James Caine - PL8 (120 pts)
Abilities:
STR 14 (+2)
DEX 14 (+2)
CON 14 (+2)
INT 18 (+4)
WIS 14 (+2)
CHA 14 (+2)
Combat :
19 Defense (4 Base +5 dodge)
Base Attack +4
Attacks:
Silver Sword: +8 attack; Toughness DC 23 (Crit 19-20), Incurable
Silver Sword: *Also Fort DC 14 vs Sickened when struck*
Fireball: +8 Attack; Toughness DC 23; Ranged: 80'
Stun: Target makes Fort save DC 23 or be dazed.
Saves: Toughness +7 (3 Equipment +2 con +2 feat), Fort +6 (4 base +2 con), Reflex +6 (4 base +2 dex), Will +6 (4 base +2 wis)
Skills: (68 ranks)
Computers(+8/4); Disable Device(+6/2); Drive(+4/2); Gather Information(+10/8); Intimidate(+10/8); Knowledges: Arcane Lore(+14/10), Physical Sciences(+8/4); Technology(+8/4); Theology/Philosophy(+8/4); Languages(2); Notice(+6/4); Search(+6/2); Sense Motive(+8/6); Sleight of Hand(+10/8)
Languages: English, Spanish, Ancient Suloise
Feats: Accurate Attack, All-out Attack, Attack Specialization: Sword, Contacts, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll(2), Dodge Focus(5), Equipment(3), Luckx2, Power Attack, Ritualist
Powers:
Silver sword of Lyra : Device Rank 3 (9 pp) [Grants 15 points] *Easy to loose*
- Strike 3 (6 points): Accuate, Improved Critical, Mighty
- Enhanced Strike 3 (4 points): Incurable
- Nauseate Rank 4 (4 points): Pain; Linked: Enhanced Strike; Sicken(-1)
- Enhanced abilities Only usable by mages (1 point)
Flight Rank 1 (1pp): Duration: Concentration(-1)
Magic Container Rank 9; 2 AP (20 pp)
- Fireballs: Blast Rank 8 (18 points): Autofire(+1), Full Action(-1), PF - AccurateX2
- AP: Telekinesis Rank 4(18 points): Area(+1), Selective(+1), Precisex2
- AP: Mental Communication Rank 7(17 points): Area(+1), PF - Selective, Subtlex2 *1,000' range*
Equipment: 15 EP
Reinforced Trenchcoat[as undercover vest] (4EP)
Sports Car (8 EP)
Cell Phone, Laptop, MWElectronic Tool kit/Lockpicking set (3 EP)
Drawbacks: Power loss(Magic & Flight; when unable to speak and gesture to cast spells: -2 points),
Tradeoffs: +1 defense/-1 toughness;
COST: 28 Abilities + 17 Skills + 19 Feats + 30 Powers + 16 Combat + 12 Saves - 2 drawbacks = 120/120
Background
Five years ago, the Watchers learned of the threat their organization was in from the Harbingers. Among the agents they sent to protect the potentials was a young watcher by the name of James Caine.
It didn't take him long to find Taylor, but trouble had allready beaten him there. James tracked her to a dance, where Harbingers were allready busy slaughtering their way through innocents to get to the potential.
Through a combination of magic, quick thinking, and sheer luck, he and his charge name were able to survive the Harbingers attacks. Before they could return to the Watchers council, however, disaster struck and the majority of the council was killed. Unsure where to go next, James decided to take his charge to Sunnydale, to the relative safety provided by the Slayer. They travelled slowly overland, avoiding detection as James trained and informed her as best he could about what was going on, should she be Called. A short while into their trip, much to both of their surprise, she began to display immense physical strength and speed - she had become the Slayer! Fearful of what could have happened at the hellmouth to defeat the Summers girl, James and the new slayer wasted no time in completing the rest of their journey, only to discover upon arrival that the entire hellmouth has collapsed, taking the town with it.
From there, the pair went East to Ohio, James recalling that there was a second hellmouth in Cleveland and deciding that if this one was closed, that one would be the best place for the Slayer to be while he searched for other survivors of the council.
The duo stayed relatively low profile until 2005, when they tracked a nest of vamps to an amusement park. Taylor and James were outnumbered and having a difficult time until two of the vamps were dusted by a man and woman who obviously knew what they were doing...
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Sandusky, Ohio (about an hour west of Cleveland)
July, 2005 (a little over two years after the battle at the Hellmouth in Sunnydale)
The sun had set long ago, but the Cedar Point amusement park was open late in the summer. Rides ran, vendors called out for games, and even the giant ferris wheel still spun. And a tall, athletic, fair-skinned woman in her mid twenties and an African-American man in his early thirties got off the park's most recent effort at the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world.
The woman was singing the coaster's praises to her companion when she suddenly stopped.
"Robin, we came out here for fun, right? I mean, the creepy crawlies have been awfully quiet for a town with a Hellmouth. You weren't planning to buy me some cotton candy and then tell me a few pale guys with messed up foreheads had taken up residence here?"
"No. I think I can safely say that there were no undead involved in my plans for the evening."
"Then why is there a girl beating up on a few vamps over there?"
"You did say she was beating up on the vampires, not the other way around?"
"Yeah, but even B can have trouble with 3 or 4 unless she's really mad." Faith said, Robin following behind her as they ran to the obscured area between attractions where Taylor and James were fighting four vampires. She picked up a vaguely stake-like wooden object from a souvenier shop as she was running through. "I'll pay for this in a few minutes, I swear." She told a clerk.
The young slayer and her watcher were holding their own, but the numbers were giving them a bit of trouble. Still, they were somewhat surprised when half of their opponents turned to dust, but reacted quickly, staking the remainder seconds later.
"You don't know what went down last spring, do you? You thought your girl was the one and only?" She said, when James had obviously put two and two together.
"I'm Faith. The vampire slayer." She said anyway.
"Robin Wood." He added. "Nikki Wood's son, if you're curious." Taylor didn't recognize the name, but James knew quite well who had been the slayer in the late 1970s. "And unless I miss my guess, you're James Caine. The list of watchers that are unaccounted for is pretty short. You were last seen in England, in the company of a young woman, presumably a potential slayer. We thought the bringers had caught up to you, but no one ever found your bodies, so you were on the watch list."
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After meeting with Robin and Faith, James was put back in contact with the new Watchers council and quickly brought up to speed. About a year later, he and Taylor were reasigned to San Diego, where they have been for the last two years.
James is a talented mage and swordsman, having learned as much in his five years with the Slayer as he has taught. Both his magical and physical skills have been put to the test repeatedly in the dangerous underworld that the two frequently delve into, and he has picked up many other skills along the way. Without the resources of the council to fall back on, he could not just sit back and let her do all the heavy lifting - Not that he ever felt quite right about that part of the 'deal' when the original council WAS around.
James has mastered several magic incantations, and has always been somewhat of a prodigy when it comes to performing magic. While he and his slayer were in Cleveland, he managed to wrest a powerful demon-slaying sword from a demonlord that they (barely) managed to overcome. The silver sword's true power raises with the arcane might of its wielder, and so James has taken it for his own, as in the Slayers hands it would be just a normal blade.
