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Jackal's Description Height: 1,83 Build: Slender Hair: Straight blonde, pretty upwards spiky on front. Clothing: Long black reinforced buff jacket/trenchoat with some purple skull-shaped details on it. Yellow tunic with green pants underneath, both silken and really impressive-looking. White puffy cravat erupting from the neck while a violet scarp flutters above it on Jackal's neck. Green lizardskin shoes. Pose: Crossed arms, riding a windblade transformer that looks like a Goblin Glider. SMUGGEST/SMARMIEST GRIN EVER.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AugLSDVKlpEfSN-b974e3pzkQtTzjgJCbfETwPWepGU/edit Rakim's current build.
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So even given the stupendous volume of the update I'm writing, I have been taking way too long on this, and that is not fair to you guys. I hereby Toxx myself for finishing this monstrosity before 12:01 AM EST on Sunday. Ten bucks say you will not be disappointed.
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pre:Attributes: Dexterity 4 -> 5 Total: 15 Charms: Fitting Shadow Form Flickering Wisp Technique Total: 16 Experience before buying: 114/119. Total experience now: 150/151
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At Misty's request, a physical description of Mercy follows: Physically, Mercy is not particularly pretty. Were he able to talk to his former self, he would probably be told to eat a sandwich and sleep for a week, because it looks like he has been doing neither. He's certainly not cadaverous, but he's rather heading in that direction – dark circles under his eyes, thin, dry-looking skin stretched tight over high cheekbones. He has been mentioned in later description as not being very tall - he has to look up to look both Blood and Xu in the eyes, for example. His left eye is artificial, with the difference being noticeable at close range, and his right arm has been reinforced by a strange-looking bracer-armguard artifact that lets him project walls of force. The only description the bracer has received is that it has a spine that runs down the long axis of his forearm, with metal rings mounted on it perpendicular to its long axis. Both the rings and the spine are anchored in Mercy's arm proper. These qualities are reflected in his anima banner, which takes the form of a figure whose entire body is entirely concealed by bandages, save for the right eye. The figure sometimes bears aloft a set of scales with its left hand, on whose pans are balanced a skull and a heart (human, presumably). When in combat, the scales are discarded to mirror Mercy's movements. The figure's other hand seems to be heavily armoured under the bandages, but mostly hangs limply at its side unless Mercy is actually in combat, when it will also often mirror his attacks. Mercy dresses sharply, wearing clothes that appear to have been inspired by certain military uniforms of the late Shogunate (rather more in the European fashion than the Eastern one). Over this he wears a approximately knee-length greatcoat, with the arm to which his shield-generator has been grafted often tucked inside rather than through the appropriate sleeve. The overall effect is rather reminiscent of a British Navy uniform, assuming you stripped it of most of the gold braid and dyed most of it black. vdate fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Per Misty's request: Onyx stands about 5'8" (1,72 m) with visible muscle tone softened by feminine curves. Her eyes are blue-grey; when her anima flares, they turn completely white. She has hair down just past her shoulder blades in various shades of bloodred. The Dark Exaltation has removed the scars and blemishes she'd accumulated during her former life as a Guild spy/assassin, leaving a pale ivory complexion. However, for reasons known only to the Neverborn, her lips match her hair. Sartorially, Onyx favors black and red, and her uniform is more utilitarian than fashionable. Her silk armor is black with red brocade, worked into the image of the clockwork bat form of Bishop's Crosier, in keeping with her anima banner. The trousers are tucked into her boots, which extend up to her knee. Her boots are sturdy and supple, with solid soles, barely any heel to speak of, and crimson-purple laces. Likewise, she sports a pair of protective gloves that reach about two-thirds of the way up her forearms. The gloves contain weights in the knuckles. She also favors a black oiled leather cloak and hood, trimmed in dark red silk. Castle Captures the King, her chain daiklave, resides in one of two places: either in the sheath secured perpendicular to her spine at the small of her back, or at her belt. In the latter instance, it is in extended form and the chain is looped twice, rather like a hellish bullwhip. Conquering Black Shadow, her swift rider, is always in immaculate condition: soulsteel, black jade, bone and moonsilver kept polished, connections tuned and adjusted, hearthstone socketed in.
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And here at last is the finished project! 
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Veeeery nice! Have five bonus XP for Never, mistaya!
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Pinging this thread to avoid its archival.
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Hey, everybody! Have you ever looked at this thread and gone, 'wow, this thing is 0.6 War and Peaces long and I have no idea who anybody is anymore'? Fear not! vdate's Drac-u-gram has you covered!  *IT LIVES! DRAC-U-GRAM v0.7.2! (now with the appropriate groups moved out of the foreground so they don't occlude arrows) vdate fucked around with this message at 16:08 on May 2, 2014 |
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welcome back Nessus yay
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Krysmphoenix posted:welcome back Nessus yay Once upon a time someone left the Coral archipelago in a stolen small boat. She knew that she was destined for bad things if she stayed there. She knew she couldn't make it to any other island, but she knew that they'd talked about a ship returning to Skullstone soon. She estimated therefore that if she got in its path, she would be able to wave them down and get ashore. It was better than being a half-starved clerk for the rest of her life - possibly a short one if they figured out why her husband had died. A storm blew in and the Skullstone ship was delayed two days. During those days she was out there, alone and faced with the full fury of the storm and its riders. She was not redhaired, either. But in a sense her plan worked quite well. The Skullstone ship did not find an escaping woman who was going to beg and plead for the merest possibility of emigration. They found a deathknight standing on a turned-over ship, watching them and waiting. The next few months were unnaturally calm. She was very glad to meet the Silver Prince, and after some education, she asked quite politely if she could perhaps beat her old home at the trading game. After some preliminary stages meant to smoke out if she was, somehow, going to just run back to Coral and become its death-queen, she was given a Skullstone charter, and a corporation to go with it.  The Eightfold Entrepreneur, Bridger of the Gaps Between Death and Consummation (Eightfold for short) is not superficially full of peril. She is personally affable and seems lazy to those who observe her mannerisms briefly, but it is actually efficient motion and a complete and total willingness to take it easy when taking it easy is the thing to do. She buried her worries at sea, when she felt the Black Exaltation. She may fear, and wonder, and is certainly driven from within. But worry? Not quite. Formerly she was a frustrated economic savant who was held down by the patriarchy that rules Coral like some kind of misogynistic realm of :biotruth:. Desperate, she started doing side ventures with her husband's money. When he found out, she cracked open his skull with a frying pan and skedaddled. Now, Eightfold is being sent out into the greater worlds, to get a better deal for Skullstone and perhaps undermine mortal power structures such as the Guild - perhaps even provide a dodge, should certain naval secrets come out about the Silver Prince. Eightfold has slightly greater ambitions, consonant though they are with the goal of dominance. She has very dim memories of mystical paths of trade. She would like to remake them, but to her benefit; an eightfold fence that surrounds everything and draws it all in for her to savor and relish on its inevitable trip to the void. She deserves it! quote:Deathlord: Silver Prince Nessus fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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I had a second, so I went ahead and double-checked what everyone would be getting once the 3e-style Excellency rule hits. Excellency Refunds and Changes: Damnation: Gain 24xp, gain excellencies in Archery, War, Integrity, Resistance, Lore, and Sail. Never: Gain 40xp, gain Excellencies in Athletics, Linguistics, Sail, Presence, and Resistance. Wyrm: Gain 40xp, gain Excellencies in Bureaucracy, Linguistics, Ride, Socialize, and War. Butterfly: Gain 40xp, gain Excellencies in Sail, Integrity, Resistance, Medicine, Lore Mercy: Gain 24xp, gain Excellencies in Athletics, Awareness, Dodge, Stealth, and all favored abilities Onyx: Gain 16xp, gain Excellencies in Awareness, Athletics, Dodge, Larceny, Stealth, Sail, Occult, and Ride. Watcher: Gain 24xp, gain Excellencies in Awareness, Craft, Investigation, Lore, Occult, Resistance, Martial Arts, and Archery. Ceaseless: Gain 24xp, gain Excellencies in Integrity, Performance, Presence, Resistance, Sail, and Medicine. Jackal: Gain 32xp. Gain excellencies in Performance, Awareness, Bureaucracy, Linguistics, Ride, and Sail. MiltonSlavemasta fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Jackal XP Expenditure: Abilities Ride: 2-5: 15 XP Performance 3-4: 5 XP Bureaucracy 2-4: 8 XP Total: 28 XP Backgrounds Ally: Fire Butterflies 2: 6 XP Ally: Nuria 3: 9 XP Resources: 3 points: 9 XP (Ashes’ swag, Taxes from the islanders?) Total: 24 XP Charms Stalking the Striker’s Hand (8 XP) Smoldering Devastation Technique (8 XP) Cunning Subversion Style (8 XP) Superior Sight Focus (8 XP) Total: 32 XP. Other Willpower 8-9: 4 XP Total: 4 XP Jackal’s Total XP: 249 Spent XP: 246.
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The Thousand-Facet Jewel -- Artifact •••• (9 dots total) Speed: 12/25 mph (Sails/Paddlewheel) Maneuverability: -3S Endurance: A single 3-dot Hearthstone, inserted into the ship’s wheel like a key. Crew: 25/10 (same for Sails and Paddlewheel mode, crew located in different spots for each) Cargo: 1000 tons, 15 high-class cabins, 50 low-class cabins; zombies packed as cargo Armor: Jadesteel Plating, 20B/L Soak; +5 B/L Soak (or -2 to penalties) vs natural hazards/elemental effects. Health Levels: Ux25/Mx25/Cx15/Ix10/D Weapon Slots: 2 Fore, 1 Port, 1 Star. Weapons: Fine Light Onager (Fore), 3x Fine Light Ballistas (Fore, Port, Star). Spare parts to replace each. Other Features: Maze-like multi-story interior makes it difficult to navigate. -2 to Investigate/Awareness if unfamiliar with the ship. Underwater hatch located on the lower fore portion of the ship. Includes necessary airlocks and pumps. Necromantic Lab, for maintaining zombies and handling other misc. crafting projects. 3-dot Artifact investment. Small Shadowlands in the lowest deck where the Necromantic Lab sits. 2-dot Artifact investment. Fight Block: pre:Speed: 12/25 mph (Sails/Paddlewheel) Maneuverability: -3S U[ | | | | | | | | | ] U[ | | | | | | | | | ] U[ | | | | ] M[ | | | | | | | | | ] M[ | | | | | | | | | ] M[ | | | | ] C[ | | | | | | | | | ] C[ | | | | ] I[ | | | | | | | | | ] D[ ] Name Speed Acc. Damage Rate Range Crew Cost* Tags Ability Light Ballista 6 -0+ 7L 1 300 1? •••/•• 2,A,P Archery Light Onager 6 -2+ 15L/5 1 175 3 •••/•? 2,A,O Thrown + has a 1-dot specialty for “vs ships” * cost after slash for 10 ballista bolts, 5 onager shots Onager shot types: Iron Ball: Piercing tag, Resources 2. Shrapnel: 5-yard diameter vs crew. ½ Damage. Not Overwhelming. Resources 0 (Butterflies) Biological: Insignificant damage. 25B Piercing & Prone to the launched victim.
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Tentative List of purchases for Exp-glutpre:Start: 84 3 - 1 Artifact (Light Plate & 1 to boat?) 9 - 3 Resources (Plunder! Personal Stash~) 3 - 1 [Special Mystery Background~] (Spooky~) 6 - Int 3 (All that planning went to her head) 3 - Integrit 1 4 - Presence 3 5 - Linguist 4 51 8 - Inf. Arch Mast 8 - Essence Engorgement, Bureau x1 8 - Screaming in Silence 8 - Insidious Undertone 8 - Soul-Snaring Tract (Time for bookes~) 8 - Ever-Ready Killer's Tools End: 3 A_Raving_Loon fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Here is my accounting: Start 145 Spent Excellency Revision Changes -24 Refund of 2nd craft, 2nd melee, 2nd archery 00 Add Medicine, Occult, Performance, Resistance, Sail, Integrity, 2nd excellency 08 Withering Feathered Maelstrom 03 Survival to 1 (plus free 2nd Survival Exc) 06 Strength to 3 09 Dexterity to 4 06 Stamina to 3 09 Appearance to 4 08 All Blades Cry for Blood 08 Rending Steel Cruelty 08 Frenzied Forge Within 08 Mad Carrion Crafting 08 Inherent Horror Appreciation 03 Peleps Tzorik to rating 2 09 Wits to 4 214 spent
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Butterfly EXP expenditures between arcs: Pre-Ashes: 161 xp Excellency Refund: -40 xp Artifact Refund: -12 xp (reallocating all Artifact dots) Artifacts: 24 xp (3-dot Daiklaive, 3-dot armor, 4-dot boat, 5-dot boat stuff, 1-dot shoes: 16 effective dots total, requires 8 background dots) Craft 3->5: 12 xp Lore 3->5: 12xp Sail 3->5: 12xp Athletics 1: 3xp Presence 1: 3xp Awareness 2: 5xp Melee charm - Elegant Flowing Method: 8xp "Melee" charm - Dark Juggernaut Style - Black Knight's Challenge: 8xp Sail charm - Dark Water Odyssey: 8xp Sail charm - Shambling Crew Enlightenment: 8xp Total spent: 212 out of 214xp Swapping out "Mother Darkness" for "Iron Countermagic" and "Raise the Skeletal Horde" for "Flesh and Bone Winds" Krysmphoenix fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Sep 8, 2014 |
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Statblocks for Eightfold's two heroic-ghost minions. Backgrounds have been elided. Tangerine, a sneaky spy posted:Str 3, Dex 4, Sta 2 Indigo Foxfire, a nemissary and aide de camp posted:Str 2, Dex 4, Sta 4
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 It sometimes occurs to me that the sheer scope of this thing limits its audience, sometimes. Well, that and the slowish start. Someday I'll have to edit that mess into something more readable. That day is not today.
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Moved into a new place last weekend, finally got internet as of last night, going to get my laptop tonight. Hopefully, posts will be forthcoming! (xpost from Sunmoons)
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Just thought I'd float an idea: Since people are kind of at the end of season 1 and I hear tell of some kind of a Story So Far thing being under construction, maybe we oughta start us a new thread for SEASON 2: DRACULADIES R. What do you guys think? Might make it easier to follow, though it would make our threadsize a little less girthy.
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Huh! That's an interesting thought; my main concern is that it would make bookkeeping harder, especially if/when the original thread fell into archives (also everyone would then need archives). That said...hmmm. I could see breaking it up into 'volumes', of a sort. Who here has archives? Let's see if this would be feasible.
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Thesaurasaurus posted:Huh! That's an interesting thought; my main concern is that it would make bookkeeping harder, especially if/when the original thread fell into archives (also everyone would then need archives). That said...hmmm. I could see breaking it up into 'volumes', of a sort. Who here has archives? Let's see if this would be feasible.
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The archives have been working for a while. The new coder that Lowtax hired is also fixing Search as we speak 
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For my part, emphatically no. I don't have archives, and I'd honestly prefer to just start actually maintaining Mercy's Big Reference Document. Besides, it's a mystery story, and as one of the resident detectives I'd rather not have to sort through two (or more?!) separate threads to refresh my mind on things.
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vdate posted:For my part, emphatically no. I don't have archives, and I'd honestly prefer to just start actually maintaining Mercy's Big Reference Document. Besides, it's a mystery story, and as one of the resident detectives I'd rather not have to sort through two (or more?!) separate threads to refresh my mind on things.
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I would also like to keep a single thread. Unrelated, but I am aware that I have been kind of a terrible player re: attendance lately, and I apologize for that. The past few months have been kind of insane, but I still should have at least let folks know what was up instead of just dropping off the face of the internet. As I've said elsewhere, I'm still getting a handle on my schedule (which will be different yet again next week, since my commuting arrangements are going to change), but my goal is to have at least one night a week where I am online, on IRC, and posting. At a bare minimum, I should at least be able to get some post-working in during my lunch break (barring filing deadlines, etc.). Again, my apologies for lack of communication and generally being kind of a shitheel.
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 Good news, everyone! We just hit 0.75 War and Peaces! ...we may have a problem with 
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Why is there plum jam all over the portrait border?
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Plum jam is the jam of kaisers, forbidden by epicureal law to all but the kaiser and his family. I thought everyone knew that.
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ATTENTION DEATHKNIGHTS We have an infiltrator, and investigation has revealed that it's more than likely the Lunar Mercy and Blood previously met on Denzik. Figuring out what the hell she's doing here seems like a top priority, but there is sort of a conference about to happen. We in the IRC figured that the diplomats would want to do their thing, so we figure splitting the group here is the thing to do - one group tackles the bug hunt while the other handles the conference, running concurrently. I'm posting this so that people not currently in the IRC or the doc don't miss this. If that's you, sound off on whether this is a terrible plan or not, and if you're for it, maybe pipe up on which group you'd like to run with.
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Gahh computer problems made me lose a lot of stuff it seems.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Gahh computer problems made me lose a lot of stuff it seems.
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So hey, SA Forums User Echo Cian is rad as hell and is drawing her way through the whole of this game's main cast. Completed so far: Never Within Reach  Spawn of the Devouring Wyrm  Daughter of Onyx & Silver  The Everlasting Butterfly of the Decadent Garden Thesaurasaurus fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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