Bendigeidfran

I'm just waiting for somebody else to post before I do. Really.

There goes another HP. This is better. Btw, Why do I need to do a Toughness roll in the first place?

I don't know if I can do a reroll on my attack, so I'm putting it as a Move Action. That means 4+12-5 equals 11. It's a miss. Toughness save is here.

Do you really have to answer all the questions? I find some of them a bit disturbing for my character.

Sorry. Didn't know that.

Geez, what's with that lousy line? Kids don't know how to throw a good one these days. Aristodemus stands alone in front of the giant, who is surprisingly still standing. Though it's clear that he will not do much in this pretty much one-sided fight. To Aristodemus' big surprise, his combo attack he learned in Cambodia did nothing! Best to try another technique. "Hey, archer! Fire at his feet! I'm going to something nasty to his head." Aristodemus bent his legs down and set his hand to put another haymaker, this one on Smash's face. But one would take a close look, that's not how you stand when planting a haymaker punch. Instead, he jumps up from his stance and attempt to hit Smash on the side of his head with a kick with the boot, but misses narrowly with the foot just sliding on the head and then falls down to the floor. "Ah, @#$*." He said in Greek.

I power attack for 1 point. Fair enough?

*sigh* I don't know how much he's power attacking, and neither attack is lethal. That's the major thing martial artist should avoid in combat. I don't have the knowledge of Power Attacks in my head, and I don't hav ethe handbook lying around me right now. I'll be back with it soon.

You tell me.

Yes, I did. Thank you for telling me that, aniki.

I know double posting might be bad, but I feel like I owe an explanation to that move Aristodemus used. The trick is to use a flexed leg as a spring in order to catapult yourself towards your opponent. The top speed is approximately 40 km/hour. That's enough to break a few ribs. But the coup de grace is the elbow strike. Having also a speed of 40 km/hour, it can cause major concussion. Topple that with Aristodemus' brute strength, Smash could be unconscious, if not dead.

"Ah, that's more like it. You have a few flaws, but nothing time can't fix. Now watch this move." Aristodemus rushes up to the big guy and then jumps to deliver a powerful knee kick to the solar plexus, followed by an elbow strike to the forehead. Then he turns to the red glowing youngster. "For your information, that was Cambodian*. Name's Aristodemus." He extends a hand to the kid, expecting an answer from him while the big guy must be knocked out by now. *Check in OOC thread

I think it's more of a friend to tease rather than sidekick. Though I am surprised that he made a natural 20 too.

I'm right on it. This is gonna take some time.

Seeing that the red glowing guy is trying to attack, Aristodemus walks over to him.' "You're doing it a bit wrong, kid. Try swinging it, like this." Aristodemus steps in front of the red glowing kid and punches the big guy in the chest.

Heridfel, you should know that the Spartan doesn't wear armor. It says so on the sheet.

Aristodemus entered the shop shortly after a second crash was heard from inside, and saw a man draped in shadows standing over the long stretched woman, while the big bruiser in the store is staring down the tip of an arrow. He could tell who was the hero in that situation, but the shadow man and the woman were confusing him. "Okay, who's good, and who's bad here?" He asks the duo. "I don't know who's which, okay?"

Hold on. I forgot to add my initiative bonus. That brings me up to 9.

I got a 2. I always get lousy rolls.

I'm also at the scene. Though I really don't have to bother with a suit. Btw, Bendigeidfran is a bit long, so Bran also works as a nickname, if it's okay.

Walking down the street, was a man appearing to be in his early sixties. He wore an old trench coat which men wore during the Great Depression. 'Course, people would look at him, but only due to the coat. He couldn't help but being old fashioned. Then again, he also liked to hum a really old song from Ancient Greece. He stopped his humming when he saw a floating man right across the street. Seems some superhuman forgot he wasn't wearing his costume again. Aristodemus has seen things like that before. "Seriously, I can't believe it happened again." He chuckled to himself. "Eh? Happened again?" A fellow pedestrian who happened to pass by and hear what he said asked. "A superhuman forgot his costume again. It doesn't happen very often, but it's fun. Look." He points to the guy leaning his head against the glass. "Hoop, there he goes." When the guy flies away. The fun goes away when a bin full with CDs smash a window and lands on the street. Aristodemus doesn't have time to tell the pedestrian to stay put, but rushes to the site. "Can anyone tell me what happened here?"

Aristodemus could come along too. That way he could learn the martial arts of the 20th century. Being a master of several martial arts, he was interested in seeing others perform.

Players Name: Bendigeidfran Power Level: 11 (150/163 pp) Unspent PP: 13 Characters Name: Aristodemus Alternate Identity: The Spartan Height: 5’4’’ Weight: 178lbs. Hair: Black with a few streaks of grey Eyes: Brown Description: A man who has clearly weathered many a year, The Spartan looks like a quite well preserved man in his fifties or early sixties. Moreover he looks like he was carved from granite rather than born; rock hard muscles and sinews of steel can be glimpsed beneath a somewhat tanned skin covered with numerous faint scars. Hardly what you’d call tall, he’s somewhat stocky with not much body fat left. History: Following his apparent demise at the battle of Platea didn’t quite get the afterlife he’d expected. Instead he found himself returned to life some time after the fighting had concluded; awakening atop his own grave by the light of a half moon. Half-formed and vague memories of an offering from the gods swam to the surface of his thoughts as he read his name on the gravestone; an offer involving both immortality and exile, an offer which was both non-negotiable and irrefusable. While the exact details of the offer would remain clouded, and he would in time form a nagging suspicion that this was a part of the package, the implications of it where soon obvious to him. He was compelled to leave the Peloponnesus and travel, exploring the world and testing himself as he went. During his travels he came to both meet, and in many cases subsequently fight, with or against, many of the early superhuman beings and individuals around the world. Over the centuries he, unlike so many of the other immortal beings connected with Greece he slowly moved closer to magic and mysticism rather than away from it. He came to work loosely with several different mystics over the years, and more than once did he leave Earth to do business somewhere else along the Cosmic Coil. Back on Earth he almost inevitably found himself involved various military conflicts ranging from minor border disputes to massive conflicts like the 30 years or Napoleonic wars. He came to work more openly following the emergence of Centurion and many other "super"-heroes, adopting the name Spartan as did so though largely eschewing the showy costumes of so many others. Though it should be said that he's spent almost as much time away from Earth as on it during the last century, in fact missing part of WW2, the whole of Vietnam, and most recently the second Terminus invasion. In fact he went missing in the wake of Hades' invasion of Freedom, though it was a while before anyone started to think there might be anything actually amiss about that; it wouldn't be the first time he'd simple gone off somewhere after all. It was actually only fairly recently that even the gods of Olympus started to wonder what had become of him. What with champions of so many other pantheons running around, and when the one for Heliopolis came out of retirement several of the Olympians decided to find the missing Spartan and then boot him back to Earth so they wouldn't get left out. It took a little while, but eventually, mainly with the help of Persephone, they found him. He’d been snatched up by Hades’ agents in the wake of the Lord of Tartarus’ failed invasion of Freedom, the god of the dead had been ‘annoyed’ at the Spartan’s interference and decided to see just how much his fellow divinities cared about the immortal. Luckily, and fortunately, Hades was in a fairly good mood and freely relinquished the warrior claiming he’d merely wanted to test his kins’ interested in the champion from the fields of Platea. Now Aristodemus has returned from yet another jaunt to other dimensions and is looking up what has changed in his absence this time around. Powers/Tactics: Apart from his divinely granted immortality Aristodemus is very nearly all natural human, albeit one who has had millennia to get into shape and a little divine aid. He currently disdains external aids such as armour and weaponry and instead relies on his own physical prowess, experience and mind to get the job done, and if it all goes pear-shaped he can rely on his immortality to keep it from being permanent. Abilities: 60pp Strength 26 (+8) Dexterity 24 (+7) Constitution 26 (+8) Intelligence 12 (+1) Wisdom 18 (+4) Charisma 14 (+2) Saves: 7pp Toughness +8 Fortitude +8 Reflex +7 Will +11 Combat: 32pp Attack +8 (ranged), +12 (melee) Grapple +20 Defence +12 [+4 Flatfooted] Knockback: -4 Initiative +7 Feats: 21pp Accurate Attack Acrobatic Bluff All-out Attack Assessment Attack Focus [Melee] 4 Defensive Attack Diehard Dodge Focus 4 Endurance Improved Critical [unarmed] 2 Luck 2 Power Attack Takedown Attack Skills: 92r=23pp Acrobatics 14 (+21) Bluff 4 (+6) Climb 2 (+10) Intimidate 10 (+12 Knowledge (arcane lore) 8 (+9) Knowledge (history) 4 (+5) Knowledge (theology and philosophy) 8 (+9) Language 16 (Ancient Celtic, Old Norse, English, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Magyar, Italian, and Modern Greek; Ancient Greek is native) Notice 8 (+12) Sense Motive 8 (+12) Stealth 4 (+11) Survival 4 (+8) Swim 2 (+10) Powers: 7pp Immunity 1 (Aging) [1pp] Regeneration 2 (Resurrection 2/1 day; Extra: True Resurrection [+1 Extra]; PFs: Persistent, Regrowth) [6pp] DC Block Unarmed -- DC 23/Toughness -- Damage Costs: Abilities (60) + Combat (32) + Saves (07) + Skills (23) + Feats (21) + Powers (07) - Drawbacks (00) = 150 / 163 Historical Notes: Aristodemus is actually a minor historic figure, the last of the Leonidas’ Hippeis (royal bodyguard). When Xerxes’ massive army, and its equally massive food consumption, at last forced out a collaborator who gave away the route around the pass there were three amongst the Spartans who could have survived to reach their homeland. The first was then in Thessaly as a liaison officer, he hanged himself in shame after the battle since he had not been able to fight by the side of his king at the end. The other two had fallen sick with an eye inflammation and been order to recuperate away from the pass itself, one of these ordered a helot to dress him for battle and then lead him into the fray during the last day of fighting. The last one was Aristodemus, the one who chose to obey his king’s express command. Upon returning to Sparta he was shunned, deemed a “tremblerâ€Â; the worst possible position a Spartiatoi could have without being either killed or banished. If he didn’t manage to redeem himself of the stigma of having even a tiny sliver of possible cowardice in him his bloodline would die out, his daughters unable to marry, he himself would never enjoy the companionship of the warriors again. When the full might of the Spartans, and the Teagans, and the surviving soldiers from Platea, and the Athenians, and the many other city states, marched forth to meet the enemy outside the by then ruined city of Platea he was certainly glad for the chance to once more prove himself worthy of being a Spartan. When the battle, in all its confused glory, was finally going to be joined the Spartans had to delay their advance in order to procure favourable omens from the gods even as the Athenians clashed with the Thebans who had sided with the Persians and the other city states hustled to get within striking distance of their foe. As at last the signs came the Teagans, who stood next to the Spartans, had finally had their discipline eroded away by the showering arrows and begun a charge at the Persian infantry, and with them stormed a lone Spartiatoi; Aristodemus. Though he died in the fighting it was agreed by all of his fellows that he, despite his un-Spartan like lack of discipline, had redeemed himself. His berserker like fury coupled with the training from the agoge had pushed him to tear through the foe until he died, surrounded by the bodies of those he had slain. Yes! After, um, "I lost track" amount of time, my first character is finally done. Poking Nyrath into making him finally paid off. Now I'm finally ready for an approval.

Thank you for that, vivid image, Dr. It was something we did not need.

I too, seem to have ignored this place all summer. Mostly due to the fact that I do not own a character, and that I've been writing a fan fiction story on the official homepage and preparation for another story which will show up probably next year.