Alchemy Beta Test

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

So, here's the situation. I need two (or more) people to beta test a system for Alchemy (Fullmetal Alchemist World) that I've come up with. The goal is to put it to the extreme, finding any and all loopholes or weak points that needs to be worked on. Balancing will happen as needed. Below is the basic write up of the system.

First, the characters will be considered Class 4. They will have 500 SP to work with. There are no types. The following are the stats:

Strength
Speed
Alchemic Stamina (Think Spiritual Pressure, will go into more detail below)
Alchemic Dexterity
Instinct
Senses
Healing Expertise (if you really want it, I guess)

Everyone will submit an application, but only a really simple one. Physical Description need only be a couple sentences, overall personality is the only other thing needed besides powers. One's "Powers" are their alchemic specialty. Nothing involving human transmutation nor soul manipulation can be approved. An Alchemic specialty could include modifying the density of the air to create projectiles from their fist, or something. It'd have to be scientific in nature, explainable. The transmutation circle required for the alchemic specialty would be allowed to be always with the person, whether it be an item, an article of clothing, a tattoo, etc. Alchemic specialties DO need to have a stamina drain (found below). The stamina cost is equal to half as much as the class of alchemy that the user's specialty fits into. So if the user uses a Class 6 type of alchemy, using their specialty requires 1 stamina point. The Alchemic specialty can be any class except 1 (for now, since you have class 4 characters) and the characters can only use up to Class 4 alchemy.

Basic alchemy, that is, alchemy that requires the user to make a circle on the spot, would have it's own system. Each post would possess a certain amount of time units, like ten or so. Every class of alchemy (7 to 1, maybe) would have a time cost and a stamina cost. The Alchemic Stamina could be restored by resting, like reiatsu amount. The Alchemic Dexterity, which was formerly reiatsu strength, would represent how fast the user was able to draw and access a circle. If a 50 AD alchemist was to perform a 2 time unit circle, it would take 2 time units. A 100 AD alchemist could perform it in 1. A 400 AD alchemist could perform an 8 time unit circle in 1 time unit (thus type stat boost disabling). The stat cap will still be 400 SP.

Class 7 Alchemy, that involved just movement of a single substance, like making a pillar of earth rise up out of the ground, would cost 1 stamina point and would take 2 time units.

Class 6 Alchemy would still involve moving a single substance, however it would be like making metal piping inside a wall come out through the wall. The circle would not be directly on the object to be moved. This would cost 2 stamina points and 4 time units.

Class 5 Alchemy would involve taking a single substance that it is attached to and changing it's shape. For example, a circle that is on a stone wall that creates a stone rod to be used as a weapon. This would cost 4 stamina points and 5 time units to draw the circle.

Class 4 Alchemy would be the same as Class 7 alchemy, but with more than one substance at a single time, like moving both ground and water to form a pillar of mud. This would cost 6 stamina points and 7 time units.

Class 3 Alchemy would be Class 6 Alchemy with more than one substance. It would cost 8 stamina points and 10 time units (at 50 AD, an entire post of prep)

Class 2 Alchemy would be Class 5 Alchemy with more than one substance. It would cost 10 stamina points and 15 time units.

Class 1 Alchemy would be anything that involved the breaking down of matter at the subatomic level and changing it. Such as Kimbley's ability to change the make up of Alphonze to react with air. These complex alchemic transmutations would cost 15 stamina points and 20 time units.

These will probably need balancing as the test proceeds. Let me explain the time units. There are 10 time units usable per post. Melee attacks, such as punching/kicking/swinging a sword, require 1 time unit to perform. Moving a distance of 10 feet is also 1 time unit. For every 50 points in speed, starting at 100, that distance increases 10 feet (100 speed is 20 feet per time unit, etc. This is to ensure that people can't god mod their transmutation circles to be there instantly. For every 1 stat in Alchemic Stamina, the character gets 2 stamina points to use, and can be restored at a rate of 5 points per post if no combat is performed. 3 stamina points are restored per post if no alchemy is performed, but combat is performed.

Every character starts with two items. The item that is personal to them that is the medium for their specialty in alchemy, and a drawing tool. The choices are the following. Chalk or a rod. Chalk is good in dry and/or solid surfaces, a rod is good in wet and/or malleable surfaces. Obviously, someone can simply pick up a stick or use their finger for the latter, however this stick is good quality, so the lines are much clearer. If someone uses their finger in dirt or their fingernail for a circle in a more solid object, it will require double the time units for making the circle. For all transmutation circles, an opponent is able to cancel the alchemy by breaking them, unless the user has their hands touching the circle in question.

If I've left something out, it'll come up in the beta test. The first two people to just post character apps (and have them approved by me) can go ahead and make another Free RP thread for them meeting and fighting. The scenario will be two State Alchemists dueling (like Mustang and Ed in the original series)

Automail is allowed, but only one limb, and it cannot have any external attachments. It is simply an arm/leg that is made of metal and possesses 100 strength, no matter the user's strength. This would replace the stick/chalk since you choose it as your extra tool. A weapon based Object of Specialty (the object where the transmutation circle is present) also takes the place of an extra tool.

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Oh, here's a Template if you want one


[b][u]Name:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Age:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Physical Description:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Overall Personality:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Alchemic Specialty/Medium of use:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Other tool:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Stats:[/u][/b]


[Deleted]

Name: Adolf von Bismarck, The Panzer

Age: 35

Physical Description: Adolf is built like a Panzer. He easily weighs over 300 pounds, and every bit of that is muscle. His face makes him look nothing short of insane. His eyes show that not a whole lot is going on up there, and his scraggly beard makes it obvious he hasn't shaved in months, possibly years. Generally speaking, he's a terrifying man to look at.



Overall Personality: As would be expected of someone with Adolf's appearance, he's completely insane. Okay, that's a bit of a lie, but he's pretty far gone. His mental state doesn't have a specific diagnosis, but he can generally be understood to be riddled with madness. To him, the world only has two things in it: Things to kill, and things to destroy. The only reason his state alchemist certification hasn't been revoked is because people are too afraid of him to do anything about it. He's also been given some leeway because of how effective he was during the war in Ishval.

Alchemic Specialty/Medium of use: Adolf's specialty is Iron. He isn't incredibly talented when it comes to alchemy, and what little he does understand is limited to this specialty. That's right, he's actually incapable of performing alchemy outside of his specialty. His medium of use is also highly unorthodox. He has the transmutation circle inscribed into the sole of his boots. He can activate class 7 alchemy with only one boot, but any higher alchemy requires him to jump into the air and click his heels together so that the transmutation circles meet. His Iron specialty can be used basically anywhere, since Iron is present in almost any type of ground. He is, however, incredibly efficient at fighting with a city or a warzone.

The primary use of his specialty is a very simple and straightforward one. He can form walls of Iron. They can withstand quite a bit of punishment, being harder to destroy than stone-based alchemy. The walls can get as large as 8 feet high and 4 feet wide with class 7-6 alchemy. Anything larger than this requires a doubling of stamina for every time the size of the wall doubles, upto a limit of three doublings in size. The walls can basically be formed anywhere that he is in contact with an inorganic physical surface, as he can draw out the minute amounts of Iron to form the wall. The walls need not be straight, and can bend gradually or at a sharp (even 90 degree) angle.

Other tool: Adolf does not have an alchemical tool. He is incapable of using general alchemy, and can only use his specialty.

Stats:

Strength: 150
Speed: 150
Alchemical Stamina: 20 (Assuming this means 20 stamina points)
Alchemical Dexterity: 0
Instinct: 100
Senses: 80

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

For the first test, 20 Alchemic Stamina means 40 stamina points to work with

[King Arthur Pendragon]

Then, yeah, if there are no problems with the app, I'd like to go with this.

[Myzaraphiston Synderfell]

Name: Matthew Hazeman

Age: 28

Physical Description: Matthew is a very tall, lanky man. He is virtually all sharp angles and straight lines. However, very little is known about his actual appearance beyond this due to the suit he constantly wears. The suit seems to resemble that of an old-time Plague Doctor's, with a few other accommodations added in as fitting for modern times.

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Overall Personality: Hazeman is a calm and collected individual, admittedly more of an intellectual than a warrior. He is also an extreme germaphobe and hypochondriac. However, he has also garnered a reputation as a very no-nonsense individual when it comes to orders from the Furher, and will always follow them. He's responsible for more than a few civilian deaths during the Ishvalan conflict, and has no qualms about dirtying his hands to complete an order.

Alchemic Specialty/Medium of use: Matthew is a skilled Alchemist, and focuses mostly on the most commonly available element of them all: Air. More specifically, Hazeman tends to focus on the compression and expansion of air, particularly that of air in confined spaces. General uses include creating shockwaves of air via rapid expansion and forcing rapidly compressed air at his enemies. His medium of use is a cane made of a Copper-Titanium alloy, with the transmutation circle for his alchemy inscribed upon the head of the tool.

Other tool: The only tool Matthew possesses is his cane, since the item can also be used to quickly etch out any additional circles Matthew may need.


Stats:

Strength - 30
Speed - 80
Alchemic Stamina - 100
Alchemic Dexterity - 150
Instinct - 90
Senses - 50

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Name: Ronald McBagel the "Bright Cloth" Alchemist

Age: 27

Physical Description: Ronald has a tall, lanky figure that is not at all evident due to his overly flamboyant clothing. He wears very baggy, thick clothes that are made up of various colors, yet all pure wool. All in all, he looks like a clown from all the crazy clothes he wears, not to mention the extremely white face paint.

Overall Personality: Ronald is, both in clothing and in action, a clown. He rarely takes things seriously, even when fighting he will dance around and frolick and somehow actually get something done. He likes long walks on the beach and flowers that shoot water from them.

Alchemic Specialty/Medium of use: Ronald's particular specialty of alchemy is found in cloth. The long baggy sleeves of his shirt are wrapped around his hands like boxer wraps, which cover the transmutation circle tattoo on his hands. He can transmute his own clothes into sharp strips that can be used as whips, or to capture opponents by binding them, and he even knows how to use his alchemy to compress the strips into a sharp and solid strip that functions as a blade.

Other tool: Rod

Stats:

Strength: 100
Speed: 100
Alchemic Stamina: 100
Alchemic Dexterity: 100
Instinct: 50
Senses: 50

[theblackreaper]

Name: Jonathan Clark, The Chilly Alchemist

Age: 24

Physical Description:

Johnathan is a tall and noticeably muscular man with pale skin, short spiky black hair, brown eyes, and small eyebrows. He is normally seen wearing bandages like a mask over the bottom half of his face. Under his mask, he had a relatively narrow jawline and jagged-teeth, a trait he shared with his late father. He wore his forehead protector sideways on his head and in colder months wears what resembles a flak jacket. He usually wears a sleeveless black shirt and matching pants, complete with a waist-guard, and striped wrist and leg-warmers (of varying colors). He often wears bandages loosely tied around his neck like a scarf. On his back, he carries a large sword named “The Executioner’s Blade”. He often refers to the blade as a “he” rather than “it”, personifying it, as if it were a person, drawing importance to the blade. Over his clothing, he usually wears a tan, black, or grey trench coat or, more often than not, a hooded cloak.

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Overall Personality:

”There’s no comfort in the truth… Pain is all you’ll find.”

Jonathan is the cold, painful reality type. He tends to add harsh quips to a conversation when he talks – that is, on the rare he actually does talk. Jonathan tends to be more the silent type, as it suites his personality well. While on the outside, he often seems emotionless, in truth he harbors great pain on the inside from the death and despair he faced as a child of Ishval. He tends to be the one who sneaks off on his own to advance the team's goals independently, or even for his own purposes all together.

Alchemical Specialty and Medium of Use:

Jonathan’s medium is his sword, The Executioner’s Blade, as well as his hand wraps (which, while they do not seem to be, are actually part of the sword itself). The sword replaces a rod or chalk, by hiding alchemical symbols inside the wraps themselves. Taking advantage of these circles, Jonathan manipulates water in his environment to create tools and barriers of water and ice. While it may seem like a petty ability effected greatly by available resources, he is able to convert water vapor in the air into water via condensation, freeze water into ice, and reverse these same processes, making it a lethal alchemical ability indeed.

Other tool:

Jonathan wields a large sword known as The Executioner’s Blade. Because of its large size, it replaces a rod or chalk for use as a medium of creating an alchemical circle. The sword itself has the innate ability to channel alchemy via hidden circles and symbols in his hand wraps that are, in actuality, part of the sword itself, allowing him to not only use it at short but also long range (not to be confused with other wraps he uses, such as the ones around his neck). These contain the necessary seals for his alchemical specialty.

[Zeich Yajuu]

Name: Lucian DeMont, "The Shaping Alchemist"

Age: 20

Physical Description:

Lucian is a rather uninteresting individual in appearance. Medium-length brown hair hangs down his neck in a small ponytail, and the long bangs frame simple blue eyes. A silver stud is visible in his left ear, the only ornamental jewelry he wears. His clothing displays a decent amount of wealth; Lucian wears a long blue jacket, the back of which hangs to his thighs, and the edges are embroidered in gold. Within the jacket are dozens of pockets; these contain a brush, several inkpots, and dozens of small sheets of paper that already have alchemical circles drawn on them. Underneath the jacket he wears a fine white silk shirt with a ruffled section around the neck. His pants are simple blue to match his jacket, with an embroidered belt.

Overall Personality:

Lucian is very casual and laid-back. Despite his obvious wealth, he doesn't really rub it in, nor does he ever refer to it. Instead he's more focused on his work as an artist, and often has a large book filled with sheets of canvas that he is often painting in with his ink brush. Lucian focuses on portraits above all, and likes to sketch various people as he comes across them. Due to his work, he tends to be absent-minded when it comes to anything but the subject he is working on. When he focuses, Lucian is amazingly intelligent and thoughtful, but everything else is brushed aside casually.

Alchemic Specialty/Medium of use:

Lucian's alchemic specialty lies in manipulation of carbon within paper, altering the density and the shape of it. With a single circle, he can shape a piece of paper into an object of equal size; mass changes based on density. Multiple sheets can be incorporated into a single object using one circle, but it reduces the number of sheets available for other attacks. However, by using this alteration of carbon, Lucian can change other objects; most things have carbon in them.

Lucian always carries an inkpot, brush and roughly fifty small sheets of paper on him at all times, hidden within the pockets of his jacket. Each sheet is roughly one foot by one foot, and all of them are folded to fit easily. Each also has a circle previously printed on it, a basic circle that allows him to change the shape and mass of the sheet, a Class 5 Alchemy ability. The other side of the sheet is left blank, which allows Lucian to change the purpose of the sheet by drawing a whole new circle in ink.

Other tool:

Lucian's other tool is the ink brush he keeps at his side, along with a large pot of ink. The ink allows him to draw on a large number of surfaces, but even if he runs out, he can still use the brush like a small stick, drawing in sand, mud, or dust. The brush itself is roughly a foot long, and uses a hair tassel that soaks up ink while still making smooth lines when used to draw on any surface.

Stats:

Strength: 30
Speed: 170
Alchemical Stamina: 40 (80 Stamina)
Alchemical Dexterity: 150
Instinct: 70
Senses: 40

[Deleted]

Name: Jessie Mercury [The Richtor Alchemist]

Age: 24

Physical Description:

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Overall Personality: Jessie is a normally happy woman, a small smile always on her face. She has a very happy outlook on life, a true optimist. Not much can get her down. However, she hates injustice, and will mercilessly hunt down any whom break the law.

Alchemic Specialty/Medium of use: "The Richtor Alchemist, Jessie Mercury." This is her title as a State Alchemist, due to her specialty. Her alchemy is one of the most destructive forms around, rivaling even that of "deconstructive" alchemy. She channels this through her trusty hammer; on the head of the one-handed hammer is a transmutation circle. She uses her strength to slam this hammer on the ground. What her specialty does it simple; it's causes earthquakes. Not only earthquakes, but bone jarring, shaking tremors. Not only that, she can create fissures that can swallow people whole, then close again and crush them to death. These, of course, have some restrictions. Her abilities only work on earth or rock, or other earthy minerals, such as crystals. Additionally, the earthquakes and fissures can only extend up to 10 feet.

Other tool: Right auto-mail arm.

Stats: Strength: 140 (100 on Auto-mail right arm)
Speed: 80
Alchemic Stamina: 100
Alchemic Dexterity:100
Instinct: 50
Senses: 50

[Pavel Fedoseev]

Name: Stefan Aleksandrov "The Silent Alchemist"

Age: 29

Physical Description:

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Stefan can be described as a towering but slim male, his face is extremely pale and snow white. The trick behind this is that he wears a specially designed mask meant to literally erase every aspect of his face from view thus leaving a blank face. He can see very well and breath well but no one can see his face or any distinct features. The rest of his body is pale and snow white, but it is hard to see. He wears black gloves and very dark dress shoes. He wears a pitch black blazer with a bright red tie, his dress shirt is pure white and stands out.

Overall Personality:
Stefan is a silent male, under no situations do he speaks. There has been no recorded events in which they do hear his voice. And when he does speak it sounds soft and echoes through out the air without much problem. Stefan is a male whose history and personality is literally shrouded with darkness and mystery. He never speaks, nor does he perform any real actions outside of combat when someone looks at him. He merely stands there and stares. He is a cruel person when he is combat, he will have no problems with destroying anyone that gets in his way. He is a curious being, often looking into the body after death and inspecting every aspect of what is inside.

Alchemic Specialty/Medium of use: Stefan is known for his exploitation of the most common silk and the water vapor in the air. What he does specifically is he exploits the proteins in the silk and mixes it with the water vapor. Water and Protein creates sludge and he can harden and soften it to his pleasure. What he uses for a medium is that he has it sewn into his black gloves and the gloves are in turn sewn into his hands. Another note, were in a special chance he fight against an opponent who wears silk, he can turn that clothing into sludge.

Other tool: Stefan carries a large canister of about 1 feet strapped to his back inside is a 10 by 10 by 10 blanket made of silk.

Stats:
Strength - 30
Speed - 70
Alchemic Stamina - 150
Alchemic Dexterity - 150
Instinct - 50
Senses - 50