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Bellum Aeternus

In the void between universes, there is a grand calling.

Like an infinite amount of fingers stretching out into the multiverse itself, two presences reach out and grasp at individuals - the greatest of Champions and the most hated of Fiends.

One being is serene, with otherworldly grace. They take many forms, most often utterly beautiful, but every one of them has the same thing in common: they are stoic, patient, and peaceable. They are the definition of Harmony.

They have summoned you as their Champions to fight for the sake of the world.

The other is raw, almost angry in form. If their soul were to manifest it would surely be a knotted, gnarled thing - asymmetrical and chaotic. Their eyes burn like hot coals. Flames flicker between their teeth. They are the definition of Discord.

They have summoned Fiends to fight for the sake of destruction.

The War of the Gods is beginning - a conflict that will decide the fate of all that was, is, and ever will be.
Welcome to Bellum Aeternus: War of the Gods. You have been summoned by a powerful entity, a being called Harmony, worshiped as a god across the multiverse. You have been called to wage war against the evils of Discord, to fight in a battle in order to protect the cosmos as we know it.

Though Harmony and Discord have attempted to battle before, their divergent powers would tear the fabric of reality asunder. Instead, they have summoned Champions and Fiends to fight in their stead. You are the champions of Harmony, taken from your home universes, selected for your honor, your courage, or perhaps simply because you hit real hard and like the multiverse the way it is now.

No matter where you come from, remember: There can be no darkness without light to rise against it.

Spoiler: Rulebook (click to show/hide)

Combat will be grid-based. You may move and do an action every turn.

Combat will be handled on a player-by-player basis. Each character has their own turn instead of everything occuring at once.

At the start of each Combat Turn (as opposed to a Character Turn), any characters on the same team may swap their positions on the initiative ladder. This is called an Initiative Swap.

Please look at the character sheet for more details.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: (What will you be called?)
Age: (How long have you existed?)
Personality: (How do you act?)
Description: (What is your appearance?)
Backstory: (All have tales to tell.)

Stats: Stats are divided into two categories, rolled stats and non-rolled stats.

Rolled stats affect any rolls that might occur.

Attack (ATK): Determines attack power, whether it be physical or magical in nature.
Defense (DEF): Determines defense, similarly to Attack.
Skill (SKL): Determines hit and dodge chance, rolling 1d20+skill to see if an attack hits, and critical hit chance, each point equaling one percentage point of a critical hit.

Non-rolled stats, of course, have no affect on any roll.

Constitution (CON): Every point adds 10 points of HP.
Capability (CAP): With 1 point, you may upgrade an action. With two, you may create a new one.
Celerity (CEL): Every 3 points, you may move an extra tile, with a base movement of 3 tiles.

HP: (You start with 10 separate from CON. When this reaches 0, you are knocked out.)

EXP: 0/100 (When this reaches 100 points, you level up.)

You start off with 18 rolled stat points, and 12 non-rolled stat points. You gain 4 and 2 stat points respectively on level up.

Skills: These are each Champion's abilities, whether it be to swing a blade or to fire a spell or even a passive resistance against certain attacks, they are the tools of combat. You start with 2 separate from CAP.

Advantage: Each Champion has a singular Advantage. Think of this as a single, incredibly powerful, Skill. A deadly finishing move, A natural bonus to one's stats, or even a powerful super-form. You may only have one over the course of the entire game except in incredibly rare circumstances, so choose wisely. They also cannot be upgraded, so be sure to make it grow more powerful with you.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Your weapon. Usually affects ATK.
Side: What you wield in your off-hand. Usually affects either DEF or SKL.
Helm: What you wear on your head. Usually affects CON.
Armor: What you wear on your body. Usually affects DEF and CON.

Accessories: You may equip a maximum of 5 accessories at any time, each with its own effect.

You may start off with 2 pieces of equipment, 1 piece of equipment and 1 accessory, or 2 accessories.

Discord link: https://discord.gg/K2ZQmqU
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Champions

Spoiler: Valor, GMPC 1 (click to show/hide)

Name: Valor
Age: In truth, he doesn't know how old he was before being summoned to fight.
Personality: Courageous, determined, passionate. He shows kindness to his allies, and defiance to his enemies. He has a strong sense of justice and duty. But he is plagued by his lack of memory before arriving here.
Description: This, except he has a bright red rose in his hair.
Backstory: He does not remember much of his past, not even his real name. What he does know, however, involves fighting for... something important. Sacrificing many things for this cause that escapes him. And that the rose in his hair is, for some reason, very important to him.

Stats: Stats are divided into two categories, rolled stats and non-rolled stats.

Rolled stats:

Attack (ATK): 8 (+2)
Defense (DEF): 6 (+3)
Skill (SKL): 4

Non-rolled stats:

Constitution (CON): 5
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 3

HP: 60

EXP: 0/100

Skills:
Daybreak: A wide swing of a weapon. Deals 2d4+(ATK) damage to the tile directly in front of Valor and to the sides of that tile.
Shield Bash: A strike with a shield or other similar object. Deals 1d8+(DEF/2) damage to the tile directly in front of Valor and pushes all affected enemies back two tiles.
Sunray: Beams fly out of Valor's weapon, dealing 1d8+(ATK) damage in a 3-tile row in front of him, as well as 3-tile diagonal lines to the left and right.
Salvation: Valor places his sword on an ally directly in front of him as if knighting them, healing them for 20% of their maximum HP.

Advantage: Blade of Light: Valor's blade shines brightly, before delivering a masterful series of strokes to an enemy directly in front of him. This attack deals (DEF/5)d(ATK/2 rounded up)+(ATK) damage five times. If the first hit connects, Valor's SKL is multiplied by x2.5 for the rest of the attack when rolling for hitting. This attack may only be used once per battle, and may only be used after 5 turns have passed.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Runic Saber (+2 to ATK) "A sizable sword, inscribed with indecipherable words of power."
Side: Shield of Valor (+2 to DEF) "A shield, carrying a sigil denoting the wielder's courage."
Helm: Bandana (+1 DEF) "A regular bandana, purchased from the store. For some reason, makes you more resilient."
Armor: N/A

Accessories

Spoiler: Angelo Abate, GMPC 2 (click to show/hide)

Name: Angelo Abate
Age: 17
Personality: Callous and mean, it's often a wonder why he's a Champion, and not a Fiend, at all. He's also quite good with analyzing things.
Description: A rather rough-looking youth, lean and tall, with medium-length, dark, wavy hair. He wears an eyepatch with a skull design on it, and his other is an eerie dark purple. He usually wears a black leather bomber jacket with purple trims, a white undershirt, black leather pants, brown boots and fingerless gloves, with skull designs on both of them.

When he amplifies his powers, he gains a purple aura around him, and the skulls on his clothes glow brightly.
Backstory: http://tinyurl.com/huudmz9

Stats:

Rolled stats:

Attack (ATK): 2
Defense (DEF): 7
Skill (SKL): 9

Non-rolled stats:

Constitution (CON): 5
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 3

HP: 60

EXP: 0/100

Skills:
Blood Transfusion: With their consent, damage an ally in a 2-tile radius for either 1d6+(10% MaxHP) or 2d4+(10% MaxHP) damage. Heal another for 1.5x that much in the same range.
Corrupted Heal: Heal a character for 2d4+(30% MaxHP) in a 2-tile radius. Reduce their rolled stats by 3 for 2 turns. Cooldown 3.
Sigil of Darkness: Deal 2d4+(ATK) pure damage to an adjacent character. Increase their ATK and SKL by 3 for 2 turns. Cooldown 3.
Death's Vigour: Target an adjacent tile where a character was defeated. Heal an ally in a 2-tile radius for 30% of their maximum HP. Cooldown 1.

Advantage: Shadowform^2: Angelo increases his dark potential exponentially. For 3 turns, all healing and damage is multiplied by 1.5x. Angelo takes 10% of his maximum HP in damage every turn, and all allies regenerate the same number of HP. May only be used after 5 turns have passed. Cooldown 5.

Equipment:
Weapon: Dark Tome: (+1 SKL) "A book of great and ancient knowledge."
Side: N/A
Helm: N/A
Armor: N/A

Accesories:
Ring of Power (+2 to all heals and damage) "A cursed ring of fiendish energy. Contrary to popular belief, is quite easily taken off."
Eyepatch: (Doesn't do anything) "A stereotypical black eyepatch with a stylized skull on it."

You may start off with 2 pieces of equipment, 1 piece of equipment and 1 accessory, or 2 accessories.

Spoiler: Fredrich Faulkner, GMPC 3 (click to show/hide)

Name: Fredrich Faulkner
Age: 200+ years
Personality: Contrary to his forboding appearance,Fredrich is passionate and fiery. He will not let anyone hurt anything he cares about, and he speaks in a booming voice. When he attacks, he either says the names of his attacks out loud or says some other hotblooded sentence.
Description: A humanoid suit of imposing, blocky, knightly armor, grey and firm. It covers up everything except for the T-shaped slit in the helmet. There does not seem to be anything inside. Inscribed on the armor are various swirls and pentagrams, glowing a faint white.

Backstory: Once upon a time, there was a kingdom.

It built itself around a mighty boulder, known throughout the land as "Saint Faulkner's Stone", named after a legendary hero, rumored to have become king of the fairies.

They say that it holds the power of the long-dead hero, forever protecting the kingdom from all harm. It was celebrated - there was no spot on it that would not be shined to a shimmer, no mark upon it that would not be cleaned and made to fade away.

And the kingdom prospered, becoming one of the mightiest in the land.

But, one day, there was a war. Nobody knows what it was about - they were too busy trying not to die.

The armies marched upon the kingdom, pillaging houses, burning buildings.

The people, in their desperation, gathered around the stone, to pray.

And it moved.

The boulder rumbled and broke, and what was inside was the very image of Saint Faulkner - an armored knight, wielding powerful magics.

With the help of the kingdom's sorcerer, it used its power to send the army back to their own kingdom instantly. With such a powerful display, they could do naught but surrender, fearful of more violent uses of such magic.

And the guardian lived happily ever after, protecting the place where it was loved so. The End.
Stats: Stats are divided into two categories, rolled stats and non-rolled stats.

Rolled stats affect any rolls that might occur.

Attack (ATK): 4
Defense (DEF): 6
Skill (SKL): 8

Non-rolled stats, of course, have no affect on any roll.

Constitution (CON): 3
Capability (CAP): 6
Celerity (CEL): 3

HP: 40

You start off with 18 rolled stat points, and 12 non-rolled stat points. You gain 4 and 2 stat points respectively on level up.

Skills:
Maelstrom: Fredrich selects a tile within (SKL/2) tiles. At the start of his next turn, all enemies in or around that tile (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) take 3d4+ATK damage. Fredrich cannot move this turn or the next turn.  Cannot target tiles behind obstacles or other characters.
Wormhole: Fredrich teleports to a space within (MOV*1.5 rounded down) tiles. Any effects that might have occured if Fredrich walked there normally do not occur. Effects that occur on the targeted tile itself still take place. Cooldown 2.
Space Shift: Fredrich swaps two tiles within 3 tiles for three turns. Those tiles exchange any terrain bonuses that are on them. May self-target. Cooldown 1.
Blackhole: Fredrich reates a black hole two tiles in front of him. This black hole sucks in any adjacent characters at the start of his turn. A character inside the black hole takes 3d4+ATK damage and is stunned. The black hole disappears after three turns have passed or someone falls into it. Cooldown 3.
Distance: Fredrich stretches distance. The targeted tile now takes two additional MOV to walk through, and all adjacent tiles take one additional MOV to walk through. Stretched tiles go back to normal after a turn. Cooldown 2.

Advantage:
Event Horizon: Fredrich locks an area of space. Once per battle, he may target a maximum of 6 connected tiles in a 2-tile radius. For the next (SKL/5+1) turns, no characters from outside of this area may in any way affect the characters inside of it, and vice versa. Status ailments like Poison still apply when this ability activates. If an attack's range goes into or outside of the area, the tiles that would be affected have no effect. 

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon:
Side:
Helm:
Armor: Guardian Armor: (+2 DEF) "The very image of a defender of justice, carved in solid stone."

Accessories: Farsight Lens: (When a character 3 tiles or farther from Fredrich takes damage from him, he has +3 SKL and ATK for the purposes of that attack.) "A glass ball, usually used for astroogy, modified for use in ranged combat."

Spoiler: Ryuto Inui/Tatsuya Ogami (click to show/hide)

Name: Ryuto Inui / Tatsuya Ogami
Age: 20
Personality:
Ryuto: Ryuto comes off as a decent, if troubled young man. He is rather polite and quiet, not speaking out unless necessary. To his friends, he is protective, and to his loved ones, a kind man who seems a little awkward at times. Ryuto also possesses a strong sense of justice, wishing to protect others who cannot fight for themselves. He occasionally blanks out, staring into the distance as he remembers long-past traumas, but for the most part, one would not ever notice without asking that he survived a brush with the horrors that once racked his homeworld. Under the surface, Ryuto is concerned that his lack of talent renders him useless to his allies, a doubt he held long before fighting for Harmony and exacerbated by the often colored backgrounds of many of his allies. He attempts to make up for his lack of power and talent with hard work, but his fear remains constant. Not helping this is the constant looming threat of his ‘other half’, the entity called Tatsuya.

Tatsuya: Tatsuya is the radical opposite of Ryuto, his progenitor. Where Ryuto believes in justice, Tatsuya is more concerned with benefiting and enriching himself. Ryuto’s politeness and kindness are not to be seen here, replaced with brashness and often psychopathic ruthlessness against his opponents. Tatsuya is confident in his powers and is deft in employing his many skills. Outside of a fight, Tatsuya is lazy, unwilling to do anything unless given sufficient incentive. He is mischievous, taking to singing taunting nursery rhymes to insult his opponents and taunting Ryuto in mental conversation. However, one trait stands out that both men share; Tatsuya is as protective, if not more, of his loved ones than Ryuto is.

Description:
Ryuto and Tatsuya look much the same, with some essential differences. Ryuto stands at 5’9’’, but the Beast Cells implanted into him as part of the project that increased his power increase his height as Tatsuya to 6’0”. His short brown hair, well-kept and straight in normal form, is messy and frizzy as Tatsuya. Ryuto’s lithe build, albeit with the toning expected from a boy who participates in occasional sport, bulks up as the Beast Cells within his body strengthen his muscles in Tatsuya form. Ryuto’s quiet smile turns into a full on psychopathic grin as the bloodthirst takes over his other self, and while the saner half stands up straight, Tatsuya often assumes a more bestial, primal stance. His voice also assumes a similar change, from a somewhat deep, but still reassuring warm baritone to a much deeper, guttural growl. Finally, Ryuto’s soft hazel eyes turn to a vivid green as he transforms into Tatsuya.

Backstory:
There was a project initiated by the Nozama Corporation, a world leader in many fields such as biochemistry, neurology and medicine. The goal was simple; to allow people access to superhuman powers and skills beyond normal human functionality. The aim was simple; infuse 4000 people as test subjects with a serum, created from Beast Cells- a project of the Corporation to allow soldiers at war to survive longer by toughening their skin, bulking up their muscles and increasing their regenerative capability- and, by targeted modification of the brain, amplify one's brainpower. The aim was to create a true hope for the future; if the project succeeded, then it would prove that the old system was obsolete. The 4000 subjects were intended to create a new utopia, one that was more egalitarian than the current system.

Disaster struck, the night prior to the first distribution. A group disagreeing with the Corporation's aims sabotaged the serum; when it was infused into people, the modifications to the brain seemed to have no effect, and the physical modifications were similarly useless. The project seemed a failure, and all 4000 subjects went home disappointed, with no change to their capability, physical or mental. CEO Takeshi Nozama, the main driver of the project, was fired and replaced by a sterner man who wished to keep an eye on all the 4000 who had been experimented upon and had seemingly no improvement.

One of the 4000 test subjects was an academy student by the name of Ryuto Inui. Ryuto had few friends, either at his school or otherwise, as many thought a powerless and skilless person was useless and unworthy of speaking to. He had a few friends who tried to reassure him otherwise, but he was always convinced that one needed power and skill to stand tall in a world like this. He willingly undertook the procedure as a way of gaining talent, in the hopes that he could stand equally with others When the project failed to provide any change in him, he fell into a deep depression; he stood no closer to being empowered than he did prior. However, his friends being the understanding friends they were, they helped Ryuto past his dejected state, and eventually Ryuto simply decided that he didn’t need power to be beloved.

At that point, the records concerning Ryuto Inui or the Entity called Tatsuya Ogami go blank. Ryuto does not dwell too much on the past, and Tatsuya doesn't speak about it.

Stats:
Attack (ATK): 5 [9]
Defense (DEF): 4 [6]
Skill (SKL): 7 [8]

Non-Rolled Stats:
Constitution (CON): 2 [5]
Capability (CAP): 7 [8] [ADV: 2]
Celerity (CEL):  2 [3] [MOV: 4 Tiles]

HP: 60/60

Skills: 2/2 Free Skills, 4/4 Cost Skills (1/1 Adv. Skills)
Beast Cell Regeneration: Tatsuya’s Beast Cells regenerate faster than normal human cells, allowing him to recover health. Restores 15% HP per turn. Passive.
Infinite Memory: Tatsuya's memory is long-reaching and very retentive. Tatsuya's Passives (including this one) cannot be permanently disabled by any means; if disabled, they return to Tatsuya at the end of the Turn. Passive.
Humanoid Abomination: Tatsuya’s visage is intimidatingly inhuman, despite his human form. Enemy Actives that activate or end within one square of Tatsuya or hit Tatsuya, regardless of doing damage or not, gain 1 extra turn of cooldown. Passive.
Supreme Analysis: Nothing will evade Tatsuya’s searching eyes, and every move is one he can use against the enemy. Enemy passives and non stat-affecting equipment or Accessory passives do not activate during Attack Phases against Tatsuya. Passive.
Swift Instinct: Tatsuya's instincts are nothing anyone has ever seen before. If Tatsuya would be hit by an enemy Skill or basic attack, reroll Tatsuya's dodge roll. Passive. Does not activate on enemy counterattacks. Activates once per hit of the Skill.
Deadly Force: Tatsuya's bare hands are as lethal weapons. Tatsuya’s basic attack is buffed to (2d4+ATK) instead of the usual (1d6+ATK). Passive.
[Advantage Skill] Beastly Dexterity: Tatsuya is swift, deadly as a weapon on his own. If Tatsuya does not move this turn, Tatsuya can attack an opponent twice with either his basic attack or any offensive Active Skills he has. Passive.

Advantage: Monstrous Perfection: In battle, Tatsuya takes over for the pacifistic Ryuto, bringing to bear all of his power. Tatsuya gains a +1 to all stats. In addition, Tatsuya gains an additional 25% of his total CAP as CAP points (starting from 2 additional points) per level; however, he can only use these points towards gaining or levelling Passive skills.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Fisticuffs: Tatsuya fights with his bare hands when he can’t acquire a sufficiently pain-inducing weapon. +2 ATK.
Side: Wicked Knife: +1 ATK
Helm:
Armor: Samurai Armor: +1 DEF

Accessories:
- Taser: Used by Ryuto to 'shock' Tatsuya awake.
- Beast Cells: Tatsuya is infused with specially-engineered cells that possess higher regenerative properties. +2 CON.
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Spoiler: Sasaki Nobunaga (click to show/hide)

Name: Sasaki Nobunaga
Age: Physically in his early twenties, a few years older in actuality due to slowing his own aging slightly.
Personality: A bit asocial, but friendly to those that actually know him, and adaptable to most social environments and groups if you give him time. Highly intelligent, but impatient, and has a tendency to speak and act somewhat thoughtlessly at times. A bit of a superiority complex. Seems to be a decent leader, if he doesn't exactly leap at the role. A little lacking in discipline and willpower. Lazy, but of the "will constantly gripe about doing work" rather than the "will not do work" variety. Has a genuine desire to aid others, though this can be tempered by his, well, temper.
Description: http://i.imgur.com/TG5cPy9.jpg
Backstory: A modern hermit. Nobunaga, whether it be by luck or fate, was a student that decided to try Taoist practices out on a whim - and, much to his surprise, he didn’t receive some vague sense of relaxation that many would call “approaching inner peace,” but rather discovered some outright magical powers could be gleaned from it. Pursuing this study further was somewhat difficult, however; in the modern day it was rather difficult to locate a mountaintop hermit to learn from - and those that were there were often more interested in studying your pocketbook than your path to enlightenment. His journey eventually led him to a strange land, seemingly anchored in the fantastical past and separated from the modern world. There, after nearly being snacked upon by the locals - the phantoms of the past that proved to be all too real - he found a mentor, who set him upon the right path, though walking that path proved to be much more difficult than Nobunaga had anticipated. He trained there for a few years before he was abruptly whisked away for greater purposes...


Stats:


Rolled stats:
Attack (ATK): 8 (+1)
Defense (DEF): 3 (+1)
Skill (SKL): 9


Non-rolled stats:
Constitution (CON): 2
Capability (CAP): 6
Celerity (CEL): 4 (+1)

HP: 30

EXP: 0/100

Skills: 2 base+(0/6 AP)
Seven Star Ray: Nobunaga pulls his relic out from its sheath slightly, causing it to shine with an intense golden light. Deals 2d4+ATK damage to everything in a straight line with a length of CEL. Does not cycle weapons with followups.
-Eight Thousand Rays of the Rising Sun: Costs minimum 20 rhythm. Deals the damage of Seven Star Ray * (Rhythm Spent/20) to all enemies within CEL range.
Sensitive Ears (Passive): Nobunaga doubles all rolls pertaining to hearing and halves any penalties incurred due to a target being concealed, but takes 20% more damage from sonic attacks.
Prince’s Armory (Passive): An enchantment that passively analyzes, records, and replicates the weapons Nobunaga encounters. An action may be spent to replicate an enemy’s weapon in-combat, and Battle Rhythm followup attacks will cycle through recorded weapons in the order they are listed in inventory. At the GM's discretion, certain weapons may be too powerful to replicate.
Falling Star: Nobunaga rises into the air, then flies directly at a foe and attacks them with his equipped weapon, dealing 2d4+ATK damage and moving up to his CEL in a straight line.
-Star of Creation: Costs minimum 10 Rhythm. Deals 3d4+2*ATK damage after moving up to CEL range to the primary target. Every enemy that this attack passes adjacent to, including the primary target, takes ([Rhythm Spent-5]/2) damage.
Princely Admonition: Add (SKL/2) to Rhythm, then attack a target at melee range.
-Infinite Heavenly Blade Dance: Spend 20 Rhythm per strike, not including the first, to deal 2d4+ATK damage. Rhythm spent in this way is not deducted until the end of Nobunaga’s turn, though an amount cannot be spent that would leave Nobunaga below 0 Rhythm.


Advantage: Battle Rhythm
Nobunaga gains Rhythm at the start of each turn based on the amount of damage he dealt in the last. Every point of Rhythm increases his chance to follow up on an attack (with the basic attack specified in Infinite Heavenly Blade Dance) by 1%, to a cap of 50. Attacks granted by this Advantage can be followed up on, but the rate decreases by 10% for each successive hit. Rhythm can be spent to use a powered-up version of an existing ability. The formula for normal gain is (Damage dealt last turn/5).


Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Seven Star Sword. An old relic of a magic weapon that shines with an intense light. +2 Attack.
Side: Kept open for summoned blades.
Helm: -Empty Slot-
Armor: Princely Regalia: A fine set of clothing that blends both the archaic and modern. It’s been layered with numerous enchantments to protect the user and ease their movement. +1 CEL and DEF.


Accessories: Earmuffs. They don’t do much beyond make conversation bearable.

Spoiler: Nagisa Matsuro (click to show/hide)

Name: Nagisa Matsuro
Age: 138
Personality:
Totally conscious of her own mortality, if not others', Nagisa is quite empathetic and she greatly concerns herself with the wellbeing of others--though not necessarily for the right reasons. She comes across as impersonal as it gets from a world with more bodies than people. Companions, to her, are irreplaceable in a world fated to end, where her only respite was to rage against the end and make the best of what remained. Nagisa has more-or-less entered a state of relative culture shock, being ushered into this new world of well-defined moral boundaries.

In practice, Nagisa seems fastidious and overly conscientious of others' behavior, though rarely her own. She shuns decadence and relishes every success, even minor victories. She tends to avoid challenges and risks, and could be called a coward at first glance despite lacking any of the standard symptoms (screaming in fear, abandoning her friends, retreating from combat). Instead, Nagisa tries to minimize liabilities and instill the same values in others, and quickly turns confrontational when others are wasting resources or engaging in needless combat. When her friends are in danger, though, she can be counted on to spur into action, though not without a healthy dose of criticism both during and after combat.

Description:
She looks like a teenaged girl with grey eyes (with glowing marks and specks of light, green), bright red hair tied in pigtails hanging to the sides, and typically seen wearing white jackets and red skirts found in the ruins of the old world (each of her friends would keep a distinct outfit that was different than the others). Though rather skinny, she is a cyborg and much stronger than the average teenager, though her basic strength is hardly superhuman besides her jaws (which are able to process steel). She can eat batteries in addition to regular food for energy, but still needs water and air to metabolize normal sugars. Despite this, she can do fine in a vacuum with stored energy, and she can subsist on batteries alone for a long time. Her tolerance to g-forces is quite high and while her skin is biological, her bones and muscles are artificial (terminator-style).

She has a flower-shaped metal device sprouting from her upper back called a Locus, a small forge used for processing exotic alloys. It can emit countless numbers of thin, prehensile tendrils made of a special memorymetal alloy that can twist, flatten, and form different shapes, all with blinding speed. Her tendrils can be used to walk and attack, are razor-sharp, and can regenerate if damaged or sliced off, but only if Nagisa has eaten the requisite titanium and other rare metals needed to form the alloy. She can also consume pieces of herself to recover lost metals.

Backstory:
Nagisa comes from a world past the age of baseline humanity. There were three eras on her world: the Organic Age of the old humans, the Augmented Age (near the end of which she was born), and the Digital Age. Nagisa herself is one of the Augs, humans implanted with life-support and various cutting-edge technologies. Before her time, humanity had covered the planet with wonders: megacities, undersea habitats, and even space elevators. But the Augmented Age lasted only a hundred years after the first introduction of widespread human augmentation. By this time, humans were exclusively cloned by the three largest nations: Ikaria, Hyperborea, and the United States. Humans themselves had lost the ability to reproduce naturally through genetic engineering.

A new technology, known as Beyond, was invented at roughly the end of the Augmented Age. It allowed the duplication of a human consciousness into computers. Humans could now become digital beings, and while the technology faced widespread critique during its early hours in development, all of the computing infrastructure already existed to support such a thing; the rise of the technology was inevitable, the only question was when. And after only ten years of research, the CEO of Beyond Corporation produced a working digital double of himself.
The government of the United States, eventually followed by the other nations with cloning authorization, began to consider replacing new births with digital copies, and within just a couple of decades all human cloning had halted, replaced with the rapid uploading of all existing humans into nearby cloud servers. This hadn't killed off most humans just yet, but without replacement the decline of the physical population was inevitable. The outside world fell into disrepair as the digital utopia usurped reality itself.

Fast-forward slightly over a century into the Digital Age: The last major server, buried deep under the ocean, is sure to survive for at least a thousand more years. The rest of Earth, however, lies desolate, exploited for the sake of expanding the digital realm with new servers, most defunct by now. Cities died out and many of the still-surviving Augs went insane, still roaming the wastelands to annihilate anything they can find out of rage. Those few Augs such as Nagisa, advanced enough to avoid mental breakdown, have been roaming and scavenging for fuel, parts, upgrades, and ancient records for as long as they've known. Nagisa saw the collapse herself, but she has since blotted it from her memory. No sense dwelling on past mistakes. It is clear the planet is doomed, but as long as she is alive, she seems mildly content with spitting in the face of ruin.

Starting out with a group of eight friends, their numbers have dwindled down to two: Nagisa herself and Kyoko Izayoi, whom she split up with after a year of being the only ones left. Kyoko's whereabouts are currently unknown.

Stats:

Attack (ATK): 8 (+2)
Defense (DEF): 5
Skill (SKL): 5

Non-Rolled Stats:
Constitution (CON): 4
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 4

HP: 50/50

EXP: 0/100

Skills:

Akumu - Spears an enemy with Locus spines from up to 2 tiles away, dealing (1d4)+(ATK/2) damage to it and a nearby enemy behind it.
 
Genetic Algorithm - Attack with a bladed whip-like tendril with many barbs, wrapping around a target (or environmental object) up to (4)+(Ability Level) units away and preventing it or Nagisa from retreating past the initial distance. If Nagisa has higher CON: They get dragged by movement and dash abilities. Otherwise: Nagisa gets dragged, unless she is rooted. Multiple enemies can be tethered at once.
-->Modifies next Akumu: Death Sentence - Drags Tethered target into melee range and break the tether if CON is lower, or pulls Nagisa otherwise. If it is an enemy: deals normal damage and applies a bleed that deals (ATK/2) damage per turn for 3 turns.

Wings of Brimstone - Emits tendrils coated in semi-molten steel, flexible enough to take flight. Dash anywhere within (CEL) squares (over obstacles) and deal (2d4)+(ATK) damage to the target square, half to adjacent squares. Cooldown: 2 turns.
-->Modifies next Akumu: Fiery Greatsword - Slash with a molten bladed tendril instead, dealing (2d4)+(ATK) damage, and half to all enemies adjacent to Nagisa.

Chrysalis - Emits a multitude of flat ribbon-like tendrils that collectively act as a shield. Absorbs up to (Ability Level)+(DEF) damage coming from one of eight directions in a 90° cone (north, northwest, west, etc), and absorbs the last attack entirely unless it's twice the remaining shield value. Goes on cooldown if the shield breaks or manually retracts after taking damage, (1 turn, 2 if broken).
-->Modifies next Akumu: Tomb with a View - Extends the shield to project a cage around a 3x3 bubble, trapping enemies and dealing the Akumu damage to enemies inside. The shield now blocks damage from all directions, but not from inside the bubble. (Enemies can choose to attack the bubble directly to break it)

Advantage: Root
Nagisa can root herself to the ground if she doesn't move during her turn, keeping her from being displaced unless she uses a movement ability. She can then launch herself next turn, doubling her CEL for either the movement phase or the action phase. Bonus can't be stored.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Sawn-Off Shotgun - An old relic scavenged off a bandit in surprisingly good working condition. +2 ATK
Side:
Helm:
Armor:

Accessories:
Nano-Forge - A system that allows recycling production of cybernetic components and organic molecules. Heals 10% of an enemy's Max HP when it dies adjacent to Nagisa/to Nagisa's own attacks.

Spoiler: Joseph Wakefield (click to show/hide)

Name
Joseph Wakefield

Age
16

Personality
Industrious and caring, yet at times taciturn and vindictive, Joseph is the sort of person who finds it easy to make friends, but hard to make companions. Though he is usually calm and down to earth, he finds difficult in expressing his emotions, and his stubbornness has often lead him astray.

He has long since stopped caring about trying to remember who he was, and instead acting out according to who his dream tells him he is, leading to him often deviate significantly from the expected behaviors of someone his age.

Description
Broad-shouldered with his brown hair cut short, and grey eyes ever alert, Joseph would look youthful, if ever-so slightly bookish were it not for the fact that he has the general posture of a man thrice his age.

Memento
Joseph's Memento resembles a knightly figure in shining armor with vaguely mechanical and insectoid trappings. It has a flat screen for a head, hovering above it is a silvery halo, its metallic shine traveling clockwise around it, regardless of lighting not unlike a loading icon. Cables, wires, and intravenous tubes connect from various parts to one another with the occasional handheld screen attached to them which at times, flicker between stylized characters no one present will recognize. A torn flag is draped over its right shoulder, the hand wielding a slick and angular gatling gun, its surface scorched black save for a plate bearing a peace symbol attached to the side. The other arm is sparsely wrapped in bandages and bears an oversized police badge as a shield. A hazy, dream-like scarf wraps around its neck, the designs at the ends and the way it is worn making it resemble a pair of arms hugging it from behind, sitting and fused upon each pauldron, facing away from their head, are two stylized and minimalistic angelic figurines. There is gash along its back, no unlike that you'd find on a discarded cicada shell.

Backstory
Too long to put here

Rolled Stats: 18/18
ATK: 6 [8]
DEF: 6
SKL: 6

Non-Rolled Stats: 12/12
CON: 5 [7]
CAP: 2
CEL: 3

HP: 80/80
XP: 0/100

Skills: 2/2 Free, 1/1 Cost
Lockdown LVL. 1 (Passive): Joseph takes a defensive stance, protected by his Memento's shield. If this unit does not move on their own accord this turn, increase their DEF by 3 until their next turn.
Spin Up LVL. 1 (Buff): The Memento charges its weapon, spinning it up to ludicrous speeds. Increase this unit's ATK by 3 for this turn only. This may be used instead of moving.
Overdrive LVL. 1 (Buff): Joseph discards an advantage, empowering his Memento through the sacrifice. Once per turn as a Free Action, select one Buff applied to the user this round. Shorten that Buff's as to expire at the end of this round. It will now be 33% more powerful for every turn lost from its duration. This amplification percentage may never be increased from leveling up.

Advantage: 1/1 Free
Fire Support (Attack): A hellish spray of munitions from the Memento's gatling gun. Attack one foe within CEL range of any ally. 1.5*ATK damage.

Equipment:
WPN: Crowbar: A simple steel crowbar. +2 ATK.
SID:
HLM:
AMR: School Uniform: A private school uniform. +2 CON.

Accessories:
AC1: Ring of Regeneration: A faintly glowing ring that pulsates gently. Restores 5% HP per turn.
AC2:
AC3:
AC4:
AC5:

[Sl4cker]

Champions 2

Spoiler: Obito Lee (click to show/hide)

Name: Obito Lee
Age: 28
Personality
Obito is headstrong and fiercely independent, and does not take kindly to others forcing their authority upon her. However, she is also extremely pragmatic, and while she does not enjoy it she is perfectly capable of listening to others when the situation calls for it. She is not prone to lashing out in anger, instead keeping it contained for as long as possible. Not the best of ideas, perhaps, but that’s simply the kind of person she is. She is professional in public and on assignments for the most part, so quirks like this do not matter much in the end.

Obito also does not trust people very easily. Over a decade of watching her back against all sorts of people leads to that kind of thing. She also has a bit of a drinking problem, nothing that can’t be worked past, but it is notable. It helps her vent, however, so she is allowed that much, even if it does not fit into the image of a perfect head of family. We may have to look into this however, just in case it does become a problem.

-excerpt from the Lee family’s Family Register, written by several of its members over the years

Description: Obito is on the taller side of five feet, and looks remarkably well-groomed for someone who engages in combat so often. In fact, her face, hands and feet look completely pristine save for a few scars, and her usual clothes, a flexible black spandex suit covered by a pair of of trousers and vest that both contain many pockets. A pouch of some sort is tied to the belt. Her black hair is always at exactly the same length, going down to just slightly above her shoulders and no further. She also has green eyes, but there’s nothing particularly extraordinary about them.

The spandex hides a truly ridiculous amount of scars, however. While she has not obtained new ones in years, being able to call up armor as strong as The Beginning is convenient like that, and several have already faded, the signs of so many different battles have yet to disappear, and some simply never will.
 
Backstory
The world is a most malleable place. Great feats such as creating entire forests in a week or the destruction of equally large plots of land in but an instant can be accomplished with sheer, single-minded conviction and the belief that this is how things should be. A person can alter the world or themselves to with but two words so long as they are willing to work long and hard enough to convince the world this is how things should be. However, this carries its risks, and is what led to The Land’s name being The Land. Many a place has been altered almost irreparably by careless renaming, such as in the case of the now-uninhabited Land of Fire. Worse, such effects are far harder to reverse. Hence, it has been agreed to simply call our world The Land, lest it change into something far worse.

However, such potential being in the hands of almost every human in existence means that there are some who wish to make great changes regardless of the cost, and there are inevitably people who prefer the world just the way it is. This has led to the world being embroiled in war for hundreds of years now, and the people who have invested their time into this practice of manipulating the world are requested for other tasks. Public showings, large-scale repairs as well as far darker things such as assassinations and all-out war are all things people such as they are paid to do, on top of fighting those with opposing ideologies for how the world should be with startling regularity.

A world covered in shadow wars, regular wars and gods standing among men. That is the state of The Land now.

-an excerpt from Chapter One of A Guide to The Land and Those Within It by Darius Tobi, Free Scholar
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The Lee Family is, perhaps, one of the most recent Great Families to have appeared, though as is always the case such a thing is impossible to say for certain. Many families have concealed their existence for a century or more in the past. In the end, however, the more important detail about them is that they are easily one of the smallest of the Great Families as well, and certainly the smallest of those who wish to keep the world the way it is.

In fact, it is believed by most that a single individual by the name of Kaguya Lee was almost singlehandedly responsible for propelling the family to Great Family status roughly twenty years ago. While this is not entirely untrue, it ignores a number of other factors. In the end, while Kaguya was the most prominent prodigy the family had produced in that time period, helped by his development of the Replacement and Throw techniques(instantaneous movement on the battlefield and the ability to lift and throw anything regardless of weight or size, respectively), he was far from the only one. As far as most experts can tell, a combination of luck and good genetics led to the family to birth a surprisingly large amount of very talented fighters and businessmen during a five-year period, allowing the family to shoot upwards and, in a very short time, make a claim for, and acquire, the status of Great Family.

While most would have assumed that the event referred to as the Blood-Lee Night by those with a particularly morbid sense of humour would have robbed the clan of most of its strength, the Great Family displayed a large amount of never-before seen wealth. Numerous high-ranking people within other Great Families believed to have been responsible for the deaths that occurred that night were found dead in their homes anywhere between one and three weeks later as well, though accounts are unclear. Almost a month later, Obito Lee became the matriarch of the Lee Family at the young age of 13.

-an excerpt from Chapter 13 of A Guide to The Land and Those Within It by Darius Tobi, Free Scholar
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The top part of the letter is crinkled and torn, completely unreadable

Dear Lady Lee

The next few lines are smudged, presumably by a liquid of some kind.

The Krakowiak family would like to express its deepest condolences over the death of your cousin. We would like to offer you some support in finding the killer, and as such have sent a group of 5 men, including the current head of family’s son, name unreadable, starts with Ale, to aid you in those and other matters. Due to the man’s skills, we would suggest he be assigned to you as a personal bodyguard, to ensure something equally tragic does not happen to someone as high-ranking as you.

We would like to send more support, but due to distance and time constraints, along with some truly unruly clans making threats along the borders of our territory, we are afraid that is not possible. Of course, we have included a proposal along with this letter that would make such things far easier, and we would advise you to consider it. A joining of the families would be beneficial to both, and as the smallest Great Family, such a boost to manpower would be of great help in our humble opinion.

We do not mean to rush you, of course. You may have all the time you need to mourn and consider. However, we strongly urge you to consider quickly. The next two to three months will be the most crucial for how people view the apparent weaknesses in your security measures, and as such will be when the largest amount of assassination missions will be made, to exploit those weaknesses.

The rest of the letter is completely unreadable, save for the very last few lines.
Sincerely,
Abdul Krakowiak.
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URGENT MESSAGE
Occupational force currently being torn apart. Am bleeding out currently, no medics left. Provoking the Lee family, wrong decision. Sent somebody, unsure who, most likely a female based on build, voice etc. Tore through walls. Black giant (skeletal, weakness?), relentless attack of soldiers, short periods of rest. Strong, too strong, giant seemingly invulnerable, capable of tearing through anything. others fighting as well many too many pull out get away remove agents do not fight send apologies help

The rest of the note is wet, stained with blood and some other liquid.

Stats: Stats are divided into two categories, rolled stats and non-rolled stats.

Rolled stats affect any rolls that might occur.

Attack (ATK): 8(9)
Defense (DEF): 4(5)
Skill (SKL): 6

Non-rolled stats, of course, have no affect on any roll.

Constitution (CON): 3
Capability (CAP): 5
Celerity (CEL): 4[4 range]

HP: 40

Skills
The Beginning(Level 2): Obito manifests a large, black skeletal body(minus the legs) around herself. Causes Obito to occupy 2 adjacent tiles instead of one(if an opponent or ally occupied one of these tiles, they are pushed away into an adjacent tile) and halves Movement Range. As long as this skill is active, Obito gains a +4 bonus to both ATK and DEF. Requires a turn to dispel.

Left Arm of the Beginning(Level 1): Obito either manifests The Beginning’s left arm or has it slam the arm down, targeting one adjacent tile. An enemy occupying that tile takes 1d4 + ATK/2 damage and moves 4 squares backwards(relative to Obito’s position). Allies can also be affected by the knockback, but not the damage.

Right Arm of the Beginning(Level 1): Obito either manifests The Beginning’s right arm or has it swing it widely. A 3x3 square in front of Obito is targeted by the attack, dealing 1d8 + ATK damage to all enemies caught within the area of the sweep.

Replacement(Level 1): Obito replaces either herself or another unit with one other unit within a 3-tile radius. Can be used instead of actual movement.

Unique Skills
Steal(Level 1): Grants Obito the ability to steal a single accessory from an opponent. Opponent must be within one tile of Obito. 2 turn cooldown, first theft against a given opponent automatically succeeds.

Steal Skill: Grants Obito the ability to steal a single a single Skill from an adjacent opponent, granting Obito permanent access to that Skill, and causing the opponent to lose access to the stolen Skill for the rest of the battle. This Skill can only be used once per battle. This Skill cannot be dodged, blocked or otherwise negated. Skills granted by an Advantage cannot be stolen through this Skill.

Advantage
The Best Thief: Obito has had a lot of time to perfect her skill in theft. This grants her access to 2 Unique Skills, Steal and Steal Skill. Steal may be performed once per turn as a free action.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: None.
Side: None.
Helm: None.
Armor: Light Armor: +1 DEF. Its light and fits over clothes.

Accessories
Bag of Holding: Grants Obito access to infinite inventory space, and allows her to instantly switch weapons and accessories mid-battle as a free action.
Power-Boosting Seal: A piece of paper on a necklace. It has the vague aspect of ‘boosting someone’s power’. +2 to damage, heals etc.
Hardened Gauntlets: +1 ATK. They are gauntlets. Durable ones, too. They hit hard.

Spoiler: Sera Cromwell (click to show/hide)

Name: Sera Cromwell. She has a few Superhero names; Iron Maiden for her normal self, and Armored Rider Gaia for her Rider form. However, she rarely (if ever) uses them.

Age: 20

Personality:

Description: A taller woman with shoulder-length, neat black hair. She has blue eyes and glasses. In regards to features and figure, she’s what one would call attractive, certainly. She generally wears hoodies and jeans, although occasionally has longer skirts with shorts underneath to prevent people from looking… there. More generally, clothing that can hide her cybernetics, which include both arms, her right leg, a decent portion of her back, bits of her head, and a decent amount of internal organs. She also has her Rider Belt.

When on the job, she removes the majority of her civilian clothes as she activates her built-in armor, one made of a tough yet flexible metal that is silver in color. It does not include a helmet, but otherwise can almost seem like a knight's armor with more cybernetics.

And finally, in her Armored Rider Gaia form, she has a brown helmet with green eye-slits covering her head, and her silvery body armor is replaced with more earthen tones, although it is still a similar and equally tough metal. A green scarf protects the neck. The belt now includes a Card Reader, for Arcana-based attacks, and has the symbol of a golden chariot on it.

Backstory:
Sera was a normal person until a few years ago. She worked for the Heroic Union, one of the non-superpowered employees who worked in the dispatch center, where incidents are reported and if necessary a Hero is called to the scene. This was her life until one day, she was taken hostage by a group of villains who had been cornered in the post office she just happened to be in. They threatened her and the other hostages lives if they tried anything. And while they were making demands, she clubbed the leader over the head with a chair. The distraction caused by trying to subdue her allowed one of the Heroes outside- one of the Armored Riders- to enter and capture them all. But, in their rage, the villains had mortally wounded Sera and had been torturing her up until the rider entered. It was… not pretty. The rider brought her to the only person he thought could help.

Sera was, by almost all definitions, beyond saving. And she would have been, had the doctor she was brought to been anyone else; it was already a small miracle she was still breathing when she arrived. But Doctor Toshiba was better than that.

The next morning, Sera woke up. She was… changed, but alive. As she adjusted, she decided something; she wouldn't let this second chance go to waste. In addition to the ‘natural’ benefits of her new enhancements, Sera asked Toshiba for one of the Rider belts, to help people. He gave her one of the new "First Generation" belts, specifically the Gaia belt.

Once she was sufficiently used to the cybernetics and the suit, she began her work as a Hero for the Union- many Riders were independent, but she'd always worked for the Union. Not like they didn’t already know everything about her anyway.

Cyborg:

Rolled Stats
Attack (ATK): 7 (+2)
Defense (DEF): 3 (+2)
Skill (SKL): 8

Non-rolled stats
Constitution (CON): 2 (3)
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 6 (Total 5 Movement)
HP: 40

Armored Rider

Rolled
Attack (ATK): 7 (+2)
Defense (DEF): 7 (+2)
Skill (SKL): 4

Non-rolled
Constitution (CON): 7 (
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 1 (3 Movement)
HP: 90


You start off with 18 rolled stat points, and 12 non-rolled stat points. You gain 4 and 2 stat points respectively on level up.

Skills: These are each Champion's abilities, whether it be to swing a blade or to fire a spell or even a passive resistance against certain attacks, they are the tools of combat. You start with 2 seperate from CAP.

Cyborg:
Wide Slash (Lv.1) - A sweeping slash with the Rider Glaive, dealing 2d4+ATK to the tile directly in front of Sera and tiles adjacent

Rend (Lv.1) - A rending slash that weakens the opponent's armor. In addition to doing 1d8+ATK damage with 2 range, the attack lowers the opponent's DEF by 3 for two turns.

Armored Rider:
Disrupt (Lv.1, Active): Sera's weapon, on the strike, releases a burst of weakening energy. In addition to doing 1d8+ATK damage with 2 range, the attack lowers the opponent's ATK by 3 for two turns.

Taunt (Lv.1, Active) - A taunt to enemies in range to provoke them into attacking Sera. She's not sure why it works either. All enemies within 3 spaces must attack Sera until her next turn.

Defensive Stance (Lv.1, Active) - Taking a defensive stance, Sera reduces damage to her for a few turns. +2 Defense for two turns.

Slow and Implacable (Lv.1, Passive) - The Armored Rider Gaia suit is not a fast one. It's actually pretty slow and takes effort to move much... but it is also rather tougher than your average armor. +1 Defense for every Movement point remaining at the end of a turn.

Advantage: Dual Forms:

Sera has two ‘forms’ that are equally combat-capable, with their own stats and skills. Firstly her Cyborg moveset; Sera has not simply recovered due to her bionics (although everyone calls her a cyborg. Thanks [Hollywood-equivalent]). She’s been markedly improved over a normal human and can fight just as effectively as any other Champion despite her lack of superpowers. Her other ‘form’ is the Rider moveset. Using the Armored Rider Gaia suit, she trades speed for defense and a whole different set of Skills and abilities. She may choose one form before battle begins and will spend the whole of battle in that form. If it’s a surprise attack, unless there is reason for her to be wearing the ARG suit, she defaults to the Cyborg moveset.

In addition, she has a smaller benefit unique to each form. In Cyborg form, she has 1.3x SKL for dodging. In Armored Rider form, she has +30% Defense.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.

Weapon: Rider Arms: Glaive Visor. A collapsible glaive of the same metal used... everywhere else on Sera, used skillfully in both of Sera's forms. +2 Attack.
Side:
Helm:
Armor: Cyborg Armor / Gaia Armor: Sera's built in armor, and the armor of the Armored Rider Gaia, respectively. +2 Defense
Accessories: Toughening Amulet: +1 CON
You may start off with 2 pieces of equipment, 1 piece of equipment and 1 accessory, or 2 accessories.

Spoiler: Mawr Heulen (click to show/hide)

Name: Mawr Heulen
Age: 23
Personality: Mawr is a much more mature woman than one would think someone in their early 20s to be. Quiet and thoughtful, Mawr can reliably be expected to think out the consequences of her actions before she makes them, and to be supportive of her allies when needed. This is helped by the fact that Mawr is quite smart, boasting a sharply analytical mind that has given her a knack for strategy and using her powers to help turn the tide of fights. To those she trusts deeply, she is steadfastly loyal.

She is also very tired. She completed her journey, she played a part in saving the world, and those five years and what went on in them have left her sort of adrift; her journey has emotionally taken a toll on her, but she had also found a lot of difficulty setting back into a normal life. Mawr has trust issues -- there are those she trusts implicitly, but that point is very, very difficult to reach now, as Mawr is afraid of getting too close to people.

Description: Mawr stands at 5'3", and is around average weight, although with a (somewhat) curvy figure. As far as her skin goes, it's pretty pale in color, which contrasts with the blue-green clothing she wears, which is a somewhat loose, short-ish dress with a fully green trim at the bottom, and nothing in the way of socks or stockings, but a bluer pair of sandals. Her hair is a dark brown color, which contrasts nicely with her skin, and tumbles down to around chest height. Her eyes are grey.

Backstory: There is a world where each kingdom has an elemental tradition, and these kingdoms have plied their traditions and practired their systems for years and years, despite the advent of new events and technologies. The greatest and most involved of these kingdoms is the Water Empire, a land of rivers and coasts in the middle of the largest continent. In this empire Mawr Heulen was born, born to a highly skilled master of the art of terrain magic, and for the first sixteen years of her life she trained under him and did little more than that.

Then, in the Fire Kingdom, a rebellion began, a rebellion to tear down the long-standing kingdoms and make the world anew. The fighting and rebellion spilled over into other kingdoms, including the empire of water... and the warring would end up costing her father's life. Then came a charismatic and determined fellow, a healer of the Land of the Mind, who gave her a chance to defeat them. He gathered and set off with a party of five, also including a Mage of the Island of Strength, a rogue of the Domain of Animals (and a personal friend of his), and three years later the cousin of the Mage, a knight of the Electric Kingdom.

For five years they adventured the world and followed their leader's daring, unique plan to stop the rebellion, Mawr acting as the second-in-command and as the party's strategist. They made close, close friendships, they won battles, they encountered obstacles, hardships, and betrayals, but in the end they won. The rebellion was defeated, and order was restored to the kingdoms. Mawr went home. She'd aged into an adult on their journey, she'd had happy moments, but she had also suffered, she had seen and done so so much more than most, accomplished enough for a lifetime, and though she had her life in front of her she was tired. And she lived mostly on her own, accompanied only by her friends' occasional visits, for two years, resting a weariness in her soul. But no matter how weary she was, she was talented and useful for the Goddess of Harmony, and so she was recruited for the war.

Stats: Stats are divided into two categories, rolled stats and non-rolled stats.

Rolled stats affect any rolls that might occur.

Attack (ATK): 2
Defense (DEF): 8
Skill (SKL): 8

Non-rolled stats, of course, have no affect on any roll.

Constitution (CON): 2
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 6
HP: 30

EXP: 0/100

Skills: Deep Water: For a turn, all of the Wet tiles Mawr has placed take 1 more MOV to pass through.
Healing Pools: For this turn, if an ally ends a turn on a Wet tile, they regain 1d8 HP.
Acidify: For two turns, enemies who end their turn in a Wet tile lose 1d4 defense for the next turn.
Invigorating Water: For two turns, allies who end their turn in a Wet tile gain 1d4 attack for the next turn.

Advantage: Terrain Master of the Empire of Water: Mawr creates puddle, pools, creeks, or the like on the terrain, designating the terrain as a "Wet" tile for the purposes of her abilities. She can create [2*Level] tiles, within a range of [3+Level] tiles.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Boarding Axe: For when Mawr has to fight up close. +2 ATK.
Side: What you wield in your off-hand. Usually affects either DEF or SKL.
Helm: What you wear on your head. Usually affects CON.
Armor: What you wear on your body. Usually affects DEF and CON.

Accessories: Surface-Sailor Sandals: Mawr can travel over two aquatic or Wet tiles for only 1 MOV.
Talisman (bought): Defends against ranged attacks.

[Sl4cker]

And another Reserved, just in case

[Empiricist]

Spoiler: Fluff (click to show/hide)

Name
Joseph Wakefield

Age
16

Personality
Industrious and caring, yet at times taciturn and vindictive, Joseph is the sort of person who finds it easy to make friends, but hard to make companions. Though he is usually calm and down to earth, he finds difficult in expressing his emotions, and his stubbornness has often lead him astray.

He has long since stopped caring about trying to remember who he was, and instead acting out according to who his dream tells him he is, leading to him often deviate significantly from the expected behaviors of someone his age.

Description
Broad-shouldered with his brown hair cut short, and grey eyes ever alert, Joseph would look youthful, if ever-so slightly bookish were it not for the fact that he has the general posture of a man thrice his age.

Memento
Joseph's Memento resembles a knightly figure in shining armor with vaguely mechanical and insectoid trappings. It has a flat screen for a head, hovering above it is a silvery halo, its metallic shine traveling clockwise around it, regardless of lighting not unlike a loading icon. Cables, wires, and intravenous tubes connect from various parts to one another with the occasional handheld screen attached to them which at times, flicker between stylized characters no one present will recognize. A torn flag is draped over its right shoulder, the hand wielding a slick and angular gatling gun, its surface scorched black save for a plate bearing a peace symbol attached to the side. The other arm is sparsely wrapped in bandages and bears an oversized police badge as a shield. A hazy, dream-like scarf wraps around its neck, the designs at the ends and the way it is worn making it resemble a pair of arms hugging it from behind, sitting and fused upon each pauldron, facing away from their head, are two stylized and minimalistic angelic figurines. There is gash along its back, no unlike that you'd find on a discarded cicada shell.

Backstory
It's morning, early morning, early by your standards at least. A night, a single night, has passed, one that feels closer to years, decades even.

Your room is as you've remembered it - tidy, save for of course the tangle of wires and cables from various consoles littering the floor - a rather troubling fact at that, given that you had to remember rather than know. Indeed, for the most part, what you ought to know right now, you remember instead.

Staring into the mirror, you barely recognize the youthful face that stares back with alert eyes it should not have.

Now then, what was your name again?

>Joseph Wakefield.

Your name, is Joseph Wakefield; that at least, is not under doubt, though everything else may be.

You do not remember what day it is, what you had planned, or even what games you played last night. Instead, you know your dream, an awfully long dream at that, far different to your usual nightmare, one distinguishable from reality only in that you've awoken from it. You look in the mirror, and barely recognize the youthful face that stares back with alert eyes it should not have.

You'd compare your current predicament to the start of a JRPG plot, but funnily enough, you aren't in the mood today.

[]Play some games.
[]Check your phone.
[]Leave your room.

>[X]Leave your room.

Not exactly feeling in the mood for gaming, you open the door as to leave your room. What lies beyond is not what you remembered.

You gaze out upon a once grand mausoleum, now lying in ruins and overgrown with countless blooming flowers. Rays of light pierce the damaged domes and broken buttresses, softly illuminating the interior. Sitting upon an enomrous coffin located in the center of a congeries of rather expensive-looking furniture and fallen monuments, is a fair maiden dressed in monochrome attire, she beckons to you.

[]Approach the maiden.
[]Shut the door.

>[X]Shut the door.

You shut the door immediately.

Nope. Nope. Whatever this mess is, nope.

The universe however, seems to have other plans in mind. Cracks, like those on glass, spread from where you slammed the door as if it were damaged from the impact. They spread and multiply, spreading across the door, spreading beyond the door, your entire room cracking, and shattering. Luminous shards fall and fade, leaving you standing before the lady.

"It's not that easy to escape me, Mister."

She resembles a porcelain doll in complexion, though not quite in attire, being dressed in a crisp white dress-shirt, a black hoodie the color of death with pale markings. In her blonde hair she wears a lace-trimmed headband, and her crimson tie is worn rather loosely, her feet, clad in black stockings and matching boots swing idly. Her eyes, a piercing, ghostly blue, stare into your own.

"W-who are you? What are you?"
"Take a wild guess."

[]"Death."
[]"Taxes."
[]"Nixon."

>[X]"Death."

You utter your response quickly, quicker than what is normal for you, and yet, it feels perfectly normal.

"Close enough."
"Am I dead?"
"That, would make this awfully difficult, no."
"Then where am I?"
"Nowhere in particular."
"Can I have a bit more of an explanation?"

A wry smile.

"You'll be better off finding the answers yourself."

She gestures to a grand doorway behind you, one that is remarkably intact.

"Go through there, and you'll find them soon enough. And don't worry Mister, I'll accompany you."

That, does not sound reassuring at all.

[]Go through the door.
[]Refuse. You're not going through there without more information
[]Other.

>[X]Go through the door.

"Oh and one last thing - you dropped this!"

She reaches into her pockets and tosses a silvery object to you. It's a lighter, one of those more old-fashioned zippos.

"Thank you?"

You click it open, confirming that it works.

"I don't remember owning this."

"You don't always remember what you've lost."

Giving her an odd glance, you push open the doors, and walk into the light that lies beyond.

((What happened beyond that, between walking through those doors, and being recruited by Harmony, only Joseph, and, as he's come to call her, Freyja, know.))

Spoiler: Crunch (click to show/hide)

Rolled Stats: 18/18
ATK: 6 [8]
DEF: 6
SKL: 6

Non-Rolled Stats: 12/12
CON: 5 [7]
CAP: 2
CEL: 3

HP: 80/80
XP: 0/100

Skills: 2/2 Free, 1/1 Cost
Lockdown LVL. 1 (Passive): Joseph takes a defensive stance, protected by his Memento's shield. If this unit does not move on their own accord this turn, increase their DEF by 3 until their next turn.
Spin Up LVL. 1 (Buff): The Memento charges its weapon, spinning it up to ludicrous speeds. Increase this unit's ATK by 3 for this turn only. This may be used instead of moving.
Overdrive LVL. 1 (Buff): Joseph discards an advantage, empowering his Memento through the sacrifice. Once per turn as a Free Action, select one Buff applied to the user this round. Shorten that Buff's as to expire at the end of this round. It will now be 33% more powerful for every turn lost from its duration. This amplification percentage may never be increased from leveling up.

Advantage: 1/1 Free
Fire Support (Attack): A hellish spray of munitions from the Memento's gatling gun. Attack one foe within CEL range of any ally. 1.5*ATK damage.

Equipment:
WPN: Crowbar: A simple steel crowbar. +2 ATK.
SID:
HLM:
AMR: School Uniform: A private school uniform. +2 CON.

Accessories:
AC1: Ring of Regeneration: A faintly glowing ring that pulsates gently. Restores 5% HP per turn.
AC2:
AC3:
AC4:
AC5:

Scrapped character.

[Twinwolf]

PTW

Spoiler: WIP (click to show/hide)

Name: Sera Cromwell. She has a few Superhero names; Iron Maiden for her normal self, and Armored Rider Gaia for her Rider form. However, she rarely (if ever) uses them.

Age: 20

Personality: (How do you act?)

Description: A taller woman with shoulder-length, neat black hair. She has blue eyes and glasses. In regards to features and figure, she’s what one would call attractive, certainly. She generally wears hoodies and jeans, although occasionally has longer skirts with shorts underneath to prevent people from looking… there. More generally, clothing that can hide her cybernetics, which include both arms, her right leg, a decent portion of her back, bits of her head, and a decent amount of internal organs. She also has her Rider Belt.

When on the job, she removes the majority of her civilian clothes as she activates her built-in armor, one made of a tough yet flexible metal that is silver in color. It does not include a helmet, but otherwise can almost seem like a knight's armor with more cybernetics.

And finally, in her Armored Rider Gaia form, she has a brown helmet with green eye-slits covering her head, and her silvery body armor is replaced with more earthen tones, although it is still a similar and equally tough metal. A green scarf protects the neck. The belt now includes a Card Reader, for Arcana-based attacks, and has the symbol of a golden chariot on it.

Backstory:
Sera was a normal person until a few years ago. She worked for the Heroic Union, one of the non-superpowered employees who worked in the dispatch center, where incidents are reported and if necessary a Hero is called to the scene. This was her life until one day, she was taken hostage by a group of villains who had been cornered in the post office she just happened to be in. They threatened her and the other hostages lives if they tried anything. And while they were making demands, she clubbed the leader over the head with a chair. The distraction caused by trying to subdue her allowed one of the Heroes outside- one of the Armored Riders- to enter and capture them all. But, in their rage, the villains had mortally wounded Sera and had been torturing her up until the rider entered. It was… not pretty. The rider brought her to the only person he thought could help.

Sera was, by almost all definitions, beyond saving. And she would have been, had the doctor she was brought to been anyone else; it was already a small miracle she was still breathing when she arrived. But Doctor Toshiba was better than that.

The next morning, Sera woke up. She was… changed, but alive. As she adjusted, she decided something; she wouldn't let this second chance go to waste. In addition to the ‘natural’ benefits of her new enhancements, Sera asked Toshiba for one of the Rider belts, to help people. He gave her one of the new "First Generation" belts, specifically the Gaia belt.

Once she was sufficiently used to the cybernetics and the suit, she began her work as a Hero for the Union- many Riders were independent, but she'd always worked for the Union. Not like they didn’t already know everything about her anyway.

Cyborg:

Rolled Stats
Attack (ATK): 7 (+2)
Defense (DEF): 3 (+2)
Skill (SKL): 8

Non-rolled stats
Constitution (CON): 2 (3)
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 6 (Total 5 Movement)
HP: 40

Armored Rider

Rolled
Attack (ATK): 7 (+2)
Defense (DEF): 7 (+2)
Skill (SKL): 4

Non-rolled
Constitution (CON): 7 (
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 1 (3 Movement)
HP: 90


You start off with 18 rolled stat points, and 12 non-rolled stat points. You gain 4 and 2 stat points respectively on level up.

Skills: These are each Champion's abilities, whether it be to swing a blade or to fire a spell or even a passive resistance against certain attacks, they are the tools of combat. You start with 2 seperate from CAP.

Cyborg:
Wide Slash (Lv.1) - A sweeping slash with the Rider Glaive, dealing 2d4+ATK to the tile directly in front of Sera and tiles adjacent

Rend (Lv.1) - A rending slash that weakens the opponent's armor. In addition to doing 1d8+ATK damage with 2 range, the attack lowers the opponent's DEF by 3 for two turns.

Armored Rider:
Disrupt (Lv.1, Active): Sera's weapon, on the strike, releases a burst of weakening energy. In addition to doing 1d8+ATK damage with 2 range, the attack lowers the opponent's ATK by 3 for two turns.

Taunt (Lv.1, Active) - A taunt to enemies in range to provoke them into attacking Sera. She's not sure why it works either. All enemies within 3 spaces must attack Sera until her next turn.

Defensive Stance (Lv.1, Active) - Taking a defensive stance, Sera reduces damage to her for a few turns. +2 Defense for two turns.

Slow and Implacable (Lv.1, Passive) - The Armored Rider Gaia suit is not a fast one. It's actually pretty slow and takes effort to move much... but it is also rather tougher than your average armor. +1 Defense for every Movement point remaining at the end of a turn.

Advantage: Dual Forms:

Sera has two ‘forms’ that are equally combat-capable, with their own stats and skills. Firstly her Cyborg moveset; Sera has not simply recovered due to her bionics (although everyone calls her a cyborg. Thanks [Hollywood-equivalent]). She’s been markedly improved over a normal human and can fight just as effectively as any other Champion despite her lack of superpowers. Her other ‘form’ is the Rider moveset. Using the Armored Rider Gaia suit, she trades speed for defense and a whole different set of Skills and abilities. She may choose one form before battle begins and will spend the whole of battle in that form. If it’s a surprise attack, unless there is reason for her to be wearing the ARG suit, she defaults to the Cyborg moveset.

In addition, she has a smaller benefit unique to each form. In Cyborg form, she has 1.3x SKL for dodging. In Armored Rider form, she has +30% Defense.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.

Weapon: Rider Arms: Glaive Visor. A collapsible glaive of the same metal used... everywhere else on Sera, used skillfully in both of Sera's forms. +2 Attack.
Side: What you wield in your off-hand. Usually affects either DEF or SKL.
Helm: What you wear on your head. Usually affects CON.
Armor: Cyborg Armor / Gaia Armor: Sera's built in armor, and the armor of the Armored Rider Gaia, respectively. +2 Defense
Accesories: Toughening Amulet: +1 CON
You may start off with 2 pieces of equipment, 1 piece of equipment and 1 accessory, or 2 accessories.

[Chevaleresse]

i suppose i should pasta in nobu here

Spoiler: definitely not a genderswapped touhou (click to show/hide)

Name: Sasaki Nobunaga
Age: Physically in his early twenties, a few years older in actuality due to slowing his own aging slightly.
Personality: A bit asocial, but friendly to those that actually know him, and adaptable to most social environments and groups if you give him time. Highly intelligent, but impatient, and has a tendency to speak and act somewhat thoughtlessly at times. A bit of a superiority complex. Seems to be a decent leader, if he doesn't exactly leap at the role. A little lacking in discipline and willpower. Lazy, but of the "will constantly gripe about doing work" rather than the "will not do work" variety. Has a genuine desire to aid others, though this can be tempered by his, well, temper.
Description: http://i.imgur.com/TG5cPy9.jpg
Backstory: A modern hermit. Nobunaga, whether it be by luck or fate, was a student that decided to try Taoist practices out on a whim - and, much to his surprise, he didn’t receive some vague sense of relaxation that many would call “approaching inner peace,” but rather discovered some outright magical powers could be gleaned from it. Pursuing this study further was somewhat difficult, however; in the modern day it was rather difficult to locate a mountaintop hermit to learn from - and those that were there were often more interested in studying your pocketbook than your path to enlightenment. His journey eventually led him to a strange land, seemingly anchored in the fantastical past and separated from the modern world. There, after nearly being snacked upon by the locals - the phantoms of the past that proved to be all too real - he found a mentor, who set him upon the right path, though walking that path proved to be much more difficult than Nobunaga had anticipated. He trained there for a few years before he was abruptly whisked away for greater purposes...


Stats:


Rolled stats:
Attack (ATK): 8 (+1)
Defense (DEF): 3 (+1)
Skill (SKL): 9


Non-rolled stats:
Constitution (CON): 2
Capability (CAP): 6
Celerity (CEL): 4 (+1)


HP: 30


Skills: 2 base+(0/6 AP)
Seven Star Ray: Nobunaga pulls his relic out from its sheath slightly, causing it to shine with an intense golden light. Deals 2d4+ATK damage to everything in a straight line with a length of CEL. Does not cycle weapons with followups.
-Eight Thousand Rays of the Rising Sun: Costs minimum 20 rhythm. Deals the damage of Seven Star Ray * (Rhythm Spent/20) to all enemies within CEL range.
Sensitive Ears (Passive): Nobunaga doubles all rolls pertaining to hearing and halves any penalties incurred due to a target being concealed, but takes 20% more damage from sonic attacks.
Prince’s Armory (Passive): An enchantment that passively analyzes, records, and replicates the weapons Nobunaga encounters. An action may be spent to replicate an enemy’s weapon in-combat, and Battle Rhythm followup attacks will cycle through recorded weapons in the order they are listed in inventory. At the GM's discretion, certain weapons may be too powerful to replicate.
Falling Star: Nobunaga rises into the air, then flies directly at a foe and attacks them with his equipped weapon, dealing 2d4+ATK damage and moving up to his CEL in a straight line.
-Star of Creation: Costs minimum 10 Rhythm. Deals 3d4+2*ATK damage after moving up to CEL range to the primary target. Every enemy that this attack passes adjacent to, including the primary target, takes ([Rhythm Spent-5]/2) damage.
Princely Admonition: Add (SKL/2) to Rhythm, then attack a target at melee range.
-Infinite Heavenly Blade Dance: Spend 20 Rhythm per strike, not including the first, to deal 2d4+ATK damage. Rhythm spent in this way is not deducted until the end of Nobunaga’s turn, though an amount cannot be spent that would leave Nobunaga below 0 Rhythm.


Advantage: Battle Rhythm
Nobunaga gains Rhythm at the start of each turn based on the amount of damage he dealt in the last. Every point of Rhythm increases his chance to follow up on an attack (with the basic attack specified in Infinite Heavenly Blade Dance) by 1%, to a cap of 50. Attacks granted by this Advantage can be followed up on, but the rate decreases by 10% for each successive hit. Rhythm can be spent to use a powered-up version of an existing ability. The formula for normal gain is (Damage dealt last turn/5).


Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Seven Star Sword. An old relic of a magic weapon that shines with an intense light. +2 Attack.
Side: Kept open for summoned blades.
Helm: -Empty Slot-
Armor: Princely Regalia: A fine set of clothing that blends both the archaic and modern. It’s been layered with numerous enchantments to protect the user and ease their movement. +1 CEL and DEF.


Accessories: Earmuffs. They don’t do much beyond make conversation bearable.
-Empty Slot-
-Empty Slot-
-Empty Slot-
-Empty Slot-

[SOLDIER First]

puhtuhwuh, bruh

[Roboson]

PTW, sheet later.

[Sl4cker]

Almost forgot to mention:

Each Champion has their own rival: a Fiend from the same world as them. Perhaps they knew their rivals before being summoned, who knows. Please DM me on Discord (preferred) or PM me here in order to discuss your rival.

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Is this Appropriate? (click to show/hide)

Name: X32P-9Z
Age: A Few Million Years.
Personality: Calm, Although that may Just because of his lack of Personality.
Description: It Appears to be a Man made of Iron, With A Face made from a Single Diamond.
Backstory: X32P-9Z was Made on World 42-BL-3 by Species M-13L For the Purpose of Eliminating Species K32-C. It Succeeded, But do to a Slight Bug in its Code it Had to Eliminate All Creatures Related to Species K32-C. Which Just so Happened to Include Species M-13L, Luckily for Species M-13L A Passing Harmony Decided to Keep them from Extinction And Thus Trapped X32P-9Z while it was Repurposed To Combat someone Else...

Stats: Stats are divided into two categories, rolled stats and non-rolled stats.

Rolled stats affect any rolls that might occur.

Attack (ATK): 6
Defense (DEF): 7
Skill (SKL): 5

Non-rolled stats, of course, have no affect on any roll.

Constitution (CON): 10
Capability (CAP): 2
Celerity (CEL): 0

HP: 110

EXP: 0/100 (When this reaches 100 points, you level up.)

Skills:
Directed, Short-Ranged Energy Assault: A Basic melee attack that does SKL/2 D ATK Damage which can hit upto 2 tiles away.
Scan: Examines A Creature or Structure for Weak Points, Chemical Composition, Other things of that Nature.
Restoration Beam: Heals SKL D (TARGET CON) or reduces Def by 1.

Advantage:
EXTERMINATE: X32 Charges up it's Life Force into a Beam of Energy That is Quite Capable of Killing most Things, Uses ATK*(HP Used) to determine how much damage it Can Do should it hit.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Z-83-K Class Energy Spear: A Long Crystalline Spear with a Bladed tip, +2 ATK
Side: -
Helm: B99-L Class Scanner Module: An Internal Device Made To Increase Targeting Power, +2 SKL
Armor: -

Accessories: -

You may start off with 2 pieces of equipment, 1 piece of equipment and 1 accessory, or 2 accessories.

[_DivideByZero_]

Spoiler: Nagisa Matsuro (click to show/hide)

Name: Nagisa Matsuro
Age: 138
Personality:
Totally conscious of her own mortality, if not others', Nagisa is quite empathetic and she greatly concerns herself with the wellbeing of others--though not necessarily for the right reasons. She comes across as impersonal as it gets from a world with more bodies than people. Companions, to her, are irreplaceable in a world fated to end, where her only respite was to rage against the end and make the best of what remained. Nagisa has more-or-less entered a state of relative culture shock, being ushered into this new world of well-defined moral boundaries.

In practice, Nagisa seems fastidious and overly conscientious of others' behavior, though rarely her own. She shuns decadence and relishes every success, even minor victories. She tends to avoid challenges and risks, and could be called a coward at first glance despite lacking any of the standard symptoms (screaming in fear, abandoning her friends, retreating from combat). Instead, Nagisa tries to minimize liabilities and instill the same values in others, and quickly turns confrontational when others are wasting resources or engaging in needless combat. When her friends are in danger, though, she can be counted on to spur into action, though not without a healthy dose of criticism both during and after combat.

Description:
She looks like a teenaged girl with grey eyes (with glowing marks and specks of light, green), bright red hair tied in pigtails hanging to the sides, and typically seen wearing white jackets and red skirts found in the ruins of the old world (each of her friends would keep a distinct outfit that was different than the others). Though rather skinny, she is a cyborg and much stronger than the average teenager, though her basic strength is hardly superhuman besides her jaws (which are able to process steel). She can eat batteries in addition to regular food for energy, but still needs water and air to metabolize normal sugars. Despite this, she can do fine in a vacuum with stored energy, and she can subsist on batteries alone for a long time. Her tolerance to g-forces is quite high and while her skin is biological, her bones and muscles are artificial (terminator-style).

She has a flower-shaped metal device sprouting from her upper back called a Locus, a small forge used for processing exotic alloys. It can emit countless numbers of thin, prehensile tendrils made of a special memorymetal alloy that can twist, flatten, and form different shapes, all with blinding speed. Her tendrils can be used to walk and attack, are razor-sharp, and can regenerate if damaged or sliced off, but only if Nagisa has eaten the requisite titanium and other rare metals needed to form the alloy. She can also consume pieces of herself to recover lost metals.

Backstory:
Nagisa comes from a world past the age of baseline humanity. There were three eras on her world: the Organic Age of the old humans, the Augmented Age (near the end of which she was born), and the Digital Age. Nagisa herself is one of the Augs, humans implanted with life-support and various cutting-edge technologies. Before her time, humanity had covered the planet with wonders: megacities, undersea habitats, and even space elevators. But the Augmented Age lasted only a hundred years after the first introduction of widespread human augmentation. By this time, humans were exclusively cloned by the three largest nations: Ikaria, Hyperborea, and the United States. Humans themselves had lost the ability to reproduce naturally through genetic engineering.

A new technology, known as Beyond, was invented at roughly the end of the Augmented Age. It allowed the duplication of a human consciousness into computers. Humans could now become digital beings, and while the technology faced widespread critique during its early hours in development, all of the computing infrastructure already existed to support such a thing; the rise of the technology was inevitable, the only question was when. And after only ten years of research, the CEO of Beyond Corporation produced a working digital double of himself.
The government of the United States, eventually followed by the other nations with cloning authorization, began to consider replacing new births with digital copies, and within just a couple of decades all human cloning had halted, replaced with the rapid uploading of all existing humans into nearby cloud servers. This hadn't killed off most humans just yet, but without replacement the decline of the physical population was inevitable. The outside world fell into disrepair as the digital utopia usurped reality itself.

Fast-forward slightly over a century into the Digital Age: The last major server, buried deep under the ocean, is sure to survive for at least a thousand more years. The rest of Earth, however, lies desolate, exploited for the sake of expanding the digital realm with new servers, most defunct by now. Cities died out and many of the still-surviving Augs went insane, still roaming the wastelands to annihilate anything they can find out of rage. Those few Augs such as Nagisa, advanced enough to avoid mental breakdown, have been roaming and scavenging for fuel, parts, upgrades, and ancient records for as long as they've known. Nagisa saw the collapse herself, but she has since blotted it from her memory. No sense dwelling on past mistakes. It is clear the planet is doomed, but as long as she is alive, she seems mildly content with spitting in the face of ruin.

Starting out with a group of eight friends, their numbers have dwindled down to two: Nagisa herself and Kyoko Izayoi, whom she split up with after a year of being the only ones left. Kyoko's whereabouts are currently unknown.

Stats:

Attack (ATK): 8 (+2)
Defense (DEF): 5
Skill (SKL): 5

Non-Rolled Stats:
Constitution (CON): 4
Capability (CAP): 4
Celerity (CEL): 4

HP: 50/50

EXP: 0/100

Skills:

Akumu - Spears an enemy with Locus spines from up to 2 tiles away, dealing (1d4)+(ATK/2) damage to it and a nearby enemy behind it.
 
Genetic Algorithm - Attack with a bladed vine-like tendril with many barbs, wrapping around a target (or environmental object) up to (4)+(Ability Level) units away and preventing it or Nagisa from retreating past the initial distance. If Nagisa has higher CON: They get dragged by movement and dash abilities. Otherwise: Nagisa gets dragged, unless she is rooted. Multiple enemies can be tethered at once.
-->Modifies next Akumu: Death Sentence - Drags Tethered target into melee range and break the tether if CON is lower, or pulls Nagisa otherwise. If it is an enemy: deals normal damage and applies a bleed that deals (ATK/2) damage per turn for 3 turns.

Wings of Brimstone - Emits tendrils coated in semi-molten steel, flexible enough to take flight. Dash anywhere within (CEL) squares (over obstacles) and deal (2d4)+(ATK) damage to the target square, half to adjacent squares. Cooldown: 2 turns.
-->Modifies next Akumu: Fiery Greatsword - Slash with a molten bladed tendril instead, dealing (2d4)+(ATK) damage, and half to all enemies adjacent to Nagisa.

Chrysalis - Emits a multitude of flat ribbon-like tendrils that collectively act as a shield. Absorbs up to (Ability Level)+(DEF) damage coming from one of eight directions in a 90° cone (north, northwest, west, etc), and absorbs the last attack entirely unless it's twice the remaining shield value. Goes on cooldown for 2 turns if the shield breaks.
-->Modifies next Akumu: Tomb with a View - Extends the shield to project a cage around a 3x3 bubble centered on Nagisa, trapping enemies inside (or keeping them out) and dealing Akumu's damage to all enemies inside. The shield now blocks damage from all directions, but not from inside the bubble. (Enemies can choose to attack the bubble directly to break it)

Chrysalis and Tomb with a View can be manually retracted at any time, but if the shield is damaged it will go on cooldown for 1 turn.

Advantage: Root
Nagisa can root herself to the ground if she doesn't move during her turn, keeping her from being displaced unless she uses a movement ability. She can then launch herself next turn, doubling her CEL for either the movement phase or the action phase. Bonus can't be stored.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Sawn-Off Shotgun - An old relic scavenged off a bandit in surprisingly good working condition. +2 ATK
Side:
Helm:
Armor:

Accessories:
Nano-Forge - A system that allows recycling production of cybernetic components and organic molecules. Heals 10% of an enemy's Max HP when it dies adjacent to Nagisa/to Nagisa's own attacks.

[USEC_OFFICER]

That would imply that they weren't genderswapped to begin with, KingMurdoc. :u

Anyways, PTW. We'll see whether I join this in the future or not. I haven't quite decided yet.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I'm the one who wrote Makoto, so PTW.

Also, I did declare my intention to drop Makoto, so I'm posting my alternate sheet here.

Spoiler: dr jekyll and mr hyde (WIP) (click to show/hide)

Name: Ryuto Inui / Tatsuya Ogami
Age: 20
Personality:
Ryuto: Ryuto comes off as a decent, if troubled young man. He is rather polite and unassuming. To his friends, he is protective, and to his loved ones, a kind man who seems a little awkward at times. Ryuto also possesses a strong sense of justice, wishing to protect others who cannot fight for themselves. He occasionally blanks out, staring into the distance as he remembers long-past traumas, but for the most part, one would not ever notice without asking that he survived a brush with the horrors that once racked his homeworld. Under the surface, Ryuto is concerned that his lack of talent renders him useless to his allies, a doubt he held long before fighting for Harmony and exacerbated by the often colored backgrounds of many of his allies. He attempts to make up for his lack of power and talent with hard work, but his fear remains constant. Not helping this is the constant looming threat of his ‘other half’, the entity called Tatsuya.

Tatsuya: Tatsuya is the radical opposite of Ryuto, his progenitor. Where Ryuto believes in justice, Tatsuya is more concerned with benefiting and enriching himself. Ryuto’s politeness and kindness are not to be seen here, replaced with brashness and often psychopathic ruthlessness against his opponents. Tatsuya is confident in his powers and is deft in employing his many skills. Outside of a fight, Tatsuya is lazy, unwilling to do anything unless given sufficient incentive. He is mischievous, taking to singing taunting nursery rhymes to insult his opponents and taunting Ryuto in mental conversation. However, one trait stands out that both men share; Tatsuya is as protective, if not more, of his loved ones than Ryuto is.

Description:
Ryuto and Tatsuya look much the same, with some essential differences. Ryuto stands at 5’9’’, but the Beast Cells implanted into him as part of the project that increased his power increase his height as Tatsuya to 6’0”. His short brown hair, well-kept and straight in normal form, is messy and frizzy as Tatsuya. Ryuto’s lithe build, albeit with the toning expected from a boy who participates in occasional sport, bulks up as the Beast Cells within his body strengthen his muscles in Tatsuya form. Ryuto’s quiet smile turns into a full on psychopathic grin as the bloodthirst takes over his other self, and while the saner half stands up straight, Tatsuya often assumes a more bestial, primal stance. His voice also assumes a similar change, from a somewhat deep, but still reassuring warm baritone to a much deeper, guttural growl. Finally, Ryuto’s soft hazel eyes turn to a vivid green as he transforms into Tatsuya.

Backstory:
There was a project initiated by the Nozama Corporation, a world leader in many fields such as biochemistry, neurology and medicine. The goal was simple; to allow people access to superhuman powers and skills beyond normal human functionality. The aim was simple; infuse 4000 people as test subjects with a serum, created from Beast Cells- a project of the Corporation to allow soldiers at war to survive longer by toughening their skin, bulking up their muscles and increasing their regenerative capability- and, by targeted modification of the brain, amplify one's brainpower. The aim was to create a true hope for the future; if the project succeeded, then it would prove that the old system was obsolete. The 4000 subjects were intended to create a new utopia, one that was more egalitarian than the current system.

Disaster struck, the night prior to the first distribution. A group disagreeing with the Corporation's aims sabotaged the serum; when it was infused into people, the modifications to the brain seemed to have no effect, and the physical modifications were similarly useless. The project seemed a failure, and all 4000 subjects went home disappointed, with no change to their capability, physical or mental. CEO Takeshi Nozama, the main driver of the project, was fired and replaced by a sterner man who wished to keep an eye on all the 4000 who had been experimented upon and had seemingly no improvement.

One of the 4000 test subjects was an academy student by the name of Ryuto Inui. Ryuto had few friends, either at his school or otherwise, as many thought a powerless and skilless person was useless and unworthy of speaking to. He had a few friends who tried to reassure him otherwise, but he was always convinced that one needed power and skill to stand tall in a world like this. He willingly undertook the procedure as a way of gaining talent, in the hopes that he could stand equally with others When the project failed to provide any change in him, he fell into a deep depression; he stood no closer to being empowered than he did prior. However, his friends being the understanding friends they were, they helped Ryuto past his dejected state, and eventually Ryuto simply decided that he didn’t need power to be beloved.

At that point, the records concerning Ryuto Inui or the Entity called Tatsuya Ogami go blank. Ryuto does not dwell too much on the past, and Tatsuya doesn't speak about it.

Stats:
Attack (ATK): 5 [9]
Defense (DEF): 4 [6]
Skill (SKL): 7 [8]

Non-Rolled Stats:
Constitution (CON): 2 [5]
Capability (CAP): 7 [8] [ADV: 2]
Celerity (CEL):  2 [3] [MOV: 4 Tiles]

HP: 60/60

Skills: 2/2 Free Skills, 4/4 Cost Skills (1/1 Adv. Skills)
Beast Cell Regeneration: Tatsuya’s Beast Cells regenerate faster than normal human cells, allowing him to recover health. Restores 15% HP per turn. Passive.
Infinite Memory: Tatsuya's memory is long-reaching and very retentive. Tatsuya's Passives (including this one) cannot be permanently disabled by any means; if disabled, they return to Tatsuya at the end of the Turn. Passive.
Humanoid Abomination: Tatsuya’s visage is intimidatingly inhuman, despite his human form. Enemy Actives that activate or end within one square of Tatsuya or hit Tatsuya, regardless of doing damage or not, gain 1 extra turn of cooldown. Passive.
Supreme Analysis: Nothing will evade Tatsuya’s searching eyes, and every move is one he can use against the enemy. Enemy passives and non stat-affecting equipment or Accessory passives do not activate during Attack Phases against Tatsuya. Passive.
Swift Instinct: Tatsuya's instincts are nothing anyone has ever seen before. If Tatsuya would be hit by an enemy Skill or basic attack, reroll Tatsuya's dodge roll. Passive. Does not activate on enemy counterattacks. Activates once per hit of the Skill.
Deadly Force: Tatsuya's bare hands are as lethal weapons. Tatsuya’s basic attack is buffed to (2d4+ATK) instead of the usual (1d6+ATK). Passive.
[Advantage Skill] Beastly Dexterity: Tatsuya is swift, deadly as a weapon on his own. If Tatsuya does not move this turn, Tatsuya can attack an opponent twice with either his basic attack or any offensive Active Skills he has. Passive.

Advantage: Monstrous Perfection: In battle, Tatsuya takes over for the pacifistic Ryuto, bringing to bear all of his power. Tatsuya gains a +1 to all stats. In addition, Tatsuya gains an additional 25% of his total CAP as CAP points (starting from 2 additional points) per level; however, he can only use these points towards gaining or levelling Passive skills.

Equipment: You get four slots for equipment.
Weapon: Fisticuffs: Tatsuya fights with his bare hands when he can’t acquire a sufficiently pain-inducing weapon. +2 ATK.
Side: Wicked Knife: +1 ATK
Helm:
Armor: Samurai Armor: +1 DEF

Accessories:
- Taser: Used by Ryuto to 'shock' Tatsuya awake.
- Beast Cells: Tatsuya is infused with specially-engineered cells that possess higher regenerative properties. +2 CON.
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[TheBiggerFish]

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