A JumpChain compliant “Choose Your Own Adventure” Part 1 Baki The Grappler Grappler Baki “If someone is born a male, at least once in his life he’ll dream of being the strongest man alive. Grappler, the martial artist who aims to be the strongest in the world!” Rising rapidly through the ranks of the martial arts world is Baki Hanma, a martial arts prodigy like no other. At the ripe age of 15, he trains himself night and day, fighting opponents that push the definition of human ability to new heights. Placing his life in danger more times that one can count, he craves the strength to reap vengeance on his mother’s killer, the strongest being in the world, the man considered equal to a nation’s army Yujiro Hanma, Baki’s father. Even now, Baki has a long road to travel, fighting through hoards of street thugs, trained athletes, legendary beasts, trained killers, and superhuman yakuza, his journey only truly begins at the fighter’s holy ground. An arena reserved for the greatest warriors, where the only prohibition is the use of weapons. Crushing balls, poking eyes, even killing your opponent is permitted. Standing as the reigning champion, is none other than Baki himself! Your stay in this world will span exactly ten years. You’ll take your leave a short few days following the time when Baki’s fight with Muhammad Ali Jr. and issuing his final challenge to Yujiro Hanma will occur, if you don’t interfere in any of these events. Take 1000 choice points, and join the ranks of these worthy fighters Select one origin Spectator Rather than putting your own wellbeing in harm’s way, you’ve contented yourself with enabling men far braver than you to beat the snot out of each other for your amusement. Besides There Is Nothing Anyone Can Do , you receive no general freebees, but may have an extra 200CP to spend as you please. Beast Not a warrior, and certainly not a martial artist, you’re just a wild ball of violence in human skin. You’re no less capable than more traditional fighters, but while they might lean heavily on tradition or technique, your approach is more spontaneous, relying heavily on instincts and raw physical might. Brawler What you lack in style or grace, you make up for with inhuman physical and mental toughness, honed through battle. You’re a street fighter, you don’t concern yourself with “fair play” or “restraint”, not to say you don’t have your own code of honor. Still, you’ll find little respect from the martial arts world. Professional Fighting is no game to you, unlike many other athletes of street fighters, you come from a world where loss means death. You’re a servant of your government, or possibly a free-roaming merc’. Either way, your opponents are in for a rude awakening, if they think “training” can substitute for the flames of war. Showman Being the strongest is all well and good, but what’s the point if the world doesn’t recognize your greatness? You take your gift for violence into the public arena. If that makes you a phony in the eye of martial artists, they’ll have plenty of time to regret underestimating you, from their hospital beds. Perfectionist Where would the fighting world be without diligent martial artists like you? You may be somewhat lacking in “real” fighting experience, but if your techniques couldn’t stand up to clumsy thugs or vain muscleheads, then what exactly has the world of martial arts spent these last few centuries perfecting? Convict These so-called “fighters” wouldn’t know a real fight if it stabbed them in the neck. You don’t need any gong or schedule to fight, you just start swinging. Before long, five convicts will simultaneously escape from five different prisons, all seeking defeat in Tokyo. You may choose to be among their numbers. You may decide your age and gender freely for your biology of choice Human – Free Yasha Ape – 200 Hanma – 300 One of the many nonhumans welcomed underneath the Tokyo Dome. A strange species of mountain ape, one rare and terrifying enough to be considered a beast of legend. Growing to be over 2 meters tall and living roughly 150 years. Perhaps your kind would live longer, had you not been targeted as a test of mettle by You’re nothing remarkable, but all that Whether your conception was willing or martial artists. Not to say anyone short means is that you won’t have a unique not, you bear the blood of a Hanma. A of geniuses and superhumans have any biological advantage over the rest of relative of the Ogre, in one fashion or chance of surviving battle with even the your peers. With enough blood, sweat, another. At the onset, you may not find weakest of your kind. tears, and talent, you may render this many differences between you and your gap redundant in time. This is what Hide thick enough to shatter blades, peers. But once this blood begins to most your opposition will be, without leaving as much as a scratch on awaken, you’ll begin to take the form of impressive in their own right, but you, and muscles powerful enough to something that stretches the definition bearing no inherent genetic superiority. destroy steel beams with your bare of “human” to its breaking point. None worth noting, at least. hands. Sans the ability to talk, your Your mind will quickly adapt to a intelligence doesn’t fall that far behind Your speed, strength, endurance, and lifestyle of combat. You’ll be a genius humans, though your brain is obviously reflexes are at least at the level of like no other. Attacking, feinting, unsuited to abstracts, such as “society” professional athletes, though just shy of strategizing, countering, baiting and or “speech”. You do seem to grasp the gold-medal Olympians. Perhaps you do other complex maneuvers that would more sentimental element of fighting, reach such a glorious standard, but in normally need to be learned through you may even posses the makings of a return, find yourself lacking in some relentless training, come as naturally code of honor, or maybe you really are other notable area of physical activity. to you as breathing. As your blood just a beast. reaches maturation, you may find your With some imagination, hard work, and Your instincts are surprisingly well- affinity with violence developing into a perhaps a little surgical enhancement, suited to combat. Even with your brain full-blown addiction. you can reach heights that conventional knowledge would call severely damaged, you can fight, and Physically, your potential for training superhuman. The speed to outrun cars, even strategize, on the level of an and your metabolism defy all reason. the strength to pull down helicopters, amateur martial artist. Add your Paired with your uncompromising the toughness to shrug off point-blank natural physical dominance on top of willpower, you’ll easily reach heights in that, and you might as well be a master. buckshot. months that take most practitioners years to reach. As your muscles grow, That said, these are extreme examples, along with the influence of the Ogre’s evocative of only the 2-3 strongest genes, the muscles on your back will humans on this Earth. In any case, it’s assume a wicked formation, eerily far beyond what you would be capable evocative of a laughing demon’s face. of during your time here, far beyond what most would be capable of in a Most terrifying of all is your seemingly lifetime, but the potential is there. limitless potential for growth. Every single battle improves your fighting ability. Even Yujiro, feared as a force greater than the United States military, and wielding the strength to punch earthquakes into submission, is only growing stronger with each and every injury he inflicts on another. General Perks Free There Is Nothing Anyone Can Do Martial arts are called “arts” for a reason. In the midst of action, your movements are dynamic, your posture radiates with almost mathematical perfection. The flow of energy, the trajectory of blows, the rippling mussels supporting every lock and hold, your every movement is a sight of profound beauty, and primal masculinity. Even outside of tense situations, you may find your more masculine traits exaggerated, though not to the point of inhumanity (yet). You may even find scenery warping in the eyes of viewers, to illustrate the tension between you and an opponent. May be toggled. Do You Think That It’s So Strange? All fighters wish for their brawls to be the stuff of legend, but unfortunately, the human body is so rife with limitations, or at least, it’s supposed to be. All who make their way to the Tokyo Dome arena seem to share the same quality of being absurdly hard to kill. You can ignore injuries that would leave most crumpled over in pain, power through those that should cripple for life, and potentially recover from those that really should kill you. The extent of this durability depends on your own constitution. This doesn’t make you invincible, it just raises the bar for how much damage your body can take before giving in and lowers the bar for how much medical treatment you actually need to recover from an injury. Incidentally, this doesn’t stop you from developing scars. Wouldn’t want to rob a champion of his trophies, now would we? Got Too Much Desire Not everyone has what it takes to pursue the title of the “strongest”.