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VR: Haven: Tabula Rasa

Mercury is more than a little broken as a support, but leave him alone and he's worm food. It doesn't help that he's a whiny little bitch when it comes to dealing with problems himself.

I think I'll go ahead and add in some tentative cooldown times for his skills now that I have a chance.

VR: Haven: Tabula Rasa

He's meant to be a support character. I was debating whether or not to give him any damaging skills. The second active is more to use when he sees his allies really struggling and needing a quick assist. Only once he get's the three passives at level 10 will he be able to deal any real damage on his own. His skills will all need pretty long cooldowns, which is why Time's Advance Pay will be a game changer as far as his combat style goes.

Edit: Hmm... yeah, I'm going to have to rewrite Time's Counterstrike. Probably will just drop the healing.

VR: Haven: Tabula Rasa

Name: Mercury

Race: Half-elf

Class: Temporal Mage

Appearance:

Weapons: A short sword (normal) that Mercury uses it in place of a magical staff.

Armor: Cloak (normal) & Whoever happens to be standing nearby.

Skills:

Level 1:

Time's Friend - Passive - The longer Mercury is motionless, the faster his casting time and mana regeneration rate becomes.

Time's Sanctuary - Passive - Defense and health regeneration increased when casting and for five seconds after.

Time's Arena - Active - 15 second cooldown - Mercury touches his sword to the ground and a magic circle spreads out from that point. When he lifts his sword, a bubble envelopes everything inside the magic circle. Space inside the circle experiences time differently than the outside world. The bubble will gradually shrink until it is completely gone, meaning that a larger bubble will both affect more targets and last longer. It has one version to speed up and one version to slow down.

Time's Backhand - Acitve - 5 second cooldown - A magical circle appears in the air in front of Mercury. The circle rapidly shrinks to a singular point, and the size of the circle determine's the power of the attack. A large circle releases an AoE push that knocks back enemies and allies alike. A small circle releases a piercing bullet of invisible pushing force. The spells power output scales with level, and at level one is capable of little more than pushing a single target back a few feet.

Level 5:

Time's Cure - Passive - Greatly decreases time it takes for debuffs and negative status conditions to wear off and increases mana regeneration rate.

Time's Back Door - Active - 1 minute cooldown - Sets a magic circle at the current location that can only be detected when activated. Must be cast twice, in two different locations, to have any effect. A third casting with erase the oldest circle placed. When activated, anything inside one magic circle will change places with anything inside the other. There is no cooldown on activating the circles, only placing them.

Level 10:

Time's Eye - Passive - Mercury sees shadows of his enemies' actions before they happen, greatly increasing his evasion and critical strike.

Time's Curse - Passive - Time is slowed in the space around Mercury, further greatly increasing his evasion.

Time's Advance Pay - Passive - Mercury can use a spell he's already used recently without waiting for the cooldown to be complete. The cooldown resets after the new casting and the spell cannot be cast again until the cooldown is fully completed.

Time's Exile - Active - 30 second cooldown - A single enemy is removed from time, becoming both unable to attack or move and immune to all damage until Mercury releases the spell.

Time's Emergency Exit - Active - 2 minute cooldown - Restores Mercury to a previous state. His physical location, health, mana, buffs/debuffs, and cooldowns (With the exception of Time's Emergency Exit) revert to the way they were at the time.

Time's Inside Joke - Active - 45 second cooldown - Creates a magic circle around any number of enemies and/or allies. When activated, and damage or healing received within the last five seconds is repeated five times, effectively doing five times the damage previously inflicted or healing five times originally healed.

IRL

Name: Aaron Brisk

Age: 16

Appearance: About the same as his avatar except the clothes, and the ears, and his eyes are brown instead of blue.

Future Skill Ideas & Random Thoughts

Time's Counterstrike - Active - 2 minute cooldown - Forces all enemies to focus on him. Mercury is frozen in time, unable to move, attack, or die for ten seconds. After ten seconds, every enemy that attacked is dealt the total damage inflicted on Mercury. Damage inflicted once his health has hit 1 continues to be added to the total damage inflicted.
Time's Far Reach - Acitve - 1 minute cooldown - Ages a living thing Mercury lays his hand on. So long as he doesn't age it to death, the spell will wear off after about five minutes.
Time's Past - Acitve - 3 minute cooldown - Reverses time around the target, healing and repairing any recent damage.
Time's Present - Acitve - 20 minute cooldown - For ten seconds, he can use skills ignoring cast times and cooldown times.
Time's Future - Active - 2 hour cooldown - Mercury physically ages, greatly increasing all of his stats and healing a large amount of health. Lasts one minute.
Time's Alternate History - Active - 15 minute cooldown - Mercury changes to another class that he has seen before for five minutes. He is unable to use any of his Temporal Mage skills during this time and is only able to use skills of the new class that he has seen used before.
Time's Benevolent Will - Passive - Cuts cooldown times by one third.
Time's Late Payment - Passive - At any time, Mercury can a skill on cooldown without actually using the skill. The skill can later be activated remotely from anywhere without having to pay any cooldown.
Time's Winning Hand - Passive - A skill activated within five seconds of the last casting begins a chain, which can be stacked up to five times. For each chain, the cooldown time of skills is decreased by 12%, for a total of 60% decreased cooldown time with five stacks. Stacks decay by one for every ten seconds without a skill chained. Using the same skill twice does not add to the chain or reset the stack decay.

Precipice of a Thousand Apocalypses

Everyone as a unique race... sounds like a blast. Sure, I'm in.

Virtual Reality RP

I'm interested as well. I'm thinking of a support mage-type character.

Second Frontier

Real Name: James Robinson
Age: 15
Gender: Male

Appearance:

In-Game Name: Jay Rayne
Race: Elf
Class: Dualist
Subclass: Criminal (Player-killer)

Appearance In-Game:

About: Offline, James is funny, happy, and always relaxed. He's smart enough and popular with most everyone. He enjoys playing soccer just about as much as he enjoys reading a good book. James' online persona, Jay, is the exact opposite. James enjoys playing the villain in games because he thinks that they's more interesting to play as, and in SFO, Jay is about as bad as a player can be. He is a player-killer, someone who actively hunts other players for their items and weapons. Jay farms noobs for free levels and assassinates higher-leveled players for gear. Some might call it cheating, but James, through Jay, calls it "playing the game".

Jay acts friendly and nice, but the second you let your guard down he'll have slipped a dagger between your computerized ribs. He's gone by the time you've respawned. Experienced players aren't so easy to take advantage of, but a few quests is usually enough to earn their trust. Once that happens, they fall no different than the noobs. Well, slightly different than the noobs: they give better gear. James knows that not every player will fall for his act, and Jay is a very capable battler. Attack and defense? Useless. Health and magic? Boring. Jay is a glass cannon fully invested in one thing: speed. Dual-wielding twin silver rapiers with daggers as backup and for throwing, Jay is a blur on the battlefield. A huge sword or a magical nuke will do a whole lot of good if your character is dead before they can attack. This is usually when Jay's real attitude gets to come out and play. He's an arrogant, cocky, apathetic A-hole. Jay is about the closest thing SFO has to a serial killer.

James bought SFO simply because all of his friends were getting it. He'd never been big into online games, preferring single-player RPGs. Due to a backorder problem, James' copy or SFO didn't arrive until a week after the game was released. He'd planned on playing with all of his friends from the first day and leveling up with them, but that didn't exactly work out. Once he started playing, James was surprised at how much more he like playing online with people he didn't know. As just another nameless person, he could be anyone and do anything. His friends had expected him to play a human warrior class at first since it was his first time really playing this type of game, but he decided to go with something more creative. Since he'd never experienced any other class, he never noticed whether or not it was harder or easier to learn. A few days after James got his copy of SFO, Jay had surpassed James' friends' characters in levels. Who knew that he was so good at MMOs?

Swords of a Master

Hmm, I seem to have misread negative weight as negative mass. Not sure how that would work even remotely like I was panning now. Well, there goes all the fun pieces out of my character.

And she'd have the sword held pointed towards the sky or ground until the moment she wanted to strike, at which point the sudden increase in air resistance would slow her fall considerably. Not that it matters now.

Swords of a Master

Well since skystone is soft like lead anyways, it wouldn't make a very good anything on its own. The sword would be many alternating layers of skystone and steel, giving it almost (but not exactly) zero weight, the strength of steel, and the thin layers of soft skystone would absorb the force of impacts. The character I'm almost done writing now uses skystone armor to make herself have (almost) zero weight as well, and her main form of attack would be to launch herself and her massive sword heigh into the sky and come crashing down using gravity and momentum to fuel a single, cataclysmic blow. It's kind of centered around the idea that mass doesn't affect the speed of a falling object or whatnot. Am I still breaking and laws of physics? It never was my best subject.

Swords of a Master

I'm thinking this is something I'd be interested in.

Can I call dibs on using a massive skystone sword? And by massive, I mean like onlytobeusedagainstcastlesorgiantsorXXXXXXXXLpizzas massive.

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No problem.