Shalimar said:
ByteRynn, if you are applying the range flaw to disintegrate then it is actually a -2 flaw because disintegrate is actually a linked strike and drain both bought up to ranged. Without the range it simply becomes the 3pp/rank power Corrosion.
If that is indeed the case, then I have it at 7 ranks as well.
I also took the liberty of drafting a possible how we met story.
Origin of the team:
[sblock]Entrapper has been working as a hero much longer than any of the others. Since donning the guise of The Entrapper he has become somewhat more accepted by the city’s mainstream heroes. Missing his time in a team he has been slowly putting word out that he is looking to put together a team of non-affiliated heroes. Through this process, he has managed to meet up with Century Girl who enjoys the stories that Entrapper can tell her about her father. He even made friends with her by giving her some of his old Centurian memorabilia.
Ben Braddock and John Tyler both came to the University without roommates, so they were put together in the dorms. Last year, before Braddock had managed to unlock the secrets of his amulet, his roommate mysteriously disappeared. His efforts to figure out what happened to his roommate were met with dead ends. Eventually, John returned, refusing to offer an explanation of where he had been. Ben and John continued as friends, going to classes and such. Soon after, Ben discovered his powers, and both friends went to great lengths to hide the fact that they had both become heroes.
In Glory’s exploits as a hero, he ran into Century Girl a few times, all, notably, rescuing people from house fires. The two heroes have become friends. One night, after doing a short-term team-up, the two talked while flying back to campus. Glory and Century girl saw an explosion in one of the campus’ labs, and went to investigate. Villains had broken in to steal some research, and the scientist being attacked was managing to hold many of them off with some kind of invisible fields. Glory and Century Girl joined in the fray and another hero entered the fight soon after-Nanite. During the fight, many of the heroes present get wounded, but they manage to win. Mid-fight, the scientist who was holding off the villains makes the decision to become a hero, and to enlist these other heroes if possible. At the end of the fight, as Glory is healing those who need it, and the heroes are introducing themselves to each other (using their hero names, of course), all of those present mistake his introduction as “Sebastian” as him calling himself “Bastion.” As they conversation continued, Mr. Neumann grew to like that code name, and began answering to it. As the four heroes started talking about forming a team, Century Girl mentioned that she new someone who would be perfect to help-her friend, the Entrapper.
Nanite and Glory arrive back to their dorm around the same time. They are both visibly winded. Neither suspects a thing.[/sblock]
I still havn't managed to work Mneumonic into the story. The obvious and easy thing would be to convert the Albright Institute into a part of the University and have him arrive to help fight the villains as well. I would like to more closely link him to The Entrapper somehow, making him less of an outsider in this overall scenario. I sort of see The Entrapper as the leader of this team as he has age and experience on all of the others, so having him as an outsider to the rest might work, afterall, it is lonely at the top.
If you hate this rough backstory, it won't hurt my feelings. It was the labor of 25 minutes.
