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[Double Cross] Since this system is p complex and we're all new to it, here's a plurk with overviews of how to properly use the powersets of the three sample characters.
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sailor bii
kaosblaze
BF
Also confirming that we'll all be around for game time yes?
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Anyway, Wild Card (Ran Kobayashi)
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Definitely the simplest of the three!
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As a pure-breed Chimera, your core strategy is simple: Transform to bulk up, then hit things real hard.
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Your setup at the start of a fight involves two abilities!
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The first, Complete Therianthropy, is an absolute must to fight enemy Overed, especially if you're unarmed.
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Oops disregard the last bit of that sentence, CT is just a general buff.
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Once used, it gives you an extra 4 bonus dice on all body checks, which includes physical attacks.
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HOWEVER, once this ability has been used, you can't wield any weapons other than your fists.
BF
yep, I'll be there
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Normally this would be a problem, since fists have an attack power of -5.
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Which is where power number two, Reaming Claw, comes in!
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Your most important power, it costs only 3 Encroachment and modifies your fists to have an attack power of +9 instead of -5.
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Important note about these two abilities - CT and RC both use no skill and both use a Minor Action to use.
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This means they can be combined!
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So you can pay the Encroach costs for both at the same time to gain both buffs on a single minor action.
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Once you've properly huge and freaky, you can just punch guys for massive damage without using further powers and basically do OK.
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But if you want to hit even harder, you have two tools for doing so!
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Concentrate eats 2 Encroach to widen your critical hit range from 10-10 to 8-10 on an attack, making you score super-powerful attacks more often.
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Beast's Strength eats 2 Encroach to power up your fists even further, adding another +4 damage.
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Like your transforming powers, these two abilities can be combined to get a damage bonus and a crit bonus on the same attack for 4 Encroach.
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That's the thing at the bottom of the sheet called Beast Claw Attack.
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In short: Get huge, punch guys, get huger, punch more.
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SPEEDING BULLETS (Yoko Mitsuharu)
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A more complex build! Ran only had Chimera, Yoko is a tri-breed of three different Syndromes - primarily Angel Halo and Morpheus, with a side of Neumann.
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Like Ran, Yoko has a setup power in Hundred Guns, which lets her generate a kickass gun out of thin air.
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The generated gun is a ranged weapon with +5 attack power.
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Notably, Yoko does already own a normal handgun, but it has -1 Accuracy and only +3 attack power, so her Hundred Guns generated weapon is stronger.
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once her guns are out, though, she has a lot more different degrees of bullshit she can inflict!
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Concentrate, same as Ran.
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Miniscule Dust: Pay 2 Encroach to aim more accurately and get a +6 damage bonus on an attack.
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Penetrate: Pay 3 Encroach to roll 1 less die on the attack, but ignore armor.
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Multi-Weapons: This is why it's important that Yoko has a handgun!
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She can attack with both guns on the same turn as a single attack combining both their stats, for a total of -1 Accuracy and +8 attack power.
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The thing that makes her build nuts, though
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is that ALL FOUR of those powers can be combined, in any combination!
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If you stack all four at once, you get her signature move Blinding Bullets - a guns akimbo super-accurate armor-piercing death barrage.
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All together that's 8 dice on the attack roll, critting on an 8, and doing +14 damage, ignoring armor.
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at the cost of 10% Encroachment.
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In short: Yoko shoots things exactly as murderously as she wants to at any given moment.
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NOBLE BLOOD (Emma Matsuna)
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Emma's a cross-breed, with her Syndroms being Bram Stoker (blood manipulation) and Exile (weird body horror shit).
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Like the other two, Emma has a vital prep stage in the form of Crimson Sword
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She pays X HP, up to 6 max, and generates a melee weapon with X+2 attack power.
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Burning your own HP for extra murder is kind of Bram Stoker's big gimmick.
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For further fighting, Emma has three important abilities!
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Bloody Attack is her bread-and-butter attack power, spending 2 HP and 2% Encroachment to get 3 extra dice on any attack.
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Concentrate, same as the other two.
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Elastic Arm is her weirdass Exile power, letting her spend 2% Encroachment to extend her arm to make a melee attack at any range.
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Combining the three, you get Scarlet Strike: 6% Encroachment, attack at any range with crit range 8 and +3 accuracy dice.
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Her last power, Bloody Banquet, won't be necessary for this scenario, since there aren't any big groups of enemies in it, but it lets her attack everyone she wants in an engagement at once.
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In short: Attack at any range, drain your own blood to ruin everyone's day.
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FINALLY
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One very important power you all have is Resurrect!
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It's almost impossible to kill a sufficiently motivated Overed.
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If you ever drop to 0 HP, and your Encroachment is under 100%, you can immediately use Resurrect to recover 1d10 HP.
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But doing so raises your Encroachment by 1% for each HP regained.
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So, if you overuse it, you run the real risk of turning into a monster later.
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There may not even be any combat in the first session, but. This plurk will still be here next week, I guess.
izzy.vrm
yessir, i'll be around
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Reminder that you still owe me a PB
izzy.vrm
working on it right now
izzy.vrm
remind me what time cst we're running? 4?
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izzy.vrm
nope it's 7 cst i found the original plurk
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7, yup
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male or female character?
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female
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