Gaia Saga: Destroyer

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Basicaly the same game as Savior, just that the players take on the roles of villanous characters who work for CREED. This is meant to be played when not all of the players for Savior can get together to continue on with the storyline.

Settings: 300 point stat cap, magic using jobs not available, Levasian Human and Elven sub-races avaialable.

Here are the quick write ups for the Levasian sub-races just in case players of this particular side campaign want to play as solid CREED soldiers and officers.

Levasian (Human)
Summary: Outcasts from the time of the High Elven Empire, these Humans were once members of primitive clans who worked alongside the Empire in its earlier days. Used mainly as cheap laborers and guardsmen to less popluated Elven cities, these Humans were treated teribly by their Elven masters, but nonetheless accepted things as they were. Born with the strange inability to generate ether, a small group of these people found themselves totally outclassed by their peers, and joined up with similar people of the time in order to gain protection in numbers. Since they were secretly helping the Elven sect of their hidden organization in the production of special machinery to gain them an advantage over magic, these Humans were banished from Dalros and were sentenced to Levasia, the frozen continent to the far east. Instead of dying out like was intended, these people managed to survive and use Levasia's rich resources of Mythril to create a civilization of their own away from their oppressors. Human Levasians are the most commonly found race on Levasia, and make up nearly 80% of the overall population there. While some of their resistances have gone down over time, their knowledge of machinery and crafting has given them a more fundamental edge over their Dalrosian cousins.

Racial Abilities: Levasian Humans receive the following racial changes to their character sheet.

• Proficiency: Since they spend most of their time tinkering with machines and other technical areas, Levasians have less time to hone their skills and so lose this ability.
  
• Craftsman: Unlike other members of their race, Levasian Humans are better at crafting and so get a +25% to crafting rolls instead of the usual amount.
  
• Skilled Machinist: Levasians live around machines and think of them as a part of their lives. For this reason, Levasians do not get a penalty to skill rolls when operating or repairing machinery even if they do not possess the right skills for the task. When using a skill that is machine based, they receive an additional +1 success dice bonus for every skill they already have.
  
• Resistance: Levasian Humans have a 50% resistance to the cold and 20% resistance to everything else.
  

Levasian (Elf)
Summary: The mainstay of the Levasian movement before it was banished, the elves of the secret order were the first to learn that they did not have any magical aptitude. Scared that they would be swallowed up by the magical learning explosion, these elves sought refuge among machines, asking underground groups of utlaw dwarves for help in attaining strength through other means besides magic. Over time they developed a strange exo-suit made of metal that was able to absorb the ether particles in the air and transform it into workable energy. This allowed the suits to cast spells for the wearers, but was unstable and had a potential to cause more harm then good. Having been found out by the empire, the entire sect was banished to die, and the small amount of elves involved were destined to meet the same fate as the Human laborers allied with them. Adapting to survive in the harsh cold of Levasia, these Elves developed hunting and tracking skills unheard of in the rest of their race. Even without the ability to use magic, Levasian Elves make up for this shortcoming with keener magical resistance and faster reflexes.

Racial Abilities: Levasian Elves have the following racial changes to their character sheet.

• Detect Magic: Levasian Elves lose this ability since they do not generate the ether necessary to track other forms.
  
• Heightened Hearing: Levasian Elves receive a +5 to perception checks when listening or noticjng something based on noise.
  
• Resistance: Levasian Elves have a 40% resistance to magic of all types.
  
• Quick Reflexes: Levasian Elves receive a +25% to defensive dexterity rolls, and to actions pertaining to dexterity actions.
  

Thats should do it, what do you guys think?

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Oh yeah, here are also a few CREED based jobs for you to choose from if you want to use them.

Magi-Tracker
Stat Costs: Dexterity 500 EXP, Intelligence 500 EXP, Charisma 500 EXP, all other areas 1,000 EXP.
Free Skills: Tracking, one combat skill of choice
Summary: A CREED based profession, the magi-tracker is a specially trained agent that may or may not be Levasian. Prepared to fight against those with magical powers, magi-tracker's use their abilities in following ans sneaking up on others to capture and eliminate magical threats in the most efficient way possible.
Staring Gold: 2D100

Scientist
Stat Costs: Intelligence 500 EXP, Charisma 500 EXP, all other statistic areas 1,000 EXP.
Free Skills: Calculate, Literate, Anatomy
Summary: The science division of the CREED army is what is responsible for experimenting on magical test subjects in order to develop new weapons to fight against them. Sinister and cunning, these men and women are not meant for combat, but do offer decent support to those that are.
Starting Gold: 6D100

CREED Trooper
Stat Costs: Dexterity 500 EXP, Stamina 500 EXP, Charisma 500 EXP, all other statistic areas 1,000 EXP.
Free Skills: Firearms, Demolitions
Summary: The basic foot soldier of the CREED Army. Trooper's are all trained in disciplinary drills and are taught that teamwork is the best weapon against an enemy that has a lot of power. Trooper's are skilled in the arts of quick engineering as well, and can devise traps and explosive devices on the fly if they have to.
Starting Gold: 1D100

Artillerist
Stat Cost: Charisma 500 EXP, Dexterity 500 EXP, Intelligence 500 EXP, all other statistic areas 1,000 EXP.
Free Skills: Calculate, Clockwork Engineering
Summary: The artillerist is a specilized member of the CREED Army. Trained in the use of large weapons such as siege cannons and rocket platforms, they are professionals when it comes to mammoths of the battlefield.
Starting Gold: 2D100

Harness Pilot
Stat Costs: Charisma 500 EXP, Dexterity 500 EXP, Luck 500 EXP, all other statistic areas 1,000 EXP.
Free Skills: Driving, Clockwork Engineering
Summary: The highly trained pilots of the Levasian suits known as magic-harnesses, these men and women are the elite fighters of the CREED Army. Not physically strong by themselves, their strength lies in thier ability to operate the nearly impregnable exo-skeletons that they wear into battle.
Starting Gold: 3D100

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RECAP

Last time on Gaia Saga...

(Game session was on August 2nd)

With his legs and one arm lost in a battle with Crovax, Douglas Quaid is currently out of commision. By some unknown means, he has been talked to by his superiors while on bed rest, and is given orders to retrive two powerful artifacts in three weeks time. Unable to do it himself since he is currently waiting on his replacement limbs from the local engineer guild, he gathers his hired underlings from Dalros together and sends them out in his stead.

The villains travel to the outskirts of Valagran, coming across a few strange encounters on the way there. They finally make it to their destination; a run down Paltrinithian shack about to fall off of a cliff on the mountain range. Inside the shack they find a strange man with long silver hair who is armed with a long rifle. Without giving them his name, the man tells the villains that he works for the same people that Quaid works for, and that he is imperative to the mission at hand. The group goes through another door in the shack and finds themselves transported to another continent that has yet to be explored by anyone from Dalros. The name of the continent is Tranellis, its direct location on Gaia is unknown, but it is a tropical paradise of exotic plants and animals.

It is here that the group comes across a strange race of lizardmen whose civilization is advanced (think the ancient Aztec Empire).

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END OF GAME