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[Rolepgeek]

Added drawbacks to abilities, statline hopefully done.

Oh, part of the way he does his magical/super-powered shit; he ages hyper fast during battle. It's not as efficient as "age twice as fast, move twice as fast" unfortunately, but it's only for short bursts, so hopefully it should be alright. His lifespan is cut fairly significantly though, by some 20 years at least.

Which is to say, Vital Surge is his Overdrive mode where he takes damage every turn in exchange for being badass as all hell.

[Rolepgeek]

Hai guis wass up

So is Spensir the goods now or should I work on the mecha-girl?

[kj1225]

If you're going to do mecha girl consider that there is a race of monster people that enjoy making steampunk cybernetic enhancements and attaching them to themselves. It's very fashionable.

[Projeck37]

So many pages... I was only gone for 2 days...

[smurfingtonthethird]

Spensir gets a green light.

[Empiricist]

Submitting a sheet for review. Note that I do not intend to join right now, but rather in about four months or so when I'm not as busy.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name

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Null

Age

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Depends on what the start of its existence is defined as.

Description	-	A pareidolic image with a vague resemblance to that of a humanoid figure, formed out of the outline of nearby objects, light and shadows. Though the exact figure and what form it vary, it does not disappear when viewed from a different angle and seems to move in a manner not too different to that of a human being. When it speaks, if it may be called that, ambient noise seems to coalesce into coherent sentences.
Backstory	-	A proper invasion does not simply happen. A proper invasion may be opportunistic, but not spontaneous. A proper invasion may be fast, but not without preparation. A proper invasion, can, with the right contacts, be predicted. The invasion that commenced the Human-Layar war was a proper invasion. Hence, it was, in certain realms of the twilight, one that was predicted years ago. A war driven by resource shortages may be considered an inevitability, presuming of course that no new developments halt the imminent shortages. For a race such as the Layar, one that actively cultivated a warrior culture, war was, of course, the most likely option. Earth, a planet with the necessary resources, a lack of public knowledge on magic and no exposure to alien species let alone an alliance was thus a blatantly obvious target. Perhaps the Layar would win with such an advantage. Or perhaps the Humans had something up their sleeves. It mattered not. What mattered was, there was potential for gain. Commercial gain. There was an undercapitalised resource, specifically, the Muramasa blades. Archaic weapons of little functional relevance to this war, many of which have had their locations lost to the trade fluctuations of time. There were parties willing to assist in this venture. Parties that were willing to contribute simply to gather data. To prove, or disprove a hypothesis. Consequently, there were agreements. Promises of future transaction. Of relevant data being provided in return for services rendered. A test subject was now all that was required. Something expendable, yet willing. Preferably something that would rather accept even the most unfavorable of consequences than their current state. Preferably something that the assets would have trouble corrupting. The ideal subject was of course, lingering misery. The guilt of countless soldiers. The terror of countless civilians. The despair of countless people. Vestiges of long-resolved wars over long-resolved matters. Not even sentient, just suffering masses of agony. They were all gathered, consolidated and granted transcendence from their state. The result was a soul, an amnesic soul, but a soul nonetheless. Five years. It took five years to teach the newly formed being all it needed to know. By then the war had already ended, nevertheless, the market it created remained. Thus it was deployed. It was free. Free from the terrible truths that its components were tormented by. Free from the monitoring and data collection. Free to start anew, with it's skills, instincts and weapon. Not that it needed to even use the latter. Just keeping it was enough to test it. Assuming all goes well, such weapons could potentially be mass produced, the methods patented and marketed as a means to remove less desirable qualities of certain weapons, a gain to be made.

Statistics

HP	-	15
MP	-	2
SPEED	-	16
SKILL	-	18
STRENGTH	-	16
MAGIC	-	1
DEFENSE	-	16
RESISTANCE	-	16

Perks

Warforged Instinct	-	Can instinctively wield and use unfamiliar weapons to a reasonably proficient though not necessarily skilled degree. Masters weapons and combat styles more quickly but still requires a significant amount of time to do so.
Weapon Cooling	-	MP instead represents the heat of a weapon. At 0, the weapon is overheating and cannot be used until MP reaches full again. Every two turns, a quantity of MP equal to MAG is regained.

Equipment

Muramasa .50 Caliber Machine Gun	-	Was formerly one of the legendary blades forged by Muramasa, it is now in the form of an ultramodern, magically enhanced (in terms of durability, low maintenance, highly stable enchantment, low weight and other features to make it more infantry-portable) variant of a Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun. It's blade edge possesses an incredible sharpness, not that it actually has any blade edges, or blades for that matter. Once drawn, it cannot return to it's scabbard without drawing blood first, not that this means much; it's scabbard was used in the construction of it's current form, so it's never technically drawn. Plus machine guns generally don't have scabbards in the first place. Its bloodlust, like all Muramasa blades, is due to it housing a Fate Aspect. They are mere symptoms of a simple lifeform, amoral and less than even animalistic, incapable of reason or guile let alone consciously using its own power. +5 Physical Damage Enables the following Special Attacks: Suppressive Fire: Halves the damage roll of an attack but debuffs the target's SPD and SKL for that turn. Uses 2 MP. Covering Fire: Halves the damage roll of an attack, debuffs the SKL of enemies attempting to attack the covered character for that turn. Uses 2 MP. Snipe: An attack that always hits last in a turn, prevents the user from dodging to allow a long-range attack with a bonus to STR and SKL. Area Denial: Turn an attack into an AOE. Uses 4 MP. Pragmatic Mercy: Automatically activates when an enemy would normally be shot and killed in melee range. The enemy is instead knocked unconscious via a bludgeoning attack.
Eldritch Conduit	-	A catalyst in the form of a speech-recorder that may call upon eldritch power with unnerving efficiency. The drawback being, the eldritch power is then used to do precisely fuck-all. Apparently it speaks and provides it's user with the Mk 211 Mod 0s that it uses, though that claim is unsubstantiated and quite questionable at best.

Ability

Fuck All

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Turns out being comprised out of the pain and misery of others doesn't do any favors for your magic potential. So unless being abnormally lacking in magic is in itself magic, this character has no such thing.

Ability Examples

Negligible	-	N/A
Small	-	N/A
Medium	-	N/A
Big	-	N/A
Enormous	-	N/A
Gigantic	-	N/A

[Akroma]

wait, what is the ability again? he changes reality to fit in whatever way he solves some maths problem?


with zero mag, hardly possible

[Empiricist]

Not a maths problem, a philosophical question. And I'm not sure whether or not I read the rules correctly, but from my understanding negligible is pretty much cost free. The ability is really just there so that they can maintain their weapon without violating it's integrity.

[Akroma]

eh?

[smurfingtonthethird]

Yeah, I'm still a bit confused on how the ability actually works, and what it does. Any simple explanations for us?

[Akroma]

also, even for negliable tasks, remember that the average human still has a magic stat of 5. Having 0 in magic means your char is so utterly and extremely unmagic that he should not even manage negliable stuff. Yes, minmaxing to such an extreme has drawbacks

[Empiricist]

At the end of the day, the ability, considering that it cannot work on sentient or otherwise soul-possessing life forms and requires continuous physical contact is useless for most applications. It basically means that, by skewing it's answer towards something, it can replace an enchanted object, part-by-part until the entire object is replaced yet the enchantment remains. Of course, that is a slow and time-consuming process, assuming it is even able to replace parts of the enchanted object while still maintaining physical contact with it. Furthermore, that's assuming the enchantment would even need the ability to transfer it, rather than there being an inbuilt way just to switch the vessel, or there being an easier magical way.
Basically, you start with something enchanted. Say a muramasa blade.

The Ship of Theseus is the philosophical question that if you progressively replaced a ship, part by part over time, would it still be the same ship in the end?

By answering it via Null's ability as "Yes", you could then say replace some of the blade's material with something else, slightly altering it's form. The properties would remain the same as it is considered to be the same weapon.
You repeat that process.

Over and over again.

Until the entire weapon has been replaced with a machinegun.

As the current answer to the Ship of Theseus is "Yes", the machinegun and the original cursed katana are technically the same thing. That is, the bloodlust curse still applies to the browning machinegun. Thus the machinegun is supernaturally empowered but demands blood when unsheathed. Except machineguns are never unsheathed as they have no sheaths. Thus it has effectively removed the limitation whilst keeping the benefit.

The main usage now, seeing as the weapon has already been changed to a more useful form, is that repairing it and whatnot using a similar application of the ability means that the weapon is still considered the same, regardless of how many repairs it's undergone.
I interpreted negligible as having no cost and not necessarily requiring a magic roll. I thus limited the ability as much I could so that it would be unlikely to be useful for anything else so that it may qualify for that designation.
In that case, what is the minimum magic requirement to use that ability reliably enough to perform regular maintenance?

[Akroma]

None, just make it an enchantment that exists on the weapon and can't be used on anything else. Heck, make it RWBY style, no need for an enchantment, it's just some neat mechanism

[Empiricist]

Okay done. I just was worried that having additional magic integrated into it was more likely to cause issues.

[smurfingtonthethird]

I do like that replacement ability. Null is in. Try and avoid turning people into weapons, please.