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Neutron - A Freedom City/Emerald City based Energy Controller.

Tachyon - A cybernetic Speedster. ( If Deadpool, Booster Gold, Guy Gardner, Quicksilver, Professor Zoom and Lobo all had a love child. :shock: )

Quantum - A Powerhouse.

Lightweight - A Character for Paragons/Wild Cards/Teen Heroes type of campaigns.

Phantom - A "Ghostly" character.

Ash - A Tal-Vashoth Rogue for a Dragon Age Campaign.

Golden Girl - An Elemental Transformer (Gold). Similar in background as Lightweight but with a different set of powers.

Officer Helen Paladino - A Chicago policewoman with a gravity manipulation power. She makes Tachyon look like a pacifistic nun by comparison.😈

Tyrone "Ty-Rock" Briggs - An NPC in the Sunstorm Universe.

Bethanys Istenwald - A Human Bard for a DnD 5E Ghosts Of Saltmarsh Campaign.

Nirmali Katihar - A wizard for a Pathfinder 1E Curse Of The Crimson Throne campaign.

Pipedream - A expendable superpowered thug in the Sunstorm Universe.

Pig Iron - Metallic skinned strongman in the Sunstorm Universe.

Glitterboy - NPC in the Sunstorm Universe. An undercover Chicago cop working as a male prostitute.

The Athlete. - Possible Npc or even a bio for an PC. Don't ask, i don't know.🤔

Freefall. - A version of Helen Paladino in Hero System. A sort of mashup of Dark Champions with superpowers.

Helen Paladino (Cypher System) - Another version of Helen in Cypher System.

Paul Arnold (Cypher System) - A pyrokinetic firefighter. (Don't ask.😶).

Sylar - Sylar from Heroes using the ICONS rpg.

The Haitian - The Haitian from Heroes using ICONS.

Adam Monroe - Crazed Immortal from Heroes using ICONS.

Peter Petrelli - Power Absorbing Evo from Heroes using ICONS.

Nathan Petrelli - Would be Senator with certain secrets... From the Heroes tv show using ICONS.

The Four Aces - Villainous poser group set in a Wild Cards setting with ICONS rules.

Teknique - Criminal gadgeteer and thief. (Marvel FASERIP system)

Knox - Strength enhancing thug from Heroes. ICONS system.

Primatron - If Ultron was a monkey.🙈🙉🙊. Marvel FASERIP.

Absorbing Man - ICONS character. Nuff said.😶

Titania - Absorbing Man's "partner". ICONS character.

Ultramarine - M&M Battlesuit Character converted to ICONS.

Roger Fletcher - ICONS character. Think of a superpowered Blackadder.👀

Luis Mateo Bautista - ICONS character. Pyromaniac monk.

Hiro Nakamura - ICONS character version from the Heroes show. Self proclaimed Master of Time and Space.

The Rubber-Bandit - M&M Jobber villain for ICONS.

Magda - Killer Nun for ICONS. Nuff said.😇

Anvil - Metal Superstrong Midget with a big mouth and a even bigger ego. M&M Character converted to ICONS.

Marquis Pierre de Laurent - Aristocratic cannibal for ICONS.

Ku Tu The Eternal - M&M Villain. ICONS conversion.

Elle Bishop - Electricity controller from Heroes. Converted to ICONS.

Matt Parkman - Telepathic police officer. Heroes character converted to ICONS.

Argent - Silver skinned superheroic "old timer".

Kid Robot - Mutants and Masterminds character adapted for ICONS.
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Neutron
Real Name: Lloyd Edward Price.
Alias: LP.
Profession: Former handyman turned full time superhero.
Gender: Male.
Ethnicity: African American.
Age: 32.
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 lbs.
Hair: Black (almost always shaved bald).
Eyes: Black.
Place Of Birth: Freedom City, USA.
Religion: Baptist.
Identity: Public.
Group Affiliation: Independent.
Base Of Operations: Freedom City.
Legal Status: American citizen with no criminal record.
Marital Status: Divorced.
Family: Walter (father, deceased), Glenda (mother, deceased), Devin (son), Tanya (ex-wife).
Education: High School Graduate.
Quote: "It's time to be a hero!"
Power Level - 10
Power Points - 150
Hero Point - 1
Concept - Energy Controller.
Bodycast - Israel Idonije.
Celebrity Voiceover - Michael Dorn.
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlwIBftrvIA


Abilities -

Strength - 3
Stamina - 3
Agility - 3
Dexterity - 0
Fighting - 3
Intellect - 0
Awareness - 2
Presence - 3

Advantages - All-out Attack, Benefit 1 (Status - As a publicly known superhero), Defensive Attack, Evasion 2, Favored Environment (Airborne), Instant Up, Interpose, Precise Attack 1 (Ranged, Cover), Teamwork.

Skills - Ranged Combat: Energy Control (Plasma) 5 (+0), Expertise - Current Events 6 (+0), Intimidation 7 (+10), Acrobatics 4 (+7), Athletics 4 (+7), Insight 4 (+6), Persuasion 4 (+7).

Powers - Note - All powers have the Plasma Descriptor.

Energy Control (Plasma) Array (25 points) with 3 Alternate Effects. =

Base power - Pinpoint Blast - Ranged Damage (Plasma) 12, Extra - Precise. (25 pp)

Alternate Effect - Energy Manipulation - Deflect 12, Extras - Reflect, Redirect. Flaw - Limited to energy attacks. (1 pp)

Alternate Effect - Neutrino Energy Burst - Burst Area Damage (Plasma) 10, Extra - Penetrating 4. (1 pp)

Alternate Effect - Dazzle - Ranged Affliction 12, (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Fortitude; Impaired, Disabled, Unaware), Extra - Cumulative, Flaw - Limited to one sense (vision). (1 pp)

Energy Immunity - Immunity 5 (Plasma damage). (5 pp)

Plasma Force Field - Protection 10, Extra - Sustained. (10 pp)

Energy Sense - Senses (Mental) 1 (Energy Type Awareness). (1 pp)

Plasma Energy Form - Insubstantial 3 (Plasma), Flaw - Activation (Move Action). (14 pp)

Flight 7 (250 mph, 2640 ft/Rd.). (14 pp)

Offense - Initiative +3, Energy Control +5, Unarmed +3, Grab +3, Ranged Damage 12, Burst Area Damage 10, Dazzle 12 (Resistance Check = Fort. vs 22), Close Damage 3.

Defense - Dodge +4/7, Parry +2/5, Fortitude +5/8, Toughness +3/*13, Will +6/8

* - Only when Plasma Force Field is activated.

Complications -

Motivation (Responsibility) = Neutron is quite aware of the potential collateral damage his powers can cause and so must control himself during combats. He also tries to be as heroic as possible, hoping to set a good example for the people of America.

Motivation (Acceptance) = Despite his fame and good deeds, Neutron is regarded as a "sell out" by many if not most of the people in the West End area in Freedom City, his hometown. Thus he seeks to gain their respect.

Fame = Neutron's "secret" identity as Lloyd E. Price is well known across the country and thus must deal with the pressures and problems that fame often brings.

Relationships = Several people define Lloyd's life for better or worse -

Tanya Cooper (ex-wife), Devin (8 year old son). Though divorced and rarely sees his son, Neutron still looks after their best interests.

Corrina Cadeau ( His agent. See history below.).

Reverend Darren Morris ( His pastor in the Holy Divinity Church back home in The West End. Neutron counts him as a close friend and adviser although he does not go to the church as often as he would have liked, not wanting to bring trouble to the church such as supervillains seeking vengeance or pesky paparazzi.)

Enemy = Blackstar (from the Cosmic Handbook pages 101-104). He and Neutron had clashed several times and are bitter foes. Blackstar had made the enmity between them even worse by publicly threatening to kill Neutron's son.

Powers -

Neutron can create, shape and manipulate plasma, a state of matter consisting of highly ionized and super heated white gaseous-like energy of low density. He uses the plasma for various effects such as creating an energy blast similar to heat lasers or to release the blast over a wider area, a glowing plasma force field around his body and intensely bright bursts of light.

Neutron can also transform his entire body into pure plasma energy and can even manipulate other forms of energy by channeling and altering its direction. This type of energy manipulation also allows him to fly.

Neutron can resist plasma energy damage including his own and has a kind of "sixth sense" for detecting types of energy nearby.

Neutron in his plasma energy form:

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History -

Lloyd Price never seemed to have all the lucky breaks after high school especially living in The West End neighborhood of Freedom City despite a promising career in football. But the talent scouts who sometimes attended the high school football games never bothered with Lloyd. Not affording a college education was one strike against him while holding down menial jobs to barely make ends meet was another. Facing a bitter (and costly) divorce and child custody battle, Lloyd swallowed his pride and took a shady job with no questions asked for a equally shady company called PureTek.

Lloyd was supposed to transport some containers of toxic waste to an illegal dump site. He was led to believe by his employers that it was somewhere at sea, far off the coast of Freedom City. But when he found out the site was actually located at Hawkins Lawn, a public park right near the Trinity Hospital in West End, he outright refused to continue and go along with the whole damn thing and threatened to go to the police...

...And almost got his body riddled with bullets for his noble though rash defiance as he quickly jumped out of the way. There was an sudden explosion, some glowing goo from the ruptured steel drum canisters, intense white-hot energy...then screams as Lloyd suddenly hovered in mid air and then flew straight at the gunmen in rage, his body glowing with the same intense white energies.

To this day, no one not even Lloyd knew how he gained superpowers (was it because of the radiation of the toxic waste, latent mutant genes or something else entirely?) but he knew after talking to his pastor he was given them for a reason. He helped the FBI and the city's district attorney turned states evidence against PureTek and shut down their illegal operations.

Shortly afterwards Lloyd made his first public appearance as Neutron (He had chosen the name at the last minute, based on his misunderstanding on how energy physics actually worked.) when he saved several people from the deadly Blackstar who nearly caused an downtown office building to collapse on them while attempting to steal a prototype portable energy cell. They fought each other to a standstill before Blackstar fled the area when AEGIS agents showed up in force.

One of the civilians he had saved was an aspiring fashion designer/advertising consultant named Corrina Cadeau who in gratitude created a new black and white costume for Neutron to replace the drab hooded leather duster and khakis ensemble he was wearing during the fight with Blackstar.

She also made him her first client for her new PR company, CC Promotions, promoting and licensing his name and image for endorsements such as his own comic book series in Castle Comics and the Neutronix Wheat Pops™ breakfast cereal and Neutron Energy Drink™ from the Fordham Foods company.

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Of course most of the money he makes goes to various charities throughout the country and to his family while saving just enough to support himself.

While Lloyd was not entirely comfortable with all of this somewhat shameless media exposure and knows that other superheroes would (perhaps rightly) accuse him of being a corporate shill, he reluctantly realized that given the present day and age of constant web blogs, one needed all the good press one can get.

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Personality -

Even though he has fame and fortune, Neutron remains at heart a stoic and level headed hero and so far resisted the lure of materialism which killed the minds and souls of other commercially endorsed superheroes a dollar at a time. Neutron can come across as an old fashioned stick in the mud, a throwback to the days where having superpowers meant responsibility not entitlement but that's how Neutron rolls. He doesn't agree with everything he is made to do for the sake of publicity but he has enough dignity to turn down offers if they even remotely had a hint of illegality.

Behind closed doors however, he lives a life of lonely solitude. Neutron knows that any woman interested in him just wants his money (most of which he gives away to charity.) and hoping that fame would rub off them so he keeps his distance. He doesn't know what to make of all this. From out of abject poverty, he has become one of the most recognized superhumans in the country, a role model for thousands of kids. People who wouldn't given him the spare change from their pockets now envy him. He can go anywhere, do anything. For once he can look down on the world and everyone else is looking up.

But he found that fame was a unbearable prison and because he is often hounded by adoring fans, sleazy managers wanting him to sign on the dotted lines of numerous contracts and supervillains looking to make their mark on history by fighting or killing Neutron, he sometimes wishes he was a nobody.

But as long as the world needs him, then he'll be ready as ever even if it means posing for autographed selfies.

Abilities - 34, Powers - 72, Advantages - 10, Skills - 17, Defenses - 17, = 150 total.

Notes: For those who wonder what Neutron's glowing symbol on his chest looks like:

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Tachyon PL 9 (150 Power Points)

Real Name: Aileen Baker
Alias: The Memphis Belle, Ally, Tachy (pronounced tacky)
Race/Origin: Human. Caucasian/Cyborg - Artificial Limb and Organ.
Occupation: (Former) waitress, (Current) part time superhero and aspiring country music singer.
Age: 25
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee.
Family: Leigh (daughter), Buford (father), Bella (mother), Pappy Moe (grandfather), Buck (uncle), Dottie (aunt), Big Jeb (uncle), Clara Puckett (aunt), Josh, Billy Joe and Little Ronny (brothers), Linda and Tammy Sue (sisters), Jesse Calhoun, Bubba, Lulabelle, Clyde, Floyd, Annie May, Wally, Zeke (cousins), Daniel Foreman ( aka The White Knight, cousin)*, Leroy Owens (ex husband), Colonel (USMC) Curtis Owens (father in law).
Legal status: American citizen with a minor criminal record (Drunk driving, speeding, public indecency, disturbing the peace and other misdemeanors.)
Marital status: Divorced.
Religion: Methodist. (She hasn't attended church in years.)
Level of education: High school dropout at the eighth grade although she still has a diploma via an GED program.(Actually she bribed someone to take the classes and final exam for her while she partied at New Orleans during Mardi Gras.)
Base of Operations: Formerly Memphis, Tennessee. Currently mobile (pun intended).
Group Affiliation:
Identity: Publicly known.
Quote: "Y'all as slow as molasses, sugah. I be adoin' this all day wit' mah eyes closed."
Character Concept: Failing at everything superhero who needs to get her act together.
Hero Point: 1
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvkiZV0Ous
Celebrity Bodycast: Amber Heard.
Celebrity Voiceover: Lenore Zann ( Voice Actress of Rogue from the X-Men 1990's animated series.)


Strength 2
Stamina 2
Agility 5
Dexterity 3
Fighting 4
Intellect 0
Awareness 2
Presence 2

Advantages: Agile Feint, Evasion, Instant Up, Interpose, Move-By Action (5 pp)

Skills: Acrobatics 6 (+11), Athletics 8 (+10), Perception 4 (+6), Close Combat (unarmed) 6 (+10), Expertise 10 - Singing (+10), Expertise 6 - Current Events (+6), Insight 4 (+6), Persuasion 4 (+6) (24 pp)

Powers:

Quick Change: Feature 1 (transform into costume as a free action) (1 pp)

Super Speed - Movement 3 (Wall-crawling 2, Water Walking), Limited to While Moving; Quickness 10; Speed 15 (64,000 MPH) (28 pp)

"Too fast fer y'all slowpokes!" - Enhanced Dodge 8, Enhanced Parry 8, Enhanced Advantages 3 (Defensive Roll 2, Improved Initiative 1) (19 pp)

Speedster Stunts - Array (20 points) Base Power: Rapid Attack: Multiattack (Strength Based Damage) 6, Accurate 2, Selective (20 pp)

Alternate Effect - Cowgirl Shuffle: Insubstantial 4 (1 pp)

Alternate Effect - Squaredancin' Spin: Cumulative Affliction 9 Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude; Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated), Accurate 2 (1 pp)

Alternate Effect - Lightning Disarm: Burst Area on Strength for Disarming, Selective. 2 Ranks (maximum rank equal to Strength) (1 pp) (23 pp)

Offense: Initiative +9. Grab: +2. Unarmed: +10. Close, Damage: +2. Rapid Attack: Close, Damage 6, Multiattack 6, Selective 6, Accurate 2

Defenses: Dodge +5/+13, Parry +4/+12, Fortitude +7, Toughness +2/+4*, Will +7 (10 pp)

* - With Defensive Roll.

Complications:

Temper: Tachyon always has something of a short fuse (pun intended) and tends to act impatient and impulsive against those who move slower than she is (almost everybody except her daughter).

Relationships: Her family (see above). While sometimes she is not on very good terms with them, they are still family and she tries to help them out if she can. Also her two year daughter, Leigh occupies much of her time when she is not "superheroing".

Addiction: Tachyon always has a serious hankerin' for caffeine and alcohol. (Not necessarily in that order.)

Enemy: Her "Hit Parade Of Crooks!", a sort of rogue gallery of bad guys who always want to beat up on or even kill Tachyon. The Parade includes: Bulldog and Tailgator (From Watchguard), Professor Jackanapes (From Threat Report. "Ah mean what in tarnation is it with the idea of speedsters and talkin' evil monkeys? Is it one of those Chocolate and Crunchy Peanut Butter combos fanboys dream up?"), White Knight (rarely!) and Goanna (From Freedom City) and the Thieves' Guild (The Bola, the Firebug, the Huckster, Looking Glass, the Mad Maple, the Weather Mistress. From the core rulebook, deluxe edition.)

Reputation: Reckless speedster with a stereotypical redneck attitude problem out for glory, fame and especially wealth instead of fighting the good fight.

Power Loss: The cybernetic limbs are subject to severe damage from intense magnetic attacks and they also need constant repairs, parts and maintenance from the Promethean Institute.

Disability: Without her cybernetic limbs, she cannot walk much less move.

Secrets: Tachyon secretly distrusts and dislikes most superhumans though she manages to keep a smiling face and act like a southern belle albeit one with anger issues when fighting alongside them (one must not look bad in front of the media). Also one of her kin is the infamous superpowered racist White Knight (Aileen and Danny Boy still fight over the TV remote at their very infrequent family gatherings like Thanksgiving). Both are aware of each other's identities and make a serious effort to avoid one another.

Abilities: 40, Skills: 24, Powers: 71, Advantages: 5, Defenses: 10 = 150 pp total.

History:

Image - "BEST. STATE. EVER!!!"

One wouldn't blame himself at keeping an wary eye on Aileen Baker despite her occasional good deeds. She grew up in Nashville, the center of country western music and like so many girls with stars in their eyes, she wanted to make it in the big city as a country singer while she was waiting on tables at the local Chili's restaurant.

Until the car accident which made her a paraplegic... So she was driving drunk and texting at the time. It was the other guy who ran that red light and wrecked her daddy's station wagon who was really responsible!

Her good for nothing husband, Leroy, a state trooper left her and their baby daughter for another woman and in desperation to pay the mounting medical bills, Aileen had agreed (against her family's wishes) to be part of an statewide medical experiment sponsored by the Promethean Institute, a private think tank based out in Memphis to help the physically handicapped by surgically implanting cybernetic components directly inside limbs (or so they said).

Image - "Them folks are sure dang creepy wit' their egghead talk."

Of course, in her eagerness to walk again (and getting the money offered to her), Aileen didn't bother to read the fine print...

Roughly 67% of the organs, tissues and bones of both Aileen's arms and legs were replaced by mechanized parts instead merely operating on just her legs which she was initially led to believe but she found that she couldn't do a thing about it as she already signed the legally binding contract allowing the Institute to do what they wished to her body. At least the scientists covered the limbs with a special synthetic polymer which closely resembled human skin and linked to the nerve ends of the few organs (muscles and tendons) still left in her limbs that allowed Aileen to touch and feel things.

Image Image - "At least they kept the rest."

While the Institute's board of directors did not anticipate her survival after a few days of wearing the implants due to the high chance that her body might violently reject them, no one not even they realized that not only Aileen had survived with no side effects whatsoever but there was the unexpected things from the implants that happened right after the surgery as well like the time when Aileen was suddenly jogging a bit too fast and almost colliding upon a wall at a very high speed (nearly 100 MPH) in the Institute's gymnasium.

Silas Moore, the Director in charge of the Promethean Institute and its chief scientist found out what was happening and after learning that the experiments could never be repeated with other volunteers (test subjects really; luckily, the Institute had its own morgue complete with incinerators...), decided to expose Aileen to further field testing by having her become a superhero and promoting the Institute's best interests by being its public spokesperson.

Aileen of course was reluctant. She wanted to be famous to be sure but to become a famous freak like those muties she often saw on TV? No way!

But Moore was nothing if not persuasive, stating that as the cybernetic parts were the legal property of the Promethean Institute, they would by all rights have them removed and then have Aileen thrown out onto the streets while at the same time making certain that she will be sued for breach of contract. At least by going along with the plan, she can have free room and board in the Institute premises and financial support for her daughter as well as regular maintenance and repairs on the implants by some of the best technicians in the state if needed.

It took Aileen only one second to think about all this and say: "Deal, but i want a few of those big fancy plasmee tvs fer me and mah family and hooked up with all the cable channels like Netflix."

"That's Plasma, my dear Ms. Baker and of course we at the Institute can provide a entire package. 400+ channels..." began Dr. Moore before Aileen held up a hand to shush him.

"Quit yer gabbin', Doc. Ya had me at plasmatic."

The next few weeks were like a literary blur (no pun intended) as Aileen was subjected to more tests and was given the codename of Tachyon which to her sounded like a type of vacuum cleaner; she much preferred White Lightning but was overruled. Tachyon was even given a spot in a television commercial endorsing products such as the short lived Tachyonize@ brand of personalized sports gear, all under the aegis of the Promethean Institute.

Image - "Ah still got a truck full of that stuff in the backyard."

But her arrogance and crass sense of commercialism made her unpopular with the general public and many "traditional" superheroes where she became "the bad girl" almost everyone loved to hate, especially on internet blogs where she is paradoxically both adored and loathed. More celebrity than a real heroine to many people, Tachyon wasn’t really taken seriously. Not by the public, nor by her sponsors from Promethean, and especially not by her opponents. The recording contracts she was expecting from the Country Western Music Industry never came her way. Worse, Tachyon's impulsive, erratic behavior was scaring her little daughter, Leigh and alienating the rest of her family. Tachyon to her credit had noticed all this and tries to change her attitude with mixed results.

Personality:

Tachy is a simple country gal with a taste for hot food, cold drinks (a hell of a lot of drinks) and having a grand ole' time. That being said Aileen Baker suffers from what could be charitably called “personality deficit disorder.” In other words, she is a jerk (or more crudely according to her many detractors, "A Real Grade-A B@#%h!"). She has an uncanny ability to rub everyone she encounters the wrong way.

Perversely proud of her trailer park background and southern ways, she is arrogant, impulsive, stubborn, impatient, rude, crude, flirtatious, shallow, greedy, selfish and self centered as well as borderline intolerant toward what she calls the "Miscellaneous Races" (a polite politically correct way of saying she's mildly racist). Since getting her implants, those attitudes had gotten even worse as well as making her more foolhardy and reckless. But despite all her faults, Tachy isn't at heart a cruel or evil person and never willingly wants to hurt anyone (even muties) unless she loses her temper.

While many people don't like her much, just as many people are endeared to her southern belle like charms and brutal honesty. Plus she has a great singing voice though she rarely has a chance to put her talent to good use except in karaoke bars.

Outside her "job", when she gets a chance to spend time with her family, one can be amazed on how much the egotistical Tachyon can be a warm, loving woman toward her kin, especially to her little daughter Leigh. (though those crazy enough to be that nosy to sneak around the Baker residence is going to have to face an angry mob armed to the teeth with pitchforks, torches, rifles and rope and led by a even angrier Tachy which several paparazzi found out to their painful regret.)

"GIT OFFA MAH LAWN, YA DAMN YANKEES!!!"

Image - "Mah Family, the Bakers."

Leigh is her primary reason that she is doing all this silly cosplaying (that and having to walk again) which fuels Tachyon's two private fears: 1. losing her child and 2. being broke and becoming a cripple again.

Growing up poor has had a profound effect on Tachyon and she has privately promised herself that she and her daughter will never lack for money again.

The hero business is exactly that - a business - to her. She's interested primarily in the potential for financial gain in any enterprise, and is always on the lookout for new ways to cash in on her powers though she is often too naive to follow more complicated plans. Those she leaves up to her sponsors.

Superheroes who are motivated primarily by altruism or a search for justice are oftentimes offended by Tachyon's mercenary approach to heroing.

She doesn't much care. In her mind, many so called "heroes' can afford to be smug altruists when they are not paying their own bills.

Notes: * - yes That White Knight and no he's not a undead fire demon (well not yet anyway):

Image - "Ah know he's evil and all but he's still one of mah kinfolk."

And for all those who want to know what Tachy's glowing symbol on her chest looks like:

Image - "Yeah right, like ya naughty droolin' boys look at a woman's chest for symbols."
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Quantum

Real Name: Richard Andrews.
Alias: Richie, Rich.
Profession: Former security guard now superhero.
Gender: Male.
Ethnicity: Caucasian.
Age: 30.
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 275 lbs.
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Brown.
Place Of Birth: Buffalo, NY.
Religion: Atheist.
Identity: Public.
Group Affiliation: Independent.
Base Of Operations: New York City.
Legal Status: American citizen with no criminal record.
Marital Status: Single.
Family: Harriet Clayton (Aunt).
Education: High School Graduate.
Quote: "Your face makes for a rather nice fist magnet."
Power Level - 10
Power Points - 150
Hero Point - 1
Concept - Powerhouse.
Bodycast - Brock Lesnar.
Celebrity Voiceover - The same as above.
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA

Str 5
Agi 1
Fig 6
Awe 1
Sta 4
Dex 0
Int 0
Pre 2 (38 pp)

Powers:

Enhanced Traits 28 (Close Attack 8), Enhanced Stamina 10 (28 pp)
Super-Strength: Enhanced Strength 8; Powerlifting 4 (20 pp)
Groundstrike: Burst Area Affliction 10 (Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude; Dazed and Hindered, Stunned and Prone, Incapacitated), Extra Condition, Instant Recovery, Quantum and target must be in contact with the same surface. (10 pp)
Super-Leaping: Leaping 12 (4 miles) (12 pp)
Thick, Tough Skin: Impervious Toughness 10, Reaction Damage 1, Penetrating 1 (15 pp)
Resistant: Immunity 10 Two 5-point immunities: Fatigue effects and damage type (Fire) (10 pp)
Fast Recovery: Regeneration 4, Enhanced Advantage 1 (Diehard) (5 pp)

Advantages: Interpose, Power Attack, Ultimate Effort (Toughness checks)

Skills: Close Combat (Unarmed): 4 (+10) Expertise: Streetwise 4, Intimidation 8, Perception 2 (9 pp)

Offense: Initiative +1. Grab: +5. Unarmed: +10. Close, Damage: +5.

Defenses: Dodge +1, Parry +10, Fortitude +4/14, Toughness +4/14, Will +1

Complications:

Motivation (Doing Good).

Enemy: The Promethean Institute. Quantum knows they're dirty but can't prove anything.

Abilities: 38, Skills: 9 Powers: 100, Advantages: 3, Defenses: 0 = 150 pp total

History:

Richard Andrews was a run of the mill security guard for the Tennessean based scientific corporation, the Promethean Institute when they approached him for a special project. Given their previous success with the speedster, Tachyon, the board of directors felt that having another hero in their employ would be beneficial. Tempted by the money offered and a little envious of Aileen Baker (Tachyon). Rich agreed.

The project involved gene therapy instead of cybernetic implementation. A very painful process to say the least but he survived and became Quantum and fighting crime throughout the Mid South. He later found that he was meant to be a more popular replacement for Tachy and PI had wanted to "remove" her permanently, hopefully on the dissecting table. Tachyon was too stubborn to "buh-lieve" anything the Yankee upstart said and the directors ignored his inquiries and pleas. So he resigned and went north. While the Institute could have went after him or have Tachyon do the dirty work, they decided to let Quantum go as he had no evidence of their misdeeds though they kept an close eye on him.

Notes: Once again the same glowing symbol on the chest area like Neutron and Tachyon:

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Tachyon PL 10 (150 Power Points)

Real Name: Aileen Baker
Alias: The Memphis Belle, Ally, Tachy (pronounced tacky)
Race/Origin: Caucasian/Cyborg - Artificial Limb and Organ.
Occupation: (Former) waitress, (Current) part time superhero and aspiring country music singer.
Age: 25
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee.
Family: Leigh (daughter), Buford (father), Bella (mother), Pappy Moe (grandfather), Buck (uncle), Clara Puckett (aunt), Josh, Billy Joe and Little Ronny (brothers), Linda and Tammy Sue (sisters), Jesse Calhoun (cousin), Daniel Foreman ( aka The White Knight, cousin)*, Leroy Owens (ex husband), Colonel (USMC) Curtis Owens (father in law).
Legal status: American citizen with a minor criminal record (Drunk driving, speeding, public indecency, disturbing the peace and other misdemeanors.)
Marital status: Divorced.
Religion: Methodist. (She hasn't attended church in years.)
Level of education: High school dropout at the eighth grade although she still has a diploma via an GED program.(Actually she bribed someone to take the classes and final exam for her while she partied at New Orleans during Mardi Gras.)
Base of Operations: Formerly Memphis, Tennessee. Currently mobile (pun intended).
Group Affiliation:
Identity: Publicly known.
Quote: "Y'all as slow as molasses, sugah. I be adoin' this all day wit mah eyes closed."
Character Concept: Failing at everything superhero who needs to get her act together.
Hero Point: 1
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvkiZV0Ous
Celebrity Bodycast: Amber Heard.
Celebrity Voiceover: Lenore Zann ( Voice Actress of Rogue from the X-Men 1990's animated series.)


Strength 2
Stamina 2
Agility 5
Dexterity 3
Fighting 4
Intellect 0
Awareness 2
Presence 2

Advantages: Agile Feint, Evasion, Instant Up, Interpose, Move-By Action (5 pp)

Skills: Acrobatics 6 (+11), Athletics 8 (+10), Perception 4 (+6), Close Combat (unarmed) 6 (+10), Expertise 10 - Singing (+10), Expertise 6 - Current Events (+6), Insight 4 (+6), Persuasion 4 (+6) (24 pp)

Powers:

Quick Change: Feature 1 (transform into costume as a free action) (1 pp)

Super Speed - Movement 3 (Wall-crawling 2, Water Walking), Limited to While Moving; Quickness 10; Speed 15 (64,000 MPH) (28 pp)

"Too fast fer y'all slowpokes!" - Enhanced Dodge 8, Enhanced Parry 8, Enhanced Advantages 3 (Defensive Roll 2, Improved Initiative 1) (19 pp)

Speedster Stunts - Array (20 points) Base Power: Rapid Attack: Selective Multiattack Damage 6, Accurate 2 (20 pp)

Alternate Effect - Cowgirl Shuffle: Insubstantial 4 (1 pp)

Alternate Effect - Squaredancin' Spin: Cumulative Affliction 9 Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude; Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated), Accurate 2 (1 pp)

Alternate Effect - Lightning Disarm: Burst Area on Strength for Disarming, Selective. 2 Ranks (maximum rank equal to Strength) (1 pp) (23 pp)

Offense: Initiative +9. Grab: +2. Unarmed: +10. Close, Damage: +2. Rapid Attack: Close, Damage 6, Multiattack 6, Selective 6, Accurate 2

Defenses: Dodge +5/+13, Parry +4/+12, Fortitude +7, Toughness +2/+4*, Will +7 (10 pp)

* - With Defensive Roll.

Complications:

Temper: Tachyon always has something of a short fuse (pun intended) and tends to act impatient and impulsive against those who move slower than she is (almost everybody except her daughter).

Relationships: Her family (see above). While sometimes she is not on very good terms with them, they are still family and she tries to help them out if she can. Also her two year daughter, Leigh occupies much of her time when she is not "superheroing".

Addiction: Tachyon always has a serious hankerin' for caffeine and alcohol. (Not necessarily in that order.)

Enemy: Her "Hit Parade Of Crooks!", a sort of rogue gallery of bad guys who always want to beat up on or even kill Tachyon. The Parade includes: Bulldog and Tailgator (From Watchguard), Professor Jackanapes (From Threat Report. "Ah mean what in tarnation is it with the idea of speedsters and talkin' evil monkeys? Is it one of those Chocolate and Crunchy Peanut Butter combos fanboys dream up?"), White Knight (rarely!) and Goanna (From Freedom City) and the Thieves' Guild (The Bola, the Firebug, the Huckster, Looking Glass, the Mad Maple, the Weather Mistress. From the core rulebook, deluxe edition.)

Reputation: Reckless speedster with a stereotypical redneck attitude problem out for glory, fame and especially wealth instead of fighting the good fight.

Power Loss: The cybernetic limbs are subject to severe damage from intense magnetic attacks and they also need constant repairs, parts and maintenance from the Promethean Institute.

Disability: Without her cybernetic limbs, she cannot walk much less move.

Secrets: Tachyon secretly distrusts and dislikes most superhumans though she manages to keep a smiling face and act like a southern belle albeit one with anger issues when fighting alongside them (one must not look bad in front of the media). Also one of her kin is the infamous superpowered racist White Knight (Aileen and Danny Boy still fight over the TV remote at their very infrequent family gatherings like Thanksgiving). Both are aware of each other's identities and make a serious effort to avoid one another.

Abilities: 40, Skills: 24, Powers: 71, Advantages: 5, Defenses: 10 = 150 pp total.

History:

One wouldn't blame himself at keeping an wary eye on Aileen Baker despite her occasional good deeds. She grew up in Nashville, the center of country western music and like so many girls with stars in their eyes, she wanted to make it in the big city as a country singer while she was waiting on tables at the local Chili's restaurant.

Until the car accident which made her a paraplegic... So she was driving drunk and texting at the time. It was the other guy who ran that red light and wrecked her daddy's station wagon who was really responsible!

Her good for nothing husband, Leroy, a state trooper left her and their baby daughter for another woman and in desperation to pay the mounting medical bills, Aileen had agreed (against her family's wishes) to be part of an statewide medical experiment sponsored by the Promethean Institute, a private think tank based out in Memphis to help the physically handicapped by surgically implanting cybernetic components directly inside limbs (or so they said).

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Of course, in her eagerness to walk again (and getting the money offered to her), Aileen didn't bother to read the fine print...

Roughly 67% of the organs, tissues and bones of both Aileen's arms and legs were replaced by mechanized parts instead merely operating on just her legs which she was initially led to believe but she found that she couldn't do a thing about it as she already signed the legally binding contract allowing the Institute to do what they wished to her body. At least the scientists covered the limbs with a special synthetic polymer which closely resembled human skin and linked to the nerve ends of the few organs (muscles and tendons) still left in her limbs that allowed Aileen to touch and feel things.

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While the Institute's board of directors did not anticipate her survival after a few days of wearing the implants due to the high chance that her body might violently reject them, no one not even they realized that not only Aileen had survived with no side effects whatsoever but there was the unexpected things from the implants that happened right after the surgery as well like the time when Aileen was suddenly jogging a bit too fast and almost colliding upon a wall at a very high speed ( nearly 100 MPH) in the Institute's gymnasium.

Silas Moore, the Director in charge of the Promethean Institute and its chief scientist found out what was happening and after learning that the experiments could never be repeated with other volunteers (test subjects really; luckily, the Institute had its own morgue complete with incinerators...), decided to expose Aileen to further field testing by having her become a superhero and promoting the Institute's best interests by being its public spokesperson.

Aileen of course was reluctant. She wanted to be famous to be sure but to become a famous freak like those muties she often saw on TV? No way!

But Moore was nothing if not persuasive, stating that as the cybernetic parts were the legal property of the Promethean Institute, they would by all rights have them removed and then have Aileen thrown out onto the streets while at the same time making certain that she will be sued for breach of contract. At least by going along with the plan, she can have free room and board in the Institute premises and financial support for her daughter as well as regular maintenance and repairs on the implants by some of the best technicians in the state if needed.

It took Aileen only one second to think about all this and say: "Deal, but i want a few of those big fancy plasmee tvs fer me and mah family and hooked up with all the cable channels like Netflix."

"That's Plasma, my dear Ms. Baker and of course we at the Institute can provide a entire package. 400+ channels..." began Dr. Moore before Aileen held up a hand to shush him.

"Quit yer gabbin', Doc. Ya had me at plasmatic."

The next few weeks were like a literary blur (no pun intended) as Aileen was subjected to more tests and was given the codename of Tachyon which to her sounded like a type of vacuum cleaner; she much preferred White Lightning but was overruled. Tachyon was even given a spot in a television commercial endorsing products such as the short lived Tachyonize@ brand of personalized sports gear, all under the aegis of the Promethean Institute.

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But her arrogance and crass sense of commercialism made her unpopular with the general public and many "traditional" superheroes where she became "the bad girl" almost everyone loved to hate, especially on internet blogs where she is both adored and loathed. More celebrity than heroine to many people, Tachyon wasn’t really taken seriously. Not by the public, nor by her sponsors from Promethean, and especially not by her opponents. The recording contracts she was expecting from the Country Western Music Industry never came her way. Worse, Tachyon's impulsive, erratic behavior was scaring her little daughter, Leigh and alienating the rest of her family. Tachyon to her credit had noticed all this and tries to change her attitude with mixed results.

Notes: * - yes That White Knight. And for those who want to know what Tachy's glowing symbol on her chest looks like:

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She seems familiar, somehow.... ;)
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Re: My Junk Drawer of Builds.

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Hey, Shadowmask! Good to see you here! Welcome to the "Character Sheets" part of the forum :).

Glad to see Tachyon on here- so this is your original version of the character? Her backstory and characterization seem fun.

A couple things I noticed:
Multiattack doesn't need Selective, I think- Area Attacks do. I THINK What you're going for here would be "Selective Strength-Based Damage", and you'd pick the distance. Otherwise, just use Multiattack as normal as a straight-up damage effect. Also, with +10 to hit at +6 Damage, she's PL 8 on offense; and her Dodge is 13 and Toughness is 4, making her PL 8.5 on defense. So she's actually only a PL 9 character, just barely.
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Jabroniville wrote: Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:51 am Hey, Shadowmask! Good to see you here! Welcome to the "Character Sheets" part of the forum :).

Glad to see Tachyon on here- so this is your original version of the character? Her backstory and characterization seem fun.

A couple things I noticed:
Multiattack doesn't need Selective, I think- Area Attacks do. I THINK What you're going for here would be "Selective Strength-Based Damage", and you'd pick the distance. Otherwise, just use Multiattack as normal as a straight-up damage effect. Also, with +10 to hit at +6 Damage, she's PL 8 on offense; and her Dodge is 13 and Toughness is 4, making her PL 8.5 on defense. So she's actually only a PL 9 character, just barely.
At first reading from the rules, i thought Selective without Area Effects was meant for mass battles ( which is situational in by itself ) but i do see the point. Despite having bionic arms, they function like normal limbs with no heightened strength at all. (Strange that people think just because you have cybernetic implants, you have to lift heavy things like She-Hulk. :o ) So the strength based damage is iffy though workable simply because i envision her to avoid taking damage than to be a frontline fighter. ("Ah ain't gettin' paid enough fer gettin' beat up! And thar others all dressed up as rodeo clowns doin' this fer free?!!! Even cops ain't riskin' thair lives without thair paychecks! Speakin' of which, whar the sam doggone hill is mine?")

I do agree about the PL 9 as i felt the previous PL 8/150 pp character in the Recruitment thread (that i forgotten the name of, yes that's how my mind works :oops: ) was a little low and PL 10 is too high. Will have to adjust the build.

FYI: She is not a mutant or anything. So no one knows why the implants work as they do. Only two people in the multiverse really knows why:

And Omega isn't talking...although he wants the tech stolen by Tachy's boss Dr. Silas Moore ( Professor Zed) back...:twisted:
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A recent Deluxe Heroes Handbook reprint (supposedly) changed the Multiattack text to all targets in an arc. Even before that though, the Speedster Archetype has Selective Multiattack, indicating it does something.

Selective is also really useful on Reaction effects with hair triggers, like Contact Damage. Melting through the floor is rarely intended!
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Added a personality section on Tachyon. (yes she has one. :roll:) Will add similar sections to the others as well.
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Lightweight

PL 6, 90 Power Points


Real Name: Erin Murphy
Alias: Feather
Race/Origin: Human/Caucasian
Occupation: High school student; star pitcher and shortstop for the school softball team, the Ravens.
Age: 14
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 98 lbs.
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Brown
Birthplace: St Louis, Missouri.
Family: Charles (father), Debra (mother).
Legal status: American citizen with no criminal record, still a minor.
Marital status: NA
Religion: Roman Catholic
Level of education: High school student.
Base of Operations:
Group Affiliation:
Identity: Secret.
Quote: "Oh, lighten up!"
Character Concept: Gravity controller
Hero Point: 1
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs
Celebrity Bodycast: Ashlea Rae
Celebrity Voiceover: The same as above.

STR 0
STA 0
AGL 1
DEX 2
FGT 0
INT 0
AWE 0
PRE 1

Advantages: Equipment 1(Smartphone), Grabbing Finesse, Instant Up, Throwing Mastery 1. (4 pp)

Skills: Athletics 6 (+6), Expertise: Campaign City 2 (+2), Expertise: Current Events 8 (+8), Expertise: Popular Culture 8 (+8), Expertise: Softball Player 6 (+6), Expertise: Sports Trivia 8 (+8), Persuasion 6 (+7). (22 pp)

Powers:

Note: All of Lightweight's powers has the Weight Descriptor - Page 72 of the Power Profiles book.

Feature: Erin can reduce gravity on relatively small masses (Rank -5 or less), making them float weightlessly so long as she maintains the effect. (1 pp)

Gravity Control - Array (24 pp) Base power - Nullifying Gravity Field: Burst Area Move Object 12, Limited to lifting upwards, Limit = Close Range ( Must touch object to activate power).

Alternate Effect - Nauseate - Affliction (Resisted by Fortitude, Impaired, Stunned, Incapacitated Conditions) 7. Limit = Close Range (Must touch subjects) (1 pp) (25 pp)

Gravitic Deflect - Burst Area Deflect 10, Limit = Must be able to perceive what she trying to "deflect". (Bullets move far too fast for her to see.) (10 pp)

Gravitic Immunity: Immunity 2 (Gravity Effects) (2 pp)

Low-G Leap: Leaping 5 (250 Feet) (5 pp)

Low-G Lifting: Enhanced Strength 5 (1,600 lbs), Limited to lifting. (5 pp)

Free Fall: Movement (Safe Fall). (2 pp) (50 pp)

Complications:

Motivation - (Doing good).

Relationships - Her parents, Charles Murphy who is a lawyer and Debra Murphy, a CPA. Her best friend, Arlene Cross who knows about Erin's special powers.

Combat: Offense: Init +1, Grab +2, Unarmed +0 (Damage 0). Defense: Dodge 2, Parry 2, Fort 2, Tou 0, Will 1.

Totals: Abilities 8 + Powers 50 + Advantages 4 + Skills 22 + Defenses 6 = 90 pp.

History:

Erin Murphy was an average teen tomboy when her power to manipulate gravity recently manifested during a softball practice game with her team, the Ravens. In her excitement, Erin patted her friend, Arlene on the back and suddenly Arlene was floating helplessly a half dozen feet in the air for a few seconds before landing on the ground. Fortunately there was no real damage done and no one else was around to see the event. The two girls agreed to keep this a secret between them while Erin learned to control her power and figured out what to do with it.

Powers:

Erin has the power to influence gravity in a localized field around her by lowering the effects of gravity or mass on objects by touching them. For example by reducing an object’s weight, it makes things easier to lift (giving Erin apparent superhuman strength) or even causing lighter objects to have a negative weight and “fall” upwards to the limits of her power’s range, which extends 30 feet from her. Also by reducing their weight, Lightweight can deflect slow-moving solid projectiles within 30 feet of her, provided she can see them. Bullets are a problem for her as they move too fast for her to see.

By lowering the effects of gravity on herself, Lightweight can leap great distances, up to fifty times normal for a girl of her strength. Theoretically, she could “leap” an unlimited height upwards (by giving herself a negative weight) but she doesn’t for fear she would catapult herself out of the breathable atmosphere. At the same time, in lowering her mass Erin can also fall from almost any height without harm, landing as light as a feather

Lightweight has learned to focus her gravity power to upset a person’s inner-ear balance by touching them, causing temporary disorientation, vertigo and nausea.

By lightening weight or mass, Erin also discovered that her powers has given the small objects she touches and holds in her hands the extra momentum to travel faster and farther than ever before. (This is reflected in the Throwing Mastery Advantage as well as her considerable skill as a softball player.)
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Phantom

PL 8 127 PP

Real Name: Lauren McKay
Alias: Laurie, Kay, Casper.
Race/Origin: Human/Caucasian
Occupation: Former child actress, Currently a waitress and part time superhero.
Age: 22
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California.
Family: Martin (father), Joyce (mother).
Legal status: American citizen with no criminal record.
Marital status: Single.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Level of education: High school graduate.
Base of Operations:
Group Affiliation:
Identity: Secret.
Quote: "No, i am not a cheerleader but i used to play one on tv."
Character Concept: Actress finally gets to act like a superhero...for real.
Hero Point: 1
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo
Celebrity Bodycast: Camilla Belle
Celebrity Voiceover: The same as above.

Str 0
Agl 3
Fgt 1
Awe 2
Sta 2
Dex 3
Int 2
Pre 5

Skills: Acrobatics 4 (+7), Athletics 4 (+4), Deception 6 (+11), Expertise (Actress) 8 (+10), Expertise (Waitress) 4 (+6), Expertise 8 (Popular Culture) (+10), Expertise 8 (The Entertainment industry) (+10), Expertise 6 (Superhumans- heroes and villains) (+8), Expertise 4 (Current Events) (+6), Insight 4 (+6), Persuasion 6 (+11), Vehicles 4 (+7) = 33 pp

Powers:

Intangibility: Insubstantial, Rank 4 (Incorporeal) (Extras - Affects Corporeal +1 per rank, Affects Others (requires touch) +1 per rank, Precise, Reaction +1 per rank, Subtle 2.) = 35 pp Linked +0 to Immunity 2 (Suffocation) (Extra - Affects Others (requires touch) +1 per rank.) = 4 pp (39 pp total)

Special Sight - Senses 4: Penetrates Concealment 4 ranks (Visual) = 4 pp

Advantages: Attractive 1, Beginner's Luck, Defensive Roll 2*, Contacts, Equipment 1, Fascinate 1 (Persuasion), Hide in plain sight, Well Informed = 9 pp

Equipment: cell phone, can of mace.

Offense: Initiative +3, Grab +0, Unarmed +0, Damage +0

Defense: Dodge 5, Parry 1, Will 2, Fortitude 6, Toughness 2*/4 = 6 pp

Complications:

Reputation (washed up actress, former child star, powerless teen sidekick of superheroes and recovering *snicker* alcoholic), Addiction (alcohol)

Abilities: 36 + Skills: 33 + Powers: 43 + Advantages: 9 + Offense: 0 + Defense: 6 + = 127 pp Total

History:

Lauren McKay was once one of the "beautiful people", the ones who had it all. Born to parents who had spoiled her rotten, Lauren's early childhood years was a whirlwind blur of countless photo shoots, autograph sessions, beauty contests, commercials and guest spots on tv. She delighted in all of the attention but as she entered into her late teens, her star as it were was fading. While attractive, Lauren was regarded as "last year's wet dream for fanboys (and girls)" and the sponsors found other teen heartthrobs to fill in her shoes.

Her parents/agents/managers, becoming too dependent on the income their baby girl was earning, became desperate. They saw how the heroes were capitalizing on their fame and powers and figured that someone as pretty as Lauren would be perfect as a sidekick to a big-time superhero or even a team full of them. At first Lauren was reluctant to do this as there wasn't even a stunt woman to assist her! But she gritted her teeth and took several self defense courses just like mommy and daddy said. A few strings were pulled and Avenger Girl, partner to The Patriot was born...

...Then, Specter Girl, sidekick to Shadower then it was Ninja Girl (Don't ask... since Lauren could not even speak Japanese.), companion to Lady Ronin (who barely spoke English.) and then as Sparky, the electric wonder of Team X-Treme (Ok, so she only carried a taser... once.)

And so on...

The next seven years was hell as Lauren's photogenic good looks did not help her at all. The heroes were tired of saving the "brat hostage" every week from some third rate villain who came out of nowhere. Lauren didn't know what was worse: the constant kidnappings or the constant "transfers" from one team or lone crime fighter to another. The one upside was that she had plenty of movie (the big screen, not the ones made for tv) offers and even starred in a couple of them but those were B-movies, low budget slasher flicks and the like, not the box office mega hits she was expecting. The pressure became too much and she turned to drinking to help ease her stress.

After a badly advised publicity stunt where a drunken Lauren (this time as Trumpcard and her trick deck of explosive playing cards) had blundered into a deathtrap with a bomb containing unstable radioactive isotopes, everything went downhill. She miraculously survived the bombardment of radiation without any kind of damaging after effects but she was charged with public endangerment. The large legal fees kept everything (and everyone involved) quiet in order to avoid a public outcry against superhumans but in the end Lauren was out of the sidekick game for good and was now dead broke. She attempted to find work but word had quickly spread and no one wanted a type casted actress around to scare off the new talents (so the producers and agents had said to her) save for a soft core porn studio which she quickly turned down (even she had standards).

An Excerpt of one of her unsuccessful job interviews:

“Experience? Well sir, i had been performing since i was two. I was in at least a hundred commercials on TV and the ‘Net and i was a guest star of about two dozen episodes of the shows Angst Junior High, Cheerleader Summer Camp, Sunshine Smoothies and Trueheart Park. I was also a regular cast member of Stormfront Heights for three seasons, i was the goth cello player. You can find them mostly in reruns now or maybe On Demand. Yes, i know the first three are teen based comedies.

I also had the lead role of Sienna Winslow, the prom queen in the movie Sorority Slumber Party Slaughter; maybe you remember me from that. I understand it’s on Netflix right now. Other films include Submarine Rally 3000, Family Crash Course, The Picnic Basket Murders, Bloodfury, Bloodfury 2: The Return Of Rabid Jeeves and Invasion Of The Cyborg Scarecrows. No, sir, i didn't play the lead in both Bloodfury films.

Of course, there were the gigs from my career as teen sidekick to several members of the superhero community. Oh, i was Avenger Girl (Yes, Patriot’s “flag girl” No, i was the second Avenger Girl, the first one was killed by Doctor Mantis. The bug loving freak. He always tried to have me killed in order to lead Patriot into yet another of his deathtraps or worse he wanted to breed his insects with me.... Sorry if i made you feel ill, sir.), Specter Girl (Shadower‘s gal pal. Yes, i was the one dressed up like a midget grim reaper and no the scythe was made of only plastic.), Ninja Girl (Yes, about the one with Lady Ronin, i was the pink clad ninja and before you say anything..... The katana and throwing stars i used were also plastic. Oh, i heard about her recent deportment from here and her return to the Philippines. Just awful. She was alright, really nice to me, compared to most of the costumed crowd i worked with... What? No, sir, i wasn't aware she was Filipino. Everyone including myself assumed she was Japanese. I couldn’t speak the language and apparently neither did she. Then again she hardly spoke any English. ), lastly i was Sparky the electric wonder (Yes with those adrenaline junkies, Team X-Treme. No, sir i have no electrical powers whatsoever. I've just used a taser only once. No, i no longer carry it.)

Trumpcard? With all due respect, sir, can we get past that? I have taken full responsibility already and... Thank you for understanding, sir.

Yes, i am aware that i have no marketable skills. No, i can’t sing without a lip sync machine.

Yes, sir, thank you for your time. I’ll wait for your call.”


Once the collection agency repossessed her car and the bank foreclosed on her condo in Malibu, she returned to her parent's house in San Francisco and found that being put on a high pedestal while having feet of clay can lead to a fall in every sense of the word. Her parents, upon losing their cash cow, threw her out onto the street in anger. (She was legally an adult at the time and then they promptly published a tell all biography of Lauren days later which did not sell very well)

Meanwhile, finding some solace in a shelter (and drinking heavily after pawning the last of her jewelry for a couple of bottles of cheap vodka), Lauren couldn't bear the thought of living the rest of her life as either a homeless person or worse, a prostitute.

So she went to a lonely stretch of beach on the coast to drown herself and end it all. But at that moment her irradiated genes kicked in once she started to swim...

Lauren was shocked as the water passed through her body like smoke and she made her way back to shore completely dry. She spent the entire day on the beach, trying out a few things with this freaky new power and discovered she can shift her body into a ghost like form and walk through solid objects! At first she was thrilled as this could be her ticket for a comeback but then she sat on a rock and began pondering.

While walking through walls was cool, even a washed up hack like her knew that it wasn't the kind of flashy power Hollywood cared much for. As for the established superheroes, teams and solos alike, such a power is considered quite minor league compared to those who wield the powers of gods.

Besides at age 22, she was far too old to be a sidekick and as a full time solo hero... forget about it. No one with a pulse will ever take her seriously if she started to play in the big leagues.

Lauren took a long hard look at her life and saw how shallow it had all been. Her few fast friends, fan base and even her own family left her in the dirt once the fame and money was all gone and suddenly the glamour of stardom didn't appeal much to her anymore.

Still she had to do something, anything to turn her life around rather than wasting it and wallow in the past. Maybe she can try and put her new super power to good use while staying out of the media spotlight. An idea was forming in Lauren's mind as she returned to the city...

Days later, Lauren found a job as a waitress at a diner where the locals cared little about the media except for what's currently on the sport channels and entered a alcohol rehab program. In her days and nights off, Lauren stalks the streets as Phantom.

Lauren McKay has made a comeback but in a different way.
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Ash

Background: Tal-Vashoth, Former Ashaad of the Antaam.
Class: Rogue.
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Hgt: 7' 6"
Wgt: 400 lbs.

Speed: 12
Defense: 12
Armor: 3 Penalty: 0 Armor Type - Light Leather Armor.
Health: 30

Communication - 1
Willpower - 1
Constitution - 2
Cunning - 1
Dexterity - 3
Magic - 0
Perception - 2
Strength - 3 (Focuses - Strength = Might, Intimidation).

Class Abilities, Specializations and Talents: Backstab. Talents - Rogue's Armor, Scouting (Novice). Weapon Groups - Bows, Brawling, Light Blades, Staves.

Languages: Qunlat, Trade Tongue.

Equipment: A backpack, Traveler's garb, a waterskin, Light Leather Armor, Short Sword, Light Shield, Long Bow, Quiver with 20 arrows, a small tent and Flint and Steel.

Starting Money: 21 SP, 40 CP.

Magic Susceptibility: All Qunari suffer from a -1 penalty on all ability tests to resist spells and other magical effects such as magic item powers.

History; One must serve for the good of all according to the Qun as preached by the leaders of the Antaam but the Ashaad was dissatisfied with how hollow the sacred words seem especially when he began to have romantic feelings toward a female human commoner from the country of Nevarra named Pernelle, a Viddathari who fully accepted the Qun and who better yet responded to the Ashaad's feelings with equal passion.

Until another of the Qunari, a Sten objected to this "unclean" coupling and killed her yet somehow it was stoically accepted by the Arishok. Stung by the hypocrisy on how the Qun only benefited pure blooded Qunari in its laws but allowed loopholes which greatly mistreated the Viddathari, the Ashaad sought and slew the Sten while he was loudly bragging to his fellow Sten about his recent slaying of the Ashaad's love. This made him a Vashoth though his active actions against the Antaam made him Tal-Vashoth.

Ash doesn't really much care what he was now named by those now consisted of his enemies as long as he remains the one left standing in their occasional battles.
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Real Name: Erin Murphy
Alias: Golden Girl
Race/Origin: Human/Caucasian; Mutant
Occupation: High school student; star pitcher and shortstop for the school softball team.
Age: 16
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 98 lbs./ 150 lbs. when transformed into her Golden Shell form.
Hair: Blond/ Metallic Gold when transformed.
Eyes: Blue/ Opaque Gold when transformed.
Birthplace: Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Family: Charles (father), Debra (mother).
Legal status: American citizen with no criminal record, still a minor.
Marital status: NA
Religion: Roman Catholic
Level of education: High school student.
Base of Operations: Green Creek School.
Group Affiliation:
Identity: Secret.
Quote: "All that glitters is really me."
Character Concept: Elemental Transmuter.
Hero Point: 1

PL 8/120 Power Points

STR 0
STA 0
AGL 1
DEX 2
FGT 0
INT 0
AWE 0
PRE 1

Advantages: Defensive Roll 1, Equipment 1(Smartphone), Grabbing Finesse, Instant Up, Throwing Mastery 1. (5 points)

Skills: Athletics 8 (+8), Deception 6 (+7), Expertise: Campaign Town 8 (+8), Expertise: Current Events 8 (+8), Expertise: Popular Culture 8 (+8), Expertise: Softball Player 6 (+6), Expertise: Sports Trivia 8 (+8), Persuasion 6 (+7). (29 points)

Powers:

Feature: Erin can transmute tiny amounts of material (Rank -5 or less, Maximum of 25 pounds) by touch, turning small objects into solid gold so long as she maintains the effect. = 1 point.

Feature: Golden Girl is able to transform her clothing and similarly worn or carried items into gold so they are unharmed by her own transformations. = 1 point.

Golden Touch: Array (36 points) with 1 alternate effect.

Base power: Change Person into petrified solid gold statue. Affliction 9 (Dazed and Hindered, Immobile and Defenseless, Transformed and Unaware); Resisted and Overcome by Fortitude; Continuous, Extra Condition, Instant Recovery (1 hour duration), Flaw: Close Range: touch. = 36 points.

Alternate effect: The Midas Effect: Transform Anything Into Golden versions of themselves, 9 (Continuous - object reverts to normal in 1 hour), Flaw: Close Range: touch. = 1 point.

Golden Shell: Enhanced Strength 7 (3 tons.), Limited to lifting. Protection 10, Extras: Impervious, Sustained. Flaw: Noticeable = 17 points.

Molten Gold Form: Insubstantial 1, Extra: Precise. (transforms either her entire body or parts of it into a mass of melted flowing gold). Elongation 2. Movement 2 (Slithering, Wall Crawling) = 12 Points.

Mutant Physiology: Immunity - Poison, Environmental Condition: Cold, Suffocation Effects (no need to breathe at all.) Limited to her Golden Shell and Molten Gold forms. = 4 Points.

Combat: Offense: Init +1, Golden Touch +9 (Close, Affliction 9), Grab +2, Unarmed +0 (Damage 0). Defense: Dodge 2, Parry 2, Fortitude 2, Toughness 0*/1 ( * - without Defensive Roll), Will 1.

Complications:

Motivation - (Doing good).

Mutant Genes: As a mutant, Erin suffers prejudice from genocidal lunatics and also can be detected and affected by devices designed against Mutants.

Standard Teenage Angst: Nuff Said.

Obsession: Despite being a basically good person, of late Erin has been finding out that she has been obsessing a bit too much about the whole gold theme, from the bad puns to coveting shiny gold objects. But its just a phase, a fad right? Right?!!

Vulnerable/Involuntary Transformation (Heat/Fire Attacks) - Erin loses control of her physical body if she is struck by intense heat and flame while in her Golden Shell or Molten Gold forms and takes extra damage as well as being forced to change back to normal.

Identity: Golden Girl tries to keep her powers and identity a secret from her parents who would definitely freak out and ground her until her senior year of college if they ever find out.

Relationships - Her parents, Charles Murphy who is a lawyer and Debra Murphy, a CPA. Her best friend Arlene Cross who knows about Erin's special powers.

Totals: Abilities 8 + Powers 72 + Advantages 5 + Skills 29 + Defenses 6 = 120 points.

History:

Erin was raised in a gated community complex called Silver Creek Center located in the suburbs east of the town, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The only child of affluent, middle class professionals, Erin lacked for nothing though her parents sometimes despaired of her tomboyish ways and fascination with sports especially baseball.

Her power recently manifested while during a softball practice game with her team, the Ravens. In her excitement, Erin patted her friend, Arlene on the back and suddenly to her horror, Arlene had changed into a solid gold statue!

Panicking, Erin found herself lifting Arlene's inert form as her own body transformed to a golden version of herself similar to Arlene's. Of course knowing next to nothing about how to handle super abilities, Erin did what anyone would do in such a situation: she carried her friend to the nearest hospital.

Fortunately they didn't make it very far because soon whatever transformed Arlene wore off and she reverted to normal although she was startled to see Erin covered all in gold and carrying her effortlessly with one arm. There was no real damage done and no one else was around to see the event. The two girls agreed to keep this a secret between them while Erin learned to control her powers and figured out what to do with them.
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Thanks for posting these, Shadowmask! Very well-realized backgrounds and motivations for your characters. I like the mix of power sets, and you've done a fine job finding/modifying images to represent them.

All my best!
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Officer Helen Paladino

PL 8, 120 Power Points

Real Name: Helen Paladino (Full name is actually Helena Giovanna Paladino though it's rarely used.)
Alias: 'Hel'
Race: Caucasian (Italian American)
Occupation: Police Officer.
Age: 27
Height: 5' 8”
Weight: 128 lbs.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Birthplace: Little Italy, West Loop, Chicago, Illinois.
Family: Charles (father), Gina (mother).
Legal status: American citizen with no criminal record.
Marital status: Single
Religion: Roman Catholic.
Level of education: College Graduate (University of Illinois.), CPTD (Chicago Police Training Division, Police Academy).
Base of Operations: Local police station. Precinct 21: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/56654
Group Affiliation: City of Chicago's Police Department.
Identity: Secret.
Quote: "Oh, lighten up!"
Character Concept: Gravity controller
Hero Point: 1
Theme Song: Bad Boys from Inner Circle: https://youtu.be/bBD8M3WFrAw
Celebrity Bodycast: Missy Peregrym.
Celebrity Voiceover: The same as above.

Str 2, Sta 2, Agl 1, Dex 1, Fgt 3, Int 0, Awe 1, Pre 1

Equipment: Bulletproof (Kevlar) vest (+4 Toughness vs. Ballistic), 'walkie talkie' or shoulder mic, cell phone, handcuffs, light pistol ( sig sauer p320 nitron full-size 9mm luger: https://www.sigsauer.com/media/catalog/ ... rigger.jpg), tonfa (nightstick).

Advantages: Benefit (Police Officer), Benefit: Status 2 (Registered: Publicly known sunstormer who is legally authorized and sanctioned by the United States Government and the City of Chicago to use her powers in her capacity as a member of the Chicago Police Department.), Equipment 4, Instant Up, Languages 2 (Italian, Spanish), Throwing Mastery 1, *Well Informed (*Free Pre based Advantage.)

Skills: Athletics 4 (+6), Expertise: Campaign City 4 (+4), Expertise: Current Events 4 (+4), Expertise: Streetwise 4 (+4), Expertise: Sports Trivia 4 (+4), Expertise: Police Officer 4 (+4), Expertise: Popular Culture 4 (+4), Insight 4 (+5), Intimidation 4 (+5), Investigation 4 (+4), Perception 4 (+5), Persuasion 4 (+5), Ranged Combat: Pistols 4 (+5), Treatment 4 (+4), Vehicles 4 (+5).

Offense: Init +1, Pistol +5 (Ranged Damage 3), Tonfa +3 (Damage 3), Unarmed +3 (Damage 2).

Defense: Dodge 3, Fort 4, Parry 5, Tgh 6/2, Will 3.

Totals: Abilities 22 + Powers 53 + Advantages 9 + Skills 30 + Defenses 8 = 122pp

Powers:

Note: All of her powers have the Weight Descriptor - Page 72 of the Power Profiles book.

Feature: Helen can reduce gravity on relatively small masses (Rank -5 or less, Maximum of 25 pounds), making them float weightlessly so long as she maintains the effect by concentrating. (1 pp)

Gravity Control - Array (24 pp) Base power - Nullifying Gravity Field: Burst Area Move Object 12 Limited to lifting upwards, Limit = Close Range ( Must touch living beings or objects to activate power).

Alternate Effect - Nauseate - Affliction (Resisted by Fortitude, Impaired, Stunned, Incapacitated Conditions) 8. Limit = Close Range (Must touch living subjects) (1 pp) (25 pp total for Gravity Control)

Gravitic Deflect - Burst Area Deflect 10, Limit = Must be able to perceive what she is trying to "deflect". (Bullets move far too fast for her to see.) (10 pp)

Gravitic Immunity: Immunity 2 (Gravity Effects) (2 pp)

Low-G Leap: Leaping 5 (250 Feet) (5 pp)

Low-G Lifting: Enhanced Strength 5 (1,600 lbs), Limited to lifting. (5 pp)

Free Fall: Movement (Safe Fall). (2 pp)

High-G Adaptation: Movement 1 (Environmental Adaptation- High Gravity) (2 pp)

Low-G Adaptation: Movement 1 (Environmental Adaptation- Low Gravity) (2 pp) (53pp).

Complications:

Motivation - To Protect and Serve.

Relationship - Her parents, Charles who was a former patrolman now retired and Gina, a CPA.

Superstitious - While not overly religious, Helen takes signs and omens a little too seriously, right down to reading and believing some of the daily horoscopes or panicking whenever she misplaces either her St. Christopher medallion (The patron saint of travelers), a pendant of St. Michael (Saint of Policemen) or her rosary crucifix.

Fame: As a Sunstormer and police officer who has gone public with her abilities.

Reputation: Paladino is not very popular with many other Sunstormers (public or otherwise) especially those who expect preferential treatment at the hands of Chicago PD.......and will never receive it from her. In fact Helen would treat sunstormer criminals much more harshly than the "normal" (human) criminal scum though she isn't exactly gentle with them either. She is also not well liked by the Media and several civil rights groups.

History:

Helen Paladino was a Chicago policewoman from a family who served in a long line of law enforcement officials going back over a century or more. Her dad was a beat cop and her grandfather before him and so on and so forth. It was a responsibility Helen took rather seriously though it did grate on her nerves sometimes that she had to work twice as hard than "the boys" due to the fact she was one of the few women of the Paladino family who actually became police officers. Still she wouldn't give it up for anything and fully intended to live out the rest of her life as a police officer.

Until the night skies became strange and she called in sick and requested an extended leave of absence. On New Year's Day of all things! She hadn't been drinking that much the night before, did she?

Definitely a bad omen. Maybe a black cat passed by her apartment without her noticing……….

Actually it was a massive solar flare called the Sunstorm which activated superpowers within humans worldwide.

True to form, Paladino scorned the expected response of Sunstormers (as those affected were now called.) cosplaying as so called "superheroes" (in her mind, unstable vigilantes on a fantasy trip) with their ridiculous costumes and codenames, preferring to wear her police uniform and reveal herself to the public.

Powers:

Helen has the power to influence gravity in a localized field around her by lowering the effects of gravity or mass on objects by touching them. In scientific terms this generally means that she uses this ability to manipulate gravitons to decrease the effective weight of objects she is touching (including herself).

For example by reducing an object’s weight, it makes things easier to lift (giving her apparent superhuman strength) or even causing lighter objects to have a negative weight and “fall” upwards to the limits of her power’s range, which extends 30 feet from her. Also by reducing their weight, can deflect slow-moving solid projectiles within 30 feet of her, provided she can see them. Bullets are a real problem for her as they move far too fast for her to see to react in time.

By clasping her hands together and lowering the effects of gravity on herself, she can leap great distances, up to fifty times normal for a woman of her strength. Theoretically, she could “leap” an unlimited height upwards (by giving herself a negative weight) but she doesn’t for fear she would catapult herself out of the breathable atmosphere. At the same time, in lowering her own mass, Helen can also fall from almost any height (within reason of course!) without harm, landing as light as a feather.

It has been further theorized that Helen could be capable of launching targets into space by reducing their weight to zero and letting the Earth's revolution fling them upward. However this has never been tried and tested nor will it ever be as she finds the concept of using that potential aspect of her power on living beings completely repulsive even if she does have that ability.

She has recently learned to focus her gravity power to upset a person’s inner-ear balance by touching them, causing temporary disorientation, vertigo and nausea. It is possible though highly unlikely that in the near future, Helen might refine and further focus her powers so that in a weightless environment such as within Earth's orbit, she can eventually prevent the natural feelings of vertigo caused by the absence of gravity disturbing the delicate sense of balance. Not to mention the remote possibility of dispelling the effects of G-Forces during high velocity travels.

Unfortunately, in a natural gravity field, the power reverses itself and Helen can currently only make the weight or mass of things and people lighter.

By lightening weight or mass, Helen also discovered that her powers have given the small objects she touches and holds in her hands the extra momentum to travel faster and farther than ever before.
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