Mutants and Masterminds (Editors Thread & OOC)

[Samnell]

My Speedster

Mark McNamara
Description:
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 100 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
Costume: as yet undecided
Identity: Public

Abilities:
STR: 10 (+0)
DEX: 20 (+5)
CON: 10 (+0)
INT: 12 (+1)
WIS: 10 (+0)
CHR: 20 (+5)
(Total ability pp = 22)

Saves:
Damage +5
Fort +0
Reflex +13
Will +0
(Total save pp = 0)

Attacks:
Base +4 (12 pp)
Melee +9
Ranged +9

Defense:
Base +3 (6 pp)
Defense 18 (vs multiple foes, 19 vs. single) 26/27 with superspeed
Flat Footed 3
Initiative +13

Hero Points: 4
Speed: 70 (sprint 17,920 ~3.39 miles, 2036 mph, completes routine tasks in 1/256 of normal time)

Skills:
Swim +5
(Total pp spent in skill 4)

Feats:
Attack Finesse
Dodge
Evasion
Heroic Surge
Move-By Attack
Rapid Strike
(Total pp spent in feats 12)

Super Powers: [source: mutation or equivalent]
Super Charisma +4 [cost: 2pp/level]
Super-Speed +8 [cost: 7pp/level]
*Immunity (heat)
*Mach One Punch
*Wall Run
*Water Run

(Total pp spent: 127)
(Banked pp: 7)
(Overall total pp: 134)

Background: On orphan before he was a year old with no living relations, Mark McNamara was placed in the custody of an order of nuns who run an orphanage in Southern California. He ran away at age ten for reasons lost with the brain cells to whatever drugs he could get his hands on at the time. Living on the fringes of society for years, he recently developed superhuman speed while fleeing a drug deal gone bad; a fact he discovered when he found himself suddenly miles from the confrontation in a few seconds. As an added bonus, his previously poor interpersonal skills (part of the reason the deal went bad in the first place) reached heightened levels as well.

Mark's highly public display of his powers drew attention and eventually landed him in a drug rehab program where he was encouraged to take up sports to help deal with the cravings. He settled on swimming and chose to cooperate with hopes of taking up acting and getting rich. Considering his elite abilities, he was transferred to the UN's special facility for young elites in the Sahara for remedial education and instruction on the use of his powers...but not before he managed to shred several sets of clothing and ruin a dozen pieces of furniture trying to sit down and get dressed at 1800 miles per hour, which he still hasn't quite mastered.

EDIT: added BG, fixed error in miles per hour speed.

EDIT: added banked pp.

EDIT: Added heroic surge, banked remainder of PP.

EDIT: Updated to reflect points spent since creation in Points Spent listing.

EDIT: Updated to add banked pp and Immunity (heat)

EDIT: Added the long missing superspeed bonus to my defense.

EDIT: Added overall total PP listing. Spend 3 pp to increase BAB to +4

 

[Hammerhead]

I'm kicking a few ideas in my head, and I should be able to post a character on Monday or Tuesday. I'm sorry for the delay, but I'm currently delayed for the weekend. Currently, I'm thinking a sorcerer, a martial artist, or a character with gravity powers, but these are rough outlines.

 

[Samnell]

The Water Guy, version 2.0

Edit: Decided on the speedster, so no longer relevant. Removed to avoid confusion.

 

[Thain]

Sex change!

Okay, slight change... Consider Carter Cromwell to be the Earth-2 version of Arcarius. Heck, we could add a Morison style plot twist and make them twins! In our universe Olivia was born, on Earth-2 it was Carter who lived to become the Marvelous Marksman! The Angel of Arrows! England's Own, Arcarius!

Arcarius II

Name: Olivia Cromwell
Full Name: Mary Elizibeth Oliver Cromwell
Code Name: Arcarius (from Late Latin arcarius, archer)
Age: 18
Sex: Feale
DOB: April 25th of May 1995 A.D.
POB: Huntingdonshire, England
Ethnicity: Anglo-Saxon
Nationality: English
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Light Green
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 180 lbs.
Family: Charles Cromwell (father, 52) Janet Cromwell (mother, 48) Emma Cromwell (sister, 17) Blake Cromwell (brother, 15) Winston Cromwell (brother, 8) Lord Hugh Cromwell, Earl of Huntingtonshire (paternal grandfather, 73) Montgomery Price (maternal grandfather, 68)
Hobbies: Archery and Target Shooting, Hunting, Horseback Riding
Dislikes: Computers, American-style Football, Fantastic literature
Fav. Food: Beer
Least Favorite: American Beer
Fav. Subject: Biology
Least Favorite: Mathematics or Computers

Olivia Cromwell comes from a well-to-do family of rather low placed aristocrats (her grandfather holds a nonheriditary peerage) that operates a successful company that produces hunting equipment, like bows, arrows and other accessories. Olivia was an avid hunter and a gifted amateur in the world of competitive archery. There were even hopes of her competing at the Olympic level. She was ten years old the night comet passed over head, and her powers have been blossoming slowly ever sense then... culminating in her gaining telescopic vision, preternatural dexterity and most bizarrely the ability too see through almost all inorganic matter! Olivia now serves as spokesmodel to her families line of Arcarius Archery© products, and has enrolled at the UN's Gifted Youth Institute seeking help refining and controlling her "x-ray" vision which she finds very difficult to control... keeping it "shut off" for any length of time causes massive headaches, and worse still it ruins her aim!

QUOTE: “Ne’er you mind the distance, pet! I can make this shot.”

COSTUME: To be redesigned, slightly.

 

[Thain]

Samnell: I like the speedster; the water guy is a very cool high-concept character, but would be a real bear to play, especially by post. (CHA 20! Don't see the conection to superspeed, but hey if you always move fast... )

Sen: Teleporters are always fun and nice to have around. You also seem to be the only one of us that remembered or had the points to spend on a commlink or body armour! I for one know where my first XP will go... then I'll blow it all on Gadgets.

Aust: Nice teep, but IMHO you might consider backign off on tk or maybejust cutting some extras and taking more skills. YMMV of course.

Set: Gotta just give a big 'wow' on Paladin. Is it just me or our we completly setting ourselves up as 'allied polar opposites'? All-American Boy / Olde English Girl; Middle Class / Upper Class; Melee brawler / Ranged sharpshooter; Football Hero Athlete / Football Snob Athlete; Team leader / Self-reliant... Batman and Supes got nothing on us!

Toki: Loving this and it hasn't started yet! Aberrant was always such a cool setting, although White-Wolf made to mood so dark. Thanks for brething a little Silver Age (Okay, maybe Bronze) into it for us.

Halle: And you thought you took flak for a long 'thank you' speech!

 

[Samnell]

Samnell: I like the speedster; the water guy is a very cool high-concept character, but would be a real bear to play, especially by post. (CHA 20! Don't see the conection to superspeed, but hey if you always move fast... )

That's how I'm leaning. The charisma on the speedster is a secondary thing that's supposed to both give him a goal (hey, he can be an actor!) and a problem (trying to clean up his act, but it's soooo easy to just talk his way out of trouble).

I'm going to do up the background for the speedster tonight and see if I'm still liking him as much as I am now.

 

[Tokiwong]

Looking good guys, I will be starting the main game thread on Monday, and I will be going over the characters on Sunday, have fun, time to go run my first live game of M&M, in the same universe today

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

Kewl ideas all... don't worry about the "hard" work there Samnell, I thought that stuff up in 10 minutes or so

 

[Hammerhead]

The Comet

Ryan Praloski

Abilities: [26 points]
Strength 18 +4
Dexterity 18 +4
Constitution 16 +3
Intelligence 10 +0
Wisdom 16 +3
Charisma 10 +0

Damage +5 (+3 Constitution, +2 Feat)
Fortitude +5 (+3 Constitution, +2 Feat)
Reflex +6 (+4 Dexterity, +2 Feat)
Will +5 (+3 Wisdom, +2 Feat)

Defense 18 (+4 Base, +4 Dexterity) [8 points]

Initiative +8 (+4 Dexterity, +4 Feat)

Hero Points: 4

Base Attack +6 [18 points]
Melee +10 (+6 Base, +3 Strength)
Ranged +10 (+6 Base, +4 Dexterity)

Skills: Diplomacy +2, Listen +5, Spot +5 [2 points]

Feats: [14 points] Toughness, Great Fortitude, Lightning Reflexes, Iron Will, Improved Initiative, Talented: Spot and Listen, Heroic Surge

Cosmic Power +8 [76 points]
-Cosmic Energy Blast +8
-Cosmic Force Field (Extra: Energy Field) +8
-Flight 40'
-Immunity: Aging, Critical Hits, Disease, Exhaustion, Poison, Pressure, Starvation, Suffocation
-Extra: Cosmic Boost +8, affects, Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution

-Flaw: Missing Element: Cosmic Senses, Transmutation
-Power Stunts: Dual Damage, Healing

Weakness: Disturbing [+10 points]
3 points remaining

Ryan Praloski was an ordinary high school senior. His grades were average, and good enough for Ryan to keep his position as a second-string cornerback on the football team. Although he had many friends, none were particularily close, only the kind you went to parties or movies with. His parents, ordinary, boring accountants, payed little attention to their mediocre son, instead lavishing their time on Ryan's younger sister, a child prodigy who excelled at math, and could perform complex calculus operations at eleven. He was completely average in all regards, and had little plans for his future except to enter state college, major undeclared. Until his transformation.

Ryan found himself struggling with his precalculus exam. He had a D- entering the test, and found he knew nothing. He would fail his first class, and would have to be held back, or attend summer school. His parents would explode.

Something exploded, with certainty. His desk was blasted apart by cosmic energy, and the dreaded test was destroyed. Afraid of his newfound powers, Ryan fled the room and sprinted out of the room with unreached speed. Looking down as he ran, Ryan realized his feet weren't even touching the ground; he was flying. He did not return home for several days, hiding in the parks, not using his powers again. However, he was stared or shunned by any that saw him, for he was surrounded by a field of energy that destroyed anything nearby.

Then, the Facility approached Ryan, offering him a chance to control his powers. Ryan accepted, of course, unsure of his future. He chose his codename as the unoriginal "Comet," reflecting both the source and the effects of his powers.

He found he could control his energy field, and learned he could project blasts of cosmic power, as well as create fields of force and strengthen himself. He also learned of his various immunities, that he never needed sleep or air to breathe. However, his mundane, brown hair and brown eyes appearance, was ruined. He now glowed with purple cosmic energy, and his eyes also glowed.

Ryan is unsure of his powers and himself; he had never thought of himself as special or talented in anyway, not did he feel he could ever do anything with himself. He's unused to being an "Elite," and not sure if he wants to.

 

[Tokiwong]

Good characters all so far, I like it, a post either later tonight to get started or tommorow during the day, by the way started a storyhour for my live game started in the same universe... fun stuff... check it out HERE!!!!