Razor Gilded Nymphaea

Name: Obsidian-Edged Nymphaea
Concept: Kung Fu Robot
Caste: Soulsteel

Anima: A razor-edged flower, one part bladed clockwork and one part living thing.

Anima Effect: +2 External Penalty on all attacks made against her

Motivation: Live up to the heroism of all her previous lives by becoming remembered in all of Autocthonia as one of the greatest heroes to ever live.

Appearance and Background

Appearance: Obsidian-Edged Nymphaea is a beautiful woman in her apparent early twenties, lithe with angular features, with iridescent hair, changing from mirrored black to a veritable rainbow of colors, which flows around her head alluringly when she moves. Her body is heavily altered by her charms, and her arms and legs are obviously made of soulsteel constrasting with the rest of her, occasionally their sleek lines marred by the temporary impression of an alien face, with windows of transparent adamant poking through synthetic skin, revealing coiled soulsteel-and-orichalcum muscle cables. Her legs are greatly altered beyond human norm, with bowed lower legs that extend to three-toed feet with retracting claws, and her arms have soulsteel and orichalcum bones which stick through the natural lines of human arms, and her right houses her personality override spike, fingers and hand reconfiguring into a dangerous-looking stiletto. Small crystal spires, extending about a centimeter outward, interrupt the smooth surfaces of arms and legs and spine, projectors for her Impenetrable Repulsor Field, and all limbs possess heavy soulsteel bones which stick through artificial skin as well as intramuscular essence capacitors which power her high-strength myomer and Gravity Manipulation Apparatus.

The rest of her body is in the impression of a perfect human female when not interrupted by sleekly-designed charms, which have been crafted so beautifully and meshed so well with her form that they enhance her beauty, giving her an inhuman attractiveness. Even her exposed soulsteel spine, the tracings of black metal which are her rib-bones extending out from clay skin, fail to render her any less than gorgeous. Her shoulderblades are slightly exaggerated with azure crystal components for her Industrial Survival Frame, and a small black core of soulsteel at the center of her chest where her collarbones join is the system which powers her Transitory Invulnerability Engine, etched with a stylized blossoming lotus and connected to innumerable copper wires which attach it to other charms. Her skin is purest alabaster, accentuated with the adamant and starmetal traceries of her Transhuman Efficiency Array.

Obsidian Edged Nymphaea normally wears a finely-embroidered artificial-silk kimono with flowing sleeves over her omnimodal wardrobe unit, which she tends to set to a simple one-piece undergarment reminiscent of a leotard or swimsuit, as well as accentuating the appearance of her artificial arms and legs with opera gloves and stockings seemingly made of embroidered silk.

Background: Obsidian Edged Nymphaea was commissioned as a Gremlin hunter, constructed by the famed artificer and demiurge Ixoria, famed for his eccentricity as much as his skill in artifice. He demanded that this latest Sentinel be built to his exacting standards, demanding she be built as an immortal legacy, a surrogate daughter of sorts who would remind the world of his accomplishments. He succeeded, and Obsidian Edged Nymphaea stepped out of the vats a vision of loveliness, almost completely unmarred by extreme alterations to the human body plan. In her several years active, she has been an artistic inspiration, a martial trainer, and most importantly a gremlin hunter and warrior, wielding devastating supernatural martial arts. However, as a Scourge of Autocthon, she is largely a failure, being too warm and open to act as an inquisitor or last resort weapon.

Recently, it has come to the attention of the Tripartite that several of her warm relationships with Champions of neighboring cities would divide her loyalties and distract her should relations cool. This, along with her many "un-Soulsteel-like" qualities, along with her very Soulsteel inability to compromise her desire to become an inspirational figure to the Populat, which has sometimes come into conflict with missions requiring prolonged excursions into the Reaches, have given them enough ammunition to demote and reassign her to a much less controversial and high-profile position.

Attributes

Caste Attributes: Stamina, Manipulation, Perception (9)
Favored Attributes: Dexterity, Appearance, Wits (7+2)
Remaining Attributes: Strength, Intelligence, Charisma (6)

Physical Attributes

Strength 4+2 (6)

Dexterity 5+2 (7)

Stamina 5+2 (7)

Mental Attributes

Perception 5

Intelligence 3

Wits 5

Social Attributes

Charisma 3+1 (4)

Manipulation 4+1 (5)

Appearance 5+3 (8)

Abilities

50 Ability Dots + 10 spec

Combat

Martial Arts 5

(Natural Weapons + 3)

Thrown 3

(Chakrams + 1)

Defensive

Dodge 5

(With Grace + 3)

Integrity 5

Resistance 2

Survival 2

Social

Presence 4

Performance 4

(Dance + 2)

Sneaky

Athletics 3

Awareness 5

Stealth 2

Crafts

Medicine 2

Investigative

Investigation 3

Lore 3

(Martial Arts Esoterica + 1)

Linguistics 2 (Old Realm, Autochthonian, Riverspeak)

Charms

25 total + 9 Excellencies (34)

Dedicated Slots

Miscellaneous

1 slot

Perfected Lotus Matrix (Learn Terrestrial/Celestial Martial Arts)

Augmentations

8 slots

4th Stamina Augmentation x 2 [+2 Stamina]

4th Dexterity Augmentation x 2 [+2 Dexterity]

4th Manipulation Augmentation [+1 Manipulation]

4th Appearance Augmentation x 2 [+2 Appearance]

5th Dexterity Augmenation (3m/+1 dexterity, 1 scene)

Transhumanism

6 slots

Manifold Transhuman Implants x 3 [24 Mutation Points]

Optical Enhancement (Enhanced Vision)

Flash Shutters (no penalties from blinding light)

Light Intensification Filters (no penalties from darkness)

Thermal Vision (can switch to thermographic vision reflexively, -2 penalty to distinguish objects with similar temperatures to its surroundings, Perception and attack bonuses otherwise)

Alloyed Reinforcement of Flesh (first attack which would incapacitate Alchemical reduces her to last -4 level instead)

Death-Defeating Processors (works up to [Essence] times)

Industrial Survival Frame [6m for indefinite protection against one type of environmental hazard]

Crystal (protects against natural environmental hazards as well as Shaping)

Social

4 slots

Personality Override Spike (10m 1wp to create a psychic clinch using Man/Wits + Presence v. Wits + Integrity if successfully attacked by the stiletto granted)

Identity Recalibration Signal (remove memories, alter virtues, WP, or intimacies)

Mind-Ripping Probe (can read memories, extract essence, or absorb spirits)

Emotive Aesthetics of the Body Electric (can make social attacks without speaking)

Combat

7 slots

Accelerated Response System (Parry) [2m cancels up to 7 points of penalties to Parry DV]

Impenetrable Repulsor Field [6m perfect, applicability trumping parry, flaw of Alchemical Temperance]

Alchemical Temperance (cannot flurry against opponent immediately after use)

Subcutaneous Armor Plating x 2 (6B/4L natural soak, 4B/2L hardness)

Transitory Invulnerability Engine (5m perfect soak, flaw of Alchemical Temperance)

Alchemical Temperance (cannot flurry against opponent immediately after use)

Magnetic Joint Bearings (-1 to multiple action penalties, ambidextrous)

Mobility and Utility

4 slots

Personal Gravity Manipulation Apparatus [4m scenelong to either double speed and jump distance by reducing mass to 15% or alter direction of gravity for movement]

Parabolic Leap Overcharger Device [3m scenelong, doubles jump distance]

Dynamic Reaction Enhancement System [2m/action, reduces action Speed by 2]

Cluster Action Hyperprocessor [cost is 0m/action if a previous action benefitted from this charm]

Subsynaptic Accelerator [-2 speed modifier rather than 1]

Transhuman Efficiency Relays [2m/action + 1wp, adds up to (Wits) actions total]

General Slots

Augmentations

2 slots

4th Strength Augmentation x 2 [+2 Strength]

Combat

2 slots

Piston Driven Megaton Hammer/Triple-Strength Myomer [3m to double additional damage from successes for an attack, triple if unarmed]

Altered Charm appearance: Finely tuned, high power artificial muscle bundles exposed in her artificial limbs, which crackle with visible power.

Unstoppable Impulse Engine [4m to make an attack unblockable]

Altered Charm appearance: Finely-crafted electromagnetic joints which provide a limb with the ability to turn the raw power of its predecessor into a mighty blow which leaves a visible shockwave and a sonic boom.

Martial Arts Charms

24 MA Charms

Crane Style

(10 Charms)

Fluttering Cry of Warning (1m, removes unexpected quality from an attack as long as the target has not made a physical attack)

Empowering Justice Redirection (3m, adds successes rolled on an attack to the artist's next attack against that person, that attack's damage becomes bashing and cannot spill over into lethal, reactivation resets)

Crane Form (6m, +1 PDV if wearing clothing with long flowing sleeves, all attacks have Reach, doubles dice bonus from MA-based stunts, all damage is limited to non-spilling bashing, exerts no effective weight and succeeds on all balance-related athletics checks)

Humbling Enlightenment Commentary (may use social descriptions to stunt unarmed attacks)

Kindly Sifu's Quill (do not need to spend WP to channel Compassion to enhance unarmed attacks/parries, adds compassion to attack damage if Crane Form is active)

Crossed Wings Denial (0m applicability-trumping perfect parry, cumulative cost increase of +1m each time used in a scene, prevents the artist from making attacks on her next action [but not counterattacks])

Feather-Stirred Arrow Deflection (4m counterattack in response to any ranged attack with a solid projectile, catches the projectile and hurls it back at any target no farther than distance between original attacker and artist, if successful automatically disarms and knocks opponent's weapon 5m away)

Beak Spears Frog (4m 1wp scenelong, may respond to any physical attack with a counterattack as long as opponent is within reach, attacks suffer from multiple action penalty of original attacker)

Wings Spread To Sky (6m action-long, glide up to [MA x 5] yards in any direction, may defy gravity, can use to break a flurry, glide another [MA x 5] yards when the charm ends, which may double successes to determine raw damage for the first attack in a flurry)

Wisdom of the Celestial Crane (no WP cost for combos only using Crane charms, creatures of Darkness lose 1 WP whenever hit, losing the last WP creates an intimacy of love for Creation)

Cobra Style

(12 charms)

Showing the Cobra's Fangs (gains a hand strike sharing rate with punch with Spd 5, Acc +3, Dmg +8L, Def + 2, Rate 1, N)

Cobra-Eye Splendor (5m ticklong, Dodge undodgeable attacks, Presence/2 external penalty on attacks as Emotion effect which cannot be resisted by wp)

King Cobra Strikes (5m, MA counterattack at full pool, adds 3 successes if attacker rolled lower join battle, inflicts poison with traits 10L/action, toxicity 2, -2 recurring penalty, may pay 1m/target with Cobra Form up to apply this attack to up to [MA] targets within 20m)

Cobra Form (5m, reduces cost of Feather-Stirred Arrow Deflection by 1m as an innate power, Cobra Fang gains Rate 2, all Poison-keyword MA charms cost 1m less, toxicity increases by 2, no penalties from fighting from prone, recovering from prone is reflexive, unexpected attacks ignore soak)

Raising the Cobra's Hood (4m Indefinite, Manipulation + MA attack vs. Dodge MDV of an opponent within 20m, adds Presence/2 automatic successes, victim may add half of MA or Presence, round down to their MDV. If successful, target is rendered Inactive as if in a clinch, and suffocates, breaking paralysis by spending 1wp adds a 5m surcharge to next charm activation)

False Crane Posture (4m ticklong, -3 to Dodge DV, jumping distance is doubled, adds +Essence to damage to an attack made with a jump, each attack dodged without using a charm with a FoI adds a reflexive perfect dodge which trumps applicability but fails when used in the presence of a positive intimacy)

Dread Scale Fascination (5m 1wp Scenelong, creates (Essence) shimmers with (half dodge DV, min 5) -0 HLs, which absorb damage from attacks. Any damage destroys a shimmer, if the character is unharmed by an attack which destroys a shimmer it counts as successfully dodged for False Crane Posture, AoE attacks damage all shimmers simultaneously, FoI charms remove 1/3/5 shimmers for instant/tick/action long charms)

Death-Dreaming Flux (2m, creates an imaginary attack from an opponent which may be counterattacked)

Hypnotic Swaying Motion (7m, makes a Manipulation + MA + Ess social attack against Dodge MDV of all opponents within 20 yards, all characters successfully affected must close with the character and attack once, costs 1WP to resist, any targets poisoned take double poison damage)

Forked Tongue Transition (6m action-long, gains 1 style point up to (5 + Martial Arts) points that last indefinitely each time the character is attacked with this charm up)

1 point eliminates all DV penalties against an attack

1 point reduces wound penalties by 1 for one action

1 point retroactively increases Join Battle result by 1 success

1 point adds 2 successes to Join Battle

2 points gets 1 automatic success on King Cobra Strikes

2 points allows the character to succeed all poison resistance rolls for 1 action

2 points gives 1 offensive overdrive mote

4 points gives 1 free reflexive attack up to (Dexterity)

2 points adds 10m/tick to movement for 1 action

5 points gives a counterattack the Unexpected quality

Touch of Finality (4m 1wp, all poisons in the victim struck by this charm their damage at once)

Marked By Eternity (may store up to [Stamina] poisons in her body, which lie dormant until 5m is spent to activate them, with a toxicity [Essence] lower than normal, any attacks which do at least 1 HL of damage may inflict all these poisons on another by paying 5m, may store new poisons by succeeding against their toxicity, and can add (Essence) to all Stamina + Resistance rolls to do so, replacing Resistance with MA)

Dreaming Pearl Courtesan

Demure Carp Feint (4m, +[Essence] or +2 to DVs)

Pearlescent Filigree Defense (1m per 2B/1L soak, cannot spend more than [Essence] motes)

Lethal Paper Fan Attack (2m supplemental, +5 to accuracy, damage, defense)

On Retainder

None

Virtues

Compassion: 3

Intimacy: Nation of Kamak (Nationalistic Loyalty)

Intimacy: Artistic Expression (Love)

Intimacy: Fine Luxuries (Yearning)

Intimacy: Martial Arts (Love)

Intimacy: Gremlins (Uncompromising Hatred)

Intimacy: Other Alchemicals (Friendly Competitiveness)

Conviction: 3

Temperance: 2

Valor: 5

Willpower: 10

Essence

Personal Essence: 22

Peripheral Essence: 60 (39)

Committed Essence: 14m Prosthetics

Committed Essence: 1m Omnimodal Wardrobe

Committed Essence: 6m Industrial Survival Frame

Combat

Health Levels

-0 x 1/-1 x 2/-2 x 6/-4 x 1/Incapacitated

Defenses

Natural Soak: 7B/3L (Stamina) + 6B/4L (Subcutaneous Armor) + 4B/4L (Armored Hide) + 1B/1L (Multimodal wardrobe) = 17B/12L (4B/2L hardness)

Armored Soak: 0B/0L

Physical Defenses

Parry DV: Dex 7 + Melee 5 + Specialty 3 + Defense 2 = 17/2 = PDV 9

Dodge DV: Dex 7 + Dodge 5 + Specialty 3 + Essence 4 = 19/2 = DDV 10 + 1 Reflexes (11)

Mental Defenses (Appearance 8 adds up to 3 to MDV)

Mental Parry DV: Manipulation 6 + Presence 4 = 10/2 = PDV 5

Mental Dodge DV: WP 10 + Integrity 5 + Essence 4 = 19/2 = DDV 10

Attacks

Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 16, Damage 9B, PDV 9, Rate 3, Natural

Cobra Fang: Speed 5, Accuracy 18, Damage 14L, PDV 9, Rate 1, Natural, shares Rate with Punch

Personality Override Spike: Speed 5, Accuracy 12, Damage 12L (P), PDV 5, Rate 3

Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 15, Damage 10B, PDV 7, Rate 2, Natural

Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 15, Damage 9B (P), PDV -, Rate 1, Natural

Perfect Chakram: Speed 4, Accuracy 13, Damage 11L, Rate 3, Range 30

Backgrounds

12 Background + Class 3

Class 3

Artifact 2

5 dot Prosthetics of Clockwork Elegance (14m attune, 14 points)

Reconstructing all 4 limbs (8 pts)

+3 strength for all limbs (6 pts)

Omnimodal Wardrobe Unit (1 dot, 1m attune)

+1L/1B soak, can become any sort of mundane clothing

10 BG Dots traded for 10 charms

Equipment

Perfect Chakram (Speed 4, Accuracy +2, Damage +2L, Rate 3, Range 30)

Perfect Clothing (+2 bonus to social attacks couched in physical attractiveness)

Merits

24 Mutation Points

Like A Living Statue (+1 Charisma +1 Appearance) [-2 mp]

Environmental Adaptations: Wood, Fire, Air, Water (unaffected by natural heat or cold, doubled swim speed, -1 difficulty for Athletics swimming rolls, photosynthesis, double climbing speeds) [-4 mp]

Gazelle's Pace (+4 Dexterity for movement, +4 Strength for jumping, +2d for competitive running rolls) [-2 mp]

Heightened Reflexes (+1 automatic success for dexterity-based athletics rolls, +1 to Dodge DV, incompatible with armor) [-4 mp]

Thick Hide (+4B/4L natural soak) [-4 mp]

Inexhaustible (never fatigues) [-2 mp]

Toxin x 2 (Toxin with 5L/action damage, Toxicity 3, Penalty -3) [-4 mp]

Enhanced Senses: Sight, Hearing (+2 Awareness for Sight and Hearing) [-2 mp]

Flaws

Code Of Honor (-2): Cannot lie to or betray allies w/o failing Conviction Check

Too Perfect (-1): +1 MDV bonus to anyone who interacts with character for more than 1 hour, fades after (Appearance) days of no contact.

BP Expenditure

40 Bonus Points

-3 for WP 10

-4 for 4 Virtue Dots

-9 for Wits 5

-3 for Perception 5

-4 for Strength 4

-15 to fill all charm slots

-5 for Submodules

+3 from flaws