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[Empiricist]

Spoiler: A Massive Ball of Depression aka my new character (click to show/hide)

Name: Saigai Mitsurugi
Age: Unknown, but roughly a millenium.
Gender: Female
Race: Disaster Goddess
Sex: Female
Appearance: Mitsurugi has long, flowing black hair adorned with trailing ribbons of a teal color. She wears a multi-layered robe of various colors, with the outermost being a stony gray and the inner ones alternating between a burnt orange and a darker teal. Longer strands of cloth trail from her sleeves as she walks, though they always seem to be stirred by the wind enough to not drag along the ground. When she maneuvers through combat, the flashing of the colors when her robes flutter call to mind storms, eruptions, and wildfires, and this seems to depend on her current attack. Finally, she has yellow eyes, and a mouth that seems permanently set in a faint frown, with a princesslike, regal countenance.

Personality: Surprisingly courteous and friendly to humans, though she often comes off as somewhat cool. She chooses her words carefully and sparingly, and speaks with gravity. She does, contrary to popular belief, possess a sense of humor, but she rarely displays it where anyone can see it. Her permanent frown doesn't help this impression, either. Unsurprisingly, she is quite sorrowful.

Level: 6
EXP: 500
Disaster: 0/90
HP: 30+(1+1)+(2+2)+(3+3)+(4+3)+(5+3)+(6+4) =  67 [Each level adds CON+Level HP]
Init: 16+1d20

Stats: 0/38 points to spend (Stat cap of 4+Level. +4 stat points every level.)
Constitution: 4
Dexterity- 10 (16)
Intelligence- 4
Resistance- 4
Strength- 6
Synergy- 10
Perks:
Native Goddess of a Dead World: Mitsurugi isn't quite bound by the same rules as most living beings. As a native goddess she does not require food or sleep and has a limited need for air, instead taking sustenance from faith. (She doesn't get much of it, but she carries enough of the will of her own universe to continue existing.) Worship will make her stronger (bonuses entirely up to GM fiat, if it's ever in significant numbers), and she can appear wherever she is invoked by splitting her spirit, which does not harm her. This ability is somewhat degraded, however, so these manifestations are not powerful enough to fight. She can also invoke natural disasters or pacify them, but the former requires the conditions for a disaster to be present. (e.g., for an eruption there must be a volcano, for an earthquake there must be fault lines. Thunderstorms are easy but tornadoes and such require an already unfavorable atmosphere.)

Dancer on the Storms of Battle: Mitsurugi is agile and almost ethereal by nature, making it difficult to land solid strikes on her. Adds 2*DEX percent chance to dodge attacks targeted at her. (Does not apply to AoE, though she isn't affected by damage from her natural disasters.)

Speed of the Flickering Flames: Mitsurugi's long life and supernatural nature grant her unnatural speed. Adds her level to her DEX.

Strength of the Earth from Faith: Positive effects, magical and otherwise, have an effect similar to an influx of faith for Mitsurugi. Every positive buff on her causes her to gain a point of DEX and SYN.

Equipment:
Weapon: A Sword from a Dead World (Level 6)
Type: Melee
Properties:
Finesse - This weapon uses DEX instead of STR for attacks.
Focus - This weapon can be used as a focus to deliver ranged attacks.
Damage: 2d7+DEX

Armor: Disaster Goddess's Robes
Type: Light
Base Defense: +1 RES
Traits:
Resistant - The divine fabric rejects foreign intrusions, granting a 10% chance to negate status effects inflicted on the wearer.
Description: Mitsurugi's multicolored robes. They seem to have a strange resistance to the touch, though they don't bother the wearer. Otherwise they appear to be made out of fairly mundane cloth.


Bauble: A Sheath from a Dead World
Description: The sheath for Mitsurugi's sword. It's actually fairly plain.
Traits:
Soulbound - Contains the remnants of some souls from her world. Their lingering thoughts and wishes provide her with enough faith to maintain her existence, healing at a rate slightly lower than a human average if this is her only source of faith.
Actions:
Basic Attack - Blade Barrage: Mitsurugi attacks with a series of sword strikes or a spray of magical bullets, dealing her weapon's damage+DEX.
Basic Defense - Parry: Mitsurugi gracefully deflects incoming strikes, adding her DEX to her RES for the turn.

Storm Sign "Furious Tempest" - Attacks the area with a large quantity of bullets, dealing SYN damage to every enemy in the area. A fairly simple attack, but quick and fierce.

Earth Sign "Shattering Ground" - Fires blasts of energy that restrict a target's motion, then flash-steps in with a decisive strike of her blade. Deals weapon+DEX+SYN damage, and allows Mitsurugi an additional basic attack on the victim if it moves. (As in changes position. An enemy can still attack and such without penalty, given that it doesn't have to run around to do so.)
-Level 2: Adds SYN to the damage of this attack.

Earth and Fire Sign "Eruption" - Summons a large quantity of fiery bullets underneath the victim and blasts them upward, dealing SYN damage but ignoring all RES save specifically to fire, which is halved.

Fire Sign "Dancing Flame" Strikes a target while wrapping her sword in flame, making a basic attack and lowering the target's RES by half of her SYN on hit. A sudden, strong attack that leaves an opponent off-balance and vulnerable.

Last Word: "Catastrophe" - This attack is used if, and only if, Mitsurugi would be defeated by an enemy attack or status. She remains at 1 HP instead for two of her own turns on activation, negating any further damage taken until those two turns have passed. During these two rounds, she attacks with a powerful barrage of sword strikes and bullets, hitting every enemy in sight/range (if this is ever relevant) twice for SYN damage per hit and a single enemy of her choice with two additional basic attacks. Mitsurugi cannot be healed and does not take any other actions besides pursuing a target while Catastrophe is active. After the second turn, Mitsurugi drops to 0 HP.
-Level 3: Allows two attacks per round while active.
-Level 5: Doubles the SYN portion of the damage.

Building Disaster (Passive) - Mitsurugi builds up Disaster equal to 25% of the damage she deals, capped at her level*15. Disaster may be converted to damage on a turn instead of using another attack.
-Level 2: Increases damage return to 20%.
-Level 3: Increases the cap by an additional five points per level.
-Level 4: Increases damage return to 25%.
0/5 starting actions, 0/10 action points

Inventory: A small pouch containing a few mementos, including two partially burnt ofuda, a simple gold band, and a magically preserved leaf.
A second pouch containing a small amount of archaic currency in the form of coin.

Summons: None that actually call for a stat block.

I might NPC-ify Volx for her, tbh. Sorry Volx. (unless, as mentioned, someone wants to play him)

-nerf list-

Native Goddess of a Dead World - Fine under the old status quo, but like Hero of the Shinju, it might be three Perks in one (Environment Resist, Faith-based Bonuses, Disaster Catalyzation). Tentative approval from me, since Shade saw nothing wrong with it and I trust his judgement on this. I mean, I guess it could be abusable in the right circumstances, as some sort of mutually-assured destruction kind of threat, but that shouldn't come up often. Or at all, really.
"I say you should vote for Trump!"
"I say you shut your whore mouth before I make this volcano erupt and kill everyone here."

Dancer on the Storms of Battle - It's already a 33% Passive Dodge Rate. That's kinda high. I mean, yes it's debuffable, but it's also buffable. Garnt's Honed Reflexes only grants 25% static. Either switch it to 25% or make it decay (by a significant amount) with each attack she dodges this turn. Also, consider whether or not this is needed for her build, or her flavor. If it's only the latter, you could just flavor her as being less durable and simply just dodging most attacks her way, only taken damage from them grazing her, sort of like with BOXWOOD.

Speed of the Flickering Flames - Well, I can't find any Perks like this in Shade's nerf list, so I guess it's fine for now. It's certainly fine by previous standards.

Strength of the Earth from Faith - Scaling. It's been a while since I've last said this, I know. Express the boost in terms of of her Level or as a percentage of those stats. Because the higher her level, the more negligible this effect becomes as-is.

A Sword from a Dead World - I think weapons might just be stat-sticks, so Focus might be redundant unless you mean it allows conversion of Melee Type into Ranged Type.

Disaster Goddess's Robes - Rather weak for Level 6. Also, one of the few pieces of armor I've seen that grants ailment resistance. Not that it's bad, just a rare sight here.

Blade Barrage - Shove points into this. It's allowed, and most of her attacks Overlay on this.

Parry - It's, okay. Nothing wrong with it, just that it could cause a bit of confusion with Garnt's Main Action of the same name. Still, since she's offensively focused, you could turn it into some sort of "Graze" that takes additional damage from Melee, but which negates Ranged and possibly gives a 1-Turn Damage Boost against whoevers attacks were negated.

Storm Sign "Furious Tempest" - You might want to turn this into a Basic Attack Overlay like all her other attacks, that way it also benefits from investing Action Points into Blade Barrage. So it'd be an AoE with damage proportional to an Basic Attack.

Earth Sign "Shattering Ground" - You probably want some mechanical grounding in this. Could be as loose as "the enemy's action description or turn description explicitly mentions moving" or as stringent as "the enemy dodges or performs a melee attack on a non-pinned target".

Earth and Fire Sign "Eruption" - A bit too anemic. Try two Basic Attacks at half damage, with SYN rather than DEX, and the second one is Pure. Or maybe one SYN-based Basic Attack as Pure at, 75% power or so.

Fire Sign "Dancing Flame" - Invert it. Rather than applying an ailment that decreases damage reduction proportional to SYN, apply an ailment that increases damage taken proportional to SYN. It'll be pretty much the same, except with no wastage (i.e. it will land full-force even if they have 0 RES). Might be trying to do too much at once. Consider making the debuff scale in proportion to the Basic Attack in exchange for making it deal no damage. You might get more bang for your buck that way.

Building Disaster - You might want to just eat a nerf on its cap and change this into a damage boost you can spend like Chryssa's Energy Point system. Or alternatively replace a Perk with a form of unstable ramp-up where a proportion of damage dealt the previous turn is added to Basic Attack damage this turn (building faith by damaging foes basically). Both of those, with the proposed changes to Furious Tempest and Dancing Flame would make empower every single one of her Main Actions rather than just being a "hit harder" or "win more" that just wastes points you could have pumped into Blade Barrage.
Okay, so, Mitsurugi is a Damage Dealer with an emphasis on Multi-Hits and Basic Attack Overlays. Firstly, pump Action Points into Basic Attack, and with the aforementioned changes, it will improve every single aspect of her, save for Basic Defense (and even that to an extent, if it becomes Graze). Secondly, her dodge Perk is not a vital part of her build, so you should really aim to just flavor her as being weak but being good enough at dodging to only take damage from grazes and ditch that. Because right now, it's taking up a slot that could be used to power up her Basic Attack further, grant her ramp-up, or give various other effects.

Next, with her multi-hit focus, what you'd want are effects that have a chance of activating with each attack, because she'll be making plenty of attacks. RES is her greatest foe, but that doesn't mean you should just try directly countering it, rather what you'd want to do is give her ways to raise the damage of each hit by a constant, rather than reducing the effects of RES. Because that way, it'll be worth it even against foes with 0 RES.

Right now, Building Disaster is doing her more harm than good, because it's tying up four Action Points that could have been used to power up specific Actions, or her Basic Attack (which would in turn, power up all its Overlays), and using up an Action Slot that could have held a Basic Attack boosting Passive. It, paradoxically, uses the assumption that she deals enough damage to fill it up and make it worth it, while using the resources that are required to make that assumption true. It's a self-negating in nature right now, so please do replace it.

And yes, if you're going to have that many multi-hit overlays, you may as well turn everything into an overlay, preferably with multi-hits, that way, anything that boosts either of those characteristics will power up her entire arsenal.

[Sl4cker]

jesus christ

[BlitzDungeoneer]

jesus christ

'S pretty long, innit?

Though, while you're here Emp, d'you have any advice on how to make Lightning Spear less shit?

[Adragis]

and how to level up Sandra, if possible

[Empiricist]

Firstly, I'm not entirely sure too many, if any battles have gone beyond 10 turns. I mean, you could probably throw one every single turn and not run the risk of running out. Might want to just make it something like Sunlight Spear instead and give it far fewer uses, (my rough estimate is 3, maybe even less). Hell you might want to even make it only refresh at the end of a plot or something in exchange for even more power. It's granted by a Perk, something normally reserved only for Limit Breaks, eats up a Bauble Slot alongside Falling Star, and has limited uses per battle. Hell, as far as I know, no one has anything this specialized.

Mio and Aesford have supermodes that improve every aspect of their game. Kurosawa gets one Limit Break per Main Action. This is the only Perk I know of that grants a single attacking Action.

So yeah, you could give it a hell of a lot more damage by treating it as a mini-Limit Break.

Spoiler: Alternively... Mod-Enhanced Sunlight Spear (click to show/hide)

Alternatively... look at a few Creation Myths.

According to the Semitic Religions, God created the Heavens and the Earth. According to Hinduism, this universe is simply its most recent incarnation, in an infinite cycle. Shintoism posits that is was through a spear of the gods. And Indigenous Australian cosmology, though little of it survives, say it is the work of the spirits that now dwell within the land.

The gods, the deities, the forces of the universe. They are what came before and what gave this world shape. But what of Dark Souls, what myths does it? Miracles. Tales of the past, partially made manifest by the faith of their casters. Which miracle tells of its creation? Sunlight Spear. The tale of how they felled the Everlasting Dragons, how they slew what came before. Our faiths, not just in real-life, but in many fictional universes tell of what the gods did. Dark Souls? They tell of how they massacred them and took those titles as their own.

Garnt came from that world. He came from a world where that is all he has known. And yet, now he walks between universes. The curse of undeath, his own personal damnation is considered powerful, his mere weakness considered immortality. If that is so, then how monstrous must true immortality seem to them? That of creatures who existed, for who life and death bore no meaning? How mighty must the Everlasting Dragons be in their eyes? And yet they are dead. He wields proof of that.

How many? How many creation stories have you heard, that start with this? The death of the old gods. Of immortality itself being blasted away by the might of mere mortals?

Surely he must see that this is, that although perhaps not something unique in the infinite expanse, that it is still something special. The sacrifice of the gods upon the betrayal of their brethren, choosing to live as bulwarks for the humans they once ruled. The final act of a grand tragedy. That's it, that's Mio's world. They're still alive, maybe not comfortable, but still alive. Garnt's world doesn't have that. It doesn't have that because they flat out killed their gods before the damn play even started!

And surely, that is something that strengthens his faith. To know something that, by some definitions in other worlds is literally impossible, to have slain true immortals, has very much happened in his world by the power of what he believes in. Perhaps it would even mutate, for all other iterations of it lack this perspective, the perspective of outsiders into this great triumph.

It is genesis given form, and it speaks not of the undying being killed, but slaughtered. So, why not take a bit of liberty and make it an enhanced version, altered by Garnt himself?

Turn it into an Ultimate with limited uses per plot (you can still burn all of it in a single battle if need be, maybe with a bit of cooldown or something), that does exactly what it details - tear away resistances.

Yes, it'd be situational, but it'd be one hell of a situational ability.

Immune to Melee Type? *Sunlight Spear* No you're not.
Immune to Physical? *Sunlight Spear* Garnt begs to differ.
Defensive Buff? *Sunlight Spear* What buff do you speak of?
Immune to this precise kind of effect? *Sunlight Spear* Fuck your immunity, your immunity is now gone.

Basically, rather than making it a powerful magic attack to cover the damage type Garnt can't inflict, just make it blast away (probably temporarily) every single damn resistance/immunity/absorption the target has. Who cares if it used to absorb physical and reflect melee if you flat-out tore those away from it? If something gives itself too great a defensive buff, you can rip that away too. I mean, regular RES would remain. But something like immunity to poison, or immunity to debuffs, or bonus RES against lightning will be removed. And of course, this effect by itself negate all resistances, such that even if a foe is immune to this kind of effect, it still blasts them anyway.

When you level it up, you can increase uses per plot, or increase duration, or decrease cooldown between uses.

and how to level up Sandra, if possible

I already audited her a month or two ago.

Also, it doesn't really matter since she just hides in a corner anyway. Maybe just drop all her offensive actions and make her just near-impossible to down in exchange for her being stuck cowering and self-cocooning?

[Adragis]

Eh, she's become somewhat aware of her own cowardice. Hence why she keeps trying to stab things with syringes.

[Empiricist]

Oh, okay. Let's talk this over then, what sort of build do you want her to grow into? I mean, in addition to being a psychotic syringe-murderer

[Adragis]

I built her intentionally gimped, which is an issue, but I'm guessing a hybrid tank/[de]buffer/healer, so kinda like a Paladin from various things.

Also, rather than actual tanking it'd be something dodgy, or most likely health regen. Warm and Fuzzy feeling in conjunction with the Loving Scarf is pretty hilarious.

[Empiricist]

Um, her sheet doesn't even mention what that Scarf does.

Anyway, I need to sleep now.

[TheBiggerFish]

But I was finally gonna make a male characterrrrr ;-;

*passes Adragis transgender magical girl*

[Twinwolf]

But I was finally gonna make a male characterrrrr ;-;

...What are you talking about? I asked whether to allow male characters or not, and so far the majority seems to be "yes"

[Sl4cker]

magical girls
mahou shojo
magical boys
mahou brojo
magical stand-users
mahou jojo
magical chocolatier
mahou coco
magical exclamation or expression of alarm, concern, or resentment about a problem or error
mahou oh no

[Adragis]

But I was finally gonna make a male characterrrrr ;-;

...What are you talking about? I asked whether to allow male characters or not, and so far the majority seems to be "yes"

sorry

[TheBiggerFish]

What on earth are you talking about, Sl4cker?

[Sl4cker]

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