Berserker Pre-release

Description

++Might/+Resilience

“Who beat and blazed | Your trail of red, | Till Odin gazed | Upon the dead.”

— — Egill Skallagrimsson

You are a bloodthirsty ravager, ready to throw yourself into combat without fear or hesitation. You pose a terrifying threat to anything you can get your hands on, but your battle-rage can render you as much a danger to your allies as to your enemies.

Conduits designing a mission for you should, above all else, try to ensure you have enemies to brawl with and blood to spill without derailing the plot. While you hit hard and are tough to kill, you will tire quickly if you play incautiously, so if the Conduit wants to really challenge you, they could try sending waves of enemies at you to wear you down over time.

Grounded in the tropes, myths, and underlying history surrounding battle rages and the warriors who channel them.

Examples from myth & pop culture include:

  • Heracles, Cú Chulainn, Beowulf, and similar mythical heroes
  • Wolverine (Marvel)
  • Grom Hellscream (Warcraft)
  • Kratos (God of War)
  • Painwheel (Skullgirls)
  • Taz (Looney Tunes)

Challenge Level: Mid

Edition: Aspirant v1

Public: Yes

Owner: Robby

Signature Gear

Base Gear

Pelt Panoply

Base

Collection of animal skins worn as armor, covering a substantial amount of the owner's body.

Defense Boost
Mid
  • Provides a Mid Ward against cold and frost.
  • Fierce, wild animals will tend to trust the owner, especially carnivores.
  • Give an animalistic growl, snarl, or similar to convey a gruff, 1 word message to any wild animal who hears it (Low Cooldown).

Battle Axe

Base

Two-handed, double-bitted axe standing at shoulder height.

Cleaving Boost
High
  • Durability is dramatically Boosted while striking.
  • Perform a dramatic wind-up with this axe for a few seconds to unleash a wild spinning attack with it, whirling on the spot with disproportionate speed and hurling away any target not cut through outright (Mid Stamina Cost).

Spatha

Base

One-handed sword with a broad, double-edged blade and a small crossguard.

Cleaving Boost
Mid
  • If this sword is lost or destroyed, the owner may pull it, good as new, from the corpse of an enemy they have slain.
  • Breaking this sword while striking an enemy who is literally or functionally invulnerable will cause that target to be slightly harmed despite their invulnerability.

Elective Gear

Warpaint

Elective

Stylized images daubed on exposed skin.

Wear Resistance
Mid
  • Improves the wearer’s Defiance, scaling Low–Mid on the courage they are demonstrating against a significant threat.
  • Includes an additional application of Warpaint (stored in a small pot), which the owner may give to an ally before or during the mission or may themselves to touch up their Warpaint (requiring a Low Duration to apply).

Beast Claws

Elective

Set of large, clawlike blades hidden in the knuckles of both hands.

Sharpness
Mid
Durability
Mid
  • May be deployed or retracted at will with an intense flexing of the hand, though this takes a few seconds and causes notable pain.

Gaesa

Elective

Large, broad-headed javelins, also effectively used in melee combat.

Quantity
2x
Piercing Boost
Mid
  • Dramatically less susceptible to breaking by the owner’s own hands, bending wildly without snapping.
  • Boosts owner’s agility when used to facilitate acrobatics such as vaulting, balancing, or swinging.

Abilities

Froth at the Mouth

Enter an uncontrollable battle fury in which the user’s strength, toughness, and speed are Boosted and their Stamina Costs are greatly reduced.

Essence Cost
Mid
Duration
Mid
Cooldown
Mid

Paired Action: Portray a Turning Point of succumbing to frenzied rage, proceeding then to indiscriminately attack whatever seems to be the closest threat (ally or enemy) as a potent Altered State.

  • Benefits scale Low–High on how intensely and compellingly you portray the Paired Action and Altered State.
  • If the user is substantially healed, their pain soothed, or their anger calmed, this Ability will end prematurely.

Warp Spasm

Mightily empower a single strenuous action, briefly but painfully enlarging a relevant body part to do so.

Essence Cost
Low
Stamina Cost
Mid–High
Cooldown
Low

Paired Action: Fiercely strain, portraying intense pain and exertion for a few seconds.

  • Empowerment, enlargement, Stamina Cost, and incurred pain all scale on how intensely you portray the Paired Action.

Bloodlust

Enchant the blood you spill to gradually heal yourself and scald your enemies.

Essence Cost
Mid
Duration
Low
Cooldown
Mid

Paired Action: Performatively revel in the violence you have caused (or are about to cause).

  • Impact scales Low–Mid on how thoroughly soaked the user is with blood.
    • Affects all blood the user themselves has spilled (whether before or after activating the Ability).
  • Can affect other fitting substances besides blood if yielded from damage caused by the user. (e.g. Oil from a wrecked car; metal shavings from a smashed robot; sap from a hacked tree.)