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Absent a RG Thread, this will have to do. New version of Torque:
TORQUE [PL 10] 150pp
Concept: High-school kid who’s just gained kinetic and friction control powers, and also a strange secondary mutation: pheromones that attract the opposite sex.
Appearance: Caucasian, 16 years old, 5’8”, 165 lbs, dyed short black hair, piercing green eyes, eyebrow ring, nose ring, tattoos side of neck, right shoulder, left forearm, back of both hands, usually wearing jeans and a black concert t-shirt of some kind or another.
Trade-Offs: +12 Toughness / +8 Defense
[sblock=ABILITY SCORES]
ABILITY SCORES
STR 10
DEX 16
CON 13
INT 14
WIS 11
CHA 14/24
Subtotal: 18pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=ATTACK, DAMAGE, SAVES]
ATTACK, DAMAGE, SAVES
BAB +6
BDB +6
TOUGH +1/+3
FORT +3
REFLEX +8
WILL +5
Subtotal: (36+18) 56pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=SKILLS]
SKILLS
Bluff [4] +11, Computers [2] +4, Disable Device [2] +4, Gather Information [4] +11, Knowledge (physical sciences) [2] +4, Knowledge (pop culture) [4] +6, Knowledge (technology) [2] +4, Perform (dance) [4] +11, Perform (singing) [6] +13, Perform (stringed) [6] +13.
36 ranks total
Subtotal: (9+54) 63pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=FEATS]
FEATS
Attractive [2], Defensive Roll [2], Dodge Focus [2], Favored Environment (Frictionless), Move-by Action, Taunt.
Subtotal: (9+63) 72pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=POWERS]
POWERS
ENHANCED CHARISMA 10. 10pp.
FORCE FIELD 9. 9pp.
FRICTION CONTROL ARRAY 10 [30pp array; Based on Environmental Control (Hampered Movement (One Quarter); Ex: Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank); PF: Dynamic (applied to array), DAP – Apply Penetrating to a Physical Attack (Ex: Loses if Applied to Other (+0), Perception Range (+2); 3pp/rank), AP – Blast (Heat; Ex: Concentration Duration (+1), Perception Range (+1); Fl: Limited (Moving Objects Only; -1); 3pp/rank), DAP – Environmental Control (Extreme Heat; Ex: Perception Range (+1); 3 pp/rank), DAP – Move Object (Ex: Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank), AP – Paralyze (Ex: Perception Range (+2); Fl: Slow (-1); 3pp/rank), AP - Snare (Ex: Area Burst (+1), Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank), AP – Trip (Ex: Area Burst (+1), Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank)]. 41pp.
IMMUNITY 6 [Own Powers, Heat Damage]. 6pp.
PHEROMONES 2 [Fl: Only Opposite Sex (-1), 5ft Range (-1)]. 4pp.
SPEED 2. 2pp.
SUPER-MOVEMENT 3 [Sure-Footed, Wall-Crawling, Water-Walking]. 6pp.
Subtotal: (78+72) 150pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=COMPLICATIONS]
1. Secret Identity (Jared Stockwell)
2. Has Trouble Fending Off Female Attention.
[/sblock]
[sblock=BACKGROUND IN BRIEF]
Born to James and Elizabeth Stockwell, Jared has lived in Freedom City for all of his 16 years. His father, an astrophysicist specializing in aerodynamics, is a highly sought-after consultant, and has worked for AEGIS for the past five years. Jared's mother, Elizabeth, an independent talent scout, worked with Jared after the teenager formed his own band, and recently managed to book the band, Taunting Nietzche, on a national tour showcase featuring other teenage bands.
During the summer between his Freshman and Sophomore years, Jared worked for his father in a number of experiments. Following one of these experiments, Jared noticed that he was slipping and sliding a lot, often for no apparent reason. Jared also noticed that he was faster on his skateboard, and during the school year, would sometimes have trouble holding onto things like basketballs and metal objects during shop class.
Eventually, Jared learned he could control this "slipperiness", and could even reverse the process, making things "stickier". As Jared trained secretly on his own, sometimes in his father's lab after hours, he learned to control these powers in the area directly around him, and even to extend the area in which he could control the friction and drag coefficient. Jared, in an effort to further understand his powers, began to study thermodynamics, and just this year, joined his father's team at AEGIS as a lab assistant. When no one is around, Jared uses the lab to test his abilities and learn more about them.
During the past three months, with no provocation, girls started paying a LOT more attention to Jared. While not at all hesitant to take advantage of this situation, Jared started to notice that he had to do nothing to cause this attention, and it would even happen when Jared intentionally tried to make himself physically repugnant. This really became a problem with women Jared didn't even know would come up to him and hit on him, do him unusual favors, etc. Jared learned about pheromones in school, and realized that he must be somehow emitting these pheromones at an unusual level.
Though he had been contemplating doing so for some time, Jared recently came up with a superhero alter-ego moniker, Torque, after encountering the Next-Gen group of teen superheroes, and helping them with a few missions in and around Freedom City.
Jared, as Torque, now seeks to use his powers to help others, and has become something of a trouble magnet, finding all sorts of interesting ways to use his abilities to stop car accidents, purse snatchers, muggings, and so forth. Jared hopes that when the time comes, he will be able to rise to the challenge to defeat a supervillain threat on his own.[/sblock]
TORQUE [PL 10] 150pp
Concept: High-school kid who’s just gained kinetic and friction control powers, and also a strange secondary mutation: pheromones that attract the opposite sex.
Appearance: Caucasian, 16 years old, 5’8”, 165 lbs, dyed short black hair, piercing green eyes, eyebrow ring, nose ring, tattoos side of neck, right shoulder, left forearm, back of both hands, usually wearing jeans and a black concert t-shirt of some kind or another.
Trade-Offs: +12 Toughness / +8 Defense
[sblock=ABILITY SCORES]
ABILITY SCORES
STR 10
DEX 16
CON 13
INT 14
WIS 11
CHA 14/24
Subtotal: 18pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=ATTACK, DAMAGE, SAVES]
ATTACK, DAMAGE, SAVES
BAB +6
BDB +6
TOUGH +1/+3
FORT +3
REFLEX +8
WILL +5
Subtotal: (36+18) 56pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=SKILLS]
SKILLS
Bluff [4] +11, Computers [2] +4, Disable Device [2] +4, Gather Information [4] +11, Knowledge (physical sciences) [2] +4, Knowledge (pop culture) [4] +6, Knowledge (technology) [2] +4, Perform (dance) [4] +11, Perform (singing) [6] +13, Perform (stringed) [6] +13.
36 ranks total
Subtotal: (9+54) 63pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=FEATS]
FEATS
Attractive [2], Defensive Roll [2], Dodge Focus [2], Favored Environment (Frictionless), Move-by Action, Taunt.
Subtotal: (9+63) 72pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=POWERS]
POWERS
ENHANCED CHARISMA 10. 10pp.
FORCE FIELD 9. 9pp.
FRICTION CONTROL ARRAY 10 [30pp array; Based on Environmental Control (Hampered Movement (One Quarter); Ex: Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank); PF: Dynamic (applied to array), DAP – Apply Penetrating to a Physical Attack (Ex: Loses if Applied to Other (+0), Perception Range (+2); 3pp/rank), AP – Blast (Heat; Ex: Concentration Duration (+1), Perception Range (+1); Fl: Limited (Moving Objects Only; -1); 3pp/rank), DAP – Environmental Control (Extreme Heat; Ex: Perception Range (+1); 3 pp/rank), DAP – Move Object (Ex: Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank), AP – Paralyze (Ex: Perception Range (+2); Fl: Slow (-1); 3pp/rank), AP - Snare (Ex: Area Burst (+1), Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank), AP – Trip (Ex: Area Burst (+1), Perception Range (+1); 3pp/rank)]. 41pp.
IMMUNITY 6 [Own Powers, Heat Damage]. 6pp.
PHEROMONES 2 [Fl: Only Opposite Sex (-1), 5ft Range (-1)]. 4pp.
SPEED 2. 2pp.
SUPER-MOVEMENT 3 [Sure-Footed, Wall-Crawling, Water-Walking]. 6pp.
Subtotal: (78+72) 150pp.[/sblock]
[sblock=COMPLICATIONS]
1. Secret Identity (Jared Stockwell)
2. Has Trouble Fending Off Female Attention.
[/sblock][sblock=BACKGROUND IN BRIEF]
Born to James and Elizabeth Stockwell, Jared has lived in Freedom City for all of his 16 years. His father, an astrophysicist specializing in aerodynamics, is a highly sought-after consultant, and has worked for AEGIS for the past five years. Jared's mother, Elizabeth, an independent talent scout, worked with Jared after the teenager formed his own band, and recently managed to book the band, Taunting Nietzche, on a national tour showcase featuring other teenage bands.
During the summer between his Freshman and Sophomore years, Jared worked for his father in a number of experiments. Following one of these experiments, Jared noticed that he was slipping and sliding a lot, often for no apparent reason. Jared also noticed that he was faster on his skateboard, and during the school year, would sometimes have trouble holding onto things like basketballs and metal objects during shop class.
Eventually, Jared learned he could control this "slipperiness", and could even reverse the process, making things "stickier". As Jared trained secretly on his own, sometimes in his father's lab after hours, he learned to control these powers in the area directly around him, and even to extend the area in which he could control the friction and drag coefficient. Jared, in an effort to further understand his powers, began to study thermodynamics, and just this year, joined his father's team at AEGIS as a lab assistant. When no one is around, Jared uses the lab to test his abilities and learn more about them.
During the past three months, with no provocation, girls started paying a LOT more attention to Jared. While not at all hesitant to take advantage of this situation, Jared started to notice that he had to do nothing to cause this attention, and it would even happen when Jared intentionally tried to make himself physically repugnant. This really became a problem with women Jared didn't even know would come up to him and hit on him, do him unusual favors, etc. Jared learned about pheromones in school, and realized that he must be somehow emitting these pheromones at an unusual level.
Though he had been contemplating doing so for some time, Jared recently came up with a superhero alter-ego moniker, Torque, after encountering the Next-Gen group of teen superheroes, and helping them with a few missions in and around Freedom City.
Jared, as Torque, now seeks to use his powers to help others, and has become something of a trouble magnet, finding all sorts of interesting ways to use his abilities to stop car accidents, purse snatchers, muggings, and so forth. Jared hopes that when the time comes, he will be able to rise to the challenge to defeat a supervillain threat on his own.[/sblock]
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