@KoL Last time he was a student, because he had no idea how the world worked, but was also an adjutant teacher because he was way more combat ready than 90% of the staff and taught combat meditation.
--- Name: Tai Yang --- Alias: Has not earned one, feel free to create one if you’re impressed. --- Age: 21 years --- Species: Human ???
--- Personality: Tai Yang is in many ways, reminiscent of a boy, granted one of stature, strength, vigor, and discipline. Tai Yang loves to fight and play, and certainly to combine the two. Any physical activity, he will jump in, especially if it involves the whole body heavily. The world of the supernatural as well as that of technology is fresh and strange to him, yet he accepts it with innocent naivety. He does not hesitate to play games with tricksters, try to meditate with the mentalists, or wrestle with monsters. Tai Yang always seeks out new people and new encounters to improve himself in spirit and body. His intense morning physical training, for example, is a daily ritual that most humans could not survive, much less use as a warm up to greet the day. Tai Yang has a kind heart and will not hesitate to help others, with one notable exception. Tai Yang’s most adult trait is his concept of the honorable warrior. If he believes that someone’s battle is not just for victory, but for their pride, he will not intervene unless called for. Note that Tai Yang’s concept of a “battle” ranges from duels to the death, to spirited volleyball matches, to cupcake baking contests. Also, for all his enthusiasm and vigor, he isn’t the smartest, though he can be clever in his field of expertise (fighting). --- History: Tai Yang grew up in a monastery, and then proceeded to surprise everyone when his physical training seemed to take him to inhuman levels. There was seemingly no explanation for the fact that his training and meditation granted him strength beyond mortal possibility. Sure, he trained harder than any other initiates of the monastery, and he took the lessons more to heart, always willing to lend a hand and pay no heed to the needs of self. But they truly weren’t expecting this reward! Tai Yang was of such prodigious strength that he often came to the rescue of nearby villages, capable of rescuing cattle from drowning in a river flooded by a broken dam, or blow out a spreading barn fire with merely the shout of his Kiai. Eventually, his spiritual and physical strength reached such heights that local spirits came to him for their own problems. While surprised, Tai Yang treated them with kindness and all the consideration he gave all living things.
One fateful day, Tai Yang was directed to a desolate valley. Everything that set foot in that valley died. No plants but the most briar filled thorns took root. The very stones blazed with fire, burning the eyes of those who looked upon it. And a fell wind blew from this place, a dying breath that spread the sickness of this desolate valley and had claimed Tai Yang’s master from the monastery and many of his friends among the locals and the spirits of the land. Tai Yang gazed upon it. It was bright, but no brighter than the good sun which beamed down from the sky. Tai Yang smiled at the challenge, and stepped forward. Tai Yang breathed in deeply. It was sick, but no sicker than the breath of those he had comforted as they were dying of plague, and their last words he would never trade away. Tai Yang smiled at the challenge, and stepped forward. Tai Yang’s steps passed through the briars. They were sharp thorns, but no sharper than the teeth of the mountain his monastery was built on. Tai Yang smiled at the challenge, and stepped forward.
At last, he found the source of the corruption. The form of a great dragon lay around a pillar, barely stirring. Its breath was the only motion. The great jewels of its eyes and scales, which should shine like the stars, were as cheap stone slathered with mud. It was a dying dragon of the land. No malice lay in its heart, but with its death came the death of this land. No longer could it sustain this hidden land away from the rest of the world. Tai Yang swept his hands across the pillar, revealing that this land had been sealed away from the rest of the world during the war between mankind and supernatural by the dragon who did not wish to fight like the rest of his kin. But even for a dragon, the mighty enchantment such as this could not be maintained forever alongside its duties to sustain this land.
Tai Yang spoke to the dragon, hands on the dragon’s scales, not sure if it could hear him. Tai Yang said he would defend the land against whatever was outside. The dragon could rest easy that Tai Yang would defend the land, if he would only still breath the land full of life. The dragon disappeared in a great flash, taking rest inside Tai Yang’s mighty body and spirit, and Tai Yang’s little slice of ancient times dropped back into the real world with no small amount of fanfare and a quick bout of map editing. But times had changed, since the time the dragon sealed away this part of the world. Hikari Ryodan Academy now guarded the balance of the world, and to keep his promise, Tai Yang headed there. ---
Notable Skills or Abilities: In a phrase, a young wuxai martial arts hero Also, a dormant dragon rests within his soul, that might come up Humorously clueless about the modern world
Cydone stood amidst the gore of a half-dozen minions of that whale-giant-monster-thing. Sure, they were stronger and tougher, but that didn't mean a whole lot against a blade that pierced everything. As long as Cydone kept his guard up, and took them one at time by manipulating the battlefield with his wires, he could take them down. But, well, the tide seemed endless, and eventually someone was going to have to do something about that giant monster. Or run away again, but Cydone figured he'd done enough for today.
Glancing behind him while he held his sword forward to ward off a few circling spawn, Cydone looked for the biggest, fanciest looking tower he could find. With a smile, he spotted a decent sized one and jumped up, speeding through the water like it was air thanks to his powers. "Hyup." With a twist, he sent a braid of wire spiraling towards it, cutting the tower's base. But before it could fall, the wires latched onto it, and Cydone reduced the tower and the water's around it inertia, while increasing that of his boots to give himself a stable platform. "Hyah!" Cydone pulled the tower forward, sending it towards the giant monster. Just before the swimming spawn could catch up to him, he reversed the inertia of himself and the tower, letting himself be yanked towards it.
"Truce till it's dead, giant robo-lizard feller?" Cydone yelled at Unit-T as he rode past on his giant tower. Hopefully, it wouldn't vaporize him with the big shiny beam gun, and would keep aiming at the monster. With Antaeus on his side as well, Cydone felt reasonably confident. As he approached the murky blackness, Cydone kept a sensory web of wires out around himself to keep himself aware of incoming attacks.
Cass wrenched open the seal... and was immediately sucked inside. The bumpy ride inside wasn't to bad for a slime, but the impact at the other end where Cass broke through the other seal by hitting it really really hard, was a little less fun. She had to take a moment to gather herself together. But fortunately, even if reduced to a fine mist of droplets, she could still pull herself together fairly quickly, thanks to not having a core like some slimes. "Man, I haven't gotten to do any succubus-ee things today. Just slime slime slime. There'd better be some cool treasure around here." She irritatingly humphed while searching for loot.
Appearance:Neither her endless duties as a maid, nor her own blindness have been able to put any damper on Ninian's endless cheer that has brightened her visage as much as her fair skin and hair. It is a pity then, that she has found her way to the Rivianne Solaire.
Backstory:Ninian was born with poor vision and it has only fallen worse and worse with age until before her twentieth year she could not even make out the faintest glimmer of the blazing sun. Some would say it is cruel that she got to see the world, even dimly, before having it stolen from her. That the light of hope made the knife of fate twist all the harsher. Ninian would strongly disagree. It was a generous privilege awarded to her to have seen the faces of her parents before they passed. To have glimpsed the barest slivers of creation's glories was an undeserved blessing.
Blind and poor, without family or skill, Ninian largely relied on the generosity of others, particularly a Devitt family, where she worked as a maid. Despite her inability to see, she served with endless cheer and dutiful labor. She did at least have an excellent nose for smelly sheets and dirty laundry that others might think clean enough. As long as no one moved the furniture about, she could sweep any floor spotless with dedication to pattern, triplicate effort, and feeling the floor for stray grains of dirt. But for all her spirit and gratitude, she was still less useful than a maid with possession of sight. As the Devitt's generosity strained their resources, they sent Ninian to another family, but a few twists of fate and a wrong stagecoach taken has landed her at the Rivianne Solaire.
Inventory:Letter of Recomendation: The Devitt family has written up a glowing recommendation of all Ninian's virtues, that, despite her blindness sharply limiting the tasks she is capable of, those that she can she undertakes with absolute excellence.
Feather Duster: Her favorite feather duster, which, despite Ninian not being all that good at using it for its intended purposes, tickles misbehaving children quite nicely.
Music Box: Her singular remaining possession of her parents, this humble snuff box turned music box is certainly Ninian's most prized possession.
Intro/Sample Post:"There is always hope, my lady." Ninian had put forth her absolutely best, her brightest smile, to reassure Lady Devitt that she would be alright on her own. That Ninian appreciated Lady Devitt generosity so much, even now that they had to be parted. With Lord Devitt's letter of recommendation, she would certainly be alright. Ninian trusted his judgment, and any family he recommended had to be good sorts. Ninian had faith in her future, that it would be alright.
Oh, how hard it was to retain such sentiments when the shrieking wind deafened you and the stinging rain soaked you. She let the coachman lead her through the storm to the door, clutching her hand over her chest as if holding a last lifeline to protect her letter of recommendation. How curious then, it was when the door opened, and she stumbled through from the coachman's shove, that it felt even colder inside the manor she had been sent to than inside the rain. "H-hello? I'm Ninian, Lord Devitt sent me." She spoke as she managed to hear soft steps approaching even over the storm, slowly holding forth her letter of recommendation. But the only response she received was the taste of blood and the floor rushing to meet her, before she awoke with a start.
Alright, I'd like to officially declare that Cass will take the highway to the palace, and Cydone will fighting retreat from the whale monster spawn, but I can't muster up the will to make a full post out of it. It doesn't involve anyone, so, it's not terribly important.
@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.
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:
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
