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<blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8954272" data-attributes="member: 30538"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: blue">Johnny Wasted</span></span></p><p><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-4Xx6c6H/0/80b87d0a/S/MV5BNDBmODdlOWEtNjU4NC00YjAyLWI5YWItY2E0NTVlYzI1M2NjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjgzNDU2ODI%40._V1_-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Before 1977, if anyone had told twenty-one year old John Schneider that he would one day be a hero ... he would have been thrilled. However, his idea of a hero was largely shaped by his favorite movie, <em>Easy Rider</em>, which he had first snuck into a theatre to see when he was fifteen, and then actually <em>paid</em> to watch whenever he had the opportunity. Idolizing its lead character, "Captain Courage", he hoped to one day ride across America on a motorcycle. (That the journey of Captain Courage apparently ends in his violent death did not really register to him.)</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately (for him at least) that dream was still far out of reach for him, with the problem of obtaining a motorcycle and holding onto it yet unsolved, when his life went off on a completely different path. Struck down by a large dose of the mutating fallout from the final battle of Alphatron and El Imán, he lay as one dead for four days, with the coroner concluding that the mutations he had suffered had been too severe for him to survive. As he was being buried in the potter's field, however, he regained consciousness within the coffin and blasted his way out of it with the first use of the energy beam he could now project from his left eye.</p><p></p><p>In addition to that strange talent, which he had to keep his eye closed to <em>avoid</em> using, he found himself largely without the various weaknesses of the flesh. That had its upsides and a few downsides. The biggest downside, from his own perspective, was that he was no longer affected, at all, by recreational drugs. Without that, what was the point of his grand dreams of following in the path of Captain Courage? (He also soon found out that while he was hard to injure, he could only heal from those injuries he did suffer by eating raw meat. Fortunately, it could be any sort of raw meat, instead of ... well, you know, people.)</p><p></p><p>This might have been the birth of a supervillain, not a hero, if not for two factors. The first was that Johnny Wasted, as he soon started calling himself, lacked both the imagination and the initiative to engage in serious crimes now that his ability to enjoy the proceeds of them was greatly diminished. (He often commented that he was still kind of "brain dead", and his eventual allies often noted that he suffered from frequent memory lapses.) The other factor was the friendship he struck up with Red Rachel, a partially robotic entity who appeared in Denver after the explosion. They bonded over their mutual inhumanity, but Rachel strove to act as a protector and dragged Johnny into that scene as well.</p><p></p><p>The two of them helped to form the Mile High Marauders in 1983, and remained with the team right up until it broke up in 1991. While their personal relationship went through many ups and downs during that time, they chose to remain together as they rode away from Denver in a motorcycle and sidecar. Rumors claimed that they had been captured by the Pythons soon after their departure, but if so it seems likely that they escaped captivity some time after the fall of Delphi and went into hiding.</p><p></p><p>They were next seen in New Orleans during the attack by Cerebron, which they helped to resist. Unfortunately, Rachel suffered damage that left her inoperative, and while Johnny insisted that she would be fine, he was apparently unable to find anyone who could repair her systems. When Gideon Gold sought him out in 2005, Johnny was living outside Krotz Springs, Louisiana, not far from where the climax of <em>Easy Rider</em> was shot, and tending to what he referred to as her grave. He agreed to help Gold to establish a new Grim Brigade, but stated that he would not stick around for too long.</p><p></p><p>That truer than he knew, for he was, like the rest of his team, killed during the coup attempt less than a year later. After an extended period to make sure that he would not be coming back a third time, he was buried beside the grave in Krotz Springs. A small memorial was eventually established, though it has frequently been defaced by local youth who neither know nor care about those who lie here. For reasons she declines to explain, Liz Leeds of Heroic Enterprises spends a day each month cleaning the site up. </p><p></p><p><strong>Johnny Wasted -- PL 9</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Abilities:</strong></p><p><strong>STR</strong> 5 | <strong>STA</strong> -- | <strong>AGL</strong> 2 | <strong>DEX</strong> 2 | <strong>FGT</strong> 6 | <strong>INT</strong> -1 | <strong>AWE</strong> 2 | <strong>PRE</strong> 3</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers:</strong></p><p><strong><em>Eyebeam:</em></strong> Ranged Attack 9, Accurate 4 - 22 points</p><p><strong><em>Walking Corpse:</em></strong> Immunity 50 (Fortitude effects, mental effects); Impervious Protection 8; Regeneration 2, Source (raw meat) - 67 points</p><p></p><p><strong>Advantages:</strong></p><p>Fast Grab, Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Power Attack, Takedown Attack.</p><p></p><p><strong>Skills:</strong></p><p>Athletics 6 (+11), Close Combat: Unarmed 4 (+10), Expertise: Streetwise 8 (+7), Intimidation 6 (+9), Stealth 6 (+8), Vehicles 6 (+8).</p><p></p><p><strong>Offense:</strong></p><p>Initiative +2</p><p>Unarmed +10 (Close Damage 5)</p><p>Eyebeam +9 (Ranged Damage 9)</p><p></p><p><strong>Defense:</strong></p><p>Dodge 8, Parry 10, Fortitude Immune, Toughness 8, Will 6</p><p></p><p><strong>Totals:</strong></p><p>Abilities 28 + Powers 89 + Advantages 5 + Skills 18 + Defenses 14 = 154 points</p><p></p><p><strong>Offensive PL:</strong> 9</p><p><strong>Defensive PL:</strong> 9</p><p><strong>Resistance PL:</strong> 6</p><p><strong>Skill PL:</strong> 5</p><p></p><p><strong>Complications:</strong></p><p><strong><em>Thrills--Motivation. Brain Dead</em></strong> (difficulty retaining "new" information.) <strong><em>Hideous Appearance. Poor Depth Perception.</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davies, post: 8954272, member: 30538"] [size=150][color=blue]Johnny Wasted[/color][/size] [img]https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-4Xx6c6H/0/80b87d0a/S/MV5BNDBmODdlOWEtNjU4NC00YjAyLWI5YWItY2E0NTVlYzI1M2NjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjgzNDU2ODI%40._V1_-S.jpg[/img] Before 1977, if anyone had told twenty-one year old John Schneider that he would one day be a hero ... he would have been thrilled. However, his idea of a hero was largely shaped by his favorite movie, [i]Easy Rider[/i], which he had first snuck into a theatre to see when he was fifteen, and then actually [i]paid[/i] to watch whenever he had the opportunity. Idolizing its lead character, "Captain Courage", he hoped to one day ride across America on a motorcycle. (That the journey of Captain Courage apparently ends in his violent death did not really register to him.) Unfortunately (for him at least) that dream was still far out of reach for him, with the problem of obtaining a motorcycle and holding onto it yet unsolved, when his life went off on a completely different path. Struck down by a large dose of the mutating fallout from the final battle of Alphatron and El Imán, he lay as one dead for four days, with the coroner concluding that the mutations he had suffered had been too severe for him to survive. As he was being buried in the potter's field, however, he regained consciousness within the coffin and blasted his way out of it with the first use of the energy beam he could now project from his left eye. In addition to that strange talent, which he had to keep his eye closed to [i]avoid[/i] using, he found himself largely without the various weaknesses of the flesh. That had its upsides and a few downsides. The biggest downside, from his own perspective, was that he was no longer affected, at all, by recreational drugs. Without that, what was the point of his grand dreams of following in the path of Captain Courage? (He also soon found out that while he was hard to injure, he could only heal from those injuries he did suffer by eating raw meat. Fortunately, it could be any sort of raw meat, instead of ... well, you know, people.) This might have been the birth of a supervillain, not a hero, if not for two factors. The first was that Johnny Wasted, as he soon started calling himself, lacked both the imagination and the initiative to engage in serious crimes now that his ability to enjoy the proceeds of them was greatly diminished. (He often commented that he was still kind of "brain dead", and his eventual allies often noted that he suffered from frequent memory lapses.) The other factor was the friendship he struck up with Red Rachel, a partially robotic entity who appeared in Denver after the explosion. They bonded over their mutual inhumanity, but Rachel strove to act as a protector and dragged Johnny into that scene as well. The two of them helped to form the Mile High Marauders in 1983, and remained with the team right up until it broke up in 1991. While their personal relationship went through many ups and downs during that time, they chose to remain together as they rode away from Denver in a motorcycle and sidecar. Rumors claimed that they had been captured by the Pythons soon after their departure, but if so it seems likely that they escaped captivity some time after the fall of Delphi and went into hiding. They were next seen in New Orleans during the attack by Cerebron, which they helped to resist. Unfortunately, Rachel suffered damage that left her inoperative, and while Johnny insisted that she would be fine, he was apparently unable to find anyone who could repair her systems. When Gideon Gold sought him out in 2005, Johnny was living outside Krotz Springs, Louisiana, not far from where the climax of [i]Easy Rider[/i] was shot, and tending to what he referred to as her grave. He agreed to help Gold to establish a new Grim Brigade, but stated that he would not stick around for too long. That truer than he knew, for he was, like the rest of his team, killed during the coup attempt less than a year later. After an extended period to make sure that he would not be coming back a third time, he was buried beside the grave in Krotz Springs. A small memorial was eventually established, though it has frequently been defaced by local youth who neither know nor care about those who lie here. For reasons she declines to explain, Liz Leeds of Heroic Enterprises spends a day each month cleaning the site up. [b]Johnny Wasted -- PL 9 Abilities: STR[/b] 5 | [b]STA[/b] -- | [b]AGL[/b] 2 | [b]DEX[/b] 2 | [b]FGT[/b] 6 | [b]INT[/b] -1 | [b]AWE[/b] 2 | [b]PRE[/b] 3 [b]Powers: [i]Eyebeam:[/i][/b] Ranged Attack 9, Accurate 4 - 22 points [b][i]Walking Corpse:[/i][/b] Immunity 50 (Fortitude effects, mental effects); Impervious Protection 8; Regeneration 2, Source (raw meat) - 67 points [b]Advantages:[/b] Fast Grab, Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Power Attack, Takedown Attack. [b]Skills:[/b] Athletics 6 (+11), Close Combat: Unarmed 4 (+10), Expertise: Streetwise 8 (+7), Intimidation 6 (+9), Stealth 6 (+8), Vehicles 6 (+8). [b]Offense:[/b] Initiative +2 Unarmed +10 (Close Damage 5) Eyebeam +9 (Ranged Damage 9) [b]Defense:[/b] Dodge 8, Parry 10, Fortitude Immune, Toughness 8, Will 6 [b]Totals:[/b] Abilities 28 + Powers 89 + Advantages 5 + Skills 18 + Defenses 14 = 154 points [b]Offensive PL:[/b] 9 [b]Defensive PL:[/b] 9 [b]Resistance PL:[/b] 6 [b]Skill PL:[/b] 5 [b]Complications: [i]Thrills--Motivation. Brain Dead[/i][/b] (difficulty retaining "new" information.) [b][i]Hideous Appearance. Poor Depth Perception.[/i][/b] [/QUOTE]
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