Okay, I think I fixed the problems on Terry. I couldn't get the Move Object thing to work mechanically (with a close range and only one direction, it wound up being ridiculously cheap, so he'd have an effective Str of +8 with the power, which seemed overpowered for what I was going for), so I added a linked Affliction instead: he hits with the closer electrical power, and there's a chance to do extra frying of the nerves, as it were.
[sblock=stats]Terry Quinlan AKA The Grid
PL 9
Powerful (145 PP)
Abilities
Str: 0
Ag: 2
Fgt: 0
Awe: 1/4
Sta: 1
Dex: 1/3
Int: 1/8
Pre: 1/3
Defenses:
Dodge: 5 (+7)
Fort: 5 (+6)
Parry: 5 (+5)
Toughness: 4 (+5/+9)
Will: 3 (+7)
Skills:
Close Combat (Shock Punch) 2 (+2)
Deception 2 (+5)
Perception 5 (+9)
Ranged Combat (electric blast) 6 (+9)
Technology 11 (+19)
Equipment 2 (10 ep)
Advantages: Improvised Tools, Inventor, Takedown
Powers:
Electrical Control Array (21 pts)
* Electric Arc 9 (Damage, Ranged 2/r) (18 pts)
* Alt: EMP 9 (Nullify electronics, Area (cone) 2/r) (1pt)
* Alt: Optic Nerve Overload 9 (Affliction (per Dazzle (impaired/disabled/unaware), Ranged, Cumulative, Limited (visual) 2/r) (1pt)
* Alt: Shock Punch 9 (Damage linked Affliction (daze/stun/incapacitate) 2/r) (1pt)
Comprehend (Machines) 2 (4pts)
Immunity (electricity) 5 (5pts)
Remote Sensing 9 (Visual senses, Medium (cameras) 1/r) (9pts)
Radio Sense 1 (1pts)
Electrical Form Array (17 pts)
* Teleport 8 (Accurate, Medium (electrical lines) 2/r) (16 pts)
* Alt: Permeate 3 (2/r) Linked Immunity 2 (suffocation, 1/r) (1 pt)
Hyper-sensitive Nerves 3 (Enhanced Awareness, PF: Uncanny Dodge 2/rank +1 flat) (7pts)
Super-conductive brain 7 (Enhanced Int, PF: Eidetic Memory, Skill Mastery (tech) 2/rank +2 flat) (16 pts)
Speed-of-thought nerves 2 (Enhanced Dex, PF: Evasion 2 2/rank +2 flat) (6pts)
Subconscious Cortical Stimulation 2 (Enhanced Pre 2/rank) (4pts)
Equipment:
Bulletproof Vest (3ep)
Commlink (1ep)
Mini-Tracer (1ep)
Goggles (toggle Flash and Night-Vision) (2ep)
Complications:
Motivation: Thrills. Despite the trouble he managed to land himself in with his hacking and the expression of his abilities, Terry has a hard time resisting the thrill of a challenge, especially puzzles and high tech security.
Fame/Reputation/Identity: As The Grid, Terry was a fairly notorious hacker. To other hackers, he's a role model who's troublingly fallen off the radar; to the major corporations he victimized, he's a danger that should be shut down.
Both groups have spent significant resources to try to identify who he is and where he is.
Powers 90 + Abilities 14 + Defenses 22 + Skills 15 + Advantages 4 = 145PP[/sblock]
[sblock=background]Terry Quinlan was always a natural with electronics and computers. Making it through MIT by the time he was 15, it was probably inevitable that things would eventually go a bit hairy; for all his abilities, he was still a teenager.
Rather than keep pleasing 'the man' by taking one of the many recruitment offers he had, Terry went underground, getting his kicks as a hacker called The Grid. He went toe-to-toe with global security systems, and when he asked, they just let him right in.
He'd always felt like a freak, but here, in the world of computers, he felt at home. He joked that, if he could find a way into the wires, that's where he'd live.
And then one day, he did just that. He touched his keyboard, laughing at the Gryphon research facility whose security camera he'd just hacked. And then, inexplicably, he felt himself shooting through nothingness, across the connection, until he showed up bodily within the facility.
It seems Terry's skills weren't just the result of a hyper-developed brain, but the first expressions of a meta-ability. His very genetic code had adapted to the electronic world. He could speak to and command electronics, use them to remotely view other locations, and even take on an insubstantial electrical form himself, transmitting himself through power lines.
Of course, at the time, he had no real control over the abilities, so when Gryphon security surrounded him, well, he found himself quite unable to refuse their own recruitment offer...[/sblock]
