Name: Brickhouse
“The city is my home, I feel its rhythm, the rumble of its traffic, the footfall of its people, I taste the blood upon its streets, I am part of the city – it is who I am”
Brickhouse does not remember much about his past only the few fragments that he can peice together. The only thing he is sure of is the rainy night when he emerged from the blood splattered wall at the back of a forgotten alley and looked down at the scattered bodies that some killer had left behind.
He remembers the acrid taste of the blood soaked stone and the confused memories that filled his head; the face of an old woman that he called mama, the Community hall down at Oceanside, the face of another man yelling at him to run, and the flashing lights of the cop car that chased them into the alley, the sound of gunfire, the pain and the taste of blood and then there is darkness.
That night after emerging from the wall Brickhouse lumbered out of the alley and down the street where in the reflection of a storefront window he first saw what he was. He had the shape of a man 6’ 8” tall, broad and imposing. His eyes shone black, his hair hung in cable-like dreads and his flesh was the hard russet red of moulded brick, not a man but a monster
“What am I?” he asks of the world and he heard no reply. Thus he fled the street heading for the only place he could remember as a safe abode, the Oceanside Community Hall. The next morning he was found huddled in the corner of the Community Hall by the Community Director Pastor Ivan Small.
Ivan claims to recognise Brickhouse as someone he went to school with 12 years ago, a youth named Peter Haku. Peter Haku was of Tongan descent and raised by his grandmother in the Oceanside community. His grandmother gave him a strict upbringing trying her best to keep him out of the gangs that dominated the area. Peter had been training at the Community center to be a boxer and had been competing in amateur boxing tournaments. Then one day his trainer was found dead, shot down in an alley and Peter was nowhere to be found.
Peter returned to his Grandmother to find her in a state of dementia and their neighbourhood degenerated as warring gangs and dealers took over. Brickhouse has taken on a role of guardian making sure the gangbangers and dealers don’t take away what little turf the community retains.
Standing 6' 8" tall Brickhouse is an imposing figure with the ability to meld into rock surfaces (including brick and concrete). His flesh takes on the composition and density of stone.and changes to look like the relevant material (bricklike if he melds with brick, concrete if he melds with concrete etc). Whilst melded Brickhouse gains heightened sensitivity to his surroundings, able to identify vibrations in the surrounding rock and even sense violence and bloodshed taking place nearby
Stats (50 points spent)
Body: 14
Mind: 5
Soul: 6
HP: 100
Attack: 8
Defense: 6
Attributes 36
Brickhouse has the ability to meld into stone (including brick and concrete) structures taking on the consistency of the stone.
Alternate Form 4 (36 pts)+40Pts
Whilst merged he is able to feel vibrations including footsteps in and around the structure and can detect feelings of violence and agression nearby. In particular Brickhouse has an attraction to blood which acts like a beacon to him.
Heightened Senses 3 (3pts) +8 Sixth Sense 3 (3pts) (detect violence, blood)
Brickhouse can re-emerge within 20 ft of the structure he melded with provided there is an unbroken rock connection between both points
Teleport 2 (10pts) 20 meters within stone
On re-emerging Brickhouse's flesh takes on the same colour and cnsistency as the rock he was merged with, including increase density, weight, durability and strength
Mass Increase 3 (24 pts) – Mass x6 Immovable 3 Armour 3(+30) Super-strength 3 (+12)
It takes up to 3 days for such a tansformation to wear off and allow Brickhouse to return to 'normal'.
Defects (5pt):
One-way transformation 3 (stone skin lasts for 3 days)
Significant Other 2 (Grandmother)
Skill Groups (20pt ):
Everyman 3
Street 3
Detective 2
Adventure 1
Combat Skill Groups:
Unarmed 1 (2 pts)
Points Spent: 106
Points Remaining:
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Heres a draft I starting to think of him as an Urban analogue to the Swamp Thing 'Plant Elemental', the numbers might be wrong so let me know.
Oh and I thought having him emerge as a result of the blood spilt by Solanum (the Zombie) might be an interesting link - somehow the same force animates them both!
I know having him as guardian of the ghetto is cheesy but after all the pyscho-killers we we're getting I thought it would be refreshing to have a 'good guy' on the team
rofessional (Significant) 3: Veteran (Extensive) 4: Master (Exhaustive) 5: Grand Master (Unparalled)
