Post by Astro on Sept 17, 2014 23:32:40 GMT
Current Name: Paige Turner (Yes that's a suitable name)
Other Names: The Traveler, The Curator
Age: 21 (In this incarnation)
Gender: Female
Description
Despite the fact she's inhabiting a human form one can tell the girl at first glance is not human and possibly very alien, she doesn't seem to be focused much on fitting in. First off her skin appears to be quite pale with sky blue eyes and light brown messy hair that comes down to her shoulders. The girl's clothes also look quite strange having a tendency toward being very mismatched, pants and shoes more modern and meant for darting around at a massive speed while her upper half being a little more classy and outdated consisting of a dress shirt with a sweater vest and rather fancy ribbon-y bow tie. She also wears sunglasses or glasses at all times although it's unknown if she really needs them or if she just likes the look. In addition when asked for the time or given some other reason to lift her sleeve it becomes apparent she wears about half a dozen watches on each arm.
Personality
Also very alien she tends to not understand many human concepts and gets easily confused in crowds or social situations, having a tendency toward strange and eccentric behavior at all times and inadvertently insulting others (Has little tact.) She also has a tendency toward hiding things and acting in a very enigmatic way, having a tendency toward leaving her allies out of the loop on things. Despite being generally a pretty good person and truly caring about her comrades she can also be highly morally ambiguous at times be willing to do some pretty terrible things and work with some pretty terrible people if it furthers her own goals and allows her to acquire more anomolies. At this point she's also taken a liking to sticking it to the man in the way of the powers that be that pissed her off so badly, screw destiny and all that. In the end though it's all about a love of mystery and adventure !
Background:
Part 1: Then
Born to the upper crust of society to a scholarly species of magic users, originally going by a now long forgotten name the girl was educated in the skills of her people, which fortunately she took to quickly (Someone that didn't probably wouldn't have lasted long.) However while magic research was interesting enough she was more interested in adventure and the like and took to researching relics at far off ruins as her specialty her abilities granting her a special knack for this sort of work. Her thirst for adventure however frequently lead her into trouble, one of these times ended with her separated from her group and in a secret parts of the ruins. In her search for her cohorts she inadvertently stumbled onto her destiny instead, discovering an ancient spirit that had drawn there to bestow it upon her in the form of new powers that would allow her to travel far beyond her home world in order to save other worlds. Of Course an adventurer like her took to the idea of traveling around and saving worlds...problem was she wasn't particularly good at it. She tried her damnedest but death and destruction seemed to follow the girl for whatever, world after world she traveled to crumbled around her. She always survived herself due to an old trick of the family, having sealed her spirit in a book that kept her being reborn each time she died. Eventually the powers that be got a little sick of her constant failure and decided to take back the abilities, but for whatever reason the power they had granted the girl combined with her constant rebirth had changed her to a new being and made them natural abilities. So they did the next best things took all her special abilities sealed them in her phylactery book, hid the book in an alternate world and threw her into a mundane one.
Part 2: Well still not now...but less then then Part 1
So yeah Paige was born by yet another name (Yeah her current name isn't even her birth name this time around) in a normal town to a normal family and was set out a normal life before her due to the destiny set up by the Powers. Thing is people often miss one minor detail and so do gods and multiversal powers, perfection is never a thing. The girl never really took to this life and continued to maintain a very alien persona, but that wasn't the mistake. The mistake was a person by the name of Isaac Dodge who had acquired the girl's old book and decided to say fuck it to the rules and return things to the way he'd find more interesting.
Part 3: Now (Finally you talk too much !)
Isaac Dodge had no children and spent much of his time since he acquired the book seeking out it's original owner, and upon his death he left his house and all his treasures to the girl he had managed to figure out was the Traveller from the book. Now a 20 year old slacker the girl was happy to get some kind of inheritance that would prevent her from ending up on the street and set out for Maple Lake to take over her supposed relative's business. When searching the household and discovering the odd things within she found one of particular interest, the book. Upon laying hands on the book the knowledge and power she once had returned to her once more. The girl now with this new power gave herself a new name and took an interest in the old man's research deciding to continue it and revitalizing one of the city's factions that had fallen into disrepair while the old man was busy with his research.
Faction: Enigma Hunters (Head)
Equipment:
Watches
Variety of watches including newer ones, stop watches and old school pocket watches, it's a rather nice collection and fits with the theme don't you think ?
Throwing Knives
Huh are these for something ? Oh yeah throwing and they're like real pointy so...yeah...okay weapon there.
Book of Mystery
A large journal filled with information of a variety of bizarre goings on in the city she continues to add to just as the original members of the Dodge family have in the past.
Book of the Traveler
Hidden away in a pocket dimension sealed away in the basement of the mystery spot, it's keeping her alive and grants her her powers, DO NOT TOUCH
Magic Multi-Tool
Small hand held device that acts as a variety of small tools, hammer, screwdriver, saw, lock pick forming them out of small amounts of energy around the end of the tool.
Abilities
1. Superhuman Speed
Probably the most commonly used power, most likely because it's mostly passive. Basically she has an innate time distortion field around her body that allows her to move at truly astounding speeds of up to 3500 mph. It also also grants her the natural ability of thinking and reacting in high speed as well and the ability to move other parts of her body at high speed allow her to strike with great momentum giving her increased striking power (Or she could choose to hit multiple times instead). This also allows her to do such fantastical things like run across water, up the sides of buildings, kick up winds by moving or create sonic booms. This field also protects her from the natural problems that come from moving at high speed, friction, flying off the earth, being turned to paste when hitting something and the like.
2. Healing Factor
Part of her natural Temporal Effect has also granted her a natural sped up healing rate, this is mostly used to sew up smaller wounds quickly or stabilize wounds, she can very slowly regrow limbs though it takes a while, unless she gets her head blown off or gets blown up and has to wait out regeneration she can speed things up with her magic so yeah...there's that.
3. Molecular Oscillation
Basically allows her to vibrate on a molecular level allowing her to move through solid objects usually used to escape traps, move through busy streets and the like, she can also use it to help with her speed strike, vibrating her hand on strike to create a shock wave.
4. Time Magic
Magic that revolves around manipulation of time, she most likely can't do anything too crazy like regressing someone to an infant (If she did do something like that it would require lots of energy and be a temporary effect) her favourite techniques are rewinding damage allowing quick healing, hasting her already crazy speed even further and using it to seemingly throw dozens of projectiles at an opponent. Although she has a number of other techniques. Like most magic she requires energy for her spells and the more powerful ones drain it quicker, most of her magic is somehow channeled through her watches.
5. Planar Magic
Variety of other strange magic from her home world mostly based around dimensions (Portals mostly, although she has the ability to create a pocket dimension and summon things from it, teleport (Although more than short range teleportation without a portal is not at this point possible) and turn invisible for a very short time by slipping into the space between worlds)
6. Planar Traveler
Due to her nature as a planar travel she is immune to many different effects that make some worlds uninhabitable, basically this works by her body quickly adapting to natural and temporal effects existing in another world. If killed as long as the book is around she will also be reborn into a new form.
Skills
1) Sleight of Hand: Some times people don't want to give up relics, so you need certain skills to retrieve.
2) Deductive Skills: Natural perceptive skills mean she might have been a great detective before she even gained the heightened perception that comes with superhuman speed of course that would require someone who wasn't lazy or only focused on finding anomalies.
3) Street Fighting
Basic fighting techniques mixed with the ancient martial art called 'cheating' usually by attacks to the eyes, groin etc.
4) Knowledge of the Bizarre and Occult
She's studied much of the research of her predecessor giving her mediocre or better knowledge of the various strange goings on in Maple Lake and Beyond.
5) Random Crap
Random factoids and like she's acquired over the years...nothing too special really.
Weakness'
1. Phylactery of the Book: So yeah she's got basically multiple extra lives in that book, destroy it and kill her basically....probably...or at least remove her powers.
2. Magnet of Bad Stuff: She has the worst luck with this, she tends to attract malicious creatures and bad supernatural effects to herself.
3. Do No Harm...Well Lasting Harm That Is: Can't kill people, just like...physically can't
4. Anti-Magic: Most of her abilities...okay all her abilities are based on some form of magic, any kind of anti magic effect is not fun.
5. Terrain Effects: As a speedster tripping her up or making her slip and slide is a good way to wipe her out.
6. Squishy Wizard/Fragile Speedster: Notice I don't mention increased strength or endurance above, other than her speed and dodging things like wild or using magic she is a normal human and takes damage as a normal human would if she gets hit. She usually relies on quick thinking or using others to do the more brutish tasks.
Other Names: The Traveler, The Curator
Age: 21 (In this incarnation)
Gender: Female
Description
Despite the fact she's inhabiting a human form one can tell the girl at first glance is not human and possibly very alien, she doesn't seem to be focused much on fitting in. First off her skin appears to be quite pale with sky blue eyes and light brown messy hair that comes down to her shoulders. The girl's clothes also look quite strange having a tendency toward being very mismatched, pants and shoes more modern and meant for darting around at a massive speed while her upper half being a little more classy and outdated consisting of a dress shirt with a sweater vest and rather fancy ribbon-y bow tie. She also wears sunglasses or glasses at all times although it's unknown if she really needs them or if she just likes the look. In addition when asked for the time or given some other reason to lift her sleeve it becomes apparent she wears about half a dozen watches on each arm.
Personality
Also very alien she tends to not understand many human concepts and gets easily confused in crowds or social situations, having a tendency toward strange and eccentric behavior at all times and inadvertently insulting others (Has little tact.) She also has a tendency toward hiding things and acting in a very enigmatic way, having a tendency toward leaving her allies out of the loop on things. Despite being generally a pretty good person and truly caring about her comrades she can also be highly morally ambiguous at times be willing to do some pretty terrible things and work with some pretty terrible people if it furthers her own goals and allows her to acquire more anomolies. At this point she's also taken a liking to sticking it to the man in the way of the powers that be that pissed her off so badly, screw destiny and all that. In the end though it's all about a love of mystery and adventure !
Background:
Part 1: Then
Born to the upper crust of society to a scholarly species of magic users, originally going by a now long forgotten name the girl was educated in the skills of her people, which fortunately she took to quickly (Someone that didn't probably wouldn't have lasted long.) However while magic research was interesting enough she was more interested in adventure and the like and took to researching relics at far off ruins as her specialty her abilities granting her a special knack for this sort of work. Her thirst for adventure however frequently lead her into trouble, one of these times ended with her separated from her group and in a secret parts of the ruins. In her search for her cohorts she inadvertently stumbled onto her destiny instead, discovering an ancient spirit that had drawn there to bestow it upon her in the form of new powers that would allow her to travel far beyond her home world in order to save other worlds. Of Course an adventurer like her took to the idea of traveling around and saving worlds...problem was she wasn't particularly good at it. She tried her damnedest but death and destruction seemed to follow the girl for whatever, world after world she traveled to crumbled around her. She always survived herself due to an old trick of the family, having sealed her spirit in a book that kept her being reborn each time she died. Eventually the powers that be got a little sick of her constant failure and decided to take back the abilities, but for whatever reason the power they had granted the girl combined with her constant rebirth had changed her to a new being and made them natural abilities. So they did the next best things took all her special abilities sealed them in her phylactery book, hid the book in an alternate world and threw her into a mundane one.
Part 2: Well still not now...but less then then Part 1
So yeah Paige was born by yet another name (Yeah her current name isn't even her birth name this time around) in a normal town to a normal family and was set out a normal life before her due to the destiny set up by the Powers. Thing is people often miss one minor detail and so do gods and multiversal powers, perfection is never a thing. The girl never really took to this life and continued to maintain a very alien persona, but that wasn't the mistake. The mistake was a person by the name of Isaac Dodge who had acquired the girl's old book and decided to say fuck it to the rules and return things to the way he'd find more interesting.
Part 3: Now (Finally you talk too much !)
Isaac Dodge had no children and spent much of his time since he acquired the book seeking out it's original owner, and upon his death he left his house and all his treasures to the girl he had managed to figure out was the Traveller from the book. Now a 20 year old slacker the girl was happy to get some kind of inheritance that would prevent her from ending up on the street and set out for Maple Lake to take over her supposed relative's business. When searching the household and discovering the odd things within she found one of particular interest, the book. Upon laying hands on the book the knowledge and power she once had returned to her once more. The girl now with this new power gave herself a new name and took an interest in the old man's research deciding to continue it and revitalizing one of the city's factions that had fallen into disrepair while the old man was busy with his research.
Faction: Enigma Hunters (Head)
Equipment:
Watches
Variety of watches including newer ones, stop watches and old school pocket watches, it's a rather nice collection and fits with the theme don't you think ?
Throwing Knives
Huh are these for something ? Oh yeah throwing and they're like real pointy so...yeah...okay weapon there.
Book of Mystery
A large journal filled with information of a variety of bizarre goings on in the city she continues to add to just as the original members of the Dodge family have in the past.
Book of the Traveler
Hidden away in a pocket dimension sealed away in the basement of the mystery spot, it's keeping her alive and grants her her powers, DO NOT TOUCH
Magic Multi-Tool
Small hand held device that acts as a variety of small tools, hammer, screwdriver, saw, lock pick forming them out of small amounts of energy around the end of the tool.
Abilities
1. Superhuman Speed
Probably the most commonly used power, most likely because it's mostly passive. Basically she has an innate time distortion field around her body that allows her to move at truly astounding speeds of up to 3500 mph. It also also grants her the natural ability of thinking and reacting in high speed as well and the ability to move other parts of her body at high speed allow her to strike with great momentum giving her increased striking power (Or she could choose to hit multiple times instead). This also allows her to do such fantastical things like run across water, up the sides of buildings, kick up winds by moving or create sonic booms. This field also protects her from the natural problems that come from moving at high speed, friction, flying off the earth, being turned to paste when hitting something and the like.
2. Healing Factor
Part of her natural Temporal Effect has also granted her a natural sped up healing rate, this is mostly used to sew up smaller wounds quickly or stabilize wounds, she can very slowly regrow limbs though it takes a while, unless she gets her head blown off or gets blown up and has to wait out regeneration she can speed things up with her magic so yeah...there's that.
3. Molecular Oscillation
Basically allows her to vibrate on a molecular level allowing her to move through solid objects usually used to escape traps, move through busy streets and the like, she can also use it to help with her speed strike, vibrating her hand on strike to create a shock wave.
4. Time Magic
Magic that revolves around manipulation of time, she most likely can't do anything too crazy like regressing someone to an infant (If she did do something like that it would require lots of energy and be a temporary effect) her favourite techniques are rewinding damage allowing quick healing, hasting her already crazy speed even further and using it to seemingly throw dozens of projectiles at an opponent. Although she has a number of other techniques. Like most magic she requires energy for her spells and the more powerful ones drain it quicker, most of her magic is somehow channeled through her watches.
5. Planar Magic
Variety of other strange magic from her home world mostly based around dimensions (Portals mostly, although she has the ability to create a pocket dimension and summon things from it, teleport (Although more than short range teleportation without a portal is not at this point possible) and turn invisible for a very short time by slipping into the space between worlds)
6. Planar Traveler
Due to her nature as a planar travel she is immune to many different effects that make some worlds uninhabitable, basically this works by her body quickly adapting to natural and temporal effects existing in another world. If killed as long as the book is around she will also be reborn into a new form.
Skills
1) Sleight of Hand: Some times people don't want to give up relics, so you need certain skills to retrieve.
2) Deductive Skills: Natural perceptive skills mean she might have been a great detective before she even gained the heightened perception that comes with superhuman speed of course that would require someone who wasn't lazy or only focused on finding anomalies.
3) Street Fighting
Basic fighting techniques mixed with the ancient martial art called 'cheating' usually by attacks to the eyes, groin etc.
4) Knowledge of the Bizarre and Occult
She's studied much of the research of her predecessor giving her mediocre or better knowledge of the various strange goings on in Maple Lake and Beyond.
5) Random Crap
Random factoids and like she's acquired over the years...nothing too special really.
Weakness'
1. Phylactery of the Book: So yeah she's got basically multiple extra lives in that book, destroy it and kill her basically....probably...or at least remove her powers.
2. Magnet of Bad Stuff: She has the worst luck with this, she tends to attract malicious creatures and bad supernatural effects to herself.
3. Do No Harm...Well Lasting Harm That Is: Can't kill people, just like...physically can't
4. Anti-Magic: Most of her abilities...okay all her abilities are based on some form of magic, any kind of anti magic effect is not fun.
5. Terrain Effects: As a speedster tripping her up or making her slip and slide is a good way to wipe her out.
6. Squishy Wizard/Fragile Speedster: Notice I don't mention increased strength or endurance above, other than her speed and dodging things like wild or using magic she is a normal human and takes damage as a normal human would if she gets hit. She usually relies on quick thinking or using others to do the more brutish tasks.
