Fourth Jump: Skullgirls (Part 1)

Skullgirls Jump (Jump 4)

1000cp + 200cp

Starting Location: I actually rolled an 8! I can choose! I choose… Maplecrest.

Identity: Drop-In (Free) Age 19

Abilities: Street Smarts (Free): You know your ways around the seedy back alleyways of New Meridian. You can tell if someone's a crook just by looking at them, and you can always blend into a

crowd, no matter how outlandish your costume.

Parasite: Medusa (300cp): This parasite replaces one of your eyes, as well as a good chunk of skin around it. Your eye gains a flame-red iris and yellow sclera, while the skin around it seems green and scaly. Medusa's eyelids are actually her mouth, with her eye on the end of a tongue- Medusa can lash out and bite at anything attacking your face with surprising ferocity. Medusa also is capable of covering anything you see in a layer of generic gray stone, whether that thing be an inanimate object or a living person. She can turn this ability on and off as she pleases. Medusa's stone is hard enough to trap normal people with only a moment's glance, and keep them stuck until they die or you let them out. The longer you look at something with this power, the thicker the stone covering it becomes. Medusa can move her eye independent of your remaining eye, and can even pop it out and control it like an agile, prehensile tentacle that looks like a snake's body. With this, she is able to reach a maximum length of about 15 feet. This can be disorienting, since you still see out of Medusa's eye during all this. Medusa is nice enough, but quite vain and very possessive of you, and becomes upset if you try to cover her up. She will start acting out and will petrify your friends to stone if you ignore her for too long. Does not like reflective surfaces.

Like The Back of Your Hand (150cpD): It's always good to have some local knowledge, but you seem to have an uncanny intuition as to your envrions. No matter where you go, you know the area like the back of your hand- every nook, cranny, and back alleyway is innate knowledge to you. You'll never be lost again! This knowledge is so complete to the point where you can use it in combat- Dancing a foe into a wayward cobblestone to trip them, or perhaps positioning them so that you can knock them into a faulty neon sign.

Last Hope (600cp): A top-secret special unit originally belonging to the Anti-Skullgirl labs, the Last Hope was dissolved due to a mysterious incident- But you're one of the last surviving members. You have no superpowers, just top-notch medical training, to the point where your knowledge of the human body is absolute. You know exactly how the human body reacts chemically to just about anything (for good or for ill), pressure points and weaknesses, acupuncture points to bolster or debilitate people, and should you encounter some kind of alien humanoid race with different anatomy, brushing yourself up on all of their details only takes a single dissection. You even know how to safely extricate a Parasite from their host or artificially bond multiple parasites to a

single person- Providing all parties are complicit (or entirely unable to object) in the process. Even so, the most Parasites anyone has ever been able to put into a single person is two, and those were

both Artificial Parasites.

Equipment: 3 Money Under The Mattress (2 for free from Drop-In with a third for 50cp), Hideout (Free), 

Infinite Blade Works (100cp)… Not Unlimited Blade Works, just it’s cousin. Also, the only one that remains after the jump, it seems as far as equipment is concerned: Somehow, you have a just-about endless supply of knives, swords, and other such sharp things that you can pull from any pocket or likewise hidden area on your body. These blades are of high quality and are always sharp, but they're nothing special. They seem to disappear mysteriously once you're done using them.

Drawbacks: Debt (100cp): So, uh, that hideout you have? Turns out you might have skipped the bill once or twice. Or ten times. And there's a lot of interest. Doesn't matter if you live somewhere for free - Now you owe an obscene amount of money to your landlord, who's been generous enough to let you pay it off in payments that I garuntee will leave you in poverty for your entire ten years here unless you work extra hard on paying off your debt. And for some reason, now your Cosmic Warehouse key only works on your hideout's bathroom door, and will stop working if you lose your hideout- So, unless you like living on the streets, you should get on that. 

Action (100cp): People like you tend to like a good scrap once in a while, but this is a little silly.

Seems like you can't take a step out your front door without some random guy crashing into you and

challenging you to a fight on the flimsiest pretenses. It's a constant thing- No matter where you go,

you're constantly plagued by challengers. It's a good day if you only have ten fights on the way home.

Not that they're ever really a challenge, but getting anywhere takes forever and you're always dead

tired before you get home.

Equipment from past jumps: Muichimonji, Bottle of Rum, Jar of Dirt (Lancer), PDA

A note from the previous jump: Malfested is now able to be turned on and off. Turning it on, however, activates the entire ability, including the drawback portion for as long as it is active.

Well… Seems I Made a Friend… Why the Fuck is My Eye Moving Without My Input?!

            I grumbled softly, my body shifting around for a moment as a few beams of sunlight shined in through the gaps of the shades that covered every window of my bedroom. It took a moment, but I slowly rolled out of the soft bed that I had dropped-in on this time around. Wait… A soft bed? A soft bed!? When the fuck did I last have a soft bed!? Once this realization dawned on me, I sprung to my feet and looked around for a moment.

            A modern house… I was standing the bedroom of a modern house. Apparently my house if the deed on the nightstand, and the notice from the person I had obtained it from that I was now permanently paying off a constant stream of debt, was any indication. With a small, content sigh, I stepped over into the bathroom, my hands rubbing at my eyes as I went. “Well… Perhaps I will have a break this time. Debt isn’t anything too bad…” I took a quick look in the mirror to at least make sure that everything was normal and, of course, I was not normal even at a glance. I cringed slightly, one of my hands reaching up to rub at the scales that outlined my right eye socket and the space that is covered from the side of my nose, close to my right ear, and how it physically removed my eyebrow on that side.

            ‘Look, I know you have a thing for lamia, but could you please not touch me so early in the morning?’ I heard, my right eye moving to glance toward my left as the voice continued. ‘Also, just a note for later, keep me out of the sight of mirrors… Makes me uncomfortable.’ By that point, I simply blinked the eye that I still had control of and slowly walked back over to my bed, took a seat, and picked my bottle of rum off of the nightstand. “My eyeball is talking to me… What’s your name and where am I THIS time?” I asked simply, taking a long sip from my endless bottle of alcohol before and after I spoke.

            My eye… Her eye… At least I think it was a she… The voice was feminine, if nothing else… Ah, our eye, extended out, forcing me to take a deep drink of my rum now that I was literally looking myself in the eye. ‘Medusa. Pleased to meet you… and you? We might as well get to know each other considering we are now together till death.’ She stated with an eerily pleased tone to her voice. “Aaron. Nice to meet ya’. Till death… Modern house… Parasite… You never answered where we were.” I mentioned, my hand reaching over to grab the deed and take a glance at the information for a location. Good thing I could suppress my emotions, because this was rather… disturbing.

            My conversation was interrupted by a hard knock on the door, forcing me to climb up to my feet and, thankfully I was currently clothed… Minus my boots and coat as I thankfully had a habit of wearing clothes to bed. Either way, Medusa slipped back into my skull and I started to cover her up with my hand, but after nearly losing a finger in the process, I simply apologized and stepped up to the door. “Ah, won’t be doing that again if it obviously upsets you.” I muttered before opening the door. I was greeted with a rather burly man standing there with a bat in hand. ‘You malformed bastard!’ He stated harshly before bringing his bat up and, just before he brought it down, he was completely encased in stone. I could hear him screaming underneath the rather generic rock, so he was at least alive.

            “I… Like you. I will call you Meddy. Also, thank you for taking care of this asshole. It was you, right?” I stated simply to the eye, who I could see lowering their eyelid as if to say ‘Really?’… But, I still had a guy to deal with and it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to let him die. After checking my PDA to see what my mailing list and voting aspects stated… Don’t know why they appeared, but they did on occasion… I reached over to grab him by the arms and, with a decent amount of difficulty, dragged him into the house and off toward the kitchen. “Come here, I will get you out of there.”

            I propped him up in the kitchen and, after a few moments of looking around, drew a small hammer and a screwdriver, which I used to carefully chip away at the stone… Mouth and nose first, then eventually just worked his head free. I gave him a few moments, but as soon as he started to talk, I gave him a few hard hits upside the head till he eventually… calmed down… and took an hour or two to pry him free of the rock and toss him back outside. I actually took a moment to glance around the area. A nice suburban place… Not too bad… At least till I saw someone that I knew rather well. Filia… I saw Filia from Skullgirls walking through the neighborhood. That was all I need to know and, with that, I went right back inside. First, I had to find a way to make enough money to pay off debt… I am sure that I had enough for three months, but not much else. Hmm…. I am going to need a few bottles, my endless rum, and a labeler…