RPS & Po
01-04-07, 06:31 PM
Name: Po’Rek Cos’p’Cis Rrass (goes by Po)
Race: Hand
Height: 4 foot 7
Weight: 107 lbs.
Gender: Male
Age: ???
Appearance: Po looks a lot like a dismembered hand, except he is four and a half feet tall and has a mop of red, curly hair where you would normally find a wrist. His face, with blue eyes but lacking a nose, is migratory, meaning it can move about his body depending on his orientation. However, most commonly the face can be found on the back of the hand, with the fingers reaching to the ground and the shock of hair toward the sky, giving him a somewhat recognizable up and down.
Po is a thinner, long fingered hand, perhaps a pianist or sportsmen rather than a farmer or blacksmith.
Skills: On his own, Po does not have any particular skills. His fingers are very strong, allowing him to bounce and jump around, using all five fingers to propel himself. He can attack a person with a variety of full body attacks, from a flying fist to an open palm or a well placed flick of the forefinger. His grip is crushing, if he manages to wrap his fingers around an object or opponent. However, his unarmored flesh is easily pierced and his bones can be cracked or broken.
His main skill is his ability to conjure up three companions. Only one companion can be summoned at a time and when damaged they require large amounts of rest outside of this world to heal and multiple summonings within a short amount of time will tire them quickly. At level 0, if a companion is re-summoned within approximately 30 minutes, they will be tired to the point of ineffectiveness. Summoning is a fairly quick and simple undertaking for Po. All he must do is assume a body position associated with each companion and think their name. When one is summoned, the current familiar must disappears completely before the new one can fade into existence near Po. His three friends are Rock, Paper, and Scissors.
Rock: Rock is primarily a defensive force. Rock’s body is a round chunk of various rocks about 15 inches in diameter. Parts of him are incredibly tough, formed of dense, nearly unbreakable stones such as quartz and hardened obsidian. Other parts, however, are less durable, with veins of sandstone and flaky shale. These faults mean that sufficient force can crack his body, although it takes a direct, powerful blow to cause this much damage. He has thin, spindly black arms and legs with only three fingers and toes on each appendage that look as if they were additions drawn onto his body with a heavy marker. Lacking knees, elbows, or any other joints, his limbs are as flexible as wet spaghetti. His perfectly round white eyes have small, black pupils and his mouth is a line cut into his stone body, baring small, rounded stone teeth when he smiles.
Despite the spindly arms and legs, Rock is agile and strong, able to propel his body through the air at dangerous speeds and to surprising distances (20 feet in any direction). More often than attacking, he will hurl his body about in front of Po, preventing attacks from reaching his more vulnerable master. Rock is not particularly bright, tending towards monosyllabic utterances and rarely manages a complete, grammatically correct sentence, but is utterly loyal and, when spurned to anger, can be quite ferocious. Has been known to bite, but Po discourages this technique as it rarely serves to accomplish much besides anger the opponent further.
While a truly powerful concussive force can damage Rock’s body, his true weakness is his limbs. While they are strong in terms of movement, they are also vulnerable to damage. They can be pulled asunder, severed, burned, and otherwise destroyed. Without his limbs, Rocks main ability is to roll around at a walking pace and perhaps trip someone or start an avalanche. In desperation, Po might pick Rock up and chuck him, but at that point it doesn’t really matter.
Although he has only three fingers, Rock is fairly mechanically adept. As he is the only member of this merry band that posses intricate manipulatory appendages, Rock is Po’s most constant companion.
Paper: Paper is similar to Rock in that his name is descriptive of his body. He is a scroll of yellowed, slightly ragged parchment bound together with a black, silk ribbon. Floating a consistent eight inches off the ground, he stands taller than Po at an even five feet tall. His movements are silent and smooth, but limited. He has no ability to jump and obstructions over 8 eight inches are difficult for him to circumvent. A face can be found on the upper half of Paper’s rolled body. The eyes are set slightly into the paper, giving him a heavy brow sprouting white eyebrows. Paper has the ability to change the color and appearance of his eyes, usually trying to be very dramatic and imposing, sometime successfully, sometimes not. While Paper is presumably no older than Rock or Scissors, who both seem quite youthful, Paper has a flowing white beard that reaches past the black ribbon marking his middle. Paper can function while unrolled, but rather than floating upright he skims across the ground like a flying carpet. Paper finds this most undignified and avoids it whenever possible.
Written on Paper’s pages is a massive body of knowledge, mostly useless, but some of great value. Also found on his pages are several magical spells that Paper can cast. As a wielder of the magical arts, Paper is the most powerful of Po’s companions, but also the most vulnerable. As you would suspect, Paper is not resistant to much in the way of damage. Fire and water are particularly dangerous to him and shredding by blade or other means is also a constant threat. However, he is a cunning and brave creature, necessary for him to stay alive very long. Paper thinks of himself as wiser than Po and will occasionally disobey his instructions, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
Spells:
Hammer from Above~ In the great tradition of descriptive names, this spell is exactly what it says it is. A hammer manifests itself high in the air above Paper then swoops down onto the battlefield to deliver a heavy blow. The hammer is not always the same, smaller hammers move faster and deliver less damage, while large hammers move slower and deliver crushingly powerful smashes. The longer Paper is able to concentrate on the spell, the more powerful he is able to make it. Rapid casting will produce only hammers of the smaller, quick variety, while prolonged concentration is needed for the more powerful, oversized hammers.
Shield of Shafts~ A defensive spell, this spell summons 6 shafts of magical energy. Each shaft is 5 feet long and glows a separate color: orange, red, blue, green, black, and white. The shafts can be summoned anywhere up to 3 feet away from Paper’s body and retain their orientation relative to Paper (if paper turns, the shafts turn with him). However, once summoned, Paper cannot move the shafts, they are locked into position.
The magical energy of these shafts is able to block both physical and magical attacks.
Magical resistance: Any spell that hits the shafts will have some of the power taken away from the attack. Most spells would pass around a single shaft at close to full strength, however, if the shafts are intersecting, their effectiveness is increased. Paper will typically try to create a star shape, with all six shafts intersecting at the point of attack, to stop magical attacks.
Physical resistance: Each shaft has the same stopping power as a steel pole. This makes them very effective at stopping slashing attacks when arranged around Paper, however, thrusting attacks can easily bypass the narrow shafts.
Once summoned, the shafts remain in existence for around 40 seconds. Any damage or energy they absorb during that time will reduce the time they exist. Rapid, repeated attacks will dissipate the shield very quickly.
Scissors: Scissors is the lone female of the group, and a fiery one she is. As you might have guessed by now, Scissors is a pair of scissors. A wooden frame with steel blades, when closed Scissors is five feet long, three and a half feet of blades and one and a half foot handle. While a normal pair of scissor blades are specifically designed to cut in a clipping motion, Scissors has sharpened herself to allow for slicing, dicing, and the traditional clipping.
Where a person would normally place their fingers in the handle, you find two fiery orbs suspended in the center of the circular space. These orbs are Scissors’ eyes, ears, mouth, and pretty much everything else. When calm, Scissors can be a reasonable, even sweet individual to talk to. During times like this, the fiery orbs are reduced to gentle, glowing red globes. However, she is easily excited, the orbs bursting into flames and Scissors bursting into motion. Scissors moves at above average speed and in any direction. She has no appendages and simply floats, slashes, and spins through the air in whatever direction she pleases. She is limited in the heights she can travel too, at about twenty feet gravity will keep her from getting higher, but other than that limitation she moves at will. Scissors’ wooden frame is her greatest weakness. The frame can be broken up, burned, and otherwise destroyed, causing Scissors to literally fall apart. The two eye globes are also susceptible to damage, but it takes a fairly intricate direct hit to effect them.
Scissors is often beyond Po’s control. In a combat situation, she typically ignores any directions that Po might try to give her and Po has pretty much stopped trying to talk to her at all when she is in a fiery state. It is not that she is unintelligent or unable to communicate, she just gets a bit out of control very easily. As a result, she is hard to take into social situations.
Strangely, each of Po’s companions has a strong dislike for the other two. Each feels as if they are better than one and has a strange, somewhat irrational fear of the second. Rock thinks Scissors is a show off with no toughness, but is terrified of Paper’s spells. Scissors finds Paper to be all flash and no substance, easily shredded, but sees Rock as an indestructible force of nature. Paper looks down on Rock as barbaric and simple minded. He calls Scissors a crazed, unstable woman, which may be accurate, but he is clearly terrified of her frantic, flailing blades.
It is not quite clear to Po how they know each other at all, since he cannot summon them simultaneously, meaning they have never actually met in this world. Perhaps somewhere in the place where summoned creatures such as them dwell they live together and know one another, or perhaps they eavesdrop on the others from an ethereal plane, waiting to be summoned. Po can never get them to explain this situation to him. In fact, the all they will say about their time when they are not summoned is that they are in “The Other Place.” Regardless, their deprecating comments toward one another are common and often exaggerated.
History: Who knows from where Rock, Paper, Scissors and the hand that throws them originate. It seems they have been around since the beginning of time and will continue into eternity, solving disputes and determining fate in countless situations.
Equipment: Po carries nothing with him.
Race: Hand
Height: 4 foot 7
Weight: 107 lbs.
Gender: Male
Age: ???
Appearance: Po looks a lot like a dismembered hand, except he is four and a half feet tall and has a mop of red, curly hair where you would normally find a wrist. His face, with blue eyes but lacking a nose, is migratory, meaning it can move about his body depending on his orientation. However, most commonly the face can be found on the back of the hand, with the fingers reaching to the ground and the shock of hair toward the sky, giving him a somewhat recognizable up and down.
Po is a thinner, long fingered hand, perhaps a pianist or sportsmen rather than a farmer or blacksmith.
Skills: On his own, Po does not have any particular skills. His fingers are very strong, allowing him to bounce and jump around, using all five fingers to propel himself. He can attack a person with a variety of full body attacks, from a flying fist to an open palm or a well placed flick of the forefinger. His grip is crushing, if he manages to wrap his fingers around an object or opponent. However, his unarmored flesh is easily pierced and his bones can be cracked or broken.
His main skill is his ability to conjure up three companions. Only one companion can be summoned at a time and when damaged they require large amounts of rest outside of this world to heal and multiple summonings within a short amount of time will tire them quickly. At level 0, if a companion is re-summoned within approximately 30 minutes, they will be tired to the point of ineffectiveness. Summoning is a fairly quick and simple undertaking for Po. All he must do is assume a body position associated with each companion and think their name. When one is summoned, the current familiar must disappears completely before the new one can fade into existence near Po. His three friends are Rock, Paper, and Scissors.
Rock: Rock is primarily a defensive force. Rock’s body is a round chunk of various rocks about 15 inches in diameter. Parts of him are incredibly tough, formed of dense, nearly unbreakable stones such as quartz and hardened obsidian. Other parts, however, are less durable, with veins of sandstone and flaky shale. These faults mean that sufficient force can crack his body, although it takes a direct, powerful blow to cause this much damage. He has thin, spindly black arms and legs with only three fingers and toes on each appendage that look as if they were additions drawn onto his body with a heavy marker. Lacking knees, elbows, or any other joints, his limbs are as flexible as wet spaghetti. His perfectly round white eyes have small, black pupils and his mouth is a line cut into his stone body, baring small, rounded stone teeth when he smiles.
Despite the spindly arms and legs, Rock is agile and strong, able to propel his body through the air at dangerous speeds and to surprising distances (20 feet in any direction). More often than attacking, he will hurl his body about in front of Po, preventing attacks from reaching his more vulnerable master. Rock is not particularly bright, tending towards monosyllabic utterances and rarely manages a complete, grammatically correct sentence, but is utterly loyal and, when spurned to anger, can be quite ferocious. Has been known to bite, but Po discourages this technique as it rarely serves to accomplish much besides anger the opponent further.
While a truly powerful concussive force can damage Rock’s body, his true weakness is his limbs. While they are strong in terms of movement, they are also vulnerable to damage. They can be pulled asunder, severed, burned, and otherwise destroyed. Without his limbs, Rocks main ability is to roll around at a walking pace and perhaps trip someone or start an avalanche. In desperation, Po might pick Rock up and chuck him, but at that point it doesn’t really matter.
Although he has only three fingers, Rock is fairly mechanically adept. As he is the only member of this merry band that posses intricate manipulatory appendages, Rock is Po’s most constant companion.
Paper: Paper is similar to Rock in that his name is descriptive of his body. He is a scroll of yellowed, slightly ragged parchment bound together with a black, silk ribbon. Floating a consistent eight inches off the ground, he stands taller than Po at an even five feet tall. His movements are silent and smooth, but limited. He has no ability to jump and obstructions over 8 eight inches are difficult for him to circumvent. A face can be found on the upper half of Paper’s rolled body. The eyes are set slightly into the paper, giving him a heavy brow sprouting white eyebrows. Paper has the ability to change the color and appearance of his eyes, usually trying to be very dramatic and imposing, sometime successfully, sometimes not. While Paper is presumably no older than Rock or Scissors, who both seem quite youthful, Paper has a flowing white beard that reaches past the black ribbon marking his middle. Paper can function while unrolled, but rather than floating upright he skims across the ground like a flying carpet. Paper finds this most undignified and avoids it whenever possible.
Written on Paper’s pages is a massive body of knowledge, mostly useless, but some of great value. Also found on his pages are several magical spells that Paper can cast. As a wielder of the magical arts, Paper is the most powerful of Po’s companions, but also the most vulnerable. As you would suspect, Paper is not resistant to much in the way of damage. Fire and water are particularly dangerous to him and shredding by blade or other means is also a constant threat. However, he is a cunning and brave creature, necessary for him to stay alive very long. Paper thinks of himself as wiser than Po and will occasionally disobey his instructions, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
Spells:
Hammer from Above~ In the great tradition of descriptive names, this spell is exactly what it says it is. A hammer manifests itself high in the air above Paper then swoops down onto the battlefield to deliver a heavy blow. The hammer is not always the same, smaller hammers move faster and deliver less damage, while large hammers move slower and deliver crushingly powerful smashes. The longer Paper is able to concentrate on the spell, the more powerful he is able to make it. Rapid casting will produce only hammers of the smaller, quick variety, while prolonged concentration is needed for the more powerful, oversized hammers.
Shield of Shafts~ A defensive spell, this spell summons 6 shafts of magical energy. Each shaft is 5 feet long and glows a separate color: orange, red, blue, green, black, and white. The shafts can be summoned anywhere up to 3 feet away from Paper’s body and retain their orientation relative to Paper (if paper turns, the shafts turn with him). However, once summoned, Paper cannot move the shafts, they are locked into position.
The magical energy of these shafts is able to block both physical and magical attacks.
Magical resistance: Any spell that hits the shafts will have some of the power taken away from the attack. Most spells would pass around a single shaft at close to full strength, however, if the shafts are intersecting, their effectiveness is increased. Paper will typically try to create a star shape, with all six shafts intersecting at the point of attack, to stop magical attacks.
Physical resistance: Each shaft has the same stopping power as a steel pole. This makes them very effective at stopping slashing attacks when arranged around Paper, however, thrusting attacks can easily bypass the narrow shafts.
Once summoned, the shafts remain in existence for around 40 seconds. Any damage or energy they absorb during that time will reduce the time they exist. Rapid, repeated attacks will dissipate the shield very quickly.
Scissors: Scissors is the lone female of the group, and a fiery one she is. As you might have guessed by now, Scissors is a pair of scissors. A wooden frame with steel blades, when closed Scissors is five feet long, three and a half feet of blades and one and a half foot handle. While a normal pair of scissor blades are specifically designed to cut in a clipping motion, Scissors has sharpened herself to allow for slicing, dicing, and the traditional clipping.
Where a person would normally place their fingers in the handle, you find two fiery orbs suspended in the center of the circular space. These orbs are Scissors’ eyes, ears, mouth, and pretty much everything else. When calm, Scissors can be a reasonable, even sweet individual to talk to. During times like this, the fiery orbs are reduced to gentle, glowing red globes. However, she is easily excited, the orbs bursting into flames and Scissors bursting into motion. Scissors moves at above average speed and in any direction. She has no appendages and simply floats, slashes, and spins through the air in whatever direction she pleases. She is limited in the heights she can travel too, at about twenty feet gravity will keep her from getting higher, but other than that limitation she moves at will. Scissors’ wooden frame is her greatest weakness. The frame can be broken up, burned, and otherwise destroyed, causing Scissors to literally fall apart. The two eye globes are also susceptible to damage, but it takes a fairly intricate direct hit to effect them.
Scissors is often beyond Po’s control. In a combat situation, she typically ignores any directions that Po might try to give her and Po has pretty much stopped trying to talk to her at all when she is in a fiery state. It is not that she is unintelligent or unable to communicate, she just gets a bit out of control very easily. As a result, she is hard to take into social situations.
Strangely, each of Po’s companions has a strong dislike for the other two. Each feels as if they are better than one and has a strange, somewhat irrational fear of the second. Rock thinks Scissors is a show off with no toughness, but is terrified of Paper’s spells. Scissors finds Paper to be all flash and no substance, easily shredded, but sees Rock as an indestructible force of nature. Paper looks down on Rock as barbaric and simple minded. He calls Scissors a crazed, unstable woman, which may be accurate, but he is clearly terrified of her frantic, flailing blades.
It is not quite clear to Po how they know each other at all, since he cannot summon them simultaneously, meaning they have never actually met in this world. Perhaps somewhere in the place where summoned creatures such as them dwell they live together and know one another, or perhaps they eavesdrop on the others from an ethereal plane, waiting to be summoned. Po can never get them to explain this situation to him. In fact, the all they will say about their time when they are not summoned is that they are in “The Other Place.” Regardless, their deprecating comments toward one another are common and often exaggerated.
History: Who knows from where Rock, Paper, Scissors and the hand that throws them originate. It seems they have been around since the beginning of time and will continue into eternity, solving disputes and determining fate in countless situations.
Equipment: Po carries nothing with him.