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<blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8938244" data-attributes="member: 30538"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: red">Azazel</span></span></p><p><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-FvfxjxF/0/66a2a36e/M/qIUaqFn-M.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p>According to the story that she told the police when she was arrested and repeated through every one of her interviews, her name is Valeria Jimenez and she was born in Texas shortly after her parents, admittedly aliens, arrived there. Growing up in poverty, she was easy prey for a human trafficking organization that happened to be run by <em>extraterrestrial</em> aliens, and was subjected to mutating experiments that gave her the ability to alter her form. Having no real options, she wound up working for them in Ecuador, the Philippines, and Bhutan, before they tried to open up shop as a supposed "rejuvenation clinic" in California last year and were caught. She had no useful information about her employers, and was unable to cut a deal, resulting in her being sent to serve her sentence in the Big Rock.</p><p></p><p>The best lies have some truth in them. She really did grow up poor as the child of refugees, and was kidnapped and mutated by experiments, but all of that took place on a planet in the Technate. She acted as a honey trap and sometimes enforcer for the Vaskhane-affiliated gang, unhappy with her life but seeing no way out of it. When they fell on hard times after fleeing Bhutan in the wake of the departure of Thunder Dragon, she saw an opportunity to get out of this life. But she knew that if she revealed her extraterrestrial origins, she would be sent right back to the Technate and the whole mess would start all over again.</p><p></p><p>Medical examinations failed to impeach her story; as yet, Terran science cannot easily distinguish between the various subspecies of humanity, and her mutations could explain many anomalies. An attempt was made to probe her mind to determine if she was telling the truth, but the psychic in question was unable to get through her psychic defenses. (In fact, Helice was the psychic in question, and she did discover the truth with difficulty. But she also discovered how terrified Azazel was of being sent back to the Technate that she decided to pretend otherwise.)</p><p></p><p>Azazel was initially quite happy to serve out her five year sentence, since the lack of privacy was no different from any of her previous living situations and the cells in Mount Graham are larger than any room she has ever before had to herself. This has changed as she has grown more aware of the hostility of the guards towards her and come to realize that it is <em>not</em> sourced in her history of collaboration with aliens, but because of her claimed origins. She is considering joining forces with one of the local groups who seem to have some sort of escape plan going, but expects that she will probably end up "working" for them in the process. She would prefer to avoid that, but ... again ... no better options present themselves.</p><p></p><p><strong>Azazel -- PL 8</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Abilities:</strong></p><p><strong>STR</strong> 2 | <strong>STA</strong> 2 | <strong>AGL</strong> 2 | <strong>DEX</strong> 3 | <strong>FGT</strong> 2 | <strong>INT</strong> 2 | <strong>AWE</strong> 2 | <strong>PRE</strong> 2</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers:</strong></p><p><strong><em>Armored Mind:</em></strong> Immunity 20 (mental effects), Limited to Half Effect - 10 points</p><p><strong><em>Mimicry:</em></strong> Linked Morph 3 (humanoids); Linked Variable 8 (biological traits of copied form), Free Action - 79 points</p><p></p><p><em>Typical Variable Sets:</em></p><p>None, at the moment. Being inside a null field is really inconvenient.</p><p></p><p><strong>Advantages:</strong></p><p>Assessment, Attractive, Evasion, Hide in Plain Sight, Improved Initiative, Ranged Attack 4, Skill Mastery (Insight), Uncanny Dodge.</p><p></p><p><strong>Skills:</strong></p><p>Deception 6 (+8), Expertise: Galactic 5 (+7), Expertise: Current Events 4 (+6), Insight 6 (+8), Investigation 5 (+7), Perception 6 (+8), Stealth 6 (+8).</p><p></p><p><strong>Offense:</strong></p><p>Initiative +6</p><p>Unarmed +2 (Close Damage 2)</p><p></p><p><strong>Defense:</strong></p><p>Dodge 6, Parry 4, Fortitude 4, Toughness 2, Will 7.</p><p></p><p><strong>Totals:</strong></p><p>Abilities 34 + Powers 89 + Advantages 11 + Skills 19 + Defenses 13 = 166 points</p><p></p><p><strong>Offensive PL:</strong> 2*</p><p><strong>Defensive PL:</strong> 4*</p><p><strong>Resistance PL:</strong> 6*</p><p><strong>Skill PL:</strong> 3</p><p></p><p><strong>Complications:</strong></p><p><strong><em>Survival--Motivation. Power Loss</em></strong> (Mimicry, if used to copy an individual with "mystical" traits.) <strong><em>Secret</em></strong> (alien.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davies, post: 8938244, member: 30538"] [size=150][color=red]Azazel[/color][/size] [img]https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-FvfxjxF/0/66a2a36e/M/qIUaqFn-M.png[/img] According to the story that she told the police when she was arrested and repeated through every one of her interviews, her name is Valeria Jimenez and she was born in Texas shortly after her parents, admittedly aliens, arrived there. Growing up in poverty, she was easy prey for a human trafficking organization that happened to be run by [i]extraterrestrial[/i] aliens, and was subjected to mutating experiments that gave her the ability to alter her form. Having no real options, she wound up working for them in Ecuador, the Philippines, and Bhutan, before they tried to open up shop as a supposed "rejuvenation clinic" in California last year and were caught. She had no useful information about her employers, and was unable to cut a deal, resulting in her being sent to serve her sentence in the Big Rock. The best lies have some truth in them. She really did grow up poor as the child of refugees, and was kidnapped and mutated by experiments, but all of that took place on a planet in the Technate. She acted as a honey trap and sometimes enforcer for the Vaskhane-affiliated gang, unhappy with her life but seeing no way out of it. When they fell on hard times after fleeing Bhutan in the wake of the departure of Thunder Dragon, she saw an opportunity to get out of this life. But she knew that if she revealed her extraterrestrial origins, she would be sent right back to the Technate and the whole mess would start all over again. Medical examinations failed to impeach her story; as yet, Terran science cannot easily distinguish between the various subspecies of humanity, and her mutations could explain many anomalies. An attempt was made to probe her mind to determine if she was telling the truth, but the psychic in question was unable to get through her psychic defenses. (In fact, Helice was the psychic in question, and she did discover the truth with difficulty. But she also discovered how terrified Azazel was of being sent back to the Technate that she decided to pretend otherwise.) Azazel was initially quite happy to serve out her five year sentence, since the lack of privacy was no different from any of her previous living situations and the cells in Mount Graham are larger than any room she has ever before had to herself. This has changed as she has grown more aware of the hostility of the guards towards her and come to realize that it is [i]not[/i] sourced in her history of collaboration with aliens, but because of her claimed origins. She is considering joining forces with one of the local groups who seem to have some sort of escape plan going, but expects that she will probably end up "working" for them in the process. She would prefer to avoid that, but ... again ... no better options present themselves. [b]Azazel -- PL 8 Abilities: STR[/b] 2 | [b]STA[/b] 2 | [b]AGL[/b] 2 | [b]DEX[/b] 3 | [b]FGT[/b] 2 | [b]INT[/b] 2 | [b]AWE[/b] 2 | [b]PRE[/b] 2 [b]Powers: [i]Armored Mind:[/i][/b] Immunity 20 (mental effects), Limited to Half Effect - 10 points [b][i]Mimicry:[/i][/b] Linked Morph 3 (humanoids); Linked Variable 8 (biological traits of copied form), Free Action - 79 points [i]Typical Variable Sets:[/i] None, at the moment. Being inside a null field is really inconvenient. [b]Advantages:[/b] Assessment, Attractive, Evasion, Hide in Plain Sight, Improved Initiative, Ranged Attack 4, Skill Mastery (Insight), Uncanny Dodge. [b]Skills:[/b] Deception 6 (+8), Expertise: Galactic 5 (+7), Expertise: Current Events 4 (+6), Insight 6 (+8), Investigation 5 (+7), Perception 6 (+8), Stealth 6 (+8). [b]Offense:[/b] Initiative +6 Unarmed +2 (Close Damage 2) [b]Defense:[/b] Dodge 6, Parry 4, Fortitude 4, Toughness 2, Will 7. [b]Totals:[/b] Abilities 34 + Powers 89 + Advantages 11 + Skills 19 + Defenses 13 = 166 points [b]Offensive PL:[/b] 2* [b]Defensive PL:[/b] 4* [b]Resistance PL:[/b] 6* [b]Skill PL:[/b] 3 [b]Complications: [i]Survival--Motivation. Power Loss[/i][/b] (Mimicry, if used to copy an individual with "mystical" traits.) [b][i]Secret[/i][/b] (alien.) [/QUOTE]
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