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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects- The RP

« on: December 14, 2013, 05:14:51 PM »

One moment she was sitting in her office at the law firm and leaning back in her chair eating her second lunch: a nice foot long sandwich with the works. It was something to tide her over until she could arrange the funds to get away from this simple, mortal life and begin her search for completion. Plus, it was simply delicious. Anything large and filling like that was worth ingesting, savoring, and burning up in the unceasing furnace of her being. It was never quite enough, not like mana was when gifted to her by willing sacrifice, but any substitute was better than nothing.

The next moment? She found herself in an alley, flat on her bum in a puddle of stagnant water. It took her a full minute to overcome her disorientation enough to recognize it, looking down at the wetness she felt soaking into the expensive dress pants she wore.

"... this irritates me," Valda concluded out loud, before taking full stock of her situation.

Okay, first, she had to find her glasses... there. They were right next to her, a little wet but no worse for wear. She grabbed those between manicured fingers and placed them neatly back on her face.

Then she had to find her sandwich.

...

...

There was no sandwich. Her magnificent sandwich, not even a quarter of the way finished, was gone.

Valda clenched her fists and trembled in an unpleasant physiological reaction- anger. Yes, it was anger. Some force had torn her from the center of her admittedly meager influence and deprived her of her direly craved sustenance. This was a worthy cause for such a response.

A snarl escaped her throat, and she stood up from the puddle to begin stalking out of the alley. She could figure out a plan later, because right now she needed power. Power enough to find and punish the insignificant ember of consciousness that dared to take from her and send her about without her permission!

Then she paused and considered her backside. 'A new pair of pants might help, too.'

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: December 14, 2013, 04:45:12 PM »

I never can quite find the free bandwidth to download that game, despite how hilarious I've heard it is; I would have played it otherwise.

So at least I'm familiar with the premise and... that does sound fun enough. She's certainly a monster woman even if she doesn't look it.

Great! Now to get the sheet approved...

Now to pull myself away from Skyrim long enough to throw her into an alley somewhere.

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And first post, up.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: December 14, 2013, 02:31:45 PM »

So Bloble about that shota, who exactly did you have in mind?

You'll have to wait for my response because heading off. Good night people!

Ever played Monster Girl Quest?

The MC is basically a 16-18 year old who looks 14 at best and saves the world even though every bad end is just him getting raped for eternity by monster girls. It's a pretty good game, and he's a pretty good protagonist.

He's also really easy to boss around, relatively strong without being overpowered, can provide you with a steady source of fire, and has enough depth to carry on a serious conversation about IDEALS while participating in stupid gags the next second.

I never can quite find the free bandwidth to download that game, despite how hilarious I've heard it is; I would have played it otherwise.

So at least I'm familiar with the premise and... that does sound fun enough. She's certainly a monster woman even if she doesn't look it.

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@lantz: No offense, but that is a really complicated and overly involved magical item.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: December 14, 2013, 06:55:17 AM »

So Bloble about that shota, who exactly did you have in mind?

You'll have to wait for my response because heading off. Good night people!

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: December 14, 2013, 06:38:56 AM »

Thanks for being so welcoming, Alice!

Magos, as your GM in another game please take this as someone who has witnessed the pattern with you before: You really need to calm down. I'm not taking sides here, but it takes at least two people to have a shit throwing contest. Don't be the other guy throwing shit around.

It doesn't just hit your target.

@Bloble: I... would actually have to consider that, so let me get back to you. It's almost 2 am here.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects - Sign Up, Discussion Page

« on: December 14, 2013, 06:18:54 AM »

Dude half the fun of RPing is adapting to unexpected and difficult situations

Anyway I ain't posting shit tonight, I'm too tired to enter the mindset of the great and powerful Inferno Cop, disher out of justice

Also sup Aiden, how's it going

Not bad! I'm just sorta kinda settling in. I mean really I'm just here for this RP, to be perfectly honest.

Also, your first sentence? Ain't that the truth.

Now I just gotta figure out how to do introductions...

While hoping the vitriol is not going to be a recurring feature of my time here.

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Cross Effects 1.0 Archive / Re: Cross Effects Character Page

« on: December 14, 2013, 06:01:30 AM »

So here's the character I came up for this. I hope you're happy, Elf. I hope you're happy. No idea when I'm introducing

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Name: Valda Becker/The Mother of Fire
Race: Human/Old One
Age: 29/Incalculable
Height: 5'7"
Weight: Nope.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blond

Appearance: Blond hair done up in a bun, and deep brown eyes. She has a light tan, her face has sharp features, and her body maintains the healthy layer of muscle and fat that it has only though a steady diet of anything she can fit into her mouth and digest. Her metabolism is ridiculous enough that this is actually the healthy course of action for her, lest she waste away and look like a rail in very little time. She is usually wearing either a suit with pants and a pair of glasses, or some sort of uncomplicated casual wear with a red shirt.

Alignment: Lawful Evil [she's a lawyer hurr derr]
Charisma: B
Strength: E-/A
Agility: E-/C
Speed: E-/C
Weapons: Pepperspray, a taser, and her shoes if she's desperate.
Magic Resistance: B

Magic Ability: EX (in the 'doesn't fit well on the scale either way' sense)
If it has anything to do with fire or its products, then she can do pretty much anything with it; intensify it, weaken it, create it, destroy it, shape it into impossible forms like animate simulations of living creatures or objects, and even communicate with it. She is the source and master of flame, even dethroned as she is.

However, she is subject to very strict limitations about this in her current state. For one thing, she has no ability to use magic for anything unrelated to these things. She cannot affect things outside her immediate sensory range. She cannot directly affect the bodies of human beings or the space immediately within five feet of them unless that space is adjacent to her, due to the limitations of her sealing (i.e. destroying the heat in their body, or increasing it; she could throw fire at them!), though other animals are not similarly protected. She cannot conceptally manipulate it or gift living beings or objects with power related to it, as her full self once could. Finally, everything costs mana, and she burns through it like an industrial paper shredder through year-old tax returns if things come down to a fight.

Other Abilities:
1) Immunity to heat and radiation of any sort. 
2) Unseen Senses, allowing her to vaguely recognize when something supernatural is happening and the rough compass direction it's happening in. Cannot be more specific than that, unless it's right in her face.
3) Is a really competent lawyer.
4) Can play a bit of football (soccer for the Americans).

Weakness: Most of her actual power is so inaccessible it isn't even on her character sheet; the powers that are here don't work unless she has a supply of magical energy. Problem is, she can't generate it herself and she has no way to steal it from anyone; it has to be gifted to her. Where two stats are separated by slashes, the ones on the left are for when she has no mana to fuel herself. Also, she needs a lot more food than normal people do to remain healthy if she has no mana.

Origin: Valda Becker grew up in East Berlin during the second half of the last decade of the Cold War, raised by hard working parents who had themselves been born and raised in the Soviet socialist system. Their housing and employment situations were a certainty, so while the food and amenities were not really anything to write home about they got by well enough to live. There was never quite enough food, for her tastes, but her parents always told her she would just have to put up with it.

Then the USSR collapsed and there really wasn't enough food being put on the table; say what you will of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, it was the end of her family's ability to make ends meet. They were not equipped mentally to survive in the capitalist society that followed due to their upbringing, and so the suffered. But Valda was determined, from the age of six, to not be like her helpless parents. The burning hunger inside of her demanded nothing short of excellence and success, and it was a hunger that never seemed satisfied with anything.

So she worked her ass off and became a lawyer. It still wasn't satisfying.

The reason for that is simple.

There was once an Old One known as the Mother of Fire, who was known to the ancients before recorded history as the source and symbol of fire's consuming nature and the burning blood of the earth. She demanded human sacrifice from the primitive societies of that epoch and earned the enmity of every sorcerer and shaman who had not already bound themselves in service to her. Though she drowned obstinate nations in magma and incinerated the souls of many of her enemies, in time she was overcome by the seven greatest of the age.

They bound her body beneath a volcano, and severed her consciousness from it. Then in a work of sorcery unseen since those primordial times they bound her to a human soul and locked her into a cycle of impotent reincarnation, trapped in the minds and bodies of humans and cut off entirely from her power and memories.

Her most recent incarnation is Valda, and something has gone very wrong with her punishment. She is finally beginning to get those memories back, and she realizes what she needs.

Personality: When it comes to business she's no-nonsense. When it comes to fun she's all nonsense. The main thread of continuity between the two is her refusal to make promises lightly, or to break the ones she already made; having to do so infuriates her. Moreso, if someone else breaks a promise to her. Outside of this rigid code of conduct, anything goes for her.

And that's just the most obvious crack in the human she is and was.

Likes: Food, wealth, hot summer days, the colors red and orange, professional football and Disney movies.
Dislikes: Winter, taxes, freeloaders, broken promises and the number seven.