STRENGTH - World's Strongest Woman

[DusterBoy]

 

STRENGTH (Kathleen MacCormack)

 

 

 

 

 

Val CHA Cost Roll Notes

 

 

75 STR 65 24- Lift 812.9 tonnes; 15d6 HTH Damage [3]

 

 

20 DEX 30 13- OCV: 7/DCV: 7

 

 

50 CON 80 19-

 

 

25 BODY 30 14-

 

 

20 INT 10 13- PER Roll 13-/15-

 

 

26 EGO 32 14- ECV: 9

 

 

25 PRE 15 14- PRE Attack: 5d6

 

 

16 COM 3 12-

 

 

 

 

 

35 PD 20 Total: 35 PD (35 rPD)

 

 

35 ED 25 Total: 35 ED (35 rED)

 

 

4 SPD 10 Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12

 

 

25 REC 0

 

 

100 END 0

 

 

95 STUN 7 Total Characteristics Cost: 327

 

 

 

 

 

Movement: Leaping: 35"/280"

 

 

Running: 20"/40"

 

 

Swimming: 6"/12"

 

 

 

 

 

Cost Powers

 

 

Martial Arts: Martial Arts Training

 

 

Maneuver OCV DCV Notes

 

 

4 Bear Hug I +0 +0 19d6 Crush, Must Follow Grab

 

 

5 Bear Hug II -2 +0 Grab Two Limbs, 2d6 NND (1)

 

 

4 The Big Push +0 +0 90 STR to Shove

 

 

4 Break Free +0 +0 90 STR versus Grabs

 

 

4 Choke Hold -2 +0 Grab One Limb, 2d6 NND (2)

 

 

5 Flying Kick +1 -2 19d6 Strike

 

 

3 Grab/Joint Lock +0 -1 Grab Two Limbs, 85 STR to Hold On

 

 

3 Legsweep +2 -1 16d6 Strike, Target Falls

 

 

4 Martial Strike +0 +2 17d6 Strike

 

 

5 Offensive Strike -2 +1 19d6 Strike

 

 

3 Slam +0 +1 15d6+v/5, Target Falls

 

 

3 Tackle +0 -1 15d6+v/5 Strike, You Fall, Target Falls, FMove

 

 

3 Takedown +1 +1 15d6 Strike, Target Falls

 

 

4 Toughness +2 +2 Block, Abort

 

 

3 Use "Art" with "Clubs", Improvised Weapons, "Staffs"

 

 

 

 

 

162 Brick Tricks: Variable Power Pool, 90 pool + 72 control cost. Powers Can Be Changed As a Zero-Phase Action (+1), Slightly Limited Class of Powers Available (Brick Tricks Only, -¼).

 

 

 

 

 

49 Adrenaline Boosted Strength: Aid STR 5d6, Can Aid Maximum of 60 points, Standard Effect (+0) Delayed Return Rate (Points fade a rate of 5 per 5 minutes, +½), Self Only (-½), 8 Charges (-½). [8 charges]

 

 

 

 

 

35 Experienced Eye: Find Weakness 13- with All Offensive Uses of STR

 

 

10 Been Around the Block: +20 PRE, Only To Resist Hostile Presence Attacks (-1)

 

 

15 Luck Of the Irish: Luck 3d6

 

 

 

 

 

19 The Duracell Bunny: Reduced Endurance (½ END, +¼) for 75 STR

 

 

20 "I'm Doing Sixty and She's Catching Up?": Running+14" (20" total), Reduced Endurance (½ END, +¼). 1 END

 

 

17 Prodigious Leaper: Leaping+20" (35" forward, 18" upwards), x8 NCM, Accurate, Forward Movement Only (-1). 3 END

 

 

4 Strong Swimmer: Swimming+4" (6" total). 1 END

 

 

18 Practically Indestructible: Hardened (x2, +½) for 35 PD/35 ED

 

 

53 Practically Indestructible: Damage Resistance (35 PD/35 ED), Hardened (x2, +½)

 

 

6 Toughness: Lack of Weakness (-6) for Resistant Defenses

 

 

30 Resilient Body: Power Defense (20 points), Hardened (x2, +½)

 

 

34 Augmented Physiology: Life Support (Extended Breathing: 1 END/20 minutes, Immunity: All Terrestrial Diseases and Biowarfare Agents, Immunity: All Terrestrial Poisons and Chemical Warfare Agents, Longevity: 200 years, Safe Environment: Safe in High Pressure, Safe In High Radiation, Safe in Intense Cold, Safe In Intense Heat, Safe In Low Pressure/Vacuum)

 

 

9 Never Down For Long: Healing 2 BODY, Persistent (+½), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +½), Extra Time (Regeneration Only, 1 Hour, -3), Self Only (-½).

 

 

 

 

 

4 Keen Eyed: +2 with Sight Group PER Rolls

 

 

5 Sees In the Dark: Nightvision

 

 

20 Strong Eyes and Ears: Flash Defense for Sight and Hearing Groups (10 points)

 

 

15 Really Knows Her Own Mind: Mental Defense (20 points)

 

 

 

 

 

Perks

 

 

3 Contact: Prof Brendan McGrath, 8- (Contact has useful Skills/resources, significant Contacts of his own, Good relationship with Contact)

 

 

5 Contact: Superhuman World, 11- (Contact has very useful Skills/resources, Contact has significant Contacts of his own)

 

 

20 Contact: Tarot Council, 14- (Contact has extremely useful Skills/resources, access to major institutions, significant Contacts of his own, Organizationalx3)

 

 

1 Fringe Benefit: PhD

 

 

1 Fringe Benefit: Pilot's License

 

 

5 Money: Well Off

 

 

4 "My Password Is. . .": Computer Link

 

 

9 Reputation: World's Most Powerful Female Brick (global), 14-, +3/+3d6

 

 

7 Tarot Council Perks: Fringe Benefits: International Driver's Licence, Membership: Tarot Council, Passport

 

 

 

 

 

Talents

 

 

3 Faster Than She Looks: Lightning Reflexes: +2 DEX for All Actions

 

 

 

 

 

Skills

 

 

20 +4 with Brick Tricks Powers

 

 

20 +4 with HtH Combat

 

 

6 +3 with Sweep Penalties

 

 

5 Rapid Attack (HtH)

 

 

 

 

 

3 Acrobatics 13-

 

 

3 Breakfall 13-

 

 

9 Brick Tricks 16-

 

 

3 Bureaucratics 14-

 

 

2 CK: Bern 11-

 

 

2 CK: Dublin 11-

 

 

3 Climbing 13-

 

 

3 Combat Piloting 13-

 

 

3 Contortionist 13-

 

 

3 Conversation 14-

 

 

3 Deduction 13-

 

 

3 High Society 14-

 

 

3 Hoist 13-

 

 

3 Linguist

 

 

0 1) English (idiomatic, native)

 

 

2 2) French (idiomatic, native accent)

 

 

0 3) Irish Gaelic (idiomatic, native)

 

 

1 4) Italian (fluent conversation)

 

 

2 5) Mandarin Chinese (fluent conversation, with literacy)

 

 

2 6) Spanish (completely fluent)

 

 

3 Mechanics 13-

 

 

3 Navigation (Air, Land)

 

 

3 Paramedics 13-

 

 

3 Persuasion 14-

 

 

3 PS: Professor 13-

 

 

3 Scholar

 

 

1 1) KS: Academic World 11-

 

 

1 2) KS: Gymnastics 11-

 

 

2 3) KS: Irish History and Mythology 13-

 

 

2 4) KS: Major Arcana 13-

 

 

1 5) KS: Pilates 11-

 

 

1 6) KS: Superhuman World 11-

 

 

2 7) KS: Tarot Council 13-

 

 

2 8) KS: Tarot and Tarot Symbolism 13-

 

 

1 9) KS: Wrestling 11-

 

 

1 10) KS: Yoga 11-

 

 

3 Stealth 13-

 

 

3 Tactics 13-

 

 

3 Teamwork 13-

 

 

7 TF: Common Motorized Ground Vehicles, Two-Wheeled Motorized Ground Vehicles, Recreational Vehicles, Small Planes, Helicopters)

 

 

3 WF: Clubs, Improvised Weapons, Staff)

 

 

 

 

 

Total Powers & Skills Cost 630

 

 

Total Character Cost 1123

 

 

 

 

 

200+Disadvantages

 

 

10 Distinctive Features: Unusually tall, muscular woman with fire-red hair (Concealable with Effort, Noticed and Recognisable)

 

 

10 Enraged: When innocents harmed and/or threatened (go 11-, recover 11-)

 

 

15 Hunted: Tarot Council, 11- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching Only)

 

 

25 Hunted: HYDRA (?), 11- (Mo Pow, NCI, Capture/Kill)

 

 

15 Psychological Limitation: Fiery Tempered (Common, Strong)

 

 

25 Psychological Limitation: Lust for Life (Very Common, Total)

 

 

15 Psychological Limitation: Magnanimous (Common, Strong)

 

 

15 Psychological Limitation: Perseverance (Common, Strong)

 

 

10 Social Limitation: Famous (Frequently, Minor)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Experience:

 

 

Total Disadvantage Points: 140

 

 

 

 

 

Background/History: Kathleen McCormack was born in Malahide, Dublin County to a good Catholic family and grew up bilingual in both English and Irish Gaelic. Growing up, she was taller than any of her female peers and some of her male ones, being 5'10" by the time she was 12 years old. She was also highly intelligent, excelling at her academic studies as well as athletic pursuits, which made some of her fellow students jealous of her.

 

 

However, it wasn't just her height that made her stand out. With the onset of puberty Kathleen's strength grew at an incredible rate and by adulthood there was nothing, on a practical level, she could not lift. She was, simply, the strongest woman on the planet.

 

 

At Trinity University she gained her Doctorate in Irish History and Mythology and had become the University's newest professor when the Tarot Council found her, explaining to her that she would be perfect for their newest "Strength".

 

 

 

 

 

Personality/Motivation: Kathleen's personality matches her physique, both being very much larger than life. In many ways, she is an excellent fit for the traits of her card, being quick to anger, and the people who know her would say that her temper matches her hair, but also quick to forgive and forget. For all her strength and power, she is a kind, essentially gentle person with a dislike of violence, especially wanton destruction and those who would prey on those weaker than themselves. Too, she matches the card's trait of lust, in this case the lust for life. Outside of the context of the Card she represents, she is an example of the positive aspects of Roman Catholicism, believing that her upbringing in the faith is why she is like this as a person.

 

 

 

 

 

Quotes: "Live each day as if it was your last."

 

 

*cracks knuckles* "I'd advise against doing that, wee man"

 

 

 

 

 

Powers/Tactics: The intelligent use of strength combined with speed.

 

 

In addition to being the strongest woman on the planet, Strength is also an excellent gymnast and a regular practitioner of yoga, giving her an agility and flexibility that would not be expected from a "brick". She is also quick, as quick as an Olympic athlete, with superbly fast reflexes and easily able to chase down a car, at least in the city. She has received comprehensive hand-to-hand combat training, mostly designed to make best use of her strength, speed and toughness, but also her considerable agility.

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance: Strength, or Kathleen MacCormack to give her real name, is a very tall, very muscular woman, standing 6'3" in her socks and tipping the scales at very athletic 185 pounds. She wears her flame-red hair down to her shoulders and her green-eyes sparkle with both wit and vivacity. When acting as Strength she wears practical clothes, usually cargo trousers, work boots and a teeshirt. When being Professor Kathleen MacCormack, he usually wears trouser suits or a skirt and jacket, only now she is well off enough to afford designer labels.

 

 

Explanation:

I came up with her after reading about the Tarot Card "Strength" over on Mike Surbrook's site. Some of the specs were there already: female, Irish, STR 70 or higher, 6 foot plus tall, red haired, etc. The idea of making her extremely intelligent, a Professor of Irish History and Mythology and an alumna of Dublin's Trinity University was mine, as was making her a gymnast, since I loved the idea of a brick being that flexible and being able to deliver a flying kick as if she was a TKD practitioner. No, mechanically she isn't balanced, but I was just building the character I thought she should be, ideally, and wasn't worrying about point totals. Sorry about that.

 

[kahuna's bro]

duracell bunny? don't you mean ENERGIZER bunny

[DusterBoy]

Nope, Duracell trumps Energizer. Proven fact, battery fans.

[Opale]

I like her cowboy.. of course I do

 

Brick Housing Opale

[DusterBoy]

Yeah, I thought you would, Opale. But thanks for saying so.

[Enforcer84]

I like it. The Tarot Council sounds interesting, particularly since organizations that large tend to be villainous in bent.

[DusterBoy]

Not this one... although they're not straight up good guys, either. I got it from Mike Surbrook's site: http://surbrook.devermore.net/herosource/champions/tarot.html