Post by Marie Gold on Oct 31, 2024 12:01:50 GMT -5
MARIE GOLD
EARTHLING • 27 • FEMALE • ANTIWORK VIGILANTE
Marie stands at just 5'7" with straight fuschia hair that drapes down to her ribs, split ends and frayed bits where she hasn't had time to care for it stick out in ways that compliment the overworked aura she exudes. Dark circles work under both eyes, her right eye almost permanently closed from over-sensitivity after so many years of staring at a computer screen for nights on end. She wears simple cargo pants and a company-branded jacket that she got for steep discount when she had too few funds to by new clothes. Her Ki is just a shade lighter than her hair.
As of her meeting with Kail in Central City much of her clothing has been ruined in the ensuing battle. Marie now wears a fully vagabond wardrobe of various robes and strips of clothing that preserve modesty. The bit of her torso one can see reveals an ugly palm-shaped scar starting from just below her collar and in the middle of her chest.
Post by Marie Gold on Oct 31, 2024 12:02:00 GMT -5
Light Defensive || Call Center Dodge Marie learned her first bit of real obsfucation when she started in the company call center dodging attempts by customers to get answers. She physically manifests this as evasive stonewalling using a burst of power to conjure authorization letters with nothing on them and flying away. Power: 70% KP Cost: 2 KP Variants: Evasive
Medium Offensive || Jargon The greatest tool a specialist has is their jargon and how few people in the industry actually understand it. This is a simple melee attack with her sword to cut into an opponent with a dizzying array of moves and leave them bleeding. Power: 70% KP Cost: 4 KP Variants: Bleed
Heavy Offensive || PTO The ultimate boost to a worker is PTO. Marie focuses her energy into the center of her body and lets it all release at once as one massive explosion. Power: 110% KP Cost: 5 KP Variants: None
Light Defense || Rude When someone is rude and asking you to do something you can just pass it off into the paperwork abyss where it will never get down. This is the mindset of Marie conjuring paperwork pushed onto her to defend from an attack. Power: 20% KP Cost: 2 KP Variants: Spiteful
Heavy Sparking Offense || I QUIT! A single momentous occasion is the angry quit. Marie charges all of her power into her blade, pumping her sadism for upper management and the work culture into an all powerful strike! Power: 120% KP Cost: 5 KP MP Cost: 4 MP Variants: Bleed+, Preparation
Light Offensive || Unscheduled Break (10,000 PL) Quick and dirty is the unscheduled break. A simple jab with her ki to do no more than buying time at close to no expense. Power: 20% KP Cost: 1 KP Variants: None
Light Offensive || Team Meeting (20,000 PL) No one likes going to a team meeting but the hour off from actual work can be nice for the overworked. Marie pumps these feelings into her next melee strike as she makes a single fierce jab with her blade. Power: 20% KP Cost: 2 KP Variants: Bleed
Support Technique || MAX Power (30,000 PL) Max Power must be your post's first action and requires at least 1 MP to activate. While active; it empowers your Techniques by +10% and drains 1MP at the start of each turn, you cannot naturally gain MP unless specified by a trait, you can't block escapes, use Evasive or Escape techniques, or defend others. It can only be deactivated as the last action on a post BUT only on your next post or later. If you hit 0 MP for any reason, Max Power ends immediately and you gain the Winded status effect.
Utility Technique || Ki Sensing A technique that allows you to sense, measure, and differentiate the ki signatures of ki attacks and all living beings without the Anti-Sense trait. Higher ki signatures are easier to sense and can be sensed at greater distances than lower ones. This technique is passive and does not use KP.
Utility Technique || Flight By some means, usually through a skillful application of your ki, you are able to fly through the air.
Utility Technique || First Precept: No Sword (Ki Book #1) Marie read a book once that talked about how to cut things apart and the first thing it said was to consider that there is no such thing as a sword. Her hear embodies this and Marie has come to learn to cut as finely with a blade as any part of her body.
Utility Technique || Second Precept: Wide Stance (Ki Book #2) The basic stance of cutting. Marie takes a wide stance, her grip loose and tender and preserving the fluidity of her shoulders and wrists. Her breath is even and her footwork controlled.
Utility Technique || Third Precept: Strike Without Thought (Ki Book #3) Clinging is the great error of man, or so the book said, and continual self-annihilation of the self was needed to properly cut. Marie becomes immune to mental effects and telepathy and cuts without hesitation whether it be at friend or foe.
Utility Technique || Fourth Precept: Equal Measures (Ki Book #4) You must adjust your hands as needed, breathing steady, the life cut. In this way the firmness beneath the feet must be the same weather atop fire, earth, air or water. A handling of this Precept allows Marie to move with an advance degree of control over the typical level of Flight and to stand on things that would otherwise not be fit to stand atop.
Utility Technique || Fifth Precept: Boiling Life (Ki Book #5) A brain is only useful until the point it is not, but the power of Will is eternal. Your body must be suffused with a terrible heat and your blood boiling to snap at your enemies even as they cut you. In this way Marie exhudes and aura of pure heat that is powerful enough to melt stone should she be in the midst of attack. The heat felt is relative to Marie's power to those around her and those equal to her might feel nothing more than an odd warmth while those beneath her feel the burning coals to their skin and those above her need not deign acknowledge it.
Utility Technique || Fake Precept: Mockery Stance (Ki Book #6) The Thirteenth Precept states 'The weak swordsman reserves his strokes' and this is often something Marie agrees with. Unfortunately she is a hypocritic thing known to wanton fancies and may reserve her strength and strokes to continue a battle in which she can admire the art of cutting. (Re-flavor of ki suppression)
Last Edit: Nov 17, 2024 17:50:03 GMT -5 by Marie Gold
Post by Marie Gold on Oct 31, 2024 12:02:10 GMT -5
THREADS
1) Debt Party[FINISHED]|| Participants: Marie Gold , Tunic Marie decides to fight debt by destroying the Registrar's office at Orange Star Academy. Then she gets some pizza. Then the Devil shows up.
2) Call Center Blues || Participants: Marie Gold , Pip Maries commits a domestic terrorism and tries to radicalize as small alien.
3) A Concerned Citizen [FINISHED] || Participants: Shiyon , Marie Gold Shiyon discovers Marie in the middle of attacking an office supply superstore!
Oct 20, 2024 18:31:30 GMT -5
Marimba: Yep. Better than ever too.
Oct 20, 2024 21:26:39 GMT -5
Rhuba: I wish I saw Marimba talk more in the Discord.
Oct 21, 2024 16:21:05 GMT -5
Yakito: Marimbus will perish by my hands.
Oct 22, 2024 2:13:57 GMT -5
Chomei: Marimbus will persevere by my hands.
Oct 22, 2024 4:38:31 GMT -5
Rhuba: Why is he preserving your hand?
Oct 22, 2024 15:18:52 GMT -5
Pom: Maybe he likes it?
Oct 22, 2024 17:04:34 GMT -5
Marimba: It'll come in handy some day
Oct 23, 2024 12:26:15 GMT -5
Mister Steel: Chomei's estate is vast, and marriage into the family can only benefit Marimba with access to cattle, pasture land, and much grain to feed his armies.