Chapter 23 - Dreaded Fortune, Irrational and Devoid, Flowing Alway: Part 1 - The Unforgettables: A ZeroYear litRPG
"I managed to find where the wyrm came from! It was buried in the middle of a lone mountain a few dozen miles southwest of here. Now there''s nothing left there except a huge hole," Liora commented, continuing to speak as she flew over the region from afar. "There''s a good thing about this: those serpents are territorial creatures, and since the portal is inside the region it controlled, chances are there''s absolutely nothing else around here."
Petra and Amanda concentrated on the critical initial moments of the magic to start closing the portal. At the same time, Liora completed a second, even broader, scan of the region before rejoining Petra and Amanda in the ravine. Meanwhile, Frank woke up in a medical bed in his room and received good news via comlink that they had finally managed to get rid of the wyrm. When his body was minimally restored due to his regeneration, he went down to the cargo hold and returned through the portal to join the others; Silas remained on the ship''s bridge, piloting and helping Liora to organize the sensor data.
"Hello, team! I just had nightmares about this wyrm while hearing you guys talking telepathically in my dreams. Is there any way for us to find out if it''s really dead inside Petra′s universe?" Frank asked, still walking crookedly.
"That sounds like a good thing to find out, but we''d need perception school magics to know," Amanda commented, noticing that Frank was still injured. "Frank, are you sure you''re really okay?" Amanda commented while Petra just shook her head, focused on closing the portal.
Frank winced in pain, his bones cracking loudly as he was regenerating. "Thank you for your concern, Amanda. I''m just a little tired of almost dying every time I enter a fight." Frank leaned on his legs, unable to breathe enough to speak. He shrugged off the wounds and insisted on talking, "The wyrm, guys… focus..."
"Leave the part of perceiving the wyrm to me!" Liora said, landing back from her patrol and striking a hero pose with her temporary flight power. "For now, I haven''t found anything else in the entire region. I discovered that this flying magic immensely enhanced my super speed. I covered an area almost one hundred times larger than planned. But going back to our problem with the wyrm, Frank''s rush makes sense. I had an idea to use the scanning devices pointed inside the portal. Let''s see what I can do."
"Liora, I''m going to bring some things from the ship and join you down there; I also have some creative ideas to test. The ship is almost reaching a safe position," Silas said, leaving the bridge and giving instructions to Liora''s copy.
While Silas and Liora mentally discussed what to do with their devices, Frank responded to Amanda, who was still looking at him with concern: "I''m fine! I''ve been training my regeneration these past few days, and it''ll be a matter of minutes until I''m brand new. But it''s you who seems to be in terrible condition. Surely some magic could improve that, right Amanda?" Frank stretched again, cracking his shoulders, apparently putting the bones back in place.
"Well, most healing magics kill the undead. There are, however, magics from the pollution school that could theoretically drain mana from people or drain life from the environment and convert it into mana, but I haven''t learned that school; I don''t really think it''s very cool to use that kind of thing," Amanda commented, tilting her head back.
"There''s a pollution magic school?" Frank asked, impressed. "I didn''t see anything like that on the school lists!"
"It''s a naming problem. If you learned under the Nailia tradition, they used the verb ''to wither,'' and in the ancestral tradition, the term is ''defile school.'' Just incredible names for the same thing," Amanda grumbled.
"And then they say I get too worked up about mages. Why is that?" Liora said while helping to prepare the devices along with Silas.
"Okay, but Amanda, what exactly would that magic do to heal you?" Frank asked curiously.
"Despite the name, this magic is quite simple; it drains mana from anything to the mage who casts it. It can drain mana from another mage, for example, but it''s not the most common thing to learn anywhere, much less in the world of the dead, because if used against the Suma, this magic could actually kill us. It''s a controlled teaching school in my city, and it used to be in Metropolis as well," Amanda commented.
"I see, but then, theoretically, if something pumps you up with mana, then everything would be okay, right?" Frank asked, having creative ideas.
"Uh… yes, I think. Among the Suma, in an emergency, we sometimes share our mana; it would be similar to a blood transfusion among the living," Amanda said while Silas and Liora were utterly focused on their devices.
Petra telepathically: "Team, let''s focus on our problem here. If this wyrm is territorial, as Liora said, and assuming it survived inside, it must be trying to come back." Silas: "Yes, the good news is that I managed to get practically all the sensors working with readings from inside the portal; the bad news is that the readings don''t make the slightest sense." Liora: "Amanda, from the sensor readings we have, the gravitational force on the other side of the portal seems a little weaker, and thermodynamics seem quite altered by the magic. Is that possible?" Amanda: "It''s not common, but it is possible. From what I''m observing, all this metallic material coming out of the portal is magical; some effect probably accompanies this magic. I suggest analyzing the metal that''s coming out as well!" Silas said as he began connecting other types of sensors: "Good idea, this will only take a few minutes!"
Frank, after reflecting for a moment, said, "Petra''s right about the wyrm; if it returns, Amanda will be our best bet for escaping, but under these conditions, it won''t be possible. I thought of using my mana like we enchanted each other in combat with Amanda to see if it would work. What do you think?"
"I appreciate your concern. I could only perform one more magic at maximum power before returning to the World of the Dead in my current condition. If you want to test your idea, I wouldn''t mind. What I do know is that your regeneration power doesn''t work very well if a Suma trains it, but mana transfer doesn''t seem to be a problem." Amanda mused, happy with Frank''s empathy.
Without delay, Frank enchanted Amanda one time after another in the same way it was described in the Vabala about how to use mana wildly but repeated times in sequence. This worked sufficiently well; in a matter of minutes, Amanda was completely healed and full of life, as much as an undead could be.
"Wow! Thank you so much, Frank; I''m much better now!" Amanda said, genuinely happy with the result.
Petra commented, "I have to admit, Frank, your ideas work much better than mine when it comes to magic. And we still have to decide what to do after I close this portal."
"Well, team, Silas and I finished the preliminary analyses. It''s all bizarre, but the news seems good. The most important thing is that there''s no sign of the wyrm on the other side!" Liora said mentally. "The flow of molten metal is completely chaotic and moves at an extreme speed; even if the wyrm is alive on the other side, I don''t think it can see anything inside using normal senses."
"Well, then we can be a little more at ease, at least!" Petra said, relieved, preparing for a long night in the ravine.
Silas said calmly, "And the material coming out of the portal is fascinating. I''m going to take some samples to make technology with it. It happens that this metal will stay hot for a long time; the mana inside decays and transforms into heat, and it''s possible to restore this effect using an electric current. It works like a mana-to-heat battery. According to my calculations, if left scattered around the environment as it is now, the temperature should stabilize slightly below the boiling point of water, with a half-life of mana, let''s say, on the order of tens of trillions of Gate years for half of the magical material to become normal metal."
“It''s a good idea to try throwing a Vo portal into this universe to collect this material more easily, right?” Petra suggested.
"We can do the same as we did with the wyrm," Frank added. "I activate one of your stones with mana, Petra, and Silas throws it inside with his ray!"
"Let''s do it!" Silas said, already preparing to send another one of his rays into the portal, now aiming at the edges around the plug that Amanda had created as a contingency with her other portal. "There are still more interesting things about this universe that we''re trying to discover now from the data," Silas said, looking at Liora when Petra interrupted him.
"Frank! I remembered something important! Put the dark red pebble inside this portal, not the pink one! Okay?" Petra warned.
"Yes, Petra. This one?" Frank asked, holding up the pebble and showing it to Petra before sending it to Silas. Petra nodded affirmatively. "Opening a portal to this universe by mistake would be an unforgettable moment!" Frank thought, laughing to himself telepathically. Petra agreed, smiling.
While Silas sent the enchanted pebble into the metal inferno with his ray, Liora continued to speak. "Well, gravity works differently inside, and if I''m not mistaken in my calculations, everything indicates that this new universe is very large, maybe infinite."
Petra paused to think and asked, "How in the world did you realize that, Liora? Does any light get through the metal?"
To which Liora replied, "Not light. It happens that the immense flows of metal inside never collapse into black holes due to the different gravity, which makes space more rigid in relation to the mass of matter; at least, I think so. But even with this different gravity, all this matter moving in colossal blocks creates gravitational waves with local maxima and minima. In addition to the largest peaks, smaller noises were detected, with smaller gravitational wave crests moving in all directions, as well as a granularity as small as I could detect with my devices. I''m assuming that the smaller crests are a reflection of more distant metal flows in other directions; this pattern suggests a vast universe, or even infinite if the crests are truly infinitesimal."
"Wow! So we have an infinite source of molten magical metal; is that right?" Petra exclaimed.
"It seems that''s right!" Silas commented after successfully throwing the pebble into the portal. "Now, let''s decide what to do."
"Well, I''m going to close this portal, and we''ll get out of here!" Petra concluded.
"Or maybe not. Without the wyrm, even with the light and heat spreading, for Gate''s proportions, this effect is encapsulated in this location. We can take advantage of this and stay here for a few days for training. I don''t think anything coexisted with that wyrm; if there had been, with all this activity, it would have certainly already appeared," Liora suggested.
After a short silence for thoughts, Amanda spoke. "It''s a risk because, in the middle of Gate''s eternal night, this will attract attention from things far away, so the time we''ll have without visitors will be proportional to the speed of whatever is supposedly arriving. I suggest considering Petra''s idea and trying to access another universe as soon as possible."
Everyone was impressed by Amanda''s proposal. Petra said, "I don''t know if it''s a good idea to try this magic again now; I must have the opposite of that luck power for magic."
"Let''s do this differently, Petra. I can take you to one of my empty private universes, and you perform your Va magic from inside. I don''t offer my universe for you to train inside for a long time because you''re being pursued, and I use it for my classes," Amanda suggested.
"Are you sure about this, Amanda? You''ve already helped us a lot, and if I go in, the Golems could also follow me into your private universe when they get here!" Petra commented.
"I know, but I''ll move the entry point later. If the Golems do enter, I''ll stay outside waiting, and from what I understood, this will still take quite a while, right?" Amanda asked.
"More than 2000 days. We have a vehicle tracking them," Liora replied. "If you''re going to do this with Petra, I''ll share the Golems'' estimated arrival time via network; we update it automatically."
"Well, I''d be comfortable following this plan as soon as possible after Petra finishes closing the portal and rests tonight!" Amanda suggested.
"That sounds like a good plan!" Silas replied thoughtfully. "I still need a day to finish the network security device, and then I''ll start other projects, maybe already using this new material."
"In four days, I''m going to Rocatrista, and it would be great to use that time to prepare ourselves," Frank commented. "If this place is safe, even if only for a few days, it will be enough until Petra gets access to a more friendly universe."
Petra, restless, focused on her magic while listening to the terrain''s devastation from the other side of the portal increase whenever the flow jammed as a larger part solidified along the way. She used telepathy to avoid competing with the noise of the metal storms and explosions: "Team, I agree with this plan, but right now, I''m feeling guilty about putting everyone''s lives at risk. If I had trained better, maybe the result would have been different…"
"Don''t beat yourself up about it, Petra," Liora replied immediately. "The decisions were collective, and we''re doing everything in a far-from-ideal situation."
"We have to learn to play with the cards we have, Petra. I can''t say whether other options wouldn''t have had even worse results," Silas added calmly. "Besides, this metal universe of yours seems like it will be far more useful than it appears right now."
Amanda also said mentally, "Things will work out; you need to be patient. As I tell my students, magic isn''t hard science for some reason; not all the elements are under our control."
"We''re doing the right thing, and this is far from over," Frank commented, better understanding what it meant to be a mage''s apprentice.
Time passes in mental silence, contrasting with the end-of-the-world sounds that insist on altering Gate''s landscape for long hours. Silas, Liora, and Frank went to the top of a nearby taller mountain to better observe the region in case something approached and set up a mobile control post inside the aircar to coordinate the various sensors that had been spread throughout the region. Meanwhile, Petra and Amanda remained beside the portal, chatting animatedly and planning how to make the next portal.
From the top of the nearby mountain, Silas and Frank barely needed to use the life support devices to maintain a pleasant temperature. However, from time to time, they smelled a pungent odor of what seemed to be chlorine, and at these moments, the life support devices in their clothing beeped and created an isolated atmosphere around them.
Liora noticed what was happening and, with her shiny green eyes, explained: "These are sporadic concentrations of osmium tetroxide. It has a pungent smell and is quite toxic to humans and ebex. However, the reactions with this magical osmium that emits heat aren''t very stable; they only concentrate due to the large quantities of material coming out of the portal. Our devices filter this easily; nothing to worry about."
"Nothing to worry about…" Frank said, smiling. "This is crazy; a novice mage causing such an impact on the world."
"We''re under constant pressure, and in Gate, that means our potential grows much faster, but not necessarily the control," Silas commented, rolling his eyes at Frank. "But even so, Petra''s magic was extraordinary; Amanda even considered helping Petra further with those portal magics."
"Do you think this will be a problem?" Frank scratched his head. "I mean, especially a problem for Amanda herself."
"Generally, it''s Petra who''s the most paranoid about outsiders. Amanda took a while to perceive the situation; perhaps Mosh spoke well of us or of our idea of finding Seneca. But anyway, she seems to have good motivations, at least. As for it being a problem for her, that will depend on how things heat up in Metropolis," Liora commented, remembering the previous night.
"Well, perhaps Amanda has other business here, but I wouldn''t mind if she decided to stay with us for a while," Silas said, stretching his arms to feel the warm air of the environment better.
"That would be great!" Frank smiled, feeling the same ambient warmth enveloping him like the heat of a beach—a sensation he was already beginning to forget. The molten metal illuminated the entire region like a sunset. Frank continued, "If this metal comes from an infinite universe, it could be used to transform all of Gate into a much more pleasant place."
"Ha, ha! That''s a nice dream. Among many other things that could be done with it, that would be a quick, cheap, and almost permanent way to improve the light and heat city towers," Silas commented with some perplexity. "Sometimes I think about returning to my village and disappearing to some remote place, living a simpler life. But that''s just an illusion—a dangerous illusion."
"We could go to a place far from the Golems and build our own city on top of an isolated monolithic plate or maybe even inside one of Petra''s universes. Let''s forget Biggus and Seneca and live peacefully for a few years until the rest of the world catches fire; with a little luck, we''ll stay alive for a long time…" Liora provoked, without any conviction in what she was saying.
"Maybe, Liora. Since I came here, I''ve started to think that I didn''t live my life on Earth. I burned my time running away from ghosts in conflicts that haunted me but weren''t mine. I took too long, and when I realized it, it was too late," Frank replied, kicking a pebble down the mountain. "What a mess! It''s like sticking your head in a hole and leaving what''s left of the world I was born in at the mercy of a madman like Biggus; it would be fair revenge for the treatment I always had when I was alive."
Silas looked at Frank with one eye narrowed, better perceiving Frank''s hesitation to speak more about his past on Earth. He said, "Most of the people revived in Gate, after a while, have a similar feeling. Frank, the ''escape from everything'' card will soon be on the table. If you want to play it, nobody will criticize you."
Frank laughed, "Nobody except myself." Frank crossed his arms. "I''ve already played that card, Silas; maybe someone played it for me. But now, that hardly matters. I can make new mistakes, but at least I''ll try not to make the same old ones."
"On the day we found the Vabala, maybe you thought a little differently, Frank. What made you change your mind?" Liora asked.
Frank paused to remember and shrugged. "I don''t know, Liora. But you''re right; maybe I am finding my place in this crazy world. Or just a less bad place, or maybe, after all, I still have some patriotism left that moves me to try to help my fellow earthlings who have no way of defending themselves. Anyway, I''m with you guys until the end of this."
Liora said determinedly, "Today, I would miss you if you left, Frank. But now that the subject has come up, the end of all this means preventing your Earth from disappearing from existence, and that will already be almost impossible. If we succeed, I''ll go after Biggus, but I''ll go alone, and Silas will return to his village to try to help those who survived."
"Well, we''ll see when the time comes, but yes, Seneca first," Frank replied, returning to look at the explosions on the horizon.
"I don''t even know what''s left of my past, Liora; maybe there''s no place for me to go back to," Silas replied. "But to act against Biggus, let''s proceed with caution; we certainly won''t be alone against a tyrant. In Metropolis, we lived in a bubble; we don''t even understand how he managed to get so many allies."
"One thing at a time, but why don''t we all help Silas''s village after we solve Seneca''s problem?" Frank suggested.
Silas lowered his eyes and placed a hand on his forehead, saying, "I appreciate the concern, but it''s like this, Frank. We were nomads, and when things got terrible in the village, they sent me and my uncle to one of the Eastern capitals, and then we managed to spend the resources to try our luck in Metropolis. A short time after arriving in Metropolis, we broke all contact with our village, and as soon as I got settled in the city, my uncle returned to the East alone, making me promise that I would never go after him; I should wait for him to find me when it was safe. That was almost five years ago, and nothing so far."
"There are no communicators to find out what happened?" Frank asked. "Or magic? I mean, how is this possible?"
Silas sat on a stone and began to speak. "So, Frank, after the cataclysm, a large part of the younger population was marginalized, and this wasn''t something that only occurred in New Metropolis."
Frank and Liora turned to Silas and listened silently as he continued. "Amidst the chaos, everything began to matter in deciding each person''s role in society, and the ebex were among the first to be set aside from any societal role other than practically that of slaves. The taboo already existed for a long time but was previously veiled. The nomadic ebex villages in the East were formed like this, from ostracized refugees who competed among themselves to get some work in the border regions, but always with insufficient resources for mere subsistence. Thus, we were forced to try to survive with practically nothing. My village had about 20 people and received food from the capital only when it managed to fight some Gate creatures in the big city perimeter."
Silas looked up at the sky as if he remembered some pain and continued to talk about his past: "I had an elder sister named Jorgia who managed to leave the village to work as security on a mission paid directly by Metropolis. She wasn''t my blood sister, but she decided to forget her past and live again around the same time I was born, so we effectively grew up together. Jorgia disappeared on a mission after a few months; we never knew what happened."
Silas stopped speaking, and everyone felt a profound mental pain through the telepathic magic. Silas closed his eyes as his past came back to haunt him. But this time, he was awake. Liora, noticing something was wrong, asked, "Everything okay, Silas? You don''t need to say anything more."
Silas interrupted Liora with a hand gesture, asking them to wait while he lifted his head and began to look at the sky with eyes that seemed like mirrors. He remained silent, listening to the metal sounds for a long time, Liora and Frank joining him.
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Name: Silas "Archon" Cade</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Species: Ebex</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">XP: 65+3 / 3</td>
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<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Powers</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Life</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 1</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Energy</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 5</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Resistance (ebex)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 1</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Technique</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 26</td>
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<tr>
<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Unknowledge (ebex)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 2</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Superior Technology: Architect</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 30</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Natural Combined Armor (ebex)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Know it all (party)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
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<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Skills</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Traditional Dancing (Dex) +2</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Mathematics (Int) +4</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Computer Engineering (Tech) +4</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Kung fu (Res) +4 (fixed - know it all) </td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
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<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Essence: Reality +4</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Days: 9223(1)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Equipment</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Superior safety clothes (AC 3)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Northern Valley Shielded Bracers (1 parry), resized</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Silas′ Flexoclava, Damage: d12, melee, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produces 1TP / turn (quirk: Silas got +3 hit bonus when using it)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Other</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">3 credits on Paradiso account</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">11375 spirit credits on PCU</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">City of the Dead revival service insurance 1x</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Survival kit (food cube, shelter cube)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Flight surveillance drones (1x, normal tech)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Airbike, speed +4 (boosted), flight (normal tech): Following 4 Golens</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Aircar, perception +4 (boosted), flight (normal tech)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">
Schrogae 5-engine cargo airship: life support +4, capacity +7, maneuver +7, speed up +7, flight (.01c normal tech), space flight (.5c sub-light, normal tech), stealth +3(superior tech 1000/1000), inertial stabilizer +4, gravity engine +7, Energy cells battery x10 (superior tech, 10 TP charge, 100/100), Advanced Auto-Repair (superior tech, prototype bonus+, 20/20, consume 2 TP to regen 20 HP, or make 2 rolls to repair devices except for berserker mode+), Double-layered full armor (superior tech, AC 4, 200/200), 2x Energy positional shields (superior tech, 2 parry, 500/500), Structures (superior tech, 2000/2000 HP, 2000/2000), long-range scan +2 (superior tech, 1000/1000), short-range communicators +2(superior tech, 100/100),
2x turret 9th sentinel artillery/ranged (2/2) (superior tech, 120 fixed, Art.Rng., Hit: Dex/Tech, infinite ammo, 5000/5000),
Main gun - plasma cannon 5th generation shooter x4 (1/4) (superior tech, 10, Rng., Hit: Dex, infinite ammo, 6400/6400),
*berserker mode[*non-newtonian liquid atmosphere +4 (10000/10000), *tech meld interface 4x Tech/Dex/Str/Res (160000/160000), *8th circle retro-plasma saber x4 (2d12+1, Mle., Hit: Dex, infinite ammo, 10000/10000), *Avatar AI (superior tech, all Atts+4, 90000/90000)]
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Name: Liora “Stardust” Gorgath</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Species: Oioioi</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">XP: 64+3 / 3</td>
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<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Powers</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Life</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 2</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Energy</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 6</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Dexterity</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 55</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Shardify (oioioi)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 1</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Superior Technology Network (oioioi)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
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<tr>
<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Structural (oioioi)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Know it all (party)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Skills</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Aerolito′s Dojo Training (Dex) +4</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Informatics (Wis) +4</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Streetwise (Cha) +4</td>
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<tr>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Kung fu (Res) +4 (fixed - know it all) </td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
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<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Essence: Reality +4</td>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Days: 8668 (1)</td>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Equipment</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Double-trouble (5), ranged, hit: Dex, 2TP\turn, prototype (quirk: +3 hit when shooting twice a turn)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Other</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Secure private network nano-connector Mk1: enables connection with Mag1 safety</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">2 credits on Paradiso account</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">11375 spirit credits on PCU</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">City of the Dead revival service insurance 1x</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Survival kit (fuel cube, shelter cube)</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Name: Petra "Warden" Somerson</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Species: Human</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">XP: 63+3 / 3</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Life</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 12</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Mana</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 5</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Strength</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 1</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Resistance</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 30</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Wisdom</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 5</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Constitution</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 5</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Spellcasting</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 5</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Aerolito′s Dojo Training (Res) +4</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Shooting (Dex) +4</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Military Discipline (Mor) +4</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Tang Soo Do (Str) +4 (fixed - know it all)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">School of Transport(v_) (Wis) +2 34/100</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
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<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Essence: Reality +4</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Days: 5337 (1)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Equipment</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">11375 spirit credits on PCU</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">City of the Dead revival service insurance 1x</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Flexoclava, Damage: d12, melee, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produce 1TP / turn</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Sci-lab jacket (AC 3), regen, prototype (quirk: AC 2 to magical defense)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Northern Valley Shielded Bracers (1 parry)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Other</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Survival kit (food cube, shelter cube)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Trained Magic</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">(vo) The Door of Returning: Enchant a stone to serve as an anchor; a mage can have up to Mag stones enchanted at the same time. After being enchanted, at any time, the mage can open or close a flat circular immobile portal of up to Mag Km in radius at a distance of ~10 meters from this stone; the mage chooses, for each portal entry, if the portal is one-way, two-ways, one-side, or both-sides at will, need 1 action to change those parameters. When the portal near the stone opens, at the same time, this spell also opens an identical-sized portal at a distance of ~10 meters from the mage who cast this; those portals are spatial distortions and connect the two places; this effect ignores everything. The portal takes approximately 1 minute to open or close entirely for each Km in radius (minimum of 5 seconds or 1 action); the spell consumes mana (Mag MP) only to enchant the stone, and only actions are spent to open or close each of the portals. For 1 MP cost, the mage can make the stone ethereal and meld it with any inanimate object or terrain, permanently placing the stone anchor on its melded target. Each portal pair can have different colors, chosen by the mage at the casting time. If the mage tries to force a closing door upon an object/target crossing the portals to damage it (the mage can always bring some stones already enchanted and open/close local portal pairs at will, both at ~10 meters from the mage, on melee range), it must roll Wis(or Tech) vs. Dex to hit the target; on a successful hit, the portal grapples the target (Str vs. Wis roll to break free, grappled targets must expend one action for each try to fight the portal). The portal does Mag+Wis, crushing magical damage each turn until it breaks the grappled target and closes. If the mage uses any number of portals at the same time, puts one portal inside another, opens portals crossing entry and exit points, or makes any creative combination of portals to split or smash targets, the result may change, but hit rolls and damage totals caused solely by the portals apply the same way and do not stack. Range: You must touch the stone to enchant it; after that, ~10 meters to open/close portals. The distance between paired portals is infinite (the distance between the mage and the anchor). Target: One stone, or at an extra 1MP cost, any inanimate object or location melding the stone into it. Duration: Infinite on every instance, even in extreme cases where the mage dies, the portals remain in the last state forever since no mana is needed to maintain those (the portals may remain opened forever), but only the mage can modify them (including opening/closing). Tags: Enchantment, Disenchant (Mag MP, must touch the stone or place)</td>
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(va) Fiat Lux: Every time this magic spell is cast, one pocket universe is accessed by the mage over an infinite range of options. One and only one mage may first access each of those pocket universes using this spell, and any other power could not first access those universes in any other way nor even gather any information about them. Still, after the link is made, other forms of contact could be implemented using any other power or tool available for such things, but only after the first contact (after the spell is cast successfully). All rational beings, dead or alive, that ever existed in that pocket universe are linked to Gate and Umbra after the first contact and could be brought back to life as usual. This means that if the pocket universe once supported rational life, access to this pocket universe could leak in spite of the mage that first opens a portal to it. To define the overall parameters of each universe, 3 rolls will be made: the first roll is entirely random, a chaos roll (d20) that modifies the rolled entry every time this spell is cast. The second roll is a Luck roll for control (the mage''s overall intention with that spell), and usually, this is the most crucial roll for this spell. The third and last roll is another chaos roll (d20) that modifies the entry when it is cast, but this time, it improves or modifies the universe parameters based on Magnitude. As this magic nature is a mix of balance and chaos essences, the effects could never be controlled the way most of the other spells are. A mage can only open such portals up to Wisdom''s different universes, and once the connection is made the first time, it is perpetual and permanent; this effect ignores everything, so if the mage wants to open portals to new universes and is already at its limits, the mage needs to train Wisdom before doing so. To open a single portal, the mage needs to spend the total mana cost (Mag) at the casting start, and it takes at least 8 hours to finish casting it. During all this time, the mage can do nothing else and must always be touching the portal; failing to do so makes the spell fail, and the mage must restart it all over again; the mage may need a Constitution roll vs. Mag to not fall unconscious after each casting. The portal is a perfect circle of (Magnitude + Wisdom) Kilometers radius that the mage positions at the start of the casting (usually, the mage sits on a wide-open area, and the portal starts to grow in size upwards, it reaches maximum size in minutes, shortly afterward wild magic effects and visuals start to react with the portal during the entire process making an ominous view, giving faint hints of what the results may be when it is finished). It is always a one-side portal (hot face always facing the mage to open, and the cold face to close) and a two-way (mage universe and pocket universe in-out connection). Besides the fantastic visual effects, the portal does not interact with reality in both universes until the casting ends. The cold side of the portal is inert on both openings (mages universe and new universe openings). Suppose a strong force starts to do significant damage to the cold side (more than 10 x Mag damage). In that case, it starts to bend the portal, making bubbles of space that, when collapsed, lead to the other side of the portal, but inside the same universe, any universe travel may be done only through the hot side. When the spellcasting finishes, it opens on both universes on an explosion of magic (and maybe an explosion of something else). If the mage remains conscious, it has 1 turn (5~6 seconds) after the casting ends to do something before it takes effect and the portal opens on an explosion. The mage has only this time to figure out what happens (Wis roll vs. Mag) and react somehow, but the mage may not undo this spell at that point. To close the portal, the mage must spend mana and time and do the same ritual, touching the portal from the other inactive side to close it. While this spell is being cast to close the portal (at least 8 hours), the portal remains fully open, connecting the two universes; even after closing the portal, the Umbra and any other kind of interaction cannot be undone. Every time the mage casts this magic, it needs to choose to open the portal to any previous universe he opened before or open it to a new universe, if it is possible. The minimum space size of each universe accessed with this spell is ~(Mag + Wis) Light-Gate-Years. Range: Melee, the mage must touch the portal all the time. Duration: Infinite (can be closed and opened again to the same universe). Tags: Permanent effect, chaos magic, ignore all.
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(vo) Light Green - Space observatory near the Tempus Mountain.
(vo) Fire-red - Heavy Metal Infinity Universe, near the entry point.
(vo) Pinky-red - with Petra
(vo) Deep-blue - cargo door of The Unforgettables schrogae ship.
(vo) Pale-white - with Petra
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(va) Heavy Metal Infinity, Magnitude 1: An utterly inhabitable universe with tilted physics and very weak gravity force, it is filled with an infinite quantity of heavy metal(primarily liquid and vapor steel, but very rich in Tungsten, Osmiun, and Iridium) lava and vapor at 2100K..4200K temperature range. When the portal is open, a constant flow of hot lava jets out of the portal in a dozen-kilometers-long gush until it eventually jams, which may take years and may make the process of closing it complex because the jam could disrupt the other side if the mage remains near the ground. The lava deals (1d12+1)x3 physical damage on everything it touches in a wide area, raising the damage dice by "1" every turn up to the maximum damage (39 damage every turn). Anyone caught by the lava needs to roll Str vs. 3 to take any physical action (swimming is possible for Str 6+, if solidified digging is possible at Str 21+). 1st roll: "6": Fire, heat and metal, wild elemental universe, thermodynamics, and gravity may differ. 2nd roll: "roll result -17": (double critical failure, a mage could not control anything, the effect is dangerous, extra dangerous side effects at first time casting). 3rd roll: "19" The universe is infinite in size. Any effects related to this universe cause +1(Mag) base damage (weapons done with this metal have this extraordinary bonus and the weapon uses heat to cause damage). And any physical, earth, fire, or heat effects deal an additional +30 Damage only when inside the Heavy Metal Infinity universe (base: 30 x Mag damage).
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<td style="width: 33.252%">Name: Frank "Firebreaker" Summers</td>
<td style="width: 33.4146%">Species: Human</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">XP: 63+3 / 3</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Life</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 3</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Mana</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 2</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Willpower</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 2</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Strength</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 31</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Dexterity</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 15</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Intelligence</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 5</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Charisma</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 1</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Super-Constitution</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 2</td>
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<td style="width: 66.6667%" colspan="2">Spellcasting</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Magnitude 2</td>
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<td style="width: 33.252%">Aerolito′s Dojo Training (Dex) +4</td>
<td style="width: 33.4146%">Bar Politics (Int) +4</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Power Drinking (Res) +4</td>
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<td style="width: 33.252%">Drunken Fighting (Str) +4 (fixed - know it all)</td>
<td style="width: 33.4146%">School of Communication (l_) (Int) +2 56/100</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">-</td>
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<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="3">Essence: Balance +4</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Days: 5052 (1)</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Equipment</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">11375 spirit credits on PCU</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">City of the Dead revival service insurance 1x</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Dual-ray trigger happy riffle (5), ranged, hit: Dex, 2TP\turn</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Ebexian Flexoclava (d12), melee, hit:Dex</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Other</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Survival kit (food cube, shelter cube)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Vabala, complete, open</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Northern Valley Shielded Bracers (1 parry) 2x</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Northern Valley Guard Armor (AC 2) 2x</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">Northern Valley Stun Rifle (2), hit: Dex, dam: Dex, ranged, non-lethal option, unlimited ammo 4x</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="3">Trained Magic</td>
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(lu) Unforgettables, Assemble! Enchant with telepathy and sharing perception up to Int targets (Int+1 for the Unforgettables party only) simultaneously, enchanted beings opt to turn on and off this power at will at no cost or to filter it as desired. Grants a circumstantial bonus of +Mag on mobility rolls and can share skills to make rolls using the highest within the group. Targets: Mag targets each casting. Range: Indirect perception (only for enchanting or disenchanting; after that, the range is infinite and ignores all). Duration: infinite. Tags: Enchantment, Disenchant (no cost, at will)
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3"> (lo) Pub Proxy Projection: Enchant one location so that you can hear/see/taste and speak/be seen as if you were present. You can keep enchanted up to Mag locations simultaneously. You make an Int roll for accuracy (with a +3 bonus for any pub). Range: Knowledge. Targets: A point in relative space and maximum radius of (Int + Mag) meters, expend mana to cast and expand radius if needed. Duration: infinite Tags: Enchantment, Disenchant (no cost, at will)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="3">(lu) Self (Frank): Str +4, Res + 4, Dex + 4, Int +4
(lu) Liora: Wis +4, Cha +4
(lu) Silas: Tech +4
(lu) Petra: Mor +4
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(lo) Rokatrista Bar "Taco′Bout Trouble Tavern" aka "Triple Ts," Gate, Northern Edge Region
(lo) Petra′s Heat Cliffs, still have no Bars, Gate, North region of the Kings Mountain
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">People on development</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Silas</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">30 research/day</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">People on prototyping</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Silas</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">60 research/day</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">People on production</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Silas, Liora (1 copy)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">61 research/day</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Repair rate</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%"> </td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">600 / day</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Flexoclava</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Foundation melee weapon + 1x internal energy generator</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">20 / 20 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Sci-lab jacket</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Foundation main protector + regeneration</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">20 / 20 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Dual-ray trigger happy riffle</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Foundation ranged weapon + energy(2)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">30 / 30 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Mister Snoop-Sentry, the 1st</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Network sentinel of 1st anti-horror</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">10 / 10 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Mister Snoop-Sentry, the 2nd</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Network sentinel of 2nd anti-horror</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">20 / 20 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">1st modified Flexoclava +5Fire</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Melee weapon of 1st circle, +3x internal energy generator</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">5 / 30 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">2nd modified Flexoclava +5Fire</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Melee weapon of 2nd circle, +3x internal energy generator</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">0 / 50 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Silas′ Flexoclava</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Damage: d12, melee, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produce 1TP / turn (quirk: Silas got +3 hit bonus when using it)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">20 / 20 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Sci-lab jacket of disbelief</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">AC:3, regenerate (quirk: AC:2 for magical defense)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">20 / 20 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Double-trouble</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Damage: 5, ranged, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produces 2TP\turn (quirk: +3 hit when shooting twice a turn)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">30 / 30 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Mister Snoop-Sentry, the 1st</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Nullify: hacking mag 1, bonus roll: +3 (quirk: on single failure, delay hacking in 1 turn and warns on comlink)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">10 / 10 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Mister Snoop-Sentry, the 2nd</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Nullify: hacking mag 2, bonus roll: +6 (quirk: on single failure, delay hacking in 1 turn and warns on comlink)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">20 / 20 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Stone Bastion Flexoclava +5Fire</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Damage: d12+1, melee, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produces 3TP / turn (quirk: Petra can free-parry one extra blow against herself every turn, totaling 2 free parries for attacks against her, and one parry against any target committing her action as usual)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">10 / 30 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Flametongue Flexoclava +5Fire</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Damage: 2d6+1, melee, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produces 3TP / turn (quirk: Frank has a +9 fix damage modifier if he ignites it using mana wildly)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">0 / 50 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Flexoclava (complete: 2x)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Damage: d12, melee, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produce 1TP / turn</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">20 / 40 Research</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%">Dual-ray trigger happy riffle (complete: 1x)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">Damage: 5, ranged, Hit: Dex, consumes 1TP / successful hit, produce 2TP\turn</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%">30 / 30 Research</td>
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<td style="text-align: center; width: 100%" colspan="10">The Unforgettables Assembly (Milestones 5/2)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="10">Maneuver: 31+6 (condition: Firebreaker on vanguard)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="10">Perception: 5+4 (condition: Warden on perception range)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="10">Tactical Insight: 5+4 (condition: Firebreaker on perception range)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="10">Hacking defense: 26 + 10</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="10">Vanguard: Firebreaker, Warden</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="10">Ranged: Stardust</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: left; width: 100%" colspan="10">Artillery: Archon</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; text-align: center" colspan="10">Combat Totals</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">Char-action</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%; text-align: center">life</td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%; text-align: center">aural</td>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">hit</td>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">dam</td>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">def</td>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">mdef</td>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">dodge</td>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">TP cost</td>
<td style="width: 10%; text-align: center">extra</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Warden</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%">120 / 120
Umbra: -50</td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%">MP 5/5</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">90</td>
<td style="width: 10%">10</td>
<td style="width: 10%">0+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">regen 5/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">War - melee</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">0+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">1(d12+1)+5</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">War - parry</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">30+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">30(d12+2)+5</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-3</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Firebreaker</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%">30 / 30
Umbra: -20</td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%">WP 2/2
MP 2/2</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">0</td>
<td style="width: 10%">0</td>
<td style="width: 10%">15+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">regen 2/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Fir - melee</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">15+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">31(d12)</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-1</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Fir - melee TF2</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">5+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">31(d12)</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-1</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Fir - brawl</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">31+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">31(d4)</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">bare hands</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Fir - brawl TF2</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">21+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">31(d4)</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">bare hands</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Fir - ranged</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">15+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">75</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Fir - ranged TF2</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">5+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">75</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Stardust</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%">20 / 20
Umbra: -1</td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%">TP 6/6</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">0</td>
<td style="width: 10%">0</td>
<td style="width: 10%">55+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Stardust (self)</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%">+10X</td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X</td>
<td style="width: 10%">reaction</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Star - ranged</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">55+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">275</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Star - ranged TF2</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">45+7</td>
<td style="width: 10%">275</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Star - ranged TF3</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">35+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">275</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Star - ranged TF4</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">25+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">275</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Star - ranged TF5</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">15+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">275</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Star - ranged TF6</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">5+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">275</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-2</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Star - Blast (rng)</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">55+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X(d6)</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X</td>
<td style="width: 10%">push</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Archon</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%">10 / 10
Umbra: -1</td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%">TP 5/5</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">5</td>
<td style="width: 10%">0</td>
<td style="width: 10%">0+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Arch - melee</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">0+7</td>
<td style="width: 10%">1</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-1</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Arch - parry</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">1+7</td>
<td style="width: 10%">1(d12+1)</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X-1</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X hit/t</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Arch - Blast(art)</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">26+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">X(d6)</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X</td>
<td style="width: 10%">push</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 10%">Arch - Nova(mle)</td>
<td style="width: 10.0813%"> </td>
<td style="width: 9.9187%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">26+4</td>
<td style="width: 10%">2X</td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%"> </td>
<td style="width: 10%">X</td>
<td style="width: 10%">all targets</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>