Lord Santa

Artificial Spirits

Well, how is everyone? Are we all still alive? Anyone do anything big or interesting lately?

@Yuki Nagato

My wifi is down at home so I don't have internet there. Still have some at school, though.

Academia Abyssus: Adventures in a Modernized Hell

Oh good. More pain, more annoyance. The girl’s skateboard knocked into his legs, causing untold amounts (probably not much) of damage. Victor sighed, for more than one reason.

The first was pain. He was sure all the physical contact would at the very least leave a bruise. Well, that might be too optimistic of him. Secondly, the girl was kind of dumb. That much was obvious, anyway. It wasn’t like everyone knew the word clairvoyant, but there were at least a few things to keep in mind.

They were in hell. 30 people were split up into pairs on either side of a carpet with a knife in between. Some abyssal demon said that he shouldn’t have to explain anything. It was pretty obvious that it was a battle to the death. The fact that the girl had believed they didn’t have to fight proved that she was at least gullible.

Victor muttered quietly in a low voice as he got up to a sitting position.
“Gramps, give me everything you got on what just happened.” Victor said.

“If I do that, you’ll just get out of this, wouldn’t you?” His grandpa said nonchalantly.

“If you don’t tell me, you’ll be in a whole lot of trouble.” Victor muttered, getting to his feet. “I’m sure grandma would love to hear of your… exploits.”

His grandpa visibly shuddered.

”Fine.” His grandpa said. “Just this onc-”

“Do it fast, or I’m dead.” Victor hissed. “Again.”

He’d muttered to his grandpa just quiet enough for the girl not to here, but it would doubtlessly look like he was talking to himself if she was looking at him. That wouldn’t convince her that he wasn’t crazy, but maybe he was. He wouldn’t really lose much if she did, though, so it would be probably be fine. Maybe.

“Ahem.” Victor coughed, on his feet.
In truth, he was buying time as his grandpa told him the details.

“Before you fell asleep, a white haired guy threw a shark at a girl. Demon guy explained that you all have powers.” His grandpa said quickly.
“Clairvoyance is…” Victor said, pausing for dramatic effect (and time).
“Then demon guy said something about a test… I don’t remember, I wasn’t really paying attention.” His grandpa continued.
“Let’s just say I can see… stuff.” vaguely.
“Then you all got split up into pairs. Gotta say, there’s a lot of interesting ones, kehehe…” His grandpa said weirdly.
Get your mind out of the damn gutter, old man. Victor thought, but he didn’t say it out loud.
“You see, I was asleep, but I could hear stuff. See stuff.” Victor added quickly.
“Hoo, yes. Wonderful pairings. Power clashes. Those two will be done soon. This batch is turning out well…” His grandpa chortled.
Just shut up! Victor thought.
He had already found out everything he needed to know.

Victor coughed again, setting out the facts in his head.
“My power is clairvoyance.” Victor lied. “To see stuff, and hear stuff, I can’t normally see.”
He sounded confident, more structured. Hopefully, this would convince the girl that he was telling the truth. Because in all honesty, he had no idea what his power was at all.

“So I know stuff, like how demon guy said that he shouldn’t have to explain anything.” Victor said convincingly. “A lot of people thought that meant that they had to kill each other to pass the test…”
As Victor said that, a person on some other carpet nearby fell off and smashed into the ground below. His body bloomed into raspberry jam below.
“But look at it this way…” Victor said quickly, to keep the girl’s attention. “He never actually said that killing the other person would mean you pass, right?”

Academia Abyssus: Adventures in a Modernized Hell

well, in any case, I won't be able to respond in a while. I'm going home sooner or later so my Wifi will be gone. Guess I'll do it tomorrow.

Academia Abyssus: Adventures in a Modernized Hell

<Snipped quote by Lord Santa>

Because th-

Wait a minute...

"Why"
Three letters
What else has 3 letters?
Die.
What causes deaths?
AIDS.
Which country aids others?
Switzerland.
What's Switzerland's most well known product?
Swiss Army Knife.

I rest my case.

@SilverDawn

I see. The bottle opener is pretty deadly.

Wait a sec, AIDS has a 0% mortality rate and Switzerland is usually neutral.

Protea - The Ebon Flow

<Snipped quote by Lord Santa>

Please do exactly that. When I was choosing from my characters, I realized that I have more bad guys who fit into this setting than good guys. Ended up with Mancer, but I'm going to have more. Just be sure to give a credible reason for your character being evil. It can be anything from being a demon to having a magical affliction to circumstance to insanity, but bad guys with interesting backstories are always way better than the 'for the evulz' fellas you sometimes see.

@Lugubrious

Alright, thanks. I got 2 ideas for NPCs right now. One's a terrorist freedom fighter, for the Arcadian commune if we ever get there.

The other is the mind sculptor, and let's just leave him at that for now.

So I'll work on those as well, should wifi permit it.

Also, I came up with another affinity combo. Terra + Viniculum = Gravity magic, or Aura + Viniculum = Gravity magic. Either one.

Protea - The Ebon Flow

Name: Aron ‘The Shark’ Aurum

Sex: Male

Age: 35

Race: Human

Affinity: Lucrum

Personality: Aron isn’t exactly a smart man. He’s rather flamboyant and outspoken and lets his emotions go pretty often. He’s rather upbeat and lighthearted, however. When he’s drunk, he’s about the same, with less balance. He’s kind of petty at times as well, and he likes laughing in most forms (including laughing evilly). The biggest thing about him, though, is the fact that he loves money. He wants a lot of money. He's a huge cheapskate, a cheat and doesn't like being stolen from. He can gain people's trust through a drink and some banter but don't be surprised if he makes you pay for it, and if you're wallet's gone, it'll be his fault. Basically, he's a reasonably cheerful rogue with a fab beard. He has a comedic outlook on life because he feels that it can't be much worse.

Greatest Love: Gold, gold, gold and gold. And maybe alcohol.

Motivation(s): Gold, gold, gold and gold. Wants to be a real pirate one day. Wants to steal the Ankou.

Fighting Style: Pirate fighting, even though he isn’t really a pirate! Dirty tactics, wild chops, all of that! Semi-skilled swordplay offset by whatever he found on the floor!

Pirate fighting is somewhat similar to bar fighting. Use whatever you have and some of what others have. Aron mixes semi-skilled swordplay with one-handed gunplay. He’s not a great marksman, but it won’t matter if their close enough. Aron’s kind of proficient in most one handed weapons and he’ll figure out a way to use any he isn’t proficient in. He’s pretty good with most firearms as well, and he knows how to fire a cannon.

With that said, his fighting style revolves around doing everything possible to win. Kicking sand, dirt, rocks, throwing rock, bottles, setting stuff on fire. It emphasises dodging over defence (as pirates don’t really wear armour). In constant life and death situations, Aron has learned how to live life on the edge. Think of something, he’ll probably use it. He also adds biting to his list of moves, and you’ll see why in a second.

He's got a steel sabre and a revolver, as well as bombs, cigars, a lighter and spare bullets. Also has some spare metal stuff for food.

Spell List

He’s a power user, so these are the things he can do. Only a few things, but things nonetheless.

Iron stomach

Form: Self (Passive)
Affinity: Corpus, Fames (to some extent)
Aron’s power revolves around the fact that he can eat anything, no matter how unfit for consumption it might be. His digestive tract renders poison useless and he can digest literally anything, no matter how hard or inedible. It gives him some passive toxin resistance but he’s not immune to it by any means. At least he won’t get food poisoning, though.

Metal consumption

Form: Self (passive)
Affinity: Corpus, Lucrum, Fames
Aron can eat metal. That’s pretty much it. His teeth are made of an unknown metal and he can chew metals without damaging himself. Upon consumption, the metal heals his wounds. He can eat any metal to heal but the effect is increased the more precious the metal is, as well as how much he eats. For example, eating a copper sword will regenerate shallow gashes while if he got his arm cut off, if he ate a solid bar of really good gold it’d probably stitch itself back on. Sound OP? Don’t worry! It’ll be balanced in the bio, I assure you.

Bio

Aron was born in the slum districts of Ebb to parents who already had too many kids. They would’ve kept him with his 6 brothers and 4 sisters if he didn’t have that one kind of birth defect. Well, his teeth were made of some kind of metal, and he ate money. Literally. He couldn’t survive on normal food and his parents found him eating metal for sustenance, metal which they collected to make a living. They kicked him out because they couldn’t really live with him and his expensive food expenses and he had to fend for himself for his childhood. He was about 4 years old.

Living in the slums of Ebb is hard. It’s wet and when the tide comes in, you better hope you’re somewhere high. Aron became wily, and became adept at stealing. He stole to make money, he used money to buy metal which he ate. He stole metal as well sometimes, so he could eat. It was a hard life, but one thing gave him hope.

When he was about 11, he found a book about pirates. To him, pirates seemed to be the best thing to be and he aspired to be a pirate.

Eventually, when he was older, he became the leader of a gang. A boat gang. It was pretty much the closest thing he had to a pirate crew. He'd learned how to fight like a pirate from the gang wars he fought in. Unfortunately for his crew, he had a run-in with a whirlpool. It sank his boat gang and left him alive, but after it, he saw tha Ankou. Now he had something he wanted to do. Steal the Ankou, drive it into the sunset.

Appearance

Aron's about 172 cm. He doesn't have a peg leg, sorry to disappoint.

Protea - The Ebon Flow

Oh, in regards to world building, I kind of want to make some antagonists or just bad guys. I want to have more fun with spells, see, and the forbidden affinities are begging to be played around with.

Or at least NPCs, I have some ideas for stuff. I just want to play around with what I can do, basically.

Protea - The Ebon Flow

Ok, did the edits. Is it alright now?

Academia Abyssus: Adventures in a Modernized Hell

I have a sneaking suspicion that Marianne is going to get stabbed.

@SilverDawn

Why?

Protea - The Ebon Flow

Here's my pirate. It's a bit rushed and all, and I'm purposefully trying to toe the line as to what's acceptable so feel free to poke holes in it. Want @Lugubrious to see if all the things I tried are alright.

--------------------------

Name: Aron ‘The Shark’ Aurum

Sex: Male

Age: 35

Race: Human

Affinity: Lucrum

Personality: Aron isn’t exactly a smart man. He’s rather flamboyant and outspoken and lets his emotions go pretty often. He’s rather upbeat and lighthearted, however. When he’s drunk, he’s about the same, with less balance. He’s kind of petty at times as well, and he likes laughing in most forms (including laughing evilly). The biggest thing about him, though, is the fact that he loves money. He wants a lot of money. He's a huge cheapskate, a cheat and doesn't like being stolen from. He can gain people's trust through a drink and some banter but don't be surprised if he makes you pay for it, and if you're wallet's gone, it'll be his fault. Basically, he's a reasonably cheerful rogue with a fab beard. He has a comedic outlook on life because he feels that it can't be much worse.

Greatest Love: Gold, gold, gold and gold. And maybe alcohol.

Motivation(s): Gold, gold, gold and gold. Wants to be a real pirate one day. Wants to steal the Ankou.

Fighting Style: Pirate fighting, even though he isn’t really a pirate! Dirty tactics, wild chops, all of that! Semi-skilled swordplay offset by whatever he found on the floor!

Pirate fighting is somewhat similar to bar fighting. Use whatever you have and some of what others have. Aron mixes semi-skilled swordplay with one-handed gunplay. He’s not a great marksman, but it won’t matter if their close enough. Aron’s kind of proficient in most one handed weapons and he’ll figure out a way to use any he isn’t proficient in. He’s pretty good with most firearms as well, and he knows how to fire a cannon.

With that said, his fighting style revolves around doing everything possible to win. Kicking sand, dirt, rocks, throwing rock, bottles, setting stuff on fire. It emphasises dodging over defence (as pirates don’t really wear armour). In constant life and death situations, Aron has learned how to live life on the edge. Think of something, he’ll probably use it. He also adds biting to his list of moves, and you’ll see why in a second.

He's got a steel sabre and a revolver, as well as bombs, cigars, a lighter and spare bullets. Also has some spare metal stuff for food.

Spell List

He’s a power user, so these are the things he can do. Only a few things, but things nonetheless.

Iron stomach

Form: Self (Passive)
Affinity: Corpus, Fames (to some extent)
Aron’s power revolves around the fact that he can eat anything, no matter how unfit for consumption it might be. His digestive tract renders poison useless and he can digest literally anything, no matter how hard or inedible. It gives him some passive toxin resistance but he’s not immune to it by any means. At least he won’t get food poisoning, though.

Metal consumption

Form: Self (passive)
Affinity: Corpus, Lucrum, Fames
Aron can eat metal. That’s pretty much it. His teeth are made of an unknown metal and he can chew metals without damaging himself. Upon consumption, the metal heals his wounds. He can eat any metal to heal but the effect is increased the more precious the metal is, as well as how much he eats. For example, eating a copper sword will regenerate shallow gashes while if he got his arm cut off, if he ate a solid bar of really good gold it’d probably stitch itself back on. Sound OP? Don’t worry! It’ll be balanced in the bio, I assure you.

Bio

Aron was born in the slum districts of Ebb to parents who already had too many kids. They would’ve kept him with his 6 brothers and 4 sisters if he didn’t have that one kind of birth defect. Well, his teeth were made of some kind of metal, and he ate money. Literally. He couldn’t survive on normal food and his parents found him eating metal for sustenance, metal which they collected to make a living. They kicked him out because they couldn’t really live with him and he had to fend for himself for his childhood. He was about 4 years old.

Living in the slums of Ebb is hard. It’s wet and when the tide comes in, you better hope you’re somewhere high. Aron became wily, and became adept at stealing. He stole to make money, he used money to buy metal which he ate. He stole metal as well sometimes, so he could eat. It was a hard life, but one thing gave him hope.

When he was about 11, he found a book about pirates. To him, pirates seemed to be the best thing to be and he aspired to be a pirate.

Eventually, when he was older, he became the leader of a gang. A boat gang. It was pretty much the closest thing he had to a pirate crew. He'd learned how to fight like a pirate from the gang wars he fought in. Unfortunately for his crew, he had a run-in with a whirlpool. It sank his boat gang and left him alive, but after it, he saw tha Ankou. Now he had something he wanted to do. Steal the Ankou, drive it into the sunset.

Appearance

And if anyone missed it, he can't live without eating something metal.