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The Dragon who went to Sea (Ranked battle, Anna V Evvie)

Anna

Anna

Race: Water Wraith/Revenant

What is a Water Wraith: A Water Wraith is a spirit which has possessed the body of a human, specifically after they have drowned. They have a tendency to target those who have died in particularly tragic circumstances, as the amount of emotional trauma caused produces a larger rift into the spirit world. These wraiths also have a tendency to be more powerful as a result of this. The personality of a Water Wraith is usually a confusing mix of the genderless spiritual entity and the residual emotions of the deceased.

Age: Unknown

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: Irish-Caucasian

Appearance: Beautiful and near flawless feminine features accentuated by a full mane of flowing red hair and piercing pale blue eyes would be the envy of any woman and own the heart of any man if not for the pale near translucent quality of her skin. Even this perhaps could be forgiven as an unusual beauty if not for the fact that she seems constantly saturated with water, and those piercing eyes echo a sadness so unbearable that it drives life away. The frayed wedding dress sticks to a petite body, adding an octave of sorrow to an already striking visage.

Personality: As mentioned, Wraith’s have a confusing plethora of emotions, usually linked to the sorrow which brought them into the world. Anna could be described as emotionally compromised, constantly, providing a target for smart enough opponents, though one which can backfire pretty quickly if they can’t withstand her vengeance. Some words to describe Anna’s personality.

Melancholy, Vengeful, Prideful, Angry, Broken Hearted.

Anna’s voice is a curious mix of her southern Irish brogue in life and something older and darker, quiet and hard to discern, it slightly distorts her words if one listens carefully enough.

Statistics
Height: 5ft 6”
Weight: 39kg
Appearing Age: 18-25

Physical Traits: Unsurprisingly, a Water Wraith shares little in common with the human being it used to be. Though their bodies can be cut or shot if one survives getting close enough the attack meets a supernatural resistance and the wounds flood with water rather than blood. The regenerative qualities of the Wraith are huge, allowing it to bring itself back to one piece after pretty much any degree of mundane physical harm. Though some say they prefer this to the completely intangible body of most ghosts. Understandably, stabbing, cutting and shooting at a wraith with mundane weaponry is almost pointless. Poisoning a wraith or using other biological entities is also somewhat pointless, as it has long since abandoned biological function, it is driven by spiritual energy.

However, this regeneration in Water Wraith’s is completely dependent on water, imbued with the spiritual energy of the Wraith, which is contained in their body. In any large body of water this regeneration is near limitless because it can be replenished, but in dry conditions the regeneration is finite. Wraiths are most effectively dispatched by dragging them from any source of water. In a large body of water, such as the sea, a Wraith is near unstoppable and will almost certainly kill you.

Strength: Anna is not physically strong, her body is barely capable of lifting its own weight, but fortunately the Wraith can manipulate water to carry out any task she wishes.

Speed: Anna cannot move particularly quickly on land, roughly the speed of any ordinary human, though in the water she can move far more quickly, at speeds of up to 100mph, she doesn’t swim but rather ‘glides’ through the water.

Agility: Anna has no greater reflexes than any ordinary human, but the spiritual entity within her has an innate connection with water and reaches out for any around it. Through this it can react many times faster than a human, by sensing movement and activity through the liquid it’s connected with.

Senses: Water Wraith’s can choose to abandon the ability to feel pain from anything other than holy magic and electricity, fire can cause them pain if they are relatively dehydrated.
Anna can see clearly through water and has perfect human vision, however she also accentuates this with her ability to ‘sense’ through water around her, providing a greater degree of vision.
Her hearing is normal outside of water, and superhuman within.
Her sense of smell is ordinary.

Skills: Anna has the basic skill-set of an ordinary modern day human. She is intelligent enough, especially with the supernatural cunning of the spirit, and capable of forming traps and avoiding them as well.
Though she cannot perform any particularly amazing physical feats, she can use water in ways to make up for it.
Anna fights with water, she cannot use weapons or fight with her hands, making her vulnerable in close quarters. However, even in close proximity she is capable of making blades of water, and she usually has a plentiful supply from her saturated body.

Supernatural Abilities:
Not technically magic, a Water Wraith like Anna maintains supernatural abilities to manipulate the world around them with spirit energy. Anna is a fairly powerful Water Wraith, so her supernatural abilities are varied and powerful.

Spirit of Water: Literally the most important and basic of her abilities, Anna is capable of imbuing water around her with spiritual energy connected to her which she can manipulate. This allows her to move water at will, and enforce it with supernatural strength, turning it into a potent weapon even in small volumes. The water she manipulates resists being frozen or evaporated, and she can return water in either of those two states to its liquid form with relative ease. This makes her dangerous in humid or even frozen environments as well. Her effective range of control is only one hundred feet however, meaning one can in theory just run away from her fairly easily.

Pond Hopping/Water Walking: Anna can move in a spiritual watery form through any body of water at speeds of up to 500mph instantaneously. If an area is saturated enough this allows her to move from one area of water to another, hence the legends of Water Wraiths appearing in water sources as if by magic. She can’t attack while moving in this fashion, and it takes around two seconds to degenerate and then regenerate from the water, providing a window of opportunity to any fast opponent if she attempts to water-walk in combat.

The Draining Waves: If Anna manages to cover an opponent in water imbued with her spiritual essence it slowly wanes away their strength. Not quickly by any measure, but like swimming as opposed to walking it increases the effort of carrying out normal actions, making the opponent feel heavy and cumbersome.

Saturation: Anna can sacrifice half the water within her (significantly reducing her ability to regenerate outside of water.) to soak the earth around her in a forty foot radius. This is not an immediate effect, the water creeps across the ground like an unholy blight, and tends to make its way from the second layer of earth up, making it not immediately apparent by ordinary eye-sight to tell what she’s doing.

Weeping Wraith: Anna’s unique ability, after suffering injury Anna may begin to weep uncontrollably, preventing her from doing anything for a turn but defending herself with water. Over the next two turns torrential rain will fall on the battlefield, provided its outside, and dark clouds and fog will cover the battlefield for the remainder of the battle.

Weaknesses: Water Wraith’s are particularly powerful supernatural beings, but this power comes at the cost of significant weaknesses.
1. Anna requires water to fight effectively, the more water she manipulates the more sluggish her attacks become.
2. Fire based attacks directed at her person, especially when water supplies are scarce, are particularly effective. This allows even an ordinary person with some smarts to kill her with a flamethrower or similar long-duration high intensity flame weapon.
3. Electricity is heavily effective against Wraiths because of the conductivity of water, it causes them immense pain, interferes with their ability to use their abilities and can even kill them after a great enough duration. (Though this requires an incredibly powerful charge over an extended period of time, it is far more effective to use it as a prelude to another attack.)
4. Constant attacks require her to direct her attention to defence and regeneration, so little and often tends to be more effective than one or two powerful attacks. This could in theory allow a fast opponent with an ordinary sword to kill her just by overcoming her regeneration factor, provided she was outside of water (and therefore it was finite.)
5. Holy magic is effective against the spirit within Anna, causing the same damage is would cause against any undead.
6. Modern day explosives can do significant enough damage to prevent her from regenerating using water, though it does require a fairly large bang.
7. She is most effective against organic opponents, opponents who are heavily armoured or non-living having an advantage against her attacks.

Backstory: Anna was born in Ireland sometime in the 1800’s. Her backstory is not really something most people would want to read, though one can assume that she died either on or shortly after her wedding day by drowning, and the circumstances were incredibly tragic. This likely means she was either murdered or committed suicide, perhaps time will reveal more.

The Dragon who went to Sea (Ranked battle, Anna V Evvie)

Battlefield

Name: Sandtides

Size: 1 mile by 1 mile (most won't be used)

Properties:

* The various smaller sand islands scattered about the bay sink downward very easily if treaded upon by anything larger than a rodent, being incredibly unstable. Within four back and forth posts of moderate combat scenarios, half of the island will be submerged to cause water to go up to the ankles or deeper depending on how far at the edge you are. After eight posts only a small portion of the island will have ankle deep water, the rest completely submerged and reforming a bit away into another island as they drift in gentle tides. If the players agree then it can be raining, speeding up the process of islands vanishing by two times.

* Multiple small brown and reddish brown crabs skitter around the sand, burrowing and shifting it around for some mysterious purpose. Most are the size of mice but some seen around can become as large as cats. They're mostly very cautious so will scurry away when you get too close. They only attack if you provoke them or in a very vulnerable state, in which case they all swarm in, grabbing on and trying to drag the person down into the sandy depths. If both players agree then the crabs will be much more aggressive all the way down to not taking any aggressive action at all.

* The water is calm enough where it's only gently flowing around, carrying you to another of the sand islands. It's 400 feet deep at the deepest but the amount varies depending on the level of sand around.

Player Capacity: Duel on a single island with two people or multiple people spreading across the islands is recommended.

Description: A large number if islands made out of sand is scattered around the bay, always shifting around as sand leaves some islands and builds up into another. Most are around 80 feet long but the actual shapes and sizes can vary wildly.

The largest island in the middle is made out of rock, grass, plants, and tropical trees so never goes under half a mile long by a quarter of a mile wide. Sand can build up on the outskirts to increase it's size. There's a crater near the middle that's 800 feet across. The edges are rocky and steep so would take a decent amount of effort to climb back out if you fall in, which could badly hurt normal people due to being 40 feet deep, luckily not being at a 90 degree angle so could have some rolling down to help keep the damage down, if only a little.

The water is crystal clear and beautiful near the surface but due to the large amounts of sand swirling below it quickly gets murky down lower.

Flavour Text: The sand tides are famous for shipwrecking many ships long ago due to the constant shifting, although the wreckage has been cleaned up both by workers and the crabs, who mysteriously drag objects down below the sand if they're left unattended. Rumor has it, which is very likely, that the skeletons missing from the wrecks are still underneath the sand. Although the crabs aren't known to be incredibly aggressive, the creepy nature of these rumors and some instances of people disappearing is enough to stop most tourism to the Sandtides.

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In the battleground thread.

Here's one I just made for the Evvie vs. Anna fight if you like it, MelonHead.

@ImportantNobody

Yeah I like the battlefield, would you like me to set up a thread or are you happy to do it?

Arena Chat Thread

I'm probably gonna create a small character deposit of my Arena characters. Though, I have qualms with having my shit in a public place. A guy ripped off one of my characters literally right in front of my eyes on this website, that's why I'm so hesitant about it.

@LeeRoy

It's weird, but I honestly would not care if someone did that, I'd probably just find it funny.

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Luckily Evvie wouldn't be dumb enough to try to punch water to death so the battle should be up to the clashes of fire against water, which I assume will be like in anime where they hit each other and can force each other back and stuff. It can be explained that the spiritual nature of the attacks is what allow the two forces to collide in such a way.

I think the battle might depend on the battleground as you mentioned. Evvie can't swim and also gives your character a huge powerup anyways so that would be double doom for her. Maybe a series of small patches of beach with one big patch in the middle would be a fair environment. Some of the islands sink into the water over time but she can fly so that doesn't matter. Maybe in the center island is a rocky crater that if you're dragged into it's hard to get out of. As a random fact there are a ton of little crabs skittering about.

@ImportantNobody

If you're happy to fight in that kind of arena then feel free to set up the thread and describe it.

All the way down to the crabs...

the real villains.

If you need a set-up for story line reasons feel free to have Evvie checking out local rumours of a monster killing fishermen or something.

Hunt for the Bestial Keys: Mountain Goat

Havardr was certainly not displeased to see the man return unarmed, though he had wondered if his courage would fail him at what could possibly be the most important moment on his journey to date. He paused and stared deeply at the man as he asked his questions, interesting ones at that, though not what the King would have asked.

“What abilities will you gain?” The King repeated with a throaty chuckle. “I suspect the mountain will teach you her lessons, that the cold is to be weathered and endured and that to stand tall and unshakable is but a matter of perspective. I’m sure you will understand, should you succeed.” Havardr considered the second question, probably the more important at this moment.

“As you may have guessed, this challenge is not like many you have faced. You were supposed to come here now, this is the beginning of the rest of your journey, and as a result you have to be tested… without the powers you have borrowed thus far. If you are worthy, it shall all be returned to you, and with far more.” He shuffled his feet somewhat and bowed slightly.

“Now, the challenge is thus, we will venture you and me to the top of the world, the summit of this mountain, without attacking one another. If you reach the peak alive I will show you the route through the mountain… but to claim my secrets, what you call a ‘Key’ you must reach the summit before me.” The Mountain Goat then strangely began to walk down the mountain towards Kei’taro.

“You should hurry.” He laughed throatily, showing his confidence by providing the challenger with a clear head-start.

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Well, I could always give you another character to kill, but fire manipulation vs water manipulation is a good setup even if logically the fire would be put out easily.

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Yeah, I thought the fight would be interesting at least, and Evvie does have the tools to kill Anna.

People trapped in a giant melon

Tired Old Gun

The Tired Old Gun
First Name: Jonah
Nicknames: The Walker, The Drifter, The Wanderer, (tired) Old Gun, (among others)
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Ethnicity: Caucasian-American

Appearance:


Appearing Age: Between 55-65 years old

Hair: Just short of shoulder-length, unkempt, full, mostly grey with black strands.

Facial Hair: Full beard and moustache, hanging just below the jaw, mostly grey with a black tint.

Eye Colour: Green

Height: 5ft 11”

Weight: 75kg

Build: Wiry/Athletic

Clothing: Varies, if undescribed mostly likely wearing a brown duster coat, brown riding chaps, dirty black leather boots, and a stained grey undershirt. The only consistent item of clothing one can expect is his trusty brown felt cowboy hat.

Physical Characteristics:
Hand: Left Handed
Foot: Left Footed

Movement Range: Capable of minor acrobatics, fairly competent parkour, jumping height of around 6-8 feet, range of around 25 feet in long jump with a short run up.

Strength: Disproportionate, capable of the most extreme feats within human capabilities, but not beyond. (In simple terms, he could bench around 400kg of weight, allowing him to manhandle light opponents with ease and deliver powerful strikes. The rest of his muscles are comparative to this degree of upper body strength, allowing him to conceivably leg press much more.)

Agility: Though difficult to determine, Jonah’s reactions and agility are far beyond anything humans should be capable of, acting out the motion of drawing his weapon for example in fractions of a second. The closest estimate would place his agility at roughly three times that of the fastest human martial artists.

Durability: Unsurprisingly, his body seems to maintain itself particularly well under duress, lending him supernatural durability of a man roughly five times his size, increasing the difficulty of damaging his body by that same amount.

Endurance: As a result of his healing factor, Jonah ironically doesn’t get tired easily. He can fight under continued duress for up to an hour without any obvious signs of slowing down. (Though his personality tends to cause him to outwardly exhibit signs of fatigue often, this does not translate to literal muscle fatigue.)

Healing Factor: The bane of Jonah’s existence, his body is capable of regenerating cells at an advanced rate, reducing his aging process considerably and speeding up his healing by roughly three times. Extremely urgent wounds have a tendency to heal even faster, though this would make little outcome on the immediate circumstances of any conflict if he could survive a battle after sustaining a normally fatal wound it would likely be healed within a few days. His response to poisons, hallucinogens, and other nasty chemicals is somewhat different to a humans, in that his reaction to them is tempered significantly. Though they are all still effective there is no poison that could outright kill him in a single dose, and most chemical effects last far shorter periods of time.

Speed: In terms of pure running speed, Jonah isn’t particularly impressive, due to a seeming unwillingness to run around all that much. He could probably top 20mph at a flat out sprint, but such actions are rare.

Perception: With an inhuman perception, often likened to that of an eagle, Jonah could easily pick out the etchings on a bullet flying towards his head, and probably narrowly avoid it as well. Interestingly, his eyes are completely unaffected by the normally blinding effects of direct sunlight.

Senses: Other than eyesight, Jonah is not much different from any other human, though a lifetime of pain has allowed him to grow more accustomed to it than any human before him, his tolerance is such that he rarely if ever balks from any wound given to him.

Firearms:

Spouse: Six shot revolver, if its holder desires it takes on its true form, seen above, it is known to be particularly effective against the undead, seemingly imbuing ordinary rounds fired from it with some sort of holy quality. Otherwise it is normal.

Mistress: Six shot revolver, if its holder desires it takes on its true form, seen above, with a much darker decal. It has the innate ability to imbue ordinary rounds with a shadowy quality that allows them to by-pass solid structures, provided they are not touched by organic matter. Wounds suffered from Mistress are known to fester and inflame incredibly quickly, causing additional pain in a matter of seconds.

Magical properties:

The Shadow: Jonah’s shadow sits behind him regardless of the direction of the sun, betraying its supernatural properties. Though it follows the physics of an ordinary shadow in that its strongest in direct sunlight facing towards him, it still remains dimly even at night or in complete darkness.

All of Jonah’s magic is dependent on this shadow, if magic would be the right term for it. In ideal conditions when the shadow is strongest he has a large volume of power with which to use his abilities. Where-as in the worst possible conditions (strong sunlight directly behind him or a complete lack of light) he has only fifty percent of his total power. His abilities drain his shadow, reducing it and by extension the power of any further abilities he uses by a relative percentage) The shadow seems to restore itself at the stroke of midnight each night, and not a moment before.

Tired Gun: The ability for which Jonah was named, The Tired Gun is a state in which Jonah’s already formidable marksmanship and reflexes are further advanced by an inward slowing of the world around him, this reduces (to his own perception) everything around him to half the speed, save his own actions, which are only reduced by around 75%. There is a cost to the technique however, as his shadow is drained, to the degree that thirty seconds in the Tired Gun state would cut his shadow by half.

Shaded Volley: The limitations of a six shot revolver grow unimportant under the influence of this ability, which drains his shadow by 5% for each shot he fires. Essentially, it allows him to fire shadow rounds from his weapon, which form within the chamber of the weapon itself removing his need to reload. The rounds are similar in almost every-way to his normal bullets, except they are unique in that they pass through inorganic matter cleanly, though harder substances reduce the eventual impact damage so armour is not rendered completely useless.

The Reaper’s Cloak: A failsafe built into his accursed shadow, hostile attacks are unconsciously deflected by his shadow at a significant cost, and the ability only works until the shadow is at 25% of its power (which would allow him one such saving throw in the shadows weakest form). Each blow blocked in this fashion costs 25% of the shadow’s power regardless of its force, though to activate it has to pose a certain degree of threat, so crippling, wounding or straight up killing blows only. If a particularly powerful attack is predicted, the shadow reacts by preparing itself in a similar fashion, though the additional time it receives seems to result in the same power cost. (This is where the tier system comes into his power, allowing him some protection from powerful charged magical attacks.)

The Touch of the Dark: Jonah’s only real protection from psychological attacks and magic, Jonah’s shadow can reach out at a distance of around fifty feet in four different directions, the thin streams can detect obstructions and people if they come into contact with them, relaying the information to Jonah. Though it can be avoided by nimble opponents, the shadows are none-the-less very quick, though they are limited to ground contact only. Flying opponents are immune.

The Long Shadow: Arguably the most powerful of Jonah’s abilities, with the equally high cost of whatever remains of his shadow, The Long Shadow has an effect proportional to the shadow price paid, and can only be activated after a period of sustained combat (On the fifth of my turns after initiation of combat) Growing tall and dark behind Jonah, the shadow begins to move out of sync with his own movements, raising its arms high and then literally bursting through Jonah. With an effective cone of effect equal to ten feet in radius and length for every 10% of the shadows remaining strength, anyone caught in its effect is forced to undergo a terrifying experience within a shaded world. Whatever scenery happens to be around the fighters seemingly rots and melts away and shaded humanoids attack those drawn in by the attack with a multitude of slashing razor sharp claws. It’s nigh on impossible to avoid taking grievous harm at this point, as the volume of shades is so great, however some opponents may be more resistant to large numbers of gouging attacks than others. The time in which they are forced to defend themselves from these invulnerable shades is roughly three seconds for every 10% of the shadow used. Even with a somehow fully powered shadow the torment only lasts thirty seconds, before everyone involved is thrust back into the real world.

Some Technical Stuff: Obviously, there is likely to be situations where Jonah is forced into worse conditions for his shadow power, or likewise moves into more favourable conditions. For simplicity sake, there are three main conditions.

Favourable: Examples of favourable conditions are strong sunlight in front of him, or other powerful light sources, this causes his shadow to jump to its max capacity of 100%

Neutral: Sunlight above him, average light levels inside, overcast days. 75%

Unfavourable: Sunlight directly behind him, very low light levels, artificial darkness. 50%

The effect this has on the usable shadow is relative, for example should he have used 25% power of a total of 100% leaving him with 75/100 power, and then he is forced into complete darkness, he will be left with 37.5/50 power. Likewise, should he then step into neutral conditions he will be left with 57/75 power. The percentage will be rounded up and what-not for simplicity as it’s only a rough guideline of how much power he has at any one time. Ultimately, you as the opponent don’t need to worry much about this, it will be recorded at the bottom of each post how much remaining shadow exists. Oh, the joys of a mana pool. Or shadow pool in this case. Hopefully however the light conditions of combat won’t change significantly.

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Well, I'll challenge Evvie with Anna.

Though I hate to be fighting Evvie again, I'm probably going to feel terrible if I have to kill her for a third time.

I'm going to find every Arena Battleground that's outside I can possibly find and put them in a number generator, because the battleground is very important to Anna and I don't want to just pick an Arena where I'll have a huge advantage.

Alternatively we could just have a judge choose one at random, to be ever fairer.