knighthawk

X-Men Apex Rising

First thought is radius of power, since I used gambling as an example, we will day 6 feet for the average casino table. A gun aimed at him from 6 feet or less will jam or misfire, but someone shooting at him a in a chase scene will work just fine. If we use the example of Domino, she had a mild telekinesis that she used subconsciously to move things into position to her advantage such as leaping over a trashcan would flip the lid up and block line of sight or a chipped clay pot gets hit stopping the bullet but making the ceramic explode into less damaging projectiles that scratch him up bad but not as bad as a slug in the shoulder.

The biggest and most definable is just the 12 foot bubble as his area of effect.

Also (the more I type it up, the more I like this idea) we could go with "luck absorption" of say 10% probability from each person within 6 feet of him with him having a natural 10-20 percent just sitting there. He just needs to find a spot with 10 or more people in 6 feet radius, 12 foot diamater (easy as hell in a casino) and his luck won't run out. IF we use this method, I would be more than happy to let the GM roll a 10 sided dice and decide if it succeeds or not. Biggest gaps here are obviously if he is alone in an alley, he only has himself to borrow from or anyone more than 6 feet away like a firefight.

If we use kinetic absorption, he touches a person and absorbs their luck (10%) and can only absorb until he releases. Same example above: he walks to a table, shaking hands and touching shoulders as he gets to his spot. He absorbs 10 peoples luck but can only hold the charge for a few minutes, lets say 10 minutes for this example, he walks into the casino,touches 8-9 people walking up to the craps table, places his seven bets and burns his luck. He wins the 770 and walks away and cant absorb luck again for say an hour. An hour is long enough apart for him to rest, have a drink, watch the 2:30 band set and then touch ten new people on his way to the high roller table.

We can put some simple limits on this: He can't kinetically absorb from anyone thicker than regular clothing so even the kevlar suits casino security and millionaires wear would require skin-to skin. He can't kinetically absorb from people who know to be on guard, like gambit's charm ability only works on those unaware he can use his charm ability. The time charge where he has to use it in ten minutes and cant use it again for an hour. He can only use it in bursts, not partitioning it out.

The Hand of Shimmering Fates (No longer accepting)

Just don't pair me up with Boar in round one, that'll be a massacre.

@Halvtand

Round one... Fi- K.O.!

Elseworld Gotham - For Want of a Blunter Method - DC Comics Roleplay

WIP

Name:
Andrew Star
Nicknames/Codename:
Backup
Age:
35
Gender:
Male
Appearance: (Written or picture)
5'5" 150

Personality:

Biography/History:
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Weapons:
Guns: While a high melee opponent, he is not so stupid to not use a firearm. When the need arises, he carries two 45 long colts, the one on his hip is loaded with armor piercing rounds While the one on his thigh can safely fire .410 shotgun rounds. He prefers the revolver over an automatic because of no ejected shells to leave behind as evidence, not some cowboy thing.
Cane: While it is impossible to have a tool for every situation, he can at least keep a few for just in case. When he was a police officer, he taught 'cane fu' to the elderly and disabled but was taught the ways of 'tiger hook swords' and so he blends the styles together. This cane, however, has a powerful shock baton in the lower portion for stunning the enemy long enough to finish them off. The cane itself lends practicality in a dozen different ways. With time and inspiration, he might find himself with several to chose from.
Items/Gadgets:
"Supermesh" was a working title for this material being developed in STAR labs as the next great thing for solider defense. A body stocking with a polymer blend of multiple agents with the defensive rating of full kevlar but the weight and mobility of a wet-suit allows it to be worn under standard armor for increased protection when needed or else worn by itself when the situation requires it.
There was one prototype suit developed but was assumed lost in a robbery by intergang whose group was later apprehended by Metropolis police force.
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Strengths:
Physically stronger than his body would suggest, he has been training since a child in the ways of Choy Li Fut from his mother. It is the only martial art he knows even though most assume he would know Muay Thai once they know where his family is from.
He served on the Metropolis Police Department for ten years and got into Special Crimes Unit early in his career. He learned their ways well and puts those skills to use daily, even if Gotham is no metropolis.
Speaking Thai and English at home, he also studied Keznian in school trying to chase a girl as well as french when offered by the police force
Weaknesses:
With his focus in close combat and point blank firefights, one of his biggest weaknesses is medium to long range engagements.
While he knows how to breach and bypass standard locks, his skill set never taught him much about electronic security measures.
When in operations, he drove the large troop transport vehicle and even as a civilian he keeps to a low maintenance, dependable, boat on wheels. He can drive from A to B and remembers the police vehicle training, but lets just call his driving skills 'rusty'.
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Other:
I'm trying really hard to not make a batman.

The Hand of Shimmering Fates (No longer accepting)

Just a giggle to keep things interesting. I already showed this to Avanhelsing about the difference between Lee and boar:


But it got me to thinking, can you compare your character or tell us your inspiration for the character?

Tales of the Black Order (Always Accepting)

Sasha had much to digest, Tyr's reply and bloodthirsty nature were notable and a preponderance if this is what he really wanted to go back to when the snake is dead. There was talk of this and the other, plans to scout and thin or take them all on. When the whistle went off, Sasha fina spoke up.

"They will have eyes to the direction of the whistle, we should come up from the other end and get from the closest thing we have to a flank."

The woven hat slipped from his arm and secured under his chin as he spoke. It may not be much protection, but it might be enough to protect him from distractions and he needed all his focus for the fight ahead. As he looked to the encampment, he searched for their archers and pikemen to target first when it began.

X-Men Apex Rising

Well will go with... inmate.

X-Men Apex Rising

Name
Eduardio Scrimshaw (A.K.A. Edward Bonecarver, A.K.A. 'Lucky' Eddie Boneroller)

Age
32

Personality (between 1-3 paragraphs)
'Hedonist' is a nice way to put it, 'lounge lizard satyr' might be more appropriate. He loves people to an unnatural degree and has several co-dependant manifestations. He tries to please everyone and make everyone his friend. If someone is displeased with him, he will go to certain lengths to garner approval but has learned that others will abuse his generosity.

Part of his codependency allows himself to be rather plastic in his mannerisms and the like by keying in on what others approve or disapprove of. This makes him very skilled at reading facial features and body language to interpret the best approach to a new person or revisiting an old friend might make him seem off kilter if he has to please two diametrically different people at the same time.

X-Gene Mutation
Probability manipulation/siphon

Undeveloped, Edward is supernaturally lucky, For purposes of explination, lets assume anyone in the world has a 10% chance to accomplish a challenging task, meaning that you have a of success within the first ten attempts. Edward generates a probability field twice that of a normal person at a resting twenty percent, in of itself nothing major and statistically he will get it on the ninth try when everyone else gets it on the tenth.

His power really comes into its own when he touches others. He drains away another person's 10% of luck for a few minutes and adds it to his own until he is able to perform some of the most outlandish feats with seeming ease. Then the next time he consciously exerts himself and 'hopes', for lack of a better word, it releases the build up of probability manipulation in his favor. When he absorbs others luck, his fingers start to tingle, notably the pinky on his right hand then spreading to thumb before starting on his left hand in the same manner from pinky to thumb, in addition to the tingling sensation is the visual que of his fingernails shimmering gold like nail polish before the release.

After the release of probability, his own luck is drained as well most of the time, so he needs to rest a bit between each burst. His own studies in vegas showed he could drain up to eight others and then 'burst' but after that his own luck was so bad he couldn't do anything right. if he held out for two more, then he retained his own higher luck but still could not borrow from anyone else for twenty minutes or so. He also learned that he can not hold onto another persons luck for more then ten minutes before it dissipated, but in a casino, there is always someone else to touch to replace the lost luck.

Photo 5'8" 120 toned

It's Vegas, sequins don't really stand out.

Occupation

Professional Gambler

($70 pays out on Red 1 if you bet $10 on single (35:1) two number combination (17:1) Three number combination (11:1) Combination of four numbers (8:1) Combination of six numbers (5:1) 1-2-3-0-00(6:1) and 1-12 (2:1)
350+170+110+80+50+60+20=840.
-70 for the seven $10 bets=770 so 1100% in 10 seconds. To multiply that, to go to a high roller blackjack table and double the 700.
A grand and a half in ten minutes and he is out the door. Once a day every day for a year at a rotating set of seven casinos makes him a half a million dollars. There are 75 legitimate casinos in Las Vegas, he can visit ten casinos a day and still only visit each casino one a week with a loose 5 to fall back on if he needs a little more money or if security doesn't want to see him for 2 weeks. So 500,000 just became 5,000,000 a year.

Other/Bio
A magician's son, he grew up backstage watching the likes of Blackstone performing huge shows at the Excelsior after his dad had warmed up the crowd. He learned mostly sleight of hand tricks that his dad knew rather than the grand illusions that make the big money. The skill set of such close-up magic is that of a thief, pickpocket and flash distraction along with hypnosis as a crowd pleaser and escapology.

Unfortunately, the Vegas lifestyle can come with some pretty significant vices, doubly so in the entertainment world. Thankfully, his dad was able to combat his overeating with a pack a day and his smoking habit could be kept in check with snacks. Some would joke he was the "Luciano Pavarotti of Magic!" or that he was pretending to be so fat with stuffed suits so he could hide his tricks better. When Ed heard someone make the joke of his dad making a woman vanish by sitting on her, they woke up in the hospital and he spent the night in juvenile hall.

All it was is just a lucky hit, the linebacker must have had a glass jaw and staggered back before loosing his balance and falling down the set of stairs. All the same, that one punch put aggravated assault and battery on his wrap sheet. It also activated his mutant power.

From then on, things started falling into his favor. The football star he laid out had a boxing trainer for a dad who came to see the punk who put his kid in traction, killing any scholarship plans for the future. But when he sees this 90 pound whelp with only one busted knuckle who dropped his boy and finds out why, the dads make a deal. They put Ed in a junior boxing league to use any prize money to the linebacker's hospital bills. Expecting a Jobber, they end up with a Jaguar. He was charismatic enough and underscored enough to do a fair job of building up a crowd, taking a beating all around until he could lash out single shots that could drop others like breaking long since thought healed ribs.

This where he earned the title of 'Lucky Eddy', its also where he lost his dad who came to watch a fight and had a Myocardial rupture. Everyones had their attention on the fight so no one noticed him slumped in the seat, dead with eyes wide open. With his dad dead, he left the boxing scene after only a few months and took up his dad's shtick as an opening magician for a short while to finish his father's contract and get his bearings.

Unfortunately, the Vegas lifestyle can come with some pretty significant vices, doubly so in the entertainment world. Ed was falling into the vices of gambling and lust. His need for social acceptance had him winning and loosing thousand dollar hands by the hour. He'd get a huge win and ride the cocky pile of money until it almost ran out then won big all over again. He was living beyond his means and it took a public bloody beating with a baseball bat from an ex MLB hall of famer for him to reach rock bottom.

Now, he has rules and a routine. He never goes to any place more than once a week, he never stays anywhere more than an hour. Sadly, the downfall of a routine is its predictability and the Dogs were waiting for him. He thought he was being arrested for underage gambling until they told him what he really was. Leave it to prison to provide clarity.

Sky Pirates and their Misadventures

As for knighthawk, accepted.

@Lvl Down

Hurray! *sings a shanties*

X-Men Apex Rising

I dont think so, you're already using him in The Grinder Chronicles. Plus you'd have to wait awhile to introduce him since we're the middle of an assault. I'll think about it, but right now it's a no. Sorry :/

@thatguy

Still interested and keeping up with the story, What are your feelings on probability manipulation? I'm thinking of a lucky bastard who makes his money in Vegas.

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