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by Skyggeheim » Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:48 am
by Lunas Legion » Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:40 am
Skyggeheim wrote:A concept: a gunslinger type who doesn't really use a traditional mana pool, but rather uses a weapon that's infused with magic energy. Probably some type of pseudo-cleric with healing spells if I need to have that.
Thoughts? I have a few ideas up my sleeve so I'm open to criticisms.
by Skyggeheim » Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:47 am
Lunas Legion wrote:Skyggeheim wrote:A concept: a gunslinger type who doesn't really use a traditional mana pool, but rather uses a weapon that's infused with magic energy. Probably some type of pseudo-cleric with healing spells if I need to have that.
Thoughts? I have a few ideas up my sleeve so I'm open to criticisms.
Infusing the weapon itself with mana wouldn't do anything, you'd need to infuse each bullet individually with mana. You could go the runic route with that, paint runes onto bullets pre-battle, put mana into the rune in the battle itself with each rune having a different cost to activate proportional to the effect applied to the bullet?
by Lunas Legion » Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:51 am
Skyggeheim wrote:Lunas Legion wrote:
Infusing the weapon itself with mana wouldn't do anything, you'd need to infuse each bullet individually with mana. You could go the runic route with that, paint runes onto bullets pre-battle, put mana into the rune in the battle itself with each rune having a different cost to activate proportional to the effect applied to the bullet?
Hmm. Might backlog the character until I see how the IC uses the magic.
In the meantime, female monk coming up. I'm assuming they would probably use Astral or Psychic magic?
by Danceria » Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:55 am
by Skyggeheim » Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:58 am
SANTA MARINA HUNTER ACADEMY - STUDENT FILE
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Aia Rikou
Name: Aia Rikou
Appearance:
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Build: Aia stands at approximately 5'7", and weighs about 160 pounds. She is lean muscle all around.
Species: Human
Magic Category/Categories: Astral/Psychic/Phyiscal
Mana Count: 200
Known Spells/Abilities:
- Astral Projection[100]: For a few minutes, Aia can project an embodiment of her Ki into the physical world. This projection has the same general properties that Aia does, with the added ability of being able to pass through solid matter and radiate pure magical energy. Aia must be meditating or Focused to utilize this spell.
- Focus Ki[25]: Aia sharpens and refines her Ki to serve a specific purpose. This allows her to - primarily - utilize Astral Projection while moving or in combat. However, it also enables her to perform physical feats that are beyond the capabilities of regular humans.
- Ki-Infused Blows[20]: Aia's attacks become bound with pure astral energy, allow her to simultaneously attack an enemy's physical form and degrade their Ki. These blows, if against a weaker being, can literally disintegrate her enemy as their Ki reacts and detonates under her assault. Against stronger beings, it saps their energy and mental capacity.
- Echo of Life[20]: Aia can send a literal "ping" from her Ki and detect when other beings' energy responds to it. This allows her to locate living organisms within a 75ft radius, but also allows her to create a "mental freezeframe" of their person and their current action. For example, Aia may be chasing a criminal, and use Echo of Life. She will see that he recently turned into the back entrance of a shop trying to shake her off.
- Astral Bind/Astral Rush[20]: Aia can fire off a bolt of Astral energy from her flexed palm. If this bolt strikes an enemy, it does a small amount of damage and stuns them. However, it also creates a strong binding between Aia's Ki and her target's. Aia can use this to close any distance within 60ft of her enemy almost instantly, appearing seemingly out of thin air. Astral Rush breaks the binding, meaning she must cast it again if she wants to create another binding.
- Fortify the Mind[20]: Aia's supreme focus and mental acuity allows her to lock down her mind against external intrusion or assault. This makes her immune to all but the strongest illusions, charms, telepathic readings, and other mental attacks.
- Deflect Projectile[15]: Aia can use this spell to create a 5ft cone of sweeping psychic energy in front of her that can redirect most projectiles from striking her.
- Discipline of the Four Elements: Explained more in Biography, but Aia chose to walk the path of the four basic elements as a monastic discipline. This means she can use four extremely basic spells associated with these elements, though will gain access to more as her mastery grows.
Sweeping Flame[10]: Aia can sweep her hand or weapon on the ground and forwards, creating a gout of flame that rushes forward and sets alight anything in its path.
Column of Earth[10]: Aia can raise a 6ft tall, 3ft wide column of whatever ground she is standing on, anywhere in a 10ft radius.
Gale Winds[10]: Aia can infused her body with the speed and force of the howling winds. She can strike and move much faster and much harder than normal.
Waterwalking[10]: Through intense focus, Aia can walk or run on water.- School of the Turtle[0]: While not a spell in the traditional sense, the primary fighting style that Aia has adopted relies on patient analysis of an enemy. It usually allows the enemy to make the first strike, opening them up for ripostes and countermoves. It is, inherently, a defensive style of fighting.
- School of the Monkey[0]: When Aia goes on the offensive, she utilizes the School of the Monkey fighting style. It relies on acrobatics and deception to draw an enemy's defenses away from what will become the killing blow. She will often feint low, only to go high and strike past the enemy's parry.
Equipment:
- Double-Headed Spear: Aia's preferred weapon, though she is also incredibly proficient in martial arts.
- Vials of the Elements: Part of Aia's training in the Discipline of the Four Elements was to localize and "trap" each of the four elements in special enchanted vials. She carries these vials with them on her person at all times, as they enhance her focus and casting ability in the Discipline.
Class: 2nd Year
Nationality: Tibetan-American
Hometown: Lhasa
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Personality: Find balance in all things. Aia's personality reflects the teachings of her monastic background. She is calm, collected, and measured in all of her emotions, thoughts, and actions. She consistently and continually strives to achieve a higher degree of inner focus and perfection, but this does not stop her from being an extroverted individual. She is always genial and warm to those she considers friends, and at the very least she is polite to those that have wronged her in the past. Ever the realist, she sees situations as they present themselves, neither as a good or bad thing. However, she does believe that no task is insurmountable given enough preparation and fortitude. She is not one to quit on any pursuit that she finds herself enamored with, and will relentlessly push both herself and her teammates to be better if she feels that something is lacking. She is prone to frustration when reading or studying, as she finds she is good at neither, but some hot tea and a bout of meditation will almost always calm her.
Biography: Born to a relatively wealthy family in the upper elite class of Lhasa, Tibet, Aia enjoyed a very comfortable early life. She was pampered as a baby, if given a little less attention from her parents than she may have thought she deserved, and was never starved for food or rest. This lifestyle only continued as a toddler, where it was discovered that she had a natural affinity for the magical arts. It seemed as if she could summon infinitesimal flickers of mana when she was excited or particularly agitated, oftentimes her hands or feet would crackle with strange energy when she was feeling strong emotions. This led to her parents making the decision to let her be evaluated by the Drepung Monastery to become an actual Ki-wielding monk. When the monks accepted her, believing her latent ability to be strong enough to teach, she was unceremoniously sent away from her home and thrown into a spartan lifestyle that she was not prepared for.
The early years at the monastery were extremely difficult for Aia. She was not used to the conservative approach that the monks applied to every aspect of their life. She was steeped in traditional and practical learning almost immediately, being taught the basics of the monk philosophy towards life. She was rigorously trained to harness Ki, the life energy behind all things, as a alternative form of mana. She was drilled over and over again on hand-to-hand combat, both unarmed and armed, and began being exposed to the multitude of disciplines that she could pursue as a full-fledged monk. By the time she was fourteen, she had become an expert student at the temple and one of the individuals that was expected to go on and make a greater name for themselves.
However, her teachings at the monastery did not come without difficulty. She was rampantly opposed to reading, and became a tumultuous teen that was somewhat obsessed with the idea of defying authority. After several minor incidents that led up to a major infraction on her part, the monks decided to release her onto the streets to find her balance before she could return. She spent several months simply wandering the city streets of Lhasa, sometimes begging for enough money to pay for one meal a day, and sometimes working temporary jobs to earn herself a warm bed and a hot dinner. But, the more she worked, the more relentless her drive to return to the monastery became. She resolved that she would never let herself stoop low enough to go against the teachings and authority that she was being given by her instructors, and she convinced herself over and over that she belonged there. After almost a year away from the monastery, she returned with greater focus and drive to succeed, and the monks let her continue her education.
From the age of fifteen to eighteen, she refined and practiced her art. At this point, it was stated that she was ready for her evaluation to become a full-fledged monk. In a strange act of humility, she denied the offer of evaluation, stating that she wanted an extra year to fully realize her potential. And so, after another year, she took the days-long test to measure her skill. The test covered everything she had learned while she was a monk, from the harnessing of Ki, to the readings and passages she had memorized over the years, to a vicious test of her combat prowess that left her bloodied and beaten - but victorious. She was declared an official monk, an acolyte of the Discipline of the Four Elements, and ready to venture forward and find the secrets of Ki, as every graduate before her had been instructed. However, Aia believed that she was not done learning and refining her craft. She found an old brochure for the Santa Marina Hunter Academy, a school in the United States that the monastery used to have an exchange program with. She declared that she wanted to restart the program, with her being the pilot.
And so, she found herself at the Academy. Her first year was relatively uneventful, and she found that the academic classes were actually far more interesting than reading Buddhist passages over and over. However, she still struggles to maintain her own sense of inner peace and focus in such a chaotic and senselessly violent profession. However, now entering her second year, she maintains her optimism that she might bring balance and find what secrets of Ki lie in wait for her as a Hunter.
#HAcademy
by Turmenista » Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:06 pm
by Forest State » Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:20 pm
by Lunas Legion » Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:04 pm
SANTA MARINA HUNTER ACADEMY - STUDENT FILE
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OLYMPIA GALATAS
Name: Olympia Galatas
Appearance:
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Build: 6' 1"/185cm, 181lbs/82kg
Species: Human
Magic Category/Categories: Physical and Earth
Mana Count: 100
Known Spells/Abilities:
- Stoneskin (10): Olympia's skin briefly hardens into stone for a few seconds, rendering her immobile in that time but also very hard to hurt.
- Strength (10): Olympia's physical strength in her arms is vastly increased for a few seconds of time and her fists are briefly hardened into stone.
- Leap (10): Olympia physically enhances her legs, enabling her to leap many meters in a single jump and to land safely.
- Shards (15): Olympia pulls a number of shards of rock out of the ground to throw as ranged weapons
- Spikes (20): Olympia turns a patch of ground into stalagmites, either for cover or to impale anyone atop the patch.
- Pit (50): Olympia opens a meter-long, wide and two meter deep fissure into the earth.
- Dust (15): Olympia makes a dust cloud appear out of the ground, obscuring an area but dissipating in a few seconds after creation.
- Reshape (35): Olympia raises a wall of earth in front of her, seven foot tall, up to five foot in length and one foot thick.
Equipment: FN Model 1910, fighting knife
Class: First
Nationality: Greek-American
Hometown: Los Angeles
Sexuality: Bisexual
Personality: Olympia is an angry person. Her temper is on a hair trigger, she strongly dislikes anyone insinuating she's weak or lesser than them or anyone asking if she wants help with anything. Otherwise she's normally quite relaxed and nonchalant, seemingly being able to disregard just about everything unless it pokes at her temper or her weakness complex. She genuinely enjoys fighting, and seemingly is untroubled by her own mortality or any larger questions of morality.
Biography: Olympia's an Oakland local; she was born in the city and grew up in the city with just herself and her mother, her father having left them both at a young age. She grew up on the edge of poverty, frequently going without food for a day or two, her mother, a first generation migrant from Greece, busy trying to earn enough money from her dead-end minimum wage job to pay rent and keep them alive. However, Olympia was the first of her family, as far as she knows, at least, to have magic.
So she practiced it in her free time, teaching herself magic with the aid of the Internet, focusing on physical magic as it came more naturally to someone physically inclined like her who also practiced martial arts and boxing when she could afford to pay for time in the gym and branching out into earth magic as it was easier and less risky to practice given her limited resources, only requiring a patch of open ground. She worked odd jobs when she could, running with a small band of poor but magically gifted individuals to gain more money from vigilante actions against local gangs by robbing them, keeping her grades up to the bare minimum necessary to enter Santa Marina Hunters Academy while saving up to enter it, which she did immediately out of high school.
#HAcademy
by Forest State » Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:08 pm
by Sraelyn » Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:27 pm
SANTA MARINA HUNTER ACADEMY - STUDENT FILE
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Viktor Farkas
Name: Viktor Farkas
Appearance:
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Build: 6’4”, 205lbs, muscular build.
Species: Human
Magic Category/Categories: Biological
Mana Count: 150
Known Spells/Abilities:
Scent Tracker[10]: Viktor is able to greatly enhance his sense of smell to a lever similar to the best hunting dogs. Furthermore, if he is able to consume any form of biologic residue, he will gain an almost uncanny ability to track the originator of said residue.
Eyes on the Prey[10]: Viktor is able to modify his eyes to see in have infrared vision or to see in low-light conditions. He must modify his eyes again if he wants to regain his normal eyesight.
Bone-hounds[30]: Viktor is able to summon fleshy, hairless creatures reminiscent of large dogs, which have their face and front covered in a hard bone plating.
Thrill of the Hunt [20/minute]: Viktor is able to overall increase his speed and reaction time to the limit of Human body.
Iron Skin [30]: Viktor can thicken his skin and harden it, making it incredibly hard to penetrate by most small arms, normal melee weapons, and weaker magical attacks. For its duration however, he is unable to move or breathe
Wings of Rage [30]: Viktor can create large leathery wings, giving him the ability to fly.
Regeneration [20-100]: Viktor can force his body to heal at an accelerated rate, depending on how much mana he spends to do so. This can go from healing small wounds in seconds, to regenerating a single limb in a day.
Reshaping Tools [10-40]: Viktor is able to reshape his arms and legs into most organic shapes and forms. The cost of this increases as does the complexity of what he wants to reshape is as, and the more biomass he requires to achieve said shape.
Hunting Calls [All remaining mana – 30/minute]: Radically altering his form, Viktor will become a large hulking beast, growing 4 feet in height and inhumane amounts of muscle. During this state he will become incredibly resilient, grow large claws instead of hands, and powerful teeth, however he will be unable to cast other forms of magic. Viktor will revert back to his normal state once his mana reserves are dry, otherwise, if he wishes to do so earlier, he must expend all his remaining mana.
Equipment:
CZ 550 chambered in .600 Overkill, Sawed off Remington 1889 shotgun, large enchanted machete.
Class: First Year
Nationality: Legally Romanian, ethnically and culturally Hungarian
Hometown: Târgu Mureș
Sexuality: Viktor doesn’t discriminate.
Personality:
Brash, crass, and generally friendly, Viktor is a person that is normally laid back in most aspects that do not involve the Farkas’ family tradition, hunting and slaying, which tend to bring his more aggressive and sadistic side. Viktor has very strong opinions regarding mages and especially, what Hunters ought to do. In his mind, the sole purpose of those that can use magic is to protect the rest of humanity from the threat that creatures and certain mages pose, anything else is secondary. Viktor is incredibly proud of his family’s history and legacy, being quite prone to anger if he ever feels they are being questioned. Due to his upbringing, he can be quite xenophobic towards other species, particularly vampires and demons; this is also the cause of some grudges he holds towards mages of large houses, which he sees as pretentious, instead preferring the company of those from smaller ones.
Biography:
As the eldest scion of the Farkas family, Victor was trained from a very young age in the same tradition that the held for more than a dozen generations. Originally non-mages armed merely with their wits and skill, they began their legacy by hunting every non-human creature they could find in their native region of Transylvania. Soon enough, they realized normal means were less than ideal to deal with their fated enemies. Finding they had some aptitude for magic, they delved into the arts with the sole purpose of honing them to better their craft. With this new tools and full devotion to their cause, they would expand to nearby regions and nations, gaining renown and battling any perceived threat by rogue mages and non-humans they could find. As the family’s relevance grew through the decades, they had no choice but to enter the larger mage society. Be it with the leading houses in the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Sultanate, or the neighboring Romanian principalities, the Farkas always maintained cordial-at-best relations; never involving themselves too much with the politicking amongst them, which they considered a waste of time in the best of cases, and instead focusing on their sacred duty. Modern times however, have proved difficult for the family, as their self caused isolation garnered them few allies and little if any political power despite being well known. The current levels of tolerance towards vampires, demons, and other non-humans, has clashed time and time again with them, as they are left feeling alienated in a world where Hunters now beacon towards the Association more than ever.
It is under this circumstances than Viktor has been raised. With great expectations from his grandfather, the head of the house, he has been trained tirelessly both in magic and conventional combat, gone hunting with the other members of the family, and prepared himself to change their ailing fortunes. Against their own tradition, it was decided that Viktor would be the first of the Farkas to join one of the Hunter Academies when he became 21, in the hope of stemming the tide that growingly relegated them to the wayside of history. Although Viktor readily accepted his entrusted duty, he pleaded with his grandfather to not be sent to either Vienna or Milan, as originally planned, as he detested the idea of mingling with members of the European families he disliked the most. He was allowed this request, instead being sent over to America and the recently established Santa Marina Hunter Academy, deemed as an appropriate destination to achieve his objective. To further hone his skills, continue the sacred duty, and restore the old position of the Farkas family as some of the finest Hunters around.
#HAcademy
by The GAmeTopians » Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:34 pm
Lunas Legion wrote:-snip-
Empire of Donner land wrote:EHEG don't stop for no one.
It's like your a prostitute and the RP is a truck. The truck don't stop.
by Lunas Legion » Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:43 pm
by Forest State » Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:46 pm
Sraelyn wrote:snip
by The GAmeTopians » Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:47 pm
Empire of Donner land wrote:EHEG don't stop for no one.
It's like your a prostitute and the RP is a truck. The truck don't stop.
by Theyra » Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:03 pm
Sraelyn wrote:I'll add a picture and finish the personality and bio once I get home, just wanted to know if the rest is fine.
Theyra, do you mind if I play someone form one of the other houses in Romania?
by Lunas Legion » Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:07 pm
by Sraelyn » Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:40 pm
Sraelyn wrote:
SANTA MARINA HUNTER ACADEMY - STUDENT FILE
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Viktor Farkas
Theyra wrote:I do not mind, go right ahead. I am just surprised that there is another Romanian in the rp.
by Theyra » Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:08 pm
Sraelyn wrote:Sraelyn wrote:
SANTA MARINA HUNTER ACADEMY - STUDENT FILE
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Viktor Farkas
Finished app. Ended up changing him into a first year as there seemed to be a lack of them.Theyra wrote:I do not mind, go right ahead. I am just surprised that there is another Romanian in the rp.
Great! I'm down with them having met each other before, or having some sort of family rivalry if you'd like.
by Forest State » Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:20 pm
SANTA MARINA HUNTER ACADEMY - STUDENT FILE
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Vivian Shaw
Name: Vivian Shaw
Appearance:
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Build: 6'1", 155 lbs
Species: Human
Magic Category/Categories: Psychic
Mana Count: 200
Known Spells/Abilities:
- Mental Punch [15] - A quick mental strike which can disorient someone and force them to stop paying attention for a few moments while they orient themselves again.
- Noise [30] - For a period of a minute or two this spell will increase the amount of "noise" in an opponent's head, not in the literal sense but the figurative one. Effectively, it makes it harder for them to focus and think straight.
- Multiples [60] - When triggered, this spell will last for a few minutes and will cause the targeted person or group of people to witness multiple versions of Vivian, all of which look like the real thing but are in fact hallucinations in the mind. These projections can be controlled by Vivian and nothing happens when they make contact with someone, as they aren't there. This spell works on up to three people.
- Track [30] - Vivian can get a general idea of where human and magical entities are within a radius of four hundred meters around her.
- Memories [20 per minute] - Vivian can look into someone's mind and search through their memories, but the process is draining in mana which makes it a good idea to have a general idea of what the objective is before using this spell. it also requires physical contact.
- Null Zone [75] - This spell creates a dead zone of five hundred meters around Vivian where other psychic abilities will be dampened and, if they're close to Vivian in terms of proximity, blocked out completely.
- Project [50] - Vivian can project a certain feeling onto another person - which is a potent attack, due to the fact that the feeling can be anything. It could be something good, or it could be something such as the pain and feeling of being hit with a deadly attack.
- Limb Jacking [30] - Vivian is also able to temporarily attempt to take control of a specific limb for a short period of time, allowing her to throw off the attacks of others or potentially cause someone to attack themselves - however, the control only lasts for three or four seconds at the most.
- Inception [100] - The most expensive spell Vivian has allows her to attempt to place an idea into the mind of someone else, which isn't always successful - but if it is, it can effectively be a stronger form of control that can make someone do something thinking it's their own idea.
Equipment: Vivian generally keeps two long knives with her - one of them is for defense and has a holy enchantment, while the other one is for offense and has an infernal enchantment. She also carries a S&W 9mm pistol.
Class: Second Year
Nationality: American
Hometown: Manhattan, New York City
Sexuality: Ambiguous - Claims to be straight
Personality: Vivian generally has a somewhat rough around the edges personality, not being the most social of people but being very loyal to the people that she does commit too - she tends to be blunt at times and says what's on her mind with little tact or care for consequences, but at the same time could be considered down to Earth and non elitist. She doesn't put others on a pedestal, but she doesn't keep herself on one either. Vivian is, however, of questionable status emotionally, being not exactly the happiest person... And forming connections with people that oftentimes become too attached.
Biography: The lights and hustle of New York City are the things that Vivian Shaw grew up around - Vivian is, of course, the daughter of Jamaican-American Huntress Ionie Shaw, who is of a decent standing with the Hunters Association and is one of the better Huntresses within the large environment of New York City. Vivian's mother was able to provide for both of them thanks to this position, but the fact of the matter was that NYC is one of the most competitive spots for Hunters and Ionie had to work a lot to keep their standard of living up and to keep her position in the organization where it was. Vivian found herself spending a lot of time alone, and she would grow close to the Marin family, and Candace Marin in specific, as she was left with them more often - they were in NYC plenty, after all, and they were well known Hunters... More well known than Vivian's own mother, actually.
Perhaps it was because of her upbringing and who her mother was but Vivian felt that she would also go down that path, and ended up working with Candace and some of their other friends as an amateur Huntress in NYC - the job wasn't easy. Dealing with threats ranging from vampires to criminal human mages was difficult within the tight confines of the urban jungle of New York, but she found the thrills worth it, and furthermore, she found herself getting closer to her childhood friend had before. So when she heard that there would be a new Hunter Academy in Santa Marina and that Candace would be attending it... She didn't feel like she had much other option but to follow after and chase the same fate, even if she wasn't all that happy about it herself and even if she would have preferred to stay with their little independent group.
#HAcademy
by Cappuccina » Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:30 am
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