Rev

[Supercape]

So, I have avoided Claremont like the plague due to my discomfort. However, I have a new philosophy which is to expose myself to discomfort rather than avoid it. Hence, I am contemplating (albeit with nerves) trying it out, mainly to try and get in "kid" mindset and write it. 

 

Still. Not my comfort zone (yet!).

 

Anyway after posting a few possibilities, this PC came up as the preferred. So posting it here for comments. May be some time before I use it (or don't), so comments. Mainly on fluff, but any mechanical issues you spot would be super. 

 

Rev

Power Level: 10 (180/180)
Unspent Power Points: 0
Trade-Offs: None (+4 Attack/-4 DC for Plasma Jet)
 
In Brief: Street Racer Cyborg
 
Alternate Identity: Lexa Venn
Birthplace: Freedom City
Residence: Freedom City
Base of Operations: Freedom City, Claremont
Occupation: Student, Mechanic
Affiliations: Claremont
Family: Daisy Jenkins (Mother, Nurse)
Catchphrase: “Jet, Set, GOOOO!”
 
Description:
Age: 17
Apparent Age: 17
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 100 Kgs
Eyes: Red
Hair: White

 

Rev is a young woman who usually wears cheap casual clothes like t shirts, and jeans. Her only oddity is white hair and red eyes (although she often wears sunglasses). She is often barefoot (because her jets will burn through shoes pretty fast), but does wear sneakers she can kick off quickly if need be. 

 

With power use, her artificial skin peels / burns off and metal cyborg limbs are revealed. 

 

Rev has two ports on the side of her neck, which she can use to pump fuel into her body. 
 
History:
Lexa Venn grew up a good kid, decent grades, friendly, outgoing. Bit of a tomboy. Her dad was a mechanic, her mother a nurse. That all changed on her 15th Birthday, when her Dad was killed in a shootout between some cops and a pair of cheap thugs. 

 

She didn’t go completely off the rails, but she certainly slid half off them. She fell in with a street gang called the “Junkin’ Donuts”, who specialised in joy riding and street racing, and rebuilding or modifying scrap yards cars. They weren’t a totally bad lot, just thrill seeking anarchists (As opposed to violent). Lexa had enough skill driving and repairing cars that she was pretty valued. 

 

After leaving high school early (aged 16) with disappointing but not bad grades (“could have done better”) she ended up working in an auto shop part time and hanging around the Junkin’ Donuts full time. And then, she took a race that would change her life, against an alien tourist. 

 

The tourist, a racer himself, used a “Mechaphage”, a strange metal based cybernetic bacteria that integrated biological and mechanical components. He used this to literally “become one with his car”. He would have easily won the race, but Lexa would not have that. She called in her Donut friends who spiked the street with an oil slick. Next thing, Lexa and the Alien had an almighty crash. The alien died, whisked away by AEGIS in the aftermath. Lexa suffered horrific injuries, but slowly recovered, her broken, missing, or shattered limbs turning to steel, her hair turning white, her eyes turning red. She had been infected with the Mechaphage!

 
Personality & Motivation:

Rev is a thrill seeking, adventure loving woman who “Rev”els in her power. However, despite her need for speed, she really doesn’t have a bad bone in her body (mind you, she doesn’t have that many bones these days). She is generally a kind, loving kind of person, and has plenty of sympathy for others. 

 

Her motivation is thus simply to use her power helpfully. However this is not always simple; she can come into conflict with her own desire for power, or she can find herself torn in whom to help. She will tend to help others she knows, or has a personal investment in, rather than abstract helpfulness (on a geo-political or philosophical level, for instance). 

 

Her major hobby and interest is pulling apart engines and rebuilding them. And driving cars very very fast…
 
Powers & Tactics:

Rev has many machine parts, but mainly they are her legs and arms that are now fully mechanical. Her limbs can extend out and her feet and hands (and to a lesser extent the rest of her limbs) are loaded up with jets she can fire to fly, increase her strength, or use offensively (as a plasma cutting instrument). One limitation of her jets is that they require normal oxygen levels: They will not function at high altitude or underwater (for instance). 

 

Rev can “Rev” engines with touch, increasing their power and performance considerably by temporarily infecting them with the Mechaphage. For instance, she can boost a car to travel at 5000mph!

 

Rev is reckless but smart in a fight, meaning she will charge in without planning, and with a love for speed. But once in a fight she is not stupid – over confident, perhaps, but not stupid. She will use her powers in reasonably inventive ways. 
 
Power Descriptions:

Revs limbs are telescopic (if they do, see “Skin Job” complication), able to do so up to a hundred feet. Her limbs are also extremely strong and heat-resistant and have built in tools. 

 

Rev’s limbs can fire jets. These are mainly in her feet and hands, but she has a few lesser jet ports in her elbows and knees. They will fire blue plasma at her mental command. She can focus this fuel to massively increase her functional strength, at which point all her limbs will have a fiery blue glow deep inside them (and her artificial skin will peel off). 

 

Rev has some other biomechanical abilities: Her body is very resilient due to sub-dermal armour, and includes heat and energy dispersal systems. 
 
Complications:

 

Skin Job: Rev has artificial, plastic derived skin over her limbs, which tends to burn off during strain or damage, showing clearly metal limbs (making her recognisable). In addition, whist her hands have reasonable touch receptors (a little less than a normal humans), the rest of her limbs have very little or no touch sensation (meaning she could be insidiously damaged or affected without her noticing). 

 

Tanked up: Her limbs usually operate on electricity which she can spontaneously generate. However, using the Jet array requires fuel. She has to pump fuel into her body (either drinking it, or – more efficiently, by piping into a portal in her neck). Refuelling also means refining (to ultra high grade energy dense variants) which she can do in her body. However, this does mean emitting (from her jets) a rather unpleasant methane smell. 

 

Oiled up: In addition, Rev needs to apply lubricating oil to her limbs once a day or they will grind and be very noisy (making stealth impossible, for instance). Being in water or dirty environments will also cause grinding until she applies oil again. Very long periods (weeks) without lubricant will slowly make her limbs seize up altogether. 

 

Overcharge Burn: Her “Revving” boost is not reliable. She can break, rather than boost, engines. A typical overnburn problem would have the engine working a few rounds and then failing (or worse, exploding). In any case, protracted use of a fully boosted power (at boosted level) is likely to strain or damage the machine. Other possible amusing problems might be losing breaks (and enforcing full speed), steering, or getting blinded in the vehicle by belching smoke. 

 

Full Speed Ahead: Rev loves going at dangerous top speed, either by driving or flying or anything else. This might include inappropriately using extra effort just to go faster (especially if she needs to be the fastest in a race…)

 

Total Jerk: If hit by electricity, she will experience brief violent jerks in her limbs. She could accidentally drop or throw something, fall prone, or just flail about. 

 

Magnetic Vibes: Strong magnetic fields, or magnetic powers will also affect her, giving her a lingering fine tremor to her hands for an hour or so. This stops her from any fine manipulation. She could not accurately type, press a button, and cannot be precise with her plasma jet, let alone use craft or disable device skills. 

 

Red Eye: Rev has dispersed pigment in her eyes which means she is unable to “see” Red (instead, she picks up infrared). Red thus “appears” black to her. This could potentially cause problems with things like traffic lights or being unable to see in red light (or seeing badly during sunset).

Abilities: 20 + 6 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 6 = 38
Strength: 30 (+10) [Effective Lifting Strength: 40]
Dexterity: 16 (+3)
Constitution: 14 (+2)
Intelligence: 14 (+2)
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 14 (+2)

 

Combat: 20 + 20 = 40
Initiative: +7
Attack: +10, +14 Plasma Jet
Defense: +10 (+10 Base, +5 Flat Footed)
Grapple: +22 (additional +3from elongation)
Knockback: -5

Saving Throws: 5 + 7 + 6 = 20
Toughness: +10 (+2 Con, +8 Protection)
Fortitude: +7 (+2 Con, +5)
Reflex: +11 (+3 Dex, +8)
Will: +7 (+0 Wis, +7)

Skills: 60R = 15 PP
Acrobatics 8 (+11) ^{Skill Mastery}
Bluff 4 (+6)
Craft (Electronic) 4 (+6)
Craft (Mechanical) 8 (+10) ^{Skill Mastery}
Disable Device 8 (+10) ^{Skill Mastery}
Drive 8 (+11) ^{Skill Mastery}
Intimidate 4 (+6)
Knowledge (Pop Culture) 4 (+6)
Knowledge (Streetwise) 4 (+6)
Notice 4 (+4)
Sense Motive 4 (+4)

Feats: 11 PP
Acrobatic Bluff
Ambidexterity
Beginner’s Luck
Evasion 2
Grappling Finesse
Improved Grapple
Improved Initiative 1
Luck 2
Skill Mastery 1 (Acrobatics, Craft Mechanical, Disable Device, Drive)

Powers: 8 + 3 + 1 + 6 + 25 + 8 + 1 + 4 = 56

 

Boost 4 (Any mechanical trait, Extras: Affects Objects only [+0], Feats: Slow Fade 4 [1 Hour], Flaws: Others Only) [8 PP] “Rev Engine!”

Example Common Uses

 

Most vehicles would be boosted from speed 5 to speed 9! (5000mph!) [4 PP]
Marine Vehicles would gain an additional 4 ranks of swim [4 PP]
Flying Vehicles would gain an additional 2 ranks of flight [4 PP]
Increasing Vehicle STR by 20 [4 EP]
Increasing damage from purely mechanical firearms by +2 (Increasing Blast by 2) [4 PP]

 

Elongation 3 (25’, Range Increment 30’, +3 to Grapple/Escape Artist) [3 PP] “Servo Limbs”

 

Enhanced Trait 1 (Feat: Improvised Tools) [1PP] “Inbuilt finger tools”

 

Immunity 6 (Light based visual dazzles [1], Limb heat damage [2], Cold and Hot Environments [2], Energy based critical hits [1]) [6 PP]

 

Jet Array (24 PP Array, Feats: Alt Power 3 Drawbacks: Power Loss 2 [Low 02]) [25 PP] “Jets!”
BP: (Corrosion) Damage 6 (Feats: Accurate 2, Precise) Linked with Drain Toughness 6 (Extras: Affects Objects, Feats: Accurate 2, Precise) [9 + 15 = 24/24 PP] “Plasma Jet”
AP: Damage 8 (Extras: Area [Burst], Range) [24/24 PP] “Fiery Jet”
AP: Dazzle 8 (Extras: Area [Burst]) [24/24 PP] “Jet Flare” (Light descriptor)
AP: Flight 11 (25,000 mph / 200K’ round, Feats: Moving Feint) [23/24 PP] “Turbo Jet”

 

Protection 8 [8 PP] “Sub dermal plating”

 

Super Senses 1 (Infravision)

 

Super Strength 2 (+10 Effective Strength) [4 PP]

 

DC Block
ATTACK         RANGE        SAVE                  EFFECT
Unarmed        Touch        Toughness 25          Damage
Plasma Jet     Touch        Fort 16, Tough 21     Drain Tough, Damage
Fuel Bomb      Ranged/Burst Toughness 23          Damage
Flaring Jet    Ranged/Burst Reflex/Tough 18       Visual Dazzle
 
Totals: Abilities 38 + Combat 40 + Saving Throws 20 + Skills 15 + Feats 11 + Powers 56 = 180/180 Power Points

Edited November 21, 2017 by Supercape

[TheAbsurdist]

So the Boost might be problematic, as it would explicitly apply a benefit to Equipment, which nominally can't benefit from Powers.

[Supercape]

That would be a shame, as it is the core feature of the build. It has also been allowed before. Honestly I don't really see it as unfair or broken. 8 PP for a power that basically will mainly be used to increase engine speed to a level that is less than Rev's core flight seems a reasonable thing. 

 

As a point of clarification, however, this is not boosting the equipment feat. This is not boost 4 PP = 20 EP equation. It is boosting mechanical devices, automatons, and vehicles. The only "equipment" I could actually see it boosting would be firearms (I dunno, possibly things like the range on flare gun but even thats debatable). I would suggest that is not really an issue as a) firearms rarely come into play anyway, and b) again, +2 ranks on a firearm damage is still well well below what could be achieved by even PL 7 PCs in terms of effectiveness. 

 

I tell a lie though. It could probably boost chainsaw, which is not a firearm!

 

Incidentally, I am not sure where the equipment cant benefit from powers comes from but I am sure you are right: just so I learn could you point me to that?

Edited November 24, 2017 by Supercape

[EternalPhoenix]

Boost (Movement Speed; Limited to Machines)?