Hal vs. Virgil Layman

MISSILE SILO

An abandoned military installation in the northern wilderness of Gaia, the missile silo and its adjoining facilities have recently been purchased and renovated by the GCL as a secondary headquarters. The inside of the missile silo has been converted into a fighting arena, but it is atop the silo that Season Two participants will be fighting.

Terrain

General: The top of the missile silo is a 100' diameter disc of metal. The ground is rough and uneven around the silo, but stepping off of the silo's bay doors is considered grounds for a ring-out count to start.

Weapons: Snow and ice cover the top of the silo in piecemeal patches.

Bonus Features: Some clumsy engineer set off an automated test of the silo doors! The top if the silo turns as it opens, creating a hole in the center as the bay doors retreat into the ground. This circular hole is approximately 5' in diameter when it opens, and will open a further 5' every two posts until the end of the match. The silo only begins to open after the entrance posts, and falling into the hole constitutes a ring out! A safety net has been put in place to catch any wayward fighters.

(Open to spectators.)

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal had chosen to transport himself to the missile silo far out in the northern wilderness. He had been shown the location of the arena on a map and had set out, flying over the landscape on a straight path there. Evergreen forests, rocky hills, blue lakes, and fields of snow passed beneath him. The air was chilly but the sun was out so it wasn't too bad. Before too long, the missile silo came into view; flat, perfect surfaces that broke the random jumble of nature.

He landed on top of the silo, toward the edge. He saw that his opponent was already here. He knew nothing about the man coming into the fight. The man hadn't been a contender in the first season, and he had been entered into this one very newly due to another opponent dropping out. Hal had seen none of this man's fights and couldn't know what to expect, except for what information he could gain through scanning him. He gave the man a good look over. He was quite tall, especially compared with Hal's diminutive size of four-foot-eight. He saw a sword strapped to one side, and a weapon that he didn't recognize on the other side. Hal used infrared to pry into the pouches and beyond the cover of the man's clothing. He could see the kunai and shuriken due to the temperature differences in the metal objects. Anything else was lost in the glow of the man's body heat.

So this was a ninja? At least Hal had an idea of what to expect. He remained where he was and waited, staring the ninja down and awaiting his first move.

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Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

(OOC: Oops, thanks for the correction.)

No words were shared between the opponents, as usually happened. Hal expected this to be a relatively quiet match given his own reticence and that his opponent was a ninja. A noise did come, but it wasn't from the raven-haired man. Hal's metal-tipped ears twitched as he heard a mechanical whir from below, and a split second later, the surface of the arena began to shift. The center of the silo was opening. Hal watched the widening circle in the center, wondering if that was supposed to happen. Whether it was or not, it didn't faze Virgil, who was now running at him with the speed Hal would expect of a ninja. Quite fast. The fight had officially started. Hal allowed his opponent to close the distance, making note of the drawing of the Jitte.

Hal stepped to the side, toward the interior of the circle, to get away from the Jitte. Simultaneously, he dropped down low, almost onto his hands. As he did so, he twisted his upper body and aimed to slice the back of Virgil's knee with the edge of his wing.

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Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

(OOC: I'd left it vague because I wasn't sure if Virgil was coming from a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. I realize now that I should have asked. We'll go with what you said, that the hole is to Virgil's left, to avoid further ambiguity ^^ )

There was a sharp clack as Hal's wing met with the sheath of the wakizashi, or more importantly, with the metal cargo carried inside of it. This successfully halted his attack to Virgil's hamstring, and sent a minor jolt through Hal's wing. It was a sensation he registered more than felt, being that he had no organic nerves in his wings, only status sensors.

He saw his opponent raise that Jitte again, but no attack came his way, not yet. That fact was cause to be wary, as it no doubt meant that Virgil was waiting for the opportunity for a counterattack. Hal jerked his wing free from the sheath, leaving a fine cut in the wood. He rolled to get behind Virgil and, as he came out of the roll, would attempt to jump onto Virgil's back and cling there like a velociraptor, digging the hind claws into the small of his back and the finger claws into his shoulders. His metallic wings laid flat along his sides to protect him from any strike to those areas.

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Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

(OOC: I'd rather there be too many details than too few.)

Hal wasn't expecting a move like that, and caught the tip of the scabbard right in the center of his abdomen, along with all that combined momentum from him and his opponent. He grunted as the air was forced from his respiratory tract. He was thrown back a few meters but maintained enough mental wherewithal to land on his feet, where he then slid another meter across the icy metallic surface of the opening silo, stopping within half a meter of the outer edge of the arena. That was all the action he could will out of himself for the time. He hadn't regained the ability to breathe and was doubled over in pain, arms crossed over his belly. He had the uncomfortable sensation of hitting one's funny bone, but over his whole body. He felt nauseous, and there was the sharp ache from the impact point. He dropped down onto his right knee, gritting his pointed teeth as he forced himself to keep his eyes on Virgil. Hal hadn't been severely harmed, but it would take a moment more for him to recover. He had the idea to play up being injured. So, even after feeling fine to move again, he would still kneel there in feigned agony, waiting for the chance to counterattack.

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Status: Recovering from a hard blow to the mid torso.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

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Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal's purple eyes were locked onto Virgil. One metal-tipped ear was perked toward the ninja, while the other was turned toward the widening hole in the center of the field, which emitted a deep groaning noise as the entire arena vibrated. Hal felt better now, though he was sure a bruise was forming. That was the extent of the damage owing to his exoskeleton absorbing some of the blow. Both ears pricked forward when Virgil began to move again. Hal watched the man's hand disappear into his clothing and retrieve a trio of shuriken. The computer inside of Hal made a calculation of where the projectiles would land, but he had little time to react after they left the ninja's hand and their course was confirmed. He extended his left wing over his upper body and ducked his head behind it. Two shuriken glanced off of his wing a split second before they would have struck him, but one just barely made it through and stuck in his left shoulder. It was of little consequence. He felt a mild poke of pain, and that hardened layer under his skin would prevent it from sinking in too deeply. When he lifted his head out of hiding, he saw that Virgil was nearly upon him. Hal reacted by flaring his wings out to the side, the edges sharpening, and he spun on his right knee in a clockwise direction to try to slash his oncoming opponent. At the end of the spin, he would stop with his right shoulder to Virgil, still on one knee on the floor.

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Status: Recovered from the blow to the torso. Has a shuriken sticking out of his left shoulder.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

The first wing was a miss. As Hal came around to finish his spin and strike with the second, there was a jolt and a great resistance of motion. He hardly had the time to register the block with the Jitte before he saw the opponent's foot become a blur aimed at his undersides. He didn't have time to move, only to tighten up his muscles and exhale in preparation to take the blow. A thud resonated as the powerful kick met with Hal's exoskeleton. The good news for Hal was that blunt damage was reduced by a bit, and he hadn't been taken by surprise this time. It still hurt of course, and he felt a bit of breath forced from him. The jolt made him remember the still-present pain in his abdomen, but this kick had gotten a little higher than that, in his chest. A pair of dents marked the areas where he'd taken the two blows gained in the battle thus far.

Before he could be thrown by the kick and before the leg could be retracted, Hal wrapped around it like a leghold trap snapping onto a foot. He hugged onto the leg with his arms, digging in with the claws on his fingers, and then would sink his teeth into the shin. The teeth were sharp, pointed and metallic, meant for tearing. The bone would limit the depth of the bite, but it would still be a pretty nasty wound if successful, and he would try his best to get some crushing action in with the molars in the back. Hal pointed his wings up to protect his head from being struck.

(OOC: I agree. It wouldn't make sense for there to be a devastating drop on the outside of the silo.)

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Slightly winded. Has a shuriken sticking out of his left shoulder.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

The stomp jolted Hal down onto his knees onto the icy metal floor, but this was of a minor consequence, as he got the hold he wanted. He thought he was about to benefit from that, but as he bit down on the shin he found the consistency to be more like that of metal. He could chew through metal eventually, but he didn't have that sort of time. He thought there had been hidden armor there, but then he felt the energy that hadn't been present before and understood that it was some sort of ability. He released his bite about the same time he felt something collide with his wing, and his eye followed the sensation. His wing had stopped the sword like a shield rather than being pierced by it, but Hal wouldn't wait for the sword to find a softer target on his body.

He still maintained his grasp with his hands but changed it from a hugging grip to just holding on with his fingers. He got his feet beneath him, only to then launch himself to the side, using Virgil's leg like a pole as he swung around. He was hoping to make the man stumble by throwing all of his weight to the side of one leg, but Hal was quite aware that he might be too small for his meager ninety-six pounds of weight to accomplish this. In that case, he would use the swing to end up behind Virgil. There were still his claws, too, which would slice into the flesh as soon as it stopped being hard.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Has a shuriken sticking out of his left shoulder.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

(OOC: Ah, that had escaped my attention. It seemed like it was right to me. Also, sorry if I wasn't specific about where he was clawing into Virgil's leg. It would be around the calf and shin.)

Thwack! The edge of the Wakizashi collided with Hal's wrists as he was in the middle of his swing. He was spared from losing his hands by his exoskeleton absorbing half of the force, but it still left a nasty cut and it still startled him into letting go.

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

He landed on his side and slid across the icy metal surface of the opening silo. Owing to such slick conditions, he was sliding further than he should have and needed to stop his motion posthaste. Pushing aside the throbbing in his wrists for the moment, he flipped onto his belly and got his hands and feet beneath him, extending his claws against the metal. Screeeeeeeeee! It was a high pitched sound like nails on a chalkboard as his claws cut into the surface, peeling away thin strips of metal like pencil shavings and scattering chunks of ice. He stopped himself before going off the edge of the arena, although such an event wouldn't have been terribly problematic due to his levitation. He didn't want to separate himself too far from his opponent. He took a second to look at his wrists. An emo teenager would have been proud of the gashes. Magenta circulatory fluid was leaking from the cuts. It wasn't enough that he would bleed out during the fight, but he would have to contend with the throbbing from this point on.

If his opponent hadn't approached already, Hal would rise up onto his legs in a bipedal stance. His secondary pair of eyelids came down to protect his eyes, something he should have done sooner. show spoilerhide spoilerSealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. His ears were still pressed back. And he still had that shuriken in his shoulder through all of this. He reached up with his hand and plucked it free. He then stuck the tip of his tail through the hole in the center, and the tip bent around the metal to hold it in place like a finger would. Now armed with a new weapon for his tail, he dashed toward Virgil, running at just below a sprint. During the last few feet, he reached back and grabbed his left wing. It came free from his back as though he'd unclipped a knife. Using both hands to grasp it, and feeling a renewed throbbing in the wrists, he swung the sharp hunk of metal down like an axe, going diagonally from the top left to the lower right across Virgil's torso (it would be from Virgil's right shoulder to left hip.)

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Cut on both wrists.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal hadn't been expecting success with this attack. Aside from the possibility of surprising someone by removing his own wing, the attack was well telegraphed considering he'd had to run at his opponent to execute it. Hal was using it knowing it would get blocked or dodged, and he planned to summarily make another strike. However, he hadn't expected such a strong redirection. Unable to use his hands very well, the kick knocked the wing from his grasp and sent it skittering away. The kick had the additional affect of causing Hal to be spun about, and it jarred his wrists badly. He had enough muscle and exoskeleton left to prevent him from losing a hand, but the pain nearly caused him to seize up, and his blood flowed more readily now.

He forced himself through that moment of pain. He could acknowledge it later. He didn't want to lose this opportunity, for he saw one here. Since the motion of the kick caused him to begin spinning, he went with it and allowed the spin to turn him all the way around in a clockwise direction. He stuck out his remaining wing to slash outward, and as he came nearly to face forward again, he picked up his right leg and jabbed a kick at Virgil's ribs. As the spin was not his own and wasn't entirely balanced, he wouldn't be able to put full power into the kick, but the wild slash would still be harmful and if nothing else, his movements should keep some space between himself and the ninja.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal was falling one way or another. He probably wouldn't have been able to maintain his balance after his spin, but certainly any strike from Virgil would knock him over, and, very certainly, he offered no resistance when the ninja grabbed ahold of his leg and then cast him away toward the center of the arena. The silo surface was passing quickly beneath him. He wouldn't leave his landing to chance. He activated his levitation to stop his motion, though it took him a few seconds to kill the momentum and left him over the hole in the center when he fully caught himself. He took a glance down to see the far drop, interrupted by the net meant to catch falling competitors. He hovered back over to the solid part of the arena and landed on his hind feet.

He was no longer able to ignore the pain in his wrists, and his eyes narrowed in a suppressed expression of what he was actually feeling. He looked at his wrists and saw that circulatory fluid coated his hands and formed rivulets that dripped to the ground. At this rate, he would bleed out, but not before the match was over due to exceeding the time limit. Being that his hands weren't of much use at the moment, he shut off his pain sensors to his hands and wrists and felt instant relief. Now they were just numb, as though they'd fallen asleep. He could still use them, but only as well as one could use a limb that had "fallen asleep," and his hands would be unstable due to the structural damage they'd already received.

show spoilerhide spoilerPain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

While he was at it, he recalled his wing to him. It began to tremble where it lay, and then it slid across the ground and toward Hal. If he was given the time for it to come to him, he would pick it up with a numb hand and reattach it to his back. He would then focus fully on Virgil.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

While part of Hal's mind was devoted to focusing on recalling his wing, he hadn't taken his attention off of Virgil. The man's throwing motion was quick as a bolt of lightning, and the shuriken were nearly unseen, but Hal had known to expect such a thing from a ninja by now. He immediately dropped his focus on his wing, it falling still where it was, and turned his shoulder toward the attack, his still-attached right wing covering most of his torso like a shield while he ducked his head down behind it. Thackthackthack! The tapping of each shuriken striking metal was nearly inseparable. Since Hal had shut off his magnetism posthaste as a reaction to mentally letting go of the fallen wing, the shuriken weren't lent much more speed than that with which they'd been thrown.

After the attack ended, and scarcely before the shuriken hit the ground, Hal peeked over his wing to see what his opponent planned next. What he saw wasn't good. The man's hand was outstretched and energy was gathering there, possibly already reaching the launch stage. Hal immediately ducked behind his wing again and rolled forward to get out of the line of fire. As soon as he was back on his feet, he would start running while keeping his wing toward Virgil, not assuming that the orb wouldn't be tracking him or that Virgil wouldn't wait to try to anticipate his dodge and lead him.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists. Missing left wing. Still holding a shuriken with his tail.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal had never lowered his wing. Ever since raising it as a shield against the shuriken, it had remained protecting his torso, even as he rolled and came up into what was intended to be not a straight charge, but a run in a circle to close in on Virgil. Of course, he never got further than popping up. The energy struck his wing hard, and he registered the intense hit while feeling some reverberations throughout the organic parts of his body. The strike knocked him right back down, and as he'd just been coming back up and had been off-balance due to the shifting floor, he was sent into a tumble that lasted a few feet. When he came to a stop, he was sprawled out on his belly. His wing was dented badly, and was useless for the time. It would repair itself, but it would take some time. For now it was as crumpled and useless as the wing of a newly-emerged butterfly.

He felt the floor vibrating beneath him as the arena continued to open, and the squeaking of metal and the groaning of gears was a constant background noise. He got back up to his feet, his wing attached but hanging limply at his side. A small pool of magenta fluid was left from his still-bleeding wrists. He didn't have time to lick his wounds, so to speak, as Virgil was closing in again. Hal resumed recalling his other wing to him. It became animated once more, skittering across the floor toward its master. It reached Hal's hand but he had no time to reattach it to himself. Instead he threw it—clumsily, due to the lack of feeling and integrity in his arm—at Virgil's general torso area. That was meant mostly as a distraction. Hal would then immediately roll forward at Virgil. Rather than use the roll to regain his feet, he came out of it a little short, while on his back, and aimed to kick his feet and hind claws into Virgil's belly.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists. Missing left wing. Right wing severely damaged; will take two rounds to repair. Still holding a shuriken with his tail.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

The dodged wing wasn't a surprise, and Hal thought the next twist might be to elude his kick, but instead the ninja threw himself onto Hal's feet so as to launch himself back. Clever. Hal curled his toes and dug in with his claws as much as he could, to try to come away with something here. As the ninja intended, Hal's body was pushed back until he was nearly doubled over on himself and making a successful springboard.

He didn't touch back down from this position, as the next moment he came to the realization that there was some glowy green tether tied around his leg. If pinning him down had been the theme of the last GCL, the theme of this one seemed to be tying him up. He was yanked from the ground and sent skyward and out of the arena. He immediately switched on his levitation to start braking, and he threw his arms and legs outward as thought doing a jumping jack so as to further provide resistance. His wings were great for controlling himself while airborne, but one was missing and one was in disrepair.

The frigid air rushed past him, a soothing sensation on his battle-warmed body. He came to a stop and brought his aerial motion under his control. But he was in a bad place. He had only a few seconds to make it back to the arena before he would be considered a ring-out. Thankfully, this trajectory had brought him up high as opposed to just throwing him out horizontally. His flight alone wouldn't get him back in time, but he calculated that he could make it, with about half a second to spare, if he allowed himself to fall; or, better, attracted himself to the big metal silo. This also meant that he wouldn't be able to take any detours to come back to a better position on the arena. He would have to go straight in, and that would leave him open to attack or other nasty things, like simply crashing into the surface of the arena. But he would deal with that when it came. None of it would matter if he didn't get back right now.

He began to dive, like a bird of prey, his body falling in line like an arrow with his legs and tail straight out behind him and his arms pressed to his side, his head and nose stuck out like a horse reaching for the finish line. As he dove, he reversed his levitation so that, instead of repelling the ground, or in this case, the silo, he was causing himself to be dragged very rapidly toward it. This was disconcerting, and it took a good deal of mental control for him to avoid panicking. He predicted that he would land within a five foot radius of Virgil. He prepared himself to take evasive maneuvers to avoid being skewered, but the amount of evasion he would be able to do was still pretty limited.

show spoilerhide spoilerMagnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

And meanwhile, the wing that he had thrown had kept going and had slid right off the side of the structure, out of sight and, for the time, out of reach.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists. Missing left wing. Right wing severely damaged; will take two rounds to repair. Still holding a shuriken with his tail.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

(OOC: Ah, it looks like you're correct about that.)

Hal was nearing the ring and saw with relief that he would make it back in time before being disqualified. He ended the attractive magnetic force and reactivated the repulsion part, his levitation, which would slow his descent. He was still going to crash into the top of the structure, and since Virgil insisted on standing in the way, he planned to soften his fall by crashing onto Virgil.

Or not. He saw the ninja spin and saw the leg come up. Hal's numbed arms were at his side and all he could do was bring them inward to become a barrier between the foot and his abdomen. They absorbed the strike but the force of the kick did push him to the side. He struck the edge of the silo on his left shoulder, wincing slightly with the jolt, and bounced off the side of the structure. He landed on his feet on the crumbly dirt ground that surrounded the arena, not far below the lip of it. He sucked in a breath, this being the extent of his moment to recover, and ran a few paces around the outside of it. Then he started levitating though while keeping himself below the top of the silo so as to remain hidden. With no more footsteps to betray his location, he would come back up onto the arena at a random place and set down on the edge of the structure. He immediately sought his opponent, a hardness in his purple eyes now.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists. Missing left wing. Right wing severely damaged; will take one more round to repair. Still holding a shuriken with his tail.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal's breaths came deeply, as his body was forced to maintain its respiratory capacity with less circulatory fluid to send the necessary atmospheric gases to the necessary places. Blood still dripped from his wrists, trying all the time to clot but often interrupted due to his movements. As usual, Hal waited to see what his opponent would do first. Also as usual, his opponent was coming at him unhurriedly, but now at an even more leisurely pace than normal. Hal waited a few seconds, and then he, too, began to walk. He picked his way carefully over the unstable, icy surface. He was making a wide circle around Virgil, allowing the ninja to close the distance all the while. Unless interrupted, Hal would reposition himself to be about ten feet from the widening hole in the center of the platform. He had his back to the hole, but kept his right shoulder toward Virgil. It could be seen clearly now that his wing, which had been severely dented by the ki blast, looked whole and unbroken. It had finished repairing itself and could be used once more. His stance was wide so as to steady himself against the shifting of the arena floor. His ears were still back and his secondary eyelids still formed a protective layer over his eyes. The tip of his tail swayed idly, still grasping the shuriken he had plucked out of his own hide earlier. He was clearly waiting for Virgil to go on the offensive. He had seen some of the ninja's capabilities and knew to look out for such actions, but he wouldn't assume he knew even half of the man's tricks.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Missing left wing. Right wing now repaired. Still holding a shuriken with his tail.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

(OOC: I apologize for my absence. Busy week.)

Hal quickly calculated the path of the kunai. Had his arms been at their full physical capabilities, he might have tried to snatch it out of the air. Given the current circumstances, he instead opted to dodge the blade. He leaned backwards to let it pass by him, and felt a tickle in the air as it missed his torso by an inch. Leaning back on the shifting surface caused him to lose his balance and stumble a couple of steps, but it was nothing he couldn't recover from. Of course, the kunai had only been a distraction, as Hal's new ninja friend was now running forth. Hal hadn't removed his gaze from the man for longer than a split second, but the distance between them was nearly closed and Hal had to act fast. He used his tail to throw the shuriken he was holding down at the ground near Virgil's feet, at an angle that he calculated would send it bouncing up into the man's face. Hal then stepped inward and extended his wing to clash with the sword that was being drawn, assuming it was, in fact, being drawn. That was Hal's assumption and so if his wing didn't collide with the sword, it would collide with Virgil's right hand instead. Naturally, this action brought Hal so that he was side-facing to Virgil, with his right shoulder toward him.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal's wing caught the edge of the sword as he'd planned, and held it there, both blades trapped for the moment. The sword was drawn further than he anticipated, but his movement ended all the same as he'd planned. From there, he was free to attempt a variety of melee strikes, though some of his usual moves were hindered by his missing wing. He saw Virgil bring his right foot up to kick. Hal immediately stepped back, which would put him at a diagonal off of Virgil's left side and out of the way of the kick unless the ninja were to pivot to pursue him. Hal was going to have to take a risk on that. His wing was still pressed to the sword but that rapidly changed, as he dropped down into a crouch and brought the edge of his wing down into the top of Virgil's leg, in the thigh or knee area depending on how much that leg was bent and protruding. As Hal did this, he brought his numbed arms before him to take any attack that might be aimed at chest and upper belly.

(OOC: Aye, it is getting near that time, huh? Time to get even more intense!

......

My character is telling me that no, this does not have to be more intense. He likes having limbs.)

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal felt the edge of his wing rend skin, muscle, and fabric, but the satisfaction lasted less than a second, as the next moment he met with a force that pushed his wing back out before he could finish his attack. Hal had been frustrated by this ability earlier in the fight, but he knew by now that there was a limit to it. He would simply attack again.

That knee came at him now and he braced himself for the impact; since his arms were already up, this meant that he tensed himself. The brunt of the knee went to his right forearm and knocked him over on his side, where he then sprawled out on his back to prevent rolling any further. That opening in the middle was creeping closer and closer, and while it wouldn't be an automatic loss for Hal to be knocked down into the middle, it would put him at a disadvantage.

He felt the numbed jolt through his arm and was informed by his internal computer that a fracture had developed on the bone there. A small one, but he would like to keep it from getting larger. He was on his back for only a moment before jumping back to his feet, prepared to meet any secondary attack that was aimed for him. As he landed, he spun to put his right wing between himself and Virgil. If there was nothing to block, he would use that wing as a shield as he stepped inward and tried to ram himself into the man's torso. If he was able to get that close, he would draw back his left arm just enough to then jab it forward, aiming to stab his claws into Virgil's belly. That arm was numbed and injured, but that wouldn't prevent him from using it in this manner since he didn't have to feel the pain of its worsening structural damage. The strike wouldn't be as strong as it might normally be, of course.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Small fracture in right forearm. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

The kick halted Hal's forward motion, which he assumed was the point of it. He was ready to make a counterstrike but in the split second after the kick connected, he found himself being pulled inward by the wing and then flung out behind the ninja. How this had been accomplished, Hal could not figure out. He'd felt nothing stab into his wing, and that wouldn't have been very effective anyhow. He wondered if this was some magnetic thing. It more likely involved energy manipulation. He was airborne for a short time. He took control of his momentum and landed softly on his belly on the arena, scraping the claws of all four limbs against the metal to prevent himself from being carried too far. He got back to his feet a bit shakily. He was feeling exhausted, and had to fight with himself to regain the will to continue. He gazed over at Virgil for a few moments. It was almost over. Their time limit would be up soon. He had little to lose. He pushed himself to carry on.

Trying to ignore the blood still dripping from his wrists, which he couldn't feel but could see clearly, he strode forward toward the ninja. He took a deep breath, his torso expanding slightly as his nostrils widened. He let it out slowly. If allowed to continue his motion, he would now be within two meters of his opponent. Then, mustering a sudden burst of speed, he would throw himself down in a roll. Coming out of the roll, he sprang powerfully off of his legs and twisted his body slightly to the left, aiming to bury his wing in Virgil's torso.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Small fracture in right forearm. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal saw the green ball of energy and had time only to utter a mental expletive. His feet had left the ground and he would be unable to change his course this close to impact. His forward motion was halted rather abruptly, and time seemed to pause as he was held in the air for a moment. Then he was sent backwards as the energy burst right along the edge of his wing. He missed landing on his feet, as he wasn't thrown back all that far, and so he hit the top of the silo on his back and rolled over onto his belly before the motion ceased. This would make the kick unnecessary. Hal forced himself back up to his feet posthaste but was more sluggish than he cared to be in the action, groaning a little as he mandated his weary body to keep moving. He was hunched over but straightened up to stand as tall as he could, which wasn't very tall given his stature but anyway. He was standing straight at least. His purple eyes locked onto Virgil, and the creature chose to wait this time instead of initiating an attack and being thwarted once more. He considered himself lucky that he hadn't met with a more devastating attack just now.

(OOC: Ah man, I didn't realize the tournament deadline was over. But yeah, good fight! I enjoyed this one a lot. I would be cool to keep going up to the maximum post limit if you'd like. Otherwise we can just say the time elapsed here.

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Small fracture in right forearm. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

When Hal saw Virgil move, he quickly brought his arms up to prepare to defend himself, splattering himself with specks of his own still-flowing blood. It wasn't a direct attack that came, but a smoke bomb. Recognizing at once what it was, Hal inhaled deeply and then held his breath as a precaution against the smoky substance, which he would assume for the time was toxic. His eyes were already protected by the translucent membrane, or second eyelid, covering them. Knowing that a smoke bomb was used to conceal an attack or a repositioning maneuver, he thought it best to get out of there. The smoke prevented him from seeing in infrared as well as the visible light spectrum. He might try to listen for his opponent, but hah, a ninja would make a ghost seem loud.

Hal crouched halfway and then sprung up into the air, kicking off the ground while activating his levitation to shoot himself straight up. That might be a predictable action for him, but it would do even less good to stand around thinking about unpredictability for too long. He heard and saw motion below him and glanced down. Not a second later, he heard and saw motion straight in front of him as he cleared the smoke. Whatever the thing below was, this one up here seemed to be his real opponent. Or maybe this was that body switch thing that ninjas did? Anyway, this one coming at Hal was coming with an axe kick. Catching it as it was beginning, it struck his left shoulder and didn't have the force that it would have had the ninja been allowed to fall all the way with that kick, but it was still jarring and painful. Hal's teeth clacked together as the force pervaded his body, creating a sharp pain. Quickly, he grasped the extended leg in his numbed arms and pulled it in as he twisted to the side, spreading his wing and aiming to rake it across Virgil's torso. Just after this, he would kick out with his right leg at his opponent's lower belly in what would nearly be a back kick if his twist was completed.

(OOC: I wholeheartedly agree~ )

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Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Small fracture in right forearm. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.

Evilgenetics Wrote:

Hal grabbed that leg but as he began to twist, the ninja's other leg hooked behind his head and Hal found himself in an odd tumble. He was being flipped and then thrown toward the ground from what he could tell through the bit of disorientation he suffered. Still grabbing the leg, he instinctively drove his claws into the flesh in that reaction to grab onto something while falling. He was being thrown hard toward the ground, but his levitation fought back against it all the while, adding a resistance that was like trying to throw someone down through water. He was still falling and could not escape that, not while his opponent's weight was ruining his flight. He angled himself to land on his wing. Thunk! He hit the arena floor and would have bounced if not being stood over by the ninja. His wing had absorbed much of the fall, and his exoskeleton the rest, but it had still been a jolt of a landing. Now his opponent was standing over him, and Hal was ready to react.

But should he? He was aware that the round had ended just now. What a spectacular finish for his opponent. For all of Hal's previous matches, he had gone until he'd won or until he'd been knocked out. He'd meant for this one to be the same, to keep fighting until one or the other couldn't. But the match was over. Nothing beyond this point counted. He thought of continuing anyway. Just because it didn't count didn't mean they couldn't continue to fight. His first thought was very much to keep going. But he took a count of his injuries and of his deteriorating condition. What was to be gained from continuing this? It was over, and there was no reason to be vengeful or to walk away with even greater injuries. Hal stared up at the shinobi for a moment, assessing whether or not the ninja planned to stop. Hal was ready to defend himself if the answer was no. But if Virgil heeded the end of the time limit, then Hal would relax. With a grunt, he would begin to scoot himself out from beneath the ninja so that he could sit up.

show spoilerhide spoilerPost 21 ~Battle end~

Status: Dent in abdomen and chest. Deep cut on both wrists, causing continuous bleeding; arms numbed. Small fracture in right forearm. Missing left wing.

Physical Traits and Abilities

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Physical limits: He can run 10mph at a sprint on two legs, and 20mph at a sprint on four legs. He can lift 200 pounds with his arms, and 20 pounds with his tail. His tail is prehensile and can wrap around objects with the grip strength of an average human. He can jump 7 feet straight up and 15 feet horizontally. His reflexes are equal in speed to a fit, athletic human. He is quite agile due to being small.

Magnetism: By influencing local magnetism, he can levitate. Though he has wings, they are used as weapons rather than flight, which is done through this levitation. His top speed while levitating is 30mph. He can't instantly attain this speed; it takes about five seconds to reach top speed. He can reverse his levitation so as to cling to the ground with more force, making himself seem to weigh twice as much as normal; doing this will slow his movement speed because he would have to resist his own cling. He can also use his magnetism to create a repelling field around himself. The field can slow the speed of metal objects that are directed at him by 33% of their original speed. Only one of these abilities can be used at a time. These abilities are granted by a certain organ in his abdomen, so a hard blow to the abdomen may damage the organ and make him incapable of using these abilities for the rest of the battle.

Alien Anatomy: His internal organs are different from that of a human--for example, the heart isn't in the left side of the chest where it would be for a human. This means that ideal targets on a human may not work on him. Also, this species doesn't have reproductive organs so groin shots are ineffective.

Trajectory Calculation: Being part machine, he can calculate the trajectory of attacks. He can see where he will need to throw something to hit an opponent at x distance moving at y speed; however, the thrown object would still miss if the opponent were to move suddenly after the thrown item leaves his hand. Similarly, he can determine when and where an attack will hit him but won't necessarily be able to move fast enough to stop it.

Enhanced Vision: He can zoom his vision in to be able to read words in a book from fifty feet away. He can see almost as well in the darkness as in the day, even in complete darkness due to his eyes being able to produce their own light. He can see infrared wavelengths and therefore the heat or absence of heat in surrounding objects, including the heat signature of opponents.

Other Senses: His hearing and sense of smell are twice as good as that of the average human.

Sealed: He has an extra, translucent pair of eyelids that he can close to keep out moisture, dust, or other irritants, though it affords no protection from physical damage like being hit in the eye. He can also close his ears, nostrils, and mouth so that water or other substances cannot enter them. Obviously when he does this he can't breathe or hear so it isn't desirable to do this for long. He can hold his breath for 4 rounds. After this point he would be forced to unseal his mouth or nostrils for 2 rounds.

Pain Sensors: He can turn off his pain sensors at the cost of making that area completely numb. For example, if he were to be wounded on the arm, he could shut off the pain sensors for that arm, but it would be like using an arm that's had the circulation cut off; it would be slow, weak and unsteady.

Weapons

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Teeth: His teeth are metal. His bite force is 500 PSI. All teeth in the front are sharp, with some molars further back.

Claws: He has metal claws on all his fingers and toes, along with a sort of dewclaw on the outside edges of his hands and feet. The claws on his fingers are fully retractable, while the ones on the toes are only partially retractable. The claws on his fingers are two inches long, and the claws on his toes are three and a half inches long and thicker.

Wings: His wings are metal and triangular in shape. He can change the shape of them at will to a small degree. For instance, he can wrap them around part of his body for protection, or bend them at any point up to an 80 degree angle, but he couldn't completely change them into a shape other than a triangle. The edges can be made at will to be sharp for cutting or more rounded for blunt damage. He can remove the wings from his back and swing them around or throw them. They will come back to him if dropped or thrown if he wills them to do so. The wings can be used to block attacks just as a shield could. If his wings are damaged in the attack, it will take two rounds for them to repair themselves. Like a hunk of hard metal, the wings can resist slashing or cutting damage, but can be dented by blunt damage or softened by heat. So a light sword like a katana would be ineffective against them, but a heavier sword or a hammer would be able to dent them. As well, even if his wings can block an attack, it won't prevent him from being launched or moved by the force of the attack. He is small and so can't very well avoid being forcibly moved.

Melee: He can punch, kick, block, and grab as anyone with hands and feet can. His punching and kicking is on par in skill and strength with someone who's had a couple of years of training but isn't an expert.

Defenses

show spoilerhide spoilerExoskeleton: He has a hardened layer just under his skin that provides protection against some types of damage. Slashing/slicing damage and constricting damage is reduced by 50% and blunt damage is reduced by 25%. Piercing damage is only reduced by 10%. The exoskeleton affects only physical damage and doesn't reduce magical or elemental damage. The exoskeleton is weakened by attacks so it becomes less and less effective against repeated attacks. So for example, a blunt hit to an area will weaken that spot so that the next time it is hit, it only has 10% resistance to that damage, and the time after that, it won't resist the damage at all. An area that has taken a piercing attack will no longer have resistance to a subsequent piercing attack in that same area.

Nanobots: He has nanobots in his bloodstream which will neutralize poisons and toxins after 3 rounds. These nanobots attack foreign DNA and so can cause irritation if his blood were to come into direct skin contact with an organic being, or sickness if it were to be ingested. The degree of sickness for ingestion would be nausea and stomach cramps.