Used @Fallenreaper's sheet as a general guide of info to include, but I definitely had trouble with a lot of the places exact numbers are used. If I could get some feedback on this, from whoever, that would be awesome. My first arena character bio, btw.
Ember Norrieth
Classification: Mild Realism/Normal, No Powers
Appearance
(Very few alterations from the image in her appearance and gear.)
Written Description: Ember's build is not overly imposing, but the fact that she's roughly in her physical prime is plain to see. She has a lithe, sleek shape, somewhat lacking in raw bulk, her musculature instead being compact and lean. Her appearance is ultimately very feminine. Her auburn hair reaches the small of her back when left loose, but she almost always wears it in a braid, keeping it away from her pale, light green eyes.
What skin she shows is fair and slightly pale, largely unmarred by scars or other markings, evidence that her combat experience largely consists of training, with few real life-or-death situations of battle under her belt. Her demeanor could most commonly be described as intense, almost aching for movement. There's an aggressiveness and a confidence to the way she carries herself, and though her mask often hides her full features, her eyes tell most of the story.
Equipment
(Again, see appearance image for references)
Weapons Longsword - Bladed weapon, double edged. Expertly forged, both lightweight and sturdy. Most effective when wielded with both hands, but still adequate with one-handed use. A balanced weapon with decent reach, a small round crossguard and a comfortable grip. Sheathed across her back when not drawn.
Throwing Daggers - Bladed weapons, double edged, 3 in total, kept in a pouch attached to her belt and upper leg with handles exposed for easy access. Most effective thrown across short distances, but useful enough in melee in a pinch. Ineffective against most armor, requires hitting vulnerable points.
Handguards - Steel handguards serve as metal knuckles to enhance punching attacks. Nothing remarkable, as Ember's punches aren't the most impressive, but they increase the chance of breaking bones on well placed strikes.
Armor
Lowest layer of Ember's top is lightly padded. Will somewhat reduce damage from punches/kicks or other non slashing/piercing attacks.
Her arms are covered by long leather gloves under hardened leather forearm guards, and steel handguards, along with her single pauldron.
Thigh-high leather boots, with plating protecting knees and feet.
Her mask will reduce the effects of inhalation from smoke or other gases.
In total, Ember has very little effective armor, and requires her to dodge attacks or deflect them with her weapon rather than absorb them.
Other Stimulant Injector - A small injector containing a liquid stimulant that aids Ember in combat, applied to either her upper arm or leg. Kept in a small pouch beside her knives. Significantly slows bleeding and dulls pain for (I could use some advice on a number) of Ember's turns. Can be used once per fight.
Skills
Senses & Attributes: All of Ember's senses are within a human range, but she has gone through significant training to hone them, specifically sight and hearing. All others are quite attuned, though naturally her sense of smell is dampened by the wearing of her mask.
All of her physical attributes are well above average for a human woman of her age, but still fall within human boundaries. Specifically things like her speed, dexterity, agility, conditioning, balance, and reaction times are excellent. Her strength and endurance are her least notable attributes, and thus her fighting style doesn't revolve around them.
Fighting Skill/Style: Ember's style consists of constant movement, skilled swordplay, and capitalizing on overextensions from her enemy. She looks to place herself in good positions to evade and counter enemy attacks, punishing whiffs with superior speed, and targeting weak points with precision, to make up for a lack of overwhelming force. She retreats back after most of her attacks, never seeking to remain in range of heavier melee opponents for long. In the case of ranged attackers, her attack is relentless, and her movements take her around flanks of her enemies after attacks rather than away from them.
She is very capable of parrying and countering most forms of light weaponry similar to her own, and seeks to deflect attacks and return with offense of her own rather than block them outright. She targets weak points with her throwing knives at close range to increase the difficulty of dodging or blocking, and seeks to avoid exchanging blows hand-to-hand or grappling as much as she can, as she is in a disadvantage most often in those situations.
Ember utilizes her combat stimulant in the event that she is wounded. It allows her to ignore painful injuries and continue fighting for a while as normally, but does not allow her to push beyond the limits of human endurance, and it only increases her pain tolerance so far. (History WIP.)
Cool character just two things really. 1. Your stimulant if it's a one use thing would probably be suitable for 2 or 3 of your turns. 2. You may want to reconsider the long-sword for an agile or acrobatic character. Partly because without very specifically designed sheath it's actually incredibly difficult to draw a sword from a sheath from ones back. Partly because it gets in the way on your hip. And partly because your character will be pretty vulnerable to ranged attacks with her armour while using that sword. Just my opinion though (except the sheath thing) take it or leave it.
In theory but significant obstacles do tend to show faintly for that reason. It's completely based off the a v p ability. I can accept that slimy physically could hold itself so it's body isn't behind the Mechs however the actual collision with the wall is the issu there. Slimy may not be pinned but in a hunched position he's also going to be launched off the front of the Mechs like a rocket sticky or not because of a lack of contact points to the Mechs. At least that's how I see it going down if slimy is in that somewhat awkward position
Well, I was just looking at the act from a physical perspective, your character doesn't seem to have lower legs, so presumably if it were perched on top of the Mech I don't really see how it's lower body wouldn't have to dangle downwards.
'Also just to point out Electro vision is based off the same thing in Alien Vs Predator for hunting the cold blooded Xenomorphs, it works by highlighting the bio-electrics in a creature that can't be hidden unless you effectively 'turn off' as your character can. Point being, mucous does not have any bio-electrics, so it would not impact the lens'
That only makes sense because the lizard is about a foot long though, where-as your creature is at least eight foot long in regards to its body and the Mech is only twice the size of a human. The space on top of the Mech for it to sit on is four foot long at most, so there's four feet of the creature's body unaccounted for that almost has to be dangling down the back of the Mech for it to make sense that it was able to attack the lens. Unless it's carrying out some immensely confusing contortions you haven't mentioned, such as sitting in a spiral on top of the Mech or something.
Haha, I almost told this story when I wandered over yesterday.
I'm not sure how legit this is, as Rilla sort of manipulated events and he was the GM, but it's still funny enough to warrant telling.
It was a simple day out for any fledgling adventurer party, we'd left the city perhaps an hour previous and were walking through a grassy plain holding a single tree. Out of no where, our party of Dwarf, Elf, Thief, Necromancer and others were beset upon by what can only really be described as a huge ferocious ostrich. Being a little unfamiliar with early game encounter logic, and feeling an axe throw wasn't that unbelievable, my Dwarf lobbed an axe into its chest as it ran straight into him. Understandably, it collapsed like a sack of spuds and I prepared to finish the beast off.
Unfortunately, Rilla was not best pleased that we had rekt his solitary chicken with minimal effort or bloody casualties.
Now, by this time the normal amount of people had dissapeared, A.K.A we had two idle players standing around, a thief and a mage I believe. The mage was to suffer a pretty rough demise, as Rilla had a literal horde of ostrich-chicken-monsters come to slay us. The mage was bitten and ripped apart, but Rilla did not stop there, oh no. He had to punish my upstart Dwarf for the audacity of murdering his chicken, and so with a mighty slam it launched poor Forsoff through the air, head-first into the idle thief player's ass. Needless to say, Forsoff was left dazed and confused as he picked himself up off the floor, only to find the thief had broken his neck on the tree branch and was now dead.
tl:dr giant chicken throws Dwarf headfirst into thief's ass, thief subsequently flies into branch and breaks neck, laughs were had, chickens were eaten, good times.
I don't really understand why its ribs were broken then? Slimy is just too long to settle on top of the Mechs head without part of its body dangling down.
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