I_AM_A_PITZZA
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A skittering Rat Man that escaped from a lab, who weaves Gun and Spirit together while spreading plagues amongst enemies, or can spec into a sneaky, Melee focused build that allows you to run around as a giant rat for extended periods of time, biting and spreading the plague.
Lore:
Most people would love to get a pet; it’s a companion, someone to care for, someone to comfort you. But the more intelligent the pet, the more questionable the pet/caretaker relationship becomes. Besides, you can never really know what the pet truly thinks or how they feel about a relationship.
Some dogs and cats are smart enough to recognize people and think for themselves. A hamster probably barely understands that they exist. Would an ant colony even be conscious? And on the other side, some people have owned strange and exotic pets with great intelligence; owning parrots has been described as owning a perpetual 2 year old child. Some people have close relationships with Dolphins and Great Apes - who would probably be recognized as people by the public if they could speak a language that humans would understand. Where does one draw the line?
A wild animal will always be a wild animal. You can train them, you can try to tame them, but a tiger will always be a tiger. You can raise the tiger from a cub, you can nurture them, you can teach them, but they are still an animal. Even though you would think you know the tiger, everyone can snap, human and animal alike, and when a tiger snaps, the consequences are… dire.
If you train a pet to hurt, to kill, to hate, what will become of the pet when the master is gone? What will the pet do when it’s no longer on a leash?
One family hopes that the answer to that question will never see the light of day.
1st ability - Knife Belt - Throw a knife that deals damage. Can Headshot. Has 2 charges by base and very low in-between cooldown. Alt-Cast to Melee stab with the knife (similar to a Light Melee attack), dealing +40% damage or +80% on Backstab, but this Melee cast can be parried and still uses charges. (The Melee cast counts as a Melee hit, but deals Spirit damage)
Upgrade ideas:
- Direct hits temporarily reduce an enemy’s Spirit resist (does not stack). +1 Charge.
- Apply 2 additional Plague stacks on Headshots/Backstabs. Also apply 1 additional Plague stack on NPCs by base. +1 Charge.
- Increase in knife damage and hitting a Backstab gives you 1 Stamina. +1 Charge.
2nd ability - Rat Form - Basically Ava(Callico) with a shorter duration where you can still use your melee.
Upgrade Ideas:
- Gain a notable amount of Melee lifesteal while in Rat Form. Reduced lifesteal on NPCs.
- Bonus base duration and landing melee hits extend the duration. (Heavy Melee hits extend the duration much greater than Light Melee hits)
- Melee hits reduce the target's Spirit and Gun damage and you can now use Items while in Rat Form.
3rd ability - Plague Carrier (Passive) - Each instance of Direct Spirit Damage, or landing Melee attacks, applies 1 Plague stack on enemy players and NPCs alike. An infected target grows one Pustule on their body for each stack, dealing spirit damage over time, scaling with stacks. You and allies can shoot (with Guns) individual Pustules to pop them, dealing extra % Gun damage and a % chance of spreading the Infection to Other nearby enemies, but popping Pustules removes one Plague stack. If a target has no Pustules on them, the Plague ends early. Max 5 stacks per target. (DoT effect don’t apply extra Plague stacks, only single instances of damage, such as the Knives, but also Cold Front, Torment Pulse and Lightning Scroll, but NOT Toxic Bullets, Decay or Scourge’s aura, for example)
Upgrade ideas:
- Reduce infected target’s firerate and Melee damage, scales with stacks.
- Max stacks now scales with boons.
- Increased Spirit damage and increased % Gun damage bonus when popping Pustules. Light Melees now pop Pustules, dealing extra melee damage.
Ultimate - Family Gathering - Call upon your kin to emerge from the sewers. Basically summon a horde of giant Rats within a short cast range that work like frailer Melee Troopers who prioritize attacking players over everything else and move Much faster. Rats deal Melee damage, can climb walls, and each hit applies Plague stacks.
Upgrade ideas:
- Move speed and firerate bonus after cast.
Note: Since the Pustules deals grant bonus damage to Gun hits and how easy it is to apply Plague, I have a feeling that either the Gun's base damage should be a tad weaker on its own to compensate, or the Plague stack’s % Gun bonus damage should be a bit low.
Shiv:
Vindicta:
Calico - Cat VS Rat shenanigans.
Dynamo - Dynamo being both very curious and horrified about Rat Man’s condition while Rat being passive aggressive to the Professor just because he’s a professor.
Infernus - The Rat has been trying to get into the bar and Infernus ain’t happy about it.
Lady Geist - Snobby, rich woman plus a humanoid Rat, do I need to say anymore?
Mirage - Expressing empathy and talking about how some Djinn have done similar cruel things to animals and wants to help, with Rat Man not knowing how to handle receiving kindness.
Mo & Krill - Both dwell in the underbelly of New York and both of them certainly butt heads but also cooperate when they need to. Their “allegiance” is shaky to say the least.
Lore:
Most people would love to get a pet; it’s a companion, someone to care for, someone to comfort you. But the more intelligent the pet, the more questionable the pet/caretaker relationship becomes. Besides, you can never really know what the pet truly thinks or how they feel about a relationship.
Some dogs and cats are smart enough to recognize people and think for themselves. A hamster probably barely understands that they exist. Would an ant colony even be conscious? And on the other side, some people have owned strange and exotic pets with great intelligence; owning parrots has been described as owning a perpetual 2 year old child. Some people have close relationships with Dolphins and Great Apes - who would probably be recognized as people by the public if they could speak a language that humans would understand. Where does one draw the line?
A wild animal will always be a wild animal. You can train them, you can try to tame them, but a tiger will always be a tiger. You can raise the tiger from a cub, you can nurture them, you can teach them, but they are still an animal. Even though you would think you know the tiger, everyone can snap, human and animal alike, and when a tiger snaps, the consequences are… dire.
If you train a pet to hurt, to kill, to hate, what will become of the pet when the master is gone? What will the pet do when it’s no longer on a leash?
One family hopes that the answer to that question will never see the light of day.
The Kit
Weapon - The Provider - A cobbled together, but magical crossbow with a slow rate of fire, firing heavy hitting bolts.1st ability - Knife Belt - Throw a knife that deals damage. Can Headshot. Has 2 charges by base and very low in-between cooldown. Alt-Cast to Melee stab with the knife (similar to a Light Melee attack), dealing +40% damage or +80% on Backstab, but this Melee cast can be parried and still uses charges. (The Melee cast counts as a Melee hit, but deals Spirit damage)
Upgrade ideas:
- Direct hits temporarily reduce an enemy’s Spirit resist (does not stack). +1 Charge.
- Apply 2 additional Plague stacks on Headshots/Backstabs. Also apply 1 additional Plague stack on NPCs by base. +1 Charge.
- Increase in knife damage and hitting a Backstab gives you 1 Stamina. +1 Charge.
2nd ability - Rat Form - Basically Ava(Callico) with a shorter duration where you can still use your melee.
Upgrade Ideas:
- Gain a notable amount of Melee lifesteal while in Rat Form. Reduced lifesteal on NPCs.
- Bonus base duration and landing melee hits extend the duration. (Heavy Melee hits extend the duration much greater than Light Melee hits)
- Melee hits reduce the target's Spirit and Gun damage and you can now use Items while in Rat Form.
3rd ability - Plague Carrier (Passive) - Each instance of Direct Spirit Damage, or landing Melee attacks, applies 1 Plague stack on enemy players and NPCs alike. An infected target grows one Pustule on their body for each stack, dealing spirit damage over time, scaling with stacks. You and allies can shoot (with Guns) individual Pustules to pop them, dealing extra % Gun damage and a % chance of spreading the Infection to Other nearby enemies, but popping Pustules removes one Plague stack. If a target has no Pustules on them, the Plague ends early. Max 5 stacks per target. (DoT effect don’t apply extra Plague stacks, only single instances of damage, such as the Knives, but also Cold Front, Torment Pulse and Lightning Scroll, but NOT Toxic Bullets, Decay or Scourge’s aura, for example)
Upgrade ideas:
- Reduce infected target’s firerate and Melee damage, scales with stacks.
- Max stacks now scales with boons.
- Increased Spirit damage and increased % Gun damage bonus when popping Pustules. Light Melees now pop Pustules, dealing extra melee damage.
Ultimate - Family Gathering - Call upon your kin to emerge from the sewers. Basically summon a horde of giant Rats within a short cast range that work like frailer Melee Troopers who prioritize attacking players over everything else and move Much faster. Rats deal Melee damage, can climb walls, and each hit applies Plague stacks.
Upgrade ideas:
- Move speed and firerate bonus after cast.
Note: Since the Pustules deals grant bonus damage to Gun hits and how easy it is to apply Plague, I have a feeling that either the Gun's base damage should be a tad weaker on its own to compensate, or the Plague stack’s % Gun bonus damage should be a bit low.
Conversations
Abrams:- Convo 1:
- Abrams: (Accusatory) I have a list of missing people at my office, you wouldn’t happen to know the whereabouts of some of them?
- Rat: What? No! Why would I take time remembering their faces?
- A: So you’re Admitting to kidnapping and murdering people?
- R: When you have a big family, you do what you need to provide. Easy for you to be accusatory when you just open that big, white, magic box that gives you food.
- Convo 2:
- Abrams: I have been in many places around New York and seen a good few rats, but you’re the biggest one I’ve seen.
- Rat: Thanks? We aren’t exactly born this way.
- A: What the hell have you been eating to become like this then?
- R: You’re welcome to ask the doctor, he’s all ears.
- A: Is… is that a necklace made of human ears?
- Convo 3:
- Rat: When you go charging in, know you’re not alone.
- Abrams: Thanks? Feels weird to get that reassurance from a giant Rat.
- R: No worries, family is here to support each other, and stab enemies till they wish they were never born!
- A: … Ri… Right…
Shiv:
- Convo 1:
- Shiv: So you’re the fabled Rat Man I have been hearing about.
- Rat: And you’re Shiv, the new blood among the Baxters.
- S: You know that after this, I’m going to have to make a pincushion out of you.
- R: I was thinking of doing the exact same thing to you!
- S: Heh, you’re welcome to try, ugly.
- R: Same to you, hair-cut.
- Convo 2:
- Shiv: So. Any plans?
- Rat: Me and my kin make them sick of living and you put them out of their misery.
- S: Death by a thousand knives?
- R: Death by a thousand knives.
- Convo 3:
- Shiv: You really are a sick, bloody monster who needs to be put down.
- Rat: It’s hard to be cheery when you’ve only known pain and your former master is just as sick.
- S: Still doesn’t make it right for you to go ‘round killin’ folk.
- R: Oh, so when a human gets sick of other people’s shit and snaps it's okay, but when animals do it, then it’s the animal's fault, got it.
- S: Still do- (sen’t)
- R: Oh yeah, and it’s never the huuuumans fault, right? Never the “caretaker’s” fault, right? I’m just a crazy evil animal.
- S: …Let’s just shoot the enemy team.
Vindicta:
- Convo 1:
- Rat: So who are you after?
- Vindicta: “Friends Of Humanity”, a company of scum.
- R: Reminds me how humans use “Humanity” as a word for kindness, what a joke.
- V: Couldn’t agree more.
- Convo 2:
- Rat: Were you a cook when you were alive?
- Vindicta: No.
- R: That’s crazy, because I’m sure that my kin and I will enjoy the Stakes you’re gonna give out.
- V: Ugh…
- R: Come on, that was a Well Done one!
- V: Shut. It.
- Convo 3:
- Vindicta: So what hole did you come crawling out of? I assume your condition isn’t natural.
- Rat: Nowhere near natural, lady. “Lab Rat” is the perfect word to describe me.
- V: What’s a “Lab.”
- R: A place of torture and full of sick humans who want to twist your body and mind into barely recognizable forms.
- V: Sounds like a church with a new name.
- R: Not sure what a church is but you’re probably right.
Calico - Cat VS Rat shenanigans.
Dynamo - Dynamo being both very curious and horrified about Rat Man’s condition while Rat being passive aggressive to the Professor just because he’s a professor.
Infernus - The Rat has been trying to get into the bar and Infernus ain’t happy about it.
Lady Geist - Snobby, rich woman plus a humanoid Rat, do I need to say anymore?
Mirage - Expressing empathy and talking about how some Djinn have done similar cruel things to animals and wants to help, with Rat Man not knowing how to handle receiving kindness.
Mo & Krill - Both dwell in the underbelly of New York and both of them certainly butt heads but also cooperate when they need to. Their “allegiance” is shaky to say the least.
