Posts tagged psionics
Character du Jour: c't
Nov 4th
His mind floated the void, pondering this strange adopted world so full of raw, untamed, uncontrolled emotion. He rode it’s currents, sensing the fears, hopes and dreams of entire populations. Then, he felt it. If emotions had colours, this was an harsh scarlet; a wash of fear and pain that stood out like a star in the surrounding Dark.
“Oh this will never do,” c’t muttered to himself, returning his Voidself back to his Shellself. In the shadow of the apartment, the blue form stretched, turned to the window and flew into the night.
c’t is a psionic alien who reads, senses and responds to emotions. He can sense fear and the wrongness that surround acts of evil, though has little understanding of such concepts as “good” and “evil”. For reasons known only to him, he has adopted Earth as his home, and considers himself as something of a caretaker of the world’s emotions. Where emotions flare and surge, c’t is likely to sense, and take action.
Dirty little secret: c’t is an emotional vampire; he draws sustenance from emotional energy (his body needs food too – he’s very partial to marshmallows), and his efforts to fix areas of emotional “wrong” are roughly akin to cutting the grissle and fat from his food. He is currently hiding on Earth due to Intergalactic Crimes. His Flight Ring is “borrowed” from the last Spacecorps patrolman who tried to capture him. They probably want it back.
Notes: Alien Psychic Emotion Sucking Vampire! And he’s blue! C’mon! Check out his Powers – he’s got ESP and Telepathy that’s got (as near as dammit) a global range. He can throw up a mental Force Field, has an unbreakable Will, blast folks with a bolt of sheer Mental energy or control their emotions. When a blue guy can make you feel fear, love, lust, anger or terror this ain’t no Smurf you want to mess with. He’s also got a whole range of precog/postcog/awareness/danger sensing abilities that are entirely Uncontrolled – meaning they’re under the control of the GM as Plot Devices. His Quick Change feat represents his ability to throw up a psychic disguise to blend in his humanity. It doesn’t fool security cameras, but it does fool people watching the footage at a later date thanks to his psychic precog/postcog yadda yadda.
He’s a hero, but for all the wrong reasons. Love this guy.
DAZ Studio, no postwork
c’t, PL 10, 150 points
STR 10, DEX 12, CON 10, INT 14, WIS 20, CHA 12
Tough +0/+12, Fort +5, Ref +6, Will +10
Attack +5, Grapple +5, Defense +8, Init +1
Computers +6, Concentration +12, Investigate +4, KS:Life Sciences +6, KS:Technology +6, Notice +8, Search +8, Sense Motive +7
Quick Change 2 (human persona, any clothes), Trance, Ultimate Save (Will), Uncanny Dodge (Mental)
ESP 9 (all senses, 20,000 miles)
- AP: Mental Blast (DC 24)
Force Field 12, Mind Shield 5
Super-Senses 10 (all uncontrolled; Danger Sense, Mental Awareness, Precognition, Postcognition)
Telepathy 9 (20,000 miles)
- AP: Emotion Control 9 (DC 19)
Borrowed Flight Ring (Device; Flight 6, Immunity (Cold, Pressure, Suffocation))
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Character du Jour: Jonah Uglee
Oct 24th
“Butt naked he was, and throwin’ them crooks ’round like they was rag dolls.” Detective Biggs listened with half an ear; he knew as soon as he saw one of the thieves embedded half way up the wall who had stopped this particular crime-in-progress.
“And I’ll tell you something else. Ugly he was; uglier’n’ anything I ever seen before, like his face was all made wrong or somethin’. Saved my life though when ‘e broke that shotgun clean in half. That’s when I saw – he only had three fingers on each ‘and. Taint natural, that’s for sure.”
Ah Jonah, thought Biggs, folks just don’t know what to make of you, do they son.
DAZ Studio, no postwork. Michael 4 model. Good, isn’t it? Clickee biggee.
“Jonah Uglee! Jonah Uglee” the other kids used to yell, calling him and throwing trash in his face on the route to school. Until the age of 15, he did what he’d been told by his mom and the doctors – just keep his head down, hood drawn tight and ignore them. Then the day came when something felt…. wrong. One of the kids was standing in the road, kicking waste from the gutter. Jonah lunged, grabbing the boy with his deformed hands as a car flew forward, as out of control as it’s drug-fuelled driver. At first the boy panicked, terrified that Jonah had finally snapped until his friends pointed to the totalled wreck where he’d stood a moment before.
Then Jonah saw the boy’s eyes. For that moment, he wasn’t a freak or something to be ridiculed or pitied. To that boy, right there, he was a hero.
Another 15 years have passed, and Jonah still walks with his head down and hood drawn tight. The visions come more frequently now, the flashes of where he needs to be, to be the hero. When he’s there, he strips right down, shedding the clothes that hide his true nature and wades in, proud that he’s just as nature made him. After all, when you’re this ugly, who needs a costume?
Dirty little secret: None.
Notes: Superstrong naked ugly precog. What’s not to love?
Jonah Uglee, PL10, 150pp
STR 34, DEX 10, CON 38, INT 10, WIS 12, CHA 12
Tough +14, Fort +!4, Ref +4, Will +6
Attack +8, Grapple +27, Defense +6, Init +0
Immunity 12 (Damage: Cold & Heat, Fatigue Effects, Pressure), Impervious Toughness 11, Leaping 3 (220′), Super-Senses 6 (Danger Sense:Visual, Awareness: Psionic, Precognition), Super-Strength 7 (Groundstrike 120′, DC22)
Intimidate +8, Notice +8, Search +6, Sense Motive +7, Stealth +4, Survival +3
Improved Pin, Power Attack
Complication: Ugly!
