sorry bout the double post but here goes:
Both
Name: Nova Carmine
Race: Human
Age: 21
Weapons: Changes to time setting.
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 65 kilo’s
Measurements: 35D;25;30 (just like Lara)
Armor: Body armour (bullet-proof vest).
Magic: N.A.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red-brown; Crimson.
2. Description:
Nova is a truly stunning beauty her green eyes and red-brown hair a near perfect shade of crimson and her eyes you could easily loose yourself in them forever. Her crimson hair falls down to her shoulders where it curls up (sort of like Tidus’ hair does). Framed in this hair is a face of stunning beauty that would make anyone’s hart beet faster the sheer perfection of the face is difficult to believe and the rest of her body is beyond contemplation so beautiful. She is usually seen wearing wide pants in the colour of her hair and a skin tight shirt in a shade of yellow that matches her pants (and thus her hair) very well. Although in some time settings the pants and shirt will change to a dress in the same shades.
3. History: (Okay I couldn’t do this any other way so I bring you the WoD technocrats)
Nova was born in a small town near Houston in 1984, Nova lived a pretty normal life, she had friends, lots of them male for obvious reasons, a truck load of boyfriends, a pretty normal life all in all, at least as far as a WoD life can be “Normal”. When Nova turned 16 she started having “weird incidents” computers would go hay wire around her, her hair drier blew up once, and stuff like that, little did Nova know that she was experiencing the first symbols of her awakening. She felt like a freak and although she was big and tough on the surface, she had some major problems deep down, and she was asked to go to the school shrink. This of course wasn’t good for her social life as it interfered with cheerleading practice. And she needed a good explanation of why she wasn’t showing up once a week, But in the end she was straightened out and he was convinced her “accidents” were nothing more then a streak of bad luck. And so life continued, Nova was surely but steadily learning to block them out when it would be awkward to have them, and so her little world kept spinning, she became involved with the school quarterback, with whom she had a relation for about a year and then on Christmas eve he called her and dumped her, her Christmas was ruined she spent the entire time locked up in her room crying herself to sleep. She though her life was over, but in the end she got over it and soon she was the hottest catch in school again, and everyone was milling around her as spring formal was coming up, one day she was sitting in the schools cafeteria and your arch typical nerd walked up to her, he had actually gotten a new haircut for the occasion and he had dressed quite stylishly. But as he walked up to her some freshmen was shining wit his laserpen around and when the nerd walked up to her the dot was right on his chest, and then he tripped tossing his lunch all over Nova, Nova could feel the build up she so dreaded and thought one of her “bad luck” moments was coming again but only much much more powerful and just as the nerd fell through the dot, a piece of his head disappeared, and then Nova’s head went light, and as she lifted her hand up to it, she could feel her hair falling out in clumps. As she dashed to the nearest exit, she could hear her name being yelled over the intercom by a very angry vice principal. As she made her way to the locker rooms, for the spare shirt the kept there. Luckily it matched her outfit, and she grabbed her mat she kept there for bad hair days, and with that she looked at herself in the mirror, she didn’t look to shabby. And so she went to the principal’s office and when she got there, she took a moment to breathe in and put on her sad&guilty face, and then she knocked and entered. She had never before been to the principal’s office and she found it to be a mainly functional place, with a large desk with the principal sitting behind it, and someone she didn’t know. As they were talking Nova, having been properly raised waited silently while they talked about stuff, she over heard something known as a “Cob” and she heard the name “dyson sphere” having an interest in space tech (carefully concealed from view) she knew a sphere was a star with a system of colonies around it, sometimes even a shell, but that was less practical, to maximise the amount of energy derived from it. And these guys were talking about it in the past tense but there weren’t any Dyson spheres in the galaxy… this was weird, Nova tried to listen in with out “actually listening in”. And then suddenly they were finished and the stranger was introduced as “Joe Johnston”. The stranger looked at her intensely, not really a stare and she wasn’t really being measured up, but it was something in between. Then suddenly the stranger spoke, “so tell me girl late at night when you’re lying in your bed looking up at the stars, you wonder what it’d be like to fly to them and explore them is that correct?”
“Yes it is sir how did you know?” Nova asked Mister Johnston.
“For I was like you once, I was in this room in very similar circumstances about 30 years ago, Wondering what was going to happen. And what I had done to that kid that was lying there in the arts and crafts room. Tell me, did you do it? And no lame excuses you know you did it, or you didn’t.”
“Sir, I think I did” Nova said, “but I have no idea what I did.”
“What you just went through is known as an Awakening, you’ve had that idea, to quote the matrix, and “You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad” Well in this case that something isn’t the matrix it is the supernatural, WE have pulled the world over you eyes it blind the mortals from the truth, in our case there is a spoon and your not allowed to see it.”
“Are you trying to tell me I’m living in the fucking matrix???” Nova asked, “Okay where is that hidden camera?” Nova had always thought some stuff were just too weird to happen and when that happened most of the time you’d hear a “smile your on candid camera”, or something like that.
“Yes and No, we, mages, werewolves, vampires, and some others have blinded you from the truth, we are here and we are VERY real. But we don’t want the world to know we exist, as a vampire I once knew said “We don’t want you to know we are here, the same way the wolf doesn’t want the sheep to know he’s around. It makes our job so much easier”.
At this time Nova was really starting to look for a hidden camera.
“Now okay this as been funny where is that camera??” Nova asked.
“I can assure you Miss Carmine there is no hidden camera, and what I am telling you is quite real. Common girl we must leave now before some of those cops show up and drag you of for jail, and while the New World Order can cover this up getting you out of jail would prove more of a hassle then they think your worth.”
Nova not accustomed to going with strangers, was slightly put of by this man’s demeanour but she had a gut feeling she could trust him, and so she followed him to his car that waited out front, the man told the driver they were going to “the barn” at which point Nova wondered for a moment what she had gotten herself into now. And she and Mister Johnston talked for the duration of the trip, it was one of those talks in which you entire world falls apart, and you realise you have been thinking of the world in 2 dimensions, or in the case of the mortals 1, they wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the arse, everyday they see “unexplainable stuff” that would be very easily explained if they’d just think outside the box.
And then they arrived at a barn in the country side, where the car drove into an abandoned barn. Here the driver got out and closed the door and pushed a button near the door. At which point a puff of smoke was released, and the floor gently lowered it’s self to “the ground” of the station below this place. It was quite deep, a good 100 feet below the surface and Nova was wondering what kind of people would live in this sort of nuclear shelter. When they got to “ground level” the man greeted some people that appeared to be his friends, and he introduced “Miss Carmine, of who we can expect great things”. From here they went into a room where a computer terminal was located as well as something that looked like a Transporter room from star trek, Nova was instructed to get on the pad and So did Mister Johnston (who insisted she call him Joe) and a corny “energise” scene later they were on there way, Nova found herself in a room that looked a lot like the one she had just been in, but it was like she was looking though wrong prescription glasses. It was a bit foggy and there were strange ghost like things hanging around, they looked nice enough so Nova left them in peace. Then she noted what could only be described as a space ship. “Joe” was walking towards a “boarding plank” and he told Nova that she might want to get a move on, if she didn’t want to miss the ride anyways. Nova got on and was seated in a chair where she buckled up, when suddenly the bay’s doors opened to show a way that lead to a blank wall, but right now Nova wouldn’t be surprised if that wall was just an illusion or something. So she buckled up and made a point of not touching any buttons.
Joe: “this is your captain speaking and on behalf of my crew I’d like to wish you a pleasant stay on board the Jimmy Shroud, on a one way trip to the Copernicus research station, Alpha Centauri 2, our flight time will be 24 hours, please remain seated until we clear earth orbit and the fasten seatbelt sign has been turned of.” At which point he handed her a flask of whisky and a bag for throwing up in. “You will need the first, you might need the second but I don’t think you will… I have high hopes for you missy.” At which point Nova took a long gulp of the scotch and felt it burn a way down her throat. And then they were off, he was right you did need the scotch. And then they were in the earth orbit on the way to Alpha Centauri, where they’d continue her teachings. Nova proved to be a good student acing her tests and soon she was in command of her own AUC, and she has been exploring space ever sinse.
4. More in Depth Sections:
- Even though she can exist in all settings she is not immortal or anything… just so you know… Bullets will kill her, fire will burn her and explosives will blast her to bits.
- Her space ship: (Will not be used in RPB)
Her spaceship an AUC (or Armed Universal Cruisers) is strangely enough corvette sized. On the outside it looks like this: http://www.i-war2.com/images/navy_1st.jpg.
The ship is armed with 4 batteries of twin-linked AFC’s(Accelerated Force Cannon’s) your basic gigantic laser cannon and 2 batteries of 24 TAT’s(Targeted Anti-matter Torpedo’s)think the biggest, baddest missiles in history mostly used for shooting capital ships and the like could be used for sanitizing (read blowing up) worlds or sections of worlds. The ship is powered by two TPU’s (Tass-Powered Propulsion Units) which allow the ship to cruise along at faster then light speeds. Those engines run on Tass (“Mana” in its solid form) which is refined by the ship’s 2 huge STARs (Stellar Tass Augmentation Refinery) which harvest it from solar winds and other particles the ship may encounter. The STARs also power the iMPALA (Molecular Pigment Absorption Adapter) system, which is basically a cloaking device, and allows the ship to be in orbit without out being detected. For the rest it’s equipped with what most ships in star trek have, Holo Decks, transporters, replicators; the works.
Weaponry:
Nova has access to all weapons in al time zones, but a weapon a grade more advanced will count as doing paradox in the time setting.
- Mjollnir Mk.4
Nova’s back up weapon is the Mjollnir mark 4, it’s a gun A VERY BIG gun. Well a heavy pistol (think desert eagle.50) with the punch of a shotgun and the kick of a mule, when intimidation is the name of the game or the enemy just won’t stay down, you can count on Thor’s hammer to get the job done. Unless outfitted with a raptor silencer (it is…) the Mjollnir thunders like a mad god. Its heavy grain shells rip through solid concrete, and in flick horrific damage on living flesh (or unliving for that matter), In tecknoligical terms, Mjollnir uses Forces procedures to increase kinetic energy of the bullet. The gun chambers large custom made ammo (ECA) which aren’t magical (the guns had a tendency to blow up when that was tried). A mind trick adds to the guns fright factor(the wielder is REALLY REALLY SCARY). In the hands of the unenlightened, these guns tend to misfire or explode, although it is possible it will shoot once or twice.
- “Dark ages”:
A crossbow with a couple of trimmings, a small yet powerfull scope and some other minor trimmings like extended range, an ECA and a raptor silencer, in effect the bow has the range of a rifle is totally silent and does a tad more damage. The bow looks like this: exept for the clip(on top) and a small laser sight which is positioned underneath “the barrel”.
Caliber: Lightning Strike® MX Aluminum
Action: Semi auto
Overall length: 838 mm
Barrel length: N.A.
Weight: 3,83 kg without magazine; 4,30 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 10 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 0,5 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP ammo these are your average crossbow bolts with some minor trimmings making them more stable for use as sniper ammo.
- Dumdum(or jacked hollow point): when these bolts connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds. Very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
- “the now”:
In times zones approaching the now she uses a Walter PA2000 (or for alien worlds something similar) with some technocracy trimmings, a part magical bipod totally stabilizing the barrel and preventing it from moving, a motion predicting scope (think the ones they use in Ghost in the Shell), A Raptor silencer, and the necessary ECA.
Caliber: .300 Win mag, .308 (7.62x51mm NATO), 7.5x51mm Swiss
Operation: Semi-Auto
Length: 905mm
Weight Unloaded: 6.95 kg
Barrel Length: 650mm
Stock: Thumb-hole (Wood) - Fully adjustable
Magazine: 6 round detachable box (or in her case an ECA)
Standard Sight: Schmidt & Bender 2.5-10x56mm
Max Effective Range: 1500+ meters with .300 win mag
Expected accuracy: 0,25 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP: this ammo consists of a flachette that secures a dart of armed uranium which can easily pierce armour, and is stabilised enough for sniping by 4 fins at the back. Great against armour but not really damaging to the tissue underneath, just makes a round hole all the way through.
- HE: This ammo explodes on contact with someone’s skin or armour tearing away great chunks of either this round is also very good for anti material use; a very all-round round good against pretty much everything.
- Dumdum (or jacked hollow point): when these rounds connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds; very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
Or if the situation demands it Nova uses a Trimmed M4a1: with a raptor silencer, a small scope thing and an ECA.
is a picky of the rifle.
The rifle can use all of the above ammo types.
Caliber: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length: 838 mm (stock extended); 757 mm (stock fully collapsed)
Barrel length: 370 mm
Weight: 2.52 kg without magazine; 3.0 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 700 - 950 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 1,0 MoA
- “The Future”: Here she uses her true favourite weapon her highly customised C-20a canister rifle with choice of ammo… (piccie of the rifle in use http://www.digitalentertainmentnews.com/ad...t/scghost07.jpg)
Types of ammo:
All “now” ammo and the following:
- Gauss: These rounds turn into plasma upon leaving the barrel and they accelerate to mutch higher speeds then the terminal velocity of other rounds making dodging these very difficult, pretty all-round ammo.
- Pulse ammo: (Everyone who knows FF8 knows this is the shit you want to look out for…) These rounds are partly magical in there construction and therefore cause major damage to everything, thing about detaching limbs and bursting chests with one bullet they go through everything and anything, they virtually ignore armour while still cause major damage to underlying tissue. In RPB Nova carries 5 of these rounds.
- Shock Shells: These rounds do a very substantial amount of Electricity damage to the people they hit, enough for a small E.M.P. field, which destroys most of the energy consuming technology they might have.
- Shield Breakers: These rounds were designed by the ships AI when Nova ran into a shielded life form, they have the potential to ignore shields (non magical ones that is) and disable them for the rest of the battle. Besides that effect they do no damage apart from the concussive impact.
Caliber: 7.62mm NATO, Fully customised rounds.
Action: Gas operated, Semi auto.
Overall length: 947 mm.
Barrel length: 570 mm
Weight: 5,2 kg without magazine; 5.7 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 20 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 2750 m
Expected accuracy: 0,02 MoA
“Sniperlingo”: Sniper rifle Accuracy
The most common way of describing the accuracy of the sniper rifle is to measure average diameter of the circle, that may be drawn arount the group of bullet holes in the target. Usually, the rifle is fired from the rest with groups of the 5 (or 3) rounds, and then every group is measured. Average group diameter is the most common criteria of rifle accuracy.
Today, the thin line between "good" and "poor" accuracy is usually laid in 1MOA group. 1 MOA (Minute Of Angle) is measure of the angle, that formed with the triangle with muzzle as the top and the group as the base. 1 MOA is roughly equivalent to 1 inch group diameter at 100 yards (91 meter), or to 2 inches at 200 yards etc. So, if you read that rifle XXXX shooths 1MOA groups, it means that at 300 yards this rifle could place 5 or so bullets in circle of no more than 3 inches in diameter. Many modern sniper rifles, when loaded with right ammunition, could shoot 0.5MOA, or even 0.3MOA, which mean 1 inch groups at 300 yards, or 2 inch (50 millimeters!) groups at 600 yards (550 meters).
- ECA: Endless Clip of Ammo, one of the Iteration X’s newest gizmo’s is a clip that actually fabricates the ammo you want, good for about 500 rounds before the Tass runs out and you need to recharge it with an APC.
- APC: Advance Power Cell, a device that stores Quintessence (Mana) in its “solid form” (Tass) for use in al most all devices Nova uses.
- Raptor silencer: this is a somewhat non standard silencer, instead of dampening the shot it transports the sound waves to a place where no one either hears or cares(in the WoD its usually the latter).
- “The bond watch”: This is the woman’s version of Bond’s famous watches, it comes with all the trimmings Q’s ever managed to cram in. If it’d be “Bondy” to have in the watch Nova Has it. It’s a pocket watch in the Dark Ages, an analogue wrist watch in the now, and a digital watch in the future.
- The “real” swiss army knife, this is the handle of a swiss army knife with a button attached, point it at the object and push the button and the cpu will scan the object and thick what you are most likely to want to do with the object and form the perfect tool for the job (do aim good for it might think your pointing at something else) Everything is in there from welding tools to a small sowing machine for fixing the button that fell from your shirt.
- “Set to guns to stun” hey its better to steal something good then to design something bad is what the Iteration X must have thought so they designed this device that takes the speed of the bullet and spreads it out over a bigger area, blasting you of your feet but with out any adverse side effects other then a bad whip lash and some bruises(all guns and projectiles feel about as bad as a paintball gun which hit your entire front//back at the same time).
- Univid, Universal ID, this little gizmo is the id for the job, everything from FBI badges to the proper id for that meeting with the crime boss this is it. (not entirely accurate without an example of what you want to make).
- Tricorder, this is your basic star trek tricorder, it even looks like it…
- Power Suit, This suit (all her clothes except for the night suit) can be “switched on” when that happens, the suit sends out an “inferiority wave” that makes the wearer look really important and imposing.
She also has a couple of gizmo’s on her that can prove useful in distress situations mostly a “walky talky” that can connect her to her ships computer (of course one with true A.I.), most other tools she can get the computer to assemble (or replicate for the trekkies) and beam down to her location.
5. Magic:
Nova is quite accomplished in Forces, Prime, Correspondence and a bit in Mind. On her ship she has a computer that can do some Dimensional Science.
Nova doesn’t use spells as such she combines the 3 above elements to form spells, Forces can for example be used to send electrical systems hay wire by creating and removing small currants, or it can be used to light fire by creating sparks it can also turn her invisible by “bending the light” around her. If you think this is un fair wait until you read the back lash these spells have, Correspondence is the art of employing magic at a distance she has a range of about 10 to 15 meters (30 to 45 feet) and lastly mind magic can be used to “read minds” and do similar tricks on people; Can also be used for telepathic communication.
“Nova’s Favourite procedures(spell list; including but not limited to)”:
Calculate Kinetics (correspondence 1)
Where is that object? How fast is it going? What way is it going? How long will it take to get there? And similar questions all answered in one stroke.
Laser enhancement (forces 2)
Turns a low power laser (like a laser sight or a laser tag rifle) into a laser powerful enough to cut through steel plates.
Laser Production (Forces 3)
This is an improved version of Laser enhancement it allows any artificial light source to produce a deadly laser beam, needs a lens of some sorts to focus the light though.
Detect mental anomalies, (Mind1)
Scans the mind of the target to see if the target is under influence by, disciplines, gifts or other forms of mind control.
Locate Quintessential flow, (Prime 1)
This allows Nova to see the local streams of quintessence that lead to a Node.
Tap Node, (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to extract Quintessence from a Node and store it in herself or another storage container.
Covert Node to Tass (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to turn the Quintessence in a node into Tass, for storage in APC’s or for use by her ship. This procedure it the one powering the STAR units.
The backlash known as paradox if someone sees Nova use magic for stuff that can’t happen (including but not limited to fireballs and the like) Paradox lashes in; the worse the violation the worse the backlash is. For example of Nova would fire her gun (the c-20a) in a fantasy setting she might do an “Anime + cute chick” style back flip, her hair might turn into feathers and/or something else. If the violation is bad enough she might die or get her memory erased.
Or just cause a cascade that eradicates the world she’s on…
On fantasy worlds Paradox is lessened but its still there.
Both
Name: Nova Carmine
Race: Human
Age: 21
Weapons: Changes to time setting.
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 65 kilo’s
Measurements: 35D;25;30 (just like Lara)
Armor: Body armour (bullet-proof vest).
Magic: N.A.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red-brown; Crimson.
2. Description:
Nova is a truly stunning beauty her green eyes and red-brown hair a near perfect shade of crimson and her eyes you could easily loose yourself in them forever. Her crimson hair falls down to her shoulders where it curls up (sort of like Tidus’ hair does). Framed in this hair is a face of stunning beauty that would make anyone’s hart beet faster the sheer perfection of the face is difficult to believe and the rest of her body is beyond contemplation so beautiful. She is usually seen wearing wide pants in the colour of her hair and a skin tight shirt in a shade of yellow that matches her pants (and thus her hair) very well. Although in some time settings the pants and shirt will change to a dress in the same shades.
3. History: (Okay I couldn’t do this any other way so I bring you the WoD technocrats)
Nova was born in a small town near Houston in 1984, Nova lived a pretty normal life, she had friends, lots of them male for obvious reasons, a truck load of boyfriends, a pretty normal life all in all, at least as far as a WoD life can be “Normal”. When Nova turned 16 she started having “weird incidents” computers would go hay wire around her, her hair drier blew up once, and stuff like that, little did Nova know that she was experiencing the first symbols of her awakening. She felt like a freak and although she was big and tough on the surface, she had some major problems deep down, and she was asked to go to the school shrink. This of course wasn’t good for her social life as it interfered with cheerleading practice. And she needed a good explanation of why she wasn’t showing up once a week, But in the end she was straightened out and he was convinced her “accidents” were nothing more then a streak of bad luck. And so life continued, Nova was surely but steadily learning to block them out when it would be awkward to have them, and so her little world kept spinning, she became involved with the school quarterback, with whom she had a relation for about a year and then on Christmas eve he called her and dumped her, her Christmas was ruined she spent the entire time locked up in her room crying herself to sleep. She though her life was over, but in the end she got over it and soon she was the hottest catch in school again, and everyone was milling around her as spring formal was coming up, one day she was sitting in the schools cafeteria and your arch typical nerd walked up to her, he had actually gotten a new haircut for the occasion and he had dressed quite stylishly. But as he walked up to her some freshmen was shining wit his laserpen around and when the nerd walked up to her the dot was right on his chest, and then he tripped tossing his lunch all over Nova, Nova could feel the build up she so dreaded and thought one of her “bad luck” moments was coming again but only much much more powerful and just as the nerd fell through the dot, a piece of his head disappeared, and then Nova’s head went light, and as she lifted her hand up to it, she could feel her hair falling out in clumps. As she dashed to the nearest exit, she could hear her name being yelled over the intercom by a very angry vice principal. As she made her way to the locker rooms, for the spare shirt the kept there. Luckily it matched her outfit, and she grabbed her mat she kept there for bad hair days, and with that she looked at herself in the mirror, she didn’t look to shabby. And so she went to the principal’s office and when she got there, she took a moment to breathe in and put on her sad&guilty face, and then she knocked and entered. She had never before been to the principal’s office and she found it to be a mainly functional place, with a large desk with the principal sitting behind it, and someone she didn’t know. As they were talking Nova, having been properly raised waited silently while they talked about stuff, she over heard something known as a “Cob” and she heard the name “dyson sphere” having an interest in space tech (carefully concealed from view) she knew a sphere was a star with a system of colonies around it, sometimes even a shell, but that was less practical, to maximise the amount of energy derived from it. And these guys were talking about it in the past tense but there weren’t any Dyson spheres in the galaxy… this was weird, Nova tried to listen in with out “actually listening in”. And then suddenly they were finished and the stranger was introduced as “Joe Johnston”. The stranger looked at her intensely, not really a stare and she wasn’t really being measured up, but it was something in between. Then suddenly the stranger spoke, “so tell me girl late at night when you’re lying in your bed looking up at the stars, you wonder what it’d be like to fly to them and explore them is that correct?”
“Yes it is sir how did you know?” Nova asked Mister Johnston.
“For I was like you once, I was in this room in very similar circumstances about 30 years ago, Wondering what was going to happen. And what I had done to that kid that was lying there in the arts and crafts room. Tell me, did you do it? And no lame excuses you know you did it, or you didn’t.”
“Sir, I think I did” Nova said, “but I have no idea what I did.”
“What you just went through is known as an Awakening, you’ve had that idea, to quote the matrix, and “You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad” Well in this case that something isn’t the matrix it is the supernatural, WE have pulled the world over you eyes it blind the mortals from the truth, in our case there is a spoon and your not allowed to see it.”
“Are you trying to tell me I’m living in the fucking matrix???” Nova asked, “Okay where is that hidden camera?” Nova had always thought some stuff were just too weird to happen and when that happened most of the time you’d hear a “smile your on candid camera”, or something like that.
“Yes and No, we, mages, werewolves, vampires, and some others have blinded you from the truth, we are here and we are VERY real. But we don’t want the world to know we exist, as a vampire I once knew said “We don’t want you to know we are here, the same way the wolf doesn’t want the sheep to know he’s around. It makes our job so much easier”.
At this time Nova was really starting to look for a hidden camera.
“Now okay this as been funny where is that camera??” Nova asked.
“I can assure you Miss Carmine there is no hidden camera, and what I am telling you is quite real. Common girl we must leave now before some of those cops show up and drag you of for jail, and while the New World Order can cover this up getting you out of jail would prove more of a hassle then they think your worth.”
Nova not accustomed to going with strangers, was slightly put of by this man’s demeanour but she had a gut feeling she could trust him, and so she followed him to his car that waited out front, the man told the driver they were going to “the barn” at which point Nova wondered for a moment what she had gotten herself into now. And she and Mister Johnston talked for the duration of the trip, it was one of those talks in which you entire world falls apart, and you realise you have been thinking of the world in 2 dimensions, or in the case of the mortals 1, they wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the arse, everyday they see “unexplainable stuff” that would be very easily explained if they’d just think outside the box.
And then they arrived at a barn in the country side, where the car drove into an abandoned barn. Here the driver got out and closed the door and pushed a button near the door. At which point a puff of smoke was released, and the floor gently lowered it’s self to “the ground” of the station below this place. It was quite deep, a good 100 feet below the surface and Nova was wondering what kind of people would live in this sort of nuclear shelter. When they got to “ground level” the man greeted some people that appeared to be his friends, and he introduced “Miss Carmine, of who we can expect great things”. From here they went into a room where a computer terminal was located as well as something that looked like a Transporter room from star trek, Nova was instructed to get on the pad and So did Mister Johnston (who insisted she call him Joe) and a corny “energise” scene later they were on there way, Nova found herself in a room that looked a lot like the one she had just been in, but it was like she was looking though wrong prescription glasses. It was a bit foggy and there were strange ghost like things hanging around, they looked nice enough so Nova left them in peace. Then she noted what could only be described as a space ship. “Joe” was walking towards a “boarding plank” and he told Nova that she might want to get a move on, if she didn’t want to miss the ride anyways. Nova got on and was seated in a chair where she buckled up, when suddenly the bay’s doors opened to show a way that lead to a blank wall, but right now Nova wouldn’t be surprised if that wall was just an illusion or something. So she buckled up and made a point of not touching any buttons.
Joe: “this is your captain speaking and on behalf of my crew I’d like to wish you a pleasant stay on board the Jimmy Shroud, on a one way trip to the Copernicus research station, Alpha Centauri 2, our flight time will be 24 hours, please remain seated until we clear earth orbit and the fasten seatbelt sign has been turned of.” At which point he handed her a flask of whisky and a bag for throwing up in. “You will need the first, you might need the second but I don’t think you will… I have high hopes for you missy.” At which point Nova took a long gulp of the scotch and felt it burn a way down her throat. And then they were off, he was right you did need the scotch. And then they were in the earth orbit on the way to Alpha Centauri, where they’d continue her teachings. Nova proved to be a good student acing her tests and soon she was in command of her own AUC, and she has been exploring space ever sinse.
4. More in Depth Sections:
- Even though she can exist in all settings she is not immortal or anything… just so you know… Bullets will kill her, fire will burn her and explosives will blast her to bits.
- Her space ship: (Will not be used in RPB)
Her spaceship an AUC (or Armed Universal Cruisers) is strangely enough corvette sized. On the outside it looks like this: http://www.i-war2.com/images/navy_1st.jpg.
The ship is armed with 4 batteries of twin-linked AFC’s(Accelerated Force Cannon’s) your basic gigantic laser cannon and 2 batteries of 24 TAT’s(Targeted Anti-matter Torpedo’s)think the biggest, baddest missiles in history mostly used for shooting capital ships and the like could be used for sanitizing (read blowing up) worlds or sections of worlds. The ship is powered by two TPU’s (Tass-Powered Propulsion Units) which allow the ship to cruise along at faster then light speeds. Those engines run on Tass (“Mana” in its solid form) which is refined by the ship’s 2 huge STARs (Stellar Tass Augmentation Refinery) which harvest it from solar winds and other particles the ship may encounter. The STARs also power the iMPALA (Molecular Pigment Absorption Adapter) system, which is basically a cloaking device, and allows the ship to be in orbit without out being detected. For the rest it’s equipped with what most ships in star trek have, Holo Decks, transporters, replicators; the works.
Weaponry:
Nova has access to all weapons in al time zones, but a weapon a grade more advanced will count as doing paradox in the time setting.
- Mjollnir Mk.4
Nova’s back up weapon is the Mjollnir mark 4, it’s a gun A VERY BIG gun. Well a heavy pistol (think desert eagle.50) with the punch of a shotgun and the kick of a mule, when intimidation is the name of the game or the enemy just won’t stay down, you can count on Thor’s hammer to get the job done. Unless outfitted with a raptor silencer (it is…) the Mjollnir thunders like a mad god. Its heavy grain shells rip through solid concrete, and in flick horrific damage on living flesh (or unliving for that matter), In tecknoligical terms, Mjollnir uses Forces procedures to increase kinetic energy of the bullet. The gun chambers large custom made ammo (ECA) which aren’t magical (the guns had a tendency to blow up when that was tried). A mind trick adds to the guns fright factor(the wielder is REALLY REALLY SCARY). In the hands of the unenlightened, these guns tend to misfire or explode, although it is possible it will shoot once or twice.
- “Dark ages”:
A crossbow with a couple of trimmings, a small yet powerfull scope and some other minor trimmings like extended range, an ECA and a raptor silencer, in effect the bow has the range of a rifle is totally silent and does a tad more damage. The bow looks like this: exept for the clip(on top) and a small laser sight which is positioned underneath “the barrel”.
Caliber: Lightning Strike® MX Aluminum
Action: Semi auto
Overall length: 838 mm
Barrel length: N.A.
Weight: 3,83 kg without magazine; 4,30 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 10 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 0,5 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP ammo these are your average crossbow bolts with some minor trimmings making them more stable for use as sniper ammo.
- Dumdum(or jacked hollow point): when these bolts connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds. Very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
- “the now”:
In times zones approaching the now she uses a Walter PA2000 (or for alien worlds something similar) with some technocracy trimmings, a part magical bipod totally stabilizing the barrel and preventing it from moving, a motion predicting scope (think the ones they use in Ghost in the Shell), A Raptor silencer, and the necessary ECA.
Caliber: .300 Win mag, .308 (7.62x51mm NATO), 7.5x51mm Swiss
Operation: Semi-Auto
Length: 905mm
Weight Unloaded: 6.95 kg
Barrel Length: 650mm
Stock: Thumb-hole (Wood) - Fully adjustable
Magazine: 6 round detachable box (or in her case an ECA)
Standard Sight: Schmidt & Bender 2.5-10x56mm
Max Effective Range: 1500+ meters with .300 win mag
Expected accuracy: 0,25 MoA
Types of ammo:
- AP: this ammo consists of a flachette that secures a dart of armed uranium which can easily pierce armour, and is stabilised enough for sniping by 4 fins at the back. Great against armour but not really damaging to the tissue underneath, just makes a round hole all the way through.
- HE: This ammo explodes on contact with someone’s skin or armour tearing away great chunks of either this round is also very good for anti material use; a very all-round round good against pretty much everything.
- Dumdum (or jacked hollow point): when these rounds connect with tissue they shatter into tiny pieces making very large exit wounds; very effective against un-armour spots but utterly useless against armour.
Or if the situation demands it Nova uses a Trimmed M4a1: with a raptor silencer, a small scope thing and an ECA.
The rifle can use all of the above ammo types.
Caliber: 5.56mm NATO
Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt
Overall length: 838 mm (stock extended); 757 mm (stock fully collapsed)
Barrel length: 370 mm
Weight: 2.52 kg without magazine; 3.0 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 700 - 950 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 750 m
Expected accuracy: 1,0 MoA
- “The Future”: Here she uses her true favourite weapon her highly customised C-20a canister rifle with choice of ammo… (piccie of the rifle in use http://www.digitalentertainmentnews.com/ad...t/scghost07.jpg)
Types of ammo:
All “now” ammo and the following:
- Gauss: These rounds turn into plasma upon leaving the barrel and they accelerate to mutch higher speeds then the terminal velocity of other rounds making dodging these very difficult, pretty all-round ammo.
- Pulse ammo: (Everyone who knows FF8 knows this is the shit you want to look out for…) These rounds are partly magical in there construction and therefore cause major damage to everything, thing about detaching limbs and bursting chests with one bullet they go through everything and anything, they virtually ignore armour while still cause major damage to underlying tissue. In RPB Nova carries 5 of these rounds.
- Shock Shells: These rounds do a very substantial amount of Electricity damage to the people they hit, enough for a small E.M.P. field, which destroys most of the energy consuming technology they might have.
- Shield Breakers: These rounds were designed by the ships AI when Nova ran into a shielded life form, they have the potential to ignore shields (non magical ones that is) and disable them for the rest of the battle. Besides that effect they do no damage apart from the concussive impact.
Caliber: 7.62mm NATO, Fully customised rounds.
Action: Gas operated, Semi auto.
Overall length: 947 mm.
Barrel length: 570 mm
Weight: 5,2 kg without magazine; 5.7 kg with ECA inserted
Rate of fire: 20 rounds per minute
Maximum effective range: 2750 m
Expected accuracy: 0,02 MoA
“Sniperlingo”: Sniper rifle Accuracy
The most common way of describing the accuracy of the sniper rifle is to measure average diameter of the circle, that may be drawn arount the group of bullet holes in the target. Usually, the rifle is fired from the rest with groups of the 5 (or 3) rounds, and then every group is measured. Average group diameter is the most common criteria of rifle accuracy.
Today, the thin line between "good" and "poor" accuracy is usually laid in 1MOA group. 1 MOA (Minute Of Angle) is measure of the angle, that formed with the triangle with muzzle as the top and the group as the base. 1 MOA is roughly equivalent to 1 inch group diameter at 100 yards (91 meter), or to 2 inches at 200 yards etc. So, if you read that rifle XXXX shooths 1MOA groups, it means that at 300 yards this rifle could place 5 or so bullets in circle of no more than 3 inches in diameter. Many modern sniper rifles, when loaded with right ammunition, could shoot 0.5MOA, or even 0.3MOA, which mean 1 inch groups at 300 yards, or 2 inch (50 millimeters!) groups at 600 yards (550 meters).
- ECA: Endless Clip of Ammo, one of the Iteration X’s newest gizmo’s is a clip that actually fabricates the ammo you want, good for about 500 rounds before the Tass runs out and you need to recharge it with an APC.
- APC: Advance Power Cell, a device that stores Quintessence (Mana) in its “solid form” (Tass) for use in al most all devices Nova uses.
- Raptor silencer: this is a somewhat non standard silencer, instead of dampening the shot it transports the sound waves to a place where no one either hears or cares(in the WoD its usually the latter).
- “The bond watch”: This is the woman’s version of Bond’s famous watches, it comes with all the trimmings Q’s ever managed to cram in. If it’d be “Bondy” to have in the watch Nova Has it. It’s a pocket watch in the Dark Ages, an analogue wrist watch in the now, and a digital watch in the future.
- The “real” swiss army knife, this is the handle of a swiss army knife with a button attached, point it at the object and push the button and the cpu will scan the object and thick what you are most likely to want to do with the object and form the perfect tool for the job (do aim good for it might think your pointing at something else) Everything is in there from welding tools to a small sowing machine for fixing the button that fell from your shirt.
- “Set to guns to stun” hey its better to steal something good then to design something bad is what the Iteration X must have thought so they designed this device that takes the speed of the bullet and spreads it out over a bigger area, blasting you of your feet but with out any adverse side effects other then a bad whip lash and some bruises(all guns and projectiles feel about as bad as a paintball gun which hit your entire front//back at the same time).
- Univid, Universal ID, this little gizmo is the id for the job, everything from FBI badges to the proper id for that meeting with the crime boss this is it. (not entirely accurate without an example of what you want to make).
- Tricorder, this is your basic star trek tricorder, it even looks like it…
- Power Suit, This suit (all her clothes except for the night suit) can be “switched on” when that happens, the suit sends out an “inferiority wave” that makes the wearer look really important and imposing.
She also has a couple of gizmo’s on her that can prove useful in distress situations mostly a “walky talky” that can connect her to her ships computer (of course one with true A.I.), most other tools she can get the computer to assemble (or replicate for the trekkies) and beam down to her location.
5. Magic:
Nova is quite accomplished in Forces, Prime, Correspondence and a bit in Mind. On her ship she has a computer that can do some Dimensional Science.
Nova doesn’t use spells as such she combines the 3 above elements to form spells, Forces can for example be used to send electrical systems hay wire by creating and removing small currants, or it can be used to light fire by creating sparks it can also turn her invisible by “bending the light” around her. If you think this is un fair wait until you read the back lash these spells have, Correspondence is the art of employing magic at a distance she has a range of about 10 to 15 meters (30 to 45 feet) and lastly mind magic can be used to “read minds” and do similar tricks on people; Can also be used for telepathic communication.
“Nova’s Favourite procedures(spell list; including but not limited to)”:
Calculate Kinetics (correspondence 1)
Where is that object? How fast is it going? What way is it going? How long will it take to get there? And similar questions all answered in one stroke.
Laser enhancement (forces 2)
Turns a low power laser (like a laser sight or a laser tag rifle) into a laser powerful enough to cut through steel plates.
Laser Production (Forces 3)
This is an improved version of Laser enhancement it allows any artificial light source to produce a deadly laser beam, needs a lens of some sorts to focus the light though.
Detect mental anomalies, (Mind1)
Scans the mind of the target to see if the target is under influence by, disciplines, gifts or other forms of mind control.
Locate Quintessential flow, (Prime 1)
This allows Nova to see the local streams of quintessence that lead to a Node.
Tap Node, (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to extract Quintessence from a Node and store it in herself or another storage container.
Covert Node to Tass (Prime 3)
Allows Nova to turn the Quintessence in a node into Tass, for storage in APC’s or for use by her ship. This procedure it the one powering the STAR units.
The backlash known as paradox if someone sees Nova use magic for stuff that can’t happen (including but not limited to fireballs and the like) Paradox lashes in; the worse the violation the worse the backlash is. For example of Nova would fire her gun (the c-20a) in a fantasy setting she might do an “Anime + cute chick” style back flip, her hair might turn into feathers and/or something else. If the violation is bad enough she might die or get her memory erased.
Or just cause a cascade that eradicates the world she’s on…
On fantasy worlds Paradox is lessened but its still there.
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