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Killer Shrike
Mar 25th, '03, 11:47 PM
Hey all, I wanted a powerful mystic antagonist as a Tier 2 NPC (not world-threatening, but formidable). I ended up lifting Talisman and adapting her by tacking on a couple of hundred points of extra powers.

I renamed the character and her background is different to fit my storyline. I intend to use her as a sometimes-ally sometimes enemy Loki type character. Ultimately selfserving, but possibly helpful when it suits her ends.

I wanted her to have more odd-ball and story driving powers so I tacked on a few 'allows-for-plausible-story-hooks' powers more than combat ability. I also wanted her to be an independent player to be reckoned with, so I upped her INT and EGO a tad to reflect her stature as a mover and shaker.


So, here she is; how does she look?

<font size=+1><b>Incantrix</b></font>

Player:

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><font size=2><b>Val&#160;&#160;</b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Char&#160;&#160;&#160;</b></font></td><td><font size=2><b>Cost</b></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>STR</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>DEX</b></font></td><td><font size=2>30</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>CON</b></font></td><td><font size=2>20</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>BODY</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>INT</b></font></td><td><font size=2>10</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>30&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>EGO</b></font></td><td><font size=2>40</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>25&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>PRE</b></font></td><td><font size=2>15</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>20&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>COM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>5</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2>&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>5/19&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>PD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>3</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>7/21&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>ED</b></font></td><td><font size=2>3</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>5&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>SPD</b></font></td><td><font size=2>20</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>10&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>REC</b></font></td><td><font size=2>8</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>56&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>END</b></font></td><td><font size=2>8</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>30&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>STUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>5</font></td></tr><td><font size=2></font></td><td><font size=2>&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2></font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>6"&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>RUN</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>2"&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>SWIM</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr><tr><td align="right"><font size=2>2"&#160;&#160;</font></td><td><font size=2><b>LEAP</b></font></td><td><font size=2>0</font></td></tr></table><b>Characteristics Cost:</b> 167

<table border="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost&#160;&#160;</b></td><td><b>Power</b></td><td align="right"><b>END</b></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">60&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Mastery Of Hellfire: </i></b>Multipower, 60-point reserve&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">6u&#160;&#160;</td><td>1) <b><i>Hellfire: </i></b>Energy Blast 12d6 (vs. ED) (60 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">6u&#160;&#160;</td><td>2) <b><i>Hellfire Gate: </i></b>Energy Blast 8d6 (vs. ED), Explosion (Normal (Radius) -1 DC/1"; +1/2) (60 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">6u&#160;&#160;</td><td>3) <b><i>Agonizing Hellfire: </i></b>Energy Blast 8d6 (vs. ED), Armor Piercing (+1/2) (60 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">6u&#160;&#160;</td><td>4) <b><i>Writhing Hellfire: </i></b>Energy Blast 4d6 (vs. ED), Penetrating (+1/2), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Continuous (+1) (60 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">40&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Foul Sorcery: </i></b>Multipower, 40-point reserve&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">4u&#160;&#160;</td><td>1) <b><i>Warp and Wend: </i></b>Teleportation 6" (Position Shift), Safe Blind Teleport (+1/4), Megascale (1" = 100 km; +3/4), Can Be Scaled Down: 1" = 1km (+1/4) (38 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">2u&#160;&#160;</td><td>2) <b><i>Cull the Weak: </i></b>Transfer 2d6 -1 (max. Transfered Points: 13): END to STUN & BODY, Variable Effect (Two Powers Simultaneously; +1/2) (40 Active Points); Only Restores To Starting Values (-1/2), Beam (-1/4) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">4u&#160;&#160;</td><td>3) <b><i>Domination: </i></b>Mind Control 8d6 (40 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">4u&#160;&#160;</td><td>4) <b><i>Befuddlement: </i></b>Mental Illusions 8d6 (40 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">4u&#160;&#160;</td><td>5) <b><i>Spell Of Torment: </i></b>Ego Attack 4d6 (40 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">4u&#160;&#160;</td><td>6) <b><i>Touch Of Terror: </i></b>Drain 4d6: PRE (40 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">20&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Helpful Witcheries: </i></b>Elemental Control, 40-point Powers&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">22&#160;&#160;</td><td>1) <b><i>Shield Of Sorcery: </i></b>Force Field (14 PD / 14 ED), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (42 Active Points) (added to Secondary Value)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">20&#160;&#160;</td><td>2) <b><i>Wings Of The Wind: </i></b>Flight 20" (40 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">20&#160;&#160;</td><td>3) <b><i>Visions: </i></b>Clairsentience (Sight Group; Additional Sense Group: Hearing Group, x4 Range) (40 Active Points) (uses END Reserve)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">3&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Magesense: </i></b>Detect Magic 13- (5 Active Points); Concentration (0 DCV; -1/2)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">10&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Mystic Comprehension: </i></b>Universal Translator (20 Active Points); Costs Endurance (Costs END Every Phase; -1/2), Concentration, Must Concentrate throughout use of Constant Power (1/2 DCV; -1/2) 13-&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right">2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">10&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Mystic Wards: </i></b>Power Defense (15 points) (15 Active Points); Activation Roll 14- (-1/2)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">13&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Mystic Will: </i></b>+14 Mental Defense (20 points total), Hardened (+1/4) (19 Active Points); Activation Roll 14- (-1/2)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">67&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Mystic Doppelganger: </i></b>Duplication (creates 5 625-point Duplicates) (Easy Recombination: 0 Phase Action (Full DCV)) (150 Active Points); Extra Time, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power (5 Minutes; -1), Character May Take No Other Actions (-1/4)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">32&#160;&#160;</td><td><b><i>Mystic Channeling: </i></b>Endurance Reserve (120 END, 30 REC) Reserve: (42 Active Points) REC: (30 Active Points); Personal REC (-1/2)&#160;</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr></table><b>Powers Cost:</b> 363


<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost&#160;&#160;</b></td><td><b>Skill</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">6&#160;&#160;</td><td>+2 with Master Of Hellfire Multipwer&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>High Society 14-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>CK: Vibora Bay (INT-based) 13-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2&#160;&#160;</td><td>CK: Millennium City 11-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>KS: Arcane & Occult Lore (INT-based) 13-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>KS: Demonology (INT-based) 13-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>KS: Necromancy (INT-based) 13-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>KS: Witchcraft (INT-based) 13-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1&#160;&#160;</td><td>Language: Latin: Basic Conversation &#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">7&#160;&#160;</td><td>Seduction 16-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>Stealth 13-&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">3&#160;&#160;</td><td>Streetwise 14-&#160;</td></tr></table><b>Skills Cost: </b>40

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost&#160;&#160;</b></td><td><b>Perk</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">2&#160;&#160;</td><td>Contact: a member of the Circle Of The Scarlet Moon (11-)&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4&#160;&#160;</td><td>Contact: a Morbanes of DEMON (11-) (Contact has: very useful Skills or resources)&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">4&#160;&#160;</td><td>Contact: Dark Seraph (8-) (Contact has: extremely useful Skills or resources)&#160;</td></tr></table><b>Perks Cost:</b> 10

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Cost&#160;&#160;</b></td><td><b>Talent</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">44&#160;&#160;</td><td>Danger Sense (16-) (Area: General Area, Discriminatory, Function as a Sense, Sensitivity: Any Danger, Targeting Sense) (55 Active Points); IIF Unbreakable (-1/4)&#160;</td></tr></table><b>Talents Cost:</b> 44


<b>Total Character Cost:</b> 624

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right"><b>Val&#160;&#160;</b></td><td><b>Disadvantages</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10&#160;&#160;</td><td>Distinctive Features: Mystic Aura, Not Concealable, Always Noticed and Causes Major Reaction, Detectable Only By Unusual Senses&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20&#160;&#160;</td><td>Hunted: Trismegistus Council, More Powerful, 8- (Occasionally), Capture, Extensive Non-Combat Influence&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15&#160;&#160;</td><td>Hunted: DEMON, As Powerful, 8- (Occasionally), Capture, Extensive Non-Combat Influence&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20&#160;&#160;</td><td>Psychological Limitation: Corrupted Soul, Common, Total&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15&#160;&#160;</td><td>Psychological Limitation: Utterly Self Centered; Cares Only For Herself, Common, Strong&#160;</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">15&#160;&#160;</td><td>Social Limitation: Secret Identity , Frequently (11-), Major&#160;</td></tr></table>
<b>Disadvantage Points:</b> 95

<b>Base Points:</b> 200
<b>Experience Required:</b> 329
<b>Total Experience Available:</b> 330
<b>Experience Unspent:</b> 1

Killer Shrike
Mar 25th, '03, 11:56 PM
Heres a pic I found to use for the character. The character concept is vaguely similar to the Black Queen, Selena from the Hellfire club (inspired by the 'Hellfire' schtick of Talisman no doubt), and this pic seems to capture the hard hearted sluttiness of the character.