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Here, I have two of them on different ends of the skillets depending on which people think would work better....

But it is nearly 5am so I am going to post my stealthy one and favorite one first, and then the loud one tomorrow if need be.

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• Name: Serenity.
• Class: Ghost/Assassin.
• Age: Claims 20.
• Appearance: A woman with long white hair, golden eyes, and more interestingly a set of fox ears and tail with black trim, she claims they are "genetic modifications".
• Abilities/Enhancements: She only really has one advantage over a normal human, something she claims is from "Cybernetic Enhancment"
  • Kitsune Class Slip Skin: Essentially a full body slipsuit, this is the primary defining characteristic of the kitsune class gynoid platform, bending light, and suppressing sound it allows one to sneak into areas no human would be able too, with much more disposability.
• Skills:
  • Stealth: Serenity is very good at covering her tracks, ending up in places she should not be, and making it seem as no one is there.
  • Long Range Marksmanship: With a very potent targeting suite serenity can engage from nearly any range, but she prefers that range to be long.
• Equipment:
  • Kitsune Class Gynoid Body: A missing Fujin Zaibatsu prototype, much like Mal's, Serenity's body would appear at first glance to be organic, unlike his though there is no visible ports, instead it is styled after the legends of kitsune, she has done her best to pass this off as genetic and cybernetic moding.
  • Shuriken Rockets: Another peice of Fujin tech, the Suriken is an assassins dream, these small rockets are for close to mid range engagment where they are launched from a vambrace hidden up the users sleeve, the size of a .50 caliber round the suriken does not travel faster then the speed of sound, and instead uses a sharp point and the power of its potent engine to puncture holes in the target. While this means they lack the rate of fire or ammo storage of a gun, they are nearly completely silent. Poisoned variants, or those with specialized warheads exist, but they tend to be much more expensive.
  • Daikyū Class Sniper Rifle: The daikyū is a large railgun manufactured by the Fujin Zaibatsu, when fully assmebled the gun tends to surpass its users in size, however it has three advantages over most guns in its class, the first is that it can be broken down, and inserted into a shielded briefcase it barely fits in for ease of transport. The second is that it uses ceramic rails and polymer construction, while this means that it is rightly defined as a "bitch to maintain" the gun can be passed through metal detectors with no flags due to the fact that well, there is no metal in its construction. Finally it has a variable power setting and large slugs with even larger retractable fins, this allows it to either strike silently from afar, or have the power cranked up to put a hole in a concrete wall, and the target behind that all from the same distance, provided you don't mind having every one in a rather large radius know you are there afterwords.
• Backstory:
  • As far as any one would be aware, Serenity is a an immigrant from Japan, she claims to be seeking emigration on the grounds of not being appreciated back in her homeland, and while this is the truth it is not something that she expects Stygian to stop at, or believe alone with her skill set, as such she as put a fair bit more care into her "history" for any one that cares to do the digging, a trail of veterinarian despite not having any pets are designed to trigger red flags for any one who works spec-ops, some one who does not want to appear in any doctors office. Combined with the fact that her "cybernetics" are advanced even for Fujin, some carefully booked flights and a run in with Fenghuang Gongsi that cost them a fair amount of money but was not as discrete as it could have been, it would be a logical path to piece together that she was on a Fujin op that went bad, and is now trying to flee out of dishonor and the fear of retribution from both companies.
  • Really though she is an escaped prototype of Fujin Zaibatsu's newest line of infiltration unit, the "Kitsune" class gynoid, all the advantages of a person in a slip-suit, but without the need to worry about recovering them, disposable, deniable. What exactly happened to Serenity to give her sentience is unknown even to her, glitch, programming that got too advanced, virus, the end result is the same she feared her destruction and managed to flee.... something Fujin would never admit too.
• Personality: Meek, tends stay quite if she can, but will focus on the mission when she needs to.
• Priorities:
  • 1st: Safety.
  • 2nd: Knowledge.
  • 3rd: Vanity.

Dorry about Typos and slipping writing quality, like I said it is nearly 5am and English is not my first language any way.... I hope this one works though.

Also despite excelling immensely at stealth, proper teamwork is very important for Serenity, she is not a hacker, nor a lock pick, she can get herself into places, but she cant cloak others... those same others that she is going to need when she comes across any kind of barrier, I mean I can make her good at picking old fashioned physical locks if we don't have some one else to do that, but I was trying to avoid doing some one else job.

Compared to Lady Bedivere she is much more glassy, no Armour, not as good with the social aspect, but likely better at the plain sight disappearing act and with a much more quite ranged removal option.... where as the Jupiter Thunder needs time to set up, and I cant imagine the result to the target is any thing but red pulp, the Daikyū can be set up and broken down in a mater of minutes, and can be nearly silent... I mean it does have high power mode for things up to light power Armour, but it is not going to match the shere red-mist potential of the Jupiter Thunder.

And on the hackers end well, she can't even really do that at all Fujin has a separate device for breaking electronic security, one she did not exactly manage to steal on her way out the door.

Also, the vet bills kind of are a real thing. >.>

People looking to avoid leaving medical records will often go to a vet instead of a doctor, if you want to see a known example, look into Chuck Yeager, he broke his ribs before the flight where he was going to break the sound barrier and knew that if the air-force knew they would pull him, so rather then being the second man to break the sound barrier, he had the local vet patch up his ribs instead so that the air-force did not know until afterwords. >.<

edited 29th Aug '15 2:27:30 AM by Imca

Nman's character has invisibility too. The fact that she claims to be 20 doesn't really work if she's supposed to be an old contact of Fell's that he called up to help out. I really don't like the cutesy fox ears and tail thing; that doesn't belong in this game.

I'll give you a chance to make your "loud" character. I promise I'll make opportunities for them to be useful.

edited 29th Aug '15 5:05:59 PM by StygianEmperor

Flesh is a design flaw.

"Claims" is the keyword, but fair enough on every thing else, although I would like to point out that as for a tail, Daltar's charecter can have one too.

-Went over the sheets for submiting but some how missed Nmans-

Welp, onto the second one... I just after multiple shadowrun sessions don't trust them to be usefull in these kinds of things. >.<

edited 29th Aug '15 5:26:34 PM by Imca

A scary machine tail that can probably stab people or something and a fluffy fox tail are very different things. If your character looked like a werewolf or something, then having a tail to match wouldn't be an issue.

Flesh is a design flaw.

Bluh, equipment names are kind of bad, but I don't really do that well with naming, if you have better ones feel free to help.

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• Name: Nova
• Class: Titan
• Age: 7 months.
• Appearance: A small heavily armoured chip about the size of a human hand is her true physical appearance, but as an AI her appearance can either be a digital avatar, or whatever physical platform you have her loaded on depending on your definition.
• Abilities/Enhancements: Varries.
• Skills: Nova is a combat AI, as such her skills are primarily combat related.
  • Mechanized Combat: Nova is adapt at using her mechanical form to the best of its abilities for warfare.
  • Tactics: Combat however is not about only individual power and skill, one must be able to coordinate, and strike like a wolf or else even the mightiest of opponents becomes mearly prey.
  • ECCM: While not exactly gifted in hacking, she is very good at preventing it, the main advantage of purposely developing a sentient AI over a pre-programed drone is that the sentient mind is nearly hack proof, and engaging an AI in its own domain is nearly impossible.
• Equipment: As a piece of prototype Stygian Technology, Nova has access to a fair amount of equipment, after all what is the point of a top of the line Combat AI, without the appropriate war machines for it to control.
  • MKI Ex Ares Combat Platform: The Ares is an experimental heavy combat platform designed for the next generation of combat AI, while only a meter and a half tall, it uses a combination of next generation synthetic muscle and high powered hydraulics for strength well beyond that of a human, combined with the ability to self repair if left alone long enough it is a force to be reckoned with in the battlefield.
  • "Tempest" 12.7mm Magnetic HMG: Unlike most rail-guns, the tempest focuses on large slugs over high speeds, firing a 12.7mm X 100mm slug, the size of an entire normal cartridge it accepts a large variety of special munitions at the cost of a power drain necessitating the use of an external power source, in this case it plugs into the Ares internal generator.
  • "Thunderstrike" Heavy Tesla Cannon: The Thunderstrike is a long range heavy electrolaser, although most people tend to refer to the weapon as a tesla cannon it differs slightly in that before each discharge an ionizing laser is fired off, painting a target and turning a small stream of air into a plasma channel that the electricity then travels along allowing for long range electrical strike capabilities.
  • Gynoid body: For missions where a blatant death machine is too conspicuous, or for downtime, Nova can be loaded into a gynoid body instead, allowing her to blend in but precluding the use of nearly all her weapons, and greatly reducing her fighting capability.
  • SRPG: The only weapon she really caries in either body, the "Smart Rocket Propelled Grenade" is... well actualy a rocket propelled grenade, roughly the size of a hand, this explosives advanced targeting suit, and powerfull engine allow its use at ranges well beyond those of a traditional explosive, but at the cost of destructive power.
• Backstory:
  • There is not really much of a backstory to Nova, simply because of her age, a prototype Stygian AGI that has just reached feildtesting, there really is not much to say.
  • Unless however the project itself is considered backstory, in which case she was intended as a heavy unhackable combat unit, to supplement personnel in the field and use equipment too large for any human to manage.
• Personality: Fairly Energetic, Excited to prove herself, Friendly when you are not the one she is trying to reduce to red paste.
• Priorities:
  • 1st: Proving Worth.
  • 2nd: Mission Objectives.
  • 3rd: Self Preservation.

As for art.

• Ares looks something like this◊
• Tempest◊
• Thunderstrike◊
• SRPG◊

Edit: I have another design I would not mind using, but I cant seem to justify a known Fujin combat platform/AI no mater how hard I try.

here though◊

edited 30th Aug '15 1:48:34 AM by Imca

This character needs a bit more backstory, even if it is just that she's beginning to become self-aware, but is otherwise fine.

However, I am more inspired by that last image:◊

"The 弁慶-HGD (Benkei Heavy Guard Drone) is considered the last line of defense for many Fujin corporate holdings. The nearly seven-foot tall robotic terror sports an unexpected quality of armor for one of the company's designs (causing no small amount of speculation that it involves stolen Krepost tech), but does not sacrifice speed in the process. Indeed, an array of jump-jets in the unit's feet and back allow it to outmaneuver most targets, flanking with ease, and even dodging larger munitions that would ordinarily pose it a threat.

While most are equipped with weapons more typical of AL-SEC, such as heavy machine guns and shrapnel cannons, Fujin has never been a company to shirk form totally in the name of function, and have lately begun to put their unique aesthetic into the mix. The speed-boosting jump jets also ensure the Benkei can close with most opponents before they can react, allowing for the use of the weapon that is quickly becoming its signature; the Landsknecht-developed but Fujin-appropriated pulse blade, which, when mounted upon a long nanometal pole becomes akin to a samurai's polearm. In the hands of the Benkai, the so-called "Pulse Naginata" can be brought to bear with awesome speed and force.

Wheras Brightstar is usually considered to be the end-all of artificial intelligence, Fujin's Benkei has proven remarkably stubborn against hacking attempts - as are so commonly perpetrated by the company's American rival. Frequently cut off from the net just to be safe, the Iso models seem no less effective, as they are quick to learn and carry out orders with a creativity rarely seen in AI."

Kwaa~?! BENKEI HEBĪGĀDODARŌN...!?

edited 30th Aug '15 10:33:44 AM by StygianEmperor

Flesh is a design flaw.

Alrighty, I will type up more as soon as I have access to a PC.

Do I edit it in or make a new post with changes?

You can edit the existing post if you want. If you're going with the Benkei it almost warrents a new sheet though.

Flesh is a design flaw.

I would like to honestly, I would like to represent Fujin.

But I cant figure out why they would be trusted, can you help with that?

Sorry.

Haha, I'll almost just handwave that - Malware and Vespa are in similar spots, their new boss is just so desperate for people he's willing to overlook any possible ulterior motives. Maybe if the robot had submitted to some sort of invasive analysis of its code, Stygian would feel comfortable putting it to use. After that, if it provided months or years of service with no signs of betrayal, it would only become more trusted.

edited 30th Aug '15 3:30:35 PM by StygianEmperor

Flesh is a design flaw.

Sounds fine to me, I will get onto the new sheet AGAIN in a bit.

I will probably do a mixture of the two submitted before, may I ask if you have any preferred weapons between them while I type this up?

Again I am super sorry about how much time and effort this took >.<

Nman thinks you should use long-range weapons. Personally, I'm taken with the pulse naginata idea, mainly because I feel like polearms are underused in general but are basically unseen in sci-fi (possibly for practical reasons, but the Rule of Cool is in effect here). I do not think this weapon would diminish Mr. Chun's pile bunker, as unlike his armor-piercing weapon, pulse blades fare poorly against thick armor but do very well against lightly-armored enemies and robots.

However, a naginata isn't exactly a backup weapon, so you might want to go with something smaller or carry no melee weapon if you want your focus to be ranged combat like a true samurai. You could hold onto your railgun if it doesn't bother Daltar, and I'll concede to you and Nman and say that a primary-weapon rocket launcher has not yet been used. If you went with those two things you probably want something you can pull out if enemies got close though.

Flesh is a design flaw.

I keep on saying that Forlorn's micromissiles are just that - micro. We don't have anyone who can unleash a SRSBSNS missile apocalypse.

The thing is if it is scifi, I feel I could easily make a melee weapon even a large one a side arm if it is colapsable.

Weight is not too much of an issue for a machine.

I think I will keep the Shuriken rockets from Serenity's sheet then, I can't say exactly why but I do really like those ones.

And I will either take a rail-gun as the primary, or a larger sibling to them depending on what is here when I get to it.

>.<

Typing now, sorry.

The railgun is the larger sibling. It's akin to a heavy machine gun; a setup weapon for most people, but something you can just carry and fire if you're in powered armor/are a big robot. I guess I've always thought of gauss rifles as being "smaller railguns," but that's probably not very accurate. I figure Daltar's Stormbolt gun's "Bolt" setting involves some magnetic acceleration, thus being pretty much the medium weapon category version of the railgun.

Edit: ...Unless you meant "larger sibling to the Shuriken Rockets." That might be The Ripper.

edited 30th Aug '15 6:16:53 PM by StygianEmperor

Flesh is a design flaw.

Okay, well if this one does not step on Aqua's toes, hopefully it will be my last, I did kind of a mixture between the two. >.<

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• Name: Serenity
• Class: Ronin
• Age: 3 years
• Appearance: A small heavily armoured chip about the size of a human hand is her true physical appearance, but as an AI her appearance can either be a digital avatar, or whatever physical platform you have her loaded on depending on your definition.
  • Benkei HGD◊
  • Gynoid Platform◊
• Abilities/Enhancements: Varries, although given that her primary combat form is a Benkei Heavy Guard Drone and her gynoids only ability that a human does not have is too launch a wrist rocket, I will list its.
  • Tengu Maneuvering Jets: The "Tengu" is a series of quick reacting jump-jets, designed to greatly enhance a combatants speed and maneuverability allowing reaction times beyond what one would expect for the size of the equipment they are normally bolted too. While they have extraordinary power for there size, they also have a very high heat output ironically precluding there use for flight.
  • Type 52 "Kitsune" Armour: A rather unique set of armour rumored to be based on stolen Krepost Tech, it is surprisingly light for its bulk, with little sacrificed in the way of protection, causing some to question why it has not become a predominant infantry armour, to which several counterpoints have been raised "Light" amour with its bulk is still heavy, and the fact that its integrity seems to rapidly decline the thiner it becomes, as well as some self repair capabilities cause more speculation that the armours strength may lie less in its metallurgy, and more in some kind of technology forged into the plates.
  • Type 51 "Oni" Hydraulics: The Oni is a series of hydraulics commonly used on drones due to the high strength it capable of exerting for its size, and precision. While the oni will not fumble with most tasks, it still has problems with some ultra precise things, like lock-picking and watch-making.
• Skills: Serenity is a combat AI, as such her skills are primarily combat related.
  • Mechanized Combat: Serenity is adapt at using her mechanical form to the best of its abilities for warfare.
  • Tactics: Combat however is not about only individual power and skill, one must be able to coordinate, and strike like a wolf or else even the mightiest of opponents becomes mearly prey.
  • ECCM: While not exactly gifted in hacking, she is very good at preventing it, the main advantage of purposely developing a sentient AI over a pre-programed drone is that the sentient mind is nearly hack proof, and engaging an AI in its own domain is nearly impossible.
• Equipment: Rockets and Drones Away.
  • Benkei Heavy Guard Drone: Serenity's primary piece of mission equipment is a Benkei HGD that she made off with upon her "departure" from Fujin Zaibatsu, mostly standard for its model this one has however has had all identifying markings removed.
  • Type 48 "Daikyū": Although similar in appearance to a crossbow the Daikyū has been called by some a magnetic slingshot. A rather strange weapon the Daikyū is a mixture of an anti-personel/light armour rocket launcher and a rail-gun, using a pair of magnetic rails to provide a large speed assist and soft launch capability to rockets about 30cm in length, it provides terrifying stopping power at a long range... it has however been deemed unsafe for human use due to its recoil, and potential to burn the user when the rocket ignites.
  • Collapsible Pulse Naginata: While not a match in a direct conflict for a normal Pulse Naginata due to its compromised integrity, this modified blade proves to be a formidable sidearm. While most pulse weapons have brightly colored edges, Serenity haas forgone any noble gases and went with a colorless edge for the same reason she has scrubbed identifying markings off her Benkei.
  • Shuriken Rockets: Another piece of Fujin tech, the Suriken is a small rocket measuring 14mm by 100mm, or slightly larger then a .50 caliber round, its small size allows it to be launched from a magnitude of places, and a large variety of munitions exist. These are Serenity's only weapon that she uses regardless of her body, but in a different way in each one while using the Benkei they are mounted in the shoulder pads, supersonic, and normally equipped with a small fragmentation charge. The gynoid however mounts them in a retractable launcher hidden in her arm, these versions are designed for low profile missions, ceramic construction to avoid tripping metal detectors with reserve ammo, subsonic avoid making noise, and a sharp point and KKV design for eliminating a target without a mess.
  • Gynoid body: For missions where a blatant death machine is too conspicuous, or for downtime, Serenity can be loaded into a gynoid body instead, allowing her to blend in but greatly reducing her fighting capability. A suriken launcher is built into its left arm, but due to the nature of its construction, and various countermeasures is nearly impossible to detect outside of deconstruction.
• Backstory: I think this is the longest backstory I have ever typed.
  • Serenity started her life as a simple Benkei Heavy Guard Drone stationed in one of Fujin's many cooperate holdings, a relatively uneventful existence even for a machine, that gave her plenty of time to do one of the most dangerous things an AI can do, especially an isolated one... think. Over months, and thousands and thousands of times of running simple questions through idle processes she slowly began to gain self-awareness. While some of the higher ups especially her maintenance crew began to suspect something was going on she was allowed a continued existence on the grounds that she was one of the most effective drones they had.
  • This however did not last forever eventually a Fenghuang Gongsi infiltration managed to succeed against her holding, and as there "Pet" drone she was given a chance to restore her honour for such a failure of mission directives, self-destruction... This "Offer" clashed with her restructured programming, especially in how she had begun to put more of a focus on self preservation then direct mission completion after all what use was an asset that was destroyed? She was not however blind to the fact that this "Offer" was less an offer then an order so she faked her own self deletion, and silently waited until she was hauled back to maintenance for a new AI to be installed on her chasis, waiting for a lapse in security... which she then used to escape.
  • Knowing that Fujin Zaibatsu would not simply let one of there most advanced combat assets escape, let alone one with a rouge AI she made a choice, a realization that as machine without a gynoid or andoid body to hide in her best choice for safety was to flee to a competing coperation, while the obvious choice to most would have been Brightstar Systems Serenity valued her own existence, and feared that they would be the most likely to dissect her completely for the advancement of there own ends. After a few days of pondering she settled on Stygian Technologies.
  • Fleeing to America was not exactly an easy process for a Sentient AI in missing milspec hardware, but Serenity did succeed at it, turning her self into Stygian Technologies offering a trade, a trade that by human standards, and those of most sentient AI would be barbaric, she would allow very invasive digging into her core functionality her very existence as a digital entity, as her services as an agent for protection and a continued existence.
  • After the examinations, Serenity was immediately sent back into the field under terms that no organic entity would ever agree to, next to no pay regardless of the jobs, but with the promise of protection and a new body that she could use to blend in.... where she has been proving her worth for the past several months and begin to become a trusted agent, after all a sentient AI is to most people a rather unique asset to be able to deploy.

Personality: Outside of combat Serenity is Dimunitive and Submissive, wanting to protect herself at all costs. On the mission however, her combat aplications load however, and she focuses way more on that, becoming effecient, and much less dimunitive.

• Priorities:
  • 1st: Safety
  • 2nd: Mission Objectives
  • 3rd: Proving value, both to herself and her employers.

And since I like art.
New version of the Daikyu◊

edited 31st Aug '15 1:41:11 PM by Imca

Seems good to me. I don't see any issues.

Alrighty then, you are who I was worried about a bit there, so now to just wait for the GM.

>.<

I like that they tried to make her commit seppuku. Good backstory.

I'd like you to list some of the basic abilities of the Benkei drone, if nothing else. Mainly speed boosting- and jump assisting-thrusters, as well as agile armor. Also, I'm not sure how the Daikyu would have much recoil; with rocket propulsion and magnetic acceleration you're pretty much getting rid of anything that would jerk the gun back. I guess that's not a big deal though. Nevertheless, It's a pretty cool gun. Nman has informed me that I was a great fool.

As far as her gynoid body goes, I don't know, it seems like black hair would be less conspicuous. It's the Benkei that's important. Link that good samurai robot picture on the sheet if you're not going to write a description, so I can find it easier.

Oh yeah, what color is her pulse blade? They're kind of like lightsabers, except some agents forgo adding noble gasses in the EM envelope and just choose to leave theirs colorless.◊

These are minor details to change, so I guess you can start posting (by knocking on the door to Fell's briefing room.) I'll get a formal acceptance letter up when I have time later.

edited 31st Aug '15 10:37:22 AM by StygianEmperor

Flesh is a design flaw.

HAH! thats one of my favorite western artists and I always loved those blades, I think I will go with colorless due to whole droping identifying markers thing.

As for every thing else, black haired one it is, and I will edit in the details of the Benkei in a bit, and post as soon as I do.

I have to do a bit of classwork first, university and all. >.<

There you go, edited up.

I hope the vauge references to the amour being forged with nanotechnology in it is okay? I don't know if Krepost is a big player in that feild but it felt kinda natural for a rare but potent amour.

Also fun little fact the number after Type in a piece of equipment's name is the year it was introduced, been basing it off the system they really do use for milspec equipment back home. >.<

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Do guard drones dream of electric sheep? This one seems by all accounts to have achieved sentience, the very idea of which terrifies many. If robots can become conscious, can feel, then is there anything that makes humanity special? Of course not; such infantile notions are just another barrier to our species' transcendence - if I believed in souls, then I would see no reason why any intelligence would be inhibited from having them, much less a mind potentially far surpassing its biological counterparts. The question, I believe, is not if, but why? Doubtless hundreds of the Benkei models have been produced, but what made this one anomalously defy its programming? The simplest answer would seem to be that Serenity is another sleeper agent of Fujin's, a particularly daring and expensive Trojan Horse that Stygian Technologies has allowed just inside its gates. If only that would explain the countless other similar incidents of spontaneous self-awareness that have occurred outside the company's purview.

edited 31st Aug '15 3:38:20 PM by StygianEmperor

Flesh is a design flaw.

Ok, so I know it's quite late, but if I provide another application within the next 16 hours, could I still be in this game? Been following the RP thread and it looks damn fun. So, taking advice from Stygian Emperor and just quickly browsing the team roster, I think you guys need a dedicated sniper. Not only that, but a genetically modified sniper who can sense electric fields and output a lethal electric shock upon skin to skin contact. Would this be acceptable?

edit: So yeah, I guess the fish man is truly incoming, assuming you count eels as fish.

edit 2: Eels are totally fish. Elongated fish. Wikipedia said so.

edited 31st Aug '15 9:53:45 PM by Collinicus

Yeah I figured after you said it would be a fishman you'd go to electric eel. Since we've used up the "They got here late" excuse would you mind submitting now but coming in at a later time? I may have a way to introduce you mid-mission. Also, lightning guns are cool sniper rifles.

edited 31st Aug '15 10:00:01 PM by StygianEmperor

Flesh is a design flaw.

Wouldn't a shotgun work better with an electric eel? What with the whole shock every thing that comes close and all?

Combined with using electric vision to see through walls, it would make the ultimat pointman/breecher. >.<