forever

Bio: Mikey was born in 2002, to immigrant parents living in Santa Ana, CA. The oldest of five and the first person in her family to have US citizenship, she lived a relatively normal childhood--going to school, getting decent grades, and so on. Her parents' undocumented status caused them some hardship, and her family was never wealthy, but overall her life was a happy one. The summer before her senior year in high school, her future looked bright, and she was beginning to apply to colleges where she planned to pursue an engineering degree.

Unfortunately, that same summer was the one in which her parents were threatened with deportation. Worse yet, Mikey was partially responsible; she had fallen in with a crowd of troublemakers, and her arrest for trespassing was the event that led the authorities to zero in on her famliy. Yet, regardless of whose fault it might be, the important fact was that her parents, both brought over from Mexico when they were young children, were at risk of being ripped away from her and her siblings, and there was no way her family was going to stay together in the aftermath.

Those months where her parents were held in detention were the worst of Mikey's life (at least, up until then). It was the stress of that situation which led Mikey to manifest her Noble Arm, and in turn for an Army officer to approach her with a deal. Join the military--become a gun in the hand of Uncle Sam--and the Army would keep her family together.

It would be a lie to say she didn't hesitate, but she also didn't see any other choice. She dropped out of her senior year of high school, enrolled in the army, and was put through intense training to bring out the potential of her Noble Arm. She did not exactly excel at this; though she had always been athletic and turned out to be a natural marksman, she was temperamentally unsuited to military discipline, and likely would have been discharged before the end of basic training were she not considered a vital military asset.

The last time she saw her family in person was during her Basic Military Training graduation, at age 18. Once the ceremony was complete and her bags were packed, she was shipped across the country to be attached to a special forces unit.

The last two years for her have been filled mostly with additional training; she has yet to get any experience in the field, due to factors including the US's isolationist military policy, her relative inexperience, and her superiors' lack of faith in her abilities. However, with the US now entering the ASEAN war, she has been earmarked as a "unit" that the Joint Chiefs can deploy as a show of support for their new allies without diverting any of the Arms masters they consider more valuable, and it's in that capacity that she's been seconded to Task Force Obsidian.

Current Goal: Survive, without running away.

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

@XxFellsingxX This sounds like a plain ol' Challenge Fate (ELE) to me. Your ELE is 3, so you get to pick from:

Judgment - Negative - Your past mistakes catch up to you
Strength - Positive - You triumph through force
The Hierophant - Neutral - You discover something

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

"Huh..." the Crow tilted his head to the side. "Well, I probably don't need that many-" As he said this, the ball fell to the ground with a loud clatter, save one lone steak knife which remained suspended in the air. "Er, yeah, that... that'll do." He reached out towards it and the knife came floating over to him. He grabbed in his beak. "I'll be right back!" he said... or at least, he tried to say, at least. Then he flew out of the diner, knife still in beak, and began surveying for the man in question.

@XxFellsingxX

Investigate
Who is in control? - The Magician - Positive - You achieve the impossible

The Crow takes to the sky above the busy street to begin the hunt. They say an eagle can spot its prey a mile distant, and some hawks can reach dive speeds of over a hundred miles an hour. But this is your territory; even before your rebirth, no hawk or eagle could have matched you as a hunter here. Now, with your newly uplifted intelligence and the power of your soul singing through the hollows of your bones, tracking someone down here of all places is as easy as flying.

Your eyes are immediately drawn to the sidewalk about a block down. From your bird's eye view, you first spot the spindly goat creature that Ashley saw in her vision. Despite having wings, it's running down the sidewalk, pushing its way past pedestrians and knocking over objects placed on the street. Though the people it rushes past are taken aback, they don't seem to track the thing that just pushed past them. There's one exception to that--one man who seems to be locked on to the bat-winged creature--and it takes you but a second to determine that it's the man Ashley sent you to find.

What weaknesses can I exploit? - The Lovers - Neutral - You are faced with two paths

You know where this guy is and where he's heading. He doesn't even know you exist. There are a number of metal objects either on or adjacent to the sidewalk--bicycles, metal trash cans, car doors, etc. An hour earlier, moving anything big enough to trip him would have been beyond your abilities, but now...

While contemplating the possibilities, you spot something else. The man's suit jacket is flapping in the wind as he runs, and hanging from an inside pocket is something that gleams silver and gold in the morning sunlight. Your newfound senses tell you that the object is metallic--you may be able to use your Eidolon to steal whatever that is from him. If you focus on that, though, you probably won't have time to do anything to slow him down.

Game Stats

Phantom Clock: 1 PM

Luka Durand

Damage Track: Fresh

Emily Sanderson

Damage Track: Fresh
Other:

• -1 Forward

Ashley Whitlock

Damage Track: Fresh
Ready For Anything:

• The Fool - Neutral - You become who you are needed to be in this moment
• The Hermit - Neutral - Your actions isolate you
• The World - Positive - For a single moment, the world bends to your will

The Crow

Damage Track: Fresh

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

I'm sorry guys, but I gotta...

Emily: Let me see what you have!
The Crow: A knife!
Emily: No!
Luka: Oh my god, why does he have a knife?

@XxFellsingxX

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

@XxFellsingxX, your GEN is 2, so you get the following cards for Investigate:

The Lovers - Neutral - You are faced with two paths
The Magician - Positive - You achieve the impossible

Which question do you want for each card?

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

Ok, for the record, I fully did not know that the Jersey Devil had already been used in a MegaTen game before I went searching for pictures lmao

Eidolon: Conspiracy Theory

Ashley closed her eyes and began to 'feel' harder, what Emily did showed her that the future can change and such process is something she could feel so that makes her wonder.

Could she see the future? There is only one way to find out.

@Digmata

Investigate
Who's in control? - The World - Positive - For a single moment, the world bends to your will

Ashley, you focus in on that sensation. At first, it's almost like deja vu; you have the feeling that you've seen all this play out before, in some half-remembered past time. Consciously reaching for that power, you begin to dial it in like a radio, seeking more clarity and farther reach. It starts fuzzy and indistinct. The sense of deja vu intensifies, and you begin to catch little scraps of images, impressions of sound. Then something clicks--there's a second of vertigo--and you see...

Well, it's still the diner. All of the staff and customers have cleared out, except for your table. Ashley, Luka, and The Crow are still discussing and/or arguing over the best course of action. So are you, for that matter, but the "you" that is doing the arguing isn't the same as the "you" that is doing the perceiving. Glancing at a nearby clock, you see that your vision has taken you only about two minutes in the future. Not very far, but apparently far enough, because no sooner do you have time to register the information than the door of the restaurant flies open, jingling the hanging bells and sending classified scattering across the floor.

This time, though, you can see the creature that comes through the door. Its strange, elongated body looks tall, but upon second glance, it probably only comes up to your chest. It stands on cloven hooves that support too-thin legs; its upper body and face are that of a goat, but the neck is far too long, and great bat wings extend from its back. It has hooved forelimbs as well, but it seems to be bipedal, though its hooves slip and slide on the diner's tile floor.

It falls to the ground as it crashes in the diner, but immediately regains its footing and starts scrambling past the booths, making a break for the back of the restaurant. Its face is alien to you, but something in its expression and manner tells you that the creature is terrified and running from something. At the very least, it's definitely not the one in control here.

Out the front window of the diner, you see someone running down the sidewalk towards the restaurant. You're not sure what draws your attention to him initially--it's New York City, someone running down the sidewalk isn't exactly unheard of--but your eyes are on him as he skids to a stop in front of the diner. He's wearing a basic, black suit and tie with a white shirt, off the rack rather than tailored. His dark hair is cut Marine-style, high and tight. His face is red from exertion, and several band-aids have been stuck to it to cover small cuts. As he slows to a stop, he makes a gun with one hand and holds it out. His hand, like his face, is covered in band-aids, and as he points it at the creature, you see something start to materialize behind him. Just before the vision ends, the apparition's head takes the form, looking over his shoulder; it is a small metal drum, smiley face painted on it with safety orange, and a lit fuse extending from the top.

Then you blink, and you're back in the present.

Game Stats

Phantom Clock: 1 PM

Luka Durand

Damage Track: Fresh

Emily Sanderson

Damage Track: Fresh
Other:

• -1 Forward

Ashley Whitlock

Damage Track: Fresh
Ready For Anything:

• The Fool - Neutral - You become who you are needed to be in this moment
• The Hermit - Neutral - Your actions isolate you
• The World - Positive - For a single moment, the world bends to your will

The Crow

Damage Track: Fresh