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Name: Kirby

Race: Armoured Machine

Gender: Female

Height: 7’1” (including height of armour)

Build: Ordinary

Dead or alive: Undead

Form: Physical

Appearance and features: Her bodily form is like that of a human foetus-like insectoid with two arms, two legs, and a noodly body. Without their mec*-suit, Armoured Machines are susceptible to harm. As such, they tend to be nearby industrial environments and mines to create or repair their mechanical exterior with which to merge into.

Weapons: Wears a belt over her armour with a sheathed longsword and dagger, also has a double-barrelled flintlock pistol holstered behind the sheathed dagger. She carries a poleaxe in her hands. The weight and size of her armour can also be used as a means to smash into opponents or trample foes.

Armour and clothing: Wears thick mechanical armour, aka a mec*-suit. Like most other Armoured Machines, Kirby consists of a foetus-like insectoid, with a nervous system growing into a mechanical frame. Although quite huge and heavy, her size is mostly due to her mechanical exterior. Without her armour, she’d just be a shriveled up noodle-creature about five feet tall. Her total weight, including armour, is four hundred pounds.

Her armour consists of dark steel plates for the entire body, with laminations, hinges, bolts and mechanized parts. Kirby’s helmet is like that of a great helm, but has a pivoting pointed visor. Her gauntlets have spikes on the knuckles. Her backplate is convex in shape, giving her the appearance of a bipedal turtle.

Equipment: The mechanical parts of her armour can reform into tools at the limbs, such as flukes used to for climbing.

Strengths: The great weight and size of Armoured Machines makes them virtually immune to conventional weapons. Kirby can take on basically anything and end up the victor so long as it’s a face-to-face fight.

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Weaknesses: Unable to swim, jump, sprint or roll, Kirby is tank-like and slow-moving. Although difficult to get off her feet, if she does lose balance, she can be held down easily and then have narrow blades shoved into the gaps of her armour to puncture her neck, eyes, lungs, or kidneys easily.

Encased in extremely thick metal also means that Kirby overheats quickly especially in hot weather, and gets very cold very quickly, too. Electric or lightning-based sorcery would make quick work of Armoured Machines as well.

Psychology: Hot-blooded; like most members of her nameless, enigmatic species, Kirby is easily excited and angered.

Other: Generally, only young Armoured Machines are without their mec*-suit. Once they are able to walk, they begin constructing their armour, and like a Hermit crab, go into it and their bodies grow and merge with the mechanical parts; their nervous system, muscles, tendons and bones become one with the metal. As they grow older, they add more parts to their body.

The older the Armoured Machine, the larger one tend to be. How their nervous system forms into and controls the machinery is a mystery; perhaps their minds and nerves can manipulate magnetic fields at will and so empower the suit.

Background: Grunt; lowest-ranking Armoured Machine soldier.

History: Kirby is a stereotypical Armoured Machine, who used to be part of a regiment when alive. In life, she and her regiment patrolled their territory, protecting the veins of iron to be used for manufacturing parts and weapons, but then, somehow the entire regiment became undead.

Having lost their minds in undeath, the regiment soon turned on each other, and Kirby is the sole survivor. She managed to survive by refusing to fight; smaller than her fellow soldiers, her body required less energy to move, and full of energy due to her young age, Kirby outlasted her comrades by keeping her distance from them.

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Once her comrades shut down from too much damages and dilapidation, Kirby salvaged their parts for herself. Kirby now wanders the surface alone, continuing her patrol even in death, wondering what happened to her regiment and unaware of being undead.

Quest: Wishes to discover what happened to her regiment. She does not realise she is losing her memory of her life, and will eventually become a lost, mindless, soulless hunk of machinery. If she lives long enough, perhaps her soul will gradually relocate itself, or maybe someone can help her regain her lost spirit; only time will tell.

Can be MIA: Yes

Can be killed: Yes

Can be resurrected: Yes

Can self-resurrect: No

Retinue: None

Company: KIA/MIA

Location: Surface

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Story Example

The Skull

A rainstorm appeared during the sunset, rainclouds above the haze forming vast darkness. The rainfall slightly dissipated the smog, but the cold water, upon pooling here and there along the warm flesh-ground, formed some steam. The fog, steam, rainfall and haze drastically limited vision and orientation.

Trudging along the wet, raindrop-spattering meaty surface like a demented tortoise with two legs, Kirby made her way towards nowhere, her mechanical frame clinking, rattling and shuffling as she moved, clad feet squishing the flesh-ground and leaving an imprint at each step. The falling drops of water tinkled against her armour, also rolling down its jagged parts like sweat. Considering the trail of footsteps behind her, Kirby seemed to have wandered randomly in multiple directions.

Kirby moved through the steamy fog, the eerie whiteness swirling as she moved through it. Her pace adjusted every few seconds, changing from walking to jogging. She stopped and exhaled strongly, breath fuming out the breathe holes in her great helm and then floating away. Kirby slightly leaned back and looked up, big beady black bug-eyes gazing through the eye sights of her helm, almost as if they wanted to jump out the eye sockets.

Kirby felt the few raindrops that fell through the eye sights of her helm splat against the surface of her large compound eyes, feeling the rain tickling them. She continued breathing audibly, sounding like a tower of iron, breath steamy, gazing into the dark, rainy sky, resting the hollow steel shaft of her poleaxe over her paul*ron. Normally, she’d be cold already, but now that she was undead, she barely felt anything anymore. With nothing to do, Kirby continued her pointless travel, walking off into the foggy environment.

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Sometime later, Kirby stumbled upon a strange thing. Sticking out of the ground was a giant human skull, covered in thick red flesh, perhaps ten feet tall and six feet wide.

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She could see a nervous system around the skull, oddly enough. Kirby approached the skull, stepping and crushing on various bones and chunks of body parts.

The skull shivered, jaw repeatedly opening and closing so that the teeth clicked together constantly, and then the skull stood, four legs appearing below it and so the skull stood on them. A head also appeared out the nasal cavity of the skull, a skinless, meaty head at the end of a three-foot-long neck. Two arms then appeared, emerging from either eye socket, the arms so long the palms touched the ground. The head arching out looked up, temples visibly throbbing as the Armored Machine jogged towards it. Kirby eagerly jogged towards the skull, chuckling non-stop with her high-pitched squeaky, metallic voice, which had a strong echoing effect within her armour.

“Boh!” Kirby exclaimed with excitement for some reason, sounding like an immature toddler.

Kirby swung her poleaxe with one hand sideways, intending to behead the skull’s protruding head, but it retracted back inside; the skull then shifted forward, bashing itself into Kirby’s front and knocking her onto her bottom.

“W*ah!* Kirby exclaimed as she fell, sounding like a silly toddler trying to get attention.

The skull then jumped atop her, slamming itself onto her and impact forcing her onto her back, and despite its mighty size, simply bounced off her without leaving a dent anywhere, and rolled off a few feet to the side.

Kirby acted like an overturned turtle, trying to get up, but she eventually sat up and then picked herself up. The skull also got back up, but Kirby managed to swing the fluke of her poleaxe into its side, the steel beak piercing the bone and dashing out blood. The skull did*’t seem to care, jaws opening so much that it pressed against the ground, and its tongue slid out, wrapping around Kirby’* leg, and then the skull moved backwards, intending to pull Kirby over, but she remained firmly planted on her feet.

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Kirby then swung the blade downward from above, striking the forehead of the skull and fracturing it open, the crack continuing down to the brow; the skull groaned. Kirby then twisted her poleaxe, wrenching the fracture open further. Both the skull’s arms grasped Kirby and tried to push her over but nothing happened, the tongue then sliding upwards around Kirby’s groin.

Kirby let go of her poleaxe, leaving it stuck in the skull, and quickly unsheathed her dagger and repeatedly stabbed it into the tongue, leaving many holes in it, and it slid back in the mouth. The two arms let go of Kirby, grabbed her poleaxe, ripping it out of itself, and swinging the fluke into Kirby’s helm; she ducked and the beak nicked her helm only, and the wet shaft slid out the skull’s hands and flicked off somewhere.

Kirby sheathed her dagger and then unsheathed her longsword, grasping it with both hands so that one hand gripped the handle and the other halfway up the blade, holding it like a spear. She ran into the skull, bayonetting the tip into the skull’s nasal cavity, poking into the head within, but she did*’t seem to do any damage.

The skull stood up as much as it could, legs outstretched, so Kirby instantly stepped onto the knee of the front left leg, applying her weight and mass into her leg so that her foot snapped the skull’s knee backwards, breaking the leg. The skull tilted for a moment, and Kirby rammed her pauldrons into it, dropping her sword and grasping the underside of the skull with both hands, lifting it and turning it over.

Kirby then lowered herself, picking her sword up and running into the skull, ramming the sword up to the hilt into its soft underside. The skull kicked with its legs at her, skinless fleshy limbs simply smearing blood over her armour. Kirby moved her sword in and out repeatedly, double-edged blade cutting more and more flesh.

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The skull kicked at Kirby, and since the flesh-ground was wet and slippery with blood and rain, she slipped and fell over. The skull grasped the flesh-ground with its two mighty arms and pulled itself across the ground, sliding like a stone from curling. It grabbed someone’s dismembered limb and threw it at Kirby, the chunk of body helplessly bouncing off her and she got up.

Kirby grabbed her sword with one hand, so that the blade pointed downwards, her fingers curled over the crossguard, and then she threw the blade like a javelin into the monster, blade piercing the cheekbone and going up to the hilt into the beast. The skull writhed for a second; Kirby ran to retrieve her poleaxe.

The skull pulled the sword out itself with one hand, grasping the weapon and approaching Kirby. The Armoured Machine charged with her polearm, parrying the sword swung at her, not to avoid it as the edged weapon wouldn’t do anything to her armour, but she wanted to prevent it from becoming damaged. Kirby rammed her poleaxe into the nasal cavity, and then wrenched it about inside; the skull sneezed blood out and moaned.

Noticing the beast*s jaw open, Kirby let go of her poleaxe and jumped into the skull’s jaw, crawling inside it, mechanical parts of her armour pinching and shearing the beast’s tongue. She rolled on her back, withdrew her double-barrelled pistol, pulled the hammers back, rammed the barrels into the top of the inside of the mouth, and fired both barrels. After flash and smoke appeared, the point-blank range caused the two steel (not lead) shots to shoot through the flesh and mess-up the brains inside, but whether she damaged the skull’s brain or the skull’s head, she did not know. The monster thudded against the flesh-ground and then rolled over onto its side; Kirby crawled out its mouth a few seconds later, pushing the jaw open, pistol in her hand.

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She emerged and looked around; the beast still held onto her sword, fingers twitching and the poleaxe remained lodged into its nasal cavity. She holstered her pistol, and pulled her sword out, sheathed it, and then grabbed her poleaxe with both hands and pulled it out, noticing that the head inside was skewered by the top spike, so that as she retrieved her poleaxe, the head remained impale on it. Kirby pushed the head back with one hand until it came off the top spike, dangling over the skull, breathing softly.

Kirby then swung her poleaxe and beheaded the dangling head, just to be sure this monster was dead. Kirby then used the skull as cutting practise with her poleaxe, loping off its hands, wrists, forearms and then as much arms as she could. She seemed to be enjoying herself, laughing as she desecrated the corpse. She then started cutting the legs, piece by piece, and then chopped away at the hanging headless neck.

Blood leaked out the many chopped sections, pouring blood over Kirby, but the rain washed most of it off as she continued her butchery. She chopped sideways with her poleaxe into the forehead, hacking away at the fracture until the skull split apart vertically down to the nasal cavity; she continued chopping away, chips of bone flying everywhere, until the front half of the jaw split apart down to the jaw. She then rammed the shaft into the split skull, peeling one-half over and exposing the brains within, as well as the neck-like appendage protruding out the front of the brain that used to hold the head.

Kirby then held the skull open with one hand, resting the half atop herself over her shoulder, and knelt, lifting her visor. Both hands now free, she pulled a segmented metal tube out one forearm, placed it in her mouth, and used it like a straw to draw-in the squishy insides of the skull with her mouth, treating the skull like a giant red smoothie. She would continue rudely slurping away until she needed sleep.

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Name: Gasmask Horror

Race: Dragon

Gender: Male

Dimensions: 16 feet tall, 16-foot tail, 30-foot wingspan

Build: Lean

Dead or alive: Alive

Form: Physical

Appearance and features: Resembles a traditional dragon with cream-colored scales; has yellow eyes.

Weapons: Claws, teeth, horns, tail, wings, fire-breathing.

Armour and clothing: Wears a thick brown leather outfit for the entire body, covering everything except the feet and wings. Wears a large gasmask over its whole head, with washer-covered openings for the horns to pass through. The eyepieces are large and round. The gasmask has a primitive respirator.

Equipment: Gasmask, leather outfit

Strengths: Flight, large size, claws, teeth, gasmask allows him to breathe in smoggy environments. Cold-bloodedness means he will hibernate rather than freeze to death. Can also fly above the hazy sky, diving down for surprise attacks. Is also a powerful swimmer, using limbs, tail and wings to propel himself, so he can ambush from underwater, too.

Weaknesses: Large size make him an easy target for projectiles especially when not flying. Being cold-blooded means he cannot last long in a cold environment, as he’d simply fall asleep. Wearing a gasmask, he cannot breathe fire unless it is off.

Psychology: Psychopathic

Background: An unknown aggressive dragon, simply referred to as the Gasmask Horror, due to his tendency to give his victims gruesome deaths while keeping them alive as long as possible.

History: Nameless and mysterious, very little is known about him. He is a psychopathic gasmask-wearing dragon!

Quest: Kill everything!

Can be MIA: Yes; commonly flies off into the sky to reappear later.

Can be killed: Yes, but a difficult foe to defeat.

Can be resurrected: Yes

Can self-resurrect: No

Location: Sky

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Name: Blue

Race: Gargoyle

Gender: Female

Dimensions: Five feet tall, three-foot tail, twelve-foot wingspan

Build: Solid but petite

Dead or alive: Alive

Form: Physical

Appearance and features: Resembled a rather short human with bat-like wings, raptor-like feet, tapering tail, clawed hands, and talons. Like other Gargoyles, she has skin as tough as stone. Her skin has a blueish tinge, hence her name. She has short legs and a large wide head. Exhibits long pointy ears and nose, small mouth, thin lips, long canine teeth, protrusive cheekbones, big blue eyes, and long black hair. The tips of her wings are pierced with rings, which can be used to lash out into the eyes and skin of opponents. Her ears and eyebrows have a few piercings on them.

Weapons: Claws, talons

Armour and clothing: Wears a black hooded robe, which has openings in the back to allow the wings to pass through.

Strengths: Excellent flyer with the speed and reflexes of a sparrow, and her rock-like skin makes her very resistant to all kinds of damage. Like all Gargoyles, she can pretend to be a statue, especially when stark, allowing her to blend in graveyards, ruins and churches easily.

Weaknesses: Small and inexperienced, she does not know much about fighting or survival.

Psychology: Timid

Background: Unremarkable

History: An adolescent female Gargoyle, full of curiosity but very shy. She lives with her nomadic clan, flying around scavenging for food and supplies.

Quest: Stay alive!

Can be MIA: Yes

Can be killed: Yes

Can be resurrected: Probably not due to her stone-like qualities

Can self-resurrect: no

Location: Surface/sky

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