Post by pennynovis on Jun 12, 2021 21:01:35 GMT -5
Player Name: Celeste
Character Name: Penélope Novis
World of Origin: Full Metal Alchemist
Species: Human
Occupation: "Human Computer" (Astronomer)
Level:
Strength: 3
Endurance: 3
Dexterity: 3
Intelligence: 7
Charisma: 5
Wisdom: 4
Power: 8
Luck: 3
Hit Points: 18
Defense Score: 13
Magic Slots: 8
Skills Skill Level
Athletics 1
Computers 3
Driving 2
Investigation 2
Alchemy 4
Lore 2
Science: Astronomy 2
Research 2
Abilities:
Superskill: Alchemy 3
No transmutation circle: 3
Guardian Angel: 1
True Sight: 1
Spells:
Purify: treats toxins
Armor: summons full suit of carbon fiber armor with headgear that protects against bludgeoning, slashing, projectiles.
Electrocute: Summons bolts of lightning ala Emperor Palpatine
Circle of Healing: plus up to regeneration of hp for anyone standing in it
Character Bio:
Penny was born into a moderately wealthy family and educated accordingly, which means she was encouraged to go to college when she showed great promise in math, science, and even alchemy from a young age. But her family had heard about the horrors perpetrated by the Amestrian State Alchemists, and really didn’t want Penny having anything to do with that lot, so she stopped studying it.
In the second year of her university studies, world famous astronomer Mori Skutla took a post there. The remarkably clear and thin mountain air provided a perfect environment for skywatching, which would be needed to complete his project. Skutla requested volunteers to assist him with counting and cataloguing all the stars that could be detected from their world’s position in the cosmos. Penny was recommended by another professor for the project, and her participation revealed an uncanny ability to perform complex calculations quickly. She became a permanent part of Skutla’s Human Computers shortly thereafter.
But Mori Skutla himself was not simply trying to compile a star catalogue for the sake of science. He secretly believed it would be even more important to alchemy than the legendary Philosophers’ Stone. It would be drawing on the forces that move and fuel the stars themselves, not simply the energy within the Earth that create earthquakes, volcanoes, and the movement of continents. This energy would be exponentially greater, closer to infinite than anything else conceivable.
Mori started using the data his Human Computers provided to conduct experiments, with mixed results. He determined his lack of success was because he worked in secret, alone, and the forces he was attempting to manipulate required someone else to help channel their power because of just how much greater they were. He would need an assistant if he didn’t want to end up a scorch mark on the wall.
There were several problems with this, of course. Firstly, this hypothetical assistant would need to be smart enough to compute things rapidly, but not so smart they figured out exactly what he was up to. Second, his premise was totally wrong, if understandably so. Smarter people than he had been using alchemy for years in the belief that the power for their alchemical transmutations came from diastrophic or tectonic forces. But all along, the power of alchemy in Amestris had truly been coming from the Philosopher’s Stone ritual that Father had created. His goal was to spread alchemy throughout Amestris, and then sacrifice everyone involved with it in order to gain immense power in one fell swoop. Essentially, despite it being forbidden, human transmutation was in process the whole time, not tectonic energy.
Thirdly, the reason he didn’t understand how wrong he was is that Mori Skutla wasn’t actually trained in alchemy and registered with the State. He kept his research and experiments utterly secret, and as such, had limited access to the knowledge of his peers. Mori was an astronomer who attended some lectures by State Alchemists, got his hands on some books, and decided he was going to show those hacks a thing or two.
Mori was dating one of his Human Computers, and believing her utterly under his control, he trusted her and asked her to assist him in an important experiment. Wide-eyed, eager, and utterly naïve, the woman had no idea that she was doing anything wrong. The experiment was a limited success. Mori did open a gate to another realm, because his girlfriend didn’t just “channel” extra energy. She was consumed by it, body and soul, sucked into the gate just before it closed.
The loss depressed him severely, and the already unstable man started to fray at the seams. He became convinced that additional experiments would provide him the key to not only avoid the whole human sacrifice issue, but that he would gain so much power he could pull his girlfriend back through the portal and construct a body for her.
It meant more experiments, and more assistants gone missing. Questions were asked, but Mori was really good at covering his tracks. He got a lot of sympathy for the loss of his fiancée in such a bizarre way. And he wasn’t stupid enough to keep using his Human Computers, at least the ones that were registered as participating with his project. He conned math and alchemical students from the college, the high schools, the streets, anywhere he could find them. The alchemy students turned out to be a mistake, because when they go missing, a lot more people are a lot more interested in the why and the how.
Investigators from the State were getting closer to him. Getting desperate, he decided his only way out would be to open a gate and hold it open long enough for him to go through it by his own power instead of being consumed by the gate itself. He’d start over in this new place, but first he would have to find it. And for that he needed someone to adjust the calculations of the ritual quickly enough he’d be able to scan through more than one realm at a time. Viewing the realm and then changing the calculations slightly, going on to the next one before they were consumed was something that Mori learned was possible after he had done the other experiments. He had to choose a reality adjacent enough to our own so that it was hospitable.
Penny was the obvious choice, and since he would be leaving anyway, Mori went for it. He had no idea she was familiar with alchemy, but even if he had he never would have thought she was smart enough to figure out his game. None of the others had. Even if she was, there’d be nothing she could do, caught in the ritual she helped create.
Which was Mori’s last mistake. Penny sensed immediately something was wrong, and changed her calculations just enough so that she wouldn’t be the one at the center of the transmutation circle. Mori would. Yes, she’d be committing murder by human transmutation, but she didn’t have much choice if she wanted to live. Unfortunately, the resulting spell not only consumed Mori, but pushed Penny into another realm.
Human transmutation comes with an inevitable cost, one which was not considered fully paid by Mori. Penny survived, but at the cost of her dominant right hand. Perhaps Penny’s calculations were not as precise as she had hoped considering her limited knowledge, and Mori’s life wasn’t taken after all. Or something else went wrong. After all, they were amateurs.
Character Name: Penélope Novis
World of Origin: Full Metal Alchemist
Species: Human
Occupation: "Human Computer" (Astronomer)
Level:
Strength: 3
Endurance: 3
Dexterity: 3
Intelligence: 7
Charisma: 5
Wisdom: 4
Power: 8
Luck: 3
Hit Points: 18
Defense Score: 13
Magic Slots: 8
Skills Skill Level
Athletics 1
Computers 3
Driving 2
Investigation 2
Alchemy 4
Lore 2
Science: Astronomy 2
Research 2
Abilities:
Superskill: Alchemy 3
No transmutation circle: 3
Guardian Angel: 1
True Sight: 1
Spells:
Purify: treats toxins
Armor: summons full suit of carbon fiber armor with headgear that protects against bludgeoning, slashing, projectiles.
Electrocute: Summons bolts of lightning ala Emperor Palpatine
Circle of Healing: plus up to regeneration of hp for anyone standing in it
Character Bio:
Penny was born into a moderately wealthy family and educated accordingly, which means she was encouraged to go to college when she showed great promise in math, science, and even alchemy from a young age. But her family had heard about the horrors perpetrated by the Amestrian State Alchemists, and really didn’t want Penny having anything to do with that lot, so she stopped studying it.
In the second year of her university studies, world famous astronomer Mori Skutla took a post there. The remarkably clear and thin mountain air provided a perfect environment for skywatching, which would be needed to complete his project. Skutla requested volunteers to assist him with counting and cataloguing all the stars that could be detected from their world’s position in the cosmos. Penny was recommended by another professor for the project, and her participation revealed an uncanny ability to perform complex calculations quickly. She became a permanent part of Skutla’s Human Computers shortly thereafter.
But Mori Skutla himself was not simply trying to compile a star catalogue for the sake of science. He secretly believed it would be even more important to alchemy than the legendary Philosophers’ Stone. It would be drawing on the forces that move and fuel the stars themselves, not simply the energy within the Earth that create earthquakes, volcanoes, and the movement of continents. This energy would be exponentially greater, closer to infinite than anything else conceivable.
Mori started using the data his Human Computers provided to conduct experiments, with mixed results. He determined his lack of success was because he worked in secret, alone, and the forces he was attempting to manipulate required someone else to help channel their power because of just how much greater they were. He would need an assistant if he didn’t want to end up a scorch mark on the wall.
There were several problems with this, of course. Firstly, this hypothetical assistant would need to be smart enough to compute things rapidly, but not so smart they figured out exactly what he was up to. Second, his premise was totally wrong, if understandably so. Smarter people than he had been using alchemy for years in the belief that the power for their alchemical transmutations came from diastrophic or tectonic forces. But all along, the power of alchemy in Amestris had truly been coming from the Philosopher’s Stone ritual that Father had created. His goal was to spread alchemy throughout Amestris, and then sacrifice everyone involved with it in order to gain immense power in one fell swoop. Essentially, despite it being forbidden, human transmutation was in process the whole time, not tectonic energy.
Thirdly, the reason he didn’t understand how wrong he was is that Mori Skutla wasn’t actually trained in alchemy and registered with the State. He kept his research and experiments utterly secret, and as such, had limited access to the knowledge of his peers. Mori was an astronomer who attended some lectures by State Alchemists, got his hands on some books, and decided he was going to show those hacks a thing or two.
Mori was dating one of his Human Computers, and believing her utterly under his control, he trusted her and asked her to assist him in an important experiment. Wide-eyed, eager, and utterly naïve, the woman had no idea that she was doing anything wrong. The experiment was a limited success. Mori did open a gate to another realm, because his girlfriend didn’t just “channel” extra energy. She was consumed by it, body and soul, sucked into the gate just before it closed.
The loss depressed him severely, and the already unstable man started to fray at the seams. He became convinced that additional experiments would provide him the key to not only avoid the whole human sacrifice issue, but that he would gain so much power he could pull his girlfriend back through the portal and construct a body for her.
It meant more experiments, and more assistants gone missing. Questions were asked, but Mori was really good at covering his tracks. He got a lot of sympathy for the loss of his fiancée in such a bizarre way. And he wasn’t stupid enough to keep using his Human Computers, at least the ones that were registered as participating with his project. He conned math and alchemical students from the college, the high schools, the streets, anywhere he could find them. The alchemy students turned out to be a mistake, because when they go missing, a lot more people are a lot more interested in the why and the how.
Investigators from the State were getting closer to him. Getting desperate, he decided his only way out would be to open a gate and hold it open long enough for him to go through it by his own power instead of being consumed by the gate itself. He’d start over in this new place, but first he would have to find it. And for that he needed someone to adjust the calculations of the ritual quickly enough he’d be able to scan through more than one realm at a time. Viewing the realm and then changing the calculations slightly, going on to the next one before they were consumed was something that Mori learned was possible after he had done the other experiments. He had to choose a reality adjacent enough to our own so that it was hospitable.
Penny was the obvious choice, and since he would be leaving anyway, Mori went for it. He had no idea she was familiar with alchemy, but even if he had he never would have thought she was smart enough to figure out his game. None of the others had. Even if she was, there’d be nothing she could do, caught in the ritual she helped create.
Which was Mori’s last mistake. Penny sensed immediately something was wrong, and changed her calculations just enough so that she wouldn’t be the one at the center of the transmutation circle. Mori would. Yes, she’d be committing murder by human transmutation, but she didn’t have much choice if she wanted to live. Unfortunately, the resulting spell not only consumed Mori, but pushed Penny into another realm.
Human transmutation comes with an inevitable cost, one which was not considered fully paid by Mori. Penny survived, but at the cost of her dominant right hand. Perhaps Penny’s calculations were not as precise as she had hoped considering her limited knowledge, and Mori’s life wasn’t taken after all. Or something else went wrong. After all, they were amateurs.