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Nice, I like my spells. Can I attack during Fractal Tentacles?

SPELL (Earth & Box)
Something involving burying things alive or entrapment them in Large Stone Boxes perhaps?
SPELL (Drunken & Desert)
...Nothing comes to mind, I don't envy your thinking something up for this one.
ENRICH (Criminal & Sun)
Something relating to Prometheus, the guy who STOLE fire from the SUN?
Or perhaps its A bonus to all things Criminal while in the Light of day?
Infinite light Stolen from everyone else?

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Brooding Surreal Vegetable

Cartoonish Emo Mini-Ent.

Waitlist I guess. Is Cat in the aspects list?

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Magical Mania Siren

Spoiler: 'Luretha the Reverse Mermaid' (click to show/hide)

Name: Luretha
Appearance: Luretha is a Reverse Mermaid, which means she has a fishlike upper body and a human lower lody. Thus, she has rather inconvenient giant flappers instead of arms. Her fish half ressembles an oversized bluefin tuna, and her human legs are long and slender, with a pale complexion. In total, she stands a little over 5'7.
Description: Luretha is 17, and is, as mentioned before, a Reverse Mermaid.
Backstory: Luretha's parents were regular mermaids, living peacefully in the secret mermaid kingdoms of Atlantis. However, one fateful day, while swimming around the bottom of the ocean, they found a sunken ship. Both curious and afraid, they carefully approached. The ship's hull was in an advanced state of disrepair and completely covered in algae, meaning it must have been there for quite some time. They entered through a breach and explored it. Eventually, they stumbled upon the treasure room. There, they saw shimmering gems and shining gold everywhere, something they had never seen before as they weren't particularily rich mermaids. Greed overcame them, and they took as many valuables as possible before attempting to escape, but as they tried to get out of the ship, an ominously strong current held them. A ghastly figure appeared in front of them. It was the soul of the ship's captain, bound by his greed to his old ship to protect his treasure. He cursed both mermaids for trying to steal his riches. The two dropped all their loot and ran (or rather, swam) away as far as they could. But alas, it was already too late. The curse was laid. Later, when Luretha's mother gave birth, instead of laying a multitude of small eggs like mermaids usually do, she instead laid one big egg. Her parents still decided to keep it and to love their child no matter what. When the egg finally hatched, instead of a cute mermaid tadpole, the newborn was an abomination which beared the head of a newborn fish and the legs of a human baby. However, her parents still loved her and raised her, and even though she was made fun off by other mermaid kids and feared by the adults, she had a rather decent childhood. However, a problem arose when she reached the age of 13. Around this age, all female mermaids get the ability to use their siren song, which produces a sound so wonderful that it is mesmerizing to other species. When Luretha tried to use it however, instead of the pleasant voice came out an horrible sound which could only be described as the combination of rubbing two blocks of polystyren together and the scraping of a fork on a chalkboard. Her song was so horrible, in fact, that she was prohibited by other mermaids to ever sing again. But Luretha, desperately wanting to fit in with the others, kept training on her singing voice in secret. One day, when she decided that she was finally ready, she gathered the few friends she had, and let out her siren's song. However, in her training, Luretha's voice did not get better, but much worse. It sent shockwaves rippling through the water and made the ground tremble. Her friends pleaded for her to stop, but she could not hear them as her own voice overpowered all other sounds around. When she stopped, silence fell. There was not a noise to be heard. Luretha looked around, and realised her friends were all dead. Her cursed voice had killed them. Devastated, she ran away, and swore to one day return with a voice as beautiful as other mermaids'. She travels the ocean, alone, and sings her horrible song often, maniacally training, not realising that it only grows more deady as she uses it. She seeks the gizmo, hoping that it can grant her a normal mermaid's song.
Skills:
Melee Weapons: 2
Magic: 4
Evade: 4
Stealth: 2
Will: 2
Spells:
-Siren (the horrible cursed song?)
Equipment:
-Leather Armor *
-Dagger (Enriched : Magical) *
-Blaster Pistol
-Dagger *
-Bandages
-Electric Headlamp *
-Steel-Toed Boots *

Pavellius: Thanks for the offer for new aspects, but that's okay. I should be able to create an interesting character out of most any set of three aspects. I'm just a little disjointed at teh moment, and you have lots of interest in the game, so I don't mind stepping back for now. I'll PM you if I get a new wind and would like to be re-added, or you can pm me when my waitlist turn comes up

thanks!

Ok, so:
Essentially, it just means that an enemy that could be hit with a roll of 10 in the original rules needs to have their defence bumped up to get hit on a 15, and for dodging attacks, something that would have been dodged on a roll of 10 would now be dodged on a roll of 5 (assuming that players are doing as expected, that is, attacking with a single weapon).

Personally, I would suggest having where the bonuses and maluses go be based on what the players are expected to do "normally": most players will be attacking or casting every turn, so having the defensive stance be a bonus makes sense, but most players won't be dual-attacking (with exception of our octobro) or using improvised weapons, so it would make more sense to leave those ones as penalties off of the baseline "attacking with one weapon". I think it'll be easier to calculate and remember everything that way.

Spell idea: The affected person immediately abandons whatever they're doing and starts praying to some miscellaneous owl god.
Enrich idea: The leather is made from human skin and there are human bones in the shape of seashells as pauldrons. Upon seeing it, must fail a knowledge check in order to avoid SAN damage.

Waitlist.

I don't think it's possible for me to work with either set you gave me. Can I get a reroll?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Second version. Backstory also WIP.

Consumable Tentacle Paralysis

Name: Exul Bracchium

Appearance: Exul is a large and intelligent octopus. His skin is most of the time orange and his eyes are yellow.

Description: He's a smart and large octopus sorcerer that came from another world made of oceans. He used to be part of the royalty, but after his evil brother devoured the rest of the members of the bloodline and seized the kingdom he was forced to escape the underwater world as a fugitive.

-Can wield up to 8 things, excluding Medicine/Lockpicking tools (since those are automatically wielded).
 -Can attack 4 times when "dual attacking".
 -Can't wear armor/clothes, including gloves & shoes, but excluding most headgear.
 -Can't carry things that aren't equipped or wielded.

Backstory: Exul was the youngest and weakest of six brothers, all descendants of an old but wise octopus known as the Octopus King, leader of the underwater Enteroctopus kingdom. While they all looked like normal and healthy children, there was something wrong with the fifth brother. He had tasted the flesh of his own kind and soon became addicted to octopus meat. The cannibal, envious of his brothers, devoured them alive to become the next heir of the kingdom. But when the old king tried to stop him, the fifth brother also devoured him and seized the throne. Because Exul was the sixth brother, the new king decided to let him live until the day he devoured his father. After the event, he decided that he should not leave any loose ends and demanded his head on a silver plate. Exul then escaped from the kingdom, seeking refuge in the neighbour lands that belonged to the Architeuthis kingdom. There, he learned magic to compensate for his lack of physical strenght just like his brother was huge and not very smart. Despite that there was peace between both underwater kingdoms, the new Octopus King was a brute and decided to wage war against the Architeuthis to reach his brother and consume him. The Architeuthis kingdom crumbled and they were almost exterminated by the octopus armies, but the Architeuthis magicians managed to create a portal to this world for Exul to escape. Now, Exul seeks the Gizmo to use it's power rto return to his world, slay his insane brother, free the kingdom from his rule, and avenge his lost family.

Skills:
-Magic: 5
-Evade: 1
-Stealth: 1
-Athletics: 1
-Will: 1
-Underwater Basket-Weaving: 1

Spells:
-Spell 1 (Paralysis & Fantasy): No idea what fantasy could be for.  Please make this one.
-Spell 2 (Tentacle & Splitting): Temporally transforms the user's tentacles into sharp and light metallic blades. Bladed tentacles count as light weapons and use magic skill for combat, but also makes the caster unable to hold anything or wield weapons during the transformation. Or something like that.

Equipment:
-A Lack of Self Preservation (Enrichment (Tentacle & Air): Extra phantom tentacles made of air that attack enemies at random and can hold things? No idea either.)
-Dagger
-Blaster Pistol
-Dagger
-Bandages
-Electric Headlamp
-Steel-Toed Boots
-Cape with Custom Design (Navy blue with a wave pattern.)

Spoiler: Earth Drunken Criminal (click to show/hide)

Name: Urist mac Hammarstorm
Appearance: A Rather tall and muscular dwarf Wearing a Glaringly orange Prison jumpsuit
Description:  25, Dwarf, Previously Hammerdwarf- Now Criminal. He requires Alcohol to get through the working day- thankfully this isn't work.
Backstory: Urist was born deep underground, in the fortress of Hammerdeath, and like all dwarves he enjoyed drinking- only he drank too much, one day after rioting too hard and hammering the hammerer to death he was sentenced to "Death" but seeing how the executioner was dead they packed him up and sent him off after some adventurers, little did they know that they were going after the gizmo of ultimate goodness...
  Skills:
Melee Weapons: 5
Magic: 5
  Spells:
Earth
Drunken
  Equipment:
Electric Headlamp*
Steel-Toed Boots*
Cape with Custom Design: A Bright white Cape with a bullseye on it.*
A Lack of Self Preservation*
Shortsword*
Semi-Auto GR2 Rifle
Dagger
"#1 Team" Oversized Foam Glove (Anniversary Edition)* Enrich, Criminal

Spoiler: Character waiting for spell and enrichment aspects (click to show/hide)

Name: Enal Quinn
Appearance: Pale-skinned, blue eyes, unkempt blond hair.
Description: A human in his early forties. Occupation: Priest. Religion: Materialist Banjhulhism.
Backstory: Brought up among a family of Abyssal Banjhulhists, Enal Quinn eventually converted to Materialist Banjhulhism, unable to reconcile meteors with the concept of Abyssal Banjhulhism. As a token of respect, however, his Banjhulhu effigy is made of seashells. He believes the Gizmo of Ultimate Goodness to be a holy artifact and jumped at the chance to recover it.
Aspects: Shell Doll Worship
Skills:
Melee Weapons 2
Ranged Weapons 2
Magic 5
Evade 2
Stealth 2
Pick Locks 1
Athletics 1
Spells: Worship
Equipment:
Electric Headlamp *
Steel-Toed Boots *
Leather Armor * (enhance with Shell)
Nunchucks
Semi-Auto GR2 Rifle *
Dagger
Lockpicks *

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Hmn...

Spell 1 idea: A beam of fire, "reducing" to a point at about 5 meters away; the heat at each part of the beam is proportional to how densely it's been packed, with the point being nearly as hot as the sun itself.

Spell 2 idea: The target, faced with evidence of the divine, worries they have been insufficiently religious, and turns their prayer and worship to the most immediately available divine figure: Saraket.

Gun enrichment: The superheated bullets burn through enemies' equipment, leaving them as low-quality husks of their former selves, riddled with holes and areas weakened by heat.

EDIT: How about -3 to stealth? Or is it just perma-failure at that point?
I'm ok with perma-failure on stealth.

WIP. Please give me the second aspect for my spells and the enrichment.

Consumable Tentacle Paralysis

Name:Exul Bracchium
Appearance: A large sentient octopus.
Description: Age, race, occupation, etc.
Backstory: How and why you joined the party on their quest to retrieve the Gizmo of Ultimate Goodness.
Skills:
-Magic: 5
-Evade: 1
-Stealth: 1
-Athletics: 1
-Will: 1
-Underwater Basket-Weaving: 1
Spells:
-Paralysis, ?
-Tentacle, ?
Equipment:
-A Lack of Self Preservation (Enriched: Tentacle, ?) (I assume this enriches his own body.)
-Dagger
-Blaster Pistol
-Dagger
-Bandages
-Electric Headlamp
-Steel-Toed Boots
-Cape with Custom Design (Navy blue with a wave pattern.)

I want in, and DM me aspects early ahead of time so I'll have them ready when I can get in the game.

Also, if you want a gear suggestion for if you run out of ideas, may I present to you the GR2!

Spoiler: Info (click to show/hide)

It's an assault rifle with 30 round magazines, which users switch automatically and have an infinite number of because that's what OP is making shooting weapons be, and it has an advanced barrel, a solid polymer stock, and a combine scope attached to it. Two handed, of course, since it's not going to work out well if you try to wield an assault rifle with one hand. Comes with a semi and full auto firemode selector, except some jackass locked it to semi for the starting ones. The bought/looted versions weren't sabotaged fortunately. I spent like 45 minutes making this with GMod's Swep Construction Kit Addon, originally for an addon but when I saw this thread I took a picture of it for a gear suggestion.

TL;DR Scoped assault rifle, the one that players can start with is semi but non-starting ones will be auto.

Question: Do scoped weapons allow for easier aiming at a distance, as in it being easier to aim at further distances?[/size]

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Sacred Fire Educated

I can work with this.

Name: Saraket the Ever-Burning
Appearance: Normally, a dark-skinned human, with golden eyes and bright red hair, looking to be in his mid-twenties. Sometimes... see the ability description later.
Description: Age: Probably in his 100s by this point. Race: Demigod. Occupation: Being the fire god's right hand man, trying to get enough worship to ascend to true divinity. Hobbies: Creating fireproof books and writing materials, building engines and other such stuff, staying on top of recent scientific innovations, and running a laboratory.
Backstory Justification for Participation: Gizmo of Ultimate Goodness + Demigod = Ascendency. Of course Saraket will want it. His hopes: he'll be able to leverage his education, involvement with science, and the association between fire and early technological advancement to become the god of technology.

Skills:
Magic 5
Will 3
Evade 2
Always fails at Stealth while in divine form [spec. ability downside]

Spells:
Fire
Sacred

Equipment:
*Electric Headlamp
*Steel-Toed Boots
*Leather Armor (light armor, DR 1)
Shortsword
*Semi-Auto Rifle (enhance with Fire)
*Bandages Divine Healing Powers

Special Ability: He can shift into the form of a winged humanoid figure, made entirely out of fire (mostly normal red-yellow fire, but the hands and feet are white and there's a pair of blue spots where the eyes would be, and of course, it's always flickering, like regular fire does). While in this form, he floats midair, and is still solid enough to grab things. His magic abilities are supercharged, and he can only be damaged with magical attacks or water. However, while in this form, the sheer force of divine presence (and also the fact that he's probably the brightest thing in the room and probably all the others) make it so that it's impossible to do anything with any sort of stealth.

EDIT: Why yes, I am a god wielding a semi-automatic rifle that is a giant burning "FUCK YOU" to everything around us. I'm going to enjoy this. [/size]

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