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[thirdofnine]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~LORE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Two million years in the future the conventional rules of life that we now live by don't apply. Reality ebbs and changes, fluctuating. If it were a musical number, it would be chaotic and incomprehensible. If it were an art piece, it's spectrum of genres would be un-classifiable.
Humanity was born to adapt, and as it grew more and more powerful in turn so did reality have to adapt to humanity. As their technology grew in capability, humans soon found themselves able to change reality further than they ever dreamed. Things equivalent to magic became simplistic standard actions; things that even a child could do with ease. Science, though it had carried people far, eventually was a thing of the past. Reality became a toy in comparison to some people's power, and in turn all that people had considered constant permanent rules of life became tools, and eventually sentient beings.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PLAYABLE RACES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In game there are 7 playable races, and one race modifier that one can use in order to alter their character further. Creatures exist in three separate ways: As warmbloods, coolbloods, and meta-creatures.

Warmbloods

Humans: Standard in game, representing the most basic character one can start off with. No weaknesses, no strengths. A blank slate. In game they are the most ancient race in the universe, and founded all forms of technologies up till this point in game, though for some strange reason the last historical record they posses occurred one million years ago. All knowledge of how technology functions have been lost, and altering the rules of reality are considered how life has always been.

Neclins: Humans that maintained levels of control over technology after death, and through this have become immune to many otherwise fatal attempts at their lives. They have metalic skin that coats their ever-rotting corpses. Through sacrificing natural attunment with technology, as they are constantly rotting away, they attain a much higher likelyhood to survive in an everchanging world.

Alterals: Humans that have chosen to warp their forms, adjoining themselves to technological forces at the sacrifice of using their own life essence to power each utilization of reality warping disciplines. At the same time, they have the most natural attunement towards tech compared to all other warmbloods. They are generally considered to be disgusting mutations of humans and as such have been exiled from human society, unlike the Neclins who have been embraced. Due to their constant utilization of their bodies as fuel for their power, they live for very short life-spans compared to other warmbloods. Proportionate to modern day humans, however, they live seemingly eternally.

Coolbloods

Skerent: Intelligent beings that evolved from cuttlefish-like lifeforms found on earth a million and a half years ago, now comparable to humanity in terms of intellect and capability. They currently live alongside humans in a state of co-existence. Without the utilization of technology they can shape-shift, hypnotize simple life-forms, and though they do not start out as technologically attuned as humans, they learn at a much faster rate than any human or human derivative life-form could ever attempt to.

Erg: Hailing from a shadowy gaseous planet far away from the human homeworkd, Erg are an alien species adapted to live in the poisonous neon-colored bio-luminescent rain forests of a planet with pitch-black skies. Possessing abstract methods of thought compared to earth-like creatures, the Erg find human technology to be incomprehensible. Instead they chose to use their mind-altering capabilities to have others warp reality for them, and as such are never found away from a humanoid form of life outside of their home planet. Physically they resemble smokey-purple faded stone with immense gemstone eyes, physically similar to lemurs.

Lint: Lint are a hybrid species born from an experiment in which all races of the universe were attempted to be fused into one, resulting in a coldblooded species of monstrosities which the set of rules the universe let live because they thought it was "funny". Possesing grotesquely warped forms they saunter around the universe endlessly, possesing both eternal life and the highest form of sentience and understanding, but are forbiden from ever altering their physical state. In trade for possesing the greatest power potential of all races, the Lint suffer immensely.

Vestigials

Meta existent entities that technically exist as part of the universe itself, not as a form of life nor as a non-sentient object. Instead they are a population of personified aspects of forces within the universe, varying and constantly changing as often as the universe does. This results in constantly changing what each character can do at all times. (In game the player decides how they change in terms of abilities, but only under certain parameters provided by the DM. Vestigials are not confined to a class, but instead can only have 7 abilities at a time.)

Leapers

Leapers are any form of life other than vestigials that have ascended so far in their quest to attune themselves with nature that they have reached a vestigial-like state. They are hybrids between any of the six races and vestigials, and as such they are constantly shifting their individual powers similarly to vestigials, but are confined instead to the abilities of their class. All classes other than vestigials can have a maximum of 20 abilities, but start out with 5

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CLASSES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Opticlos: A class of manipulator that relies on the manipulation of visible objects and forces in order to alter reality. If one can see a force acting upon another, the Opticlos can alter those forces to suit their will. At lower levels they are confined to things like throwing and moving objects, and conjuration.

Micros: Manipulators that focus on the manipulation of forces that creatures cannot naturally precieve. Though at lower levels they are confined to simply altering the state of matter something is in, in order to use it for their bidding. At higher levels forces such as magnetism and strong/weak atomic force come into play.

The Adjuvant: Manipulators that alter the nature of forces themselves, capeable of reverting, negating, and amplifying forces. At higher levels they can even access the quantum plane of existence and begin to draw power from it, manipulating even the flow of events picking and chosing which potential reality could take place.

The Aimless: Jacks of all trades that are capeable of performing any level of any dicipline of manipulation, but in turn must sacrifice reliably. Instead of starting off with 5 abilities of having a ability cap, they simply state what they want to do and how it turns out, though if too many things work out positively for them in a row, things horrid are bound to occur.
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Soon those who have been chosen by fate shall embark on a grand journey to discover the secrets of the universe. But in an ever-altered universe, can any secrets truly stay hidden?

[kain17335]

Name: Unknown, most just call her Kal'seen, meaning "Silent One"

Age: Unknown

Race: Erg/ Human hybrid

Gender: Female

Appearance: Scantly robed, in nothing but an orange toga-like garment that covers her whole body, covering her beautiful pale white skin, with dark, jet black hair and glittering purple eyes that seem almost hollow in appearance.

Personality: Cool, calm and collected, never speaks a word, using the power of her own mind to speak with those whom she wishes too.
Very hard to anger, far preferring to stay calm in any situation, rather than let panic take her over.

Class: Adjuvant

Abilities:
Air displacement: Due to her powerful comprehension of using different unseen forces, Kal'seen can make air move into object, forcing them to explode.

Force of Nature: Kal can alter the chemical and electrical impulses of any and all beasts insects and micro-organisms, allowing her to communicate with them, this allows her to use many as eyes and ears, telling her what is happening in the world around her without Kel needing to break her train of thought (Warmbloods, Coldbloods, Vestigels and Leapers not included).

Gravitational anomalies: Kal'seen can change gravity at her own will, from increasing the gravitational pull of something, to negating its effects completely.
Pretty much telekinesis.

Atomic distortion: The ability to manipulate the bonds between atoms and their surrounding electrons, even changing them to a different element by forcibly removing their protons or neutrons, but at the moment, Kal'seen can only do so with weak-medium powered bonds, stronger bonds are sometimes too powerful for her to even manipulate.

Phase: Kal'seen can weaken the forces binding both herself, and any known object to split them apart, allowing her body to pass atom-by-atom through it, but with the bonds still being strong enough for the particles to keep their shape (going in one way as a Kal, and the other side as a heap of sand isn't the best feeling in the world)

Backstory: "Kal'seen" has been living in her ageless temple for countless centuries, believing that she will not use technology unless absolutely necessarily, the only living entity that has ever been with her for longer than an hour is a glowing black beast with a strong likeness to a griffon, it stays beside her wherever she goes, never eating, sleeping, or even taking rest if it thinks something would cause harm to its master.
Because she has been living in the temple for so long, only leaving it to wander places seemingly aimlessly, not even interacting with anyone near her, she has, in the end, completely forgotten about her time before all this, but is quite content in spending the rest of her days in confinement, as if she is waiting for something, that not even she knows what.

[Luke]

Name: Doctor Malloy Kershay

Age: Over 2 million years old

Race: Neclin

Gender: Male

Appearance: While his human form is that of a decrepit old rotting corpse, his body is entombed in a solid 'suit' of steel and metal. Long ago before his life was at its end, he refused to accept his mortal limitations, however unreliable they may have been at the time, and fashioned himself a body after death with his gift for technology. Though the body itself is taller then he ever was, it functions more like a walker suit, though it has human appendages as well.
On his right arm is a small centrifugal device that he developed specifically to amplify his own natural prowess. The device's operation is unknown mostly, however it can be seen spinning for at least a short moment whenever he activates his powers.
His 'face' holds a small window that reveals the Doctors original head, though horribly rotted as it may be, so he may still stare others in the eye, a breather positioned over his mouth to allow him to breath in the thick liquid substance that he is suspended in that keeps him alive. It also allows him to speak via a sophisticated set of speakers to project his voice as normal.

Personality: Doctor Malloy was an absolute brilliant scientist for his time, proving himself a genius in many aspects of his work and design, helping to create engines of destruction so horrifying, some to this day choose not to acknowledge its existence. Along with this genius attitude, he is calm and collected at almost all times, considering most problems 'simple' or 'child's play'. On the opposite end however, if he faces a problem that refuses to obey his whims, or defies his attempts to right it at every turn, he grows angry, almost homicidal so, not one to shy away from a bloody rampage, especially with his new status in life and powers. With genius comes a price, however, as Malloy himself knows of his brilliance and considers reality and the laws of physics his plaything, something that simply needs to be changed to be 'better' as he puts it. Malloy's thinking in this manner does not stop at merely changing laws that suit his needs however, going so far as to say the universe should bow to his whims, and that it is in 'their best interests to not think too much.' And to simply let him handle matters lesser beings need not worry about, considering himself a demigod who is long over due to ascension.

Class: Micro

Abilities: Gravity Manipulation: The ability to increase or decrease mass, altering the forces of nature itself
Necrosis: Manipulating the power of flesh, dead or living, for own purposes. Can result in resurrection, molding flesh into servants of some kind, and even creating new life forms to serve
Atomic Manipulation: the ability to change, split, fuse, and remake atoms at any level into any desired shape. Can result in making entire structures, objects, and even creatures out of seemingly nothing
Molecular Manipulation: Able to reinforce, change, and move mass of all sorts around with the flick of a wrist, causing even brittle substances to reach diamond hard strength
Dark Matter: Can, essentially, be anything as it grows in power. Its unknown properties are unpredictable except to the most skilled hand, if controlled properly, it is incredibly dangerous and powerful.

Backstory: Malloy was a part of a larger research organization that helped bring much of the newest breakthroughs that made the life today possible. Quickly gaining renown, Malloy became the head of this department and pioneered some of the biggest advancements in technology in ages. Before long, Malloy became dissatisfied with his work, feeling it was as if he were 'giving hand outs to unworthy pigs', and proceeded to take his research in new directions: War. After many political outcries and calls to have the man executed for war crimes for being the creator of such devices, Malloy felt that his home no longer deserved to see his gracious gifts unto them, and prepared himself to leave via a shuttle. However, on the night he was to leave, an angry mob burst into his office and proceeded to brutally beat and burn his body, leaving it far frailer then one of his age may have been. Somehow lucky enough to survive the brutal display, Malloy had thought ahead, as he often did, and turned himself into an Eclin, the suit giving him essentially eternal life to continue his designs and practices with his Micro abilities, something he had slowly begun to notice and considered further proof of his god-like character. With his new found eternal life, Malloy intends to perfect his god-like status and bring 'righteous judgement' down upon the ones who failed to recognize his greatness. After all, he had eternity to plan it.

[Sleix]

Name: Vance "Hawkeye" Alroy

Age: 764

Race: Neclin

Gender: Male

Appearance: Vance was a handsome, young, man but years of rotting have left his body disfigured and broken. Vance's sheet of metal flesh that covers his rotting carcass is cracked and rusted, he uses a mechanical suit that covers his mouth, torso and replaces his long lost arm with a clawed, mechanical limb that is used for scientific and technological purposes and can also be changed at will into an almost regular arm. His yellow, dark, eyes stare almost disturbingly in conversation. (For reference -http://gorillaartfare.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ravager_betaaugmentation04.jpg)

Personality: Although Vance sports a rather grim look, he is quite a jolly and friendly man. Although he is light hearted, Vance is stern and keeps his ground in serious situations, he will openly express his opinion even if somebody strongly disagrees, often leading people to dislike him. At first, he can seem quite untrustworthy, but can make a wise, honest friend.

Class: Aimless

Backstory: Vance had a very sheltered childhood in poverty, constantly moving, but never seeing life outside of the walls of a slum. As he grew older, he was tired of constant isolation from the outside world, and fled from his home, leaving his family and friends behind. At the age of 37, Vance enlisted into the armed forces and served for 16 years before being shot in action by a rogue teammate. Bleeding and slowly dieing, Vance bought himself back from near death by turning himself into a Neclin, Vance then set out and ventured the galaxy in search of the one who murdered him and his squad in the army, learning, teaching and making friends along the way. After a 67 year search, Vance finally found the man he was looking for and struck him down without remorse. After accomplishing the thing he lived and trained for, Vance felt only a mere shadow of his former self, what would he do now? Does he have any purpose in this world anymore? Vance went insane searching for a purpose, but he came to the realization that it is the fate of all Neclin to aimlessly roam this earth. So he left the safety of city walls and made his own encampment in the wilderness, studying science and making petty breakthroughs, living out the rest of his days.

[Randominsult]

Name: Vincent Hailborne goes by "Coal"

Age: 5 (Since the Awakening)

Race: Lint

Gender: Male

Appearance: Coal adorns a hooded black robe which was the last gift his father had ever given him. Through the science experiments which transformed him into a Lint his body became horribly disfigured. The robe he wears covers his body from the shame he feels from being a Lint, he also wears a white face-mask as well as black combat boots and gloves.

Personality: Coal still maintains his human emotions even after the Lint process. He may come off as angered and violent but after discovering what you have become wouldn't you? In reality Coal is a kind young man who will give absolute allegiance to anyone who gives it to him. As a trained samurai his loyalty and honor are his two greatest aspects. Though confused and bewildered at the new world around him he only hopes to be able to adjust.

Class: Opticlos

Abilities: Besides the metallic gold arm that replaced his left arm that he can shape-shift with his mind Coal is new to the world he still has yet to discover all the powers he possess.

Backstory: The year is 2015 and Vincent has just finished his training as a samurai. Being born into the life of a samurai Vincent grew up training everyday of his life and now on his 25th birthday he graduated from the Dojo. Vincent excelled in all manners involving the katana and was espicialley skilled in Iaido as well as the 18 skills of Ninjutsu. Celebrating his graduation with other members of the dojo ended in disaster. Vincent had a drug slipped into his drink that caused him to become delirious and eventually led to him passing out. Two Million years into the future Vincent wakes up in an unfamiliar world and has to struggle to try and remember who he is and how he came to be all that he found beside him was an dusty black robe with note saying
"I'm Sorry....
-Father"
It's been 5 years since Vincent's awakening and since that time he has given himself the name Coal based off the color of the robe that was left to him he has also discovered the ability to shape with metallic arm into anything he desires(mainly a katana). He is no closer to discovering his past or what other abilities he may have, the rest may be revealed in time.

[guycoolspore2]

Name: Περιέργεια αδέσμευτη or curiositas solutos (Curiosity unbound)

Age: Since the beginning of story-telling, it has roamed minds of many species.

Race: Vestigial

Gender: Presumed as male by those who have heard the whispers of it's beckoning.

Appearance: A feeling of excitement or fear when your curiosity leads to action; The physical appearance is of a black cat that when seen vanishes after varying times.

Personality: His Greek name being translated as "Curiosity unbound", his presence is well known by humans and most other species with minds. As his name suggests, he is interested in everyday life of civilization.

Class: Micro

Abilities

Gnawing presence: His impact having been put millions of years ago, the feeling of curiosity is felt by almost everything living, but the feeling of him there makes everything look like it has to be explored.

Beckoning whisper: The whispers can guide or distract, but that depends on his decision and their interpretation of the words.(impact determined by the DM)

Thermal presentation: Guess what the reports of ghost cats were.

False weather: The sounds of thunder are heard and the tired see raindrops on their windows.

Inviting hand: The mind will be tempted to(if wanted to be by him) do something that it normally wouldn't.

The Invisible Light: An object seems to be lit up by something from within, leading to either peril or loot.

Cry for help: If an individual does not react to such, it will feel a large amount of guilt.