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[PrivateNomad]

All this lore about the void is confusing as fuck.

[Again_Dejavu]

It's supposed to be. The void, the absence of anything, is naturally chaotic.

[PrivateNomad]

It's not that, really. You have two conflicting sides of lore: Akroma's lore, and Rag's lore. Rag's lore mainly focuses on the void as a while while Akroma's focuses on the entities of the void.

[smurfingtonthethird]

Epic battle needs epic music.

pfft

Better stuff!

Bartimaeus is actually a pretty weak void entity. The entities' strength are determined by the number of 'horns' they have. Bartimaeus has 2, while the most powerful entity in the void has 10. The domain he's from, Lolgrammoth, only goes up to 3 horns.

... I don't think I was asked about this...

Shouldn't I have been asked about this?

Additionally, I still haven't gotten anything back on my sheet update...

KURVA

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Subject #74114/Talia

Age: No fucking clue.

Description: Recent escapee from IRIS/Midorikawa group holding facility. Anger issues the size of Nebraska. Likes sweet tea and speaks in a british accent.

Stats: /100
Health: 12
Mana: 12
Speed: 12
Skill: 12
Strength: 12
Magic: 12
Defense: 14
Resistance:14

Equipment: Absolutely NOTHING. Just a chick covered in thick-ass Chitin.

Ability: Adaptive Carapice Armor. in GURPS terms:
Damage Resistance - Absorption, Semi-Ablative, No Armor. (double cost, 10 levels, 140 points.)
Additionally, since this leaves me with 10 points, I took Striker (Tail, Impaling damage, 8 points) and No Hangover/Sanitized Metabolism (1 each)

Examples:

Negligible: Hit with a rock. shrugs it off.

Small: Shot. heals the wound and hardens armor against further damage.

Medium: hit with a car. grows a scorpion tail and impales the driver with it.

Big: Hit with a bomb. starts breathing plasma.

Enormous: Nuked. Becomes temporarily immortal.

Gigantic: Thrown into a black hole. Comes out the other side super dense and really pissed off.

Say Hi to 682-chan.

Talia's gonna murder some wankers.

Oh, and for anyone that's wondering how the whole DR thing works.

[Full descriptor of DR]
682-chan here has an innate damage reduction of 10.

This means that whenever she would be damaged by an attack, she ignores the first 10 points of it.

for every ten damage dealt, her DR is reduced by 1 until healed.

She also can't wear armor/clothing over it because of its nature as Chitin and it being a bitch to find someone to tailor for chitin.

However, it's also Absorbtion DR.

Which means that whenever she takes damage, I get to assign that many temporary PP to her, either to heal her at 1 HP/pp or into abilities.

Yes, I can buy additional levels of her DR with it.

it costs 7 points.

Luckily, she can only have 21 points stocked at a time and they all blow at the end of a scene...

Unless I buy more DR.

And she can regenerate her DR as hit points up to its normal level.

Grr...that multiplying armor is a pain in the ass to beat, but with this little caveat:

Third: Assigning points requires a magic check of x, where x is the points to be allocated THIS TURN, no multiple rolls, all changes have to be done at once, and the expenditure of some sum of mana... this depends on just how much mana people tend to have. I'd say likely just 1 or 2 per point assigned, but this is GM's choice.

We're making progress. I think the 2 points of mana per point assign works out alright, as long as the effect wears off after a few turns, or something. Otherwise you'd be rolling in DR.

[Sanure]

PN's song wins. It is now the official boss battle theme of The Wraith Lord Shade.

Also, Soon. Soon I will have Shade Statted and ready for the first of many battles.

[GreatWyrmGold]

IRIS used to acquire funds through donations from rich people.

Why did they donate?

And that's a lot of money.

For what, artificial limbs and luxury pets? Not all that much, especially not if it wants to avoid going bankrupt while funding expensive secure containment/research procedures. How do they pay for all of that? And that's not getting into their quasi-legal military-level stuff...

Shit, this is going to be one of those epic destructive battles, isn't it?

Not much to destroy in New York.

Epic battle needs epic music.

"Red Like Roses Pt II" would work well, too. Especially since Bartimaeus is grieving a lost loved one.

It's not that, really. You have two conflicting sides of lore: Akroma's lore, and Rag's lore. Rag's lore mainly focuses on the void as a while while Akroma's focuses on the entities of the void.

And then there's all the little grains that don't fit in either but that people crammed in anyways.

PN's song wins. It is now the official boss battle theme of The Wraith Lord Shade.

Too little, too late.

[ragnarok97071]

Epic battle needs epic music.

pfft

Better stuff!

Bartimaeus is actually a pretty weak void entity. The entities' strength are determined by the number of 'horns' they have. Bartimaeus has 2, while the most powerful entity in the void has 10. The domain he's from, Lolgrammoth, only goes up to 3 horns.

... I don't think I was asked about this...

Shouldn't I have been asked about this?

Additionally, I still haven't gotten anything back on my sheet update...

KURVA

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Subject #74114/Talia

Age: No fucking clue.

Description: Recent escapee from IRIS/Midorikawa group holding facility. Anger issues the size of Nebraska. Likes sweet tea and speaks in a british accent.

Stats: /100
Health: 12
Mana: 12
Speed: 12
Skill: 12
Strength: 12
Magic: 12
Defense: 14
Resistance:14

Equipment: Absolutely NOTHING. Just a chick covered in thick-ass Chitin.

Ability: Adaptive Carapice Armor. in GURPS terms:
Damage Resistance - Absorption, Semi-Ablative, No Armor. (double cost, 10 levels, 140 points.)
Additionally, since this leaves me with 10 points, I took Striker (Tail, Impaling damage, 8 points) and No Hangover/Sanitized Metabolism (1 each)

Examples:

Negligible: Hit with a rock. shrugs it off.

Small: Shot. heals the wound and hardens armor against further damage.

Medium: hit with a car. grows a scorpion tail and impales the driver with it.

Big: Hit with a bomb. starts breathing plasma.

Enormous: Nuked. Becomes temporarily immortal.

Gigantic: Thrown into a black hole. Comes out the other side super dense and really pissed off.

Say Hi to 682-chan.

Talia's gonna murder some wankers.

Oh, and for anyone that's wondering how the whole DR thing works.

[Full descriptor of DR]
682-chan here has an innate damage reduction of 10.

This means that whenever she would be damaged by an attack, she ignores the first 10 points of it.

for every ten damage dealt, her DR is reduced by 1 until healed.

She also can't wear armor/clothing over it because of its nature as Chitin and it being a bitch to find someone to tailor for chitin.

However, it's also Absorbtion DR.

Which means that whenever she takes damage, I get to assign that many temporary PP to her, either to heal her at 1 HP/pp or into abilities.

Yes, I can buy additional levels of her DR with it.

it costs 7 points.

Luckily, she can only have 21 points stocked at a time and they all blow at the end of a scene...

Unless I buy more DR.

And she can regenerate her DR as hit points up to its normal level.

Grr...that multiplying armor is a pain in the ass to beat, but with this little caveat:

Third: Assigning points requires a magic check of x, where x is the points to be allocated THIS TURN, no multiple rolls, all changes have to be done at once, and the expenditure of some sum of mana... this depends on just how much mana people tend to have. I'd say likely just 1 or 2 per point assigned, but this is GM's choice.

We're making progress. I think the 2 points of mana per point assign works out alright, as long as the effect wears off after a few turns, or something. Otherwise you'd be rolling in DR.

Well, there is the caveat of having a max points assigned of 20 right now, and I think it already decays at a rate of something like 1 pp/round, so I'm cool with all of that.

[kj1225]

Also, random thought, PN you've passed up the perfect opportunity to make a 'Black Bart' joke on many occasions.

[Empiricist]

Bartimaeus is actually a pretty weak void entity. The entities' strength are determined by the number of 'horns' they have. Bartimaeus has 2, while the most powerful entity in the void has 10. The domain he's from, Lolgrammoth, only goes up to 3 horns.

... I don't think I was asked about this...

Shouldn't I have been asked about this?

Additionally, I still haven't gotten anything back on my sheet update...

Could we have info on how Yuri's family gained and maintained it's influence, resources and whatnot?

[Again_Dejavu]

Crime? Weren't they the Yakuza?

[Empiricist]

Nope and considering the amount of sway they seemed to have, it would have to be one hell of a crime to have gotten and maintained that much influence.

[Again_Dejavu]

Fineeeeee Criminal Activities
^{Even I can tell crime could be used as a verb there}

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I'd recommend a Gurren Lagann track but those aren't suitable. Except maybe this.

And I'm pretty sure I had a Persona boss battle somewhere...here we are.

[Empiricist]

Fineeeeee Criminal Activities
^{Even I can tell crime could be used as a verb there}

Still wouldn't explain why they seemed to be in cahoots with the CIA.

[Again_Dejavu]

IRL cartels are in cahoots with the CIA, tis a silly group