Horus
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Horus
Real name: Jack Kingston, Construction Worker
Height 6’1” as Jack 6’ 8” as Horus
Weight 205 lbs as Jack 300lbs as Horus
PL 10 150pp
Abilities:
STR: 2/8 AGL: 3 FGT: 3/9 AWE: 2 STA: 3/9 DEX: 2 INT: 1 PRE: 2
pp spent= 36
Defenses:
Dodge: 3/10 Parry: 3/ 10 Fort: 3/10 Toughness: 3/10 Will: 2/8 Initiative: +3
pp spent= 9
Offensive:
Talons (STR based attack) +11 DC 24
Grab +10 DC 23
Throw +2 DC 23
Unarmed +10 DC 23
Advantages:
Close Attack 1
Defensive Roll 1
Jack of All Trades
Languages: Spanish
Enhanced Advantages:
Assessment
Languages (Ancient Egyptian)
Leadership
Power Attack
pp spent= 4
Powers:
Alternate Form: Horus
Move action to transform
Enhanced Traits (Advantages: Assessment, Leadership, Power Attack)
Enhanced Abilities: (STR 6, FGT 6, STA 6)
Enhanced Trait: Will defense 6
Enhanced Traits: Skills (Expertise Ancient Egypt 6, Insight 6, Intimidation 8, Perception 6, Persuasion 6)
Flight 7 (Wings, 250mph/ ½ miles per round)
Immunity: Environmental Condition Heat
Movement 2 (Environmental Adaption- Desert, Trackless)
Senses 8 (Accurate vision, Direction Sense, Distance Sense, Extended Vision 2, Low Light vision, Ultrahearing)
Talons: STR based damage 1 (DC 24)
Impervious Toughness 6
Regeneration 2 (Extra: Persistent, Flaw: source- sunlight)
pp spent= 90
Skills: (ranks)
Athletics: 11 (3)
Close Combat (talons): 10 (1)
Expertise: Ancient Egypt: 7 (0)
Expertise: Construction: 5 (4)
Insight: 10 (2)
Intimidation: 10 (0)
Investigation: 5 (4)
Perception: 10 (2)
Persuasion: 10 (2)
Technology: 3 (2)
Vehicles: 4 (2)
pp spent = 11
Total= Abilities 36+ Defenses 9+ Advantages 4+ Powers 90+ Skills 11 = 150pp
Complications:
Motivation- Justice. Horus has an overwhelming desire to protect the innocent.
Motivation- Thrills. Jack enjoys the transformation into Horus because he likes the thrills of stopping criminals and the power he has as Horus.
Quirk- Horus leaves a small Ankh with all the criminals he captures as a calling card.
Power Loss- If Jack is unable to speak, he cannot transform.
Identity- Jack's life would be in danger if anyone discovers that he can transform into Horus.
Prejudice- Some people look upon Horus as an alien freak. They don’t trust him and think he should just go back to whatever planet he came from. At least several times a week there are letter to the editor in the paper criticizing Horus and denigrating him.
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Background:
Jack is an average construction worker. Growing up, he had no great interest in academic studies. He attended school long enough to graduate High School. Since he always like building things and excelled in shop class, he told his parents he was going into construction. Although his parents wished he would attend college, they didn't want to interfere. He was hired as a general laborer by a local construction company while he learned the various tasks involved in building houses, office buildings, and other projects. He was taught carpentry, masonry, painting, landscaping, and more. One day he was sent on a job to renovate an old house that used to belong to some archaeologist named Henry Farrow. Apparently, this Henry Farrow was an important person once. No one had seen him for years and his property was considered abandoned and sold at auction. Jack and the company he worked for, had been hired by the new owner to make major renovations. After ripping down a section of paneling in an office, he found some kind of medallion. It looked vaguely familiar and he thought it might be worth something if he sold it, so he pocketed it.
Later that night, he did a little research and found out the medallion resembled one used by the ancient Egyptian god Horus. Well, he thought, that should make it worth some money to a collector. He examined the medallion and concluded that it was not cheaply made so it didn't come from a gift shop. He noticed an inscription on the back. It was in hieroglyphs. Doing more research, he was able to do a rough translation of the inscription. It translated to:
“Horus, Avenger, Lord of Light / Grant me now your godly might / Let we two do what is right / Banish evil into the
night!”
Kind of an odd phrase for a medallion but what did he know about such things. He spoke the phrase out loud and it did sound odd to him. Just for fun, he said it a few more times, each time slightly different. Without warning, there was a flash of light and Jack suddenly felt different. He looked in a mirror and was stunned speechless by what he saw in his reflection.
To his shock, he had transformed into a large bird headed man. His own mind was in the background of the birdman's consciousness. He could see what the birdman saw, feel everything he felt, and yet it wasn't him seeing and feeling those things. It was like he was trapped in the body of someone else. Jack's mind panicked and forced the birdman to repeat the phrase. In a flash, he was back to normal.
The next day, Jack went to the library and took out some books on ancient Egypt including history, culture, mythology, and anything else he could find. In his studies, he discovered that the birdman was the Egyptian God Horus. A god of the air, war, and hunting. Jack tried the transformation once again later that day. This time he didn't panic. He tried to search the memories of this avatar of Horus. He was able to get bits and pieces of memories. The name Set was prevalent in many of those. Jack remembered reading about Set, another ancient Egyptian god. Set was named the Destroyer in the books he had read.
Taking inspiration from the comic books he read as a kid, Jack decided he could use the frightening visage and power of his new alternate form to do some good. He remembered reading in the paper that the police were having a lot of problems with gangs terrorizing the public. He decided to take a chance and go after the gangs as Horus.
His first encounter with the gangs went better than expected. He had swooped down from a rooftop during a carjacking. In seconds, the gang members were unconscious. He picked them up and dropped them off at the front door of the police station. He left a calling card with the gangbangers, an Ankh.
Jack couldn't believe the thrills he felt fighting against the gangs. He started going out night after night to fight the gangs and other criminals that would prey on the innocent. Each time, he left an Ankh. The newspapers ran stories about this new vigilante. Who was he and where did he come from? The criminals reported to the police that a giant birdman attacked them. At first the police laughed it off, the ravings of crackheads and stoners. One night, when he was dropping off another criminal, for breaking and entering, he was spotted by an officer going on his break.
"Good evening officer. This person was caught illegally entering Hanson Jewelers on East Main street. You will find the evidence of his crime there." he said to the startled police officer.
Then without another word, he flew away.
Over time, more and more of Horus's memories came back. Jack realized that Henry Farrow had been the previous incarnation of Horus years ago. Horus had no memory of what had happened to Henry.
Most of the public adored their new protector. Some looked upon him as just another alien freak that infested cities like Freedom City and others. The police and some of the press were not as convinced. They felt he could be just as big a threat as the criminals. He had not killed anyone, yet, but they thought it was only a matter of time before this birdman got carried away and lost control.
Jack read the stories in the papers. He knew they were wrong but couldn't prove it. They were afraid of the unknown. He felt he had to do something so he sent an email to the newspapers and television stations using a computer in a cybercafe. They were to show up at City Hall in two days at noon. The city's protector would be there to answer questions. It was there that he would introduce the world to the return of Horus.
At the press conference, he answered as many of their questions as he could. During the conference, an enthusiastic criminal took a shot at Horus. The .45 slug bounced harmlessly off his skin. In a flash, he was upon the shooter and had him subdued. Horus turned him over to the police and the gathered crowd applauded enthusiastically. He was now officially the hero of the city.
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