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2010-05-09T13:45:11Z

Bencyclopedia:

''This is a layout stolen from [[TrialBySchmendrick]] to facilitate an On-line Match in ImmortalKombat.''

'''Trial started:''' Friday, April 23, 2010 7:29AM PDT 
'''Trial completed:''' {date}

== Contestants ==

[[Sabis/TwiceClashingLightning| Twice Clashing Lightning]] - Dawn Caste - Arms of the Unconquered Sun Style

[[Nikink/TheHorrorUnderLockAndKey| The Horror Under Lock and Key]] - Slayer Caste - Infernal Monster Style

1. Full Essence 5 builds allowed (Yay Essence 5 Debut!)

2. Full Artifacts allowed.

== Blank Tick Template ==
''Flavor text describing the events, stunts, etc.''

:Mechanics of one fighter

:Mechanics of another fighter. If a fighter makes an attack, use the attack steps. Second Edition, for example, would be:

# Attack specifics, including charm use.
## Additional details, like countercharms
## Or other responses to the attack made during this step
# Defense declaration
# Attack roll
# Attack reroll
# External penalties
# Defense reroll
# Base damage
# Soak
# Counterattacks
# Result

== Arena + Setup ==

The southern slopes of Mount Metagalapa. The mountain rises to the north and the peak can be glimpsed through the white halo of cloud. To the south the smoke from a village can be seen before the precipitous fall away to the scavenger lands below. The ground is moderately inclined and strewn with outcroppings of rock and low copses of trees. Around the village is scattered small plots of land to grow their meagre harvests. To the north west of the mountain is the capital with its eyries and valleys. To the north east lies a ravine and rushing stream. A light breeze swirls around the mountain from the north carrying the faint cries of the famous Metagalapan hawks.

On this wind blasted wasteland appears a large, brutish man wearing nothing but purple silk pants. Those with keen hearing can detect the faint sound of a ticking clock emanating from his muscular chest. He grunts and wipes his mop of black, dirty hair out of his eyes.

Some 29 yards away appears a Southern man dressed in loose fitting white desert robes, open in the front with thin gold embroidery along the edges of the fabric. Compact and slender, he is dwarfed by the other man's size, but his pale blue eyes flash with impending violence and show only a firm resolution.

== Transcript ==

=== Tick -1 ===
Join Battle: Twice Clashing Lightning (TCL) A pitiful 3 successes.

Join Battle: The Horror Under Lock and Key (HULK) a remarkable 7 successes + 1 auto for Joy in Violence Approach and Wind-Born Stride x1

=== Tick 0 ===

''The purple panted man locks eyes with the stranger and roars a challenge, dropping into a low, uneasy crouch and edging forward. The roar is carried on the breeze to the nearby village where a baby starts crying and an old man dies with a terrified look on his face.''

''With a derisive smile that lasts for but a second and contains not a hint of humor, the white robed man speaks: "So you're the brute everyone is talking about. I can only hope you are as incompetent as you look."''

:HULK enters Guard Action Speed 3 DV-0 and starts Moving towards TCL.
:TCL begins circling to his (TCL's) right, trying to maintain their distance.

# Attack specifics, including charm use.
## Additional details, like countercharms
## Or other responses to the attack made during this step
# Defense declaration
# Attack roll
# Attack reroll
# External penalties
# Defense reroll
# Base damage
# Soak
# Counterattacks
# Result

:Distance: 29 - 5 + 5 = 29 yards

=== Tick 1 ===
:Distance: 29 - 5 + 5 = 29 yards

=== Tick 2 ===
:Distance: 29 - 5 + 5 = 29 yards

=== Tick 3 ===
''"Fight me you coward. You are scared, yes?" rumbles the large man jumping to the top of a boulder and then back down, continuing his inexorable approach. "I will end you quickly if you fight with honor. To run like a coward just makes me... '''angry'''."''

:HULK continues his wary Guard Action Speed 3 DV-0 and keeps Moving towards TCL.

:Distance: 29 - 5 + 5 = 29 yards (assuming TCL keeps backing away...)
=== Tick 4 ===
Turning on point and hopping up onto a tree limb, TCL stops moving. ''"Ending quickly is far too poor an assessment of your skills. I wish to see your conviction to this path of destruction you walk."''

If HULK keeps advancing, 29 - 5 yards = 24 yards.

=== Tick 5 ===
''"So, let us show off our Exalted martial prowess so that we may better understand each other. Let me see your form, the culmination of your essence as a Martial Artist. Here is mine."'' Crouching low on the branch, TCL leans forward, his eye's flashing eagerly, anticipating his opponents actions as the golden sun of Dawn wakes on his brow. A brief glow of light is seen from under the filmy swathing covering his arms, flowing with the colors of jade.

TCL Adopts Rising Sun Form. (5m Peripheral, Simple, Spd 5, DV -1)

''"There is no... ''understanding''! There. Is. Only. '''Rage'''!" His eyes become two blazing green wells of hatred, like windows to Malfeas. His anima flares like a bonfire of vitriolic flame as he grows to many times his previous size. His skin turns coarse and unhealthy like the streets of his patron. The rocks beneath the Slayer's feet shatter as he thrusts himself high into the air and begins to laugh. Hysterical. Maniacal. His laughter booms across the mountain like the gates of hell opening and he lands about Twice Clashing Lightning with a thunderous impact that shakes the mountain to its core. Again and again...''

Nice description. 2 Dice.

HULK drops the Guard action, activates his combo: Joyous Rage Abandonment... By Rage Recast, By Pain Reforged, By Agony Empowered, Retribution Will Follow, Joyful Cessation of Restraint (5 attacks with auto knockdown, +2 attacks if victim prone on 5th attack) and Leaping Smash Technique with Shock and Awe Slam on each attack (+6m/attack), option of Who Strikes the Wind? for 3m. Total = 2w+34m(+12m)(+3m/dodge). Reflexive leap of up to 30 yards before each attack.

:Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 10+4(BRR)+2(LST)=16B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
:Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 10, Dmg- 19B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
:Current: Wp: 10-2, Motes: Personal 25, Peripheral 49-34(-12 maybe)(-3+ maybe), Committed: 8+1(RWF)
:HULK Health: \/-0/-0/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/-4/-4/-4/Incap/Dying
:Soak: 16B/16L/0A Hardness: 11B/0L/0A
:DDV: 8, PDV: Arms 6 Legs 4 (+2 Anima)
:Speed 5, DV -1

''"As I thought, nothing more than a brute with more enlightenment than sense."'' TCL shifts almost imperceptibly in his stance, clearing his mind and readying his body for action. As the thunderous blows rain about him, he moves like a leaf blown by the wind, a brilliant corona of light tracing the afterimages of each of his steps, his hands barely brushing against the beast's, sliding a hairs breadth out of the raging monstrosity's reach. A tall, serene crane leaps into existence out of his fading steps, mirroring them and striding just a heartbeat behind. Amidst the violence, the man is a singular point of calm reasoning, stepping lightly down the branches of the tree to the ground, each foothold fracturing into a thousand pieces behind him under his foe's assault."

TCL spends 1 Peripheral mote on Heaven and Earth Stairway, switching to Sleeping Sun Form, adding TCL's Essence to his DV's (5), and prepares to use Second Martial Arts Excellency through Martial Arts Essence Flow. (Spending 10m P on the first one causes my anima to go iconic, and grants me a +2dv bonus vs Everyone, with the improved Dawn anima ability granted by Shedding Infinite Radiance).

:Defenses!
:Current: Wp: 8, Motes: Personal 13(13), Peripheral 47(48), Committed: 10 Personal + 5 Peripheral (Form)
:TCL Health:-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>
:All Forms Soak: B/L/A 16/18/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
:DDV: 14, PDV: Arms 17 Legs 16
:PDV w/ 2 die stunt: 10 (Dex 5 + MA 5 + 3 Spec +7 Acc = 20/2 = 10) + 2 stunt + 5 Sleeping Sun Form + 2 Dawn Anima Improved = 19
:Speed 5, DV -1

# HULK leaps up and comes crashing down with a punch like a goremaul. Easily closes the distance with a 30 yard leap. Leaping Smash Technique+Shock and Awe Smash grant +2 damage and -HULKs MA(5) from TCLs DVs. First of 5 (or 7) attacks. Auto Knockdown on each attack. Each blow will be attempting to drive TCL to the edge of the mountain too. :)
## Perfect Dodge available if HULK needs it
## Or other responses to the attack made during this step
# TCL is going to Parry HULK's attacks. Using MA Essence Flow 2nd Excellency. 10m first attack. That makes my DV vs this attack 23. -5 due to that charm that I had to look up on the internet and is not actually in a book... 18

'''First Attack'''
# Attack roll: 11+2 dice = 5,9,10,3,8, 6,1,4,6,2, 7,5,5 = 5 Successes
# Attack reroll: -
# External penalties: DV 18
# Defense reroll: -
# Base damage: -
# Soak: n/a
# Counterattacks: -
# Result: Miss

'''Second Attack'''
# Attack roll: 11+2 dice = 9,6,3,4,9, 5,10,9,1,5, 4,4,5 = 5 Successes
# Attack reroll: -
# External penalties: DV 13
# Defense reroll: -
# Base damage: -
# Soak: n/a
# Counterattacks: -
# Result: Miss

'''Third Attack'''
# Attack roll: 11+2 dice = 5,8,5,5,8, 6,6,9,3,5, 1,10,9 = 6 Successes
# Attack reroll: -
# External penalties: DV 12
# Defense reroll: -
# Base damage: -
# Soak: n/a
# Counterattacks: -
# Result: Miss

'''Fourth Attack'''
# Attack roll: 11+2 dice = 6,9,3,6,3, 2,6,5,9,1, 9,1,3 = 3 Successes
# Attack reroll: -
# External penalties: DV 11
# Defense reroll: -
# Base damage: -
# Soak: n/a
# Counterattacks:
# Result: Miss

'''Fifth Attack''' (Channel conviction for +5 dice on this one)
# Attack roll: 11+2+5 dice = 8,6,4,9,8, 1,4,9,5,4, 8,10,1,9,2, 9,4,3 = 9 Successes
# Attack reroll: -
# External penalties: DV 10
# Defense reroll: -
# Base damage: -
# Soak: n/a
# Counterattacks: -
# Result: Miss

TCL Results (Spent 10+2+2+2+2 motes Peripheral, gained 4 from a successful stunt) -14 motes.
:Current: Wp: 8, Motes: Personal 13(13), Peripheral 33(48), Committed: 10 Personal + 5 Peripheral (Form)
:TCL Health:-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>
:All Forms Soak: B/L/A 16/18/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
:Next Action: Tick 10

HULK Results
:Current: Wp: 8, Motes: Personal 25, Peripheral 15, Committed: 8+1(RWF)
:HULK Health: \/-0/-0/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/-4/-4/-4/Incap/Dying
:Soak: 16B/16L/0A Hardness: 11B/0L/0A
:DDV: 8, PDV: Arms 6 Legs 4 (+2 Anima)
:Next Action: Tick 10

Distance: None.

=== Tick 6 ===
With an exasperated sigh, the man in white begins to speak slowly as to be better understood. ''"Still, you show some skill and your Essence is powerful. I entreat you once more, show me the essence of your martial art, and then we will talk with our fists."'' With this he moves to a short, respectful distance, and takes up a crouched stance, knife edges of his arms crossed in front of his waist.

TCL Moves 5 yards uphill from the HULK.

The viridian giant glares with unmitigated malice at the small Solar. Shards of stone and wood, thrown into the air during the assault, come tumbling through the blazing green bonfire of his aura leaving trails of shadow and embers. He bellows with frustration and easily keeps up with the nimble Twice Clashing Lightning.

HULK Moves 5 yards uphill to stand right over TCL.

=== Tick 7 ===
As the gold and green lights push against each other, the man in white stands firm, inches from the monster, ready for action but awaiting the monster's response patiently.

''With a snarling chuckle the green behemoth spots overly brave, or stupidly foolhardy, incoming hawk-riders flying around the mountain peak to investigate. He grins for a moment and starts walking towards the village.

Distance 7

=== Tick 8 ===
Following the monster's line of movement with his eyes, the white robed man groans. ''"Must you waste your time with mortals? All I wanted was to defeat you in glorious combat, and there you go wandering off by yourself. Have you no honor at all? Have you no pride as a martial artist?"''

Having said this, TCL moves to a sturdy looking rocky outcropping nearby, the better to preach from.
Move 5 yards uphill. Distance 12.

''The Infernal keeps walking towards the Village with blazing green malice in his eyes, ignoring the Solar's natterings...''

Move 7 yards downhill(ish) Distance 19.

=== Tick 9 ===
Distance +7 = 26 Yards

=== Tick 10 ===
Simultaneous Actions!
HULK Wits+Awareness 7 declares action first.

''The angry green giant keeps walking towards the Village. He warily feels for the tremors rumbling beneath his feet as stone shatters beneath them, watches for treachery from the hated Solar, listens for the approach of the Hawkmen or their weapons and can taste the fear in the air. On the edge of his glorious, radiant, anima bonfire a small copse of low bushes wither and wilt in a bow of sickly respect. He acknowledges their show of respect with a roar and a nod.''

HULK Guards and keeps moving towards the Village.
Distance +7 Yards.

Thinking to prepare to his utmost level for the task ahead, TCL Dashes back, putting some more distance between them. + 11 yards.

HULK Speed 3 DV -0
TCL Speed 3 DV -2
Total Distance: 44 Yards

=== Tick 11 ===

== Conclusions ==

A section for what was learned

=== Home player ===
1. The format for these 'Kombats' is weighted against Infernals (and in favour of Alchemicals, but that's a different discussion). Other splats get N extra Charms, one of which may be a MA Excellency, but Infernals get shafted by their Excellency requirements and thus if they choose to get an excellency are limited to (N-Ess) other Charms. In normal play this is fine, as each Infernal Excellency covers all Abilities, but in a set up like this, it is a definite hindrance.

2. Fighting someone you can't hit short of stupid mistakes on their behalf is not very fun.

3. Perfected Kata Bracers are too good. Perhaps another match with ''no'' artifacts? :) I notice Zero Artifact matches are unpopular (so far at least). Maybe there should be another match-up for 'Equal Artifacts'? So if one person wants PKBs, then the other gets them too... Meh. It's already part of the opening negotiations I suppose. I'd like to see more matches without Artifact variability, basically. "My Kung Fu is ''UNBEATABLE''!, (if I have a butt load of uber magic stuff and my opponent doesn't)" doesn't really help decide who's kung-fu is the greatest. :)

4. I maintain that the ability to Form Switch at the same time as activating the very first Form of the Style is totally broken. Not dissing Sabis here, btw, it was a move perfectly allowable by the rules of the Style as written, and even confirmed as intended to be used in this manner by Holden (the author). But I do think that ability is a broken effect and needs fixing.

5. The rules definitely say a Solar may not add more successes via a Charms than half the Attribute + Ability, so I think the use of MA Essence Flow was incorrect on Tick 5. Only Sidereals get to negate penalties with their excellency before counting towards their dice cap. HULK would not have hit anyway so this is a small point that makes no difference, but I felt it was worth pointing out for future reference.

6. I am disappointed my worthy foe didn't swing a punch! :( HULK can't activate Raging Behemoth Charge until he sees an attack made at him!!! ;)

7. Frankly, a Draw is the best outcome for HULK here. If he could have caught TCL during an action in which TCL had:
:A. Used another charm
:B. Already switched to a Form that wasn't useful against the HULK attack
and ''if'' HULK had enough motes, then just possibly HULK could have pinged TCL to incapacitated with one combo. Trying to arrange this series of very unlikely events could easily have taken a lot longer than the 50 Ticks TCL needed to ping HULK to death.

8. Many props to Sabis for being sporting and a gentleman. :) A pleasure to play against!

[[Nikink]]

Couple questions/comments:
2: All the PCB's did in this match up was add 2.5 to my DV, and theoretically they helped make sure I would hit all the time. Their damage addition seems irrelevant (as most exalt on exalt combat comes down to lots of ping anyhow). What part of them seems to be so much better?

4: Form switch on the first activation seems not that broken: I could have activated Sleeping Sun Form to start, the difference is 1 action tick and 1 committed mote. I didn't get to switch for the rest of the game for fear of more combo, but since i was at the die cap already for defense, if I got IMAM up I could have done a lot more. With the one per action limit so you can't use a defensive and offensive one before your opponent gets to act, it seems to be like most other choices: Do I be safe and hang back, or do I go for broke and hope for the best?

5: It's one of those things that needs to be clarified in the rules: If we have an order of modifiers that are applied like so, Does the game look at the total modifiers applied from the start to the finish, or does it look at the modifiers at each step? If it looks from start to finish, I don't get a to add defense. If it looks at each step, I do. Also, I noticed yesterday that the wording in the main book vs the others is different. Main book says "cannot increase by more than", whereas lunars says "may not add more than". If you look at that as a typo in the main book, I'd say your interpretation is more likely the one that's correct.

8: Same to you. Regardless of not getting to punch you, it was good fun. =)

Couple answers:
:2. +2.5DV and +5 accuracy (+ other benefits) is a permanent saving of 5m on every attack and defence at least. Giving a lot of leeway to put those motes elsewhere, or alternatively ''into'' attack/defence to truly guarantee success. This is on ''every'' action. Plus other the other benefits I'm not taking into consideration. All for a paltry 8 motes is it? I do feel they are too good, for Artifact 4 at least. Note that I have no problem with TCL or any other character having them if they can get them (they're not Void Avatar Prana broken, or the like). But I do think they skew results heavily towards those that have them. If this Kombat goes for long enough to have enough results I may be convinced otherwise. :)

::On the topic of PKB, while they only added 2 to TCL's parry DV that is a 25% increase on what it was without them (before other bonuses)even if you count it as the last 2 added, i.e. from 17 -> 19 it's still an 11.7% increase which is far from insignificant. The real problem I see with them is they way in which they stack with other weapons, a +5 acc +5dmg +5 def weapon with another bonus is perfectly reasonable, the balance comes in only being able to use one weapon, these act like a second weapon that stacks with another one. Using these and say a moonsilver serpent-sting staff gives a defence bonus of +11! In a game were we are essentially capped at a base dice pool of 13 (5 Ability + 5 Attribute + 3 spec) this is a huge bonus.

:4 My problem with the First Form activation brokenness is that it prevents any weakness during that activation. The Style gives a defence for every keyword in the game (+ other benefits per Form). So when a practitioner says I activate a Form for 5m Speed 5, no opponent actually knows what Form is being activated until they attack, and then it's guaranteed to be the Form most effective against them (or beneficial to the martial artist as the case may be). It's a quantum uncertainty effect that plays on the players, not just the characters. Effectively it says "I don't need to tell you what Form I'm activating until you do something I don't like". Every other Style in the game gives that window of vulnerability during the Form activation, and for good reason - Form effects are generally pretty good buffs - and Forms are not combo-able. This style says on the first Form activation you ''do'' effectively have a combo (in as much as you get more than one charm to use - you aren't locked into the one) and it doesn't even cost a willpower.
:Note, I'm not against the switching on any other action, as per what HaES states. It's just this initial activation. Have I made myself clear, here or just waffled on and muddied things? (I tend to waffle!)

::You're clear. =) But not all the defenses will protect you effectively at the same time... For instance, I wanted to use Shining Sun form to ignore your knockback/knockdown effects. I was FORCED to use Sleeping Sun because I would be crushed if I did not. While in that form, i could not use my fast movement or clinch enhancing or piercing. While i can change effects often, in the end it comes down to an Either/Or kinda deal. I can EITHER be immune to 1 of 4 keywords, OR do x or y or z. If i wanted to be immune to KB/KD/Sickness, do extra damage, or copy other forms, or move fast, or..... etc. So yes, powerful in it's versatilty, but you don't get to just pick and choose. Also, the whole window of vulnerability is not that big, considering when you enact any form you immediately reap all the benefits, AotUC just gives you more versatility in that choice (of what you happen to be strong/weak against). OTOH it also means that there's 3 dead charms in the tree on every fight. Solars do have an advantage in being able to do non-charm excellencies to protect themselves while doing Form assumption. -[[Sabis]]

::But you ''do'' get to pick and choose during that initial activation. You have no weaknessess for that period because your opponent ''does not know'' what form you are actually using until they try to attack - it's a bluff against the ''player'' which goes against the system's ostensible "Charm Transparency" goals. An enemy would need to cover three keyworded attacks in order to threaten. The first KW Attack is stumped by your initial declaration of "I activate Form A" rendering you immune, so your enemy then has to decide which of the last two KW Attacks to try, and it doesn't matter which one is chosen because you can immediately say "I swap to Form B as a matter of fact" and get immunity again. Thus it's the 3rd KW attack that has any chance of threatening you at all. And this swap is for a ''single'' Mote. [[nikink]]

:5. It probably helps (and hinders) that I've been playing Exalted since 1st Ed first came out. But I also asked this on the WW Forums and got unanimous confirmation. The only splat who can add more than their cap is Sids, and they can only add enough extra to cancel wound penalties if they are anything like 1st Ed. :)

::The dice cap issue largely stems out of inconsistent wording between book, and poor wording in the main book. 'Cannot increase' certainly sounds like you work out your potential total pool using the charm, then apply all the modifiers, and finally buy back up to your the potential total. In 1st eddition it certainly didn't work that way, and my understanding of second eddition is that you can only add half you dice cap in successes to your DV.

:8. You had plenty of opportunity to punch... Chicken! ;) (Funny enough, if HULK could ever establish a Fear intimacy during the matches, he'd get just that more effective. :) )

-[[nikink]]

=== Away player ===
Enemies with over 9000 health levels that roll over into agg before actually killing them is super hard to deal with, at the very least overly time consuming.

I need to do better at initiative. Starting off the fight with the slow going made me use WAY too many motes for temporary effects, when i need them for scene long effects.

Switching forms as needed is pretty cool.

I need to have 3 persistent charms up to be truly effective, and while I do that they can get the jump on me. Anyone with a 15-20 Accuracy attack and an urge to spend willpower on valor channels would have finished me right there. (or forced me to spend 30-40 motes to defend myself, which is also not acceptable.) Too bad you can't combo Infinite MA mastery or Form charms with ANYTHING. (It really seems like IMAM should be combo OK or combo basic.)

Arms of the UC style needs to be paired with a Initiative adder, like 1st awareness excellency or some such.

=== Observers ===

== Initial Negotiations ==

A space for the original conversation that set up the trial. This will probably be the first space filled in on a page, but it placed at the end because it becomes increasingly less relevant as the trial continues. This is where players will talk about which signs to use and so on.

== Player Chat ==
I'll leave environmental description at the start to you, I'm kind of terrible with setting scenes... my players always complain. =( -[[Sabis]]

Environment set. :) [[nikink]]

IIRC, you can move even before you get to act during a combat, and as such I can move to maintain the distance between us, correct? -[[Sabis]]

That's correct to the best of my understanding. :) That's why I didn't go through too many ticks, I thought you might want to keep your distance. :) [[nikink]]

I'll show your mine if you show me yours... =) -[[Sabis]]

That's rude! I'll tell daddy Malfeas!!! ;) So, I'd say your stunt was worth two dice. This is gonna kill HULK if it doesn't work... he'll have bugger all hope of hitting you once you get the rest of your charms up, so this is his only chance, and it'll damn near bankrupt his motes... c'est la vie. :) [[nikink]]

If you didn't see, I awarded 2 Die for your stunt as well. =) -[[Sabis]]

Hmmm... I didn't realise you could swap those darn Forms on the same action you activated one. Bugger. Looks like another losing match for HULK then. :) I ''do'' know you can't activate your excellency or any other charms this action though, sorry. Unless you somehow got the Form into a combo? And what's the Charm you 'found in the Net', not in a book? :) [[nikink]] ''Ah, Martial Arts Flow = non-charm use of MA Excellency. Hm. The DV boost from th form would count against the dice adder cap wouldn't it? Thus you couldn't use MA Excellency to get any further boost? Which would also mean you don't get the auto Anima effect, you'd have to spend the 5m to activate it.'' ''Ah again, you mean Shock and Awe Slam, from the Ink Monkeys as that Charm you had to find on the net. As I wake up, so much becomes clearer... A lot of HULKs Charms come from those Ink Monkeys posts. :)''

Yea, took me a while to notice the use of those charms.. spent the better part of 1/2 an hour going "Did he just make these up? Where did they come from?"

So, this doesn't affect the outcome of the attack rolls (as i still parry with each one regardless of MAEF, but i was planning on spending 2 motes on each subsequent attack regardless), but I never hit the die adder cap. My DV starts at 19 with a 2 die stunt (as stunts now add directly to your DV).

5 of that is my Dex 5 MA 5. 5 is my 7 Defense (2 fist, +5 perfected kata bracers) + 3 specialty. 2 From Dawn anima, 2 from stunt, and what brings me up to the cap in the first place, my Form. Then, you attack with your big, nasty attack that reduces my defense by 5. Well, as I can't increase my DV by more than 5 (1/2 my Dex + MA), the game looks and sees what my current charm bonuses are. As far as I see, I don't have any (as they were eaten by your charm). Well, I can then use the 2nd Excellency to raise my pool back up (to the cap on the first blow, and a bit on each following).

As per Main book page 124, successes are applied after other bonuses/penalties. (For another example: If have a Dex + Athletics of 10 and the 2nd athletics excelency, and external factors reduce my pool to 0, I can add 20 dice (10 Sux) to my pool(10 to replace my lost normal dice, and 10 to get to the cap), as long as i don't exceed a pool of 20 dice.) -[[Sabis]]

O.O Well... wow. :) There ya go! Learning more each day! :) [[nikink]] ''Loving your character, by the way. Tick 6 made me chuckle.'' :)

Your character makes me groan each time he speaks, but I can't stop grinning as I think of the imagery. =) -[[Sabis]]

So, unless anything else happens, we advance to tick 10 with no meaningful movement changes. How do we want to handle simultaneous actions? (that is, as the reaction is more powerful than the action (that is, you turn on a scene long and i launch a combo, or vise verse, the person activating the combo has the advantage) If we both wait, (and take guard actions) we stand there looking at each other ad infinitum until one either activates an attack combo or a defense charm. So, since I got jumped last time, how about you declare first? =) -[[Sabis]]

...Did you forfeit the match? *confused* -[[Sabis]]

Eh? Where did you get I forfeit from? I probably should since HULK can't win, but winning's not the point, I'm learning a lot about the rules doing this. I know there's a rule for simultaneous actions, we've had to look it up before. I'd need to double check but iirc it is a case of lowest Wit+Awareness declares first, (Probably HULK?), and if it goes into Attack resolution, we both do our step 1's, then both our step 2' etc. [[nikink]]

Because in the running totals on the main page it says TCL won already. I thought that was odd, as this didn't seem like the kind of thing where someone would just give up. =) Looking up rules: I know that all actions happen regardless, but this seems like a situation where who declares first is mechanically relevant. PG 141 of the main book says we can either resolve this in random order, or declare from lowest Wits + Awareness to highest (In which case, you declare first). In future bouts, we should decide that ahead of time. =) I'm learning a lot too, it's nice to have a sandbox. =) -[[Sabis]]

All this chatting and whatnot per tick is a bit time wasting, what say we declare moves on each tick if they change from the previous one, keep an updated distance tally only, and limit the witty (or mindless as the case may be) banter to Action ticks? I'm gonna get really bored of ''HULK Walks towards the village" for every tick. :) That way we can maintain the distance record but skip to ticks where we can actually do stuff. Unless you want to award stunt bonuses on non-action ticks? I'm ok with that too - Yu SHan knows HULK needs the essence! ;) [[nikink]] ''PS: Waste of time wiping the scoreboard, like that, you know there's no way HULK can win unless TCL does something remarkably stupid like, I dunno, shedding all artifacts and reflexively discovering the exact time of day for 50 odd ticks in a row... ;)''

I don't think it's so cut and dry, considering I've got 50 some odd levels of damage to do.

Difference is, you ''can'' hit me. HULK ''can't'' hit TCL without some astounding luck on my part and mistakes on your part. :) [[nikink]]

Again with the guarding. *sigh* Delay of game foul? =) -[[Sabis]]

No foul, still in this. HULK needs TCL to make a mistake, to have a chance of hitting. Happy to declare a draw though...? ;) [[nikink]] PS: Do I get any stunt rewards? :)

Hmm. If i get IMM up, I can hit reliably with an average of 11.5 attack successes vs your best DV of 8. Assuming you don't spend time putting up VLE, my 15L punches do an average of 18L-16L soak for 5L ping damage. 40% is 2 average sux per hit, so, it'd take 29 average hits to deal the 58 damage necessary to put you down. All the while, as long as I either used 2nd excellency or Burned into Night combo, I can keep my DV at 17 vs your average attack sux of 6.5. So my victory is likely, but I don't realy wana go through the (minimum) 50 ticks necessary to kill you. So yea, I'd agree to a draw. =) -[[Sabis]]

Done. A draw it is. Hmmm... I needed to get motes back, and it's hard to stunt guarding and walking all the time. I also needed to catch you without a charm action, ''and'' without a Form Swap available. This was going to be difficult. Astoundingly difficult. [[nikink]]

== Observer Comments ==

A space for onlookers to discuss stuff (and players to respond).

Please for the love of god do something. Everytime I come back and see that all thats happened is a bunch of walking I cry to myself and reach for my vodka. (Not overly serious but is kinda getting bored waiting for kick ass kung-fu to break out) - [[Muzz]]

Wah Wah Wah! You could always give helpful advice, start cheering for someone, or accept one of the other online challengers in the meantime. ;) [[nikink]]

Nikink/IKMatch10

2010-05-07T11:53:55Z

Bencyclopedia:

''This is a layout stolen from [[TrialBySchmendrick]] to facilitate an On-line Match in ImmortalKombat.''

'''Trial started:''' Tuesday, May 5, 2010 2:44PM PDT 
'''Trial completed:''' {date}

== Contestants ==

[[Sabis/ErodingMountainoftheFaithful| Eroding Mountain of the Faithful]] - Jade Caste - Air Dragon Style

[[IanPrice/GoldenSerpent| Golden Serpent]] - Dawn Caste - Snake Style

1. Full Essence 3 builds allowed.

2. Full Artifacts allowed.

== Blank Tick Template ==
''Flavor text describing the events, stunts, etc.''

:Mechanics of one fighter

:Mechanics of another fighter. If a fighter makes an attack, use the attack steps. Second Edition, for example, would be:

# Attack specifics, including charm use.
## Additional details, like countercharms
## Or other responses to the attack made during this step
# Defense declaration
# Attack roll
# Attack reroll
# External penalties
# Defense reroll
# Base damage
# Soak
# Counterattacks
# Result

== Arena + Setup ==

Starting Distance 44 Yards. I was thinking a swamp near the Font of Mourning.
:Swamp to me says there are things like logs and rocks for solid ground, with mostly a waist-deep muck that smells really terrible everywhere. There are trees like weeping willows, some living and some dead, and there are lots of bugs and maybe creatures like alligators/crocodiles.
:Yep, sound right to me.

Serpent will face his opponent standing on a flat, mossy rock. He is clad in a standard chain shirt and leather chaps over his trousers and wielding a pair of hooked swords with hilt ornamentation displaying hooded cobras whose fangs form the finger-guards. He eyes the mechanical man before him and says, "Perhaps when I'm done with you, my sorcerer-engineers can put you back together as a soldier for my army."

The shining, almost wet stone of Mountain's form stood in colorful contrast to the black murk around small perch. "You'll find the warriors of the Machine God do not fall so easily. Still, you could join our cause, and help all people work towards the common good."

== Transcript ==

=== Tick -1 ===

Golden Serpent activates Leaping Cobra's Eye for 1wp, spending 3m on Striking Cobra Technique and 3m on Monkey Leap Technique. His anima surges forward with the image of a cobra whose fangs seek Mountain's throat, but he leaps upwards into the treetops. Join Battle (10 dice + 5 successes): 9, 8, 9, 5, 8, 10, 9, 5, 5, 6 (7 + 5 = 12 successes). Serpent has 4/5 willpower, 29/35 peripheral essence, 14/14 personal essence, 7/7 health levels.

EMF rolls a normal Join Battle roll. 0, 3, 7, 0, 9, 5, 6, 6, 2, 8. 7 successes.

6/6 WP 0/0 Personal 19/19 Peripheral. 10/10 Health.

GS Acts on Tick 0, EMF acts on Tick 5.

=== Tick 0 ===

GS's leap carries him soaring onto a high bough - the summit of one of the trees, and upon reaching it he crackles with essence as ephemeral golden scales form on his skin and the ghostly forms of snake's heads engulf the hooks of his swords, extending their fangs along the points of them. He laughs. "Let's see just how tough that metal body of yours is then!"

Crunch: Leap 18 yards up (reflexively as my movement action thanks to Monkey Leap technique). Reflexive roll of Dexterity + Athletics to perch atop the tree (8, 7, 5, 6, 4, 3, 4, 6, 3, 4 = 2 successes, should be enough). Activate Essence Fangs and Scales Technique for 6m (Speed 5). Current Peripheral motes: 23/35. Anima flare is at the 11+ level, causing Dawn power to activate.

EMF Darts back, lightly stepping from log to log, keeping as much distance as possible.

Crunch: Distance +7 yards.

=== Tick 1 ===

Still only one leap per flurry, so GS runs forward along the tree branches overhead. 5 yards per tick, continued on ticks 1-4 -20 yards

Moving away, 7 yards a tick, continued from 1-4 +28 yards.

=== Tick 2 ===

=== Tick 3 ===

=== Tick 4 ===

=== Tick 5 ===

Simultaneous actions! Our Wits + Awareness totals are equal, so I'll just go ahead and declare that GS leaps towards EMF (36 yards horizontal) while Aiming.

Adopting a flowing, quickly changing stance, EMF activates Air Dragon Form
Speed 5 DV -1.

=== Tick 6 ===

=== Tick 7 ===

=== Tick 8 ===

=== Tick 9 ===

=== Tick 10 ===

=== Tick 11 ===

== Conclusions ==

A section for what was learned

=== Home player ===

=== Away player ===

=== Observers ===

== Initial Negotiations ==

Where and what is the font of mourning? I only have my core book and storyteller's companion with me. A swamp sounds fine though. - [[IanPrice]]

Oh, it's a swamp in the southwest, where the head of Ot pops through into creation and the Alchemicals first emerge. -[[Sabis]]

== Player Chat ==
I'll leave environmental description at the start to you, I'm kind of terrible with setting scenes... my players always complain. -[[Sabis]]
:Done and done, let's have a nice fun battle. :) - [[IanPrice]]

== Observer Comments ==

Font of Mourning is the area around Calan's Loss in the South West. It's the blighted and dangerous region where Thrice-Damned Gorol was revealed to be an Akuma in the First Age and killed his friend and friend's lunar mate via trickery and deceit. The first infernal demesne and 'natural' source of vitriol. [[nikink]]

'''Tick 1''': I don't understand what you mean by 'Can only leap once per flurry, so GS will take a Move action on these remaining ticks' (excuse the paraphrase)? If MLT lets you jump as a reflexive action instead of Move, then surely on the other ticks you could continue jumping? The limit of one Jump per flurry is (as I understand it) the same as one Move action per Flurry, so you cannot Jump-Attack-Jump-Attack-Jump-Attack for example (without charms that let you do so that is). [[nikink]]
: Actually, in the description of the jumping miscellaneous action, it says "a character can make only one jump in a flurry or on its own," but Move lists its speed as per-tick. Since making every tick a leap would make MLT sooo much better than the equivalent-level charm Lightning Speed, I've always seen it interpreted that one jump per DV refresh remains the rule. - [[IanPrice]]
: The errata on the official wiki even clarifies that this is the case, you can only leap once per action. - [[Bencyclopedia]]

Sabis/TwiceClashingLightning

2010-04-23T11:08:00Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Solar Exalt

Name: Twice Clashing Lightning 
Caste: Dawn 
Motivation: Clear the world of undesirable elements 
Anima: +2 DV's vs Low Valor (+ Improved) 
Concept: Focused, Righteous Monk 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total: 2/50</nowiki>

Attributes
:8 Strength: 4, Dexterity: 5, Stamina: 5
:4 Charisma: 5, Manipulation: 1, Appearance: 1
:6 Perception: 2, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 5
:24 xp (Str 1-4)

Abilities
:''Archery'': , ''Athletics'': 5, ''Awareness'': 5, Bureaucracy:, Craft():
:''Dodge'': 4, ''Integrity'': 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): 1
:Lore:, ''Martial Arts'': 5 , Medicine: , ''Melee'': , Occult: 3
:Performance: , Presence:, ''Resistance'': 5, Ride: , Sail: ,
:Socialize:, Stealth: 3, Survival: , ''Thrown'':, ''War'':
:25 + 8BP + 7xp (Athletics 4 to 5)

Specialties
:Martial Arts: Unarmed 3
:Dodge: Close Quarters 1
:2BP

Languages
: Old Realm, High Realm

Backgrounds
:Artifact: 4 (Bracers)
:Artifact: 1 (Breastplate)
:Artifact: 1 (Fivefold Harmonic Adapter)
:Manse: 3
:2bp

Virtues
:5 Compassion: 1, Conviction: 4, Temperance: 1, Valor 5.
:3 BP, Valor to 5 9xp Conviction to 4
:Intimacies: My Students

:Virtue Flaw: Foolhardy Contempt

Willpower: 8 
Essence: 5 
Essence pool: 23(13) Personal / 54 Peripheral / 10 Personal & 0 Peripheral Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

Key = (Essence 3 Set)Essence 5 Set/Exp Charms

:Arms of the Unconquered Sun Style (11)1
::Day and Night Kata
::Spirit Over Clouds Approach
::Rising Sun Form
::Shining Sun Form
::Fading Sun Form
::Sleeping Sun Form
::Meditation Upon the Spear
::Meditation Upon the Horn
::Meditation Upon the Shield
::Meditation Upon the Laurel
::Heaven and Earth Stairway
::Crowned Sun Form

:Martial Arts (3)0
::Second Martial Arts Excellency
::Martial Arts Essence Flow
::Infinite Marital Arts Mastery

:Integrity (0)1
::Shedding Infinite Radiance

:Resistance (5)0/1
::Durability of Oak Meditation
::Iron Skin Concentration
::Iron Kettle Body
::Adamant Skin Technique
::Armored In Righteousness Stance
::Ox-Body (1x-1, 2x-2)
::8xp (Adamant Skin)

:Awareness (0)1
::Surprise Anticipation Method

:Athletics (1)3
::Monkey Leap Technique
::Graceful Crane Stance
::First Athletics Excellency
::Lightning Speed

Combos
:Burned into Night 3 point Freebie
::Spirit Over Clouds Approach, Second Martial Arts Excellency, Day and Night Kata
::Cost: 1w, 4m +0-10m per attack, +4m +0-10m if attacked
::Form+IMAM: 1w, 2m +0 per attack, 2m +0m if attacked
::Unblockable attack, Pumped attack successes, Pumped defense successes, and ends enemy mult-attack combo's or flurries.

:Unanswerable Clarion 4 point Freebie
::Meditation Upon the Shield, Second Martial Arts Excellency, Adamant Skin Technique, Surprise Anticipation Method
::Cost: 1w, 1m/Surprise, +0-10m per attack/defense +4m per soak +4m per counter.
::Form+IMAM: 1w, 1m/Surprise, +0m per attack/defense +4m per soak +2m per counter.
::Perfect soak, pump defense and offense if i need to, and counterattack with disarm or clinch, whichever seems most useful at the time.

:Girded in Holy Light 5 point Freebie
::Iron Kettle Body, Graceful Crane Stance, Monkey Leap Technique, Lightning Speed, Adamant Skin Technique
::Cost: 1w, 13m 1w (+2/4 Motes per attack on me)
::Power up. Soak, Movement, Jump, Balance to negate environmental factors AND stunt fodder, and a perfect just in case someone makes the faux pas of attacking during the power up phase. Never attack when they're powering up. It's rude.

Equipment
:Jade Perfected Kata Bracers
:Orichalcum Breastplate (6B/8L/8A Hardness 3/3/0)
:Orichalcum Fivefold Harmonic Adapter (On Bracers)
:Precision of Form Gemstone

Combat
:Join Battle: 10

:Soak:
::Armor B/L/A 11/13/8 Hardness: 3/3/0
::All Forms Soak: B/L/A 16/18/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Fading Sun Soak: B/L/A 21/23/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Iron Kettle Body + Anyform: B/L/A 29/31/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Iron Kettle Body + Fading Sun: B/L/A 34/36/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Pierced: B/L/A -3/-4/0

Defense Values
:DDV: 8 (5 Dex + 4 Dodge + 5 Essence + 1 Spec = 15/2 = 8)
:PDV: 8 (5 Dex + 5 MA + 3 Spec + 2 Def = 15/2 = 8)
:DMDV: 8 (3 Integrity + 7 Willpower + 5 Essence = 15/2 = 8)
:PMDV: 3 (Honest)(Cha 5 + Ability 0 = 5/2 = 3)

Attacks:
:Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 14, Dmg- 4B, Def- 8, Rate- 3
:Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 13, Dmg- 7B, Def- 5 , Rate- 2
:Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- 13, Dmg- 4B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
:Rising Sun Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 20, Dmg- +10B/L, Def- 11, Rate- 5
:Other Form Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 19, Dmg- +9B/L, Def- 10, Rate- 5
:Dawn Anima (Improved): +1 Acc +2 Dmg

Movement
:Move: 5 (+5 Lightning Speed +5 Rising Sun form)
:Dash: 11 (+5 Lightning Speed +5 Rising Sun form)
:Jump: High: 10 (20 if Monkey Leap Technique is up)
:Jump: Long: 20 (40 if Monkey Leap Technique is up)

----

== Comments and Questions==
So, this should be the final build for Essence 5 (barring any mistakes on my part). It's easy enough to drop it to Essence 3 if someone wants to challenge it on that playing field, although the character feels more complete at this level. I've made it so he doesn't auto die to surprise attacks, he has decent offense, big defense pools and soak, and more or less is as well balanced as i can see. With heaven and earth stairway, it seems like I should be able to adapt to almost any strange attack or circumstance that comes up. --[[Sabis]]

 Couple of thing I've noticed, mind you I don't have my MRB book with me:
:Virues can't be raised above 3 without bonus points, so you can't have 1,1,3 and 4 at character creation.
:Raising your virtues with xp doesn't raise your willpower
:Backrgounds likewise can't go above 3 without bonus points, so I'm assuming you spent the 2bp to get artifact to 4. If that's the case you have 8 dots of backgrounds.
Other than that looks very good. - [[Bencyclopedia]]

Exalted 2nd Ed, page 75: "You cannot raise a character's starting virtue above 4 without spending bonus points." It was 3 in 1st ed, IIRC, but they changed it to 4 in 2nd ed, in the text and the chart (unless there's errata on those that I missed). But you're right, raising w/ xp does not raise my WP. Silly me leaving calculation till the end. =) Yep, 1 bp for Artifact 3-4, and then 1 bp for an extra dot of artifact. (9 in total)

Right you are indeed, I hadn't noticed the change. Backgrounds however cost 2bp if being raised above 3. - [[Bencyclopedia]]

Sabis/TwiceClashingLightning

2010-04-23T02:32:09Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Solar Exalt

Name: Twice Clashing Lightning 
Caste: Dawn 
Motivation: Clear the world of undesirable elements 
Anima: +2 DV's vs Low Valor (+ Improved) 
Concept: Focused, Righteous Monk 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total: 2/50</nowiki>

Attributes
:8 Strength: 4, Dexterity: 5, Stamina: 5
:4 Charisma: 5, Manipulation: 1, Appearance: 1
:6 Perception: 2, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 5
:24 xp (Str 1-4)

Abilities
:''Archery'': , ''Athletics'': 5, ''Awareness'': 5, Bureaucracy:, Craft():
:''Dodge'': 4, ''Integrity'': 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): 1
:Lore:, ''Martial Arts'': 5 , Medicine: , ''Melee'': , Occult: 3
:Performance: , Presence:, ''Resistance'': 5, Ride: , Sail: ,
:Socialize:, Stealth: 3, Survival: , ''Thrown'':, ''War'':
:25 + 8BP + 7xp (Athletics 4 to 5)

Specialties
:Martial Arts: Unarmed 3
:Dodge: Close Quarters 1
:2BP

Languages
: Old Realm, High Realm

Backgrounds
:Artifact: 4 (Bracers)
:Artifact: 1 (Breastplate)
:Artifact: 1 (Fivefold Harmonic Adapter)
:Manse: 3
:2bp

Virtues
:5 Compassion: 1, Conviction: 4, Temperance: 1, Valor 5.
:3 BP, Valor to 5 9xp Conviction to 4
:Intimacies: My Students

:Virtue Flaw: Foolhardy Contempt

Willpower: 9 
Essence: 5 
Essence pool: 24(14) Personal / 55 Peripheral / 10 Personal & 0 Peripheral Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

Key = (Essence 3 Set)Essence 5 Set/Exp Charms

:Arms of the Unconquered Sun Style (11)1
::Day and Night Kata
::Spirit Over Clouds Approach
::Rising Sun Form
::Shining Sun Form
::Fading Sun Form
::Sleeping Sun Form
::Meditation Upon the Spear
::Meditation Upon the Horn
::Meditation Upon the Shield
::Meditation Upon the Laurel
::Heaven and Earth Stairway
::Crowned Sun Form

:Martial Arts (3)0
::Second Martial Arts Excellency
::Martial Arts Essence Flow
::Infinite Marital Arts Mastery

:Integrity (0)1
::Shedding Infinite Radiance

:Resistance (5)0/1
::Durability of Oak Meditation
::Iron Skin Concentration
::Iron Kettle Body
::Adamant Skin Technique
::Armored In Righteousness Stance
::Ox-Body (1x-1, 2x-2)
::8xp (Adamant Skin)

:Awareness (0)1
::Surprise Anticipation Method

:Athletics (1)3
::Monkey Leap Technique
::Graceful Crane Stance
::First Athletics Excellency
::Lightning Speed

Combos
:Burned into Night 3 point Freebie
::Spirit Over Clouds Approach, Second Martial Arts Excellency, Day and Night Kata
::Cost: 1w, 4m +0-10m per attack, +4m +0-10m if attacked
::Form+IMAM: 1w, 2m +0 per attack, 2m +0m if attacked
::Unblockable attack, Pumped attack successes, Pumped defense successes, and ends enemy mult-attack combo's or flurries.

:Unanswerable Clarion 4 point Freebie
::Meditation Upon the Shield, Second Martial Arts Excellency, Adamant Skin Technique, Surprise Anticipation Method
::Cost: 1w, 1m/Surprise, +0-10m per attack/defense +4m per soak +4m per counter.
::Form+IMAM: 1w, 1m/Surprise, +0m per attack/defense +4m per soak +2m per counter.
::Perfect soak, pump defense and offense if i need to, and counterattack with disarm or clinch, whichever seems most useful at the time.

:Girded in Holy Light 5 point Freebie
::Iron Kettle Body, Graceful Crane Stance, Monkey Leap Technique, Lightning Speed, Adamant Skin Technique
::Cost: 1w, 13m 1w (+2/4 Motes per attack on me)
::Power up. Soak, Movement, Jump, Balance to negate environmental factors AND stunt fodder, and a perfect just in case someone makes the faux pas of attacking during the power up phase. Never attack when they're powering up. It's rude.

Equipment
:Jade Perfected Kata Bracers
:Orichalcum Breastplate (6B/8L/8A Hardness 3/3/0)
:Orichalcum Fivefold Harmonic Adapter (On Bracers)
:Precision of Form Gemstone

Combat
:Join Battle: 10

:Soak:
::Armor B/L/A 11/13/8 Hardness: 3/3/0
::All Forms Soak: B/L/A 16/18/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Fading Sun Soak: B/L/A 21/23/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Iron Kettle Body + Anyform: B/L/A 29/31/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Iron Kettle Body + Fading Sun: B/L/A 34/36/13 Hardness: 3/3/0
::Pierced: B/L/A -3/-4/0

Defense Values
:DDV: 8 (5 Dex + 4 Dodge + 5 Essence + 1 Spec = 15/2 = 8)
:PDV: 8 (5 Dex + 5 MA + 3 Spec + 2 Def = 15/2 = 8)
:DMDV: 8 (3 Integrity + 7 Willpower + 5 Essence = 15/2 = 8)
:PMDV: 3 (Honest)(Cha 5 + Ability 0 = 5/2 = 3)

Attacks:
:Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 14, Dmg- 4B, Def- 8, Rate- 3
:Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 13, Dmg- 7B, Def- 5 , Rate- 2
:Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- 13, Dmg- 4B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
:Rising Sun Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 20, Dmg- +10B/L, Def- 11, Rate- 5
:Other Form Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 19, Dmg- +9B/L, Def- 10, Rate- 5
:Dawn Anima (Improved): +1 Acc +2 Dmg

Movement
:Move: 5 (+5 Lightning Speed +5 Rising Sun form)
:Dash: 11 (+5 Lightning Speed +5 Rising Sun form)
:Jump: High: 10 (20 if Monkey Leap Technique is up)
:Jump: Long: 20 (40 if Monkey Leap Technique is up)

----

== Comments and Questions==
So, this should be the final build for Essence 5 (barring any mistakes on my part). It's easy enough to drop it to Essence 3 if someone wants to challenge it on that playing field, although the character feels more complete at this level. I've made it so he doesn't auto die to surprise attacks, he has decent offense, big defense pools and soak, and more or less is as well balanced as i can see. With heaven and earth stairway, it seems like I should be able to adapt to almost any strange attack or circumstance that comes up. --[[Sabis]]

 Couple of thing I've noticed, mind you I don't have my MRB book with me:
:Virues can't be raised above 3 without bonus points, so you can't have 1,1,3 and 4 at character creation.
:Raising your virtues with xp doesn't raise your willpower
:Backrgounds likewise can't go above 3 without bonus points, so I'm assuming you spent the 2bp to get artifact to 4. If that's the case you have 8 dots of backgrounds.
Other than that looks very good. - [[Bencyclopedia]]

Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-22T02:49:19Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Transitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: Defend the Nation of Estasia 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: Peerless Warrior 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 5, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 3
:Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 2, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (4bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (4bp), Medicine: , Melee: 1, Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 3 (3bp)
:Martial Arts - While Armed 1 (1bp)

Languages
:Autochthonian

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 4 (3bp).

:Intimacies:
::Estasia

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 7 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: 5(16) Personal / 32(54) Peripheral / 11 Personal & 22 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix [2m]

:The Circle Screams
:Gear Catches Gear Defense
:Thousand Wounds Gear Form
:Rearing Crane Release
:Floating Target Lock
:Flesh-Rending Gear Technique
:Linear Flight Principle
:Arc Blinding Assault
:Hungry Gear-Tooth Attack
:Thousand Wounds Persistence

:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x2 [2m]
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton [1m]

:Optical Shroud [2m]

:Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus [1m]
:Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

:Accelerated Response System - Dodge Configuration [1m]
:Precalculated Evasion System [1m]

:Auxiliary Essence Storage Unit [1m]

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Starmetal Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
::Fivefold Harmonic Attunement Adaptor
:Moonsilver Superheavy Plate [8m]
:Orichalsum Gyro-Chakram [5m]
::Fivefold Harmonic Attunement Adaptor

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 18/19/17 Hardness: 10/10/10

:DDV: 11 (7+5+3+3+3=21 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+1=13 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Orichalcum Gyro-Chakram: Spd-4, Acc-14, Dmg-8L, Range-90, Rate-3
::: W/Bracers: : Spd-4, Acc-17, Dmg-11L, Range-90, Rate-3
Movement
:Move: 7
:Dash: 13
:Jump: High: 8
:Jump: Long: 16

----
=== Character Description ===
Tall and Lithe. Wearing form fitting Moonsilver plate. Long straight silvery hair tied back in a pony tail.

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

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Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-22T02:47:28Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Transitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: Defend the Nation of Estasia 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 5, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 3
:Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 2, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (4bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (4bp), Medicine: , Melee: 1, Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 3 (3bp)
:Martial Arts - While Armed 1 (1bp)

Languages
:Autochthonian

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 4 (3bp).

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 7 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: 5(16) Personal / 32(54) Peripheral / 11 Personal & 22 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix [2m]

:The Circle Screams
:Gear Catches Gear Defense
:Thousand Wounds Gear Form
:Rearing Crane Release
:Floating Target Lock
:Flesh-Rending Gear Technique
:Linear Flight Principle
:Arc Blinding Assault
:Hungry Gear-Tooth Attack
:Thousand Wounds Persistence

:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x2 [2m]
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton [1m]

:Optical Shroud [2m]

:Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus [1m]
:Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

:Accelerated Response System - Dodge Configuration [1m]
:Precalculated Evasion System [1m]

:Auxiliary Essence Storage Unit [1m]

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Starmetal Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
::Fivefold Harmonic Attunement Adaptor
:Moonsilver Superheavy Plate [8m]
:Orichalsum Gyro-Chakram [5m]
::Fivefold Harmonic Attunement Adaptor

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 18/19/17 Hardness: 10/10/10

:DDV: 11 (7+5+3+3+3=21 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+1=13 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Orichalcum Gyro-Chakram: Spd-4, Acc-14, Dmg-8L, Range-90, Rate-3
::: W/Bracers: : Spd-4, Acc-17, Dmg-11L, Range-90, Rate-3
Movement
:Move: 7
:Dash: 13
:Jump: High: 8
:Jump: Long: 16

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

Back to [[Bencyclopedia]].

Nikink/IKMatch5

2010-04-22T02:33:40Z

Bencyclopedia:

= Immortal Kombat - Match 4 =
[[Nikink/ImmortalKombat| Back to Immortal Kombat]]

[[Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator| Transitory Ardent Assimilator]] (Thousand Wounding Gears Style)

vs

Hestia (Crystal Chameleon Style)

Match rules:

:Competitors started 39 yards apart in a steamy bayou swamp. Millions of midges, mosquitos and leeches swarm in the still and humid air of noon. Moss and mud slicked tree trunks break through the shallow muck filled water with casual abandon. The cacophonous sounds of birds, frogs and larger wildlife echo through the air.

:Penalties for difficult terrain are in place

:Full character build (including all Artifacts) allowed.

:To the death(ish).

== Tick -1 ==
Transitory Ardent Assimilator and Hestia Join Battle!

TAA gets a meger 3 successes however Hestia only gets 2.

== Tick 0 ==
TAA spots is opponent through the trees and vines of the bog. Unsure of his opponents capabilities he crouches low and watches, waiting for some indication of his opponents weaknesses.

(Speed 3 DV 0)
== Tick 1 ==
Hesita spies the moosilver alchemical glistening in the woods. With a roar she transforms into her mighty war form and whips herself into a fury.

(Speed 5 DV -1)
(Deadly Beastman Transformation + Relentless Lunar Fury)
== Tick 2 ==
Sense that the time is right TAA makes his move. He activates his ''Guarded Strike'' array and launches his golden cyro-chakram. The buzzing disc swoops at Hestia three times, biting deep on the first and last passes.

(Activate Array, Flurry 3 actions, Speed 4 DV -3)
(Hestia takes 7L and 4L)
== Tick 3 ==

== Tick 4 ==

== Tick 5 ==

== Tick 6 ==
With a mighty roar Hestia launches herself into the air and spirals towards TAA. In the same instant TAA releases his gyro-chakram, skipping across the surface of the swamp before kicking up towards Hestia.

TAA's aim is true and the gyro-chrakram bites into Hestia's side. The teeth grip into her side, sling shotting the chakram around her back and returning to his hand.

Hestia lands thrusting her Vajra towards TTA's chest, however the inhuman robot deflects the spear with his chakram, scraping it along its length and launching sparks into Hestia's eyes as he activates ''Arc Blinding Assault'', blinding the Lunar.

(Hestia Speed 5 DV -1)
(TAA Speed 3 DV -1)
(Hestia takes ?L)
== Tick 7 ==

== Tick 8 ==

== Tick 9 ==
His opponent now blinded and exposed, TAA step behind the Lunar clutching at her hair and baring her neck. He activates ''The Circle Screams'' and brutally hacks at the lunars neck three times. Her incapacitated body fall into the water.

(Flurry 3 attacks, Speed 3 DV -3)
(Hestia takes ?L)

== Postscript ==

=== Comments from the Peanut Gallery ===
Quick write up by me from memory. Hestia's critical error was leaving herself exposed without a charm to defend herself. Getting out of line of sight to power up may also have helped, eliminating my ability to attack at range. - [[Bencyclopedia]]

Nikink/IKMatch5

2010-04-22T02:16:57Z

Bencyclopedia:

= Immortal Kombat - Match 4 =
[[Nikink/ImmortalKombat| Back to Immortal Kombat]]

Transitory Ardent Assimilator (Thousand Wounding Gears Style)

vs

Hestia (Crystal Chameleon Style)

Match rules:

:Competitors started 39 yards apart in a steamy bayou swamp. Millions of midges, mosquitos and leeches swarm in the still and humid air of noon. Moss and mud slicked tree trunks break through the shallow muck filled water with casual abandon. The cacophonous sounds of birds, frogs and larger wildlife echo through the air.

:Penalties for difficult terrain are in place

:Full character build (including all Artifacts) allowed.

:To the death(ish).

== Tick -1 ==
Transitory Ardent Assimilator and Hestia Join Battle!

TAA gets a meger 3 successes however Hestia only gets 2.

== Tick 0 ==
TAA spots is opponent through the trees and vines of the bog. Unsure of his opponents capabilities he crouches low and watches, waiting for some indication of his opponents weaknesses.

(Speed 3 DV 0)
== Tick 1 ==
Hesita spies the moosilver alchemical glistening in the woods. With a roar she transforms into her mighty war form and whips herself into a fury.

(Speed 5 DV -1)
(Deadly Beastman Transformation + Relentless Lunar Fury)
== Tick 2 ==
Sense that the time is right TAA makes his move. He activates his ''Guarded Strike'' array and launches his golden cyro-chakram. The buzzing disc swoops at Hestia three times, biting deep on the first and last passes.

(Activate Array, Flurry 3 actions, Speed 4 DV -3)
(Hestia takes 7L and 4L)
== Tick 3 ==

== Tick 4 ==

== Tick 5 ==

== Tick 6 ==

()
()
== Tick 7 ==

== Tick 8 ==

== Tick 9 ==

== Postscript ==

=== Comments from the Peanut Gallery ===

Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish

2010-04-21T22:58:06Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Abyssal Exalt

Abyssal for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Cadaver Wreathed in Anguish 
Caste: Dusk 
Motivation: To Bring Fear to Those Without 
Anima: 
: +2DV vs. anyone with Valour >= my essence
Concept:A brutal murderer use to strike fear to the enemies of First And Forsaken Lion 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 5, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 3
:Charisma: 4, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 1
:Perception: 3, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 4 (1bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (2bp), Medicine: , Melee: , Occult: , Performance: , Presence: 3, Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 2, Survival: 1, Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 1 (0.5bp)
:Martial Arts - Unarmed 3 (1.5bp)

Languages
:Flame Tongue

Backgrounds
:Artifact: 4 (2bp)
:Leige: 1
:Manse: 4 (2bp)

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3

:Intimacies:
:Violence

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: 15 Personal / 34(42) Peripheral / Personal & 8 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms
:Ravaging Blow (2m)
:Foe-Blinding Jab (3m)
:Dead Man's Grasp (1m)
:Inescapable Iron Grip (5m)
:Dark Messiah Form (6m)
:Bone-Shattering Blow (1m or 3m 1wp)
:Lashing Tempest Palm (3m)
:Grievous Agony Attack (4m)
:Illustrative Overkill Technique (nil or 3m 1wp)

:1st Marital Arts Excellency (1m per die)
:Fists of Iron (1m)
:Dragon Coil Technique (3m)
:Air Dragon Sight (3m)
:Owl Seizes Mouse (3m or 3m 1wp)
:Five Knife Fist (6m 1wp)
:Writhing Blood Chain Technique (8m 1wp)

:Flickering Wisp Technique (Valour Flaw) (3m)
:Flitting Shadow Form (1m)

:Ox Body x 1

:Corpse Might Surge

Combos
:Wary Predator Method (Freebie)
::Air Dragon's Sight
::Flitting Shadow Form
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::3m + 1wp + 3m perfect dodges available + 1m to make attack expected

:Vicious Crushing Grasp (6bp)
::Owl Seizes Mouse
::Dead Man's Grasp
::Inescapable Iron Grip
::Dragon Coil Technique
::1st Martial Arts Excellency
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::12m + 2wp + Xm for accuracy dice
:::Move 25 yards to grapple + Undodgable + Unblockable + 5 auto success to attack roll + Lethal clinch damage + 5 Attack roll dice + 5 clinch damage + X attack roll dice.

Equipment
:Soulsteel Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
:Seven-Leaping Dragon Stone

Combat
:Join Battle: 7
:Soak: B/L/A 3/2/0 Hardness: 0/0/0

:DDV: 6 (3+4+1+3=11 / 2)
:PDV: 6 (3+5+3=11 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 5B, Def- 13 (DV 7), Rate- 3
:::Five Knife Fist Spd- 5, Acc- 14, Dmg 8L, Def- 16 (DV 8), Rate- 3
:::Everything Spd- 5, Acc- 21, Dmg 14L, Def- 19 (DV 10), Rate- 3 
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 7B, Def- 9 (DV5), Rate- 2 
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- 13, Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Everything: Spd- 6, Acc- 26, Dmg- 14L, Def- N/A, Rate- 1

Movement
:Move: 3
:Dash: 9
:Jump: High: 8
:Jump: Long: 16

----
=== Character Description ===
Grusomely Vomit Enducingly Fugly.

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

=== Essence 5 Version ===

Attributes
:Strength: 5, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 3
:Charisma: 4, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 1
:Perception: 3, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 4 (1bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (2bp), Medicine: , Melee: , Occult: , Performance: , Presence: 3, Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 2, Survival: 1, Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 1 (0.5bp)
:Martial Arts - Unarmed 3 (1.5bp)

Languages
:Flame Tongue

Backgrounds
:Artifact: 4 (2bp)
:Leige: 1
:Manse: 4 (2bp)

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3

:Intimacies:
:Violence

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 5 
Essence pool: 21 Personal / 42(50) Peripheral / 0 Personal & 8 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms
:Ravaging Blow (2m)
:Foe-Blinding Jab (3m)
:Dead Man's Grasp (1m)
:Inescapable Iron Grip (5m)
:Dark Messiah Form (6m)
:Bone-Shattering Blow (1m or 3m 1wp)
:Lashing Tempest Palm (3m)
:Grievous Agony Attack (4m)
:Illustrative Overkill Technique (nil or 3m 1wp)

:1st Marital Arts Excellency (1m per die)
:Fists of Iron (1m)
:Dragon Coil Technique (3m)
:Air Dragon Sight (3m)
:Owl Seizes Mouse (3m or 3m 1wp)
:Five Knife Fist (Taint)
:Writhing Blood Chain Technique x 3(Taint)
:Falling Scythe Flash (2m)

:Flickering Wisp Technique (Valour Flaw) (3m)
:Flitting Shadow Form (1m)

:Ox Body
:Corpse Might Surge
:Graceful Crane Stance (3m)
:Spider Pounce Technique (3)

:Injury-Absorbing Discipline (10m)
:Spirit-Hardened Frame ()
:Resilient Corpse Body ()
:Flesh as Marble Stance

Combos
:Wary Predator Method (Freebie)
::Air Dragon's Sight
::Flitting Shadow Form
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::3m + 1wp + 3m perfect dodges available + 1m to make attack expected

:The Butchers Dance (Freebie)
::Corpse Might Surge
::Spider Pounce Technique
::Graceful Crane Stance
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::21m + 1wp + 3m Perfect Dodges Available
:::POWER UP

:Pulverising Clout Infusion (Freebie)
::1st Martial Arts Excellency
::Flickering Wisp Technique
::Ravaging Blow (2m)
::Falling Scythe Flash (2m)
::Fists of Iron (1m)
:::5m + 1wp + Xm + 3m Perfect Dogdes Available
:::Double Strength for Raw Damage, Double Successes for Damage, +1 Accuracy & +2 Damage, +X dice to attack roll.

:Vicious Crushing Grasp (6bp)
::Owl Seizes Mouse
::Dead Man's Grasp
::Inescapable Iron Grip
::Dragon Coil Technique
::1st Martial Arts Excellency
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::12m + 2wp + Xm for accuracy dice
:::Move 25 yards to grapple + Undodgable + Unblockable + 5 auto success to attack roll + Lethal clinch damage + 5 Attack roll dice + 5 clinch damage + X attack roll dice.

Equipment
:Soulsteel Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
:Seven-Leaping Dragon Stone

Combat
:Join Battle: 7
:Soak: B/L/A 3/2/0 Hardness: 0/0/0

:DDV: 7 (3+4+1+5=13 / 2)
:PDV: 6 (3+5+3=11 / 2)
:DMDV: 7 (6+5+3 / 2)
:PMDV: 4 (4+3 / 2)
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 5B, Def- 13 (DV 7), Rate- 3
:::Five Knife Fist Spd- 5, Acc- 16, Dmg 10L, Def- 13 (DV 7), Rate- 3
:::Everything Spd- 5, Acc- 25, Dmg 15L, Def- 18 (DV 9), Rate- 3 
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 7B, Def- 9 (DV5), Rate- 2 
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- 13, Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
:::Everything: Spd- 6, Acc- 26, Dmg- 14L, Def- N/A, Rate- 1 
::Writhing Blood Chain: Spd-5, Acc- 16, Dmg- 10L, Def- 16 (DV8), Rate- 5
:::Everything: Spd-5, Acc- 25, Dmg- 15L, Def- 21 (DV11), Rate- 5

Movement
:Move: 3
:Dash: 9
:Jump: High: 8
:Jump: Long: 16

Back to [[Bencyclopedia]].

Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish

2010-04-21T22:55:06Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Abyssal Exalt

Abyssal for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Cadaver Wreathed in Anguish 
Caste: Dusk 
Motivation: To Bring Fear to Those Without 
Anima: 
: +2DV vs. anyone with Valour >= my essence
Concept:A brutal murderer use to strike fear to the enemies of First And Forsaken Lion 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 5, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 3
:Charisma: 1, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 4
:Perception: 3, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 4 (1bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (2bp), Medicine: , Melee: , Occult: , Performance: , Presence: 3, Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 2, Survival: 1, Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 1 (0.5bp)
:Martial Arts - Unarmed 3 (1.5bp)

Languages
:Flame Tongue

Backgrounds
:Artifact: 4 (2bp)
:Leige: 1
:Manse: 4 (2bp)

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3

:Intimacies:
:Violence

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: 15 Personal / 34(42) Peripheral / Personal & 8 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms
:Ravaging Blow (2m)
:Foe-Blinding Jab (3m)
:Dead Man's Grasp (1m)
:Inescapable Iron Grip (5m)
:Dark Messiah Form (6m)
:Bone-Shattering Blow (1m or 3m 1wp)
:Lashing Tempest Palm (3m)
:Grievous Agony Attack (4m)
:Illustrative Overkill Technique (nil or 3m 1wp)

:1st Marital Arts Excellency (1m per die)
:Fists of Iron (1m)
:Dragon Coil Technique (3m)
:Air Dragon Sight (3m)
:Owl Seizes Mouse (3m or 3m 1wp)
:Five Knife Fist (6m 1wp)
:Writhing Blood Chain Technique (8m 1wp)

:Flickering Wisp Technique (Valour Flaw) (3m)
:Flitting Shadow Form (1m)

:Ox Body x 1

:Corpse Might Surge

Combos
:Wary Predator Method (Freebie)
::Air Dragon's Sight
::Flitting Shadow Form
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::3m + 1wp + 3m perfect dodges available + 1m to make attack expected

:Vicious Crushing Grasp (6bp)
::Owl Seizes Mouse
::Dead Man's Grasp
::Inescapable Iron Grip
::Dragon Coil Technique
::1st Martial Arts Excellency
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::12m + 2wp + Xm for accuracy dice

Equipment
:Soulsteel Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
:Seven-Leaping Dragon Stone

Combat
:Join Battle: 7
:Soak: B/L/A 3/2/0 Hardness: 0/0/0

:DDV: 6 (3+4+1+3=11 / 2)
:PDV: 6 (3+5+3=11 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 5B, Def- 13 (DV 7), Rate- 3
:::Five Knife Fist Spd- 5, Acc- 14, Dmg 8L, Def- 16 (DV 8), Rate- 3
:::Everything Spd- 5, Acc- 21, Dmg 14L, Def- 19 (DV 10), Rate- 3 
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 7B, Def- 9 (DV5), Rate- 2 
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- 13, Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Everything: Spd- 6, Acc- 26, Dmg- 14L, Def- N/A, Rate- 1

Movement
:Move: 3
:Dash: 9
:Jump: High: 8
:Jump: Long: 16

----
=== Character Description ===
Grusomely Vomit Enducingly Fugly.

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

=== Essence 5 Version ===

Attributes
:Strength: 5, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 3
:Charisma: 1, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 4
:Perception: 3, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 4 (1bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (2bp), Medicine: , Melee: , Occult: , Performance: , Presence: 3, Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 2, Survival: 1, Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 1 (0.5bp)
:Martial Arts - Unarmed 3 (1.5bp)

Languages
:Flame Tongue

Backgrounds
:Artifact: 4 (2bp)
:Leige: 1
:Manse: 4 (2bp)

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3

:Intimacies:
:Violence

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 5 
Essence pool: 21 Personal / 42(50) Peripheral / 0 Personal & 8 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms
:Ravaging Blow (2m)
:Foe-Blinding Jab (3m)
:Dead Man's Grasp (1m)
:Inescapable Iron Grip (5m)
:Dark Messiah Form (6m)
:Bone-Shattering Blow (1m or 3m 1wp)
:Lashing Tempest Palm (3m)
:Grievous Agony Attack (4m)
:Illustrative Overkill Technique (nil or 3m 1wp)

:1st Marital Arts Excellency (1m per die)
:Fists of Iron (1m)
:Dragon Coil Technique (3m)
:Air Dragon Sight (3m)
:Owl Seizes Mouse (3m or 3m 1wp)
:Five Knife Fist (Taint)
:Writhing Blood Chain Technique x 3(Taint)
:Falling Scythe Flash (2m)

:Flickering Wisp Technique (Valour Flaw) (3m)
:Flitting Shadow Form (1m)

:Ox Body
:Corpse Might Surge
:Graceful Crane Stance (3m)
:Spider Pounce Technique (3)

:Injury-Absorbing Discipline (10m)
:Spirit-Hardened Frame ()
:Resilient Corpse Body ()
:Flesh as Marble Stance

Combos
:Wary Predator Method (Freebie)
::Air Dragon's Sight
::Flitting Shadow Form
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::3m + 1wp + 3m perfect dodges available + 1m to make attack expected

:The Butchers Dance (Freebie)
::Corpse Might Surge
::Spider Pounce Technique
::Graceful Crane Stance
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::21m + 1wp + 3m Perfect Dodges Available
:::POWER UP

:Pulverising Clout Infusion (Freebie)
::1st Martial Arts Excellency
::Flickering Wisp Technique
::Ravaging Blow (2m)
::Falling Scythe Flash (2m)
::Fists of Iron (1m)
:::5m + 1wp + Xm + 3m Perfect Dogdes Available
:::Double Strength for Raw Damage, Double Successes for Damage, +1 Accuracy & +2 Damage, +X dice to attack roll.

:Vicious Crushing Grasp (6bp)
::Owl Seizes Mouse
::Dead Man's Grasp
::Inescapable Iron Grip
::Dragon Coil Technique
::1st Martial Arts Excellency
::Flickering Wisp Technique
:::12m + 2wp + Xm for accuracy dice

Equipment
:Soulsteel Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
:Seven-Leaping Dragon Stone

Combat
:Join Battle: 7
:Soak: B/L/A 3/2/0 Hardness: 0/0/0

:DDV: 7 (3+4+1+5=13 / 2)
:PDV: 6 (3+5+3=11 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 5B, Def- 13 (DV 7), Rate- 3
:::Five Knife Fist Spd- 5, Acc- 16, Dmg 10L, Def- 13 (DV 7), Rate- 3
:::Everything Spd- 5, Acc- 25, Dmg 15L, Def- 18 (DV 9), Rate- 3 
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 11, Dmg- 7B, Def- 9 (DV5), Rate- 2 
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- 13, Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
:::Everything: Spd- 6, Acc- 26, Dmg- 14L, Def- N/A, Rate- 1 
::Writhing Blood Chain: Spd-5, Acc- 16, Dmg- 10L, Def- 16 (DV8), Rate- 5
:::Everything: Spd-5, Acc- 25, Dmg- 15L, Def- 21 (DV11), Rate- 5

Movement
:Move: 3
:Dash: 9
:Jump: High: 8
:Jump: Long: 16

Back to [[Bencyclopedia]].

Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish

2010-04-19T03:36:37Z

Bencyclopedia:

Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish

2010-04-19T00:45:01Z

Bencyclopedia:

Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish

2010-04-19T00:03:25Z

Bencyclopedia:

Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish

2010-04-18T23:33:23Z

Bencyclopedia:

Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish

2010-04-18T23:17:21Z

Bencyclopedia: Created page with '=== Character Sheet === Abyssal Exalt Abyssal for nikink's Immortal Kombat. Name: Cadaver Wreathed in Anguish Caste: Dusk <b…'

Nikink/ImmortalKombat

2010-04-18T23:15:47Z

Bencyclopedia:

= Immortal Kombat =
*[[Nikink/IKMatch1|Match 1]] Hestia 1, Aoshi 0
*[[Nikink/IKMatch2|Match 2]] Aoshi 1, Hestia 0
*[[Nikink/IKMatch3|Match 3]] Transitory Ardent Assimilator 0, The Horror Under Lock and Key 0 (Draw!)
*[[Nikink/IKMatch4|Match 4]] Aoshi 2, The Horror Under Lock and Key -1

The rules are simple, the fluff nigh non-existent. Pick a splat, pick a Martial Arts Style; '''FIGHT'''.

It would be best if all participants in a match were of equivalent power tier and Essence.

* Perhaps a series of matches
** Unarmed + Unarmoured
** Armed and Armoured (No Artefacts)
** Artefacts
* Say, 20 Charms total per contestant
** This includes MA Style (usually 9-12 Charms)
** Contestants may mutually agree to more or fewer Charms
* Same Essence level
** perhaps a match at Ess 3, and a match at Ess 5
* Double ups are allowed!
** Nothing wrong with two Solar with Lunar Hero Style pairing off, for example, it just won't prove who's MA style is strongest. :)

This is a potential 6 matches per pair of contestants! But some can be skipped, negotiation encouraged. Depends how long the matches go for I suppose. All for fun. :)

* Essence 3 Character builds
** Make a starting character. Simple eh? ''This should include '''motivations''' and '''Intimacies'''''
** The Charms and Essence are assumed to be where all your XP has been spent to date.
** Any Charms you do not qualify for in your Style, you do not have. Duh! But you do get that number of extra Charms if needed to balance with opponent.
** you get three bonus points to use solely for building a combo
* Essence 5 Character builds
** Take that same character,
** increase Essence to 5,
** add 50xp
** Get the rest of Style Charms free, 5 other charms of your choice and character with least number of Charms in total gets bonus Charms.
** You get 4bp, and then 5bp solely for building combos (Or Arrays, as it were)

===Allowed/recommended Celestial MA Styles listed below ===

Put your name next to any you wish to try out.

* Usable as written : Recommended
** Storm Crow Style
*** [[Muzz]] - [[Aoshi]], Endings Caste Sidereal.
** Arms of the Unconquered Sun Style
*** [[Sabis]] - Solar: ''[[Sabis/TwiceClashingLightning| Twice Clashing Lightning]]''
** Crane Style
** Crystal Chameleon Style
*** [[katarenka]] - Hestia, Lunar Changing Moon
** Dark Messiah Style (I will not allow Void Avatar Prana in this tournament, consider it non-existent)
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Abyssal ''[[Bencyclopedia/CadaverWreathedInAnguish| Cadaver Wreathed In Anguish]]''
*** [[nikink]] - ''[[Nikink/BadMoonRising| Bad Moon Rising]]'', lunar full moon
** Hungry Ghost Style
*** [[nikink]] - Shade of Winter
** Infernal Monster Style
*** [[nikink]] - Infernal: ''[[Nikink/TheHorrorUnderLockAndKey| The Horror Under Lock and Key]]'' ;)
** Lunar Hero Style
** Snake Style
** Solar Hero Style
** Solar Hero Style (Jon Chung's revision, disallowed for Solars in this tournament due to being Solar level charms for them)
** The Art of Forceful Declaration Style
*** [[nikink]] - ''[[Nikink/HardLi| Hard Li]]'' Fire Aspect DB
** The Art of Meditative Discussion Style
*** [[nikink]] - Soft Li DB
** The Art of Relentless Persuasion Style
*** [[nikink]] - Vicious Li DB
** The Art of Victorious Concession Style
*** [[nikink]] - Kind Li DB
** Thousand Wounding Gears (Alchemical)
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Moonsilver Alchemical ''[[Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator| Transitory Ardent Assimilator]]''
** Violet Bier of Sorrows Style (Jon Chung's revision, more mechanically sound)

* Ok, but some charms poorly executed: Feel free to use if you wish, they have been errated. Remaining wonky Charms (if any) will be addressed as they arise.
** Air Dragon Style (I have compiled the Style + Errata if you want it)
** Earth Dragon Style (I have compiled the Style + Errata if you want it)
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Sidereal
*** [[Muzz]] - Full Moon Lunar "Requiem of Lost Dreams"
** Fire Dragon Style
** Violet Bier of Sorrows Style
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Solar
** Water Dragon Style
** Wood Dragon Style

* Ok, bit wonky: Feel free to use, but they have not yet been errated, so more wonky than the others.
** Ebon Shadow Style
** Mantis Style
** Tiger Style
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Orichalcum Alchemical ''[[Bencyclopedia/CapacitorOfRetribution| Capacitor of Retribution]]''

=== Comments and Observations ===
I would imagine, before any contest has begun, the Immaculate Dragon Styles will be among the most powerful. I would like Storm Crow Style to be slightly more powerful than Snake by Essence 5, and hopefully about equal at Essence 3.

[[Bencyclopedia]] has also been pondering a Lunar Clinch god build. Clinchy styles I can think of (without double checking books): IMS, SHS, MS and DMS.

Bencyclopedia/CapacitorOfRetribution

2010-04-14T22:52:17Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Character for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Capacitor of Retribution 
Caste: Orichalcum 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: +Ess to raw damage of all attacks
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 6, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 5 (3bp)
:Charisma: 3, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 3, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 1

Abilities
:Archery: 2, Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 3, Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: , Martial Arts: 5 (4bp), Medicine: , Melee: , Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 2, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Martial Arts - While Armed 3 (3bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3.

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: Personal / Peripheral / Personal & Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix [2m]

:Crimson Leaping Cat Technique
:Striking Fury Claws Attack
:Tiger Form
:Raging Tiger Pounce
:Spine Shattering Bite
:Stalking Cat Meditation
:Leap from Cloaking Shadows Attack
:Celestial Tiger Hide

:Forth Strength Augmentation x 1 [1m]
:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x 2 [1m]
:Forth Stamina Augmentation x 1 [1m]
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton [1m]
:First Strenght Augmentation x1 [1m]

:Sub-cutaneous Plating x 2 [2m]
:Transitory Invulnerability Engine [1m]
:Piston Driven Megaton Hammer [1m]
::Optimized Demolition Vibration Submodule (1bp)
:Unstoppable Impulse Engine [2m]

Combos & Arrays
:Devastating Tiger Strike freebie
::Stirking Fury Claws Attack
::Spine Shattering Bite

:Calculated Driving Attack (4bp)
::Piston Driven Megaton Hammer
::Unstoppable Impulse Engine
::Transitory Invulnerability Engine
::First Strenght Augmentation

Equipment
:Starmetal Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
::Five Fold Attunement Thingy
:Moonsilver Razor Claws [6m]
::Five Fold Attunement Thingy
:Silken Armour [?m]

Combat
:Join Battle: 4 lulz
:Soak: B/L/A 11/7/0 Hardness: 4/2/0 (includes Sub-cutaneous Plating)
:With Form: 14/10/0
:With CTH: 16/12/0
:With Both: 19/15/0

:DDV: 8 (7+5+3=15 / 2)
:PDV: 8 (7+5+3=15 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Moonsilver Razor Claws: Spd-5, Acc-21, Dmg-11L, Def-19 (DV 10), Rate-3
::: With Kata Bracer Bonus: Spd-5, Acc-24, Dmg-14L, Def-22 (DV 11), Rate-3

Movement
:Move: 7
:Dash: 13
:Jump: High: 6
:Jump: Long: 12

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

=== Comments ===
Main weakness is low health levels, low mobility, slow off the bat and takes time to power up.
Strength is massive atttacks and a perfect soak.

Fully powered up and unleashing a maximum combo gives:
23m 1wp
One 31 Dice attack plus stunts and virtue channel.
Raw Damage of 32L, successes count double.
Unblockable

Back to [[Bencyclopedia]].

:That's an Awesome combo. But it doesn't prove your Kung-Fu is the best, it just proves Alch Charms are great. :) [[nikink]]
::8 damage and 7 accuracy come from Tiger Stytle, 7 damage, unblockable and 2xSucesses for damage are the Alch parts. I could probably replicate something similar with other martial arts charms in place of the Alch ones, but given the 20 charms we have it's difficult to get far enough into a second tree.

Bencyclopedia/CapacitorOfRetribution

2010-04-14T22:51:24Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Character for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Capacitor of Retribution 
Caste: Orichalcum 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: +Ess to raw damage of all attacks
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 6, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 5 (3bp)
:Charisma: 3, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 3, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 1

Abilities
:Archery: 2, Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 3, Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: , Martial Arts: 5 (4bp), Medicine: , Melee: , Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 2, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Martial Arts - While Armed 3 (3bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3.

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: Personal / Peripheral / Personal & Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix [2m]

:Crimson Leaping Cat Technique
:Striking Fury Claws Attack
:Tiger Form
:Raging Tiger Pounce
:Spine Shattering Bite
:Stalking Cat Meditation
:Leap from Cloaking Shadows Attack
:Celestial Tiger Hide

:Forth Strength Augmentation x 1 [1m]
:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x 2 [1m]
:Forth Stamina Augmentation x 1 [1m]
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton [1m]
:First Strenght Augmentation x1 [1m]

:Sub-cutaneous Plating x 2 [2m]
:Transitory Invulnerability Engine [1m]
:Piston Driven Megaton Hammer [1m]
::Optimized Demolition Vibration Submodule (1bp)
:Unstoppable Impulse Engine [2m]

Combos & Arrays
:Devastating Tiger Strike freebie
::Stirking Fury Claws Attack
::Spine Shattering Bite

:Calculated Driving Attack (4bp)
::Piston Driven Megaton Hammer
::Unstoppable Impulse Engine
::Transitory Invulnerability Engine
::First Strenght Augmentation

Equipment
:Starmetal Perfected Kata Bracers [8m]
::Five Fold Attunement Thingy
:Moonsilver Razor Claws [6m]
::Five Fold Attunement Thingy
:Silken Armour [?m]

Combat
:Join Battle: 4 lulz
:Soak: B/L/A 11/7/0 Hardness: 4/2/0 (includes Sub-cutaneous Plating)
:With Form: 14/10/0
:With CTH: 16/12/0
:With Both: 19/15/0

:DDV: 8 (7+5+3=15 / 2)
:PDV: 8 (7+5+3=15 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Moonsilver Razor Claws: Spd-5, Acc-21, Dmg-11L, Def-19 (DV 10), Rate-3
::: With Kata Bracer Bonus: Spd-5, Acc-24, Dmg-14L, Def-22 (DV 11), Rate-3

Movement
:Move: 7
:Dash: 13
:Jump: High: 6
:Jump: Long: 12

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

=== Comments ===
Main weakness is low health levels, low mobility, slow off the bat and takes time to power up.
Strength is massive atttacks and a perfect soak.

Fully powered up and unleashing a maximum combo gives:
23m 1wp
One 31 Dice attack plus stunts and virtue channel.
Raw Damage of 32L, successes count double.
Unblockable

Back to [[Bencyclopedia]].

:That's an Awesome combo. But it doesn't prove your Kung-Fu is the best, it just proves Alch Charms are great. :) [[nikink]]
::11 damage and 7 accuracy come from Tiger Stytle, 7 damage, unblockable and 2xSucesses for damage are the Alch parts. I could probably replicate something similar with other martial arts charms in place of the Alch ones, but given the 20 charms we have it's difficult to get far enough into a second tree.

Bencyclopedia/CapacitorOfRetribution

2010-04-14T03:15:15Z

Bencyclopedia: Created page with '=== Character Sheet === Alchemical Exalt Character for nikink's Immortal Kombat. Name: Capacitor of Retribution Caste: Orich…'

Nikink/ImmortalKombat

2010-04-14T02:30:50Z

Bencyclopedia:

= Immortal Kombat =
*[[Nikink/IKMatch1|Match 1]] Hestia 1, Aoshi 0
*[[Nikink/IKMatch2|Match 2]] Aoshi 1, Hestia 1
*Match 3 Transitory Ardent Assimilator 0, The Horror Under Lock and Key 0 (Draw!)
*Match 4 Aoshi 2, The Horror Under Lock and Key -1

The rules are simple, the fluff nigh non-existent. Pick a splat, pick a Martial Arts Style; '''FIGHT'''.

It would be best if all participants in a match were of equivalent power tier and Essence.

* Perhaps a series of matches
** Unarmed + Unarmoured
** Armed and Armoured (No Artefacts)
** Artefacts
* Say, 20 Charms total per contestant
** This includes MA Style (usually 9-12 Charms)
** Contestants may mutually agree to more or fewer Charms
* Same Essence level
** perhaps a match at Ess 3, and a match at Ess 5
* Double ups are allowed!
** Nothing wrong with two Solar with Lunar Hero Style pairing off, for example, it just won't prove who's MA style is strongest. :)

This is a potential 6 matches per pair of contestants! But some can be skipped, negotiation encouraged. Depends how long the matches go for I suppose. All for fun. :)

* Essence 3 Character builds
** Make a starting character. Simple eh?
** The Charms and Essence are assumed to be where all your XP has been spent to date.
** Any Charms you do not qualify for in your Style, you do not have. Duh! But you do get that number of extra Charms if needed to balance with opponent.
** you get three bonus points to use solely for building a combo
* Essence 5 Character builds
** Take that same character,
** increase Essence to 5,
** add 50xp
** Get the rest of Style Charms free, 5 other charms of your choice and character with least number of Charms in total gets bonus Charms.
** You get 4bp, and then 5bp solely for building combos (Or Arrays, as it were)

Allowed/recommended Celestial MA Styles listed below. Put your name next to any you wish to try out.

* Usable as written : Recommended
** Storm Crow Style
*** [[Muzz]] - [[Aoshi]], Endings Caste Sidereal.
** Arms of the Unconquered Sun Style
** Crane Style
** Crystal Chameleon Style
** Dark Messiah Style (I will not allow Void Avatar Prana in this tournament, consider it non-existent)
*** [[nikink]] - Bad Moon Rising, lunar full moon
** Hungry Ghost Style
*** [[nikink]] - Shade of Winter
** Infernal Monster Style
*** [[nikink]] - Infernal: ''[[Nikink/TheHorrorUnderLockAndKey| The Horror Under Lock and Key]]'' ;)
** Lunar Hero Style
** Snake Style
** Solar Hero Style
*** [[Sabis]] - Solar: Twice Clashing Lightning, Night Caste Solar
** Solar Hero Style (Jon Chung's revision, disallowed for Solars in this tournament due to being Solar level charms for them)
** The Art of Forceful Declaration Style
** The Art of Meditative Discussion Style
** The Art of Relentless Persuasion Style
** The Art of Victorious Concession Style
** Thousand Wounding Gears (Alchemical)
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Moonsilver Alchemical ''[[Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator| Transitory Ardent Assimilator]]''
** Violet Bier of Sorrows Style (Jon Chung's revision, more mechanically sound)

* Ok, but some charms poorly executed: Feel free to use if you wish, they have been errated. Remaining wonky Charms (if any) will be addressed as they arise.
** Air Dragon Style (I have compiled the Style + Errata if you want it)
** Earth Dragon Style (I have compiled the Style + Errata if you want it)
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Sidereal
** Fire Dragon Style
** Violet Bier of Sorrows Style
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Solar
** Water Dragon Style
** Wood Dragon Style

* Ok, bit wonky: Feel free to use, but they have not yet been errated, so more wonky than the others.
** Ebon Shadow Style
** Mantis Style
** Tiger Style
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Orichalcum Alchemical ''[[Bencyclopedia/CapacitorOfRetribution| Capacitor of Retribution]]''

=== Comments and Observations ===
I would imagine, before any contest has begun, the Immaculate Dragon Styles will be among the most powerful. I would like Storm Crow Style to be slightly more powerful than Snake by Essence 5, and hopefully about equal at Essence 3.

[[Bencyclopedia]] has also been pondering a Lunar Clinch god build. Clinchy styles I can think of (without double checking books): IMS, SHS, MS and DMS.

Are all currently printed charms available (barring the ones you've already disallowed)? For instance, I'd like to try out the solar hero build, but to do so I'd like to utilize expansion charms from Lords of Creation, Internals, and Glories most High: Unconquered Sun.
--[[Sabis]]

:DotFA Charms are fine. Shame no Solar charms exist in that book. But the Lunar + DB one are cool, taken with any relevant errata. Solar Hero Expansions from SotM aren't recommended, but I suppose they'd be ok if you want them. Jon Chung's revisions of those Charms are fine. :) [[nikink]]

:DotFA has no solar charms?? Lords of creation, pages 55-66 seem to have them... some of which I'd like to use, like the solar hero expansion charm and a certain athletics charm.
--[[Sabis]]
::I look at those pages and see words written down that make no sense and have no place in Exalted, So nope. :) Jon Chung's Solar Hero Style revision may have that expansion charm listed, in which case you could use that version. [[nikink]]

Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T23:51:10Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Transitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 5, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 3
:Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 2, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (4bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (4bp), Medicine: , Melee: 1, Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 3 (3bp)
:Martial Arts - While Armed 1 (1bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 4 (3bp).

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 7 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: 5(16) Personal / 32(54) Peripheral / 11 Personal & 22 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix [2m]

:The Circle Screams
:Gear Catches Gear Defense
:Thousand Wounds Gear Form
:Rearing Crane Release
:Floating Target Lock
:Flesh-Rending Gear Technique
:Linear Flight Principle
:Arc Blinding Assault
:Hungry Gear-Tooth Attack
:Thousand Wounds Persistence

:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x2 [2m]
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton [1m]

:Optical Shroud [2m]

:Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus [1m]
:Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

:Accelerated Response System - Dodge Configuration [1m]
:Precalculated Evasion System [1m]

:Auxiliary Essence Storage Unit [1m]

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Moonsilver Hearthstone Bracers [4m]
:Moonsilver Superheavy Plate [8m]
:Orichalsum Gyro-Chakram [10m]

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 18/19/17 Hardness: 10/10/10

:DDV: 11 (7+5+3+3+3=21 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+1=13 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Orichalcum Gyro-Chakram: Spd-4, Acc-14, Dmg-8L, Range-90, Rate-3

Movement
:Move: 7
:Dash: 13
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

Back to [[Bencyclopedia]].

Aoshi

2010-04-07T22:52:03Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Sidereal Exalt

Name: Aoshi 
Caste: Endings 
Motivation: Bring Immortal Kombat to an end... by winning! 
Anima: +1 Damage to Post Soak Damage rolls 
Concept: Impetuous Gloryhound (Kung Fu Guru) 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 4, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 5
:Charisma: 1, Manipulation: 4, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 4, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 3

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, ''Awareness'': 3, ''Bureaucracy'': 2, Craft(): , ''Dodge'': 5 , ''Integrity'': 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): 1, Lore: 3, ''Martial Arts'': 5 , ''Medicine'': , Melee: , Occult: 2, Performance: , ''Presence'': 4, Resistance: 2, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: 1, ''Stealth'': 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War:

Specialties
:Thrown - Vajra: 3
:Martial Arts - Vajra 3

Languages
: Old Realm, Sky Tongue

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Celestial Manse: 3
:Class:
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar:
:Manse: 3
:Mentor:
:Salary: 3
:Savant:
:Sifu: 3

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3.

:Intimacies: Glory

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: Personal / Peripheral / Personal & Peripheral Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Oncoming Storm Awareness
:Buffeting Wing Flurry
:Ruffled Feathers Defence
:Ominous-Rumble Prana
:Gale-Riding Meditation
:Storm Crow Form
:Heaven-Scouring Windstorm Technique
:Heaven-Crossing Lightning Strike
:Heaven-Drenching Rainfall Blow
:Heaven-Shaking Thunder Assault
:Heaven-Shattering Thunderbolt Onslaught

:First Martial Arts Excellency
:Second Martial Arts Excellency
:Fateful Martial Arts Excellency

:Absence
:Duck Fate

:Second Dodge Excellency
:Fateful Dodge Excellency
:First Thrown Excellency
:Fateful Thrown Excellency

:Secrets of Future Strife

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Starmetal Vajra [Xm]
:Starmetal Reinforced Buff Jacket [m]
:Collar of Dawn's Cleansing Light

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A // Hardness: //

:DDV: 5 (3+5+3-1=10 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (3+5+3+2=13 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1

Movement
:Move: 3
:Dash: 6
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

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Aoshi

2010-04-07T22:43:27Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Sidereal Exalt

Name: Aoshi 
Caste: Endings 
Motivation: Bring Immortal Kombat to an end... by winning! 
Anima: +1 Damage to Post Soak Damage rolls 
Concept: Impetuous Gloryhound (Kung Fu Guru) 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 4, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 5
:Charisma: 1, Manipulation: 4, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 4, Intelligence: 2, Wits: 3

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, ''Awareness'': 3, ''Bureaucracy'': 2, Craft(): , ''Dodge'': 5 , ''Integrity'': 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): 1, Lore: 3, ''Martial Arts'': 5 , ''Medicine'': , Melee: , Occult: 2, Performance: , ''Presence'': 4, Resistance: 2, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: 1, ''Stealth'': 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War:

Specialties
:Thrown - Vajra: 3
:Martial Arts - Vajra 3

Languages
: Old Realm, Sky Tongue

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Celestial Manse: 3
:Class:
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar:
:Manse: 3
:Mentor:
:Salary: 3
:Savant:
:Sifu: 3

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3.

:Intimacies: Glory

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 6 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: Personal / Peripheral / Personal & Peripheral Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Oncoming Storm Awareness
:Buffeting Wing Flurry
:Ruffled Feathers Defence
:Ominous-Rumble Prana
:Gale-Riding Meditation
:Storm Crow Form
:Heaven-Scouring Windstorm Technique
:Heaven-Crossing Lightning Strike
:Heaven-Drenching Rainfall Blow
:Heaven-Shaking Thunder Assault
:Heaven-Shattering Thunderbolt Onslaught

:First Martial Arts Excellency
:Second Martial Arts Excellency
:Fateful Martial Arts Excellency

:Absence
:Duck Fate

:Second Dodge Excellency
:Fateful Dodge Excellency
:First Thrown Excellency
:Fateful Thrown Excellency

:Secrets of Future Strife

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Starmetal Vajra [Xm]
:Starmetal Reinforced Buff Jacket [m]
:Collar of Dawn's Cleansing Light

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 19/19/17 Hardness: 10/10/10

:DDV: 11 (7+5+3+3+3=21 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+1=13 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1

Movement
:Move: 3
:Dash: 6
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

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Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T11:49:00Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Transitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 3, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 4
:Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 2, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (4bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (4bp), Medicine: , Melee: 1, Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 3 (3bp)
:Martial Arts - While Armed 1 (1bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 4 (3bp).

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 7 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: 5(16) Personal / 32(54) Peripheral / 11 Personal & 22 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix [2m]

:The Circle Screams
:Gear Catches Gear Defense
:Thousand Wounds Gear Form
:Rearing Crane Release
:Floating Target Lock
:Flesh-Rending Gear Technique
:Linear Flight Principle
:Arc Blinding Assault
:Hungry Gear-Tooth Attack
:Thousand Wounds Persistence

:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x2 [2m]
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton [1m]

:Optical Shroud [2m]

:Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus [1m]
:Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

:Accelerated Response System - Dodge Configuration [1m]
:Precalculated Evasion System [1m]

:Auxiliary Essence Storage Unit [1m]

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Moonsilver Hearthstone Bracers [4m]
:Moonsilver Superheavy Plate [8m]
:Orichalsum Gyro-Chakram [10m]

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 19/19/17 Hardness: 10/10/10

:DDV: 11 (7+5+3+3+3=21 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+1=13 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Orichalcum Gyro-Chakram: Spd-4, Acc-14, Dmg-6L, Range-90, Rate-3

Movement
:Move: 7
:Dash: 13
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

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Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T11:22:59Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Transitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 3, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 4
:Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 2, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (4bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (4bp), Medicine: , Melee: 1, Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Dodge - Exalts: 3 (3bp)
:Martial Arts - While Armed 1 (1bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 4 (3bp).

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 7 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: 5(16) Personal / 32(54) Peripheral / 11 Personal & 22 Perihperal Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix [2m]

:The Circle Screams
:Gear Catches Gear Defense
:Thousand Wounds Gear Form
:Rearing Crane Release
:Floating Target Lock
:Flesh-Rending Gear Technique
:Linear Flight Principle
:Arc Blinding Assault
:Hungry Gear-Tooth Attack
:Thousand Wounds Persistence

:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x2 [2m]
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton [1m]

:Optical Shroud [2m]

:Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus [1m]
:Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

:Accelerated Response System - Dodge Configuration [1m]
:Precalculated Evasion System [1m]

:Auxiliary Essence Storage Unit [1m]

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Moonsilver Hearthstone Bracers [4m]
:Moonsilver Superheavy Plate [8m]
:Orichalsum Gyro-Chakram [10m]

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 19/19/17 Hardness: 10/10/10

:DDV: 11 (7+5+3+3+3=21 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+1=13 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1
::Orichalcum Gyro-Chakram: Spd-4, Acc-16, Dmg-6L, Range-90, Rate-3

Movement
:Move: 7
:Dash: 13
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

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Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T10:33:02Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Transitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 3, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 4
:Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 2, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (2bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (2bp), Medicine: , Melee: 1, Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Martial Arts - While Armed: 3 (1 1/2 bp)
:Dodge - Exalts: 3 (1 1/2 bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command:
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 2
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3.

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: Personal / Peripheral / Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix

:The Circle Screams
:Gear Catches Gear Defense
:Thousand Wounds Gear Form
:Rearing Crane Release
:Floating Target Lock
:Flesh-Rending Gear Technique
:Linear Flight Principle
:Arc Blinding Assault
:Hungry Gear-Tooth Attack
:Thousand Wounds Persistence

:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x2
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton

:Optical Shroud
:Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus

:Accelerated Response System - Dodge Configuration
:Precalculated Evasion System
:Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Equipment here

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 0/0/0

:DDV: 9 (7+5+3+3=18 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+3=15 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1

Movement
:Move:
:Dash:
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

Back to [[Bencyclopedia]].

Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T09:13:22Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Character Sheet ===

Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name: Transitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: 3, Dexterity: 7, Stamina: 4
:Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
:Perception: 2, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 4

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: 3, Awareness: 3, Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (2bp), Integrity: 3, Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: 1, Martial Arts: 5 (2bp), Medicine: , Melee: 1, Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: 3, Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: 3, Survival: , Thrown: , War: 3

Specialties
:Martial Arts - While Armed: 3 (1 1/2 bp)
:Dodge - Exalts: 3 (1 1/2 bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact: 5
:Backing:
:Class: 3
:Command: 3
:Contacts:
:Eidolon:
:Familiar: 1
:Mentor:
:Savant:

Virtues
:Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor 3.

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: Personal / Peripheral / Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

:Perfected Lotus Matrix

:The Circle Screams
:Gear Catches Gear Defense
:Thousand Wounds Gear Form
:Rearing Crane Release
:Floating Target Lock
:Flesh-Rending Gear Technique
:Linear Flight Principle
:Arc Blinding Assault
:Hungry Gear-Tooth Attack
:Thousand Wounds Persistence

:Forth Dexterity Augmentation x2
:First Dexterity Augmentaiton

:Optical Shroud
:Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus

:Accelerated Response System - Dodge Configuration
:Precalculated Evasion System
:Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Equipment here

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 0/0/0

:DDV: 9 (7+5+3+3=18 / 2)
:PDV: 7 (7+5+3=15 / 2)
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1

Movement
:Move:
:Dash:
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

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Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T05:42:30Z

Bencyclopedia:

Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T04:36:10Z

Bencyclopedia:

Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator

2010-04-07T04:27:50Z

Bencyclopedia:

=== Transitory Ardent Assimilator ===

Moonsilver Alchemical Exalt

Originally a 1st Ed Moonsilver alchemical. Now re-written for 2nd Ed for [[nikink]]'s [[nikink/ImmortalKombat| Immortal Kombat]].

Name:T ransitory Ardent Assimilator 
Caste: Moonsilver 
Motivation: 
Anima: 
: -1 Speed to all actions, minimum 3.
Concept: 
XP: <nowiki>Left/Total:</nowiki>

Attributes
:Strength: , Dexterity: , Stamina:
:Charisma: , Manipulation: , Appearance:
:Perception: , Intelligence: , Wits:

Abilities
:Archery: , Athletics: , Awareness: , Bureaucracy: , Craft(): , Dodge: 5 (2bp), Integrity: , Investigation: , Larceny: , Linguistics(): , Lore: , Martial Arts: 5 (2bp), Medicine: , Melee: , Occult: , Performance: , Presence: , Resistance: , Ride: , Sail: , Socialize: , Stealth: , Survival: , Thrown: , War:

Specialties
:Martial Arts - While Armed: 3 (1 1/2 bp)
:Dodge - Exalts: 1 (1/2 bp)

Languages
:

Backgrounds
:Allies:
:Artifact:
:Backing:
:Contacts:
:Cult:
:Familiar:
:Followers:
:Influence:
:Manse:
:Mentor:
:Resources:

Virtues
:Compassion: , Conviction: , Temperance: , Valor .

:Intimacies:

:Virtue Flaw:

Willpower: 
Essence: 3 
Essence pool: Personal / Peripheral / Committed

Health Levels
-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/<nowiki>Incap/Dying</nowiki>

Charms

Combos
:Combo Name
::Combo Charms

Equipment
:Equipment here

Combat
:Join Battle:
:Soak: B/L/A 0/0/0

:DDV:
:PDV:
:DMDV:
:PMDV:
:Attacks:
::Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- +2, Rate- 3
::Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- -2 , Rate- 2
::Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- , Dmg- B, Def- N/A, Rate- 1

Movement
:Move:
:Dash:
:Jump: High:
:Jump: Long:

----
=== Character Description ===

=== Expanded Backgrounds ===

=== History ===

=== Personality ===

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Nikink/ImmortalKombat

2010-04-07T04:10:40Z

Bencyclopedia:

= Immortal Kombat =

The rules are simple, the fluff nigh non-existent. Pick a splat, pick a Martial Arts Style; '''FIGHT'''.

It would be best if all participants in a match were of equivalent power tier and Essence.

* Perhaps a series of matches
** Unarmed + Unarmoured
** Armed and Armoured (No Artefacts)
** Artefacts
* Say, 20 Charms total per contestant
** This includes MA Style (usually 9-12 Charms)
** Contestants may mutually agree to more or fewer Charms
* Same Essence level
** perhaps a match at Ess 3, and a match at Ess 5
* Double ups are allowed!
** Nothing wrong with two Solar with Lunar Hero Style pairing off, for example, it just won't prove who's MA style is strongest. :)

This is a potential 6 matches per pair of contestants! But some can be skipped, negotiation encouraged. Depends how long the matches go for I suppose. All for fun. :)

* Essence 3 Character builds
** Make a starting character. Simple eh?
** The Charms and Essence are assumed to be where all your XP has been spent to date.
** Any Charms you do not qualify for in your Style, you do not have. Duh! But you do get that number of extra Charms if needed to balance with opponent.
* Essence 5 Character builds
** Take that same character,
** increase Essence to 5,
** add 50xp
** Get the rest of Style Charms free, character with least number of Charms in total gets bonus Charms.

Allowed/recommended Celestial MA Styles listed below. Put your name next to any you wish to try out.

* Usable as written : Recommended
** Storm Crow Style
*** [[Muzz]]
** Arms of the Unconquered Sun Style
** Crane Style
** Crystal Chameleon Style
** Dark Messiah Style (I will not allow Void Avatar Prana in this tournament, consider it non-existent)
** Hungry Ghost Style
** Infernal Monster Style
*** [[nikink]] - Infernal: ''[[Nikink/TheHorrorUnderLockAndKey| The Horror Under Lock and Key]]'' ;)
** Lunar Hero Style
** Snake Style
** Solar Hero Style
** Solar Hero Style (Jon Chung's revision, disallowed for Solars in this tournament due to being Solar level charms for them)
** The Art of Forceful Declaration Style
** The Art of Meditative Discussion Style
** The Art of Relentless Persuasion Style
** The Art of Victorious Concession Style
** Thousand Wounding Gears (Alchemical)
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Moonsilver Alchemical ''[[Bencyclopedia/TransitoryArdentAssimilator| Transitory Ardent Assimilator]]''
** Violet Bier of Sorrows Style (Jon Chung's revision, more mechanically sound)

* Ok, but some charms poorly executed: Feel free to use if you wish, they have been errated. Remaining wonky Charms (if any) will be addressed as they arise.
** Air Dragon Style (I have compiled the Style + Errata if you want it)
** Earth Dragon Style (I have compiled the Style + Errata if you want it)
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Sidereal
** Fire Dragon Style
** Violet Bier of Sorrows Style
*** [[Bencyclopedia]] - Solar
** Water Dragon Style
** Wood Dragon Style

* Ok, bit wonky: Feel free to use, but they have not yet been errated, so more wonky than the others.
** Ebon Shadow Style
** Mantis Style
** Tiger Style

=== Comments and Observations ===
I would imagine, before any contest has begun, the Immaculate Dragon Styles will be among the most powerful. I would like Storm Crow Style to be slightly more powerful than Snake by Essence 5, and hopefully about equal at Essence 3.

[[Bencyclopedia]] has also been pondering a Lunar Clinch god build. Clinchy styles I can think of (without double checking books): IMS, SHS, MS and DMS.