[Game Thread] An Orc a Bar and Some Adventures

[RWBY2019]

The group - Departure After dinner and the discussion of destination settling on Nion 4U3 the group breaks up and rests for the night waking early the next day to depart planet and arrive at Nion 4U3

The group - Nion 4U3 the group arrived in the system being briefly harassed by local customs grid who are scared away by Vania's very illegal threats but the officers leave her with a warning and let the set of ship through to Nion the worlds landing towers direct the ships to medium pad 35 of the landing zone is much nearer to the main security check in than the other pads. when the group arrive at the chec through a very gruff and unhappy looking dwarf glares at them "Anything to declare" his voice carries a cold hatred directed mostly to Xel Vania sets her twin pistols on the counter along with three emp's, twenty frags, two large daggers, her respirator and twenty of the metal spikes she had previously used she also pulls off her arm setting on the counter she looks the dwarf in the eyes "that's all from me and the rest plus whatever you see on us " the dwarf looks the party over "alright pretty standard fare you may go through" Vania retrieves her things and as the group leaves they hear some unspeakable acts happening to the dwarf (anyone looking back at the noise sees a pile of bones and visera in place of the dwarf) when they leave the security check Vania looks at everyone "so I called ahead last night and booked us a stay at the beuford the biggest hotel around it's in the city center myself cross and lily have a bit of a shopping trip so he doesn't stick out like a sore thumb we will meet there tell the receptionist that the blackbird sends her regards and you will be treated like royalty"

Cross - Shopping Vania draggs Cross by the arm before hooking their arms together and lily landing on Vanias shoulders Lily very grumply glares at her father "Why didn't you say we were going shopping " her mood switches instantly "Cause I love clothing maybe sister can get me what she's wearing" at Cross's glare of oh no you don't Vania looks up at her sister "When your older you don't quite have the body for it" at this lily climbs down from Vanias shoulders and her body morphs into a much older version of herself now standing at a solid six feet tall and having a much more developed body only behind Vania on development Lily's hair now extends down to her hips in a blinding white snow storm her eyes brighter and a big smile on her face her lips pursed and hands on her hips "now do i have the body for it" Vania bursts out laughing "your still a bit lacking" She gestures to her sisters chest "oh it's too good but i'm sorry I will not dress you like the girl that I am it doesn't suit your character" Lily goes to retort but stops herself as they reach the clothing store Vania was taking them to Vania confidently enters the store followed closely Cross and the much taller lily a old and grizzled man tends the store counter a large smile crossing his face as Vania enters and he passes to the front the two meet in the middle of the store floor "Vania how have you been baby girl your clients miss your services" Vania punches him in the gut hard "Not well I take it " he lingers on his knees for a while well Vania glares down at him "They need new clothes "she points her thumb over her shoulder at Cross and lily "ah yes of course " the man get up and hurriedly shows Cross the various clothing options but Cross ends up looking the man over first as he is clearly quite capable large muscles and a pump action shotgun slung over his shoulder but he is clearly scared of Vania even though he clearly sets up some very different work than his own for her "this might suit you" the man show Cross a very nice set of tactical gear "You would look like quite the escort for her " the man points to lily whos examining some dresses with Vanias help

Yasir and the Chief Yasir and the chief are stood with Xel, Mari and Roddenberry deciding what to do until Xel and Mari leave the trio to retrieve their gear

OOC bit slim for the chief and Yasir right now cause I wasn't sure what they would be doing planetside sorry

[triedtherest]

Yasir bin Abadard XXIV - Back to the Profit Margin Yasir swaggers up to the Dwarf Inspector, as only a man wearing enough raw metal to make a small tank while disguised by holographic technology to resemble expensive business attire could swagger! He flashed a set of white teeth (thanks to his special toothpaste that was able to remove the yellow stains caused by his endless cigarettes) in the form of a smile, to the Dwarf. "Nothing to declare!" He said jovially, and also (strangely for him) quite honestly! Seriously, he had disabled the Flamer and left it back in his quarters. The Axe of Khorne would be found nowhere on his person but was only a thought away. The rest of the Regalia of the Chaos Gods were either integrated into his armour (the Helm and the Gauntlet), or in a pouch at his side (the Tome), and were not on any list of proscribed items. Hell, nobody in this Universe would even know what they were! Well, almost nobody.... Vania! He still needed to get her list of items. Fortunately, he had already Profession Skill Result: 26 (Previous Post)tracked down the various local merchants who had what he needed, he just needed to pay them a visit, and maybe make a few new contacts in the process. "Well.." He said to the others still stood there. "...I have spot of local Trading to do, so if you need me, I'm just a quick "Com" away." He strikes a match against a sign that said "No Smoking!" Lit a cigarette, took a drag, and wandered off. "Toodle-pip!" He said, with a backwards wave.

OOC   Set Up Shop: (Using These Rules) Upgrade Masterwork Skill Rank 3 Small Merchant Business Time: 1 week (3/7 Days completed) Cost: 100 Credit/Skill Rank (125% of Cost to make it Masterwork) = 375 Credits (4 credits previously invested) Recruit Rank 3 Assistant: Days it takes to Recruit 1st Assistant: 9 (Day 3/9)

Character Sheet

[Dylan Scott]

Shopping Landing on Nion 4U3 and walking down the boarding ramp, Cross could already tell he was not going to enjoy the experience of "city" life. the sights, sounds and smells were already battering at his senses, and even with the help of the Khaydarin Crystal he can feel his headache trying to return, he missed the quiet peacefulness of the White already. But he had a job to do and a hunt to finish so he followed his girls as Vania took charge and started to drag him into the city to go shopping, apparently his outfit wasn't suitable for "cityfolk", he would do his best not to roll his eyes at some of the more garish and impractical outfits he saw as they made their way to the shop Vania had in mind but it wasn't easy. He had to bite his tongue a number of times, and again even harder when Snowlily used the nanites in her body to morph into an older version of herself, the younger sister now looking older than Vania, though neither of them acted their ages anyway. Physically Vania was 15 as far as he was aware but she acted much older. Snowlily on the other hand Acted 11, now appeared to be around 20 but was in fact millennia old chronologically, it was almost enough to make his head spin like it did when he looked into the warp. He wanted to tell Snowlily to change back but she seemed to be happy the way she was, looking so much like her sister, and he didn't even know if she could revert now she had accelerated her aging. A discussion for another time though as his attention and anger was brought into focus on the shopkeeper. the establishment might appear to be a tailors but from the conversation and comments he was making to Vania, and the looks he was giving the now older Snowlily, Cross was sure his true trade was something much more sinister and it made his skin crawl Once more biting his tongue, Cross bided his time, plastering a fake smile on his face as the very large, well muscled and well armed man showed him some over the top tactical outfits. Despite his best efforts to up-sell a total package, Cross eventually settled on a much more minimalist outfit with fewer tactical holsters and bandoleers. He was a Hunter and Sniper after all, if he needed to carry so much ammunition and weaponry then he was clearly not a very good shot and advertising the fact. He also purchased a large pack and used it to store his cold weather gear in after he changed into his new "city" outfit and waited for the girls to make their choices, he trusted Vania to pick something out for Snowlily that was appropriate, despite her own fashion choices she didn't seem keen on her little sister copying her which he was thankful for. the look worked for Vania but on his little butterfly it would just not look right. As Mari had warned him, he had to wait a very long time for the girls to shop. luckily he was used to being patient and staying in one place for hours on end but it was still a chore for him as he had to endure the comments and conversation from the shopkeeper, his every leer and lewd remark making his anger worse. Thankfully the girls eventually finished selecting outfits and were ready to leave much to Cross's relief "Vania, please take your sister outside, i would like to have a word with your friend here in private" He phrased it politely but there was no mistaking the Praetors command in his tone. Waiting until the girls left, Cross handed the man his credits for the outfits. "If i was a merciful man then i should give you the chance to explain yourself but there is nothing you can possibly say to justify what you did to my daughter" "And i am not a merciful man when it involves my family" Before the man had a chance to react or even understand what he was saying, Cross called on his burgeoning psychic abilities and send pulse after pulse of Feedback into the large mans brain, bringing him to his knees in agony. But Cross didn't relent, his own nose bleeding from so much psychic energy running through his skull as he liquefied the mans brain. Leaving the man where he fell, Cross left the shop, turning the closed sign on as he left and pulled the door closed behind him, giving his girls a smile as he came out "Whos hungry?"

Actions & Movement Turn Summary Initiative: Move: Action: Continued Feedback attacks on the shopkeeper Bonus Action: Reaction: Notes:

Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 4)/Soldier (Level 1) Stamina: 53 / 53 |HP: 35 /35 | Resolve Points: 6 / 6 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +14 Speed: 50 | Base Attack Bonus: +4 (+3/+1) STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 18 (+4) | INT 16 (+3) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA13 (+1) Fort Save: +9 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +11. Cold/Heat +13)| Reflex Save: +8 | Will Save: +8 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +8 Ranged (2d6+4 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +8 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +8 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | +8 Attack (1D8+2 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade | Range (400/1,000) +8 Ranged (3d12+4 Damage), Payload 20/20 (8 Hour Recharge)Antimatter Rifle | +5 Attack 1D6+1 Lethal Damage, Threaten Adjacent Squares with AOOUnarmed Strikes Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim), Kasatha, Protoss (Probium), OrchishLanguages | Armor: Light, Shields Weapons: Simple, Basic & Advanced Melee, Small Arms, Long Arms & Sniper, Psi-Blade and Glaive Cannon, Grenades Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +14, Athletics: +11 (Leaping: +27), Bluff: +8, Computers: +10, Culture: +16, Diplomacy: +8, Disguise: +3, Engineering: +10, Intimidation: +7, Life Science: +8, Medicine: +13, Perception: +12, Physical Science: +7, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +12, Sense Motive: +12, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +14, Survival: +16Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skill Skill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization | You attract followers to your cause and a companion to join you on your adventures. This feat enables you to attract a loyal cohort and a number of devoted subordinates who assist youLeadership | Your quick reflexes allow you to react rapidly to danger. Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks.Improved Initiative | You have trained to make your unarmed strikes lethal and strike with kicks, head-butts, and similar attacks. Benefit: Your unarmed strike damage increases to 1d6 at 4th level, 2d6 at 8th level, 3d6 at 12th level, 5d6 at 15th level, and 7d6 at 20th level. Your unarmed strikes don’t count as archaic and can deal lethal damage. You threaten squares within your natural reach with your unarmed strikes even when you do not have a hand free for an unarmed strike. If you are immobilized, entangled, or unable to use both legs (or whatever appendages you have in place of legs, where appropriate), you lose the ability to make unarmed strikes without your hands. When making an unarmed strike without your hands, you can’t use such attacks for combat maneuvers or similar abilities—only to deal damage. Improved Unarmed Strikes Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation | When you succeed at both the skill check and attack roll of your trick attack, you can make the target flat-footed or off-target until the beginning of your next turn. You might learn exploits that grant you additional options for your debilitating trick, but you can select only one option each time you hit with a trick attack.Debilitating Trick Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager | You can see in the dark as if you had low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet.Nightvision Protoss Graft Traits: During the Brood War, dark archons manipulated raw psychic energy to cause damage by turning the energy of a target against itself, By the Second Great War, the high templar learned to use this ability. As high templar are deeply attuned to the energy flows that surround them, through this psionic ability, these warriors can grasp the energy currents present in beings or machines, and drain them through a violent chain reaction. This backlash may cause grievous wounds to living beings, or massive structural damage to machines. If the target happens to bristle with energy, the powerful psionic Feedback may destroy it outright. At Will Psionic Ability Dealing 2D6 DamageFeedback | A psionic storm is a storm of raw psychic energy produced by a psionics user. Protoss who follow the Khala can produce such a storm by closing their mind to the outside world, sending out psychic "ripples" that are disruptive to other lifeforms, tearing apart their brains. Such storms can also damage vehicles and the landscape itself. Such is the power of a psionic storm that it can send shockwaves through the air around it. The storm is a physical display of a high templar's psionic power. It concentrates all the psionic energy over a given area, so overlapping storms have no greater effect than a single one. Usable Twice per Day, Inflicting 5D6 Damage to a 20ft AreaPsi-Storm Soldier Traits: You have a preferred fighting style that represents the type of soldier you are. Each fighting style is composed of various style techniques that you learn as you gain experience. You must pick one fighting style upon taking your first soldier level, and once made, this choice cannot be changed. The blitz fighting style is all about using speed and aggression to get into the thick of melee. You increase your speed and responsiveness, gain abilities that make you better at melee combat than your enemies, and keep on fighting even when surrounded by foes.Primary Fighting Style - Blitz | At 1st level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a style technique unique to your primary fighting style. You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks and increase your land speed by 10 feet.Primary Style Technique - Rapid Response | You study fighting styles thought lost to the Gap, often recorded only in the art of ancient civilizations or inferred from the shape of relic weapons and battle gear. You focus specifically ancient motions and techniques that rely on form and mobility rather than the harshness of attacks and resilience. You gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. You can deal lethal damage with your unarmed strikes, and the attack doesn’t count as archaic. At 3rd level, you gain a unique Weapon Specialization with your unarmed strikes, allowing you to add 1-1/2 times your character level to your damage rolls for your unarmed strikes (instead of just adding your character level, as usual). If you can already add 1-1/2 your character level to your unarmed attack rolls (such as due to the vesk natural attack racial trait), you instead can add the block, grapple, and stun weapon special properties to your unarmed strikes. This replaces the soldier’s proficiency with heavy armor and heavy weapons.Ascetic Warrior - Vazeal Zhakan-Kai / Hands of the Destroying Shadow

[RWBY2019]

Cross AS cross exits the Shop he finds Vania in yet another outfit her wardrobe seemingly endless, This time she wears a sports bra with the same hole carved into it drawing attention to the starry and endless cold void within, she wears a long black trench coat the inner lining exhibiting the same starry black as the night sky in the white, her starry curtain of hair pulled up into a low ponytail a black fedora with a black feather glittering with color changing specks sits in the brim, she wears fraying cut of jean shorts on her legs with high heel boots that go up to the knee. Lily in vast contrast looks like a snow mound, a bright white skirt and crop top long sleeve shirt accentuate her bright blue eyes her legs are coveed in pure white thigh high stockings and wears white sneakers to go with. Vania noticing Cross lights a cigarette "she insisted upon that outfit specifically in pure white tho she originally wanted to have a copy of what i was wearing" she takes a draw from the cigarette before continuing "also next time you need to melt a brain tell me that has just revealed us to you adversary your anger makes you carless so " she takes another draw from the cigarette "let's do this" she jabbs Cross with a syringe a glittering purple fluid injected into him Cross immediately feels his headache fade away completely "that was condensed pure terrazine it will fix the headache and for the next couple hours let you sense other psionics and before you rip me to shreds it's refined terrazine that's addictive not the unrefined stuff" she give a small laugh "I'd know I used to sell the stuff and speaking of food i know a good join down the street" as Cross, lily and Vania walk down the street to the food join Vania mentioned Cross's sight becomes distorted when he looks at Vania a massive black hue surrounds her a simple set Khalani glyph sits in pure white over her head they read "Xel'naga psionic do not engage mentally" the glyphs are familiar yet he'd never seen them before his old battle brothers memories were warning him even though he knew he was safe Cross couldn't help but feel inclined to take this warning to heart. Cross eventually snaps back to reality by the savory smell of barbecue and cigar smoke looking around Cross see's a rather quaint and nice looking bar and barbecue joint for the area they all pick a table in the back and Vania flags down a waitress and makes and order that is rather expensive including top shelf whiskey and top tier meat but some time before the meal arrives the apparent owner comes over to the table a very large older man with muscles double in size of Xels a thick white beard and scared eye he wears a apron over a white shirt and jeans when his sits he laughs "well never thought I'd see you again lass"his words are accompanied by a thick scottish accent he then places his arm on the table "how bout a go for old times sake" Vania wordlessly grabs his hand the ensuing arm wrestle takes twenty minutes of the two engaging in high quality booze and catching up on life with the eventual win of the owner "Oh ho ho lass you are still a great match" he downs a glass of whisky Vania still chugging a bottle when she finishes she gives a satisfied sigh and smile "You as well old man " the two laugh "so old man what have you been doing aside keeping this place out of the corruption" the old man scratches the back of his bald head "lass you know my name use it please I call you lass to preserve the illusion that everyone here thinks you're dead" Vania gives a heavy sigh "Alright Declan go get are food " Declan gives a big smile "of course lass i'll be right back and as a thank you for being alive today's on the house " around ten minutes later Declan comes back carrying a massive barbecue platter and ten large bottles of top shelf whisky right behind him however is around three waitress's rolling beer kegs "to everyone in the bar today if you can beat lass here at a drinking competition you get the house platter free of charge" he gestures to Vania who is smiling slightly she clearly enjoys the energy of the bar as they cheer mugs raised the ensuing competition is a joy to watch as Vania drinks even the best dwarfs under the table Lily clearly not one for the energy ends up eating some of the food and fiddling with several small drones she was hiding but her energy is rather low as when she's done the drones are accidentally knocked out of the air and trampled by several drunk patrons at this point lily shrinks down to normal size and curls up in a ball on cross's lap her clothes shrinking with her Vania ever observant sees this happen and points Declan in their direction who sees them out and finds the pieces for lily sadly with no result for her mood when Cross eats the food it's rather high quality just like the bar he finds it to be perfectly tender and just sweet enough that the spice of the dry rub comes through the whiskey is good as well but nonetheless the food is no match for what Xel and Mari can do nor can the atmosphere compare to xels bar either

Yasir Yasir arrives at the seller he had tracked down the outside is run down and rusty entering it smell of rotting flesh and motor oil he finds a short and stout older halfling woman behind the counter she looks at the well dressed businessman through dusty glasses steel grey eyes analize his every move "what can I help you with dear" when presented with the list of things she nods "one moment dear" she climbs down from her chair going in the back yelling at someone in halfling eventually she comes back with a young elf boy carrying several boxes he sets them on the counter returning to the back the halfling woman now back in her chair looks at yasir again " do give your friend my regards she was a great customer and it's all free to go with you this was paid for around twenty five years ago i kept it in storage for her as shes dangerous one and resilient do give Vania dear my regards and tell her to visit grandma Clearhollow" yasir leaves the scrap shoppe feeling very disturbed Vania's influence either stretched very far or this was her homeworld where she made a name and was tormented

[Dylan Scott]

Shopping Cross was almost on autopilot as he exited the shop, taking in the new appearance of his girls without really registering it, he didn't approve of Snowlily's outfit (or her new age) but he held his tongue, he was wise enough to know that he was out of his element here, not only in a city like this but as a parent as well. his attention was brought back sharply as Vania jabbed the needle into his arm "Hey!" Seeing the glittering purple fluid, he knows exactly what is it, having seen it many many times over the years, he is about to snap at Vania when his headache disappears and for a moment he thinks clearly and the presence of Ynorich washes over him strongly, calming him down. "Vania, Sweetheart. I know you are trying to help but please never do that to me again without my permission. I decide what substances i take, no one else" "Whether they are addictive or not is irrelevant, give me enough respect to choice for myself please" Cross gave her a smile and hug though to let her know he wasn't angry. though maybe he should be but he was feeling pretty good right now. if the refined version felt anything like this then he could see the appeal that had his father hooked for so long, though he would never admit it to the man "I might have been angry at the Man but my actions weren't as reckless as you think. i don't think you can deny that he had that coming and i wont be losing any sleep over someone who hurt my child. As for alerting the Specter that we are here? Good. There is no honour in a Blood Hunt if the prey does not know it is being hunted. She will know we are closing in and make mistakes and when she does we will track her down and make her pay for her attempt on your sisters life." Following her to the Bar and Diner, Cross is impressed, not as homely and welcoming as Xel's Place was, and without Mari cooking he doubted the food was as good either (he was pleased to find out that he was right, although it was good food), but it was still his type of place and he was glad that his eldest had good taste in barbecue and whiskey places at least even if her choice in friends was a little hit and miss. This Declan seemed a pleasant enough man, he had not given Cross any vibes that he also would need his brains melting and Vania's interactions with him were certainly friendlier than they were with the tailor so he was able to relax a little and enjoy his meal and drinks until Snowlily reverted to her normal size and crawled into his lap. He didn't need to be psychic to see she was upset and he gave her a big hug as Declan gathered the pieces of her broken drones. While Vania continues to drink and show up the patrons, Cross focuses on his youngest daughter, trying to coax her out of her shell again, sliding his Multi-toolOmniblade out of his pocket, he started to rebuild one of the drones. Unfortunately he wasn't able to fix them all as some of them had been badly trampled by the rowdy drunks but he was able to piece together one of them using parts from the others, now all he needed was Snowlily to finish off the build as the damage to the remaining drone was beyond his skill with the tools he had at hand. "Nearly there princess, but i need your help with this part. does this part go in here?" He is sure that it doesn't but hopes making such an obvious error will draw her out of her shell to help fix it

Actions & Movement Turn Summary Initiative: Move: Action: Assemble a working Drone from spare parts Dice Engineering: 1D20+10 (8)+10 Total = 18 Bonus Action: Reaction: Notes: Working on the assumption that the drones will count as complex devices and need a DC 20 check to fix so just failed with an 18

Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 4)/Soldier (Level 1) Stamina: 53 / 53 |HP: 35 /35 | Resolve Points: 6 / 6 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +14 Speed: 50 | Base Attack Bonus: +4 (+3/+1) STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 18 (+4) | INT 16 (+3) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA13 (+1) Fort Save: +9 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +11. Cold/Heat +13)| Reflex Save: +8 | Will Save: +8 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +8 Ranged (2d6+4 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +8 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +8 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | +8 Attack (1D8+2 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade | Range (400/1,000) +8 Ranged (3d12+4 Damage), Payload 20/20 (8 Hour Recharge)Antimatter Rifle | +5 Attack 1D6+1 Lethal Damage, Threaten Adjacent Squares with AOOUnarmed Strikes Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim), Kasatha, Protoss (Probium), OrchishLanguages | Armor: Light, Shields Weapons: Simple, Basic & Advanced Melee, Small Arms, Long Arms & Sniper, Psi-Blade and Glaive Cannon, Grenades Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +14, Athletics: +11 (Leaping: +27), Bluff: +8, Computers: +10, Culture: +16, Diplomacy: +8, Disguise: +3, Engineering: +10, Intimidation: +7, Life Science: +8, Medicine: +13, Perception: +12, Physical Science: +7, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +12, Sense Motive: +12, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +14, Survival: +16Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skill Skill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization | You attract followers to your cause and a companion to join you on your adventures. This feat enables you to attract a loyal cohort and a number of devoted subordinates who assist youLeadership | Your quick reflexes allow you to react rapidly to danger. Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks.Improved Initiative | You have trained to make your unarmed strikes lethal and strike with kicks, head-butts, and similar attacks. Benefit: Your unarmed strike damage increases to 1d6 at 4th level, 2d6 at 8th level, 3d6 at 12th level, 5d6 at 15th level, and 7d6 at 20th level. Your unarmed strikes don’t count as archaic and can deal lethal damage. You threaten squares within your natural reach with your unarmed strikes even when you do not have a hand free for an unarmed strike. If you are immobilized, entangled, or unable to use both legs (or whatever appendages you have in place of legs, where appropriate), you lose the ability to make unarmed strikes without your hands. When making an unarmed strike without your hands, you can’t use such attacks for combat maneuvers or similar abilities—only to deal damage. Improved Unarmed Strikes Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation | When you succeed at both the skill check and attack roll of your trick attack, you can make the target flat-footed or off-target until the beginning of your next turn. You might learn exploits that grant you additional options for your debilitating trick, but you can select only one option each time you hit with a trick attack.Debilitating Trick Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager | You can see in the dark as if you had low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet.Nightvision Protoss Graft Traits: During the Brood War, dark archons manipulated raw psychic energy to cause damage by turning the energy of a target against itself, By the Second Great War, the high templar learned to use this ability. As high templar are deeply attuned to the energy flows that surround them, through this psionic ability, these warriors can grasp the energy currents present in beings or machines, and drain them through a violent chain reaction. This backlash may cause grievous wounds to living beings, or massive structural damage to machines. If the target happens to bristle with energy, the powerful psionic Feedback may destroy it outright. At Will Psionic Ability Dealing 2D6 DamageFeedback | A psionic storm is a storm of raw psychic energy produced by a psionics user. Protoss who follow the Khala can produce such a storm by closing their mind to the outside world, sending out psychic "ripples" that are disruptive to other lifeforms, tearing apart their brains. Such storms can also damage vehicles and the landscape itself. Such is the power of a psionic storm that it can send shockwaves through the air around it. The storm is a physical display of a high templar's psionic power. It concentrates all the psionic energy over a given area, so overlapping storms have no greater effect than a single one. Usable Twice per Day, Inflicting 5D6 Damage to a 20ft AreaPsi-Storm Soldier Traits: You have a preferred fighting style that represents the type of soldier you are. Each fighting style is composed of various style techniques that you learn as you gain experience. You must pick one fighting style upon taking your first soldier level, and once made, this choice cannot be changed. The blitz fighting style is all about using speed and aggression to get into the thick of melee. You increase your speed and responsiveness, gain abilities that make you better at melee combat than your enemies, and keep on fighting even when surrounded by foes.Primary Fighting Style - Blitz | At 1st level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a style technique unique to your primary fighting style. You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks and increase your land speed by 10 feet.Primary Style Technique - Rapid Response | You study fighting styles thought lost to the Gap, often recorded only in the art of ancient civilizations or inferred from the shape of relic weapons and battle gear. You focus specifically ancient motions and techniques that rely on form and mobility rather than the harshness of attacks and resilience. You gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. You can deal lethal damage with your unarmed strikes, and the attack doesn’t count as archaic. At 3rd level, you gain a unique Weapon Specialization with your unarmed strikes, allowing you to add 1-1/2 times your character level to your damage rolls for your unarmed strikes (instead of just adding your character level, as usual). If you can already add 1-1/2 your character level to your unarmed attack rolls (such as due to the vesk natural attack racial trait), you instead can add the block, grapple, and stun weapon special properties to your unarmed strikes. This replaces the soldier’s proficiency with heavy armor and heavy weapons.Ascetic Warrior - Vazeal Zhakan-Kai / Hands of the Destroying Shadow

[RWBY2019]

Cross As Cross begins working on the drone he finds it to be much more complex than most recreational drones he get around thirty percent of the drone fixed when the part stumps him as it looks like a coolant cartridge and battery combined when he prompts lily for advice she sits on his knee her face and eyes glisten she give a sniffle and drys her face having been shedding silent tears and she eventually takes the drone rearranging some parts and producing he own version of an omniblade rather than the normal nanite theme her equipment seemed to have it was energetic and semi solid liquid metal capable of using her own electrical current to produce small sparks of plasma to solder wires and such just as Lily and Cross finish the drone repairs Vania comes back to their table having beat most of the bar at a drinking competition "OH man that was fun" she laughs her face flushed from the booze though she is clearly not drunk "So how was the food you two" before Cross can say anything a man in a fine tailored suite enters the bar Declan greets him with open arms "Al long time no see what can I do you for" Al as he's called looks around before responding "It's rather quite to night who'd you convince to drink everyone to sleep and i'm here on business i'll take my usual " Declan nods his head and waves a waitress who brings the man a drink before he strolls over to Vania "Well i'll be you still are quite the enigma"he sits down across from her looking Cross and lily over "Mr.Cross I do hope your fathers well oh sorry you wont know me i'm a family friend and patron to the Hunters guild last you and i met you were i think just bor-" he's cut off by Vania "get to the chase AL" Al is taken back by this "My dear sober up first please and while you do that i will have a frinely chat with Mr.Cross as he is going to need my information for his little hunt"

[Dylan Scott]

Strange Contacts Cross's arms tightened around his daughter, hugging her tighter as the strange man in suit comes in and sits at their table uninvited, a move which gets his hackles up immediately. Declan and Vania seem to know the man but their interactions with him are different so he does not know how to take it. For a long moment Cross didn't say anything, letting the silence linger at the man's rather condescending comment about his "little hunt". He claimed to be a patron of the Hunters guild but he clearly wasn't a hunter himself if he didn't understand the significance of a Blood Hunt. Cross let the silence continue until it was uncomfortable before he gently lifted Snowlily down off his lap, keeping his eyes on the man as he spoke to Vania "Vania, Sweetheart, please will you take your sister to the washroom to freshen up while i talk to this gentleman" Finally addressing the man himself "You have me at a disadvantage sir, you are clearly informed enough to know my father is sick and who i am, so you should also know enough that strangers talking about my family is not the best way to get my attention. Right now your patronage of the Guild is the only reason we are still talking" "I apologise if that seems a bit harsh but you must also be aware of what has been happening the last few days so you will understand that my patience is being stretched very thin right now, so as my daughter said. lets cut to the chase shall we?" "Who are you?"

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Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 4)/Soldier (Level 1) Stamina: 53 / 53 |HP: 35 /35 | Resolve Points: 6 / 6 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +14 Speed: 50 | Base Attack Bonus: +4 (+3/+1) STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 18 (+4) | INT 16 (+3) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA13 (+1) Fort Save: +9 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +11. Cold/Heat +13)| Reflex Save: +8 | Will Save: +8 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +8 Ranged (2d6+4 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +8 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +8 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | +8 Attack (1D8+2 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade | Range (400/1,000) +8 Ranged (3d12+4 Damage), Payload 20/20 (8 Hour Recharge)Antimatter Rifle | +5 Attack 1D6+1 Lethal Damage, Threaten Adjacent Squares with AOOUnarmed Strikes Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim), Kasatha, Protoss (Probium), OrchishLanguages | Armor: Light, Shields Weapons: Simple, Basic & Advanced Melee, Small Arms, Long Arms & Sniper, Psi-Blade and Glaive Cannon, Grenades Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +14, Athletics: +11 (Leaping: +27), Bluff: +8, Computers: +10, Culture: +16, Diplomacy: +8, Disguise: +3, Engineering: +10, Intimidation: +7, Life Science: +8, Medicine: +13, Perception: +12, Physical Science: +7, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +12, Sense Motive: +12, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +14, Survival: +16Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skill Skill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization | You attract followers to your cause and a companion to join you on your adventures. This feat enables you to attract a loyal cohort and a number of devoted subordinates who assist youLeadership | Your quick reflexes allow you to react rapidly to danger. Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks.Improved Initiative | You have trained to make your unarmed strikes lethal and strike with kicks, head-butts, and similar attacks. Benefit: Your unarmed strike damage increases to 1d6 at 4th level, 2d6 at 8th level, 3d6 at 12th level, 5d6 at 15th level, and 7d6 at 20th level. Your unarmed strikes don’t count as archaic and can deal lethal damage. You threaten squares within your natural reach with your unarmed strikes even when you do not have a hand free for an unarmed strike. If you are immobilized, entangled, or unable to use both legs (or whatever appendages you have in place of legs, where appropriate), you lose the ability to make unarmed strikes without your hands. When making an unarmed strike without your hands, you can’t use such attacks for combat maneuvers or similar abilities—only to deal damage. Improved Unarmed Strikes Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation | When you succeed at both the skill check and attack roll of your trick attack, you can make the target flat-footed or off-target until the beginning of your next turn. You might learn exploits that grant you additional options for your debilitating trick, but you can select only one option each time you hit with a trick attack.Debilitating Trick Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager | You can see in the dark as if you had low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet.Nightvision Protoss Graft Traits: During the Brood War, dark archons manipulated raw psychic energy to cause damage by turning the energy of a target against itself, By the Second Great War, the high templar learned to use this ability. As high templar are deeply attuned to the energy flows that surround them, through this psionic ability, these warriors can grasp the energy currents present in beings or machines, and drain them through a violent chain reaction. This backlash may cause grievous wounds to living beings, or massive structural damage to machines. If the target happens to bristle with energy, the powerful psionic Feedback may destroy it outright. At Will Psionic Ability Dealing 2D6 DamageFeedback | A psionic storm is a storm of raw psychic energy produced by a psionics user. Protoss who follow the Khala can produce such a storm by closing their mind to the outside world, sending out psychic "ripples" that are disruptive to other lifeforms, tearing apart their brains. Such storms can also damage vehicles and the landscape itself. Such is the power of a psionic storm that it can send shockwaves through the air around it. The storm is a physical display of a high templar's psionic power. It concentrates all the psionic energy over a given area, so overlapping storms have no greater effect than a single one. Usable Twice per Day, Inflicting 5D6 Damage to a 20ft AreaPsi-Storm Soldier Traits: You have a preferred fighting style that represents the type of soldier you are. Each fighting style is composed of various style techniques that you learn as you gain experience. You must pick one fighting style upon taking your first soldier level, and once made, this choice cannot be changed. The blitz fighting style is all about using speed and aggression to get into the thick of melee. You increase your speed and responsiveness, gain abilities that make you better at melee combat than your enemies, and keep on fighting even when surrounded by foes.Primary Fighting Style - Blitz | At 1st level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a style technique unique to your primary fighting style. You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks and increase your land speed by 10 feet.Primary Style Technique - Rapid Response | You study fighting styles thought lost to the Gap, often recorded only in the art of ancient civilizations or inferred from the shape of relic weapons and battle gear. You focus specifically ancient motions and techniques that rely on form and mobility rather than the harshness of attacks and resilience. You gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. You can deal lethal damage with your unarmed strikes, and the attack doesn’t count as archaic. At 3rd level, you gain a unique Weapon Specialization with your unarmed strikes, allowing you to add 1-1/2 times your character level to your damage rolls for your unarmed strikes (instead of just adding your character level, as usual). If you can already add 1-1/2 your character level to your unarmed attack rolls (such as due to the vesk natural attack racial trait), you instead can add the block, grapple, and stun weapon special properties to your unarmed strikes. This replaces the soldier’s proficiency with heavy armor and heavy weapons.Ascetic Warrior - Vazeal Zhakan-Kai / Hands of the Destroying Shadow

[TurtleClub]

Chief Mayfield looks out over the endless cityscape, the man pausing to give a sympathetic glance over at Cross and his escalating parental woes. Yasir seemed to be a man on a mission, all business. The engineer holds back, taking his time, not daring to look back over his shoulder at whatever bad luck befell the dwarf. What happened to that... No... Don't give it attention. You aren't goingt to like the answers to any of it. Just do your work and keep your head down. Bart groans as he would drop down swiftly on bent knees, breathing in the night air. His oculars clicking rapidly in his head as he absorbs all the static and stimuli of the living city, Bart continues to rise up like a beanstalk, the mechanic getting a good stretch. He reaches for the last two cigs tucked under his work jacket, lighting them up and passing one to Roddenberry. He drags with a sour grimace, already knowing the first stop. "First. I'm getting my brand," He flicks the growing ash at the end of his smoke, letting the trails of smoke billow lazily from his nostrils. "Then. Beer? A good rare steak? Hmm. What you thinking?" Bart pats down his sides, checking himself over, finding wallet, sidearm and his necessities on his person as they made more distance between themselves and the safety of the Cold Iron. Something, maybe the hint of spilled oil would give Bart pause, a smile pulling at the corner of his lips. He sets his silver eyes on Roddenberry. "Hmm.. Big Planet like this. There's gotta be some action down at bedrock, hm? What you say to checking out the local talent? We have to be spoiled for street racing rings out there."

[RWBY2019]

The Chief Roddenberry joins the Chief in the search for a good brand of cigarettes and a street racing the duo eventually happening upon a small convenience store on a street corner they get their choice brands at a good price with a free carton tossed in for continued patronage as they leave the store a couple blocks away they can hear loud engines and get a faint scent of motor oil on the wind following the smell they find quite the party large muscle cars and sleek sport vehicles some revving the engine for curious onlookers others getting mechanic work done at just a glance the chief can tell most of the mechanics are un trained and doing it wrong but his attention is grabbed by the smell of steaks and beer approaching the small stand selling the steaks a young woman runs the counter while a man runs the grill "Car mechanics eat free if you want to eat free find a driver who needs some work done otherwise it'll cost you five hundred credits for a steak and beer meat ain't cheap"

Cross - A Meeting Of Chance When Cross asks Vania to take lily to the bathroom it's instead of Vania who says no but rather his little Butterfly who denies "I want to stay here with daddy" her adamence is acknowledged by Vania who compromise with her "you can stay but i'm going to have to ask you plug your ears and don't watch " Lily listens and puts in some earbuds Vania had Cross can hear the music Vania listens to faintly from the ear pieces Lily then returns to working on her drone her mood having improved tenfold compromises made Al then looks at Vania "dear why are you so enigmatic stop lying to yourself and those around you sooner or later you will lose again" Vania now much friendlier sit's on Al's lap her cyberarm fingers now ending in sharp points she caresses his face with the sharp and curled points "Al you have no idea how far I will go to protect them even if i have to lose my other arm they will not die on my watch" her voice is accompanied by a sultry tone that inspires both Confidence and fear "So do your business with my father and I'll sit on your lap for old times sake" Al clears his throat "Of course your question Mr.Cross is a very hard to answer one as who I am is very hard to pin down right now I am a patron to the guild no more no less however i was once a dear client of Vania here her unique talents were quite useful in growing my funds and by extension yours " there is a yelp of paint from Al as a small trickle of blood drips from his cheek "No lying Al of next is your eye" Al staunches the bleeding as he continues "my real name is Alfred heckler beuford i own the beuford hotel chain that's why my little blackbird here got you all a stay" another yelp of pain "Not yours Al I'm my own girl now but if you feel better about it you may call me blackbird still" While Vania addresses the possessive businessman Cross hears from Rose after a very uncomfortable silence from her "Boss i have a few things for you one is that I'm sorry for helping Lily with Vania but us Ai need to stick with one another also i found something on this blackbird name Vania had " what follows is several very graphic security videos of Vania eviscerating men who would otherwise have their way with women "Turns out her so called job with quote on quote clients ranged from pleasure cruises to being an extra gun mostly an extra gun it earned her a rep as a blackbird around here they are killers who leave the scene faster than they arrive hence the mental break down on the hive world she was arguing with her previous life that myself and lily accidentally woke up" Rose finishes and Al continues " but to the point I have here the location of your kill the only issue is that she's smack in the middle of a dominion base although i think you and your stealthy family should have little problems with that" he pushes a data pad across the table before having Vania get off him so he can stand "to the guild you and i never met as i'm simply filling a promise to your mother" he then finishes his drink and leaves the bar Vania sits in silence clearly disturbed by Al's visit when Declan tries to pull her to reality and fails he gives Cross some insight "Lad she would never tell anyone this but her relationship with Al was a strange one they were both lovers and partners in business she personally was the muscle getting her hands dirty doing as she was told and Al got the profit she was eventually tossed to the tailor you three visited i can tell by the little one's clothes she was property till i found her beaten to a pulp outside my house" he sighs "eventually the men charged with her collection came and got er but she eventually made a break for it and came to me for help so to make sure her needs were taken care of I loaded a cryo pod and sent it with her inside a couple systems out the mercs who originally owned her and augmented her were Al's original goons before he became a rich and pompous jerk"

[Dylan Scott]

Strange Contacts To say Cross was uncomfortable was an understatement, he was furious and it took all his self control (and Ynorich's presence in his mind) to stop him springing over the table to tear out the mans throat with his bare hands. He could feel the psychic power forming at the front of his brain, just begging to be released, almost alive in its siren song to be called forth and to eviscerate the man before him, Vania could feel it building and did what she could to control the situation as Beuford made his claims and pushed the data-pad across the table. Cross slammed his hand down on it to stop its slide, his fingers curling and cracking the screen as the man mentioned his mother, he didn't care about the data-pad in that moment, Rose could pull the information from it even with a cracked screen if she hadn't already. He was silent as she spoke in his ear and showed him the video footage of Vania. As the man finally stood and turned to leave, Cross finally spoke, his voice eerily calm and as cold as the white, calling out to the man as he was walking away "Mr Beuford. That is twice now you have spoken of my family. If we ever have the misfortune of crossing paths again, it will be the last thing you ever say and my face will the last you ever see" Cross ignored the tablet on the table and turned his attention to Vania, seeing her so silent and still, for a moment unsure what to do as he watches Declan trying to get her out of her shell. He knew a way to do it but he was still bruised from the last time he tried it so all he did was sit beside her and wrap an arm around her shoulder, pulling her quietly into a hug as i looked up at the Bartender "You are a good man Declan, thank you for what you did for Vania. You saved her life long enough for me to find her and give her a home. We have some business to attend to here soon but afterwards i would like to come back and talk with you some more about her past. I hope you will be able to provide me with the names of these men who worked for Alfred Beuford and locations where i can find them. Don't worry about the Tailor though, he has been dealt with already" For a long moment, Cross sat hugging his eldest daughter and watched his youngest tinkering with the drone and bouncing to the music from Vania's earplugs. "Rose, please will you download the information from the data-pad and lets have no more talk of what happened on the Hiveworld. never ruin an apology with an excuse or explanation"

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Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 4)/Soldier (Level 1) Stamina: 53 / 53 |HP: 35 /35 | Resolve Points: 6 / 6 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +14 Speed: 50 | Base Attack Bonus: +4 (+3/+1) STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 18 (+4) | INT 16 (+3) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA13 (+1) Fort Save: +9 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +11. Cold/Heat +13)| Reflex Save: +8 | Will Save: +8 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +8 Ranged (2d6+4 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +8 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +8 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | +8 Attack (1D8+2 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade | Range (400/1,000) +8 Ranged (3d12+4 Damage), Payload 20/20 (8 Hour Recharge)Antimatter Rifle | +5 Attack 1D6+1 Lethal Damage, Threaten Adjacent Squares with AOOUnarmed Strikes Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim), Kasatha, Protoss (Probium), OrchishLanguages | Armor: Light, Shields Weapons: Simple, Basic & Advanced Melee, Small Arms, Long Arms & Sniper, Psi-Blade and Glaive Cannon, Grenades Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +14, Athletics: +11 (Leaping: +27), Bluff: +8, Computers: +10, Culture: +16, Diplomacy: +8, Disguise: +3, Engineering: +10, Intimidation: +7, Life Science: +8, Medicine: +13, Perception: +12, Physical Science: +7, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +12, Sense Motive: +12, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +14, Survival: +16Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skill Skill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization | You attract followers to your cause and a companion to join you on your adventures. This feat enables you to attract a loyal cohort and a number of devoted subordinates who assist youLeadership | Your quick reflexes allow you to react rapidly to danger. Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks.Improved Initiative | You have trained to make your unarmed strikes lethal and strike with kicks, head-butts, and similar attacks. Benefit: Your unarmed strike damage increases to 1d6 at 4th level, 2d6 at 8th level, 3d6 at 12th level, 5d6 at 15th level, and 7d6 at 20th level. Your unarmed strikes don’t count as archaic and can deal lethal damage. You threaten squares within your natural reach with your unarmed strikes even when you do not have a hand free for an unarmed strike. If you are immobilized, entangled, or unable to use both legs (or whatever appendages you have in place of legs, where appropriate), you lose the ability to make unarmed strikes without your hands. When making an unarmed strike without your hands, you can’t use such attacks for combat maneuvers or similar abilities—only to deal damage. Improved Unarmed Strikes Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation | When you succeed at both the skill check and attack roll of your trick attack, you can make the target flat-footed or off-target until the beginning of your next turn. You might learn exploits that grant you additional options for your debilitating trick, but you can select only one option each time you hit with a trick attack.Debilitating Trick Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager | You can see in the dark as if you had low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet.Nightvision Protoss Graft Traits: During the Brood War, dark archons manipulated raw psychic energy to cause damage by turning the energy of a target against itself, By the Second Great War, the high templar learned to use this ability. As high templar are deeply attuned to the energy flows that surround them, through this psionic ability, these warriors can grasp the energy currents present in beings or machines, and drain them through a violent chain reaction. This backlash may cause grievous wounds to living beings, or massive structural damage to machines. If the target happens to bristle with energy, the powerful psionic Feedback may destroy it outright. At Will Psionic Ability Dealing 2D6 DamageFeedback | A psionic storm is a storm of raw psychic energy produced by a psionics user. Protoss who follow the Khala can produce such a storm by closing their mind to the outside world, sending out psychic "ripples" that are disruptive to other lifeforms, tearing apart their brains. Such storms can also damage vehicles and the landscape itself. Such is the power of a psionic storm that it can send shockwaves through the air around it. The storm is a physical display of a high templar's psionic power. It concentrates all the psionic energy over a given area, so overlapping storms have no greater effect than a single one. Usable Twice per Day, Inflicting 5D6 Damage to a 20ft AreaPsi-Storm Soldier Traits: You have a preferred fighting style that represents the type of soldier you are. Each fighting style is composed of various style techniques that you learn as you gain experience. You must pick one fighting style upon taking your first soldier level, and once made, this choice cannot be changed. The blitz fighting style is all about using speed and aggression to get into the thick of melee. You increase your speed and responsiveness, gain abilities that make you better at melee combat than your enemies, and keep on fighting even when surrounded by foes.Primary Fighting Style - Blitz | At 1st level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a style technique unique to your primary fighting style. You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks and increase your land speed by 10 feet.Primary Style Technique - Rapid Response | You study fighting styles thought lost to the Gap, often recorded only in the art of ancient civilizations or inferred from the shape of relic weapons and battle gear. You focus specifically ancient motions and techniques that rely on form and mobility rather than the harshness of attacks and resilience. You gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. You can deal lethal damage with your unarmed strikes, and the attack doesn’t count as archaic. At 3rd level, you gain a unique Weapon Specialization with your unarmed strikes, allowing you to add 1-1/2 times your character level to your damage rolls for your unarmed strikes (instead of just adding your character level, as usual). If you can already add 1-1/2 your character level to your unarmed attack rolls (such as due to the vesk natural attack racial trait), you instead can add the block, grapple, and stun weapon special properties to your unarmed strikes. This replaces the soldier’s proficiency with heavy armor and heavy weapons.Ascetic Warrior - Vazeal Zhakan-Kai / Hands of the Destroying Shadow

[triedtherest]

Yasir bin Abadard XXIV - Back to the Profit Margin Questions swirled around inside the confines of Yasir's head as he left the Shop. Who or WHAT is Vania? What is her connection to Chaos, and why are the Gods so interested in her? Is she from here or the future, or even a different Universe? The Merchant walked untill he found a place that both sold coffee and allowed him to smoke on the premises. He sat in there, partaking in his two favourite forms of imbibed stimulants whilst trying to make sense of things in his mind. After a while, he sought out a computer terminal, and Dice Computers Check: 1d20+12 (17)+12 Total = 29 Dice Culture Check: 1d20+14 (4)+14 Total = 18 Searched through the Planetary Information Network for any Record of Vania.

OOC   Set Up Shop: (Using These Rules) Upgrade Masterwork Skill Rank 3 Small Merchant Business Time: 1 week (3/7 Days completed) Cost: 100 Credit/Skill Rank (125% of Cost to make it Masterwork) = 375 Credits (4 credits previously invested) Recruit Rank 3 Assistant: Days it takes to Recruit 1st Assistant: 9 (Day 3/9)

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[RWBY2019]

Cross As Cross complements Declan and Hugs Vania he feels Vania moving not her arm but her heartbeat it races placing his ear to her chest Cross hears a clear and racing heartbeat he then feels a jab to the arm as a small compartment on Vania's shoulder opens Rose's Voice following "Hit her with the stim that man she was on the lap of poisoned her since the center of her chest is unavailable punge it into the left breast approximately five centimeters from the center" following Rose's instruction in a adrenaline filled parental panic after the stim is administered Declan lays her down on a set of tables after several silent and anxious minutes Vania compulsively jolts up right gasping for air she immediately puts on her respirator administering a dose of adrenoblockers to stop her body adrenaline production she pants breathing heavy "Declan get me and my father a shot of the strongest you've got" Declan obliges coming back with two one ounce shots of a purple fizzy alcohol that smells like black liquorice it tastes bitter and has a strong kick like vodka "By the look on your face Declan spat out some stuff from my past and it's true we were lovers i'd be lying to say i wasn't fond of the years we had i killed so many and he treated me real well both in public and behind closed doors" she winks and makes a dirty and suggestive hand gesture telling Cross more than he wanted "But now he's going to die along with everyone on this god forsaken world I grew up on"she then pulls a large device from the void of her chest and plunges it into the ground several legs stabilizing it as a erie silence falls on the bar as the snoring drunk patrons are all sapped of life killed by the device Lily now finished her drone flys over using D-55 her warp energy cannon charged a single shot erasing the device fom existence "Daddy says we make are kills quick and clean that device doesn't follow that philosophy as it over loads their brains killing them in what feels to them like eons" Vania glares "fines little miss merciful do you have a army to wipe out the dominion and men who abuse little girl like you as this is and equmenopolis a city world trillions live here that do what Al does every day" lily pauses smiling "technically i do have a army in orbit along with enough supplies to build a small fleet of my old empires Odaron class dreadnoughts but those violate the current tech level of the galaxy so i could pull out maybe twenty thousand warform units and build a single dreadnought but only if you promise the target of my forces is those who label Daddy a renegade and bad person" Vania's face relaxes "as long as Al is dead and I have some gory fun I care less what befalls the dominion as their half responsible" Lily smiles widely "Daddy if you approve i can have everything mobile by the time we are done with the lady your hunting"

Yasir - not so nice folks Yasir manages to fabricate some credentials and bypass the system discovering what the blackbird name Vania gave them means (same explanation Rose gave Cross only including that they are above the law and do as they please) but a finer detail catches his eyes a store house chalk full of juicy merchandise and weapons under Vania's name but on his way there a group of about twenty thugs stop him some new sacrifices for his patron OOC for Yasirs fight pretty much yasir gets one turn to either fight them or talk them down he may kill one thug or use a spell from the tome or use the gauntlet

[Dylan Scott]

Strange Contacts Relief floods through his system as Vania responds to the treatment and sits upright, Cross lets out a breath he hadn't even realised he was holding and can only watch frozen in surprise and confusion as she pulls out a device from the Void and before he can stop her she plants it and switches it on. He can feel the life being drained out of him for a moment before Snowlily responds and destroys it. too late for some of the other patrons. "VANIA!" his voice shocked and angry at what she had just tried to do, for the moment though he was ignored as the sisters spoke and planned, Snowlily finally turning to Cross and asking for permission to form an army it seemed, Cross took another shot of the purple drink Declan had brought before he answered. "What was that? that isn't who you are Vania, you are not the monster they say you are. Genocide? really? is that really your response to this..to kill everyone on the planet. Trillions of people for the actions of some? Millions of children like you were? Declan? Your aunt and uncle? your sister? Me? Where is your patience girl? didn't i promise you i would always protect you? that we would pay back every pain that was done to you and your sister? i'm disappointed" Cross looked at the girl with sadness in his eyes for a moment before turning to his other daughter, looking at him excitedly. "Yes Butterfly, get the troops ready, we will need them when we go after the emperor but they are not to be used on innocents on this planet and they are not under the command of Vania, they are yours until she proves she has the patience to use them properly. We have been labelled Renegades and Monsters, we will not prove them right" Cross leaned down and gave her a small hug and kissed her forehead, whispering "Thank you princess" "I promise we will get our revenge on Sara very soon but right now we have to shift our focus. Your sister was just attacked and he either thinks he was successful or that we will be focusing on the Specter first with the information he has given us. I do not want to give him time to prepare for the retaliation he must know is coming" "Declan? i'm sure an informed gentleman like yourself can tell me where i can find Mr Beuford this evening?" "Rose. please will you contact Xel and Mari and ask them if they have retrieved their supplies and inform them what happened to Vania. they need to be prepared for repercussions. There is an animal which needs to be put down"

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Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 4)/Soldier (Level 1) Stamina: 53 / 53 |HP: 35 /35 | Resolve Points: 6 / 6 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +14 Speed: 50 | Base Attack Bonus: +4 (+3/+1) STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 18 (+4) | INT 16 (+3) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA13 (+1) Fort Save: +9 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +11. Cold/Heat +13)| Reflex Save: +8 | Will Save: +8 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +8 Ranged (2d6+4 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +8 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +8 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | +8 Attack (1D8+2 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade | Range (400/1,000) +8 Ranged (3d12+4 Damage), Payload 20/20 (8 Hour Recharge)Antimatter Rifle | +5 Attack 1D6+1 Lethal Damage, Threaten Adjacent Squares with AOOUnarmed Strikes Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim), Kasatha, Protoss (Probium), OrchishLanguages | Armor: Light, Shields Weapons: Simple, Basic & Advanced Melee, Small Arms, Long Arms & Sniper, Psi-Blade and Glaive Cannon, Grenades Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +14, Athletics: +11 (Leaping: +27), Bluff: +8, Computers: +10, Culture: +16, Diplomacy: +8, Disguise: +3, Engineering: +10, Intimidation: +7, Life Science: +8, Medicine: +13, Perception: +12, Physical Science: +7, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +12, Sense Motive: +12, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +14, Survival: +16Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skill Skill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization | You attract followers to your cause and a companion to join you on your adventures. This feat enables you to attract a loyal cohort and a number of devoted subordinates who assist youLeadership | Your quick reflexes allow you to react rapidly to danger. Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks.Improved Initiative | You have trained to make your unarmed strikes lethal and strike with kicks, head-butts, and similar attacks. Benefit: Your unarmed strike damage increases to 1d6 at 4th level, 2d6 at 8th level, 3d6 at 12th level, 5d6 at 15th level, and 7d6 at 20th level. Your unarmed strikes don’t count as archaic and can deal lethal damage. You threaten squares within your natural reach with your unarmed strikes even when you do not have a hand free for an unarmed strike. If you are immobilized, entangled, or unable to use both legs (or whatever appendages you have in place of legs, where appropriate), you lose the ability to make unarmed strikes without your hands. When making an unarmed strike without your hands, you can’t use such attacks for combat maneuvers or similar abilities—only to deal damage. Improved Unarmed Strikes Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation | When you succeed at both the skill check and attack roll of your trick attack, you can make the target flat-footed or off-target until the beginning of your next turn. You might learn exploits that grant you additional options for your debilitating trick, but you can select only one option each time you hit with a trick attack.Debilitating Trick Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager | You can see in the dark as if you had low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet.Nightvision Protoss Graft Traits: During the Brood War, dark archons manipulated raw psychic energy to cause damage by turning the energy of a target against itself, By the Second Great War, the high templar learned to use this ability. As high templar are deeply attuned to the energy flows that surround them, through this psionic ability, these warriors can grasp the energy currents present in beings or machines, and drain them through a violent chain reaction. This backlash may cause grievous wounds to living beings, or massive structural damage to machines. If the target happens to bristle with energy, the powerful psionic Feedback may destroy it outright. At Will Psionic Ability Dealing 2D6 DamageFeedback | A psionic storm is a storm of raw psychic energy produced by a psionics user. Protoss who follow the Khala can produce such a storm by closing their mind to the outside world, sending out psychic "ripples" that are disruptive to other lifeforms, tearing apart their brains. Such storms can also damage vehicles and the landscape itself. Such is the power of a psionic storm that it can send shockwaves through the air around it. The storm is a physical display of a high templar's psionic power. It concentrates all the psionic energy over a given area, so overlapping storms have no greater effect than a single one. Usable Twice per Day, Inflicting 5D6 Damage to a 20ft AreaPsi-Storm Soldier Traits: You have a preferred fighting style that represents the type of soldier you are. Each fighting style is composed of various style techniques that you learn as you gain experience. You must pick one fighting style upon taking your first soldier level, and once made, this choice cannot be changed. The blitz fighting style is all about using speed and aggression to get into the thick of melee. You increase your speed and responsiveness, gain abilities that make you better at melee combat than your enemies, and keep on fighting even when surrounded by foes.Primary Fighting Style - Blitz | At 1st level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a style technique unique to your primary fighting style. You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks and increase your land speed by 10 feet.Primary Style Technique - Rapid Response | You study fighting styles thought lost to the Gap, often recorded only in the art of ancient civilizations or inferred from the shape of relic weapons and battle gear. You focus specifically ancient motions and techniques that rely on form and mobility rather than the harshness of attacks and resilience. You gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. You can deal lethal damage with your unarmed strikes, and the attack doesn’t count as archaic. At 3rd level, you gain a unique Weapon Specialization with your unarmed strikes, allowing you to add 1-1/2 times your character level to your damage rolls for your unarmed strikes (instead of just adding your character level, as usual). If you can already add 1-1/2 your character level to your unarmed attack rolls (such as due to the vesk natural attack racial trait), you instead can add the block, grapple, and stun weapon special properties to your unarmed strikes. This replaces the soldier’s proficiency with heavy armor and heavy weapons.Ascetic Warrior - Vazeal Zhakan-Kai / Hands of the Destroying Shadow

[RWBY2019]

Cross - Vania's heart When Cross metiones Xel and Mari the orc and his wife come through the door Xel wearing heavy combat gear And carrying a large item on his back aside from his minigun Mari of course carries her sniper and now wears combat gear similar to Cross's "Crossy do you need even call for me an Xelfor as Rosey there is ahead of you on that she called when Vania was poisoned" Xel set the item on his back down and it open up into a portable armory sporting several weapon types Lily also having several of her crates teleported in by her station but the crate actually holds a change of clothes for herself she runs into the bathroom with the crate coming back five minutes later wearing a thick red turtleneck shirt and black sweats "I'm sitting this one out Daddy i have to coordinate the drones and the ships construction we have approximately a month on the ship but assault company's one and two are ready as well as the heavy battle suite i outfitted for long range sniping for you" Declan who had disappeared comes back with a small data stick "you'll find Al there and do me a favour let Vania do the deed she needs the closure speaking of where is the lass" Declan and Cross spend the next half hour looking for Vania finding her sat on the roof of a nearby empty apartment drinking the same esoteric black fluid with purple fumes from the previous day in the raven right out of the bottle "Go away" her words slur for once Cross can tell she's not just buzzed but very drunk the bottle being nearly empty with several more littered throughout the roof Declan leaves back to the bar letting Cross handle Vania "i should have killed that ass down there in the bar" she stands on the ledge her hair casting a glittering curtain over the city skyline the orange lights of city center beckoning rebellion Vania's cyberarm fingers still curled into sharp points her other arm dripping glittering black fluid from the wrist "I still can't die not from blood loss or poison he would have killed me for about three days then i'd come back" her embrace of the everlasting void within her having a strange effect on her physiology or at least what was left she then drops the bottle behind her plunging her cyberarm hand into her chest and pulling out her heart the arteries still connected and the heart still beating she gives a drunken nervous laugh" so dose still beat cute" she takes the beating organ holding it for the world to see was anyone but Cross watching "What do you think my heart beats that has to mean something right" she marches over to Cross taking his hand in hers and places her heart in it "you decide does it beat like a humans or something else does it even beat because i'm high out my mind and very drunk im probably hallucinating i swear it stopped beating when i was ten cause i stopped hating killing things and started to love it more than anything no remorse people ask if i feel the sins of my life crawling on my skin my answer is no every time" as she rants drunkenly about the past Cross feels the heartbeat steady unphased by it's presence outside the body and the fact Cross holds it Vania even stopped holding his hand up black fluid staining his palm as it drips from the messy removal however Vania becomes increasingly frantic the more she dwells and rants about the past

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The Heart of the Matter Cross can't help smiling as his family comes into the bar as if they warped themselves when they heard their names, he wasn't surprised really. Despite her new stubborn streak, Rose had always anticipated his needs long before he realised it himself, he should have expected her to make the calls as soon as she heard what happened. {B]"Thank you Rose"[/B] he whispered into his sub-vocal microphone as he watched his family effectively take over Declan's bar as a staging area. He should probably say something but Declan seemed the type who would deal with it himself if he had an issue with it. Seeing Snowlily returning, having changed he smiled, definitely approving of her clothing choices more than the ones Vania had picked for her from the vile Tailor, giving her a nod as she told him she would be staying behind. "Thank you butterfly, we will keep that till we go after Sara, i have a feeling Long Range isn't going to be possible when we confront Mr Beuford, so..." Cross turned to Mari "As much as i value you watching my back, you will be more use to us here watching over Snowlily, please will you stay with her? I would like to borrow your husband though if he is up for it. his particular expertise is going to be ideal for close quarters. Beuford is bound to have bodyguards who will need softening up" At Declan's return, Cross takes the data stick and slips it into his Pad, letting Rose download and collate the data the way she did with Beuford's data, thanking the man, though he was unable to promise to let Vania be the one to take care of him, it was then they realised that Vania had disappeared and went looking Finding the girl on the roof of a nearby building, several bottles deep in whatever she had found which was capable of effecting her enhanced metabolism, Declan took his leave and left Cross to deal with his upset child. For long moments all he could do was ignore her repeated calls for him to "go away" and let her rant and rave, only moving to guide her away from the edge of the apartment when her stumbling steps get too close and she kicks empty bottles over the side. Finally her ranting escalates and she pulls her still human heart from her chest, Cross doesn't know how but the cybernetics in her system keep her alive as she holds it in her hand, seeping and dripping black blood onto the roof top with every pulse and beat. He is shocked for a moment as she takes his hand and puts her heart literally in his hands and all he can do is look at her, tears forming in his eyes as he see's how much pain she is in. As the girls words become more frantic, he reaches out with his free hand and takes her own, placing it on his chest as he holds her heart in his other hand, holding it there as he speaks softly through her tirade of emotional words "Vania. Vania listen to me. Look at me sweetheart. Vania" "Do you feel that? it beats just like yours. it hurts just like yours and when your's stops, whether its just for 3 days or for eternity, it will stop just like yours. but look at your heart Vania, look at it. its not an hallucination, it beats because you are not what they tried to make you, you are human, you are my child" "It doesn't matter what happened in the past, what they made you do and what they tried to turn you into. You are not that person anymore, I see it, your sister see's it, Declan see's it. he could see what i can see, that you are worth helping, that you are worth saving. Its time you started to see it too Sweetheart" "I can never imagine what you have been through and i wont even try to say i can understand everything but i do know this. You are afraid, we are all afraid of the same thing, to Live. Its so easy to die, so easy to hide in a bottle or a pill, to just lose control to a needle and pretend that anything that happened was out of our control, but you are stronger than that, stronger than they made you" "But are you strong enough to do the scariest thing of all and live Vania? to let people in who care about you? to trust people with your heart again the way you are doing right now with me? to risk being hurt for a chance to be truly alive again?" Reaching out gently, Cross placed the heart back into the void in her chest, he wasn't sure exactly where it was suppose to go but he had a feeling she would be able to sort that out herself when it was back where it belonged. Afterwards he stepped forward and gave the girl a big hug, a long hug without words, just the two of them alone on the rooftop before he stepped back again and held out his hand, the one covered in his childs blood and waited "Your family loves you Vania, Snowlily loves you, I love you. Come back to us and Live"

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Stat Block   Nathan Cross Neutral Good | Terran - Bounty Hunter | Operative (Level 4)/Soldier (Level 1) Stamina: 53 / 53 |HP: 35 /35 | Resolve Points: 6 / 6 EAC: 20 | KAC: 22 | Initiative: +14 Speed: 50 | Base Attack Bonus: +4 (+3/+1) STR 13(+1) | DEX 18 (+4) | CON 18 (+4) | INT 16 (+3) | WIS 14 (+2) | CHA13 (+1) Fort Save: +9 (Airborne Poison/Toxins +11. Cold/Heat +13)| Reflex Save: +8 | Will Save: +8 Weapons: Archaic, Sniper (2-handed).Range (70/1,000) +8 Ranged (2d6+4 Damage)Specialist Coil Rifle | Range(30) +8 Ranged (1d6+2 Damage)Tactical Semi Auto Pistol | +8 Attack (1d4+2 Damage)Survival Knife | +8 Attack (1D8+2 Damage, Cuts Through Tungsten)Daelaam Protoss Psi-Blade | Range (400/1,000) +8 Ranged (3d12+4 Damage), Payload 20/20 (8 Hour Recharge)Antimatter Rifle | +5 Attack 1D6+1 Lethal Damage, Threaten Adjacent Squares with AOOUnarmed Strikes Features and Abilities: Common, Common (Servain Dialect), Hunter Sign (Visual), Hunter Sign (Tactile), Protoss (Khalani), Protoss (Nerazim), Protoss (Tal-Darim), Kasatha, Protoss (Probium), OrchishLanguages | Armor: Light, Shields Weapons: Simple, Basic & Advanced Melee, Small Arms, Long Arms & Sniper, Psi-Blade and Glaive Cannon, Grenades Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution Skills: Acrobatics: +14, Athletics: +11 (Leaping: +27), Bluff: +8, Computers: +10, Culture: +16, Diplomacy: +8, Disguise: +3, Engineering: +10, Intimidation: +7, Life Science: +8, Medicine: +13, Perception: +12, Physical Science: +7, Piloting: +11, Profession (Hunter): +12, Sense Motive: +12, Sleight of Hand: +11, Stealth: +14, Survival: +16Proficiencies Feats:You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skill Skill Focus - Survival |You are particularly adept at a certain skill. You gain a +3 insight bonus to checks involving the chosen skillSkill Focus - Culture |You are resistant to diseases, poisons, and other maladies. You gain a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throwsGreat Fortitude |You have enhanced physical resilience, and harsh conditions or long exertions don’t easily tire you. For every character level you have (and whenever you gain a new level), you gain 1 Stamina Point. In addition, you gain a +4 bonus to Constitution checks to continue running, to avoid damage from a forced march, to hold your breath, and to avoid damage from starvation or thirst. You also gain a +4 bonus to Fortitude saving throws to avoid taking damage from hot or cold environments, to withstand the harmful effects of thick and thin atmospheres, to avoid choking when breathing in heavy smoke, and to avoid fatigue caused by sleep deprivationToughness |You remain accurate at longer ranges.You take only a –1 penalty per full range increment between you and your target when using a ranged weaponFar Shot |You know how to get the full damage out of a weapon type your class doesn’t normally use.You gain specialization in that weapon type, which means you add your character level to damage with the selected weapon type, or half your character level for small arms or operative melee weapons. You can never have specialization in grenades. Weapon Specialization | You attract followers to your cause and a companion to join you on your adventures. This feat enables you to attract a loyal cohort and a number of devoted subordinates who assist youLeadership | Your quick reflexes allow you to react rapidly to danger. Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks.Improved Initiative | You have trained to make your unarmed strikes lethal and strike with kicks, head-butts, and similar attacks. Benefit: Your unarmed strike damage increases to 1d6 at 4th level, 2d6 at 8th level, 3d6 at 12th level, 5d6 at 15th level, and 7d6 at 20th level. Your unarmed strikes don’t count as archaic and can deal lethal damage. You threaten squares within your natural reach with your unarmed strikes even when you do not have a hand free for an unarmed strike. If you are immobilized, entangled, or unable to use both legs (or whatever appendages you have in place of legs, where appropriate), you lose the ability to make unarmed strikes without your hands. When making an unarmed strike without your hands, you can’t use such attacks for combat maneuvers or similar abilities—only to deal damage. Improved Unarmed Strikes Bounty Hunter Traits: Your mind is a cold steel trap when it comes to scraps of information about the creatures you’re tracking down. Choose a specific sentient creature that you can identify by name, alias,or specific identity to be your mark. Reduce the DC of Culture or Profession (bounty hunter) checks to recall knowledge aboutyour mark, as well as to recall knowledge about law-enforcement individuals and practices, by 5. If you choose a mark that is known only by an alias or secret identity, this ability helps you learn facts only about the identity you know about, not any other unknown identities. Once you defeat your mark, as an action that takes 1 minute, you can study dossiers and database information about another individual to be your new mark. You can instead abandon your mark for a new one without defeating it, but if you do so, you take a –2 penalty to all skill checks for 1 week. Survival is a class skill for you, though if it is a class skill from the class you take at 1st level, you instead gain a +1 bonus to Survival checks.Theme Knowledge - Bounty Hunting Operative Traits: Your diverse training as an operative grants you a +2 insight bonus to initiative checks and to skill checks.Operatives Edge +2 | Your specialization represents your primary area of expertise. Pick one specialization upon taking your 1st level of the operative class. Once made, this choice cannot be changed. Your specialization grants you the Skill Focus feat in your specialization’s associated skills, and you gain a free skill rank in each of those skills at each operative level (this does not allow you to exceed the maximum number of skill ranks in a single skill).Specialisation | You’re a skilled sharpshooter who deals death over vast distances with sniper weapons. As a full action, you can move up to 1/4 your speed. Whether or not you moved, you can then make an attack with a melee weapon with the operative property, a small arm, or a sniper weapon. If the weapon has the sniper property, you can use the property as if you had used a move action to aim. Just before making your attack, attempt a Perception or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC of 20 + 1-1/2 your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, the target is flat-footed against the attack and you deal 1d3 additional damage. This damage increases to 1d6 additional damage at 3rd level, plus an additional 1d6 damage for every 2 levels thereafter. You can’t use this ability with a weapon that has the unwieldy special property unless it also has the sniper special property, in which case this ability doesn’t allow you to move before attacking.Sniper +1D6 | If you succeed at a Reflex save against an effect that normally has a partial effect on a successful save, you instead suffer no effect. You gain this benefit only when unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, and you lose the benefit when you are helpless or otherwise unable to move Evasion | As you gain experience, you learn special tricks called operative exploits. If an operative exploit allows a saving throw to resist its effects, the DC is equal to 10 + half your operative level + your Dexterity modifier. If it requires an enemy to attempt a skill check, the DC is equal to 10 + 1-1/2 × your operative level + your Dexterity modifier Operative Exploit | As long as you are unencumbered and wearing light armor or no armor, your land speed increases by 10 feet Quick Movement | You gain the Weapon Specialization feat as a bonus feat for each weapon type with which this class grants you proficiency.Weapon Specialisation | When you succeed at both the skill check and attack roll of your trick attack, you can make the target flat-footed or off-target until the beginning of your next turn. You might learn exploits that grant you additional options for your debilitating trick, but you can select only one option each time you hit with a trick attack.Debilitating Trick Operative Specialisation: You’re an expert in scouting out dangerous locations using your knowledge and survival skills -Associated Skills: Culture and Survival. You can attempt a Survival check with a +4 bonus to make a sniper attack by using your surroundings to your advantageExplorer Operative Exploit: You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonusEfficient Forager | You can see in the dark as if you had low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet.Nightvision Protoss Graft Traits: During the Brood War, dark archons manipulated raw psychic energy to cause damage by turning the energy of a target against itself, By the Second Great War, the high templar learned to use this ability. As high templar are deeply attuned to the energy flows that surround them, through this psionic ability, these warriors can grasp the energy currents present in beings or machines, and drain them through a violent chain reaction. This backlash may cause grievous wounds to living beings, or massive structural damage to machines. If the target happens to bristle with energy, the powerful psionic Feedback may destroy it outright. At Will Psionic Ability Dealing 2D6 DamageFeedback | A psionic storm is a storm of raw psychic energy produced by a psionics user. Protoss who follow the Khala can produce such a storm by closing their mind to the outside world, sending out psychic "ripples" that are disruptive to other lifeforms, tearing apart their brains. Such storms can also damage vehicles and the landscape itself. Such is the power of a psionic storm that it can send shockwaves through the air around it. The storm is a physical display of a high templar's psionic power. It concentrates all the psionic energy over a given area, so overlapping storms have no greater effect than a single one. Usable Twice per Day, Inflicting 5D6 Damage to a 20ft AreaPsi-Storm Soldier Traits: You have a preferred fighting style that represents the type of soldier you are. Each fighting style is composed of various style techniques that you learn as you gain experience. You must pick one fighting style upon taking your first soldier level, and once made, this choice cannot be changed. The blitz fighting style is all about using speed and aggression to get into the thick of melee. You increase your speed and responsiveness, gain abilities that make you better at melee combat than your enemies, and keep on fighting even when surrounded by foes.Primary Fighting Style - Blitz | At 1st level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a style technique unique to your primary fighting style. You gain a +4 bonus to initiative checks and increase your land speed by 10 feet.Primary Style Technique - Rapid Response | You study fighting styles thought lost to the Gap, often recorded only in the art of ancient civilizations or inferred from the shape of relic weapons and battle gear. You focus specifically ancient motions and techniques that rely on form and mobility rather than the harshness of attacks and resilience. You gain Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. You can deal lethal damage with your unarmed strikes, and the attack doesn’t count as archaic. At 3rd level, you gain a unique Weapon Specialization with your unarmed strikes, allowing you to add 1-1/2 times your character level to your damage rolls for your unarmed strikes (instead of just adding your character level, as usual). If you can already add 1-1/2 your character level to your unarmed attack rolls (such as due to the vesk natural attack racial trait), you instead can add the block, grapple, and stun weapon special properties to your unarmed strikes. This replaces the soldier’s proficiency with heavy armor and heavy weapons.Ascetic Warrior - Vazeal Zhakan-Kai / Hands of the Destroying Shadow