Turning Tides: Adventures in the City on Water [3e]

Pundemic · Aug 22 '10, 4:25am

Just to let you guys know, I am still working on my character. No guarantees about when he'll be finished, though, so don't end up waiting on me or anything if everyone's raring to go and I'm not done.

Azerian Kelimon · Aug 22 '10, 6:07am

Auras are by default centered on you. I...don't see how that'd apply at all. >_>

Kaitou Kage · Aug 22 '10, 7:02am

Mostly because there's actually no "aura" effect listed in the book that I can find. I guess it would've made more sense for me to either say Area (Burst) always centered on the Avatar or see if Area (Aura) was okay to use and what the radius would be.

Eternal · 8:10am

[ Responses ]
- Sleep: Perception with concentration is fine.
- Illusion: I took precise to illustrate how "detailed" my illusions could be. If I don't need to be diligent, I'll erase it.
- Toughness: I'm confused. Is buying toughness directly a bad idea? I could buy protection instead, I guess?
- Sleight of Hand: *shrug* I thought acrobatics and quickness would cover getting out of things, quick fingers and all.

[ Changes ]
- Hypnotist's Watch: Perception with concentration.
- Removed Quickness, Power Attack and Acrobatics skill, and precise from illusion.
- Traded 6 points of Toughness for 6 points of Smoke and Mirrors: Protection (sustained).
- Shuffled skill points around a little to give 9 points to Sleight of Hand (+12).

You can view the updated sheet on my application page. All good?

Azerian Kelimon · Aug 22 '10, 9:11am

It's not 'a bad idea'. You just can't do it, flat-out. >_>

Illien · Aug 22 '10, 2:56pm

Sleight of hand: how is a character that's supposed to be good at it, haves a power named after it, and doesn't even have it trained?

Hardwire · Aug 22 '10, 3:09pm

Sorry about the wall of text, but you did say be a detailed as possible in the background area. When you get a chance any feedback that you could give me will help me sculpt it to this game. Do we have a name for this country so that I can proerly address in in the background.

Mask_De_H · 9:27pm

Remix
Name: Dominique Nasir Age: 22 Height: 6'0" Weight: 185
Hair: Black Eyes: Brown

Drakos · 4:40pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hardwire

Sorry about the wall of text, but you did say be a detailed as possible in the background area. When you get a chance any feedback that you could give me will help me sculpt it to this game. Do we have a name for this country so that I can proerly address in in the background.

Yeah, I kind of need to know if you don't want the "wall o' text". My background is turning out a little long as well. Again due to the app saying "detailed".

Eldritch_Myrmidon · 11:14pm

Wonder Lass

Alyson Wonder Lund was born Veronica Cartwright to a stubborn and wealthy politician and her husband, a meek and sensitive man. Veronica was mostly raised by her soft spoken father and her tutors that instructed her in etiquette and manners. As such it came as a great surprise to her father, tutors, housekeepers, and even her workaholic mother when she was around, that Veronica was so rowdy and tomboyish in her younger years. While Veronica would take to her lessons like a pristine child hungry to learn, after her lessons she would leave the confines of her stuffy mansion home and run the forest trails in her backyard mimicking her favorite book or hero.

While Veronica played Alice in Wonderland or Wonder Woman she developed a wondrous imagination of heroics and adventures through strange lands. Soon enough she was taken on equally extravagant adventures in her dreams, but this only pleased the little girl who found her wild imagination far more exciting than her life as a politician’s daughter. In Veronica’s dreams she started to follow in the steps of Alice, drinking of the Pishsalver and delighting in the Upelkuchen. All seemed well and abnormal until she awoke to find that remnants of her dreams followed her into her bedroom. One morning Veronica woke up blown up to twice her size.

The little brunette girl looked all over herself thinking she must still be dreaming, speechless at the sight of her legs hanging over the end of her bed. Lucky her she didn’t scream, if she had her father would have found out and then eventually her mother. Veronica knew in a politician’s family being different wasn’t allowed. The twelve-year old girl slid up in her bed, whimpering in her uncertainty. She stood, thinking how she always had to jump to touch the ceiling when she stood on her bed, but instead she struck the top of her head against the purple ceiling of her flashily decorated bedroom. Sobbing, her arms hanging at her sides in defeat, Veronica wished she never had dreams or imagined anything beyond her structured life. As soon as she thought she could do nothing but run to her father and admit what she had done and why she became cursed, Veronica’s stomach roared hungrily.

Just as soon as hunger struck her, Veronica’s head no longer scraped her ceiling. Caught up in her terror and a twelve year old’s desire to be held by her father, however, Veronica didn’t perceive the change. Still under the impression that she was eight feet tall she ran down from her bed shrinking with her fall. At five feet she spanned the short distance from her silken bed to her pink bedazzled door. At five feet eleven inches she threw open the gaudy door, shrinking to five feet ten inches as she stepped out into the hallway. Five feet nine inches, eight inches, six inches, four inches, two inches, Veronica stood at her father’s door. The innocent and horrified green eyed girl pushed the door open with what she thought would be a massively bloated hand, but rather her hand was slight and clumsy with youth. Tears streamed her red cheeks and her tiny hand trembled before her. Her father slept in the room before her undisturbed by her presence, so she turned on her heels and fled to the pink and purple recesses of her unicorn accented room.

For the following couple of months Veronica came out of her dreams shrunk to two feet or grown to an astonishing twelve. Over the course of these months the little girl started to realize patterns to her changing shape. As long as she kept snacks by her bed to stop herself from becoming hungry, she could maintain the growth or shrinking that came upon her during her dreams. Eventually she even began to toy with further altering her size, gaining rudimentary control over her developing powers.

Veronica spent years honing her powers in secret, only realizing the limits of her growth powers when she could go outdoors and find a clearing in the light wooded area behind her home. Veronica discovered her capability to grow to an astounding thirty feet tall and shrink down to a remarkable six inches. At sixteen Veronica was fully able to control her size so that she was no longer ruled by the Wonderland of her dreams. By this point the adventurous mentality of the politician’s daughter developed into a rowdy all-or-nothing attitude. A little girl’s dreams of magical tea parties and Amazonian heroics became a drive to do good and fight crime. For these passions and goals Veronica knew that she couldn’t ever let her parents know of her gifts. Veronica ran away from home at sixteen to seek out action, adventure, and justice.

Action, adventure, and justice were slower to come than Veronica at first hoped. Due in part to her mother’s place in the public eye, Veronica’s parents began a very public search for their missing daughter. It was obvious that Veronica needed to change her appearance and her name quickly, and even then she needed to stay out of the public eye for some time. Using the money she had free access to from her parents, the hero-to-be was able to cook up an alternate identity through shady means. Veronica first bleached her hair a very yellow blond and covered her green eyes with blue contacts, before going underground to find a new identity. It cost her a good deal of money, but Veronica Cartwright discovered the means to change her name to Alyson Wonder Lund. A new identity brought mixed feelings of freedom, accomplishment, and devastating sadness as she knew she wouldn’t be returning to her old life ever again.

Garbled emotions aside, Alice went to the one place she knew no one would think to look. Alice went to the City on Water, a place nearly forgotten by the world all around it. To get there Alice bought a car off of a shady figure, but the thing broke down half way along the nearly five hundred mile drive. Alice hitch hiked the rest of the way, and she was lucky enough to find herself in the passenger’s seat of a friendly restaurant owner. The business man owned The Burger Plate, a restaurant in the City on Water, and so he offered the seemingly down trodden girl a job as waitress.

For years Alice lived in the City on Water growing sick at the sight of so much scum and villainy, and occasionally homesick wondering how her parents were coping with her being gone. Alice knew that in order to become a hero she had to start by mending what was probably a broken heart beating in her father’s chest. The runaway wrote her father a loving letter with no return address. In her letter she told him that she had to leave to follow her dreams of being a hero. She begged her father not to search for her even though she loved him and missed him dearly.

On many occasions since writing her letter, Alice took to the streets at night dealing out small doses of justice to a minute degree of the local crime. However, Alice faced a problem of practicality in fighting crime even with the few years of her parents’ most fervent investigation efforts over. Namely, she couldn’t use her growth power without shredding any loose fitting clothes to pieces. Alice was forced to spend the last of the funds she withdrew, before destroying her parents’ credit cards, to buy a custom order blue and white leotard. The new costume was expensive, but Alice could change size with her clothes intact as long as they were form fitting enough.

Having a new costume and enough time to establish herself in her new life, Alice invented her superhero identity. Alice became Wonder Lass.

Wonder Lass
PL10

Abilities
Strength 4, Stamina 6, Agility 8, Dexterity 2, Fighting 8, Intellect 0, Awareness 2, Presence 2

Powers
Wonderland Morphology: 66-point Array
Wondrous Physique: Enhanced Strength 4, Enhanced Stamina 6, Enhanced Agility 6, Enhanced Fighting 6, Permanent - 44 points
Wondrous Heart: Enhanced Advantages (Diehard, Great Endurance) - 2 points
Upelkuchen Growth: Growth 8, Enhanced Advantages (Fast Grab, Improved Hold, Interpose) - 19 points
- Pishsalver Shrinking: Shrinking 12, Enhanced Advantages (Hide in Plain Sight), Enhanced Skill (Close Combat) 8, Enhanced Strength 1 - 1 point

Giant Strength: Linked Strength, Affliction 12 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed, Prone), Instant Recovery, Limited Degree, Reach 2, Requires Growth - 6 points

Power of Giants: 21-point Array
Thunderclap: Burst Area Affliction 10 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated), Requires Growth - 20 point
- Huff, Puff: Cone Area Move Object 10, Limited Direction (away), Requires Growth - 1 point

Advantages
All-Out Attack, Attractive 1, Daze (Intimidate), Diehard, Great Endurance, Improved Grab, Improved Smash, Improvised Weapon, Power Attack, Takedown 2, Weapon Break

Skills
Athletics 6 (+10), Insight 8 (+10), Intimidation 8 (+10), Persuasion 8 (+10), Ranged Combat: Thrown 6 (+8), Stealth 2 (+10)

Offense
Initiative +8
Close Attack +8, Close, Damage 4

Defense
Dodge 10, Parry 10
Toughness 6, Fortitude 6, Will 6

Power Points
Abilities 20 + Powers 93 + Advantages 10 + Skills 19 + Defenses 8 = Total 150

Complications
Nourishment: Power loss if Wonder Lass hasn’t eaten for 24 hours.
Space-Dependant: Wonder Lass needs wide open areas to use some of her powers.
Runaway: Wonder Lass ran away from her life as a politician’s daughter so that she could fight crime, changing her name from Veronica Cartwright to Alice Lund.

Design Notes:
-Wonder Lass’s primary role is using Growth to become the heavy hitter of the group. Under the effects of Growth she’s at 12 damage and can Power Attack for more. She can also use Interpose to take hits for her allies since her 14 Toughness would likely be the highest in the group. Alice compliments her heavy hitter stats with grab related advantages and a couple of Affliction powers.
-Wonder Lass’s secondary role is using her above average Awareness, Presence, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion to act as the “face” of the party.
-Wonder Lass’s tertiary role is using Shrinking to up her stealth and act as scout for the party.