Schradinger

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He was resting there, quite comfortably, when all upon a sudden his ears caught the telltale whoosh of some large flying creature, and he opened his eyes to behold none other than an angel, descending from on high at the apparent behest of its father, whoever that may be.

"Huh."

It posed its question and a bemused smile appeared on Arty's face while his eyebrows rose in consternation. He was about to reply when the sharp clinking of metal on metal caught his ears, and he looked past the winged one to the armored form that approached from beyond. This was beginning to look like a party. When the angel thing, which was now claiming not to be an angel, turned to face the newcomer, he also happened to put his back to Arty. Very convenient.

He moved like lightning itself, using his ability to boost his speed and strength as he did so, and leaped out of the tree as the angelic being rose, straight toward its unaware back, taking into account the sideways drift of its flight as it tried to re-position itself to be able to see both Arty and the newcomer. Fast as he was, Arty would collide with the creature before his previous perch once again came into its view, which meant that unless it had some unnatural means of perceiving its surroundings, it would have no warning of the impending collision until it happened. He was intent on demonstrating just exactly why it isn't wise to turn your back on any opponent, even one that appears relaxed and not ready for combat.

Should the collision happen, or should Arty get even a single finger in contact with any portion of the not-angel's person or garb, he would latch on with enough binding force to hold himself in place in the middle of a hurricane and attempt to drag the winged creature to the ground under the weight of its new passenger.

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Just to keep things from getting more jumbled up than they're bound to anyway, we should probably stick to the initial post order and just add people in as they show up. Which would make it my post one post ago... I'll get to work on one. Lol.

And to be perfectly clear, I'm not trying to take over the GM position or anything... Just providing suggestions based on prior experience.

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Just to clarify: Arty isn't wearing any armor. Just a leather jacket, white dress shirt (untucked, of course. It's not like this is a formal occasion...), jeans, and sneakers. If he was wearing his armor this would be an incredibly unfair fight. I'm not even sure all of you together would stand a chance. >_>

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Derpestein said
I'm laughing at LeeRoy's character. 'Poor helmet design'If...if I make a fire using character can...Can I burn down the forest we're fighting in?HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! BURN! BUR-Ahem.

Sure, but just to make things interesting we'll say the big oak tree is magical and can defend itself. If that's alright with Max, at least.

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There's the first post. I hope the setting is acceptable.

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Arthur walked nonchalantly through the forest, whistling a merry tune as he meandered on his way. To look at him, one would not suspect the true reason he was here, his clothes gave no hint to his violent intent nor revealed any methods to perpetuate that violence. His leather jacket covered his arms and most of his upper body, though an un-tucked white dress shirt could be seen underneath, and his hands were tucked into the pockets of his jeans. Not the posture of a man ready to be attacked at any moment. Even his eyes seemed unprepared for violence, gazing distractedly at the ground in front of himself instead of scanning the woods in hopes of detecting approaching danger.

It was in this manner that he found himself approaching the large oak tree, branches strewn around haphazardly as though it had simply been dropped there to flop about before finally settling down. Gazing up into its thinning foliage, most of which now lay on the ground and crunched beneath his feet, he settled on a split in the trunk about halfway up, then took two running steps and bounded up off the ground, stopping when he reached his designated perch to take a seat and swing one leg up over the branch in front of him, leaning against the trunk behind himself as though to relax.

He was certain this was the designated area, the one specified in that mysterious phone call. "Come here at this time and kill all others who approach, or those you love will die", it had said, the voice distorted and mysterious. It had almost made Arty laugh, given the fact that there was no one he loved, but he'd decided to come nonetheless. He was curious about who else might show up, and about that mysterious voice that had tried to sound so threatening. Maybe that was the plan... Anyone who knew enough to know that he was a fighter would know he was incapable of love, so maybe the real draw had been the mysteriousness of the call itself. If it was, then whoever had put him up to this was a bit of a genius, he had to say.

He continued letting his thoughts wander as he waited in his tree, curious as to what methods of persuasion the mysterious voice would use on the others that he'd been told were coming. Would it be money? Power? Shiny new toys? None of those appealed to Arty, as he could simply gain them on his own, but as it usually did, his curiosity had gotten the better of him and pulled him inexorably to this spot, at this time. Now all that remained was for the others to arrive.

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It seems to be roughly within our intermediate tier, and I'm not sure how many.

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Name: Arthur Greystoke

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Random descriptors: 6'4", 220 pounds, dirty blonde hair (cut short), grey-blue eyes, fit, well-muscled physique.

Character Tier: Intermediate (without armor), high (with armor).

Character Type: Critical Character- Active Multiverse Participant.

Physical Description:
When out of his armor, Arty tends to wear clothing that befits someone of his financial station. Tailored suits are a staple of his fashion choices as much as fast cars, pretty girls, and Rolex watches are the things he accessorizes with.

Skills, powers and abilities:

Enhanced Durability (intermediate):

Arty's primary ability is the generation and manipulation of bio-electric fields both in and around his body. Originating from his bones, these fields extend through his muscles and skin, generating intense amounts of van der waals force as they do, which in turn greatly increases the bonding force between his molecules and therefore his durability. This durability renders his bones functionally ten times as hard as diamond and increases the durability of his soft tissue in proportion to how close it is to his bones. This means that while he can catch a 9mm bullet in his hand, that same bullet would pierce the skin and lodge itself in the muscle if it were to hit his chest (also, edged weapons that rely on slicing will do more damage than blunt weapons and bullets that rely on impact force). He is likewise reinforced against intense heat and cold, due to his molecular motion being much more resistant to changes in vibrational speed. He can withstand temperatures of 1,000 Celsius on the positive side, and -200 Celsius on the negative side with no apparent harm. He is also entirely immune to the harmful effects of electricity and never gets tired or requires sleep, food, or water (he doesn't fully realize this though and still eats and drinks), and should he be deprived of oxygen for an extended period his body will enter a catatonic state, during which time he is sustained solely by his power and will re-awaken once oxygen again becomes available.

Enhanced Regeneration (intermediate):

Despite his resistance to it, Arty is far from immune to physical damage and in the event he is wounded, his body will harness the bio-electric energy coursing through him in order to repair itself much more rapidly than any normal human. Small cuts heal in seconds and high-caliber bullet wounds in mere minutes, while severe extensive trauma may take hours to heal. With uninterrupted focus, Arty can consciously enhance the speed of this ability, allowing him to heal even faster when not otherwise engaged.

Enhanced Nervous System (Intermediate):

Perhaps the most versatile function of his power is the near-absolute control it grants him over his own nervous system. Not only can he deaden nerves to blunt pain and ignore injury (barring those that actually prohibit a body part from functioning at all), and manipulate his ability to appear completely human on any type of scanner, but it is also nearly impossible to knock him unconscious via sensory overload. Additionally, his nervous system functions at a baseline level that is 10 times faster than that of a normal human in peak condition, and in times of stress such as combat that number can as much as triple. This ability also grants him greatly enhanced sensory perception, allowing him to see several miles with perfect clarity and in near-total darkness, hear a human heart beat 20 meters away, feel the individual threads in silk, and detect scents that would elude a bloodhound. His power also grants him a sixth sense that is unavailable to normal humans, and that is the ability to sense both matter and electrical energy in his vicinity. This sense allows him to accurately determine the position and velocity of any object within 10 meters of himself, as well as sense electrical energy out to a distance of 100 meters, while beyond that distance his ability to sense current begins to dwindle until it is completely gone at a distance of roughly 200 meters. The level of current that constantly runs through Arty himself also makes him exceedingly resistant to psychic abilities, and has a tendency to disrupt other touch-based powers.

Enhanced Condition (intermediate):

While not as drastic as the enhancements to his nervous system, Arty's power also provides an increase in the performance of his musculature and other organs. While this performance increase does not grant him truly superhuman strength, it does allow every muscle and organ in his body to function at the peak of human potential, thus providing him with exceptional might, speed, balance, and agility that allows him to perform physical feats that some would assume to be on a superhuman level. By focusing his bio-electric energy into his own muscles, rather than emitting it as energy bursts or generating elaborate cohesion fields, he is also capable of enhancing his strength by up to a factor of 10, allowing him to lift 5 tons above his head when fully focused on enhancing his physique. When in this state, Arty also gains a slight speed boost due to the increase in his strength-to-mass ratio, but loses his ability to fire bio-electric bolts and can only utilize his cohesion fields to bind to or enhance solid objects.

Electrocution (intermediate):

The primary offensive function of Arty's power, this technique allows him to charge up his hands (or in rare cases, feet) and then discharge his bio-electric energy into another being for the purposes of causing pain, paralysis, unconsciousness, and even death. These bio-electric discharges have an effective range of roughly 100 meters, and a maximum range roughly twice that. When charged and fired in a single burst, they can generate up to 3,000 degrees of heat (Celsius) in addition to the electrical charge they carry due to the ionization of the air they pass through. A single un-charged bolt is capable of outright killing a human, leaving burn marks and smoke rising from their remains, but the output of these bolts can also be varied in order to inflict non-lethal damage such as unconsciousness, paralysis, muscle spasms, or simple pain. When fired as a maintained attack, the temperature of the bio-electric bolts rarely rises above 1,000 degrees Celsius, as doing so would begin to cause harm to Arty himself if maintained for extended periods (in the form of burns on the fingers and hands). When physical contact is made with the target, these electrocution abilities double in potency.

Cohesion Fields (intermediate):

By projecting his bio-electric energy into other objects, Arty is capable reinforcing them with van der waals force in much the same way as his own body, increasing an item's durability by a factor of 100. This can also be used to increase the effectiveness of bladed weapons, projecting an edge that is the width of a single molecule. In conductive weapons, he can extend this ability from simple molecular reinforcement to the transmission of actual electricity through the weapon, granting him the ability to electrocute targets for the purposes of stunning, paralyzing, or outright killing them. Furthermore, by projecting his bio-electric aura into the surfaces, items, and beings he touches, Arty can create an incredibly strong application of van der waals force that will effectively anchor him to any surface. The strength of this anchoring varies, but has a maximum clinging force of roughly 10 tons. The most offensively potent use of this ability comes in the form of cohesion fields created in the air itself, shaped elaborately to form weapons and defenses, then filled with ionized air to become superheated (generally in a range between 1,000 and 3,000 Celsius), increasing their effectiveness even further. These cohesion fields can extend up to 10 meters away from Arty himself, but must always originate from his own body. When used to simply "grip" the air itself, Arty can use these fields to pull himself through it, achieving speeds unheard of even for someone as physically adept as himself, attaining up to 500 kph in short bursts, and a steady pace of 100 kph over long distances. If he also anchors himself to the ground while using cohesion fields to force air around his body, he can generate intense winds that can equal his movement speed in power.

Character Equipment:

Weapons:

Two daggers with nine inch dual-edged blades.
Two gauntlets with twelve inch dual-edged blades that extend over the back of the hand.

(Note: All four weapons are specially crafted to be in tune with his bio-electric field, making them virtually unbreakable when in his immediate proximity.)

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I'll post over a copy of Arty's CS with the combat relevant info and see if I can't get a starter post up.

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A large part of her personality is due to the way she grew up and was trained, being honed as a weapon from day one. A life like that isn't going to breed a happy-go-lucky party girl, it's going to make her hard and cold. She had to learn early on that detachment was the only way to keep herself sane, otherwise the pain and brutality of what they put her through (both mentally and physically) would be too much. Like how Wolverine's healing factor erased some of his memories in order to keep him from snapping.

But beneath all the conditioning and training and mental scars, she's still just an innocent girl. The target in that first post was the first person she'd ever killed, and it wasn't even her that actually did it. She'll likely be losing that innocence in subsequent posts, but I wanted to show a bit of what she was like at the beginning, before I get to the ruthless killer part of her story.