Futuristic Splicers - I Am Legion - Character Thread

[Sherwood]

All Attributes/Hit Points/Bio-E etc. will either be rolled in the OOC Thread using the on-site dice roller or by me using my own dice. Your choice.

Roll 4d6 for all Attributes, rerolling '1s' until there are no more. If your result is a 16-18, you add in 1d6. If that extra die is also a '6', roll one more d6 for a potential starting value of 30 before the addition of any skills.

Good or Selfish Alignments only. No Evil Alignments allowed.

As you level up, you can add one new skill starting at a level one proficiency.

Everyone gets the Skill Package of Basic Military for free. If your OCC already gets that, you can select another Package.

 

[Sherwood]

Martial Art styles that are allowed to be taken at the cost of one skill above and beyond the standard HtH Martial Arts.

Spoiler: Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do
Version developed by Dannigan

Character Bonuses
Add 2 to I.Q.
Add 3 to P.P.
Add 2 to P.S.
Add 2 to P.E.

Attacks per Melee: 3
Escape Moves: Roll, Maintain Balance, Breakfall.
Basic Defenses: Parry, Dodge, Automatic Parry.
Advanced Defenses: Combination Parry/Attack.
Hand Attacks: Strike (d6), Backhand (d6), Elbow (d6), Fingertip Attack (1 point), Forearm (d6), Palm Strike (d6), Power Punch (double-damage, counts as two attacks), Uppercut (d10).
Foot Attacks: Kick (d8), Crescent Kick (d10), Knee (d6), Reverse Turning Kick (Combination Dodge/Kick, 2d6 damage, 1/round), Roundhouse Kick (3d6), Side Kick (d10), Snap Kick (d6), Trip/Hook (no damage, causes knockdown, cannot be parried).
Jumping Attacks: Jump Kick (d8 + Critical Strike), Flying Jump Kick (d10 + Critical Strike).
Special Attacks: Body Flip/Throw, Choke, plus...
- Bite (grappling range only. 1-2 damage + 1/2 strength bonus [maximum +3]. Opponent must Save vs. Pain [14] or release hold/lock).
- Eye-flick (No damage. Opponent is -2 to Strike, Parry, and Dodge for one melee round).
- Head-butt (in-fighting and grappling range only, d8 damage).
- Self-knowledge (Special! The Jeet Kune Do may learn a martial art technique from any other system [subject to GM approval). Signature techniques [like Aikido's Knife-hand Knockout and Thai Kick Boxing's Lightning Form] cannot be learned. Techniques with a "prerequisite" must be learned in order. For example, to learn Automatic Elbow Hold, one must first learn Elbow Hold. "Take what is useful and develop from there." - Lee).
Holds/Locks: Arm Lock, Leg Hold, Wrist Lock.

Level Advancement Bonuses

1st - +1 to Perception, +2 to Parry, +2 to Dodge.
2nd - Eye-flick + Roundhouse combination (one Strike roll for both effects), +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to damage.
3rd - Self-knowledge, +1 Attack per Round, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 19 or higher.
4th - Way of the Intercepting Fist (Special! Once per round, upon his opponent's attack, the JKD artist may attempt to Simultaneously Attack the opponent. If successful, the JKD artist has the option to intercept before the opponent's strike connects. If the JKD artist's strike is successful, roll damage. The opponent must Save vs. Pain [14]. Failing the saving throw results in the opponent losing his attempted attack), +1 to Strike, +1 to Parry, +1 to Dodge.
5th - Flying Side Kick causes knockdown, +1 Attack per Round, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 18 or higher.
6th - Self-knowledge, One-Inch Punch (Special! May only be used once per melee, and must be the first attack used that round; does 2D6 damage + knockdown), +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage.
7th - Flying Side Kick does 4d6 damage + knockdown, +1 Attack per Round, +1 to Perception, +2 to Body Flip/Throw.
8th - +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 17 or higher.
9th - Self-knowledge, +1 to Parry, +1 to Dodge, Knockout on a natural roll of 19 or higher.
10th - One-Inch Punch causes 4d6 damage + knockdown, +1 Attack per Round, +1 to Roll, +1 to Body Flip/Throw.
11th - Death Blow on a natural roll of 19 or higher. Critical Hit on a natural roll of 16 or higher.
12th - Self-knowledge, +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage.
13th - +1 to Parry, +1 to Dodge, Knockout on a natural roll of 18 or higher.
14th - Death Blow on a natural roll of 18 or higher, +2 to Perception.
15th - Self-knowledge, +1 Attack per Round, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 15 or higher.

Spoiler: Kung Fu

SHAO-LIN KUNG FU

Entrance Requirements: No Attribute or Alignment restrictions.
This is the original version of Kung Fu (also called Gung Fu), and the martial art that spawned hundreds of derivative forms. It has shaped and influenced all the martial arts. It all started in the Shao-lin Temple in the Chiu Lien Mountains. For over a thousand years, students of the martial arts traveled there for training. This continued until the reign of the 17th Century Emperor K'ang Hsi, when the Shao-lin monks responded to a call to put down an insurrection. 128 of the monks responded and they managed to rout the enemy entirely. This was such an alarming display of power that the government eventually sent an army against the Shao-lin. Only five monks managed to survive the battle and burning of the temple.

CHARACTER BONUSES:
Add 2 to M.E.
Add 2 to P.S.
Add 1 to P.E.
Add 1 to P.P.
Add 10 to S.D.C.

Attacks per Melee: 3
Escape Moves: Roll With Punch/Fall/Impact, Back Flip.
Attack Moves: Leap, Back Flip.
Basic Defensive Moves: Dodge, Parry, Automatic Parry.
Advanced Defenses: Multiple Dodge, Combination Parry/Attack, Disarm.
Hand Attacks: Strike (Punch), Knife Hand, Double-Knuckle Fist, Backhand, Palm Strike.
Basic Foot Attacks: Kick Attack, Tripping/Leg Hooks, Snap Kick, Crescent Kick, Wheel Kick.
Jumping Foot Attacks: Jump Kick.
Special Attacks: Death Blow, Leap Attack, Forearm.
Holds/Locks: Arm Hold, Leg Hold, Body Hold, Neck Hold.
Modifiers to Attacks: Pull Punch, Knock-Out/Stun, Critical Strike, Critical Strike From Rear.

LEVEL ADVANCEMENT BONUSES

1st + 3 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact, + 2 to Strike, Critical Strike on Natural 19 or 20, Critical Strike from Behind.
2nd +1 to Back Flip/Leap, +1 to Parry/Dodge.
3rd +1 Attack per Melee.
4th +1 to Strike, +1 to Parry/Dodge
5th +1 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact, +1 to Damage.
6th +1 to Strike, Knock-Out/Stun on Natural 18 or better.
7th +1 Attack per Melee, Death Blow on roll of Natural 19 or 20.
8th +1 to Back Flip/Leap, +1 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact, +1 to Damage
9th +1 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact.
10th +1 Attack per Melee.
11th +1 to Strike, +1 to Parry/Dodge
12th Critical Strike on Natural 18 or better.
13th +1 to Back Flip/Leap, +1 to Damage.
14th +1 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact, +1 to Strike.
15th +1 Attack per Melee.

Spoiler: Tae Kwon Do

TAE KWON DO KARATE

Entrance Requirements: No Attribute or Alignment restrictions.

Tae Kwan Do, loosely translated as the "way of hands and feet," is studied in many of the world's military organizations. The idea is to efficiently combine kicks and punches for the best possible attack form. Probably the most kick-oriented of all the martial arts. A master will attack quickly, preferably with some kind of flying jump kick. If the opponent is able to avoid or counter the kicks, then the second approach will be to move in with a volley of punches and short-range kicks.

CHARACTER BONUSES:

Add 1 to P.S.
Add 2 to P.E.
Add 1 to P.P.
Add 4 to Spd.
Add 15 to S.D.C.

COMBAT SKILLS:
Attacks per Melee: 4
Escape Moves: Roll With Punch/Fail/Impact, Maintain Balance.
Basic Defensive Moves: Dodge, Parry, Automatic Parry.
Advanced Defenses: Multiple Dodge, Power Block/Parry (does damage!), Automatic Roll, Breakfall.
Hand Attacks: Strike (Punch), Knife Hand, Backhand, Palm Strike, Duo-Fist Strike.
Basic Foot Attacks: Kick Attack, Snap Kick, Roundhouse Kick, Backward Sweep, Reverse Turning Kick (Combination Dodge/Kick), Drop Kick (Combination Fall/Dodge/Kick).
Jumping Foot Attacks: Jump Kick, Flying Jump Kick, Flying Reverse Turning Kick.
Special Attacks: Death Blow, Leap Attack, Combination Grab/Kick, Butjapgo Chagi (Special! One opponent is grabbed and another is kicked simultaneously. Only takes one melee action, but requires two successful Strike Rolls. Does 1D6 damage to the opponent grabbed and 2D6 damage to the opponent kicked).
Modifiers to Attacks: Pull Punch, Knock-Out/Stun, Critical Strike, Critical Strike From Rear.

LEVEL ADVANCEMENT BONUSES
1st +2 to Maintain Balance, Critical Strike from Behind, Death Blow on roll of Natural Twenty.
2nd + 2 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact, + 2 to Damage.
3rd +1 Attack per Melee.
4th +2 to Parry/Dodge, Critical Strike on Natural 18, 19 or 20.
5th + 2 to Maintain Balance, +1 to strike.
6th +2 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact, +1 to Damage.
7th +1 Attack per Melee.
8th +1 to Parry/Dodge, Knock-Out/Stun on Natural 18 or better.
9th +1 Attack per Melee, + 2 to Maintain Balance.
10th +2 to Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact, +1 to Strike, +1 to Parry/Dodge
11th +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage.
12th +1 to Parry/Dodge, Death Blow on roll of Natural 19 or 20.
13th +1 Attack per Melee, +1 to Maintain Balance.
14th +1 to Roll with Punch/Fail/Impact, + 1 to Damage.
15th +1 to Strike, +1 to Parry/Dodge

Spoiler: Krav Maga

Krav Maga

Developed recently in Israel as a self defense form, this is one brutal martial art. Before its slow release to public use in America, Krav Maga can trace its roots to the commando training of the elite MOSSAD special forces units.

Krav Maga's philosophy is simple: If it hurts your opponent, it can't be all that bad. Biting, gouging, elbowing, kneeing to the groin - it's all there. If it works, chuck it in for good measure. Yet Krav Maga is not at all complicated or underdeveloped. Quite the opposite. It is coldly efficient and altogether brutal.

Character Bonuses:

Add 1 to M.A.
Add 2 to P.S.
Add 2 to P.E.
Add 1 to P.P.
Add 10 to S.D.C.
Attacks per Melee: 3

Escape Moves: Roll, Breakfall.
Basic Defenses: Parry, Dodge, Automatic Parry.
Advanced Defenses: Combination Parry/Attack, Power Parry (does damage), Multiple Dodge.
Hand Attacks: Strike, Power Punch, Backhand, Double Knuckle Fist, Fingertip Attack, Claw Hand, Elbow, Forearm.
Foot Attacks: Kick, Roundhouse Kick, Trip/Hook, Snap Kicks, Knee, Drop Kick (Combination Dodge/Kick).
Special Attacks: Body Flip/Throw.
Holds/Locks: Wrist Lock, Elbow Lock, Head Lock.
Weapon Skills: W.P. Knife.

Level Advancement Bonuses
1st - Critical Strike on a natural roll of 19 or 20 or from behind. +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage.
2nd - +2 to Parry, +2 to Dodge.
3rd - +1 Attack per round, K.O. on a natural roll of 19 or 20.
4th - Circular Parry, +1 to Initiative, +1 Body Flip/Throw
5th - +2 to Pull Punch, +2 to Roll with Impact/Breakfall.
6th - +1 to Initiative, +2 to Strike, and +1 to Damage
7th - Critical Body Flip/Throw. Death Blow on a Natural 19 or 20.
8th - +1 Attack per round, K.O. on a natural roll of 18 or higher.
9th - Critical Strike on a natural roll of 18 or higher.
10th - +1 to Parry, +1 to Dodge, +2 to Damage, +1 to Roll/Breakfall
11th - Critical Strike on a natural roll of 17 or higher.
12th - Death Blow on a natural roll of 18 or higher.
13th - Automatic Body Flip/Throw. +1 to Strike
14th - Critical Strike on a natural roll of 16 or higher.
15th - K.O. on a natural roll of 17 or higher. Critical Strike on a natural roll of 15 or higher.

 

[Sherwood]

Chief Carl Rybeck

 

[Purr]

• Attributes & Modifiers
• Skills
• Host Armor
• Woodstock
• Weapons & Gear
• Game Notes
• Background
• Inspiration

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  "Happiness is not ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama XIV. (Image credit: Starfield) "It is always present within you. You can use it any way you want." - Tao Te Ching. (Image credit: Starfield) "First learn stand. Then learn fly. Nature rule, Daniel-san, not mine." - Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid.
  
  "Happiness is a choice. Heaven or hell is a destination we alone decide." - Me. =)
  
  "To know one thing is to know ten-thousand." - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings.
  
  "Awareness has no frontier; it is a giving of your whole being, without exclusion." - Bruce Lee, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
  
  Name: Chaska
  Nickname (if any): Known to some as "Ghost Chaser"
  Homeland: ?
  O.C.C.: Deliveryman
  Concept: Martial Warrior
  Name of Host Armor: WyldKat!
  Name of Birb: Woodstock!
  Level: 1st!
  Species: Human
  Alignment: Scrupulous?
  Appearance: Rugged, handsome, wild-eyed, unassuming. Fit, sometimes uses animalistic movements.
  Disposition: Highly curious, observant. Sees the world through different lens. Cautious, cunning, brave. Kind, honest, often quiet. A man of action, dutiful, barbaric. Zero inhibitions. Doesn't let a whole lot bother him. Animated when expressing himself. Much smarter than he lets on. Not quick to trust, but not afraid to either.
  Quotes: "Mmm." (Only talks when necessary. Prefers to use body language, facial expressions, and animal sounds. Thinks people talk too much and listen to their primal instincts too little.)
  Age: 20 years, 8 months. Can appear much older when disguised. Excellent mimic.
  Gender: Male
  Height: 5 ft. 8 in./173 cm
  Weight: 175 lbs./79 kilos
  Hair: Sun-blond (originally dark blond). Long (mid-back), oft kept double-tied in a low bun.
  Eyes: Light gray. Striking. (Can be mistaken for a blind person. He knows how to properly act like one.)
  Skin: Bronzed by the sun and his family's own genes. Many scars from being a boy in the wild.
  Other physical features: Broad shoulders, lean waist, strong limbs, the kind facial features of a person at peace with himself. Many nicks, scars, bumps, and callouses from a lifetime on the wasteland.
  Hobbies: Endlessly practices the martial arts and its philosophies. Does all of the things outdoors. Whether inside the Kraken or in a village, Chaska can sit and people-watch for hours (he often stares).
  
  I.Q. 24 (+10% to Skills/+5 to Perception)
  M.E. 28 (+7 to Psionic Attack/Insanity)
  M.A. 24 (80% to Charm/Intimidate)
  P.S. 20 (+10 S.D.C. damage. Add lift/carry here if desired.)
  P.P. 26 (+6 to Strike, Parry, Dodge)
  P.E. 32 (+32% to Saving Throws vs. coma/death, +8 to Saving Throws. Immune to nearly all diseases.)
  P.B. 16 (30% to Charm/Impress)
  Spd 28 (approximately 19 mph/30 kph)
  
  Hit Points: 36
  S.D.C.: 59
  
  
  Spoiler: The Math behind the Attributes.

  Hit Points: 36 (+32 P.E.) (+4. 1d6 per level)
  S.D.C.: 59 (+50 O.C.C.) (+4 Outdoorsmanship) (+5 Running)
  
  I.Q. 24 (21 Dice) (+3 O.C.C.)
  M.E. 28 (22 Dice) (+4 O.C.C.) (+2 Zanji)
  M.A. 24 (20 Dice) (+2 O.C.C.) (+2 Zanji instead of Chi)
  P.S. 20 (18 Dice) (+2 O.C.C.)
  P.P. 26 (24 Dice) (+2 Zanji)
  P.E. 32 (25 Dice) (+3 O.C.C.) (+1 Outdoorsman) (+1 Running) (+1 Zanji)
  P.B. 16 (15 Dice) (+1 O.C.C.)
  Spd 28 (14 Dice) (+14 Running)
  
  Combat Modifiers
  Perception +5
  Initiative +2/+5
  Attacks per Round: 4/5
  Strike +7/+8 (more during flight)
  Automatic Parry +7/+8
  Automatic Dodge +8/+11
  Automatic Roll +1/+4
  Damage: +10 S.D.C./+1D4 M.D.
  
  
  Spoiler: More Combat Modifiers.

  Disarm +6/+7
  Horror Factor +6 (do we add M.E. bonuses?)
  Special Combat Bonuses: W.P. Paired Swords starting at 3rd level (Daisho - Musashi's Heiho). Combination Grab/Slash! Automatic Roll, Breakfall, Critical Strike from Behind, Power Block/Parry.
  
  
  Spoiler: The math behind the Combat Modifiers.

  Combat Attributes out//in Host Armor.
  Perception +5/+5 (+5 I.Q.)//--
  Initiative +2/+5 (+2 O.C.C.)//(+2 *) (+1 **) (See Special for flight bonuses)
  Attacks per Round: 4 /5 (+4 Zanji)//(+1 **)
  Strike +7/+8 (+6 P.P.) (+1 O.C.C.) (+2 Zanji)//(+1 **)
  Automatic Parry +7/+8 (+6 P.P.) (+1 O.C.C.)//(+1 **)
  Automatic Dodge +8/+11 (+6 P.P.) (+1 O.C.C.) (+1 Zanji)//(+2 *) (+1 **) (+1 ****)
  Automatic Roll +1/+4 (+1 Zanji)//(+2 **) (+1 ***)
  Damage: +10 (+10 P.S.)//+1D4 M.D. (Robotic Strength of 25)
  Disarm +0/+1//(+1 *)
  Horror Factor: +6 (+6 O.C.C.)
  Bio-enhancements: *Enhanced Neurological Connections. **Echo-location. ***Reinforced Exoskeleton. ****Sensitive Whiskers.
  Special: Wing Packs in flight: +1 to initiative, +1 to Strike, Parry, and Dodge while hovering. +3 to dodge while in full flight. Add 1D8 M.D. to melee attacks made while airborne.
• 
  Skills free to all O.C.C.s
  Basic Mathematics: 88% (+2%)
  Speak Native Language: 98% (+1%)
  Read and Write Native Language 90% (+2%)
  
  O.C.C. Skills (Notes: "+5% twice" means a skill gets a +5% bonus for having shown up more than once in these skill packages per Sherwood.)
  Concealment: 65% (+4%) ("Peasant clothes" +15%. See Weapons & Gear)
  Bio Comms: 65% (+5%)
  Tracking: 55% (+5%) (+20% per Sherwood) (Special Counter-Tracking bonus: -40% to others' attempts to Tracking!)
  
  Survivalist Skill Program +25% (Note: Has every Wilderness skill save for Boat Building).
  Wilderness Survival (+5% twice): 75% (+5% Outdoorsmanship)
  1. Carpentry: 60% (+5%)
  2. Preserve Food: 65% (+5%)
  3. Fasting: 80% (+3%) (+5% Outdoorsmanship)
  4. Herding: 65% (+5%)
  
  Undercover Skill Program +15%
  Disguise: 50% (+5%)
  Imitate Voices & Sounds: 71%/65% (+4%) (+4% Hunting)
  Impersonation: 55%/+39% (+4%)
  Prowl (+10% thrice): 62% (+5%) (+2% Hunting)
  Surveillance: 55% (+5%)
  
  Reconnaissance/Scout Skill Program +20% sans Prowl.
  Detect Ambush: 60%(+5%) (+10% if using Echo-location.)
  Detect Concealment: 55% (+5%)
  Intelligence: 62% (+4%)
  Land Navigation: 66% (+4%)
  
  Outdoorsman Skill Program +25% sans Wilderness Survival.
  Climbing (+5% twice): 80%/70% (+5%)
  Identify Plants & Fruits: 65% (+5%) (+5% Outdoorsmanship)
  Outdoorsmanship (adds to other skills)
  Swimming: 85% (+5%)
  Spelunking: 75% (+5%)
  
  Hunter/Trapper Skill Program +20% sans Prowl.
  Hunting (adds bonuses to other Skills (Main 202).
  Skin & Prepare Animal Hides: 65% (+5%) (+5% Hunting)
  Track & Trap Animals: 55%/65% (+5%) (+5% Hunting)
  Zoology: 60% (+5%)
  
  Basic Military Skill Program (+15%) sans Climbing (2) and W.P. Sword (see Zanji Shinjinken Ryu).
  Hand to Hand: Basic (increased to Hand to Hand: Zanji Shinjinken Ryu 3 Secondary Skills)
  Military Etiquette: 60% (+5%)
  Running
  W.P. Knife +1
  
  O.C.C. Related or "Other" Skills (Number of Skills goes here).
  1. Find Contraband: 56% (+4%)
  2. Lore: Machine: 50% (+4%)
  3. History (see Lore: Machine description): 50% (+5%)
  4. Pilot Wing Packs: 52% (+4%)
  5. Operate Bio-Equipment (or we can't use our Bio-weapons): 50% (+5%)
  6. W.P. Heavy Bio-weapons +1
  
  Secondary Skills (3).
  1-3 (all put into Hand to Hand: Zanji Shinjinken Ryu)
  
  Weapon Proficiencies from Zanji Shinjinken Ryu
  W.P. Daisho +3 (+1 twice. Two Swords as One - Paired Weapons - at 3rd level with +1 bonus from Basic Military Skill Program).
  W.P. Archery +1 (see Skills Included in Training).
  W.P. Blunt (Bokken) +1
  W.P. Pole Arms (Naginata) +1
  W.P. Spear +1
  W.P. Staff +1
  W.P. Sword +2 (+1 twice. Single sword only).
  
  Skills from Level Advancement
  2nd level -
  3rd level -
  
  Skills Desired
  1. Cook? =) (+10% Hunting to cook game)
  2. Boxing?
  3. W.P. Light Bio-weapons?
  4. Sniper.
  5. Art?
  6. Horsemanship: 50%/30% (+4%)
  
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  Host Armor included enhancements
  Advanced Eyes (Main 78. Eagle vision, passive night-vision but see additional Enhanced Sight below).
  Advanced Senses (Main 79. Hearing, taste, sense magnetic north, amplify voice to 80 decibels).
  Bio-Comms (Main 80).
  Enhanced Senses (Main 81. Smell, touch, and taste).
  Regeneration: Enhanced (Main 84. Note: Purchased Enhanced upgrade. See below).
  
  Thermosynthetic metabolism enhancements and bonuses (Main 75)
  Thermo-imaging/infrared/ultraviolet vision enhancement (all with a 1,200 foot/366 m range, Main 78).
  Battle bonuses when above 75 degrees Farenheit/24 degrees Celsius (Main 75).
  Invisible to thermograph/infrared.
  10 Bonus Bio-E (already added in).
  No need to feed or to sleep.
  (Neat dark colors that help absorb heat!)
  
  Spoiler: Thermosynthetic note per Sherwood

  Source link.
  

  You are in a temperate climate, so unless you are heading to high altitudes or deep in the water, your Thermosynthetic Armor will be fine. If you do go under the ocean for a long time, I can provide you with heat packs to keep your armor working for a few hours.

  
  Bio-E Deliveryman Enhancements
  Stealth Field (Main 85)
  Circadian Rhythm (Main 86)
  Enhanced Neurological Connections (Main 86. +2 to initiative, +1 to disarm, +2 to automatic dodge)
  
  Purchased Enhancements Bio-E available: ZERO. Total invested: 229. 140 +10 (Thermosynthetic) +28 (M.E.) +31 (P.E.) = 209. Add +20 for impressing Chief Rybeck. Deliveryman gains +2d8 Bio-E/level.)
  
  Claws, Small, Retractable (Main 95. Adds 1D6+3 to M.D. punch. Razor sharp). 5B
  Cosmetics (Black fur, cat-like markings, furry but otherwise useless tail). 3B.
  Echo-Location (Main 80. See description! 1,000 ft. range. Only -2 to combat when blinded). 35B
  Glow Cell (Main 87. Dim light including IR and UV light. Is a prerequisite for stronger Light Cells). 3B.
  Reinforced Exoskeleton (Main 84. Add M.D.C., melee attacks do more damage. +1 to Roll). 5B.
  Regeneration: Super (Main 84. 2D6+3 M.D./Round! or 1D6x10/minute!). Chaska joins the 12%! 30B.
  Resistance to Cold (Main 84. 1/2 damage vs. cold). 3B.
  Resistance to Electricity (Main 84. 1/2 damage vs. electricity, immune to stun weapons, more). 10B.
  Resistance to Heat (Main 85. 1/2 damage vs. heat). 5B
  Resistance to Kinetic Energy (Main 85. 1/2 damage vs. sharp fast-moving objects incl. rail guns). 20B
  Resistance to Physical Energy (Main 85. 1/2 damage vs. blunt objects of nearly all kinds). 15B
  Sensitive Whiskers: Main 82. 3 ft. long whiskers that feel. +1 to Dodge. Penalties in dark/blind are 1/2.
  
  Bio-weaponry
  Dual Heat Projection Cannons (Main 102. Per cannon, 5D8 M.D. for light blast or 1D8x10+10 M.D. heavy blast. Range: 1,800 ft. Payload: Effectively unlimited. Upgradable). 35B each / 70B total.
  Spore Discharger (Main 104. 4D8 M.D., 10 ft. AoE, metal only. 300 ft. range. +1 to Strike). 10B
  
  
  Spoiler: Future goodies?

  Possible future non-weapon enhancements?
  Sensitive Whiskers? (Main 82). 5B Cat-like! Claws too? No fangs (no mouth). Cosmetic fur?
  
  Bio-Force Field Emitter Spheres (Legion 121. 1d8x10+60 M.D. standard). 15B
  Eye Spy (Legion 119). 25B
  Motion Detector (Main 81, 30 ft. radius, 60 ft. if target is quickly moving. Grants auto-dodge, more). 15B.
  Organic Thruster (Main 93. 200 mph or 100 mph underwater. Bonuses in air). 35B
  Quick Clotting Blood (Main 87). 5B.
  Righting Reflex (land like a cat, +3 to Roll. Main 88). 5B
  Seismic Sense (Main 82?). +1 on initiative, +1 dodge, +10% Ambush when standing on ground. 30B.
  Spinnerets and Webbing (Main 88). 20B. +5B/+2 uses. Looks like a lot of fun!
  
  Possible future weapons?
  Bio-Energy Expulsion Vents (Main 98. Does 2d8+P.E. bonus in M.D. Short range, work in water.) 10B.
  Flying Blades (1D4 M.D. each, but always have a sharp object. 4B each.)
  Viral Immobilizer (takes 2D4 Rounds and basically stops a single Machine cold. Main 106). 30B.
  
  Basic Statistics for All Host Armors (thanks for letting me copy/paste from ya, Psychie!)
  Class: Host Armor.
  Crew: One human pilot.
  Base M.D.C. by Location (Reinforced Exoskeleton bonuses added).
  Arms (2): 87 M.D.C., +5 additional M.D.C. points per level of experience (starting at level two).
  * Hands (2): 47 M.D.C., +10 additional M.D.C. at level seven and fourteen.
  Legs (2): 167 M.D.C., +5 additional M.D.C. per level of experience (starting at level two).
  * Feet (2): 77 M.D.C., +12 additional M.D.C. at level seven and fourteen.
  * Head: 107 M.D.C., +5 additional points per level of experience (starting at level two).
  * * Main Body: 230 M.D.C., +2D8+8 additional M.D.C. points per level of experience (starting at level two).
  Bio-Force Field: None.
  Robotic Physical Strength: 25 (1d4 M.D. to normal punches).
  Operational Lifetime: 51 years.
  
  Speed:
  Running: Starting maximum speed is only 60 mph (96 km). The act of running does tire the pilot/wearer, but at only 10% the normal fatigue rate, thanks to the musculature and augmentation of the Host Armor.
  Leaping: A young Host Armor can only leap up to 20 feet (6.1 m) high or 40 feet (12.2 m) across from a standing position.
  Digging: 20 mph (32 km) through sand or dirt, but one quarter as fast through rock or concrete. Digging tires out its pilot, but at half the usual fatigue rate. To dig down enough to adequately hide from enemies on the surface takes 3D6 melee rounds.
  Swimming: 30 mph (48 km/25 .9 knots); swimming tires the pilot but at 10% the usual rate.
  Underwater Depth: The Host Armor can withstand pressure up to 700 feet (213.4 m) down.
  Flying: See Wing Packs under Weapons & Gear.
  
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  Woodstock Blackbirb. =) (Legion 33).
  Bio-E: 53/-33 (save up for Stealth Field?)
  Chameleon Skin (Main 83. Prerequisite for Stealth Field). 20B
  Enhanced Sight (Main 78. Thermo, IR, and UV). 10B
  Glow Cell for spotting (dim light including IR and UV light. Is a prereq for stronger lights). 3B.
  
  Main Body: 40 M.D.C.
  I.Q.: 9
  M.E.: 14
  M.A.: 14
  P.S.: 12
  P.P.: 19
  P.E.: 20
  P.B.: 12 (100!)
  
• 
  "Zen has no other secret than that of meditating seriously on life and death." - Takeda Shingen, Samurai Wisdom Stories.
  
  
  
  
  Weapons
  Two Acid Edged Large Swords (Main 131, two Katanas)
  Damage: 4D6 M.D. plus acid for 1D6 per Round for 1D4 Rounds.
  
  High Frequency Spear + Chigs (Main 131, Yari. Main 137 for Chigs)
  Damage: 2D6 M.D. plus wounds take twice as long to heal.
  Has 15 Chigs to attach to it (5D8 M.D. to an 8 ft. radius. 200 ft. thrown alone, but spear range -30% if spear-chucked. Must be "beamed," not tossed. But what happens to the spear? Boom, right? Maybe just separate the two? Long pokey things like spears can come in handy out in the wasteland!).
  
  Burner (Main 134. Enter "I love the smell of Bio-napalm in the morning." Single Burst for 3D8 M.D. or 1D8x10 M.D. for two Attacks. Can sweep. All attacks cause 2D8 M.D. for 2D8 minutes unless one rolls in dirt or sand (not water) for 15 seconds! Lots of attack methods). 10 charges before it needs to regenerate for 1D4 hours). Notes: Can probably self-burn to activate thermosynthetic heat bonuses? A small amount of damage for a pay-off that might be a necessary edge? I will have to try it in combat.
  
  Armor
  ?
  
  Gear
  Wing Pack
  Military fatigues
  Dress clothing
  "Peasant clothes" (adds +15% to Concealment when operating undercover in Retro-Villages)
  Survival knife
  Utility Belt
  First-Aid kit
  4 Slap Patches
  Face Wrap
  Stealth Sheet
  Second Skin
  Portable Nutrient Tank
  Extractor
  Prosthetic makeup kit
  Tinted goggles
  Hatchet for cutting wood
  Tent
  Knapsack
  Backpack
  Two Water Skins
  Emergency food Rations (two weeks supply).
  Some personal items (spiced bird treats for Woodstock, bird gear including forearm guard, strong leather gloves, armored journal, writing utensils, small books, basic unmarked maps, ceramic magnifying glass and case, ceramic food and hunting utensils, ceramic whistle, ceramic dog whistle (to alert Packmasters and get the attention of wild animals), things to learn from while passing the time.
  
  Two wooden practice swords (bokken katana). Special: matching woobies for him and Woodstock. One spare human-sized woobie. But only one. =) ).
  
  Watertight map case with miniature explosive charge so it doesn't fall into the hands of The Machine.
  
  Currency
  Trade Items: 500
  Starting Credits: 380
  
• 
  Taking notes is less of a chore than fighting to remember.
  
• 
  He is called "Chaska."
  
  Almost no one in House Artemis knows where Chaska came from. Out of the wasteland, to be sure, for he seems to have sprung up from the very forested earth he was born to wander, like some fable or nature spirit given flesh and resolve. And yet, it was one of the Kraken's science-personnel, an Engineer if you believe the tales, that requested the Kraken to pick him up. To make "a minor but important detour. A matter of honor. Won't take long."
  
  The leader of the Kraken knew there were no humans and thus no villages out here, Retro or otherwise. There was only forests and lakes, underground tunnels with a mountain range on top of them. Above the range came hot days and cool star-filled nights. They were basically in the middle of nowhere. Seeing no danger in this beauty-filled diversion, the leader agreed.
  
  When the Kraken's leader saw what the Kraken was rising out of the water for, the leader did not at first trust her eyes. It was a single human. A teenager and barely so. Long-haired, filthy in ways only the Houseless know, but somehow... incredibly fit and well-fed for one so all alone in the wastelands.
  
  The barbarian wore no Host Armor. He carried no bio-weaponry. Instead, he was clad in the tattered hides of a lowly peasant. But unlike a peasant, this youth person was armed. Across his broad shoulders, he carried a sharp ceramic spear. From that slim waist a pair of long ceramic curved swords hung clean in their sheaths. These were well-used and also well-kept, just like him. One glance at that youth and you could tell - those weapons were perhaps the only things he might call "friends."
  
  As this "wild one" beheld the surfacing Kraken, he stared at it with the widest eyes. He stood there transfixed, mystified. And who could blame him, given the grand sight of the Kraken slowly bursting out of the water? It was when the Wild One knelt down and seemed to be praying to it that the leader began to have her doubts.
  
  "Why do you wish for this sole vagrant to join us?" she asked the waiting Engineer who had started this ball rolling.
  
  The Engineer's reply was certain. "Because if we do not, another house will. Unlike the others, it just so happens we owe him. House Artemis is the sole cause of this young man's destitution. We provided his life's pain. In this land, he is friendless and futureless. I would be grateful if we gave him a chance at his own destiny... a destiny under our banner."
  
  "Who is he?" asked the leader and the Engineer told her. The leader's surprise was great and after a few more questions, she found herself agreeing to the Engineer's plan. It was the Engineer alone who had established contact with the Wild One. There, they communicated, for "conversed" is too untrue a word for the manner in which they shared their first conversation. Patient and wise Engineer and rattled untamed youth - they seemed to know each other and with that knowing came crucial trust.
  
  As the Engineer walked the Wild One aboard, the leader made a point not to spread the origin of the young barbarian around. It was not a necessary thing for many others to know, she decided. The more that knew, the more trouble that was likely to come of it. What was important was that he was safe. Perhaps in time, he might be of use to House Artemis.
  
  As the Kraken submerged back under the dark and salty safety of the restless sea, the leader then learned it was the Engineer - years ago - who had gotten word to the Wild One to meet here. Some three whole years, through the power of bio-enhanced animals, he had made contact with the Wild One. He gave him the choice of a new life. The Wild One had agreed. The Engineer took him in and gave him a new if alien home, one that drew great surprise from everyone. Some disliked the idea of a strange unknown boy joining House Artemis like this, but the Engineer stood firm like a father.
  
  Was it out of mercy? Or perhaps regret? Whatever it was, the leader knew well the dangerous name the Engineer had given her and the heavy load that name carried. House Apollo. It was a dead house. But this time, the Machine had not been responsible.
  
  The Wild One was the last survivor of House Apollo. In his veins ran the blood of cunning, powerful warriors and scholars, brave souls who were once feared and respected by the few that knew them. House Apollo - the former smaller house whose biotechnical science, if it had been given time and opportunity, might have some day far in the future rivaled House Artemis's own creativity and might. Ever competitors, the two fought a brief and bloody secret war in the shadows of the underground. In that fateful end, House Apollo seemed to vanish from all the planet as if it had never been.
  
  But this one ragged and rough remnant had certainly survived. All on his own.
  
  "Chaska" was the only name he answered to. Only the Engineer knew if this was his first name, a nickname, or even his last name. Chaska held no thoughts of revenge for his house's end for he was hardly old enough to fend for himself when he had lost everything. He knew the truth and was at peace with it. Now here, all these years later, he had emerged undestroyed by the Machine and possessing a cunning and knowledge of the land that only Deliverymen knew. Might he become one someday, the Engineer wondered?
  
  Much to his delight and relief, Chaska eventually had done just that.
  
  As Chaska grew, House Artemis raised the youth as one of their own - never divulging the details of his war-filled heritage except to those who had a rightful need to know. Then they too were sworn to secrecy lest old feuds rise.
  
  Though a quick learner and talented mimic, Chaska had not grown up around humans. He had grown up around animals and nature and the Machine whom he had learned quickly would destroy him without hesitation. Chaska did not speak much. When he chose to speak, his harsh barbaric accent that belonged to no House Artemis culture ever had instantly gave him away as someone mysterious, perhaps someone very different.
  
  An incredibly loyal young fellow, Chaska followed his own way during his upbringing. He lived so without apology, without anything to prove to anyone except for himself. He often got things wrong and had to be corrected constantly. But his eager to learn was insatiable. His was the mind of a scholarly people whose love of the unknown had bordered on the ferocious. So too was it unusual that he practiced some form of martial combat unknown to most. This system used weapons and never for any other purpose except to kill. When asked, he simply replied that he had "found it in the wild."
  
  In time, Chaska graduated to become a Deliveryman. He appreciated and enjoyed the education House Artemis had provided him. He wished to return to the land he had grown up in, for in the time he had been gone, humans had moved into the wild and dangerous territory where it could, for its naturally warm climate, fierce and final forests, and craggy mountains gave it many hiding places from the Machine.
  
  Chaska's wish was granted. He re-assimilated himself into that vast lawless land in what felt like no time at all. He made great use of his hard-earned skills and can hide his accent to sound like someone completely different. For years, he has traveled and delivered across this land better prepared than ever before. His Host Armor he proudly dubbed, "WyldKat." He calls his beloved Black Talon War Bird, "Woodstock."
  
  Inside House Artemis, Chaska has a reputation of being a loner. While exceptionally friendly, he is never quick to trust. He is aware there is probably no one like him in House Artemis and this understanding keeps him apart from most people while also granting him a great faith and comfortability in who he is and who he wishes to be in the future. Tremendously skilled in nearly all things outdoors, there remains no one but the Engineer who really knows him. As a Splicer, he is dutiful and obeys commands well if he understands them. He seems to hold absolute confidence in himself. However, House Artemis knows the power of teamwork and now it has become Chaska's time to learn this lesson.
  
  Chaska has been asked to join a team - a small team, both new and diverse for no old team will yet have him. He is too new. His way of speaking, his unusual perspective and habits, cause most other to watch him from afar like a mysterious stranger. Chaska does not seem to mind this at all. In his heart, House Artemis's challenges are his challenges. He will face them fearlessly and without regret.
  
  For who knows how long one will draw breath? Best to live a life you can be proud of. Best to walk roads where happiness is not only the journey which to share with others but also a destination when one's own time comes. If you ask Chaska the purpose of good living, he might tell you, "To learn. To share."
  
  In this way, House Apollo lives on in the heart of a barbaric Deliveryman unlike any before him.
  
  
  * * *​
  Spoiler: Quotes but from whom?

  "Woe betide any who would cause House Artemis ill. Swift destruction is not good enough. Instead, let the Machine suffer and doubt and finally fall into obscurity incarnate with none to remember its false legacy. Only then can humanity shine once again."
  
  "Bring unto me the trackless steppe, the lonely call of the wild, and the open starlit sky than even the smallest gathering of hypocrites. We humans oft create our own woes. We dive headfirst and so very willingly into the stuff of our own nightmares. The Machine is testament to this. Who can free us from ourselves?"
  
  "Slipping inside Fair Wanderer, my second body, surrounded by its warmth and life, how can I be anything but eager to live as much as a man can? All things are impermanent. O life! Let me live whilst I can! Learn and share what I will! Go where I may! And die content!"
  
  "Whence comes wisdom? From the shining sun that bathes daily the world in its glowing power? From the feeling of soft winds upon your cheek? From the beating of another's heart nearest your own? From the mouths of souls long since gone? Nay. Nay to all of these. Wisdom stems only from within. To be kept. Perchance to be shared. But best of all... to be followed."
  
  "Doing battle and destroying the Machine? Will doing so bring back our dead? Restore us? Bring hope for the morrow? I know not. But it most certainly feels good to do it!"
  
  
  Spoiler: Old partially-used Background

  Kokoro Chaska is a widely-traveled Deliveryman born of the scholarly House Apollo that no longer exists (thanks to its rivalry with House Artemis who defeated and absorbed it). He seeks to merge the martial lessons of the past with modern-day bio-technology (preferably House Artemis's technology). His only true sanctuary outside his house is an incredible secret tomb - a vault of ancient wisdom filled with life lessons belonging to a fallen house dedicated to destroying the Machine. They were dubbed The Lost Warriors.
  
  Greatly astounded and intrigued, ever-curious Chaska has devoted his life to memorizing the lessons writ upon their urns. He seriously practices martial arts for hours every day. Chaska's beloved war birb, Lockheed, is the only being he counts on, at least at this early stage in the game.
  
  Chaska has some skill in melee and makes most use of it when silence and stealth must be observed. An unorthodox student of life with few friends, Chakska has recently set out to learn how to most-practically set fire to his own Host Armor in attempts to bring alive the advantages granted by its thermosynthetic metabolism, without badly damaging himself or the rest of his gear in the process. =)
  
  A combination of these two backgrounds and probably more.
  
  Spoiler: Predator concept

  

  
  
  The Deliveryman has the Bio-tech at 1st level (like Stealth Field) and some of the skills to perhaps take on small numbers of the Machine (especially with the Black Talon War Hawk assisting). I like the idea of playing a ranged combatant. But who?
  
  Here's one road I thought up:
  
  EDIT: I rewrote this a bit to clean up some of my grammar/word choices and to add a bit more to it.
  
  This involves a Splicer who was once forced to be an Assassin. His house, rather small, was a cult of scholars who sold their assassin skills to anyone who would help further their cause (destroy the Machine at all costs - including their own humanity). To this end, they sent out their assassins to capture recruits (much quicker than breeding them). Once captured, the recruits had Bio-chips put into their brains which granted the temporary skill set of a killer at the cost of any morality save for honor (it made them Aberrant Alignment, the same as the majority of the house). Sooner or later, someone brought this to House Artemis's attention.
  
  Perhaps a Warlord in the house or some other higher-up had been targeted? Whatever the case, my character - one of these assassins - acted boldly and fearlessly against House Artemis. None of the assassins were successful. House Artemis burned the smaller house to the ground but salvaged the scholars' long-accumulated wealth of unusual knowledge and a handful of what few soul in the house could be (re)turned to the path of Good. With the character's morality restored by House Artemis, he swears fealty to them and becomes a weapon for humanity - something he always wanted to be. Now he sometimes uses his Deliveryman O.C.C. as a guise while hunting hard-to-kill Machine targets.
  
  He or she seems like a person from another time to me. The scholar-house taught him to speak their ways, ways some time long ago imagined. When hunting for House Artemis, he retains many lessons from his time as an assassin - patience, strategy, technique, and the ability to change tactics on the fly.
  
  What do I know of his personality? I think he's a loner (at least at the start). Very proud of his accomplishments. Prouder still to serve House Artemis whom he views as his saviors. I think he has family, but perhaps they believe him dead. Perhaps he has not been reunited with them and he does not want to put them through any pain, hence no reunion. Self-sufficient, a born explorer, and well-traveled, he is willing to work in a small team (perhaps to help him re-assimilate into a world where goodness, and not just serving his scholarly masters, matters again).
  
  He's starting life over again. We are playing first level characters after all, but even novices have pasts.
  
  House Artemis saved him from the Bio-chip that stole his humanity and once freed from it, he returned to his honorable alignment very quickly. With a full working memory of what he had done, he acts in good ways sometimes as a kind of penance. He is as at peace with himself as he can be; he knows now that none of his past was his doing, his fault. Instead of sitting and drowning in self-loathing, he chooses the far more positive path of hunting the Machine in ways he hopes it might not expect. He turns from the world of the cold assassin to a hunter - a hard-to-find enigma that destroys his opponents with absolute confidence.
  
  Like a Predator maybe.
  Spoiler: The Martial Warrior.

  The Martial Warrior is one who has unearthed the wisdom of the martial arts from the past and has chosen to take on the difficult path, not as a simple journey towards just creating a larger Machine body count, but as a way of life with enlightenment as its goal. In this concept's travels, "he" has acted as something like a modern-day Kwai Chang Caine - a traveler who has seen many different lands and tasted each, helping his fellow human beings wherever they needed aid.
  
  The Martial Warrior is a concept that combines the pure power of a person who has seriously practiced the arts of life and death with all that he is. All the while, he keeps these powers a secret. He moves from place to place helping others, not staying, leaving only the goodness left behind him in his wake. This combination of skill and determination merged with humility and compassion perhaps makes him seem to some as if he is a wandering monk of sorts. But in truth, he is performing his Deliveryman duties for House Artemis while aiding others along his path.
  
  This concept also contains a special link with the past and death and a new way of life.
  
  Once, not so long ago, after many trials and solving mysteries, he discovered a well-hidden tomb - a sacred mortuary - undisturbed by the ravages of time, the Machine, and Humanity. The tomb belonged those whom humanity would come to know as the Lost Warriors.
  
  Urns inside a sacred mortuary, ceramic and covered in age, held the remains of dead Splicer warriors who, long ago, were revered by the common person in life. The Lost Warriors sought peace among humanity while endlessly fighting the Machine. Some were legends though none sought fame. Only justice and freedom from the Machine and the enlightenment of humanity so that they might never war again, but instead live in peace.
  
  In the end, it was a biotechnical error of the worst magnitude that would lay the Lost Warriors to rest in their fortification-like urns. A single calculation in the creation of their Host Armors resulted in an incurable brain-disease that made them nearly invincible for a time, but it took each of their lives long before the natural order would have. The Lost Warriors knew this. They made use of what time they had remaining. They sent all of their non-combatants, their science teams, and their families far, far away that they would not suffer the brain-disease. Once this was done, together, the Warriors set out on one final mission, one final farewell to humanity, to perform an incredible deed.
  
  They succeeded. They returned with proof of their deeds - they stole sacred wisdom from the Machine. Data that could not be copied, only utilized by those deeply-immersed in the methods of super-science. They destroyed and melted down the site of the Machine. Never again would it terrorize the living. Its secrets belonged to the Warriors now.
  
  But the Lost Warriors had run out of time. One by one, they began to fall to the incurable brain-disease. They did not have the special knowledge required to make sense of the great science they had taken. So instead, as each one passed away, they wrote upon their ceramic urns, the codes that made the super-science active - they wrote too their wisdom of martial methods and mindsets for a life worthy of their goal. Together, the urns translated into one great scientific formula - that once made into reality - might provide some great benefit to humanity - the Warrior's final parting gift.
  
  My Martial Warrior has found the Warriors' final resting place. He has read the urns and memorized the science-code. He burns it into his memory daily (by way of practicing forms, or katas if one prefers the Japanese term). Reading the urns has not only taught him the science-code, but also unlocked some of the secret methods and mindsets of the Lost Warriors - which my character seeks to master. For these Warriors had spent lifetimes merging The Martial Way with the Way of the Splicer - and they alone had made them one before they fell. To them, the passing on of these matters were just another gift to their fellow human being.
  
  My Martial Warrior made House Artemis aware of all of this. He asked how he might proceed or if even he was allowed to. After much consideration and no small amount of debate, House Artemis realized it too lacked the exact science necessary to unlock the Warrior's code. Without the scientists that belonged to the Warriors, the code was good only for learning the martial way - a prize indeed, but only half of a sacred whole. House Artemis agreed to allow my Martial Warrior to continue his search while performing his regular Deliveryman duties - and to share his knowledge with only a small few (our party, I imagine, after we have come to know one another and if those meetings bode long and well).
  
  My Martial Warrior's mission? To one day find the scientific minds and families that the Lost Warriors sent away and provide them this knowledge so that he might return it to House Artemis for the betterment of all living under its banner. The mere mention of this has been disallowed to strangers. He is to allow no other house to learn of it.
  
  So this Martial Warrior concept continues his Deliveryman duties. He helps those people who honestly require aid. He battles the Machine only when he is certain of success and otherwise avoids combat whenever possible. He follows no code except his own and his deep loyalty to House Artemis. He travels all across the land and sea delivering wherever he is sent, all the while practicing daily and seriously the methods that one day will allow him to bring together in harmony the Bio-science of Splicers and the Martial Ways of the Lost Warriors.
  
  On that day, for attempting to erase humanity, the Machine will truly learn the meaning of the word, "regret."
  
  

  * * *​

  One books says, "Seek and ye shall find."
  
  But the Urns of the Lost Warriors say, "When you seek it, you cannot find it."
  
  When the Warrior meditates, he brings his mind right back to the Lost Warriors' resting place. He has memorized every urn, every line, series of pictures, every word. He has practiced with every weapon left in the Old School; he is only good with a few of them. But... he is just a beginner... and people have to start somewhere.
  
  He seeks to unite the ways of the Lost Warriors with the ways of Splicer Bio-tech. "The one thing the Machine cannot take from us is our humanity," says he. "It is we who choose to surrender it, hold it, or best yet - express it to its fullest. The union of old ways and new - of the martial ways and Splicer bio-tech - can aid us! The battle arts can sharpen our skills while the philosophies can teach us to walk in the ways of the wise. The combination of the two can cause havoc to the Machine and greaten us in ways that ensure we will not repeat humanity's mistakes of the past."
  
  This is his path. The Way of the Lost Warrior. A troubled spirit learning to find himself through personal liberation, through practice and refinement, to melt away the unnecessary, to add what is essentially him. To aid others along his lifelong journey. To uncover just knowledge, but sacred wisdom. To give the Machine the worst possible insult - to die of old age instead of at the hands of the Machine. To give humanity a great gift - the means to treat each other well, to find oneself within oneself, and hone the martial spirit and skills which will one day put an end to the Machine.
  
  Humanity will enter an age of liberation incarnate. And this time, humanity will stride on taking each day, each breath, with wisdom and compassion in our every step."
• 
  "天元貫 Tengen-Nuki"
  
  
  "動の神無太刀 Kannadachi with footwork"
  
  
  "一水月截剣 Issui-Gessaiken"
  
  
  "monochrome Ide-ntity"
  
  
  
  
  
  Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind for starters. Reminds me of Splicers in a distant way that pleases me. =)
  
  Dalailama.com by Tenzin Gyatso; The Fourteenth Dalai Lama. "We have to consider what we human beings really are. We are not like machine-made objects. If we are merely mechanical entities, then machines themselves could alleviate all of our sufferings and fulfill our needs.
  
  However, since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. Instead, we should consider our origins and nature to discover what we require."
  
  The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. "To know one thing is to know ten thousand."
  
  Cadfael by Ellis Peters. "Between friends, there is no owing."
  
  And S.O.G. by Major John Plaster. "THE MOST HELPLESS FEELING YOU CAN HAVE IS TO EXPEND ALL YOUR AMMO." (Capital letters his)
  

 

[Psychie]

• Attributes and Abilities
• Skills
• Host Armor
• Martial Arts
• Equipment

• 
  Name: Toni Cruse
  Gender: Female
  Age: 25
  Alignment: Scrupulous
  
  Iq: 26 - +12% to all Skills, +6 to Perception
  Me: 24 - +5 to Save vs Psychic Attack/Insanity
  Ma: 24 - Trust/Intimidate 80%
  Ps: 20 - +5 in HtH Combat
  Pp: 30 - +8 to Strike, Parry and Dodge
  Pe: 25 - +5 to Save vs Poison/Magic
  Pb: 19
  Spd: 31 - Approx. Running Speed of 20mph
  
  OCC: Dreadguard
  Level: 1
  Exp: 0
  Hit Points: 30
  SDC: 72
  Host Armor Bio-E: 240 / 2 banked
  
  MDC by Location:
  Arms (2): 117 M.D.C.
  Hands (2): 27 M.D.C.
  Legs (2): 117 M.D.C.
  Feet (2): 37 M.D.C.
  Head: 137 M.D.C.
  Main Body: 260 M.D.C.
  Bio-Force Field: 140 M.D.C.
  
  Combat Bonuses On Foot / In Armor
  Number of Attacks: 4 / 6
  Strike: +8 / +9 (+2 in melee) (+3 ranged)
  Parry: +12 / +15 (+1 in melee)
  Dodge: +12 / +4 Automatic Dodge
  Roll with Punch: +2 / +10
  Initiative: +0 / +2
  Perception: +7 / +7
  Critical Strike on a Natural 20
  
  
• 
  Climbing: 71%/61% +5%
  HtH Basic - Upgraded to HtH Jeet Kune Do
  Military Etiquette: 66% +5%
  Running
  WP Sword - +1 to strike at levels 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15. +1 to parry at levels 2, 4, 7, 10 and 13
  WP Knife - +1 to strike at levels 2, 4, 7, 10, and 13. +1 to parry at levels 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12. + 1 to strike when thrown, at levels 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, and 13.
  Bio-Comms: 91% +5%
  Biology: 56% +5%
  Genetics: 56% +3%
  Machine Lore: 86% +4%
  Operate Bio-Equipment: 86% +5%
  Host Armor Combat: 97% +3%
  WP Heavy Bio-Weapons - + 1 to strike at levels 1, 4, 8, 12 and 15.
  Boxing
  Kick Boxing
  Wrestling
  
  Reconnaissance Skill Package - Free
  Detect Ambush: 47% +5%
  Detect Concealment: 42% +5%
  Intelligence: 49% +4%
  Land Navigation: 48% +4%
  Prowl: 37% +5%
  
  Horsemanship: 62%/42% +4%
  Recognize Weapon Quality: 47% +5%
  Trap and Mine Detection: 47% +5%
  Demolitions: 82% +3%
  Demolitions Disposal: 82% +3%
  
  Athletics
  WP Light Bio-Weapons - +1 to strike at levels 1, 3, 5, 8, 12, and 15.
  Demolitions - Underwater: 68% +4%
  
  
• 
  Basic Statistics for All Host Armors
  Class: Host Armor.
  Crew: One human pilot.
  Base M.D.C. by Location
  Arms (2): 117 M.D.C., +5 additional M.D.C. points per level of experience (starting at level two); both arms have the same M.D.C.
  * Hands (2): 27 M.D.C., + 10 additional M.D.C. at level seven and fourteen; both hands have the same M.D.C.
  Legs (2): 117 M.D.C., +5 additional M.D.C. per level of experience (starting at level two); both legs have the same M.D.C.
  * Feet (2): 37 M.D.C., +12 additional M.D.C. at level seven and fourteen; both feet have the same M.D.C.
  * Head: 137 M.D.C., +5 additional points per level of experience (starting at level two).
  * * Main Body: 260 M.D.C., +2D8+8 additional M.D.C. points per level of experience (starting at level two).
  Bio-Force Field: 140 M.D.C.
  
  Spoiler

  * Destroying the head/helmet of the Host Armor will eliminate all optics and sensory systems, and reduces the maximum speed, the number of melee attacks and all bonuses by half, as well as exposing the pilot's own head to attack. Note: The head and other items marked with a single asterisk are small and difficult targets to hit. Thus, they can only be hit when an attacker makes a "Called Shot," and even then he is -3 to strike.
  * * Depleting the M.D.C. of the main body effectively destroys and kills the symbiotic organism, turning the living armor into a motionless slab of dead weight with the pilot trapped inside. The pilot is in real jeopardy of suffocating to death or being captured by the enemy or gunned down where he lays. There is a self-release mechanism, but it only works 01-55% of the time without help from a comrade to peel it off. Depending on how long the trapped pilot can function without air, the character may die, smothered by his own Host Armor. For most ordinary people, dizziness will occur within two minutes (-2 to strike, parry and dodge, -30% to skills), fall unconscious within four minutes, lapse into a coma within five minutes and die within six. Dreadguard are not ordinary, however, and can last twice as long (dizziness and penalties occurring after four minutes, falling unconscious after eight minutes and into a coma after 10 minutes, with death occurring in 1D4+ 12 minutes). If a fallen Dreadguard is to be rescued, it must be done within 15 minutes and helpers require a combined P.S. of 50, or a Robotic/Splicer P.S. of 30 to open up the Host Armor forcibly (once it is dead) and peel the pilot out of the heavy armor before he suffocates. Note: The Host Armor never seems oppressively heavy when it is alive, but in death, it is like a dead weight and the pilot inside like a turtle on his back, barely able to move and escape his suffocating shell.
  Speed:
  Running: Starting maximum speed is only 60 mph (96 km). The act of running does tire the pilot/wearer, but at only 10% the normal fatigue rate, thanks to the musculature and augmentation of the Host Armor.
  Leaping: A young Host Armor can only leap up to 20 feet (6.1 m) high or 40 feet (12.2 m) across from a standing position.
  Digging: 20 mph (32 km) through sand or dirt, but one quarter as fast through rock or concrete. Digging tires out its pilot, but at half the usual fatigue rate. To dig down enough to adequately hide from enemies on the surface takes 3D6 melee rounds.
  Swimming: 30 mph (48 km/25 .9 knots); swimming tires the pilot but at 10% the usual rate.
  Underwater Depth: The Host Armor can withstand pressure up to 700 feet (213.4 m) down.
  Flying: Flight is not possible for a basic Host Armor.
  
  
  Spoiler: Statistical Data

  (Starts the same for all Host Armors):
  Height: Approximately 1 -2 feet (0.3 to 0.6 m) is added to the height of the pilot.
  Width: About 3 -4 feet (0.9 to 1 .2 m), based on the size of the pilot.
  Length: About 2-3 feet (0.6/0.9 m), based on the size of the pilot.
  Weight: Adds 1D4x 100+200 pounds (300 to 600 Ibs/135 to 270 kg) to the weight of the pilot.
  Cargo: None, other than what the character can carry.
  Handheld Bio-Weapons and gear contained in satchels, backpacks and bags can be strapped to the back of the Host Armor, slung over the shoulder or hung on various appendages (spikes, spines, and outcroppings).
  Physical Strength (P.S .): 30 - Splicer P.S. is equal to Robotic Strength.
  Robot P.S. 26 to 30: Inflicts 1D4 M.D. on a restrained punch, 1D6 on a full strength punch, 2D6 M.D. on a power punch (counts as two melee attacks). Kicks do 2D4 M.D. and leap kicks 2D8 M.D. (counts as two melee attacks).
  Production Cycle: Six months gestation, plus 3 months growth time.
  Operational Lifetime: 2D10+40 year life span.
  Trade Value: None, because each Host Armor is bonded to a specific pilot and will not function for any other person.
  Bio-Regeneration: 2D6 M.D.C. per hour for the main body and 1D4 M.D.C. per hour for all other locations, the Host Armor cannot regrow severed limbs or destroyed weapon systems that have been reduced to zero (there must be some M.D.C. remaining), but an Engineer can generate and attach a replacement limb with minimal difficulty.
  Horror Factor: 7 for humans and other intelligent live forms; none against the machines.
  Senses & Features: All Host Armors have advanced sight, about equal to that of an eagle, able to recognize a face or read a small sign up to a mile ( 1 .6 km) away, passive nightvision (light amplification, range: 2000 feet/610 m), polarization (to prevent blinding and reduce glare), sound amplifying hearing (able to hear a whisper 300 feet/91.5 m away) and a sense of taste and smell about twice as acute as an ordinary human. The Host Armor can also accurately sense magnetic north at all times, as well as project the pilot's voice at up to 80 decibels as if amplified by a megaphone/loudspeaker. The Armor itself is shielded from damage by high intensity sounds, radiation and normal (S.D.C.) heat, fire and cold. The Host Armor purifies the air before it is passed on to its pilot, removing all toxins, poisons and impurities before it is breathed. The Host Armor also has a built-in system of gills to allow an armored pilot to breathe via the Host Armor, underwater for an unlimited period of time.
  Special Communications: All Host Armors possess a unique set of communications gear called Bio-Comms. These organic resonators create sympathetic vibrations in other living creatures that can then be decoded by other Bio-Comm units, creating a system of telepathic-like communication that has proven to be undecipherable to the creations of the Machine. However, maximum Bio-Comm range is only 6 miles (9.6 km).
  Feeding: See Step Two; based on the metabolism chosen for the Host Armor.
  Sleep Requirements: See Step Two; based on the metabolism chosen for the Host Armor. The Armor does not actually "sleep" but needs a certain amount of inactivity per day. Note: Even if the Host Armor does not require sleep or rest, the pilot still does.
  Combat Bonuses: All combat bonuses are based on the metabolism, but all Host Armors have instinct driven reflexes that are roughly the equivalent of a biological combat computer that adds +1 to strike, parry and dodge. These instinctual drives assess threats, plot available targets and route the relevant data directly to the pilot's mind as sort of an enhanced reflex action.
  The Host Armor is able to simultaneously track up to 18 targets and to identify as many as 4000 enemy images and sounds.
  Damage: Hand to hand damage is based on the final Splicer/Robotic P.S. of the Host Armor, bite damage is based on metabolism, and as per any handheld weapons or melee weapons that are part of the suit. Ranged attacks are based on which Bio- Weapons are grown onto the Host Armor with the available Bio-E points.
  
  
  Spoiler: Lithovore Host Armor

  The product of alien DNA, this Host Armor draws all its nutrients from eating raw minerals in a similar manner to some deep sea organisms that live on the ocean floor near volcanic vents. This makes feeding the Host Armor rather simple (it eats rocks and dirt), but from time to time the pilot will need to track down some specific minerals to keep his suit healthy, like taking
  vitamins.
  Feeding: The suit eats from 30 to 80 Ibs (13.5 to 36 kg) of minerals (stones, rocks, dirt, clay, etc.) a day.
  Sleep Requirements: The Host Armor requires 3d4 hours of sleep/rest/inactivity per day, during the day or night hours.
  Color of Host Armor: The suit will be some kind of earth tone; black, brown, tan, grey, charcoal, white, gold, silver, bronze, cobalt blue, and other colors common to stone. The colors may be mixed and muddied, as if they were swirled together in a mixer, with highlights, or a single, pure unmuddied earth tone, and/or have a slight crystalline appearance like quartz.
  Special Senses: Seismic sense, like a seismograph the Lithovore Host Armor is able to detect minuscule vibrations in the ground, feeling earthquakes, thunder, explosions and even the approach of heavy vehicles, robots, troop movement, and stampeding animals up to 12 miles (19.2 km) away. The suit also has chemoreceptors that are capable of diagnosing the exact chemical composition of any dirt, stones, rocks, soil, clay, and other minerals and soil samples, when tasted by the Host Armor, with a skill percentage of 50% +4% per level of experience.
  Bonus Bio-E Points: 20 additional Bio-E points.
  Bite Damage: 3D8 M.D., has powerful rock crushing teeth in an extendable, one foot (0.3 m) long flexible, trunk-like muzzle.
  Bonuses: The armor provides the pilot with a bonus of +2 to parry, +1 to dodge, +4 to roll with fall, and +3D6 to M.D.C., as well as base instinctive skills of Dowsing 60%, Excavation/Mining 50%, Land Navigation 80% and Masonry 60%.
  Penalties: No additional penalties to speak of, just the need to find enough food for the Host Armor. Has a tendency to be quiet.
  Spoiler: Bio-Comms

  Biotics and Wing Packs are eligible to get a set of organic communications implants called Bio-Comms installed. These organic resonators create sympathetic vibrations in other living creatures that can then be decoded by other Bio-Comm units, in effect, creating a system of telepathic-like communication between anyone with a Bio-Comm enhancement. Best of all, this form of communication has proven to be undecipherable to the Machine and her robots. The downside is range is limited to a maximum distance of only 6 miles (9.6 km). Note: All Host Armor and Packmasters automatically start with this enhancement at no additional Bio-E Cost. Other human characters can also get this enhancement; available to all characters in the resistance who may want a Bio-Comm implant.
  Spoiler: Ambidextrous

  The wearer of the Host Armor can use both the right and left hands with equal skill, even if the pilot is not ambidextrous outside the suit.
  Bonuses: + 1 attack per melee round, + 1 to entangle, automatically gets W.P. Paired Weapons skill when in the Host Armor, and +5% to the following skills: Climbing, Demolitions, Escape
  Artist, Pick Locks, Palming, Concealment and other sleight of hand skills.
  Bio-E Cost: 15 points, plus 5 points per additional pair of limbs, but the only additional benefit is a +1 to parry bonus per each additional pair of limbs. Ambidextrous is not applicable to insect limbs, tentacles, articulated spikes, tails or feet.
  Prerequisite: Enhanced Neurological Connections.
  Spoiler: Reinforced Exoskeleton

  An extra-thick, extra-hard, and resilient exoskeleton and bones that are difficult to break. Bonuses: +30 M.D.C. to the main body and +7 M.D.C. to all other locations. A head butt does + 1d6 M.D., a running ram/body block does an extra +3d6 M.D., and +2d6 M.D. bonus to punches, elbows and kicks from the character. +1 to roll with punch, fall or impact.
  Bio-E Cost: 5 points.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Bio-Force Field

  By amplifying the natural neurolytic energy of the Host Armor, the suit is able to create a powerful bio-electric force field to protect itself and the pilot under its hide. While the field is strong, it takes a long time to recharge. Damage should be taken from the force field, and after the force field is depleted, then from the M.D.C. of the armor. M.D.C. of the Bio-Force Field: 3D6x10 M.D.C. is standard [140 MDC base] (costs 35 Bio-E), but the M.D.C. can be increased by spending more Bio-E on it, up to a maximum of 300 M.D.C. See Bio-E Cost.
  Penalty: If the M.D.C. of the Bio-Force Field is depleted, it cannot be reactivated again for 12 hours! As long as the Bio-Force Field's M.D.C. has not been depleted, it regenerates lost M.D.C. at the rate of one point per minute (that's 60 M.D.C. points per hour).
  Duration: Indefinite; as long as the pilot is conscious, the force field can remain in place.
  Bio-E Cost: 35 points (3D6x10 M.D.C.). If so desired, the Bio-Force Field's M.D.C. can be increased by 20 M.D.C. per every additional 5 Bio-E points spent.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Resistance to Heat

  Glands and water storage organs, or other methods to vent heat and cool the body, enable the Host Armor to tolerate extreme heat. Temperatures as hot as 140 degrees Fahrenheit have no adverse effect. Likewise, the character can pick up and hold an item that is as hot as 200 degrees Fahrenheit without injury or pain. Fire and heat greater than that, including plasma blasts and magic fire, do half damage.
  Bio-E Cost: 5 points.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Enhanced Neurological Connections

  The Host Armor's spinal cord and neurological connections to the pilot are modified to carry signals from the pilot's brain to the Host Armor's body faster than normal. This allows for faster reaction time and excellent reflexes: +2 to initiative, + 1 to disarm, +2 to automatic dodge. An automatic dodge is "automatic" in the sense that it is a quick, reflex action like a parry, in which the character bends, bobs and weaves in such a way as to dodge without using up a melee attack/action. Roll 1D20 to determine if the dodge attempt succeeds as usual; do not apply other dodge bonuses to the automatic dodge. An automatic dodge can be used to try to dodge any attack, including bullets and energy blasts. This enhancement causes the pilot and Host Armor to be a bit jumpy and fidgety.
  Bio-E Cost: 20 points.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Glow Cells

  The cells are clustered on the arms, chest or forehead (can have up to six on one arm or up to four on the forehead) of the Host Armor to generate a weak light from a biochemical reaction. About 60 watts is produced by the bioluminescence, roughly equal to a dim light bulb, but is enough to read by. The light produced can be seen from about three hundred feet (91.5 m) away. Glow Cells may be genetically tweaked to radiate visible light or ultraviolet or infrared spectrums of light (the player may choose).
  Bio-E Cost: 3 points for each glow cell.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Organic Thrusters

  Mounted on the back of the Host Armor is a set of Organic Thrusters, that are the equivalent of a biological jet pack. At the top of the Organic Thrusters are two large air intake orifices that suck in the air. Then an internal set of baffles, similar to a set of hearts, compresses the air and forces it out through four small cones at the base of the thrusters. Direction and control is performed by moving the cone-like thruster ports, and the overall effect is like a vectored thrust jet engine, just not as fast.
  Flight Ability: 200 mph (320 km), with a maximum altitude of 25,000 feet (7620 m).
  Underwater: May be used underwater with a speed of 100 mph (160 km).
  Bonuses When in Flight: +1 on initiative, +1 to strike, +2 to dodge and +2 to roll with fall or impact in flight.
  M.D.C.: The Organic Thrusters have 4D4x 10 M.D.C. each, and the four thruster ports have 1D4x10+10 each .
  Bio-E Cost: 35 points. Speed can be increased by +20 mph (32 km) for 10 Bio-E points. The speed can be upgraded in this manner up to 10 times (200 mph/320 km extra), for a maximum possible speed of 400 mph (640 km). Underwater speed is half the air speed.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Forearm Blades

  A blade of super-strong bone that is either attached to the wrist or forearm or which slides out of a forearm housing at the wrist. The weapon is used like a sword to cut, stab and slash opponents. In the alternative, the Bone Weapon could appear as large bone talons growing from the fingertips or knuckles, or any similar blade-like bone protrusions growing from the hand or forearm as a sword-like weapon. Bone Blades can also be grown on the shoulders or head, but are not nearly as effective a weapon as those grown on the forearm or hand. All Bone Blade Weapons are very obvious and even those that retract into a concealed housing never retract more than half the length of the blade.
  M.D.C. of the Bone Weapon: 2D4x10+18 M.D.C., but only takes damage when it is specifically targeted and heals from damage. If completely destroyed or broken away from the Host Armor, the Bone Blade will regrow within 24 hours.
  Mega-Damage & Bio-E Cost: 2d6 per Bone Weapon (at a total Bio-E cost of 10 points) (5d6 Damage with PS Bonus)
  Bonuses: +2 to strike, +1 to parry and disarm, and +1 to pull punch, but these bonuses only apply when the Bone Weapon is used.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Bio-Energy Expulsion Vents

  The Host Armor can fire energy blasts from a vent-like protrusion. Bio-Energy Vents can be mounted on the forearms or the shoulders (some even have it mounted on top of the head). Bio-Energy blasts draw on the life force of the pilot inside (not the Host Armor itself), so the greater the Endurance of the pilot (P .E. attribute), the more massive the Bio-Energy blast. Of course the pilot must be careful not to overtax his own body when using this weapon.
  M.D.C. of the actual Bio-Energy Vent: 6D6+24 M.D.C. points per Vent.
  Mega-Damage: 2D8 +bonus M.D. equal to the P.E. attribute value of the human pilot. (2d8+25 per blast)
  Rate of Fire: Each blast counts as one melee attack/action. Cannot fire volleys or simultaneous blasts at the same target.
  Maximum Effective Range: 1,800 feet (549 m), but only 900 feet (274 m) underwater.
  Payload: Effectively unlimited. However, firing more than 20 blasts a minute (that's 5 per melee round) weakens the pilot, causing him to lose two melee attacks/actions per round and reduces all of his combat bonuses by half for the next 1D6 minutes.
  Bonus: +3 to strike on a carefully aimed Vent shot only.
  Bio-E Cost: 10 points per each Bio-Energy Vent.
  Prerequisite: None.
  Spoiler: Omega Blaster

  This is a tremendous energy cannon built into the redesigned chest of the Host Armor. While this weapon can only fire once per melee round (every 15 seconds), it does massive damage. The unit is protected by two armored plates, each of which may contain a separate Omega Blaster. These plates must be pulled back for the Omega Blaster(s) to fire. Each protective plate (one over each blaster) starts with 100 M.D.C. points, and it takes one melee attack/action to pull back the plate(s) to fire.
  Mega-Damage: 2D8x10 M.D., with a blast radius of 10 feet (3 m) if a single Omega Blaster is used, or 4D8x10 M.D., with a blast radius of 20 feet (6. 1 m), if both are fired simultaneously at
  the same target(s).
  Maximum Effective Range: 5000 feet ( 1 524 m); nearly one mile.
  Rate of Fire: It takes two melee attacks to fire one Omega Blaster (including pulling back the protective plate), or three melee attacks to fire a pair of Omega Blasters (also including pulling
  back the protective plates, if the Host Armor has two blasters) at once. Remember that both of the Omega Blasters do not have to fire together, allowing for up to two, single shots per melee round.
  Payload: Effectively unlimited, since these are energy based weapons.
  Bonus: +2 to strike on an aimed shot.
  Bio-E Cost: 80 points for each Omega Blaster, with a maximum of two possible.
  Prerequisites: Enhanced Neurological Connections and Heat Resistance (both of which are kept with all their features).
  Spoiler: Chameleon Skin

  The color and pattern of the Host Armor's exterior can be changed to adapt to any situation, so that the armored hide can transform to look like rippling water, moving or stationary leaves, green grass and scrub, dirt and rocks, a brick wall, concrete, metal, tree bark, and similar "natural earth" patterns, colors, and environments with exactly the right shades and reflections. Cannot do bright colors; bright red, shocking pink, brilliant blue, iridescent, or neon. Note: Anything that is worn over or covers the changing skin colors underneath stands out on the otherwise chameleon concealed Host Armor, as do any weapons or equipment that are carried.
  
  Likelihood of Remaining Unseen/Camouflaged:
  90% Undetectable if completely still; +5% if laying flat on the ground.
  70% Undetectable if moving 2 feet (0.6 m) per melee round or slower.
  50% Undetectable if moving 3 feet (0.9 m) to 4 feet (1.2 m) per melee round.
  30% Undetectable if moving 5 feet (1 .5 m) to 7 feet (2.1 m) per melee round.
  10% Undetectable if moving 8 feet (2 .4 m) to 10 feet (3 m) per melee round.
  Totally ineffective if moving any faster.
  Bio-E Cost: 20 points.
  Prerequisite: None.
  
  
  Bonuses: All bonuses are in added to the pilot's own Hand to Hand Combat training, attribute bonuses, and any additional bonuses due to the character' s Host Armor' s specific attributes and Biological Enhancements. These bonuses apply only when the character is inside his Host Armor, they do not apply to the pilot's physical abilities outside of the armor.
  + 1 extra attack/action per melee round, plus those of the pilot, at levels 1, 5, 10 and 15.
  + 1 to strike with long-ranged Bio-Weapons that are an integral part of the Host Armor.
  + 1 to strike and parry in hand to hand combat.
  + 1 to initiative, dodge and disarm.
  +2 to pull punch and +1 to roll with impact, punch or fall.
  Critical Strike is the same as the pilot's Hand to Hand skill.
  
  Mega-Damage: Each Host Armor will have its own range of P.S. and Hand to Hand damage based on the Splicer P.S. table and any melee Bio-Weapons given to it during its creation or augmentation. These basics let the pilot do a restrained punch, full strength punch, power punch (double damage but counts as two melee attacks), a normal kick (same as the punch +1D6 M.D.), a stomp (1D6 M.D. to targets under 3 feet/1.9 m tall), leap kick (triple the damage of a normal punch, but counts as two melee attacks) and a block/tackle/ram (1D4 M.D. plus a 50% chance of knocking an opponent down, causing him to lose initiative and one melee attack/action, but counts as two melee attacks).
  
  
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  Jeet Kune Do
  
  Character Bonuses
  Add 2 to I.Q.
  Add 3 to P.P.
  Add 2 to P.S.
  Add 2 to P.E.
  
  Attacks per Melee: 3
  Escape Moves: Roll, Maintain Balance, Breakfall.
  Basic Defenses: Parry, Dodge, Automatic Parry.
  Advanced Defenses: Combination Parry/Attack.
  Hand Attacks: Strike (d6), Backhand (d6), Elbow (d6), Fingertip Attack (1 point), Forearm (d6), Palm Strike (d6), Power Punch (double-damage, counts as two attacks), Uppercut (d10).
  Foot Attacks: Kick (d8), Crescent Kick (d10), Knee (d6), Reverse Turning Kick (Combination Dodge/Kick, 2d6 damage, 1/round), Roundhouse Kick (3d6), Side Kick (d10), Snap Kick (d6), Trip/Hook (no damage, causes knockdown, cannot be parried).
  Jumping Attacks: Jump Kick (d8 + Critical Strike), Flying Jump Kick (d10 + Critical Strike).
  Special Attacks: Body Flip/Throw, Choke, plus...
  - Bite (grappling range only. 1-2 damage + 1/2 strength bonus [maximum +3]. Opponent must Save vs. Pain [14] or release hold/lock).
  - Eye-flick (No damage. Opponent is -2 to Strike, Parry, and Dodge for one melee round).
  - Head-butt (in-fighting and grappling range only, d8 damage).
  - Self-knowledge (Special! The Jeet Kune Do may learn a martial art technique from any other system [subject to GM approval). Signature techniques [like Aikido's Knife-hand Knockout and Thai Kick Boxing's Lightning Form] cannot be learned. Techniques with a "prerequisite" must be learned in order. For example, to learn Automatic Elbow Hold, one must first learn Elbow Hold. "Take what is useful and develop from there." - Lee).
  Holds/Locks: Arm Lock, Leg Hold, Wrist Lock.
  
  Level Advancement Bonuses
  
  1st - +1 to Perception, +2 to Parry, +2 to Dodge.
  2nd - Eye-flick + Roundhouse combination (one Strike roll for both effects), +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to damage.
  3rd - Self-knowledge, +1 Attack per Round, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 19 or higher.
  4th - Way of the Intercepting Fist (Special! Once per round, upon his opponent's attack, the JKD artist may attempt to Simultaneously Attack the opponent. If successful, the JKD artist has the option to intercept before the opponent's strike connects. If the JKD artist's strike is successful, roll damage. The opponent must Save vs. Pain [14]. Failing the saving throw results in the opponent losing his attempted attack), +1 to Strike, +1 to Parry, +1 to Dodge.
  5th - Flying Side Kick causes knockdown, +1 Attack per Round, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 18 or higher.
  6th - Self-knowledge, One-Inch Punch (Special! May only be used once per melee, and must be the first attack used that round; does 2D6 damage + knockdown), +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage.
  7th - Flying Side Kick does 4d6 damage + knockdown, +1 Attack per Round, +1 to Perception, +2 to Body Flip/Throw.
  8th - +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 17 or higher.
  9th - Self-knowledge, +1 to Parry, +1 to Dodge, Knockout on a natural roll of 19 or higher.
  10th - One-Inch Punch causes 4d6 damage + knockdown, +1 Attack per Round, +1 to Roll, +1 to Body Flip/Throw.
  11th - Death Blow on a natural roll of 19 or higher. Critical Hit on a natural roll of 16 or higher.
  12th - Self-knowledge, +1 to Initiative, +1 to Strike, +1 to Damage.
  13th - +1 to Parry, +1 to Dodge, Knockout on a natural roll of 18 or higher.
  14th - Death Blow on a natural roll of 18 or higher, +2 to Perception.
  15th - Self-knowledge, +1 Attack per Round, Critical Hit on a natural roll of 15 or higher.
  
  
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  Military fatigues, a couple of sets of
  dress clothing, survival knife, utility belt, first-aid kit, a Face
  Wrap (gas mask), tinted goggles, hatchet for cutting wood,
  one or two light Bio-Weapons of choice and one weapon for
  each W.P. with appropriate ammunition, tent, knapsack,
  backpack, two water skins, emergency food rations (three
  week supply), some personal items and a Mega-Horse for
  transportation.
  
  Spoiler: Face Wrap

  The Face Wrap hugs around the face tightly, covering the mouth and nose completely, but the wearer can still speak clearly and breathe easily. The creature automatically purifies the air before it is passed on to its wearer, removing all toxins, poisons and impurities before the air is breathed by the person. It also has a built-in system of gills to allow the wearer to breathe underwater for an unlimited period of time, and it can amplify the wearer's voice at up to 50 decibels (roughly the equivalent of using a megaphone/loudspeaker). As a result, the Face Wrap is an organic version of a gas mask, rebreather and megaphone all rolled into one.
  A Face Wrap resembles a squashed octopus with only four arms. Two of the arms wrap around the person's neck, while the other two wrap behind the head to hold the creature in place.
  Over each cheek of the wearer are the Face Wrap's air intake valves while the waste gases are expelled through a small "horn" at the bottom of the mask that hangs down just below the wearer' s chin. The Face Wrap even has two small bladders, like the throat sac on a frog, that can be filled with enough air to let the person survive for up to 30 minutes with no air at all.
  M.D.C. of the Device: 25, and regenerates damage at a rate of 1D6 M.D.C. per hour.
  
  
  Spoiler: Bio-Energy Pistol (Light Bio-Weapon)

  A living Bio-Tech pistol that fires energy blasts from its vent-like barrel. It draws on the life force of the user (not the weapon itself), so the more endurance (P.E. attribute) the shooter has, the larger the payload. Of course the shooter must be careful not to overtax his own body when using this Bio-Weapon. The pistol has two clamps that pierce the shooter's flesh (1D4 S.D.C. damage) in order to link to him and draw on his life energy.
  Weight: 4 lbs (1.5 kg).
  Mega-Damage: 2D8+1 point of M.D. for every one point of the character' s P.E. attribute. So a character with a P.E. of 15 does 2D8+15 M.D. [2d8+25]
  Maximum Effective Range: 800 feet (244 m), half underwater.
  Rate of Fire: Each blasts counts as one of the shooter' s melee attacks/actions.
  Payload: One blast for every P.E. attribute point per hour. Additional blasts are possible but will weaken the user of the weapon. (Loses one melee attack/action, one P.E. attribute point, and -1 on all combat bonuses for the next I D6 minutes, for each additional blast fired beyond his payload capacity. The penalties are accumulative and the shooter gets weaker and weaker. Can fire up to one P.E. point left, but at that point is weak as a kitten. It takes 15 minutes of rest to regain one P.E. point.)
  Trade Value: 9,500 credits.
  Spoiler: Light Cell Laser Pistol (Light Bio-Weapon)

  The Light Cell Pistol has a large light producing cell cluster that resembles a large spider eye at the front of the weapon. These light cells can produce a beam of pure white light of a very damaging intensity. The light produced by these cells is coherent "white" light, so the beam does full damage even to laser resistant armors (it' s not a true laser). The Light Cell Laser Pistol can also be set to fire at a variety of intensities in order to inflict different levels of damage on the target. The pistol can even fire a harmless beam of light, like a flashlight or a signal beam, with the full normal range of the weapon.
  Weight: 3 lbs (1.4 kg).
  Mega-Damage: Three M.D. settings: a light 1D8 M.D. blast, a medium 2D8 M.D . or a heavy-duty 3D8 M.D. blast.
  S.D.C. Damage: Special damage setting: 5D8 S.D.C. per blast or a harmless light beam.
  Maximum Effective Range: 1,000 feet (305 m).
  Rate of Fire: Each blast counts as one melee attack/action.
  Payload: Effectively unlimited, since these are energy based weapons.
  Bonus: +2 to strike on an aimed shot.
  Spoiler: Pod Rifle (Heavy Bio-Weapon)

  The rifle version of the Pod Pistol, firing a burst of larger pods at a greater range.
  Weight: 9 lbs (4 kg).
  Mega-Damage: 5D8 M.D. per burst with a blast radius of 20 feet (6.1 m).
  Maximum Effective Range: 1,200 feet (366 m).
  Rate of Fire: Each blast counts as one melee attack/action; can only fire in bursts.
  Payload: Grows enough seed pods for 32 bursts per hour; automatically regenerates.
  Bonus: + 1 to strike with a burst of pods.
  4 Chigs
  
  Spoiler: Chig Hand Grenades

  Bio-Hand Grenades: Chigs. The Splicer version of a hand grenade is a Chig, a baseball (hardball) sized organism (egg-shaped insectoids) that consumes all types of garbage and debris and is used to dispose of waste, however during combat they can be hurled like grenades, exploding on impact. Chigs can be placed on Living Body Armor and Host Armor (secured by fabric or hooks) or kept in a satchel bag or backpack. Some warriors simply place the Chigs loose on his armor. Most will cling to the armor, eating any foreign substance that comes in contact with the body, as well as waste and garbage (everything from rotten food to the wrapper it came in) that the warrior may have along the way. Most (90%) will cling to the body and stay there until physically moved, but there is a 01-33% chance of one or more crawling away during sleep or rest, and a 01-50% chance of 1d6x10% of the Chigs getting knocked off the body from an impact/ram attack. When the warrior needs one, he pulls it off and hurls it at the enemy. The character must throw the Chig with enough force to make the Chig explode on impact, as if throwing a hard fastball, a simple toss or looping lob will not do the job. Chigs may also be affixed to the tip of an arrow or spearhead (one Chig per arrow, two on a spear) and then fired or thrown, with greater distance, at the enemy.
  Weight: Half a pound (0.22 kg).
  Mega-Damage: 5d8 M.D., to an eight foot (2.4 m) radius.
  Maximum Effective Range: Thrown as a grenade: 100 feet (30.5 m), twice that for Splicers. If attached to an arrow or spear the range is that of the projectile reduced by 30% due to the extra weight and imbalance of the Chig(s) on the tip.
  Trade Value: 600 credits each.
  One Mig Bio-Explosive w/ Squig
  
  Spoiler: Mig Bio-Explosive

  Heavy Bio-Explosive: Migs. Migs are also living organisms that resemble two medium-sized pie pans placed together, with a pair of sucker mouths on the bottom which are used to both move around and eat. They too feed on trash, garbage and organic waste. In this case, Migs are placed where they are needed (stuck to a door, wall, the back of a robot, etc.), held in place by the suction cup mouth and "set" to explode in 1-10 minutes. They may also be buried under the ground (close to the surface) or under leaves, like a land mine, to explode when something very heavy (900 Ibs/405 kg or more) steps on them. They can also be set for one minute, held and then tossed like a Frisbee at a specific enemy (to hopefully explode when it arrives at the desired target or 1d4 seconds later; it' s all a matter of timing on the part of the thrower). Note: An artificial timer and detonator or a Squig must be used to detonate the Mig.
  Weight: One pound (0.45 kg).
  Mega-Damage: 1D8x10 M.D., to a 12 foot (3 .6 m) radius.
  Maximum Effective Range: Thrown, about 40 feet (12.2 m; double for Splicers).
  Trade Value: 1,200 credits each.
  Organic Blasting Cap: Squig. Squigs are organic blasting caps designed to detonate other explosives. They are relatively fragile creatures with a very accurate timing mechanism. Squigs resemble a sea urchin with 30 small tendrils, and when one of the tendrils is pulled off the Squig it starts a 30 minute countdown. The delay is reduced by one minute for each additional tendril that is removed, and if all tendrils are removed the Squig detonates in 2d4 seconds. Leaving one tentacle means it will explode in one minute. The Squig can also be squished, and if this is done the resilient little thing becomes set to detonate on impact, and can then be thrown like a baseball at the enemy. Squigs can be affixed to an arrow or spearhead (up to two Squigs per arrow and four per spear) and then they can be fired or thrown the usual distance for that weapon, exploding on impact).
  Weight: Quarter pound (0.12 kg).
  Mega-Damage: 1d4 M.D. per single Squig, no blast radius.
  Maximum Effective Range : Thrown, about 80 feet (24.4 m), or as per the normal range of a missile weapon.
  Trade Value: 100 credits each.
  
  

 

[Mirgris]

• Lance Altamont "Lancelot"
• Host Armor
• Griffon
• Mounted Combat

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  IQ. 13
  M.E. 15
  M.A. 11
  P.S. 31: +16 S.D.C. damage.
  P.P. 26: +6 to Strike, Parry, Dodge
  P.E. 32: +32% to Saving Throws vs. coma/death, +8 to Saving Throws vs. Magic, poison,Immuine to disease, Half fatigue rate
  P.B. 11
  Spd 36: 25 MPH
  
  Hit Points: 36
  M.D.C: 1
  S.D.C: 2
  
  Known Skills
  Skill Groups:
  Basic Military (+15%)
  Climbing, Hand to Hand: Basic, Military Etiquette, Running, W.P. Sword and W.P. Knife.
  War Mount Rider (+20%)
  Herding, Horsemanship, Trick Riding, War Mount Combat, and W.P. Weapons: Light.
  Bio-Technology:
  Bio-Comms, Biology, Genetics, Machine Lore and Operate Bio-Equipment.
  Martial Artist:
  Boxing, Hand to Hand: Martial Arts, Kick Boxing and Wrestling.
  Athletics:
  General Athletics, Body Building & Weight Lifting, Gymnastics, Acrobatics,Fencing
  
  5 Elective Skills
  Host Armor Combat
  Upgraded Martial Arts: (TAE KWON DO KARATE)
  WP: Lance
  Wilderness Survival
  Public Speaking
  
  4 Secondary
  Physical Labor
  WP:Shield
  Outdoorsmanship
  Recognize Weapon Quality
  
  Skill Bonuses:
  Attacks: (4)+1
  Dodge: +3
  Parry: +3
  Roll with punch or fall:+8
  Sword Bonuses: +1d6 Damage,+2 to Strike +1 to Parry
  Knife Bonuses: +1d6 Damage,+1 to Strike +2 to Parry
  Lance Bonuses: +1 to Strike, Triple Damage on Crits
  Shield Bonuses: +1 to Parry
  Light Bio Weapon Bonuses:+1 to Strike
  
• 
  
  Features:
  Enhanced passive night vision (light amplification). Range: 6000 Feet
  Enhanced Sight (Infrared, Ultraviolet & Thermal Vision) Range: 2000 Feet
  Resistance to: Kinetic
  Resistance to: Physical
  Resistance to: Laser
  Resistance to: Heat
  Reinforced Exoskeleton
  Regeneration Enhanced
  Ultraviolet Light Cell
  Enhanced Neurological Connections
  Ambidextrous
  Wings
  Small Horns
  
  
  MDC:
  Arms: 90+7
  Hands: 50+7
  Legs: 140+7
  Feet: 50+7
  Head: 100+7
  Body: 230+30
  
  Bonuses while in armor
  Attacks: +2
  Strike: +4
  Long Range Strike: +1
  Dodge: +2
  Automatic Dodge: +2
  Parry: +3
  Roll with punch or fall: +6
  Initiative: +6
  Disarm/Entangle: +1
  
  Bonuses while Flying in armor (total)
  Initiative: +7
  Strike: +5
  Dodge: +3
  Roll with punch or fall: +7
  
  WP: Paired Weapons
  Land Navigation 70%
  Track (people) 65%
  Track Animals 80%
  Wilderness Survival 60%
  
  
• 
  Griffin Base Stats:
  IQ: 6
  ME:14
  MA:12
  PS: 37 Supernatural
  PP: 18 +2 to Strike Parry and Dodge
  PE: 16
  PB: 100! PRETTY BIRD PRETTY BIRD!
  
  MDC:
  Wings (2) – 407 each
  Front Legs (2) – 157 each
  Hind Legs (2) – 187 each
  Clawed Feet (4) – 167 each
  Tail – 87
  Tail Mounted Third Eye – 17
  Barbed Tentacles (20) – 92 each*
  Head – 367
  War Saddle – 107*
  Main Body – 430
  
  
  BIO MODS: 18 Points Remaining
  Resistance to: Kinetic (20)
  Resistance to: Laser (15)
  Resistance to: Heat (5)
  Reinforced Exoskeleton (5)
  Reinforced Body Area: Wings (5)
  Reinforced Body Area: Head (5)
  Reinforced Body Area: Clawed Feet (5)
  Large Horns: (12)
  Regeneration Enhanced: (10)
  Resistance to: Physical (Free)
  
  Combat Capabilities:
  Head Butt: 8D6 M.D.
  Bite: 3D8 M.D.
  Restrained Talon Strike: 1D8 M.D. plus 1d6 MD
  Talon Strike: 5D8 M.D. plus 1d6 MD
  Power Talon Strike: 2D4x10 M.D., but counts as two attacks. plus 1d6 MD
  Dual Talon Strike: 2D4x10 M.D., counts as one melee attack,but can only be done while in flight. plus 1d6 MD
  Wing Slash: 3D8 M.D. plus 1d6 MD
  High-Speed Wing Slash: This strafe attack can only be performed at speeds of at least 100 mph (160 km). Inflicts 1D8x10M.D., but counts as two attacks.
  Grappling Attack: This is the Griffin’s primary method for attacking Sky Fighters. The War Mount quickly decelerates and allows any pursuing craft to slam into it so it can grab its prey and sink its claws in to hold on. This move inflicts 4D10 M.D.to the enemy craft, but it also inflicts 1D8 M.D. to the Griffin(this amount already includes the decrease in damage taken due to the Resistance to Physical Attack Enhancement). Roll to strike as normal. The Griffin has a special bonus of +6 to strike with this attack (plus any attribute bonuses). In addition, the enemy is-3 to dodge this attack due to the sudden and surprising change indirection of the Griffin.Shred Attack: Can only be performed when the Griffin is anchored to the target with its barbed tentacles. The War Mounts all four talons and both of its razor-sharp wings to claw,slash, and tear the target apart. Inflicts 3D4x10+30 M.D plus 1d6 MD., but counts as three attacks.
  Body Block/Pounce/Ram: 5D8 M.D. plus 2d6 MD (+2D8 M.D. if flying more than 200 mph (320 km). Has a 01-70% likelihood of knocking an opponent who is as large 20 feet (6.1 m) tall off of his feet and onto his back. If knocked off his feet, the victim loses initiative and two melee attacks. A ram counts as two attacks.
  
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  "Personal" War Mount: + 1 attack/action per melee round,+2 to initiative, +2 to strike, parry, dodge, and disarm, +1 to rollwith impact, punch or fall and + 1 to save vs Horror Factor.
  
  War Mount Skill Bonus: + 1 extra attack/action per melee round, + 1 to strike with long-ranged Bio-Weapons. +1 to strike and parry, +2 on initiative, + 1 dodge and roll with impact, punch or fall. Critical Strike is the same as the pilot's Hand to Hand skill.
  
  Horsemanship Bonuses: + 1 to parry and dodge,and + 1 D6 to damage while on horseback. Charge attack (running horse) with a battle axe, large sword, pole-arm or spear does an extra+1D6 damage.