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Didn't matter for now since I passed the strength check. Would still be good to know for the future.
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Shock wrote:Is Whitaker's attack ranged or melee? It'll matter if David's prone.
Melee. You should be within 5' of him, plus he has Elongation, so... he's set either way.
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I'm honestly beginning to think it's just meaningless for Gamma and Epsilon to continue. :P
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We're not out yet.
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Yeah I'm not following that at all. There are some pretty strong characters in play in both groups.
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Mostly because I don't trust the RA forum, here's my build of Jack.

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Greystone:
PL:
8
Str 16 (+3) Dex 10 (+0) Con 16 (+3) Int 10 (+0) Wis 14 (+2) Cha 12 (+1)

Skills: Craft [Art] 6 (+6), Intimidate 8 (+9), Languages 3 [Base: English; German, French, Spanish], Notice 6 (+8), Search 8 (+8), Sense Motive 6 (+8), Stealth 8 (+8)

Feats: Attack Focus [Melee] 4, Challenge [Improved Demoralize], Dodge Focus, Equipment 2, Improved Initiative 2, Lionheart, Luck 2, Power Attack, Startle

Powers: Aesirvision (True Sight): Super-Senses 12 [Detect (subject’s mood: Acute, Ranged), Detect (subject’s physical condition: Acute, Ranged), Detect (subject’s Power Descriptors: Acute 2, Ranged), Vision Counters Illision]

Ate The Golden Apple:
Immortality
Regeneration 4 [Recovery Rate 4 [Resurrection 4 (1 hour)])

Shapeshifter:
Feature 1 [Shiftable Skin (can alter appearance of skin [changing color, adding tattoo-like images, birthmarks, hair and eye color] at will)]
Variable 7 [35 pt. pool] (Flaw: Limited [Humanoid forms only])

Saves: Toughness +5*/+3 [*NVE Uniform]
Fort +8
Ref +6
Will +8 (+12 vs. Fear)

Combat: Attack +4/+8 (Melee)
Defense +8 (+3 Flat-footed)
Initiative +8

Equipment: NVE Uniform [+2 Toughness; Commlink; Immunity 2 (Environmental Cold & Heat); Morphic (adjusts to different forms)]
Cell Phone
MP3 player
-2 ep not used


Costs: Attributes 18+ Skills 12+ Feats 13+ Powers 69+ Saves 17+ Combat 22= 153 pts.


Real Name: Jack Rexroth
Height: 5’ 10”
Weight: 160 lbs
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio (November 8, 1992)


Complications:
Enemy: Al-Akhwan, Presto, Robor, Surviving members of the Armada, Locus.

Friends: Jack has gained a few friends since coming to the NVA; Otso (Ursa), Martin (Fluxx), Rusty (The Incredible Shrinking Rusty)

Hatred: Due to Jack's experiences with his father's alcoholism and abuse it caused, Jack cannot stand people who drink to excess or are abusive to others.

Honor: One thing Jack did learn from his father is that if you say you're going to do something then you do it. Period.

Prejudice: Neo-Sapien.

Relationship: Jack is dating Ellen Woolf (Maze).

Reputation ~ "Ripper" Jack: During his Sophomore Blitz Jack threatened Tatjana Nelson (Fach) to force the other team to give up. His plan didn't work and there are students who remember Jack's ruthlessness.

Temper: Jack has trouble reigning in his more aggressive tendencies.


Background: Jack Rexroth’s life was normal growing up, the son of two working parents who made sure he had all the basics in life and some of his wants too. They spent “family time” together but he had times when he had to entertain himself with their work schedules left him home alone for a few hours a day. He had a small circle of friends, but he wasn’t the most popular kid at school and girls weren’t a totally foreign concept to him.

That was until one day he and his mother were in a car wreck.

The impact left Jack concussed and knocked out briefly until his mother’s moans of pain awakened him. Realizing that they needed to get out of the broken car Jack fought to free his mother from the wreckage but lacked the strength to do it, it that moment his Neo-Sapien powers manifested, allowing him to make himself strong enough. Though he didn’t realize that was what happened, and most others simply attributed it to one of those amazing things of where a situation triggered a response from the body under stress. But his efforts had been too late, his mother’s injuries were too severe and she died as the paramedics arrived. His father sank into a depression over the loss of his wife and soon began to drink to escape his pain, leaving Jack to deal with all of it alone. Jack reacted like most young teenagers did, by developing a bad attitude. Soon he was running with the rougher crowd, started smoking, got a couple tattoos, skipping school and getting into fights. That was his days at school, at home Jack was either ignored completely by his father or bore the brunt of his alcohol fueled anger over his loss. The abuse only added to Jack’s behavior which led to more beatings at the hands of his father.

Finally tiring of the treatment after several years, Jack hit his father back. Though he hadn’t used his powers since his mother’s death, Jack subconsciously drew upon them again and left his father with several deep cuts that would likely require over a hundred stitches. Jack stared for a few moments in shock at his now clawed fingers for a few moments before gathering his wits enough to wash the blood off and call 911 for his father before grabbing a few things and stuffing them into his backpack and ran out of their apartment.

Having nowhere else to go Jack lived on the streets, fending for himself and with no real way to provide for himself. He stole what he needed to get by, practicing with his powers to make it easier as well as to keep himself safe from the other predators of the streets. Soon he had a reputation as someone to leave alone and enough of the basics to get by on, a place to sleep and food to eat. But it didn’t last for too long. New York was transformed into a hellish nightmare by Apocatastasis and though the Vindicators managed to stop him and return the city to normal, Jack felt the repercussions of it. Soon after Black Box came looking for any and all reports of possible Neo-Sapien activity and with Jack’s street reputation they quickly came looking for him.

His powers nullified and sent to Petoria, Jack was branded along with everyone else there and lived in the hidden camp until they were rescued by the Vindicators. Realizing that he had nowhere to go in America given how it had turned into almost a police state for any Neo-Sapien, Jack took the offer made by Quintessence to transport anyone who wanted to go to Vienna and attend the European Academy. Wanting to keep a bit of his own identity, as one of the Americans refugees at the school, he uses the name of Greystone. After the name of the street he lived on before Black Box captured him.

Notes:

Aesirvision/Truesight:
Jack’s Æsir power allows him to see many things about a person, represented as an aura around them. The first thing he notices is a colored haze around them, indicating their mood and the emotions they are feeling at that moment, these colors correspond to different emotions:
Emotions:
  • Red - Anger
  • Blue[/color] - Hope
  • Orange - Happiness
  • Yellow - Fear
  • Green - Envy
  • Violet - Love
  • Indigo - ?
  • Black - Depression
    Absence of color - Calm
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Aesirvision/Truesight also allows Jack to see any injuries a person is currently suffering from:

Physical Health (focused on injured area):
  • Shades of red depending on the seriousness of injury
  • 8-bit head - Shows subject has died and resurrected
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Finally, Aesirvision/Truesight lets Jack know what kind of powers a person has, with various symbols (chosen by his subconscious, thus forcing Jack to figure out what a new symbol could mean) appearing above the person's head;
Powers:
  • Beaker: artificially created humans, like Martin or Anne Newton
  • Blood Drop: Neo-Sapien
  • Flaming Eyes: Nephilim (the colour of the eyes indicates paternity)
  • Golden Apple: Æsir
  • Pyramid w/Eye: Espers
  • Seed: one of Robor’s shell bodies
  • Thought Bubble: psychic constructs and tulpas, like the Artful Dodger
  • Wand: mages
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Shifted Traits:
-Anglerfish Bioluminescence [16 pts]: Dazzle 8 [visual] (Extra: Area [Cone]); (Flaw: Touch Range)

-Aquatic Form [11 pts]:
Enhanced Feat 1 [Environmental Adaptation (Aquatic)]
Immunity 3 [Environmental Cold, Environmental Pressure, Underwater Suffocation]
Super-Senses 3 [Sonar]
Swimming 4

-Bat’s Radar [3 pts]: Super-Senses 3 [Sonar (Ultra-Hearing (Accurate)]

-Bloodhound’s Nose [4 pts]: Super-Senses 4 [Olfactory (Analytical, Extended, Tracking Scent 2)]

-Chameleon’s Skin [2 pts]: Concealment 4 [visual] (Flaws: Blending)

- Wolverine Frog’s Bone Weapons [10 pts]: Strike 5 (Power Feats: Improved Critical 4, Mighty)

-Cloven Legs [9 pts]:
Enhanced Feat 1 [Endurance]
Speed 4
Super-Movement 2 [Sure-Footed 2]

-Dolphin Hearing [5 pts]: Super-Senses 5 [Hearing (Accurate, Extended, Tracking 2)]

-Dragon Breath [16 pts]: Fire Damage 8 (Extra: Area [Cone])

-Dragon Scales: [3 pts] Protection 3

-Dragon Wings [4 pts]: Flight 4 (Flaw: Limited [Winged])

-Electric Eel Glands [16 pts]: Strike 8 [electrical] (Extra: Aura)

-Fly’s Acid Spit [14 pts]: Drain Toughness 8 (Extra: Affects Objects); (Feat: Extended Reach 6 [30 ft])

-Increased Muscle Mass [10 pts]: Enhanced Strength 10

-My Own Best Friend [9 pts]: Duplication 9 (Flaws: Full-Round Action, Real)

-Not My Face [16 pts]: Morph 8 [humanoids]

-Octopus Arms [8 pts]: Snare 8 (Flaw: Touch Range)

- Poison Dart Frog Skin [8 pts]: Drain Constitution 8 (Feat: Slow Fade 5 [20 minutes], Subtle)

-Spider's Silk [16 pts]: Snare 8 (Extra: Area [Line]); (Flaw: Close Range)
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Re: New Vindicators Academy of Europe (OOC - Full)

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Michuru wrote: DELTA TEAM (Taheka; NPCs: Cacophony, Ogre, Prodigy, Shakes, Tantivy)
Michuru81 wrote:Okay, before I go any further, I'm going to have to know relative marching order. Prodigy will be at the head, with Ogre bringing up the rear. As the only PC in the group, Gilliam, let me know what order Cacophony, Shakes, Tantivy, and Taheka are walking in.
Assuming it is single file then Prodigy, Cacophony, Taheka, Tantivy, Shakes and Ogre otherwise Taheka and Cacophony will walk side by side behind Prodigy followed by Tantivy and Shakes side by side then Ogre.
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EnigmaticOne wrote:I'm honestly beginning to think it's just meaningless for Gamma and Epsilon to continue. :P
In Gamma's case, the loss of Confectionery is a moot one. That team is different from all of the others in that they went straight to their objective. Alpha is trying to make it to the command deck; Beta is bound for the door... Gamma is right where Gamma needed to go, so they don't need a navigator.

Epsilon, meanwhile, is doing great. I thought Ersatz might get another round out of everyone, but flynn's latest post proves that wrong. I think Martin might have him beaten.
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We'll see, you have been rolling devastatingly well for the bad guys.
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Flynnarrel wrote:We'll see, you have been rolling devastatingly well for the bad guys.
The oddest one to me has been Trauma. Like so many of the people I've thrown out, he's a glass canon. His illusion is far from crippling, but the Pain 8? Nasty. He only sports a +2 Toughness, without any trade off. He's not hard to hit, but he should go down in a blow or two. Somehow, he's been rolling these next to impossible saves. Granted, he's only had to make two so far, but... dammit if it's not weird how well he's doing.

Meanwhile, Ugly Amy sports a fairly respectable Fortitude save, but hasn't been making them--hence he remaining dazed all this time. It's baffling to me that when the odds are on their side, they fail, but when the odds are stacked against them, they succeed. It's bizarre.
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Two people knocked to dying, one of which dead, two of epsilon exhausted to push there powers in funky ways just to have a chance.... is an interesting definition of them (the bad guys) failing, Mich.
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And I'm still a bit upset at you having Oscar be so dumb. He has ranged options and could have done a dozen other things.
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Would Oscar be any good in a fight?
He was nobility in the other world, depending on how he was raised he might never have been in a real fight in his life.
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Arkrite wrote:Would Oscar be any good in a fight?
He was nobility in the other world, depending on how he was raised he might never have been in a real fight in his life.
He fought well enough when we met him the first time. Not to mention, in feudal governments most "knights" are expected to be battlefield proficient. It's a relatively modern convention that people get knighted for stuff that doesn't involve doing grievous harm to other people.
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Arkrite wrote:Would Oscar be any good in a fight?
He was nobility in the other world, depending on how he was raised he might never have been in a real fight in his life.
I'm fairly certain it had been said a few times that while Oscar was powerful he had very little experience in using his powers for fighting. So I can get how he would make mistakes in a fight.
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