Persephone

[Amelia]

In Brief: Moonstone meets Poison Ivy, with a dash of Venom, and side helpings of Elle Woods and Blanche Devereaux.

 

 

Character: Persephone

Power Level: 12 (Built as PL10)

Tradeoffs: None

Power Points: 180/180

Unspent Points: 0

 

Alternate Identity: Camellia Blume, M.D.

Identity: Secret

Legal Status: USA citizen with no criminal record

Birthplace: Vibora Bay, Florida

Base of Operations: Vibora Bay, Florida

Residence: A rented house in Atwater

Occupation: Psychiatrist (self-employed, private practice)

Affiliations: University of Florida (alumnus), Delta Delta Delta (alumnus), Florida Board of Medicine (licensed physician), American Medical Association (board-certified psychiatrist)

Family: Younger fraternal twin brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew, parents, several aunts, uncles, and grandparents

 

 

DESCRIPTION

Age: 30 (Date of Birth: 1989)

Apparent Age: 30

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: Anglo-Germanic Caucasian American

Height: 5’10”

Weight: 140 lbs.

Hair: Human Form: Platinum-Blonde, Plant Form: Purple

Eyes: Human Form: Blue, Plant Form: Purple

 

A friend once described her as “Grace Kelly’s head on Kate Upton’s body”. She has brilliant blue eyes set into a heart-shaped face, framed with a mane of shiny and thick platinum blonde hair which falls down to the top of her thighs. She has the kind of hourglass figure that usually requires aggressive corsetry, and most of her substantial height is in her long legs. Her voice is heavy, breathy, and deeper than most people expect, with a slight Southern drawl. She carries herself with the calm, quiet confidence of someone who’s accustomed to being welcome everywhere she goes. She has a big smile, and it gets a lot of exercise.

 

She has an extensive wardrobe; more than one person has joked that they’ve never seen her wear anything twice. She has personally altered most of her clothes, both to better fit and support her body, and to replace the buttons and clasps with magnets, which allows her to get in and out of them quickly (a trick live stage productions use to cope with frequent costume changes). Her personal style, heavily influenced by the local climate, consists mainly of above-the-knee sundresses in bright colors and floral prints, paired with some kind of ornate sandals, more often than not with 4-5 inch heels that make her tower over most of the people around her. During the couple of months a year where the weather in Vibora Bay dips below 70F, she’ll switch to sweater dresses with higher necklines, swap out the sandals for closed-toes or boots, and add some heavy tights for extra warmth. In more casual settings, she sometimes trades the dresses for crop tops paired with denim short-shorts or short skirts, and on the beach, where she goes every chance she gets, she rocks the bikini. She loves jewelry; pearls are her favorite, and she owns pieces in every color of the rainbow. Outside, she’s rarely seen without both oversized sunglasses, some kind of a large, floppy-brimmed straw or silk hat with a bow or flower on the ribbon, varieties of which she also owns in every color. In professional settings, she wears decorative glasses with clear lenses, mainly in the hope that she’ll be taken more seriously once the “smart people have poor eyesight” stereotype cancels out the “dumb blonde” trope, but also because it gives her another accessory to play with.

 

When she uses her powers, her skin turns green, and her eyes and hair both turn purple. Her hair grows even longer, almost touching the ground, and it takes on a life of its own. The coloration shifts to different shades depending on her mood, and the hair moves of its own accord, suddenly when in response to her emotional state, but otherwise gently floating and swaying as though she were underwater. Her ability to shape plant matter with her thoughts also extends to her own body. She can make plant appendages like vines, thorns, leaves, and roots sprout from her skin, with whatever pigmentation or texture she desires. Her costume is made from such appendages, consisting of thousands of overlapping leaves growing out of her skin, and falling away when she switches back to a human appearance. There's usually a flower in her hair, but that's because it's growing out of her head. She can also release luciferns and their catalyzing enzymes into parts of her body, causing them to glow. She does this most often with her hair and eyes.

 

 

HISTORY

Carmellia Blume’s parents met while they were both students at the University of Florida’s Vibora Bay campus. Her mother was a cheerleader and her father played football. They both stuck around long enough to earn Master’s degrees, hers in interior design and his in engineering. After graduation, she started her own firm, while he went to work for Vibora Petroleum, where he quickly ascended to upper management. By gradually invested in dozens of rental properties and restaurant franchises, in Vibora Bay and throughout North Florida, her parents did their part to maintain their family's wealth for another generation. Her father has been a member of the elite Mahogany Club since before she was born.

 

Carmellia beat her “little” twin brother into the world by a few minutes. She grew up in a Cluet Farms mansion, immersed in luxury and privilege. Her teens and early twenties were a hurricane of private schools, cheerleading practices, cotillions, debutante balls, modeling jobs, and beauty pageants, just like her mother before her. She was the queen of her high school, but she was a benevolent queen, who never tolerated bullying. She attended the University of Florida, a legacy admission, like her parents before her. She joined the Tri-Delta sorority, like her mother before her. She even spent a year studying abroad in Paris, like her mother had at her age. But ultimately, she decided that, while dancing and modeling were fun, they weren't fulfilling. She wanted to spend her life helping people in a more direct manner. So after four years of college, she applied to UFVB's prestigious medical school. It was the first time in her life when she made a real decision, instead of just following in her parents footsteps. The modeling money and pageant prizes she’d saved up took a big bite out of the tuition, so she didn’t have to dip too far into her trust fund. After four years of medical school, she chose psychiatry as her specialty, combining her academic prowess and her social skills to make the world a better place, one person at a time. After another four years, she completed her residency and obtained her medical license. She rented an apartment in Far Weston (separate from the rented Atwater house she lived in), and started her own practice out of it, living off of her trust fund until she accumulated enough patients to make her practice self-sustaining.

 

Camellia kept a garden at home, and her office space was filled with flowers. This caused one of her first patients visible distress. But he wasn't floraphobic. Instead, he seemed to be suffering from auditory hallucinations, or some other delusion. He claimed that one of his wife’s plants was talking to him. No one else seemed to be able to hear the voice, but it was growing louder and more insistent, while not making any sense, and he was convinced it was coming from the purple orchid his wife had brought home a few weeks prior. After a few weeks of talk sessions and a prescription for anti-anxiety medication failed to yield any results, he brought the orchid in question to his session, and refused to bring it back home with him. She didn’t think it would help his recovery to force the issue, so she let him leave without it, intending to return it to him later.

 

The orchid was sitting on the front seat of her car during her commute home. That commute was interrupted when she drove by what appeared to be a mugging or assault taking place in an alley just off the street. She pulled off into the alley, flashed her lights, honked her horn, and shouted that she was calling the police, hoping to scare away the attackers. But the attackers were New Shadows gang members, vampires, and they weren’t mugging their victim, they were feeding on him. They used their superhuman strength to flip her car over, trapping her in the alley. But as they started to drag her out of the wrecked car, she heard a woman's voice inside her mind, and it seemed like time froze.

 

The voice offered Camellia power, the power she would need to survive this ordeal and many like it. But she could only give Camellia that power if they were “bonded”. Camellia decided that, whatever that meant, it was better than letting herself or that poor man be killed, so she agreed. Time started passing again, and the orchid started moving under its own power, shattering its pot and pressing itself against Camellia. The flower somehow phased through her flesh and bone, sinking into her chest. She felt its roots expand throughout her body. It occurred to her that this should have been painful or terrifying or disgusting, but instead it was invigorating. Leaves and bark sprouted from her flesh, covering every inch of her skin. The vampires were shocked when they reached for a human but pulled out a humanoid plant-monster. Their shock gave her all the time she needed. Acting on instinct, she summoned plants to her aid, and they responded. Roots from a nearby tree stretched and snaked through the dirt before bursting bursting up out of the ground, breaking through the concrete like it was glass. The roots hardened into spears and impaled the vampires, who all crumbled into ash. As soon as the danger had passed, the leafy armor dried up and crumbled off of Camellia’s skin. She used her cell phone to call an ambulance for the bleeding man and a tow truck for her totaled car, and she tended to his wounds as best she could while they waited. She told the police that she’d turned too fast into the alley and flipped over, which must have scared away “the muggers”. The wounded man didn’t contradict her.

 

Camellia spent the weeks after the incident telepathically communing with her new symbiote, learning what little the symbiote knew of her own history, and growing accustomed to her new abilities and the changes the symbiote was making to her body. The symbiote had been part of a race of semi-sentient plants engineered and grown as biological weapons by the humans of another Earth in an alternate dimension. That dimension fell to Omega, and this symbiote happened to be on a part of that Earth which wound up floating in the Terminus instead of being annihilated. When a rift opened up near the symbiote during the most recent Terminus incursion into her dimension, she pulled up her roots and let herself fall through. The symbiote offered to separate from Camellia if she so desired, but Camellia refused when she learned that separation would require intensive surgery which could kill both of them. Instead, Camellia decided to cope with whatever changes might come, and put her new abilities to good use, making the world a better place like she’d always wanted to.

 

 

PERSONALITY & MOTIVATION

Camellia's behavior comes from a combination of a naturally big heart and being raised in a semi-aristocratic subculture in which tradition was revered and courtesy was paramount. She strives to always be polite, modest, generous, and forgiving. She hates to see people suffer, even when they deserve it. She’s sensitive to the moods of the people around her, and it’s important to her to make those people as comfortable as possible. Her guiding principle in daily life is “Make everybody feel welcome, and never make anybody feel second-rate.” She greets everyone with a warm smile and an opening for as much small talk as they'd like, and she almost never swears or insults people. When someone else commits a faux pas, she’s far more likely to ignore it or attempt to cover for it than she is to draw attention to it or mock them. She values integrity, both in herself and in others, so she won’t lie to protect people’s feelings, but she will distract, deflect, and omit. Every child gets told at some point “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”, but unlike most children, she took that sentiment to heart, leaving the hard truths for one-on-one sessions behind closed doors. She detests bullying of any kind, and she won't hesitate to step in and put herself between the bully and their victim. She loves social interaction and embraces every opportunity for it. Everyone has a story, and she wants to hear them all. She make a point of maintaining correspondence with all of her family, former school friends, sorority sisters, and coworkers. Once you're part of her world, you don't leave. She remembers every birthday, and she sends hand-written “Thank You” notes for everything. She likes attention, which is fortunate, because she’d get plenty of it whether she liked it or not. She doesn’t demand the spotlight, but she’s very comfortable under it. She’s a hopeless romantic who falls hard and fast both in and out of love. She doesn’t expect or demand old school chivalry, but she’s a total sucker for it.

 

 

POWERS & TACTICS

The symbiotic alien plant which fused with her has transformed her body on the molecular level into an ambulatory plant. Her flesh, blood, and bone has mostly been replaced with cellulose, sap, and wood, and what remains has little value beyond the cosmetic. Her plant tissues are more durable and resilient than her old flesh. Her body engages in photosynthesis, so she doesn’t need to breathe or eat food, though she still does, both for the pleasurable sensation and because she can derive nutrients from it; it’s the equivalent of spreading fertilizer over crops. She can also extend roots from her body down into soil to obtain water and nutrients, but eating and drinking feels more familiar. The diseases and poisons of animals no longer affect her, although certain chemical fertilizers have effects on her similar to those of caffeine or alcohol when she discreetly adds them to her coffee and cocktails (making those drinks toxic for anyone else in the process). Like an old tree, her aging process has stalled to the point of being imperceptible. With an infusion of sunlight, her body is able to mend most wounds instantly, and even grievous injuries will heal in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks. However, as a plant, she is more vulnerable to dehydration and extremes of temperature, her tissues are more flammable, and defoliants and herbicides which would be harmless to a human will kill her in a matter of minutes.

 

Through the symbiote, she can psychically detect, communicate with, animate, control, and alter plants. She can make them move and act on her behalf, and she can transform them extensively, shaping them like clay, greatly increasing or decreasing their size, strength, and resilience, and making them sprout flowers which then burst open with psychoactive pollen or latex. She doesn't strictly need to take any physical action to alter or control plants, but she uses physical gestures to help herself focus. In battle, she looks like she's dancing or conducting an orchestra. The transformations she uses most often reverse themselves as soon as she stops exerting the mental effort to maintain them; permanent changes require greater effort (power stunts for Continuous/Lasting or Independent versions of her powers). Nearby plants even respond to her unconscious desires and survival instinct, moving out of her way, or moving and stretching to protect her, blocking or swatting aside incoming attacks. Her ability to shape plant matter with her thoughts also extends to her own body. She can make plant appendages like vines, thorns, leaves, and roots sprout from her skin, with whatever pigmentation or texture she desires. In battle, she often grows an extra layer of thick bark over her skin, harder than rock. She can release luciferns and their catalyzing enzymes into parts of her body, causing them to glow.

 

In a battle, engaging directly with supervillains is her last resort. Her first priorities are healing the wounded, and using her Create Object and Move Object powers to protect bystanders and even other heroes, either by shielding them or by moving them to a safe place. Even when she does fight directly, she attempts to restrain or incapacitate while doing as little harm as possible. Technically, she can create vines to whip or strangle, or thorns to cut and stab, either from her own body directly or by altering other plants, but she’s so loathe to do so that she leaves that to occasional power stunts, instead of buying any Damage-based alternate powers for her Plant Control array.

 

 

COMPLICATIONS

 

Accidents: Her powers are potentially destructive, especially when used indoors. Tree roots might burst up through floors or streets, while tree branches and stretched bushes come crashing through windows and walls. The GM can give her a Hero Point if the use of her powers causes a setback. Perhaps she triggers an effect like Environment Control which hinders her in the rest of the fight. Or maybe she endangers bystanders, and she must try to rescue them while the villain is still attacking. Alternately, the GM can give other PCs a Hero Point in exchange for making her attack powers affect her allies as well as the villains. For example, if she were to use her Fatigue power to spray a villain with a plant-derived sedative, and another hero then used a melee attack against that villain, the GM could declare retroactively that the Fatigue effect had acquired the Contagious extra, and some of the sedative was transferred from the villain to the melee-attacking hero, who now has to save against the Fatigue effect as well.

 

Honor: She will always choose to help bystanders, even if it means letting the villain get away. She always uses the minimum force required to incapacitate a villain, and she will accept any surrender immediately. Even though she’s good at sniffing out lies, cunning villains can manipulate her by telling her what she wants to hear. The GM can give her a Hero Point if this causes some sort of setback, such as a penalty on a Sense Motive check or a free surprise attack against her.

 

Hopeless Romantic: Friends and family have joked over the years that she "falls in love with every man she meets". The GM can give her a Hero Point in exchange for giving her a circumstance penalty on opposed interaction skill checks like Bluff or Diplomacy, or saving throws against effects like Emotion Control (Love), if her opponent is a man with a high Charisma score, interaction skill bonus, and/or the Attractive feat, or if the player and GM agree that he’s “her type”. The GM can also give her a Hero Point if she suffers a setback on account of being distracted by attraction, such as being surprise attacked. Finally, the GM can give her a Hero Point in exchange for forcing her to make a saving throw or skill check to avoid being Dazed or Fascinated, as if the attractive character had and used those feats, even if he did not.

 

Medium (Plant Control): The GM can give her a Hero Point in exchange for arbitrarily deciding that there are no plants close enough for her to use her Plant Control array. At the GM’s discretion, this could 1) deprive her of the power entirely, 2) make it operate at a reduced power rank, since she would have to harvest material for the plant structures from her own body, or 3) make it acquire the Tiring or Side-Effect flaw, for the same reason.

 

Normal Identity: If a villain were to restrain her or otherwise render her helpless, then they could surgically (or violently) remove the symbiote plant from inside her chest. If this were to happen, then all the changes it has made to her body would gradually revert, and she would lose all her powers and become a normal human again. Both she and the symbiote would suffer from withdrawal, and either of them could die, especially the symbiote. If the GM ever caused such a horrendous thing to occur, then giving her a Hero Point would be the least they could do.

 

Phobia (Fire): Fire is one of the few things which can cause her serious harm, and she has an instinctual fear of it. The GM can give her a Hero Point in exchange for forcing her to make a Will save against an Emotion Control (Fear) effect. The GM is free to assign the effect whatever power rank they choose, but it should take into account the size and intensity of the fire (the effective Damage rank) and her proximity to it.

 

Power Loss (Immunity): There are some circumstances in which her Immunity to Suffocation would not apply, such as being caught in a vacuum, or being immersed in water too dark and deep for any sunlight to trigger her photosynthesis. Similarly, if deprived of both food (either animal food or nutritious soil) and sunlight, then she will begin suffering from starvation, despite her Immunity to it. The GM can give her a Hero Point if she is caught in such circumstances and begins suffocating or starving. The GM can also give her a Hero Point when a villain scores a critical hit or a Sneak Attack against her, and suppress her Immunity to Critical Hits, allowing the villain to keep their damage bonus.

 

Responsibilities: She has a large, active social network of family, school friends, sorority sisters, and former coworkers. She’ll drop everything to come to their aid. The GM can give her a Hero Point if a request for that aid comes at the worst possible time. She also has standing appointments with paying clients at her psychiatry practice four days a week, with the potential for emergency calls during off hours. The GM can give her a Hero Point if her day job somehow interferes with her hero work.

 

Secret (Identity): The GM can give her a Hero Point if a potential reveal of her identity causes her some sort of setback, or if a villain learns her identity and then creates a setback for her by going after her friends, family, and/or patients.

 

Soft-Hearted: She doesn’t like to see anyone suffer, even villains. As good as she is at telling truth from lies, she’s still a sucker for a sob story. The GM can give her a Hero Point in exchange for a penalty on checks like Sense Motive to discern the truth behind a wounded-gazelle gambit. Where others may see “A hard man doing a hard job, willing to make the tough choices and do what’s necessary”, she sees only callousness and cruelty which she cannot abide. She’s as likely to come to blows with “grim dark avenger” vigilantes as she is with actual supervillains. The GM can give either her or another PC a Hero Point in exchange for forcing her either to not take a certain action which would harm another person, or else to take a certain action which would prevent harm to another person or end harm they were already enduring. For example, if a villain appeared to already be restrained, incapacitated, or severely weakened, and another PC were still attacking them, or interrogating them in a violent or threatening manner, then the GM could invoke this complication, force her to put a stop to it, and give either her or the other PC a Hero Point.

 

 

ABILITIES 32PP

Strength: 10 (+0)

Dexterity: 14 (+2)

Constitution: 30/18 (+10/+4)

Intelligence: 14 (+2)

Wisdom: 14 (+2)

Charisma: 22 (+6)

 

 

COMBAT 16PP

Initiative: +2

Attack: +4 Base, +10 Plant Control

Grapple: +4, +20 Plant Control

Defense: +10/+4 Base, +5/+2 Flat-Footed

Knockback Resistance: 10/2, 5/2 once Ablative Impervious is gone

 

 

SAVING THROWS 10PP

Toughness: +10/+4 (+10/+4 Con, Impervious 10 [Ablative])

Fortitude: +10/+4 (+10/+4 Con, +0PP)

Reflex: +10/+4 (+2 Dex, +6 Enhanced Reflex, +2PP)

Will: +10 (+2 Wis, +8PP)

 

 

SKILLS 108R = 27PP

Acrobatics 8 (+10)

Bluff 11 (+17, +21 Attractive)^{Distract, Taunt}

Concentration 8 (+10)

Craft (Artistic) 8 (+10)

Diplomacy 11 (+17, +21 Attractive)^{Connected, Fascinate}

Gather Information 9 (+15)^Contacts

Knowledge (Behavioral Sciences) 13 (+15)

Knowledge (Life Sciences) 8 (+10)

Knowledge (Pop Culture) 2 (+4)

Languages 1 (English [Native], French)

Medicine 6 (+8)

Perform (Dance) 4 (+10)

Sense Motive 15 (+17)

Swim 4 (+4)

 

 

FEATS 13PP

Attractive

Benefit (Wealth)

Connected

Contacts

Distract (Bluff)

Fascinate (Diplomacy)

Interpose

Leadership

Luck 3

Quick Change

Taunt

 

 

POWERS 94PP

 

Enhanced Constitution 12 [12PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Body)

 

Enhanced Defense 6 [12PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control)

 

Enhanced Reflex 6 [6PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control)

 

Environment Control 1 (Light [Level 1], Extras: Action [Move], Flaws: Range [Touch]) [1PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Bioluminescence, Plant Body, Shapeshifting)

 

Flight 1 (10MPH, 100ft per Move Action, Extras: Affects Others, Flaws: Platform) [2PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control)

 

Immunity 5 (Critical Hits, Own Powers, Suffocation) [5PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Photosynthesis, Plant Body)

 

Immunity 4 (Aging, Disease, Poison, Starvation/Thirst, Flaws: Limited [Aging Immunity is 1/2 effect; Immune to Diseases and Poisons which affect animals, but not those which affect plants; Immune to Starvation but not to Thirst]) [2PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Photosynthesis, Plant Body)

 

Impervious Toughness 10 (Extras: Force Field [Free Action, Sustained Duration], Flaws: Ablative) [5PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Bark Armor, Plant Body, Shapeshifting)

Morph 1 (Broad Group [Humanoids], Extras: Duration [Continuous], Flaws: Limited [Plant-People]) [2PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Body, Shapeshifting)

 

Plant Control 14 (28PP Array, Feats: Alternate Power 6) [34PP] (Descriptors: Alien)

 

Base Power: [28PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants)

Move Object 10 (Range: 10 100ft Increments, 1,000ft Max, Lifting Strength: 50 [Heavy Load: 12 tons], Feats: Accurate 3 [+6 Attack], Improved Pin, Indirect 3, Variable Descriptor [Animating plants to either move themselves or to grasp and move non-plant targets]) [28PP]

 

Alternate Power: [28PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Plant Growth)

Create Object 10 (Range: 10 100ft Increments, 1,000ft Max, Volume: 10 5ft cubes, Toughness: 10, Lifting Strength: 50 [Heavy Load: 12 tons], Feats: Accurate 3 [+6 Attack], Indirect 3, Selective, Stationary [Resists being moved with Strength 50]) [28PP]

 

Alternate Power: [28PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Flowers, Psychoactive Pollen, Toxin)

Emotion Control 10 (Extras: Secondary Effect, Flaws: Range [Ranged, 10 100ft Increments, 1,000ft Max], Feats: Accurate 3 [+6 Attack], Indirect 3, Mind Blank, Reversible) [28PP]

 

Alternate Power: [28PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Flowers, Sedative Latex, Toxin)

Fatigue 10 (Extras: Range [Ranged, 10 100ft Increments, 1,000ft Max], Secondary Effect, Flaws: Action [Full], Distracting, Feats: Accurate 3 [+6 Attack], Indirect 3, Reversible, Sedation) [28PP]

 

Alternate Power: [28PP]

Healing 9 (Extras: Action [Standard], Total, Flaws: Distracting, Feats: Variable Descriptor [Mending plants directly with florakinesis, or using medicinally enhanced plants to heal non-plant targets]) [28PP]

 

Alternate Power: [27PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Grasping Branches/Vines)

Snare 10 (Range: 10 100ft Increments, 1,000ft Max, Feats: Accurate 3 [+6 Attack], Indirect 3, Reversible) [27PP]

 

Alternate Power: [28PP] (Additional Descriptors: Shape Plants)

Transform 10 (Plants, Extras: Duration [Continuous, Lasting], Flaws: Action [Full], Distracting, Range [Touch], Feats: Accurate 3 [+6 Attack], Progression [Mass] 5 [25 tons]) [28PP]

 

Plant Telepathy 2 (4PP Array, Feats: Alternate Power) [5PP]

 

Base Power: [4PP]

Comprehend 2 (Plants 2 [Speak To, Understand]) [4PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Psychic)

 

Alternate Power: [2PP]

Super-Senses 2 (Postcognition, Flaws: Medium [Plants]) [2PP]

 

Regeneration 1 (Resurrection 1 [1 week], Feats: Regrowth) [2PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Body)

 

Super-Movement 1 (Permeate 1 [1/4 Speed], Flaws: Limited [Plants]) [1PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control)

 

Super-Senses 5 (Plant Awareness, Descriptor Frequency: Common, Sense Type: Mental [Default Extras: None], Extras: Acute, Radius, Ranged) [5PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Control, Psychic)

 

 

DRAWBACKS -12PP

 

Vulnerability (Cold effects, Frequency: Common, Intensity: Minor [+1 DC]) [-2PP]

 

Vulnerability (Dehydration effects, Frequency: Uncommon, Intensity: Minor [+1 DC]) [-1PP]

 

Vulnerability (Fire/Heat effects, Frequency: Common, Intensity: Moderate [+50% Effect Rank]) [-3PP]

 

Weakness (Defoliants/Herbicides, Frequency: Uncommon, Intensity: Moderate [-1 Con], Time: 1/round) [-6PP]

 

 

ATTACK	RANGE	SAVING THROW	EFFECT
Unarmed	Touch	DC15 Toughness (Staged)	Damage (Physical)
Create Object	Ranged	DC20 Reflex	Trapped
Dropped Object	Ranged/Area	DC20 Reflex	Avoided
		DC25 Toughness (Staged)	Damage (Physical)
Emotion Control	Ranged	DC20 Will (Staged)	Calm: Removes all Emotion Control conditions
			Despair: Shaken/Helpless
			Fear: Shaken/Frightened/Panicked
			Hate: Attitude = Hostile
			Hope: Removes Despair and Fear
			Love: Attitude = Friendly/Helpful/Fanatical
Fatigue	Ranged	DC20 Fortitude (Staged)	Fatigued/Exhausted/Unconscious
Healing	Touch	DC19 Fortitude (Harmless)	Healing
Move Object	Ranged	Grapple vs +20	Pinned/Bound
Snare	Ranged	DC20 Reflex (Staged)	Entangled/Bound
Transform	Touch	DC20 Fortitude	Transformed

 

 

Abilities (32) + Combat (16) + Saving Throws (10) + Skills (27) + Feats (13) + Powers (94) - Drawbacks (12) = 180/180 Power Points

Edited August 25, 2019 by Grumblefloof

[Amelia]

A maxed-out version:

 

 

Character: Persephone

Power Level: 15 (Built as PL10)

Tradeoffs: None (At PL10: -2 Attack / +2 Damage, -2 Defense / +2 Toughness)

Power Points: 250/250

Unspent Points: 0

 

 

ABILITIES 54PP

Strength: 10 (+0)

Dexterity: 18 (+4)

Constitution: 30/18 (+10/+4)

Intelligence: 20 (+5)

Wisdom: 24 (+7)

Charisma: 24 (+7)

 

 

COMBAT 14PP

Initiative: +8 (+4 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative)

Attack: +4, +8 Plant Control

Grapple: +4 (+4 Melee Attack, +0 Str), +20 Plant Control (+8 Attack, +12 Move Object)

Defense: +8/+4 (+7/+3 Base, +1 Dodge Focus), +4/+2 Flat-Footed

Knockback Resistance: 11/2, 6/2 once Unreliable Impervious is depleted

 

 

SAVING THROWS 3PP

Toughness: +12/+4 (+10/+4 Con, +2 Protection; Impervious 10 [Unreliable, 5 uses])

Fortitude: +10/+4 (+10/+4 Con, +0PP)

Reflex: +8/+4 (+4 Dex, +4 Enhanced Reflex, +0PP)

Will: +10 (+7 Wis, +3PP)

 

 

SKILLS 148R = 37PP

Acrobatics 6 (+10)

Bluff 15 (+22)^{Distract, Skill Mastery, Taunt}

Concentration 5 (+12)

Craft (Artistic) 10 (+15)

Diplomacy 15 (+22)^{Connected, Fascinate, Skill Mastery}

Gather Information 15 (+22)^Contacts

Knowledge (Behavioral Sciences) 15 (+20)

Knowledge (Current Events) 3 (+8)

Knowledge (Life Sciences) 15 (+20)

Knowledge (Popular Culture) 3 (+8)

Languages 2 (English [Native], French, Spanish)

Medicine 3 (+10)

Perform (Dance) 8 (+15)

Perform (Oratory) 8 (+15)

Sense Motive 15 (+22)^{Skill Mastery}

Swim 10 (+10)

 

 

FEATS 16PP

Benefit 2 (Status [Vibora Bay City Defender], Wealth)

Connected

Contacts

Distract (Bluff)

Dodge Focus

Fascinate (Diplomacy)

Improved Initiative

Interpose

Leadership

Luck 3

Quick Change

Skill Mastery (Bluff, Diplomacy, Perform [Oratory], Sense Motive)

Taunt

 

 

POWERS 141PP

 

Enhanced Constitution 12 [12PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Body)

 

Enhanced Defense 4 [8PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control, Psychic)

 

Enhanced Reflex 4 [4PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control, Psychic)

 

Environment Control 4 (Hamper Movement [1/4]; Area: 50ft radius; Extras: Selective; Flaws: Range [Touch]) [8PP]

 

Environment Control 3 (Light [Level 1]; Area: 25ft radius; Extras: Action 2 [Free]; Flaws: Range [Touch]) [6PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Bioluminescence, Plant Body, Shapeshifting)

 

Flight 2 (25MPH, 250ft per Move Action; Extras: Affects Others; Flaws: Platform; Feats: Progression [Subjects] 1 [2 subjects]) [5PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control, Psychic)

Immunity 9 (Aging; Critical Hits; Disease; Own Powers; Poison; Starvation/Thirst; Suffocation) [9PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Photosynthesis, Plant Body)

 

Impervious Toughness 10 (Extras: Force Field [Free Action, Sustained Duration]; Flaws: Unreliable [5 uses]) [5PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Bark Armor, Plant Body, Shapeshifting)

Morph 1 (Broad Group [Humanoids]; Extras: Duration [Continuous]; Flaws: Action [Move], Limited [Plant-People]) [1PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Body, Shapeshifting)

 

Plant Control 24 (48PP Array; Feats: Alternate Power 6) [54PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Psychic)

 

Base Power: [47PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants)

Move Object 12 (Range: 10 120ft Increments, 1,200ft Max; Lifting Strength: 60, Heavy Load: 50 tons; Extras: Damaging; Feats: Accurate 2 [+4 Attack], Improved Critical 2 [18-20], Improved Disarm, Improved Pin, Indirect 3, Subtle, Variable Descriptor [Animating plants, either to move themselves, or to grasp and move non-plant targets]) [47PP]

 

Alternate Power: [48PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Plant Growth)

Create Object 12 (Range: 1,200ft; Volume: 12 cubes; Toughness: 12; Lifting Strength: 60, Heavy Load: 50 tons; Extras: Duration [Continuous], Movable; Flaws: Feedback; Feats: Indirect 3, Progression [Size] 6 [500ft cubes], Selective, Stationary, Subtle) [48PP]

 

Alternate Power: [46PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Flowers, Psychoactive Pollen)

Emotion Control 12 (Extras: Contagious, Secondary Effect; Flaws: Range [Ranged, 10 120ft Increments, 1,200ft Max]; Feats: Accurate 2 [+4 Attack], Improved Critical 2 [18-20], Indirect 3, Mind Blank, Reversible, Subtle) [46PP]

 

Alternate Power: [46PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Flowers, Sedative Latex)

Fatigue 12 (Extras: Range [Ranged, 10 120ft Increments, 1,200ft Max], Secondary Effect; Flaws: Action [Full]; Feats: Accurate 2 [+4 Attack], Improved Critical 2 [18-20], Indirect 3, Reversible, Sedation, Subtle) [46PP]

 

Alternate Power: [48PP] (Additional Descriptors: Medicinal Plants, Plant Body)

Healing 12 (Extras: Action [Standard], Restoration, Total; Flaws: Limited [Others]) [48PP]

 

Alternate Power: [33 + 13 = 46PP] (Additional Descriptors: Animate Plants, Grasping Branches/Roots/Vines)

Snare 12 (Range: 10 120ft Increments, 1,200ft Max; Extras: Contagious, Linked [Trip]; Flaws: Feedback; Feats: Accurate 2 [+4 Attack], Improved Critical 2 [18-20], Indirect 3, Reversible, Subtle) [33PP]

Trip 12 (Range: 10 120ft Increments, 1,200ft Max; Extras: Linked [Snare]; Feats: Improved Throw) [13PP]

 

Alternate Power: [48PP] (Additional Descriptors: Shape Plants)

Transform 12 (Plants; Extras: Duration [Continuous, Lasting]; Flaws: Action [Full], Range [Touch]; Feats: Accurate 2 [+4 Attack], Extended Reach [10ft], Indirect, Progression [Mass] 7 [500 tons], Subtle) [48PP]

 

Plant Telepathy 2 (4PP Array; Feats: Alternate Power) [5PP]

 

Base Power: [4PP]

Comprehend 2 (Plants 2 [Speak To; Understand]) [4PP]

 

Alternate Power: [4PP]

Super-Senses 4 (Postcognition; Extras: Simultaneous; Flaws: Medium [Plants]) [4PP]

 

Protection 2 [2PP]

 

Regeneration 9 (Recovery Rate: Bruised 3 [No rest], Injured 6 [No rest]) [9PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Body)

 

Regeneration 4 (Recovery Rate: Staggered 1 [20 minutes], Disabled 2 [1 hour], Resurrection 1 [1 week]; Flaws: Source [Sunlight]; Feats: Regrowth) [3PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Cutting, Plant Body)

 

Super-Movement 4 (Permeate 3 [Full Speed]; Trackless; Flaws: Limited [Plants]) [4PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Animate Plants, Plant Control, Psychic)

 

Super-Senses 6 (Plant Awareness; Descriptor Frequency: Common; Sense Type: Mental, Default Extras: None; Extras: Acute, Extended [100ft Notice Increments], Radius, Ranged) [6PP] (Descriptors: Alien, Plant Control, Psychic)

 

 

DRAWBACKS -15PP

 

Vulnerability (Cold effects; Frequency: Common; Intensity: Moderate [+50% Effect Rank]) [-3PP]

 

Vulnerability (Dehydration effects; Frequency: Uncommon; Intensity: Minor [+50% Effect Rank]) [-2PP]

 

Vulnerability (Fire/Heat effects; Frequency: Common; Intensity: Moderate [+50% Effect Rank]) [-3PP]

 

Weakness (Defoliants/Herbicides; Frequency: Uncommon; Intensity: Moderate [-1 Con]; Time: 2/round) [-7PP]

 

 

Abilities (54) + Combat (14) + Saving Throws (3) + Skills (37) + Feats (16) + Powers (141) - Drawbacks (15) = 250/250 Power Points

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by Grumblefloof