Post by shinaobi on Feb 29, 2008 17:50:12 GMT -5
Name: Obadiah Brilshaden
Age: Physically 28, actually about 429 or so; due to the way calendars have changed, his exact age is uncertain
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Power Level: Mid-Tier Medium(5)
Timeline: Modern
Appearance:
; he usually wears a black muscle shirt and a baggy pair of black pants, along with a pair of yellow combat boots; his hair is long and spiked to hell and back; he tried to tame it with a ponytail, but it spikes anyway. He has since lost his magical mirror; this is the way he's stuck.
Personality: Obadiah's basic personality hasn't changed much; he's still a thrill seeker, though his moral compass plays a much bigger role in his personality. His attitude on collateral damage hasn't changed much, though he'll try to save anyone he views as "innocent" that is caught in the crossfire.
History: Obadiah lived a simple, boring, peasant life. Anyone who had read about him would say he was average in every way, and he was acutely aware of it, and in no way did it make him any happier. His parents, while aware of it, weren't quite as bothered, as the life was mostly stable.
This all started changing around Obadiah's 20th birthday. A semi-famous wizard came to visit the baron, and it was rumored that he had an enchanted weapon he had come along to give to a resident of the fiefdom. Of course, everybody expected the baron to receive the weapon. Obadiah's attendance was guaranteed mainly because it would break up the monotony and he liked the monotony to be broken.
When the wizard arrived, he pulled a move that proved even more exciting to Obadiah. He placed the sword, still inside the scabbard, onto a pedestal that had conveniently appeared while said wizard was talking. He declared that anyone who wanted the sword would have to challenge him to a series of duels. If this could not be done, the wizard would take control of the fiefdom. The only reason people didn't like this was because the baron kept taxes low and crime down. Since crime and taxes are very important to people, this caused an uproar, as wizards, witches, and mages were known far and wide to quickly squander the money on magical knicknacks, and raise the taxes so that they could pay for more magical knicknacks.
Of course, the Baron was having none of this, and, after a failed attempt to do so himself, promised functional freedom to any man able to complete the challenges. Obadiah jumped at the chance, and immediately started devising while all the other villagers repeatedly failed.
After convincing his parents of the benefits of freedom, he "borrowed" some of the baron's better wines and arranged to meet the wizard near the sword. After some talking down and the wizard managing to drain 3 casks, Obadiah gained the sword and the functional freedom of the household.
His parents packed up, left, and, after a few months, gained a monopoly on all the blacksmithing when a 40 kilometer radius, guaranteeing that his family would be rich for generations to come. Obadiah was happy for a few months, but eventually he found it to be trading monotony for monotony.
After an incident involving a large group of moneygrubbing brigands and Koenig, Obadiah made preparations to depart while his parents were busy getting publicity out of the incident. They were aware that he was leaving, and even used it to turn him into a hero of sorts, eventually gaining another monopoly on his name. Now his parents were guaranteed to die dirty stinkin' rich, instead of stinkin' rich. Obadiah was fine with this, and he left a few weeks later so that he could actually have some fun.
And so he did, spending a good six and a half years traveling around the land, doing what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it, not even giving the slightest damn about what others thought of that fact. Time went on, and as he continued to live, he noticed two things: one, he wasn't aging at all, and two, he was mellowing out.
So, mellowed out, he ended up running into an angry wizard. The same wizard, in fact, that Obadiah had tricked out of the weapon he now carried and one of the most prosperous fiefdoms in the land. And that wizard was not happy at all, as Obadiah had run into him while he was having a bad day.
And, after one semi-epic battle, Obadiah found himself and his sword frozen in a magical iceberg, with the wizard on the ground, dying from wounds sustained during the battle. They were near the sea at the time, so he floated away, Koenig still in his hands; in this way he disappeared from that age.
But he wasn't gone; eventually a U.S. military supercarrier found an iceberg floating in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; while this was a little odd itself, what really caught their eye was not that it was middle of summer or that there was an iceberg floating around in the middle of summer, but more that there was a person in it; and that the person was perfectly preserved; they initially presumed that he had been mummified. As the magic that was holding the iceberg together had weakened to the point that it could easily be melted/shattered by physical means, scientists were easily able to break the iceberg.
As Obadiah was unconscious when they broke him out and nobody bothered to actually check to see if he was alive or not, they were about to conduct an autopsy to find a more authentic knowledge of how a typical medieval mercenary(at the time he was wearing mostly leather clothing, though there weren't any medieval insignias on his person; along with the blade, they assumed him a mercenary) lived and exactly how this particular mercenary died.
It was fairly big news, if only because people found it highly novel that someone was actually found in an iceberg. When they got ready for the dissection process, they ran into some odd factoids; the grip on the sword was so hard that it was impossible to get it from his grasp, and rigor mortis had not set in; apparently, this man had been frozen alive. They prepared to dissect.
But it didn't work. At all. They were starting to get a little desperate after they threw away their third needle; with the tools they had, they hadn't been able to break through his skin.
Then Obadiah woke up. And he was displeased. The scientists were first to receive the business end of his displeasure, with about 4 out of 5 of them knocked out before they were able to get across the fact that this was the year 2010, not 1581, that they weren't in Spain, and that they weren't members of the Spanish Inquisititon, intent on using their strange tools of torture to bend him to their wills, and eventually they calmed him down enough till he decided to start learning more about the world he lived in.
This made international news. The fact that someone had just come out alive and, (as 5 scientists could attribute to) with a mean right hook was absolutely sensational. People were lining up for interviews, all sorts of things; either way, for about a month, Brilshaden acclimated. The next month, he decided to join the U.S. Navy, mainly because he found it to be the best and easiest way to acclimate, simply because a soldier's life wasn't really all that different from the life he had lived up to his freezing and thawing; he simply wasn't quite as used to having others to help him.
So life continued. After a show of fair physical ability and some explanations as to the nature of his weapon, they led him through on a crash course, allowing him to have access technical readouts on the way this era's weapons worked, as he made it quite apparent to them that he wasn't going to give his weapon over.
He ended up as a solo operative(as examinations of his abilities showed them that attaching him to a unit would just hamper his progress and reduce his combat potential. Publicly, he became known as America's first supersoldier and got publicized as 'spiritually' American in every way, and became the posterboy for joining the Army and Navy. He was also known for his combat prowess; he was once described by the U.S. Secretary of Defense as being as dangerous as a nuclear warhead, without any of the collateral damage issues.
So he went on, living his life; recently, as the country has entered peacetime, the Navy has let him loose on the population of America, and with a vast personal fortune to boot; due to the sheer authenticity of the clothing he had on when they fished him out, he made millions selling the articles to various museums.
Powers: Obadiah's powers haven't changed much, though their strength has weakened due to the time that has passed; he's still superstrong, superfast, superdurable, and superagile, just not as much as before. He also doesn't regenerate as quick as he did before; it's also been revealed that his regenerative power makes him mostly immune to poisons and diseases. He's also got a good 11+ years combat experience, and the tenacity and ferocity birthed through it. Along with that combat experience, he's also been trained as a U.S. Navy SEAL.
He is strong enough to be able to punch sizable dents in sheet metal, and has been noted to be able to lift up to about half a ton consistently, though it's pretty straining to do it, and, if he lifts something in this manner, he can't really do much other than heft it.
He's able to sprint, at his absolute top, around 65 miles per hour, though he can't maintain it longer than 500 meters, and is huffing and puffing after any such exertion.
Obadiah is agile enough to perform rapid successions of acrobatic feats, such as wall jumps, and can, unaided, climb surfaces others might find daunting even with the help of climbing equipment, and has been described as being about as able to leap around, climb, and swing as Tarzan would be able to.
Weapons: Obadiah carries naught but a single weapon, a magically enhanced zweihander named Koenig. Koenig's enhancements are the origin of every one of Obadiah's abilities and a few of his personality traits. It is, as far as mortal means go, entirely indestructible, and is in perfect sync with Obadiah's mind, able to change its shape, size, and weight as needed, able to split into multiple pieces, with those pieces retaining indestructibility and malleability. Koenig's only transformation limitation is that it can only transform into a weapon. It has something of a mind of its own, as it only allows its powers to change hands upon its current owner being properly bested, although it won't actively attempt to return to its owner if they are separated.
Obadiah has also discovered that, when transformed into a gun, Koenig will perfectly emulate the properties of the weapon it is transformed into, although it functions oddly in regard to ammo limits; Obadiah must either manually reload with actual bullets or shapeshift into one form and back, though he'll have a full clip when it shapeshifts back. Obadiah has also finally realized that Koenig can only transform into weapons he has knowledge of; exactly how he managed to miss this fact is unknown.
Known weapons:
nearly every bladed weapon known to the medieval European time period
dao(curved single edged broadsword of Chinese origin)
jian(double edged straight sword going from 18-32 inches in length)
naginata
rokushakubo(six foot staff)
KA-BAR combat knife
a large portion of the weapons known to Japan during
Accuracy International AS50 .50BMG sniper rifle
M4A1 SOPMOD; Obadiah prefers to use the forward handgrip, the AN/PEQ-2A visible laser/infrared designator, and the Trijicon Reflex Sight; he can pop on the Night Vision Site as needed, and he knows the rest of the kit and can use it as needed.
MP7A1; Brilshaden can mount the red dot sights, silencer, and tactical flashlight; it appears with the 20 round magazine because it takes up less space and he's got infinite ammo anyway.
Current production model SVD Dragunov
Mark XIX .50ae Desert Eagle
When not doing anything, Obadiah usually leaves Koenig in its Desert Eagle form; what used to be Koenig's scabbard is the holster.
Weaknesses: His abilities are very closely linked to his weapon, and, were he to be properly disarmed, he would be forced to rely on nothing but brains and the brawn that a reasonably experienced soldier would have, and his regenerative powers don't extend to allowing him to regenerate a lost limb.
The regeneration has lessened; it still does a good job of healing him, but not as fast as before. He's also no longer durable enough to withstand bullets; he can survive them, but they penetrate just fine. Blades can cut him, too; they just require some more force behind stabs, thrusts, slashes, and cuts than they might otherwise require.
He also has to either manually reload or switch forms to reload his weapons, so he's vulnerable to counter-attack when he's not laying down the lead.
EDIT: Added KA-BAR combat knife and sentence regarding what Koenig stays as when not in use.
EDIT 2: Attempted to provide boundaries for abilities.
EDIT 3: Fixed SVD link.
EDIT 4: Altered power level; at least I know I didn't underestimate him.
EDIT 5: Altered way ammo works to make it more fair(otherwise he could go *dual wields MP7s; kills everything in 5 mile radius*). Also added in hilarious joke.
Age: Physically 28, actually about 429 or so; due to the way calendars have changed, his exact age is uncertain
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Power Level: Mid-Tier Medium(5)
Timeline: Modern
Appearance:
; he usually wears a black muscle shirt and a baggy pair of black pants, along with a pair of yellow combat boots; his hair is long and spiked to hell and back; he tried to tame it with a ponytail, but it spikes anyway. He has since lost his magical mirror; this is the way he's stuck.Personality: Obadiah's basic personality hasn't changed much; he's still a thrill seeker, though his moral compass plays a much bigger role in his personality. His attitude on collateral damage hasn't changed much, though he'll try to save anyone he views as "innocent" that is caught in the crossfire.
History: Obadiah lived a simple, boring, peasant life. Anyone who had read about him would say he was average in every way, and he was acutely aware of it, and in no way did it make him any happier. His parents, while aware of it, weren't quite as bothered, as the life was mostly stable.
This all started changing around Obadiah's 20th birthday. A semi-famous wizard came to visit the baron, and it was rumored that he had an enchanted weapon he had come along to give to a resident of the fiefdom. Of course, everybody expected the baron to receive the weapon. Obadiah's attendance was guaranteed mainly because it would break up the monotony and he liked the monotony to be broken.
When the wizard arrived, he pulled a move that proved even more exciting to Obadiah. He placed the sword, still inside the scabbard, onto a pedestal that had conveniently appeared while said wizard was talking. He declared that anyone who wanted the sword would have to challenge him to a series of duels. If this could not be done, the wizard would take control of the fiefdom. The only reason people didn't like this was because the baron kept taxes low and crime down. Since crime and taxes are very important to people, this caused an uproar, as wizards, witches, and mages were known far and wide to quickly squander the money on magical knicknacks, and raise the taxes so that they could pay for more magical knicknacks.
Of course, the Baron was having none of this, and, after a failed attempt to do so himself, promised functional freedom to any man able to complete the challenges. Obadiah jumped at the chance, and immediately started devising while all the other villagers repeatedly failed.
After convincing his parents of the benefits of freedom, he "borrowed" some of the baron's better wines and arranged to meet the wizard near the sword. After some talking down and the wizard managing to drain 3 casks, Obadiah gained the sword and the functional freedom of the household.
His parents packed up, left, and, after a few months, gained a monopoly on all the blacksmithing when a 40 kilometer radius, guaranteeing that his family would be rich for generations to come. Obadiah was happy for a few months, but eventually he found it to be trading monotony for monotony.
After an incident involving a large group of moneygrubbing brigands and Koenig, Obadiah made preparations to depart while his parents were busy getting publicity out of the incident. They were aware that he was leaving, and even used it to turn him into a hero of sorts, eventually gaining another monopoly on his name. Now his parents were guaranteed to die dirty stinkin' rich, instead of stinkin' rich. Obadiah was fine with this, and he left a few weeks later so that he could actually have some fun.
And so he did, spending a good six and a half years traveling around the land, doing what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it, not even giving the slightest damn about what others thought of that fact. Time went on, and as he continued to live, he noticed two things: one, he wasn't aging at all, and two, he was mellowing out.
So, mellowed out, he ended up running into an angry wizard. The same wizard, in fact, that Obadiah had tricked out of the weapon he now carried and one of the most prosperous fiefdoms in the land. And that wizard was not happy at all, as Obadiah had run into him while he was having a bad day.
And, after one semi-epic battle, Obadiah found himself and his sword frozen in a magical iceberg, with the wizard on the ground, dying from wounds sustained during the battle. They were near the sea at the time, so he floated away, Koenig still in his hands; in this way he disappeared from that age.
But he wasn't gone; eventually a U.S. military supercarrier found an iceberg floating in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; while this was a little odd itself, what really caught their eye was not that it was middle of summer or that there was an iceberg floating around in the middle of summer, but more that there was a person in it; and that the person was perfectly preserved; they initially presumed that he had been mummified. As the magic that was holding the iceberg together had weakened to the point that it could easily be melted/shattered by physical means, scientists were easily able to break the iceberg.
As Obadiah was unconscious when they broke him out and nobody bothered to actually check to see if he was alive or not, they were about to conduct an autopsy to find a more authentic knowledge of how a typical medieval mercenary(at the time he was wearing mostly leather clothing, though there weren't any medieval insignias on his person; along with the blade, they assumed him a mercenary) lived and exactly how this particular mercenary died.
It was fairly big news, if only because people found it highly novel that someone was actually found in an iceberg. When they got ready for the dissection process, they ran into some odd factoids; the grip on the sword was so hard that it was impossible to get it from his grasp, and rigor mortis had not set in; apparently, this man had been frozen alive. They prepared to dissect.
But it didn't work. At all. They were starting to get a little desperate after they threw away their third needle; with the tools they had, they hadn't been able to break through his skin.
Then Obadiah woke up. And he was displeased. The scientists were first to receive the business end of his displeasure, with about 4 out of 5 of them knocked out before they were able to get across the fact that this was the year 2010, not 1581, that they weren't in Spain, and that they weren't members of the Spanish Inquisititon, intent on using their strange tools of torture to bend him to their wills, and eventually they calmed him down enough till he decided to start learning more about the world he lived in.
This made international news. The fact that someone had just come out alive and, (as 5 scientists could attribute to) with a mean right hook was absolutely sensational. People were lining up for interviews, all sorts of things; either way, for about a month, Brilshaden acclimated. The next month, he decided to join the U.S. Navy, mainly because he found it to be the best and easiest way to acclimate, simply because a soldier's life wasn't really all that different from the life he had lived up to his freezing and thawing; he simply wasn't quite as used to having others to help him.
So life continued. After a show of fair physical ability and some explanations as to the nature of his weapon, they led him through on a crash course, allowing him to have access technical readouts on the way this era's weapons worked, as he made it quite apparent to them that he wasn't going to give his weapon over.
He ended up as a solo operative(as examinations of his abilities showed them that attaching him to a unit would just hamper his progress and reduce his combat potential. Publicly, he became known as America's first supersoldier and got publicized as 'spiritually' American in every way, and became the posterboy for joining the Army and Navy. He was also known for his combat prowess; he was once described by the U.S. Secretary of Defense as being as dangerous as a nuclear warhead, without any of the collateral damage issues.
So he went on, living his life; recently, as the country has entered peacetime, the Navy has let him loose on the population of America, and with a vast personal fortune to boot; due to the sheer authenticity of the clothing he had on when they fished him out, he made millions selling the articles to various museums.
Powers: Obadiah's powers haven't changed much, though their strength has weakened due to the time that has passed; he's still superstrong, superfast, superdurable, and superagile, just not as much as before. He also doesn't regenerate as quick as he did before; it's also been revealed that his regenerative power makes him mostly immune to poisons and diseases. He's also got a good 11+ years combat experience, and the tenacity and ferocity birthed through it. Along with that combat experience, he's also been trained as a U.S. Navy SEAL.
He is strong enough to be able to punch sizable dents in sheet metal, and has been noted to be able to lift up to about half a ton consistently, though it's pretty straining to do it, and, if he lifts something in this manner, he can't really do much other than heft it.
He's able to sprint, at his absolute top, around 65 miles per hour, though he can't maintain it longer than 500 meters, and is huffing and puffing after any such exertion.
Obadiah is agile enough to perform rapid successions of acrobatic feats, such as wall jumps, and can, unaided, climb surfaces others might find daunting even with the help of climbing equipment, and has been described as being about as able to leap around, climb, and swing as Tarzan would be able to.
Weapons: Obadiah carries naught but a single weapon, a magically enhanced zweihander named Koenig. Koenig's enhancements are the origin of every one of Obadiah's abilities and a few of his personality traits. It is, as far as mortal means go, entirely indestructible, and is in perfect sync with Obadiah's mind, able to change its shape, size, and weight as needed, able to split into multiple pieces, with those pieces retaining indestructibility and malleability. Koenig's only transformation limitation is that it can only transform into a weapon. It has something of a mind of its own, as it only allows its powers to change hands upon its current owner being properly bested, although it won't actively attempt to return to its owner if they are separated.
Obadiah has also discovered that, when transformed into a gun, Koenig will perfectly emulate the properties of the weapon it is transformed into, although it functions oddly in regard to ammo limits; Obadiah must either manually reload with actual bullets or shapeshift into one form and back, though he'll have a full clip when it shapeshifts back. Obadiah has also finally realized that Koenig can only transform into weapons he has knowledge of; exactly how he managed to miss this fact is unknown.
Known weapons:
nearly every bladed weapon known to the medieval European time period
dao(curved single edged broadsword of Chinese origin)
jian(double edged straight sword going from 18-32 inches in length)
naginata
rokushakubo(six foot staff)
KA-BAR combat knife
a large portion of the weapons known to Japan during
Accuracy International AS50 .50BMG sniper rifle
M4A1 SOPMOD; Obadiah prefers to use the forward handgrip, the AN/PEQ-2A visible laser/infrared designator, and the Trijicon Reflex Sight; he can pop on the Night Vision Site as needed, and he knows the rest of the kit and can use it as needed.
MP7A1; Brilshaden can mount the red dot sights, silencer, and tactical flashlight; it appears with the 20 round magazine because it takes up less space and he's got infinite ammo anyway.
Current production model SVD Dragunov
Mark XIX .50ae Desert Eagle
When not doing anything, Obadiah usually leaves Koenig in its Desert Eagle form; what used to be Koenig's scabbard is the holster.
Weaknesses: His abilities are very closely linked to his weapon, and, were he to be properly disarmed, he would be forced to rely on nothing but brains and the brawn that a reasonably experienced soldier would have, and his regenerative powers don't extend to allowing him to regenerate a lost limb.
The regeneration has lessened; it still does a good job of healing him, but not as fast as before. He's also no longer durable enough to withstand bullets; he can survive them, but they penetrate just fine. Blades can cut him, too; they just require some more force behind stabs, thrusts, slashes, and cuts than they might otherwise require.
He also has to either manually reload or switch forms to reload his weapons, so he's vulnerable to counter-attack when he's not laying down the lead.
EDIT: Added KA-BAR combat knife and sentence regarding what Koenig stays as when not in use.
EDIT 2: Attempted to provide boundaries for abilities.
EDIT 3: Fixed SVD link.
EDIT 4: Altered power level; at least I know I didn't underestimate him.
EDIT 5: Altered way ammo works to make it more fair(otherwise he could go *dual wields MP7s; kills everything in 5 mile radius*). Also added in hilarious joke.
