The 42nd Gecko

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

@13org Hey, take it however physically or metaphysically you want. Metaphor and symbolism is all up in the deck of many things.

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

@Fallenreaper@May@Eklispe@Raijinslayer@13org

I mentioned the possibility of "Hey, what would happen if the alcohol in the bar caught fire?"

Then, the subject of "Wait, doesn't Nabri have a bunch of potions here?" came up.

Then, deck of many things as a random magical effect table was used.

Long story short, here are random magical effects that can happen to your character, if you want your character to be affected by a spilled/exploded Nabri potion cocktail.

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Katarina drew The Sun upright, making her slightly more charismatic.

Amon got the Two of Cups upright, making him fall in love with whoever is most attractive to him within the next 24 hours, and gaining a TON of charisma for the purposes of who he's falling in love with. This sure does sound like Nabri's potion stock.

Damian would get the Three of Swords upright, which means he will have a fight till at least one person is unconscious or dead, within the next 30 seconds. :/

Nikki would get Queen of Cups upright, gaining tempory healing magic and command/compulsion magic. Well. That's helpful.

Darius would get Six of Cups upright, meaning that a companion he hasn't seen in a long time will soon send him well wishes and a useful item.

Masha would get Seven of Cups reversed, meaning that she gains the power to see through illusions, and any illusions she casts are stronger.

Lily would get The High Priestess reversed, meaning that she looses a little bit of wisdom.
Afua gets the Knight of Pentacles reversed, meaning that she becomes invisible, but very noisy.

Rich would get The Devil upright, meaning that he gets attacked by the Devil. I'm pretty sure the Devil is just waiting until they're in private before attacking.

Corinna would get the Page of Swords reversed, meaning that her defense is slightly reduced temporarily. Alright, I think that's the least exciting one yet, unless you're creative with the interpretation of defense.

And I drew Wheel of Fortune reversed for Nao, which is awful, but she's not even there and it was a for fun draw.

If you want some more inspiration, me or the vast endless information of the internet can tell you more about what tarot cards signify.

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

docs.google.com/document/d/1rlpthf0Ao…

Collab for Katarina's mindspace, and some of her upcoming physical actions.

@Fallenreaper@Eklispe

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

@Fallenreaper What's your preferred Collab format?

Haven Online - Stage: 1

Calix Falborough

Calix wasn't particularly one who was always enthused for new content patches. It wasn't all that big a deal for him. He thrived in the old and forgotten. With how much player created content there was, he hadn't even finished the base game from release. Thus, if not for one small happenstance of fate, he wouldn't have logged in that day.

That happenstance being, while he was enjoying the warmth of the sun, reclining in his squishy lawn chair on the deck of the ship, he felt a bit chilly. Opening his eyes, he could see the skies suddenly overcast and cloudy. Kind of killed the point of sunbathing. "Hey, bro, I'm heading below till these clouds move away. Could you give me a call when they do?"

"Mmm." Was the inarticulate response of his brother. Well, at least of all the things to be obsessed with, being obsessed with piloting ships when you're heir to a ship building company is proper.

Down below, of course, Cali's goal was his VR rig.

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~Heh... No one will ever suspect a cute little kitten of being the nefarious Sura, Artisan of Calamity!~ Kittensura thought to herself as she crept out of an alleyway, poised at the corner, ready to enter the street proper. "Hehe, this will be puuuurfect, if I do-Waa! Hey!" Kittensura suddenly could no longer reach the ground with her paws with instead her weight resting on her rear. The source of this mysterious condition was then revealed as a very close rang out.

"Aw, this game has kittens? This is the best game!"



Despite Kittensura's rather disadvantaged position, she couldn't help but struggle, "Lemme down! I'm a PC, a PC!"

"It even doesn't want to be held, just like a real kitten!" The schoolgirl looking character continued to coo and gush over the fluffy little Kittensura.

"Can't you hear a word I'm saying?" Kittensura tried to bat at the girl's hand, but, well, it was futile, she just didn't have the power to escape the practiced kitten-hold of the schoolgirl.

"And the mews, it's so realistic! Who's a good kitty?" Liz began petting the underside of Kittensura's jaw.

"OK.. Apparently not." Kittensura tried checking her status bar, even while distracted by the surprisingly enjoyable petting. ~Kitten Form... Mmm... Kitten speech! Aha! So that's what's making me unintelligible! Man this is nice. Now.. If only I knew how to turn it off.. Maybe I should have read the readme before putting this cosmetic on.~

"Mmm.. I don't see a collar, so it must be a stray! This game is the best. I hope my starter money is enough to buy a cute collar with a bell."

"How did a new player who can't even tell a PC from an NPC get this far in the game..." Kittensura whined, as she finally gave up the struggle, for now at least.

"Aw, I bet you're excited, a collar with a bell would be so cute on you. What do you think about the name Oreo? Too unoriginal?"

"Very much so. How about something dignified. Like Helicopter Maximus." Kittensura rolled her eyes. But it was hard to act dignified when you were being carried around.

"Mmm.. You're right, I'd want something that stands out for my first pet. I'm Liz, by the way. Oooh, that place has ribbons and bells! I could make a collar from those for cheap!" The girl obliviously continued, before spotting a vendor for tailoring materials.

Kittensura's face as the impending bell collar approached was one of feline-doom, but she was saved from the bell as a nearby vendor's stall exploded and the chaos began. Still, in Kitten form, Kittensura was both uniquely prepared to spy out the enemies and then do absolutely nothing about them. At least she had Liz to act as ablative bait.

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

【Katarina】

【I hold onto the notion that I just wasn’t born to die】

~Just outside that Club that just Exploded~

"Today just isn't this city's day, is it?" Katarina frowned. When the explosion rocked the club, many an ear was ringing. So was Katarina's, to be sure, even though she had just been walking by the door. But it was not the noise and chaos and infectious panic that halted her step, but empathetic concern. She quickly swiveled and took a spot against a wall close to the door as people fled. Even though her vision should have been tunneling as base fear took hold, such things simply couldn't find purchase on her jaded mind. What could find purchase was the quiet despair over the fact that this was the second explosion to hit her city just today. It seemed practically beyond saving. What was the point in saving a few if the city'd probably blow up in a month? Still, even though she wanted to leave town, she couldn't let this happen right in front of her.

She calmly waited by the door as the masses flooded out. Pulling up her phone, she activated melded her mind with it, storing away the memories of her little thought experiment about creating a Vis Targeting Virus to attack the Prae. Wouldn't want anyone getting fussy. That could be inconvenient. Then, she melded with the cameras inside the building, seeing the number of wounded. She might, might be able to stabilize everyone but... Eh, might as well just go all the way and get it done properly.

As the tide of those fleeing the building finally began to show gaps, Katarina slipped in. When your mind was running at quadruple speed, it was relatively easy to weave in and out of the crowd easily, especially when the frame you were using was just a tad faster than most. Every little bit helped.

Finally arriving on the scene, as quick as she was reasonably certain as she could have without shoving people down, she made her statement, in as loud and clear a voice as she could muster. "I'm a healer! But I don't have enough Vis to heal everybody. Anybody with some Vis to spare, or who is wounded, would you mind accepting my psychic invitation?" She didn't have big hopes that her one voice would be able to quell the chaos, but even if one or two heard her, that'd give her a lot more to work with. So she activated her Omni-Informational Interface with everyone nearby. It'd start with just a simple ping of sorts 'Are you willing or wounded?'. And for those who let their mental defenses down and said 'yes', well, then the fun would begin.

Presuming anyone was willing to let a stranger poke around in their minds, they'd get added to Katarina's mental network. The wounded would have their senses analyzed to determine where they were and how badly they were injured and where. Normally pain made that a difficult task, but this pain was practically mundane to Katarina, and she had no trouble at all sorting through despite it, and then compartmentalizing that pain away from the mind network. If those injured happened to have sufficient vis themselves to heal themselves, just not the know how or presence of mind, Katarina would allow them access to her Medical interface as she calmed their minds, to allow them to remove any shrapnel and begin healing. Similarly, any volunteers would have the eerie, strange access to a set of memories and knowledge that definitely wasn't their own, the medical know how of how to cast healing spells. Katarina was really hoping that the odds were in her favor and the 20-50% of people that learned at least a little magic was in her favor. She figured she'd only need a couple alright magicians to turn this from a tragedy into a tragedy averted. Even just organizing the random help so they weren't working at cross purposes would be wonderful.

Of course, if no one was down for that, she'd just have to triage and stabilize as best she could using the intel from the cameras.

@13org@May@Fallenreaper@Raijinslayer

Haven Online - Stage: 1

Sura, Artisan of Calamity

Calix Falborough

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AGE:24

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, nor malicious eugenics schemes at work, at least, none Cali knows of. Seems to just be wierd genetics being wonky. Cali blames inbreeding between high blooded families, because he's of course certain he's descended from nobility. 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 shop himself, convincing someone to buy some for you just never gets old.

PERSONALITY

~"Aha..Ahahee..Mwahahahahahahaa!"~ If you couldn't tell by the screen name 'Sura, the Artisan of Calamity', Cali likes hamming it up, and playing the big bad evil guy for the heroes to defeat. He loves the chewing the scenery and melodrama. He loves being the showy badguy that is inevitably taken down by the good guys.

~"Pretty Please? I promise I'll be good."~ That said, Cali isn't afraid of begging and is fairly shameless. Cali is more than willing to cry crocodile tears or promise everything without the slightest intention to follow through. Cali does enjoy the deceptive part of his appearance, even if his avatar Sura is meant to be taken more seriously.

~"Humanity defines itself as much by what it reviles as what it adores."~ And what's a good villain monologue without some 'humanity needs conflict, thrives on struggle' blah blah faux-philosophy. Still, for someone whose invested as much of their time as Cali has on actually doing that by giving people a villain to fight against, one might wonder how much Cali actually believes it.

~"Ptchou! Bakow! Boom! FWOOM!"~ For all the more serious philosophical parts, there is also the very real part of Cali that is just the little boy who still enjoys smashing action figures against each other and making explodey noises. Similarly, there's probably more reasons than just Hindu symbolism for picking a very nearly naked female avatar.

~"Behold, the destruction that is monument to what was but is no more!"~ Cali has a rather interesting take on the motto 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone'. And Cali sometimes feels like it's better for something to die, so nostalgia can blossom without being checked by reality, and how the creation can be recreated without being tied back by the old.

BACKGROUND:

While Haven online is certainly the most dramatic rise to power and wealth in recent years that has put all its competitors to shame, there are other industries that just don't care because they're in entirely different industries. The Falborough family owns a massive shipbuilding industry. The global economy isn't going to stop needing to send millions of tons of one good or another across the ocean just because a great VR came out. Sure, the pleasure cruise industry might have dampened down a little, but that's just a part of a heavily diversified pie.

Inside his father's wealthy company, Cali has one of those sorts of office jobs where you spend 30 minutes replying to emails and filling a few forms out at the beginning and end of the day. He's not very ambitious. Between the family money and his too large salary for the work he actually does, he has more than enough money to live comfortably. Like waaay more. He has other siblings and proteges more likely to continue the family business better than he could.

It is thus, that with his copious free time and cushy life style, Cali has turned to Haven to give a purpose to his life. And decided to become a megalomaniacal villain. Funny how life goes.

TALENTS AND SKILLS:
Cali is fairly good at passing for a girl. Or young boy. The looks he was born with and he's got the voices down pat.

Cali has LOTS of money, given a job he's overpaid for due to nepotism, the collected wealth of many years of allowance larger than most people's salaries, and exorbitant gifts every birthday and Christmas. Especially seeing he doesn't have particularly expensive tastes and doesn't spend a lot.

Cali is actually quite a skilled biker and roller skater, given he has given up on trying to drive around in motorized vehicles for constantly getting pulled over and having to explain that 'yes, I really am 24 and have a license and this ID isn't faked' for several hours.

Cali knows how to navigate office life fairly well, knowing how to send and reply to emails, fill out forms, and look busy while keeping one's head down.

Sura, Artisan of Calamity

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STATS:
STR: ▰▱▱▱▱▱
STA: ▰▰▱▱▱▱
DEX: ▰▰▰▱▱▱
INT: ▰▰▰▱▱▱
WIS: ▰▰▰▰▱▱
LUC: ▰▰▰▰▱▱

ABILITIES
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Karmic Magic: Quantified Fate
Sura is a user of an unusual type of magic that uses the caster's luck stat as a resource bar. By default, unlocking the Karmic Magic tree allows you to still do with your luck whatever normal luck could do, except you get to consciously control it. In return, however, you 'pay' luck to do so, and you lose the chance to just get lucky normally.

If a person with a luck stat of 3, killing a certain boss, gets a 15% chance to get X rare drop, and a 5% chance to get Y super rare drop, a Karma user with the same luck could guarantee that after fighting that certain boss 10 times, they WILL get Y super Rare drop, but they will lower their luck to 2 by doing so, and will never get the X rare drop on any of their attempts nor is there any possibility they could get Y twice, or early, as they are actively manipulating their fate and sacrificing the potential of that outcome for a sure deal.

Another way of stating this is that a Karma user can spend a point of luck to dodge a hit or negate a critical, but they will never passively do this for free with their luck. They sacrifice the no cost nature of luck normally, in return for being able to demand when they get their luck procs. This can make Karma users "nova" type compared to normal luck users, where they perform super lucky in the opening moments of the fight, until they quickly run out of resources.

Karma points are slowly returned by just doing anything that normally has a luck element. You could grind for mobs that have a rare drop, and, you'll never get the rare drop. But you will regen your Karma, which you could eventually spend to manipulate fate and get the rare drop for sure, if you wanted. Or save it for what you find more important.

Karmic Magic: Calamity Conflux
Sura's signature ability, her namesake and claim to fame, is the Calamity Conflux. This allows her to store up Karma in a 'Conflux', building it up beyond her normal capacity limitations, as long as she keeps returning and feeding the Conflux more and more Karma. Eventually, the accumulated Karma will begin summoning calamity upon the land. Great storms, earthquakes, volcanos, whatever natural disaster could go wrong and ruin the area, will eventually start threatening the area. Once it reaches this point, it will feed off of luck in the area, giving everyone bad luck and accelerating the pace and intensity of disaster. Eventually, it will totally devastate the area. Fortunately, it's relatively fragile, and without Sura protecting it, it can be quickly and easily broken. And it takes like a month for Sura to feed it enough Karma to even get to that point. Still, once it's made, as long as she's in the area Sura can spend her Karma for far more offensive and overt actions than it normally could be, such as opening a fissure in the ground to impede the charge of a knight. Which still isn't THAT directly offensive, but, more so than normal.

Karmic Magic: Blessed Reincarnation
A less dramatic, but to Cali, just as important skill to acquire for Sura as the Artisan of Calamity, ability, that allows the player to make those they kill respawn with all their items still on them. In return, the user gains back a point of Luck/Karma up their maximum. In general, the idea is 'if you're ganking a group, you might give up looting one person to gain some karma to help you take down the rest', but in Sura's case, she doesn't want people to lose their stuff over fighting her. It's just win win in her case, cause she doesn't want to loot people anyway. However, this ability doesn't work on the new report system penalties.

Mudra Magic: Symbolic Seals
Mudra magic is at heart a way of 'pre-casting' spells, by reserving your limbs to hold certain specific formation. It's useful for a caster-type character like Sura who doesn't have all that high an intellect to reduce or bypass casting times. The tradeoff is that wise enemies can discern what magic you have prepared, or disrupt your arm's symbols, to disrupt them. But, like, nobody maxes Wis, so you're probably safe, right?

Mudra spells typically have a "casting reserve" which is the limbs that must be occupied to have that spell ready to cast, and some have a "casting execution" which is an action or condition to be met while the spell is actually being used.

Mudra Magic: Punish Stubbornness
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Maintain Line of Sight on target through symbol made by two reserved arms, without moving further or closer away.
A very strange space warping ability, the user looks at the target through the symbol made by their two hands, and causes the target to be unable to move further or closer to them. The target can still move side to side or up and down in relationship to the caster, and doing such may break the spell if the target is faster than the user (if they can't maintain the casting execution). But space warps around the target such that they cannot advance closer or retreat further away, no matter how fast they can go.

Mudra Magic: Unity Mantle
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Touch with the two casting arms, two objects that are at least 90 degrees or more different in orientation from you.
The user melds the inertias of the two objects touched. For example, if Sura was in the corner of a building, and someone was trying to snipe her with an armor piercing round through one of the walls, if Sura used this ability, one on each wall of the building, then the bullet when it hit the first wall, would face resistance as if it was passing through both walls at once, and debris would spray out from both walls, as if they they were both hit. If someone tried to cut Sura with a giant pair of scissors, Sura could use this on both the blades of the scissor, and each of them struggling to move towards her to cut her would cancel each other out, because they're moving in opposite directions.

Mudra Magic: Circle of Awareness
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Close your Eyes
The user becomes supernaturally aware of all happening within a short distance of them, determined by Int. For Sura, it's currently about 4 meters. Very useful at avoiding attacks from melee ambushers, but not so much ranged ambushers, what with having your eyes closed.

Mudra Magic: The Living Sight
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Close your eyes
This allows the user to 'see' all living things, and no non-living things. This can be very useful for detecting ambushes, as long as you don't mind not seeing robot or golem avatars, or knowing what the targets are wearing. It's also not very good at spotting people who are hiding in living underbrush. Can be used at the same time as Circle of awareness, bypassing some of the weaknesses of both, but that uses up 4 hands, and you still can't see everything you normally would, such as, for example, a sentry gun futher than four meters away.

Mudra Magic: Lotus Levitation
Casting Reserve: 2 Legs
While not true flight, this hovering levitation negates all falling damage and allows the user to bypass many ground based obstacles, such as rough terrain. With the legs held Indian style, the user gets the most height. Very low mana cost compared to true flight abilities means that someone with good Wis (like Sura) can pretty much just leave this on all the time.

Mudra Magic: Step Between Fingertips
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms, 2 Legs
Casting Execution: Step between one object and another matching object within line of sight.
This is a league-step or flash-step type ability, with the requirement that the things you are stepping between be thematically or visually similar. Such as from one hilltop to another hilltop, or from atop one stalk of bamboo to another.

Mudra Magic: Judgment Made Manifest
Casting Reserve: At least two Arms, but up to as many as you want (in pairs) for more power.
Casting Execution: Punch something.
Sura has a TON of tricky, situational abilities. However, sometimes you need something simple and reliable, and this is it. You punch, and a phantasmal force backs you up and does the real damage (unless you happen to have higher Str than Int). If you punch, and nothing's there, the phantasmal force projects out and deals the damage.

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INVENTORY:
While Sura does carry a big ass spear, her strength is crap and it's actually there for the boost to Mudra Magic, specifically Judgment Made Manifest, where it can be used in place of a fist to make it into a piercing attack instead of blunt. Basically all her gear is statbuffs for her casting with very little else interesting going on there. Of note it that Sura doesn't really have healing potions or stuff like that very frequently, as her Karmic Magic makes it difficult to farm for base level mats, even as it makes it easy to get rare drops. Instead, she carries a wheel and symbol that provide increased health and mana regeration respectively.

NOTABLE FEATURES: Sura is a player who specializes in finding areas of the game all the players have forgotten about and started ignoring as new stuff comes along. Places abandoned by their content creators as well as those who once explored. Then he schemes elaborate doomsday scenarios that threaten those areas, to try and revitalize interest in the area. And if no one comes to stop him? Well, he'll turn the place into a cataclysmic work of art.

Haven Online (High Casual VRMMO Roleplay)

@Ashen One I look forward to how many situations get solved with:

"Kneel before my mighty magics foolish morta-*bang*-blarg I am dead."

Haven Online (High Casual VRMMO Roleplay)

Sura, Artisan of Calamity

Calix Falborough

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AGE:24

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, nor malicious eugenics schemes at work, at least, none Cali knows of. Seems to just be wierd genetics being wonky. Cali blames inbreeding between high blooded families, because he's of course certain he's descended from nobility. 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 shop himself, convincing someone to buy some for you just never gets old.

PERSONALITY

~"Aha..Ahahee..Mwahahahahahahaa!"~ If you couldn't tell by the screen name 'Sura, the Artisan of Calamity', Cali likes hamming it up, and playing the big bad evil guy for the heroes to defeat. He loves the chewing the scenery and melodrama. He loves being the showy badguy that is inevitably taken down by the good guys.

~"Pretty Please? I promise I'll be good."~ That said, Cali isn't afraid of begging and is fairly shameless. Cali is more than willing to cry crocodile tears or promise everything without the slightest intention to follow through. Cali does enjoy the deceptive part of his appearance, even if his avatar Sura is meant to be taken more seriously.

~"Humanity defines itself as much by what it reviles as what it adores."~ And what's a good villain monologue without some 'humanity needs conflict, thrives on struggle' blah blah faux-philosophy. Still, for someone whose invested as much of their time as Cali has on actually doing that by giving people a villain to fight against, one might wonder how much Cali actually believes it.

~"Ptchou! Bakow! Boom! FWOOM!"~ For all the more serious philosophical parts, there is also the very real part of Cali that is just the little boy who still enjoys smashing action figures against each other and making explodey noises. Similarly, there's probably more reasons than just Hindu symbolism for picking a very nearly naked female avatar.

~"Behold, the destruction that is monument to what was but is no more!"~ Cali has a rather interesting take on the motto 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone'. And Cali sometimes feels like it's better for something to die, so nostalgia can blossom without being checked by reality, and how the creation can be recreated without being tied back by the old.

BACKGROUND:

While Haven online is certainly the most dramatic rise to power and wealth in recent years that has put all its competitors to shame, there are other industries that just don't care because they're in entirely different industries. The Falborough family owns a massive shipbuilding industry. The global economy isn't going to stop needing to send millions of tons of one good or another across the ocean just because a great VR came out. Sure, the pleasure cruise industry might have dampened down a little, but that's just a part of a heavily diversified pie.

Inside his father's wealthy company, Cali has one of those sorts of office jobs where you spend 30 minutes replying to emails and filling a few forms out at the beginning and end of the day. He's not very ambitious. Between the family money and his too large salary for the work he actually does, he has more than enough money to live comfortably. Like waaay more. He has other siblings and proteges more likely to continue the family business better than he could.

It is thus, that with his copious free time and cushy life style, Cali has turned to Haven to give a purpose to his life. And decided to become a megalomaniacal villain. Funny how life goes.

TALENTS AND SKILLS:
Cali is fairly good at passing for a girl. Or young boy. The looks he was born with and he's got the voices down pat.

Cali has LOTS of money, given a job he's overpaid for due to nepotism, the collected wealth of many years of allowance larger than most people's salaries, and exorbitant gifts every birthday and Christmas. Especially seeing he doesn't have particularly expensive tastes and doesn't spend a lot.

Cali is actually quite a skilled biker and roller skater, given he has given up on trying to drive around in motorized vehicles for constantly getting pulled over and having to explain that 'yes, I really am 24 and have a license and this ID isn't faked' for several hours.

Cali knows how to navigate office life fairly well, knowing how to send and reply to emails, fill out forms, and look busy while keeping one's head down.

Sura, Artisan of Calamity

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STATS:
STR: ▰▱▱▱▱▱
STA: ▰▰▱▱▱▱
DEX: ▰▰▰▱▱▱
INT: ▰▰▰▱▱▱
WIS: ▰▰▰▰▱▱
LUC: ▰▰▰▰▱▱

ABILITIES
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Karmic Magic: Quantified Fate
Sura is a user of an unusual type of magic that uses the caster's luck stat as a resource bar. By default, unlocking the Karmic Magic tree allows you to still do with your luck whatever normal luck could do, except you get to consciously control it. In return, however, you 'pay' luck to do so, and you lose the chance to just get lucky normally.

If a person with a luck stat of 3, killing a certain boss, gets a 15% chance to get X rare drop, and a 5% chance to get Y super rare drop, a Karma user with the same luck could guarantee that after fighting that certain boss 10 times, they WILL get Y super Rare drop, but they will lower their luck to 2 by doing so, and will never get the X rare drop on any of their attempts nor is there any possibility they could get Y twice, or early, as they are actively manipulating their fate and sacrificing the potential of that outcome for a sure deal.

Another way of stating this is that a Karma user can spend a point of luck to dodge a hit or negate a critical, but they will never passively do this for free with their luck. They sacrifice the no cost nature of luck normally, in return for being able to demand when they get their luck procs. This can make Karma users "nova" type compared to normal luck users, where they perform super lucky in the opening moments of the fight, until they quickly run out of resources.

Karma points are slowly returned by just doing anything that normally has a luck element. You could grind for mobs that have a rare drop, and, you'll never get the rare drop. But you will regen your Karma, which you could eventually spend to manipulate fate and get the rare drop for sure, if you wanted. Or save it for what you find more important.

Karmic Magic: Calamity Conflux
Sura's signature ability, her namesake and claim to fame, is the Calamity Conflux. This allows her to store up Karma in a 'Conflux', building it up beyond her normal capacity limitations, as long as she keeps returning and feeding the Conflux more and more Karma. Eventually, the accumulated Karma will begin summoning calamity upon the land. Great storms, earthquakes, volcanos, whatever natural disaster could go wrong and ruin the area, will eventually start threatening the area. Once it reaches this point, it will feed off of luck in the area, giving everyone bad luck and accelerating the pace and intensity of disaster. Eventually, it will totally devastate the area. Fortunately, it's relatively fragile, and without Sura protecting it, it can be quickly and easily broken. And it takes like a month for Sura to feed it enough Karma to even get to that point. Still, once it's made, as long as she's in the area Sura can spend her Karma for far more offensive and overt actions than it normally could be, such as opening a fissure in the ground to impede the charge of a knight. Which still isn't THAT directly offensive, but, more so than normal.

Karmic Magic: Blessed Reincarnation
A less dramatic, but to Cali, just as important skill to acquire for Sura as the Artisan of Calamity, ability, that allows the player to make those they kill respawn with all their items still on them. In return, the user gains back a point of Luck/Karma up their maximum. In general, the idea is 'if you're ganking a group, you might give up looting one person to gain some karma to help you take down the rest', but in Sura's case, she doesn't want people to lose their stuff over fighting her. It's just win win in her case, cause she doesn't want to loot people anyway. However, this ability doesn't work on the new report system penalties.

Mudra Magic: Symbolic Seals
Mudra magic is at heart a way of 'pre-casting' spells, by reserving your limbs to hold certain specific formation. It's useful for a caster-type character like Sura who doesn't have all that high an intellect to reduce or bypass casting times. The tradeoff is that wise enemies can discern what magic you have prepared, or disrupt your arm's symbols, to disrupt them. But, like, nobody maxes Wis, so you're probably safe, right?

Mudra spells typically have a "casting reserve" which is the limbs that must be occupied to have that spell ready to cast, and some have a "casting execution" which is an action or condition to be met while the spell is actually being used.

Mudra Magic: Punish Stubbornness
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Maintain Line of Sight on target through symbol made by two reserved arms, without moving further or closer away.
A very strange space warping ability, the user looks at the target through the symbol made by their two hands, and causes the target to be unable to move further or closer to them. The target can still move side to side or up and down in relationship to the caster, and doing such may break the spell if the target is faster than the user (if they can't maintain the casting execution). But space warps around the target such that they cannot advance closer or retreat further away, no matter how fast they can go.

Mudra Magic: Unity Mantle
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Touch with the two casting arms, two objects that are at least 90 degrees or more different in orientation from you.
The user melds the inertias of the two objects touched. For example, if Sura was in the corner of a building, and someone was trying to snipe her with an armor piercing round through one of the walls, if Sura used this ability, one on each wall of the building, then the bullet when it hit the first wall, would face resistance as if it was passing through both walls at once, and debris would spray out from both walls, as if they they were both hit. If someone tried to cut Sura with a giant pair of scissors, Sura could use this on both the blades of the scissor, and each of them struggling to move towards her to cut her would cancel each other out, because they're moving in opposite directions.

Mudra Magic: Circle of Awareness
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Close your Eyes
The user becomes supernaturally aware of all happening within a short distance of them, determined by Int. For Sura, it's currently about 4 meters. Very useful at avoiding attacks from melee ambushers, but not so much ranged ambushers, what with having your eyes closed.

Mudra Magic: The Living Sight
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms
Casting Execution: Close your eyes
This allows the user to 'see' all living things, and no non-living things. This can be very useful for detecting ambushes, as long as you don't mind not seeing robot or golem avatars, or knowing what the targets are wearing. It's also not very good at spotting people who are hiding in living underbrush. Can be used at the same time as Circle of awareness, bypassing some of the weaknesses of both, but that uses up 4 hands, and you still can't see everything you normally would, such as, for example, a sentry gun futher than four meters away.

Mudra Magic: Lotus Levitation
Casting Reserve: 2 Legs
While not true flight, this hovering levitation negates all falling damage and allows the user to bypass many ground based obstacles, such as rough terrain. With the legs held Indian style, the user gets the most height. Very low mana cost compared to true flight abilities means that someone with good Wis (like Sura) can pretty much just leave this on all the time.

Mudra Magic: Step Between Fingertips
Casting Reserve: 2 Arms, 2 Legs
Casting Execution: Step between one object and another matching object within line of sight.
This is a league-step or flash-step type ability, with the requirement that the things you are stepping between be thematically or visually similar. Such as from one hilltop to another hilltop, or from atop one stalk of bamboo to another.

Mudra Magic: Judgment Made Manifest
Casting Reserve: At least two Arms, but up to as many as you want (in pairs) for more power.
Casting Execution: Punch something.
Sura has a TON of tricky, situational abilities. However, sometimes you need something simple and reliable, and this is it. You punch, and a phantasmal force backs you up and does the real damage (unless you happen to have higher Str than Int). If you punch, and nothing's there, the phantasmal force projects out and deals the damage.

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INVENTORY:
While Sura does carry a big ass spear, her strength is crap and it's actually there for the boost to Mudra Magic, specifically Judgment Made Manifest, where it can be used in place of a fist to make it into a piercing attack instead of blunt. Basically all her gear is statbuffs for her casting with very little else interesting going on there. Of note it that Sura doesn't really have healing potions or stuff like that very frequently, as her Karmic Magic makes it difficult to farm for base level mats, even as it makes it easy to get rare drops. Instead, she carries a wheel and symbol that provide increased health and mana regeration respectively.

NOTABLE FEATURES: Sura is a player who specializes in finding areas of the game all the players have forgotten about and started ignoring as new stuff comes along. Places abandoned by their content creators as well as those who once explored. Then he schemes elaborate doomsday scenarios that threaten those areas, to try and revitalize interest in the area. And if no one comes to stop him? Well, he'll turn the place into a cataclysmic work of art.

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@Anders Looks like an interesting concept for an RP. Here's my concept for a character.

Sura, Artisan of Calamity.
"It is human nature to be attracted to destructive spectacle."

A player who specializes in finding areas of the game all the players have forgotten about and started ignoring as new stuff comes along. Places abandoned by their content creators as well as those who once explored. Then he schemes elaborate doomsday scenarios that threaten those areas, to try and revitalize interest in the area. And if no one comes to stop him? Well, he'll turn the place into a cataclysmic work of art.