’Thank you Lady Luck!’ Aurelio was screaming internally as he escaped with surprisingly light injuries altogether. A nasty scrape and a light bit of lacerations on his leg were much less than he expected to get away with, but sometimes luck went his way.
That moment of elation was nearly lost as he glanced over and saw that Alicia had been a much worse recipient of the spear spell from their unnamed interloper. Aurelio wasn’t entirely sure he should count her as an ally anymore due to all the friendly fire.
He didn’t lose the Elation however; it was too useful of an emotion to give up after all. Holding it close to him he raced forward two copies popping into existence as he ran, they were simple clones no real magic in them. As he only needed them as lookouts, his entire focus was on Alicia.
As he approached the Elation he held shifted and grew as he tapped into the revisor of emotion he made sure to carry with him. In this revisor he only carried three different emotions. The three strongest emotions in his opinion. Love, Wonder and Hate. He never had any of those emotions in large supply as true displays of them were rare and hardly public. But he did have Love at the moment. And for a friend obviously seriously wounded in possibly hostile environment? It was no question that he would dip into his limited stock for her.
Sann was ignored as Aurelio knelt next to Alicia. The manifested blade of light was ignored as he gripped his cane tightly, his eyes closed in concentration. “Storgḗ” he would intone as a white flow of light would start pouring from his focus. And instantly Alicia was flooded with relief. The pain was simply gone and her injuries were mending. It was magical healing at its finest, even if it might not be at its fastest. But that was understandable as Alicia’s mana was also being restored and her appearance was being cleaned up as well. As this was more than just healing it was restoration.
The feeling it invoked were numerous; warmth, annoyance, pride, tenderness, acceptance, happiness, sadness, hope, comfort. Yet despite all that, the central idea in the magic was simple. Family. And that shown though the spell with blazing clarity. Alicia was Family. Because to Aurelio, Beacon was family. And family deserved the best when they were in need.
Chaos was the best word to describe the raging conflict in the industrial district. Allies and enemies kept appearing in equal measure, but the magical girls were holding. More than that they were winning! Slowly, but surely, they were turning back the tide.
Dina’s presence was a great boon to the Sanctuary girls, the other reinforcements just compounded that. Hope was on the rise, and it looked like they would be getting out of here mostly alive even if it was much more banged up than expected.
Then Justine quit the battle field. Redeemed Sinner that she was she was no insignificant contributor to the fight. A bad loss to be sure but not yet a fatal one.
Ashlyn was the first to notice her tactics shifting to compensate. She shied away from offense more, her arms now being used as living barricades more often than not as she also conjured basic translucent red walls of reinforcement to block what blows she could see. The urging in the back of her mind was growing louder and louder. She needed to protect them. Needed to Protect them. Her offense faltered even further as she was losing the focus needed to push her instincts away. Though her defensive timing only grew sharper.
Belladonna was the most effected by Ashlyn’s shift in tactics. She couldn’t go out and harass the enemies anymore, but that didn’t mean she was any less dangerous. Her ears were on a constant swivel as at last she had stopped laughing, though her manic grin had hardly dimmed. Her strikes simply grew sharper, her ranged was limited but her claws were easily capable of rending limbs, and her kicks were strong enough to decapitate if landed squarely.
Monica was still in the fight, the monsters trying to attack her running head long into walls of fire. Her mood was clear as day. So long as you understood Greek that was. As she was cursing and swearing near constantly as the fight progressed. It sounded like a chant due to the musical quality her voice had, but for anyone who understood the language she was cursing up a blue streak.
Then Mayra also chose to quit the battle as well. One ace leaving was painful, but survivable. Both of them? That was a death sentence for someone. Because as much as everyone was pulling together to face this onslaught, they were still outnumbered. There were thirteen Wendigos left, possibly more that were only playing dead.
Just like that the fight gained a desperate edge. Which only further drained them. How long could they last before they lost someone, this time permanently?
But the fight carried on, injures piling up as the fighters grew sloppy due to exhaustion. It was only a matter of time until someone made a mistake. And when it came it was Ashlyn. The cause was her degrading rationality. She needed to protect others, a noble set of instincts to be sure. But they denied her the ability to recognize herself as someone who needed protecting. So, she got so caught up in doing everything she could to prevent anyone else she could see from taking another hit.
She never saw the Wendigos sneak up on her. Three at once ramming into her unprotected side. Two trying to tear into her with their filthy claws, the last trying to gore her with its antlers. Her skin was naturally thick and tough, further bolstered by Dina’s enhancements. But there was only so much that could be done when Ashlyn simply wasn’t trying to defend herself.
The claws only left scrapes, ragged ones, but better than tearing any deeper. The antlers landed with a sick crack that could only mean badly broken ribs, possibly worse.
The oni was launched away, breaking the triangle formation, leaving the flank exposed. Her scream of pain was only eclipsed by Monica’s outcry of concern. The pack of Wendigos descended on the obviously downed member, and neither Monica or Belladonna could reach Ashlyn in time.
Luck had finally run out it seemed.
Monica was struck numb, unable to act, paralyzed by the fact she was about to lose Ashlyn.
Then the world shook as an impact rocked the alleyway. From above descended a bolt of living wrath that fell upon the beasts that converged over Ashlyn without mercy.
Rejoice; her presence seemed to command as the roar of her interjection at last resounded out. Four dead Wendigos flaking away around her.
Rejoice, for The Queen had arrived.
And bad things were about to happen to all who threated her Sanctuary.
one minute to impact The repeated attacks on her home, the threats that lingered in the dark unspoken by the Mint and by Ascendency. The gall and insolence of Monsters to strike into claimed territory. Her undiminished anger from earlier. The echo of a faded need to destroy. All of these things swirled inside Penny as she raced through the City.
Her home was on the other side of Penrose, and before this moment her record for crossing that distance on foot had been forty-five minutes. But that was because Penny played her capabilities close to her chest. No one really knew what she was fully capable at any given moment but her.
But she was done with hiding right now, done with letting her home look like a soft target because she was only so strong.
So that vast distance? Was gone in a fraction of the time.
Anyone connected to the local network knew when Penny entered the industrial district as well. Because her presence was suddenly everywhere within it. Every camera, every phone, every bit of GPS running software had Penny’s touch on it.
This area of the City was hers. Earned by right. And she was going to show everyone watching just why they needed to stop messing with it.
When she only had a street left, she would simply go up and over the last building in her way. Launching herself high she would take in the chaos below with a sharp and experienced eye. Then she let herself fall. Past the phoenix and through Shane’s pocket storm, though she did steal a stray bolt or two from the latter.
Impact
Penny wasted no time in showing exactly why she was so dangerous. She didn’t give anyone a chance to adapt to her presence, no moment to recover from her impact. She was instantly in motion again. Each attack she gave off was blisteringly fast, and savagely aimed. Death was her preferred outcome, but it was readily apparent that dismemberment was just as viable an alternative.
Earlier Belladonna bounced and ricocheted around the alleyway on her own like a violent wind of fang and claw. Penny now was all that and more. her claws would lash out with the force of of jackhammers, ripping though flesh and bone with frightening ease due to the projected energy blades lining her fingers. Her spider limbs brimmed with caged lightning and writhed about her lancing through skulls and chests with machine precision.
The bright blue of her energy fields, her elongated frame, and her near ephemeral appearance as steams of electricity arced off her as she tore into the host of beasts that dared attack her home gave off a freighting visage.
It was a sight that few people had ever seen. A Penny who wasn’t holding back to wear down her foe. A Penny who simply wanted you dead.
Penny would just roll her eyes at her girlfriend, and her question, an easy smile slipping onto her features as she did. A moment later three of her spider limbs were lashing out to comply with the request.
“Nice to mee you as well Ka’ris” Penny would return the greeting. “And yeah, it can take a bit of getting used to, lots of things to figure out.” She’d add on, not truly understanding what it was that the newer magical was meaning by their statement. Conversation was derailed however by the murder of crows overhead. “Not usually no.” Penny would answer eyes narrowing at the off feeling she could sense from them. It was at that moment that Snoopy would deliver Elora’s update, and with it a spark of dread.
“The Sanctuary!” Penny would exclaim. She was certain that the conflict over there should have been cleared up by now. The fact that it wasn’t meant that the original numbers were off, or it had escalated somehow. Either way. “More monsters I have to go.” She’d toss out quickly as her legs erupted in light as she activated her hover jets and raced off.
Unsure and worried about the situation Penny was hardly passive as she raced towards the coordinates attached. She focused inward, pulling forth blueprints, protocols, and subroutines. Speed was the name of the game right now.
The world seemed to slow down as Penny accelerated even further. Her systems already adjusted for the enhanced speed she was calling forth due to her Lightning Enhancement and Weapon Transformation. While Penny was normally fast, now she was even faster. A near living bolt of lightning as she darted across the city leaving a trail of arcing ribbons of lighting in her wake.
There was an inherent disadvantage of being outnumbered, one that normally Aurelio was more than capable of counterbalancing just by his magical capabilities. That said there was still a lot of work to be done to try and balance out a three vs ten fight. Even if the numbers had already shifted in his and Alicia’s favor.
Thus, it wasn’t a great surprise that one of the Wendigo’s had been able to close in on him. He bit back a cry as he felt the jaws close around his leg. But that hardly slowed down his retaliation. With a flourish he brought his cane down like a golf club into the back of the wendigo’s neck. Yes, it wrenched the beast’s jaws around his already hurt leg, deep enough to draw blood if the warmth that suddenly coated his leg was any indication.
But Aurelio’s cane was a focus and a weapon in its own right. At the moment of impact, it would draw as much Hunger from the Wendigo as was safe, mix it with the Anger already contained in the cane and then unleash all of the emotions as a flock of magical guillotine blades. The blades would be sent out towards the beats closing in on Alicia.
Which is why he was able to get Alicia’s warning of Sann’s impending attack. One he wouldn’t be able to dodge due to the incapacitated beast on his leg. “Crap!” Acting as quickly as he could he pulled as much Determined will as he could muster in a hurry and jammed his cane in the ground in front of him. A tall three sectioned Green box would rapidly begin materializing to encapsulate and protect the Magician.
Though he doubted it would be fast enough to prevent all the incoming damage.
The Sanctuary Vanguard was in a tight spot and they knew it. They were starting to collect injuries and they enemies still far outnumbered them. Not that this deterred them. If anything, it seemed to spur them on even more, though that might also just be the desperation starting to leak in.
Ashlyn, covered in wounds as she was, had planted herself like a stone guardian. Refusing to give any ground. Her ghostly juggernaut had faded in its place was a three headed Ashura. This spirit seemed to give her all around vision as she reacted to attacks and movement from all directions. Her weapons of choice were six large ghostly replicas of her own arms with would appear and disappear at her command. There was a growing mania in her eyes as well. She needed to protect Hanna and her friend. Needed to.
Monica was fairing better. In the fact that she was the least injured of the three. Her clothes were enchanted, thus hardier. Her weapon a gift from Hephaestus, thus deadlier. Her magic was fire, thus more lethal. But she didn’t have the stamina for long protracted fight, not like Ashlyn and Belladonna did. So, she was starting to flag. She still had one more trick up her sleeves if she needed it and it was starting to look that way.
Belladonna looked the worst, drenched as she was in blacken rotten blood, but she hadn’t stopped cackling yet. Though she had slowed. Not due to her injuries, which while numerous weren’t as serious as those that Ashlyn sported, but because now the Wendigos had started to catch on and catch up. She was still able to dart around, but now she was reliant on Ashlyn’s arms for support so that she wouldn’t get caught out and become stranded. The upside is now she had to take more time to make sure each strike counted so each time she went out she scored a solid blow, even if not a killing one.
Then they all heard a Voice that eased their worries, and soothed the growing panic. Or Monia heard it and transmitted it to the others. It had the same effect either way.
The Regent had arrived. Dina was here.
And without hesitation they complied with the Regent’s orders. Ashlyn moved the two girls, that had more or less started this entire thing, to behind her with Monica and Belladonna closing ranks as well to form a defensive triangle around them.
“Figures” Mikron would say with an eye roll, despite the fact he was the one to originally bring up the topic of food. “And whoever told you about leaving class spots open gave you good advice. Wasted time my first year here because no one told me I could just test into higher classes.” He would grumble as he led the way out of the gym and into the halls.
Said hallways were closer in size to subway tunnels than school hallways. Double wide and a bit taller, though it seemed necessary to some degree as at least one student Jinny could see needed to watch his head regardless due to his height. The width did a lot to combat crowding, not that it was very full at the moment. Still, overall it was rather normal, so long as you didn’t think too much about the honey colored steel that seemed to line the walls, the advanced motion or P.A.N. sealed doors, or the fact that most of the students that weren’t in the school uniform seemed to have some type of weapon on their person.
Mikron would continue leading them towards the Cafeteria. “Mechanics, Robotics, Advanced energy systems, Piloting, Quantum mechanics, Coding, Weapons, And Electronic warfare” He would answer the question about classes absently obviously thinking about her first question.
Bee, on the other hand, did seem to know who Jinny was talking about. “You ran into The Jinx?” She would ask, sounding a bit impressed. “And you saw a hex spark but nothing happened? She must have been on her best behavior” Bee would muse aloud.
“No one really knows much about her” Bee would go on to say “She’s a Dark Way Prep transfer. Which means she’s been with the school in some capacity since she was like four.”
“Oh! I know who you are talking about now.” Mikron would chime in. “She’s banned from just about any of the workshops due to her power. Though I did hear that she passed some competency test from the teachers so that might not be the case this year.”
“That’s frightening, her power was already dangerous and now she’s gotten a better hold on it?” Bee would shudder a bit at that. “Her sparks have destroyed cars before. Something about causing cascading failures. I’m guessing she can manipulate luck in some capacity, due to the name, but only she would know for sure and not many people are willing to befriend a living bad luck charm.”
“I think it has more to do with her body count” Mikron would add looking rather intently at his watch. “Seems she’s killed more than just a few students due to ‘Accidental Power Mishaps’ but she did also take out that asshole from introductory physics so she can’t be all bad.” A glance at his watch would reveal that it was not currently telling time, rather that he seemed to have hacked into Jinx’s personal file that the school had.
“Huh” Bee was looking more than a little off put by that revelation, but she would eventually shrug it off. “Jinx has good instincts from what I hear, so whatever it was she was after must have been good.” Bee obviously didn’t know of the encounter that had happened earlier. Assuming that Jinayah just saw something that had caught her interest.
“I’m in a Weapons course, as well as Leadership, Aerial Tactics, Close Quarters Combat, Stealth, and Gymnastics. I’m holding on to my other slots though I might just make them a study hour.” Be would answer as they reached the Cafetiera.
The Cafeteria was like many school cafeterias. Large wide open room with a lot of long tables running parallel to each other. There were four primary food lines, each line had a menu above the start of the line letting people know what was available in that line. Each line seemed to be focused around either a style of food such as meat dishes or vegetarian. Or a region of origin such as Spain or Mexico.
Jinny was informed that the lines slowly rotated what was in. New menus taking over the rightmost line daily, while all the previous lines shifted over.
“Food is all you can eat during the lunch hour.” Bee would mention “But you can’t take more than one meal from a line at a time.”
“You’re not supposed to take more than one” Mikron would correct, gesturing towards a student who seemed to have a feast in front of him. The fact that he was nearly seven feet tall and built like a brick wall might have had a lot to do with how he got away with it.
“How’d you come to learn about HIVE?” Bee would ask once everyone had gotten food and sat down. “You a legacy kid or do something that impressed someone?”
Penny didn’t look directly at any of the human in the car in front of her as she methodically unmade her targets. She knew well enough how she looked from the outside. Snoopy was live streaming this after all. She was a terrifying sight, as was her work.
That said she did make sure to pay special care to the car as she worked. And not once did she let any of the Monsters regain even an inch on the distance, she forced them in to taking. Not until she was ready to reel them in to finish them off. So even as violent as she was, the car remained within the eye of her brutality untouched and fiercely protected.
This was proven to the upmost when Ka’ris made her debut attack. She had been outside Penny’s scan parameters at first, the Monarch far too focused on her death dealing. But the discharge of the gravity-based weapon had Penny snapping into action. Her spider legs curled around the car as a shimmering force field sprang to life between the limbs, covering the car from the attack.
Penny maintained the barrier for the entire duration of Ka’ris’ attack. Though she only spent the first second analyzing the newcomer. The next second was spent with her attention on the family’s care once again. As Penny lightly touched the car, and used her magic to restore anything that was wrong with it, even wear and tear that came from before this attack.
The last second was when Penny returned to the monster task at hand. Slipping away from the car now that it was once again no longer in danger and plunged her hand into the chest of the downed wendigo. She made sure to cup its heart before once again discharging enough Lightning to reduce it to ash.
After that she would stand back up and cast a long searching look about for any more targets. Not finding any she would let out a short breath, her eyes regaining their normal gold as she did. Now calmed down and no longer on the edge of a transformation. She was able to appreciate that her girlfriend has also chosen this district to defend. ‘Wonder if she was nearby, or if it was just a coincidence’ Penny would wonder as she waved a tired greeting at MDP.
She’d gesture for MDP to come over, mainly so Penny could take care of the monsters she had captured. Something that was rather impressive, but even as she did so she would turn to walk towards the new comer. Penny didn’t recognize them, so she felt it best to introduce herself. They did help out after all.
“Hey there.” She’d call out as she got closer. “Thanks for the assist. You new around here?”
Snoopy in the meantime would ping Elora, inquiring if anywhere else was in dire need of assistance.
Ashlyn, much like Mayra, wasted no time in rushing into the main swarm of monsters, a ferocious war cry bursting forth as she did so. “Filthy Curs!” In the wake of said cry, the visage of a plated Oni juggernaut could be seen floating about the tall girl. One that mimicked her movements. The frightening visage also quickly proved it was more than just a figment as it’s mailed fists struck with resounding force. Her destination seemed to be the girl that Mayra was also assisting. Because that girl needed Protecting And the girl that had buried by the swarm was already saved by Mariette.
Having a psychic on hand was so useful.
Ashlyn waded in slowly using her size and physical might to her advantage to batter the Monsters about. A sturdy, unmovable pillar in the center of the fight.
Belladonna on the other hand had started cackling the moment the monsters retaliated, and had started bouncing about the battle field like a deranged pinball. Heightened bestial senses, inhuman Awareness, and razor-sharp claws combined into a hit and run style of combat that left long ragged slashes on those that she got in on, but before the creatures could retaliate, she’d already be off onto the next foe. An ever-moving whirlwind of claws and laughter. Distracting and dangerous all in one.
Monica was ever so glad that she stayed on the alert towards the creatures that surrounded them. And easily settled into the task of fending of what beasts she could, each swing of her axe leaving large swaths of flame in its wake. Even as she swung her weapon around one could hear her chanting. “Oh Hestia! Lady of Hearth and Home. Guardian of the innermost things. I beseech you to lend your humble follower a boon. These vile abominations have sought to ransack my home. To drive those that need its shelter from its doors. Grant my allies a measure of your flame, so that we might instruct these fiends of their transgressions!”
With that final declaration she’d bring her axe down in a heavy clash. And from that point of contact brilliant golden flames would race outward. The Wendigo’s were untouched by the golden flames, no, more than that they were ignored by the golden fire. Ashlyn, Monica, Belladonna, Myra, and the Dark magical girl were not however. The golden flame raced up and over the girls a genital warmth passing over them as it did before the flame settled onto their chosen weapons. Granting everyone present a boon of Divine Fire.
“By fire be Purged!” Monica would shout before diving into the swarm of beasts, fire spewing from her axe.
“Fuck!” One of the girls would shout as a Monster girl would drop out of a portal right in front of her. Mariette was a known ally to those living in the Sanctuary, the portal wielder had protected them back during the first time their home had been attacked. So, it wasn’t surprising to see the portal open up, though it would still be considered a rare occurrence.
It dropping a viciously injured Monstergirl was a different story however. “Silbrex! Leanna!” The girl would shout out as she began moving the injured girl over to the medbay. “Emergency! We need a healer!”
Aurelio was undeterred as the entirety of the pack of wendigos turned towards him and Alicia. That made their job all the easier really. Especially since the more important half was already taken care of! “That’s right you over grown flea bags!” He’d call out as he spun his cane about his fingers. The blatant Hunger pouring off the creatures was repugnant. But it was still a resource he had on hand.
Then reinforcements arrived. It wasn’t Beacon, Aurelio figured that other Beacon members had been scattered all about with mass of attacks, but more help was never a bad thing. [color=fff79a]“Glad to see you’re on our side here” The magician would say letting out a low whistle at the Valkyrie’s devastating attack.
“But let’s see if we can’t do better” He’d add with a smile. He’d draw on the Hunger of the Wendigo’s and temper it with his own righteous Indignation towards the creatures. Happy and cheerful he maybe, but he wasn’t blind to what it was the monster’s here were trying to do. Taking that mixed blessing he’d enchant Alicia’s bow with it, he was a support specialist after all. Her Light arrows already tracked her targets, now they would be nearly blood thirsty in hunting down her target’s hearts. Plus, they would bite deeper, dealing good damage even if they didn’t hit the heart out right.
“You are up Seraphim!”
With another wave of his cane a small flood of himself, Alicia, and Sann would surge forward. The small army was much less substantial than they looked however, as only one of the near sixty copies was actually real. That Aurelio one wore a dark orange color under its illusion, and luck preserving would be using the enemies Hunger against themselves. To provoke infighting as much as possible before it was found, as the illusions wouldn’t last beyond a single hit, even a glancing one would dissipate them.
While Roxanna put proof that mind over matter is a perfectly valid method of monster hunting. Oliver’s incendiary rounds brought a sudden a painful end to the final wendigo’s charge as they bullets caused the monsters legs to crumple leading it to face plant and skid painfully along the ground.
The Angel of Hope’s assistance then gave Finn the means finally put down the cannibalistic monsters as they roasted quite easily. The two of Roxanna’s had kills were easily taken care of as well. The decapitation and forced self-lobotomy too severe wounds to have been easily patched back together in such a short time, even by the foul nature of these spirits.
The first wendigo was a slightly different matter. It was healed, but it was a broken healing leaving it looking even more deranged than was normal for the beasts. Cracked skull still loosely connected and the burn on its chest was still ringed with embers. The hole also revealed that its heart hadn’t been fully burnt, but enough to damage it permanently.
It made a poor site as it tried, and failed, to push itself back to standing. Though if it was trying to flee or keep fighting was impossible to say.
Teleportation was always a weird experience for Penny. Time always seemed to stretch on oddly for her. Not any particularly large amount of stretch, but either a nearly noticeable amount up to an additional half second. She often pondered over this oddity when in transit, wondering if everyone was affected by it and she only ever noticed due to her inhuman nature making it easier to track the subjective flow of time. Because a lot could be done in a half second when one could shunt energy away from keeping on top of physical feedback.
Things like preparing for combat, reviewing stored logs of her destination. She could also go about rearranging priority orders, letting her set aside the mantle of a Beacon Agent. Or go and unshackled errant and destabilizing thoughts.
Because she had a lot of those lately.
And I had thought it had been a good week. Who the fuck was I kidding?
From a professional standpoint the week had been productive and useful. From a personal one, Penny hated nearly everything about it. Turns out she nearly died due to her own rough reforging, and the only way to fix it required her to remove up two of her most valuable tools. Yes it kept her alive in the long term but that was still a lot of reprograming and replanning that she needed to do.
The atmosphere at the Sanctuary was tense between her and Dina, and Penny knew that there wasn’t a simple fix. The problem was that the other girls there were also on edge because of it. It would take time for things to settle down, again.
Even her work for Beacon was getting on her nerves. Her time there was filled with mostly clerical duties or system upkeep. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, the fact that one of her fellow Beacon members felt comfortable enough to ask her to cover for them would have been a cause for mini celebration.
But right now, Penny had a much, much, more important thing on her mind. So, a simple work day at Beacon left her with nothing but time to silently seethe. Because she knew that there were dark days on the horizon.
Penny would open her eyes just as she fully emerged from the teleport and far above the streets no one would notice the burning red of her eyes, a dire warning to any who knew the mechanical girl. A clear, vivid warning of her tightly controlled rage. Such was her no longer hidden anger that it would take her a full two seconds to even begin processing anything in front of her.
Even as Snoopy set up linking with Beacon’s network to start sending back real time data. Frozen as she was, she still knew why she had come here.
The reason for her wrath sat within her mind’s eye. They were blueprints, professionally done, displaying the specs of a humanoid robot. They were plans that she recognized as they were ones she had made herself once upon a time. Ones that had been stolen from her. In clinical detail sat the basic outline of who she was physically. Her first steps at independence dissected and laid bare.
She hadn’t pulled up the actual blueprints. No, those were still housed on the server bank that her girlfriend had gifted her access to, along with a rather impressive personal computer that Penny had since integrated into her systems.
She didn’t need to pull up the actual blue prints however, didn’t want to in fact, as just the memory of them nearly had Penny undergoing a metamorph.
Because it was a betrayal, a horrid, violating betrayal. Of what little trust she had placed on the thief.
If Eden hadn’t vanished from Penrose already, Penny would have tracked her down to personally demonstrate the follow up of such an action.
Because she already knew what these blueprints were going to be used for, because she knew who Violet had gotten them from. It made her hate for the Ebon Mint grow that much more.
But that wasn’t why Penny was here. And so, she would refocus her attention back into the physical realm. Onto the Monster’s below. These Wendigos had nothing to do with her current ire, but they would be such fantastic ways to relieve stress.
Something she desperately needed.
This close to the edge of Red-lining it took no time for Penny to analyze the situation below her. With that done, there was nothing else to do but enter the fray.
With a small leap forward. Penny would propel herself off the edge and almost instantly she would be racing towards the ground. Her presence, her aura, her importance, all drawn in as tightly as she could even as the pull of gravity ratcheted up. No one would notice her until it was far too late to react.
Something that her landing spot was unfortunate enough to learn. The moment before impact, the instant before Penny landed feet first on the skull of her targeted Wendigo, she let out a roar. With that roar she let her presence and aura flare, unleashing the full might of her importance.
The wendigo crumpled beneath her. Unable to resist the sudden crushing impact of several hundred pounds of furious metal slamming into it from above. Yet even then Penny gave no quarter, as only a moment later her hidden limbs would lash out. Two at her crushed foe, digging deep into its chest cavity before unloading a high voltage shock straight to the heart, as tamed lightning could burn just as well as fire.
The other two limbs lashed out to either side striking the closest monsters with the weight of sledgehammers as they slipped beneath the hasty guards throw up. Cracking ribs and rupturing muscle. In time with those strikes was another loud retort as Penny fired off a round from her gauss cannon. A tightly coiled burst of gravity, just narrowly missing the top of the car between them, slammed into center mass of one wendigo. Sending it flying backwards due to the sheer kinetic force. The last untouched creature about the car wasn’t ignored either as Penny just as quickly level and fired off her left arm at it. Her hand curled into a harsh claw grip, her nails reshaping into hooked claws as her hand flew, aiming to imbed into the creature, tethering it to her.
Despite the carnage and the near palpable anger that was flowing off Penny, her face was blank. Yet that only seemed to emphasize that she was not here to show mercy to these monsters. They were not at the top of the chain here, and Penny was more than willing to display that to them. And woe to any who would seek to get in her way.
The sight of the Beacon patrol having been wiped out didn’t draw much sympathy from the majority of the Sanctuary vanguard. Though Ashlyn did feel a pang of sorrow for not being able to make it in time to save more of them. It was the sight of so many dead Wendigos so close to their home that was really drawing their attention, as it was a worrying site.
Ashlyn was about to speak when Mariette made her arrival. Instead, the Oni girl would just roll her shoulders in a show of loosening up in case there was a fight. Something that she would admit to looking forward to, but with the injured party already rescued she could go either way. Besides it wasn’t as if Mariette didn’t just ask what she had been about too.
Monica would shoot Mariette a look before returning her apparent focus onto the three unknown girls. Though that was hardly the end of it. ‘Careful now Portal Witch’ Mariette would hear echo in her thoughts. ‘You are not the Queen of this city.’ Nevertheless, it did seem that they were willing to play along. For now.
“Have you already dealt with the hearts?” Monica would ask aloud. “Wendigos are not truly dead until you’ve burnt out the heart” She would go onto state shifting her attention to the uncomfortably large number of possibly not dead monsters. A large, two handed, ax appearing in her hands with a burst of flames as she did.
Belladonna would also receive a telepathic message. ‘Don’t eat any of the Wendigos, at least not until I can purify them. Their flesh is cursed. The dead Bacon bits are fine however.’
Not that the wolf girl openly reacted to her message. She would simply squat down as she stared down the scythe wielding dark magical a slightly crazed grin on her face as she did so. Her ears were alert and would twitch towards and swivel as the talk progressed.
Aurelio would nod his agreement as he stood. “Of course!” He would add as he started to head towards one of the info centers so he could get a better grasp of the current situation. Spooling up his teleportation connection as he went.
It was another day in Penrose it seemed. And sadly, it was looking like the Hospital was looking like it was the place in the need of the most help. Whelp, time for Beacon to get to work then!
Shortly behind Alicia’s own teleport Aurelio, along with a Red and Green Clone of him, would appear in their own burst of light. “Paladin! Fancy meeting you here.” The true Aurelio would say with a nod to his leader even as his clones wasted no time in running into the chaos below.
The Red clone went barreling into the pack of seven that were surrounding the ambulance. His cane glowing brightly as each swing detonated on impact. “Try picking on something your own size! You two-bit Halloween rejects!”
The Green clone would race off towards the fraying barricade. Green light pouring from his cane as he added to and reinforced the barrier from the smaller pack of Wendigos. “Please, did you really think that you could get away will this?” He’d ask the monsters. “I knew you were thick skulled, not empty headed.”
The remaining two Wendigos were undeterred by the sight of one of their pack members being so savagely decapitated, nor did they seem to notice or care about the firing squad that Oliver set up instead the two still standing monsters rushed Roxanna. Even as the rain of bullets tore into them the scent of spilled blood, even their own rotten blood, seemed to spur them into even greater frenzy.
The upside to such was they whatever synchronicity they might have had was gone; the remaining beasts were focused only on their own desires. The down side is that that did nothing to stop the first Wendigo from slamming into Roxanna’s side, its horns dug in sharply, but once again it was unable to fully pierce the enchanted clothing, sparing the girl from being gored. Even if she was knocked away by the impact.
Due to the loss of pack unity, the other Wendigo missed its own charge on Roxanna, but rather than stop and refocus on her it continued charging letting out a long, ragged, howl as it locked eyes on Oliver. Its beady glowing eyes promising pain for him. It swiped at the boy, and from its claw a large brace of jagged icicles would burst forth in response. The frozen projectiles would skewer a pair of clones, and nearly impaled Finn as they rained down with wild accuracy.
‘And the day had been going so well’ Penny would sigh internally just as Elora started to speak. Whilst Penny was unsure who amongst the two of them had a stronger connection to Beacon’s servers a call for backup was something that neither of them would miss.
Still, she figured that it was par for the course here in Penrose. A week without something going wrong was almost too good to be true more often than not in this city. Not that the time between the end of the Christmas party and now wasn’t made use of. Penny had done what she could to prep for the Sanctuary to move, strove to maintain the peace she had between the Ascendency and the Sanctuary, while also worked to help the girls that she watched over at the Sanctuary. She had even found time to go see Brittany and do some magical maintenance.
The errors that nearly killed her back at the Beach had been patched up by her girlfriend, but Penny had kept a close eye on her systems since and learned that some of her magical traits were slowly and quietly destabilizing her system even if she didn’t use them. And it was the excessive use of them at Christmas that led to the near catastrophe.
Yet that was all just the chores from the day to day. Today she had been filling in for a Beacon girl who had a non-magical family emergency. Perfect life could only do so much for grandparents after all. Her ‘shift’ was almost over and she was just on her way out to see if her girlfriend was free.
But no, mass packs of Wendigos’ had to come out of nowhere and ruin that plan.
“Do you really need to ask?” Penny would reply to Rachel as processed the data that was feeding in. “I’ll head to the Business District.” She’d announce after only a moment. “Once I’m on site I’ll link up with you Elora so that we’ve got a better picture of what’s going on.” As much as the Ascendency and Penny didn’t get along the Queen hoped that they would still be willing to work together with this latest attack.
She turned and started rushing towards the teleporters. “And if you trust me” Her voice would continue from one of the speakers in the room even as she left. “I can also promise that the patrol in the industrial sector will get back up as well. If not, try and send Aurelio or someone like him. Please?”
Because, and Penny had no way of knowing if it was intended or not, but that patrol was uncomfortably close to the Sanctuary. Which meant that Penny could easily get support over there quickly. In fact before she even made it to the teleporter room Penny had already sent off a message to her court. After all, there where Wendigos near the Sanctuary. That wasn’t a good thing even without Beacon nearly landing at the front door.
Across the city, nestled away within the industrial sector, in one of the abandoned warehouses lay the Sanctuary. A safe haven for any and all that had no where else to go. It was a poor sight at first glance as much of the true worth was hidden below, though that didn’t raise its profile all that much truthfully.
Nevertheless three people within the Sanctuary would receive Penny’s message. The first among them was a regal catgirl. Penny had learned a bit from her actions at the Beach, and was working on keep her Regent in the loop where time permitted. Still her relationship with Dina had soured.
Next to notice their message was a towering muscular girl, who’s eyes and horns gave easy proof to her inhuman nature. Ashlyn was Penny’s captain of the guard, and who was in charge of matters of security while Penny was away. The wendigo situation was something she needed to know of.
The last to receive the message was a rather petit, but extremely buxom girl. Monica was as close to a spiritual advisor Penny had, due to the mino-girl’s status as a priestess of Hestia. Though that wasn’t the reason Penny contacted her, the reason was that Monica was one of the few Fire wielders that Penny knew would step up to help protect the Sanctuary.
Monica and Ashlyn would simply nod at each other having been cuddled up watching the movie that was playing. As they stood Ashlyn would call out “Belladonna!” Ashlyn’s sharp voice echoing out “We got a hunt and you’re up!”
“Minette! You’re on deck while we are out. Ellen, Tina! Eyes open incase they get past us.” Ashlyn would continue to give out orders. The number of girls who actually registered for Sanctuary defense was low over all, but that didn’t mean they weren’t prepared for this. The Sanctuary was on the outskirts of Penrose after all, they got a lot more low-grade monster run ins then most other places. So even with all the shouting there was barely any reaction from those that were shouted at. They were used to this.
It took only two minutes from when the message from Penny came in for the small squad of monster girls to head out. They had a home to protect, and Bacon bits to save and then chase off. Just another day in Penrose.
Bee would give Jinny a bemused look at the younger girl’s seeming nonchalance at being Mikron’s latest victim. But otherwise seemed to take it at face value. Mikron, on the other hand, was much less fooled by the friendly front. If his narrowed eyes were anything to go by.
“I’ve been here for two years” She would answer instead. “And the food’s pretty good, assuming you know where to go for it.” Bee would tack on with a sly smirk. “They have a few different cafeteria’s here, though only one of them is on the map.”
“There are a lot of places like that here actually” Gizmo would speak up, eyes still narrowed towards Jinny. “Only teachers are told everything, at least according to the teacher hand book they are.” He would give a shrug as he spoke letting his suspicious gaze fade away. “Not that they explain where those places are in the hand book.”
“That’s true,” Bee would agree. “There are a lot of rumors about some of the hidden rooms, some say there is a firing range hidden somewhere in here where they have rockets for you to test fire for example.” She would go on as she crossed her arms, amusement on her face at the topic at hand. “but no one is going to tell you about them for free.”
“That one’s true” Gizmo would say offhandedly. “Less sure about the private pool one though” he would give another ambivalent shrug, not caring about the reaction he got from Bee about his admittance.
“I’ve been here for just about a year.” He would continue on. “And a lot of the hidden rooms are kept that way either as favors or for personal use. There was a cafe that had gourmet dessert twenty four seven once, but someone leaked it’s location on the local net. They closed it down about a month later as it kept running into supply shortages due to everyone knowing about it.”
“That was a shame.” Bee would commiserate. “Haven't been able to find any good tiramisu since” She would let out a despondent sigh at the loss of a good dessert source. “Still the basic cafeteria isn’t half bad.”
“As for learning here” She would go on “Rumor has it we’ve gotten a few new teachers this year that really know their stuff. And even if that’s just a lot of hot air most of the staff are retired from active work so no worries there.”
“All this talk about food’s got me hungry now” Mikron would say to himself as he glanced at his watch. “Lunch will be served at about ten at the main cafetiera, If you're curious.” He would offer up. Only to give Bee the stink eye a moment later.
To which the other girl would just smirk wider.
“Figures.” He would grumble. “She knows where the teachers eat” He would say as an explanation. “And they get better food supposedly.”
“And that was your worst attempt yet” She would reply a tad bit smug.
“Yeah, but it might save me a bit of time” Gizmo would fire back, to Bee’s confusion. “On that” he would fix Jinny with a notably serious look. “Just don’t touch my tool kit” Which only served to confuse Bee even more.
“Anyway” He would continue on, having said all he felt he needed to on that topic, half turning towards one of the doors “Food? And what classes have you signed up for?”
Sealed: Sealed Penny looks to be a rather well developed young woman. She stands at a respectable 5'9" and looks deceptively frail. She continues her trend of wearing baggy and concealing clothes however as her true nature has begun to spill out even when she is sealed up. Gold colored eyes stand out, and most of her joins resemble doll joints. In addition she lacks the correct anatomical features, to say nothing of all of her tattoos.
Online: Not hiding, nor flaunting it, simply Penny as she truly is. standing at 6'0" She a a mechanical powerhouse in a surprisingly cute frame. She is obviously robotic, but not enough to push her into the uncanny valley. Most of her joints are covered in additional layers of armored protection, but one can easily see the seams between her outer plates.
E.o.D.: An entity that is hard to believe exists. Falling straight into the uncanny valley, Penny becomes a mechanical entity that is hard to put to words. Ever growing and adapting, it start off looking vaguely like Penny, but can very swiftly grow into something completely unrecognizable.
Prime: An advance state, and a glimpse into who Penny might be if she was to be capable of growing older. Armed to the teeth, and with a figure to kill for, She stands head and shoulders above her peers. With who knows what hidden capabilities stored within her frame.
Due to her augmentations her Sealed state has the following tattoos.
Face: Small gear design centered on her right eye, the tattoo extends onto her eyelid. Red bat wing behind her left ear with a pair of overlapping V's in the center of the wing.
Arms: Left hand has chains wrapped around the palm that circle up the arm to end at the elbow. Right arm has thorny bramble vines spreading from her forearm.
Legs: Computer circuitry styled into the shape of wings. Start from her ankles and run to the lower thighs.
Back: stylized spider silhouette in center of the back with only four legs, two reaching up to the shoulders two reaching down to hips. Two black dots three inches in diameter on either side of the spider. A single red eye positioned just above the Spiders head.
Other: Thurisaz rune on the side of her neck. Tribal chevron tattoo on the back of her neck. A jagged lightning bolt collar tattoo.
Specializations: Metal & Lightning & Gravity, the hallmarks of future. These are the aspects that Penny's soul best reflect. Thus her body has been forged from what her soul resonates with; a body of steel, blood of lightning, and unyielding grace. Sadly her outward capability for magic is lacking, weak elemental attacks and a handful cantrips are the limits of her casting capabilities. Her real gifts with magic comes from the fact that she herself in made from her elements allowing for truly unique internal expressions of her magic. the standard expression such is her ability as well as the ability to absorb her elements for personal benefit. Rendering her practically immune to to the effects of Lightning and Metal.
Her ability with Gravity is more than the simple manipulation of the fundamental force, and although she can't consume it like her other elements. She can manipulate the metaphysical weight of things, lending or reducing the gravitas of a strike or action. Letting her turn glancing blows into solid hits, or solid hits into devastating ones. The inverse is true as well.
Lastly the insight to machines that comes with the instinct of Metal helps in day to day situations, she is always a bit quicker than expected due to the Lightning in her veins and has a gift for seeming weightlessness that comes from her connection to Gravity.
[Gifted]
Due to Penny's unique physiology and altered magical aptitude she has the ability to augment and alter her body so long as she has the resources.
Head: Right eye has a zoom feature added to it, vision magnification resembling high quality binoculars. Teeth have been altered to be able to become razor sharp at will.
Torso: Upgraded plating, two utility ports are still available. Retractable Spider limbs: these limbs have a reach of nine feet and are tipped with a three pronged claw, while retracted they lie seamlessly with her torso.
Arms: Left arm has been fitted with a chain knuckle: Firing this system draws power from her gauss system and has a maximum length of 60 ft. Right hand has been altered to allow for a chain saw type attachment along her forearm as well as her inner hand.
Legs: Electromagnetic boosters: Mainly used for midair hovering and at best a double jump. Also increases land speed while moving in a straight line. Parts for this were salvaged from the Sky Bastion's flight engine.
Other: Increased over all height by 3 inches making her stand at 6 feet flat while transformed. Altered plating composition to allow for short controlled bursts of non magical electricity, requires a short cool down between uses. Small com-relay located somewhere within her upper torso, was given to her by Veronica and is capable of inter-dimensional communication.
Note: All of these augments have left visible changes on her sealed state as well resulting in various tattoos depending on what the augment was.
Weapons: Due to that changes that have been forced upon Penny her whole body has become a weapon.
Her Chassis is an Octiron and Etherium alloy with a unique Dilithium lattice weave that lends increased offensive potential to all of her natural attacks. The unique mix stymies external attempts at manipulation while the composition also lends toward her body holding on to positive enchantments placed on it for a much longer time. Additionally, the Electro-Graviton Core she has increases her efficiency, and capability, of transmitting magic through her body even further, resulting in a very potent ability to self enhance/augment with spells.
The Transformation Blade has also been changed by the Power of the Red coin. No longer a Simple blade it has been fused into Penny's systems, reawakening and improving upon an old skill of hers; The projection of energy fields. These field can take the form of additional shielding or augment her currently deployed weaponry but not both at the same time. in addition it has installed a pair of shoulder mounted ray casters capable of firing off accurate and deadly energy blasts.
Once again she has dubbed the use of this system as Assault mode, but no longer is it her only alternate mode, as the Transformation Blade still retains it's unique capability of shifting into different weapon systems. Granting Penny a deep reservoir of offensive and defensive potential.
• Due to her assimilation of Sirkkeli she has gained a auxiliary system to her weapons. Any blades formed on her arms now automatically connect to a in-built injection mechanism that leads to tiny vials stored in her elbows. These vials are slowly filled with special nanites created from specialized fabricators located in her shoulders; normally these nanites are capable of corroding metallic material into a gray metallic sludge and they spread rapidly over a short period of time, but with with effort Penny can temporarily reformat their intended effect.
These nanites require considerable mana to replenish, or alter, due to their unique origins.
[Enhanced weapons][Dual weapons]
Coin Total: 0G, 13S, 04B
Season Zero: Beacon alliance (+3S,+2B) --------- Season One: Hospital (+6S,+5B) Elroy fight (+1S,+1B) Sil fight (+1S,+2B) Building Earth bastion (+3S, +2B) Defeating Justine's guard/defenses (1G,+7S,+9B) Justine event (+1G,+4S,+6B) Demolishing the Castle (+3S +2B) --------- Season Two: Stadium fight (+1G,+6S,+10B) Graveyard fight (2G,+12S,+8B) Beach events (+1G,+2S,+1B) --------- Season Three: Sirkkeli Fight (+3S,+2B) Horror Poop (+3S) Gabo Hunt (+2S) Rave (+1G,+3S) Aurelio Donation (+1G,+16S,+15B) Sanctuary Raid (+1G,+9S,+12B) --------- Season Four: N/A ---------
Total: 9G, 87S, 77B -
Purchases
0G, 07S, 04B, Cloaking Artifact
0G, 00S, 05B, Meditation stone
0G, 00S, 04B, lightning stone X2
0G, 00S, 02B, Quick Change swimsuit
0G, 00S, 00B, Penny doll(Discounted)
1G, 02S, 04B, Transmutation Blade(Discounted)
0G, 00S, 06B, Over-city Guide
0G, 02S, 08B, P.Artifact
1G, 09S, 08B, Perk & Power Swap
2G, 30S, 41B, Total - Stat allocation 5G 32S 32S = 15 Stat points (0 points above 20) - Sanctuary 2G, 6S Faction token's
.:Powers:.
1stRegeneration: A fitting Power for Penny to have, as despite everything that has been thrown at her she just keeps on going. The fact that this power helps her recover that much faster from anything that does hit her helps elevate her to a truly dangerous threat.
2ndPrime: A rare power hidden with the depths of the Red coin. For a short time Penny can channel who it is she will be, or could be, transforming herself into an theoretical adult version of herself. Harder, better, faster, stronger. It doesn't last a long time, and requires a long time to recharge between uses.
• Her original second power, Copy cat, was replaced due to the instability it was enforcing onto her systems.
.:Perks:.
Bile: A monstrous auxiliary system and proof that Penny is not human. It is an interwoven offensive system, fired from the mouth, which can either be used as either a shotgun blast of flechette, arching electricity intermingled with a concussive gravity shock-wave. Or as a long range gauss cannon round, infused with lightning and coated with chaotic gravitational fields, or even as a focused stream of high voltage lightning, condensed gravitational distortions and jagged metal shrapnel that can discharge contiguously for several seconds and redirect easily.
A thing to note is that this system is not a magical in nature, thus takes no mana to use. Its impact is also based on her Vitality rather than Magic. The down side is this attack takes time to recharge, thus cannot be used in rapid succession, and while the cool down can be shortened by limiting the number of elements that are fired off she will never be able to fire it back to back.
• Due to her assimilation of Sirkkeli she has gained a second, weaker, bile attack. It fires off a quick acting glue like substance, that can immobilize weaker targets. This ability has a much longer cool down due to it's unique origin.
Tooth and Claw: Humans fight in dozens of ways, many that they have perfected over centuries of conflict. But Penny isn't human, and fighting like one would only hold her back. The reforging she undertook fixed that issue, and now Penny fights like what she is, a monster and a machine.
She still has all of her old combat training, all the same understanding of how to break someone she just has an understanding how to add her monstrous limbs and capabilities to those situations. With just as much proficiency as her human ones, possibly even more, and just like before it is deeply imprinted, so she always knows how to fight regardless of what form she is in.
Elemental: Penny is not human, even though she looks like one. Once you get past the surface she is a advanced, futuristic, high spec combat machine, with all the benefits that such would entail. She doesn't need to breath, eat, or sleep. All she really needs to continue to exist is the magic flowing within her as she is made of her element.
• This perk was originally Evolution, but was replaced to removed the inherent instability that Evolution was causing in her systems.
Enhanced Uniform: Her new body was crafted by a combination of her own will and magic, bolstered by the White Coin of Beacon and then perfected by the Red coin. Penny's metal form is stronger, and more durable then equivalent compositions and builds purely because she designed it to be perfect for herself. She is inevitably a one of a kind, top of the line type of girl and her incredible resilience is just further proof of it.
• Due to her assimilation of Sirkkeli her armor has gained a unique function. Once activated her armor plate become reactive, turning into small spikes, shells, and even interlocked scales in response to attacks, effectively automating her defenses. This ability drains mana rapidly due to its unique origin.
Immortality: To many, being composed of advanced magical metals would be enough. For others it would be the innate power of rapid regeneration. For others still to have both would be as far as they would think to take it. Penny has all of that and yet still more. For whatever reason, perhaps it has something to do with her status as a mechanical entity, or her unwillingness to give in, or some unexplained aspect of her magic, Penny is insanely difficult to kill.
She is capable of continuing to function long past the point at which others would have fallen to the wayside, and what should be killing blows will simply fail to keep her down as very little is truly needed for her to keep functional.
Monstrous Metamorphoses: What once used to be a dangerous high stress fight or flight has, to a small degree, been tempered to a potent and still dangerous ace in the hole. Everything that Penny is returns to her origin point as all humanity is temporally suspended and she becomes an unrelenting Engine of Destruction.
She can still be pushed into this transformation, but it has become much more difficult.
Legacy: Due to the fact she has exorcised her human elements something fundamental about her has shifted, a lasting effect of her splitting and reforming. It can't be hidden, but neither can it really be seen, but something within Penny has been irrevocably changed, and anyone with a even a simple amount of skill in magic can tell. A persistent mark of all she has accomplished in a very short time.
There are some benefits to this however. Debilitating magics don't stick as well to her anymore. The debuffs either burn off at an accelerated rate or simply lack their intended potency. She also retains some portion of her Mind when she undergoes a metamorphosis, though how much is hard to quantify. Lastly more of her impressive physicality bleeds over into her Sealed state thus even when she is playing at humanity she is not to be taken lightly.
The final down side to all of this is that Penny can never truly be anything other then a Monster Girl. Ever.
Awareness: A magical sharpening of ones mundane senses. In and of itself not a powerful magical effect, but for someone like Penny it is nearly invaluable. Her senses were already attuned to more then normal, both by her strong connection to her elements and her status as something more than human. So this just brings all of that to even greater heights.
Intuition: A potent sixth sense, one Monstrous in origin as well, it allows Penny to divine what it is people are after, or what it is they actually want. Not always the most precise of understandings, often times little more than just vague hunches. But for one who has so many targets on her back it is a boon not to be underestimated. Also helps in getting those who aren't yet aware of what they need some assistance as well, which helps in the managing of the Sanctuary.
In addition, when paired with her Awareness, it grants another useful little trick. Penny is always aware of if she is being lied to, not matter the kind of lie.
Patron: Solo
Patron Benefits
Mana Font: Some are blessed with more than others; And Penny's reserves are vastly larger then one might expect due to her low casting capability.
Patron Drawbacks:
None
~Other~ Because of odd circumstances or events Penny has benefits and drawback outside the normal Patron arrangements.
Transportation: Earth Bastion Luck, timing, and a touch of insanity have caused Penny to acquire something beyond her normal limits. In the haze of her monstrous transformation Penny cannibalized the Earth Bastion seeking more metal to work with in effort to kill her target, at the same time Amber, to original owner of the ship, was killed weakening the magic binding it to the Pirate. This has made Penny the sole owner of this mobile fortress.
When not in use Penny pulls the magic of the ship inside her, storing the Earth Bastion somewhere else until she calls for it, while stored in this way it gains her regenerative capability.
Through use of the Sapphire coin Penny has further augmented her stolen ship, both binding it more fully to her and stocking it with a small selection of other vehicles. Two six person Bowriders, four motorcycles, two jeeps and an APC. All of them are connected to the Earth Bastion but can not be summoned independently of the greater ship, and when the Earth Bastion gets dismissed so too do the auxiliary vehicles. The axillar vehicles also are rather mundane in comparison. As outside of a megitech engines and magically reinforced frames they are just simple vehicles.
+Magical Overload-: A blessing, originally granted Laat’AlOfan. Penny has come to enjoy the things that it grants; superior Physical talent at the cost of overt magical skill, and the radiance of a multifaceted soul. Penny is loathe to lose that which has come to identify with herself now.
-Monstrous Form+: Her curse, though you would not be able to convince Penny of that anymore. Her body is still made of Metal and runs off Lightning, but no longer does she need to tear things apart.
Yet due to the assimilation of Sirkkeli her soul has become even more twisted. Penny's reincarnation cycle is now anything but ordinary. She starts each new life as a full monster of very little danger or threat and must work towards refashioning herself into the Monster-girl that she truly is.
Debt: Cast off with no point of contact and no want to contact them. Penny leaves the Ebon mint with a small unpaid debt to the shadowy organization, one she has no intention of paying off.
Fighting Style: Penny's fighting style is a utterly unique to herself. On the surface she is fights using her superior physical capability in combination with her considerable skill at hand to hand to tear apart her foes. But the longer a fight goes on the more dangerous she becomes as she starts incorporating more and more of her opponents abilities into her own repertoire, if only temporarily.
More then that her body and on-board weapon platforms are not limited to their default configurations. Allowing her to alter her available tools at a moments notice. Add in the fact that any source of metal or electricity in the area are additional sources of potential for Penny and it becomes very obvious that the longer a fight goes on the more dangerous an opponent she becomes. The fact that she in nearly impossible to take out quickly just exacerbates the problems for her enemies.
And while her external magical talent is near useless in a straight fight, as she had been built for the purpose of physically destroying that which stands in her way, the fact that she can use her elements to augment her already fearsome physical capabilities, in a number of vast ways, the real danger of her magic is her ability to sense her elements making it near impossible to hide from her at close range.
All of this becomes exponentially more when she retreats into her E.o.D. as her natural elements are drawn to her and her mechanical nature reaches it's apex pushing her mental and magical utilization to their limit.
Kind and altruistic, Penny always tries to look on the bright side of things and is always willing to help out those she can. Seemingly naive, She is always trusting of people at first meeting, though that comes more from her ability to take care of herself than of lack of judgment.
Unafraid and outgoing she will be the first to introduce herself and to try and make friends. That being said she is very hesitant to talk about who she used to be and has a good deal of empathy for those that have had their lives radically altered.
She is also a hopeless romantic, and unashamed to admit it if asked, and while this has caused her a recent heart break she is never the less happy with Chloe and is willing to give her all towards their new relationship.
All of this hides the fact that Penny is very much a broken individual. Her traumatic induction to the magical world has left her with many unseen scars, which leads her towards rapidly forming deep attachments to people in effort to gain some sense of stability in the chaotic world.
Once again a whole entity Penny is much as she used to be. Still kind, outgoing and altruistic she has nevertheless become more reserved, less inclined to blind trust yet also more willing to speak about herself and her past experiences. She still loves deeply and fiercely but is not so prone to giving away her heart to anyone who shows her a modicum of affection.
No longer burdened by her traumatic and pain filled origins Penny has set her sights on the future both near and far, no longer content to simply be a follower. With this new found sense of direction however a stubborn streak has reveal itself. One that has all the unyielding nature of steel.
And there are still hidden dangers within her psyche. Both left overs from Jason, and those that are uniquely her own.
History:
Few people, if any, are willingly inducted to carry out Laat'AlOfan’s will. Penny is no different. Back when ‘She’ was ‘He’ it was a simple case of wrong place wrong time. The Girl that Penny has replaced, like many before her, found a way to slip out from Laat's grasp, and chose to do such in defiance of the destructive God.
Were it at a different time, Jason would have kept his normal life; He worked as a Computer Engineer, tasked with developing and building new hardware and software. It was a simple life with no great appeal beyond the fact that it was his.
But it was a crucial time, and 'AlOfan rarely asks for permission from those he chooses to aid him, He sought the closest person who soul resonated with his intention and acted. Penny doesn’t recall her first night as chosen, and that does worry her.
Since then Penny has found herself in a unique and dangerous position of being allied with both the Ebon Mint and The Beacon. Both of these groups sought her out due more to Laat'AlOfan's interactions then her own. Still she has proven to be a capable, if destructive, ally and help bring down Justine's forces and demolished the dark girl’s castle single handed. Tired of being trapped under Laat and his machinations Penny ousted herself to Beacon. Not in hopes of mercy, but in hopes that her friends within the age old institution would not be caught flatfooted again by duplicity, as well as to spare more stigma against Monstergirls throughout Penrose.
Afterwards was a short stint of peace followed by one whirlwind of emotion after another. An old friend appeared, Chloe, at the same time that Penny was dealing with a frazzled and confused heart. Yet it was the intervention of a less force and a surprise Beach trip that helped settle things. Her love has been pledged to Chloe for better or for worse.
Cool acceptance by the Ascendancy has cooled Penny's first impression of the Fundamentalists but she is still wary of the militant force as she is a Monstergirl, possibly more. Never the less she trusts Alicia and her vision for the future of Beacon.
Once split and now reformed Penny is planning to more actively pursue her goal of building a safe haven for those seeking to stay out of the vast array of political machinations that plague Penrose. Even though she is a firm supporter of Beacon, she is not opposed to stepping away from the strict rules of the light of humanity if it means helping those who are too afraid to seek it themselves.
Her prominence as Queen of Penrose is on the rise, for both good and ill. Penny is well aware of all those that are watching her. But that won't stop her, as even now she presses ever forward to secure a safe haven for those that don't want to be used or unfairly prosecuted for simply having magic of a darker flavor.
But she knowns that she is walking a tight rope, with plenty of people looking to see her fail. Not that she has any intention of stopping. But as she solidifies her position she is starting to turn her gaze outward looking to find and crush those that have already attacked her and her Sanctuary.
Incantation: "Running full system diagnostics. Machine status: Fully operational. Combat Stations: Online. All Systems: Primed and Ready!"
Additional Info
Platinum coin was used to acquire a third Spec.
Ruby Coin was used to acquire a second Power.
Sapphire Coin was used to further augment the Earth Bastion.
Founded the Sanctuary.
Owns a Cloaking Artifact. It renders an area magically invisible, even to Third Eye! Light-specialized may still see through it.
Owns a pair of Lightning stones. Each capable of producing enough energy to power numerous appliances at far distances.
Owns a Doll of herself. It resembles how she used to look.
Owns a Over-city Guide. it communicates in a variety of boops, beeps, and holographic images. She has named it Snoopy.
Is in a romantic relationship with Magical Dream Princess.
Sanctuary
-My sanctuary where fears and lies melt away / snwod dna spu ynam os-
PC's involved with the Sanctuary Penny Dina Shane - NPC’s Goblina Ashlyn Monica Sibrex Belladonna +14 others.
Total amount of money spent on Sanctuary: 2G, 17S, 14B. Payment to Goblina (3S) [Penny] Upgrade purchased. (Faction Hero tokens: 2G, 6S) [Penny] Nature Staff (8S, 14B)[Shane]
Upgrades acquired:
Cat-girl maids: Summoned by Dina. Make the place a warmer and more comfortable place.
Nature Staff: Purchased by Shane and left to assist with the Garden. Minor magical weapon it's value is in it's ability to grant any wielder power over plants, which is invaluable to the maintenance of the Sanctuary's small garden.
Faction wide Hero Token: A complex magical artifact that warns its wearer when Sanctuary (the building, not the people) is being attacked. It doesn't work well across dimensions, and doesn't have the Big Hero Token's ability of magically ensuring you'll get there in time regardless of distance. (Token's cost 2S. Total amount of Coin spent on Tokens: 2S)
PC's with a token: Penny Asimov.
Connections: EVERYONE. Major allies; Beacon, and Dan. Minor allies, near everyone else.
Enemies: Ascendancy, Mint, and Penrose Independent are major ones. Anyone who would threaten the safety of the Sanctuary or the city of Penrose at large are the rest.
Sealed: Sealed Penny looks to be a rather well developed young woman. She stands at a respectable 5'9" and looks deceptively frail. She continues her trend of wearing baggy and concealing clothes however as her true nature has begun to spill out even when she is sealed up. Gold colored eyes stand out, and most of her joins resemble doll joints. In addition she lacks the correct anatomical features, to say nothing of all of her tattoos.
Online: Not hiding, nor flaunting it, simply Penny as she truly is. standing at 6'0" She a a mechanical powerhouse in a surprisingly cute frame. She is obviously robotic, but not enough to push her into the uncanny valley. Most of her joints are covered in additional layers of armored protection, but one can easily see the seams between her outer plates.
E.o.D.: An entity that is hard to believe exists. Falling straight into the uncanny valley, Penny becomes a mechanical entity that is hard to put to words. Ever growing and adapting, it start off looking vaguely like Penny, but can very swiftly grow into something completely unrecognizable.
Prime: An advance state, and a glimpse into who Penny might be if she was to be capable of growing older. Armed to the teeth, and with a figure to kill for, She stands head and shoulders above her peers. With who knows what hidden capabilities stored within her frame.
Due to her augmentations her Sealed state has the following tattoos.
Face: Small gear design centered on her right eye, the tattoo extends onto her eyelid. Red bat wing behind her left ear with a pair of overlapping V's in the center of the wing.
Arms: Left hand has chains wrapped around the palm that circle up the arm to end at the elbow. Right arm has thorny bramble vines spreading from her forearm.
Legs: Computer circuitry styled into the shape of wings. Start from her ankles and run to the lower thighs.
Back: stylized spider silhouette in center of the back with only four legs, two reaching up to the shoulders two reaching down to hips. Two black dots three inches in diameter on either side of the spider. A single red eye positioned just above the Spiders head.
Other: Thurisaz rune on the side of her neck. Tribal chevron tattoo on the back of her neck. A jagged lightning bolt collar tattoo.
Specializations: Metal & Lightning & Gravity, the hallmarks of future. These are the aspects that Penny's soul best reflect. Thus her body has been forged from what her soul resonates with; a body of steel, blood of lightning, and unyielding grace. Sadly her outward capability for magic is lacking, weak elemental attacks and a handful cantrips are the limits of her casting capabilities. Her real gifts with magic comes from the fact that she herself in made from her elements allowing for truly unique internal expressions of her magic. the standard expression such is her ability as well as the ability to absorb her elements for personal benefit. Rendering her practically immune to to the effects of Lightning and Metal.
Her ability with Gravity is more than the simple manipulation of the fundemntal force.
The insight to machines that comes with the instinct of Metal helps in day to day situations, she is always a bit quicker than expected due to the Lightning in her veins and has a gift for seeming weightlessness that comes from her connection to Gravity.
[Gifted]
Due to Penny's unique physiology and altered magical aptitude she has the ability to augment and alter her body so long as she has the resources.
Head: Right eye has a zoom feature added to it, vision magnification resembling high quality binoculars. Teeth have been altered to be able to become razor sharp at will.
Torso: Upgraded plating, two utility ports are still available. Retractable Spider limbs: these limbs have a reach of nine feet and are tipped with a three pronged claw, while retracted they lie seamlessly with her torso.
Arms: Left arm has been fitted with a chain knuckle: Firing this system draws power from her gauss system and has a maximum length of 60 ft. Right hand has been altered to allow for a chain saw type attachment along her forearm as well as her inner hand.
Legs: Electromagnetic boosters: Mainly used for midair hovering and at best a double jump. Also increases land speed while moving in a straight line. Parts for this were salvaged from the Sky Bastion's flight engine.
Other: Increased over all height by 3 inches making her stand at 6 feet flat while transformed. Altered plating composition to allow for short controlled bursts of non magical electricity, requires a short cool down between uses. Small com-relay located somewhere within her upper torso, was given to her by Veronica and is capable of inter-dimensional communication.
Note: All of these augments have left visible changes on her sealed state as well resulting in various tattoos depending on what the augment was.
Weapons: Due to that changes that have been forced upon Penny her whole body has become a weapon.
Her Chassis is an Octiron and Etherium alloy with a unique Dilithium lattice weave that lends increased offensive potential to all of her natural attacks. The unique mix stymies external attempts at manipulation while the composition also lends toward her body holding on to positive enchantments placed on it for a much longer time. Additionally, the Electro-Graviton Core she has increases her efficiency, and capability, of transmitting magic through her body even further, resulting in a very potent ability to self enhance/augment with spells.
The Transformation Blade has also been changed by the Power of the Red coin. No longer a Simple blade it has been fused into Penny's systems, reawakening and improving upon an old skill of hers; The projection of energy fields. These field can take the form of additional shielding or augment her currently deployed weaponry but not both at the same time. in addition it has installed a pair of shoulder mounted ray casters capable of firing off accurate and deadly energy blasts.
Once again she has dubbed the use of this system as Assault mode, but no longer is it her only alternate mode, as the Transformation Blade still retains it's unique capability of shifting into different weapon systems. Granting Penny a deep reservoir of offensive and defensive potential.
• Due to her assimilation of Sirkkeli she has gained a auxiliary system to her weapons. Any blades formed on her arms now automatically connect to a in-built injection mechanism that leads to tiny vials stored in her elbows. These vials are slowly filled with special nanites created from specialized fabricators located in her shoulders; normally these nanites are capable of corroding metallic material into a gray metallic sludge and they spread rapidly over a short period of time, but with with effort Penny can temporarily reformat their intended effect.
These nanites require considerable mana to replenish, or alter, due to their unique origins.
[Enhanced weapons][Dual weapons]
Coin Total: 0G, 13S, 04B
Season Zero: Beacon alliance (+3S,+2B) --------- Season One: Hospital (+6S,+5B) Elroy fight (+1S,+1B) Sil fight (+1S,+2B) Building Earth bastion (+3S, +2B) Defeating Justine's guard/defenses (1G,+7S,+9B) Justine event (+1G,+4S,+6B) Demolishing the Castle (+3S +2B) --------- Season Two: Stadium fight (+1G,+6S,+10B) Graveyard fight (2G,+12S,+8B) Beach events (+1G,+2S,+1B) --------- Season Three: Sirkkeli Fight (+3S,+2B) Horror Poop (+3S) Gabo Hunt (+2S) Rave (+1G,+3S) Aurelio Donation (+1G,+16S,+15B) Sanctuary Raid (+1G,+9S,+12B) --------- Season Four: N/A ---------
Total: 9G, 87S, 77B -
Purchases
0G, 07S, 04B, Cloaking Artifact
0G, 00S, 05B, Meditation stone
0G, 00S, 04B, lightning stone X2
0G, 00S, 02B, Quick Change swimsuit
0G, 00S, 00B, Penny doll(Discounted)
1G, 02S, 04B, Transmutation Blade(Discounted)
0G, 00S, 06B, Over-city Guide
0G, 02S, 08B, P.Artifact
1G, 09S, 08B, Perk & Power Swap
2G, 30S, 41B, Total - Stat allocation 5G 32S 32S = 15 Stat points (0 points above 20) - Sanctuary 2G, 6S Faction token's
.:Powers:.
1stRegeneration: A fitting Power for Penny to have, as despite everything that has been thrown at her she just keeps on going. The fact that this power helps her recover that much faster from anything that does hit her helps elevate her to a truly dangerous threat.
2ndPrime: A rare power hidden with the depths of the Red coin. For a short time Penny can channel who it is she will be, or could be, transforming herself into an theoretical adult version of herself. Harder, better, faster, stronger. It doesn't last a long time, and requires a long time to recharge between uses.
• Her original second power, Copy cat, was replaced due to the instability it was enforcing onto her systems.
.:Perks:.
Bile: A monstrous auxiliary system and proof that Penny is not human. It is an interwoven offensive system, fired from the mouth, which can either be used as either a shotgun blast of flechette, arching electricity intermingled with a concussive gravity shock-wave. Or as a long range gauss cannon round, infused with lightning and coated with chaotic gravitational fields, or even as a focused stream of high voltage lightning, condensed gravitational distortions and jagged metal shrapnel that can discharge contiguously for several seconds and redirect easily.
A thing to note is that this system is not a magical in nature, thus takes no mana to use. Its impact is also based on her Vitality rather than Magic. The down side is this attack takes time to recharge, thus cannot be used in rapid succession, and while the cool down can be shortened by limiting the number of elements that are fired off she will never be able to fire it back to back.
• Due to her assimilation of Sirkkeli she has gained a second, weaker, bile attack. It fires off a quick acting glue like substance, that can immobilize weaker targets. This ability has a much longer cool down due to it's unique origin.
Tooth and Claw: Humans fight in dozens of ways, many that they have perfected over centuries of conflict. But Penny isn't human, and fighting like one would only hold her back. The reforging she undertook fixed that issue, and now Penny fights like what she is, a monster and a machine.
She still has all of her old combat training, all the same understanding of how to break someone she just has an understanding how to add her monstrous limbs and capabilities to those situations. With just as much proficiency as her human ones, possibly even more, and just like before it is deeply imprinted, so she always knows how to fight regardless of what form she is in.
Elemental: Penny is not human, even though she looks like one. Once you get past the surface she is a advanced, futuristic, high spec combat machine, with all the benefits that such would entail. She doesn't need to breath, eat, or sleep. All she really needs to continue to exist is the magic flowing within her as she is made of her element.
• This perk was originally Evolution, but was replaced to removed the inherent instability that Evolution was causing in her systems.
Enhanced Uniform: Her new body was crafted by a combination of her own will and magic, bolstered by the White Coin of Beacon and then perfected by the Red coin. Penny's metal form is stronger, and more durable then equivalent compositions and builds purely because she designed it to be perfect for herself. She is inevitably a one of a kind, top of the line type of girl and her incredible resilience is just further proof of it.
• Due to her assimilation of Sirkkeli her armor has gained a unique function. Once activated her armor plate become reactive, turning into small spikes, shells, and even interlocked scales in response to attacks, effectively automating her defenses. This ability drains mana rapidly due to its unique origin.
Immortality: To many, being composed of advanced magical metals would be enough. For others it would be the innate power of rapid regeneration. For others still to have both would be as far as they would think to take it. Penny has all of that and yet still more. For whatever reason, perhaps it has something to do with her status as a mechanical entity, or her unwillingness to give in, or some unexplained aspect of her magic, Penny is insanely difficult to kill.
She is capable of continuing to function long past the point at which others would have fallen to the wayside, and what should be killing blows will simply fail to keep her down as very little is truly needed for her to keep functional.
Monstrous Metamorphoses: What once used to be a dangerous high stress fight or flight has, to a small degree, been tempered to a potent and still dangerous ace in the hole. Everything that Penny is returns to her origin point as all humanity is temporally suspended and she becomes an unrelenting Engine of Destruction.
She can still be pushed into this transformation, but it has become much more difficult.
Legacy: Due to the fact she has exorcised her human elements something fundamental about her has shifted, a lasting effect of her splitting and reforming. It can't be hidden, but neither can it really be seen, but something within Penny has been irrevocably changed, and anyone with a even a simple amount of skill in magic can tell. A persistent mark of all she has accomplished in a very short time.
There are some benefits to this however. Debilitating magics don't stick as well to her anymore. The debuffs either burn off at an accelerated rate or simply lack their intended potency. She also retains some portion of her Mind when she undergoes a metamorphosis, though how much is hard to quantify. Lastly more of her impressive physicality bleeds over into her Sealed state thus even when she is playing at humanity she is not to be taken lightly.
The final down side to all of this is that Penny can never truly be anything other then a Monster Girl. Ever.
Awareness: A magical sharpening of ones mundane senses. In and of itself not a powerful magical effect, but for someone like Penny it is nearly invaluable. Her senses were already attuned to more then normal, both by her strong connection to her elements and her status as something more than human. So this just brings all of that to even greater heights.
Intuition: A potent sixth sense, one Monstrous in origin as well, it allows Penny to divine what it is people are after, or what it is they actually want. Not always the most precise of understandings, often times little more than just vague hunches. But for one who has so many targets on her back it is a boon not to be underestimated. Also helps in getting those who aren't yet aware of what they need some assistance as well, which helps in the managing of the Sanctuary.
In addition, when paired with her Awareness, it grants another useful little trick. Penny is always aware of if she is being lied to, not matter the kind of lie.
Patron: Beacon
Patron Benefits
Shine Spark: The spark has always been a powerful thing, but as times move forward even the strongest things can be beaten. This was Beacons answer to all those that were finding ways to subvert the Spark defenses.
Alongside it's normal benefits, this upgraded Spark grants immunity to any attempt to forcibly change or control Penny's mind and rather than being a gentle shield it is capable of retaliating with force against the would be assailants.
Due to Penny's unique nature she can spur the Shine to even greater heights, unleashing a grand burst of Beacon's Light. Though she can usually only do so once per day.
Perfect life: The gift a picturesque family life. A Mother, a Father, possibly a pet. Alongside promised protections to those you befriend that are not in the know. A tempting offer, that Penny can't help but find tastes sour. Perhaps it's because she's not human, perhaps it’s due to how her life has been within the magical community thus far, but Penny does not care for having a family to go back to.
She appreciates the thought, but will never take the offered home.
Mana Font: Some are blessed with more than others; And Penny's reserves are vastly larger then one might expect due to her low casting capability.
Patron Drawbacks:
Excommunication: For siding with Beacon comes a few hard rules they will not tolerate being broken; No cooperating with Horrors, Dark Magical's, Monsters, or the Mint, the use of a Black Coin and the killing of another Beacon member. All of these land you on the kill on sight list and all prior privileges revoked.
Sadly Penny is already breaking a couple of these rules and has no plans to stop. For one She is a Monster girl still and knows that not all of her kind are bad and the same goes for Dark Magical girls.
She is in complete agreeance on all of the other rules however.
Vow: Hope: The very thing that allowed her to join Beacon in the first place, her never ending hope, is now her Vow. Despair is understood and allowed, but never can it rule over her. Nor can she allow other to give in to that abyss. She is to be the light that reminds others that tomorrow can be a better day, and to be the hand that is offered to help them back up.
~Other~ Because of odd circumstances or events Penny has benefits and drawback outside the normal Patron arrangements.
Transportation: Earth Bastion Luck, timing, and a touch of insanity have caused Penny to acquire something beyond her normal limits. In the haze of her monstrous transformation Penny cannibalized the Earth Bastion seeking more metal to work with in effort to kill her target, at the same time Amber, to original owner of the ship, was killed weakening the magic binding it to the Pirate. This has made Penny the sole owner of this mobile fortress.
When not in use Penny pulls the magic of the ship inside her, storing the Earth Bastion somewhere else until she calls for it, while stored in this way it gains her regenerative capability.
Through use of the Sapphire coin Penny has further augmented her stolen ship, both binding it more fully to her and stocking it with a small selection of other vehicles. Two six persona Bowriders, six motorcycles, and an APC. All of them are connected to the Earth Bastion but can't be summoned independently of the greater ship, and when the Earth Bastion gets dismissed so too do the auxiliary vehicles.
+Magical Overload-: A blessing, originally granted Laat’AlOfan. Penny has come to enjoy the things that it grants; superior Physical talent at the cost of overt magical skill, and the radiance of a multifaceted soul. Penny is loathe to lose that which has come to identify with herself now.
-Monstrous Form+: Her curse, though you would not be able to convince Penny of that anymore. Her body is still made of Metal and runs off Lightning, but no longer does she need to tear things apart.
Yet due to the assimilation of Sirkkeli her soul has become even more twisted. Penny's reincarnation cycle is now anything but ordinary. She starts each new life as a full monster of very little danger or threat and must work towards refashioning herself into the Monster-girl that she truly is.
Debt: Cast off with no point of contact and no want to contact them. Penny leaves the Ebon mint with a small unpaid debt to the shadowy organization, one she has no intention of paying off.
Fighting Style: Penny's fighting style is a utterly unique to herself. On the surface she is fights using her superior physical capability in combination with her considerable skill at hand to hand to tear apart her foes. But the longer a fight goes on the more dangerous she becomes as she starts incorporating more and more of her opponents abilities into her own repertoire, if only temporarily.
More then that her body and on-board weapon platforms are not limited to their default configurations. Allowing her to alter her available tools at a moments notice. Add in the fact that any source of metal or electricity in the area are additional sources of potential for Penny and it becomes very obvious that the longer a fight goes on the more dangerous an opponent she becomes. The fact that she in nearly impossible to take out quickly just exacerbates the problems for her enemies.
And while her external magical talent is near useless in a straight fight, as she had been built for the purpose of physically destroying that which stands in her way, the fact that she can use her elements to augment her already fearsome physical capabilities, in a number of vast ways, the real danger of her magic is her ability to sense her elements making it near impossible to hide from her at close range.
All of this becomes exponentially more when she retreats into her E.o.D. as her natural elements are drawn to her and her mechanical nature reaches it's apex pushing her mental and magical utilization to their limit.
Kind and altruistic, Penny always tries to look on the bright side of things and is always willing to help out those she can. Seemingly naive, She is always trusting of people at first meeting, though that comes more from her ability to take care of herself than of lack of judgment.
Unafraid and outgoing she will be the first to introduce herself and to try and make friends. That being said she is very hesitant to talk about who she used to be and has a good deal of empathy for those that have had their lives radically altered.
She is also a hopeless romantic, and unashamed to admit it if asked, and while this has caused her a recent heart break she is never the less happy with Chloe and is willing to give her all towards their new relationship.
All of this hides the fact that Penny is very much a broken individual. Her traumatic induction to the magical world has left her with many unseen scars, which leads her towards rapidly forming deep attachments to people in effort to gain some sense of stability in the chaotic world.
Once again a whole entity Penny is much as she used to be. Still kind, outgoing and altruistic she has nevertheless become more reserved, less inclined to blind trust yet also more willing to speak about herself and her past experiences. She still loves deeply and fiercely but is not so prone to giving away her heart to anyone who shows her a modicum of affection.
No longer burdened by her traumatic and pain filled origins Penny has set her sights on the future both near and far, no longer content to simply be a follower. With this new found sense of direction however a stubborn streak has reveal itself. One that has all the unyielding nature of steel.
And there are still hidden dangers within her psyche. Both left overs from Jason, and those that are uniquely her own.
History:
Few people, if any, are willingly inducted to carry out Laat'AlOfan’s will. Penny is no different. Back when ‘She’ was ‘He’ it was a simple case of wrong place wrong time. The Girl that Penny has replaced, like many before her, found a way to slip out from Laat's grasp, and chose to do such in defiance of the destructive God.
Were it at a different time, Jason would have kept his normal life; He worked as a Computer Engineer, tasked with developing and building new hardware and software. It was a simple life with no great appeal beyond the fact that it was his.
But it was a crucial time, and 'AlOfan rarely asks for permission from those he chooses to aid him, He sought the closest person who soul resonated with his intention and acted. Penny doesn’t recall her first night as chosen, and that does worry her.
Since then Penny has found herself in a unique and dangerous position of being allied with both the Ebon Mint and The Beacon. Both of these groups sought her out due more to Laat'AlOfan's interactions then her own. Still she has proven to be a capable, if destructive, ally and help bring down Justine's forces and demolished the dark girl’s castle single handed. Tired of being trapped under Laat and his machinations Penny ousted herself to Beacon. Not in hopes of mercy, but in hopes that her friends within the age old institution would not be caught flatfooted again by duplicity, as well as to spare more stigma against Monstergirls throughout Penrose.
Afterwards was a short stint of peace followed by one whirlwind of emotion after another. An old friend appeared, Chloe, at the same time that Penny was dealing with a frazzled and confused heart. Yet it was the intervention of a less force and a surprise Beach trip that helped settle things. Her love has been pledged to Chloe for better or for worse.
Cool acceptance by the Ascendancy has cooled Penny's first impression of the Fundamentalists but she is still wary of the militant force as she is a Monstergirl, possibly more. Never the less she trusts Alicia and her vision for the future of Beacon.
Once split and now reformed Penny is planning to more actively pursue her goal of building a safe haven for those seeking to stay out of the vast array of political machinations that plague Penrose. Even though she is a firm supporter of Beacon, she is not opposed to stepping away from the strict rules of the light of humanity if it means helping those who are too afraid to seek it themselves.
Her prominence as Queen of Penrose is on the rise, for both good and ill. Penny is well aware of all those that are watching her. But that won't stop her, as even now she presses ever forward to secure a safe haven for those that don't want to be used or unfairly prosecuted for simply having magic of a darker flavor.
But she knowns that she is walking a tight rope, with plenty of people looking to see her fail. Not that she has any intention of stopping. But as she solidifies her position she is starting to turn her gaze outward looking to find and crush those that have already attacked her and her Sanctuary.
Incantation: "Running full system diagnostics. Machine status: Fully operational. Combat Stations: Online. All Systems: Primed and Ready!"
Additional Info
Platinum coin was used to acquire a third Spec.
Ruby Coin was used to acquire a second Power.
Sapphire Coin was used to further augment the Earth Bastion.
Founded the Sanctuary.
Owns a Cloaking Artifact. It renders an area magically invisible, even to Third Eye! Light-specialized may still see through it.
Owns a pair of Lightning stones. Each capable of producing enough energy to power numerous appliances at far distances.
Owns a Doll of herself. It resembles how she used to look.
Owns a Over-city Guide. it communicates in a variety of boops, beeps, and holographic images. She has named it Snoopy.
Is in a romantic relationship with Magical Dream Princess.
Sanctuary
-My sanctuary where fears and lies melt away / snwod dna spu ynam os-
PC's involved with the Sanctuary Penny - NPC’s Dina Goblina Ashlyn Monica Sibrex Belladonna +14 others.
Total amount of money spent on Sanctuary: 2G, 17S, 14B. Payment to Goblina (3S) [Penny] Upgrade purchased. (Faction Hero tokens: 2G, 6S) [Penny] Nature Staff (8S, 14B)[Shane]
Upgrades acquired:
Cat-girl maids: Summoned by Dina. Make the place a warmer and more comfortable place.
Nature Staff: Purchased by Shane and left to assist with the Garden. Minor magical weapon it's value is in it's ability to grant any wielder power over plants, which is invaluable to the maintenance of the Sanctuary's small garden.
Faction wide Hero Token: A complex magical artifact that warns its wearer when Sanctuary (the building, not the people) is being attacked. It doesn't work well across dimensions, and doesn't have the Big Hero Token's ability of magically ensuring you'll get there in time regardless of distance. (Token's cost 2S. Total amount of Coin spent on Tokens: 2S)
PC's with a token: Penny Asimov.
Connections: EVERYONE. Major allies; Beacon, and Dan. Minor allies, near everyone else.
Enemies: Ascendancy, Mint, and Penrose Independent are major ones. Anyone who would threaten the safety of the Sanctuary or the city of Penrose at large are the rest.
Age: 106/14 | Gender: Female/Female | Reinforcement & Beast Metal cat o' nine tails | Power of Friendship & Avatar | Dan the Dolphin True Sight, Reverence, Diehard, Lure, Overcity Shift, Flexibility, Gifted.
STR: 04 | AGI: 04 | VIT: 03 | MAG: 04 | LCK: 03
STR: 08 | AGI: 10 | VIT: 07 | MAG: 18 | LCK: 06
Patron+ Interdimensional Archipelago, Payment, Keijo Training (Don't ask), Supply, Magical Overload: Second Spec, Nonstandard Limbs.
Patron- Joy Eater, Lonely, Clueless, Monstrous Form: Builder, Broken Reincarnation
Izurich
Mistress Dizzy
LG
Light the Dark
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