The Codex of Gods: An animelike Mythological RPG Sign-Up Thread, The Second Raid!

[Cleric of Hell's Brigade]

Since the other thread hit over 5000 posts, obviously.

Please post anything regarding Codex here folks.

Strength: Maxes out at 100. Once you hit 10 in strength, strength is equal to the tonnage and number in that stat. In other words, a 10 in strength is Class 10. That means you cap out at Class 100 (though, potentially, powers and whatnot can/could increase strength passed this point depending on how it's played).

Speed: Maxes out at 100. Once you pass 10 in speed, you start getting into real super speed territory (i.e. beyond just being called a bullet timer). A 15 in speed is Mach 1. 25 in speed is Mach 5. A 50 in speed is Mach 10. A 75 in speed is Mach 15. A speed of 100 is Mach 20.

Agility: Agility matches speed. Your agility score counts toward how fast one can react to something. In other words, if your agility is 10, then it doesn't matter that a speedster of ten attacks you. You'll be able to, with your hands at least, react to and block his attacks. Can you cross 100 feet faster? No. But you can, at least, not get horribly, horribly blitzed right away. It pretty much grants you at least one chnce to react to a blitz before it overwhelms you.

Agility, at higher levels, also means more of your body can react to the blitz. At 10 agility, your hands and eyes can keep up with a ten speedster for a moment or to to give you a chance to counter him, but the rest of your body can't. However, the more agility you have, the more of your body can react to the blitz.

Perception: Perception, once mastered at 25, means you cannot be taken over mentally, mind screwed, or otherwise possessed, memory wiped, faked, etc..... I already talked about this one.

Power: Like SHR power is power. The more of it, the more your older powers also grow in strength. With a 100 in power, you can nuke a city and have energy to spare, just like in SHR. Pretty self-explanatory.

Skill: Is how well you can fight. Being able to react to someone is nice, but when the ycan outfight you it's fairly meaningless. 25 in skill is the max and it pretty much puts you on Karate Kid Epic levels of skill.

Also, once a stat is MAXED!, your character can have a unique abilitty added to them, just like in SHR

If you have any questions, please, ask. If this contradicts something I said earlier, tough Tonooki. If you'ld like to rearange your stats due to not understanding something earlier that I've now explained, I'll let you.

Oh, here are the relevant links:

General Link to Old Thread

Updated Character List

Where everyone is REVISED!!!!

[Miburohunter929]

Taken By Miburo

Mwahahah

[Ghost]

Reposting Fianna's profile:


NAME: Fianna Ulvaeus

GENDER: Female.

AGE: 14.

FORMER PERSONA: Fenrir.

NATIONALITY: British. (Swedish father, British mother. Raised in England.)

APPEARANCE:

CHARACTER HISTORY & PERSONALITY:
Fianna is the youngest daughter of Marcus Ulvaeus, freelance journalist, and Helen Ulvaeus, archeologist. She has two sisters, Kim and Cecilia, both older then her. She spent most of her childhood growing up in the English countryside before the family relocated to London.

Fianna is rather intelligent but mostly only score mediocre grades in school since no subject genuinely interests her. She does have a talent for atheletics, however, as well as physical strenght unusual for a girl. She also has a peculiar love of comic books and action movies, and an interest in martial arts which led her to take kickboxing lessons. These traits can make her come across as something of a tomboy, though she does not identify as such and dislikes that label.

While she is a bright and friendly girl for the most part, she is firmly convinced that violence can, in fact, solve problems. This has occasionally gotten her into trouble after beating up bullies or other "evildoers" which, in turn, has given her a slight contempt for authorities. However, despite her violent nature, she has earned herself a fair number of friends and admirers in her school due to her almost complete fearlessness and unflinching willingness to stand up for those weaker then herself.

Fianna's main character flaws include her temper, which can sometimes make her say or do things she might regret after calming down, and her prideful nature will not easily let her admit to her own mistakes or shortcomings. She is also somewhat clumsy which, combined with her above average strenght, gives her a tendency to break things if she isn't careful.

Fianna likes animals but, unfortunately, animals do not seem to like her. Cats in particular generally cannot stand her, and horses have been known to become nervous in her presence.

CHARACTER SONG (Optional):
Ayumi Hamasaki - Trust (Remix.)
Poe - Wild

PERSONAL SKILLS: Due to her mother's insistance that she show some sort of interest in history or related fields, Fianna has taken to study mythology and has gained a reasonable amount of knowledge on the subject. She is also pretty handy with computers.

GOD POWERS(S):

Great Beast: Fenrir the Wolf was known for his immesurable strenght, which far surpassed even the strongest gods of Asgard, ultimately compelling them to bind him with the unbreakable fetter, Gleipnir, forged from six impossible things. This power echoes in Fianna's Great Beast ability, which allows her to increase her physical might by a tremendous degree. (Brawn + power + power 50%). Currently, Fianna can use Great Beast for 2 minutes, after which she needs 6 minutes for her power to recharge.

(new) Sky Hunter: Like Fenrir's sons, who tirelessly hunted the sun and the moon across the sky, this power grants Fianna the ability to stand and run on air as where it solid earth, granting a limited form of levitation and flight.

Doom of the Gods:

Valfather's Bane:

Nature Of Monsters:

Gleipnir:

Devour the Light of the World:

STATS:

Brawn: 3
Speed: 2
Agility: 2
Perception: 3
Power: 5
Skill: 5

[Miburohunter929]

NAME: Drake G. Quass

GENDER: Male

AGE: 27 years old

FORMER PERSONA: None Applicable. Holds a tenuous relationship with Clena Lazna the reincarnation of Nephtys– goddess of death, night and lamentation. Also wields the power of Shezmu--The Slaughterer of Souls

NATIONALITY: Montreal, Canada

APPEARANCE: A light skinned male, sporting extremely short, dark brown hair, the same color as his eyes.

His usual traveling attire includes some manner of long, buttonless colored shirt reaching down to his waist, faded black jeans, and dark grey tennis shoes, with a wrinkled leather jacket of the same shade of grey.

If one were to look closely, they might notice the outline of some sort of holster protruding through his shirt.

He's usually seen carrying around a dingy, white backpack, filled to the brim with various tools of his profession.

CHARACTER HISTORY & PERSONALITY: A freelancing journalist, and a would be publicist, Drake Quass finds his profession has led him...

To a somewhat mediocre living, despite his notable talent in the field, in no small part due to him finding himself blackballed as the result of a petty grudge held against him by a former editor, one Drake himself is not entirely able to comprehend logically.

Despite his lack of understanding the logistics of the situation, Drake has accepted it for what it is, and takes great pains to return the favor in kind, when he finds himself between jobs, or even while in the midst of one.

Currently, Drake has found himself in the employ of one Clena Lanza, the now-crippled daughter of the a disgraced CEO of a corporation currently unknown to Drake himself.

Despite his misgivings over the task, and the somewhat laughable particulars of his job, thanks to the rather considerable amount of cash provided, along with other benefits, Drake accepted-- although it turned out to be a tad stranger than he originally imagined.

spoilers:

Drake himself is not an reincarnated being of mythical power in any manner, despite the magical energies that currently flow though his body, courtesy of his employer as the result of the connection created between the two of them, allowing him to use her power as his own...and vice versa.

end of spoilers

Although a fairly composed, forgiving and mellow person, capable of great understanding and mercy, it has been said that his wrath towards those who manage to gain his ire in its entirety, far outstrips his softer qualities.

A fairly open minded being, Drake tends to be single-minded in the achievement of his ambitions, occasionally causing him to dabble in behaviors that would normally be considered unusual to a man of his type.

CHARACTER SONG (Optional): Music you associate with the character.

PERSONAL SKILLS: Gunmanship: Drake is a decent shot, familiar with a variety of guns, at least in theory, thanks to his experience hunting in his youth.


GOD POWERS(S):

Dark Sight: As a being empowered by the goddess of night, Drakes vision is entirely unaffected by the absence of light, allowing him to see with as much clarity during the darkest nights, as he would in the brightest days.

Nocturne: Drake can form a sphere of darkness, impairing the sight of all who stand within it. He can also fill the sight of an enemy with darkness, blinding them temporarily, via touch.

Fuego:
Drake can expel a torrent of white hot flame from his mouth, to incinerate his enemies, much like Nephtys herself once used this power to do the same.


*Functioning like a mofo*

And his new power:

Night Person: Drake, as a servant of the night, is at the peak of his power in darkness, raising his physical and spiritual power. This power can be used in conjunction with Nocture, in lieu of true darkness, but fades if the sphere vanishes, or if Drake exits it.

+ 3 to Brawn/Speed/ Power in genuine/absolute Darkness
+ 2 to Brawn/Speed/Power in Nocture


New Skill:

Consumption—Shadow: Drake has gained the ability to overtake the Shadow of an opponent with his own, essentially eating the shadow, boosting his strength and eating at the enemies. As a person could not exist without a Shadow(Sheut)—being a part of a persons soul in Egyptian Lore--nor a shadow without a person, If Drake manages to entirely consume a shadow, the opponent will perish.

The technique is not instantaneous, needing prolonged exposure to complete, however, it is persistent, the victim of the attack finding themselves weakened for sometime, along with an incomplete shadow representative of the attack.

As a side effect of this ability, Drake is highly resistant to Darkness oriented attacks, and is more than capable of overtaking and consuming them, adding their strength to his own.

If the opponent is too powerful to actually be killed by this technique somehow, they lose 1/5 of their stats in all fields, due to the successful sealing of a fraction of their soul.

King of the Embalmers shop: A regeneration/sealing technique, used either to bring the recently fallen back from the brink of death, or preserve them until he is able to do so.

Acting switfy, the major organs of the body are sealed into various sacred canopic jars, slowly being infused with healing energy. In egyptian mythology, one part of the soul was held in the heart(Ib), so the soul is prevented from moving on during this time.

Once enough energy has been embued in the jars, the organs are returned to the body, and the body is switfy repaired, healing the being.

Drake can withold the final step, if that is his wish, the body stuck in stasis, and the soul captured within a jar.

If it is his will, Drake can use an incomplete version of this technique for healing purposes, removing one of his own organs and replacing it with a previously sealed organ, allowing the healing energy stored within to restore him somewhat.

If the opponent is too powerful to actually be permantely laid low by this technique somehow, they lose 1/5 of their stats, due to the sealing to a fraction of their soul.

Spark Undertaker: A sealing technique, targeting yet another aspect of the soul, The Ka, the life force of a being, making the difference between a living body, and a rotting corpse.

By touching the center of an opponents chest, a bright light appears in the center of it, representing this spark. . Using the power of Darkness, Drake will attempt to snuff out the light, and thus, this piece of the oppoents soul, if not their life.

As the soul is far to bright and powerful to damage by normal means, Drake must touch the light with his hands, as opposed to merely convering the land with his power.

Overtime, the light will be restored to the soul, if Drake is stopped before completeing his technique, followed by the techniques taint fading all together overtime.

If non-fatal, the target loses 1/5 of their points for all stats.


Lamentful Wail: An outward manifestation of power laced with pain and suffering capable of rattling even the strongest of spirits with grief and sorrow, and battering their bodies. Aside from the physical damage done to the foe by the concussive force of the sonic scream, the enemy might find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer despair focused into the attack without the necessary mental fortitude (Perception).


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Brawn: 4
Speed:4
Agility: 4
Perception: 7
Power: 75+13=88
Skill: 6

[Miburohunter929]

Man, my point spread has been all kinds of fucked. I thought I edited it.

I'll go hunt for it later. Probally didn't update it in the main profile.

And...fixed.

[Daiyoukai Ramza]

Meh.

Selia Keane

GENDER: Female
AGE: 26
FORMER PERSONA: Odin
NATIONALITY: American
APPEARANCE: See above. Too damn lazy to write a description.
CHARACTER HISTORY & PERSONALITY: Selia was born to wealthy but otherwise normal parents with little import or influence outside of their circle of friends. As such, her childhood and adolescence were quite mundane. Her only noteworthy qualities were above-average grades and a uncommon amount of wanderlust that she quickly learned to suppress, to some extent.

However, the wanderlust did not fade with time--in fact, it grew ever strong--and shortly after she graduated from high school, she set out to see the world instead of going to college or getting a (permanent) job.

In the years since, she's wandered all over the world, learning new things, having adventures, taking the occasional odd-job, and generally just enjoying life--all at her parents' expense, of course.

Selia is generally a pretty amicable person, though she has a habit of keeping others at a safe distance and keeping secrets from others. Most likely, this is due to her itinerant lifestyle, which makes closeness to others more trouble than it's worth for both her and others.

CHARACTER SONG (Optional):

PERSONAL SKILLS:
Holding her Liquor - Thanks to a (semi)-honed biological quirk, Selia is able to drink the vast majority of people under the table.
Enough fluency with various languages to get by.

GOD's POWER:

Gungnir (Unswaying One): Odin's signature weapon, which Selia can form, unform, and reform at will. While the legends state that it 'always hits and always kills,' this is not necessarily true. The weapon's exact effects depend on whether it is wielded as a melee weapon or thrown.

Melee: Acts as a conduit for Selia's godly power, allowing for direct and efficient usage within the spear's melee range. Gungnir, while wielded, increases her attack power and attack speed by half her power stat each. Additionally, the energy empowering the spear also gives it an effective durability equal to her power stat, since any attack on the spear itself would have to overcome the totality of Selia's power to disrupt its form.

Thrown: ...too lazy to write a long description, so I'll just stick with a short one. She throws it and when it hits something, it explodes. Basically, it's an AoE energy attack.

STATS:

Brawn: 2
Speed: 2
Agility: 2
Perception: 3
Power: 10
Skill: 1

[Ghost]

After discussing the issue with Cleric, Fianna can now use Great Beast for two minutes after which she needs to wait six minutes before she can use it again.

Hopefully this will make her more likely to participate in the battles.

[Bobtheelf]

I can't remember - has Team Vancouver shared who they used to be? It seems like it, but I'm not sure if all of us know each other's past.

[Sub-Zero MKA]

I can't remember - has Team Vancouver shared who they used to be? It seems like it, but I'm not sure if all of us know each other's past.

I think everyone but Ashley did.

[Hazard]

I can't remember - has Team Vancouver shared who they used to be? It seems like it, but I'm not sure if all of us know each other's past.

Not everyone. Fate has called some of the characters by their god names, and others have introduced themselves with their name and the name of the god they were.

[Boukinator]

I can't remember - has Team Vancouver shared who they used to be? It seems like it, but I'm not sure if all of us know each other's past.

David hasn't told anyone he was poseidon. Jason is the only one who knows

[Captain England]

I can't remember - has Team Vancouver shared who they used to be? It seems like it, but I'm not sure if all of us know each other's past.

Fate mentioned to Gregory, Kris and Ashley who they were. Then Fate mentioned Raphael's identity to them. Drake told Ashley about his set up. Jason, David and Samuel haven't.

[Ghost]

Reposting Fianna's profile:


NAME: Fianna Ulvaeus

GENDER: Female.

AGE: 14.

FORMER PERSONA: Fenrir.

NATIONALITY: British. (Swedish father, British mother. Raised in England.)

APPEARANCE:

CHARACTER HISTORY & PERSONALITY:
Fianna is the youngest daughter of Marcus Ulvaeus, freelance journalist, and Helen Ulvaeus, archeologist. She has two sisters, Kim and Cecilia, both older then her. She spent most of her childhood growing up in the English countryside before the family relocated to London.

Fianna is rather intelligent but mostly only score mediocre grades in school since no subject genuinely interests her. She does have a talent for atheletics, however, as well as physical strenght unusual for a girl. She also has a peculiar love of comic books and action movies, and an interest in martial arts which led her to take kickboxing lessons. These traits can make her come across as something of a tomboy, though she does not identify as such and dislikes that label.

While she is a bright and friendly girl for the most part, she is firmly convinced that violence can, in fact, solve problems. This has occasionally gotten her into trouble after beating up bullies or other "evildoers" which, in turn, has given her a slight contempt for authorities. However, despite her violent nature, she has earned herself a fair number of friends and admirers in her school due to her almost complete fearlessness and unflinching willingness to stand up for those weaker then herself.

Fianna's main character flaws include her temper, which can sometimes make her say or do things she might regret after calming down, and her prideful nature will not easily let her admit to her own mistakes or shortcomings. She is also somewhat clumsy which, combined with her above average strenght, gives her a tendency to break things if she isn't careful.

Fianna likes animals but, unfortunately, animals do not seem to like her. Cats in particular generally cannot stand her, and horses have been known to become nervous in her presence.

CHARACTER SONG (Optional):
Ayumi Hamasaki - Trust (Remix.)
Poe - Wild

PERSONAL SKILLS: Due to her mother's insistance that she show some sort of interest in history or related fields, Fianna has taken to study mythology and has gained a reasonable amount of knowledge on the subject. She is also pretty handy with computers.

GOD POWERS(S):

Great Beast: Fenrir the Wolf was known for his immesurable strenght, which far surpassed even the strongest gods of Asgard, ultimately compelling them to bind him with the unbreakable fetter, Gleipnir, forged from six impossible things. This power echoes in Fianna's Great Beast ability, which allows her to increase her physical might by a tremendous degree. (Brawn + power + power 50%). Currently, Fianna can use Great Beast for 2 minutes, after which she needs 6 minutes for her power to recharge.

(new) Sky Hunter: Like Fenrir's sons, who tirelessly hunted the sun and the moon across the sky, this power grants Fianna the ability to stand and run on air as where it solid earth, granting a limited form of levitation and flight.

Doom of the Gods:

Valfather's Bane:

Nature Of Monsters:

Gleipnir:

Devour the Light of the World:

STATS:

Brawn: 3
Speed: 2
Agility: 2
Perception: 3
Power: 5
Skill: 5

Brawn: 2 + 1
Speed: 2
Agility: 1 + 1
Perception: 2 + 1
Power: 5
Skill: 3 +2

Boom, like that.

[WyldCard4]

I've been saying "where is everyone, I want to do something" and then not doing anything for nearly two weeks now...

I'm always like this right after I move, it seems. And then I got distracted by doing what is probably against the Kindle terms of service by posting the Orphans of Chaos feats...

*sighs*

And I love this RPG concept, and have enjoyed everything I've read in it.

[Froggy]

NAME: Jim "Cairo" Redd. Hates James

GENDER: Male

AGE: 25
FORMER PERSONA: Ra, now Garuda, Hindu bird god
NATIONALITY: Born in Egypt, raised in Washington D.C.
APPEARANCE:



Carries himself like a boxer, as that is/was his profession. Always has bandaged knuckles. Considered somewhat of a prettyboy by opponents and some fans, for being handsome in a roughneck kind of way. Six feet, two inches, and 200 pounds.

CHARACTER HISTORY & PERSONALITY:Jim, also known as "Cairo" is a former professional boxer in the WBA. He had a quick rise to fame at age 18, catapulting through the light heavyweight class, and then heavyweight before going back down and being content with his two belts. He wasn't satisfied with the ring though. Feeling there was much more thrilling things outside of it, Jim did some "work" on people outside of the ring. He started doing pit fighting, back alleys, before he got caught by his manager and ex-wife, resulting in his belts being taken away from him and nearly all of his cash, causing a fall from grace as his star in the ring died.

Jim is a thrill seeker and not really one to plot long term. He likes to think in the here and now to enjoy himself. He idolizes James Dean and adopted "Live fast, die young" as his motto
CHARACTER SONG (Optional): Music you associate with the character.
Heart of a champion
PERSONAL SKILLS: Jim is pretty good at extreme sports. He also has a knack for card games

GOD POWERS(S): The power you start the game out with. This is dependent, of course, on which person you play as. (Hermes can't shoot lightning bolts, as an example). This power can be offensive, defensive, a weapon, general magic, etc......Every time you level up, you will unlock another of your God Powers and list it here.

When describing your chosen power, please be as specific as possible: I will want to know the ability, its effect, and preferably the mechanics behind the effect.

Also note that all reborn Alaphim will be on an even level with each other. Zeus' reborn character won't be more powerul than, say, Anansi is, all told.

Observe that a few powers will be banned for plot-related reasons. Also, as GM I reserve the liberty to impose restrictions to your powers or suggest alternatives.

Redd/Ra's power: Fist of Ra. Similar to the power wave except it's shot as a air projectile from Jim's clenched fist. Variations include the uppercut, hook, and the straight. Jim punches a ball of superheated energy at his opponent. He can shoot one from each hand. They're about the size of a regular hadoken and have the same effect. can also use it like the burn knuckle
Sunburn Counter: Jim adds his power to his strength stat when hitting an opponent and doubles the power of their own attack against them. Has to take hit for it to work. Sort of like Joe Yabuki's Cross counter

Birds Eye View: thanks to his skill stat, he can dump those points and ten plus into perception and see an enemy's weak points/previous injuries/bone structures, through his newly developed and focused eyes

Heart of a Champion: If he's being knocked around like a rag doll, broken bones, ribs, Jim will get a rush of godly adrenaline and the pain will not effect him for a brief period of time (10-15 minutes tops) so he can fight on in spite of it. Sort of like a second wind

Falcon Punch/True Fist of the clouds: Charged up fist of Ra in the form of a screaming falcon, does double damage, mid point between phoenix buster and fist of ra. Shatters illusions?

phoenix buster Level 1: A massive swelling of superheated plasma energy and flames cover one of Jim's arms, making like a wing of fire around it, and when shot or punched releases a super charged blast that screams as it hits the opponent with white hot plasma. Shatters illusions and causes a shrill deafening sound like a large bird attacking
STATS: Stats that determine the physical and mental abilities of your character unrelated to his or her Alaphim Powers. You have 10 points to start out with. Please note that a standard/average human being has stats of 1 in all categories (aside from power/skill).



Brawn : 19
Speed : 19
Agility :19
Perception :
Power :34
Skill : 25

fun facts about Jim:

He once fought Jack in a pit fight before his wife busted in with his trainer

He starred in a Rocky remake

won two gold medals

is a avid bird watcher
Met Olivia in Vegas once with his wife, getting ready for a pay per view match

"Gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."