Thank you, Kate. 
[S/D] Eureka Academy: Second Semester
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Only do it if you want. It's your character ^^
I meant to get IDs done yesterday but I couldn't D= one of the teachers needs to respond to getting class timetables or else...
Oh bugger Kate. I thought you gonna have dinner with us?
But seeing as Veerle and Athena are duking it out with Orion, maybe just us three can go and we'll take alyss along with us to dinner?
But seeing as Veerle and Athena are duking it out with Orion, maybe just us three can go and we'll take alyss along with us to dinner?
I like that idea, actually. 
Kate . Why so worried? 
I was planning on making a post today anyway in responce to Alyss coming over, so you weren't holding me back at all. But yeah, don't drop out. 
I like Bartholemew . 
Tipsy . I had an alternative method, but that sounds better. Considering that Estrella would identify two of the three girls on the roof as part of DisCom, she wouldn't be able to intervene anyway - so yeah. I don't mind escorting her together .
I was planning on making a post today anyway in responce to Alyss coming over, so you weren't holding me back at all. But yeah, don't drop out. I like Bartholemew . Tipsy . I had an alternative method, but that sounds better.
Considering that Estrella would identify two of the three girls on the roof as part of DisCom, she wouldn't be able to intervene anyway - so yeah. I don't mind escorting her together .
I'll see what i can wing up tomorrow, spoke to arr briefly on gtalk he's cool with whatever timeslots are left at the end so feel free to slot him in wherever...
As for his specific curriculum we might need to come up with some kind of course load that makes sense for his character and with what people here want/need... I mean i doubt many characters are looking for lessons on statistical mechanics and the idiosyncrasies of fluid transport through various tubing... I will attempt to help him work on this but frankly i am a bit stumped... Anyone got any clever ideas?
As for his specific curriculum we might need to come up with some kind of course load that makes sense for his character and with what people here want/need... I mean i doubt many characters are looking for lessons on statistical mechanics and the idiosyncrasies of fluid transport through various tubing... I will attempt to help him work on this but frankly i am a bit stumped... Anyone got any clever ideas?
I'll also wait till at least tomorrow to post with Nicolo. He needs someone to interact with though...
~shocked-onigiri~
Clourith Fanboy
im always open to meeting up with people, my guy is simply chowing down on ramen until the next time i post... he might get fat without interaction D: but seriously, i wasnt sure if i was allowed to post in the timetable thread at all, and as i thought i pointed out those were more than likely the courses i was going to take as long as they didnt get re-ordered so they clash D: i meant to say those are what i thought would be best to take...
THere wont be any course clashes since only one lesson is on at any one time. But as Oli said, one person can have no more than three class or something like that. Want to reclarify Oli?
ORPG/ RPB
Name – Nova Carmine
Title – Miss Carmine, “Plan B”, and a variety of operational and non operational codenames.
Alignment – In D&D terms, Lawful Neutral.
In old world of darkness terms, she would be a combination of “Path of the Honorable Accord’s” tenets of being true to your word and following orders, the “Path of Orion’s” joy of the hunt, the “Path of Power and the Inner Voice’s” pursuit of efficiency in whatever tasks you are undertaking and generally “getting shit done”, with a bit of the logic of the Path of the scorched heart (and yes I am aware there are other path’s with a similar liking for logic and fact)
She is (as you can probably see) hard to quantify onto a pre-existing moral system, I would if required put her argument down as “marine” while she is on the clock at least, off the clock is a totally different matter when her motivations are best described as “work hard party hard”
Race – Human, Wizard, Technocrat
Gender – Female
Age – 23
Appearance – Nova’s a very fit looking 6’2” girl, tall slender and very long of limb. Built like a dancer, a long distance runner or perhaps a swimmer/surfer. Her body is one she takes great pride in, all lovingly maintained with appropriate creams, lotions and the like. She is rather curvaceous, with the westerner’s traditional image of beauty, an hourglass figure with solid D cups up top and a largish bottom (although not overly so) I believe it would be described as “taut”. Her skin is tanned and what “the engineer in me” would classify as “fit for skincare commercials”, usually seen wearing only a little -tastefully applied- (“detail work” only) or no makeup.
Her face is a lovely, strong cheekbones, big eyes that seem to have seen it all, and possibly more than once of the deepest green, (colour range is like this dude's swordwith the iris from http://www.millionviews.com/Media/3d/Medium/TheEye.jpg] this piccy only with the “dark spots” spaced at even intervals and about 24 of them per eye, if that makes any sense. The mouth is full, with luscious lips, in a dark tint of reddish brown, with straight white teeth and a dazzling smile that seems to come in an “assortment of flavors”. Framing this face is a full shoulder length, or slightly longer coupe of “lust” (I didn’t make this up its apparently one of those shades only girls see, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_(color)#Lust) hair, cut in layers to make the points stand up a bit, (see Url, http://www.hji.co.uk/hjimages/images/qhs27052/hji/medium/2007-redhead-curls.jpg for a graphical representation ) The hair is usually pulled back into a no-nonsense ponytail or a braid if she is working.
Attire – Can and does span the entire range from a ball gown to t-shirt and jeans or from mini skirt to painfully formal business wear. Depending on where she is going and what she is going to be doing there. Her normal casual outfits for “in and around the house” are usually a tight shirt (think “cut for girls” t-shirt tight) with a pair of loose pants. Fabrics, textures and patterns are all to widely varied to make accurate generalizations in their regards. Her closet has been described as “bigger then Narnia” and with filled with everything from the aforementioned clothing range. Between being a prodigal shopper and a vast expenses account you can assume it’ll all be haute-couture.
Armour – Nova pretty much only wears armor if she is working and then it’ll be a matte black cat suit engineered for maximum mobility and comfort, made from a a whole host of layers spun from multi wall carbon nano tube wiring (think Kevlar on steroids). The suit is laced with enough Nomex layers to be very fire resistant and will stand up to most of everything short of some very high end fire magic (or plasma gun fire) Strategic locations that need further reinforcement are so reinforced with trauma plates over the vital organs and other places that see more than the normal amount of abuse, comes with a removable balaclava made from the same fabrics for head protection and boots with ultra grippy soles to round out the ensemble.
Personality – Depends heavily on whether or not she is “on the clock” if she is it’s all cold hard math. Business is business, and in her line of work that occasionally means that the innocent get hurt, she’ll try and avoid it where possible but it’s not something she would lose much sleep over when compared to the alternatives. (She takes her orders from some very scary people who literally go and explore the future on a whim, if they say the world is better off with someone dead, eeeehm, it’s true…) She will (and in the past has done) quite some very distasteful things to get the job done.
Off the clock she is pretty easy going, although like all snipers she has the usual personality symptoms, patient in the extreme, smart, disciplined, focused, and she can come off as controlling, and at times show a truely massive ego (or a God complex depending on who’s asking) although she would consider herself empowered, confident and “not lacking in self esteem”. She tends not to form friendships easily, but she is the most loyal friend you will EVER have if you get through to her, her love life is similarly stacked up with one night stands.
At this point I feel it important to mention she is NOT a sociopath (or worse a psychopath) although they do share personality traits. To paraphrase Howard Tayor’s schlock mercenary webcomic, “she’s not a serial killer, she’s massively parallel”. Or Mick from Criminal Minds Suspect behavior, “Not all snipers are serial killers, some are just serial daters.”
First Impression – People who first meet Nova in her casual outfits tend to follow their hormones to the shadier places of the brain where they may or may not remain. People meeting her in her “business attire” tend to go “ooh FUCK” before their brains end up decorating a nearby wall or become otherwise “rendered non hostile”. Following that brief moment where the lizard brain (or the id depending on your stance on things) is in charge of the logic it all depends rather heavily on the character involved and the reasons the conversation was struck up. She can be very easy to talk to if she’s out clubbing or otherwise in a situation where she feels safe and in control (and you haven’t had too much garlic for dinner) to being the mother of all ice queens if she doesn’t feel like the usual banter or is otherwise preoccupied (or you DID have too much garlic for dinner
).
Strength – Nova’s strong, but not like a body builder or something. She can carry quite a bit of load (about 50kg with the appropriate backpack) and while her punches and kicks are powerful for someone of normal human strength that’s mainly all technique rather than pure force.
Vitality – Nova’s health is about where you expect a girl in her physical shape to be. She’s in very good physical shape and knows how to take punches, and maybe more importantly she knows and understands pain and pain management. If she has a broken leg and she REALLY needs to get away she could walk on it, maybe not run but certainly walk.
Speed –Nova’s speed again is more or less where you expect her to be, she can run “8 minute miles” and can do them about 7 minutes if she has time to rest on the other side to get her breathing down again or isn’t required to break any long range shooting records when she gets there. 100 meter dashes are dealt with in about 11 seconds. She does have very nimble feet and hands, easily doing any required foot and hand work required to stay in a fight.
Stamina – Nova’s stamina is good, if she’s running 8 minute miles she can do around 6 to 10 depending on terrain and vegetation before her hands start shaking enough to seriously throw off her aim. Full bore sprinting is something she’s less good at and can do maybe half a mile before she is rather seriously winded. On her annual fitness evaluation she consistently rated in the top 10% of the graphs, doing between 40 and 46 pushups, around 75 sit ups and doing the USMC flexed arm hang for lengths of time approaching the 60 second mark.
Reflexes – Reactions are quick, very much so in fact. Classical reflex tests show her time to be around 0.2seconds (that’s about half of what an untrained human –me- gets on those things). But unless she seriously has to she will prefer to avoid being in situations where she needs to use them.
Fighting Style – In short? Effectively. Nova will lie, cheat, deceive, and is more than willing to bring a gun to a knife fight or a knife to a fist fight. She’s proficient at Krav Maga, Pendar Silat and mixed in some eskrima moves into a rather vulgar and ugly martial art style, it is however very, very effective at personal defence and offense.
If you are fighting Nova and you take a jab at her you may expect to get your arm returned to you with slashed tendons, broken bones, opened veins and whatever else she can get access to. Going for a high kick on nova will see her dodging down and delivering a crushing kick to the other knee, in an attempt to break the joint. Fighting Nova hand to hand means that you will probably need reconstructive surgery afterwards, and if she is allowed to dictate the terms of engagement you probably won’t even know she’s there until the bullet enters your prefrontal cortex. Or you get hammered by automatic fire. Gun fights are typically cases of a double tap to the center mass and a double tap to the head.
Weapons – Nova has access to all weapons in al time zones, but a weapon a grade more advanced will count as doing paradox in the time setting. And she doesn't physically carry her weaponry she just has her AI beam down what she thinks she'll need, unless of course she's in a party somewhere, in which case she'll just carry it on her back or some such.
- Mjollnir Mk.4
Nova’s back up weapon is the Mjollnir mark 4, it’s a gun A VERY BIG gun. Well a heavy pistol (think desert eagle.50) with the punch of a shotgun and the kick of a mule, when intimidation is the name of the game or the enemy just wont stay down, you can count on Thor’s hammer to get the job done. Unless outfitted with a raptor silencer (it is…) the Mjollnir thunders like a mad god. Its heavy grain shells rip through solid concrete, and in flick horrific damage on living flesh (or unliving for that matter), In tecknological terms, Mjollnir uses Forces procedures to increase kinetic energy of the bullet. The gun chambers large custom made ammo (ECA) which aren’t magical (the guns had a tendency to blow up when that was tried). A mind trick adds to the guns fright factor(the wielder is REALLY REALLY SCARY). In the hands of the unenlightened, these guns tend to misfire or explode, although it is possible it will shoot once or twice.
- “Dark ages”:
A crossbow (a Horton Lefgacy CS225 to be specific) with a couple of trimmings, a small yet powerful scope and some other minor trimmings like extended range, an ECA and a raptor silencer, in effect the bow has the range of a rifle is totally silent and does a tad more damage. The bow looks like this:
except for the clip(on top) and a small laser sight which is positioned underneath “the barrel”.
Caliber: Lightning Strike® MX Aluminum
Action: Semi auto
Overall length: 838 mm
Barrel length: N.A.
Weight: 3,83 kg without magazine; 4,30 kg with ECA inserted
Stock: Fully adjustable
Rate of fire: 10 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 0,5 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP ammo these are your average crossbow bolts with some minor trimmings making them more stable for use as sniper ammo.
- Dumdum(or jacked hollow point): when these bolts connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds. Very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
- “the now”:
In times zones approaching the now she uses a modified Stealth Recon Scout by the American based company Desert Tactical Arms with some technocracy trimmings, a part magical bipod totally stabilizing the barrel and preventing it from moving, a motion predicting scope (think the ones they use in Ghost in the Shell), A Raptor silencer, and the necessary ECA.
for a size comparison with an assault rifle, Nova’s barrel is about 2” longer and has a bigger bore to make it a bit wider, and is commonly equipped with an additional 6"/150mm worth of silencer.
Caliber: .408 CheyTac
Operation: Semi Automatic
Length: 26” or 660.4mm, excluding about 6” or 150mm of removable silencer
Weight Unloaded: 6.2 kg including ECA clip and all trimmings
Barrel Length: 650mm
Stock: Fully adjustable
Magazine: 5 round detachable box (or in her case an ECA)
Standard Sight: Zeiss Diavari 6-24X72 T*
Max Effective Range: 2500+ meters with .408 CheyTac
Expected accuracy: 0,25 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP: this ammo consists of a flachette that secures a dart of armed uranium which can easily pierce armour, and is stabilised enough for sniping by 4 fins at the back. Great against armour but not really damaging to the tissue underneath, just makes a round hole all the way through.
- HE: This ammo explodes on contact with someone’s skin or armour tearing away great chunks of either this round is also very good for anti material use; a very all-round round good against pretty much everything.
- Dumdum (or jacked hollow point): when these rounds connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds; very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
Or if the situation demands it Nova uses a Trimmed M4a1: with a raptor silencer, a small tactical scope and an ECA.
is a picture of the rifle size reference can be found above.
The rifle can use all of the above ammo types.
Caliber: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length: 838 mm (stock extended); 757 mm (stock fully collapsed)
Barrel length: 370 mm
Weight: 2.52 kg without magazine; 3.0 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 700 - 950 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 1,0 MoA
- “The Future”: Here she uses her true favourite weapon her highly customised C-20a canister rifle with choice of ammo… (piccie of the rifle in use http://www.digitalentertainmentnews.com/ad...t/scghost07.jpg)
Types of ammo:
All “now” ammo and the following:
- Gauss: These rounds turn into plasma upon leaving the barrel and they accelerate to mutch higher speeds then the terminal velocity of other rounds making dodging these very difficult, pretty all-round ammo.
- Pulse ammo: (Everyone who knows FF8 knows this is the shit you want to look out for…) These rounds are partly magical in there construction and therefore cause major damage to everything, thing about detaching limbs and bursting chests with one bullet they go through everything and anything, they virtually ignore armour while still cause major damage to underlying tissue. In RPB Nova carries 5 of these rounds.
These rounds work based on the fact that they repress the Schrödinger equation for a small fraction of a second in the target struck by them causing their electrons to vanish, which breaks all bonds in their molecules, before the electrons reappearing and going complexly crazy making random bonds. The electrostatic repulsion of the highly charged nuclei of the atoms will make sure that the bonds will not be formed “where you left them”
- Shock Shells: These rounds do a very substantial amount of Electricity damage to the people they hit, enough for a small E.M.P. field, which destroys most of the energy consuming technology they might have. Just to do some further explanation, EMP does not mean “reset the computer and it’ll work again” it means “the entire circuit board is reduced to rubble and melted components”.
- Shield Breakers: These rounds were designed by the ships AI when Nova ran into a shielded life form, they have the potential to ignore shields (non magical ones that is) and disable them for the rest of the battle. Besides that effect they do no damage apart from the concussive impact.
Caliber: .401 CheyTac, Fully customized rounds.
Action: Gas operated, Semi auto.
Overall length: 947 mm.
Barrel length: 570 mm
Weight: 5,2 kg without magazine; 5.7 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 20 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: ~7500 m
Expected accuracy: 0,02 MoA
“Sniperlingo”: Sniper rifle Accuracy
The most common way of describing the accuracy of the sniper rifle is to measure average diameter of the circle that may be drawn around the group of bullet holes in the target. Usually, the rifle is fired from the rest with groups of the 5 (or 3) rounds, and then every group is measured. Average group diameter is the most common criteria of rifle accuracy.
Today, the thin line between "good" and "poor" accuracy is usually laid in 1MOA group. 1 MOA (Minute Of Angle) is measure of the angle, that formed with the triangle with muzzle as the top and the group as the base. 1 MOA is roughly equivalent to 1 inch group diameter at 100 yards (91 meter), or to 2 inches at 200 yards etc. So, if you read that rifle XXXX shooths 1MOA groups, it means that at 300 yards this rifle could place 5 or so bullets in circle of no more than 3 inches in diameter. Many modern sniper rifles, when loaded with right ammunition, could shoot 0.5MOA, or even 0.3MOA, which mean 1 inch groups at 300 yards, or 2 inch (50 millimeters!) groups at 600 yards (550 meters).
- ECA: Endless Clip of Ammo, one of the Iteration X’s newest gizmo’s is a clip that actually fabricates the ammo you want, good for about 500 rounds before the Tass runs out and you need to recharge it with an APC.
- APC: Advance Power Cell, a device that stores Quintessence(Mana) in its “solid form” (Tass) for use in almost all devices Nova uses.
- Raptor silencer: this is a somewhat non standard silencer, instead of dampening the shot it transports the sound waves to a place where no one either hears or cares(in the WoD its usually the latter).
Abilities –
Well Nova has mad skills in shopping? She can spend the equivalent of 2 million dollars in a single day when in a major shopping center (think Akihabara, Shinjuku, 5th ave, or their equivalents).
Other than that she has a lot of gadgets that could be considered special skills so I will add them here, Again this list is including but not limited to.
- “The bond watch”: This is the woman’s version of Bond’s famous watches, it comes with all the trimmings Q’s ever managed to cram in. If it’d be “Bondy” to have in the watch Nova Has it. It’s a pocket watch in the Dark Ages, an analog wrist watch in the now, and a digital or high end analog watch in the future.
- The “real” swiss army knife, this is the handle of a swiss army knife with a button attached, point it at the object and push the button and the cpu will scan the object and thick what you are most likely to want to do with the object and form the perfect tool for the job (do aim good for it might think your pointing at something else) Everything is in there from welding tools to a small sowing machine for fixing the button that fell from your shirt.
- “Set to guns to stun” hey its better to steal something good then to design something bad is what the Iteration X must have thought so they designed this device that takes the speed of the bullet and spreads it out over a bigger area, blasting you of your feet but with out any adverse side effects other then a bad whip lash and some bruises(all guns and projectiles feel about as bad as a paintball gun which hit your entire front//back at the same time).
- Univid, Universal ID, this little gizmo is the id for the job, everything from FBI badges to the proper id for that meeting with the crime boss this is it. (not entirely accurate without an example of what you want to make).
- Tricorder, this is your basic star trek tricorder, it even looks like it…
- Power Suit, This suit (all her clothes have this fabric “mixed in”) can be “switched on” when that happens, the suit sends out an “inferiority wave” that makes the wearer look really important and imposing.
She also has a couple of gizmo’s on her that can prove useful in distress situations mostly a “walky talky” that can connect her to her ships computer (of course one with true A.I.), most other tools she can get the computer to assemble (or replicate for the trekkies) and beam down to her location.
Magic –
Nova is quite accomplished in Forces, Prime, Correspondence and a bit in Mind. On her ship she has a computer that can do some Dimensional Science.
Nova doesn’t use spells as such she combines the 3 above elements to form spells, Forces can for example be used to send electrical systems hay wire by creating and removing small currants, or it can be used to light fire by creating sparks it can also turn her invisible by “bending the light” around her. If you think this is un fair wait until you read the back lash these spells have, Correspondence is the art of employing magic at a distance she has a range of about 10 to 15 meters (30 to 45 feet) and lastly mind magic can be used to “read minds” and do similar tricks on people; Can also be used for telepathic communication.
“Nova’s Favourite procedures(spell list; including but not limited to)”:
Calculate Kinetics (correspondence 1)
Where is that object? How fast is it going? What way is it going? How long will it take to get there? And similar questions all answered in one stroke. Can also be used to get a “read out” of for example the amount of light generated by a lamp or the amount of energy produced by a passing car’s engine , and other details of her surrounding, as desired.
Laser enhancement (forces 2)
Turns a low power laser (like a laser sight or a laser tag rifle) into a laser powerful enough to cut through steel plates.
Laser Production (Forces 3)
This is an improved version of Laser enhancement it allows any artificial light source to produce a deadly laser beam, needs a lens of some sorts to focus the light though.
Detect mental anomalies, (Mind1)
Scans the mind of the target to see if the target is under influence by, disciplines, gifts or other forms of mind control.
Locate Quintessential flow, (Prime 1)
This allows Nova to see the local streams of quintessence that lead to a Node.
Tap Node, (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to extract Quintessence from a Node and store it in herself or another storage container.
Covert Node to Tass (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to turn the Quintessence in a node into Tass, for storage in APC’s or for use by her ship. This procedure it the one powering the STAR units.
The backlash known as paradox if someone sees Nova use magic for stuff that can’t happen (including but not limited to fireballs and the like) Paradox lashes in; the worse the violation the worse the backlash is. For example of Nova would fire her gun (the c-20a) in a fantasy setting she might do an “Anime + cute chick” style back flip, her hair might turn into feathers and/or something else. If the violation is bad enough she might die or get her memory erased.
Or just cause a cascade that eradicates the world she’s on…
I just thought i might need to clear up paradox a bit, basically paradox is caused by people who witness the act "disbelieving the Illusion" and thus its LESS potent when the people who witness the act know about the existance of magic and have seen some of the things it can do. (A good way to "get out of" paradox is convincing the local populous your god and thus omnipotent -although this is less likely to work in RPB)
On fantasy worlds Paradox is lessened but it’s still there.
History – Nova was born in a small town near Houston in 1984, Nova lived a pretty normal life, she had friends, lots of them male for obvious reasons, a truck load of boyfriends, a pretty normal life all in all, at least as far as a WoD life can be “Normal”. When Nova turned 16 she started having “weird incidents” computers would go hay wire around her, her hair drier blew up once, and stuff like that, little did Nova know that she was experiencing the first symbols of her awakening. She felt like a freak and although she was big and tough on the surface, she had some major problems deep down, and she was asked to go to the school shrink. This of course wasn’t good for her social life as it interfered with cheer leading practice. And she needed a good explanation of why she wasn’t showing up once a week, but in the end she was straightened out and he was convinced her “accidents” were nothing more then a streak of bad luck.
And so life continued, Nova was surely but steadily learning to block them out when it would be awkward to have them, and so her little world kept spinning, she became involved with the school quarterback, with whom she had a relation for about a year and then on Christmas eve he called her and dumped her, her Christmas was ruined she spent the entire time locked up in her room crying herself to sleep. She thought her life was over, but in the end she got over him with a steady diet of chocolate ice cream and chick flicks.
And soon she was the hottest catch in school again, and everyone was milling around her as spring formal was coming up, one day she was sitting in the school’s cafeteria and your arch typical nerd walked up to her, he had actually gotten a new haircut for the occasion and he had dressed quite stylishly. But as he walked up to her some freshmen was shining with his laser pen around and when the nerd walked up to her the dot was right on his chest, and then he tripped tossing his lunch all over
Nova, Nova could feel the build up she so dreaded and thought one of her “bad luck” moments was coming again but only much much more powerful and just as the nerd fell through the dot, a piece of his head disappeared, and then Nova’s head went light, and as she lifted her hand up to it, she could feel her hair falling out in clumps. As she dashed to the nearest exit, she could hear her name being yelled over the intercom by a very angry vice principal. As she made her way to the locker rooms, for the spare shirt the kept there. Luckily it matched her outfit, and she grabbed her hat she kept there for bad hair days, and with that she looked at herself in the mirror, she didn’t look to shabby.
And so she went to the principal’s office, she took a moment to breathe in and put on her sad & guilty face, and then she knocked and entered. She had never before been to the principal’s office and she found it to be a mainly functional place, with a large desk with the principal sitting behind it, and someone she didn’t know.
As they were talking Nova, having been properly raised waited silently while they talked about stuff, she overheard something known as a “Cob” and she heard the name “Dyson sphere” having an interest in space tech (carefully concealed from view) she knew a sphere was a star with a system of colonies around it, sometimes even a shell, but that was less practical, to maximize the amount of energy derived from it.
And these guys were talking about it in the past tense but there weren’t any Dyson spheres in the galaxy… this was weird, Nova tried to listen in without “actually listening in”. And then suddenly they were finished and the stranger was introduced as “Joe Johnston”. The stranger looked at her intensely, not really a stare and she wasn’t really being measured up, but it was something in between. Then suddenly the stranger spoke, “so tell me girl late at night when you’re lying in your bed looking up at the stars, you wonder what it’d be like to fly to them and explore them is that correct?”
“Yes it is sir how did you know?” Nova asked Mister Johnston.
“For I was like you once, I was in this room in very similar circumstances about 30 years ago, Wondering what was going to happen. And what I had done to that kid that was lying there in the arts and crafts room. Tell me, did you do it? And no lame excuses you know you did it, or you didn’t.”
“Sir, I think I did” Nova said, “but I have no idea what I did.”
“What you just went through is known as an Awakening, you’ve had that idea, to quote the matrix, and “You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad” Well in this case that something isn’t the matrix it is the supernatural, WE have pulled the world over your eyes it blind the mortals from the truth, in our case there is a spoon and you’re not allowed to see it.”
“Are you trying to tell me I’m living in the fucking matrix???” Nova asked, “Okay where is that hidden camera?” Nova had always thought some stuff were just too weird to happen and when that happened most of the time you’d hear a “smile your on candid camera”, or something like that.
“Yes and No, we, mages, werewolves, vampires, and some others have blinded you from the truth, we are here and we are VERY real. But we don’t want the world to know we exist, as a vampire I once knew said “We don’t want you to know we are here, the same way the wolf doesn’t want the sheep to know he’s around. It makes our job so much easier”.
At this time Nova was really starting to look for a hidden camera,
“Now okay this as been funny where is that camera??” Nova asked.
“I can assure you Miss Carmine there is no hidden camera, and what I am telling you is quite real. Common girl we must leave now before some of those cops show up and drag you off for jail, and while the New World Order can cover this up getting you out of jail would prove more of a hassle then they think you’re worth, personally I think you might be worth the hassle and paperwork but it would take me quite a bit longer, and you don’t want to spend a night in lockup.”
Nova not accustomed to going with strangers, was slightly put off by this man’s demeanor but she had a gut feeling she could trust him, and so she followed him to his car that waited out front, the man told the driver they were going to “the barn” at which point Nova wondered for a moment what she had gotten herself into now. And she and Mister Johnston talked for the duration of the trip, it was one of those talks in which you entire world falls apart, and you realize you have been thinking of the world in 2 dimensions, or in the case of the mortals 1, they wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the arse, everyday they see “unexplainable stuff” that would be very easily explained if they’d just think outside the box. Those sounds in the night? Sure it MIGHT be a car back firing but you know better than that surely, at this hour if night? Or those news reports on that freaky serial killer a few years back that left his victims drained of blood…
And then they arrived at a barn way out in the country side, where upon they drove into it. The driver got out and closed the door and pushed a button near the door. At which point a puff of smoke was released, and the floor gently lowered its self to “the ground” of the station below this place.
It was quite deep, a good 100 feet below the surface and Nova was wondering what kind of people would live in this sort of nuclear shelter. When they got to “ground level” the man greeted some people that appeared to be his friends, and he introduced “Miss Carmine, of whom we can expect great things”. From here they went into a room where a computer terminal was located as well as something that looked like a Transporter room from star trek, Nova was instructed to get on the pad and
So did Mister Johnston (who insisted she call him Joe) and a corny “energize” scene later they were on their way, Nova found herself in a room that looked a lot like the one she had just been in, but it was like she was looking though wrong prescription glasses. It was a bit foggy and there were strange ghost like things hanging around, they looked nice enough so Nova left them in peace. Then she noted what could only be described as a space ship. “Joe” was walking towards a “boarding plank” and he told Nova that she might want to get a move on, if she didn’t want to miss the ride any ways. Nova got on and was seated in a chair where she buckled up, when suddenly the bay’s doors opened to show a way that lead to a blank wall, but right now Nova wouldn’t be surprised if that wall was just an illusion or something. So she buckled up and made a point of not touching any buttons.
Joe: “this is your captain speaking and on behalf of my crew I’d like to wish you a pleasant stay on board the Jimmy Shroud, on a one way trip to the Copernicus research station, Alpha Centauri 2, our flight time will be 24 hours, please remain seated until we clear earth orbit and the fasten seatbelt sign has been turned off.”
At which point he handed her a flask of whisky and a bag for throwing up in. “You will need the first, you might need the second but I don’t think you will… I have high hopes for you, missy.”
At which point Nova took a long gulp of the scotch and felt it burn a way down her throat. And then they were off, he was right you did need the scotch. And then they were in the earth orbit on the way to Alpha Centauri, where they’d continue her teachings.
Nova proved to be a good student acing her tests and soon she was in command of her own AUC, and she has been exploring space ever since.
Other things worth noticing:
Even though she can exist in all settings she is not immortal or anything… just so you know… Bullets will kill her, fire will burn her and explosives will blast her to bits. I just assume that whatever time line I introduce her into is just some planet where they happen to be that far along in there “evolution”.
- Her space ship: (Will not be used in RPB)
Her spaceship an AUC (or Armed Universal Cruisers) is strangely enough corvette sized. On the outside it looks like this: http://www.i-war2.com/images/navy_1st.jpg.
The ship is armed with 4 batteries of twin-linked AFC’s(Accelerated Force Cannon’s) your basic gigantic laser cannon and 2 batteries of 24 TAT’s(Targeted Anti-matter Torpedo’s)think the biggest, baddest missiles in history mostly used for shooting capital ships and the like could be used for sanitizing (read blowing up) worlds or sections of worlds. The ship is powered by two TPU’s (Tass-Powered Propulsion Units) which allow the ship to cruise along at faster than light speeds. Those engines run on Tass (“Mana” in its solid form) which is refined by the ship’s 2 huge STARs (Stellar Tass Augmentation Refinery) which harvest it from solar winds and other particles the ship may encounter. The STARs also power the iMPALA (Molecular Pigment Absorption Adapter) system, which is basically a cloaking device, and allows the ship to be in orbit without out being detected. For the rest it’s equipped with what most ships in star trek have, Holo Decks, transporters, replicators; the works.
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Some notes,
I swapped out the modern day rifle, upped the "maximum ranges" a bit since i was well under the effective ranges of modern sniper rifles (and those are below the record ranges for "longest range confirmed kill") to something more sane.
Put some additional enters in the history section and editted out some errors, might end up doing a full history rewrite for Nova 4.0.doc as she's saved
and mostly i tried to tone down on the "Color Commentary" But it's hard enough to describe beauty, let alone trying to do that while ADDING detail, but reducing the description in "sexually charged" content. I think i got a decent balance between the lot going...
Added some details (seems my picture of her personality was pretty close to what snipers actually are like
gotta love some creative googling for details like that)
Name – Nova Carmine
Title – Miss Carmine, “Plan B”, and a variety of operational and non operational codenames.
Alignment – In D&D terms, Lawful Neutral.
In old world of darkness terms, she would be a combination of “Path of the Honorable Accord’s” tenets of being true to your word and following orders, the “Path of Orion’s” joy of the hunt, the “Path of Power and the Inner Voice’s” pursuit of efficiency in whatever tasks you are undertaking and generally “getting shit done”, with a bit of the logic of the Path of the scorched heart (and yes I am aware there are other path’s with a similar liking for logic and fact)
She is (as you can probably see) hard to quantify onto a pre-existing moral system, I would if required put her argument down as “marine” while she is on the clock at least, off the clock is a totally different matter when her motivations are best described as “work hard party hard”
Race – Human, Wizard, Technocrat
Gender – Female
Age – 23
Appearance – Nova’s a very fit looking 6’2” girl, tall slender and very long of limb. Built like a dancer, a long distance runner or perhaps a swimmer/surfer. Her body is one she takes great pride in, all lovingly maintained with appropriate creams, lotions and the like. She is rather curvaceous, with the westerner’s traditional image of beauty, an hourglass figure with solid D cups up top and a largish bottom (although not overly so) I believe it would be described as “taut”. Her skin is tanned and what “the engineer in me” would classify as “fit for skincare commercials”, usually seen wearing only a little -tastefully applied- (“detail work” only) or no makeup.
Her face is a lovely, strong cheekbones, big eyes that seem to have seen it all, and possibly more than once of the deepest green, (colour range is like this dude's swordwith the iris from http://www.millionviews.com/Media/3d/Medium/TheEye.jpg] this piccy only with the “dark spots” spaced at even intervals and about 24 of them per eye, if that makes any sense. The mouth is full, with luscious lips, in a dark tint of reddish brown, with straight white teeth and a dazzling smile that seems to come in an “assortment of flavors”. Framing this face is a full shoulder length, or slightly longer coupe of “lust” (I didn’t make this up its apparently one of those shades only girls see, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_(color)#Lust) hair, cut in layers to make the points stand up a bit, (see Url, http://www.hji.co.uk/hjimages/images/qhs27052/hji/medium/2007-redhead-curls.jpg for a graphical representation ) The hair is usually pulled back into a no-nonsense ponytail or a braid if she is working.
Attire – Can and does span the entire range from a ball gown to t-shirt and jeans or from mini skirt to painfully formal business wear. Depending on where she is going and what she is going to be doing there. Her normal casual outfits for “in and around the house” are usually a tight shirt (think “cut for girls” t-shirt tight) with a pair of loose pants. Fabrics, textures and patterns are all to widely varied to make accurate generalizations in their regards. Her closet has been described as “bigger then Narnia” and with filled with everything from the aforementioned clothing range. Between being a prodigal shopper and a vast expenses account you can assume it’ll all be haute-couture.
Armour – Nova pretty much only wears armor if she is working and then it’ll be a matte black cat suit engineered for maximum mobility and comfort, made from a a whole host of layers spun from multi wall carbon nano tube wiring (think Kevlar on steroids). The suit is laced with enough Nomex layers to be very fire resistant and will stand up to most of everything short of some very high end fire magic (or plasma gun fire) Strategic locations that need further reinforcement are so reinforced with trauma plates over the vital organs and other places that see more than the normal amount of abuse, comes with a removable balaclava made from the same fabrics for head protection and boots with ultra grippy soles to round out the ensemble.
Personality – Depends heavily on whether or not she is “on the clock” if she is it’s all cold hard math. Business is business, and in her line of work that occasionally means that the innocent get hurt, she’ll try and avoid it where possible but it’s not something she would lose much sleep over when compared to the alternatives. (She takes her orders from some very scary people who literally go and explore the future on a whim, if they say the world is better off with someone dead, eeeehm, it’s true…) She will (and in the past has done) quite some very distasteful things to get the job done.
Off the clock she is pretty easy going, although like all snipers she has the usual personality symptoms, patient in the extreme, smart, disciplined, focused, and she can come off as controlling, and at times show a truely massive ego (or a God complex depending on who’s asking) although she would consider herself empowered, confident and “not lacking in self esteem”. She tends not to form friendships easily, but she is the most loyal friend you will EVER have if you get through to her, her love life is similarly stacked up with one night stands.
At this point I feel it important to mention she is NOT a sociopath (or worse a psychopath) although they do share personality traits. To paraphrase Howard Tayor’s schlock mercenary webcomic, “she’s not a serial killer, she’s massively parallel”. Or Mick from Criminal Minds Suspect behavior, “Not all snipers are serial killers, some are just serial daters.”
First Impression – People who first meet Nova in her casual outfits tend to follow their hormones to the shadier places of the brain where they may or may not remain. People meeting her in her “business attire” tend to go “ooh FUCK” before their brains end up decorating a nearby wall or become otherwise “rendered non hostile”. Following that brief moment where the lizard brain (or the id depending on your stance on things) is in charge of the logic it all depends rather heavily on the character involved and the reasons the conversation was struck up. She can be very easy to talk to if she’s out clubbing or otherwise in a situation where she feels safe and in control (and you haven’t had too much garlic for dinner) to being the mother of all ice queens if she doesn’t feel like the usual banter or is otherwise preoccupied (or you DID have too much garlic for dinner
). Strength – Nova’s strong, but not like a body builder or something. She can carry quite a bit of load (about 50kg with the appropriate backpack) and while her punches and kicks are powerful for someone of normal human strength that’s mainly all technique rather than pure force.
Vitality – Nova’s health is about where you expect a girl in her physical shape to be. She’s in very good physical shape and knows how to take punches, and maybe more importantly she knows and understands pain and pain management. If she has a broken leg and she REALLY needs to get away she could walk on it, maybe not run but certainly walk.
Speed –Nova’s speed again is more or less where you expect her to be, she can run “8 minute miles” and can do them about 7 minutes if she has time to rest on the other side to get her breathing down again or isn’t required to break any long range shooting records when she gets there. 100 meter dashes are dealt with in about 11 seconds. She does have very nimble feet and hands, easily doing any required foot and hand work required to stay in a fight.
Stamina – Nova’s stamina is good, if she’s running 8 minute miles she can do around 6 to 10 depending on terrain and vegetation before her hands start shaking enough to seriously throw off her aim. Full bore sprinting is something she’s less good at and can do maybe half a mile before she is rather seriously winded. On her annual fitness evaluation she consistently rated in the top 10% of the graphs, doing between 40 and 46 pushups, around 75 sit ups and doing the USMC flexed arm hang for lengths of time approaching the 60 second mark.
Reflexes – Reactions are quick, very much so in fact. Classical reflex tests show her time to be around 0.2seconds (that’s about half of what an untrained human –me- gets on those things). But unless she seriously has to she will prefer to avoid being in situations where she needs to use them.
Fighting Style – In short? Effectively. Nova will lie, cheat, deceive, and is more than willing to bring a gun to a knife fight or a knife to a fist fight. She’s proficient at Krav Maga, Pendar Silat and mixed in some eskrima moves into a rather vulgar and ugly martial art style, it is however very, very effective at personal defence and offense.
If you are fighting Nova and you take a jab at her you may expect to get your arm returned to you with slashed tendons, broken bones, opened veins and whatever else she can get access to. Going for a high kick on nova will see her dodging down and delivering a crushing kick to the other knee, in an attempt to break the joint. Fighting Nova hand to hand means that you will probably need reconstructive surgery afterwards, and if she is allowed to dictate the terms of engagement you probably won’t even know she’s there until the bullet enters your prefrontal cortex. Or you get hammered by automatic fire. Gun fights are typically cases of a double tap to the center mass and a double tap to the head.
Weapons – Nova has access to all weapons in al time zones, but a weapon a grade more advanced will count as doing paradox in the time setting. And she doesn't physically carry her weaponry she just has her AI beam down what she thinks she'll need, unless of course she's in a party somewhere, in which case she'll just carry it on her back or some such.
- Mjollnir Mk.4
Nova’s back up weapon is the Mjollnir mark 4, it’s a gun A VERY BIG gun. Well a heavy pistol (think desert eagle.50) with the punch of a shotgun and the kick of a mule, when intimidation is the name of the game or the enemy just wont stay down, you can count on Thor’s hammer to get the job done. Unless outfitted with a raptor silencer (it is…) the Mjollnir thunders like a mad god. Its heavy grain shells rip through solid concrete, and in flick horrific damage on living flesh (or unliving for that matter), In tecknological terms, Mjollnir uses Forces procedures to increase kinetic energy of the bullet. The gun chambers large custom made ammo (ECA) which aren’t magical (the guns had a tendency to blow up when that was tried). A mind trick adds to the guns fright factor(the wielder is REALLY REALLY SCARY). In the hands of the unenlightened, these guns tend to misfire or explode, although it is possible it will shoot once or twice.
- “Dark ages”:
A crossbow (a Horton Lefgacy CS225 to be specific) with a couple of trimmings, a small yet powerful scope and some other minor trimmings like extended range, an ECA and a raptor silencer, in effect the bow has the range of a rifle is totally silent and does a tad more damage. The bow looks like this:
except for the clip(on top) and a small laser sight which is positioned underneath “the barrel”.
Caliber: Lightning Strike® MX Aluminum
Action: Semi auto
Overall length: 838 mm
Barrel length: N.A.
Weight: 3,83 kg without magazine; 4,30 kg with ECA inserted
Stock: Fully adjustable
Rate of fire: 10 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 0,5 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP ammo these are your average crossbow bolts with some minor trimmings making them more stable for use as sniper ammo.
- Dumdum(or jacked hollow point): when these bolts connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds. Very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
- “the now”:
In times zones approaching the now she uses a modified Stealth Recon Scout by the American based company Desert Tactical Arms with some technocracy trimmings, a part magical bipod totally stabilizing the barrel and preventing it from moving, a motion predicting scope (think the ones they use in Ghost in the Shell), A Raptor silencer, and the necessary ECA.
Caliber: .408 CheyTac
Operation: Semi Automatic
Length: 26” or 660.4mm, excluding about 6” or 150mm of removable silencer
Weight Unloaded: 6.2 kg including ECA clip and all trimmings
Barrel Length: 650mm
Stock: Fully adjustable
Magazine: 5 round detachable box (or in her case an ECA)
Standard Sight: Zeiss Diavari 6-24X72 T*
Max Effective Range: 2500+ meters with .408 CheyTac
Expected accuracy: 0,25 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP: this ammo consists of a flachette that secures a dart of armed uranium which can easily pierce armour, and is stabilised enough for sniping by 4 fins at the back. Great against armour but not really damaging to the tissue underneath, just makes a round hole all the way through.
- HE: This ammo explodes on contact with someone’s skin or armour tearing away great chunks of either this round is also very good for anti material use; a very all-round round good against pretty much everything.
- Dumdum (or jacked hollow point): when these rounds connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds; very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
Or if the situation demands it Nova uses a Trimmed M4a1: with a raptor silencer, a small tactical scope and an ECA.
is a picture of the rifle size reference can be found above.
The rifle can use all of the above ammo types.
Caliber: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length: 838 mm (stock extended); 757 mm (stock fully collapsed)
Barrel length: 370 mm
Weight: 2.52 kg without magazine; 3.0 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 700 - 950 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 1,0 MoA
- “The Future”: Here she uses her true favourite weapon her highly customised C-20a canister rifle with choice of ammo… (piccie of the rifle in use http://www.digitalentertainmentnews.com/ad...t/scghost07.jpg)
Types of ammo:
All “now” ammo and the following:
- Gauss: These rounds turn into plasma upon leaving the barrel and they accelerate to mutch higher speeds then the terminal velocity of other rounds making dodging these very difficult, pretty all-round ammo.
- Pulse ammo: (Everyone who knows FF8 knows this is the shit you want to look out for…) These rounds are partly magical in there construction and therefore cause major damage to everything, thing about detaching limbs and bursting chests with one bullet they go through everything and anything, they virtually ignore armour while still cause major damage to underlying tissue. In RPB Nova carries 5 of these rounds.
These rounds work based on the fact that they repress the Schrödinger equation for a small fraction of a second in the target struck by them causing their electrons to vanish, which breaks all bonds in their molecules, before the electrons reappearing and going complexly crazy making random bonds. The electrostatic repulsion of the highly charged nuclei of the atoms will make sure that the bonds will not be formed “where you left them”
- Shock Shells: These rounds do a very substantial amount of Electricity damage to the people they hit, enough for a small E.M.P. field, which destroys most of the energy consuming technology they might have. Just to do some further explanation, EMP does not mean “reset the computer and it’ll work again” it means “the entire circuit board is reduced to rubble and melted components”.
- Shield Breakers: These rounds were designed by the ships AI when Nova ran into a shielded life form, they have the potential to ignore shields (non magical ones that is) and disable them for the rest of the battle. Besides that effect they do no damage apart from the concussive impact.
Caliber: .401 CheyTac, Fully customized rounds.
Action: Gas operated, Semi auto.
Overall length: 947 mm.
Barrel length: 570 mm
Weight: 5,2 kg without magazine; 5.7 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 20 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: ~7500 m
Expected accuracy: 0,02 MoA
“Sniperlingo”: Sniper rifle Accuracy
The most common way of describing the accuracy of the sniper rifle is to measure average diameter of the circle that may be drawn around the group of bullet holes in the target. Usually, the rifle is fired from the rest with groups of the 5 (or 3) rounds, and then every group is measured. Average group diameter is the most common criteria of rifle accuracy.
Today, the thin line between "good" and "poor" accuracy is usually laid in 1MOA group. 1 MOA (Minute Of Angle) is measure of the angle, that formed with the triangle with muzzle as the top and the group as the base. 1 MOA is roughly equivalent to 1 inch group diameter at 100 yards (91 meter), or to 2 inches at 200 yards etc. So, if you read that rifle XXXX shooths 1MOA groups, it means that at 300 yards this rifle could place 5 or so bullets in circle of no more than 3 inches in diameter. Many modern sniper rifles, when loaded with right ammunition, could shoot 0.5MOA, or even 0.3MOA, which mean 1 inch groups at 300 yards, or 2 inch (50 millimeters!) groups at 600 yards (550 meters).
- ECA: Endless Clip of Ammo, one of the Iteration X’s newest gizmo’s is a clip that actually fabricates the ammo you want, good for about 500 rounds before the Tass runs out and you need to recharge it with an APC.
- APC: Advance Power Cell, a device that stores Quintessence(Mana) in its “solid form” (Tass) for use in almost all devices Nova uses.
- Raptor silencer: this is a somewhat non standard silencer, instead of dampening the shot it transports the sound waves to a place where no one either hears or cares(in the WoD its usually the latter).
Abilities –
Well Nova has mad skills in shopping? She can spend the equivalent of 2 million dollars in a single day when in a major shopping center (think Akihabara, Shinjuku, 5th ave, or their equivalents).
Other than that she has a lot of gadgets that could be considered special skills so I will add them here, Again this list is including but not limited to.
- “The bond watch”: This is the woman’s version of Bond’s famous watches, it comes with all the trimmings Q’s ever managed to cram in. If it’d be “Bondy” to have in the watch Nova Has it. It’s a pocket watch in the Dark Ages, an analog wrist watch in the now, and a digital or high end analog watch in the future.
- The “real” swiss army knife, this is the handle of a swiss army knife with a button attached, point it at the object and push the button and the cpu will scan the object and thick what you are most likely to want to do with the object and form the perfect tool for the job (do aim good for it might think your pointing at something else) Everything is in there from welding tools to a small sowing machine for fixing the button that fell from your shirt.
- “Set to guns to stun” hey its better to steal something good then to design something bad is what the Iteration X must have thought so they designed this device that takes the speed of the bullet and spreads it out over a bigger area, blasting you of your feet but with out any adverse side effects other then a bad whip lash and some bruises(all guns and projectiles feel about as bad as a paintball gun which hit your entire front//back at the same time).
- Univid, Universal ID, this little gizmo is the id for the job, everything from FBI badges to the proper id for that meeting with the crime boss this is it. (not entirely accurate without an example of what you want to make).
- Tricorder, this is your basic star trek tricorder, it even looks like it…
- Power Suit, This suit (all her clothes have this fabric “mixed in”) can be “switched on” when that happens, the suit sends out an “inferiority wave” that makes the wearer look really important and imposing.
She also has a couple of gizmo’s on her that can prove useful in distress situations mostly a “walky talky” that can connect her to her ships computer (of course one with true A.I.), most other tools she can get the computer to assemble (or replicate for the trekkies) and beam down to her location.
Magic –
Nova is quite accomplished in Forces, Prime, Correspondence and a bit in Mind. On her ship she has a computer that can do some Dimensional Science.
Nova doesn’t use spells as such she combines the 3 above elements to form spells, Forces can for example be used to send electrical systems hay wire by creating and removing small currants, or it can be used to light fire by creating sparks it can also turn her invisible by “bending the light” around her. If you think this is un fair wait until you read the back lash these spells have, Correspondence is the art of employing magic at a distance she has a range of about 10 to 15 meters (30 to 45 feet) and lastly mind magic can be used to “read minds” and do similar tricks on people; Can also be used for telepathic communication.
“Nova’s Favourite procedures(spell list; including but not limited to)”:
Calculate Kinetics (correspondence 1)
Where is that object? How fast is it going? What way is it going? How long will it take to get there? And similar questions all answered in one stroke. Can also be used to get a “read out” of for example the amount of light generated by a lamp or the amount of energy produced by a passing car’s engine , and other details of her surrounding, as desired.
Laser enhancement (forces 2)
Turns a low power laser (like a laser sight or a laser tag rifle) into a laser powerful enough to cut through steel plates.
Laser Production (Forces 3)
This is an improved version of Laser enhancement it allows any artificial light source to produce a deadly laser beam, needs a lens of some sorts to focus the light though.
Detect mental anomalies, (Mind1)
Scans the mind of the target to see if the target is under influence by, disciplines, gifts or other forms of mind control.
Locate Quintessential flow, (Prime 1)
This allows Nova to see the local streams of quintessence that lead to a Node.
Tap Node, (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to extract Quintessence from a Node and store it in herself or another storage container.
Covert Node to Tass (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to turn the Quintessence in a node into Tass, for storage in APC’s or for use by her ship. This procedure it the one powering the STAR units.
The backlash known as paradox if someone sees Nova use magic for stuff that can’t happen (including but not limited to fireballs and the like) Paradox lashes in; the worse the violation the worse the backlash is. For example of Nova would fire her gun (the c-20a) in a fantasy setting she might do an “Anime + cute chick” style back flip, her hair might turn into feathers and/or something else. If the violation is bad enough she might die or get her memory erased.
Or just cause a cascade that eradicates the world she’s on…
I just thought i might need to clear up paradox a bit, basically paradox is caused by people who witness the act "disbelieving the Illusion" and thus its LESS potent when the people who witness the act know about the existance of magic and have seen some of the things it can do. (A good way to "get out of" paradox is convincing the local populous your god and thus omnipotent -although this is less likely to work in RPB)
On fantasy worlds Paradox is lessened but it’s still there.
History – Nova was born in a small town near Houston in 1984, Nova lived a pretty normal life, she had friends, lots of them male for obvious reasons, a truck load of boyfriends, a pretty normal life all in all, at least as far as a WoD life can be “Normal”. When Nova turned 16 she started having “weird incidents” computers would go hay wire around her, her hair drier blew up once, and stuff like that, little did Nova know that she was experiencing the first symbols of her awakening. She felt like a freak and although she was big and tough on the surface, she had some major problems deep down, and she was asked to go to the school shrink. This of course wasn’t good for her social life as it interfered with cheer leading practice. And she needed a good explanation of why she wasn’t showing up once a week, but in the end she was straightened out and he was convinced her “accidents” were nothing more then a streak of bad luck.
And so life continued, Nova was surely but steadily learning to block them out when it would be awkward to have them, and so her little world kept spinning, she became involved with the school quarterback, with whom she had a relation for about a year and then on Christmas eve he called her and dumped her, her Christmas was ruined she spent the entire time locked up in her room crying herself to sleep. She thought her life was over, but in the end she got over him with a steady diet of chocolate ice cream and chick flicks.
And soon she was the hottest catch in school again, and everyone was milling around her as spring formal was coming up, one day she was sitting in the school’s cafeteria and your arch typical nerd walked up to her, he had actually gotten a new haircut for the occasion and he had dressed quite stylishly. But as he walked up to her some freshmen was shining with his laser pen around and when the nerd walked up to her the dot was right on his chest, and then he tripped tossing his lunch all over
Nova, Nova could feel the build up she so dreaded and thought one of her “bad luck” moments was coming again but only much much more powerful and just as the nerd fell through the dot, a piece of his head disappeared, and then Nova’s head went light, and as she lifted her hand up to it, she could feel her hair falling out in clumps. As she dashed to the nearest exit, she could hear her name being yelled over the intercom by a very angry vice principal. As she made her way to the locker rooms, for the spare shirt the kept there. Luckily it matched her outfit, and she grabbed her hat she kept there for bad hair days, and with that she looked at herself in the mirror, she didn’t look to shabby.
And so she went to the principal’s office, she took a moment to breathe in and put on her sad & guilty face, and then she knocked and entered. She had never before been to the principal’s office and she found it to be a mainly functional place, with a large desk with the principal sitting behind it, and someone she didn’t know.
As they were talking Nova, having been properly raised waited silently while they talked about stuff, she overheard something known as a “Cob” and she heard the name “Dyson sphere” having an interest in space tech (carefully concealed from view) she knew a sphere was a star with a system of colonies around it, sometimes even a shell, but that was less practical, to maximize the amount of energy derived from it.
And these guys were talking about it in the past tense but there weren’t any Dyson spheres in the galaxy… this was weird, Nova tried to listen in without “actually listening in”. And then suddenly they were finished and the stranger was introduced as “Joe Johnston”. The stranger looked at her intensely, not really a stare and she wasn’t really being measured up, but it was something in between. Then suddenly the stranger spoke, “so tell me girl late at night when you’re lying in your bed looking up at the stars, you wonder what it’d be like to fly to them and explore them is that correct?”
“Yes it is sir how did you know?” Nova asked Mister Johnston.
“For I was like you once, I was in this room in very similar circumstances about 30 years ago, Wondering what was going to happen. And what I had done to that kid that was lying there in the arts and crafts room. Tell me, did you do it? And no lame excuses you know you did it, or you didn’t.”
“Sir, I think I did” Nova said, “but I have no idea what I did.”
“What you just went through is known as an Awakening, you’ve had that idea, to quote the matrix, and “You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad” Well in this case that something isn’t the matrix it is the supernatural, WE have pulled the world over your eyes it blind the mortals from the truth, in our case there is a spoon and you’re not allowed to see it.”
“Are you trying to tell me I’m living in the fucking matrix???” Nova asked, “Okay where is that hidden camera?” Nova had always thought some stuff were just too weird to happen and when that happened most of the time you’d hear a “smile your on candid camera”, or something like that.
“Yes and No, we, mages, werewolves, vampires, and some others have blinded you from the truth, we are here and we are VERY real. But we don’t want the world to know we exist, as a vampire I once knew said “We don’t want you to know we are here, the same way the wolf doesn’t want the sheep to know he’s around. It makes our job so much easier”.
At this time Nova was really starting to look for a hidden camera,
“Now okay this as been funny where is that camera??” Nova asked.
“I can assure you Miss Carmine there is no hidden camera, and what I am telling you is quite real. Common girl we must leave now before some of those cops show up and drag you off for jail, and while the New World Order can cover this up getting you out of jail would prove more of a hassle then they think you’re worth, personally I think you might be worth the hassle and paperwork but it would take me quite a bit longer, and you don’t want to spend a night in lockup.”
Nova not accustomed to going with strangers, was slightly put off by this man’s demeanor but she had a gut feeling she could trust him, and so she followed him to his car that waited out front, the man told the driver they were going to “the barn” at which point Nova wondered for a moment what she had gotten herself into now. And she and Mister Johnston talked for the duration of the trip, it was one of those talks in which you entire world falls apart, and you realize you have been thinking of the world in 2 dimensions, or in the case of the mortals 1, they wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the arse, everyday they see “unexplainable stuff” that would be very easily explained if they’d just think outside the box. Those sounds in the night? Sure it MIGHT be a car back firing but you know better than that surely, at this hour if night? Or those news reports on that freaky serial killer a few years back that left his victims drained of blood…
And then they arrived at a barn way out in the country side, where upon they drove into it. The driver got out and closed the door and pushed a button near the door. At which point a puff of smoke was released, and the floor gently lowered its self to “the ground” of the station below this place.
It was quite deep, a good 100 feet below the surface and Nova was wondering what kind of people would live in this sort of nuclear shelter. When they got to “ground level” the man greeted some people that appeared to be his friends, and he introduced “Miss Carmine, of whom we can expect great things”. From here they went into a room where a computer terminal was located as well as something that looked like a Transporter room from star trek, Nova was instructed to get on the pad and
So did Mister Johnston (who insisted she call him Joe) and a corny “energize” scene later they were on their way, Nova found herself in a room that looked a lot like the one she had just been in, but it was like she was looking though wrong prescription glasses. It was a bit foggy and there were strange ghost like things hanging around, they looked nice enough so Nova left them in peace. Then she noted what could only be described as a space ship. “Joe” was walking towards a “boarding plank” and he told Nova that she might want to get a move on, if she didn’t want to miss the ride any ways. Nova got on and was seated in a chair where she buckled up, when suddenly the bay’s doors opened to show a way that lead to a blank wall, but right now Nova wouldn’t be surprised if that wall was just an illusion or something. So she buckled up and made a point of not touching any buttons.
Joe: “this is your captain speaking and on behalf of my crew I’d like to wish you a pleasant stay on board the Jimmy Shroud, on a one way trip to the Copernicus research station, Alpha Centauri 2, our flight time will be 24 hours, please remain seated until we clear earth orbit and the fasten seatbelt sign has been turned off.”
At which point he handed her a flask of whisky and a bag for throwing up in. “You will need the first, you might need the second but I don’t think you will… I have high hopes for you, missy.”
At which point Nova took a long gulp of the scotch and felt it burn a way down her throat. And then they were off, he was right you did need the scotch. And then they were in the earth orbit on the way to Alpha Centauri, where they’d continue her teachings.
Nova proved to be a good student acing her tests and soon she was in command of her own AUC, and she has been exploring space ever since.
Other things worth noticing:
Even though she can exist in all settings she is not immortal or anything… just so you know… Bullets will kill her, fire will burn her and explosives will blast her to bits. I just assume that whatever time line I introduce her into is just some planet where they happen to be that far along in there “evolution”.
- Her space ship: (Will not be used in RPB)
Her spaceship an AUC (or Armed Universal Cruisers) is strangely enough corvette sized. On the outside it looks like this: http://www.i-war2.com/images/navy_1st.jpg.
The ship is armed with 4 batteries of twin-linked AFC’s(Accelerated Force Cannon’s) your basic gigantic laser cannon and 2 batteries of 24 TAT’s(Targeted Anti-matter Torpedo’s)think the biggest, baddest missiles in history mostly used for shooting capital ships and the like could be used for sanitizing (read blowing up) worlds or sections of worlds. The ship is powered by two TPU’s (Tass-Powered Propulsion Units) which allow the ship to cruise along at faster than light speeds. Those engines run on Tass (“Mana” in its solid form) which is refined by the ship’s 2 huge STARs (Stellar Tass Augmentation Refinery) which harvest it from solar winds and other particles the ship may encounter. The STARs also power the iMPALA (Molecular Pigment Absorption Adapter) system, which is basically a cloaking device, and allows the ship to be in orbit without out being detected. For the rest it’s equipped with what most ships in star trek have, Holo Decks, transporters, replicators; the works.
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Some notes,
I swapped out the modern day rifle, upped the "maximum ranges" a bit since i was well under the effective ranges of modern sniper rifles (and those are below the record ranges for "longest range confirmed kill") to something more sane.
Put some additional enters in the history section and editted out some errors, might end up doing a full history rewrite for Nova 4.0.doc as she's saved
and mostly i tried to tone down on the "Color Commentary" But it's hard enough to describe beauty, let alone trying to do that while ADDING detail, but reducing the description in "sexually charged" content. I think i got a decent balance between the lot going...
Added some details (seems my picture of her personality was pretty close to what snipers actually are like
gotta love some creative googling for details like that)Unknownsamurai
Nyoh :3
Hmmm, since Crimson Wolf ain't posting atm. I'll make Vale go to grab something to bite and have his being as only company.
You are aware that Wizard is a class and Technocrat is a political affiliation, right? They're not a "race" in the slightest.
Based on the source material I based Nova on it's partly race, same way some people are born with talents for other things... Nova's born with a genetic predisposition for magic, whether or not you wish to call that a race or something is something we could debate at length. (and probably still not get anywhere) And technocrat in this case is a further specification of the "race", which would be more like a 'traditional class' I just put it down there since it seemed the logical place to further specify it.
But yes, in general (read D&D-analogous worlds) you would be correct. Hmmm... That raises an interesting question, what are her political opinions? She's texan so she's bound to be right wing...
But yes, in general (read D&D-analogous worlds) you would be correct. Hmmm... That raises an interesting question, what are her political opinions? She's texan so she's bound to be right wing...
Just because one has the talents of one, doesn't mean that it's a race. By all means and defintions of the term, Wizard always has been, and always will be, a class.
You didn't see Gandalf running around Middle-Earth shouting at the top of his lungs, "I'M OF THE WIZARD RACE!" His race was Human, and he just so happened to be a Wizard.
I agree. Besides, you're not one to admit that you made a simple mistake.
You can't be anymore wrong about that. It's a political affiliation, that's it. Now, if you had used "Technomage" instead of "Technocrat", I would have called it a Class right along with Wizard.
As I live in Texas, she would probably be a Libertarian teabagger. However, I hate all of them, so I couldn't care less.
Well i'm glad we partially agree on the matter. And while you are correct in that technocrat is in OUR world a political aspiration or ideology in the setting upon which i have based Nova (old world of darkness, Mage the Ascention to be specific) the technocracy is a confedration of technomancers and the members of that confederation are in universe referred to as technocrats.
It might be a bit confusing but just roll with it
Same way i try and roll with the at times utterly bewildering terms employed by some of the other players(for a non FF player) terminology that require me to reach for google to figure out...
Your objections have been duely noted and should i at some point feel a need to write a further revision I might incorporate them.
It might be a bit confusing but just roll with it
Same way i try and roll with the at times utterly bewildering terms employed by some of the other players(for a non FF player) terminology that require me to reach for google to figure out... Your objections have been duely noted and should i at some point feel a need to write a further revision I might incorporate them.
Take it to PM 
Id rather the conversation be taken there. And no insulting please <3
Id rather the conversation be taken there. And no insulting please <3
SIRYESSIR! (as far as i'm concearned we're done here but i am more then willing to answer any questions anyone might have)
So now to write up some more post... Need to somehow get Nova to the Dining hall in time for this announcement...
So now to write up some more post... Need to somehow get Nova to the Dining hall in time for this announcement...
Well then, by your own logic it's still a politcal affiliation and should be noted as such. I can't fathom the reasons as to why you would think it a race. Even then, if you really wanted to justify it as a race (though, it would still be a class), it would be more correct to call her a "Technomancer" (using your own terminology) rather than a Technocrat.
It's not confusing, it's wrong. Also, it's a forum based on the Final Fantasy series. Even in the title, it clearly says "Final Fantasy Forums". What did you expect? Obviously, people are going to draw some inspiration from that.It might be a bit confusing but just roll with it
They have been "duely noted" because I'm right.
I should really put up better descriptions of the school Everyone keeps calling the cafeteria a dining hall when it's just supposed to be a bunch of tables with food stands everywhere like a food court. Announcements cant be made here because there is no stage and most likely not many people will be listening.
If you want announcements post them on the message board via me or hold some meeting in the auditorium, where there are rows and rows of seats....and a stage....to use for announcements Dinner speeches are too Harry Potter for me @_@
Might get in another post today with Stella watching the fight. It's kinda boring with like 6 people just standing around watching a roof fight at night...Might make things exciting...rawr~ Pharra needs a friend but I dunno where to go >< She's just lonely at lunch lol
Everyone keeps calling the cafeteria a dining hall when it's just supposed to be a bunch of tables with food stands everywhere like a food court. Announcements cant be made here because there is no stage and most likely not many people will be listening. If you want announcements post them on the message board via me or hold some meeting in the auditorium, where there are rows and rows of seats....and a stage....to use for announcements
Dinner speeches are too Harry Potter for me @_@ Might get in another post today with Stella watching the fight. It's kinda boring with like 6 people just standing around watching a roof fight at night...Might make things exciting...rawr~ Pharra needs a friend but I dunno where to go >< She's just lonely at lunch lol
Might be a good idea yes... I was picturing something not unlike a traditional lunchroom at a school but alot bigger and with alot better food If you want me to submit some drafts or proofread or something feel free to pm me or hit me up on skype...
If you want me to submit some drafts or proofread or something feel free to pm me or hit me up on skype...