Body/Soul Seperation

Body/soul seperation [Major] by Iczer

'We are here.'

The character can seperate his body into two parts, his spiritual Ka and his physical Ba. These seperate and unique beings represent the character's id and supergeo, both unleashed.

1) Ka attributes: The Ka is an immaterial and intangible body, that appears as a translucent and idealised version of the character. The Ka has the following attributes:

SDC: None

HP, same as the base character.

IQ, ME PB and MA are increased by 4

PS, PE: halved from the characters normal amount.

PP, spd: Unchanged.

The Ka floats about 1-6 feet off the ground at the character's normal speed attribute.

The Ka is imaterial. it can neither affect or be affected by physical force. It has all the powers of the character, but is unable to affect any solid objects (but see below). It can see and harm invisible and intangible creatures, including ghosts and other intangible creatures.

The Ka, representing the enlightened and pacifistic side of the character, posesses HTH basic at the character's level and enjoys a +4 to save vs psionic and magic attacks.

2) BA: The character's physical body swells to embody the grossest and basest of desires. It typically deforms and mutates as a result of the seperation.

SDC: as per the character

HP 1 per level of experience

IQ ME MA and PB: halved.

PS, PE: +6 to both. both become extraordinary.

PP, Spd: Remain the same.

The Ba resembles the character, but takes on gross animalistic features. It gains an AR of 10, and an aggressive nature, kept in check by the Ka.

The Ba posesses the same powers as the character, but cannot heal until it recombines with it's Ka essense. It fights with the character's skill, as well as gaining a +1 attack per melee and +2 to strike and -2 to parry or dodge. The Ba uses skills at -20% except raw, physical skills.

3) Combined abilities: As seperate entities, the two represent the character, and remain in telepathic communication with each other, each percieveing what the other wishes them to perceive. The two can seperate up to 200 feet per level of experience, and the Ka can always teleport back to the Ba. The Ka cannot move through or teleport through force fields, and the two may be kept apart in this fashion. The Ka and Ba can remain seperated for 20 minutes per level. If this time should pass, the Ka will automatically snap back to the Ba. If they are seperated by force fields (as mentioned earlier) then the Ka appears next to the field at this time, and both begin to take strain. the seperated entities take 1d6 damage each until one dies (typically the Ka).

Losing the Ka spirit effectively traps the character in his Ba shape, and drops his alignment to at least anarchist or lower as he loses his moral compass.

Losing the Ba traps the character as an intangible Ka being, an immortal but immateriel creature. His alignment rises, at least to scrupulous without his baser instincts to sway him from the path of morality.

4) Effects of alignment:

Principled: double the Ka's HP, +6 to PP and double speed. add one attack per melee Ba's strength is reduced by 2

Scrupulous: increase Ka's HP by 50%. add +10 to Spd.

Unprincipled: No change

Anarchist: Ba enjoys +2 PS and PE

Miscreant: Ba enjoys +20% extra SDC

Diabolic: Ba's AR jumps to 12 and strength increases by another 4 (superhuman) Ba knows HTH assasin.

Aberrant: both Ka and Ba enjoy a +2 to PS and PP

5) Mind/body seperation: In instances where one of the character's powers involves leaving his body immobile,(such as posession) he may instead send his Ka out to do the work, while his Ba takes over his body.