Tulpamancing Roleplay: An exercise in visualization.

[Jax]

((WHERE DID EVERYONE GO?!))

[G+3]

((Well I've posted twice, on topic, in recent times. I was starting to think you, yourself, had abandoned us, [Yeah Jax :P]))

[Jax]

((Well, I don't really have anything left to do. I already made my move and now I'm just waiting for something to react to. I suppose we could stir up more trouble, or help at the walls or something... I don't know.))

[cruse]

sorry, got a bit busy, here's the revised and hopefully balanced character sheet

-Shadow armor perk removed. Chloe stat improved by a bit. And [assualt] attack is added instead. Sanity stat is also added.

-Not much change to vixen

-Aigis can only do a 3 hit combo now. And shockwave also damages him.

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Chloe Vermillion

 

Shadow warrior. Strong all rounded character. Heavily relies on shadow to fight.

 

160cm tall. Average bust and hip. Thin build. Brown eyes and red hair tied into a ponytail. Wear's a white shirt and a red skirt with black tights and black boots. Sports an extendible naginata (japanese glaive, 100cm when shortened, 200 cm including the blade when extended). Is actually tougher than she looks. Very playful and cheery.

 

Stat:

Str 12

Agi 18

Acc 12

End 10

Sanity 8

 

*Sanity base is currently at 8.

Increase other stat by 1 except strength every 2 point added to sanity.

Decrease by 1 every action.

When sanity reach 30, roll sanity for 10. If succeed, reduce sanity to 29, if fail, the user faint and the shadow dissipate.

 

Shadow manipulation:

Roll sanity lower than 6 to summon shadow.

 

[Assualt]

Deadly attacks utilizing the formless shadow. Varies with rolled sanity.

roll sanity 3 times, add results together to determine the intensity.

Rolls accuracy to determine whether the attack is successful.

[D5]shadow goes berserk, +20 to sanity

[D10]perform heavy assault, +12 to sanity

[D15]perform normal assault, +6 to sanity

[D24]no effect

shadow dissipate if the cumulative result is higher than 24

 

Dusk Warrior:

When using heavy long weapon;

Cause extra damage

 

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Shadow entities:

 

A summoned entities of independent mind. Completely loyal to it's master but can go out of control if it's master is harmed. Upgradeable.

 

A black cloud that can shift into any form. It seemingly absorbs all light.

 

Stat lvl1

Str 10

Acc 16

 

Lvl2

Str 8

Acc 14

 

lvl3

Str 6

Acc 12

 

Formless:

Can take a form of any item needed. Or enhance pre-existing item.

 

Sentient:

Can perform 1 action of it's own.

2 action if lvl2

3 action if lvl3

 

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Vixen Silver Drake

 

Alchemist. Mix up meds

 

Shoulder length black hair. Black eyes. 170cm. C cup bust. Average hip and build. Wear white shirt and slim fit black leather pants down to her feet. Brown black boots and leather gloves. Carries a revolver and a syringe pistol. Wears a strange necklace contain mysterious liquids. Tends to be quite passive but the world burns when she's pissed. Very caring towards her friend.

 

Stat

Str 20

Acc 6

Agi 20

End 20

??? 6

 

Bag lvl 1

[Med slot]

[Med slot]

[Med slot]

 

Necklace

[Mysterious liquids]

 

Pyromancy

For some reason, she throws fire without using magics. Every skill used adds 2 to ???

[Engulf]

Her melee attack cause extra unblockable fire damage of strength 8.

[Fireball]

Throw fire of strength 4.

[Fireblast]

Knocks target away in melee range with Strength 8.

 

Alchemist:

Can mix up various meds when not fighting. (can still creates med in the back line)

 

-Buff/Debuff: modifies a stat by 4 points. or all stat by 2.

-Tranquilizer: puts target to sleep. roll end every action for 12 or gets knocked out. +1 to end every action. *won't work on large target*

-Heal: heal all injuries, but cause hunger (+2 to all stat)

-Antidote: removes all debuff except hunger.

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Aigis Paulownia

 

Martial artist and Engineer. Can create improvised item. Deadly in CQC.

 

180cm, muscular, blonde hair, blue eye. Wears a brown vest and a black shirt with black jeans. Also wears headphones with a scouter. Carries a revolver and wears "omni-glove". Have tendency to swear and speaks aggressively, but he means no harm.

 

stat

str 10

agi 16

acc 8

end 16

 

omni-glove:

-Have every engineering tools stored. You name it.

-water proof.

-can also create shockwave making Aigis's punch unblockable. (can still be endured or dodged). The shockwave disorients (+2 Acc and Agi) Aigis and his target, whether it dodged or not, for a brief moment.

 

headphones-scouter:

-gives night vision

-protects user from loud voice

-can provide various information

-breaks on contact with water

 

martial arts:

-Flurry: attacks twice. Not compatible with shockwave

-Follow-up: if the second attack of flurry succeeded, knocks the target back with another attack. Can be used with shockwave.

-Reflex: -2 to acc when parrying melee attack.

[Wrath]

((B-but...Chloe was absolutely fine, it was just vixen and aegis.))

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((Y'know nevermind, I spoke without reading the rest of your post, sorry about that))

[Jax]

((Here's an idea, why don't we speed pat the fighting. It's obviously getting a little boring.

 

I WON'T LET THIS DIE, DAMNIT!

 

*Applies Shock Pads directly to the thread's chest.*

[cruse]

No worry, I'll type the thing soon.

[cruse]

k, here goes.

 

Also, since the fight will be mostly a rumble atm, I thought of another nice system called "interruption"

 

Basically, if the enemy is attacking a character, another character can interrupt with an attack of his/her own.

 

Since the enemy won't be prepared, he will have an appropriate penalty on his already rolled stat and will have to fight against the interrupting character instead. Penalty can range from a small +1 to an auto fail depending on the context.

 

Also, penalty should be calculated on the ROLLED value.

 

You can keep interrupting, but keep it reasonable

 

Success means the attack is canceled, and the attacker will be damaged.

failure means nothing happens and the attacker continue his attacks.

 

Also, here's the stat for those three stranger.

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Shadow warrior

 

A warrior clad in black that can summons shadow entities. Fight similarly to Chloe, but they have poor control over shadow in comparison.

 

Wears a black hood, a black shirt and black tattered jacket and a black pair of boots. They carry either a spear, glaive or a long sword. They have already lost all their emotion.

 

Stat

Str 10

Agi 14

Acc 12

End 8

Sanity 14;14

 

Shadow manipulation Lvl1:

Roll sanity lower than 6 to summon shadow lvl1.

 

[Assualt]

Deadly attacks utilizing the formless shadow. Varies with rolled sanity.

roll sanity 3 times, add results together to determine the intensity.

Rolls accuracy to determine whether the attack is successful.

[D5]perform ultimate assault, +20 to sanity

[D10]perform heavy assault, +12 to sanity

[D15]perform normal assault, +6 to sanity

[D24]no effect

shadow dissipate if the cumulative result is higher than 24

 

Dusk Warrior:

When using heavy long weapon;

Cause extra damage.

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|Chloe|Aigis|Adam|

[align=center]*Torch Javelin negates the darkness effect*

Chloe's stat

Str 12

Agi 18

Acc 12

End 10

Sanity 8

Shadow lvl 2

 

Aigis's stat

str 10

agi 16

acc 8

end 16

 

Adam's stat

Str D18

Agi D14

Acc D14

End D20

 

Shadow warrior stat

Long Sword:

Str 10

Agi 14

Acc 12

End 8

Sanity 12

Shadow lvl1

 

Glaive:

Str 10

Agi 14

Acc 12

End 8

Sanity 12

Shadow lvl1

 

Metal Staff:

Str 10

Agi 14

Acc 12

End 8

Sanity 12

Shadow lvl1[/align]

 

Chloe arches her Naginata behind her back and stands up straight into a fighting stance as the three Shadow warrior rushes at the party. Adam quickly plunge the javelin into the ground and take out his rifle, but Aigis already aimed and fired at the Long Sword wielding shadow warrior.

 

[align=center]Aigis, fire revolver (6); accuracy D8; rolled 1 (whoa)

-interruption, shadow blocks-

Shadow, block; str 10; rolled 10 (fails)

-interruption ends, the bullet went through unexpectedly-

Long Sword, endures; end 8; rolled 2 (serious, not fatal)

Long Sword, second chance; end rolled 8 (fails)

(+9 end, +5 agi, +3 str/acc, disabled)

 

Long Sword:

Str 13

Agi 19

Acc 15

End 17

Sanity 12[/align]

 

The bullet flew in the perfect path. It left Aigis's revolver and went straight at the shadow warrior's heart. The shadow coiling around him hardens around the place where the bullet flew in, but the bullet simply pierced through the shadow and went right into the warrior's chest. The warrior trusted his shadow too much that he didn't even try to dodge, and the bullet grazed the shadow warrior heart and blood sprays out of his chest. This guy is not a threat anymore.

 

[align=center]Shadow, supports.

(-2 to injury penalty)

Long Sword:

Str 11

Agi 17

Acc 13

End 15[/align]

 

Aigis wished the warrior would just die as he fell down and slides for a few meter howling in agony. The shadow entity coiled around it's master's wound and stops the bleeding. He won't die, but he won't survive another shot either as his shadow is now occupied. Aigis is about to fire his revolver to end his target's life.

 

[align=center]Aigis; fire revolver (5/6); accuracy 8; rolled 7

-interruption, Penalise Aigis's action-

Metal Staff; Bash; Str 10; rolled 5

Adam, fires, accuracy 14; rolled 10 (can't dodge)

Shadow, block, Str 10, rolled 10 (succeeded)

Aigis, parry, Accuracy D6 (reflex), rolled 4+2 (penalty, fails, minor injury)

-interruption ends, Aigis got hit-

Aigis; second chance; end 16; rolled 14 (success)

(+3 [+1] end, +1 acc (+2), (+2) agi, [dusk warrior perk], (disoriented))[/align]

 

Aigis was about to pull the trigger when he saw another shadow warrior leaping at him. The warrior swung his metal staff at his head. Adam fired at the staff wielding warrior, but the shadow hardened and the bullet bounced off this time. Aigis managed to react to the attack, but he wasn't quick enough and the warrior hit his head with the metal staff. Aigis saw a couple of stars as he staggered from the blow.

 

[align=center]Aigis's stat

str 10

agi 18 (+2)

acc 11 (+2)

end 20[/align]

 

At the same time, Chloe is dueling with the Glaive wielding shadow warrior. Both shadow warrior uses a bladed pole-arm as a weapon. However, Chloe have a larger, much more fiercer entities of shadow supporting her.

 

[align=center]Glaive; chop, str 10; rolled 3

-interrupts, shadow blocks-

Chloe's Shadow; blocks; str 8; rolled 1

-interrupts ends, the attack was negated-

Chloe; diagonal cleave, str 12; rolled 1 (i didn't cheated, I swear)

Chloe's Shadow; whip lash, str 8; rolled 3

-interrupts, shadow blocks-

Glaive's shadow; block, str 10; rolled 9

-interrupts fails, Glaive got hit directly-

Glaive, endures, end 8; rolled 3 (fatal, and succeeded)

Glaive, second chance, end 8; rolled 3 (almost failed)

(+10[+3] end, +4 str/acc, +2 agi. Heavy bleeding, [dusk warrior perk])

 

Glaive:

Str 14

Agi 16

Acc 16

End 19

Sanity 12

[/align]

The shadow warrior leaped and chops Chloe vertically. However, Chloe's shadow simply grabbed the blade of the glaive and stopped the blade right in it's track. At the same time, Chloe also gave out an attack of her own, a diagonal cleave from her Naginata. Her shadow also shifted into a whip and lashes at the glaive wielding shadow warrior. The shadow warrior, trained the same way as Chloe, let her shadow stops the attack. The shadow grabbed both attack, but the shadow was literally teared apart as Chloe's Naginata came down along with her shadow whip. Although the shadow whip didn't made the shadow warrior winced, he spun to the ground as a long deep cut was made on his torso.

 

However, the warrior's shadow didn't try to support his injury. The warrior howled as blood squirts out of his torso and his shadow coiled around his body.

 

[align=center]Glaive activates ranged [Assualt]

Sanity 12 rolled; 3, 8, 12. Total 23, no effect.

Glaive Bleeds out and died.[/align]

 

The shadow flickered as it almost dissipated. The shadow warrior would have gone for another attempt at pulling out his last trick, but he lost too much blood and fell unconscious. He probably would not wake up again.

 

[align=center]Staff, round house, Acc 12, rolled 3

Adam, dodge, Agi 14, rolled 8 (serious)

Adam, second chance, end 20, rolled 6 (succeeded)

(+5 end, (+2 acc/agi), (disoriented))[/align]

 

Chloe shifted her focus at the staff wielding shadow warrior who is fighting against Aigis and Adam. Adam was kicked in the face while Aigis who recovered from being disoriented attempts to get revenge for Adam.

 

[align=center]Aigis, Shockwave palm strike, Str 10, rolled 8

-interrupts, shadow blocks-

Shadow, blocks, shockwave can't be blocked

-interrupts ends, shadow warrior got attacked unexpectedly-

Staff, endures, end 8, rolled 2

(both are disoriented by shockwave)

 

Metal Staff:

Str 10

Agi 16 (+2)

Acc 14 (+2)

End 8

 

Aigis's stat

str 10

agi 18 (+2)

acc 11 (+2)

end 20

 

Staff, horizontal strike, Str 10, rolled 10

-interrupts, Penalise glaive's reaction-

Chloe activates melee [Assault]

sanity 8, rolled 5, 6, 4. total 15, normal assault. Sanity +3.

Chloe, thorn vine slash, Acc 12, rolled 2

Chloe's Shadow, thorn vine tendrils, Str 8, rolled 5

Staff, Blocks with staff, str 10, rolled 7+2 (interrupted)

Staff's shadow, block, str 10, rolled 3+2 (interrupted)

-interruption ends, staff shadow warrior receives serious injury-

Staff, second chance, edn rolled 8 (fail).

(Staff wielding Shadow warrior died)

 

Chloe's stat

Str 12

Agi 21

Acc 15

End 13

Sanity 14 (+3 to end,agi,acc)

[/align]

Aigis activated his glove to create shockwave and strike his palm at the shadow warrior. The shadow warrior was about to deliver an attack of his own when the force of the shockwave hit him. He wasn't sure how it went through the shadow as he staggered from the force, but he recovered quickly and swing his metal staff at Aigis. Before he could swing however, he noticed what Chloe is trying to do.

 

Chloe arched her Naginata behind her and lowered her body as her shadow coiled around her. Chloe successfully communicated with her shadow and her shadow covered her Naginata. The blade of her japanese glaive is filled with spikes as it vibrates ferociously from the force stored inside. Chloe leaped at the Staff wielding shadow warrior and swung her weapon vertically downward at the shadow warrior. The shadow spreads out of her weapon into countless of thorn vine riddled with spikes that swung along and after the Naginata covering a wide area. The staff wielding shadow warrior saw this and knew exactly what he is dealing with. He stop the swing of his staff abruptly and tried to defend against the incoming barrage of shadow. He wasn't ready for it, although his shadow protected him from the barrage of spiky tendrils, the Spikes riddled Naginata tore straight through his defense and slashes his torso like a chainsaw.

 

Aigis was almost cut by the tendril but the shadow stopped an inch away from his face as it recognize him as Chloe's friend at the last second. The shadow retracted itself and reform itself into a shadow armor around Chloe's body. The staff wielding shadow armor lay dead on the ground as blood continues to pour out of his horribly ravaged chest.

 

"Holy shit..."

 

Aigis, was almost at a loss for word upon seeing the state of the shadow warrior that was killed by Chloe. Adam also witnessed this and he is shocked to his very core. He just saw a small beautiful girl killing a person in a very horrifying manners. Aigis realizes that the three shadow

warrior they just fought uses the same kind of magic as Chloe. He asked Chloe;

 

"Were they all capable of doing what you did there?"

 

Chloe's sanity regenerated by -1

 

"Yes."

 

"Why didn't they attack us with that in the first place?"

 

"It's not easy to perform. And it takes a toll on my minds too."

 

Chloe's sanity regenerated by -1

 

"Besides, if it goes out of control, everyone would be killed indiscriminately."

 

Chloe shortens her Naginata and sheathed it. She sat down a clutches her head, she managed to keep away from them for so long, now they found her again, will she have to start running again?

 

Chloe's sanity regenerated by -1

 

"Oi! what about dat bastard ya shot at Aigis?"

 

"What the... where the fuck is he?"

 

Aigis pulled out his revolver and scanned around the room. No one. He rushes out the door leading into the room they first entered to check if the long sword wielding warrior was in there. He found no one.

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I'm gonna have to nerf chloe's [assualt] a little. More sanity penalty would do.

[Wrath]

I'm with JAX, why don't we just concentrate on the conflict between vixen and Miah, say we survived the night with heavy losses and skip to the next day?

 

Also where did those shadow warriors come from? Anyway you'll have to head out in the morning to get food, the townspeople are running dry. Also no more shadow warriors, I think the idea is dumb, no offense. And since there's nothing in the woods that could possibly challenge vixen or aegis they have to stay behind and make sure the village is alright (please it's no challenge with them around). I also disagree with interception, again sorry.

 

Perhaps the group could meet up with Miah in the woods and tell her whats going on. Now that that's over with (if everyone agrees):

 

There is a small mining outpost that is free of guard and periodically abandoned at nighttime around 10 miles from town, it's various produce make the town prosper, or rather did before the whole nightmare business. The outpost of prospect is surrounded by a clearing and has a wooden palisade erected. there are some supplies out there and a few men did not make it back the previous night, already spare on resources and manpower, I think the village officials would ask our travelers to go there and find out what happened. Obviously since none of you are hunters, you have little reason to go outside the town anyway. Also when you get to the mining village I have a scenario planned out, should you all agree to actually go there.

[cruse]

Well... I'll need one more fight in that generator, you'll see why.

I actually planned to end the monster attack on this post in the first place actually.