[Salone]

Broken marble. Kind of floored us with the flooring.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

D: Someone could have died!

[Arikana]

:o Psychic tornado?
That actually sounds like fun. >w>

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Well, the implication has been that the old Patriarchs were all ridiculously powerful psychics, so Cain being Adam's son would have made him among the most potent psychics to ever exist. Honestly, he was probably holding back in that fight, just too far beyond caring to go all-out.

Also, did we ever figure out what happened to his spear? I can't remember if Shealtiel is taking it or not. (Not sure he needs even more of a power boost at this point...)

Also also, anyone can feel free to post now, unless we're waiting for Ari and Dolly to get their characters in? If you need more context, say there's a fair walking distance across the coastal plains before we reach civilization -- it's likely we'll get picked up by a patrol before reaching the city.

[Arikana]

I think I'm done creating my character. I don't have any pictures of her just yet, though I'll work on getting some. >w<

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Well, a picture's optional, you can always an avatar as a placeholder, too. I'm honestly curious to see what you've come up with, picture or no. :)

[Arikana]

Uh, I'll worry about getting a picture later. >w>

It's kind of really long. >w> Sorry if it's too long. D:

I hope I didn't over power her too much.

Name: Ei’lycia (ayē-leesh-ia)

Class: Theurgist

Abilities: [tl;dr] Extensive, efficient innate healing and medical care, utter invisibility, temporary blinding/darkening of surroundings, advanced hand-to-hand combat, basic knowledge of using weaponry.

[detailed version] From the moment Ei’lycia had discovered her theurgic magicks, she has self-trained herself to be efficient in utilizing them. Once she had left home, she began self-teaching herself in some physical combat skills based on what she had seen. Her physical combat abilities includes basic knowledge of utilizing weapons, coupled with an advanced range of hand-to-hand combat skills. Weapons she knows know to use include swords, daggers, and staves. Her theurgic magicks specialize in healing and defence. Her healing is capable of healing major wounds in a matter of minutes and deciding what medical needs one requires simply from observation. While her defence has been mastered to allow herself (and possibly others, she hasn’t tried using it on others before) become completely invisible to the naked eye and technological advances. Within the past couple years, she has begun to dabble in experimentation with using her theurgic magicks for offensive purposes, becoming sufficient in effectively blinding or darkening her surroundings at ease, though for short periods of time only. Those whose sight has been blinded or darkened, may suffer from its effects for up to an hour or two. She wears sunglasses to protect her from the being temporarily blinded herself.

Items: A basic durable sword. A simple dagger. She needs nothing special or fancy.

Picture (optional):

Physical Description: At seventeen years of age, is 5’4”, 119lbs, with a lithe, olive-toned body that is littered with scars and burns from various suicide attempts in the past. Ei’lycia has crystal blue eyes, a pointed nose, and small, elegant lips. Her face is framed with unkempt, jet black hair, which she’s bleached and dyed a rich blue, and reaches her mid-back. (Which she ties up into a messy bun when she needs to fight.) Her eyes are almost always hidden behind her sunglasses and her hands are constantly adorned with five-bladed fingerless gloves. A basic, durable sword is strapped to her back and a simple dagger is attached to her waist.

She’s clothed in a simple black off-the-shoulder top, layered over a navy blue tank top. She wears black skin-tight pants which is layered under a simple pair of navy blue shorts. Her feet are adorned with a simple pair of worn out running shoes.
She has many belts strapped across her body, each symbolizing an aspect of her life that she feels has weighed down her life. (Currently has six belts, may add more as time passes, if the situation(s) arise.)

Background: Ei’lycia was born into a strong, devout Christian family and grew up with the strong values her parents have instilled in her. Early on, her parents discovered she was born with both schizophrenia and an eidetic memory and coddled her, to an excessive point, in order to protect from the “evils” of the world from their point of view. Because of her incredible memory, she became homeschooled in order to adapt to her mental disorder. Due to the voices and hallucinations she hears and sees, she often questions what she truly believes in, wondering what is real and what is not. Some time in her childhood, she discovered her theurgic capabilities, yet kept quiet about them for fear of being locked up in a mental institution as she knew her family would not look well upon her gifts. She’s also noted that the more she uses her theurgic gifts, each category in varying amounts, the stronger the voices and hallucinations she receives.

From the time she was around six-years-old, Ei’lycia has had a hard life due to the onset of her schizophrenia causing her to have gone into various bouts of depression, both of which, resulted in many scars and burns from her various attempts of suicide. (She would have been dead long ago if it weren’t for her healing abilities.) Unable to take medication for her schizophrenia, due to her body having violent reactions to the drugs, she deals with complete effects of the mental disorder on a daily basis. However, it’s also allowed her to become strong as she’s used it as a basis to motivate herself to become able to defend herself. Despite being a theurgist, at erratic times, she may often be misguided by the voices she hears, hallucinations she sees, and the inability to distinguish reality from fantasy, as a result, causing confusion and pain amongst her family and others whom are close to her. When she was but fifteen-years-old, in an extremely rare moment of clarity, she decided to run away from home when she realized the pain she was causing her family as a result of her mental disorder.

Everything she possesses, she has either brought with her from home when she ran away or worked for as she went along. She carries no money on her and, since running away from home, has survived life thus far by doing whatever it takes to earn her daily provisions as each day comes. She is independent, adamant, and blunt in all she does and says, yet has a caring heart for those who need help. While young she may be, she is not naïve as living on her own has opened her eyes to how sheltered her old life was.

*goes back into the shadows to work on scene stuff* >w>

[Suzerain of Sheol]

She looks fine to me, though I'll mention that unless she can enhance her strength and reflexes with her theurgy, she's probably going to have a rough time trying to use that sword on anything other than a horde of zombies. And unless she can empower it with theurgy, it's not going to be able to hurt a lot of the nastier beings who tend to have blanket immunity to mundane weapons.

Also, the blinding thing, how will that interact with psychic and spiritual senses? (Which most of us, and things we run into, seem to have to one degree or another).

[Arikana]

It'll temporarily paralyze them like how it would blind the humans. :3

She doesn't really use the sword or dagger, they're more or less a last resort option. (Though that shouldn't be too often.) Cause her theurgy can be channeled into her five-bladed gloves so her hand-to-hand combat is more effective. :3

[Suzerain of Sheol]

To be fair, we both haven't run into a serious melee threat yet, and none of us would be very well equipped to handle it (though I'm sure Na'lsa could pull some kind of unholy shenanigans if the situation required :P).

To put it in perspective, early on we saw that Saint go 1 on 1 with a Rephaim, said Saint being a warrior with several thousand years of combat experience decked out in Savior Armor and dual wielding Wrath Swords, on top of having Theurgy bolstered by milennia of singing in God's choir, and he *lost* to the damned thing. :|

Gave it a good fight, but lost. Granted, maybe it was a special Rephaim, who knows? :P

And for the blinding, that's fine, just don't be surprised if (for some ungodly reason we run into) certain superpowerful entities can shrug it off. Sariel angels, for instance, have those invisible swords that absorb every spectrum of energy.

I'm not in the habit of putting us up against things that will massacre us by sneezing, though. :P

[Arikana]

owo Well, she's still developing her offensive skills as she did just start not too long ago. >w> And she's still young, so who knows what else she'll be able to do in the future.

But hot damn, how the heck did the Rephaim win that fight? D:

Being massacred does sound like fun, but I don't wanna die. >w>


Sariel? I take it you were the one to name the Tris item with the similar name? :P

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Well, a Rephaim's biggest advantage is how horrifically fast it is, despite its size. They can seriously bullet-time, he probably just overwhelmed the Saint, even if they were roughly equal in all other areas. Those things... strength in numbers -- and I do mean STRENGTH -- tends to help.

And yeah, that item was actually sort of made for me. >_> Sariel is one of more prominent Angels of Death after Abaddon and Azrael, Fen liked the name so she used it for the item.

But they're a class of angel here, probably the most dangerous "generic" enemy we can encounter.

[Arikana]

Damn. There has to be some way to slow Rephaim down. >w> Someone has to be able to do something about his speed. >w>

Well that's rather handy to have an item made for you. Hm, I like the Azrael name more, but Sariel is nice too. Don't really like Abaddon's name at all. >w>

It is? Where can I find it?

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Right here, Ari. This lists all the creatures and big-bads. http://www.trisphee.com/forums/showp...46&postcount=5

And I'm the opposite, I think Azrael is overused and cliche, and think Abaddon is all kinds of badass. :P


And it's not just one Rephaim, Abaddon has hundreds of them at his disposal, though they're his elite troops so he keeps most of them with him at Sinai. As for slowing them, a really power psychic probably could, though at that point, said really powerful psychic might be better off just blasting its bones apart. Rephaim don't have very good magic defenses, engaging them in melee is suicidal, but they can be taken down with sufficient force at range. And of course, a powerful enough necromancer could attack the animating soul directly....

But if you really want the top of the melee totem pole you should look at War, the Red Horseman. :P He's pretty much, by his very essence, unstoppable in battle. Best strategy against him is "Run. Far, and quickly."

[Espy]

Oooooh. Right. I need to bolster Dante's melee a bit. I think he and Lev (I said Lev because Lev is a Soldier. Na'lsa is just...Na'lsa) are the only two people decently equipped for a melee fight, although I'm not sure what could possible only required melee and not just be smote by Shealtiel.

If I give Dante TK (which might require some tweaking because I want it to be an evolution of his "sight"), I'd have to start small.

[Arikana]

Oh. When you said, "a class of angel on here", by 'here' I thought you meant Tris. >w>

I don't see Azrael that often, so it's not too overused or cliche for me. >w> Abaddon just has a weird feel for me.

Uh, do we even have a powerful psychic or necromancer that's strong enough to take down Rephaim?

Being a horseman he's got a horse, and isn't having a horse going to make it that much harder to outrun him? D:





And who the heck is Na'lsa? :o I didn't see it in the character bios whatsoever. >w>