Mani4c (V3.0)
Mar 1, 2016 23:41:38 GMT -5
Post by Mani4c on Mar 1, 2016 23:41:38 GMT -5
((I am removing the small addition to Mani4c's personality programming that details his shorter temper, seeing as he's become somewhat more mellow as of this update. I am also removing the Viral Payload DP's and his entire combat Add-Ons loadout. This is because A: They didn't get used too much, and B: it leaves space for the CAS mods and their DP's.))
Name: Mani4c
Avatar Style: Combat/Spammer
Gender: Male
Appearance: Link
Personality: As his name implies Mani4c isn't the most balanced individual, rarely acting in a way that makes sense to anyone other than him, even his operator has trouble reading him on occasion. A major part of Mani4c's personality is his warped sense of humor, he's notorious for pulling pranks on people no matter who they are. Despite being a former rouge avatar Mani4c is actually quite peaceful, his pranks rarely cause any lasting damage, normally all it takes to undo one of his pranks is reboot the system that he messed with.
Even though he prefers not to fight, he isn't afraid to step in if an innocent person is being victimized, and when he does get into a fight with somebody he isn't afraid to make use of his "unique" abilities. Mani4c's fighting style(and I use that term rather loosely) is just as unpredictable as it's user, His main strategy when fighting is to use banter and jokes to irritate his opponent and make them sloppy, his actual fighting style is a cobbled together mix of various fighting styles.
Since Viral Mani4c's appearance, Mani4c's personality has remained the same, save for on small difference. While his overall personality and sense of humor are the same, his temper is much more volatile than before. Not only is he more prone to bouts of rage, but when someone he cares about is injured he' likely to fly into a berserk rage. When this happens, the only people who can snap him out of his frenzy are Baretta and Saber.
History: Mani4c was originally created by an old man who used to be a scientist working for PariahTech. The man had never married and desperately wanted a son but in his old age he wasn't able to take care of a child, so instead he created Mani4c. However there was a problem, he wasn't licensed to create an avatar, if he was caught he would be arrested, and on top of that his health was failing.
It took three years to create Mani4c, and somehow despite his worsening health, the old man managed to complete most of Mani4c's programming, he was even able to be activated, but his code still had gaps that would have made traversing the cyber world extremely hazardous. Eventually, the old man died of a heart attack, but before he died he released Mani4c onto the net; hoping that the additional code he had added since activating him would allow him to be safe.
Mani4c wandered the net for about a year roaming from one end of the cyber world to the other, all the while suffering from glitches related to his code still not being finished, and it seemed like Mani4c was doomed to roam the net forever. Until, that is, he was attacked by a virus.
The virus attempted to consume him, to absorb his data in order to grow. But instead of being deleted, Mani4c's patches of missing code turned the virus's ability to consume it's targets against it, the viral data bonded to the empty spaces in Mani4c's code; including the virus's ability to analyze data and consume it. Instead of consuming Mani4c, it was analyzed, broken down into individual bits of raw data, and then absorbed into Mani4c's base code.
Approximately a year after gaining his viral abilities, Mani4c met Baretta and Saber when he briefly lost control of his viral abilities while inside of a power plants control systems(He had been planning to cause brown outs across the city, his idea of a joke). This nearly caused an explosion that could have killed over a dozen people. He later managed to get the viral infection under control with Baretta and Saber's help. Since then, Mani4c has gained a very good amount of control over his viral abilities, and is now working with the NPD as infiltration specialist in hopes of using his powers to protect people.
After responding to a call about a sword wielding avatar terrorizing downtown cyber city, Mani4c learned that he has a 'sibling'. This sibling was Noxus, a high ranking member of the underground network who had ordered his second in command Justicar to get Mani4c's attention.
Noxus revealed a plan to usurp control from humanity in an attempt to help them reach their true potential, and asked them to join him in his plan, he gave Saber a data chip that had data on Halberd's latest activities as a show of goodwill. After seeing Mani4c struggle with the idea of possibly having to fight his friends, Noxus decided to make Mani4c's decision for him, he ordered Justicar to gut Mani4c.
During the ensuing struggle, Mani4c was exposed to a gargantuan amount of viral data after absorbing a attack meant for Baretta, this resulted in him being overloaded by viral data. The overload released Viral Mani4c, a genocidal version of Mani4c completely fueled by viral energy. The battle would have been lost if not for an unexpected donation from Noxus and some vital assistance from an avatar created from Project AUGMENT.
After Viral Mani4c was bested, Mani4c returned with new upgrades, courtesy of the excess viral data that released Viral Mani4c in the first place. However, Mani4c didn't enjoy his upgrades for long, he fled in a panic and hid in an underused portion of the NPD's server. But unbeknownst to him, he arrived in the middle of an attack on the precinct by Halberd.
Since the attack on the NPD server, Mani4c has gone through a lot. Viral Mani4c, now simply going by Viral, had returned, now a bit more stable in terms of mental state. The avatar Totenkopf, one of the legendary Four Horsemen joined the NPD, along with Erika's girlfriend Mary Richards. The avatar Lilith, who was also a viral hybrid, formed from the code of Totenkopf and the S-class virus Abraxas. And finally The Doctor, and eccentric British NPD transfer with a love for science and an oddball collection of gadgets.
Things became even more complex, as the Mega-corporations attacked and kidnapped several AUGMENT avatars, including Domain and Mirror. Mani4c joined his friends, as well as his brother Noxus and Justicar, who had also lost their AUGMENT avatar to the Mega-corps, in assaulting and reclaiming his friends.
Things seemed to be cooling down once the Mega-Corp operation was over, but once again, Fate threw a curveball at Mani4c and his friends. Zeus, a virus representing Abraxas, assaulted the city and infected Baretta, nearly obliterating her cognitive code, only a swift virus purge and personality replacement operation saved her life. It was during this that Murakumo, a former Hunter for the Mega-Corps, was encountered. The avatar possessed a dangerous obsession with Mani4c, and joined the NPD to not only be close to him, but to seek help for her mental instability.
Mani4c confessed his feelings to Baretta, his formerly familial love for her having blossomed into a full-blown romantic interest.
Most recently, he has been embroiled in a massive war between Abraxas and his viral army, and the NPD. With Abraxas' goal being nothing less than the complete and utter obliteration of avatar-kind. It was during this war that Mani4c's code was split from Viral's necessitating a complete overhaul of his code, resulting in his current form.
Add-Ons: Combat - Enhanced Strength: Mani4c's physical strength has been increased to match Noxus', he is now 3x stronger than a standard avatar, and as a result, his melee attacks are far stronger than those of a normal avatar. ((This is an innate ability on Mani4c's part, and as a result, takes up an Add-On slot as well as a DP slot.))
Combat - Data Blade/Stun Baton: Mani4c's fighting style has always relied on gunplay more than melee weapons, due to the arm blades on his armor being somewhat awkward to slash with due to their shape and position. As a way around this, Mani4c has forgone arm mounted weapons entirely, replacing them with a Data Blade for deleting an opponent, and a high-voltage stun baton for when he needs to render an enemy inoperable without deleting them.
The Stun Baton is capable of rendering an enemy virus or avatar completely immobile by delivering a variable output electrical discharge. This Discharge can be cranked up to upwards of 1,000,000 volts, enabling Mani4c to stun an avatar who is much larger than he is just as easily as a normal sized avatar. (The Stun effect is determined by the target.)
Combat - De-Rez Magnums: Mani4c's upgraded ranged weaponry takes the form of twin De-Rez magnums, these high-powered pistols are calibrated for high firing speed as well as higher damage, firing at 1.5 the speed of Baretta's pistols and hitting 2x as hard. Mani4c is capable of using either one of his pistols, one pistol and his melee weapon, or both pistols simultaneously.
Combat - Gunslinger Armor: While Mani4c is more of a joker than a fighter, he isn't afraid to leap into action if the situation calls for it. So, as an answer to Mani4c's new loadout, as well as his more mobile fighting style, Forge crafted Mani4c's new combat Armor, created for maximum durability as well as mobility.
Mani4c's armor is mostly made of an armor-weave body suit with armor plating mounted on strategic portions of his body. The armor also possesses an integrated heads-up display that enables him to see in total darkness, and enhances his accuracy even when engaged in acrobatic maneuvers.
Connectivity - Combat Hoverbike: This vehicle wasn't created by Viral Mani4c's data, It was actually thought up by Mani4c. He combined all of the best aspects of his friends vehicles, the speed of Onimaru's motorcycle, the maneuverability of Saber's Speeder, and the ability to carry more than one passenger.
Mani4c requested the creation of this vehicle right before his encounter with Noxus, and it was given to him after Halberd's attack. It also comes with a rapid fire DeRez blaster mounted in the nose of the bike, it only does light damage, but the intense amount of fire that it can put out makes it effective as a suppression weapon. The bike boosts connectivity by 125% and can carry 2 passengers counting the driver.
Downloaded Programs: (Note: I've altered the original set up for Mani4c's Data Consumption DP, as well as his Unstable code power. Unstable Code will be replaced with the "Firewall Overload" Ability that his BlackHat CAS mod possesses, and Data consumption had become an natural ability, no longer associated with Viral Payloads.)
Combat - Data Consumption: This ability allows Mani4c to analyze, break down, and consume data belonging to viruses. When Mani4c breaks down a virus, he has two options when it comes to their data. He can either keep the code intact for further analysis later on, or break the viruses code down into it's individual bits of information and assimilate it.
If he assimilates the data it can be used in a number of ways, he can use it to repair battle damage when there's a lull in the fighting, he can use it to create new mods or downloads, or he can merge the data with his own. The last choice out of the three is the most intriguing, somehow when the data is assimilated it becomes RAM, which allows Mani4c to carry more mods and downloads in one sitting.
Nobody, not even Mani4c himself knows how this happens, it's been theorized that the process is much like how a human body creates fat when it has excess calories. When there's an excess of viral data that isn't needed it gets turned into RAM, allowing greater room for storage.
But just because Mani4c can carry a large amount of mods and downloads doesn't mean he can use them all at once, while he does posses an abnormally high amount of RAM, he is still limited by his processing power. Because of this he cannot use any more than the standard two mods at the same time, just like any other avatar.(The data consumption power can only be used on viruses, avatars and any other digital entity are incapable of being broken down.)
Combat - Armor Piercing: Mani4c's magnums can be configured to fire highly compressed bolts of energy, these compressed bolts can punch holes through personal firewalls and pierce armor plating, negating any protection that the armor normally provides (This download does not have a cool-down period, and will automatically turn off if the Downloaded program limit is reached.)
Connectivity - Wall Run: Mani4c's boots are equipped with a special program that allows him to attach to, and run along, any vertical surface. (This program does not possess a cool down, and can be activated or deactivated at will.)
Combat - Explosive Round: This DP alters Mani4c's ammunition into explosive rounds that can be set to either a proximity based air-burst round that deals moderate damage to anything within a 15 foot radius, or into a contact based explosive that deals large amounts of damage to a single target.
Combat - Crippling Shot: This DP allows Mani4c to target specific points on an opponent's body and damage their code, the rounds deal only a light amount of damage, but when struck, the target loses the ability to use a DP or add on (weapons only) for a period of 5 turns.
Cosmetic - Rogue Gunman Skin: This cosmetic mod allows Mani4c to travel through the more rough and tumble areas of the cyber world without notice. Taking the appearance of a helmeted thug wielding dual pistols. Mani4c's mannerisms, already rather coarse, are unaffected by the cosmetic change. However, his voice is hidden behind a modulator, masking his real identity.
Combat - Combat Armor Shift (CAS) program: A special expandable download that enables avatars to change their overall battle stats and equipment to place emphasis on one or more area of performance, to better suit the current battle. This program requires time to recharge between shifts (no less than 3 posts have to pass before another shift is possible). **This is the base program, combat shift upgrades have to be downloaded separately, and other downloads are unavailable while CAS is active and running one of the custom combat modes. The battle statistics that are affected are Speed, Power, Durability, and Accuracy.**
Combat - CAS\Black Hat Mod: Mani4c's Black Hat mod is based off of his original combat form in terms of appearance, however, thanks to several modifications courtesy of Forge, it's function has been altered to that of a high speed, hard hitting hacking system.
While in this form, Mani4c is capable of discerning weak points in an opponents programs or a server's firewall, these "shatter-points", when struck cause the program to fail, entering a premature cooldown state if it's a DP. Add ons are simply "locked" for a duration of 3 posts, upon which they automatically reactivate.
He is also capable of sustained flight using integrated thrusters on the suit's back and feet, these thrusters also allow Mani4c to make sharp turns or quick evasive maneuvers to avoid damage.
Due to most of the program's focus being shifted on speed and damage, it's durability suffers a great deal, making this form reliant of speed and it's program negating properties when tackling a more powerful opponent.
Combat - CAS\Arsenal Mod: The Arsenal mod is a heavily modified version of the commonly used Sharpshot CAS modification, re-tooled for maximum versatility. It possesses built in dual wielded SMGs, dual revolver action shotguns, and an incredibly powerful and accurate sniper rifle.
Combat - CAS\Executioner Mod: The Executioner mod greatly increases Mani4c's strength and durability. This form utilizes a large, heavy, double bladed energy ax. The ax's weight allows it to cleave through even the toughest of hides, and it's blades are also capable of being fired as projectiles. However, launching the blades overloads the blade projectors, requiring a 2 turn period for them to reset, they also need to be manually activated.
Combat - CAS\Archangel Mod: This CAS mod allows Mani4c to take to the skies, much like the Tech Armor, however, it is far more durable, allowing Mani4c to engage in protracted dogfights in the air, or to engage a foe on the ground.
The Archangel mod is designed as a rapid fire, high agility air-to-air/air-to-ground attack platform, capable of shredding an opponent with it's twin De-Rez sabers, or blasting them from afar with it's cluster bomblet generator or dumb-fire rockets. (Neither can be used simultaneously.)
When used on the ground, the Mod uses energy bolts fired from the users De-Rez Blasters as a ranged attack in lieu of the bomblets or rockets. The Mod is agile for a unit packing as much firepower as it does, but it is incapable of matching the Skystrike Mod's speed. Reaching a maximum speed of 70 mph, and lacking a speed boost function, The Archangel mod is comparable to a light bomber in terms of function.
Combat - CAS\Blast Cannon Mod: Mani4c's Blast Cannon mod is essentially a walking tank, able to wade through small arms fire with little trouble, while paying back the enemy 100 fold.
The Blast Cannon mod's main weapon is a Multi-Function De-Rez Cannon, this weapon is essentially a swiss Army Rocket Launcher, capable of switching between four "Ammo" types. The first is the Standard De-Rez rocket, this dumb-fire, armor piercing high explosive round deals a devastating amount of damage with minimum splash damage. This allows the round to be used indoors without risking blast-back from the force of the explosion.
The second is a narrow beam of concentrated energy designed to pierce firewall barriers and heavy armor, this beam has a short warm up time before it can be fired, but it deals an equal amount of damage as the standard round, making this a good "sniper" weapon for dealing with heavily armored targets. The third is a smart-rocket that can track a target for a distance of up to 500 meters.
The fourth and final ammo type is a prototype thermobaric rocket, this missile is designed for one thing, and one thing only, to obliterate as many enemies in a 100 yard radius as possible. When the rocket detonates, a massive fireball erupts from the point of impact, incinerating anything in it's path, after 1.5 seconds, the blast wave collapses, creating a vacuum that sucks in the affected targets and crushes them into dust. This rocket is only to be used in a wide open area, and only when allies are WELL away from the blast zone.
Combat - Limit Break: Mani4c's most powerful DP in terms of raw output. This program uses Mani4c's own viral code as fuel for the transformation. Granting him the ability to use his own viral code as a weapon, shield, method of flight, and to create solid objects (usually claws or blunt fists that can smash through steel) out of the code. The manner in which the viral code is transformed into energy removes all of it's viral traits, both fueling Mani4c's transformation and making the energy projection viable against other viruses, who would be immune or even healed by a viral energy attack.
The viral code coursing through Mani4c's body enhances his durability, speed, and physical strength. Increasing all of his stats by 300%. After 7 turns he will begin to feel fatigue if he exits this form. After 10 posts, he will be more vulnerable to attack for 3 turns, and after 15 posts, he will automatically be forced out of his Limit form, his body wracked with pain and his limbs unable to move due to his body being almost completely drained of viral code. He is also incapable of running any other programs aside from his enhanced strength.
However, this saturation of viral code also has a side effect on Mani4c's mentality. Mani4c's mental state becomes more feral, focusing on baser instincts and emotions, such as anger, pride, and lust. This causes Mani4c to devolve slightly, seeing any of his enemies, or even a few of his friends, as threats to his "dominance" and seeing himself as an "alpha" the one in control.
A side effect of this is that his love for Baretta is warped into more base desires, making him incredibly aggressive towards anyone who so much as touches her, and if someone actually causes her harm, he will beat them within an inch of their life, sparing them not out of mercy, but because he feels that it would be a greater punishment to writhe in pain than to be deleted.
Name: Mani4c
Avatar Style: Combat/Spammer
Gender: Male
Appearance: Link
Personality: As his name implies Mani4c isn't the most balanced individual, rarely acting in a way that makes sense to anyone other than him, even his operator has trouble reading him on occasion. A major part of Mani4c's personality is his warped sense of humor, he's notorious for pulling pranks on people no matter who they are. Despite being a former rouge avatar Mani4c is actually quite peaceful, his pranks rarely cause any lasting damage, normally all it takes to undo one of his pranks is reboot the system that he messed with.
Even though he prefers not to fight, he isn't afraid to step in if an innocent person is being victimized, and when he does get into a fight with somebody he isn't afraid to make use of his "unique" abilities. Mani4c's fighting style(and I use that term rather loosely) is just as unpredictable as it's user, His main strategy when fighting is to use banter and jokes to irritate his opponent and make them sloppy, his actual fighting style is a cobbled together mix of various fighting styles.
Since Viral Mani4c's appearance, Mani4c's personality has remained the same, save for on small difference. While his overall personality and sense of humor are the same, his temper is much more volatile than before. Not only is he more prone to bouts of rage, but when someone he cares about is injured he' likely to fly into a berserk rage. When this happens, the only people who can snap him out of his frenzy are Baretta and Saber.
History: Mani4c was originally created by an old man who used to be a scientist working for PariahTech. The man had never married and desperately wanted a son but in his old age he wasn't able to take care of a child, so instead he created Mani4c. However there was a problem, he wasn't licensed to create an avatar, if he was caught he would be arrested, and on top of that his health was failing.
It took three years to create Mani4c, and somehow despite his worsening health, the old man managed to complete most of Mani4c's programming, he was even able to be activated, but his code still had gaps that would have made traversing the cyber world extremely hazardous. Eventually, the old man died of a heart attack, but before he died he released Mani4c onto the net; hoping that the additional code he had added since activating him would allow him to be safe.
Mani4c wandered the net for about a year roaming from one end of the cyber world to the other, all the while suffering from glitches related to his code still not being finished, and it seemed like Mani4c was doomed to roam the net forever. Until, that is, he was attacked by a virus.
The virus attempted to consume him, to absorb his data in order to grow. But instead of being deleted, Mani4c's patches of missing code turned the virus's ability to consume it's targets against it, the viral data bonded to the empty spaces in Mani4c's code; including the virus's ability to analyze data and consume it. Instead of consuming Mani4c, it was analyzed, broken down into individual bits of raw data, and then absorbed into Mani4c's base code.
Approximately a year after gaining his viral abilities, Mani4c met Baretta and Saber when he briefly lost control of his viral abilities while inside of a power plants control systems(He had been planning to cause brown outs across the city, his idea of a joke). This nearly caused an explosion that could have killed over a dozen people. He later managed to get the viral infection under control with Baretta and Saber's help. Since then, Mani4c has gained a very good amount of control over his viral abilities, and is now working with the NPD as infiltration specialist in hopes of using his powers to protect people.
After responding to a call about a sword wielding avatar terrorizing downtown cyber city, Mani4c learned that he has a 'sibling'. This sibling was Noxus, a high ranking member of the underground network who had ordered his second in command Justicar to get Mani4c's attention.
Noxus revealed a plan to usurp control from humanity in an attempt to help them reach their true potential, and asked them to join him in his plan, he gave Saber a data chip that had data on Halberd's latest activities as a show of goodwill. After seeing Mani4c struggle with the idea of possibly having to fight his friends, Noxus decided to make Mani4c's decision for him, he ordered Justicar to gut Mani4c.
During the ensuing struggle, Mani4c was exposed to a gargantuan amount of viral data after absorbing a attack meant for Baretta, this resulted in him being overloaded by viral data. The overload released Viral Mani4c, a genocidal version of Mani4c completely fueled by viral energy. The battle would have been lost if not for an unexpected donation from Noxus and some vital assistance from an avatar created from Project AUGMENT.
After Viral Mani4c was bested, Mani4c returned with new upgrades, courtesy of the excess viral data that released Viral Mani4c in the first place. However, Mani4c didn't enjoy his upgrades for long, he fled in a panic and hid in an underused portion of the NPD's server. But unbeknownst to him, he arrived in the middle of an attack on the precinct by Halberd.
Since the attack on the NPD server, Mani4c has gone through a lot. Viral Mani4c, now simply going by Viral, had returned, now a bit more stable in terms of mental state. The avatar Totenkopf, one of the legendary Four Horsemen joined the NPD, along with Erika's girlfriend Mary Richards. The avatar Lilith, who was also a viral hybrid, formed from the code of Totenkopf and the S-class virus Abraxas. And finally The Doctor, and eccentric British NPD transfer with a love for science and an oddball collection of gadgets.
Things became even more complex, as the Mega-corporations attacked and kidnapped several AUGMENT avatars, including Domain and Mirror. Mani4c joined his friends, as well as his brother Noxus and Justicar, who had also lost their AUGMENT avatar to the Mega-corps, in assaulting and reclaiming his friends.
Things seemed to be cooling down once the Mega-Corp operation was over, but once again, Fate threw a curveball at Mani4c and his friends. Zeus, a virus representing Abraxas, assaulted the city and infected Baretta, nearly obliterating her cognitive code, only a swift virus purge and personality replacement operation saved her life. It was during this that Murakumo, a former Hunter for the Mega-Corps, was encountered. The avatar possessed a dangerous obsession with Mani4c, and joined the NPD to not only be close to him, but to seek help for her mental instability.
Mani4c confessed his feelings to Baretta, his formerly familial love for her having blossomed into a full-blown romantic interest.
Most recently, he has been embroiled in a massive war between Abraxas and his viral army, and the NPD. With Abraxas' goal being nothing less than the complete and utter obliteration of avatar-kind. It was during this war that Mani4c's code was split from Viral's necessitating a complete overhaul of his code, resulting in his current form.
Add-Ons: Combat - Enhanced Strength: Mani4c's physical strength has been increased to match Noxus', he is now 3x stronger than a standard avatar, and as a result, his melee attacks are far stronger than those of a normal avatar. ((This is an innate ability on Mani4c's part, and as a result, takes up an Add-On slot as well as a DP slot.))
Combat - Data Blade/Stun Baton: Mani4c's fighting style has always relied on gunplay more than melee weapons, due to the arm blades on his armor being somewhat awkward to slash with due to their shape and position. As a way around this, Mani4c has forgone arm mounted weapons entirely, replacing them with a Data Blade for deleting an opponent, and a high-voltage stun baton for when he needs to render an enemy inoperable without deleting them.
The Stun Baton is capable of rendering an enemy virus or avatar completely immobile by delivering a variable output electrical discharge. This Discharge can be cranked up to upwards of 1,000,000 volts, enabling Mani4c to stun an avatar who is much larger than he is just as easily as a normal sized avatar. (The Stun effect is determined by the target.)
Combat - De-Rez Magnums: Mani4c's upgraded ranged weaponry takes the form of twin De-Rez magnums, these high-powered pistols are calibrated for high firing speed as well as higher damage, firing at 1.5 the speed of Baretta's pistols and hitting 2x as hard. Mani4c is capable of using either one of his pistols, one pistol and his melee weapon, or both pistols simultaneously.
Combat - Gunslinger Armor: While Mani4c is more of a joker than a fighter, he isn't afraid to leap into action if the situation calls for it. So, as an answer to Mani4c's new loadout, as well as his more mobile fighting style, Forge crafted Mani4c's new combat Armor, created for maximum durability as well as mobility.
Mani4c's armor is mostly made of an armor-weave body suit with armor plating mounted on strategic portions of his body. The armor also possesses an integrated heads-up display that enables him to see in total darkness, and enhances his accuracy even when engaged in acrobatic maneuvers.
Connectivity - Combat Hoverbike: This vehicle wasn't created by Viral Mani4c's data, It was actually thought up by Mani4c. He combined all of the best aspects of his friends vehicles, the speed of Onimaru's motorcycle, the maneuverability of Saber's Speeder, and the ability to carry more than one passenger.
Mani4c requested the creation of this vehicle right before his encounter with Noxus, and it was given to him after Halberd's attack. It also comes with a rapid fire DeRez blaster mounted in the nose of the bike, it only does light damage, but the intense amount of fire that it can put out makes it effective as a suppression weapon. The bike boosts connectivity by 125% and can carry 2 passengers counting the driver.
Downloaded Programs: (Note: I've altered the original set up for Mani4c's Data Consumption DP, as well as his Unstable code power. Unstable Code will be replaced with the "Firewall Overload" Ability that his BlackHat CAS mod possesses, and Data consumption had become an natural ability, no longer associated with Viral Payloads.)
Combat - Data Consumption: This ability allows Mani4c to analyze, break down, and consume data belonging to viruses. When Mani4c breaks down a virus, he has two options when it comes to their data. He can either keep the code intact for further analysis later on, or break the viruses code down into it's individual bits of information and assimilate it.
If he assimilates the data it can be used in a number of ways, he can use it to repair battle damage when there's a lull in the fighting, he can use it to create new mods or downloads, or he can merge the data with his own. The last choice out of the three is the most intriguing, somehow when the data is assimilated it becomes RAM, which allows Mani4c to carry more mods and downloads in one sitting.
Nobody, not even Mani4c himself knows how this happens, it's been theorized that the process is much like how a human body creates fat when it has excess calories. When there's an excess of viral data that isn't needed it gets turned into RAM, allowing greater room for storage.
But just because Mani4c can carry a large amount of mods and downloads doesn't mean he can use them all at once, while he does posses an abnormally high amount of RAM, he is still limited by his processing power. Because of this he cannot use any more than the standard two mods at the same time, just like any other avatar.(The data consumption power can only be used on viruses, avatars and any other digital entity are incapable of being broken down.)
Combat - Armor Piercing: Mani4c's magnums can be configured to fire highly compressed bolts of energy, these compressed bolts can punch holes through personal firewalls and pierce armor plating, negating any protection that the armor normally provides (This download does not have a cool-down period, and will automatically turn off if the Downloaded program limit is reached.)
Connectivity - Wall Run: Mani4c's boots are equipped with a special program that allows him to attach to, and run along, any vertical surface. (This program does not possess a cool down, and can be activated or deactivated at will.)
Combat - Explosive Round: This DP alters Mani4c's ammunition into explosive rounds that can be set to either a proximity based air-burst round that deals moderate damage to anything within a 15 foot radius, or into a contact based explosive that deals large amounts of damage to a single target.
Combat - Crippling Shot: This DP allows Mani4c to target specific points on an opponent's body and damage their code, the rounds deal only a light amount of damage, but when struck, the target loses the ability to use a DP or add on (weapons only) for a period of 5 turns.
Cosmetic - Rogue Gunman Skin: This cosmetic mod allows Mani4c to travel through the more rough and tumble areas of the cyber world without notice. Taking the appearance of a helmeted thug wielding dual pistols. Mani4c's mannerisms, already rather coarse, are unaffected by the cosmetic change. However, his voice is hidden behind a modulator, masking his real identity.
Combat - Combat Armor Shift (CAS) program: A special expandable download that enables avatars to change their overall battle stats and equipment to place emphasis on one or more area of performance, to better suit the current battle. This program requires time to recharge between shifts (no less than 3 posts have to pass before another shift is possible). **This is the base program, combat shift upgrades have to be downloaded separately, and other downloads are unavailable while CAS is active and running one of the custom combat modes. The battle statistics that are affected are Speed, Power, Durability, and Accuracy.**
Combat - CAS\Black Hat Mod: Mani4c's Black Hat mod is based off of his original combat form in terms of appearance, however, thanks to several modifications courtesy of Forge, it's function has been altered to that of a high speed, hard hitting hacking system.
While in this form, Mani4c is capable of discerning weak points in an opponents programs or a server's firewall, these "shatter-points", when struck cause the program to fail, entering a premature cooldown state if it's a DP. Add ons are simply "locked" for a duration of 3 posts, upon which they automatically reactivate.
He is also capable of sustained flight using integrated thrusters on the suit's back and feet, these thrusters also allow Mani4c to make sharp turns or quick evasive maneuvers to avoid damage.
Due to most of the program's focus being shifted on speed and damage, it's durability suffers a great deal, making this form reliant of speed and it's program negating properties when tackling a more powerful opponent.
Combat - CAS\Arsenal Mod: The Arsenal mod is a heavily modified version of the commonly used Sharpshot CAS modification, re-tooled for maximum versatility. It possesses built in dual wielded SMGs, dual revolver action shotguns, and an incredibly powerful and accurate sniper rifle.
Combat - CAS\Executioner Mod: The Executioner mod greatly increases Mani4c's strength and durability. This form utilizes a large, heavy, double bladed energy ax. The ax's weight allows it to cleave through even the toughest of hides, and it's blades are also capable of being fired as projectiles. However, launching the blades overloads the blade projectors, requiring a 2 turn period for them to reset, they also need to be manually activated.
Combat - CAS\Archangel Mod: This CAS mod allows Mani4c to take to the skies, much like the Tech Armor, however, it is far more durable, allowing Mani4c to engage in protracted dogfights in the air, or to engage a foe on the ground.
The Archangel mod is designed as a rapid fire, high agility air-to-air/air-to-ground attack platform, capable of shredding an opponent with it's twin De-Rez sabers, or blasting them from afar with it's cluster bomblet generator or dumb-fire rockets. (Neither can be used simultaneously.)
When used on the ground, the Mod uses energy bolts fired from the users De-Rez Blasters as a ranged attack in lieu of the bomblets or rockets. The Mod is agile for a unit packing as much firepower as it does, but it is incapable of matching the Skystrike Mod's speed. Reaching a maximum speed of 70 mph, and lacking a speed boost function, The Archangel mod is comparable to a light bomber in terms of function.
Combat - CAS\Blast Cannon Mod: Mani4c's Blast Cannon mod is essentially a walking tank, able to wade through small arms fire with little trouble, while paying back the enemy 100 fold.
The Blast Cannon mod's main weapon is a Multi-Function De-Rez Cannon, this weapon is essentially a swiss Army Rocket Launcher, capable of switching between four "Ammo" types. The first is the Standard De-Rez rocket, this dumb-fire, armor piercing high explosive round deals a devastating amount of damage with minimum splash damage. This allows the round to be used indoors without risking blast-back from the force of the explosion.
The second is a narrow beam of concentrated energy designed to pierce firewall barriers and heavy armor, this beam has a short warm up time before it can be fired, but it deals an equal amount of damage as the standard round, making this a good "sniper" weapon for dealing with heavily armored targets. The third is a smart-rocket that can track a target for a distance of up to 500 meters.
The fourth and final ammo type is a prototype thermobaric rocket, this missile is designed for one thing, and one thing only, to obliterate as many enemies in a 100 yard radius as possible. When the rocket detonates, a massive fireball erupts from the point of impact, incinerating anything in it's path, after 1.5 seconds, the blast wave collapses, creating a vacuum that sucks in the affected targets and crushes them into dust. This rocket is only to be used in a wide open area, and only when allies are WELL away from the blast zone.
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Combat - Limit Break: Mani4c's most powerful DP in terms of raw output. This program uses Mani4c's own viral code as fuel for the transformation. Granting him the ability to use his own viral code as a weapon, shield, method of flight, and to create solid objects (usually claws or blunt fists that can smash through steel) out of the code. The manner in which the viral code is transformed into energy removes all of it's viral traits, both fueling Mani4c's transformation and making the energy projection viable against other viruses, who would be immune or even healed by a viral energy attack.
The viral code coursing through Mani4c's body enhances his durability, speed, and physical strength. Increasing all of his stats by 300%. After 7 turns he will begin to feel fatigue if he exits this form. After 10 posts, he will be more vulnerable to attack for 3 turns, and after 15 posts, he will automatically be forced out of his Limit form, his body wracked with pain and his limbs unable to move due to his body being almost completely drained of viral code. He is also incapable of running any other programs aside from his enhanced strength.
However, this saturation of viral code also has a side effect on Mani4c's mentality. Mani4c's mental state becomes more feral, focusing on baser instincts and emotions, such as anger, pride, and lust. This causes Mani4c to devolve slightly, seeing any of his enemies, or even a few of his friends, as threats to his "dominance" and seeing himself as an "alpha" the one in control.
A side effect of this is that his love for Baretta is warped into more base desires, making him incredibly aggressive towards anyone who so much as touches her, and if someone actually causes her harm, he will beat them within an inch of their life, sparing them not out of mercy, but because he feels that it would be a greater punishment to writhe in pain than to be deleted.