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"Wild Card" Puck?

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--- Quote from: lordoracle on September 26, 2016, 05:14:56 PM ---read the final issue and came to the conclusion that Puck will be best used as a plot device. The only way to defeat him appears to be by outsmarting him. He had huge chunks of flesh shot out of him and then both arms cut clean off. He healed from all of it in a matter of minutes. Definitely seems too powerful.

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What did it?  If it wasnt Iron (which most bullets arent, at least) I'd say that's still reasonable mythic healing outside of the applicable Catch. 

Second Aristh:

--- Quote from: Quantus on September 26, 2016, 07:43:31 PM ---What did it?  If it wasnt Iron (which most bullets arent, at least) I'd say that's still reasonable mythic healing outside of the applicable Catch.

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He got stabbed with a machete from Marcone, then his arms chopped off by Thomas and Lara's swords besides getting huge chunks of him blown off by bullets.  He also uses a chain as an improvised weapon without it catching his hand on fire, but that could be an artistic mistake since the storm of bullets catch his torso on fire.  This guy is on a similar scale as the naagloshii pretty easily.

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--- Quote from: Second Aristh on September 26, 2016, 10:03:39 PM ---He got stabbed with a machete from Marcone, then his arms chopped off by Thomas and Lara's swords besides getting huge chunks of him blown off by bullets.  He also uses a chain as an improvised weapon without it catching his hand on fire, but that could be an artistic mistake since the storm of bullets catch his torso on fire.  This guy is on a similar scale as the naagloshii pretty easily.

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Eesh.  That does sound like a full-on immortal mantle of some kind.  I'd have expected it to work the other way, with the blades doing more lasting damage than the bullets (which almost never contain iron or steel unless you make them custom for the task (something Marcone would do, admittedly). 

Second Aristh:

--- Quote from: Quantus on September 26, 2016, 10:15:33 PM ---Eesh.  That does sound like a full-on immortal mantle of some kind.  I'd have expected it to work the other way, with the blades doing more lasting damage than the bullets (which almost never contain iron or steel unless you make them custom for the task (something Marcone would do, admittedly).

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Well to be honest, your instincts were right.  The whampire swords did have a longer effect than the damage from the bullets/fire.  Yeah, he's definitely a serious threat.  Nothing seemed to do more than slow him down for a minute or two.  He always comes back good as new in the same scene.  At worst, he has some blood left on himself.
Plus,
(click to show/hide)Lea didn't just kill him when he sucker punches her across a river.  She used what seemed like the same spell she used to kill some LotON's, but Puck just dusted himself off and crawled out of the crater.
He doesn't seem to use a lot of overt magic though beyond the regeneration and some minor shapeshifting.  He favors physical fights when we see him.

Sanctaphrax:

--- Quote from: lordoracle on September 26, 2016, 05:14:56 PM ---read the final issue and came to the conclusion that Puck will be best used as a plot device. The only way to defeat him appears to be by outsmarting him. He had huge chunks of flesh shot out of him and then both arms cut clean off. He healed from all of it in a matter of minutes. Definitely seems too powerful.
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--- Quote from: Second Aristh on September 26, 2016, 10:03:39 PM ---He got stabbed with a machete from Marcone, then his arms chopped off by Thomas and Lara's swords besides getting huge chunks of him blown off by bullets.  He also uses a chain as an improvised weapon without it catching his hand on fire, but that could be an artistic mistake since the storm of bullets catch his torso on fire.  This guy is on a similar scale as the naagloshii pretty easily.
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Meh. Instant regeneration can just be a fancy description for taking stress. If Lara, Marcone, and Thomas are scoring hits on him in melee, he's not that tough.

The stats I posted earlier may have been too powerful; Marcone would have a very hard time doing anything to that version of Puck with his Fair Weapons.

And even if you assume he took no stress at all from all that stuff, it could just be Physical Immunity. Not beyond stats.

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