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GM Atomic Tower, Midtown, Freedom City Early April 2024 Atomic Tower has housed the Atom Academy for four years now. A lot has gone on during that time, experiments and discoveries, but they have mostly been focused on moving forward, on the future. Rex Atom wants to change that. There's a lot hiding in the world, discoveries from the past, strange things that should and shouldn't be, and, he thinks that the Atom Academy needs to be a bit more proactive, so he has set out a reminder to the members of the academy and any of their associates, asking for anyone that would like to join him on his proposed journeys into the unknown. Everyone interested has been asked to meet in laboratory 55. It is a large open room, with a holographic projector, often used to model molecules or the like. Rex Atom himself seems to be running late, while everyone else are beginning to arrive in the room. So, the question is... who is everyone? Why are they here? What are their relation to the Atom Academy, if any? Why do they want to join the journeys into the mystery?

OOC for this. @Kaede Kimura @Thunder King @Epiphany @Tiffany Korta @Poncho Let me know how you want to approach the room or if there's anything you want to try to roll for!

April, 2024 A.E.G.I.S. had sent out a request to the Atom Family about a situation involving a situation with an unknown origin point that was affecting the city of Woodbury; County seat of Gloucester County, New Jersey. Wanting to move fast, A.E.G.I.S. had sent out requests to two individuals on their rolladex; the mental manipulator Echohead, and the dimensional refugee with her own suit if powered armor, Predator. The Atom Family had, in turn, decided to send out Rewind. The three represented a vary broad set of powers and skills, which meant forging into an unknown area and an unknown situation would be less dangerous. The three were currently in a specialize train car of A.E.G.I.S.' design, traveling as incognito as possible when moving from Freedom City to the south of New Jersey. Their handler was an older black woman named August Shrine, standing in front of three white sheets, each on a table. "...I apologize that A.E.G.I.S. has pulled you out so suddenly, but we're having a significant issue in Woodbury of unknown origin." She explains. "24 hours ago, Dennis Deacon of Woodbury, New Jersey disappeared on a routine walk. He reappeared 8 hours ago, highly dehydrated and malnourished. He was transferred to a local hospital, where 4 hours ago, he passed away." she recounted. "...That is when the trouble began. Once Dennis died, anyone who touched Dennis' corpse became Dennis. They turned into Dennis, and then died within 4 hours. Anyone those people touch turn into Dennis, and so on. Each Dennis copy is highly aggressive to those who aren't Dennis, but primarily out of confusion and seeking help." she indicates to the tarps and pulled them off, revealing 3 corpses in full containers. Each contained the body of a late 30s man, with bright orange hair and green eyes. They were each exact, perfect copies. "This is Dennis Deacon...well, some of them. Don't ask how we got these, you don't want to know. These are being incinerated soon." Shrine said, calm, composed, and absolutely not going anywhere near the cases. "We need the three of you to enter the town, determine what is going on with Dennis- if he's a metahuman, or has some other situation occurring- and stop it. I would rather not have the entire county become consumed." She looked intensely, extremely serious about this.

OOC for this thread Featuring Predator Echohead Rewind

Rewind Power Level: 10 (150 PP) Unspent Power Points: 0 Trade-Offs: None In Brief: Time Loop Survivor who Time Loops for Great Justice! Theme: This Moment by Elevation Rhythm Alternate Identity: Naisha Sidhu Birthplace: Friday, December 21st, 2012 Residence: The Goodman Building, Midtown Freedom City Base of Operations: Worldwide Occupation: Scientist/Researcher Affiliations: The Atom Family / Atom Academy Family: It's complicated... Description: Apparent Age: Looks 20 (DoB: Theoretically September 7th 1992) Gender: Female Ethnicity: Punjabi Height: 1.674m (5'6") Weight: 60kg (132 lbs) Eyes: Green Hair: Naturally dark brown Naisha is a seemingly ordinary Punjabi woman who wears t-shirts and jeans, when she's not dressing up for the office. Although she looks 20, there's a perceptible control and precision to her every movement that no 20-year-old has, still new to a changing body. She's been exactly the way she is for an incalculable period, knows exactly how to step without misstepping, how to catch without fumbling. Her dark eyes show the weight of age, in that she no longer fears the reaction or response of others. Naisiae's voice has a typically Midwestern American accent, except when it amuses her to use one of the 20 other accents she's practiced, and her voice is a soft soprano. As Rewind, her 'costume' is a morphic molecule bodysuit that covers her neck to toe. It features the classic Atom Family design, a mostly form-fitting costume with a symbol of the atom on the left side of the chest and a distinctive black stripe on the left blocking out the left side and left arm in a light blue color. Her main uniform color is the standard blue of the Atom Academy. History: In 1979, the original/Silver Age Atom Family discovered the broken day of Friday, December 21st, 2012 while conducting experiments in Z-Space. For details, you can read the original Rewind character sheet in Google Docs. The Atom Family eventually left the looped town of Millscroft behind to continue their adventures in other dimensions and realities. One left a journal that made it into the loop and eventually 'awoke' one of the inhabitants to consciousness, thereby condemning her to untold ages of curiosity, boredom, panic and eventual madness. When the new Atom Family returned in the actual year of 2012, they found Naisha Sidhu and freed her. In the real world for the first time, Naisha asked to stay on in the Goodman Building for a time while she acclimatized herself to living where time actually worked. She discovered Millscroft was indeed a real town and there was a Naisha Sidhu living there. Disturbed beyond words, she never made contact. Instead, she became an employee of Atomic, Inc. and spent the next seven years working as a researcher, for the lifetimes she'd spent learning and practicing science had given her an enormous breadth of uncredentialed education. She happily indulged Dr. Atom's every scientific whim, as one of the gophers and 'hands' the scientist's AI used to continue wrapping up old research. A few years of study revealed she had some marked temporal abilities herself. Feeling a need to make a difference, Naisha started practicing what she could do and eventually joined the Atom Academy formally as a superhero. Her ability to survive death and rewind consequences were ideal traits for a team of explorers who kept finding danger. Now, she does what she can whenever the Atom Academy fields a team. Personality & Motivation: Naisha is fundamentally a decent person, motivated to help people and to do nice things when she has the chance. Her work ethic is extraordinary, owing to decades spent being the only source of motivation in her existence. She likes problems and puzzles, mysteries, and gathering data. Focusing on unknowns, variables, and 'things' means she can avoid focusing on her life. She's an accomplished actress and liar, a skill honed by more decades spent trying out every imaginable phrase to explain away why she'd done some crazy thing in front of witnesses back in Friday, December 21st, 2012. This gives her considerable ability in pretending to be a well-adjusted time loop survivor and she tries hard never to create doubt that this is the case. The truth is that Naisha still struggles with her existence. Consequence is meaningless to someone who just wakes up on Friday, December 21st, 2012, no worse for wear. She was raised Sikh, became a born-again Christian in her teens, and practiced every religion she could find at one time or another. She's reasonably sure there's a God after all, given all she's learned from the Atom Family in the past decade, but she's not sure she is anything God cares about. This world already has a Naisha Sidhu. What value is this strange refugee from a broken day? But people give her an excuse to pretend to be normal like them. Whenever possible, Naisha stays around or at least near other people. She's spent the last twelve years spent as a coworker, friend, lover, playmate, or even that girl-who-always-gets-coffee-and-chats-with-the-barista-every-Friday-at-7:52am. It's all to ensure she's real and she's real because others remember her. For better or worse, an eternity in Friday, December 21st, 2012 has destroyed Naisha's sense of object permanence. And she can't possibly let anyone know because talking about her mental health could lead to the possibility of institutionalization and if there's one thing she can't stand, it's the idea that she might be locked up somewhere again. So instead, she focuses on being a hero as a member of the Atom Academy. It's meaningful work with people, for people. Being kind and helping others was the only source of joy in her broken day that never wore out. Even if she helped someone for the 500th time, it was still the first time for them and seeing the genuine appreciation helped her still feel it too. And as long as she can focus on other people, Naisha can keep avoiding her need to deal with her own issues. Powers & Tactics: Complications Abilities: 0 + 2 + 2 + 6 + 4 + 6 = 20 Strength: 10 (+0) Dexterity: 12 (+1) Constitution: 12 (+1) Intelligence: 16 (+3) Wisdom: 14 (+2) Charisma: 16 (+3) Combat: 8 + 8 = 16 PP Initiative: +1 Attack: +4 Defense: +4 Base, +10 (+4 Base, +6 Dodge Focus), +2 flat-footed Grapple: +4 Knockback: -5 Saving Throws: 7 + 7 + 6 = 20 PP Toughness: +10 (+1 Con, +9 Protection) Fortitude:+8 (+1 Con, +7 base) Reflex: +8 (+1 Dex, +7 base) Will: +8 (+2 Wis, +6 base)Second Chance Skills: 28 R = 7 PP Bluff 2 (+5)Second Chance Computers 2 (+5) Craft [Artistic] 4 (+7) Diplomacy 0 (+3)Second Chance Drive 2 (+3) Gather Information 1 (+4) Handle Animal 1 (+4) Intimidate 0 (+3)Second Chance Knowledge [Art] 3 (+6) Knowledge [Theology and Philosophy] 2 (+5) Language 1 (Native: English; Learned: Punjabi) Medicine 2 (+4) Notice 1 (+3) Perform [Singing] 2 (+5) Sense Motive 2 (+4) Stealth 1 (+2) Swim 2 (+2) Feats: 16 PP Beginner's Luck Dodge Focus 6 Improvised Tools Inspire 4 Inventor Jack-of-All-Trades Luck 2 Enhanced Feats Eidetic Memory Second Chance [Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Will Saves] 4 Uncanny Dodge [Sight, Sound, Smell] 3 Powers: 8 + 21 + 26 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 2 = 71 Enhanced Feats 8 (Eidetic Memory, Second Chance [Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Will Saves] 4, Uncanny Dodge [Sight, Sound, Smell] 3) {8 PP} (Descriptors: Temporal) Iterative Experience 3 (15PP Variable Power, Any Skill, Multiple Skills At Once; Extras: Duration [Continuous]) {21 PP} (Descriptors: Temporal, Thought) Dawn - Acrobatics +10, Climb, +5, Concentration +10, Drive +11, Escape Artist +4, Knowledge (Tactics) +7, Notice +11, Pilot +10, Ride +5, Stealth +12, Swim +3 Zenith - Bluff +9, Diplomacy +11, Gather Information +13, Handle Animal +2, Intimidation +2, Knowledge (Streetwise) +4, Language (Punjabi, Hindi, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, Arabic, Korean, Russian) +7, Perform (Singing) +8, Perform (Keyboards) +7, Perform (Stringed Instruments) +8, Perform (Wind Instruments) +8, Sense Motive +9 Twilight - Knowledge (Art) +10, Knowledge (Behavioral Sciences) +9, Knowledge (Civics) +10, Knowledge (Earth Sciences) +8, Knowledge (History) +9, Knowledge (Life Sciences) +8, Knowledge (Physical Sciences) +10, Knowledge (Popular Culture) +8, Knowledge (Theology and Philosophy) +8 Night - Acrobatics +10, Climb +5, Computers +6, Disable Device +10, Disguise +4, Knowledge (Technology) +12, Knowledge (Streetwise) +4, Notice +10, Escape Artist +4, Sleight of Hand +8, Stealth +10, Survival +5 Eclipse - Computers +6, Craft (Artistic) +10, Craft (Chemical) +8, Craft (Electronic) +12, Craft (Mechanical) +12, Craft (Structural) +5, Investigate +5, Medicine +10, Notice +10, Search +10 Rewind Array 11.5 (23 PP Array; Feats: Alternate Power 3) {26 PP} (Descriptors: Temporal, Quantum Forces) Base Power: Teleport 9 (900 ft as a move action, 20,000 miles as a full action; Extras: Accurate; Flaws: Limited (to places she's physically been to no longer ago than her last Reset); Feats: Change Direction, Change Velocity, Progression [Mass] 3) {23/23} Alternate Power: Healing 4 (Extras: Range [Perception +2], Restoration, Total; Feats: Stabilize, Persistent, Regrowth) {23/23} Alternate Power: Healing 5 (Extras: Affects Objects, Area [General Burst]; Feats: Stabilize, Persistent, Regrowth) (25 ft. radius) {23/23} Alternate Power: Paralyze 10 (Extras: Ranged; Flaws: Action [Full]; Feats: Accurate 3) {23/23} Immunity 3 (Aging, Disease, Poison) {3 PP} (Descriptors: Temporal) Feature 1 (Temporal Inertia) {1PP} (Descriptors: Temporal) Regeneration 2 (Resurrection 1/day; Flaws: Limited (Death makes her wake up the next day in Friday, December 21st, 2012, requiring her to transit back to the Goodman Building)) {1 PP} (Descriptors: Temporal) Protection 9 (Descriptors: Temporal) {9 PP} Quickness 4 (Perform tasks 25x faster (Take 20 only takes an action); Flaw: One Type (Mental Only) {2 PP} (Descriptors: Temporal, Thought) Totals Abilities (20) + Combat (16) + Saving Throws (20) + Skills (7) + Feats (16) + Powers (71) = 150/150 PP