Dragon Ball in the Playground [Discussion & Interest checking]

[Lord Raziere]

Which conveniently means that her power level is fixed at a level about even with other PCs.

yep, thats the idea.

also came up with this good signature ki blast move for her: Trace Laser. Basically, its a thin beam that like a seeker missile, follows its target how much it does so depends on the power level though: at its lowest level, it will only change direction once, thus you the foe has to dodge it twice. However the higher the power level, the more it has to be dodged, because the more times it will change direction! However its the weak on the block side- its a focused attack, not a super-destructive one, therefore good blockers can take it easily.

[cavalieredraghi]

here is what I am thinking, so far anyways. Could I play as one of the few surviving Tuffles who lived among the namiekians. and thus learned about the dragonballs and how to create them through them? My Tuffle would be highly intelligent, and used his knowledge of technology to help create a new set of Dragonballs for where ever we are. Earth I assume. These Dragonballs are slightly inferior compared to the orginal Namiekian Dragonballs , ergo why Earth's balls only allow 1 wish versus 3.

Thoughts so far?

[Rater202]

The Tuffles are still the dominant species of Planet Plant at the point in history we're starting at.

So there wouldn't be any "Few surviving Tuffles"

[cavalieredraghi]

Oh so then that is a possibly.

[Frozen_Feet]

I see a lot more interested people have cropped up. Good. As you throw around character ideas, try to at some point gather them into a coherent character sheet. I'll put a link to every character sheet to the first post of OOC. Maybe once we have enough we can make a specific registry thread for them. Here's an empty character sheet for you to copy and fill:

Empty character template:

<Your character's name here>

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Age: Exact number or rough estimation.
Gender: Male, female, etc.
Height: Centimeters and/or feet and inches.
Weight: Kilograms and/or pounds.
Species: What kind of creature your character is?
Station: Your character's current lot in life.

Description:

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What does your character look, feel, smell and sound like?

Personality:

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How does your character think? What drives him and what kind of a fellow is he?

History:

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What has happened to your character before the game and made them who they are?

Story So Far:

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You can summarize and update here what has happened to your character during the game.

Abilities:

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What is your character good or bad at? What special things can he do or knows?

These could include anything from martial arts to ki blasts to magic and shapeshifting abilities.

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Anything you can't fit to the brackets above, such as equipment or property your character owns.

Here's an example of a filled character sheet - Earth's old god, as I'm going to play him:

God of the Mortal World: Yama no Rōjin (lit. "Old man of the Mountain")
... or just call him "Yama", "Kami" or "God" for short

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Age: Somewhere between 1500 and 1700 years
Gender: Male.
Height: 165 cm (~5'5")
Weight: 71 kg (~157 lbs.)
Species: Infernal being.
Station: Earth's current Guardian

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In his human form, Yama appears as an ugly, wrinkled old man whose face seems to be stuck in a perpetual scowl. His skin is tanned bronze and is crisscrossed by pale scars from past battles. His hair is silvery and kept short. His eyes are steel grey - he actually has three of them, but keeps the third one on his forehead closed most of the time, so it's not noticeable. He typically wears a black shirt and black garment similar to hakama, tied around the waist with a red sash. He wears black leather boots on his feet. His posture has been getting quite bad lately, and he usually walks around leaning on his staff. It's hard to tell through the clothes, but he's built like a strongman. His voice is coarse, and he smells of blood and iron.

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Yama used to have quite a temperament and loved fighting, often for non-existing reasons. However, the lack of proper challenge for a few hundred years soured the idea for him. Since then, he's been perpetually grumpy, seething with aggression with no proper discharge. He spends most of his time sulking in his palace, gaining what little joy he can from growing beans, drinking tea and building small things, like carving little birds and trees from wood. Occasionally, he sends his projection to Earth or Otherworld to deal with stubborn ghosts of the dead.

Yama feels his age pressing down on himself and thinks he ought to find himself a successor soon. There's a tinge of guilt nagging in the back of his head, a half-realization he's perhaps not been the best of gods for Earth. It would probably be best to find someone less self-centered to take the job. He has no idea who it could be, though.

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Once upon a time, Yama lived in the Otherworld. He was an infernal being of great martial prowess and went around challenging those who doubted his strenght. He caused quite a ruckus and kept inhabitants of Heaven in fear untill one day, when he got a bit too drunk and tried to hit on one of the higher gods. As a punishment, he got thrown to Earth and turned into a human. He also got a mountain placed on him for good measure - it took him two centuries to dig himself from under it. Afterwards, he took on the mantle of Earth's God, as the spot was empty at the time.

He used to live among humans, becoming famous for defeating strongest monsters and warriors of the time. He built a grand palace for himself and people flocked under his banner, pledging themselves to him in terror and awe. For a while, the worship of humans was fine and dandy, but then Yama ran out of things to fight and found out there wasn't much else he could do well. People started coming to him with problems that couldn't be solved by punching them in the face. He tried to chance and learned new skills, but as time passed their pleas grew pettier and pettier. Annoyed, he moved his palace on the top of a high mountain, but people still kept coming. He tried an even higher mountain, but when even that didn't help, he made his palace float in the sky high above the clouds. Since then, a group of humans have been building a tower to reach him in honor of some old hero of theirs.

For the last hundred years or so, Yama hasn't been doing much else than growing beans and drinking tea. No new heroes or villains have emerged to challenge him. Whether this is because there are none or because everyone's just kinda forgotten about him isn't known to him. Lack of proper exercise is making his back hurt.

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1. Android 23 and Callin arrived at Kami's lookout to ask for the dragon balls. Not having them, Kami told them to go look elsewhere and gave them directions to a dead dragon's lair.
2. Arcosian brothers asked to be trained by Kami. Kami agreed but the Yellow Thunder Sage attacked before any training could take place.
3. Kami fought the Yellow Thunder Sage. His foe apparently self-destructed, but blew up Kami's lookout as well.
4. Feeling too old to fix his lookout alone, Kami sought the Arcosian brothers and healed them from their wounds. However, they would not agree to fix Kami's lookout just for that, so enraged Kami drove them off.
5. Kami relocated remains of his lookout to a nearby mountain and then carried a nearby village next to it so the humans could help him while he was off to collect the lost souls left from the Thunder Sage's attack.
6. While collecting lost humans souls, Kami also witnessed Callin creating the dragon balls and wishing Android 22 to this world, as well as the aftermath of Solitus's defeat. After asking what Sun Kai was doing on Earth, Kami returned to his lookout.
7. From memory, Kami searched for one of the inert dragon balls. He pondered what to do with it, but couldn't think of anything he'd need a wish for. After making a few copies of the ball, he just left it in his forge, with a note telling whoever finds it can keep it.
8. Afterwards, Kami mostly spent his time fixing his lookout. He took a detour to see Aspa fight against Slushya's at Baba's, read Pokasuu's mind, and then returned to work.
9. When Kami was fixing the roof of his palace, Callin arrived to ask Kami to teach him magic. Kami found his reasons lacking, while Callin found Kami's demeanor dissatisfying. When Kami tried to stop Callin from leaving by lassoing him with an iron chain, Callin stabbed him with a Ki blade and a fight broke out between them.
10. Iris, who arrived in wake of Callin, joined the fight to help her comrade. Some time later, the Androids and Oxy also arrived. They started moralizing to Kami, which befuddled him to no end. Iris was thrown into rage by some things said, and hit Kami in the face full force. This served to enrage Kami and he told everyone present to have at it.
11. Callin, Iris and Androids 22 and 23 fought Kami while Aspa and Oxy looked. Aspa was too busy admiring Callin's improvement to interfere, before Kami punched Callin in the chest and lethally stabbed Iris. Shocked, Aspa threw Kami down from the mountain.
12. The fight continued between Kami and Aspa at the base of the mountain. Shanakan arrived to plead Kami to have mercy and explain himself to the strange people around. However, before Kami could reply, Aspa attacked him again and then Oxy too. The Androids appealed to Sun Kai to stop Kami, and Sun Kai pleaded for Kami to stop, but he couldn't as Aspa wouldn't give up.
13. The fight came to an end when the Androids took a big risk and created a Spirit Bomb to hit Kami with. Worried of what might happen to the planet, Kami tried to get away, but Oxy swore to not let him go. Unable to safely dodge the bomb, Kami turned into a juggernaut, but when it seemed even that might not stop the bomb, he asked Sun Kai to take him and the bomb into orbit. Sun Kai agreed, but after Kami had gotten rid of the bomb, Sun Kai would not let him down, saying it was a punishment for Kami insulting him earlier.
14. Kami was hence left floating in low Earth orbit. From there, he sent his Astral Projection to search for lost souls and to talk with King Kai. After reporting what had happened, Kami left to look for a successor.
15. Halfway to Fortuneteller Baba, Kami sensed a failed summoning ritual from Oxy and went to see what it was about. He caught up with the bug when Lagerin and his goons emerged to do combat with Oxy. Kami thought of fighting with Lagerin's demons, but Aspa arrived to take care of that. Unable to affect the material world, Kami searched for the demon mastermind behind Lagerin's assault. The demon made a claim Kami could not beat it, but by congratulating it, Kami tricked it to shake his hand. Kami took the demon before Yenma and together they beat it up and reclaimed the souls it had taken.
16. Afterwards, Kami returned to escort souls of people killed by Lagerin to afterlife. Among them was Callin, who died of his disease when fighting Lagerin. When Kami couldn't convince Callin to let go of this world, he instead took him to the grave of a past Kami to explain how the spiritual world works, and then took Callin to wait in the lookout.
17. Kami's projection went to acquire information from King Kai and to do other spiritual work. This would've continued until Sun Kai decided to let his physical body back on Earth, but Oxy then emerged and demanded Kami's attention. Kami ignored Oxy so long the later decided to fly up to him instead.
18. As Oxy was closing in, Kami turned into a juggernaut again. Oxy hit him with a Ki blast and then demanded Kami to take him to Otherworld in case he couldn't use dragon balls to resurrect Callin. Kami pointed out Oxy's plan didn't actually require his attention, but this only made Oxy more incensed. Tired of Oxy's threats, Kami bluffed Oxy into thinking he was going to destroy Earth, which made Oxy to get directly in his line of fire. Kami used telepathic projection to stun him with pain.
19. As Oxy was struggling to overcome the telepathic projection, Kami outlined several flaws in Oxy's thinking and noted how Oxy's arrogance made him easy to manipulate. This enraged Oxy, snapped him out of the pain and made him attack Kami..
20. While fighting Kami, Oxy threw all sorts of insults and threats at him. Frustrated, Kami said behaviour like Oxy's was the reason why he quit helping humans. This did nothing to calm Oxy down, however. Even the Sun Kai interjected to say Oxy was fighting for nothing, to similarly little effect. The fight was decided when Oxy couldn't keep up wih Kami's power and started to lose strenght. Kami used a technique he learned from Oxy to knock him down to the pacific ocean, with Oxy cursing him all the way down. Oxy said gods of his time were a thousand times greater than Kami, to which Kami retorted he would create a line of gods with equal greatness.
21. After the fight, Kami headed to the Andean mountain range to fetch more Senzu beans. Sun Kai noted how Kami might have a point in what he said to Oxy, but also that Kami's heavy-handed way of dealing with Oxy would never dissuade Oxy nor his friends from hating him. Kami told Sun Kai shouldn't worry about that, but also thanked him for helping with the Spirit Bomb earlier, in effort to create a sort of truce between the two gods.

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Master of close combat
During his long life, Yama has mastered armed and unarmed combat both. His favorite weapons include the staff, the spear, the sabre, the club, the longsword and the bow. He's not quite as good with those new-fangled firearms some humans are beginning to use, but he's sure he'll get used to them in time. Although he predates most current martial arts, he's also extremely skilled in what we'd recognize as boxing, kickboxing and wrestling, both standing up and on the ground.

Master craftsman
When he used to live with and grant the wishes of humans, Yama took some time to learn all sorts of useful skills from sewing clothes to building houses and smithing tools, weapons and horseshoes. He became so good in making things that he could built his floating palace in mere seven days with no help. He's been slacking lately, but he can still make almost any mundane object one can think of. He isn't much of an inventor, however, mostly sticking to tried-and-true methods and devices.

Monstrous strenght, speed and durability
It is claimed that during his prime, Yama could press a mountain. Such strenght comes with many other perks, and Yama can run fast as the winds and cover leagues with a single leap. It is also claimed no mortal weapon can kill him, though that only made some people more eager to try. He could still take a blast from a cannon to his face without injury greater than a bloody nose.

Levitation and Flight
Yama can walk on nothing but thin air and fly fast as a hawk with the force of his will.

Extrasensory Perception
Yama can sense the lifeforce, Ki, in all living things and pinpoint them with accuracy of 1 meter. He can also sense the good and evil in a man's heart. With his third eye, he can see ghosts and other immaterial things. The range of this ability is measured in dozens of miles, and is increased to cover the whole globe when Yama is in his palace. Yama can also sense surface thoughts of those he can see, and read memories of those he can touch, though these can be resisted by unwilling or canny creatures.

Telepathic projection
Yama can transfer his thoughts to other creatures he can see. The intensity of the projection depends on his strenght. Mostly, this takes form of speech, but Yama can also send images and sensations, including past memories.

Astral Projection
Through meditation, Yama can send an immaterial copy of himself to deal with spirits stuck on Earth, or to discuss with King Yenma in the Otherworld as pertains to his duties as Earth's Guardian. The projection can't touch material things, but has substance in the afterlife.

Hardening
Yama can make any weapon he holds more durable so they can withstand his inhuman strenght. Metal objects benefit more than other items, alloys of iron benefiting the most.

Akuma no ken (Devil's Fist)
A technique, or rather, a fighting style similar to the fabled Kaio-ken. Using one of his masks (see below), Yama can focus his Ki and for a time take on inhuman qualities he had in the Otherworld. This way, he can amplify his strenght and multiply it tenfold if need be. He's not had to use this power in a long time.

Iron Juggernaut
The pinnacle of Akuma no Ken is for Yama to manifest the power of his original form. No living human has seen it, but legends say it is hundred times greater than his human form. It takes the form of a suit of armor, twice as tall as Yama ordinarily is. His muscles become like living metals and his blood becomes like lava. To use this power, Yama needs to have at least one of his masks and his weapons at hand.

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Kamehameha
After witnessing time-travellers use this famous Ki technique, Kami has managed to reverse-engineer this technique. He's still a beginner in its use.

Other information (namely, stuff Yama owns):

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Kami's lookout - a fantastic palace floating in the sky.
Nyoi-bo - a sturdy and weighty staff which can grown in lenght and width as its wielder wishes. Yama uses it as a walking stick.
Senzu Beans - Yama grows these in his garden. One of them is enough to feed a grown man for 10 days. They can also heal any wound and restore lost Ki in an instant.
A crystal ball - it has the power of clairvoyance, allowing Yama to see all things which can be touched by light of the sun - one small bit at a time.
Water of Gods - a draught which will draw forth hidden strenght of anyone who drinks it. Unfortunately, it does this by being a horrible poison. It also tastes bad, being a mixture of Yama's own blood and bile, and tea.
108 faces of God - actually, just 36 now as a few have gotten destroyed or lost on Earth. These are masks Yama made to regain the power he had in the Otherworld. Their appearances vary from leering demons to beautiful but fierce women. Wearing one of these masks is a prerequisite for using Akuma no ken. Update: Only 35 now as one was destroyed in Yellow Thunder Sage's attack
108 arms of God - actually, just 72 two as... you get the picture. These are various weapons Yama made, ranging from iron cudgels and swords to bows and arrows. They're very well made and have power far greater than their appearance suggests. Update: Only 71 now as one ended up with Iris and consequently Callin.

Starting as Children would not necessarily have much effect on when they become the Kami. Dende became Kami as a child.

Dende also got power-upped by Guru, unlike little Piccolo.

Changing topic, how long do do Frost Demons/Arcosians live, anyway?

There's no information on this to speak of. Default to human, though it should be noted even humans with powerful Ki can live for centuries. They just get small and wrinkly somewhere down the line.

And about the name of the race... The only for sure canonical term we have is "Frieza's race" . . . I'm thinking "Frost Demon" is a nickname assigned to the species by others, due to the evil actions of the Empire and the small majority of it's native citizens. And the ice pun names. Is this acceptable? It'd make for some good opportunities if other aliens get involved.

The reason I used "Frost Demons" is because calling them "Frieza's race" is sort of awkward when there's no Frieza around. Your suggestion is acceptable.

Im tempted to jump in as popo :D But i really want to do the abridged version of popo.

It's not impossible. Check my write-up on Earth's old Kami and say how you think their dynamic could work.

I might be game; how many posts per day are we looking at as an activity rate? I'm good for one or two a day, though Wednesday and Saturday I fall off the face of the earth.

One post every other day is good enough. I'm not expecting this game to move super fast.

problem is, its seems a little low-tech to play any kind of Android....

maybe I'll play a female human for once. Dragonball does need a female human badass who can keep up with everyone else.

Play a clockwork / steampunk robot. Or the timetravelling android you came up with would work just as well.

here is what I am thinking, so far anyways. Could I play as one of the few surviving Tuffles who lived among the namiekians. and thus learned about the dragonballs and how to create them through them? My Tuffle would be highly intelligent, and used his knowledge of technology to help create a new set of Dragonballs for where ever we are. Earth I assume. These Dragonballs are slightly inferior compared to the orginal Namiekian Dragonballs , ergo why Earth's balls only allow 1 wish versus 3.

Thoughts so far?

As Rater noted, Tuffles are still alive and well - it's Namekians who are in a pinch. A tuffle coming to Earth with the idea of Dragon Balls would work just fine too.

[Rater202]

There's no information on this to speak of. Default to human, though it should be noted even humans with powerful Ki can live for centuries. They just get small and wrinkly somewhere down the line.

If you're referring to Roshi, he either drank from the fountain of youth which stopped his aging or imbibed some kind of Immortality Elixir, depending on which translation you read. It's just he didn't do so until long after he'd become an old man and thus was frozen old.

I'll be posting the character sheet here, for now

Ieez

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Age: Equivalent to his mid 20s
Gender: Male
Height: slightly below 5ft
Weight: 120Lbs
Species: Arcosion, also known as Frost Demon, Changeling, and Ice-jin.
Station: Wandering Exile

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base form is on the short side-like, slightly shorter than frieza's most heavily sealed form, and looks in general like a combination of first and true form Frieza, with just a tiny hint of third form on the back-head has no horns and is mostly round, and the face most resembles true form, but the sides of the head are armored like first form's. The rest of the body is similar-it looks like first form, but the chest and back are armored like frieza's are in all of his forms but final, and with the.. the best I can describe them are the "natural bracers and grieves" he had, and the armored tip on an otherwise smooth tail. he's also got three short spikes protruding from his back-that's part of the default frieza race options in Xenoverse, and I thought it looked cool.

The unarmored skin is pale turquoise and the parts on the head, chest and shoulders that are purple on Frieza would be a darker blue on Ieez. the rigged portions on arm and leg carapace would be a purer turquoise than his skin unarmored skin, and to contrast with all of the blues, the carapaced portions would be red.

In his second form, Ieez shoots up half a foot and the carapace on his head recedes, leaving his head unarmored, except on his face where his mount and nose are covered by a face plate. His muscles become more toned, and his Carapace comes to resemble the "Elite" Bio-Suit armor, save for a series of small spikes going down his spine. Finally, a pair of small, black horns erupt from the back of his skull.

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Ieez is driven by the sense of vengeance: His ultimate Goal is to avenge his father and overthrow the Arcorisian Imperial Family, who are corrupt, decadent, and tyrannical

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I'm thinking that a small group of people thought that what the still small Empire was doing was wrong, tried to overthrow the imperial family, and failed horribly. They were executed, and their families were exiled from the empire's territory.

Enter Ieez (pronounced EE-ez, corruption of Ice). The son of one of the revolutionaries, he and his brother were sent out of the empire with nothing but a simple, bare bones two person ship, and enough supplies to a trade planet in neutral territory.

Visions of vengeance burn in Ieez's imagination, and he dreams of one day growing strong enough to return to the empire and fulfil the plans of his father and his father's compatriots. But, he's week-just a grunt soldier, if that, power wise.

Eventually he and his brother found their way to a primitive, backwater planet far away from any claimed territory. Maybe he can take over, train the inhabitants in his ways to raise an army? But most likely, it's just a secluded place to train himself-to grow strong.

He hopes it's enough.

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Arrived on earth, stashed ship in a cave up high on a mountain where the air is too thin for native, acquired concealing robe, wondering planet looking for magical items to increase his power, mentors to study froom, or strong opponents to fight in hopes of one day growing strong enough to fulfill his goals.

He and his brother have heard rumors about the Fountain of youth and Korin's tower. Ieez scaled the tower and has found his way to the look out.

After being sent to get his asskicked by Kami, Ieez desided against assisting the Guardian of the Earth in repairing his lookout unless he recived proper compensation, and when the god of the earth refused, Ieez and his brother fled.

After assisting tin the return of stolen goods to a forge Priest and the liberation of a city from it's tyrant, Ieez participated in a trip to Fortuneteller Baba's home.

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Original Power Level:120
Current Power Level: 10,000(true form)
20,000(First Transformation)
Ki Use: a year of careful training and meditation has made Ieez's ki control almost perfect in his True form and very good after his second transformation. He can actively suppress his Ki imperceptibly low and it is passively at a 10 in his True form. His second form, being much more powerful, requires a bit more effort, he can actively suppress his power level to 500 and passively it's at about half. His third form, however, is relatively resently unlocked, and thus has incredibly poor control. He reads at his pull power and can't suppress it,as well as bleeding power off like crazy whenever active. However, Ieez can not sense Ki, and thus has to rely on a scouter. In addition to flight and

• Red Giant: A small,star shaped enrgy ball that explodes on contact. A varaible amount of power can be placed into it, resulting in a explosion of variable size, Created by Slushya of Arcos, and tought to Ieez, though Ieez wasn't able to use it until after Slusya's death.
• Stellar Wave: Basically a wight and Purple Basic Kamehameha, inspire by Oxy's use of the wave and insistence that everybody learn some version of it
• Stellar Lance: a concentrated energy wave fired from the finger tips, with considerable piercing power. Inspired by Oxy's use of dodonpa, but purple.

Hand to Hand Combat: While still noticeably better than other warriors who lack Ki use, among Ki users he's the worse side of average. Kicking and punching is not his forte. However, he has very good reflexes and is incredibly fast for someone his power level, both on the ground and in the air,
in his first and second forms.

Arcosian Anatomy:As an Arcosian Ieez is incredibly resilient, having a nervous system with multiple redundancies, the ability to survive in vacuum and resist space radiation, and breath without an atmosphere, as well as the ability to survive frightening injuries, though he is in no hurry to test the limits of this.

Shape-Shifting: Ieez is an Arcosian, and thus possess their ability to Shapeshift. Furthermore, he has two transformation in linear form, the purpose of which is to help him draw on his hidden potential. His second form doubles his power level.

Eternal Youth: Drinking from the fountain of youth has rendered Ieez ageless and significantly bolstered his immune system

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Ieez owns 1 simple, bare bones two man spacecraft, which is currently hidden away in a wasteland, one thin but concealing hooded robe, and one incredibly primitive scouter.

[Lord Raziere]

Very well then.

Android 23

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Age: 19 years old
Gender: female.
Height: 5'8
Weight: 160 pounds
Species: Drainer Cyborg
Station: Homeless Wanderer

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She looks like a normal human: She has red spiky tomboyish hair, slitted calm green eyes, thin teenager build, wearing a black jacket-white shirt-blue pants combo with boots. Her jacket has a small "Red Ribbon Army" logo on it.

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She is kind of bitter that she was kidnapped to become a weapon for a mad scientist. She also feels melancholy that Android 22 died for her and that Android 21 became evil. However she also feels happy that she can help and protect others. Android 23 tries to keep a cool head about her situation. She knows that she can't let her past haunt her if she wants to move forward. However the more weirdness she starts to encounter the more sarcastic she will probably become.

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In an alternate Timeline, Dr. Gero made three more Androids after himself: 21, 22 and 23. For in this timeline, he failed to make Cell at all. The Z-Fighters defeated all the other Androids as a result, while 21, 22 and 23 were set to activate a few years after the rest as a back up plan. However because there was no Cell, the Z-Fighters were not strong enough to face Majin Buu because they didn't train enough, and so quickly died. However soon at the same time the three Androids were activated, investigated...and found that their mission had already been fulfilled by Buu. Their secondary objective, conquer the Earth so that Dr. Gero could rule was also impossible since Dr. Gero was already dead and Buu was carving his own path of destruction.

So the Androids decided that they were free, but that they couldn't be free with a big pink jelly-monster destroying everything, so they decided to fight against Buu. They weren't doing well, so Android 21 decided to do something risky: He grabbed Majin Buu and drained all the energy he could from Buu until he was dead. As a result Android 21 gained great power from Buu. However then his eyes suddenly flashed red- this was a timeline manipulated Tow and Mira into existence. Android 21 suddenly turned on Android 23, sucking away all her energy, Android 22 attacked Android 21 to save 23's life just in time, but as a result her power levels had fallen to about a mere 200. Android 22 shouted for 23 to run as she held Android 21 off.

Android 23, seeing no other option flew away as fast as she could while Android 22 fought to hold 21 in vain. However it wasn't long before Android 21 drained all of 22's energy and came after 23 for her last bits of energy. However Mira shows up to collect energy from Android 21 and they begin to fight. The resulting battle causes a rift in time that Android 23 falls through and wakes up on a planet that looks like Earth but not any Earth she recognizes. She has no idea what became of 21 or Mira, but to this day she misses Android 22. 22 was her friend, who sacrificed herself so that 23 may live, even if it was just for a few more minutes by the expectations they had at the time. Since she has knowledge of the Dragon Balls programmed into her, she has decided to seek out this "Kami" to use the Dragon Balls to bring Android 22 back, since it seems she might still be on Earth just in the past, she doesn't know exactly when but she knows that the Dragon Balls could supposedly grant her wish and if there is even a slim chance it might work she will do all she can to make that chance a reality.

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Young Thunder Sage Saga:
-Persuaded Callins to trust the Arcosians

-Carved the statue as a message to Android 22

-Snarked at Young Thunder Sage

-Distrusted Oxyribo when they first met. Determined to constantly snark at him and nearly caused a fight over her anger over her views of Dr. Gero

Solitus Saga:
-Fought Magniath and won by redirecting his own rock back at him

-Killed General Dawn and Dusk, and absorbed much of their power to get to power level 390. This caused friction with Callins because of her willingness to do anything to get 22 back.

-Attempted to fight Solitus, but when Shenron was summoned, flew back in anger to Callins instead, was surprised to find Android 22 there. Rushed to quickly heal Callins with medicine he needed afterwards.

Slushya and Kami Saga:
-thought up the plan that successfully defeated Slushya.

-made amends to Oxyribo and used the riches to get the Dragon Ball locations

-Used Kaio-Ken once, will never do so again.

-found out about Ramus, the Time Patroller

Lagerin Saga:
-Drained the One-Kill Demon of his energy to raise her energy to 900

-tried her best to keep the group under control after the Death of Callins

-Is starting to use Stun Blasts well, as well as Destructo-Disc

Abilities:

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Original Power Level: 200 (This means less than you think it does. I'm guessing that anyone close enough to be in the same general range of power can beat her.)
Current Power Level: 930

Built In Scouter:
She automatically sees the power level of anyone she looks at as a number. She can't even turn it off and thus its kind of annoying.

Drainer:
(Ok, this ability can get overpowered if not designed correctly, so this might be a little complicated)
Android 23's design makes it so that she is unable to gain power the ordinary way of training, as her muscles are all mechanical. Therefore she needs to drain power from her opponents to strengthen herself.
This draining ability has a few degrees of effect: The default degree is that every time she punches, kicks or touches somebody she drains a slight bit of their power, not enough to be noticeable but accumulated over time it equals the rate at which other people gain power.

However, it has other uses: draining some one directly as an attack and absorbing ki blast attacks

Direct Drain requires grabbing the opponent and having a good firm grip for it to work right. She is essentially increasing her drain degree for a short time to suck in as much energy as possible. Even at its fastest however its not an instant kill, but the foe has to break free from her grip somehow if they want keep living longer than a few turns. However due to her built in Scouter she knows exactly when to break contact and thus keep them alive.

Ki Blast Drain, cannot absorb all ki attacks effortlessly. There is a certain speed at which she drains it even at its fastest, and while that can be increased by getting more powerful, if the foe's ki attack is too powerful she won't be able to absorb all of it to be completely free of damage- consider Ki Blast Draining to be just another block effect, but with the added benefit of giving the user more energy to fight. If the attack is too power to block, or block entirely, Android 23 still gets hurt. For example, a Raditz-level Android couldn't absorb a Freeza-level attack entirely because something like the Death Ball is simply too powerful to absorb fast enough for them. Normal ki blasts however are easily absorbed.

Trace Laser:
A thin green beam that she fires from her hand. The laser goes in a straight line until the foe dodges and then changes direction. How many times it does so, depends on her power level. Thus you need to dodge the attack multiple times, but if your good at blocking, you can shrug it off easy.
1st Level Trace Laser:
The Laser changes direction only once, requiring two dodges to evade successfully.

Super-Strength and Speed:
Her mechanical muscles give her both of these relative to her current power level. They cannot be build themselves up, but the energy she is absorbed is converted to make her stronger. However Dr. Gero designed her specifically to be the light, accurate and fast one of her Android group, so she is notably faster than someone of power level normally is.

Flight:
She of course has flight, through a ki-to-anti gravity converter engine.

Organic Components:
She still has some organic capabilities, namely she can eat and drink and taste but her stomach has been altered to convert it all into ki to power her, some of which is used to stop her from aging or at least slow it down. She doesn't need to breathe though, or eat or drink, its all energy to her but food still tastes good. Dr. Gero didn't want his Androids dying from silly things like starvation and wanted them to last long.

Downloaded Martial Arts:
Dr. Gero of course downloaded into her knowledge of a practical no-nonsense fighting style for maximum effectiveness in combat.

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Since it seems that it we're leading towards a thing were we battle for who gets to the next Kami or something, should I get rid of the part where she doesn't know about the Dragon Balls?

[Rater202]

Looking through the Current Kami's profile... Seems to be the kind of person Ieez would seek out.

[Rater202]

I just had a thought about the Super Divine Water.

Goku drank it, almost died, and became strong enough to ill King Piccolo.

But, Goku is a saiyan and thus automatically becomes significantly stronger every time he almost dies.

Note That after King Piccolo beat Goku in their first fight, Goku's heart stopped and thus was clinically dead.

so how much of that power up came from almost dying the first time, almost dying the second time, and how much was actually the water?

[Lord Raziere]

who knows? the water might not be divine or super at all. but if I remember correctly, from what little I've watched of Dragonball as opposed to DBZ, Goku had to climb up Korin's tower to get that water, then climb back down, while the....assassin guy also climbed up, but was lowered down on a cloud, and that this allowed him to beat that....assassin guy not because the water was special, because I don't think it was, but because by climbing up and down the tower and battling Korin was all good training while the assassin guy got only one third of the training and thus lost. I'm probably wrong though.

[Rater202]

You're mixing up story arcs and titles.

Goku did that in the Red Ribbon Army Arc, and it was Korin's sacred water which was just a placebo.

The Super Divine Water... Sorry, Ultra Divine Water which is very similar in funtion to the Water of Gods in Yama's profile, is the real deal.

@Frozen: Is it meant to be the same thing, or is an(in universe) coincidence?

[Emperor Ing]

The water at the top of Korin's tower was just tap water. The real powerup came from climbing up it, and trying to catch it from Korin, who kept it away. Mercenary Tao (the assassin) threatened Korin's life if he didn't give the water to him right away, therefore skipping all the benefits that the process bestowed. Sure he actually did climb up the tower, but it's safe to infer that in his haste, he lost some of his strength in the exertion. The journey is the destination, as they say.

Kami's water, IIRC, is something completely different that probably did bestow a power-boost even in the absence of Saiyan zenkai. Zenkai probably helped though, a lot.

Artic

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Age: Early 20s equivalent
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 183 lbs
Species: Arcosian
Station: Wandering Exile

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A taller variation of Frieza's first form, though noticably taller and somewhat thinner. Four horns on his head sweep towards his back giving him a sleek profile. The portions of his body unprotected by Frost Demon carapace are very dark grey, while his carapace is bone white, and the glasslike colored portions of his carapace are turqoise. His tail is also a solid turquoise color.

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Artic feels it is his responsibility to protect his brother Ieez from himself. His desire to avenge his family, although righteous and noble in every way, is liable to get him killed, especially against opponents with seemingly omnipotent levels of power. The fact that Ieez relies on a scouter to detect energy is proof-positive of his non-readiness.

In contract, Artic is perhaps too cautious, looking to make sure all the angles are examined when looking at a situation. Outside of a conflict, he is friendly, but wary.

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Artic's family, not long ago, was part of a group of revolutionaries set against the in-power Arcosian Empire. They were crushed, the survivors executed. Their families exiled themselves and fled to the far corners of space.

Story So Far:
Artic and Ieez have arrived on a primitive backwater planet after fleeing from the Arcosian Empire.

He has heard rumors of this fountain of eternal life, and wondered if he could expand on his knowledge of the machine through time, experimentation, and study, and eventually return into space and liberate the galaxy from the Arcosian Empire with the aid of sufficiently advanced technology. However Ieez wants to raise and train an army.

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Current Power Level: 8000
Artic can sense Ki well and is an adept Ki user, however his hand-to-hand skills are clumsy and slow, leaving him spectacularly vulnerable if someone closes the distance. He is able to fly and although slower than his brother, his more efficient ki usage lets him move farther.

As an Arcosian , Artic is immune to the effects of airlessness as well as survive in a vacuum, as well as stellar radiation.

He can transform into more powerful forms, but currently has no clue on how to do so.

Artic has technical skills on the construction and maintenance of technology and other devices.

Artic also possesses a suit of self-made power-armor. This armor, when worn, provides a flat defense boost of 1.5x his current power-level. The helmet possesses a suite of sensors and communicators all built by Artic. The suit also can augment its wearer's strength and speed, giving Artic a power-boost, though the higher settings come at a cost of risking injury to the wearer.

Power Modes:

Unpowered: Cuts speed and strength in half. Useful for training. (effective PL: 4000)
Minimal: Net-Zero affect on speed and strength. (effective PL: 8000)
Low: x2 boost to speed and strength (effective PL: 16000)
Normal: x5 boost to speed and strength. Causes minor strain with prolonged use. (effective PL: 40000)
High: x10 boost to speed and strength. Causes major strain with short use. (effective PL: 80000)
Max: x100 boost to strength and speed. Causes immediate severe limb damage (effective PL: 800000)

Moves:

Stellar Eradication: A powerful Ki lance surrounded by many orbiting smaller ki blasts. The Ki blasts will home in on the target even if the lance misses.

Variable Ki attacls: Artic can fire Ki attacks from powerful blasts to weak bursts barely able to light candles. He has excellent control over this.

Ki Lances: Powerful short burst Ki beams.

Pulsar: Artic creates a large globe of rapidly spinning cerulean energy that, while devastatingly powerful, is way, WAY too slow to use against anything except stationary or extremely close-ranged and unaware targets. Artic can fire a beam of energy from the globe.

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Artic owns 1 simple two man spacecraft hidden near the peak at the top of a very high mountain. He also possesses several advanced tools for his trade, and a simple white robe with a hood for travel.

[cavalieredraghi]

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Age:26
Gender: male
height: 6'
Weight: 125lb
Species:Tuffle
Station: Genius Inventor

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Callin, is a small framed man, He appears to have little to no muscle mass at all. despite this, he is always covered in a specially made body armor, that seems equipped with special ranged weapons.

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Callin, is highly intelligent, as he was once one of Dr. Tomen's apprentices. He finds Earth and its people quite humorist, though he wishes to stay as un-involved as possible. There Technological leaps however impress him despite they still require Iron for their machines. He knew they would advance quickly

He is kind and only wishing to learn more about the Dragonballs that he once saw back on Namek. He hopes to recreate them here on Earth for the People their to hopefully help them like how they help the Namekians.

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Callin, was once an Apprentice of Dr. Tomen, He left the good Dr.'s service, so he could explore the other planets and their cultures, as well as get a sense of their technology. The first planet he visited was Namek, finding the people very kind and hospitable. He was shocked slightly that they did not need technology to have happy lives. Though he did witness, their use of the dragonballs. He found it fascinating and wanted to mimic its power.
Callin then found Earth to be a perfect place to practice in his construction of the balls, and maybe finally make a true copy.

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Callin has been on Earth for over a year now. He has found it easy to blend in with the populace given their appearance was similar to his own. He has recently come to a block in his research a power source for the Dragonballs. He believes Ki may hold the secret.

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Power Level 200 often appears a 1 PL
Martial Skills:
Nyoi-bo training.

Advanced Combat training


Ki
Ki Manipulators:
Not only to Callins Blaster and Levitors Amplify Ki, He can have them Manipulate his own Ki into certain shapes as well as amplify it to 10X what it is. these effect Ki powers not Callins actual PL which means it can stack with other Forms and Pl increases.

Ki Control:
Callins can now control and deaden his Ki. He has trained for over two years in the control of his Ki.

Ki Sense:

Flying:

Copy cat:
Callins can after study copy another Ki Users abilities. Such as He could use the Kamahamaha wave after study.

Shotgun Blitz:
Callins With a punch also Sends out a shotgun blast of Ki, this does massive internal and external damage if it connects.

Ki Blade:
Callins Forms a blade over his wrist with his ki, It can cut near anything.

Kamehameha wave:
pretty clear by name
Magic:
Flying

Copy cat:
Just like with his Ki only can be applied to Magic as well

Telepathy

Namekian Healing

Scrying as well as the making of a crystal ball

astral projection

Akuma No Ken : This is a transformation techinque just like what Kami uses.
ability to make Masks asscioated with Akuma No Ken

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Grampa Gohan's cat mask: Allowing for agility and speed over power.
Black bug mask: allows to shapeshift and assume different forms and voices.
Golden crystal dragon: unknown, que and zoyl suggested this,mask.
Black hair human mask with pupilless white eyes.: Allows to see Ki in a person and thus strike at the Ki to stop their Ki from coming out temporarily. Great for teaching.

Other Abilities
Know how to construct a Hyperbolic time chamber

Tuffle Armor and computer software: Callins armor is protective and can auto repair itself now. Hos armor is equal to a Tuffle Super computer which is about 100X stronger then a human Super computer. It often records what Callins does so he can study later, this is useful for learning new techniques.

Highly advanced Scouter: He scouter can read and detect PLs over 1,000,000,000 and can detect Android energy readings.

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Callin has a hologuise on his person, to change his clothing appearance at will. This allows him to always have his battle armor on while not looking suspicious. He also has masked his spaceship as a home off in the country. IT is his workshop, as well as training center. He is trying to build up his power level to be able to power the dragonballs he so wishes to see a reality.

[Emperor Ing]

Is this good?

Your history is a bit off in terms of our timeline. Presumably Tuffles have life-spans similar to humans, so I don't think Raichi has been born yet, and won't be for a few centuries. Secondly in terms of tech level it's unlikely humanity has even entered the gunpowder age yet, let alone are able to utilize fossil fuels as a power source.

Really all I think you need to do is replace "Raichi" with a different name you make up (and remove the villainous insinuations, it's unlikely the scientist Callin was apprenticed to was evil) and replace "fossil fuels" with "iron" and you're okay.

[Lord Raziere]

speaking of timelines: don't worry about time travel. Android 23 has about as much knowledge of the past as the average person in any time: not very much. Even if she knew that this was Earth's past, she would have no idea of when or what to do about it. the fact that this is an alternate past where different alien people are walking around only makes it even more unlikely that she will have any capability of acting on future knowledge, which mostly consists of Dr. Gero providing info on Goku's abilities so as to kill him- a person she never met and only saw the corpse of after Buu killed him, which is actually pretty useless information in this timeline. So as a time traveler, she has no idea what she is doing, or that she traveled through time at all- all she knows is that she fell through this weird portal thing. probably a good thing that we have like, what two people who know advanced technology? might need them for repairing her.

[Rater202]

Just realized something. Frozen's OP says Fortune Teller Baba is around.

Later Frozen says Roshi hasn't been born yet.

Roshi and Baba are brother and sister. With how old both are when they became "immortal" it's unlikely that Roshi was born much later than Baba was.

[Frozen_Feet]

so how much of that power up came from almost dying the first time, almost dying the second time, and how much was actually the water?

How much the water helps depends on the drinker. We can only guess how it affects other people, since Goku was the only one to drink it and survive. Heck, it's possible he only survived because he's a Saiyan, just as it's possible he only got stronger because of Zenkai.

The Super Divine Water... Sorry, Ultra Divine Water which is very similar in funtion to the Water of Gods in Yama's profile, is the real deal.

@Frozen: Is it meant to be the same thing, or is an(in universe) coincidence?

It's intended to be the same thing. The translation I've read just called it "water of gods", with none of the superlatives. I didn't notice it was in the wiki.

Just realized something. Frozen's OP says Fortune Teller Baba is around.

Later Frozen says Roshi hasn't been born yet.

Roshi and Baba are brother and sister. With how old both are when they became "immortal" it's unlikely that Roshi was born much later than Baba was.

This is answered in the DB calendar I linked to. Baba is said to have opened her business circa year 250. Roshi is born in year 430. As far as I know, there's no explanation for how or why this is the case.

More comments on new characters after I've read them all.

EDIT: Okay, some comments on the characters:

@ cavalieredraghi: I see you've mostly fixed anachronisms in your bio as Emperor Ing suggested, but it still contains a non-sensical part of how Callin "looks like Earth's superheroes". Superheroes don't exist yet - just replace "superhero" with either "god" or "knight" and you're good.

@Lord Raziere: It'd actually make the early game easier if your character knows about the Dragon Balls! This way, someone would think to seek out Kami and eventually Callin to make them.

[Lord Raziere]

@Lord Raziere: It'd actually make the early game easier if your character knows about the Dragon Balls! This way, someone would think to seek out Kami and eventually Callin to make them.

Very well. Dr. Gero was apart of the Red Ribbon army after all, and would probably eventually seek them out again for wishes. Though apart of me is torn: should I put in a built in Dragon Ball tracker to her or not, because no one else would know about the dragon balls and no one else could possibly have a reason to have a tracker. at the same time I don't want to make Android 23 overpowered. (I'm already kind of on the edge of that with the 200 power level, which is probably the max for now)

[Frozen_Feet]

I think a built-in tracker would, ah, ruin the surprise of there not being any Dragon Balls. More room for dread and despair if she finds out some other way.

[Rater202]

So... Are we ready?

How are we handling major NPCs like The eventual Eternal Dragon?

Or Baba?

[Lord Raziere]

Ok then, modified end of backstory with Dragon Ball Info:

Now she has gotten through the portal she finds herself on a place much like Earth, but not like the one she knows. Since she has knowledge of the Dragon Balls programmed into her, she has decided to seek out this "Kami" to use the Dragon Balls to bring Android 22 back, since it seems she might still be on Earth just in the past, she doesn't know exactly when but she knows that the Dragon Balls could supposedly grant her wish and if there is even a slim chance it might work she will do all she can to make that chance a reality.

[Frozen_Feet]

So... Are we ready?

How are we handling major NPCs like The eventual Eternal Dragon?

Or Baba?

Hmmm, a good question. The dragon could be played on the side by creator of the Balls. Baba, well, let's keep her off-screen for the moment and wait to see if someone wants to play her.

I'll start the IC thread for the game tomorrow.

[Rater202]

Are we using colored text for speech?

[Frozen_Feet]

I'll be using colored text for Yama, at least. The color's the same I used for his name. It's not a necessity, just makes text easier to read.

[Rater202]

Ieez will be speaking with the same red as his carapace

[Emperor Ing]

Artic will use Dark Turquoise (it's kinda dark)

[Lord Raziere]

Then Android 23 shall choose this kind of green.

[F.H. Zebedee]

Pekoe

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Age: 15 years old (old by her species' standard)
Gender: Female
Height: About 3 feet long and a foot tall.
Weight: Around 50 pounds
Species: Shapeshifter (Pangolin)
Station: Vagrant/"spirit"

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She typically basically looks like a hunchbacked pinecone with huge wicked claws, but when she needs to deal with people, it's not uncommon for her to shift into a weathered, sun-beaten old crone of a woman, draped in a shawl and ratty clothes.

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She's down to earth and shy, but very altruistic. She frequently will assume the form of tools (plows, axes, etc.) that villagers need to help them with their tasks, but tends to take off before they even get a chance to thank her. Essentially, she's a fey trickster archetype; not one for bold confrontation, but constantly moving behind the scenes to do good for innocents and punish the haughty.

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Pekoe wanders from village to village, essentially "haunting them" with favors in exchange for their gratitude and a chance to relieve them of their pests. She never stays in one place for long, instead wandering about as her whims take her.

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Nada.

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Current Power Level: 45 She doesn't have much raw power, but she's naturally durable and her shapeshifter abilities only compound this.

Shapeshifting: Pekoe is a very talented shapeshifter, capable of forming inanimate objects, taking the shapes of other animals, and partially transforming her limbs. She can even shapeshift into a very sturdy suit of scaled armor, though she'd rather not have to take the brunt of attacks unless it's needed. She can shift with no time limit (or at least, no practical one).

Molten Claw: Pekoe can't actually project her ki outside of her body proper yet, but she can concentrate it in her large foreclaws, letting her cut through things like a hot knife through butter.

Shifting Scale: The most taxing of her abilities, she can yank out one of her armored scales while shifting it into another object, and then use it as a makeshift projectile or weapon. Shuriken, fireworks, glue traps, etc. are all pretty common for her, but she tends not to resort to this because of how badly it hurts and the long time it takes to regrow it.

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So, not much for motivations right now, but hey, I'm a sidekick, I'm not exactly needing War & Peace. ;)

I'm not sure what color yet; we'll see what's still open. : 3

[cavalieredraghi]

Callins will take the color Blue.

[Frozen_Feet]

The IC thread is here. Make an introductory post telling where your characters are and what they're doing, and we'll continue from there.

To avoid confusion, you can use location tags to indicate shifts in time and place. Like this:

[Earth; East City; Noon]

<Stuff happening.>

[Outer space]

<More stuff happening.>

This way, we can keep track where everyone is, since it's not economical to make a new thread for every little place.