The 42nd Gecko

The War of the Three

@thewizardguy We did have an ultimatum on "if Khaine isn't moved by Wednesday, we'll move him out of the way", but other than that, I think you're good. You have until KoL posts today, otherwise Khaine will probably get sidelined.

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Still very much WIP.

【Calix Falborough】

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~"Aha..ahahee..Mwahahahahahahaa!"~

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Name: Calix Falborough.
Nicknames: Cali, California
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Spaghetti
Age: 24
Apparent Age: 12
Race: Human
Lineage/Nationality: American

Appearance:
Standing at a towering 148 cm, weighing in at a mighty 42 kg, and with three sizes of B71|W59|H73, Cali can just barely pass as a teenage girl. In that most people would probably think he's a tween girl. There's not any ill magic at work, at least, none Cali knows of. Seems to just be wierd genetics being wonky. Cali blames inbreeding between high blooded families. Given how odd a beard would look on someone like himself, he's just committed to the aesthetic and removed it. No matter the fact that he could probably buy the entire ice cream company himself, convincing someone to buy some for you just never gets old.

As for more traditional measures of appearance, just take the text color and memes as a hint.

Personality:
~"Why would anyone stop at one super robot suit?"~ Reckless Ambition. Perhaps Cali's defining character trait. He amasses power and uses it to build dumb and destructive shit, without any real point to any of it or goal in mind. He's surpassed the (publicly known) limits of human military technology.. And for what? It's not like he needs more money, he already lives in absolute luxury. It's not like he has some cause he wants to fight for. He's considering joining the Resistance simply to get an opportunity to test out his weapons, not because he actually cares.

~"If it's this easy to surpass the limits of human power and technology... Where's all the other superhumans?"~ Wracking Paranoia. This is one of his few actual "reasons" to build all that stuff and amass power. With how easy he had it amassing enough power to level a skyscraper, maybe even a city, there must be others that have achieved that. Things like the mysterious upper echelons of IHO keep him up at night wondering just how strong someone who has similar talent but has been at it longer than him might be.

~"Nyeeeeeeeh!"~ Childish Immaturity. They say if you wear a mask for too long you can become the mask. And well, Calix has pretty much never grown out of childhood. Few people treat him as an adult. But even if it's a chicken or the egg argument for whether his immaturity caused that or vice versa, it's still one of the top contenders for driving forces of his personality. He rarely thinks about consequences, and just selfishly tries to get his way with almost no sense of shame or responsibility.

~"Pew pew pew, kaboom!"~ Enjoys Destruction. What little boy doesn't like smashing action figures together and stomping through sand castles? Only now this little boy's toy's can have outputs bordering on "maybe we should start measuring in tons of explosives?" It is a small kindness that Cali doesn't have complete disregard for civilian life, and has taken a few measures to reduce colateral damage, otherwise any display of the Kali suit's power in a civilized area would probably result in hundreds of casualties, if not thousands if the right building topples. Even with, or perhaps because of said small measures, the Kali suit is still a spectacular hazard to innocent life thanks to its philosophy of overkill and overwhelming volume of destruction rather than precision.

~"Anyone better than me is either lucky, a worthy opponent, or old."~ Privileged Cockiness. Despite being granted the majority of his wealth and power without significant effort from himself, he still considered himself the valid inheritor of his power, and if anyone else is better than him, they were the ones blessed overmuch with talent or time. Or that he'll surely surpass them soon. That doesn't mean he won't be absolutely terrified at his core of the idea of people stronger than him, but he'll try to act like he isn't. And he'll assume any given person is weaker than him until proven otherwise.

History:
Knowledge is power, some say. In some cases, that's very literal, such as with certain magical traditions, where knowledge contributes to your ability to move the world. In an application of equality, Cali's power is knowledge.. which gives him more power? Ok, maybe it's not a perfect analogy. Regardless, Cali's power would have made him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams even if he had to start from nothing, and start from nothing he did not.

He was born to wealth and power, a massive manufacturing company made rich on modernizing militaries in the face of technological and magical progress induced by the introduction of Prae and Licentia. And he did not disappoint his parents. At least in the sphere of being useful to the company. Cali's power to interface himself with machines, and to interface machines with each other with never before seen efficiency (at least, not publicly before seen), resulted in impossible manufacturing efficiencies in his father's factories. And well, if he kept the results within tolerance, and skimmed off a few cycles, and parts for himself and his own pet projects? Well, as long as Cali kept the results better than without his enhancements, no one would be the wiser.

With his power, he's been gearing up, creating weapons of destruction, preparing every resource he can, safe houses, secret accounts, friends in low places. Thanks to his mental based power in an information driven society, he's been able to surpass the technological, financial, and magical limitations of even the military industrial complexes he'd been born to. The world is his oyster.

But he can't be alone, right? There must be others. Secret societies, covered up government agencies, other people who use hidden technology and enormous scale information to manipulate the world. They've got to be out there somewhere, and he has to be ready.

Belongings/Equipment:

Kali Suit (Cali likes the confusion)

A lot of people like to enchant normal clothes to function as bulletproof armor. Cali thought, "what if we took bulletproof armor, and added even more cool stuff to it with enchantment." Also, Cali, though reasonably content with his physical form, still wanted to be able to be big and stompy and tall on occasion when he wanted to be. And so he created an armored suit that adds about 25 cm, four arms, and several hundred kg if not for all the mass masking enchantments. And an armored assault vehicle's worth of weapons.

A common theme is that Kali suit features will be designed to function without magic, if for a limited duration of time, with Hammerspace features providing a good operational duration, and Teleportation providing theoretically infinite operational duration. Cali knows antimagic techniques exist, and he doesn't want the suit to crush in on him if something disrupts the magic, he wants to still be able to function for long enough to escape, and hopefully put a hundred or so hot fast pieces of metal in the direction of whoever or whatever's causing the problem. Thus, redundant designs mean the suit can function for about 5 minutes in combat even if all enchantments are disrupted. It can function for a fair bit longer out of combat, and MUCH longer if the mass masking enchantments are still functioning, being a bit harder to disrupt than Hammerspace and Teleportation. If the mass masking functions are offline, those 5 minutes will inflict a lot of wear and tear on the nearly overloaded musculature systems. If the teleportation is disrupted, the Hammerspace Drive still has enough energy for 2 hours of combat operation, and two hours of pure combat might break Cali first, as he is not especially battle hardened or mentally prepared for long fights.

The armor on the Kali suit is composed of some impressive alloys, and meshes, and plenty of them, with a mix of mass masking and straight up armor enhancements. In short, anything not designed to engage an armored vehicle with magical enhancement will not effectively damage the Kali suit or its wearer unless it bypasses the armor (like a mental attack). The suit is environmentally sealed, with an internal air supply with duration equivalent to its power systems. The suit has significant resistance to heat and cold based attacks, as the suit has some extreme superconductor cooling systems in place to handle the heat it generates (though shutting off its Hammerspace Capacity will cause these systems to quickly overtax themselves), and if it turned those off, it would be able to deal with extreme cold. These superconductors also function pretty well for electrical protection, though, while electrical attacks won't physically damage anything, they will still cause Cali an exceptional ammount of pain.

The Kali has spikes in its feet, enabling it to walk up walls. If your wall is really REALLY heavy duty. Mostly these are used for anchoring the Kali when it's firing its weapons, because Newton's Second Law is a bitch.

As for weapons, beyond having six arms with some heavy duty musculature, there are some physically carried around weapons, with backups/ammo retained in Hammerspace.

Reasonable Precations:
This is a 40mm, tribarrel rotary electromagnetic autocannon. Most of the enchantments on this thing are for power, ammo, and cooling, particularly through shunting things to and from Hammerspace. The other enchantments are kinetic dampening to reduce recoil. Even with that enchantment, and the fact that it is wielded with super muscle robot hands, this is not a one handed weapon. It will break your wrist, and the grip will fly off too unless you are firing single shot mode. Even with all the enchantments and the Kali suit's augmented strength, Cali usually keeps four hands on this thing, if not all six, as well as deploying stabilizing spikes into the ground, when firing anywhere near its full automatic capacity. What Kali lacks in precision, it tries to make up for in sheer scale of destructive mayhem. This will be a noted theme among the Kali's weapons.

Of course, just because the railgun itself isn't enchanted with extra firepower, doesn't mean the bullets can't be.

Jehovah's Witness-
This railgun round includes an layer of vis designed to resist opposing vis (such as someone attempting to use metal telekinesis to repel the bullet) and breach magical barriers. More or less an armor piercing round for magic.

Rainbow Connection-
This railgun round is loaded with whatever random vis dust and scrapped enchantments was left over waste from all the vast industrial processes Cali has going on. When fired full auto, this results in a rather spectacular display of color as ice, lightning, fire, plants, random void energies and other nonsensery happen in the target area.

Safety Shortstop-
This railgun round is programmed to teleport to a gun range about a meter after it passes where the target was recognized to be when the trigger was pulled. This is for shooting at someone when they have something behind them you don't want to kill.

Ouch-
This railgun round increases its mass after it leaves the barrel. Ouch.

Upsie Daisy:
This is a backmounted high-low pressure mortar, Cali not wanting to put all his eggs in one basket with railguns. The physical capacity of this mortar is 3 rounds. The Hammerspace Capacity of the Mortar Launcher can hold another 12 rounds. It also has a teleportation matrix for reloading both the physical and hammerspace compartments. But, as with all mortars, the real prize is what is launched and how it is launched. This can fire forward as an exceptionally heavy duty grenade launcher, or up into the air as a proper mortar. And the rounds are below.

John Henry-
This mortar round pops up about 100 meters into the air over the target, and deploys a rather sketchy teleportation array, making extreme sacrifices in precision for mobility, speed, and maximum size. It's not capable of proper teleportation of delicate objects, using this personally would kill you, so it only works for relatively nonstructured material that doesn't matter if it gets swapped around a bit. It teleports in a very dense metal spike, massing 18,000 kg. In terms of its effects, it impacts 17,640,000 joules on the target with a tip that is kinda sorta sharp. Presuming the target stands in one spot for 5 seconds. Cali uses this for penetrating bunkers, destroying armored vehicles, and buildings. Or anything he really really doesn't like that happens to not be moving. Cali really likes this round, and it is inert at rest (incapable of teleporting the spike in until physically deployed), so he keeps it in one of his physical slots.

Mark Henry-
Basically the same thing as John Henry, but deployed lower and faster, in a wall shape and purpose instead of a spike. A surprisingly vast variety of attacks are blocked by several tons of steel being in the way.

Technicolor Kaleidescope-
This is a "flashbang" that also serves fairly well as an incendiary against unarmored targets, that is also designed to spread around and keep around blindingly energetic vis against all those pesky vis sense abilities' visual components.

Johnny Cash- An actually incendiary, this is a round that unleashes a whole lot of advanced, but ultimitately straightforward incindiary material. The fun is in the different deployment modes tweaking it's carrier material and changing the "unleashes" part of it. One mode sends a jolt through it that magentizes it so that it will cling to and burn through heavy armor. Another sends it wide it to act as area oxygen denial. Another acts as a happy medium. It can be set to create thick low hanging smoke, or almost none. It can be set to create toxic fumes. Fun times all around.

Old Faithful- Catch all for standard fragmentation type mortars. "Standard" includes such things as being loaded out with Jehovah's Witness Flechetes for piercing enchanted low profile armor (Which is another one of his standard rounds), or silver "holy" pellets for dealing with those vulnerable to such thing

Eye Spy-
This round goes fairly more subtly as far as most of Kali's are. It deploys static micro cams, appearing more as grains of sand than as information recording devices, then the casing transforms into a drone after micro cam deployment. These micro cams individually get absolutely terrible reception, but, in their massive numbers, Cali is able to use them in parallel to get amazing reception of pretty much anything in the area's radius. Has variants that are just the micro cams or just the drone. A combined load is one of his standard mortars.

In case you were somehow still wondering, no, the Kali suit is not legal. No, he's not likely to be able to slip into a dinner party inside it. In the case he wants to deploy this destructive force, he needs to teleport in, achieve mission, and teleport out before the authorities arrive.

Wisdom Kings

The Wisdom Kings are Cali's backup dancers. For when one robot exoskeleton worth of destruction and mayhem isn't enough, why don't we call in 5 full robots that are arguably stronger? If Cali needs them but didn't think he'd need them, the five skulls with swords he's wearing on Kali's neck aren't just decoration to live up to the name, but also teleport arrays. They can be thrown away (subtly altering their flight path with some magic), and each one will teleport in.. a better teleport array. And then a better teleport array. And then a better teleport array. And THEN they will each teleport in a Wisdom King.

Acala

Fighty Sword Model. Has the most advanced AI as swordplay is a bit more complicated than point and shoot. Much stronger and faster due to not having a squishy human in it. Plate thrusters everywhere that tap into magic to change acceleration very quickly via magic shenanigans with Telekinetic Physical Interface. Buster sword, shield to match, only two arms. Plenty of backup weapons for if internal plate thrusters and mass masking on the buster sword break, as well as a backup shield that is significantly thinner. But the buster sword is the only one that has vis infused platinum edges.

Created because Cali can't understand how swords and shields are still relevant, but powerful people keep using them so maybe there's something behind it?

Vajrabhairava

What's better than one flamethrower? Six flamethrowers!
What's better than six flamethrowers? Six flamethrowers and infinite fuel!
What's better than six flamethrowers and infinite fuel? Six flamethrowers and infinite fuel and a suite of abilities to camouflage yourself and hide in the flames and heat mirages!

And let's throw some vis-infused platinum bayonets on those flamethrowers for maximum racism vs licentia.

Kundali

The support Wisdom King. With medical gear for humans, and repair gear for Kali or the other Wisdom suits, as well as lots of spare parts in hammerspace and teleport array. Not entirely defenseless as it has the most limbs of any, with six primary arms, but also another six stub arms with fine manipulators on the back equipped with pocket shotguns, underbarrel grenades, and railguns, two of each.

It doesn't consider insane physical performance a requirement, so this is the physically weakest, including the Kali suit, and Cali can wear it, and be treated while inside of it, even if he was say, missing the lower half of his body. Upper half is still a bit beyond his medical tech to do without.

Trailokyavijaya

It's no surprise that Cali watched too many robot shows, and this mech uses macross missile massacre strategies, combined with hammerspace arsenal and teleportation arrays to make the missiles jump forward, suddenly change orientation, or otherwise perform real life robo-teching. Probably not as effective as just launching all the missiles beforehand and having slam down on the target at supersonic speeds, but where's the fun in that?

Has the second most advanced AI functionality behind Acala, more technical processing power but.. less intelligence. Cali just feels like this is a fast battlefield portable server, while Acala spooks him sometimes.

Vajrayaksa

The caster specialist, this has reserves of vis and magic ready to refresh Cali's supply or use for big spells. And that's about it really. Hum. Potentially the most expensive with all the vis crystals, though the amount of missiles Trailokyavijaya is capable of using or the vis-infused platinum blades of the others are also staggeringly expensive.

Capabilities

Hider

Mental
Not particularly originally. Would probably be pretty good with computers even without his powers, but what makes Cali a "genius" at them are his powers. They have made him a master at Robotics, AI, Physics, and many fields of magic. While he's not particularly brilliant or talented at any of these fields, he has the equivalent of millennia of study in each of them, thanks to his distributed capabilities and enhanced clock speed. But without his magic, he's unlikely to make any further discoveries.

Physical
Pffft, no.

Magical
Omni-Informational Interface: Cali's main power is to create informational interfaces where none existed before. Very fast and secure ones that don't care about language barriers or distance or even sentience. This includes interfacing computers into his mental capacity, as well as more relatively mundane mind networking with other sentient beings. It's not exactly telepathy, so much as making both beings one mind, with all the resources, insight, and sensory input of both. Trying this out with another human being was a harrowing experience of being part of a hive mind that scared Cali quite a bit. He sticks to computers now.

Thanks to not caring about distance, Cali has mounted this power through his nervous system making his own nervous system insanely fast and improving his brain's processing power massively. He could easily react and dodge bullets, if his body was in any way shape or form quick enough at acceleration to do so. It is not. Similarly, using this power on computers has made insanely fast servers that produce far less heat. While doing so gives Cali access to their computational power, it also introduces Cali's own errors to the computers. Mental attacks can work on machines that are part of Cali's network. And introducing extra electricity to anything that's part of Cali's network will generally reduce Cali to a gibbering crying wreck. He's not great with pain, and that causes a lot of it.

Teleportation: Cali doesn't have any innate talent with this, but due to his mastery of the Systemic method and brute force processing time to practice, Cali figured out teleportation, and it's one of his favorite tricks. Being able to instantly leave boring meetings is a truly irreplaceable treasure.

Telekinetic Physical Interface: A physical variant of Cali's main power, Cali can interweave things physical existence, making them the same thing on a large scale kinetic overview, translating all kinetic influence equally over their entirety. For example, casting this over a plate of armor makes any impact on the armor's surface impact it equally to every atom, changing the effective impact to the equivalent of a gravitational field applied equally to each unit of mass, with the same total energy behind it as the initial impact. This doesn't reduce the power of the blunt force any, but reduces any edge or point, no matter how fine or sharp, even mono-molecular, to an infinitely dull weapon. This spell, when active, renders most armor piercing (save the likes of say, electricity, mental attacks, or squash head rounds that use blunt force) attack methods very much so not armor piercing. But they still might work if there's enough raw force behind them. In order to cast this on two separate things, they have to have very close to no relative speed to each other. But, Cali keeps a row of really big, like, John Henry weapon sized spikes constantly moving back and forth in various angles and speeds back home, so that he can access one with close enough relative speed to his fist so that he can punch things REALLY hard without hurting his hand. Despite the name of "Telekinetic", this doesn't let him move things around with his vis so much as make it harder for things to move around with his vis.

Glazed Eyes: Cali has also learned a fairly effective "don't notice me" aura. This is his preferred defense when he can't bring his Kali suit. It's legal and easily explainable away if he gets caught using it in a dangerous situation. Namely, that he was hoping no one would notice him while escaping the dangerous situation. It's fairly subtle, so it's not going to let him sneak in anywhere he's obviously out of place (or sneak the Kali suit into anything but an armed robot sales pitch), but if he's dressed to fit in, it usually makes him easily missable.

The Systemic Method: Otherwise known as Formulaic magic, this magical methodology involves the creation of magical constructs which exploit and interact with physics. While most spells could be cast without it, most that do not use this form of magic tend to expend more energy to do less, whereas Systemic magic greatly expands both the possibilities and the subtle nuances of one's spellwork. It is a magic developed by Licentia and it is one of the few things they have shared with humanity, though that was oh so long ago by human standards. Cali is an impressive master of it, moreso than many mortal beings thrice his age, given his extreme mental speed and processing power while using Omni-Imformational Interface. Despite his lack of genius he has access to rather absurdly prefixed numbers of man-years of thinking time in the same time it takes most people to come to the conclusion that it's probably time to cast a spell. This means that rather than tailoring a spell for a general case of physics, he can tailor it for this specific one he's in. His ability to simulate physics interactions to the current limit of public human knowledge combined with his ability to process through hundreds of normal caster years of trial and error in a leisurely weekend to advance his general knowledge of how magic and physics interacts results in a mastery of the Systemic Method more appropriate to a being several thousand years old.

Counterspelling: Cali does not have access to that holy grail of powers, anti-magic. Cali DOES have so long from his perspective that in the time it takes a normal human to cast a spell at him, Cali can brush up on his classical magical interactions, pick a school of magic that counters it well, learn some basic countermeasures, and then cast them. This only works on fairly basic spells that are common knowledge and to which the counters are common knowledge.

Phantom Casting: Cali can psuedo-cast multiple spells at the same time due to his vast mental processing power at parallel tasks. However, just before committing the vis to make them happen, he can renege. This allows him to say, phantom cast a powerful boost on each bullet he is firing from Reasonable Precautions, or each pellet from a mortar. But then only commit to casting on the ones that are about to hit, as judged by his absurd reaction time.

Basic Elemental Magic: Cali has taken the time to get at least a cliff notes of pretty much every publicly available basic magic type, allowing him 'cantrip' level proficiency. If he wants to use his finger as a lighter, or charge his phone, he can. If he wasn't easily bored with a short attention span for anything not super fighting robots or his favorite types of magic, he'd probably be a lot scarier of a combatant.

However, ultimately, for all that skill, he doesn't have a very beefy vis reserve.

Technological
Massive Industrial Base and Manufacturing Capability
Magic Enhanced Server Farms. These feed his hyper sensory awareness as well as his Formulaic magic
More money than he knows how to spend. When you've built more super robot suits than you know what to do with, you're too rich for your level of maturity.

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

My Power Summary

Sarah:
Generic Combat Magic, Wards/Runes, Illusion.

Calypso:
Wind, Mental Trickery.

Damian:
Sleep Venom, Nightwalker/Incubus Shapeshifter and physical boosts, vis/dream/nightmare sense, dreamwalking, vis drain with shadow, charm aura, Shadow Tendrils/Wall/Smokescreen

Corinna:
Venom (tranq/deadly), Arachnid (Silk focus), Vis Predatation, Shadow Sloak and Shapeshift (kinda weak)
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Vi:
Strong Will, Peak Physical, Weak Telekinesis, Healing, Physical Augmentation

Maryia:
Shapeshifting, good with numbers.

Emma:
Healer (medicine and magic), kinda in shape?

Azulia:
Metal Manip/Transmute

Killian:
Shapeshift (Mimic), Electricity, Bone Guard

Erin/Clara:
Water/Fire, healing water, fog, Balrog Whip

Ceptum:
Everything, all the magic, is a lich.

Nabriales:
Sneaky, persuasive, physically enhanced, mental defense, Alchemist, Cyrstals, The Sight, Vi Sense, Teleportation, Fire/Light.

Fandaniel:
Mental Fortitude, physical prowess super good, super-skill, Vis Crystal/Sense, Vis Armor, Shaping, Magic Breaker

Truth:
Immune to Mental, Tells Truth, super mind stuff, Physically weak, Vis Sense, Geas Mastery, Illusion Mastery, Will, Magic Theory, Telepathy, Teleportation, Not much Combat Magic.

Ithuriel:
Physical Suuuuuuper, mental weak other than doesn't mind pain, vis infused blood, Vis sense, blood sense, blood magic, toxin pain anticoagulant.

Aevyrion:
Harmonic (Wave Motion Sword), parrying dagger, Fencer, quick, enduring, great vis Sense, loyal, resistant to mental attack, Heliomancy (stronger in Priscus, in daytime, solid light attacks), Make Things Explode Via Resonance, Wave Slash, Light Manip, Light Beam Prison.

Aeris:
Genius, Mediator, Physical boost, Shadow, Healing, Blood, Fire,

Sophia:
Magical Prodigy, Physical boost, Light, Shadow, Blood, Earth, Pure Vis, Fire, Water, Ice, Wind, Lightning, Metal, Crystals, Vis Shaping/Sense/Sight/Shield, latent Brisn, Further Physical Enhance

Yvette:
Kusarigama, Pretty smart, Physical Boost, strong will, Contract Rune (Domino), Warfare Skill, Summons (Toxin, Ice, Shadow, Scary horsey)

Dranai:
Magic Handgun with blanks, Crystal dust, Enchanted Bulletproof Undercoat, Intelligent, Professor, Teaching, Physical all right, Illusion, Barrier.

Bree:
Invulnerable Duster, Pistol pair with FoF razorwire that can fire remotely, Pistol Pair with more power and racism, gloves that remember where they've been (sigils), rapier with flexibility, racism and replication, vampire sword, sheath that stores blood/vis stolen by vampire sword, Vis detection, multipersonality, Macguyver Tricky Explosive man, combat skill, slight physical boost, Art of Athriohm (?), Contracts.

Mairyell:
Gun with explody Vis bullets, twin pistols, lots of bullets, faster mind, mental resistance, physical boost, blood eating, regeneration, fighty skill, Blood Manipulation, Brisn

Szayeis:
Shapeshifting, Artifact cane, inteligent, ooold, manipulative, fighty, physical boost, etherial, possession, Formulaic magic, shadow illusion, telepathy, empathy, emotion manipulation aura.

Madison:
Painful to read text color, don't explode from too much Vis Jewelry, enhanced processing, clumsy but decent shape, super minor regeneration, Kinesthetic Sense, Guardian bond, latent magic and super potential.

Reates:
Space Time manip, sight manip, hive mind butterfly that eat vis and have cammoflague, cat of indestructible crystal with heat/electricity stuff, telepathy and mental resistance, PHD in Science/Teaching, Enhanced Intelligence, Knowledge of Abberants/magic, enhanced Physical, The Sight, Vis Sense, Systemic Method, Shroedinger's Magic of Unknown Parameters

Charles:Memory Bracelet, blurry fog, earthquake, darkness, teleport, healing. Immortal. Blue Mage. Vis manipulation/golems,

Lilith:
Crazy, telepathy, wound transfer, self-heal, ward connection, transposition with ward, touch telekinesis.

Darius:
Glock, strobe light, slight mental resistance, Vis Shard (Phylactery+Bond), Camouflage, Elemental Manipulation (Fire/Shadow), Shapeshifting.

Lily:
Siren Song/Scream, Ice/Fire magic, Dream Walking/Manip.

Emmet:
Shade (bad emotion aura), Hybrid Vis, Emotion Sensing, Shadow Manip/Walking, Nightmare creation, Tough Skin.

Olivia:
Fast for an 8 year old.

The War of the Three

Cydone

"Ain't this a sodden day. If I keep having to retreat, there may not be much room left to run to." Cydone mused as the Spawns showed up. Whipping out a wire experimentally, the wire scored deep into the spawn before disintegrating from the force of impact. "Can't kill 'em en mass." Swiping with his sword, he sent waveslash after waveslash into it, the tough bugger taking several in addition to its deep wound from the wire before falling. All the while, more and more poured from the darkness, scrambling forth. Using those safe ranged attacks just wouldn't be enough to cut them down before he was overrun.

"Mmm.. Guess we'll have to try something a little tougher." Cydone attached his wires to his blade, getting ready.

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Cassiopia

Appearance

Cassiopia was quite happy the monster left, and that she didn't have to detonate her Kraken with her inside of it. She cheered to Jubilee "See, everything is going according to plan! I'm not dead, hence, the plan was successful. Oh, hey, is that what we're looking for?" Cassiopia went ahead and moved herself into the siphon, shaped herself, and then exploded the squid, sending her forth towards the golden light. As her momentum began to slow, she once again shapeshifted into a quick fishy, aiming to find the golden thingy, snatch it in her teeth, and then swim to somewhere safe and have a look at it. Rather reckless and all, but Cassiopia was excited to have avoided the fight and maybe done something good.

@KoL@floodtalon

The War of the Three

Cydone

Upon the sight of more acid-eaty type enemies, and enemies that drained the only thing that elevated him above "drowned corpse", Cydone again figured it was time to retreat. When a tentative slash was answered with the magic being eaten on one half and corrosiveness on the other, Cydone decided this wasn't a valid ground to fight for him. One close shave with either of those and he'd be down for the count, having no counter to acid if any of it touched him or his weapons, and destined to ignominiously drown if his water breathing spell was removed, as he had no way to recast it. "Sorry partner, fraid I've got to sit this one out. Bad match ups against either of those creatures for me. Good luck, I'll head back up to the city surface and look around there. Maybe I can find this temple thing." Cydone apologized to Antaeus before making his exit.

Alighting atop a ruined building corner back on the surface, not like he really needed to what with the water, Cydone took another look around. He spotted Unit-T, and figured he might as well wait until after one of them found the staff to start fighting. Be a real shame if it got destroyed in a brawl before anyone found it. He didn't see the need to be the first striker.

@thewizardguy@Lmpkio

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Cassiopia

Appearance

Cassiopia was more or less unharmed. Being splattered against wall, after wall, after wall, wasn't really a problem. For starters, she was inside a Kraken. For finishers, she was made of slime, which was not all that vulnerable to blunt physical trauma. Sure, she got smushed around a lot and couldn't concentrate on any magic, but she just pulled herself together after the smacking stopped. And then the roaring started, of two different types.

"Slime girl! Hurry up and get out here right now, we have another giant monster to kill before it eats us!"

"Er, you go on ahead, I'm a necromancer! This is, um.. Exactly where I want to be. I have a plan. I definitely have plan.

The limp wave the Kraken gave through one of its tentacles Cassiopia managed to animate wasn't all that encouraging. But Cassiopia did have a plan. Maybe she could have the Necrolimb armor throw some external lighting on this thing, try to draw the monster's attention. She prepared her spell, not going for reanimation, but having her corpse explosion in mind. All those smacks against the cliff put together shouldn't make a horrible attack. And if it ignored her instead.. Well, that was also a win!

@KoL@floodtalon

The War of the Three

Cydone

Not doing anything in his previous post, just searching ruins and occasionally defending himself from a Khaine trap probably.

@thewizardguy

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Cassiopia

Appearance

Still riding the wave. Or current as the case may be.

@KoL

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Zyata

"And you're telling me this as if I'm not aware."

"But why are we still doing it? Is she trustworthy enough to give you useful help and not the whole 'doing the quest made you stronger and that's the help, the power was inside you all along' thing? Those are super annoying. I tried not to go on quests any more after that experience with them." Zyata wondered aloud, trying to divert the issue. She wasn't the most observant person, and hadn't noticed Titanica had noticed, but rather than admit that, she was gonna keep running her mouth until she found away out, or dug herself a hole straight to hell. ~I hope she doesn't think I think she's dumb or something. I just didn't notice a difference between grumpy and grumpy because fetch quest. Er... Wait, that doesn't sound much better now that I think about it... Uhhhmmm.~

"We're not alone... Change of plan... we're going for the goat first."

"You can make portals? Awesome! Why were we walking everywhere?" Zyata dropped the Griffon wing she had been tearing off in surprise. Sure, the portal looked a bit questionable and like it'd probably take her to some bleak hellscape, but she already trusted Titanica with not squishing her and that seemed to have worked alright? What could possibly go wrong?

"Follow me."

"GERONIMO!" Zyata entered the portal much as she had entered the hot spring, with perhaps overwhelming enthusiasm. ~I'll land on my feet, cause cat. Right?~

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"Oww..." Zyata rubbed her ass a little, not expecting as short of a drop as it had been, but she was walking it off fine. She was probably about to complain a little more when robo-raptors showed up. A smile took her face! Time to show them what for... Ok wow, that's fast.

Not trusting herself to get a solid bead on a weak point in their armor with their speed as they approached, Zyata shifted her rifle to her front, the barrel resting between her relative meager breasts, with one hand while the other drew her spear as she ran forward towards the swarm. Her eyes scanned back and forth.. for something, and with a smile she seemed to have found it as she picked a target.

Even with the reach advantage of a spear and a downhill momentum advantage, it was kind of dumb to attempt to charge when you were a 80 kg tiger-girl vs a god knows how much robo-raptor. Even if the spear did breach its armor, sheer momentum would lead to her being crushed under its weight like a child against a boar.

Which was, why instead of attempting to spear the robo-raptor, she used it more like a quarterstaff, thrusting the shaft horizontally into its outstretched teeth and claws as she slid under it. The friction tore up her back with the extreme speed and the rockiness of the mountain, but what was a few more stripes? But more importantly, it also tore her rifle strap, which began bouncing up. Letting go of the spear, she twisted as she slid, the ground falling away from her as she jumped a tiny cliff, and she sighted down the rifle in mid flight. The raptor machine slowed and turned, its speed momentarily zero, and Zyata had her shot, the anti-material rifle finding a chink in its armor and tearing its insides apart violently.

Once again, the cat landed with horrible form as far protecting herself went, but her gun was held high and safe. But, the landing zone was less good than she had hoped. She had been trying to break out of the encirclement but the enemy seemed to be numberless and she found herself isolated in their midst, without her melee weapon. And they had grown ice weapons and... That looked like the windup for a projectile attack. Zyata leapt away in an undignified, almost on all fours, scrabbling to a nearby shale rock outcropping. On the plus side, seeing she was being fired at from all angles, any missed shots had a decent chance of hitting other raptors. On the downsides, regular bullet shots probably bounced off these things unless they hit a weak point, and she was being fired at from all sides. Reaching the shale, she fired two round, one smashing its connection to the cliff, and another to set it moving faster, as she slid her way down the mountain, struggling to stay atop her little mini-avalanche that could hopefully get her out of the encirclement and not get buried underneath it.

"And gotta stay low.. I don't need the left arm if I don't have my spear anyway. And the other one feels like a flesh wound, barely hit me, I'll be fine." She tried to psyche herself up through the pain. She was damned lucky or quick to act to have not died immediately in the hail of ice bullets from every direction, but she wasn't fast enough to evade all of them, and had already been shot once in the left upper arm, and once near her waist, fortunately a few inches above shattering a hip. Even her gun had been hit, but she didn't have time to check the damage.

@Lmpkio@TheWindel

The War of the Three

Cydone

Cydone raised an eyebrow as what looked like a girl, maybe a machina from the looks of that torpedo, decided to attack the three of them, or well, specifically that archangel guy 100 meters away. But still, in a battle this big, that was pretty close cohesion From Antaeus's shoulder, Cydone had a clear line of sight to the girl, but maybe she hadn't seen them? How'd she miss the 10 meter tall rock guy. Maybe he just looked to big to be a person and got mistaken for a building.

With one hand, Cydone swung his blade, sending forth a horizontal waveslash at Utada. The other reach out to increase the inertia of the water in front of the torpedo, making the water in front of it an immovable wall. He wished he could have done so closer to Utada so it'd blow up in her face, but even his reflexes weren't that good including cast time.

@thewizardguy@floodtalon

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Cassiopia

Appearance

Swept off with Jubilee. And the Kraken. But the Kraken would probably be dead soon from the abundance of bullets passing through its internal organs.

@KoL

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Zyata

"There's the mountains. I believe the Rocs and Goats can be found there, yes?"

"Yeah, though we might find a Roc try to prey on some elephants, or possibly you if you size yourself around elephant size. Finding them in the actual mountains might be a pain as they're rare and like being near the top. For rarer, more secretive predators with out of the way hiding spots, a lot of times it's easier to track and find their prey than the creature themselves. Then we make it show us the way to it's nest after we beat some sense into it!" Zyata responded, with some vigor and a punching motion as she talked about the beating up part. Zyata was happy to share her hunting expertise. Such as it was. Most of the time she was scavenging from fights but hey, you can't be an Amazon without going on at least a few exotic creature hunts. Sure, she'd never lead one, but she trusted she probably wasn't forgetting anything important.

Speaking of important things she didn't want to forget, there was the fact that this whole quest seemed unnecessary.
"So, you chose to grab this stuff for Hoho instead of anything else. I can understand you not being into girls for the kissing, but.. Still, it seems like you're letting her get one up on you and all. She's like, supposed to be the Alchemist of Genesis right? Even if she did need this stuff, couldn't she just magic it up? She's summoned way more magical stuff out of thin air before, from what I saw in her lab/dungeon/maze thing. And her willingness to go with a kiss, well, it's obvious from that she didn't really NEED the contract, she just wanted you to dance for her." Zyata was wondering if Hoho was stronger, or maybe possessed positional power, like, lots of irritating things she could do even if Hoho couldn't beat Titanica. All the little torments an alchemist of Hoho's skill could inflict on someone seemed pretty intimidating. Or maybe it was something else?

And then a dead griffon dropped out of the sky a few meters from Zyata, splatting some blood over her lower legs. Looking around, she couldn't see any source. "What is with today and chicken dropping out of the sky?" Zyata shrugged, before turning to Titanica, "Say, are you in a rush? If not, I'd be down for cooking some Griffon and seeing what that tastes like."

@Lmpkio

The War of the Three

Cydone

"You've got a bit of.. Uh, crab?, on you partner.." Cydone was currently climbing up onto Antaeus's shoulder, a bit concerned about the crab that was latched on. With a quick slash/draw/throw/thing, he sent his sword hurtling through one of the crabs arms, slicing through the shell at a weak joint, before the pull of a wire sent it through the other arm and finally back to Cydone's hand. The two claws still seemed to be latched onto Antaeus, but the crab was left armless. "Well, tough luck Mr. Crab. I'm sure they grow back with a lil patience.." He tipped his hat at the crab. ~Well, ah hope that's not literally true, would be terrifying.~ He though to himself.

"Got any plans, partner? I could wave a net around to look, that's as good as I got. How bout you?" Cydone kept a weather eye out for danger while he hitched a ride.

@thewizardguy

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Cassiopia

Appearance

"Ooof.. Man, they always thrash so much when they get shot. So glad I don't suffer any pain from physical trauma." Cassiopia was bounced around a little by the Kraken's motion, but she had affixed her self rather firmly, and continued firing and shredding its internal organs inside the mantle with her gunfire. The guns wouldn't be much use out there, so no reason not to burn through her ammo here.

While Cass probably should have been escaping, her senses weren't quite acute enough to notice what was going on in relationship to the environment outside as she was tumbled around. She could tell her other bits that had been knocked away by the Kraken's clubbing were getting farther, but that was a very imprecise and vague sense.

@KoL@Floodtalon

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Zyata

Zyata was not overly hopeful about how this was going to turn out, what with Hoho's general disregard of her save as a talking point against Titanica, and how Titanica responded to her question about a Tiger equivalent of Titanica's Saurian claim with a glare.

~Well, at least they're both wearing clothes now and, damn it, nope I can't unsee it... They barely cover anyway. Gah, I feel like a naive little Maiden all over again. Keep your cool, nobody wants their prey to just surrender without a hunt!~ Zyata raised a hand over her eyes, before then biting into her arm with a little growl to clear her mind. "Gwarawrrar."

~Come on, focus, the hunt.~ Zyata mentally tried to sych herself up as she stumbled out of the pool, grabbing her stuff but not having time to put it on as she hurried after Titanica to try and keep up. Without any magical drying off powers, she indeed lived up to Hoho's jab of 'wet pussy' as she chased after Titanica, dripping wet as she followed Titanica. "As far as Rocs and Goats go, we're probably looking for mountains near a savanna to have the best chance of finding both, I think I know a place. Kraken would need an ocean but I'm afraid I can't help with that one very much, Mmm-? Vaa-? Do you have a preference on like, polite form of address or is Titanica fine?" Zyata offered what help she could, before stumbling on Titanica's name. She heard some of the higher ranking folks with other factions were real finicky about titles. And well, with how much Titanica had a power advantage, Zyata wanted to stay on Titanica's mildly more amusing and helpful than annoying side. And with how much of a talker she was, she figured she needed all the help she could get on that.

@KoL@Lmpkio

The War of the Three

Cydone

"You alright there partner?" Cydone glances worriedly at Antaeus, watching as he sunk with all the grace of keeling horse. Casting his net at Antaeus, Cydone figured he'd cast some inertia reduction so that Antaeus'd have a soft landing with the aid of something to grab. However, he noticed when a small bit of his net melted. Or, well, at least that's what it looked like to Cydone's not particularly chemically trained eyes.

Cydone started spotting the slightest hints of the wraithlike jellyfish and.. "Nope, nope, I don't do ghosts. I'm out. See you later, fellers." Cydone applied a very slight amount of deceleration to Antaeus as he used him as an anchor to pull on with his strings. Cydone pulled out his sword with his hand that wasn't busy pulling on the string and slashed in front of himself nearly a dozen times. The normal "windslash" effect was more of a "waveslash" in this environment, a frothy mix of gas and water caught up in it, but nonetheless, he cleared the way in front of himself as he headed for Antaeus. The water around him flowed out of the way far easier than it should, letting him keep up speed. Just before landing on Antaeus' back, Cydone reduced his own inertia and that of his waveslashes so that they would land lighter than a feather.

Of course, with all that fancy manipulation going on, he forgot to do what he originally was intending and lighten Antaeus' landing.

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Cassiopia

Appearance

"Um.. Uh oh..." Cassiopia muttered, a bit panicked as everything went black and her skin tasted the ink around her. The disadvantage of being able to taste and eat through your skin was that you could taste through your skin. At least she didn't have a biology to speak of to poison by most poisons. ~Man, I'm like the only demon trying to be sneaky and I'm the first one attacked.. That's just my luck. :( ~ She despaired and moaned internally, as she was battered around with clubbing tentacles. Her gelatinous form easily withstood the blunt attacks, a few bits getting spattered away, balling up protectively around her Necrolimb armor that wasn't quite as resilient to physical trauma.

Without much ado, she was eaten. It was after the eating that most of the ado occurred. Just past the beak, before she could reach the potentially dangerous stomach, if the being's acids were stronger than hers, her Necrolimb's blade and grasping arms shot forth, stabbing into the "esophagus" of the Kraken and anchoring herself in place very painfully.

~These won't do much damage out and abroad in the ocean, but fired inside an enemy might do some damage. Let's ricochet some rounds inside the mantle.~ Cassiopia Necrolimb armor unfolded a few heavy machine guns barrels from Cassiopia's torso. Unlike the Machina, Cassiopia didn't have the industrial knowledge or base to swap out or mod her weapons for the fight, being a scavenger rather than an original creator. But her weapons could still fire in wet conditions (seeing they were frequently fired from inside her body), even if the bullets normally wouldn't travel very far underwater at all. But inside the Kraken, pretty much anything they traveled through would be damaging the Kraken, and its protective/bouyant mantle would serve to cause the machine gun rounds ricochet inside it's soft fleshy bits. She fired, lighting up the inside of the Kraken.

If that was enough to kill it, she'd open the beak, reclaim the parts of herself that had been splattered away, and begin zombifying the Kraken.

The War of the Three

Sapphire Pink

Fluffy Woof

Pink hesitated as Deva's words reached her brain, looking up at Ruxen's face, then back down at her foot. Then at her own hands as she let go. "Whooah. I think you're right. I'm full. This is.. Huh." Pink normally drained people's negative emotions more or less instantly, where her main gate was how much emotions they had to eat, rather than transfer speed. When drawing from someone like Ruxen, that meant that in just a few moments, Pink was fuller than she ever been before. She patted at her stomach, which had no sort of physical indication of what Pink had just 'eaten'.

"Ah. Um. I'm sorry." Pink's brow furrowed with manual effort as she apologized to Ruxen, and she said the words with very mechanical pacing. It seemed to imply her thought process was not actual regret, but that she understood this was a thing people said to be polite to each other. "That was very rude of me, thank you for putting up with me." She rose and bowed a little. This part seemed more genuine. Pink was much better at positive emotions (such as thankfulness) than negative (such as regret or guilt).

Then Pink seemed to be puzzled with herself. She was full. This was new. Her only real 'need' was fulfilled. "Ah, what to do next? Maybe I'll do an art? That's a thing people do when their needs are met. Oooh, or I could learn how bows work, so that if someone wants one I can be one. Mmm, yeah, that will make people happy, people always like having better weapons!" Pink started wandering off in a sort of daze, before finally figuring out something to do and acquiring some purpose to her steps.

@Floodtalon @TheWindel