Around the World With A New Character Each Week

[Black Ops]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

I would like to borrow Fatwa and the five Pilars for a little three way fight in my campaign.

[The Arc]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Knock yourself out. Let me know who wins.

[tribe]

#153 NAVIGATEUR (Senegal)

 

 

NAVIGATEUR

Kene Gakou

Character Sheet (Click Here)

 

Background

Kene Gakou was born in a garage and it seemed that she never really left the place. Her father and uncles were mechanics: experts called upon every couple of years for the international Dakar Rally. Kene's mother was nothing more than a shadow amidst the men of the family, and Kene grew up with her eyes firmly set to follow her father's trade.

 

Her family were poor and while the men were naturally gifted with engines, the work was seasonal at best. Kene grew up in poverty and found herself begging on the streets of Dakar alongside her mother and sisters. She hated the desperation she saw in herself and every day the self-hatred grew within her. She drifted away from her family, even from her father and the garage he shared with his extended family. She began to look at the world as a challenge, a hurdle put in front of her by God. She looked for the solution, the loop-hole, the hiccup in the engine of her life.

 

On afternoon she stumbled across a drunk Westerner in an alley. His wallet lay tantilisingly across his rising chest, and Kene's instinct was to grab it and run. As she stood there she found herself watched by a third figure who was clothed in shadow. Without knowing she was being watched, Kene ignored the wallet - against her better judgement - and tapped the prone man with her foot, trying to raise him from his slumber. He stirred, but remained blissfully asleep. Again the temptation rose within her, but instead she knelt beside the man and slipped the wallet securely under his waistband, out of view. She knew it would do little to stop the hardened thieves of the streets if they stumbled across him, but she knew it was a better chance than leaving it out in clear view.

 

She cursed the man and then turned away.

 

In her way was a handsome man in a finely cut suit. He smiled at her and although she trembled she took his hand and allowed him to lead her into a building. There was some imperious magic in his stare. Kene felt her life was about to end.

 

Instead it was about to begin.

 

The man was Akello Lwanga, the Witch Doctor of Azambia. And he had come to Senegal to recruit a local to stir the pot of African politics. He greeted Kene like a princess, leading her into one of his temporary residences amidst splendour and excess.

 

Kene wasn't a fool, so when she was rescued by the Witch Doctor she knew there would be a price. And, of course she recognised him. He initially regaled her with gifts and compliments but when it was clear she would not believe his story that she was a 'chosen one', the Witch Doctor told her of his plan to infiltrate the Dakar Rally and cause extreme mayhem in the name of the Sons of Set, so that his cadre of militants, The Hunt, could storm in and bring about calm again - in front of the world's media. Kene was to be the pawn who would bring about the downfall of the Race that her father had given his whole life to. The Witch Doctor thought it would be poetic justice. Kene wasn't interested in poetry or justice. The money she was being offered was enough for her to agree. It was more than she could expect in a lifetime.

 

When the time came to execute the attack on the Rally, Kene found herself decked out in a battlesuit designed by the Witch Doctor but engraved with serpents to draw attention to the Sons of Set. Kene was impressed with the power it gave her, and revelled in the freedom of flight. In the days preceding the attack she was trained in all facets of the power suit - and she proved herself to be an adept student.

 

The Dakar Rally began as normal, but five hours into the race Kene attacked the front runners. She detonated a series of mines which blew apart vehicles and support convoys, and then flew in to strike at the media and the vehicles which remained.

 

Within an hour The Hunt arrived. They had not wanted to look eager, and they had time as the Witch Doctor had distracted Africa Force long enough in Azambia where he had called peace talks. While Africa Force were suspicious they were also too far away to be of any assistance. The Hunt proved to be very effective and seemingly destroyed Kene and a series of drones which appeared to be aiding her. The Savage Lion addressed the media and condemned what was happening in Egypt. The news was dominated by reports on the Sons of Set, although a flood of counter-stories soon appeared denouncing the 'cult' as a myth and a set-up by the Witch Doctor.

 

Whatever the result, Kene walked away unharmed. She reappeared before the Witch Doctor a month later and handed in her battlesuit in exchange for the second half of her pay. In addition to the money, the Witch Doctor opened a contract with her as an on-call mercenary. Her natural ability with the battlesuit and affinity for motorcycles was noticed by the monarch and he agreed to outfit her to continue her work as the Navigateur. Since the initial contract Kene has become a semi-regular mercenary across Africa and Europe. She specialises in custom-made motorcycles with an array of weaponry depending on the assignment. She has also worked for the Witch Doctor regularly, although not as part of The Hunt.

 

Personality

The Navigateur is a professional mercenary and accepts or rejects assignments depending on her own set of guidelines, which tend to change from year to year. Most times she only accepts work that pays well and provides little in the way of threat from uberhumans. She does not enjoy uberhuman entanglements, especially Africa Force. However, she has proven herself an elusive opponent for the African superheroes on more than one occasion.

 

Her life of poverty is long behind her and Kene enjoys a modest life where she wants for nothing but does not indulge herself in excess. She follows Islam, perhaps more now that she has abandoned her blood-family. She believes that she has been assisted by the Prophet in her new life, although she is never vocal about that belief.

 

Her relationship with the Witch Doctor is professional, but she respects him more now than she respected her own father. She sees him as her saviour, in physical form, even as the Prophet is her spiritual saviour.

 

While she enjoys her work as the Navigateur, Kene now allows herself other pursuits, including motorcross riding. She has a garage full of modified vehicles and uses them in her work as well as play.

 

Quote

"I am a faultless instrument. It is what I am paid for."

 

Powers

The Navigateur employs a modified battlesuit along the lines of the Witch Doctor's own, although it lacks much of the master's firepower. The suit enables its wearer to fly, provides protective from energy and physical attacks, possesses enhanced sensor arrays and a personal force field generator. The gauntlets of the suit are capable of emitting a concussive force blast, capable of punching through concrete. The suit also allows the wearer to breathe indefinitely and survive in a host of hostile environments.

 

However, the Navigateur is not a standard 'power suit' adversary. She is a skilled mechanic, and with the assistance of Azambia she has modified a fleet of motorcycles, each capable of being adapted to specific conditions and employing their own offensive and defensive capabilities.

 

Appearance

In her battlesuit, Navigateur looks like a sleek silver knight. Her torso is covered in horizontal plates and beneath the shock-resistant plates is a microweave black bodysuit. The entire suit can be sealed and also has a force field generator, which, when applied, emits a soft golden aura around her body. While the Witch Doctor's armour is capped off with an extraordinary headdress, the Navigateur's helmet is sleek and almost serpent-like. Her original assignment was to pose as a Sons of Set terrorist, and while the serpent motifs have been mostly removed, the helmet remains something of a signature.

 

Out of her suit, Kene Gakou is a woman in her thirties. She has shoulder-length braided black hair and impressive eyebrows which have the ability to darken her face when angry, or lighten it when amused. Kene has used her money to build a good life for herself, and she always dresses well, careful to remain modest and not draw attention to herself.

[tribe]

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Hey, what about Serbia?

[tribe]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Oh yeah, the Serbian Six.

[tribe]

#154 ATOMIK (Serbia)

 

 

ATOMIK

Aleksandar Filipovic

Character Sheet (Click Here)

 

Background

Chosen from the ranks of the Yugoslavian Army, Aleksandar Filipovic was subjected to horrendous experiments involving the fusing of a man with raw atomic energy. Somehow Filipovic survived the experiments, although his body was damaged beyond repair and his mind soon showed signs of deterioration as well. With their surprising success, the government offered the services of Atomik to both sides of the Cold War: the USSR and USA. Moscow won the very short bidding war and unleashed Atomik on the West. It was clear to all parties, except for Aleksandar Filipovic himself, that Atomik was only going to survive for a short but devastating time.

 

And so he was sent to Italy where he decimated many parts of Rome until he was pushed away by the forces of Sanctity. He then appeared in the USA, somehow arriving in Baltimore where he again caused widespread devastation. The incident would later be dubbed The Greenmount Event and resulted in Atomik's death high above the Bay. The day was November 4, 1971.

 

No body was recovered and it was assumed that he disintegrated. However, there have been rumours that the Americans did recover some parts of Atomik's body and have been using it in an attempt to recreate a similar 'agent' for their own uses. Rumours of this secret operation exist into the present day, and other rumours of similar projects in Russia also continue to circulate although there has been no confirmed sighting of Atomik or any other similar atomic-energy being in the modern age.

 

Personality

Nothing was really known about Aleksandar Filipovic apart from the fact he was a soldier before being experimented upon. Records suggest he was drafted and was a good soldier. There are no reprimands against him. Thos who knew him have said he was a good boy who loved his country and loved his family.

 

Atomik, however, was always a damaged man. He was mentally unstable and would often scream at opponents who were not there, or imagine a very different environment around him. His body was also irradiated beyond repair and it is possible he knew he was dying.

 

Quote

"Atomik!"

 

Powers

Atomik was composed of atomic energy and it killed him. His body gave off deadly radiation which made him a pariah even amongst his own people, but he was only ever considered a weapon. His employers, or owners, never considered him a man worthy of respect. As a weapon he was devastating. He could generate blasts unheard of during the 1970s. He could wither opponents with radiation sickness and create force fields and fly at incredible speeds. He was seemingly resistant to his own powers, at least in the short term, but it was the transformation which killed him.

 

Perhaps if he was offered more assistance Atomik may have survived longer, and more of his powers could have been studied and understood.

 

Appearance

The Human Atom Bomb, Atomik was a blinding man of atomic energy when he used his powers. Even when his powers were restrained through force of will, he exuded deadly radiation which often manifested as a glowing corona around his body. He wore a simple red costume and kept his face visible. When he used his powers his eyes would glow white hot, and sometimes his hair would burst into a deadly flame.

[Predatorpt]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

I'm still interested in Spain, but right now I can't write anything, lol. Talk about writer's block

 

I started playing Champions Online, thinking it would help my imagination, but no such luck. If I don't deliver anything until the end of this week, feel free to use Spain.

[gmurie]

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I'm interested in doing Seychelles as the home of a retired French sorcerer/Inquisitor with a decidedly Roman Catholic angle to his magic. He'd had a leg eaten off some thirty years ago, and now in his sixties is more a patron and source of knowledge.

 

Fitting to the game world?

[Black Ops]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Can I has Somalia ?

[The Arc]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

I'm interested in doing Seychelles as the home of a retired French sorcerer/Inquisitor with a decidedly Roman Catholic angle to his magic. He'd had a leg eaten off some thirty years ago, and now in his sixties is more a patron and source of knowledge.

 

Fitting to the game world?

 

Sounds interesting. Go for it. As a suggestion check out Cardinal Syn, Sons of Set, or Preghiera

[The Arc]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Can I has Somalia ?

 

Sure, I was thinking about doing some pirates for Somalia, but anything would be fine. I do have some Fabrica drawings for the idea if you want to go that route.

[The Arc]

Re: #154 ATOMIK (Serbia)

 

 

ATOMIK

 

So Atomik, is he alive or dead? I also guess that he came before Pitchblende?

[tribe]

Re: #154 ATOMIK (Serbia)

 

So Atomik' date=' is he alive or dead? I also guess that he came before Pitchblende?[/quote']

 

I'd say he is dead but who knows?? And he may have been a part of Pitchblende's origin (or not). Basically I had Atomik as a very short-lived villain from 1971 who signalled in the Bronze Age and may be a story hook for a future game if a GM was interested.

 

The attack in Baltimore could have led to the births of ubers as well, down the track.

[tribe]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

I'll have a go at Sierra Leone and Singapore if no one else wants them.

[The Arc]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Not me. Evolina Khan anybody?

[Black Ops]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Not me. Evolina Khan anybody?

 

Sounds like a mad geneticist.

No thank you.

I tend to go overboard with these.

[The Arc]

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Evol Khan

 

Character Sheet (Click Here)

 

Background

Khan was born during the Second World War, although his real name is unknown. It is suspected that his father was involved with the German Nazi Party and his mother was a rich land owner in Zimbabwe, but no details are available. What is known of Khan is that he grew up in Zimbabwe with foster parents, and violently pursued his education, usually at the expense of friendships or any kind of close personal relationship. When he moved from Harare to study at Cambridge, he did not leave any family or friends behind. In England he continued his solitary pursuit of education and power. He invested money he had saved, as well as money he had swindled from his richer class mates, and began to secretly amass a personal fortune.

 

 

In the mid- to late-1960s he worked for a powerful bank and used his position to establish a very successful and profitable insider trading scheme, which helped him secure an influential network of contacts across the globe. He fed the network sensitive information and they all prospered. In the 1970s, Khan took over the bank and became one of the top 100 richest men in Europe. He began to envision an empire, with him as the undisputed leader. It had been a dream of his since his obscure childhood but he had begun to realise that the current political climate in Europe and most of the West was not going to allow any kind of passive take over. His eyes drifted to the East. By chance, he met the exiled Mayumi Matsukara who was one of the planet's oldest and most powerful ubers.

 

 

He began to seduce her, hoping initially to secure her desire, but when he realised she was not, and never would be, interested, he turned his attention to sharing his dream. He could sense that she was lonely, adrift in the 20th Century. His dream of a peaceful city-state allowed her to feel that perhaps she did, indeed, have a purpose. Khan enjoyed manoeuvring Atomic Girl into his plans, even more than he would have enjoyed the pleasures of her flesh. Khan and Matsukara moved to Singapore shortly after, Khan shifted his business empire to the South East Asian city. The country welcomed him, and his wealth, but he realised taking over a country was going to be more difficult than he first imagined. He realised he had been racist in underestimating the Singaporean government, but he was a colonial at heart. It took him nearly ten years and millions of dollars before he was in a position to contest the Presidential elections, but by that time he had secured enough votes to guarantee a win. He was elected President on the promise of creating a crime free state.

 

 

Upon reaching office he began to reveal his plans in more detail. Atomic Girl returned to active status at his side and provided the famous face and impressive power to showcase his dream. He pulled in favours from the legal and illegal quarters of the world and made deadly sweeps of the city to "flush out the rats". Within a year the most serious of Singaporean crime had vanished. Atomic Girl had her work cut out for her, and she soon recruited more ubers to help her, dubbing them the Singapore Samurai. Khan was amused. The second Singapore Shield had continued to operate as an independent hero during this time, and Khan met with him secretly, threatening him with death or imprisonment if he continued to operate. The Shield knew he was serious and resigned from public life.

 

 

While Atomic Girl gathered momentum in her public displays of efficient security, Khan worked on the illicit side of politics and business. He cornered many black markets in South East Asia, systematically destroying the criminal empires of his rivals either through financial takeovers, the use of mercenaries and assassins, or through Atomic Girl and her idealistic Samurai.

 

 

Soon Khan was the undisputed Crime Lord of South East Asia. When he decided not to contest the next Presidential elections, Khan was considered to be even more powerful than any elected official could conceive of. He did, in fact, organise his replacement and holds almost total control over the Singaporean government.

 

Personality

Evol Khan is a very powerful man and he is acutely aware of the influence he has on the world around him, both in a public manner as well as the more subtle and deadly ways. He is manipulative and methodical, and has failed to make any lasting relationships beyond those of business partners or people he trades favours with. Since his fractured childhood, Khan has been looking for power and comfort and he has found it in Singapore. This sanctuary is what he promised - a place free from crime. But it also holds dark secrets, entirely controlled by Khan himself. He is a hedonist, and enjoys the darker desires of human nature. He has established 'pleasure palaces' across his properties in Singapore and beyond where all kinds of dark deeds occur. He is fiercely protective of what he has accumulated and although his desire for greater power has levelled out, he will always look on a new opportunity with an open mind.

 

Quote

“All you see is mine. Even your reflection belongs to me.”

 

Powers

Evol Khan is a master of money. He is rich and powerful, having control of Singaporean society and the crime networks of most of South East Asia. He is a strategist and a keen observer of human nature, but beyond these abilities he is purely a normal human.

 

Appearance

Khan is a man in his sixties, and has had to work hard throughout his life at the expense of positive relationships. He appears genial at times, while at other times he can look dark and brooding. He walks with a cane, but it is unclear whether he relies on it for support or for protection, as it contains a concealed blade.

 

 

Khan likes to dress as a patriarch: always in expensive materials, and never in a conventional cut. He enjoys being seen as sitting beyond the normal citizens of his city, and favours all things luxurious and a little decadent.

[The Arc]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Evolina Khan could be his daughter???

[Black Ops]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Heh.

I was joking.

I knew about him.

I am reading the Uberworld boards.(slowly)

 

Evolina Khan could be his daughter???

Or a female clone he transfered into accidentally.

Hey at least she could be waaay younger (and better looking).

[The Arc]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Evil Masterminds daughters usually are. tribe was saying he was going to do Singapore, and that's Evol Khan's stomping ground.

[tribe]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Evil Masterminds daughters usually are. tribe was saying he was going to do Singapore' date=' and that's Evol Khan's stomping ground.[/quote']

 

Nah, seriously Noah or BlackOps should do Singapore! What a crack-up!

[The Arc]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

I'm interested in doing Seychelles as the home of a retired French sorcerer/Inquisitor with a decidedly Roman Catholic angle to his magic. He'd had a leg eaten off some thirty years ago, and now in his sixties is more a patron and source of knowledge.

 

Fitting to the game world?

 

That would be fine. Are you still interested?

[Black Ops]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Has somebody taken Singapore ?

Because I played too long with the Name........

Feel the wrath of: Evolina Khan !

 

Muahahaha

 

(Told you this would happen...)

[tribe]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Has somebody taken Singapore ?

Because I played too long with the Name........

Feel the wrath of: Evolina Khan !

 

Muahahaha

 

(Told you this would happen...)

 

I've done the Sierra Leone one. The Free Men (Agents). I'll post it once the earlier ones are done.

 

Looking forward to Evolina!

[Black Ops]

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week

 

Runs off to find a good cloner......