Dibs on an ambitious ogre manhunter who had just returned from serving a ten year old contract with High Elves. Proper hygiene and cultural enrichment have changed Gutmuncher Bochtet like prison terms change ten dollar rent boys. He was lured into this expedition by someone who told him that lizardmen have the shiniest gold and biggest enemies.q
@Artifex Oh, a little boy turned into this monstrosity because his power of "adaptive regeneration" is always-on and he pretty much abused it for several years by constantly damaging and mutilating himself in order to grow stronger - and because the adaptations get more and more extreme the more harm is inflicted.
As to where he fits in - well, I was thinking to explore the classic trashy transhumanism problems, powers separating Variants from normal people, changing them into something greater yet something less than human if they cannot control them, both mentally and in Uber's case physically.
Here's a thing. Tell me if shit is op or too grimdark or transhuman or edgy, I have a weakness for that. Reposting from a smurf account.
Name: MOSHE BIN JEOCHIM Alias: UBER Age: 16 Gender: MALE
Ideology: Unaligned - He wants to first wait and see how things shall unfold without making a decision. He shall hold onto his allegiance for as long as it is possible and decide on it only if he is backed up against a wall or sees it resonate with his being, and this strongly depends on influence of people he trusts.
Occupation: Most of the time, nothing. When he really requires money, Uber sells his tissues and fluids to research organizations or becomes subject to research himself for a compensation.
APPEARANCE
Height: 190 CM
Length: 307(W/Tail) CM
Weight: 550 KG, APPROX.
Hair Color: N/A
Eye Color: Amber
Ethnicity: N/A.
Physical Appearance: A hexapodal monstrosity looking equal parts like a scorpion, lion, very angry kraken and a granite statue, Uber is beastly in his countenance and visage. Six mighty paws ending in vicious retractable claws uphold a sizeable trunk bristling with spikes, quills, armour-plates and eyes and vestigial tentacles bursting through small chinks in the chitinous armour and rock-hard skin, rear end of it transitioning into a thick tail with a vicious stinger whilst the front seamlessly fuses into a neckless, heavily armoured head armed with a slightly protruding beak-like mouth full of hook-teeth and split tongues seeping acidic saliva. From the front of his body, just beneath the massive head, grow two long, spindly but powerful multi-jointed and vaguely human-like hands with six digits each and two opposed thumbs.
Preferred Attire: Nothing.
PERSONALITY
Outward personality: Uber is calm, friendly and overall maybe at times a bit too condescending to others, seeing as he likes to flaunt his superiority a bit. He is competitive, energetic and also often starved for attention due to the nature of his powers and as such clings tightly and carefully to all acquaintances he makes in order not to lose touch with them or destroy his friendships. However upon deciding to resort to hostilities, his bestial side shows - he relishes in his own superiority and finds perverse pleasure in inflicting damage and suffering without any retaliation. This both extremely horrifies and exhilarates him - and he is conflicted on which emotion is stronger.
Innate Traits: Competitive, Enduring, Confidant, Slow To Decide On Important Matters, Reliable(Once Befriended), Sadistic(Subconsciously).
Fears/Weakness: Being introduced to his family once again would probably inflict great suffering on Uber. He also quietly fears to one day find something that can truly kill him. Additionally, Uber likes to believe the niceness of people, making him quite easy to manipulate through attention and displays of affection.
Hobbies/Interests: Reading, Modern Music, Amateur Biological Research And Experimentation, Cheesy Comedies, Hurting Himself In New Imaginative Ways, Seeking Unscrupulous Romantic Interests
SUPERPOWERS
Class: 2, not quite sure of the colour.
Notoriety: Watched - Uber does his part. He is ready to assist with hunting the rogues, commits to the research of Variants and rarely starts trouble. However, ultimately he holds no loyalty to the organisation as a whole and is only invested due to the ease of survival that registration provides. This fact is not a secret.
Power: Adaptive Regeneration - Whatever doesn't kill Better, makes him harder, better, faster and stronger. He posesses an absolutely horrifying regenerative capabilities that knit even the most horrible wounds in matter of seconds at best and days at worst - but this is not the best thing about his ability. The true blessing, and at the same time curse is the fact, that his organism does not merely regenerate to the default form, but instead changes his body to be more resistant to the received damage in future, more able to avoid or overcome it, often in very strange ways - basically, after regenerating from a bad enough wound multiple times, he eventually becomes nigh-immune to whatever made him regenerate in the first place. He can be affected by mind-warping powers of ESPers, but will grow more and more resistant to them as time goes. Burns give his hide rubber-like and heat-resistant qualities, bullets cause his body to develop redundant organs, his meat and bone to become denser and to be provided with protection in form of a biological sort of combat armour and improve his reflexes in order to notice the incoming fire and react in time. Exposure to blinding light and long periods of nocturnal activity eventually made him develop a natural octopus-like cloaking system and his eyes to see in the dark and quickly recover after being disabled - and in addition, these eyes grow all over the body for that extremely useful 360-degree all-around awareness. After having to survive in the wilderness a long time his digestive system and metabolism changed to safely consume all organic matter, breaking it down to a swallowable state through extremely powerful acidic saliva - you get the general gist of it.
Side Effects(They don't outweigh the usefulness): One: Uber is HORRIBLY, GODAWFULLY, UNNATURALLY UGLY. He lost his human form a long, long time ago, and only gets more monstrous as the time passes. This puts most people off really quick and really hard. Uber himself too, suffers from bouts of self-consciousness at times. Two: His gigantic form requires LOTS of sustenance. A district he inhabits quickly finds its population of stray and even domestic animals dwindling and their garbage dumps unnaturally clean of all organic waste. He could probably adapt to it if he starved himself to near-death, but Uber doesn't want to check that one at all - hunger TORMENTS him. Three: He sometimes gets... feral urges. Direct, harsh and evil mockery or disrespect might cause him to involuntarily frenzy and assert his dominance by spitting a glob of flesh-melting acid at the offender or such. His spine and large nerve clusters of the vegetative nervous system grew thick and powerful to compensate for the main brain in case it gets destroyed or damaged and as such at times he reacts faster than he can think - swiping his deadly tail at something that startles him by somehow sneaking up from behind or waking him from sleep, even if it is actually an ally.
BACKGROUND
History: Writing a big and well, properly written thing in a pad rn, here's a short version: he was a good studious little boy from a jewish-american family who once went out camping with his parents and friends. Guy went for a walk, got lost in the woods, stumbled on a bear and after running away from it for several hours got mauled by it horribly and for a very long time - the animal was rabid and unusually cruel, maybe affected by some Variant influence or just plain vicious. As he was torn by the bear and living through the horrible pain that JUST DIDN'T STOP his grip on reality loosened and his latent power awakened. Then the pain continued for several another hour during which Moshe just COULD NOT DIE, but eventually the bear did took him for dead and left him in the middle of nowhere with one arm and leg missing, other two broken, face torn off and ribcage crushed. Then he somehow found in himself power to drag himself with his fractured arm, finding horrible pain to be energizing and sort of just... just crawled away to try and get out of the forest, all while noting with some strangely dull interest how his stumps and wounds blacken, crust over and grow into... something - like it wasn't happening to him and he just viewed that from the side. Long story short, Mr. Jeochim never found his son - but the rangers spoke about sighting horribly mutilated forest beasts and an even more horrible-looking animal of unknown species darting between the trees. Moshe was kinda traumatized by the experience. A lot, really. He couldn't even THINK about what his parents would say or think if he returned to him the way he was now - but he thought long and hard about how they will probably stop loving him and will hate him instead. Tortured by these thoughts, he was hiding for a long, long while, ever-morphing and growing ever more troubled mentally. After some time and some self-analysis he sort of snapped a little bit and decided to embrace his condition instead of just sulking about how sad and miserable he is and hiding away from the world in forests. Thus, he was reborn as Uber - a laughably obvious name, but nevertheless a fitting one. He removed himself from solitude and attempted to enter the civilized world as a completely new person, and make something of the new life and new chances he is given. He now actively SEEKS harm and danger and pain because they improve him and attempts to enjoy all the benefits his new existence provides whilst trying to forget and push away all unwanted or sad thoughts and memories.
Sounds like Eclipse Phase but ten times cooler, i want to try and play this one! I wanna make a transhuman tibethian warrior-monk continually reforging himself into the ultimate weapon of war and murder, in vain hopes that when his body reflects his will in its singular purpose, his restless soul will follow and he'll achieve enlightenment in violence.
Basically, looking for people willing to learn some really simple (powered by apocalypse) rules and play a game set in the universe of the comic Kill Six Billion Demons and then play some other games such as D&D, Dark Heresy, Nobilis and World of Darkness at later date. If you don't have an aversion for simple numbers, instant messaging services - this is important, the game will explicitly happen in a more quick-paced IM format, and a possibility of occasionally dying in a game without your explicit consent to it, hit me up on Skype - chaplaindread or on Discord - @Keksalotl#9268 We got at least two players ready so once two more are around the action will start immediately. Another important thing to note - time. Please be within 2-4 hours of UTC +3 or be available during the UTC +3 evening and daytime to play. Waiting eagerly for responses. Link to comic to get the gist of it(basically Ramayana Exalted Planescape) - killsixbilliondemons.com
Basically, looking for people willing to learn some really simple (powered by apocalypse) rules and play a game set in the universe of the comic Kill Six Billion Demons and then play some other games such as D&D, Dark Heresy, Nobilis and World of Darkness at later date. If you don't have an aversion for simple numbers, instant messaging services and a possibility of occasionally dying in a game without your explicit consent to it, hit me up on Skype - chaplaindread or on Discord - @Keksalotl#9268 We got at least two players ready so once two more are around the action will start immediately. Another important thing to note - time. Please be within 2-4 hours of UTC +3 or be available during the UTC +3 evening and daytime to play. Waiting eagerly for responses. Link to comic to get the gist of it(basically Ramayana Exalted Planescape) - killsixbilliondemons.com