Post by Nian Gao on Nov 10, 2020 1:30:18 GMT -8
Name: Nian Gao
Species: Jiangshi (Demonic Undead)
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Skills & Statistics
Fighting: 20
Energy Control: 20
Reflexes: 25
Resilience: 30
Power Level: 5,130
Accuracy: 1d100+20+5(Prodigy Class)(Fighting) / 1d100+20+5(Prodigy Class) (Energy Control
Defense: 75
HP: 85
KI: 100
DR: +2
Class: Prodigy Lvl. 1
Racial Trait: Lifedrinker
Your every successful attack heals you 2 Health Points.
Effort Points: 3,040/41,540
4,000 EP converted into 4 MP, 11/11/2020
9,000 EP converted into 12 MP, 11/17/2020
8,000 EP converted into 200,000 zeni, 11/28/2020
15,000 EP converted into 15 MP, 12/03/2020
2,500 EP converted into 62,500 zeni, 12/03/2020
Zeni: 263,500 Zeni
Mastery Points: 0/36
Potential Mastery Rank 1 +5 to all skills
Purchased 11/10/2020 2 MP
Potential Mastery Rank 2 +5 to all skills
Purchased 11/17/2020 4 MP
Focus Mastery Rank 1 +10 to Resilience
Purchased 11/10/2020 1 MP
Focus Mastery Rank 2 +5 to Energy Control
Purchased 11/17/2020 2 MP
Focus Mastery Rank 3 +5 to Reflexes
Purchased 11/17/2020 3 MP
Focus Mastery Rank 4 +5 to Fighting
Purchased 12/03/2020 4 MP
Ability Mastery Rank 1 Pilfer
Purchased 11/11/2020 5 MP
Technique Mastery Rank 1
Purchased 12/03/2020 5 MP
Class Mastery Level 1
Purchased 12/03/2020 10 MP
Reputation: +2 (Westlands)
Traits:
Pilfer
Activation: None (Passive)
Effect: Your successful Techniques drain 2 ki from their target, restoring +2 ki to you on your next turn. Ki regained from Pilfer is not prevented by the Cripple status effect.
Limit: A maximum of 30 ki may be drained from an opponent; this limit is applied per opponent.
Class Features:
Unrivaled Potential - You begin play with all Enhanced Basic Techniques.
Prodigious Student - Twice per battle as a Reactive At-Will Action, you may immediately learn a technique used by a combatant in the current thread- this technique begins at Rank 1 and is forgotten at the end of Battle; you may not learn Legendary Techniques with Prodigious Student. Techniques learned through Prodigious Student do not take up technique slots.
Skillful - Focus Mastery Level 1 now instead increases your chosen skill by +10.
Appearance: Nian Gao is a fairly young girl, in fact she looks younger than she is by a few years! Only a few inches over five feet, and with dark hair with a lustrous blue sheen and matching, sparkling blue eyes. Those eyes sparkle with life, in contrast to her pale skin, which looks and is, cool to the touch.
Typically she is seen sporting a curious outfit, consisting of a cap with a star on it, and a short-sleeved, laced up shirt, with a long black skirt, with a triangular trim wrapped around it and on the sleeves of the shirt. Notable is the talisman seemingly fixed to her forehead, a clear indicator of her nature as a Jiangshi.
Personality: Nian Gao is the very definition of an optimist and an extrovert. She is intensely cheerful and will find a silver lining in any situation no matter how dire it might be. Even when faced with the most intense diversity she’ll often manage to keep a smile firmly fixed on her face as she plods onwards, ever forwards, refusing to stop for anything!
This optimism extends to other people, and Nian Gao is both very trusting and extremely helpful, always willing to lend a hand to anyone in need, no matter who they might be or what their circumstances are. Even someone villainous might need only one good deed from a kindly stranger to recognize a better path! While some might say this makes her naive, she’d say it makes her hopeful.
She has a love of dancing and physical activity and prefers to be outside rather than cooped up indoors whenever possible or feasible, even sleeping outside! She’s not claustrophobic or anything, she’s just spent more than enough time indoors for her lifetime, and while she’ll go inside a place if she has to, she greatly prefers to avoid it.
She’s also rather reckless, seeming to have little regard for her own safety. While her inability to really feel pain could explain a lot of this, it can’t explain all of it
History:
Deep in the Eastern Lands, South of East City, and East of Orange Star, sits the tiny village of Maozu, a simple community of farmers, barely two thousand strong. They have some measure of electricity, but compared to the great places like East City, they seem like a relic of the past, but they carry on alright. It’s a town built on family and community, where even if one doesn’t know someone’s name, they know the family they’re a part of. Among these families, the Gao family were one of the most well known and respectable. Consisting of a husband, wife, and their nine children. Hardly as large as some of the clans, they were still celebrated, partially as what newcomers to the town should be like, as the wife had inherited the farm from a relative and moved in with her husband many years ago.
This family was a wonderful and happy family, although of their nine children, one in particular stood out, but not for the best reasons. Little Nian Gao, the seventh of their children, was born sickly and weak. An autoimmune disease, according to doctors. The girl would forever be vulnerable to infections that most folk would shrug off, and had a delicate and frail constitution. Despite this the family loved her, and it served as another example to the townsfolk of how wholesome the group were. Efforts were made to include Nian Gao, and in her younger years she was often seen, bundled up and masked at various events. She could only interact with people from a distance, but she did seem to be such a bright and cheerful child. However, as she grew older, she appeared less and less. Her family loved her, but grew fearful of her condition worsening after several incidents that they believed were caused by her coming to these gatherings, no matter what precautions were taken, and so the girl spent most of her life in the family home.
She did what she could to help, but as she grew older, her health grew worse. Her family had the best of intentions, but in a way, they were ensuring that she would always only ever be frail. She learned math and accounting to at least help with numbers and taxes and do something to help her parents, but it never felt like enough, and then, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, as she rested alone in her bed, staring at the full moon hanging low in the sky, a visitor came to her, floating outside of her window. A strange man in strange clothes, he was polite and well spoken, and his eyes were kind...he made to Nian Gao a very simple offer.
“Drink this, and you will die in two years, but in the time between, you shall never want for strength or stamina, and may fulfill your most fervent dreams.”
It was like something out of a fairy tale, something out of the many books Nian Gao read, the stories she listened to on old CD’s and cassettes. Her family only used a TV for special occasions. It was an offer she accepted.
The next day her family was stunned and concerned to see her on her feet and cooking, working straight from the recipes in the family cookbook. The food was good, and she was in good spirits, walking straight and without a single sign of fatigue. Her family were hardly willing to just let her start helping on the farm just like that, but when it became clear that this sudden strength would not pass, they relented, and eventually concern shifted to sheer joy, and prompted a rather impromptu celebration. The townsfolk were stunned, and it was heralded as a miracle. Of the strange man outside her window, Nian Gao said not a word, and for the first time since she was a child, she got to dance.
The next year was one of the happiest years of Nian Gao’s life. She worked harder than anyone else in her family, and became a regular sight in the town, cheerful and full of life. There wasn’t a soul who could speak anything negative of her, and she seemed always willing to lend a helping hand, but as the first year passed, and her last year started, a new worry began to spring among her family, and the townsfolk noticed something...peculiar, as her body started to wither away.
She started to grow thin, her skin pale. She started to look sickly and weak. Despite the fact that she acted as fit as ever, and did not seem to be flagging at all, it was obvious just by looking at her. Nian Gao realized what it was, that her time left in this mortal coil was fading away, but still she said not a word. She asked her family not to worry, she went to doctors as they bid, but other than the fact that she was wasting away, the doctors could give no cause and no reason. Through it all Nian Gao maintained one thing to her family.
“Please. Don’t worry about me. Everything’s going to be fine.”
Yet as days turned into weeks, into months, as the eve of her twentieth birthday approached, Nian Gao began to feel regret. She didn’t fear dying, but seeing the effect she was having on her family, on the townsfolk? Looks of cheer and warmth had turned to ones of pity and concern. She hardly went into town or the celebrations because people would do nothing but worry about her health. She could assure them all she wished, but they were uncomfortable, and she was too nice to try and insist and have her fun anyways...and so she stayed at home. She still worked, but not as hard, at her family’s insistence, their concerns grew and she knew...knew why, but couldn’t tell them. What good would it even do?
That last month of her life, as she reached her frailest in looks, and yet still maintained her strength, it was...unpleasant in ways she didn’t want to describe. Yet despite that, she kept smiling, doing whatever her family asked...even if it meant doing nothing at all and ‘resting.’ Eventually, the day came, and she spent it with her family. It wasn’t as cheerful as she wanted it to be, sorrowful was a better word, in which all she wanted to do was reassure them of how much she loved them. Perhaps she said more than she should have, her family didn’t know, but they picked up that something was very wrong, but there was nothing they could do.
That night, Nian Gao died, and her family was left to wonder if she had known, and how. She was buried in a simple funeral, near the family member that had left the farm to her mother several decades ago. Neither parent had expected one of their children to be buried here before them. Yet, this was not the end of Nian Gao’s story. She did die that day, she was buried...but her casket, not long after, would be left empty, beneath the cold soil.
Deep in the night, the man who had visited her two years ago stole into the lonely graveyard, her body was unearthed, her grave sealed back up, and her body and soul were spirited away, to a place far, far from the simple village of Maozu.
There in a place of walking corpses and disembodied spirits, was a perverse reflection of life breathed into her form, was her soul and body modified and changed, warped into something that appeared human, but was far beyond it. There, in a cemetery that was far more lively than any should be, she woke up from a three year long deathly sleep, with her heart still in her chest, and her body stiff and difficult to move.
There, in a place hidden deep within the Western Lands, is where Nian Gao’s story begins.
RP Sample:
Cold, blue light shone from sconces lining the walls of the chamber. Cast out of a dark granite, with purple flecks sparkling subtly beneath the light of the cold, blue flames, the chamber was of a small size, enough to perhaps comfortably fit five people. It was sparsely furnished, just a round, wooden table and a few chairs set near the door that led to a set of stone steps vanishing up into the darkness, and of course, the casket. A great stone coffin set upon a tall white marble slab. Within, the casket was lined with velvet cushions, providing a comfortable resting place for the unmoving body interred within. There was no lid, allowing one to clearly see the girl dressed in red and black, pale arms crossed over her chest, her expression composed and relaxed, a strange talisman draped over her face, seemingly attached to her forehead.
The girl had been laying there for somewhere around three years now, never moving. She didn’t even breathe, corpses never did after all. Yet, for the first time in a long time...Nian Gao’s body stirred. Her eyelids shifted and twitched as her expression turned slightly sour, a stiff cracking coming from the casket as her fingers slowly closed shut and opened. What was that..strange light? Was it morning already? Her body felt so stiff, just moving her arms was taking serious effort, unfolding them from her chest to reach out and finding...walls? What? Well they weren’t tall. Her eyes opened as she pulled herself up, blinking slowly. The light was blue, and it wasn’t coming from her window, and where was she?
Her eyes sought out one of the only real features in the room, the table...and the two figures sitting at it. The two looked quite distinct, but in that moment, Nian Gao only noticed the obvious features they both shared. The old, withered, almost blackened skin, wrinkled and pulled up, eyes sunk into sockets, noses pulled away and lips pulled taut around teeth. The literal picture of dried up corpses, both with their heads fixed on her, eyes, the three they shared between them, clearly staring at her, playing cards held in withered, desiccated hands.
“You’re awake!” One of them said, his one eye fixed on her as he dropped the playing cards, slamming a hand onto the table as he stood up. “Haha! I can hardly believe it! Quick, Roscoe, go get Salisbury!”
As the other zombie got up from the table to run to the stairs, the speaker walked towards her as Nian Gao stared, motionless. “How are you feeling? Can you hear me alright? Can you try saying something for me? It might be a bit hard to speak when you’ve just woken up.”
In that moment, as the corpse loomed closer, that single eye fixed on her, a thing straight out of a horror novel, Nian Gao did the only sensible thing she could think of. Breath filled her lungs as she inhaled sharply, before letting out a shrill scream.
(505)
Referred by: Google
Techniques:
ABSORB
You take foreign energy into your body and use it to replenish your own.
Type: Utility
Action: At-Will - Reactive
Effect: You regain an amount of Ki equal to the amount of damage you would take on this turn, before you include your DR. This may restore a maximum of 20 Ki.
Cost: None
Limit: Once per thread.
Ranks: Rank 2 can regain 30 ki. Rank 3 can regain 40 ki.
Learn: Rank 1 takes 2 weeks to learn. Additional ranks do not take time but cost 2 MP.
Five Prong Palm
A straight palm strike only in name, the user keeps all five fingers curved forwards, so that the impact is delivered through the fingers, spreading the force out into five small points.
Type: Physical Melee Single
Action: Standard Action
Base Damage: 3d10
Major Effect: Piercing
Minor Effect: Cripple
Cost:15 ki
Learn: 2 Weeks by Default
Biidama
Bringing their hands sweeping around in opposing arcs before meeting them together, ki is charged between them, before throwing both hands forward, unleashing a barrage of crackling spheres of ki!
Type: Energy, Ranged, Barrage
Action: Standard Action
Base Damage: 4d6+4
Major Effect: Versatile
Minor Effect: Shocking
Cost: 20
Learn: 2 Weeks by Default
BARRIER
You create a shroud of protective ki around your body to soften blows and protect against harmful effects.
Type: Defensive
Action: Bonus Action
Effect: You gain 15 Temporary HP and are immune to status effects inflicted by attacks.
Duration: Until temp HP is gone.
Cost: 15 ki
Limit: Once per thread.
Ranks: Rank 2 gives you 20 Temporary HP. Rank 3 gives you 25 Temporary HP.
Learn: Rank 1 takes 2 weeks to learn. Additional ranks do not take time but cost 2 MP.
Technique Slots: 2/6
Inventory:
Equipped:
Elder Student’s Gi (Outfit)
Activation: Passive
Effect: At the beginning of your turn, you may choose 1 of the following Effects: You gain +5 Defense this turn(applied before incoming attack resolution), you gain +10 Accuracy with all Basic Techniques this turn, or you gain +10Accuracy with a single Special Technique used this turn.
Limit: 1 bonus applied per turn.
Ritual Dagger (Weapon: Knife)
Activation: Bonus Action
Effect: Strikes you perform on this turn deal an additional 2 damage to their targets; this damage is applied even if your strikes would not hit and ignores all DR and Temporary HP possessed by the target. You regain 2 HP for eachStrike performed on this turn that successfully hits its target.
Limit: 3 uses per thread.
Scrying Staff (Weapon: Staff)
Activation: Bonus Action
Effect: Your Sense technique may be used as a Reactive At-Will action on your next turn. For each Strike you perform on this turn that successfully hits its target, you may use Sense 1 additional time on your next turn; the Effects of multiple Sense uses through this Effect stack.
Limit: 3 uses per thread.
Pulse Grenade (Grenade)
Activation: Bonus Action
Effect: Target one opponent; that opponent has a 60% chance to be afflicted by the Special Status Effect “Disruption” for two (2) turns. While affected by “Disruption”, decrease the Accuracy of any energy techniques used by the afflicted character by -15.
Limit: Twice per thread.
Owned but not equipped:
1 Gummi Shenron Candy. (25% gains boost to everyone in the thread you choose to use them in. )
1 Dragon Ball Hard Candy. (Increase your gains in one thread by 25%. This item is consumed after it has been redeemed. )
1 Halloween Costume (Choose the effects of one racial trait which you do not possess. You may utilize it in a thread which you are in.)
Spirit Person Fruit Candy. (Roll a 1d12. Depending on the flavor, it may be consumed to add an additional special effect to you special technique for a turn with a 100% effective. 1- Peach/Immunity, 2-Honeymelon/Blind, 3-Prickly Pear/Cripple, 4-Iceberry/Freeze, 5-Stone Melon/Immobilize, 6-Heroes' Drupe (Spicy Cherry)/Salve, 7-Cheeseberry/Stun, 8-Strawberry/Wound, 9- Ghost Pepper/Burn, 10- Gooseberry/Poison, 11- Glacier Banana/Chill, 12- Stormapple/Shock )
Prayer beads
Supplementary - Martial
-Passive
-You may now restore up to 125 Ki with your Power Up basic technique.
Personal shield Generator - Supplementary - Technology - Reactive/At-will - Using this item grants you +10 Temporary HP. - Twice per thread
Battle Armor - Outfit/armor - Passive - Increase your maximum HP by +10 and gain +1 DR while wearing this outfit.
Wake Town
Level 1 stronghold
A beautiful crypt built into a hill, with terraced steps of graves running the whole way down. The internal structure is actually well furnished, with myriad rooms and many undead already living within and outside of it. The lighting system comes from magical, blue flames lit upon candles for personal quarters, but usually great torch sconces set into the walls. The walls and floors themselves are carved of a dark purple granite, with beautiful specks of glittering color sealed within the surface of them. While it might not be the most comfortable place for a living body given the lack of natural light and the underground nature, it is a truly luxurious manse by undead standards.
A beautiful crypt built into a hill, with terraced steps of graves running the whole way down. The internal structure is actually well furnished, with myriad rooms and many undead already living within and outside of it. The lighting system comes from magical, blue flames lit upon candles for personal quarters, but usually great torch sconces set into the walls. The walls and floors themselves are carved of a dark purple granite, with beautiful specks of glittering color sealed within the surface of them. While it might not be the most comfortable place for a living body given the lack of natural light and the underground nature, it is a truly luxurious manse by undead standards.
Add ons:
Saibaman tree
Specialized trees created by Wheelo Corp’s Bioengineering branch. If you take a handful of beans harvestable from the tree and apply ki and a few drops of blood before throwing them to the ground, a group of bio-engineered plant man minions will arise. Requires 500 EP to harvest the Saibamen from the tree to gain the SAIBAMAN SEED. This item must be marked as 'event gained' and is considered to have a Zeni Value of 0 or N/A. Each player character may use the Saiba Tree to gain a SAIBAMAN SEED no more than once every month per player character. -200,000 Zeni
Monthly 2 MP, claimed 11/28/2020
Saibaman tree
Specialized trees created by Wheelo Corp’s Bioengineering branch. If you take a handful of beans harvestable from the tree and apply ki and a few drops of blood before throwing them to the ground, a group of bio-engineered plant man minions will arise. Requires 500 EP to harvest the Saibamen from the tree to gain the SAIBAMAN SEED. This item must be marked as 'event gained' and is considered to have a Zeni Value of 0 or N/A. Each player character may use the Saiba Tree to gain a SAIBAMAN SEED no more than once every month per player character. -200,000 Zeni
Monthly 2 MP, claimed 11/28/2020