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    phoenix240 reacted to BoloOfEarth in Supers Image game   
    Great pic!  I have to add him to my game world!
     
    The call came in at 2:19 a.m.  - three car accident on Halsted and 18th.  Given that it was less than 20 minutes since bars close their doors, it's a pretty safe bet the police report on this will include the words, "alcohol was a factor."  And being just south of the university, I'd give it even odds the DUI is underage as well.  I sighed and hit the lights and siren while my partner Caren did a quick U-turn on Roosevelt and started heading east at a good clip.  While she dodged around the nimrods driving late at night, I moved to the back to prep our stuff. 
     
    In less time that it'd take you to whistle the theme to Emergency! we were on the scene.  It was a bad one - I was pretty sure we'd need the Jaws of Life to get the driver out of one car where a black SUV had smashed into it broadside, and a Mini-Cooper had somehow ended up on its side a short distance away.  I popped open the back door, case in hand, and was hopping out before Caren even had the ambulance fully stopped.  I could see a guy and a girl standing beside the SUV, looked like some minor lacerations but judging by the fact both were standing around, and the way the guy was cursing up a storm, probably not terribly serious.  Looked like he was the one who t-boned the trapped driver, so I was guessing Captain Curser was the DUI.  I waved Caren toward the sideways Mini and headed for the car with the trapped driver. She's a good kid, smart and skilled, but let's face it, she's no superheroine like Sentinel.  Or a superhero like me, for that matter.
     
    That's when I smelled the smoke.
     
    Aw crap.  I looked at the couple standing around like morons, pointed toward the ambulance and yelled, "Get clear!" then broke into a sprint.  Sliding to a halt beside the car, I could see that it would definitely take more than a few normal tugs on the door to get this guy clear.  His head was moving, so I knew he was still alive.  But judging by the flames I could see flickering under the hood, he wouldn't be alive for long if I didn't get him out of there. 
     
    A quick glance told me the nimrod couple weren't looking, and Caren was busy at the Mini, so it was clear, but I'd have to be quick.  I flexed my muscles, shouldered the SUV away a few feet, grabbed the car's door by the frame, and wrenched it free in one pull. The guy's leg was still trapped, but a few pulls at the bottom frame freed it.  By then, the flames were getting bigger, so I pulled the guy out, giving him a quick dose of healing energy (and hoping nobody saw my glowing hands).  Within seconds, we were both far enough away that the fire was no danger to us, and I could lay him down and start checking his vitals.  Nobody was kicking up a fuss or asking questions, so it looked like my secret was still safe.  For now.
     
    - - - - - - - -
     
    Charlie Green is the paranormal EMT known as Para-Medic.  Super-strong, tough as nails, and able to infuse the injured with healing energy, he is a true-blue hero of the Windy City.  When he's not driving an ambulance around the city, he's usually flying overhead, helping his fellow EMTs to save lives.
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    phoenix240 reacted to Hugh Neilson in Tips for conversion from Mutants and Masterminds to Hero   
    I am going to add that I am assuming that campaign norms suggest a "generic" villain will have, on average, a 12 DC attack, 25 PD and ED, and an OCV and DCV of 8 each.  I may have to make some other standards up as I go.  Let's see how close we get.
     
     
    I think the norm for a PL 10 character is +10 attack and defense, +10 damage and +10 Toughness.  Attack or damage can rise to as high as 12 provided the other drops an equal amount; ditto toughness and defense.
     
    With that in mind, I would give this guy:
     
    65 STR (he does a little more damage than the average, so I will equate +1 attack to +1 DC);
    7 OCV (PL 10 is normally +10, and he is 2 points lower - he hits less often, but hits harder, than an average PL 10 character; note that I am equating a 2 point difference in M&M to 1 OCV in Hero - +0 is then a 3 OCV)
    PD/ED of 30 (25 is average, and he is well above average - I am picking 5 defenses per +2 Toughness).
    I did not see his defence bonus, but I m guessing +8 (can't be higher given his Toughness), so DCV 7 just like his OCV.
     
     
    14 STR is +2 damage is +2 DCs so I will say 20.  DEX 13 is a +1 Dodge Bonus, so I will say OCV and DCV 4 (I'll let him round up), and a DEX of 13 (3x CV is a decent benchmark; give him the roundup for a better DEX roll).  Mental stats I agree - nothing out of the ordinary.  Could be 10s across the board, as he has no bonuses in M&M, but slightly above is reasonable.
     
    Getting into low Toughness makes it chalenging.  My formula above suggests someone with +0 Toughness has no PD or ED, but they should have 2.  Add [5*3/2] and we get about 9 - 10.  Subtract [5*7/2] from 25 and he gets 6-7.  Call it 8.  I don't care a lot about his outside the suit figured stats,.
     
     
    I'll ignore the lifting chart - he lifts what he can lift under Hero rules.  It does not come up often enough to merit special consideration.  So 65 STR in the suit, but taking some back and adding Hand Attack is just as good.
     
    My OCV and DCV are 7/7, as noted above, but same logic says DEX 20 or 21 in the Suit (maybe not if we're in 6e).
     
    His SPD seems typical for a baseline Super, so that's 5 - I agree with 3 outside the suit.  He needs some rDEF, and I like your approach of 75% from armor = 75% resistant.
     
     
    Mine is 11d6, as there is a base 2d6 where base in M&M is +0.  We end up at the same place, though.
     
     
    LS is flavour to taste.  Base running is 6", base swimming is 2" and base flight does not exist.  3" per level seems reasonable, so 12" flight (slow, but he only has 4 ranks) and 26" swimming (make it 25" seems OK).  If he is unusually fast for M&M, NCM makes sense,.  Otherwise, go with campaign norms.
     
     
    I covered SPD.  CON should align with Toughness, so I'd expect about a 23 at +10 Toughness.  Let's say 25 and you get about 1.5x Toughness to add to base CON.  That's 15 with no suit, 28 with the suit.
     
    I'm not inclined to give every high STR character Martial Arts.  Will Save may be a better measure for EGO, though.  Also mDCV.
     
     
    I am thinking Levels in Grab, Dodge and Move By, rather than Martial Art.  I do not have an "everyone has breakfall" game, so we will differ there due to campaign norms.  But maybe some Knockback Resistance from that heavy suit?
     
     
    I covered CON.  Maybe +1 Toughness goes to +1 BOD and +3 STUN - that means 22 BOD and 56 STUN.  I'd say call a +5 Will Save 15 Ego (5 dMCV) and bump Ego 3 for each +1 Will Save.  That assumes a typical Will Save is +5.  Fort and REF saves have been dealt with through DEX and CV, and Toughness/PD and ED.  PRE to campaign norms.
     
    We come out pretty close, actually.  Norms will get easier as you translate more characters, and may provide at least some benchmark formulas.
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    phoenix240 reacted to Hugh Neilson in Tips for conversion from Mutants and Masterminds to Hero   
    I'd probably derive a formula based on campaign guidelines - M&M tends to use "+10" a lot.  If my game is based on a 12 DC standard, then "+10" becomes 12DCs, and perhaps every additional +1 (or +2) is another DC.
     
    If the standard for defenses is 25, then a +10 Toughness save should be 25 defenses and perhaps every deviation is 2 defenses (or maybe +2 = 5 defenses).
     
    To me, at least, this is a two stage process, first setting te baseline and then setting the extent of variances.  An average M&M character needs to port over as a standard Hero character, and the variances in the M&M builds needs to be consistent with the variances which would be allowed in a Hero campaign. 
     
    Pure formuli often don't work out right in that regard, especially as M&M is linear (a +4 bonus is always a 20% change in the chance of success) and Hero is not (+4 OCV or DCV is a lot).
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    phoenix240 reacted to archer in Supers Image game   
    Anika Hensley, aka Lady Unluck, is widely regarded as the most unfortunate mutant heroine of the modern age.
     
    To date, her “Staff of Power” has been documented to have set fire to her own wings no less than nine times, with two of those times winning the weekly prize on America’s Funniest Superhero Videoes. (Note the characteristic charring on her once angelic white wings.)
     
    Of special interest to fans of superheroics, the name “Lady Unluck” is not Anika’s name for herself. But every attempt to record, transmit, and/or broadcast that other name has resulted in spectacular accidents which have prevented that name from becoming known. Most news outlets know to bleep out her official superhero name when she says it...at least since the infamous WKRP incident of 2013.
     
    But despite her somewhat...uneven... record of battling villainy, Anika is still out there fighting the good fight and searching for any team which might someday be brave enough allow her onto the roster.
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    phoenix240 reacted to death tribble in Supers Image game   
    Dr Cramwell Bligh, the Science Guy !
     
    This scientist hero took to the streets to defend the common man from the uncommon man and woman. He invented a number of gadgets particularly the electric sword and the Science Pistol (tm and pat pending). He was named by the internet after his identity was leaked. However he is not married and all his immediate family are dead so there is little chance of someone close to him being held hostage or killed by the foes of freedom. He tends to team up with others as he is not foolish enough or overconfident enough to do things on his own. So if there is something strange in the neighbourhood, who is going to analyse it and see if it is a quantifiable threat when he is called about it ? Dr Cramwell Bligh, the Science Guy !
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    phoenix240 reacted to BoloOfEarth in Supers Image game   
    Beatrice Lyfe was an angry old spinster crone who felt she was always getting dumped on by the world and all the people in it.  (Well, except for that kindly Mr. Peters down the street.  He always had a smile and a kind word for her, even when she was a touch grumpy.)  She would have just lived out the rest of her miserable existence scaring the local kids and glaring at the neighbors, if not for a trickster demon who made her a deal:  Beatrice's immortal soul in exchange for power and immortality. 
     
    Beatrice found herself (or more specifically her mind) transplanted into the body of a lich whose mind had been separated from its body and banished into the void millennia ago by a league of heroes.  She now goes around as "Auntie Lyfe" (the press misspells it as "Anti-Life"), terrorizing - and often killing - anybody who gets in her way.  (Well, apart from Mr. Peters.)
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    I'm known by many names.  The Great Geezer.  The Wheezer.  Myself, I prefer the Gray Ghost.  Y'see, my grandson's the original Grim Reaper.  Took down druggies and mob types like nobody's business.  Then one day, he bit off more than he could chew.  Found him lying in the alley behind my apartment building, shot all to hell, but he still managed to dodge his pursuers and dragged himself home.   Lemme tell you, it was a shock to see him in his Reaper outfit, but believe you me, I was just damn glad he was still breathing.  I got him inside, called a retired doc friend of mine to come over and patch him up.  Yeah, couldn't take him to a hospital - they gotta report gunshot wounds. 
     
    So, while my boy's recuperating, I decided to fill his boots.  Hey, I may be on the other side of the hill, but I ain't dead yet!  I was in the Marines, served in Korea, and still keep myself pretty fit.  I know how to handle myself.  And it's only for a few months until he's back on his feet and ready to kick punk butt again.  Okay, so I threw in a little too much bleach when I tried to wash the blood out of his Reaper suit, and it kinda turned out a little brighter than before.  Hey, I kinda like it.  Who knows, maybe once my grandson's up to snuff, he can make a new suit for himself, and we can be partners. 
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    [excerpt from an article in SuperFan magazine]
     
    Following instructions passed along by the intermediary, I waited for her in the lobby of the Grand Hotel on Main Street. And waited.  And waited.  I mean honestly, how the heck can a frickin' speedster be late?! 
     
    I'd just gotten up to pace the lobby when a purple blur came in from outside.  I felt myself lifted from behind and carried like a rag doll through the open door and down the street, the buildings on either side a featureless blur to either side of me.  The scream was literally trapped in my throat by air pressing hard against my face, forcing itself into my nostrils and mouth.  In a handful of seconds, we were across town and slowing to enter what looked to be a warehouse. 
     
    It took me a few moments to regain my composure - I'm no stranger to the cape crowd, but I dare anybody to get hoisted and carried at a few hundred miles an hour, zipping between cars, without getting at least a little freaked - during which my hostess dropped into a bright red butterfly chair, crossing her legs and idly cleaning her fingernails with a sharp pointed stiletto.  My breathing finally under control, I settled myself on a folding chair across from her.  "QuickSliver, I presume," I said as I pulled out my notebook and pen.  (Hey, what can I say, I'm an old-school guy.  Plus, I got tired of my cameras and microphones getting eaten.)
     
    She laughed.  "What gave me away, Mr. Dugan?  Was it my fashion sense?  Or my choice of..." she spun the blade on the tip of her index finger "...grooming accessories?"  She ended with the stiletto pointed at me, a wicked grin on her face.
     
    "It may just have been the little trip from the Grand Hotel to," I gestured around us at the gloomy warehouse, "these upscale digs."
     
    She didn't seem pleased with my minimal reaction to her powers and implied threat, nor my sarcasm at the state of her hidey-hole.  Like this was the first abandoned warehouse where I've interviewed a supervillain or supervillainess.  When you're wanted in fifteen states for everything from B&E to Murder One like QuickSliver, you don't tend to stay in fancy hotels.  Although I suppose in her case, she could just zip into and out of a five-star hotel before anyone knows she's there.  Besides, superbaddies collect abandoned warehouses like Pokemon creatures.
     
    "I had to make sure you weren't setting me up for one of your superhero friends," she said, sheathing her blade and slipping her red gloves back on.  "Not that they could catch me, mind you..."
     
    "Really?  How fast can you go?" I asked innocently.  "And is it true you can phase through walls?"
     
    QuickSliver smiled.  "Honestly, I have no idea what my top speed is.  It's well into the Mach range, I can tell you that much.  As to phasing, yeah, I can vibrate my body fast enough to pass through most solid objects."  She demonstrated with her hand, vibrating it ultra-fast and passing it through the table beside her like it wasn't even there.  The hum was rather annoying, a bit like a dentist drill, and had me gritting my teeth.
     
    "So, let's talk about how you got your powers.  What was it - genetic mutation?  Lightning strike?  Chemical exposure?  Bitten by a radioactive hummingbird?"
     
    "None of the above," she said.  "I can thank Dr. Nymax! for being faster than a speeding..."
     
    "Careful," I interrupted.  "If you don't want anyone stepping on your schtick, you can't go stepping on theirs."
     
    She nodded.  "How about faster than a fighter jet?  Anyway, I was a lab assistant for Nymax! when he decided that I wasn't working fast enough, so he drugged me and stuck me in some kinda particle acceleration chamber.  When I came to, I was the fastest woman alive."  Inwardly, I cringed - that was coming a little too close to copyright infringement, but I decided to let it slide...
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    Miss America
     
    If there is one post in the American Superhero Justice System that seems to be cursed it is Miss America. it is one thing to die, or suffer, in the course of action but quite another for deaths or career ending injuries/events to occur when not on assignment. For reasons that are not clear the post of Miss America has attracted all sorts of bad publicity and disaster since its inauguration in Ronald Reagan's first term as President. For example one was killed in a car crash while another died when their transport crashed. The fifth woman to occupy the post was dismissed for drug addiction and later died 'supposedly' of their addiction. The seventh was dismissed for agreeing to pose for a men's magazine although she had not actually posed. The eighth lost her post for trying to broker a plea bargain and this was vilified in the press and by certain politicians. The tenth died during initial enhancement procedures as a result of sabotage.
    Alice Davenport is the fifteenth woman to take on the post and operates mainly on the East Coast. She came from the US Customs service and completed the selection process while number fourteen was still working. She is well aware of the poisoned chalice that the post has been for her predecessors but duty to the people is paramount as far as she is concerned. Alice has already surpassed the expectations of some of the cynics who predicted how long she would last in the job but in the brave new world of social media this is what a hero must face. There is an internet counter running on how long she has lasted in the job and thus the increased possibility of her screwing up the longer she lasts. It annoys her but there is little she can do about it, (freedom of speech). Alice
    Alice's enhancements make her stronger, have more endurance and be more dexterous than a normal person but it does not make her invulnerable or invincible. She has a flight harness that enables her to get to high places but not to fly like a bird. It has proven useful in saving her life when thrown out of a plane without a parachute (as it did for at least one predecessor) as it allowed her to descend to the ground although she needed to be picked up by colleagues. 
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    phoenix240 got a reaction from Amorkca in Supers Image game   
    There is a sister thread to this on rpg.net.  Check it out.
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    Shatter Witch
     
    “The enslaved, drugged abused Delphi oracles, cursed Cassandra, almost the entire cast of the Final Destination franchise... The Gods' gift of foresight has ever been more a curse, a punishment or even more a cruel jokes. ...You'd think I've have seen it coming really...”
     
    Morgan Madison was born with the power of foresight. She could view the future in astounding detail in vision that weren't under her control but came frequently. More so, she could sense imminent impending events even if she didn't view them, knowing instinctively what course they might take which manifested as incredible luck and fore sight even wisdom. 
     
    She put her abilities to use for the common good, acting as Insight, a psychic heroine in Denver, Colorado. As Insight she helped countless people, prevented disasters before the happened, even offered advice on things minor and major, all to good ends. Morgan liked helping, and in her heart of hearts, she liked the fame and prestige that came from her activities and being seen as a wise, mysterious figure. She felt somewhat guilty but couldn't help herself and felt a little bit of pride wasn't too much in contrast to the good she'd done. 
     
    The came the vision. A group of metahumans named Anarchy Unlimited attacking a biomedical research facility, a biological studies institute. Their plan to unleash the pathogens stored there. She saw the attack, heard their plans but couldn't see how it would end. Her visions, for all their accuracy rarely revealed ultimate outcomes. Concerned with the potential wide spread danger and imminent sense of threat she felt around her family, Morgan sent her husband and children out of town then gather her team and the authorities to defend the facility. 
     
    The presence of increased security and other metal human defenders, dissuaded Anarchy Unlimited. With dire threat of reprisal, they retreated. Only to strike again, a day later, intent on their goal of sowing chaos. Their target was a major airport, hundreds were killed. Among them Morgan's family, returning from to Denver from where she'd sent them, to keep them safe. 
     
    Even for a precognitive, hindsight was sometime the clearest. The feel of danger had come to her when she'd decided to send them away, gotten stronger from there. It wasn't support of her actions, it was warning. She'd done this. Her interference, her attempting to fix things had broken her life, shattered her dreams.  This was her reward for service, for trying to make things right; this was punchline to the Fate's joke. 
     
    Morgan's sanity gave way under the grief and guilt. She latched onto the few things that made sense to her: life was random, pointless, there was no right, no wrong, only consequence and entropy. Doing 'good' was just like trying to hold back the tide with bare hands, futile and eventually you'd drown having accomplished nothing. The only truth of existence was chaos and all things died. Insight died at the realization and Shatter Witch was born. 
     
    Personality: Bitter, cold and nihilistic, Shatter Witch lives to sow chaos and destruction, eventually on a truly astounding scale. It would be safe to say, she wants to end the universe, just to end her own pain and, in a twisted compassion, the suffering existence brings to all. She's truly mad at the world and her opinions the world started it. Many would say she simply mad. 
     
    Her madness is subdued, hidden a facade of cool aloofness and occasionally biting bitter sarcasm giving additional edge by her powers of insight. She weaves complex plans, lays the track that lead people, places, even worlds to their destruction, glee hidden behind a small enigmatic smile and utterly morbid sense of humor. Insight's calm, wise compassion is gone, subsumed into Shatter Witch's cold, malice for all order. And those that have enjoyed good fortune. Her plans are intricate and sadistic, but she'd not above random small, even petty cruelties but generally won't endanger long range plan for them.
     
    One aspect of Insight remains strong though. She does not lie, as in literally state and untruth. She was obfuscate, lie by omission, bend the truth or state it in a fashion that seems lie a life or otherwise trick or deceive but a direct overt lie is anathema to her. 
     
    Powers: Precognition, very advanced foresight that lets her get frequent visions of future events and a general sense of probability and the tenor of events in the immediate future. This power can appear as blindingly fast reflexes and reaction time, extreme luck and some degree of wisdom and 'lucky guesses' that seem to border on telepathy among other effect. She supplements her abilities with advanced gear and weaponry, usually suited the particular foes will she will face. The source for it is unknown. 
     
    Shatter Witch has displayed an ability to teleport both short range or over long distances and even between timelines. She refers to this power as “taking a short cut” and can carry willing individuals with her (has carried more a dozen at one point). Its not known if this ability is tied into her power or some sort of device she employs. Combined her supernatural foresight, its make Shatter Witch extremely difficult to capture or surprise. She takes great delight in turning ambushes back on her attackers, in fact. 
     
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    Shatter Witch
     
    “The enslaved, drugged abused Delphi oracles, cursed Cassandra, almost the entire cast of the Final Destination franchise... The Gods' gift of foresight has ever been more a curse, a punishment or even more a cruel jokes. ...You'd think I've have seen it coming really...”
     
    Morgan Madison was born with the power of foresight. She could view the future in astounding detail in vision that weren't under her control but came frequently. More so, she could sense imminent impending events even if she didn't view them, knowing instinctively what course they might take which manifested as incredible luck and fore sight even wisdom. 
     
    She put her abilities to use for the common good, acting as Insight, a psychic heroine in Denver, Colorado. As Insight she helped countless people, prevented disasters before the happened, even offered advice on things minor and major, all to good ends. Morgan liked helping, and in her heart of hearts, she liked the fame and prestige that came from her activities and being seen as a wise, mysterious figure. She felt somewhat guilty but couldn't help herself and felt a little bit of pride wasn't too much in contrast to the good she'd done. 
     
    The came the vision. A group of metahumans named Anarchy Unlimited attacking a biomedical research facility, a biological studies institute. Their plan to unleash the pathogens stored there. She saw the attack, heard their plans but couldn't see how it would end. Her visions, for all their accuracy rarely revealed ultimate outcomes. Concerned with the potential wide spread danger and imminent sense of threat she felt around her family, Morgan sent her husband and children out of town then gather her team and the authorities to defend the facility. 
     
    The presence of increased security and other metal human defenders, dissuaded Anarchy Unlimited. With dire threat of reprisal, they retreated. Only to strike again, a day later, intent on their goal of sowing chaos. Their target was a major airport, hundreds were killed. Among them Morgan's family, returning from to Denver from where she'd sent them, to keep them safe. 
     
    Even for a precognitive, hindsight was sometime the clearest. The feel of danger had come to her when she'd decided to send them away, gotten stronger from there. It wasn't support of her actions, it was warning. She'd done this. Her interference, her attempting to fix things had broken her life, shattered her dreams.  This was her reward for service, for trying to make things right; this was punchline to the Fate's joke. 
     
    Morgan's sanity gave way under the grief and guilt. She latched onto the few things that made sense to her: life was random, pointless, there was no right, no wrong, only consequence and entropy. Doing 'good' was just like trying to hold back the tide with bare hands, futile and eventually you'd drown having accomplished nothing. The only truth of existence was chaos and all things died. Insight died at the realization and Shatter Witch was born. 
     
    Personality: Bitter, cold and nihilistic, Shatter Witch lives to sow chaos and destruction, eventually on a truly astounding scale. It would be safe to say, she wants to end the universe, just to end her own pain and, in a twisted compassion, the suffering existence brings to all. She's truly mad at the world and her opinions the world started it. Many would say she simply mad. 
     
    Her madness is subdued, hidden a facade of cool aloofness and occasionally biting bitter sarcasm giving additional edge by her powers of insight. She weaves complex plans, lays the track that lead people, places, even worlds to their destruction, glee hidden behind a small enigmatic smile and utterly morbid sense of humor. Insight's calm, wise compassion is gone, subsumed into Shatter Witch's cold, malice for all order. And those that have enjoyed good fortune. Her plans are intricate and sadistic, but she'd not above random small, even petty cruelties but generally won't endanger long range plan for them.
     
    One aspect of Insight remains strong though. She does not lie, as in literally state and untruth. She was obfuscate, lie by omission, bend the truth or state it in a fashion that seems lie a life or otherwise trick or deceive but a direct overt lie is anathema to her. 
     
    Powers: Precognition, very advanced foresight that lets her get frequent visions of future events and a general sense of probability and the tenor of events in the immediate future. This power can appear as blindingly fast reflexes and reaction time, extreme luck and some degree of wisdom and 'lucky guesses' that seem to border on telepathy among other effect. She supplements her abilities with advanced gear and weaponry, usually suited the particular foes will she will face. The source for it is unknown. 
     
    Shatter Witch has displayed an ability to teleport both short range or over long distances and even between timelines. She refers to this power as “taking a short cut” and can carry willing individuals with her (has carried more a dozen at one point). Its not known if this ability is tied into her power or some sort of device she employs. Combined her supernatural foresight, its make Shatter Witch extremely difficult to capture or surprise. She takes great delight in turning ambushes back on her attackers, in fact. 
     
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    <Borrowing from Bolo>
     
    Devon Treble waited nervously in the narrow alley behind The Horseshoe Bar in Glasgow, Scotland.  "If Capt. Mode finds out, my goose is cooked," Devon thinks to himself. " Whatever possessed me to try and make contact with this "cape" anyways?" Smiling wryly, "course he ain't got a cape..."
     
    "Will he show up at all?" Devon wonders as he waits.  Wishing he hadn't given up smoking as it helps to pass the time, he continues to wait.  The cat that has watched him for the last hour loses interest in him, again, maybe for the last time, but who knows the mind of a cat...
     
    He feels rather than sees a shifting of the air around him and suddenly the subject he has come to meet is within 3 meters of him.  "Agent Treble, we meet again" A voice whispers at him, or did he hear that in his mind? Its unsettling the way this 'hero" communicates. "What do you need my help with tonight?"
     
    Devon shakes off the weird feelings he gets from this guy. "There's an assassin who needs to be taken care of, he passes over copies of the file they have on Dame Azure.  We think she's a mutant with teleportation powers"
     
    "I've heard of this Peculiar person" The Shadowed visitor says, "She's struck in many places and you are baffled by a means of capturing her?"
     
    Devon nods, "Calling her peculiar is an understatement..." He's cut off by the hero, " That's Peculiar not peculiar, capitalize the first letter"
     
    Devon looks perplexed, the figure continues "Mutant is not a proper term, these people have Peculiarity Abilities making them Peculiars... not mutants... A distinction I can see is lost on you"
     
    Referring to himself in the third person "Cipher will take on the case and see she is brought in for justice.  Her ability will not allow her to escape." He raises his right arm to reveal what appears to be an extra large tuning fork, "I will neutralize her power with my own abilities. But I will require time to prepare my trap for her"
     
    Just before leaving Cipher says "Feed the cat, it looks hungry" then there is the imploding air and he is gone.
     
    --------------------------------------------
     
    Using his arsenal of contacts and computer files, Cipher finds as much information on Dame Azure as he can.  She's done a great job of hiding her trail, but he is a cipher, a non entity and no one knows when he will strike next. He knows how dangerous she can be, he will still find her weaknesses and trap her!
     
    To be resolved...
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    Digitack
     
    Digital Attack typically shortened to Digitack is an ominous presence in all of the major American cities. Appearing as if from nowhere his attacks are brutal and to the point. He has not attacked police or law enforcement agents wantonly but has fought them off with almost lethal consequences. Mind control and telepathy seem to have no effect on him but mental blasts have been known to defeat him after which he has just evaporated into nothingness, Mental illusions also seem to have no effect as it is theorised he has mechanical senses. He has also been smashed into the sides of building or blasted into nothingness but has returned on seemingly random missions to do with technology and those who use and develop it.
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    Let's see if this works:
     

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    Everyone else has her as a heroine.  Let's go a darker route.
     
    "I think I have an ID on our perp for the Pendergast hit."
     
    Devon Treble looked up from his notes as his partner, Mark Wachman, tossed a folder on Treble's desk.  The older detective picked up the folder and started to leaf through it.  "Tell me what I'm looking at here," he said and he perused photos from half a dozen crime scenes.
     
    "You're looking at the work of Dame Azure, assassin extraordinaire from the south of France," said Wachman as he sat on the corner of Treble's desk.  "Word is, she's a teleporter, which means locked doors don't slow her down much at all.  Got some sort of high-tech visor that lets her see through walls, ceilings, and floors.  No way of knowing which direction she's gonna come from, or which way she's gonna escape.  Apparently well trained in martial arts.  She likes to 'port in close, snap the vic's neck, and then 'port away."
     
    Treble tapped one photo of a man shot three times in the chest.  "This doesn't look like a snapped neck to me."
     
    Wachman smiled without humor.  "Nope,  that guy had a bodyguard who saw Azure coming and tried to plug her full of holes.  She teleported the bullets back at the bodyguard's client."

    "That's damn quick," said Treble.
     
    Wachman looked at the photo.  "Yep.  Nice grouping, too."
     
    Treble pushed back from his desk.  "Crap like this is above our pay grade.  Better call in a cape to bring her in."

    "Captain Mode ain't gonna like that," said Wachman.  "You know what she says:  No Capes."
     
    "Yeah, well, I don't want to suddenly find myself falling from ten stories up because some mutant 'porter has a bug up her butt about nosy cops."  Treble shook his head and muttered,  "Dammit, I am getting too old for this crap."
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    True Blue
     
    The original True Blue was a hero from 1940 to 1955--an era often referred to as the Golden Age.  Possessing the strength of ten men and seemingly impervious to injury, True Blue fought crime and America's enemies until his retirement after his final victory over the criminal mastermind Boss Hacksaw. 
     
    Now there is a new True Blue on the scene, pledging to follow in the footsteps of the original.  It is not known at this time if she is related to the original, or even if she has met him or knows who he really was.  What is known is that she apparently does not possess his powers--but she does have the ability to fly with a speed and maneuverability that ranks her among the best superheroic fliers.  She also has considerable prowess as a martial artist, with the reinforced gauntlets she wears magnifying the force of her strikes.  Her armor protects her from most standard damage, and the visor protects her from flash attacks, as well as provides her with night vision and telescopic vision.
     
    For now she's an independent crimefighter--as far as anyone knows.  Her secrets are many, and she doesn't associate with other heroes, except when they cross paths on occasion.  Time will tell as to the actual nature of her motivations.
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    Slime Boss is the product of an industrial accident at a research lab that was working on a super-soldier serum.  He grew to six feet tall, and his brain developed greatly.  He cowed a number of lesser thugs into working for him, in part because bullets tend to do little damage to him.  The first mission that he gave them involved the kidnapping of a weapons engineer, whom he used to upgrade him cybernetically.  He's now the fastest and deadliest slug that has ever lived.
     
    His favorite combat saying is, "It's Slime time!"
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    The religious authorities and those concerned with the decay of society point at the media and say that is a bad influence and is dragging us all down into the mire. And of all of the many things that comprise the media the one that is the cesspit and the most insidious is of course musicals. And yay ! those concerned with the baleful influence of musicals would point to the poster child of debauchery, and you know full well who I am talking about, and that is Doris Day. The villainous woman called Whipcrack obviously took her name from the musical Calamity Jane.
    Actually one of her past employers or colleagues played The Deadwood Stage song when she first appeared with them and someone posted on the Internet that this was the origin of her power so naturally everyone else fell into line with this line of thought.
    She prefers to close with targets particularly martial artists and those with low defences and strike them around the head and body. She can blind and deafen targets by striking them around the eyes and ears although this will wear off. She is a bit of a sadist but backs off from killing an opponent. 
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    She is the cold war villain which the American papers have dubbed Red Lash. She was one of the top Soviet super agents during that time. But a freek accident forced her handlers to place her into suspended animation till science could be used to save her life.
     
    She was then promptly forgotten by her own country. Only the insane scientist Zarkov, who bonded with an alien battle chair, remembered her, and cured her as much as it suited his mad plans to evolve humans through tragic events, pain, and fear.
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    Scarlet Dragon
     
    Aspiring actor, Danny Chen was physically gifted, photogenic and to be fair, not a bad actor. What he couldn't seem to get was a break. The big budget action movie market was in a serious slump and no on was casting aside from bit parts and while playing “Panicked Bystander #24” paid the bills (mostly, with the help of part time waiter gig) but it wasn't exactly satisfying or the sort of thing that got your name up in lights 
     
    So when the offer came in to audition for a part for a starring role in an small studio's independent film, Danny jumped at the chance. Small was better than nothing and allot of big stars had gotten their start in little films or so his agent Marcy assured him. The audition went flawlessly, so perfect it almost felt like a formality (but Danny didn't want to get cocky). 
     
    The project was unusual though, intended to be in part advertised via a viral marketing campaign where Danny's character “Scarlet Dragon” would appear in videos on social media, post to Twitter and other internet appearances as if he were a real vigilante up until the ad spots debuted. Danny was fascinated and eagerly played along though the shoots and training were grueling. He had some experience with the martial arts and the moves he was taught to emulate had a real air authenticity to them despite being kind of flashy and esoteric. 
     
    This went on for weeks and grew to include some 'live action' appearances in costume. Danny kept track of his character's online presence and was pleased to find that he was becoming quite popular though many people thought he was real. He feared that might backfire when the truth came but was told not to worry by the director; who's name he never learned. 
     
    Then it happened, at an public appearance by James Ho, a Chinese American business man of some wealth and power, the Crimson Dragon appeared. 
     
    And killed him. In public, on camera. 
     
    But it wasn't Danny in the costume. He was out with his girlfriend at the time, watching in horror as the murder played out live. Panicked, Danny called his agent, then went after when he got no answer only to find her office ransacked and her dead body draped across her desk festooned with throwing knives like his 'character' used. Her files and records were gone, her computer smashed, taking most of the evident that would lead directly to him but also any evidence of the film he'd supposedly been hired to make. But there was likely plenty of forensics and other information. Danny had to flee as the police arrived shortly after he did and he made his way across the rooftops using some of his natural athletic ability in ironic emulation of his now wanted fictional persona. 
     
    He'd been set up. He didn't know why someone would have gone through such a convoluted plan. to frame him so he suspects it  was a plan to kill James Ho, who security was normally quite paranoid. But they'd let their guard down when a 'hero' like Scarlet Dragon had appeared. Ho was rich and popular but rumored to have criminal ties including Chinese organized crime. He's tried to find any of the other cast he could be they've so far been missing or dead, the shooting location abandoned. Even worse, apparently there is a real Scarlet Dragon, an Asian assassin of some repute in the underworld but almost unknown to the law abiding world and likely very unhappy about being dragged into the light. 
     
    Danny is going to need help to get out of this a free (and breathing) man, but from who? 
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    From the creators of the Double Down Chicken Sandwich...
     
    http://thechive.com/2018/03/11/kfc-created-a-fried-chicken-crust-pizza-for-those-who-fear-no-weight-gain/
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    Scarlet Dragon
     
    Aspiring actor, Danny Chen was physically gifted, photogenic and to be fair, not a bad actor. What he couldn't seem to get was a break. The big budget action movie market was in a serious slump and no on was casting aside from bit parts and while playing “Panicked Bystander #24” paid the bills (mostly, with the help of part time waiter gig) but it wasn't exactly satisfying or the sort of thing that got your name up in lights 
     
    So when the offer came in to audition for a part for a starring role in an small studio's independent film, Danny jumped at the chance. Small was better than nothing and allot of big stars had gotten their start in little films or so his agent Marcy assured him. The audition went flawlessly, so perfect it almost felt like a formality (but Danny didn't want to get cocky). 
     
    The project was unusual though, intended to be in part advertised via a viral marketing campaign where Danny's character “Scarlet Dragon” would appear in videos on social media, post to Twitter and other internet appearances as if he were a real vigilante up until the ad spots debuted. Danny was fascinated and eagerly played along though the shoots and training were grueling. He had some experience with the martial arts and the moves he was taught to emulate had a real air authenticity to them despite being kind of flashy and esoteric. 
     
    This went on for weeks and grew to include some 'live action' appearances in costume. Danny kept track of his character's online presence and was pleased to find that he was becoming quite popular though many people thought he was real. He feared that might backfire when the truth came but was told not to worry by the director; who's name he never learned. 
     
    Then it happened, at an public appearance by James Ho, a Chinese American business man of some wealth and power, the Crimson Dragon appeared. 
     
    And killed him. In public, on camera. 
     
    But it wasn't Danny in the costume. He was out with his girlfriend at the time, watching in horror as the murder played out live. Panicked, Danny called his agent, then went after when he got no answer only to find her office ransacked and her dead body draped across her desk festooned with throwing knives like his 'character' used. Her files and records were gone, her computer smashed, taking most of the evident that would lead directly to him but also any evidence of the film he'd supposedly been hired to make. But there was likely plenty of forensics and other information. Danny had to flee as the police arrived shortly after he did and he made his way across the rooftops using some of his natural athletic ability in ironic emulation of his now wanted fictional persona. 
     
    He'd been set up. He didn't know why someone would have gone through such a convoluted plan. to frame him so he suspects it  was a plan to kill James Ho, who security was normally quite paranoid. But they'd let their guard down when a 'hero' like Scarlet Dragon had appeared. Ho was rich and popular but rumored to have criminal ties including Chinese organized crime. He's tried to find any of the other cast he could be they've so far been missing or dead, the shooting location abandoned. Even worse, apparently there is a real Scarlet Dragon, an Asian assassin of some repute in the underworld but almost unknown to the law abiding world and likely very unhappy about being dragged into the light. 
     
    Danny is going to need help to get out of this a free (and breathing) man, but from who? 
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    Scarlet Dragon
     
    Aspiring actor, Danny Chen was physically gifted, photogenic and to be fair, not a bad actor. What he couldn't seem to get was a break. The big budget action movie market was in a serious slump and no on was casting aside from bit parts and while playing “Panicked Bystander #24” paid the bills (mostly, with the help of part time waiter gig) but it wasn't exactly satisfying or the sort of thing that got your name up in lights 
     
    So when the offer came in to audition for a part for a starring role in an small studio's independent film, Danny jumped at the chance. Small was better than nothing and allot of big stars had gotten their start in little films or so his agent Marcy assured him. The audition went flawlessly, so perfect it almost felt like a formality (but Danny didn't want to get cocky). 
     
    The project was unusual though, intended to be in part advertised via a viral marketing campaign where Danny's character “Scarlet Dragon” would appear in videos on social media, post to Twitter and other internet appearances as if he were a real vigilante up until the ad spots debuted. Danny was fascinated and eagerly played along though the shoots and training were grueling. He had some experience with the martial arts and the moves he was taught to emulate had a real air authenticity to them despite being kind of flashy and esoteric. 
     
    This went on for weeks and grew to include some 'live action' appearances in costume. Danny kept track of his character's online presence and was pleased to find that he was becoming quite popular though many people thought he was real. He feared that might backfire when the truth came but was told not to worry by the director; who's name he never learned. 
     
    Then it happened, at an public appearance by James Ho, a Chinese American business man of some wealth and power, the Crimson Dragon appeared. 
     
    And killed him. In public, on camera. 
     
    But it wasn't Danny in the costume. He was out with his girlfriend at the time, watching in horror as the murder played out live. Panicked, Danny called his agent, then went after when he got no answer only to find her office ransacked and her dead body draped across her desk festooned with throwing knives like his 'character' used. Her files and records were gone, her computer smashed, taking most of the evident that would lead directly to him but also any evidence of the film he'd supposedly been hired to make. But there was likely plenty of forensics and other information. Danny had to flee as the police arrived shortly after he did and he made his way across the rooftops using some of his natural athletic ability in ironic emulation of his now wanted fictional persona. 
     
    He'd been set up. He didn't know why someone would have gone through such a convoluted plan. to frame him so he suspects it  was a plan to kill James Ho, who security was normally quite paranoid. But they'd let their guard down when a 'hero' like Scarlet Dragon had appeared. Ho was rich and popular but rumored to have criminal ties including Chinese organized crime. He's tried to find any of the other cast he could be they've so far been missing or dead, the shooting location abandoned. Even worse, apparently there is a real Scarlet Dragon, an Asian assassin of some repute in the underworld but almost unknown to the law abiding world and likely very unhappy about being dragged into the light. 
     
    Danny is going to need help to get out of this a free (and breathing) man, but from who? 
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    [General Zod mode]
    I win ! I always win ! Is there no one on this planet to even challenge me ?
    [/General Zod mode]
     
    Tell me about this guy

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