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<blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8197102" data-attributes="member: 30538"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: blue">Edeth</span></span></p><p><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-wRddshz/0/1b970c16/S/MichellePfeifferWasp-1-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Despite what she sometimes claims, the woman who just goes by her given name these days has not actually lived more than a thousand years, though she is that far removed from her birth on Cherab. She was born during an age of gods and monsters, much like that which Earth has recently known, but one which ended in war between these miracle-men and -women, and ultimately between them and the mundane examples of their species. The war ended with the most powerful of these 'rising stars' departing from Cherab with the promise that they would one day return, leaving the Chiraben people to pull themselves out of the ashes of the greatest conflict in their history.</p><p></p><p>Though she lost most of her family to the war, Edeth Caulker found it in her heart to forgive the overfolk for what they'd done. Taking solace in a strong belief that all things occurred according to the Master Plan of the Increate, she became a social worker in her adult years, working patiently and tirelessly to help those who'd lost even more than she had in the war and also in the false peace that followed. She believed, and spoke, of her belief that all these troubles were only temporary, and that humanity would rise above them all, even following the rising stars out among the true stars, and hopefully meeting them in greater wisdom than they'd shown so far.</p><p></p><p>She was thirty-two when she met the man and woman who'd change her life. He called himself Hayez, and she could tell that he was a soldier of some sort, yet different from any men of that type that she'd met; a flirt, yes, but a man of heart and hope, too. She went by the strange name Deleh, and showed clear marks of having been twisted by the war, but despite that seemed to be a physician and scientist; whatever else she might be, though, she was the person who belonged at Hayez's side, for all of time to come, whether either of them admitted it or not. They took a room in the house that Edeth managed, and helped her out at the soup kitchen she helped to run, while searching (so they claimed) for a lost friend of theirs. Well, this was a land of the lost, after all.</p><p></p><p>After a week, she began to notice a certain tension in the way that Hayez and Deleh spoke to her, as though they'd learned something horrible about her. She grew frustrated enough to confront them about this, and Hazyez broke down and confessed the truth. They were time travelers, from a distant future where the Chiraben had spread beyond their world as she hoped they might. Star travelers themselves, they had discovered a world with a portal to anywhere and <em>anywhen</em> in the universe, and another member of their crew, a sick man, had fled into the past and changed it. Instead of an Imperium and a Technate in uneasy peace, there now existed a galaxy in an endless war. Hayez and Deleh had passed through the portal to learn what had changed history and set right what had gone wrong.</p><p></p><p>Naturally, Edeth asked what that change had been. Hayez hesitated, and it was left to Deleh to tell her that the change had been that Edeth had lived instead of dying, in three days time.</p><p></p><p>Rejecting the notion that Edeth had to die for the future to live, however, Hayez now proposed that they simply remove her from her proper time, in the belief that this would have the same effect as her death. They could return for their crewman later. Dazed by these revelations, Edeth agreed and went with them to the place where they had entered her world, passing between the Pillars of Eternity for the first time. To their horror, however, the Pillars (which could speak, apparently) revealed that this had just made matters worse. The world created by the first change had been one where recognizable people were at war; the galaxy after this change was one where inhuman monsters streamed across space and warred with each other. Panicking, Edeth passed between the Pillars of Eternity for a second time, returning to the day she was supposed to die.</p><p></p><p>There, she found the missing crewman, and learned that the sickness that Deleh spoke about was an addiction to narcotics. She helped him as best she could, learning from his rants that the world from which he came was no paradise, no utopia, and that he was more typical of the people who lived there than the heroic Hayez and Deleh. This was a man who believed in nothing but himself, and not really even in that, and Edeth recognized in him so many of the sad, broken men who'd filled her own world. She helped him nonetheless. He was as the Increate had made him.</p><p></p><p>And then, events took the course that they were meant to do. She left to perform an errand, taking comfort in routine. As she made her way back to the house, she saw Deleh and Hayez pursuing their 'sick' comrade down the street, and knew that this was the moment. Yet there she was on the sidewalk, safe and sound. She knew that the sick man, for all his nihilism, would not push her into the traffic. She knew that even if he did, Hayez would rescue her, and that Deleh, despite her coldness, could not bring herself to stop him. She was going to live ... and the future would die.</p><p></p><p>It was not a utopia, that gave rise to these people. It was just a world, a collection of worlds, that seemed to be worth fighting for. That seemed to be worth ... and with that thought, Edeth Caulker calmly and deliberately stepped off of the sidewalk into the path of an oncoming truck. It struck her, breaking her leg, and she flew forward into the pavement, breaking her neck. After a moment of great pain, she died.</p><p></p><p>The three TSA officers passed between the Pillars of Eternity, shattered by what they'd seen, and quickly got the hell out of there. For a moment, all was silent on the ancient planet. And then another traveler passed a third time through the Pillars of Eternity. "But," said Edeth, "I <em>died</em>."</p><p></p><p>"Yes," said the Pillars. Apparently, they shielded those who passed between them from not only the potentially lethal paradoxes of time travel, but from all things. Her adventure continued.</p><p></p><p>A few weeks later, one who wielded a Power Prism came to investigate the outcome of the <em>TSV Adventure</em>'s visit to the Pillars of Eternity, and found Edeth there. They took her with them when they returned to Aperion, and in time she joined their company, and in the thirty years since, she has done many great things and much good. Most recently, she volunteered for a mission that has brought her to Earth, a world so much like the one that she left so long ago that it takes her breath away. What she will do, now that she is in Argus' care, remains to be seen. There is a fugitive wielding a Power Prism here, who needs to be dealt with, and there is much other work to be done. But Edeth has never backed down from a challenge yet.</p><p></p><p><strong>Edeth - PL 10</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Abilities:</strong></p><p><strong>STR</strong> 11/1 | <strong>STA</strong> 2 | <strong>AGL</strong> 4 | <strong>DEX</strong> 3 | <strong>FGT</strong> 4 | <strong>INT</strong> 3 | <strong>AWE</strong> 7 | <strong>PRE</strong> 5</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers:</strong></p><p><strong><em>"A Trick or Two":</em></strong> Feature 1 (can hide Power Prism within her body, but cannot use it in in this state.) - 1 point</p><p><strong><em>Power Prism:</em></strong> Removable (-22 points)</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Force Field:</em></strong> Linked Sustained Impervious Protection 12; Linked Sustained Immunity 10 (life support) - 34 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Offensive Applications:</em></strong> Array (27 points)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Basic Blast:</em></strong> Ranged Damage 13, Accurate - 27 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Exo-Armor:</em></strong> Enhanced Advantage 3 (Close Attack 3); Enhanced Strength 10; Enhanced Strength 4, Limited to Lifting - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Explosive Blast:</em></strong> Ranged Burst Area Damage 9 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Hallucinator:</em></strong> Illusion 9 (all senses), Limited to One Subject, Resistable by Will - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Mind Probe:</em></strong> Cumulative Mind Reading 9 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Stun Blast:</em></strong> Ranged Affliction 13 (Resisted by Will; Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated), Accurate - 1 point[</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Tractor-Presser Beam:</em></strong> Move Object 13, Precise - 1 point</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><em>Phased Flight:</em></strong> Flight 11 (4000 MPH), Aquatic; Insubstantial 3; Movement 3 (environmental adaptation [zero-g], space flight 2) - 44 points</li> </ul><p><strong><em>Translator Circuit:</em></strong> Comprehend 2 (understand and speak all languages) - 6 points</p><p></p><p><strong>Advantages:</strong></p><p>Accurate Attack, Assessment, Defensive Attack, Improved Initiative, Move-by Action, Ultimate Effort (Persuasion).</p><p></p><p><strong>Skills:</strong></p><p>Expertise: Galactic 8 (+11), Expertise: Streetwise 5 (+8), Insight 5 (+12), Perception 4 (+11), Persuasion 5 (+10), Stealth 5 (+9).</p><p></p><p><strong>Offense:</strong></p><p>Initiative +8</p><p>Unarmed +7/+4 (Close Damage 11/1)</p><p>Basic Blast +5 (Ranged Damage 13)</p><p>Stun Blast +5 (Ranged Will 13)</p><p>Explosive Blast -- (Ranged Burst Area Damage 9)</p><p></p><p><strong>Defense:</strong></p><p>Dodge 6, Parry 4, Fortitude 4, Toughness 14/2, Will 14</p><p></p><p><strong>Totals:</strong></p><p>Abilities 58 + Powers 95 + Advantages 6 + Skills 16 + Defenses 11 = 186 points</p><p></p><p><strong>Complications:</strong></p><p><strong><em>Responsibility--Motivation. Old-Fashioned Language. Power Loss</em></strong> (prism energy depletes.) <strong><em>Secrets</em></strong> (many.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davies, post: 8197102, member: 30538"] [SIZE=7][COLOR=blue]Edeth[/COLOR][/SIZE] [IMG]https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-wRddshz/0/1b970c16/S/MichellePfeifferWasp-1-S.jpg[/IMG] Despite what she sometimes claims, the woman who just goes by her given name these days has not actually lived more than a thousand years, though she is that far removed from her birth on Cherab. She was born during an age of gods and monsters, much like that which Earth has recently known, but one which ended in war between these miracle-men and -women, and ultimately between them and the mundane examples of their species. The war ended with the most powerful of these 'rising stars' departing from Cherab with the promise that they would one day return, leaving the Chiraben people to pull themselves out of the ashes of the greatest conflict in their history. Though she lost most of her family to the war, Edeth Caulker found it in her heart to forgive the overfolk for what they'd done. Taking solace in a strong belief that all things occurred according to the Master Plan of the Increate, she became a social worker in her adult years, working patiently and tirelessly to help those who'd lost even more than she had in the war and also in the false peace that followed. She believed, and spoke, of her belief that all these troubles were only temporary, and that humanity would rise above them all, even following the rising stars out among the true stars, and hopefully meeting them in greater wisdom than they'd shown so far. She was thirty-two when she met the man and woman who'd change her life. He called himself Hayez, and she could tell that he was a soldier of some sort, yet different from any men of that type that she'd met; a flirt, yes, but a man of heart and hope, too. She went by the strange name Deleh, and showed clear marks of having been twisted by the war, but despite that seemed to be a physician and scientist; whatever else she might be, though, she was the person who belonged at Hayez's side, for all of time to come, whether either of them admitted it or not. They took a room in the house that Edeth managed, and helped her out at the soup kitchen she helped to run, while searching (so they claimed) for a lost friend of theirs. Well, this was a land of the lost, after all. After a week, she began to notice a certain tension in the way that Hayez and Deleh spoke to her, as though they'd learned something horrible about her. She grew frustrated enough to confront them about this, and Hazyez broke down and confessed the truth. They were time travelers, from a distant future where the Chiraben had spread beyond their world as she hoped they might. Star travelers themselves, they had discovered a world with a portal to anywhere and [I]anywhen[/I] in the universe, and another member of their crew, a sick man, had fled into the past and changed it. Instead of an Imperium and a Technate in uneasy peace, there now existed a galaxy in an endless war. Hayez and Deleh had passed through the portal to learn what had changed history and set right what had gone wrong. Naturally, Edeth asked what that change had been. Hayez hesitated, and it was left to Deleh to tell her that the change had been that Edeth had lived instead of dying, in three days time. Rejecting the notion that Edeth had to die for the future to live, however, Hayez now proposed that they simply remove her from her proper time, in the belief that this would have the same effect as her death. They could return for their crewman later. Dazed by these revelations, Edeth agreed and went with them to the place where they had entered her world, passing between the Pillars of Eternity for the first time. To their horror, however, the Pillars (which could speak, apparently) revealed that this had just made matters worse. The world created by the first change had been one where recognizable people were at war; the galaxy after this change was one where inhuman monsters streamed across space and warred with each other. Panicking, Edeth passed between the Pillars of Eternity for a second time, returning to the day she was supposed to die. There, she found the missing crewman, and learned that the sickness that Deleh spoke about was an addiction to narcotics. She helped him as best she could, learning from his rants that the world from which he came was no paradise, no utopia, and that he was more typical of the people who lived there than the heroic Hayez and Deleh. This was a man who believed in nothing but himself, and not really even in that, and Edeth recognized in him so many of the sad, broken men who'd filled her own world. She helped him nonetheless. He was as the Increate had made him. And then, events took the course that they were meant to do. She left to perform an errand, taking comfort in routine. As she made her way back to the house, she saw Deleh and Hayez pursuing their 'sick' comrade down the street, and knew that this was the moment. Yet there she was on the sidewalk, safe and sound. She knew that the sick man, for all his nihilism, would not push her into the traffic. She knew that even if he did, Hayez would rescue her, and that Deleh, despite her coldness, could not bring herself to stop him. She was going to live ... and the future would die. It was not a utopia, that gave rise to these people. It was just a world, a collection of worlds, that seemed to be worth fighting for. That seemed to be worth ... and with that thought, Edeth Caulker calmly and deliberately stepped off of the sidewalk into the path of an oncoming truck. It struck her, breaking her leg, and she flew forward into the pavement, breaking her neck. After a moment of great pain, she died. The three TSA officers passed between the Pillars of Eternity, shattered by what they'd seen, and quickly got the hell out of there. For a moment, all was silent on the ancient planet. And then another traveler passed a third time through the Pillars of Eternity. "But," said Edeth, "I [I]died[/I]." "Yes," said the Pillars. Apparently, they shielded those who passed between them from not only the potentially lethal paradoxes of time travel, but from all things. Her adventure continued. A few weeks later, one who wielded a Power Prism came to investigate the outcome of the [I]TSV Adventure[/I]'s visit to the Pillars of Eternity, and found Edeth there. They took her with them when they returned to Aperion, and in time she joined their company, and in the thirty years since, she has done many great things and much good. Most recently, she volunteered for a mission that has brought her to Earth, a world so much like the one that she left so long ago that it takes her breath away. What she will do, now that she is in Argus' care, remains to be seen. There is a fugitive wielding a Power Prism here, who needs to be dealt with, and there is much other work to be done. But Edeth has never backed down from a challenge yet. [B]Edeth - PL 10 Abilities: STR[/B] 11/1 | [B]STA[/B] 2 | [B]AGL[/B] 4 | [B]DEX[/B] 3 | [B]FGT[/B] 4 | [B]INT[/B] 3 | [B]AWE[/B] 7 | [B]PRE[/B] 5 [B]Powers: [I]"A Trick or Two":[/I][/B] Feature 1 (can hide Power Prism within her body, but cannot use it in in this state.) - 1 point [B][I]Power Prism:[/I][/B] Removable (-22 points) [LIST] [*][B][I]Force Field:[/I][/B] Linked Sustained Impervious Protection 12; Linked Sustained Immunity 10 (life support) - 34 points [*][B][I]Offensive Applications:[/I][/B] Array (27 points) [LIST] [*][B][I]Basic Blast:[/I][/B] Ranged Damage 13, Accurate - 27 points [*][B][I]Exo-Armor:[/I][/B] Enhanced Advantage 3 (Close Attack 3); Enhanced Strength 10; Enhanced Strength 4, Limited to Lifting - 1 point [*][B][I]Explosive Blast:[/I][/B] Ranged Burst Area Damage 9 - 1 point [*][B][I]Hallucinator:[/I][/B] Illusion 9 (all senses), Limited to One Subject, Resistable by Will - 1 point [*][B][I]Mind Probe:[/I][/B] Cumulative Mind Reading 9 - 1 point [*][B][I]Stun Blast:[/I][/B] Ranged Affliction 13 (Resisted by Will; Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated), Accurate - 1 point[ [*][B][I]Tractor-Presser Beam:[/I][/B] Move Object 13, Precise - 1 point [/LIST] [*][B][I]Phased Flight:[/I][/B] Flight 11 (4000 MPH), Aquatic; Insubstantial 3; Movement 3 (environmental adaptation [zero-g], space flight 2) - 44 points [/LIST] [B][I]Translator Circuit:[/I][/B] Comprehend 2 (understand and speak all languages) - 6 points [B]Advantages:[/B] Accurate Attack, Assessment, Defensive Attack, Improved Initiative, Move-by Action, Ultimate Effort (Persuasion). [B]Skills:[/B] Expertise: Galactic 8 (+11), Expertise: Streetwise 5 (+8), Insight 5 (+12), Perception 4 (+11), Persuasion 5 (+10), Stealth 5 (+9). [B]Offense:[/B] Initiative +8 Unarmed +7/+4 (Close Damage 11/1) Basic Blast +5 (Ranged Damage 13) Stun Blast +5 (Ranged Will 13) Explosive Blast -- (Ranged Burst Area Damage 9) [B]Defense:[/B] Dodge 6, Parry 4, Fortitude 4, Toughness 14/2, Will 14 [B]Totals:[/B] Abilities 58 + Powers 95 + Advantages 6 + Skills 16 + Defenses 11 = 186 points [B]Complications: [I]Responsibility--Motivation. Old-Fashioned Language. Power Loss[/I][/B] (prism energy depletes.) [B][I]Secrets[/I][/B] (many.) [/QUOTE]
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