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Nexus of Worlds (NoW) Tournament Rules

Alright I'll separate the powers out.

Chester vs Jaldoa (Tantalum/MelonHead)

Jaldoa was about as used to his foes rolling deftly away from his attacks as the human was at avoiding flying Trolls. His attack hit nothing but ground but he remained unperturbed as his legs naturally bent and he rolled diagonally to both escape view and avoid injury from his fall. The reason for his angled evasion was obvious as his shoulder took the brunt of the acrobatic move rather than the fragile looking wards on his back. He came up running and disappeared behind three trees, his skin naturally hiding him from view. The coins made no particular impact on him as he fought like his people always did, hit-and-run, they presumably bounced into a thick pile of leaves long after he had already made good his escape.

He continued to run quickly, near tirelessly, in a wide circle which kept his foe barely in view. This was his home, his battleground, and soon he was nearing the tree he had jumped off once again. He awaited his opponents own movements, and settled into a hunched stance beside his tree, deciding on his next move with regards to if the human even knew where he was. His pause was momentary, and he was prepared to attack once again if the human seemed lost or unbalanced.

Nexus of Worlds (NoW) Tournament Rules

I think this is pretty much it for this guy, though we'll see and I'll be sure to re-submit or let you know if I missed something important.

The Archivist

Names: Previously Anak’Saruah Currently ‘The Archivist’ or ‘Archivist’

Age: 429

Gender: Assumed male

Race: Akarid

Height: 7ft

Weight: 140kg

Eye Colour: Completely black

Skin colour: Blackish-purple, covered in course black hairs.

Character Tier: Intermediate (NoW currently is an Intermediate tourney)

Character Type: Critical Character- Tournament Participant

Physical Description: To the average human on Earth, The Archivist looks like a particularly nasty spider with a male’s upper torso and bald (save for the short hairs all over his body) head and twice the normal number of arms, gruesome though it may be. It resembles the mythological appearance of a centaur, provided instead of a majestic horse a spider was welded onto the man’s hips. There is no particularly need for clothing on such a creature, but the Archivist does wear an electronic data pad on his upper right wrist about as large as the average bracer. The Archivist’s face is a gross resemblance of human, with pointed ears and a snub nose with two sharp teeth protruding down like fangs from a cavernous mouth. He has four completely black eyes arranged symmetrically with the upper eyes slightly off centre and further away from its twin than the bottom. He can speak in a rasping tone, smell and hear about as well as the average human. Unsurprisingly he moves like a spider, scuttling around on eight powerful but flexible legs. He can also squeeze into surprisingly small gaps, provided his torso can fit.

Personality Description: The Archivist is as cool and calculating as one gets, and his only real goal is the acquisition of greater knowledge for the Archive, of which he is the current master. Incredibly difficult to anger or trick with either word or magic, the Archivist’s only major personality flaw is an inbuilt curiosity that will cause it to prolong an opponent’s life just to complete a data entry. Despite the ease at which it could ambush and eliminate a foe the Archivist will instead allow it to launch most of its attacks to satisfy this curiosity. Incredibly intelligent, if pushed to the limit mercy should not be expected from the Archivist, it is after all ultimately a self-serving creature.

Skills, powers and abilities: The Archivist’s Race are far spread across the galaxy, and born with an immense intelligence and the ability to replicate a wide range of abilities. However, the one thing beyond them is magic, of which their species have no talent. To make up for this crippling disability the Archivist is well schooled in a number of fighting styles, coupled with a great many physical traits and a cruel cunning he can still hold his own.

The Archivist is stronger than any human man, and can easily pick up and throw an individual with one arm. With all four it’s more than capable of lifting the average sized car and throwing it around ten feet.

Though it’s difficult to be overly agile when you have the body of a giant spider, the Archivist still manages to move with more grace than the average dancer. He can move his limbs fast enough to avoid some of the quick blows of a karate master for example, and his own attacks are launched with even greater speed.

His perception is incredibly impressive, boosted somewhat by the sensitivity of the hairs on his body, he can easily hit any target from up to fifty feet away with a projectile such as a rock and see in near complete blackness, and can judge momentum and even air-speed/outside conditions if necessary to more accurately hit a foe. Though the usefulness of this perception is not incredibly high, as the Archivist doesn’t actually have any ranged weapons with him save for his web.

The Archivist has a human head (sort of.) and can hear and smell normally.

His max speed however is more impressive due to his great many legs. He can run at no less than 75mph with a brief run-up, though he prefers a more leisurely and sustainable forty to fifty when attacking his foes.

Like a spider he can climb on near any surface, even upside down on a ceiling, though he can only move at a cool 20mph when doing this.

His hands are adorned with razor-sharp two inch claws which can cut grooves in metal with ease. He secretes a dangerous form of poison from these which grows more poignant the more wounds suffered. In a robust individual the poison causes a mild-unsteadiness for a minute, another application begins to effect joints with mild atrophy reducing a foes ability to move. A third application in the minute time period usually spells doom for a foe with crippling nausea and wide spread paralysis, though these effects rarely last longer than thirty seconds. The final stage is a rapid death or full blown paralysis for a minute, depending on constitution. Interestingly, the Archivists Venom acts as counter-venom for most other forms of poison, granting him greater resistance to such effects (but by no means immunity.)

The Archivist can quickly spin a web like the Gladiator spider using his lower arms. His web is about as tough as hardened leather if created quickly or on the move, however with additional time (one-two charges) he can create a web as tough as iron and steel respectively. The stickiness of the web increases proportionally, with something like the damn stickiest glue or something as the upper levels. (I have no idea how to describe this, just be reasonably stuck.) He can either place the web like an ordinary spider or like the Gladiator spider launch it like a spear to ensnare foes.

Not unlike a spider, The Archivist is incredibly robust and resistant to a wide range of attacks. Bullets in particular are ineffective unless aimed at vital areas such as his face or the joints of his legs, due to a thick carapace (his skin) and course hairs in most regions of his body. Stabbing him with incredibly fine quality steel is usually the best option for his would-be murderers, although bludgeoning the right areas could also have some effect. Fire is the most effective element against him, with electricity being somewhat negated by his body and ice taking a long time to affect him due to his size. As a side note his blood is a greenish colour. As for his healing factor, he regenerates from wounds at roughly thrice the speed of a human, however his data pad can provide him with one regenerative stim which briefly triples this healing factor. His most impressive resistance however is to poisonous gas, the Akarid have ridiculously effective and adaptive respiratory systems, and hence why they can exist on a huge range of planets across the galaxy without any problems. They are most effective when subjected to an oxygen rich atmosphere, but can survive in a huge range of locales and can hold their ‘breath’ for up to an hour if necessary.

The Archivist’s greatest power however is knowledge, he has a vast memory and can analyse a foes movements. The Data Pad at his arm also provides him with the accumulated knowledge of his entire race, and provided a foe race is common or they themselves are notable enough it is incredibly likely he will have data on it. (This is up to the discretion of either Skallagrim or my opponent, as to how much I can know before-hand of an individual opponent.)
On top of this is of course his Data-Pad’s other abilities, which I’ll explain in more detail in equipment.

Character Equipment: Data Pad (Tier 5.) Should be self-explanatory, but basically these Data Pads are created in the Archive.
The Data pad is a rudimentary archival device, incredibly high-tech and impressive to the mortal man but primitive due to its size in the Archivist’s eyes. It looks like a somewhat bulky black rectangular bracer. When manipulated by the Archivist the screen lights up and allows him to access data, either by scanning a subject from afar or by entering a descriptor. The data it accesses resides within the great Archive, which holds the information gathered by his entire race over their entire history. (It’s a lot.)

The Data Pad can also offer him one Stamina, one Regenerative, and one Adrenaline stim, which provides him with a boost of energy, healing and quicker movements respectively.

The Data Pad allows for a rudimentary cloaking, making him harder to see especially in shadows for a total of roughly thirty seconds before it needs to recharge from a serious power source. (Can’t be recharged in battle, leaves the Data Pad with only basic function of Data access.)

The Data Pad can scan an arena periodically (every twenty seconds roughly) like Sonar, giving the Archivist a decent notion of where a foe resides and what sort of place he is fighting in. Technology and Magic negating abilities/spells/regions can distort but not wholly disable this function. (Due to Sonar being just so goddamn effective.) However, the sonar esque effect does come with its own limitations, namely a hollow ring in a normal foes ears which is both uncomfortable but also telling of the Archivists own rough location. The Archivist can disable this feature at will, but as he is not all that fond of ambushes he usually allows his foes the questionable pleasure of feeling his approach.

Character History: The Archivist inherited his position when the previous Archivist died collecting knowledge in an incredibly dangerous situation. Before that he did as most of his –brothers- did, scuttling about the galaxy collecting minor bits of data from inconsequential conflicts. It is the role of the Archivist to seek the rarest and delicious knowledge, hence why he joined the tournament with the intention of filling the Data banks with knowledge of the Dreamer race of which no data yet exists.

Chester vs Jaldoa (Tantalum/MelonHead)

Ok, so at the moment your attack is literally throwing coins at me, I'll be sure to act accordingly.

Chester vs Jaldoa (Tantalum/MelonHead)

Luckily I checked the arena and spotted it, so no problem.

I'll reply tomorrow when I'm less tired, but could you perhaps edit in something of what the coins are meant to do? Or are they literally just coins?

Nexus of Worlds Tournament

Might as well join, still had that character idea for a different style from before the guild exploded.

Chester vs Jaldoa (Tantalum/MelonHead)

Green haze and nervous flittering of birds, sensations of moist bark beneath bare feet, all there was to be felt in the forest flowed over the patient hunter. Not his preferred stalking grounds, but some forest was far greater than none at all, the jungle a distant memory despite this. He slowly exhaled, breathing in the marginally thinner air high above in the branches of a tall oak. Down below, a lone figure in human armour, the Loa spoke of him softly and the troll fell enthralled to its dreadful embrace.

Gangly, but hunched over in his scant tribal attire, the powerfully built dark-green skinned troll peered down with all-seeing eyes through the leaves. He clutched the trunk in his left hand as he crouched, his right holding a voodoo staff. For now his bag of wards remained unused on his back, and a sharp sacrificial knife waited hungrily at his hip. The human looked alert, it was safe to say, but vulnerable in the forest. Still, it did not stop it from retreating to leafy cover after examining the crater.

Quick, nimble steps, his experience in bush craft carried Jaldoa the troll hexmaster across the canopy and only fifteen feet horizontally from his prey. He tilted his head as he considered his options for striking down his foe. Without knowing the creatures capabilities he assumed caution would be of use, and so dropped his Ward of Warning on the side of the tree he now lurked atop on the opposite side of his opponent. It fell quietly, crushing through leaves and standing tall but obscured, though some noise was inevitable.

Jaldoa moved quickly, as soon as the Ward left his hand he slid half-way down the tree and bounced backwards, turning in mid-air to drop towards his foe quiet and lethally. His staff clutched in both hands mid-movement and driven downwards with immense force, so as to catch his armour-clad foe on the neck or head with a classical vertical strike.

Warming Up

Tantalum said
Mm, two staff users, very different gimmicks between. My character might need a stamina boost to keep up with yours, looks fine other than that.Any preference on a setting? Jaldoa would really stand out in Chester's home grounds to say the least.

Well, a jungle would be nice, or a forest. However an urban setting could be interesting as well as long as there are things to jump on and around.

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Cheers

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Jaldoa

Name: Jaldoa

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Age: 54

Gender: Male

Race: Troll

Height: 7ft 2” (Usually stands hunched at 6ft 4”)

Weight: 205 pounds

Physical Description: Jaldoa dresses in standard shamanistic clothing much akin to Native American tribal outfits; he has nothing even remotely resembling armour and simply a loin cloth to protect his modesty. He does however have a bag not unlike a large quiver which is strapped to his back, holding his wards. He has two pronounced tusks and pointed ears. His nose is incredibly angular and his skin is a dark greenish colour. Although incredibly tall, he usually creeps low to the ground and even when standing normally hunches down somewhat. He has a long loping stride due to the length of his legs, with a muscled athletic build from a life outdoors. He never wears shoes, but has hardened soles on his feet not unlike hide, more than capable of taking pinpricks and the like with no harm. He speaks in an accent somewhat like Jamaican or Cuban.



Personality Description: Jaldoa is a shaman, witch doctor and hex master, he fights for the honour of his clan and whenever the will takes him. Although not inherently evil, he has no particular morals on either side of the alignment tree and respects no authority except his own. He follows the whispers of the Loa, the troll gods, and gains his powers through their wisdom. He practises animal sacrifice as part of these rituals. The Troll is cunning and mischievous like most of his race, he himself is somewhat wise as an elder of the clan.

Skills, powers and abilities:

Physically: Jaldoa is a troll, which means he has a few natural abilities which mean he surpasses humans. For one, he has far more greater stamina, capable of running at full speed for at least an hour without tiring.

He can run at about peak human speed, 30mph max.

He has brilliant vision and awareness, meaning he can traverse forests etc without tripping over barely visible tree roots.

His muscles are compact; he can bench around 300kg.

Although his endurance is not particularly more impressive than a human, troll regeneration is unparalleled. He is capable of regenerating from minor wounds slowly during a fight, and can recover from devastating injuries much faster than humans if given the time to rest.

He also has a deep spiritual connection to the Loa allowing him to access his troll magic.

He is trained to use his staff as a weapon; he’s also accomplished at bush craft and has a fair amount of acrobatic ability, climbing trees etc with ease.

Loa magic:

Ward magic:
Ward of Seeing: A branch with an eye fashioned into the head, when thrown it sticks into the ground (or if the ground is unrelenting it hovers above it) and allows Jaldoa to see clearly in the area through his second sight. His practise with the art allows him to still concentrate on the real world as he does this, and the eye illuminates hidden opponents etc.

Ward of Healing: A branch with a smaller branch wrapped three quarters of the way up with twine or rope, it activates in much the same way as the Ward of Seeing and imbues a light healing aura in a small area. It can only affect those he is connected to by the Loa, and obviously it still heals him as well. It works at about one graze every ten seconds, meaning it would staunch blood flow from a cut wound for example in about twenty seconds. It has an effective range of about twenty meters. The range decreases to 15 meters for two people 10 for three etc. Five is the max at a two meter radius.

Ward of Warning: A branch split half way down, it deploys the same as the others. Any enemy which strays within ten meters of it is shocked by Loa magic and the ward makes a loud detonating sound as it disintegrates.

Ward of Cleansing: Loa magic is considered divine, and the undead are unnatural. The ward is a simple pole with three lines cut into the top, and when deployed it immediately releases a short burst of light which causes severe burning damage to spirits and the undead, or clears blighted ground over a larger radius.

Character Equipment:

Voodoo Staff: Crafted from the branches of the Loa tree, a Hex Master’s Voodoo staff is the sign of his power as a witch doctor. Some practitioners of Voodoo choose to wear a mask instead, but it’s optional and Joldoa decided on the staff because it can also be used as a weapon. The wood is incredibly resilient, almost on par to steel, and can be used to channel his power.

Ward Quiver: Like a small basket strapped to his back, it allows him to carry his wards which he can create through imbuing magical energy into the branches of trees cut into specific shapes.

A snare and a spike net kept in his ‘Ward Quiver’

Sacrificial knife