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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9721653" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/107391/Supernatural-Handbook?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Supernatural Handbook</a>Mutants & Masterminds 3eUndead, Undead Creature, Undead Monster: A curse that transforms victims into undead monsters or animalistic savages can just as easily be an example of a progressive mutation as exposure to radiation or mutagens.With Germany’s mounting losses, the Allies received intelligence relating to Operation: Totenkopfringe. Himmler had reputedly collected over 11,000 Death Head rings from fallen SS officers and soldiers and was about to use a ritual to draw upon their ghosts to create an army of spirits. Or undead. The intelligence was vague.Although Dutch never discussed the events of the mission beyond the initial debriefing, Totenkopfringe was an unmitigated disaster. The ritual was completed and Himmler’s theurgists were stuffing angered spirits into the bodies of dead Nazis. Super-Powered Undead: ?Ghost, Traditional Ghost: This soul of the recently departed has proven adept at interacting with the living, though the reason he’s caught between life and the afterlife remains a mystery.With Germany’s mounting losses, the Allies received intelligence relating to Operation: Totenkopfringe. Himmler had reputedly collected over 11,000 Death Head rings from fallen SS officers and soldiers and was about to use a ritual to draw upon their ghosts to create an army of spirits. Or undead. The intelligence was vague.Ghost, Spirit, Supernatural: ?Ghost Seeking Vengeance: ?Jealous Ghost: ?Ghost that Manifests Through the Television: ?Haunted House: Most locations are haunted because ghosts or other entities have taken up residence. Furniture shifting, walls undulating, items being tossed about are all normally effects of the ghosts themselves. Occasionally, however, a house is so soaked in misery and blood, so steeped in a vile history, that the ghosts within might become batteries for the structure itself or faint echoes that warn of danger. They might even be trapped victims, forced to relive their deaths over and over again. The structure gains crude sentience and a need to hurt.Mummy, Real Mummy: Incan, Chinese or Egyptian, a mummy is the body of someone entombed and preserved hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. Whether mummified alive or after they’d died, something preserved the mummy’s spirit in its body, releasing it when the seal of the sarcophagus was broken.Mummy, Risen: ?Mummy, Guardian of Divine Objects: ?Mummy, Force of Will for Ancient Gods: ?Poltergeist, Ghost, Supernatural: ?Surge, Angela Cavalier, Poltergeist, Phantom of Electrical Impulses, Creature of Fury, Adversary, Ghost, Electric Demon, Thing of Fury Electricity and Murder: Little is left of the young girl named Angela Cavalier. She died slowly over her short life, a little bit here when her father beat her, a little there when her mother’s drinking left her alone and neglected. She became withdrawn and strange, frightening the teachers and children around her at school. Her bid to alienate herself worked all too well and she died a little there too of the loneliness.When Angela’s mother had finally had enough of the abuse, she found love in another man. He helped her stand up to her husband, helped her file charges against him. And then the bombshell came; Angela was not part of the life her mother wanted. Her husband had forced a child on her. Angela was to be adopted by her aunt, leaving her mother and her new boyfriend to live happily ever after. That was enough to snap the last of Angela’s tethers. She attacked her mother with scissors and drew blood before the scissors were wrested from her young hands.Angela was committed, relegated to a private facility as the last “act of compassion” on her mother’s part. Then she moved away, leaving Angela in psychiatric care. The years passed by in a medicated stupor and young Angela never improved. She began hearing voices and was under treatment for that. She never realized she could actually hear electronic transmissions. She was listening to television and radio signals as they played in her head. When her powers manifested, it was a violent thing. Angela’s body turned into electricity and she tried to escape into a nearby plug. She only succeeded in triggering the massive fire that killed her and others.Since that time, Angela has existed in those two states. She can turn from ghost into electric demon, but her life and her excruciating death have only twisted her further.Risen: ?Skin-Rider: The skin-rider is a different kind of ghost. While the reasons they exist and continue to persevere remain similar, the difference is in their ability.Skin-Rider, Spirit, Ghost: ?Specter: ?Spirit: Spirits are generally the souls of the dearly departed. Once human, they now haunt the living, rarely aware of their impact on people or even that they’ve died. The lucky ones left behind survived the transition more mentally intact, but there was likely a reason for that. Perhaps they were motivated by love or revenge, or whatever caused their death was so abrupt and violent that they were stained by the charge of that energy.Spirit, Soul of the Dearly Departed: ?Good Spirit: ?Vampire: We’re not talking someone who was turned by the bite of a vampire.Sure, vampires or intelligent zombies can infect the world like a rampant virus, but what happens when the power plants fail?Vampire, Risen, Supernatural Threat, Supernatural, Night-Bred Creature: ?Brooding and Isolated Vampire: ?Spiritual Vampire: ?Seemingly Belligerent Vampire, Anti-Hero: ?Classic Vampire: ?Classic Vampire, Brooding Loner: ?Metrosexual Vampire: ?Metrosexual Vampire, Modern Vampire, Contemporary Vampire: ?Orphan Maker, Adam Fortier, Ghost, Something With Supernatural Power, Something Supernatural, Boogieman Figure, Son, Adversary: Adam Fortier was a beloved child, though childhood insecurities made him jealous of the children who took his mother’s time from him. He knew they needed her attention and that he always had her love, but jealousy was jealousy and Adam could not help feeling the way he did.Into his eighth year of life, Adam was home alone, waiting for mother to return from work. She was late. She’s always late, he grumbled to himself. He didn’t hear the burglar until it was too late. The burglar never saw him playing quietly with his toys until Adam startled him. The gun went off and Adam was struck. The burglar panicked and ran from the house, leaving Adam to lie there, slowly dying, growing colder by the moment, and wondering why he his mother wasn’t there.Adam died angry, upset, and scared. He became fodder for the specters and evil spirits out there that feed on such things. He screamed for his mother’s help, but she never saw him, never helped him. Survival became instinct and eventually Adam escaped and learned to feed on the ball of hate inside him. It warmed him from the cold and it whispered secrets to him. The voices that taught him how to use his powers and how to affect the world. In the meantime, he followed his mother around, watching her help other children, just like always. He watched her work harder, as if his death had been holding her back. He never recognized the grief inside her. He never saw her pain. Adam only saw his own.Adam festered and recognized the strength of his misery. It let him do things and rewarded him greatly when he spread more of it around. His misery was like an entity all its own and it gave him the acceptance he felt lacking from his mother. To that end, he took the silver mask his mom gave him as his new face and started going after the children she cared for.The Orphan Maker is driven by obsessive love and hatred for his mother and her attention. Ms. Fortier lost her eight year old son, Adam, about a year ago when a burglar accidently shot him. She was put behind a desk following Adam’s murder. The offender was caught and imprisoned. (DC 16) She blames herself for her son’s murder. She should have been home on time, but an emergency case came up. (DC 18) Her son is haunting her. It began with the disappearance of a dearly loved, engraved silver mask that she bought for him in Italy. Count Dracula, Vladimir Tepes III, Vlad the Impaler, Vladimir Draco, Vampire, Legendary Vampire, Vampire Lord, Legend, Adversary, Victim, Holy Blood, Holy Grail: History’s account of Vlad Tepes III stopped after he was killed near Bucharest in 1476. It was during the battle with the Turks, though whether it was them or his own men who did the deed is unknown. Vlad’s head was sent to the Sultan as proof of his demise before his headless body was laid to rest at Snagov, an island monastery near Bucharest.Stories, however, soon began circulating how the grave of Vlad was empty; that he’d risen as a monster; an antithesis to Christ’s resurrection. Some people in the know whispered that followers of Vlad had found the Holy Grail and had poured its wine upon Vlad’s body, returning him to life. Others say the Grail Legend was merely allegory for soldiers that stole his head from the Sultan and returned it to his body, thus returning him to life.Legati Vampire: The Legati are vampires, descended from the holiest of them all, Vladimir Draco.Mindless Vampire: The Gamemaster can also play with the idea that Dracula is forward thinking enough to plan for such events. He may keep a blood virus ready for release that turns people into mindless vampires, hungry for blood and carriers of the virus (hence the private vaults where he’s kept clean blood for himself); he might have hostages. Dracula may be arrogant, but he isn’t foolish.Sea Wraith: ?Zombie: Attrition series are such that someone dies every handful of sessions, or the risk of infection (viral/impregnation/zombie/etc.) is high, or madness is a constant threat.Whatever plague awoke the zombies hasn’t worked as planned.[B ]ite causes infection.This gives rise to the scientific and pseudo-science horrors first given expression with authors such as H.G. Wells and War of the Worlds. It continues through to Hollywood’s drive-in movie horror phase and into today’s media where zombies are “infected,” ghosts manifest through digital media, monsters are alien creatures or mutants, and creatures that defy explanation are extra dimensional. You name it, 28 Days, Aliens, Pitch Black, The Mist, they are all preternatural, but not supernatural.Take the zombie apocalypse idea. Is it allegorical with an “us vs. them” approach (entailing more action), a sociological commentary (thereby focusing more on the collapse of society) or a psychological one (anyone can be infected, including you)? After that, is it supernatural, scientific or natural in nature, meaning the reaction to and handling of it will differ.They did stop Himmler’s ritual, although the fight was a nasty zombie-infested mess. Most of his unit died, then rose as undead, and had to be put down again.Zombie, Risen: ?Flesh-Eating Zombie: ?Intelligent Zombie: Sure, vampires or intelligent zombies can infect the world like a rampant virus, but what happens when the power plants fail?</blockquote>

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