Paragons [M&M] (recruiting closed)

[Relique du Madde]

When Wildcard uses his damage power it causes fluctuations to occur in the probability field which ultimately results in one of two things happening: Cellular/structural death/decay or an accident occurring to the target. This power was supposed to be subtle but I'm thinking that it might be more interesting if it wasn't especially if Wildcard causes a meteor or falling space debris to hit his target.

 

[ShaggySpellsword]

I changed one of my previous ideas a little bit, scrapped the other two, and came up with a new second idea.

Idea 1:
Name: Steelhawk/Delphi (PL 10, 150pp)
Secret ID: Gordon R. Jefferies

“Time to upload some pain!”

Allegiances:

[sblock=Steelhawk/Delphi]Str 10/*30, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 14/24, Wis 10, Cha 12
Toughness +10 (9 Impervious), Fortitude +1, Reflex +1, Will +0
Attack +6 (melee +6, ranged +6, unarmed strike +10, power blast +10, grapple +9/+19), Defense: 20 (flat 13)
Initiative +1, Notice +2, Luck: 0

FEATS: Dodge Focus 4, Eidetic Memory, Inventor

SKILLS: Bluff [2] +3, Computers [6] +13, Concentration [4] +5, Diplomacy [2] +3, Drive [2] +3, Knowledge (arcana) [1] +8, Knowledge (art) [2] +9, Knowledge (behavioral sciences) [1] +8, Knowledge (business) [2] +9, Knowledge (civics) [1] +8, Knowledge (current events) [4] +11, Knowledge (earth sciences) [1] +8, Knowledge (history) [1] +8, Knowledge (life sciences) [1] +8, Knowledge (physical sciences) [1] +8, Knowledge (Popular Culture) [4] +11, Knowledge (Streetwise) [1] +8, Knowledge (Tactics) [1] +8, Knowledge (Technology) [6] +13, Knowledge (Theology/Philosophy) [1] +8, Notice [2] +2, Pilot [2] +3, Search [2] +9, Sense Motive [2] +2

POWERS:
Communication +8 (Mental through the Internet/Network, PF: Alternate Power: Datalink, Alternate Power: Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, and Super-ventriloquism)
Datalink +8 (Mental)
Clairaudience +4 (FL: limited: Network Audio Input Devices)
Clairvoyance +4 (FL: limited: Network Video Input Devices)
Super-Ventriloquism +4 (FL: limited: Network Audio Output Devices)
Comprehend +4 (read/write any language, speak/understand computers)
Enhanced Intelligence +10
Quickness +10 (FL: Limited: Mental Tasks)
Super-senses +5 (Post-cognition, time sense)
Teleport +8 (EX: Accurate, FL: Limited: Over Internet/Networks)

Device +12 (Technology, Battle Suit, PF: Restricted: Useable by Techno-paths)
Blast +10 (Energy, PF: Alternate Power: Enhanced Strength)
Enhanced Strength +20 (Technology)
Flight +3 (Technology)
Immunity +9 (Technology, Life-support)
Protection +9 (Technology, EX: Impervious)
Super-Strength +3 (Technology)

Drawbacks: Weakness to Ion/Electricity Damage (Severe) 4 points, Weak Point (Armor Protection, bypassed by crit.)[/sblock]

[sblock=Breakout]Breakout: Two weeks ago, Gordon started having nightmares. In his nightmares, he was always playing World of Warcraft, except, he was IN THE GAME, literally taking on the life of his favorite character, Snowshorn the Mage. WoW in real-life was exhausting and scary. Every morning, Gordon would wake up and feel like he got absolutely no sleep the night before. He dragged through his days at his job, a web-designer for a major magazine, and came home to a nap every afternoon which led to yet another sleepless night. Finally, he called into work, and figured if he was going to dream about it anyway, he might as well get in some WoW play time.

His character had leveled from 50-60 since he had last played a week earlier, and he had exactly the same gear he had remembered getting in his dreams—he’d been playing WoW in his sleep. He tried to sit at his computer, and play while awake: it worked without having to touch his computer, he just thought to the computer what to do, and it did it. He even was able to use his Ventrillo server without actually using the ventrillo server. He could just speak, and the people he wanted to hear would hear. He would just listen and the sound would come directly into his mind. After he logged out, he spent some time on the internet, finding all sorts of amazing things at speeds he never knew his mind could achieve. He learned much, and was even able to bypass many network computer systems just by “talking” to the computer. He even got so wrapped up in his mind-work, that he opened his eyes and he was in another person’s home, sitting at their computer desk. With quick concentration, he transported himself as a data packet back to his own house.

Over the last couple of days, he has searched the internet and found a few sets of plans for hi-tech futuristic combat armor. Learning all he can about this armor, he has stolen the plans from (some foreign government) and has finally finished building his own suit of combat armor from parts he managed to order/obtain on-line…or by teleporting to where they were around the country. The reason this armor had never been produced anywhere else was that they could never develop an interface system useable by a common soldier. There were just too many systems to have them all work together. Gordon quickly realized that he could be the central CPU interface system and make them do their will, just as he did the computers.

Armed with his Steelhawk armor, he is calling himself Steelhawk. He also has been known to contact other Paranormals (who he finds out about on-line) and direct them to bad things he’s heard about on on-line police scanners, security cameras, and even by sifting through known crime organization’s e-mails. When performing these activities, he’s simply called himself Delphi, the Oracle. He has not registered himself as he plans on not revealing his innate powers, preferring to be seen as a technology-based hero.[/sblock]

I think he's an interesting take on an "Iron Man" style character. I am not sold on his name though.

Option 2:
Name: Crucible (PL 10, 150pp)
Secret ID: Davis J. Scott

“So, how do you want it?”

Allegiances: Registered PRA

[sblock=Crucible]Str 28, Dex 14, Con 16/22, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 14

Toughness +15 (9 Impervious), Fortitude +12, Reflex +9, Will +9
Attack +7 (melee +7, ranged +7, grapple +18), Defense: 15 (flat 12)
Initiative +2, Notice +7, Luck: 0

FEATS: Diehard, Dodge Focus 1, Endurance 1, Equipment 4, Improved Grab, Precise Shot, Skill Mastery (Acrobatics, Climb, Survival, Swim), Stunning Attack, Track

SKILLS: Acrobatics [2] +4, Climb [4] +7, Computers [4] +6, Concentration [6] +12, Craft (Chemical) [2] +4, Craft (Electric) [2] +4, Craft (Mechanical) [2] +4, Diplomacy [4] +6, Disable Device [2] +4, Drive [2] +4, Knowledge (earth sciences) [2] +4, Knowledge (history) [2] +4, Knowledge (life sciences) [4] +6, Knowledge (physical sciences) [4] +6, Knowledge (Popular Culture) [2] +4, Knowledge (Technology) [2] +4, Knowledge (Theology/Philosophy) [2] +4, Notice [4] +7, Search [4] +6, Sense Motive [2] +5, Stealth [2] +4, Survival [6] +9, Swim [6] +9

POWERS:
Alternate Form (Elemental Paragon) +25 (FL: Action: Full-Round)
Blast +10 (Fire, PF: Alternate Power (Trip), Alternate Power (Stun), Alternate Power (Strike))
Trip +10 (Air, EX: Knockback)
Stun +10 (Water)
Strike +4 (Fire, EX: Aura, Duration: Continuous)
Density +6 (Stone, EX: Duration: Continuous)
Immovable +2
Protection +9 (EX: Impervious)
Super-Strength +2
Enhanced Constitution +6 (Stone, EX: Duration: Continuous)
Flight +3 (Air, PF: Alternate Power (Swimming), EX: Duration: Continuous)
Swimming +4 (EX: Duration: Continuous)
Immunity +19 (Stone, Water, Fire, Air; life-support, need for sleep, fire damage, cold damage; EX: Duration: Continuous)

EQUIPMENT: Cell Phone, Desktop Computer, Binoculars, Night-vision goggles, multi-tool, machete, pick-up truck, flashlight[/sblock]

[Sblock=Davis J. Scott] Str 16, Dex 14, Con 16, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 14
Toughness +3, Fortitude +9, Reflex +9, Will +9
Attack +7 (Str melee +7, ranged +7, grapple +10), Defense: 15 (flat 12)
Initiative +2, Notice +7, Luck: 0

FEATS: Diehard, Dodge Focus 1, Endurance 1, Equipment 4, Improved Grab, Precise Shot, Skill Mastery (Acrobatics, Climb, Survival, Swim), Stunning Attack, Track

SKILLS: Acrobatics [2] +4, Climb [4] +7, Computers [4] +6, Concentration [6] +9, Craft (Chemical) [2] +4, Craft (Electric) [2] +4, Craft (Mechanical) [2] +4, Diplomacy [4] +6, Disable Device [2] +4, Drive [2] +4, Knowledge (earth sciences) [2] +4, Knowledge (history) [2] +4, Knowledge (life sciences) [4] +6, Knowledge (physical sciences) [4] +6, Knowledge (Popular Culture) [2] +4, Knowledge (Technology) [2] +4, Knowledge (Theology/Philosophy) [2] +4, Notice [4] +7, Search [4] +6, Sense Motive [2] +5, Stealth [2] +4, Survival [6] +9, Swim [6] +9

POWERS:
Alternate Form (Elemental Paragon) +25 (FL: Action: Full-Round)

EQUIPMENT: Cell Phone, Desktop Computer, Binoculars, Night-vision goggles, multi-tool, machete, pick-up truck, flashlight[/sblock]

[sblock=Breakout Story]Breakout: 10 days ago, college Biology student, Davis Scott, broke out. While on a work-study program in the Appalachian mountains, working with the American forestry services in clearing out non-native vegetation and controlling undergrowth, Scott’s Forestry Party found themselves in danger. They were performing a controlled burn of a kudzu patch when the fire managed to come to life, jumping to the vegetation surrounding them. Much of the surrounding vegetation then managed to come to life and started attacking the forestry service rangers. Surrounded by living flame and living vegetation, armed only with chainsaws, machetes, and a flamethrower, things looked dim for Davis Scott’s group. Locked in combat with an Oak Tree and a mass of flaming Kudzu, Scott changed. First, he discovered that the fire didn’t burn him…primarily because he had become a form of living water. Putting out much of the immediate flame around him, Scott then turned to find many plants closing in on him, trying to push him to the ground. When he braced himself for impact, he BRACED himself, becoming a being of stone, rooted to the earth. Over the course of the fight he also managed to become fire and become air, sometimes he became more than one thing at once. After the end of the whole affair, with he adrenaline draining from his confused system, Davis Scott had to concentrate hard on keeping himself together. Eventually he found himself regulated in a form that encompassed all four elements; stone, fire, water, and air. With a bit more focus and effort, he found he could turn himself back to his regular self.

His story has appeared in some local newspapers, keeping his true name anonymous, and he has since turned his information over to the Paranormal Regulation Agency, deciding to hold of on his last semester of school…which he’s had some difficulties with for a few semesters now, to pursue a life of helping people with his new-found powers. [/sblock]

I ditched the 4 different forms thing because I realized I would just be playing the Fantastic Four, 1 at a time. I though it'd be more fun to be an elemental-themed Superman style "paragon." My history reflects this character creation process.

 

[Milhouse]

Did you see my post, Lobo?

 

[AgentMike]

Updated sheet. Should be (more or less) done.

 

[James Heard]

Hi, thought I might throw a character into the ring for consideration as a last minute (sorry!) character for consideration.

Name: Chloe Davis (PL 10, 150pp)

“Honestly, this is probably going to hurt.”

Registered PRA

Character Sheet:
[sblock]
Allegiances: Dad

Str 34, Dex 10, Con 34, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 18

Toughness +12, Fortitude +12, Reflex +3, Will +7 Knockback +14/+6
Attack +8 (melee +8, ranged +8, grapple +25), Defense: 18 (flat 14)
Initiative +4, Notice +0, Luck: 0

FEATS: Attractive, Interpose

SKILLS: Pop Culture [4] +4

POWERS: Flight +4, Immovable +3 (PF: Unstoppable), Impervious Toughness +12, Life Support, Super-Speed +1 (PF: Rapid Attack), Super-Strength +5

Drawbacks: Vulnerable: Bluff [UC: DC 15] [Mod: +1 DC]

Complications: Reputation (Accused criminal, troublemaker), Temper (People who lie to her)

Summary Abilities 56 + Skills 1 (4 ranks) + Feats 2 + Powers 51 + Combat 32 + Saves 10 – Drawbacks -2 = 150 / 150

Movement: Flight 100mph, Super-Speed 10mph
[/sblock]
Vital Statistics:
[sblock]Age: 18 in a few days,Height: 4'11, Weight: 98 lbs., Hair: Blonde, Eyes: Green
Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama

Credits go to the original artist.[/sblock]
Breakout:
[sblock]Chloe is still a little shattered about her breakout. Remanded into her father's custody while the state decides whether or not to press charges, she's been expelled from school, lost all her friends and her boyfriend, all in just over a week.

Chloe was always a little short-tempered. Accused more than once of “being willing to stare down a brick wall if it looked at her cross-eyed,” Chloe struggled in school thanks to her bad attitude and fell in with a bad crowd. Honestly, even if she hadn't had a moment where she “just lost control and all hell broke loose,” she might have still sent Billy Conner to the hospital. She's unlikely to have completely destroyed his parents' pool house though, or to have thrown his truck clear over I-65 onto Interstate 20 causing so many accidents though. While she was waiting for her lawyer she sort of wondered, but it's probably unlikely.

So anyways, she registered. They took her fingerprints. They scolded her. That was the weird thing, the scolding. Usually when grown-ups are that ticked off they raise their voice more, but this time they were pretty reserved, almost like they were afraid of making her angry.

She's been released mainly thanks to the fact that no one's really sure if the tornadoes caused her breakout and the damage or if Chloe went berserk and caused the tornadoes that ripped through Hoover and south Birmingham that night. Part of Chloe isn't quite sure either. Still, they got a confession out of her while she was still shell-shocked casually gripping a steel I-beam and wringing it like a rag with her bare hands with worry, so maybe it's true.

Her friends and the school didn't seem to have any doubts, of course. “Safety of the student body,” was the school's excuse, which sounded about as pathetic coming out of their mouths as it does on paper. As for her friends, some of them probably aren't allowed by their parents to answer her phone calls, but most, most just saw Billy's picture on the front page of the Birmingham News, and the TV news show that made Chloe seem like the most awful, dangerous person on Earth. To tell the truth, Chloe even scares herself a little.

Her Pop has been alright through it all. Better than you'd expect. Chloe keeps waiting for him to freak out, but he just keeps on watching his television shows and drinking his beer just as calm as you please like nothing's happened. Sure, he's got a strange look in his eye sometimes when looking at her – not creepy, mind you – just like he's fussing something out in there still and not ready to talk about it.[/sblock]

 

[Velmont]

I've been lurking around that thread and I was tempted to submit a character. I know the concept already overlaps another one in this thread, as it is a telekinesis, but I'll try my chance.

I've got one question about Dynamic Array, whihc I am less familiar. I create my character with many power in each array. Each group of power are build with 60 PP (the cost of deflection without the Dynamic Alternate Power power feat points). As it is a Dynamic Array, could I, for example, have:

Deflection 7 ranks (42 PP)
Force Field B 8 ranks (16 PP)
Flight B 1 rank (2 PP)

So, having Aegis floating slowly in the air trying to deflect every attack make against his group and still warding himself from direct attack?

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Name: Aegis (PL 10, 150pp)
Secret ID: Martin Brodie
Allegiances: Canadian Amry

“I cover you”​

[SBLOCK=Stats]Str 12, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 12

Toughness +2(+10), Fortitude +6, Reflex +6, Will +4
Attack +4 (melee +4, ranged +8, grapple +5), Defense: 18 (flat 12)
Initiative +2, Notice +10, Luck: 0

FEATS: Accurate Attack, All-Out Attack, Attack Focus (Ranged) x4, Defensive Attack, Dodge Focus x4, Power Attack, Precise Shot x2, Track

SKILLS: Acrobatic [5] +7, Disable Device [10] +11, Intimidate [4] +5, Knowledge (Tactics) [5] +6, Notice [8] +10, Search [10] +11, Stealth [10] +12, Survival [8] +10

POWERS:
Deflect (All ranged attack): 10 ranks [6PP/rank + 9PP = 69PP]
ex: Action (Free) [+1PP/rank]
ex: Ranged [+1PP/rank]
ex: Reflection [+1PP/rank]
ex: Redirection [+1PP/rank]
pf: Alternate Power: Basic Power of a dynamic Array [1PP]

pf: Alternate Power: Dynamic Array [2PP]

Force Field A: 10 ranks [4PP/rank + 3 = 43PP]
ex: Impervious [+1PP/rank]
ex: Affect Others [+1PP/rank]
ex: Ranged [+1PP/rank]
pf: Progession x3 (Affect 10 persons) [3PP]

Force Field B: 8 ranks [2PP/rank = 16PP]
ex: Impervious [+1PP/rank]​

pf: Alternate Power: Dynamic Array [2PP]

Blast A: 10 ranks [3PP/rank= 30PP]
ex: Penetrating [+1PP/rank]

Blast B: 10 ranks [3PP/rank = 30PP]
ex: Area of Effect (Burst) [+1PP/rank]​

pf: Alternate Power: Dynamic Array [2PP]

Trip: 10 ranks [3PP/rank= 30PP]
ex: Knockback [+1PP/rank]
ex: Area of Effect (Cone) [+1PP/rank]

Telekinesis: 10 ranks [2PP/rank +1PP = 21PP]
pf: Presice [1PP]​

pf: Alternate Power: Dynamic Array [2PP]

Flight A: 5 ranks [4PP/rank + 3 = 23PP]
ex: Affect Others [+1PP/rank]
ex: Ranged [+1PP/rank]
pf: Progession x3 (Affect 10 persons) [3PP]

Flight B: 5 ranks [2PP/rank = 10PP]​

PP SPENT: Attributes (20) + Saves (10) + BAB (12) + BDB (8) + Feat (15) + Skills (15) + Powers (69)[/SBLOCK]

[SBLOCK=Breakout]
Afganistan, 50km north of Kandahar
Damned these fanatics thought Aegis. Codename Aegis and Black Panther were walking around the buidling. This was a school. They have been warned, two kamikazes had entered the buidling but there bomb didn't explode. The men were menacing the young girls. They had killed the teacher, an English expatriate, member of Oxfam-International. They needed to be stealthy, to make it fast, or there could be more victims.

Black Panther was walking in front of him. He was approaching the back door. A second team was trying to approach by the side, but one of the men inside was doing the vigil. They would have difficulty to approach without being seen. There team would probably have more difficulty to approach. Aegis' team had to enter by the back and neutralize the two men as quickly as possible while the other team would try to cover them from the windows. During that time, a few soldier where trying to negociate at the front, but everyone knew it was worthless. It was just a diversion.

Black Panther test the door. He makes a sign to tells it is locked. Aegis knells and look around. Nothing suspect. He put down his weapon and take out his lockpicking tools. He quickly unlock the door. He grabs back his weapon and Black Panther open the door slowly. The hallway is empty. On the left is one empty classroom and the administartive locals. On the right, two doors, another empty room and the one where the hostage are. Black Panther enters the hallway, Aegis follow. The classroom door where the hostages were held had been closed, they would need to forced it. Black Panther go on one side of the door, Aegis stands on the other. They contact the head and tells they are in position. They await what seems hours waiting for the ok to go.

They got it. Form that moment, all has happen too fast. Aegis forced the door open with a single kick and Black Panther didn't wait and enter. The fanatic raised his weapon but Black Panther quickly put him down. The vigil at the window turned around but before he could raise his weapon, he recieved a bullet from the soldier who had placed himself under the window. Aegis following Black Panther quickly scan the room. To his right, ten young girl was gathered in a mass and was scared. To his left, a third men was on his knee, working on the bomb, turned toward Aegis with a smile that scared him, but before he could shoot, the bomb detonate.

Aegis reflex was to stand back, protect himself with his arm and ward the girls... like if it could do something. He was expecting to get burned by the explosion, shred by the fragment of the bomb, crush by the buidling who would fall on him. He was dead... but death didn't come. He felt the pain and the pressure. He heard the buidling fall and felt a great pressure on his brain. He felt like he had drunk all the last night. He dared to open his eyes. He had a few serious wounds, but it was far less important then he thought. The girls was unconscious, expect one who was looking at him with large eyes, scared to death. Many were wounded, but none seems to be in a life danger. The building around him had crumbled, but somehow, he was captured with the girls in a dome like pocket. Black Panther seems to be under those rumbles.

Aegis was amazed by his luck. As he starts to relax, he felt his headache going away but he also he heared the dome starting to fail so it stress him up again and the dome stop to move. It took him a few moment to understand what was happening. He had heard of people with powers. Some had started to appear, but he never thought he could be one of them. He tried something, he concentrates his mind and then he tried to push up the rumbles. His clumsy attempt make the dome blow upward, revealing the sun. He was staring a moment at the sky. He heard in his commlink that the two soldiers at the windows was badly hurt, but he didn't heard Black Panther. He was death, but at least, the girls was saved. Damned these fanatics thought Aegis.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Lobo Lurker]

When Wildcard uses his damage power it causes fluctuations to occur in the probability field which ultimately results in one of two things happening: Cellular/structural death/decay or an accident occurring to the target. This power was supposed to be subtle but I'm thinking that it might be more interesting if it wasn't especially if Wildcard causes a meteor or falling space debris to hit his target.

You might want to take 3 ranks of the Indirect power feat. That way an attack can come from any direction.

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Velmont: Your Deflection power would need the extra Action--free [+2] in order to get it down to a free action.

Full > Standard > Move > Free > Reaction.

If I understand what you're trying to do you're making a dynamic Deflection Array with Alternate Powers of Dynamic Alternate Powers? Is the following what you were going for?

Deflect: All +10 (PF: dynamic, EX: action-move [+1], ranged [+1], redirection [+1], reflection [+1]) <70pp array; 7/rank>
- Dynamic AP: Force Field (PF: progression 3, EX: affects others [+1], impervious [+1], ranged [+1]) <4/rank>
- Dynamic AP: Force Field (EX: impervious [+1]) <2/rank>
- Dynamic AP: Blast (EX: penetrating [+1]) <3/rank>
- Dynamic AP: Blast (EX: area-burst [+1]) <3/rank>
- Dynamic AP: Trip (EX: area-cone [+1], knockback [+1]) <3/rank> {I’d recommend the no range flaw}
- Dynamic AP: Telekinesis (PF: precise) <2/rank>
- Dynamic AP: Flight (PF: progression 3, EX: affects others [+1], ranged [+1]) <4/rank>
- Dynamic AP: Flight <2/rank>
Total Cost = 87pp

 

[Lobo Lurker]

I choose (in no particular order):
Vixen, Tesseract, Wildcard and Steelhawk.

Thanks to everyone who submitted, it was a hard decision as there were a lot of good submissions.

For the four above I'll make a rogue's gallery and you can post your characters there. And now that we know who'll be playing... would anyone be averse to having you all be members of the Paranormal Professionals Society? This would give us an easy way for you all to have met eachother previously (as volunteers) as well as providing a bit of background/go-to structure without that structure imposing itself heavily upon you.

 

[Shayuri]

That'd work fine for me...

Tess' breakout is pretty public...so it's not like she'd be hiding it.

I'll post an updated sheet with background shortly!

Thanks for having me!

 

[Relique du Madde]

Cool thanks!

I'll update that damage power as per your suggestion..

Having Wildcard work for the PPS does create a rather interesting situation considering that he's trying to keep the majority of his power's main capabilities a secret. I think it would work fine. :>

I think that Wildcard will try to get away with only disclosing that he could cause other people's powers to act erratically. This at least creates some plausible deniability in regards to his probability control and his "random mishap" damage power.