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[Redjive_Industries]

My weapon certainly works well in melee and ranged combat. A staff is pretty damn useful in a fight, and if I put a bayonet on it it'll be even better, and an Allin gun fires a shot bigger than the M2 .50 machine gun (same caliber, longer bullet) and reloads pretty fast, so that's me covered for ranged combat.
As for my psyche.... well, as long as I can think of an appropriate song, and have reason to believe that Toby would know how to play it to some degree, I'm covered. The balancer for that also fits with a jack of all trades playstyle, because the limit is how well I know the songs. IRL, if I've heard the song before I can usually play a simple version of it fairly easily, so that's how I'll balance that.
Alright, Swiss Army Knife Toby is ready to go.

The whole music psyche thing is something I've been thinking of for a character ever since I started reading Tamora Pierce books, one of which features a mage who use dances to cast spells, in a world where most of the mages are fairly standard 'I speak words and shit happens' types.
I've always pictured more as a stat booster type thing than an outright offensive weapon, and even the offense spells would be negative status effects generally, rather than actual attacks, so I think our psyches (yours seems to be analogous to a Noise Marine, i.e. sonic pulses of very loud noises that would turn the target into mush, or at least stun them pretty badly) will not so much overlap each other as complement each other.

[Devastator]

To be honest, I do kinda wish I had no psyche, but I'll play the one I was given.

[TricMagic]

Mine is more programing noise/sound into various buffs/effects. And they do seem to complement each other.

[Sir Elventide]

Spoiler: Tobias Boone (click to show/hide)

Tobias Boone, the Classy Musician

Previous Name: Evidence Contraire
Previous Gender: Male
Previous Age: 23
Previous Appearance: 5’9, short blonde hair, dark coloured tuxedo vests with a light coloured long sleeved shirt and dark dress pants. White.
Background Story: A poor but proud street musician, Evidence Contraire (his parents had an odd sense of humour) was also eternally optimistic, certain that his chance to make it big was just around the corner. His childhood was less than spectacular; while Evin was named as the evidence of his parents love for each other, he himself felt like he was just an object to them. They didn’t ever neglect him in terms of food, money, etc. However, Evin was never able to impress them, or even get them to notice him. It wasn’t until a friend convinced him to play piano in a high school talent show that he realized the problems lay not in his own lack of skill and effort, but in his parent’s lack of interest. A competent pianist as well as a expert violinist, Evidence (call me Evin) made enough money as a street performer to own a small studio apartment and keep himself clothed in fairly stylish clothing, (tux vests and white collar shirts, generally) due to his excellent skill and an uncanny ability to both charm his audience and play songs from memory. One cold day, after making next to no money due to the lack of people walking about, he was robbed for his violin and cash on the way home. Said robbery involved 3 knife wounds to the chest, and kick to the head. As he fell to the ground, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a flood of all his suppressed bitterness at missed chances, both perceived and real, and with regret for not taking the many opportunities he was given to perform.

Current Name: Tobias Boone
Current Gender (if different from above): Still Male
Current Age: 17
Personality: Optimistic, but street-smart. Perfectly happy to have a joke made at his expense, as long as it’s funny.
Current Appearance: Essentially the same clothing as before, but of sturdier materials, and with bigger pockets. Hair is dark brown (tinted purple), and he wears a pair of goggles (for his own amusement, he chose steampunk style airman’s goggles) to keep the smoke from his gun out of his eyes.

Likes/Dislikes: Good Music (basically anything but screamo), video games, classy outfits, and books. Also dragons. They’re pretty neat./Hard Rock/Metal (with a few exceptions) people playing off key, and people with shitty grammar. Low quality grammar is fine, but if you’re clearly not even trying to make sense….

Fears: snakes, bugs, and upper level maths.    Algebra is okay but Calculus and Trig… Screwing up a piece he thought he knew well in front of an audience, and people genuinely believing him to be a poor musician, and telling him so, can occasionally put him into a nervous feedback loop that will lead to practicing for days with little rest. People pretending to genuinely believe he is a poor musician, on the other hand, are quite entertaining to him.

Berserk Buttons: Anyone trying to insist that his favorite books are trash, or that people screaming or just saying words really fast is actually music.

Favorite Things: Billy Joel, The Beatles, Civilization games, and various fantasy or realistic fiction books.


Caste: Woodseed
Weapon (Has both melee and ranged modes): Staff/Springfield M1866. Looks more like a staff, but it definitely is also an Allin gun. Also carries around a violin (generally slung behind him, hence the rifle/staff) which he uses for his Psyche ability
Psyche (Ability that's unique to the student): Music of the Ainur
Toby can, either with an instrument, his voice, or by whistling, do various different magical things as long as he can think of an appropriate song, and perform it properly. For example, a quality performance of the James Bond theme or Snake Eater (Orchestral) will provide massive boosts to both stealth and accuracy/CQC ability.

Caste bonuses: Rogue's Smarts, Hunter's Sense
Debuff: Temper

Acquired Skills: None

Acquired Items/Totems:Carlo Lamberti Master Series Violin, with case and sling.

Current Q-Gems: 3 (+1 capacity every five levels)

Current Status Effects:

Might: 4
Fortitude: 3
Endurance: 3
Accuracy: 7
Agility: 6
Stealth: 6
Perception: 6
Intelligence: 5
Charisma: 5
Willpower: 2

this is the modified one.

Okay, everything looks good! Usually, I would've continued with the story but this time I'll give you time to do up to five progress actions. Regardless of whether  you succeed in those actions or not, they will be considered a flashback in the update.

[Devastator]

How's work on the update coming along?

Also, since the weapon mod is a piece of solid magic, would it even work with a mundane rifle?

[Sir Elventide]

I apologize everyone but I'm now working overnight so the update isn't as forthcoming as I'd hoped. Maybe I'll update tomorrow morning or something.
As for the pure magic mod, basically it would behave more like a skill/spell placed on your weapon rather than something similar to a physical mod.

[Devastator]

There's no hurry, I was just curious.

Hmm.  That's not that useful then, since it's just stats.  I'll probably get rid of it when I can see what we need to accomplish.  11 stat points aren't going to help Lemmy, not when he's 40 points below par, and it won't get better long term.

[Redjive_Industries]

FFS once again the B12Forums failed to alert me to responses. *sigh*
Alright at least I sorta planned ahead for this.

[Devastator]

Don't assume success with your orders, and put them in Bold Text.  It helps the GM notice them, and as it's for the GM to determine success or failure, don't say that you did something easily or well.  If you did, the GM might just ignore it and write the actual results.

[Redjive_Industries]

Alright.
It'll probably take a while to get the hang of this.

[Redjive_Industries]

A note on the .50 conversion: in real life, it would be somewhat impractical, but since it's a magical weapon, the barrel should be able to handle the pressure of firing a .50 BMG. The hardest part would be widening the barrel, since that requires a certain amount of precision. The breechblock modification would certainly be difficult, but relatively fast to do, and so any failures could be remade fairly fast. I know it's not realistic at all, but that's not the point.

[Devastator]

It's fine.  It could also be said that it fires smaller caliber ammo that transforms into .50 cal rounds after leaving the barrel, or just hits that hard anyway.  Whichever sort of effect you feel would be coolest.

[Egan_BW]

It simply creates a portal to the elemental plane of .50 BMG

[Redjive_Industries]

For some reason I like the idea that it's basically working off of Ork Theory: I think it works, and I think I know why it works, so if I do the thing that makes it work, then it simply must work.
I know that Toby could, with a little bit of time, modify certain parts with relative ease
I didn't do enough research into the .50-70-450 bullet that a M1866 would fire though, but still, it's not entirely implausible that one could convert an M1866 to fire .50 BMG. Especially with magic.
The bullets are what's going to be magic

Also a little more on the whole melee-ranged thing
When used as a rifle, it looks like your average M1866/Allin gun. It would also have a bayonet, just in case.
When not in use/in use as a quarter staff, the barrel is the bottom, and the stock is the top. It looks to be a smooth wooden staff, with metal bands decorating it, and a metal cap on top. It is not particularily gun like (there is no stock, for example, neither a visible barrel or receiver, etc.) but it can still fire a singular shot, whatever was loaded when it was last in gun form. In both forms it is longer than your standard M1866, 64 inches as opposed to 55 and 15/16ths inches. Bayonet would be a socket style bayonet (the one that looks like a spike) instead of a sword bayonet.

[Redjive_Industries]

Length is for two things: #1 being that a BMG is much longer than a .50-70-450, and the other being that moar length makes the staff moar useful