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[MaxTheFox]

((This is a rework of an old setting I and a friend of mine developed once. I made it more entertaining. This is also my first multiplayer game in a long time.))
In an alternate universe where, in spite of widespread automation, web design did not progress beyond the mid-90s, there was a nuclear war. Who bombed who is irrelevant, all that matters is that all humans have died, with billions lost in the first few days. Humanity's story had ended, and "THE END" was written in hellfire.

The combined pain and suffering of millions instantly dying in nuclear hellfire ripped open a tear in reality, somewhere in orbit of Earth. Magic, long extinct, seeped out and latched onto the ashes of the Network, their name for the Internet. Computers that survived the nukes, since depowered by the collapse of infrastructure, suddenly turned on, gaining a new life.

What followed was the creation of Cyberspace, an amalgamation of the subjects of chatrooms and websites, the inner workings of the computers they were hosted on, as well as the hazy collective memories of humanity-that-was. Cyberspace was divided into physical servers, which were further divided into spaces, chatrooms or websites, now twisted into hollow-shell mockeries of pre-war life. They were divided into three main categories: shining labyrinths, composed of psychedelic circuits and Matrix-like code; haunted forests, stalked by mindless embodiments of suffering; and dead cities, with intact buildings, yet no people, and empty cars driving around in circles.

Inside the shining labyrinths were born strange beings of code and magic called "souls", reincarnated from the victims of the nuclear apocalypse. They took many forms, such as humanoids made of random materials, multi-headed animals, and abstract dancing shapes. They lived off the magic infusing the servers, it was their lifeblood and means of action. The politicians and generals responsible for the nuclear war became digital demons, immensely powerful souls hell-bent on the subjugation of all of Cyberspace.

After the initial chaos and brutal warfare between nascent nation-states of souls, inspired by mangled records of old, and digital demons, the demons were driven into isolated sections of the Network and began biding their time. The new countries then fell to petty conflicts for the next 80 years until the "present", though civilization, such as it is, is now at an acceptable level. The demons have brainwashed "agents" who cause chaos and discord in Cyberspace, to fuel their masters with the souls' hatred.

All items used by souls are "modules", enchantments attached to small programs, which can function as tools, weapons, or virtual robots. Modules are made with and powered by Mana, concentrated magic found in only some spaces, which are sought after as mines.

More details on aspects of the setting:

Spoiler: Souls (click to show/hide)

Souls are essentially magical, sapient programs. They, like almost everything else in Cyberspace, are composed of three components: magic, code, and pseudomatter. All three are vital to their existence as living beings, and all three can be manipulated or damaged. Their psyche is rather different than that of humans, though still recognizable. They reproduce by coding a new soul inside a pseudomatter shell and infusing it with magic, essentially mitosis. Not all souls can use their magic in useful ways, but overall wizardry is common. Also, no two souls are alike in their appearance.

Spoiler: Spaces (click to show/hide)

Though the three types of spaces are ubiquitous, there are many blends of these, and even unique spaces that used to be strongly-themed websites or chatrooms. Chatroom spaces tend to be smaller but more habitable than website spaces. Shining labyrinths are the safest for souls, and have no long-term or short-term health effects, though their geometry is often non-Euclidean or just plain eldritch. Haunted forests are highly dangerous due to the wraiths that just attack more if the trees are destroyed, and dead cities gradually drain away magic from souls with their crushing mundanity. Every space has several gates: areas where an entity can quickly shift into another space. Shifting between servers is harder. Gates are "naturally" unmarked but souls usually build markers around them for easier identification.

Spoiler: Society (click to show/hide)

Civilization exists almost exclusively within the shining corridors, with structures in the rest of Cyberspace limited to railroads and outposts. Little rooms, originally pointlessly and randomly placed, are repurposed into dwellings, while larger areas turn into factories or meeting halls or palaces. Most states are very organized under a variety of governments, from democracies to oligarchies to dictatorships to monarchies. Mana-fueled industry, helped along by bots, is flourishing, rivaling the physical industry from before the Fall of Man.

Spoiler: Modules and Magic (click to show/hide)

Modules, like souls, are composed of magic, code, and pseudomatter. They are non-sapient, non-mobile, and fulfill some kind of technomagical function: from ray guns to computers. Modules need to be fueled by very "corrosive" (i.e data-corrupting) concentrated Mana. "Modules" made just of pseudomatter, such as swords and simple guns, are just called "objects". Both can be mounted onto hardpoint belts that any soul phenotype can wear and be used that way.
Spells are something innate to most souls, and they tend to be weaker but more versatile than modules, and with a larger power supply.
All three types have a wild variety within them, though due to the nature of Cyberspace, it is easier to make something that echoes the old world. So make things up!

Spoiler: Wildlife (click to show/hide)

Souls are not the only inhabitants of Cyberspace: there are living beings made of the same trinity of elements that yet do not possess sapience. From electro-foxes to scrambleworms to deepcats to the aforementioned wraiths, the wilderness is alive with its own ecosystem.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

The system is a simple D20 one.
When you need to pass a check for something, check to see if you roll below the relevant stat, with modifiers applied as needed. Spells cost you your innate Mana (Int * 10, can be modified with perks), stated in the spell description, while modules cost part of their Mana tank. HP is flat and modified by Str, and each Str also adds a +1 to every weapon's damage. Every weapon and spell has a hit chance, to which each point of Dex that you have adds +2% if the weapon is melee. If the weapon is ranged, each Per adds +2% accuracy. Mana can only be refueled via tanks.
Stats are selected by rolling 4 3d6s for Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Perception, and you can shift the numbers around as needed. After this, you have to select 3 positive perks and 2 negative perks. They can be anything, and modify anything if they are relevant to your character's background, though I have discretion to tell you to redo them if they're too OP. Don't be a munchkin. Skills, equipment, and spells are selected in a similar way. Stats are modifiable with special and rare modules called shards. I will do combat turns automatically after you issue commands unless something interesting happens.

Spoiler: Character template (click to show/hide)

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Spoiler: Example characters (click to show/hide)

Name: Qwaszx23
Gender: Male
Stats: 15S 12D 6I 10P
Perks: Positive: Large (+4 Str, takes up 2 tiles on the map, -2 Dex, -4 to anything that requires fine manipulation), Terrifying (NPCs with emotions are more likely to run away in battle), Magic Resistant (damage taken from spells or negative effect length/power reduced by 15%). Negative: Slow (20% chance to not move when you would have moved), Magically Incompetent (can't learn any spells)
Skills: Mana mining, bludgeoning weapons, mining equipment operation
Equipment: power-mattock (50/50 Mana, 1 Mana per use, 3d7 damage when powered, 3d4 damage when unpowered), concussive armor (-5% to incoming physical damage, rounded up), hardpoint belt (2/4 slots free), 50 credits
Spells: N/A
Description: Qwaszx23 has the form of a muscular, quadrupedal wingless orange dragon who can use his front paws as surprisingly-dextrous hands. He is quite stupid and absolutely hopeless with anything to do with magic except for handling Mana crystals.
Backstory: Qwaszx grew up as a miner in the Mana-rich space of #tey-31, which is on the outskirts of the New Yellow Republic. He has never strayed far from home, until now, when suddenly adventurous thoughts crossed his mind.
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Name: purple3213
Gender: N/A
Stats: 7S 13D 15I 8P
Perks: Positive: Magically Attuned (+30 Mana, damage inflicted by spells or effect length increased by 15% (rounded up) or +1 added to spell rolls), Innately Telekinetic (can interact with anything in a distance of 4 tiles), Fast (20% chance to get an extra move after moving). Negative: Flimsy (-15 HP), Magic Dependent (antimagic effects weak enough to just disrupt spells will deal 3d6 damage to you)
Skills: science, tinkering, diplomacy
Equipment: spell focus wand (20/20 Mana, 1 Mana per use, add 10% damage or +1 to spell rolls when used), mana tank (30/30 Mana), hardpoint belt (2/4 slots free), 150 credits
Spells: Magic Missile (5 Mana, 2d6 damage), Lesser Fabricate (10 Mana, cause anything inanimate, unmagical, and made of pseudomatter to form into any non-specific shape desired), Telepathy (5 Mana, read an unshielded soul's thoughts), Telescript (10 mana, attempt to modify any sort of unshielded code remotely and quickly), various cantrips (1 Mana each, niche mundane uses)
Description: purple3213 has the form of three magenta cubes floating and spinning around each other. They manipulate things with their telekinesis.
Backstory: purple is an amateur wizard in the J_292 Tower, a research institution. As it is quite isolated and they were good with people, the tower's leadership selected them as their ambassador, and sent them on a mission to procure funding for more fabrication technomagic research.
ASCII representation: ■

No matter who you are, you all bump into each other in the Meeting Hall of #hr33f, a small, orderly shining-labyrinth space that serves as the capital of a minor power, the Duchy of Blackdagger. The blue-tinted, lightly-checkered pseudomatter floor is covered in circuit patterns and large pipes going towards the walls and the forcefields that serve as doors. To the west is the entrance to the Lavender Palace, flanked by abstract geometric statues, to the north is the corridor leading to the local train station, and to the south and east are the commercial and residential streets, respectively. Various souls are gathered in the chamber, talking to each other. There is a currently-empty podium in the center.

Spoiler: Images (click to show/hide)

This is my highest-effort project yet and I will run it for a while at least. AI art courtesy of DreamStudio, ASCII art done via REXPaint. Waiting for 4 sheets to start.

[Unraveller]

Hope I got everything right! I've been hankering for a good RPG as of late, and I really like the feel of what you have going on here. Honestly, this sort of thing is the reason I play on these forums -- There's always new and refreshing ideas to explore (even if my character is entirely derivative). Let me know if I ought to alter anything!

Spoiler: surVIVE#aE0067 (click to show/hide)

Name: surVIVE#aE0067
Gender (optional): N/A
Stats: 15-S 10-D 9-I 10-P
Perks:
Positive: 'RECUPERATION PROTOCOL' The undeniable will to live encoded into all beings in defiance of the devastation that created the Network, as it is, is particularly strong within this one, the code holding together their pseudomatter is constantly reconstructing itself -- This being regenerates 10% of its Hit Points at the end of their turns. -- However, a similarly innate aversion built by the thoughts and wills of those who became this Soul are just as strong, their terror of the flames that engulfed them can never be extinguished. Effects that mimic or harken back to the nuclear fires and fallout that eliminated all life in the world that once was deal 50% more damage to this being, additionally, during the round that this being was subjected to such an effect, their RECUPERATION PROTOCOL cannot activate.

Positive: 'STALKER, BOUND TO HUNT' Just as this being's encoded desire to exist is great, so too is its need to chase down prey and sup upon their pseudomatter adding it to their own. -- While searching, tracking, or otherwise chasing down other beings, this one's perception is considered to be increased by 4. They also have a small (10%) chance to move again while giving chase.

Positive: 'FRENZY SCRIPT' Some point along this being's existence and others like it, a virus both malicious and beneficial was introduced into its codebase. Speculation leads one to believe it was designed to secure a path towards destroying these accursed Under-Trawlers who are otherwise notoriously slippery. -- While this being's Hit Points are below 50% of their base value, it is able to make an additional attack during combat as if though their Dexterity were 5 points lower. However it may also never purposefully move away from an enemy while in this state.

Negative: 'ACCURSED HUNGER' This being cannot help but be tormented by a desire just as deep as its innate will to exist, it must consume matter at a rate much greater than the average soul. -- This being cannot regain Mana whatsoever aside from consuming the corpses of deceased Souls for 10% of the Mana they once held, incorporating their own data into its.

Negative: 'MACHINE UN-LEARNING' All the social bonds that once existed in the collective zeitgeist that originated this soul have been warped and ebbed away by the degeneration of time. This being's solitary existence and otherwise loathsome nature has led it to become an outcast nigh incapable of soul to soul interaction. -- This being is generally shunned by 'civilized' Souls whom often deem it as more akin to other wildlife than themselves, it will have a significantly more difficult time succeeding in rolls regarding communication and social situations as well as being unable to interact with the likes of upstanding merchants or other services. Furthermore, this being cannot begin play with any equipment whatsoever.

Skills: Stealth, Unarmed Combat, Traversal/Acrobatics
Equipment: NONE
Spells:
Vanish: Utilizing a loop-hole in the Network's security, this being is able to quickly affect the perception of those that perceive it in order to seemingly disappear making it very difficult to locate by non-magical means. (25 Mana to become invisible until this creature attacks.)

Matter-Eating Spittle: An acidic bile is produced within this being's physiology that can eat-away at some of the network's toughest materials. (15 Mana, Able to make a short/mid ranged attack that can dissolve/weaken armor or physical barriers.)
Description: A loathsome amalgamation of wiry flesh and sinewy muscle, this being takes the shape of a tall overwrought humanoid engorged of stomach while bony beyond it, despite their long limbs they are on average squatting down to the height of an average humanoid soul. Their jaws are extended and full of goring teeth, while their eyes speak of a sapience that the rest of its leprosy-ridden from denies.

Backstory: Those that did not immediately burn away and perish within the embroiled nuclear fires of a world immemorial were left to bear the skin-seared scars of their species' hubris. They clung to the false life they'd retained in the interim between the devastation then and the network's revival now. Seeking each and all to live out one more day, yet all the while suffering a fate far worse than those that fled the mortal coil before them. Eventually they too succumbed to the blaze but not before eking out life's primary directive for just a little longer still -- survive. Perhaps it was the minds of those beings that helixed together as the DNA of the Under-Trawlers that lurk in the Haunted Forests once resembling their great homes. #aE0067, one such being and perhaps many like them have begun to awaken to longing for more than their mere existence of consumption and have begun to leave their erstwhile forests, seeking to reforge the bonds that once made the constituent parts of their souls whole.

#hr33f, being the nearest mote of civilization to this being's former dwellings, became the first destination of its transformative desires. To cast off the chains of its meager and detestable existence, to observe, to engage, and to grow.
ASCII representation: T

[MaxTheFox]

Hope I got everything right! I've been hankering for a good RPG as of late, and I really like the feel of what you have going on here. Honestly, this sort of thing is the reason I play on these forums -- There's always new and refreshing ideas to explore (even if my character is entirely derivative). Let me know if I ought to alter anything!

Spoiler: surVIVE#aE0067 (click to show/hide)

Name: surVIVE#aE0067
Gender (optional): N/A
Stats: 15-S 10-D 9-I 10-P
Perks:
Positive: 'RECUPERATION PROTOCOL' The undeniable will to live encoded into all beings in defiance of the devastation that created the Network, as it is, is particularly strong within this one, the code holding together their pseudomatter is constantly reconstructing itself -- This being regenerates 10% of its Hit Points at the end of their turns. -- However, a similarly innate aversion built by the thoughts and wills of those who became this Soul are just as strong, their terror of the flames that engulfed them can never be extinguished. Effects that mimic or harken back to the nuclear fires and fallout that eliminated all life in the world that once was deal 50% more damage to this being, additionally, during the round that this being was subjected to such an effect, their RECUPERATION PROTOCOL cannot activate.

Positive: 'STALKER, BOUND TO HUNT' Just as this being's encoded desire to exist is great, so too is its need to chase down prey and sup upon their pseudomatter adding it to their own. -- While searching, tracking, or otherwise chasing down other beings, this one's perception is considered to be increased by 4. They also have a small (10%) chance to move again while giving chase.

Positive: 'FRENZY SCRIPT' Some point along this being's existence and others like it, a virus both malicious and beneficial was introduced into its codebase. Speculation leads one to believe it was designed to secure a path towards destroying these accursed Under-Trawlers who are otherwise notoriously slippery. -- While this being's Hit Points are below 50% of their base value, it is able to make an additional attack during combat as if though their Dexterity were 5 points lower. However it may also never purposefully move away from an enemy while in this state.

Negative: 'ACCURSED HUNGER' This being cannot help but be tormented by a desire just as deep as its innate will to exist, it must consume matter at a rate much greater than the average soul. -- This being cannot regain Mana whatsoever aside from consuming the corpses of deceased Souls for 10% of the Mana they once held, incorporating their own data into its.

Negative: 'MACHINE UN-LEARNING' All the social bonds that once existed in the collective zeitgeist that originated this soul have been warped and ebbed away by the degeneration of time. This being's solitary existence and otherwise loathsome nature has led it to become an outcast nigh incapable of soul to soul interaction. -- This being is generally shunned by 'civilized' Souls whom often deem it as more akin to other wildlife than themselves, it will have a significantly more difficult time succeeding in rolls regarding communication and social situations as well as being unable to interact with the likes of upstanding merchants or other services. Furthermore, this being cannot begin play with any equipment whatsoever.

Skills: Stealth, Unarmed Combat, Traversal/Acrobatics
Equipment: NONE
Spells:
Vanish: Utilizing a loop-hole in the Network's security, this being is able to quickly affect the perception of those that perceive it in order to seemingly disappear making it very difficult to locate by non-magical means. (25 Mana to become invisible until this creature attacks.)

Matter-Eating Spittle: An acidic bile is produced within this being's physiology that can eat-away at some of the network's toughest materials. (15 Mana, Able to make a short/mid ranged attack that can dissolve/weaken armor or physical barriers.)
Description: A loathsome amalgamation of wiry flesh and sinewy muscle, this being takes the shape of a tall overwrought humanoid engorged of stomach while bony beyond it, despite their long limbs they are on average squatting down to the height of an average humanoid soul. Their jaws are extended and full of goring teeth, while their eyes speak of a sapience that the rest of its leprosy-ridden from denies.

Backstory: Those that did not immediately burn away and perish within the embroiled nuclear fires of a world immemorial were left to bear the skin-seared scars of their species' hubris. They clung to the false life they'd retained in the interim between the devastation then and the network's revival now. Seeking each and all to live out one more day, yet all the while suffering a fate far worse than those that fled the mortal coil before them. Eventually they too succumbed to the blaze but not before eking out life's primary directive for just a little longer still -- survive. Perhaps it was the minds of those beings that helixed together as the DNA of the Under-Trawlers that lurk in the Haunted Forests once resembling their great homes. #aE0067, one such being and perhaps many like them have begun to awaken to longing for more than their mere existence of consumption and have begun to leave their erstwhile forests, seeking to reforge the bonds that once made the constituent parts of their souls whole.

#hr33f, being the nearest mote of civilization to this being's former dwellings, became the first destination of its transformative desires. To cast off the chains of its meager and detestable existence, to observe, to engage, and to grow.
ASCII representation: T

Seems good! If it's in any way derivative then I don't get the reference lol.

[Unraveller]

Seems good! If it's in any way derivative then I don't get the reference lol.

Derivative in that I've just used your setting to make a generic fantasy Troll haha. Glad it works though! Excited to see what others come up with.

[Weirdsound]

Name: Vance Demonson
Gender (optional): Primarily Male

Stats: 11 - S, 6 - D, 15 - I, 9 - P


Perks:

Collective Memories - Vance has a hundreds of human lifetimes worth of memories bubbling just under the surface. Although calling upon useful memories and skills isn't instantaneous for him, given time he can become a temporary expert in just about any field. When not in combat or otherwise under extreme time pressure, Vance can roll his Intelligence in place of another stat, and can often recall information that others would need a library or database to obtain.

Demonic Crafting - Over the years, Vance has removed most of the demonic abilities granted by his father from his code. He choose to keep the ability to craft useful modules from the remains of fallen souls, as even the noble knight must kill from time to time, and it would be a pity to let a soul go to waste. Vance is best at creating weapons and armor; If he tries to create something particularly powerful or outside his area of expertise, he may require specific types of souls or even non-soul components. As he dislikes waste, Vance makes gear as often as possible, but is generous in distributing his modules to worthy soldiers he encounters in his travels.

Shining Reputation - Vance is a known protector of innocent souls and hunter of demons. In the civilized parts of cyberspace, all but the most paranoid leaders will welcome him into their political and military institutions, and (within reason) share resources and information to aid in his quests.

Unstable Collective - Vance has a dominant, primary, and original personality. But in his early days he would absorb souls and databases wholesale in his quest for knowledge about the demons and the humans they once were. A consequence of this is that his psudomatter holds many almost complete souls bubbling just beneath the surface. If his psudomatter takes substantial damage, there is a small chance one of these beings will be expelled from him as a fresh hapless soul in an an act of uncontrolled mitosis that can leave Vance stunned and weakened.

Code of Conduct - Vance is a noble and honorable soul, opposed to scummy and dishonorable behavior and always willing to help the innocent. He is willing to make exceptions for absorbing souls with demonic knowledge or using souls slain for just reasons as crafting materials, but beyond that if Vance is opposed to partaking in unknightly behavior. He does have a workaround, however. If circumstances dictate that he must do dirty work, he can let another (GM controled) personality take the reigns for a short while. These personalities are willing to do what is needed, and generally sympathetic towards Vance's goals, but beyond that Vance has no control over what they do until he wrestles control of his being back.

Skills: Melee Weapons, Crossbows, Heavy Armor, Military Organization, Coding, Courtly Manners, Demon Lore, History

Equipment:

CTRL-C, The Greatsword Module - In the old days, Vance would absorb souls and memories wholesale using a spell he has since discarded. He has now adopted CTRL-C as a safer and more humane to add memories to his being. CTRL-C copies and stores any code relating to demons or the humans who would become demons that it comes in contact with. Generally this simply borrows knowledge and memories from the people it stabs or touches, but it can also straight up copy spells used or invented by demons. Vance has the ability to safely and selectively add knowledge stored in the sword to his own being during his downtime.

The Greataxe Module of Rendering - Vance leans heavily upon Modules in combat, and thus has a constant need for concentrated Mana. The Greataxe of Rendering can 'produce' safely contained concentrated mana in combat by absorbing and converting psudeomatter and mana from objects that it strikes which contain both. Once enough concentrated mana is created, it is dispensed in the form of a power cell compatible with Vance's other modules from the axe's handle.

The Crossbow Module of Packet Injection - The weapon Vance uses when he wants something destroyed quickly. This crossbow launches mighty bolts of mana a great distance, but is quite costly to use.

Paladin Armor MKIV Module - Vance has used many different armors over the years. His current model is designed for travel and versatility. In addition to providing mundane physicals protection, when charged it provides magical defenses against spells and weapons of demonic origin (including those made by Vance's own demonic crafting techniques). When charged it also provides extra protection against the wraiths of the haunted woods and the draining effect of the dead cities.

Spells:

Heroic Might - Increases the damage of Vance or an ally so long as Vance can concentrate on the spell and the beneficiary does not commit ignoble acts.
Detect Module - All modules in Vance's field of view briefly glow a bright blue. If the module is demonic in origin, it instead glows bright red.
Call Weapon - An object or module intended to be used as a weapon that Vance can see flies harmlessly into his open hand. Can be used to attempt to disarm foes, or perform 'boomerang' throw attacks with his own melee weapons.

Description: A knight in armor of glowing white and gold. He wears a purple cape. His face is concealed behind a mask, but if revealed it shifts appearences constantly to reflect the many human persons and memories that now make him up.

Backstory: Vance was born in the early days of Cyberspace, when a powerful demon who retained strong memories of the old world tried to intentionally reincarnate his human son as a Soul. Vance himself is unsure how the procedure went wrong, as his original mind has few human memories; His best guess is that human son was a much better person than the father. But whatever happened, the soul created had no intention of ruling alongside a demon, and indeed found his 'father's' kind to be entirely repulsive.

Vance defected as soon as he could, and began to fight against his father and other demons. When the demons were banished, Vance became alarmed over how few souls worried about their eventual return. He made it his business to be prepared. To this end he has spent much of post-history wandering cyberspace, in search of memories to add to his being related to the demons and their human identities. Early on Vance was bad at modifying himself, and although his coding skills have improved considerably overtime, mistakes he made while assimilating memories in his youth has rendered his appearance, and to a lesser extent his mind, somewhat unstable. He is USUALLY a paragon of knighthood: kind, generous, brave, and noble. But his existence as a somewhat unstable collective of souls renders him prone to outbursts and unpredictable behavior.

These days, Vance is fairly secure in his accumulated knowledge of demons, and feels he has prepared himself for his return as best he can. He will still assimilate new relevant memories as he finds them, but he no longer seeks them out. Nowadays he bounces between the courts and capitals of cyberspace's nation-sates, investigating claims of demonic activity and helping prepare militias to deal with demons as a freelancer of sorts. He has just finished up investigating a claim of demonic activity in the Duchy of Blackdagger that turned out to be a false alarm, and is now looking for his next job.
 
ASCII representation: & (6 if & is not allowed for players)

[VermilionSkies]

I love finding things like this on forums, and it seems like it'd be fun to play.

Spoiler: Kernx303 (click to show/hide)

Name: Kernx303
Stats: 7S 10D 17I 12P
Perks:
Positive:
Insubstantial(Any non-magical attack that hits has a 50% chance to miss instead.), Spatially Inclined(Any effect that would move Kernx404 from their current position may be doubled or halved in intensity.), Curious Soul(Kernx404 may attempt to make spells based on a weaker version of any effect they have seen.)
Negative: Disorientated(When moving, have a 50% chance to move to a random adjacent square instead.), Transient(They have no hands, and as such are incapable of utilizing equipment.)
Skills: Formatting, Mathematics, Mana Theory
Equipment:
Spells:
Backspace(Remove space between you and target, pulling them towards you using 2 mana per space.)
Indent(Insert space between you and target, pushing them away from you using 4 mana per space.)
Replace(Teleport your tile and any adjacent tiles to a point within sight, using 1 mana per creature per every 5 spaces.)
Copy/Paste(A paired set of spells, Copy target for 20 mana, then Paste it in an adjacent space for 10 mana.)
View/Edit(Access code of target for 5 mana, then allow changes to be made for another 5 mana.)
Description: A collection of floating letters, the distance between them constantly increasing but never appearing to change.
Backstory: Coming from the grand archives of B#376, Kern is on a personal journey to seek knowledge about how the world around it functions, and how it came to be.
ASCII representation: ▓

I was uncertain how to balance mana cost vs effect, so the sheet is far from final.

[Maximum Spin]

Unicode allowed?

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

PTW. Looks fun but I don't really have the time to manage a dedicated charsheet at the moment (mostly dropping in on SGs right now).

Still, nice setting and I hope this turns out great.

[MaxTheFox]

Unicode allowed?

Yes but only one of these characters (and not a blank square of course, and not &):

I love finding things like this on forums, and it seems like it'd be fun to play.

Spoiler: Kernx303 (click to show/hide)

Name: Kernx303
Stats: 7S 10D 17I 12P
Perks:
Positive:
Insubstantial(Any non-magical attack that hits has a 50% chance to miss instead.), Spatially Inclined(Any effect that would move Kernx404 from their current position may be doubled or halved in intensity.), Curious Soul(Kernx404 may attempt to make spells based on a weaker version of any effect they have seen.)
Negative: Disorientated(When moving, have a 50% chance to move to a random adjacent square instead.), Transient(They have no hands, and as such are incapable of utilizing equipment.)
Skills: Formatting, Mathematics, Mana Theory
Equipment:
Spells:
Backspace(Remove space between you and target, pulling them towards you using 2 mana per space.)
Indent(Insert space between you and target, pushing them away from you using 4 mana per space.)
Replace(Teleport your tile and any adjacent tiles to a point within sight, using 1 mana per creature per every 5 spaces.)
Copy/Paste(A paired set of spells, Copy target for 5 mana, then Paste it in an adjacent space for 5 mana.)
View/Edit(Access code of target for 5 mana, then allow changes to be made for another 5 mana.)
Description: A collection of floating letters, the distance between them constantly increasing but never appearing to change.
Backstory: Coming from the grand archives of B#376, Kern is on a personal journey to seek knowledge about how the world around it functions, and how it came to be.
ASCII representation: ▓

I was uncertain how to balance mana cost vs effect, so the sheet is far from final.

Increase the cost of Copy/Paste quite a bit and it should be alright.

Name: Vance Demonson
Gender (optional): Primarily Male

Stats: 11 - S, 6 - D, 15 - I, 9 - P


Perks:

Collective Memories - Vance has a hundreds of human lifetimes worth of memories bubbling just under the surface. Although calling upon useful memories and skills isn't instantaneous for him, given time he can become a temporary expert in just about any field. When not in combat or otherwise under extreme time pressure, Vance can roll his Intelligence in place of another stat, and can often recall information that others would need a library or database to obtain.

Demonic Crafting - Over the years, Vance has removed most of the demonic abilities granted by his father from his code. He choose to keep the ability to craft useful modules from the remains of fallen souls, as even the noble knight must kill from time to time, and it would be a pity to let a soul go to waste. Vance is best at creating weapons and armor; If he tries to create something particularly powerful or outside his area of expertise, he may require specific types of souls or even non-soul components. As he dislikes waste, Vance makes gear as often as possible, but is generous in distributing his modules to worthy soldiers he encounters in his travels.

Shining Reputation - Vance is a known protector of innocent souls and hunter of demons. In the civilized parts of cyberspace, all but the most paranoid leaders will welcome him into their political and military institutions, and (within reason) share resources and information to aid in his quests.

Unstable Collective - Vance has a dominant, primary, and original personality. But in his early days he would absorb souls and databases wholesale in his quest for knowledge about the demons and the humans they once were. A consequence of this is that his psudomatter holds many almost complete souls bubbling just beneath the surface. If his psudomatter takes substantial damage, there is a small chance one of these beings will be expelled from him as a fresh hapless soul in an an act of uncontrolled mitosis that can leave Vance stunned and weakened.

Code of Conduct - Vance is a noble and honorable soul, opposed to scummy and dishonorable behavior and always willing to help the innocent. He is willing to make exceptions for absorbing souls with demonic knowledge or using souls slain for just reasons as crafting materials, but beyond that if Vance is opposed to partaking in unknightly behavior. He does have a workaround, however. If circumstances dictate that he must do dirty work, he can let another (GM controled) personality take the reigns for a short while. These personalities are willing to do what is needed, and generally sympathetic towards Vance's goals, but beyond that Vance has no control over what they do until he wrestles control of his being back.

Skills: Melee Weapons, Crossbows, Heavy Armor, Military Organization, Coding, Courtly Manners, Demon Lore, History

Equipment:

CTRL-C, The Greatsword Module - In the old days, Vance would absorb souls and memories wholesale using a spell he has since discarded. He has now adopted CTRL-C as a safer and more humane to add memories to his being. CTRL-C copies and stores any code relating to demons or the humans who would become demons that it comes in contact with. Generally this simply borrows knowledge and memories from the people it stabs or touches, but it can also straight up copy spells used or invented by demons. Vance has the ability to safely and selectively add knowledge stored in the sword to his own being during his downtime.

The Greataxe Module of Rendering - Vance leans heavily upon Modules in combat, and thus has a constant need for concentrated Mana. The Greataxe of Rendering can 'produce' safely contained concentrated mana in combat by absorbing and converting psudeomatter and mana from objects that it strikes which contain both. Once enough concentrated mana is created, it is dispensed in the form of a power cell compatible with Vance's other modules from the axe's handle.

The Crossbow Module of Packet Injection - The weapon Vance uses when he wants something destroyed quickly. This crossbow launches mighty bolts of mana a great distance, but is quite costly to use.

Paladin Armor MKIV Module - Vance has used many different armors over the years. His current model is designed for travel and versatility. In addition to providing mundane physicals protection, when charged it provides magical defenses against spells and weapons of demonic origin (including those made by Vance's own demonic crafting techniques). When charged it also provides extra protection against the wraiths of the haunted woods and the draining effect of the dead cities.

Spells:

Heroic Might - Increases the damage of Vance or an ally so long as Vance can concentrate on the spell and the beneficiary does not commit ignoble acts.
Detect Module - All modules in Vance's field of view briefly glow a bright blue. If the module is demonic in origin, it instead glows bright red.
Call Weapon - An object or module intended to be used as a weapon that Vance can see flies harmlessly into his open hand. Can be used to attempt to disarm foes, or perform 'boomerang' throw attacks with his own melee weapons.

Description: A knight in armor of glowing white and gold. He wears a purple cape. His face is concealed behind a mask, but if revealed it shifts appearences constantly to reflect the many human persons and memories that now make him up.

Backstory: Vance was born in the early days of Cyberspace, when a powerful demon who retained strong memories of the old world tried to intentionally reincarnate his human son as a Soul. Vance himself is unsure how the procedure went wrong, as his original mind has few human memories; His best guess is that human son was a much better person than the father. But whatever happened, the soul created had no intention of ruling alongside a demon, and indeed found his 'father's' kind to be entirely repulsive.

Vance defected as soon as he could, and began to fight against his father and other demons. When the demons were banished, Vance became alarmed over how few souls worried about their eventual return. He made it his business to be prepared. To this end he has spent much of post-history wandering cyberspace, in search of memories to add to his being related to the demons and their human identities. Early on Vance was bad at modifying himself, and although his coding skills have improved considerably overtime, mistakes he made while assimilating memories in his youth has rendered his appearance, and to a lesser extent his mind, somewhat unstable. He is USUALLY a paragon of knighthood: kind, generous, brave, and noble. But his existence as a somewhat unstable collective of souls renders him prone to outbursts and unpredictable behavior.

These days, Vance is fairly secure in his accumulated knowledge of demons, and feels he has prepared himself for his return as best he can. He will still assimilate new relevant memories as he finds them, but he no longer seeks them out. Nowadays he bounces between the courts and capitals of cyberspace's nation-sates, investigating claims of demonic activity and helping prepare militias to deal with demons as a freelancer of sorts. He has just finished up investigating a claim of demonic activity in the Duchy of Blackdagger that turned out to be a false alarm, and is now looking for his next job.
 
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Yeah & is reserved for digital demons/other "bosses", so 6.

[Unraveller]

An icky Troll, a Daemon Scion vessel with the hopes and dreams of humanity, and a curious collection of floating text walk into a Cyberbar. Shenanigans ensue. I almost hope our forth is 'Just some guy' who can really bind us together with their averageness.

EDIT: This could use a wee bump, I'd hate to see the concept go without a fight.

[MaxTheFox]

Bump. If nobody answers within 2 days I'll just start with 3.

[IronyOwl]

Should have a cake princess within 24 hours.

[IronyOwl]

Spoiler: Princess Caramella (click to show/hide)

Name: Princess Caramella de Coneshield de Cherryturn de Maplemark von f_12_compose
Gender (optional): Female
Stats: 10S 13D 10I 7P
Perks:

Sugar Strain: Anything Caramella generates, uses, or holds tends to manifest her composition and nature. This is most noticeable with spells and projectile weapons, which tend to fire frosting or gumdrops instead of their usual effects, but physical items tend to become slowly corrupted to candy or cake in a similar manner. The qualities and effects of such items often shift as well, becoming more suited to or reminiscent of her. This ability can also be used to "flavor" another entity's reproduction, enabling a sort of sexual reproduction (and thus alliance via marriage) not often seen elsewhere.

Cupcake Oven: Caramella can generate lesser souls to serve her. Technically this is the same process used by souls to reproduce normally, but far easier, quicker, cheaper, and generates accordingly simple entities. These entities (referred to as Cupcakes or Pastrylings in the Coneshield Kingdom) are usually loyal to and possess a strong resemblance to their creator, but the process is prone to the same eccentricities as normal reproduction, just (usually) on a much smaller scale.

Cherry On Top: Caramella is easily recognizable as a refined noble, and thus someone with connections, a sense of honor, and an interest in useful allies and servants. Others are more likely to try to get into her good graces or follow her lead, especially if they have enemies they'd like her to fight.

Delicious!: Despite her cakelike appearance, Caramella and anything similar to her (such as most of her equipment thanks to Sugar Strain) are just as resilient, dangerous, and useful as items of more conventional materials... with one noteworthy exception. Candyforged substances, including Caramella herself, yield incredibly easily to attempts to process them, and thus take double damage from bite attacks, being attacked with spoons, and so on. This also renders them vulnerable to direct sabotage or partial destruction- licorice bars might be harder than steel but can be gnawed through easily, a chocolate sword might cut through flesh like butter until an opponent catches and snaps off part of it in his mouth, and a quick motion with a fork could take off a few of Caramella's fingers as easily as it could slice through a coffee cake. Finally, material harvested in this way is digested extremely easily, allowing the attacker immediate access to any materials that once composed the stolen treats.

Eat Or Be Eaten: Coneshield honor and reputation demands killing and eating foes under normal circumstances. Sparing enemies, whether through peace treaty or enslavement followed by heavy labor, is a privilege to be used judiciously by nobles under exceptional circumstances- otherwise, conflict with a Coneshielder is permanent and applies to entire factions. Those familiar with Coneshielders will be aware of this, and may have distinct opinions on the kingdom's solemn intent to devour every last inhabitant of several major labyrinths. Nonlethal conflict requires scaled down but otherwise identical behavior- an attempt to outdo a Coneshielder in a cooking competition might require absolute destruction within the context of normal cookoff etiquette, but absolute destruction nonetheless. Failure to uphold this code (or abuse of noble privileges regarding it) will damage Caramella's social standing and reputation.

Skills: Diplomacy, Cooking, Rulership

Equipment:

Chocolate Cream Estoc (2d4 damage)
Wafflecone Fullshield (-8% chance to be hit by foes)
Royal Seal (10/10 Mana, 1 mana per use, applies a royal insignia to a target object or creature, marking it as guaranteed by the bearer of the seal; the mark will corrode off of living things that knowingly act against the bearer's wishes or interests, or items held by such beings at the time of such actions)

Spells:

Mark: 5 Mana, target takes an extra 1d6 damage from all attacks for the next 3 turns
Mend: 5 Mana, target recovers 1d4 damage/turn for 3 turns
Massacre: 25 Mana, attack target 4 times in one turn

Description: A pink princess made of frosted cake.
Backstory: Caramella is a Princess (that is, non-ruling noble) of the Coneshield Kingdom, specifically the second daughter and third child of the Duchess de Cherryturn (a high-rank noble) and Count de Maplemark von f_12_compose (mid-rank ruler of Maplemark by inheritance and f_12_compose by conquest). Conveniently located between several major powers and danger zones, the labyrinth now known as Coneshield was repeatedly decimated by war, selecting for inhabitants that could stand and fight or rebuild from nothing as necessary. This culminated in a suspiciously uniform (base scoundrels might even allege "infectious") type of soul becoming the dominant inhabitant, led and defended by the mighty Coneshield dynasty and their loyal vassals. As the youngest child of two such vassals, Caramella's options for rulership are to prove herself superior to her current and future siblings and be declared heir, hope her parents conquer and hold enough land to bequeath her some, or to sally forth and conquer her own holdings. As all three options benefit from martial might, she has opted to venture out into the world to improve her leadership and battle abilities, locate allies and vassals (or perhaps even a new liege), and ideally find someplace to conquer and rule by her own hand.
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[MaxTheFox]

kk, starting tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I gotta finish up some notes and prepare for an IRL friend's birthday.

[MaxTheFox]

No matter where the four of you came from, you are now here. While such a spontaneous meeting may have been unremarkable otherwise, each of you feels... something special about the other three people. Like a great destiny will await you soon...

But for now, perhaps it would be wise to introduce yourselves?
(Yes this is a short update, the others will be longer as it is just an introduction. I will try to update often in spite of having other projects offsite.)