A random other popular hero in Florida;
And I have no ideas how to do spoilers here.
Conquistadora PL 10
Real Name Unknown Age 240 Hair Black
Occupation explorer and adventurer Place of Origin Miami, Florida
Str 12,
Dex 14,
Con 14,
Int 14,
Wis 12,
Cha 12 [18]
Saves: Toughness: +2, Fortitude: +7, Reflex: +7, Will: +15 [15]
Skills: Bluff 8 (+10), Concentration 4 (+5), Craft (chemical) 4 (+6), Disguise 8 (+10/+20), Escape Artist 4 (+6), Investigate 4 (+6), Knowledge (arcane lore) 8 (+10), (earth science) 4 (+6), (history) 6 (+8), Language 2 (English, Spanish), Notice 4 (+5), Search 4 (+6), Sense Motive 8 (+9), Stealth 4 (+6), Survival 2 (+3), Swim 2 (+3) [19]
Feats: Artificer, Attack Focus (ranged) 3, Eidetic Memory, Environmental Adaptation (underwater), Improved Critical (cutlass) 1, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Quick Change, Quick-Draw, Ritualist, [12]
Powers:
Device 2 (Cutlass, hard to lose, Strike 3 (Extra: Penetrating 4, PF: Accuracy, Dual Damage (bashing or lethal), Mighty)), [8]
Device 2 (Breastplate, hard to lose, Protection 4 (Extra: Impervious), Shield 2), [8]
Device 2 (Musket, hard to lose, Blast 5 (Extra: Affects Insubstantial)), [8]
Protection 1, [1]
Subtle Wards Protection 6 (PF: Subtle), [7]
Super-Senses 3 (Awareness (magic), Infravision, Scent), [3]
Swimming 1 [1]
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Magic 11 (
Spell of Coiling Health (Immunity 6 (aging, disease, hunger/thirst, suffocation 2, need to sleep) +
Regeneration 8 + Mind Shield 8), AP:
Vril Blast (Blast 11, green electricity, lethal, usable underwater),
Serpent’s Stare (Paralyze 11 (Extra: Range (ranged), Flaw: Side-Effect (user suffers same effects as target)),
Mists of Memory (Mental Transform 11 (modify memories, Extra: Area (burst)),
Enfolding Coils (Snare 11),
Unseen Serpent (Concealment 10, PF: Close, Selective)), [27]
Morph 2 (humanoids, Extra: Duration (continuous), Flaw: Action 3 (full round action)), [1]
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Combat: Attack: +6 (), Damage: +1, Defense: +5 (+2 flat-footed), Initiative: +2 [22]
Normal Atk +6 (+8 w/cutlass, +9 w/musket or ranged spells), Dam +1 (+4 w/cutlass, +5 w/musket, +11 w/Blast, Paralyze or Snare), Def +7 (+3 flat-footed), Tough +13 (4 Impervious)
[18 +15 +19 +12 +36 (+28) +22 = 150 pp
The youngest looking, but oldest of the Belles is the woman known as Conquistadora. Dressed in a conquistator’s breastplate, with cutlass and musket, this dark haired spanish woman has a certain no-nonsense brusqueness with adults (although she warms to the presence of children, who remark that she looks like Dora the Explorer, and tells them in turn that the cartoon character was inspired by her exploits!). She admits to being possibly centuries old (‘a lady never tells, and shame on you for asking!’), having discovered the legendary Fountain of Youth many years ago, and having lived several lifetimes worth of exploration and adventure since then, backed up with hints of fantastic tales that she never quite goes into detail about.
A side-effect of her ageless state, her wounds close with unnatural speed, sometimes at the very moment they were inflicted (a property of her ‘subtle wards,’ causing wounds to be blocked, but appear to have struck home, only to fade away moments later). She has, rarely, displayed the ability to call upon the ‘fires of the fountain that still burn within her breast’ to fuel other arcane stunts, the result, she says, of mystical insights gained over a long life.
The power the fountain also lent magical power to her equipment, and the breastplate, musket and cutlass she bore all those years ago remain at her side, with greater power, and the ability to be equipped in a moment with but a thought. (Her Quick Change feat in action.) She has become a competent swordswoman, and musketeer, over the years, with a solid but uncreative style, lacking many of the more exotic feats of a true master of the blade or gun, something she makes up for with her sheer toughness.
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It’s all lies. Well, mostly lies. The breastplate, cutlass and musket are indeed enchanted, because he enchanted them himself. ‘Conquistadora’s’ birth name is Seshtekk, a Valossan, what humans call a ‘serpentfolk,’ and has come to infiltrate the superhero community, in the guise of this immortal Spaniard. He’s got the notion that humans will more readily buy his façade if he pretends to be a female of the species, as he feels that they are more inclined to be forgiving of any inconsistencies in the story a female presents, due to their ‘feminine mystique’ or whatever. (He didn’t know much about humans beforehand, learning mostly from Valossan propaganda on the subject, and has found much, if not most, woefully out of date, if indeed it was ever correct at all…) For now, his mission is to become the best ‘superhero’ to these mammals that he can be, and so he is doing that with gusto, trying to conceal his inherent dislike of the species (except, oddly, for their children, whom he finds delightful, nothing at all like the cold, angry, treacherous young of his own species).
Seshtekk isn't as old as his assumed guise, who purportedly predates Florida being a US state, but has great magical potential, and has been groomed to be an infiltrator all his life, having adapted his racial ability to Morph into a human guise to a longer lasting (but slower-acting) form, allowing him to 'shed his skin' slower, but remain in the new guise even when sleeping. His people used to dominate the region, before humankind crossed the land-bridge from Asia, but have always been slow breeders, with long lives and slow to react to threats or innovate new techniques, being a fundamentally selfish and inward-looking people. The coming of humanity to the region was a shock to them, as they initially dismissed them as backwards and no threat at all, only to find themselves surrounded and outnumbered in short centuries. While the Valossans had in quality, it seemed, the humans vastly outbred them with quantity, and these newcomers adapted to the superior arcane skills of individual Valossan mages with vast rituals involving cooperative magic, in the guise of religious rituals, and even sacrifice of their own blood, or *lives,* an act beyond the utterly selfish Valossan mages to consider. The Valossan empire was beaten back while their most powerful mages were still stubbornly denying that it was even possible to fuel magic with bloodletting, and they sank into irrelevance, retreating to cities deep beneath the land and sea, far from the reach of the 'newcomers' (who, by this point, had been here for many generations).
So, after a few centuries of slumbering self-reflection, they rose to find that the newcomers themselves had been beaten down by yet different newcomers, and yet this latest batch used technology, instead of magic, something better suited to their freakish fecundity, as any malformed spawn could pull a trigger or chuck a grenade, while casting an equivalent spell could take longer to learn than one of these short-lived mammals had on this earth. Still, the mass rituals that proved so troublesome, and the vast human empires that empowered them, were gone, and the
new newcomers had no reply to Valossan magic and a new age was upon them. Truly Yig favors the just!
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