I messaged him a while ago, heard nothing. With any luck he'll return, but ah well. Was looking forward to seeing how we all interacted, and the hero rules were awesome. See ya round :1
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Lucca shrugged at Caleb's comment as they arrive, then chuckles. "For the normal person, sure, rushing headlong into danger is stupid. But when I run into things I can't handle, I either am too fast for it to be a problem, or I run away to regroup. Worked on those undead, didn't it?" He seemed almost bored, or more accurately impatient-he'd asked those clerics for help and they were so slow on grabbing the books, though they could take their time when he heard what the others were talking about. "M-maps?" That morning? Alkenstar? Weeks ago? Lucca made sure he had a charge stored in his hand, ready to toss a bolt of lightning in case of a fight. "I got mine in an investigation. Looking for some bad people. Little girl gave it to me, saying it would help me find what I'm looking for. Surprised you all seem to be that answer..."
Lucca nodded at Caleb and dashed ahead a bit, though not too far. He'd opened the door to find the priests and monks, then moved at unnerving speeds to the front of the church. "Hi there! Father Samahs sent us-he believes Melissa... sumthin or other? has seemingly attacked the Azlanti Keep,and he sent me and my allies here for a collection of tomes to find a way past the time-turning barrier. Can you help us? just as he said "us" the rest would be coming through the door,perfectly timed.
Lucca laughed as Caleb and Colt banter back and forth, nodding. "New that's a good one! Life have me lemons once. Crammed them down my throat at the speed of light. Then I... became the lemon...?" He sighed, immediately regretting saying it, before smiling wide enough they could tell he was grinning behind that mask of his. "uh... we almost there?"
Lucca's eyes widened in surprise-he hadn't expected the one he'd been suspicious of to be a descendant of a god. Or to have a longer moniker than his own. Looking over Caleb as he turned away Lucca shook his head, almost doubting him for a moment-and they he remembered what Caleb had done to the hydra. "Well then. Color me impressed, that's, ah, quite the lineage and name there" Then he looked from Kiwyn to Siren, nodding. "Oh definitely, simple names are far superior-who wants to say 'Caleb, mortal son-half of the ascending Cayden Caylean, Duke of Drunken Boys' when a barmaid asks for the name for the tab" Though even as he was saying this, he had a feeling that was exactly how Caleb told barmaids whose tab the next round was on. He nodded to Kiwyn "Nice to meet you both, Siren. and Kiwyn. Lightning works just fine for me. Just if a storm breaks out, or if we need to tell the difference between me and real lightning, Live Lightning helps." He started to ease up around them, though as he heard Kiwyn mention she's already met Caleb, he couldnt help but reach into his pocket and pull out the map with the Xs, curious to see if there were two or three Xs on top of themselves like when he was sneaking up on Caleb before.
While tempted to take off his mask and give his real name, he remembered it was the man asking who the map had lead to, so he hesitated. "Well, I've been called a lot of things. Living Lightning, Crimson Bolt. Flash. Scarlet Speedster. I kinda like Live Lightning, though I'm open to suggestions. Pardon the nomme de plumes, but uh, I don't really want people to know what I look like under here. There's people I'd rather keep my face from, if that's alright. If they knew it was me who was under here, it might cause a problem" When he said that, he did give Caleb an odd glance, but behind the mask it might not be obvious.
Lucca was both surprised and impressed that everyone else caught up to him as quickly as they did. "Do you think it's a barrier? Oris it full of the energy?" as he said energy, he got an idea. "Hey everyone, step back from it, I want to try something" as he spoke, his hands called with his own energy, lightning arcing of his fingers. Rearing back like a pitcher,he winged his arm forward, launching a small bolt of electrify at the energy field
Lucca nodded to the father, shaking his hand vigorously, giving him a bit of a static shock by accident with the hand shake. "Samahs. Nice to meet you. Poor guy" He looked to the remains, flinching, before turning back to him. "And who is she? Where is she? How do you know it was her?" he asked, perhaps spelling a bit too quickly for the man, but he was understandable.
Fast as he could, Lucca tore around the area, making sure that it really was just a dome around this one area, before making his way to the priest of Sarenrae. Blurring up next to him in a flash of bright light, the speedster skidded to a halt next to him, looking from the barrier to the cleric beside him, Lucca jerked his head to the side. "Hi-I'm here to try to help. Any idea what that thing is?" Of course, his appearance was likely a little off-putting, especially the way he hid his face. Still, he was earnest-all he wanted to do was try and help these people.
Lucca nodded. "ACME. Interesting very interesting. As for this"
"I mean, sure, it may be none of our business. But that looks nasty. Like, this level of nasty." he indicated the mess of the undine and the hydra. "We did pretty well here. Like, really well. Better than the guards. I... I think we should help. I'll go ahead and scope it out. If anyone wants to join me, meet me across the street And, unless, someone tries to stop him or calls for him to wait, he takes off like a bolt, moving at 100ft/s in the direction of the keep, lightning trailing behind him, though as he went, he did his best to hide his electricity, trying to be less obvious.
Lucca nodded. "ACME. Interesting very interesting. As for this"
"I mean, sure, it may be none of our business. But that looks nasty. Like, this level of nasty." he indicated the mess of the undine and the hydra. "We did pretty well here. Like, really well. Better than the guards. I... I think we should help. I'll go ahead and scope it out. If anyone wants to join me, meet me across the street And, unless, someone tries to stop him or calls for him to wait, he takes off lioke a bolt, moving at 100ft/s in the direction of the keep, lightning trailing behind him, though as he went, he did his best to hide his electricity, trying to be less obvious.
After getting a few final blows in on the hydra, making sure it stayed down, Lucca noticed the blonde woman he'd seen talking to the guy who flipped the hydra on it's back healing the armored fellow. He had been ready to make a break for it, but hesitated. He'd never heard of any sort of spell caster in the professor's employ. Maybe the Xs weren't too his people afterall. Zipping to the stage next to the other two, he looked down at Gyr. "Is he ok? Also, that's the coolest arm I've ever seen" and while he meant it, his eyes weren't on them, they were on the keep, watching as the clouds surrounded it, figuring he could probably get there in about 2 minutes if need be.
Lucca looked to the creature, then the others, grinning widely. They seemed to be doing well in their joint effort to take things down. Hearing someone yell to use fire, he looked to his fist, which was calling with electrical energy. Focusing on it, he made it cackle more and more, brighter and brighter, People get burned when they got strick by lightning, right? Looking to the serpent once more, charging right at it, before striking it with his glowing fist
Hey, how far away is Azlanti Keep?
Lucca, hearing the demand of the man on stage to kneel, did exaxtly what most youth do upon getting an order from an authority figure-ignored it. Looking around as the other two undine dropped, he saw where the serpentine behemoth had landed, spotting a man in one heck of a suit of armor, then over at the woman who blew up one of the undead with a blast of magical power, then at the man who flipped the serpent on it's back. His heart nearly stopped-he hadn't expected to see them so soon-and helping, no less. Still, he was impressed with the others. He breathed a sigh of relief-it seemed he wasn't alone in this fight! Pulling the edge of his longer-necked shirt up over the lower half of his face, finally finishing putting his mask on. He pointed to the man on stage and yelled out "Hey! Can any of you help him? I don't think he was like that before" Of course, as they looked over to the source of the voice, they would see either a kid or a scrawny man standing over the five bodies, body cackling with electrical energy. It was certainly an odd sight.
Lucca watches in shock and amazement as the man who had shouted before grabs the snake monster by the tail and swing it like a sack of potatoes, flattening one of the undead "I don't know if that counts as luring. But effective!" He teased- then realized this was the man who he saw with the map earlier. Then he remembered he was still dealing with the undine!
I might be a bit quick to act lol. Hope I didn't mess things up, just assumed it would be the same initiative
Lucca bobbed to the left, then weaved to the right, then leaned backwards till his hair hit the ground as he dodged that third strike, the hydra snapping at him with each of its heads. He stood up straight only to find the four undead undine all on him with the serpentine heads looming over him. Just as he started to wonder if he'd bitten off way more than he could chew, he heard someone yell about closing time. Surprised and relieved he wasn't the only one fighting, he swung wildly at the undead surrounding him, going after the ones with the swords.
Lucca suddenly remembered that there might be one behind him,though turning back to look at the one he punched only to see he'd flattened it. At first he felt uneasy that he just did that, but couldn't help but smile and laugh nervously. He looked over the blades in his hands, though was disappointed they weren't that great. Useless to him, he dropped the weapons onto the remains of the dead creature he punched in half, then looked to the other monsters nearby. Hearing the singing he was a little confused over who was doing that now,but he was thankful to have it. He noticed the sudden appearance of water and groaned-everything nearby that was bad was wet, and that likely wasn't good.
Lucca's heart was pounding-monsters everywhere, and near as he could tell the guards wouldn't be able to stop them, but maybe he could do something-anything! As the blue creatures swinging swords came at the crowd he was at the edge of, his eyes sparking with lightning, making his goggles glow. Taking off like a bolt of lightning, he rushed three of the beings with swords, trying to take the weapons of two and punch a third as he blurred toward them at breakneck speed!
Panting, nearly out of breath from using that speed, he looked down at his hands and legs, which were glowing with electrical energy. He wasn't sure what was going on with him-but boy did he love it! Though he was a little too excited-he was still within reach of the one he punched at the end!
When using acrobatics, does it cut my entire movement speed in half, or only affect the spaces in moving through?
Lucca had just managed to get his goggles on and slick his hair back with a crackle of static when he heard the screams. Looking around quickly, he realized all these people were in danger. he noticed the humanoids coming in with the swords, but was more concerned with the giant Serpentine creature. Making a dash towards the creature while pulling off his yellow shirt, revealing a red vest with a yells sash, he got about 65 feet before the crowd was too much for him to handle. "Out of the way, outof the way!" Still, he was about a hundred feet from the creature, which would work out for him quite well once people got out of the way.
Basics added! Will add more as the need arises
Lucca noted a large group of people taking about someone who had just arrived in the square who was taking to himself, but he was on a mission. Trying to blend in, he was buying another fruit, this one an odd yellow color with funny bumps on it. Still eaves dropping, he listened closely, trying to hear what they were sayin...
While he was having some trouble hearing them talking, he sighed-it seemed they were mostly just flirting, with the larger guy tripping over his words a little. Taking a bite of the fruit, he tried acting casual as he listened in a bit longer, though unless these were lousy code phrases, they didn't seem to be connected to the professor. Just as he was about to leave, however, he picked up a few words: Map. What? Xs. He froze in his tracks, looking over at the pair directly-just as the man looked up. They made eye contact briefly, and from Caleb's perspective, he'd see since scrawny kid with blonde hair biting into a fruit staring back at him-a kid standing right where that x on the map would be. Suddenly, Lucca bolted, pressing through the crowd until he got more to the main road, where he looked back, before continuing to run. What he didn't know was he was heading right towards the other 2 Xs on the map. If Caleb or Kiwyn were were to look at the map as he booked it, they'd see the X take off away from them rather quickly. He didn't know who they were, but if he could get away, he could change, then really start to follow them.
Spoiler: Well that progression makes sense lol. I'll take it as normal advancement then. Sweet! Thought about asking any the trade, but was hoping to avoid giving one up if I could lol. glad we were of same mindset for ki power progression :]
Spoiler: so as I was watching https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5v2qBBD-gE to psych myself up, I noticed him tripping and getting back up almost immediately with no reduction in speed. Any chance of getting ki stand too? Maybe at like level 2 so there's one at every even level or even three, in place of ki strike?
Oh, and in probably going to dual-path into champion, having read the speed stuff in there lol
Lucca finished off his fruit, then looked back to the Xs on the parchment and nearly choked-two of them were practically on top of each other! That had to mean something. Paying for his drink and the fruit, he dashed over to the door, looking out at the crowd, then back at the parchment, then back at the crowd. He spun it 90 degrees, then turned it back, trying to make sure he was looking the right way, looking for anything that could be a clue
Looking around, he didn't see much, though as best he could tell by looking at the map, they were close. Moving down the street, checking down, then up, he spotted them-a couple not moving with the rest of the crowd, standing there talking. Not wanting to be spotted in case they were agents of the professor, he tried to blend in with the crowd and eavesdrop a bit.
Lucca's Speed Spoiler:
It's funny, I caught the movement speed thing, but forgot to fix it on the profile lol. 90ft it is. Till it gets boosted to 120 :D
As for the rest of that stuff: Holy cow! That's a lot to make me faster than fast lol. Just a few questions, just to clarify, make sure I got it all. -Ki pool at level 1 sounds cool. it says 1/2 level + wis, but that anticipates me being at level 4. Still half or half min 1? Cool either way, but most level 1 abilites have that, figured i'd ask. The difference between 4 or 5 at level 1. Also, I get my first Ki Power other than the free ones at level 4, right? -Ki Hurricane is a dream come true, didn't know that existed! Can Ki Strike be applied during that run of punches? -Sudden Speed: Sounds good to me! No questions on that one lol -Acrobatic steps-gives 15ft through rough terrain, though assumes you have nimble moves, so that would be 20. Do I have the 15, or the 20? The only other thing I wanted to inquire about is Haste and the monk speed increase. They're both enhancement bonuses, and thus don't stack. Can they for Lucca? Celerity, a kineticist ability I can grab around 6 or 7, gives me haste, and I was hoping to benefit from it ^^; was thinking maybe the monk bonus is inherent instead of enhancement? Otherwise holy cow is he fast! Love the crazy speed boosts there, thanks for all that craziness :D As for the racial mods, good either way, whatever works best for those affected by it.
"You gotta be lyin, there's no way tha's real." The dwarf spat off to the side, glaring at the young punk in front of him who was grinning, leaning in front of the dart board. It was midday, but that didn't seem to keep some people from the taverns. "Yer tellin me, no matter how hard I try, I can't hit ya with one of these?" he held up the dart, looking the kid over. The boy, a scrawny young human probably still in his late teens, long blonde locks in a tangle around his head that seemed too good to be just messy. He flashed a winning smile, then nodded. "No one's hit me yet-I'm just too fast. Try as you might, I'll dodge every one of them" The boy said as he took a bite of a fruit he was holding. The dwarf looked to his buddies, from the half-orc with the face tattoo and one ear, to the hooded half-elf, before laughing. "So I get three shots, and if ye dont get touched, ye get this bag o coin. but whichever one of us gets you gets yer bag o coin. Bout right? The boy, one Lucca Leander, nodded. "Yes, though we've already been over the rules. Twice now. If you dont think you can hit me, I can always challenge someone else, sir dwarf." He reached for his bag of coin when the dwarf laughed, lining up his shot with the dart.
The dwarf grumbled, grabbing one of the darts, something about how maybe he should've picked a different game, looking off over his shoulder at something in the bar. Lucca looked over, just as the dwarf hucked the dart again...
As the world around him caught up, the bottle exploded, a dagger clattering to the floor. The barkeep spun around, and Lucca pointed to the half-elf "I believe he was trying to kill me over a simple wager" The barkeep whistled for his peacekeepers, though the half-elf was already making his way towards the door with the half-orc in tow. Grunting, the dwarf slammed his pint down, then turned to leave. Lucca scooped up the money with a bit of a grin on his face, calling out after them "I believe I said another shot is double or nothing-tell your friend he owes me!" He turns to the barkeep and starts to order a drink, but before he can finish is handed a mug of water. "That's... fair. Cheers
Having earned himself some privacy, he pulled something out of his pocket. Looking over the parchment with Xs on it once more, he sighed, frowning at it, before flipping it back right side up. He still wasn't sure what they all meant, but he was hoping to use the crowds from the festival, especially this big of one, would give him some cover. Still, looking at the crowd, they could also make it tougher to find. Sighing once more, he tilted his head, then pulled out a map of Absalom City he'd picked up, then back at the parchment. Seemed he was actually right on top of one of the marks, though wasn't sure exactly what that meant, or how it would help him find the professor.
*zips in, though apparently not first!* I need to go faster! But really, thank you for the pick, I've been dying to play a flash-esque character for ages, so I'm super excited! Looking forward to where this all goes :D
Yes, good luck to everybody! One might even say... godspeed! :D
Lucca's so nervous his high-speed pacing wears a groove in the floor
Added some flavor to his Con-DR being like the Flash's fast healing. Minor change, but it's there. Can't wait to see the final roster =]
Was so torn on a proper hero name! Flash is of course my favorite, though Live Lightning has a nice ring to it
Strength and Dex? I thought it was one or the other Edit:: oh, I see now. 90ft starting speed then. Sweet.
That's weird,I never noticed they threw that in at the end of the spell,as well as specifically mentioning it "counts as an n enhancement bonus" instead of just calling it one. Good to know
Yeah looking closer, the boots don't work with the monk speed and the Tiger boost only increases my "normal" speed (whatever that is on this character lol). I think if I took fleet 7 times instead of once, only the haste doesn't get x10 lol. Pew!
That is pretty dang cool. I got one for ya that I thought was pretty cool. In the event we get to level 18,Lucca truly becomes the fastest thing in pathfinder. 70ft base speed
That's 190ft/move action. Let's assume at some point i get boots of striding and springing (or similar) and add another 30ft. Let's assume i take Fleet once. 225ft/ move action. Full run is x4, so 1100ft in a round. Speaking of rounds, There's 6 seconds in a round. Most rounds are a move and standard. You can move twice in a round, so it's safe to assume move actions take less time than standard actions. This is supported by rubbing and full attacks, as a low level character can quadruple their move, but only double their attack. Let's say a move action is 2 seconds. A standard is four. Keeping that in mind... I'm a monk ofthe four winds. I take aspect of the Tiger. I can now, rarely, charge at 10x my movement and full attack, like a pounce. That's 2250ft/charge. But I can get max movement and max attacks. Assuming each still fits in the 6 seconds, that means my attack is at 4 seconds,so my movement is 2 seconds. 1125ft/s. Aka the speed of sound :D Sure, there's some leaps in logic there. May not all stack right. Might not be right about move actions being 2 seconds. But still. Speed of sound
It's funny, I was so focused on being the flash, I almost forgot about the class. I did look at it briefly when looking at a brute/Barbarian combo, but I don't like some of the changes with the unchained barb, plus I love speedsters lol. Plus, part of the appeal of vigilantes is being basically 2 classes at once. Gestalt lite lol. Though if multiple submissions are allowed, a bloodrager/brute would be made and submitted within 24 hours lol. Single submission though, yes?
I know I included how Lucca found his paper in my original backstory, was that with, or would you like something more substantial? Also, there was mention of posting the closing date later, when are you calling recruitment, any idea?
And here's Goofygeek's "Speedster" submission, though admittedly he's actually not that fast in terms of movement speed. That said, there are some cool abilities in the Guardian Mythic Path, as well as a few other things I'm looking at, that will make his speed more apparent in what he does than in actual pure movement speed. Deviated away from the investigator angle for the Kineticist, more lightning-esque, thought it would be more interesting to go with a less serious, young, "wants-to-be-a-hero" kind of guy. He's kinda like Spider-Man in terms of personality and gumption. And yes, I'm fully aware of how ridiculous it is I based his backstory on Frankenstein. But once I started and realized what I'd gotten too similar to, I couldn't resist going all in on it. |