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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8939990" data-attributes="member: 30538">Gunsmith<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-R3mhR3n/0/3024dfd5/M/09d1a9a3976ba645f0e8085fb279655f-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />In their struggles against the Pythonian Insurgency, one of the greatest allies of JSOT was Dr. John Black Wolf of the Morrison Institute. The brilliant scientist who developed a method of mass producing blaster weaponry also contributed many more scientific solutions to the challenges they faced, especially those produced by the mysterious masked individual known as the Armorer, who devised a similar method that granted blaster weapons to the Pythons. Despite their long-distance rivalry, the two scientists never met. Which is understandable, since they were the same person.At his 1999 trial, the attorney representing Dr. Black Wolf claimed that he had been the victim of a chemical accident involving the notorious Jekyll formula, shortly before the start of the Insurgency, that left him with a psyche switching between altruistic and self-serving patterns of behavior, with neither personality aware of the other. Some journals written by both personalities (but never introduced into evidence) indicate that this was specious; whatever they might have been at the start, by 1985 they knew that they shared a body and viewed the other as a competitor. Regardless, the defense was rejected by the jury and Dr. Black Wolf and the Armorer received two consecutive life sentences for their treasonous actions. He (or they) died in 2006.As far as is definitely known, Kenny Black Wolf is the only child of Dr. John Black Wolf and his common law wife Antonia Beck, herself a Morrison Institute researcher. After the arrest of the Armorer in 1998, his mother dropped him off at the doors of a think tank and vanished. The news that the child of one of the worst offenders of the Pythonian era was now ensconced within the think tank did a number on its already dwindling enrollment, and Kenny was made a scapegoat for this by the staff as well as being bullied by fellow students. When the operation finally shut down, when he was fourteen, he was left without real prospects.While all this had quenched whatever idealistic tendencies he might have possessed, Kenny seemed to have no real interest in villainy, either. He obtained a number of post-secondary degrees through correspondence courses while working in mundane, customer service jobs which tended to dematerialize when his history became known, such as when he was sought out for interviews after the death of his father. (He offered only a single word in response: "Good.") At one point, the Morrison Institute offered him a position, which he declined politely.It would not be until 2011 that the stresses of his life finally became too much for him. His descent began in 2011, shortly after the public debut of Cadmus and a new spate of articles about the inventor Marc Bolton and his role in ending the think tank era. At his trial, his defense attempted to claim that he had suffered a breakdown inspired by his anger over what he perceived as the end of a comfortable existence within the system, but this defense, too, was rejected. His first sentence was relatively light, but he escaped all the same and began four years of criminal activities as Gunsmith.He was finally imprisoned in the Big Rock in 2015, under the assumption that his talents, believed to be of mutant origin, would be suppressed by its null field. He was dully surprised to learn that they were not. After considering escape, however, he realized that revealing this development would likely result in his death, since he would be demonstrating that he could not be confined. Besides, the best gunsmith in the world can do little without access to tools. Thus, he created a niche for himself as someone who would design weapons for others, having the requests smuggled in and designs smuggled out by his attorney.He is dimly aware that some of his work has been commissioned by Saturn, which is probably keeping him protected from the corrupted guards. Honestly, he does not care who uses his work or for what purposes it might be used. The money comes in either way, and pays for all sorts of comforts that he has never been able to enjoy.Gunsmith -- PL 8Abilities:STR 2 | STA 2 | AGL 2 | DEX 4 | FGT 3 | INT 7 | AWE 4 | PRE 0Powers:Gunsmithing: Enhanced Advantages 2 (Inventor, Ultimate Skill [Technology]), Limited to creating weapons; Quickness 3, Limited to designing and building weapons - 2 pointsModular Gun: Ranged Multiattack Damage 5, Variable 2 (technological), Removable (-3 points) - 14 pointsAdvantages:Accurate Attack, Defensive Roll, Equipment 6*, Evasion, Improved Initiative, Improvised Tools, Inventor, Luck, Power Attack, Quick Draw, Ultimate Skill (Technology).Equipment:30 points as needed for any mission, normally including Body Armor (Protection 3).Skills:Athletics 6 (+8), Close Combat: Unarmed 6 (+9), Expertise: Streetwise 5 (+12), Insight 6 (+10), Intimidation 10 (+10), Ranged Attack: Gun 7 (+11), Technology 6 (+13), Vehicles 8 (+12).Offense:Initiative +6Unarmed +9 (Close Damage 2)Gun +11 (Ranged Multiattack Damage 5) Defense:Dodge 7, Parry 9, Fortitude 4, Toughness 4/2, Will 6.Totals:Abilities 48 + Powers 16 + Advantages 13 + Skills 27 + Defenses 15 = 119 pointsOffensive PL: 8Defensive PL: 7*Resistance PL: 5Skill PL: 8Complications:Mercenary--Complication. Secret (not nullified.) Vulnerable (emotional effects.)* Obviously, he does not have this while incarcerated, but will seek to change that quickly if freed.</blockquote>

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