Name: Nyaryssa
Nickname: Ryss
Theme Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_3EVUaeTEM
Age: 20
Gender: female
Orientation: pansexual
Race: Neko
Class: Tarot Mage
Sub-Class or Skills: Merchant, Thief
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Level
10
Experience Points
0/1000 to next Level
HP
150/150
MP
150/150
Height: 4'2"
Weight: 85 lbs
Appearance: Ryss has soft peach-colored fur and short reddish hair, with purple eyes, which might not be naturally colored. She is small and relatively thin.
Oddities: She wags her tail like a dog when happy or excited, and tends to litter her vocabulary with cat puns when the same. She also tends to bite her lip and rub her left arm when nervous or thinking.
Abilities:
A Nose For Gold: Nyaryssa's skill as a merchant allows her to determine the current wealth of an individual at a glance.
Black Cat Luck: Due to her connection to the forces of fate, Nyaryssa's luck can fluctuate wildly between good and bad, ensuring that while she may have insight to the future of others, she'll never know her own.
Catrobatic: Nyaryssa can move through environments quickly, regardless of obstacle. Parkour, this is parkour, but, y'know, cat pun.
Spells:
3 of Pentacles: Charms one enemy, or lowers the damage dealt by one character
Hanged Man: The caster sacrifices participation in battle to allow all allied attacks to land, and all enemy criticals to miss. The effect ends if the user is killed or incapacitated. Abilities recieve a bonus to hit, but can still miss.
The Fool: Increases speed, accuracy, and critical hit rate, but casts abilities randomly when one is attempted. Attacks have a 5% chance of dealing 20% of damage rolled to the caster as well as the target.
Nine of Staves: Provides a +3 bonus to defense
King of Cups: Restores a moderate amount of health
Three of Swords: Three ethereal blades pierce the enemy, causing damage; may lower defense
Seven of Pentacles: Steals from the enemy; 10% chance something will be removed from the caster's inventory and added to the enemy's instead
Knight of Pentacles: Status effects removed from all participants on one side
Arts:
A Second Ahead: Nyaryssa's connection to the forces of fate allow her a glimpse 2 seconds into the future during combat or stressful situations, effectively boosting her evasion rate. [MP cost: 20 to maintain]
Dazzle: 50% chance to blind for ten seconds, 50% chance to stun for ten seconds [MP cost: 20]
Mug: Nyaryssa can attempt to steal one small item of a small amount of gold on a successful melee attack, with a 35% chance of success. [MP cost: 10]
Weakness:
Physical attacks: Her clothing provides a bonus against magic attacks, but the lack of armor combined with her small stature means she can't take many physical blows.
ice: Nyaryssa does not do well in the cold.
poison: Nyaryssa possesses a weak constitution against corrupting agents.
Personal Items and Weapons:
Nyaryssa's preferred weapon is a set of throwing cards known as the Deck of Amahura. She also possesses an ordinary dagger.
Nyaryssa wears Scam Artist's Finery, which provides a small charisma bonus and decent magic defense but provides very little in the way of physical defense.
Aside from her magic tarot cards, Nyaryssa has a mundane tarot deck which she uses to scam - I mean ENTERTAIN - passers-by.
Personality: Nyaryssa is foul-mouthed, selfish and condescending, and responds to most topics with sarcasm. The only exception is when she's running a con, in which case she presents herself as kind, friendly, and flirtatious. She is genuinely nicer to those she recognizes as a genuine friend, but it is unlikely any will get past her bad personality.
Nyaryssa is great at remembering faces - a necessity in her line of work. Unfortunately, she also possesses a terrible sense of direction, relying on her capricious luck to end up where she wants to go. She spends quite a bit of time adventuring, searching out valuable treasure or those oh-so-important Tarot magic cards.
In battle, Nyaryssa prefers to use her magic to provide quick stat changes, then rushes in with her dagger to incapacitate an enemy while they remain active. In between stat boosts, or when she is having trouble drawing a card she wants, she hangs back and damages them with her throwing cards, relying on her other abilities to avoid damage. When using her dagger, she incorporates lots of jumps and flips, making her dificult to hit. She uses a backwards kick-flip to distance herself from an opponent when switching back to her ranged attack style.
Recently, Nyaryssa has been forgoing adventures, prefering to stick within urban areas and spend her time scamming the passing adventurers with fake fortune telling, which she invariably overcharges for.
Bio:
Player Version: Nyaryssa was created as a companion for a player by the name of Jonathan Yang, who quickly became dissatisfied with her unreliable magic. He removed her from his party, instead having her sell his vendor trash and unwanted treasure at massively inflated prices.
When Jonathan lost interest with the game, he abandoned her completely, leaving her standing in the market of Caleah, hawking wares she no longer had.
Revised Version: Nyaryssa was "orphaned" at a young age, when she got seperated from her tribe while travelling through Albria. She wandered lost in the wilderness for several weeks, scavenging what she could to survive. It was then that her master found her, alone in the cold, unconscious and near death from starvation. He took her in and tought her what he knew of Tarot magic, and toughht her how to fight she she ever become alone again. That day was not long in coming; several years after veing taken in, her master was called away on business. Believing he would be gone for several months, he evicted her from his home. From there, Nyaryssa made her way to the city, where she took to stealing and scamming to keep herself fed. One day while in the market, she met a young adventurer named [ERROR! Information not found!]. They travelled together for several months, but her companion quickly became dissatisfied with her skills and sent her away to sell the fruits of their journeys. He did not return for her. Some time later, she awoke in a forest with no memory other than a vague recollection of trying to sell things she didn't have. With nothing else to do, she first began by wandering the region, searching for more Tarot cards and treasure before deciding to make her fortune in a more urban environment, off the people and adventurers she came across.
Likes: Money, rare items, fish, cake, walking on walls and rooftops, the moon
Dislikes: water, bugs, loud people, string instruments, humidity, the cold
Fears: abandonment, the ocean, lost in the wilderness
Other:
Her passive ability, Black Cat Luck, was named for the fact that black cats are considered to be good or bad luck in different cultures. Her cat puns were inserted by her player because he thought it was funny. She is lactose intolerant.
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