GURPS 3x3 Eyes

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GURPS 3x3 Eyes mockup

GURPS 3x3 Eyes (the 3x3 is pronounced Sazan) is a fan creation based on Yuzo Takada's manga series 3x3 Eyes that ran from 1987 to 2002 in Young Magazine with two OVAs based on the manga going up to the end of Volume 5 ("Return of the Seima III") in the original manga. This updates the concept to 4e.

The Black Horse translation restructures the numbering of the books and renames many of the chapter titles with the end of the OVA ending in their Book 8 "Return of the Demon Saint III" and going on into a sequence called "Descent of the Mystic City" which stopped at Part 9 which doesn't seem to correspond to the next story in Volume 6 (story 10) "A Rest for the Siema" nor the material in Volume 7 ("Eyes of the Undead" - a 10 parter or the two parts of "Legend of the True Siema")

General Background

The premise of 3x3 Eyes is that there is a side branch of humanity called the Sanjiyan Unkara (meaning three-eyed mandala) who are so long lived as to be effectively immortal and who possess great magical powers. They lived on a parallel Earth (called Seichi aka "Holy Land" in the Manga) that I dubbed Sazan (with Seichi being a location on that world) and were possibly revered as gods.

The plot of 3x3 Eyes involves what is initially thought to be the last Sanjiyan Unkara (called Pai) looking for a three headed statue called the Ningen no Zou to become human. During this she turns a young man that helped her into her Wu--an unkillable guardian. Eventually they find out she is not the last and that the minions of her sleeping fiancee named Shiva (put to sleep at the cost of their own lives by her people around 1678 to stop him from taking over Earth) have their own plans for her and the Ningen no Zou.

If this wasn't enough there is another group that want to have Pai ascend to the status of Kaiyanwang--effective ruler of the Creatures of Darkness (all the supernatural beings that hide from humanity). To add to the fun there are portals (called Kunlun) between Earth and Sazan all over the place with the one to the capital city of Sazan in Tibet.

A Sanjiyan Unkara can, in theory, turn one person into a Wu though newly created Wu has no innate spells and must learn them.

Mark of Wu

A Wu is identified by the character "无" in the center of their forehead. Identifying this mark's significance requires actually knowing Hidden Lore (Sanjiyan Unkara) or Occultism and even then the information is not entirely correct. For example, one work on the Sanjiyan Unkara claims that they consume the soul of their Wu. In reality, the Sanjiyan Unkara is effectively a living phylactery for the Wu's soul and if the Sanjiyan Unkara dies they die as well.

Templates

• Sanjiyan Unkara [35]: Magery (Ritual) 3 [35]; Split Personality [-15]; Supernatural Feature (Extra Eye, only appears when Sanjiyan Unkara personality is "out") [0]; Unaging [15];
• Wu [464]: Independent Body Parts [15]; Regeneration (extreme, Fatigue +100%) [300]; Unkillable 2 [100]; Unaging [15]; Magery(Ritual) 3 [35]; Supernatural Features (Mark of Wu on center of forehead, 无) [-1]

A Wu can be extensively damaged and still function. The individual parts will "regenerate" until they look as they did when the person became a Wu.. However, the parts are limited to their ability to move on their own so if a Wu is blown to bits only the parts that have some way of moving (hands, arms, legs, feet) can do so.

In fact, one time Yakumo annoyed Parvati to the point that she held his decapitated head as his body stumbled around trying to get to it

Getting hit by a speeding car doesn't improve your appearance though waiting around does

Yakumo trying to get his head.

3x3 Eyes Setting

The 3x3 Eyes setting is very High Fantasy with magic extremely rare. There is a slight Illuminated Fantasy bent to the world as demonstrated by Parvati going on a rampage on a Fei-Oh throughout a modern city (even being tracked by three police helicopters) and showing that she has three eyes in front of many witnesses but other then a handful of newspaper articles there is no mention of the events.

It's perfectly normal to have buses driven by mannequins with mannequin passengers

Its just a three eyed girl screaming her head off in a crowd. Nothing to see here.

Its a normal situation to have three police helicopters chase a three eye girl on a giant flying tadpole thing.

• 3x3 Eyes Magic
• Creatures of Darkness: In the setting of 3x3 Eyes there are creatures that hide among humanity or serve such creatures. Collectively they are known as "Creatures of Darkness" and many, if not most, want power. Those that serve a Wu or Sanjiyan Unkara might be able to utilize some of them as contacts or even allies but they must first prove themselves.
• 3x3 Eyes (Persons of Interest)
• 3x3 Eyes (Campaign Seeds)

Stories in the Five Earths, All in a Row setting

• The Eyes Have It
• Why Me?

Additional Information

• 3x3 Eyes Digest - general quick reference to the series. Has unoffical translations up to volume 33
• 3x3 Eyes Wiki
• 3x3 Eyes tropes (TV tropes)
• 3x3 manga information (Anime News Network); 3x3_eyes Manga - fan english translation of the very long (40 volumes) and very bloody manga
• Creatures of 3x3 Eyes written up in the Hero system, used for descriptions
• 3x3 Eyes: Files with rules and setting information for role-playing in Yuzo Takada's manga 3x3 Eyes under Classic rules

SCP Connection

SCP-5998

SCP-5998 has three eyes like a Sanjiyan Unkara. It can serve as a way for a GM to pull some of the Sanjiyan Unkara lore into a Black Ops/Foundation setting. Pai and her Wu would be of immense interest to the Foundation and the Vatican.