Nyahahameha

Qlippoth Shift: A Supernatural Action RP About Combating Otherworldy Anomalies

now would be a difficult time for a character to join in with events anyway, so you haven't missed much.

@VitaVitaAR

Sooooo...does that mean I should postpone responding to Izurich's invitation? ^^; 'Cuz I was looking at this RP with some interest, and I have a character in mind I'd like to submit, but if it's not a good time, I'm okay waiting...

Symphony on High

Tobikatte Kira

MicroMart Front - Semi Trailer Rooftop

"HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!"

She wasn't even aware her voice could produce a shriek that high-pitched. But as the blood poured from her shoulder, so did the blood-curdling noise pour from her throat. She stumbled back a step, just from the shock of the sudden pain, and of seeing her arm dangling in the grasp of her adversary. Rage (and a healthy dose of adrenaline) soon quelled the pain - the first plan of action to form in Kira's mind was to grab her arm back from the palemancer and proceed to beat him to death with it, even as he raised his weapon for another swing at her. But she never got the chance to act on that idea and bring the mental image to life, as the next thing she knew, the trailer beneath her feet was lurching toward the side she was facing. She watched the palemancer get thrown from the trailer entirely, taking her arm with him, while the diagonal pull of gravity on her body caused her to turn toward the front of the truck and fall onto her back on the edge of the trailer rather than off of it completely.

The collision with the cold metal forced her mind to clear, causing her to register the wetness running down her right side. Fuckin' prick! Just haaaad to give 'im my right arm. Idiot! Next she registered the night sky above her, which was soon eclipsed by one of the zombie lizardpeople attempting to leap on top of her, the figure appearing upside-down in her vision. Acting completely on instinct, Kira performed a side roll, moving her not only out of the paleguard's path, but also off the trailer entirely.

Or it would have, had she not shifted her gravity to pull herself onto the side wall of the trailer. She'd gotten just enough airtime from the change in surface orientation to swing her legs under herself, allowing her to quickly get to her feet and stand sideways on the top edge of trailer's wall - placing her directly between the paleguard and the still airborne palemancer. Bending down to hold her torso upright, Kira held her left arm up in front of her and fired off a Melody.

"Fuck off!"

Kira then fell backward, bending her knees and using her left arm to hold herself in a bridge pose on the wall of the trailer, in order to dodge out of the way of the palemancer's soon to be airborne body.

"Yank!"

The projectile struck the paleguard just after it landed where she'd been laying, and the gravitational pull that acted on it sent it flying directly above Kira - putting it on a collision course with the palemancer. With the most immediate threat out of her hair for a moment, she quickly assessed the situation she now found herself in. She knew Espers were a hardy bunch, capable of regrowing limbs if needed, but not fast enough to avoid bleeding out from an untreated wound, and being down an entire limb would make her much less effective in a fight. She had to take care of her shoulder now.

Deciding the best course of action was to get the hell out of the fight for a moment, Kira dropped from her bridge pose to lay on her back, hugged her remaining arm to herself, and side rolled down the wall of the trailer. Her speedy little side roll carried her down toward the ground, though moving this way prevented her from even seeing what had become of her earlier Zone Melody. When she reached the bottom of the trailer, she altered her gravity one more time, pulling upward to keep herself from touching the ground. Even with the reduced space between the ground and the now dipped trailer, Kira was able to slip in and hide herself beneath the hulking mass of metal.

Finally, her rolling came to a stop, leaving her laying on her back on the underside of the trailer, facing the pavement. If someone looked under from the dipped side, she'd be completely hidden from view, albeit completely visible to anyone looking from the side that's now lifted. With hopefully a moment's peace, Kira reached under the hem of her now blood soaked white hoodie and pulled it up over her head, freeing most of her torso and her right shoulder from the garment. She also produced one of the several packs of medical supplies she had taken with her from one of the pockets lining the inside. Using her one remaining non-dominant hand, along with her teeth, she began the process of stemming, cleaning, and bandaging up her shoulder, which would have to involve bandaging across her torso and under her left arm.

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28 | Female | Freelancers | Mobile Trace-Equipped Cockpit
School of the Undefeated of the East | Hands | Physical | Winds of the King
Active Mass Balance Auto-Control | Assault Shroud
Fool Whose Soul is Bound by Earth's Gravity | Gravity | Psychoframe Resonance
[Weightless, Suspend], Pull, Slow, Restrain, Zone, AOE, Extend, Full Extend, Delay, Orbit, Powerful, Quicken, Purify

DAMAGE: C | SPEED: B | SENTINEL: E | 1000

[Silver Projectile][Pull] -30

PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: E | CHAOS: D | 482

Symphony on High

Tobikatte Kira

MicroMart Front - Semi Trailer Rooftop

”So says the privileged celebrity?”

It took a few moments for the retort to register in Kira's mind. Understandable, given she had to contend with the pain of being kneed in the stomach, the frustration of having her counter countered, and the extra pain of slamming back-first onto the top of the semi. At least she was practiced enough voice-wise that the grunts of pain didn't hurt her throat. And her Esper form's physical defenses meant the palemancer's attacks wouldn't get anywhere close to putting her down for good.

”So says the privileged celebrity?”

Eyes closed from the pain, images flashed by in her mind. Of being kicked out of her house by her parents for her sexual orientation "of choice". Of all the fights she got in trying to just find somewhere she could sleep. Of the looks passersby gave her when they saw how gross her hair was and how dirty her face was. Of spending the harsh winter of Edmonton warming herself up by getting into even more fights with others living on the street. Of doing something similar in a more organized manner by practicing her capoeira in Toronto. Of all the train rides across Canada she couldn't enjoy much scenery of without risking getting caught by security or falling off the damn thing like she had while going through that one tunnel in the Rockies. Of suddenly finding herself up on stage, in front of thousands of people, putting on what she thought would be her best show ever, not realizing she'd top it mere months later.

With a groan, Kira forced herself into seated position, opening her eyes just in time to witness everything go even more to shit upon the arrival of the true freak show. Looking past the palemancer, she could only watch as the cultists approached the crowd of homeless people, and began summarily slaughtering them. Heart beating in her throat, she began moving without thinking, running toward the back of the semi, planning to hop over the skelly-hand man and cast a Melody to get as many of them away from the killers as she could, but was forced back into a crouching position when the floor beneath her feet lurched forward, punctuated by the roar of the semi's engine.

"Fuck shit!"

The forced moment of pause allowed her mind to run. At that point, the homeless people were spread too thin for her to effectively help them move away. The better idea would be to lock down the cultists, but she was willing to bet they had Espers among their ranks, and given how out of nowhere they showed up, they must have at least one adept with movement-based Melodies. Plus, if she and skelly-hand were still going at it, neither of them would be able to focus on the new threat.

”So says the privileged celebrity?”

Kira got back on her feet and closed the rest of the distance to the palemancer. She threw her right arm over his shoulders while altering gravity on herself, tilting it slightly the direction so it pulled both downward and also in the direction the semi beneath them was moving, in order to keep her steady on top of it and prevent skelly-hand from falling off as well.

"Room!"

With her outstretched left hand, Kira fired a projectile Melody at the thickest part of the group of cultists. Upon hitting, it created a 20 x 20 x 10-foot zone identical to the one she'd made earlier, visible only by the darkening of things seen through its limits. She pointed her finger to her direct right, changing gravity for enemies inside the zone to pull in the direction of the side of the MicroMart with enough force to throw them out of the side of the zone and slam them against the wall. Any of the homeless people caught in the zone would be unaffected this time.

”So says the privileged celebrity?”

"Fine, I can admit it: I coulda' done a better job a' pullin' other people up with me," Kira said, keeping her eyes on the cultist group as she spoke to the palemancer. "In my defense, the rise was so quick, I barely had time to really notice I ain't in the same place I was. Like, socioeconomically-speakin'. So says the privileged celebrity who used t' worry if I'd find my box trashed after I was done dancin' on the street for..."

Her face scrunched in thought, then turned to meet the palemancer's eyes with a nostalgic look in her own as she smirked weakly. "...average a' maybe thirty bucks a day, if I was lucky? That's in Canadian, mind. But I ain't gonna' have the chance t' correct that mistake if the people I owe it to get done in here. "

Kira stood up on the still-moving semi trailer, and offered her hand to the palemancer to help him stand, too.

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28 | Female | Freelancers | Mobile Trace-Equipped Cockpit
School of the Undefeated of the East | Hands | Physical | Winds of the King
Active Mass Balance Auto-Control | Assault Shroud
Fool Whose Soul is Bound by Earth's Gravity | Gravity | Psychoframe Resonance
[Weightless, Suspend], Pull, Slow, Restrain, Zone, AOE, Extend, Full Extend, Delay, Orbit, Powerful, Quicken, Purify

DAMAGE: C | SPEED: B | SENTINEL: E | 1000

[Gold Projectile][Zone][If Foe][Pull] -168

PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: E | CHAOS: D | 512

Symphony on High

Here's another one. XD I think I managed to balance her! It was fun working out how to make her weird power set work here.

The Technol-Angel

NAME:

Elvira Faulks / The Technol-Angel

AGE:

22

SEX:

Female

APPEARANCE:

Normal

• Pale skin, caucasian
• Brown hair, reaching middle of back, with feathered bangs reaching to just above the brow
• Black eyes, large and round, behind a pair of big, thick glasses with black frames
• 5'10", with long, thin limbs and a nearly curveless figure; lanky
• Generally wears sweaters or knit tops, and long skirts that reach past the knee, capped of with Ugg boots

Esper Form

• Pink hair, reaching the middle of back, which flows from inside of a grey helmet, which is connected to chin and jaw armor by black material that passes in front of her ears
• Only the shadow of her eyes is visible past the pale blue visor, which covers down to the bridge of her nose and leaves the bottom half of her face exposed
• Body is covered by a skintight black suit overrun with glowing pale blue lines imitating the look of electrical circuits, over which sits asymmetrical pieces of grey armor that protect her torso, arms, legs, and feet

GRIMIORE:

Ne Zha

A set of two bracelets and two anklets that Elvira wears on her wrists and ankles; her Instrument Glamour on her right wrist, her Style Glamour on her right ankle, her Genre Glamour on her left wrist, her Leitmotif Glamour on her left ankle. Transforming into Esper form while not in possession of any one of them will prevent her from making use of its respective Glamour.

INSTRUMENT:

H.A.L.O.s

A set of four wide, flat, discus-esque rings which glow a pale blue, floating while spinning around The Technol-Angel's wrists and ankles. The Hologram-Augmented Lightbringing Obras carry The Technol-Angel's body while in their neutral form, allowing her to float off the ground and avoid falling damage, but not fly in the air. They can be swung like chakram and thrown like discus up to a distance of 15 feet, returning to The Technol-Angel after reaching that distance or striking a target or obstruction.

GRADE: Diamond
KEYWORD: Hands
DAMAGE TYPE: Arcane
DAMAGE: C
SPEED: A
SENTINEL: B
SPECIAL: H.A.L.O. SYSTEM: By utilizing Self Craft Melodies, the disc-like rings can be positioned in different configurations on The Technol-Angel's body to activate different Modes, which create hardlight holograms capable of bestowing a variety of abilities:

Sword Mode

When positioned in front of one of The Technol-Angel's closed fists, a H.A.L.O. will produce a 24 inch (60 cm) long beam sword of pale blue hardlight from the space inside the ring. Multiple rings arranged in a line in front of a fist will produce longer beam swords; 48 inches (121 cm) using two, 72 inches (183 cm) using three, and 106 inches (269 cm) using all four. The longer the blade, the fewer H.A.L.O.s available for defense and maneuvering. These blades of light, while able to cut clean through almost any synthetic or mineral substance, are not able to inflict physical damage on organic matter; instead, organic beings experience only the physical sensation of the wound that would have been inflicted. This can cause fainting if the brain is made to believe the body has suffered a fatal wound, such as a beheading or heart stabbing.

KEYWORD: Sword
DAMAGE TYPE: Arcane
DAMAGE: E to organic matter, S to inorganic matter
SPEED: A
SENTINEL: E

Shoot Mode

A H.A.L.O. positioned in front of one of The Technol-Angel's open palms will be able to fire fist-sized projectiles of blue light. These projectiles have the same effect on different types of matter as Sword Mode.

KEYWORD: Wand
DAMAGE TYPE: Arcane
DAMAGE: E to organic matter, C to inorganic matter
SPEED: B
SENTINEL: A

Shield Mode

Three H.A.L.O.s arranged in a triangle in front of The Technol-Angel's forearm will create a pale blue hardlight shield.

KEYWORD: Shield
DAMAGE TYPE: Arcane
DAMAGE: E
SPEED: A, D if Sword Mode or Shoot Mode is also active
SENTINEL: S, B if Sword Mode or Shoot Mode is also active

Cannon Mode

If all four halos are arranged in a square in front of both The Technol-Angel's open palms, they will be able to combine their power into a beam cannon. This beam will have the same effect on different types of matter as Sword Mode.

KEYWORD: Staff
DAMAGE TYPE: Arcane
DAMAGE: E to organic matter, S to inorganic matter
SPEED: E
SENTINEL: A

Arm Mode

Two H.A.L.O.s, one positioned around the wrist and one positioned around the bicep, will create a glowing blue hardlight arm around The Technol-Angel's regular arm. This increases the striking power and lifting power of her arm, giving her enough strength to push or even overturn a sedan all by herself.

KEYWORD: Hands
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
DAMAGE: A
SPEED: D
SENTINEL: A

Wheel Mode

Four H.A.L.O.s, two positioned around her ankles and two positioned vertically under the soles of her feet, will allow her to move at S rank speed. It also allows her to move on vertical or upside-down surfaces. Kicks performed in this mode are also enhanced.

KEYWORD: Hands
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
DAMAGE: C
SPEED: S
SENTINEL: C

Wing Mode

All four H.A.L.O.s, positioned in a horizontal line behind The Technol-Angel's back, will create hardlight wings. This mode provides the effect of a [Bronze Self][Weightless] Melody, and is subject to the same restrictions and costs the same amount of mana to use. The Technol-Angel will not be able to use this Mode again for 5 seconds after it expires.

KEYWORD: Greatshield
DAMAGE TYPE: Arcane
DAMAGE: E
SPEED: E
SENTINEL: E

STYLE:

Zhang Fei Obstructing Changban Bridge

The steel armor and helmet covering The Technol-Angel's body. Rather than her body, it primarily protects the circuitry beneath, which is responsible for relaying power to the H.A.L.O.s and allowing her to control them remotely.

GRADE: Bronze
PHYSICAL: E
ARCANE: D
CHAOS: C

GENRE:

H.A.L.O. Management Software

A Genre tuned entirely toward management of the H.A.L.O. System. Because The Technol-Angel's mana is required to power the H.A.L.O.s, she must heavily limit her mana use compared to other Espers, and as such only expends it to operate the H.A.L.O. System. She can, if needed, use the HUD of her visor to Reveal things that are hidden.

GRADE: Bronze
ELEMENT: Light
NOTES: [Reveal], Craft

LEITMOTIF:

Great Red Spirit

GRADE: Bronze
SPECIAL: The Technol-Angel's constantly active mana circuits power the H.A.L.O.s, but also make her impossible to conceal while in Esper form, not helped by the glowing apparatus.

PR:

Yuan Shao's Treasury

GRADE: Bronze
GEAR: Flash Bang x2, Medical Supplies x2

BACKUP:

N/A

FACTION:

Maverick Alternative

TRIVIA:

• The quiet and bookish sort; tends to feel awkward in most social situations
• Loves history as a subject, and gets easily invested in media that makes use of historical figures and settings (Musou series, Fate series, etc)
• Puts on a heroic persona in Esper form - it helps that it hides her face partially
• Would like to have a cat for a pet but lives alone and would feel guilty leaving it at home while on missions
• She was first recruited by G.E.M.I.N.I. when she became an Esper at 18 years old, but recently defected from the faction upon witnessing one of its members inflict horrific brutality upon non-hostile monsters

Symphony on High

Tobikatte Kira

MicroMart Front - Air Above Street

Having correctly anticipated how their speedy enemies would move, Kira had already turned her gaze to where she'd come from, and the sight of the undead lizard people and their ringleader approaching her previous position had prepared her well for their next move against her. The sight of the palemancer leaping into the air and brandishing a weapon made a smirk form on Kira's face, having every confidence in her ability to engage in close range aerial combat. Boy, you're just fulla' bad ideas, aren't'cha?

She started by altering gravity's pull on her body again, bringing her horizontal freefall in the direction of the truck to a halt as if she'd used a Self Suspend Melody. She rotated her body, leaving her floating upside-down in midair as the palemancer closed the distance. Kira intercepted the blade of the palemancer's scythe with her right foot while channeling her magic through it, casting a Melody that would suspend the next thing her foot came into contact with using gravitational force on all sides. The movement of the scythe's center of gravity would be slowed to the point of no longer having enough force to cut, if it was able to be moved at all, and she didn't plan on giving her bone-armed assailant enough time to figure out it could still be rotated around its center of gravity while suspended.

"You got some nerve, takin' advantage of the most vulnerable period a' these people's lives..."

Her confident expression fully soured as Kira allowed to surface the feelings that had been stewing since being greeted by the sight of a crowd of homeless people as her foes, and she reached forward in an attempt to grab the palemancer's left ankle with her right hand. If she succeeded, Kira would immediately cast a high grade Melody on herself - a huge gravitational force acting on her body would bring both her and the palemancer she would have grip of hurtling toward the side of the semi's trailer, Kira falling feet-first with the palemancer trailing over her head.

"...to manipulate 'em to your own shitty ends!"

Kira would transfer this force directly into the palemancer by overhead swinging him face-down onto the wall of the trailer, while making adjustments to gravity's pull on her body to avoid shattering her own ankles upon landing on the side of the trailer herself. With the amount of force the palemancer would hit the trailer with, the entire thing would begin to tilt sideways, with Kira's altered gravity letting her stand on the wall and raise her head upward.

"TOBIKATTE KIRA IS NOT GONNA' STAND FOR THIS SHIT!!!" she would roar, loud enough to be heard even over the metallic creaking of the semi settling back into position as it recovered from the force that tilted it.

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28 | Female | Freelancers | Mobile Trace-Equipped Cockpit
School of the Undefeated of the East | Hands | Physical | Winds of the King
Active Mass Balance Auto-Control | Assault Shroud
Fool Whose Soul is Bound by Earth's Gravity | Gravity | Psychoframe Resonance
[Weightless, Suspend], Pull, Slow, Restrain, Zone, AOE, Extend, Full Extend, Delay, Orbit, Powerful, Quicken, Purify

DAMAGE: C | SPEED: B | SENTINEL: E | 1000

[Gold Touch][Suspend][Multi-Cast] -120, [Gold Self][Pull](Psychoframe Resonance) -24 (only if grab succeeds)

PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: E | CHAOS: D | 704 (680 if grab succeeds)

Symphony on High

Tobikatte Kira

MicroMart Front - Roof Across Street

The truck came to a stop. Kira's eyes narrowed as her brain shot into overtime to reassess. She had figured the truck had been moving in the first place because they were planning to take the water somewhere, and the presence of Espers would just make them more eager to get it to its destination. But instead, it stopped when they were spotted. No, forget why. Stopped truck doesn't need to be prevented from getting away. New plan, now!

Kira looked down at the crowd below, a smile spreading across her face as her new course of action formed in her mind. Please, I control bigger crowds than this once every month.

Before she could act on it, her attention was drawn by the man on the hood rallying the crowd around the truck, but the moment his hired help burst out from the truck, Kira's mind gave her a swift figurative kick in the pants. She leapt into the air while zeroing out gravity's pull on her body, imitating the effect of a [Self][Weightless] Melody and allowing her to soar off the rooftop with some forward momentum, moving her in the direction of the MicroMart as her floating body turned horizontal. At the same time, she held out her hand in front of her toward the ground with fingers splayed, and cast a Melody.

"Room!" called out Kira, floating about 18 feet in the air above the street, having leapt from the roof of a one-story building. Beneath her grew a rectangle, visible only by the way it darkened the view of things seen through it, that reached 20 by 20 by 10 feet, covering from the direct outside of the MicroMart where Sovereign was, to just past the middle of the road. Kira then pointed her finger toward the sky behind her. In response, all of the vagrants within the zone, and the pale guards rushing Himiko, would feel themselves begin to be pulled upward into the air. Those who eventually reached the top of the cube would exit it, only for Earth's normal gravity to make them fall back into it, leaving them bobbing up and down about 10 feet off the ground.

Afterward, Kira would alter gravity's pull on her body, causing her to list in the direction the now parked semi while maintaining her ~20 foot altitude. Her body twisted in midair, her head angled toward the truck while turned to face back toward the rooftop she'd come from. She had moved before observing, so she wasn't sure, but at the speed those creepy dead lizardmen looked like they were moving toward the blonde girl in front of the MicroMart at, if any of them had been targeting her before she moved, chances were they would be coming from that roof.

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28 | Female | Freelancers | Mobile Trace-Equipped Cockpit
School of the Undefeated of the East | Hands | Physical | Winds of the King
Active Mass Balance Auto-Control | Assault Shroud
Fool Whose Soul is Bound by Earth's Gravity | Gravity | Psychoframe Resonance
[Weightless, Suspend], Pull, Slow, Restrain, Zone, AOE, Extend, Full Extend, Delay, Orbit, Powerful, Quicken, Purify

DAMAGE: C | SPEED: B | SENTINEL: E | 1000

[Bronze Spawn][Zone][Extend][If Foe][Pull] = 176 MP

PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: E | CHAOS: D | 824

Symphony on High

Alright, all my CSes have Graded Leitmotifs now.

Symphony on High

@PonnWell, Mika's didn't, so I thought they weren't supposed to be listed, since you can usually just process of elimination it O.o I can correct that though if it's too confusing.

Symphony on High

Here's another one. Why not? :)

Molly & Geno

NAME:

Geno, Molly

AGE:

1,200, 10

SEX:

Male, Female

APPEARANCE:

• Light brown wood; an olden-day hand puppet
• No hair; wears a jester hat of purple base colour with yellow stars and three silver bells
• Glass eyes with smoothed, wide and flat black stones for pupils, half-covered by his hat; sliding wooden panels for eyelids
• 8" tall, having no legs; instead a hole in the bottom of the torso hiding a handle with levers for puppeteer's hand to manipulate eyelids and mouth
• Wears a cloak that matches the colour and pattern of the jester hat

,

• Pale skin; caucasian
• Black hair in a short bob cut
• Black eyes; big, empty and lightless
• 4'3"
• Gothic lolita-style dress, mostly black with a strip of white down the middle, with white ruffles around the shoulders and knee-length skirt

GRIMIORE:

Geno

An ancient wooden hand puppet which holds the soul of a magus who was imprisoned in Medieval Britain.

INSTRUMENT:

Geno

The hard wood Geno's body is made from might make for a half-decent weapon in a pinch. But probably not.

GRADE: N/A
KEYWORD: Hands
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
DAMAGE: F
SPEED: F
SENTINEL: F

STYLE:

Ancient Magus' Cloak

The cloak around Geno's puppet body does not extend it's protection to his puppeteer.

GRADE: N/A
PHYSICAL: F
ARCANE: F
CHAOS: F

GENRE:

Ancient Magus' Dark Arts

The lifetime of magical knowledge Geno accumulated before his imprisonment.

GRADE: Gold
ELEMENT: Fire
NOTES: [Ignite, Fever] Damage, Shield, Reflect, Magic Sense, Mana Burn, Restrain, AOE, Rain, Channel, Homing, Piercing, Avoid
SPECIAL: ANCIENT MAGUS' WISDOM: Geno can alter the Element of a Melody to any Element except Light, Dark, and Gravity. This does not give him access to Element-specific notes outside of those for Fire.

LEITMOTIF:

Soul Eater

GRADE: Gold
SPECIAL: In order to preserve his soul's ability to anchor itself to this world, Geno siphons the soul of any human who puppeteers him, usually resulting in death for those humans, which gained him the reputation of being a cursed item. Having taken a shine to his latest puppeteer, he has taught her the ability to replenish her own soul by eating the souls of others. This can only be done on a living being, and the act takes two full turns to perform, finishing on the third turn after initiating. Doing so not only preserves Molly's life, but restores Mana for Geno; the souls of non-sapient creatures restore a third of max Mana, the souls of sapient creatures restore half of max Mana, and the souls of monsters restore full Mana.

PR:

Rich Girl's Allowance

GRADE: Bronze
GEAR: Tazer, Disguise, Medical Supplies x2, Handcuffs

BACKUP:

N/A

FACTION:

Maverick Alternative

TRIVIA:

• Geno can only move and speak while Esper form is active. And it's a good thing, too, because almost nobody wants to listen to the rantings of a bigoted grump
• Molly is a quiet sort, only yet at the start of her journey to unlearn lessons like "do not speak unless spoken to"
• Geno battled monsters in the days of old similar to how Espers do today, but was sealed inside a puppet by those who feared his desire to learn and use powers used by monsters
• Molly is the only daughter of a wealthy and influential politician living in Pax Septimus, who has kept her disappearance under wraps
• Molly and Geno met in an antique store in Pax Septimus, her having been drawn to him a similar way to how most Espers are drawn to their Grimoires, and he finding Molly's gilded cage-constrained life similar enough with his own wooden imprisonment to empathize with
• Molly receives all the physical improvements most Espers get when transforming, but Geno is the one the Instrument, Style, and Genre Glamours apply to
• Geno is reliant on Molly for mobility, and has found himself saddled with a soft spot for her he typically does not feel for most people. As such, she has some power over him, and won't hesitate to get violent with him if his foul mouth gets too far out of line

Symphony on High

Tobikatte Kira

MicroMart Front - Roof Across Street

Kira had taken note of the arrival of two other people in front of the MicroMart as she continued humming. She wasn't too concerned with the movement on the distant hill she'd noticed before laying down, either; cultists weren't known for having immediate access to long range weaponry nor were they known for having a high number of Espers in their ranks, so chances were, if the distant figures presented a threat at all, it wouldn't be immediate. What did cause her to cease humming and sit up, however, was the faint sound of voices coming from the rear of the mart.

Narrowing her eyes as she gazed at the top of the MicroMart across the street, she tried to concentrate on what she was hearing, but she was too far away to catch most of it. What was most audible were the cheers of a crowd of some size, which seemed to be responding to a single voice. Is there some kinda' rally happenin' back there?! That sounds like way more people than I was hopin' to have to fight, Kira remarked inwardly, slowly moving to standing position. The thought occurred to her that, if there were that many cultists here, they'd probably have plenty extra to leave on watch. Chances are the Freelancers here wouldn't have as much of the element of surprise as she'd hoped they would.

The roar of a diesel engine confirmed Kira's concerns, making her grit her teeth in consternation. She almost didn't hear the footsteps of the congregation that were moving alongside it. But she wasn't about to miss the sight of them, pouring out of the front entrance of the MicroMart. Nor was she about to miss that the semi was being driven out from behind the MicroMart, coming around from behind the building and driving down the side of it toward them. She wasn't sure what the two other Espers here were capable of, but she did know she could stop that truck from leaving. She didn't want to damage its contents, though, and it was also surrounded by people, so simply pulling it over wasn't the best plan. No, if she wanted to flip it without harming the people currently surrounding it, she'd need to wait for the right moment.

Kira's eyes darted back and forth between truck and the crowd of...homeless people? Right...wouldn't be hard to get people who feel like they have nothin' left to lose to join a cult. Probably told 'em they'd make the world that failed them a better place or somethin'.

From what she could tell, the people in the crowd had no projectile weapons, if they were armed at all. Could those weapons even hurt an Esper? No, don't underestimate them, Kira told herself. She decided to begin doing a simple dance that kept her moving from side to side, making her a more difficult target in the event something was thrown at her. It would also help her keep their attention on her.

"Where ya' goin' in such a hurry?! The party hasn't even started yet!" Kira taunted, her already gravelly voice full of vocal fry and her consternation having given way into a confident-looking grin. She wasn't addressing anyone in particular, but if anyone was going to answer, she would bet the important-looking one on the hood of the truck would be it, given how much he stood out from the rest. Which worked for her - she could make it look like she was talking to him while actually keeping an eye on the truck. She just had to wait for it to start turning onto the road in front of the MicroMart...

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28 | Female | Freelancers | Mobile Trace-Equipped Cockpit
School of the Undefeated of the East | Hands | Physical | Winds of the King
Active Mass Balance Auto-Control | Assault Shroud
Fool Whose Soul is Bound by Earth's Gravity | Gravity | Psychoframe Resonance
[Weightless, Suspend], Pull, Slow, Restrain, Zone, AOE, Extend, Full Extend, Delay, Orbit, Powerful, Quicken, Purify

DAMAGE: C | SPEED: B | SENTINEL: E | 1000

PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: E | CHAOS: D | 1000