Campaign:TheMeansToTheEnd/Janos

Basics

Name: Janos
Concept: Wolfish adventurer/lover/fighter
Caste/Aspect: None
Motivation: (need new motivation, cannot receive motivation benefits until he does)
Intimacies: Protecting the common folk, protecting his little sister, fighting against what he sees as the oppression of the Silver Pact, collecting the moonsilver artifacts he believes to be rightfully his, guiding others to explore all of what life has to offer
Anima Banner/Totem:
A silver wolf that comes leaping out of a grey mist howling with eyes burning red. Anima Effect/Tell:
Those wolf ears that all the ladies like to pet.
Experience: 24

Background

One of the strange casteless lunars who exhibit the bizarre powers of the chimerae, Janos's reasons for refusing moonsilver tattoos date back to when he was a member of a powerful circle of solars and casteless lunars who grew immensely powerful by harnessing the powers of Deep Chaos. His bond to his solar mate was strong, and despite their adventurous existence, all he cared about was protecting her and making her happy.

Beyond harboring chimerae protectors, this circle further antagonized the Silver Pact by having raided the holdings of the Queen of Fangs, the powerful Silver Pact sorceress who had created moonsilver tattoos to begin with, and one of the last First Age lunars in existence. Clearly, something had to be done.

Perhaps they acted in unthinking ignorance. Perhaps they reasoned that the forces of Oblivion were the greatest threat possible to the greater evil of the Deep Chaos. But when Janos's circle prepared to strike at the Mound of Forsaken Seeds, the stronghold of a great and terrible Deathlord, they were shadowed by quicksilver celestial battle armor and warstriders. When the horde of necrotech monstrosities, nephwracks, and amalgams charged at them from all directions, the protean warriors in the shining machines emptied their Essence Cannons at Janos's party. They never had a chance.

Still, Janos managed to help his love to what he thought was safety. Not yet realizing what had happened, he scrabbled up a cliff while the monsters below snarled up at them. For a moment he was glad to see exalts in moonsilver having arrived, surely, to save them, but the thunder of the Essence Cannons sent them both falling off the cliff, into the waiting arms of the beasts below. He fought like a man possessed, but he helplessly watched as the chittering horrors dragged away the only woman who had ever loved him away into the Mound, while the rotting beasts pinned him and tore at his flesh.

After she was out of sight, a hellish battle between the faceless, shining lunars who had doomed his friends, and the abominations of the Dowager ensued. In the chaos, he found a No Moon crippled by the beast's insidious attacks, and beat him to death with his sledgehammer, dragging away the armored corpse.

Now living with his recently rescued little sister (a story in its own right), he believes that he'll soon be strong enough to get his revenge on both. EDIT: The Silver Pact and the Dowager, not on his little sister. To this day, he does not know what happened to his mate.

Appearance

"Grrrrrr waffles!"

Most of the time, Janos remains in his bizarre Deadly Beastman Form, above. However, for most of the time he can craft illusions to disguise himself as anyone he's ever seen.

CAN BE A SHARK NOW! The shark is 400% bigger than the average shark and has a 2nd mouth on his stomach. This shark also has TENTACLES!

Attributes

Strength  ●●●      Charisma     ●●●      Perception   ●
Dexterity ●●●●●    Manipulation ●        Intelligence ●●●●●
Stamina   ●●●●●    Appearance   ●●●●●    Wits         ●

Effective Attributes (with Knacks, Mutations and Armor. All other values on CS assume armor and DBT)

Strength  ●●●●●●●●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●●
Stamina   ●●●●●●●●●●

Abilities

Archery             Craft              Bureaucracy   
Athletics           Larceny            Investigation 
Awareness    ●●●+●● Linguistics        Lore          
Dodge        ●●●    Performance        Occult        ●●●
Integrity    ●●●    Presence           Medicine      
Martial Arts ●●●    Ride        
Melee               Sail        
Resistance   ●●●+●● Socialize   
Thrown              Stealth     ●●●+●●
War          ●●●    Survival     ●

Specialties

Martial Arts: Natural Weapons ●●●

PLAYER NOTES

Beastman form - BIG BAD WOLF, Quicksilver Form, Moonsilver Claws

Join Battle - Wits + Alertness

Your base attack salvo while using Octopus and Spider Barrage is going to be 23/23/23/23/22/22, of Claw/Claw/Bite/Maw Bite/Hoof/Hoof, with the first three having base damage of 22L, the last three having base damage of 27L.

Backgrounds

Artifact: Moonsilver Celestial Battle Armor ●●●●●
Manse: ●●●
Resources: ●

Knacks

Deadly Beastman Transformation:5m committed, reflexive. Gain +1 natural to Strength, Dexterity, Stamina. Gain Mutations of Hideous Maw, Claws, Fangs, and Hooves. Activate all Gift charms.

Quicksilver Form:5m committed, simple action. Reduces entire body into a viscous material that flows effortlessly according to his will. In this form, the casteless can flow through any opening, no matter how small, although very tiny openings may take a long time to pass through. While in this form, he becomes more vulnerable to powerful blunt attacks than to cutting attacks. Treat lethal cutting damage as normal bashing damage, but double the pre-soak damage of all normal bashing attacks. Lethal damage that is not based on cutting attacks (fire, acid and the like) is treated normally; so is aggravated damage. Activating Quicksilver Form requires a commitment of five motes of Essence.

Towering Beast Form: May use larger animal sizes.

Mountainous Spirit Form: Apply Large mutation to spirit shape.

Charms

Claws of the Silver Moon: 3m committed, gift. Add +Dexterity to Accuracy of all natural weapons and Strength+2 to damage of all natural weapons, as well as Overwhelming equal to Essence+1; currently, this means +6 Acc, +8 damage.

First Dexterity Excellency:

Instinctive Dexterity Unity: 1wp, 8m, simple. Allows you to spend 4 points on Dexterity excellency for free on each roll.

Wasp Sting Blur: 2m per tick or commitment, Fury. Activated with Lunar Fury, reduces the speed of all attack actions by 1 for the duration.

Secure Cat Stepping: 1m, Fury. Activated with Lunar Fury, reduces the DV of all attack actions by one for the duration (so, normally, he doesn't take DV penalties in a fury).

Foot-Trapping Counter: 2m, Reflexive. Attempting to move away from the lunar requires a Dex+Athletics roll at a difficulty of the Lunar's Dexterity. Failure indicates he cannot move away from the Lunar until his next action. Does not function against reflexive retreat charms.

Rabid Beast Attitude: 1m, Reflexive, (Essence) actions. Reduce wound penalties by 1.

Thousand Claw Infliction: 1m, treat all rates as infinite until next turn.

Lunar Hero Form: 6m, Simple, not combo-OK, form-type, one scene. Reduce Defense Value penalties from onslaught by 1 and from coordinated attacks by two, double value (but not essence value) of stunts involving the Lunar employing trickery, agility or cunning in battle.

Ox-Body Technique: +4 health levels of -2.

Relentless Lunar Fury: 1m, 1wp, +2m/Fury charm activated (max 8): Add +1 automatic success to all combat actions, including attacks, resisting knockdown, and keeping balance during a fight, but does not alter DV. May spend 2m per Fury charm, max of (Essence), to activate them for the entire duration of Fury. -1 HLs become -0 for duration as well, ignores fatigue. Physical attribute excellencies become Attribute+Essence.

Snake Body Technique: 3m, 1wp, Reflexive, Counterattack. To strike at a Steward brings swift retribution. Bending and moving with a snake’s grace, the Lunar smoothly redirects an attack back toward its instigator. The attacker must be within the character’s Melee or Martial Arts range. The Lunar may dodge into a blow and then shove the blade into her opponent or scamper through her foe’s legs so he shoots himself in the foot—good stunts are the nature of this Charm.

    Using this Charm allows the character to ignore all penalties to her defense against a single attack. As long as the character can successfully dodge or parry the attack, she

counterattacks by forcing her enemy to suffer his own attack. Counterattack resolution begins in Step 7, as every success the attacker’s player rolled is applied to his own soak. Any effects that would have taken place had the attack hit the Lunar affect the attacker. Also, the Lunar may use Charms or other supernatural powers to affect the damage as if she had started the attack (though they must be legally useable—either scenelong or in a Combo with Snake Body Technique).

Armor-Rending Claw Fist: 4m, Simple (Speed 5), Combo-OK. With either a single swipe or a flurry of blows, the Lunar’s attack moves so quickly that it tears through even steel armor as though it were paper. This attack target’s a foe’s armor, rather than the person wearing it. Only soak from armor reduces the attack’s raw damage, and (unlike normal attacks) this can reduce the attack’s dice to zero. Then, roll unsoaked damage normally. Each level of damage remaining in Step 10 of attack resolution reduces the armor’s soak (bashing and lethal). Mundane armor remains damaged until repaired; armor constructed from the magical materials recovers its full soak value at the end of the scene. When a target’s soak from armor drops to zero, the Lunar may rend the target’s natural soak. The Lunar looses blows so rapid they weaken the victim’s body through and through; each success rolled on damage reduces the target’s effective Stamina by one. This only affects the target’s soak values, not any other aspect of health.

C-C-COMBOS

Arm Cruncher: Thousand Claw Infliction, First Dex Excellency and Armor-Rending. 1 wp, 1 essence, plus 4 motes per attack. A 4 attack combo would take 13 motes, 1 wp, and do 29/28/27/26 for attacking.
32/32/31/31/33/31/31/31.

Mutations

Inexhaustible
Gargantuan: Grants quadruple size, -0x2, -1x4, -2x4 bonus health, +4 str, +4 sta.
Gazelle's Pace
Fur
Tentacles: Three additional tentacles.

Essence

Essence: ●●●●●
Regeneration: 5+6
Personal Essence Pool: 5/23
Peripheral Essence Pool: 37/56
Committed Essence: 10 (Moonsilver Celestial Battle Armor), 16 (Orichalcum Perfected Kata Bracers), 3 (Claws of the Silver Moon), 5 (Quicksilver Form), 5 (Deadly Beastman Transformation). Normally also activates either Lunar Hero and Essence Shield, or crafts an illusion to disguise himself, for 10 essence each scene, which regenerates due to his socketed hearthstones within an hour.

Willpower

Willpower: ●●●●●●●●●●
Temporary: XXX□□□□□□□

Virtues

Virtues:

• Compassion ●●●●●
  
• Conviction ●●
  
• Temperance ●
  
• Valor ●●●●
  

Virtue Flaw:Compassion
Limit Break: XXX□□

Janos's Limit Break takes the form of the Curse of the Whipped Dog. However, there's almost no actual difference between his behavior while in Limit Break and when not.

Inventory

Orichalcum Bracers of Perfected Kata

Add Essence score to attack, defense, and damage of Form weapons after Form activation.

Moonsilver Celestial Battle Armor

Enhanced Healing: Heals 1 level of lethal every hour, heals 1 level of bashing every tick.

Essence Shield: 4 motes of Essence to generate a shield of solidifed Essence that gives +2 to DV vs melee and ranged, lasting one scene.

Moonsilver Blades: +1 to acc/defense, +2L to all claws and teeth produced by lunar charms.

Exomuscular Fibers: (+2 to str for feats of strength, calculating jump distance and inflicting damage with attacks)

Peripateic Greaves: (doubled movement rate; 10mph marching movement rate)

Reinforced Gauntlets/Boots: Let you parry lethal without a stunt, and have speed 5, acc +1, damage +5B, def +2, rate 3)

Adaptive Camoflauge Subsystem: +2 stealth while moving, +3 while stationary, can change colors, and specifically defends against essence sight.

Filtration Baffles: +2 Resistance vs Poison or disease, one-hour supply of fresh air (each minute refills 10 minutes of air)

Sensory Augmentation Visor: As a reflexive action, the wearer gains a +2 bonus to Awareness. Alternatively, the wearer can reflexively activate Essence sight for three motes per scene, and also becomes able to see dematerialized and enchanted objects (including walking dead and automatons) as glowing presences.

Manses and Heartstones

(write what heartstones (if any) you have, and write some stuff about the manses too: a bit of description, where they are and so on)

Unknown Hearthstone: Used to power CBA Gem of the White Jade Tree: Gained from a manse in Chandarheight, halves post-soak damage.

Combat

Dodge DV: 6, 8 with Essence Shield
Dodge MDV: 8
Soak: B:19 L:16 A:12
Hardness: B:8 L:8 A:8

Attacks

Example Attack (Speed X, Accuracy X, Damage XL, Parry DV X, Rate X, Tags X, Y, Z)

Includes Dexterity Excellency increases of +4 each.

Fangs/Claws (Speed 5, Accuracy 32, Damage 30L/5, Parry DV 9+2, Rate 3)
Hooves (Speed 5, Accuracy 31, Damage 35L/5, Rate 3)
Hideous Maw (Speed 5, Accuracy 33, Damage 35L/5, Rate 1/infinite with Thousand Claw Infliction, O)
Tentacles (Speed 5, Accuracy 31, Damage 31/5, Rate 3)

Health

□ -0
□ -0
□ -0
□ -1
□ -1
□ -1
□ -1
□ -1
□ -1
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -4
□ Incapacitated

Advancement

EXPERIENCE

162 earned