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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 798704" data-attributes="member: 59">Ursus Maior (Real Name: Ford Sanders)Age: 24, Male; Occupation: Adventurer (ex-Student)Height: 5'8, Weight: 215 lbs.  Eyes: Blue, Hair: Brown.Str 20/+11 (+5 base, +6 Super Strength)Dex 20/+5 (+5 base)Con 20/+5 (+5 base)Int 10Wis 16 (+3 base)Cha 15 (+2 base)BAB +10, Melee +15 (+10 base, +5 Str), Ranged +15 (+10 base, +5 Dex); Defense 20 (+5 base, +5 Dex, 15 flatfooted); Dmg +5 (+5 Con), Fort +5 (+5 Con), Ref +5 (+5 Dex), Will +3 (+3 Wis); Hero Points 5Skills: Climb +25 (10 ranks, +5 Str, +6 Super Strength, +4 Claws), Jump +21 (10 ranks, +5 Str, +6 Super Strength), Intimidate +21 (10 ranks, +11 Str)Feats: Attack Focus (Grapple), Endurance, Improved Grapple, Improved Pin, Power Attack, Rapid Takedown, Takedown Attack, Track, Scent, StartlePowers: Immovability +5 (cost: 1 pp/rank), Natural Weapon: Claws +2 [Extra: Climbing] (cost: 3 pp/rank), Super Senses +1 (cost: 2 pp/rank), Super Strength +6 [Stunt: Lifting (Lifting Capacity Doubled), Extra: Protection +6] (cost: 5 pp/rank).Weakness: Disturbing.  Ursus Maior slowly is becoming an anthropomorphic bear for better or for worse.  It could be the human eyes that freak people out.  His alter-ego is a moot point by now.History:  Ford Sanders generally had a normal life right up until he was 22 — that's when the hair started growing.  At first he thought it was nothing — "I'll be one of those guys that has some extra body hair.  If it gets out of control, I'll worry about it then."  He simply continued on with his studies (undeclared major, likely pre-law) at the local college.  It wasn't until the end of the next year that he noticed that his hands had become thicker, his fingers shorter, almost paw-like.  Well, not quite almost.  They were paws.  His ears started shifting back and becoming rounder and his jaw and nose was beginning to project forward, almost like a muzzle.  His teeth started to become oddly sharp, too.  Now, Ford had never been known for his exceptional intelligence, and it wasn't until he noticed his teeth that he figured out why his last girlfriend had broken up with him.  By the time he was 23, he was, more or less a bear-man hybrid, slowly and continually shifting over to a more completely ursine form.  He'd already gone on indefinite leave from his school, bought an apartment in Freedom City, and supported himself with a variety of jobs that he could perform via telecommuting, mostly graphic design.  As he's become more ursine, he's become bitter — he's sick of staying inside to avoid the comments and stares of other folk and he wants his old life back.  Unfortunately, he feels like he's going to have to accept his new life on its own terms and make it work for him.  —3x3—Allies: (1) Audrey Murrell — Ford's ex-girlfriend.  Despite the fact that she broke up with him, Audrey's kept in intermittent contact with her ursine ex.  She's currently a graduate student in Russian literature at UW-FC.  (2) W.N. Whalen — Ford's landlord and next door neighbor.  Slightly eccentric, exceedingly kind, W.N. is more or less the only person to see much of Ford in a long time.  He's a former philosophy professor at UW-FC (Ford found the apartment through an advertisement posted on campus), but was let go of by the University for a strange interest in the occult and supernatural.  (3) Lt. Rick Dolphin — a friend of Whalen's since high school, Dolphin currently receives a percentage of Ford's rent money from Whalen to keep people off the young man's back and away from his apartment.  Lt. Dolphin works in the Detective Bureau of the Freedom City P.D.Enemies: (1) UW-FC Department of Zoology — since Ford's transformation became apparent, the Dept. of Zoology has been after him for all sorts of testing.  They may or may not be functioning as a front for another organization (most likely the US government in Ford's mind), but Ford still doesn't want to stick around to find out.  (2) Freedom City Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — almost as annoying as the zoologists, Ford wants none of their help or protection.  He'd rather they just left him alone.  (3) A strange group of folks have recently been lurking around Ford's apartment.  He's never seen them, but they smell different than the FCSPCA and the Zoology Dept.  Not a good sign by any stretch.Locations: (1) Ford Sanders's Apartment — located downtown in Freedom City, this one bedroom apartment is neat, clean, and, best of all, inconspicuous.  (2) University of Washington at Freedom City — a major research university located on the water, UW-FC is the premier public university in the area.Heroic Motivation: Combination of Unwanted Powers and Seeks Justice.Power Source: Unknown.  Suspected mutation as a result of the Atomic Brain's actions years earlier.Edits 4/2/03: Now using Str for Intimidate.  Claws giving +4 to climbing (House Rule, per your post later in this thread, Sen).  Dropped Indomitable Will (+2 pp) and Added Super Senses +1 (cost: 2 pp).</blockquote>

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