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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 1737541" data-attributes="member: 12332">Barroom Blitz:  Old FashionedOld Fashioned.  The necromancer Samuel Graves sought a protector and a servant in the year 1823.  After months of research he uncovered a powerful incantation that should have fit the bill.  This spell would be cast in the presence of one of the Restless Dead, a ghost, and would bind the unhallowed dead once more to its earthly shell, reanimating any remains ... permanently.Unfortunately for Samuel the ghost he chose was one of his own creation, the soul of a local man who had discovered Samuel's secret research and whom Samuel had silenced with fell magic.  The soul of the man was ripped from his body, but refused to depart and lingered about Samuel's secluded home, moaning through the night.  Samuel had hoped to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and rid himself of his bogart as well as create a powerful undead servant.  He uncovered the body, buried some five years in the garden, and brought the bones into his laboratory.  The ritual did not go quite as planned.Some mistranslation in the original text or Samuel's notes caused the portion of the spell designed to bind the spirit to the necromancer to fail.  He fused the restless spirit to its old, dead bones, but could not bend its will to his own.  At the conclusion of the ceremony the revenant stumbled to its feet, locked its burning hollow sockets on Samuel, and slowly choked the life from him with its cold, boney hands.After that day, the corpse that would be known as "Old Fashioned" wandered the earth, searching with constant futility for some magic or being that could free its spirit and let him finally rest in peace.  Eventually the Russian discovered Old Fashioned and convinced him to join The Barroom Blitz, turning the undead thing's indominatable existance to the cause of good.STAT BLOCK"OLD FASHIONED, PL: 10, Undead Avenger, Name: Uknown, Male?, Size: Medium; INIT:  0, DEF 12/12;  SPEED 30;  MELEE +4, RANGED +4, MENTAL +6, SV: DMG +15, FORT +5, REF 0, WILL +2;  STR 10, DEX 10, CON 20, INT 14, WIS 14, CHA 8. SKILLS: Disguise +5, Intimidate +6, History +2. FEATS: Immunity (Super) (Hunger), Immunity (Super) (Suffocation), Immunity (Super) (Pressure), Immunity (Super) (Exhaustion), Immunity (Super) (Poison), Immunity (Super) (Critical Hits), Immunity (Super) (Disease), Immunity (Super) (Heat), Immunity (Super) (Cold), Durability (Super) (lethal dmg < = to dmg save is stun), Radio Hearing (Super) (can hear radio signals), Radio Broadcasting (Super) (can transmit radio signals), Startle (intimidate target, loses dodge bonus), Point Blank Shot (+1 to hit/dmg ranged attacks in 30 ft), Precise Shot (no penalty attacking targets in melee ). POWERS: REINCARNATE (UNDEATH) [+10], [Full] [Personal] [Instant] [save:N/A], Extra: Never Say Die [+10], Extra: Protection [+10], SubExtra: Impervious [+10], Extra: Amazing Save (DMG) [+10], WEAPON (.44 REVOLVER) [+4], [Half] [Touch/Normal] [Instant] [save<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />MG]. COST: abilities 16, combat 16, skills 6, feats 28, powers 84, weakness 0, total 150. "</blockquote>

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