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Arcanum · 03-31-2011, 01:59 AM

Ninja stealth sign-up post is a go! Yep without word or warning here's a fully completed character sheet. I just know you're gonna have questions/concerns, but once the idea popped into my head I couldn't help myself.

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Name: Eric Stenson
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Physical Description: Eric used to look great. Key words: used to. He was tall, handsome, and always wearing a nice looking suit. He had perfectly trimmed brown hair and a cleanly shaved face complementing his shining blue eyes. But now his suit is tattered and dirty, his hair desperately in need of a cut and his stubble crying out to be shaved. Even his once-bright eyes seem dull and lifeless now.

Bio/Background/Etc: Eric was well on his way to becoming a successful entrepreneur. He had his own business set up in New York that he spent ten years building up. He had all the right contacts in all the right places. Eric was smart, clever, funny, the whole package. He was living his dream. And yet that all changed when he came to Hampington to negotiate a merger. The merger itself was a success, and afterward Eric and his new business partners went out on the town to celebrate.

The next morning Eric awoke in a club, surrounded by skeletons and half-eaten bodies. There were no pools of blood, just dark stains on the floor as if something had drank it up as well. And on top of everything Eric's mind had snapped. He could remember who he was, and why he was here. But he also heard voices whispering in his mind. They told him who were the former owners of each and every skeleton there. Two were his new business partners, one belonged to one of the dancers, and the other was the bouncer. The half-eaten corpses were either dancers or patrons. The worst part was that he knew the voices were telling the truth.

He was also racked by the hunger, with a part of him wanting to feed on the remaining corpses. Another part of him tried to cling to sanity. The police would find out what happened soon; some people had escaped. Eric didn't have an alibi and he knew deep down that somehow he was responsible. So he ran. He was in a strange city, half insane, on the run from the police, and suddenly aware that he didn't have his wallet.

That was a week ago, and he's been living on the streets ever since, barely surviving, barely coping with the hunger. With every passing day the hunger grew worse and the voices grew louder. Only a week and he's already an empty shell of his former self.

Monster Name: Swarm
Appearance: Swarm is actually a hive mind of thousands of small, black, insect-like creatures. An individual Swarm looks like a teardrop-shaped scale with eight needle-like legs, a small mouth on the rounded end filled with razor sharp teeth, four minuscule black eyes above the mouth, and is no bigger than the nail on a man's little finger. There is also a central "brain bug" which is a larger version of a regular Swarm (about the size of two thumbs side-by side)

The thousands of Swarms can interlock with each other in a variety of ways, effectively allowing it to change shape. The only similarity between each shape is the black color, and that it is completely featureless save for a diamond shaped scale pattern, which is a result of how the Swarms interlock with each other.

Abilities/Powers:
Living Armor: The way the Swarms interlink on the surface creates a layer of living scale armor, making him more resistant to 'unwanted' separations.
A Thousand Pieces, A Thousand Shapes: Swarm can assume the shape of almost anything it can think of, from creatures to inanimate objects.

Extra Notes:
- The thousands of Swarms are connected by a hive mind, which is controlled by the central brain bug. Killing the brain means the death of the hive.

- Due to it being composed of thousands of small creatures, Swarm is extremely difficult to wound or kill. If an arm is blown off then the surviving Swarms will rejoin the main body and re-form the arm. This would technically result in transformations healing Eric of any severe body wounds (such as an amputated arm or leg).

- While able to willingly separate into pieces, forceful separation would cause extreme pain, and kill several Swarms in the progress (since they are being torn from each other). They would still be able to re-form any lost limbs but it would be like a brand new arm and Swarm would be rather clumsy controlling it at first (on top of the pain and dead Swarms). Controlled separation would take some time for all of the Swarms to disconnect from each other, so he wouldn't be able to just split in half to dodge an attack (unless it is a slow attack or he has time to prepare the split before the attack hits).

03-31-2011, 01:59 AM	#41
Arcanum Strike the Earth! Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 3,185	Ninja stealth sign-up post is a go! Yep without word or warning here's a fully completed character sheet. I just know you're gonna have questions/concerns, but once the idea popped into my head I couldn't help myself. ----------------------- Name: Eric Stenson Age: 32 Gender: Male Physical Description: Eric used to look great. Key words: used to. He was tall, handsome, and always wearing a nice looking suit. He had perfectly trimmed brown hair and a cleanly shaved face complementing his shining blue eyes. But now his suit is tattered and dirty, his hair desperately in need of a cut and his stubble crying out to be shaved. Even his once-bright eyes seem dull and lifeless now. Bio/Background/Etc: Eric was well on his way to becoming a successful entrepreneur. He had his own business set up in New York that he spent ten years building up. He had all the right contacts in all the right places. Eric was smart, clever, funny, the whole package. He was living his dream. And yet that all changed when he came to Hampington to negotiate a merger. The merger itself was a success, and afterward Eric and his new business partners went out on the town to celebrate. The next morning Eric awoke in a club, surrounded by skeletons and half-eaten bodies. There were no pools of blood, just dark stains on the floor as if something had drank it up as well. And on top of everything Eric's mind had snapped. He could remember who he was, and why he was here. But he also heard voices whispering in his mind. They told him who were the former owners of each and every skeleton there. Two were his new business partners, one belonged to one of the dancers, and the other was the bouncer. The half-eaten corpses were either dancers or patrons. The worst part was that he knew the voices were telling the truth. He was also racked by the hunger, with a part of him wanting to feed on the remaining corpses. Another part of him tried to cling to sanity. The police would find out what happened soon; some people had escaped. Eric didn't have an alibi and he knew deep down that somehow he was responsible. So he ran. He was in a strange city, half insane, on the run from the police, and suddenly aware that he didn't have his wallet. That was a week ago, and he's been living on the streets ever since, barely surviving, barely coping with the hunger. With every passing day the hunger grew worse and the voices grew louder. Only a week and he's already an empty shell of his former self. Monster Name: Swarm Appearance: Swarm is actually a hive mind of thousands of small, black, insect-like creatures. An individual Swarm looks like a teardrop-shaped scale with eight needle-like legs, a small mouth on the rounded end filled with razor sharp teeth, four minuscule black eyes above the mouth, and is no bigger than the nail on a man's little finger. There is also a central "brain bug" which is a larger version of a regular Swarm (about the size of two thumbs side-by side) The thousands of Swarms can interlock with each other in a variety of ways, effectively allowing it to change shape. The only similarity between each shape is the black color, and that it is completely featureless save for a diamond shaped scale pattern, which is a result of how the Swarms interlock with each other. Abilities/Powers: Living Armor: The way the Swarms interlink on the surface creates a layer of living scale armor, making him more resistant to 'unwanted' separations. A Thousand Pieces, A Thousand Shapes: Swarm can assume the shape of almost anything it can think of, from creatures to inanimate objects. Extra Notes: - The thousands of Swarms are connected by a hive mind, which is controlled by the central brain bug. Killing the brain means the death of the hive. - Due to it being composed of thousands of small creatures, Swarm is extremely difficult to wound or kill. If an arm is blown off then the surviving Swarms will rejoin the main body and re-form the arm. This would technically result in transformations healing Eric of any severe body wounds (such as an amputated arm or leg). - While able to willingly separate into pieces, forceful separation would cause extreme pain, and kill several Swarms in the progress (since they are being torn from each other). They would still be able to re-form any lost limbs but it would be like a brand new arm and Swarm would be rather clumsy controlling it at first (on top of the pain and dead Swarms). Controlled separation would take some time for all of the Swarms to disconnect from each other, so he wouldn't be able to just split in half to dodge an attack (unless it is a slow attack or he has time to prepare the split before the attack hits). Last edited by Arcanum; 03-31-2011 at 10:46 PM.