EVO- Alternate Timeline Benny - Basilisk the Demolisher

[Drew]

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EVO FORCE

Player:Drew Name: Benjamin 'Benny' Shepard Codename: Basilisk The Demolisher Age: 19 Height: 6'2 Hair: Red Eyes: Unearthly Leperous Yellow Nationality: Alien human from a different Earth/Space. Occupation: At this point in time, Benny is unemployed, as well as being a stranger in a strange land with no identification, social security information, or the like. Appearance: See Pics. Costume: See Pic Personality: Personalities are mandatory.  ● TL:DR Version. Benny is an ESTP on the Myers-Briggs personality test.  Despite is mental and behavioural flaws, Benny is mostly out-going, realistic, curious, versatile, spontaneous, and pragmatic to a fault.

Background: Benny comes from an alternate Earth, where the battle for supremacy, between humans and mutants, has mostly frozen over as both sides control seperate portions of the earth, thus having equal resources for their military. Organizations that still exist, include the New Age, which -head- the main Governing body of the Mutant Kingdoms, and Evo-Force, a rag-tag mix of mutants and humans, fighting a lonely one-team war for mutant and human cohabitation, while lacking a true home to call their own.. Seeking a mcguffin to end the war, Five-star General Vostak, Head Chair of the New-Age Empire, sends of the best and brightest of the Holy Knights of the New Age's Spec-Op Paladins into the newly accesible time-weave, in search of the Mcguffin on alternate Earths. Benny is one of them. He ends up on Earth (616) and finds himself unable to call back home from anywhere but that jump-spot. So he continues his mission with an incredible and unusual lack of oversight. The hunt for the McGuffin is on. Will he find it? Or will he be trapped here forever?

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Fighting----- (#) Benny is a master of a multiple forms/martial arts: Akido, Jujitsu, Krav Maga
Agility------ (#) Benny has superior with training. He has to. Missed disintegration rays are a bad thing.
Strength----- (#) Benny can bench 500lbs. His strength may increase over time, due to the cosmic energies that he is consistantly absorbing, that powers his abilities.
Endurance---- (#) Benny's endurance is the product of intensive exercise

Reasoning---- (#) Benny has the equivilant of a High School diploma.
Intuition---- (#) Benny is remarkably in-tune with surroundings; strong hunches.
Psyche------- (#) Benny has Intensive will, but no mental powers to go with. It's always tempting t go nuts with his disentergration power- to kill rather then disarm. He makes a concious decision with each human target, not to take the easy way out.

Hit Points: Ignore this
Mental health: Ignore this

Resources: None
Source of Income- Unemployed.

Origin of Powers: Mutant

Powers: Benny's core power is Cosmic and Native energy absorption. Free energy particles, and cosmic rays from space are absorbed into his person for a number of reasons that are only partially understood at this time. What -is- understood is that this cosmic energy absorption is quiet, subtle, and only notable by his constant temperature of almost too hot to touch, and occasional shifts in the color of his eyes from silver, to a easily deemed unatural leperous yellow color. However the other chnges to his physiology are quite difficult to note until an incident involving them occurs. Benny's cellular structure feels normal to all intents and purposes (feverously hot, but normal enogh to cuddle, as it where), despite the fact that each cell is capable of absorbing cosmic and native energy particles. This gives access to the following powers below:


Cosmic-Ray Funneling Immunity: Cosmic rays are immensely high-energy radiation, mainly originating outside the Solar System. TO handle the otherwise devastatingly powerfully hot and radioactive nature of these, Benny's flesh and innards have been altered to withstand such energys and side-effects totally. He's immune to radiation, heat, and fire. Totally.

Optic Disintergration-ray Blasts: This is Benny's main-stay power. Benny's body converts the energy he absorbs, into a destructive electron-unmooring-displacing energy beam. This beam fires straight as aimed, only bends at Benny's will. It ignores non-solid and energy based obstacles, leaving an ozone odor in its wake, disrupting anything of equal strength of Titanium, or super-alloy steel, it can be -STOPPED- by any harder then that, or which has enough damage points equal to the power's rating.
*Called Shot: Benny can take a minor hit to his firing score (-1CS), to ensure that even in the heat of battle, he never causes harm to people or destruction he does not wish to do. The beam will circle around the designated safe item, or person, and dissipate harmlessly in thin air once the true target is missed. Benny is calculating on the fly as he fires, taking more consideration on what he DOES NOT want to hit, instead of what he does. An example is, if Benny decides to disarm a man with his eyebeams, he does so at a -1cs to his score, so that he doesn't disrupt a hole in the man, or anyone else in the vacinity, by mistake. Instead the beam harmlessly hits something harmless. Like the ground. If the ground is harmless.

Partial Energy-Absorption Defence: Benny is resistant to any/all energy damage except for Radiation, Heat, and Fire, to which he is totally immune. If the energy assault not stronger then enough to destroy titanium, super-alloy steel and the like, it does him no damage. Which isn't to say that his clothes and such get-away scott-free.
*Energy Sustenance: The naturally absorbed energy that Benny does -all- the time, feeds him and supplants his need to breath. As long as there is native (read: any energy floating about) energy to be had, then Benny does not need to eat, drink or breath. In fact he can exist in space naked and survive happily, until he got mashed into by orbittal debris.

Equipment:

Ceremite & Nautweave hood/mask combo
-Protection: protection vs. Blunt attack
-Starlite Nightvision: Ultra-vision
-Throat Mike/Radio: 10 mile range, uses to keep in touch with Base, Team, various other teams (scrambled and private channel, XX Intensity)
-Audio Processor
-Field-of-View Display Projector
-Inertial GPS System

Ferro-Flex Mesh & Ceremite sheathed Body-Armoret: The Costume gives him the following:
-Body Armor: protection vs. Physica/Energy and especialy hooting.
-Taser: Delivers an electrical shock to anyone who comes into contact with it. This taser is good for two uses before needing recharging.
-Rope.Swingline securer

● (f)Utility Belt: 10 Pouches that carries small items, fail safe in the belt will cause it to explode (Rm damage) and be completely destroyed should the buckle or pouches be opened incorrectly. The Utility Belt contains a wide array of devices such as:
-Universal Tool: Used to aid in electronics work. Tip contains various Phillips and Flathead screwdrivers, wrenches, lock-picking device, drill bits and other implements. Inside the base are full lineman's kit, multi-line analyzers, cell phone analyzers and other electrical analysis gear. Can record and play back audio and video signals. The Universal Tool can be safely used as a hammer.
-Mini-Computer: 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches in size, operates as a standard personal computer in game terms. Equipped with fax modem, GPS system and mini-disk rewritable drive.
-Grapnel: In material, fires up to 7 areas, used for transportation, Up to 3 areas
-Rebreather/Gas Mask: 2.5 hours air supply
-Fingerlight: Ty illumination, can project white, red or infrared light
-Magnesium Flare: Rm Illumination
-More Rope.Swingline securer
-Multifunction Binoculars: Magnifies up to 60 times. Equipped with infrared and limited ultraviolet imaging (-2CS to darkness modifiers), as well as frame capture, stop-motion camera, and computer uplink.
-Tape Recorder: 2.5 Hours
-Laser Torch: In intense laser that cuts through In material
-Lock-Picks: +1CS to open locks on an Agility FEAT.
-Power-Cuffs: Rm material, Ty entrapment, Negates Most super-powers, capable of escaping the cuffs and NO OTHER powers are altered.
-Crime Scene Investigation Kit: Contains sample bags, blood-drying bags, fingerprinting kit, odor-analyzing chromatograph, independent detachable video camera. Linked directly to Cowl or Mask of the uniform, HeroWerks computers.
-Taser: Delivers Am Electrical
-Incidentals: Keys, money, lock-picks, first aid kit, mini-cellphone, antitoxin assortment, signal flares, wireless listening devices, small halogen flashlight.
-Rope. Did we mention rope?

Evo Force Badge- The Evo Force badge acts as a communicator, able to contact the other badges, the E2 badges, and the home base. It has walkie-talkie range of 10 miles, or can be routed through the home base to work anywhere in North America. Benny would (if he had one) wear it over his heart where it might block a bullet or called shot to the same.

Weaknesses Benny has a few weaknesses. Mostly of the interpersonal and physilogical variety.

*Alien Customs: This doesn't necessarily represent alien mores and such, it simply states that Benny has a different culture than that which is active where he has decided to make his home. At Benny's level of alieness, this becomes a reasonable flaw: Benny comes from a world where mutants rule the high and pretty places of global control, and humans are either ignored, or slaves - always second class citizens, unless they are rebelling against the statis quo. 'Stepping' into a world that's just the opposite will cause some significant hilarity. This is a GM flaw. The GM is responsible for ensuring this suck has a chance to occur.*

*Alternative Lifestyle: This shouldn't be a flaw, but it is. Benny comes from a more 'enlightened' era, where there is a great war for the control of earths natural resources, battles against humans and mutant rebells, and too much going on to give a shit about peoples sexual preferences and natal/natural orientation. Unless someone gets physically, emotionally or spiritually hurt, people either mildly or majorly support a person finding out a new facet of their personality and sexuality. From a golf-clap to a hearty hand clap, everyone generally claps. In Manhattan in the universe he's in now, this shit does not usually fly, and rarely is 'clapping' the results. Benny is Non-Monogamous, Pansexual Polyamorist. When the wrong people hear about this, they should probably go apeshit. This is a GM flaw. The GM is responsible for ensuring this suck has a chance to occur.*

*Attitude: this character has a bad attitude. It permeates everything he says, and everything he does. He's a jokester, a jerk, and perrinally sarcastic. Most importantly, it colors others' perceptions of him. In order to act 'nice', this character must pass a a die roll of some sort, lest he be an asshole at a wrong time. This is a TEAM flaw. The Player must own up to being a jerk, and the GM is responsible for ensuring this suck has a chance to occur; officiating the attribute roll (usually psche at -1)*

*Curiosity: The character with this quirk is a naturally curious person and finds mysteries of any sort irresistable. In most circumstances they will find that their curiosity easily overrides their common sense. To resist temptation, the person with this flaw will have to pass a Reason FEAT roll at -1cs or succumb to the siren call of the unknown. *This is a PLAYER flaw. He must play it, either by himself, orat GM reminding. If this doesn't happen the pc must drop this flaw and get another.*

*Obvious Mutation/Alien Appearance: Characters with this flaw, have one or more non-beneficial (though not necessarily detrimental) cosmetic aspects that differentiate them from baseline humanity. This flaw cannot stack, no matter how outlandish a character becomes, in appearance. Benny has draconic, lizardlike eyes. Eyes that seem to see into your soul... and who also cause occular damage to people who look into them for too long while within a foot or two from him. It is a mild irritation and stinging, but it's enough to make people look away. His leperous, yellow, reptile eyes can only be hidden by expensive mirror shades... and he will quickly burn through those in a week or two. He has wrap around goggles that do the job, but they are special(tm) and difficult to replicate. This is a natural flaw. No Overwatch is required.*

*Unregistered Mutant: Not every mutant who is unregistered has this flaw. This quirk is only for the mutants who have taken a visual stand against mutant registration, and thus are on a known database somewhere. With this flaw comes all sorts of issues for Benny's secret identity, which is a mutant and enemy of all anti-mutant forces. Or he -will- be. Just wait and see. Benny will earn his flaw in channel, and have a lot of issues with either forces wanting him captured or worse, and forces who want to praise, elevate, and fight under his banner. This is a combined GM and Player flaw. The Player must do the acts that start this flaw off, the rest is the GM's perogative.

Contacts:

All Benny's Contacts are in another timeline.

Knowledges: Special things you are educated on that the average person is not. You may or may not get bonuses; just describe how good you are.

*Demolitions (Benny has had powered and unpowered training, masterying the art of bringing buildings, installation, and, yes, even sentinels down to his level)

*Detective/Espionage (Ability to Infiltrate, sabatoge, evade and escape/ and how to notice signs of the same.)


Skills: As above, but with skills.
*Acrobatics: Benny can climb, work the parallel bars, the horse, the balance beam, and can flip out adding a bonus to a basic dodge roll.

*Military: Benny has been through basic training. He learned how to survive and thrive in the worst conditions the war-torn earth could throw at him. He learned how to pilot old and new-world military vehicles, as well as rudimentary hand to hand and full marksmanship training in stationary and mobile military weaponry (and guns! and his eye-beams! ESPECIALLY his Eyebeams!*).
*Special-Forces Training:

*Marksmanship, Weapon Spec: Marksman (Benny is a skilled marksman in every conventional LOS (line-of-sight) missile weapon. This includes laser, plasma, rail, kinetic, and modern ballistic weapons. Most importantly, however, is that it refers to his eyebeams on a major, specialist level).

*Thievery: Benny knows how to sneak, is good at stealth, and is a great rope climber, stealer-in, and burglar. He knows how to get out of hand cuffs and pick locks.

Notable Notes: A word about 'Dark' Benny - the Demolisher. In his grimdark home timeline, it was often the best option to take one's enemies out with dedicated finality. By the time Benny had reached his age, he'd racked up something like 14-16 personal and direct kills, confirmed. The rebellion managed to drill some of that out of him. And he learned -not- to kill people... initially. In game terms this means that Benny will likely do everything feasible to avoid killing an enemy in combat, but when down to the final option, he'll use the final option with little reluctance.

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EVO FORCE

Player:Drew



Name: Benjamin 'Benny' Shepard

Codename: Basilisk The Demolisher

Age: 19

Height: 6'2

Hair: Red

Eyes: Unearthly Leprous Yellow

Nationality: Alien human from a different Earth/Space.

Occupation: At this point in time, Benny is unemployed, as well as being a stranger in a strange land with no identification, social security information, or the like.

Appearance: Benny stands at an athletically muscular and hardened height of 6' tall, his build formed and maintained by bi-daily work-outs that where roughly as intensive as those done by the USMC. He does it to stay fit and to keep ugly memories at bay. He is of African descent, and it shows with his skin that iss the deep dark brown. His hair, however, is a startling red-hue, and his eyes are a bright, reptilian-slitted, leperous yellow color.

When in costume, Benny wears a dull green body suit made of form-fittiing scales for the costuming effect of making him look like a large lizard of some sort. His chest has additional protection with bone-yellow flaps, all of which hinder Benny not at all. His boots and gloves are similarly protective and similarly an unremarkable green, while a plain brown-leather gear belt straps around his waist and inner thighs. He wears a green protective hood over his head, and a gas-mask/voice distorter, about most of his face.

Picture:

Costume: See Pic

Personality: In his grimdark home timeline, it was often the best option to take one's enemies out with dedicated finality. By the time Benny had reached his age, he'd racked up something like 14-16 personal and direct kills, confirmed. The rebellion managed to drill some of that out of him. And he learned -not- to kill people... initially. In game terms this means that Benny will likely do everything feasible to avoid killing an enemy in combat, but when down to the final option, he'll use the final option with little reluctance.

TL:DR Version. Benny is an ESTP on the Myers-Briggs personality test. Despite is mental and behavioral flaws, Benny is mostly out-going, realistic, curious, versatile, spontaneous, and pragmatic to a fault.


Background: In Universe B-55, war broke out before Benny was ever invited to the Sunshine of Destiny academy. The war was started by mutants, in response to an exceptionally aggressive sentinel campaign. The mutants sought to suppress humanity into a second-class citizenship while humanity intended to eliminate every mutant on the planet. Benny traveled to Los Angeles to help fight for his people and signed up with Salvatore Vostok. As a member of the New Age, Benny received extensive training in his powers and became a front-line fighter. As Basilisk the Demolisher, he was a great hero to his people, racking up 16 confirmed solo kills and an unknown number of fatalities in group combat. He fell for another front-line fighter, a powerful mutant girl codenamed Jackhammer. He fought harder to they could end the war and build a life together, but this was cut short when Jackhammer was killed in combat.

The loss of his lady gave Benny a new comprehension of death, and loss. He no longer found it acceptable to kill a person and take them from their loved ones, and this meant he could no longer support this war. He sought out Miss Universe and began to work with her resistance. Unfortunately for his wishes, the sort of heavy-hitting super mutants they needed to put a stop to the war were either already dead, or firmly loyal to Vostok or his princess, Legion.

One of Vostok's more powerful mutants was The Worldstalker. Her powers allowed her to pass between dimensions and locate dimensional duplicates of virtually anyone. Benny returned to Vostok with a list of dead mutants, and offered a master plan: Worldstalker would transport Benny to a reality without the war, and he would find a mutant there with the power to turn the tide, and bring them back to Universe B-55 to serve Vostok - although the actual plan would be to ensign them to Miss Universe. Unaware of the treachery, Vostok approved the plan. Benny was delivered to our world with a list of names and a last hope to stop the insanity.

EXPANDED HISTORY - pastebin.com/iiuUYGi0 - pastebin.com/0TPvduUZ

Fighting------- Incredible (40)
Agility--------- Incredible (40)
Strength------ Remarkable (20)
Endurance---- Amazing (60)

Reasoning---- Good (10)
Intuition------ Incredible (40)
Psyche-------- Incredible (40)

Hit Points: 160
Mental health: 90

Resources: None
Source of Income- Unemployed.

Origin of Powers: Mutant

Powers:

Ocular Disintegration Beams- Benny's primary power is to fire yellow beams from his eyes. They are made of Strong Nuclear Antiforce (SNAF) and they neutralize Strong Nuclear Force (SNF). When hitting mater, they cause it to gently disassemble into subatomic particles; there is no explosion or energy release, simply matter turning into silt. He may fire his eye beams once per round, however he may take over actions. The beams do Spectacular(50) Damage with Fantastic(30) Armor Piercing. A normal blast travels 500 feet before becoming harmless. Benny may fire a weaker beam if he chooses. Since they are eye beams, they are +2CS to hit. Benny can modify his eye beams by controlling the shape of his eye using his Zen Mastery Talent. Benny's beams disintegrate the air in their path, leaving an ozone smell that lingers for a long time.
*Strong Force- Benny's eye beams are the highest order of Force, and they cannot be manipulated by gravity, electromagnetism, telekinesis, cosmic energy, or virtually any other means. Once fired, they cannot be veered off course. They can still be stopped normally by energy fields and forcefields.
*Focused Shot- By firing a weak beam from each eye and crossing his eyes, Benny can make the otherwise-harmless beams converge on a single spot. He does not get his normal +2CS to hit and he gets -1CS to damage, however, if he misses his beam will not threaten anything else. Someone or something interposing between the beams and their 'hot spot' will block the beams and take 10 damage.
*Disruptor Blast- These beams, made by manipulating his eye muscles, are much wider and less forceful than his normal beams. They will not completely disintegrate a subject, instead doing 'micro damage' that shocks the subject but has limited long-term health effects. They do Incredible(40) nonlethal damage with no armor piercing. The range on this is 100 feet.
*Ocular Sweep- As a full-round action, Benny can sweep his eye beams across multiple targets. He can target one person per 10 points of Agility he has on his attack, and cannot target the same person twice. He rolls his full Agility (without his normal +2CS) against each target. This does Remarkable(20) Damage with Good(10) Armor Piercing. On extremely large targets he can count them as two; he only rolls once but the damage is doubled. The Disruptor version of this does Remarkable(20) Nonlethal with no Armor Piercing and he gets -1CS to the attacks.
*Rad Dude- The SNAF produced by Benny's powers completely overwhelms Weak Nuclear Force (WNF). Because of this, he is not only immune to the effects of radiation, but he cannot himself be irradiated, nor can the gear he is carrying. He takes half damage (after defenses) from any directed radiation attacks. His eye beams do +2CS damage to radiation-enhanced creatures, such as Gamma Mutants.


Modified Eyes- Benny's eyes are not hum at all; they are strange, yellow, slit-pupiled eyes more befitting of some star-beast. Aside from their appearance, they have all the functionality of human eyes - with some added features.
*SNF Vision- In addition to visible light, Benny can also see SNF. On this layer of vision, things appear as monochromatic shapes, but he requires no light to be able to see. Transparent things such as air and glass are still primarily transparent to him, though he will faintly see their structure. This does not grant him x-ray vision, and opaque things are still opaque. If Benny is blinded by a bright flash of light, this power still functions - this power can only be blinded by energy from splitting atoms, and if that is happening in his line of sight he has other problems. Toxins that cause blindness may shut down this power, however.
**Matter Analyzation- My forcing his eyes into an extremely myopic state, putting his eyes within a few inches of matter, and releasing trace amounts of SNAF, Benny can 'see' the atomic and molecular structures of the matter. He may use his Molecular Chemistry knowledge to roll Reasoning at +2CS to determine what what he is looking at is made of. While doing this he is virtually blind to anything more than a foot from his face.
*Telescopic Vision- Technically a function of his Zen Mastery talent, Benny can make his eyes extremely hyperopic to focus on distant objects. He can read large print at a mile, make out details at 2 miles, and make out the most basic and rudimentary details at 5 miles - assuming he has a clear line of sight. When doing this he is virtually blind to anything happening within 500 feet of him.

Ambient Energy Absorption- Benny's powers are 'powered' by various sources of loose energy he passively absorbs. Benny's training has caused this power to be permanently active at a high level. This does not cause any noticeable effect around him aside from him having a very high body temperature.
*Energy Absorption Armor- Benny's body will actively absorb much of the energy directed at him. He has Fantastic(30) Armor vs all directed energy attacks, which doubles against area-of-effect attacks. This power does not protect against 'cold' or kinetic attacks. It protects him from damage from X-Factor Nullification beams, but not from the effects (apply Armor before the effect of the X-Null).
**Energy Vortex- A dramatic expression of his powers, Benny can put his ability into overdrive to actively absorb energy around him. This is a full-round action; he rolls Endurance to activate it. There is a low-power and a high-power version of this he can choose from. Ona a Yellow, all energy-using devices around him gets -2CS to all powered functions; at high-power it is -4CS. Either way, each CS he takes deals 10 points of damage to him that his powers will not prevent, and ever 2CS makes him lose one rank of Endurance. This ability may also effect superhumans who absorb or generate energy for their powers. How long the device is affected depends on how it gets its power; battery-powered things often cannot recover, things that make their own power may recover after a few rounds, and things wired into the power grid usually come back on in a round or two unless they blow a fuse. Absorbing the extra energy grants him no bonuses.
Note: Benny's belt is shielded against this, so his gadgets are safe.
Note 2: Everyone else's stuff is NOT shielded from this, so he'd best be careful who he does it around.
*Enhanced Endurance- Because he is constantly feeding off ambient energy, Benny has extremely high Endurance. He only needs to sleep for 4 hours to get a Good Night's Sleep, and he can exist on very few calories so long as he is getting the nutrients he needs. He can hold his breath for his Endurance in minutes.
Note: Benny's ability to hold his breath is of limited usefulness. It requires him to be actively absorbing energy, and if he is deep underwater or in the vacuum of space it will be too cold for him to do so.
*Disease-resistance- Because of his high body temperature and energetic body, it is difficult for parasites and germs to survive inside of Benny. He gets a second Endurance roll immediately against any disease, and then may make another one every 4 hours.

Talents:

Zen Mastery- Benny has been trained by masters of the mind over the body. His training is limited, but allows for some impressive feats. His abilities are at the rank of his Psyche.
*Ocular Muscle Control- Benny can point his eyes in different directions, and even change the shape of his eyes to make them myopic or hyperopic.
*Meditation- Benny can meditate, to clear his mind, shake off negative effects, or strengthen his resolve.
**Combat Meditation- In combat, by spending one turn not taking action, he may roll to clear out any mental effect that is troubling him. Each additional turn he waits gives him +1 to the roll, but each attack that hits him during those rounds gives him -1.
**Bolstering Meditation- By spending one hour in uninterrupted, peaceful meditation, Benny can roll to increase his Psyche score. Each extra hour he spends gives him +1 to the roll. A Yellow result gives him +2CS to Psyche; regardless of the outcome, the effect lasts for eight hours. A White result does nothing but a Botch can be extremely dangerous. Benny cannot Bolster again while he is under the effects of a previous attempt.
*Biorhythmic Control- By meditating for one minute, Benny can speed up or slow down his bodily functions.
**Biorhythmic Deceleration- Slowing down the bodily functions has multiple uses. It is a good way to pretend to be dead, though this requires remaining motionless. It can slow down bleeding, or it can slow down how fast a deadly toxin travels through the body. He rolls for the effect, on a Yellow he gets -2CS to Fighting and Agility, but slows down his systems significantly.
**Biorhythmic Acceleration- Less useful, Benny can speed up his systems. This is unpleasant, but it can make him briefly more powerful or can be used to process a less-deadly poison, drug, or pathogen faster. To increase his ability, he must spend a full round preparing, then roll Psyche on his next turn. A Yellow gets him +2CS to divide among his Fighting and Agility stats, but costs him -2CS to Endurance. The effects last for one minute. Burning off a toxin or pathogen works the same way, but instead of getting a bonus to his stats, the duration of whatever has afflicted him is shortened.


Equipment:

Ceremite & Nautweave hood/mask combo- This item provides Good(10) Armor vs all damage to the head. It contains the following devices:
-Throat Mike/Radio: 10 mile range, can be tuned to broadcast on different frequencies.
-Audio Processor
-Field-of-View Display Projector
-Inertial GPS System
-Voice Modulator - adds +4CS difficulty to rolls to recognize the user's voice.
-Gas Mask- Amazing(50) filtration against gasses and particles.

Ferro-Flex Mesh & Ceremite sheathed Body-Armort: This gives Good(10) Armor vs all damage, which increases to Remarkable(20) vs bullets. The suit also has tactical mounts and various places to secure his swingline.
-Vitamins: A secret pocket in the suit contains a bottle of a very complete dietary supplement. These contain enough nutrients to keep him alive for 60 days, though he will still need water and shelter.

Utility Belt- 10 Pouches that carries small items. The Utility Belt contains the following devices:
-Universal Tool: Used to aid in electronics work. Tip contains various Phillips and Flathead screwdrivers, wrenches, lock-picking device, drill bits and other implements. Inside the base are full lineman's kit, multi-line analyzers, cell phone analyzers and other electrical analysis gear. Can record and play back audio and video signals. The Universal Tool can be safely used as a hammer.
-Mini-Computer: 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches in size, operates as a standard personal computer in game terms. Equipped with fax modem, GPS system and mini-disk rewritable drive.
-Grapnel: In material, fires up to 7 areas, used for transportation, Up to 3 areas
-Rebreather/Gas Mask: 2.5 hours air supply
-Fingerlight
-Magnesium Flare
-Multifunction Binoculars: Magnifies up to 60 times. Equipped with infrared and limited ultraviolet imaging (-2CS to darkness modifiers), as well as frame capture, stop-motion camera, and computer uplink.
-Tape Recorder: 2.5 Hours
-Laser Cutting Torch: Fantastic (30) intensity.
-Lock-Picks
-Crime Scene Investigation Kit: Contains sample bags, blood-drying bags, fingerprinting kit, odor-analyzing chromatograph, independent detachable video camera. Linked directly to Cowl or Mask of the uniform, HeroWerks computers.
-Taser: Amazing(60) Intensity, works once before recharge.
-Signal Mirror
-Rope: 20 feet of high-strength carbonan-reinforced paracord, Amazing(60) Tensile Strength. He cannot replace this as it does not exist in our reality.



Weaknesses Benny has a few weaknesses. Mostly of the interpersonal and physiological variety.

Out of touch - The global war that has been Alt-Benny's reality for years, has not started in ours. It may be difficult at times for him to remember how to behave in peace-time.

Obvious Mutation- Benny's eyes are reptilian and alien, and would never pass as human. Fortunately, this can be covered by a pair of sunglasses.

No Chill- His powers do not protect him from Cold or Anti-energy attacks, and excessive exposure to such can weaken his powers by draining his 'battery'.

Always on Duty- Extreme training has led to Benny's powers being constantly active, drawing in energy even when his reserves are fine. Because of this, he will always be flagged as 'active' by x-gene detectors.

Emotional Scar- The love of Benny's life, a mutant named Jackhammer, was killed in the conflict. This changed his world more than any alternate reality could, and he is still not over it.

Water- Water does not contain a lot of ambient energy. It is cold, and it absorbs energy on its own. When mostly or fully submerged, Benny cannot absorb energy. His powers will still generally function, however, powers based on a steady influx of energy will not. This will happen in any non-transferring environment, such as the vacuum of space or a Vibranium-rich area.

The Nose Knows- Denny's beams leave a distinctive ozone scent. This can linger for several minutes in open air, and for hours in poorly-ventilated space. This unintentional calling-card makes him easy to blame, even if he hasn't left holes in the wall.


Contacts:

The Worldstalker - A powerful agent of alt-universe Vostok, Worldstalker is an ally of Benny. She will come to take him home - if he can figure out how to reach her.


Knowledges:

*Demolitions - Benny has had powered and unpowered training, mastering the art of bringing buildings, installation, and, yes, even sentinels down to his level

*Detective/Espionage - Ability to Infiltrate, sabotage, evade and escape/ and how to notice signs of the same.


Skills: As above, but with skills.

Acrobatics - Benny is skilled at gymnastics and parkour

Survival- Benny has the skills to survive anywhere from a sparse feral forest to a bustling foreign city. Only deep desert environments are a true threat (Sahara, Antarctica, ocean).

Militaristic Training- Benny has basic military-style training. He's also been specially trained in marksmanship, and can operate virtually any modern firearm. He may roll Reasoning to figure out a futuristic or alien firearm.

Roguelike- In addition to soldier training, Benny also has learned skills of espionage, infiltration, and thievery. His specialty is government and military buildings.

Molecular Chemistry- Benny has a basic understanding of molecular chemistry. He can identify atoms and molecular structures and state what material they make.

Notable Notes: A word about 'Dark' Benny - the Demolisher. In his grimdark home timeline, it was often the best option to take one's enemies out with dedicated finality. By the time Benny had reached his age, he'd racked up something like 14-16 personal and direct kills, confirmed. The rebellion managed to drill some of that out of him. And he learned -not- to kill people... initially. In game terms this means that Benny will likely do everything feasible to avoid killing an enemy in combat, but when down to the final option, he'll use the final option with little reluctance.


Benny is from Universe B-55. In his world, the planet is at war with three major factions in play. Salvatore Vostok's New Age fights to suppress humanity, while humanity fights to destroy all mutants. The third, small faction led by Miss Universe fights to put an end to the violence and bring humanity and mutantkind into a peaceful state. Here are some notes about his reality:

*The war was set off when Sentinels were released in both Los Angeles and New York several years prior. Unlike our reality, Sakura and Doc Oc and Gridd and Industrial Motors were not involved, and all Sentinels were Trask Mk 9 units. In his world, there were hundreds of them.

*When the war started, virtually all mutants in custody or capture were executed.

*While working for Vostok, Benny was trained to kill Miss Universe as a failsafe. His eye beams are extremely difficult for her to reroute with her powers, making him the prime candidate to assassinate her. There was no plan to actually do this, but he has trained for many scenarios to do so.

*The Resistance consists of Mutants NOW!, many of the school students, Charles Xavier & the X-Men, Magneto and the Brotherhood, The Graveyard Shift, Dolph Lundgren, most of the Avengers, and a large number of human and mutant soliders who went AWOL from various militaries around the world.

*The S.T.A.R. project never happened in his reality.

*He knows Snatch as Legion, SnapBlade as Dark Mantis, Push as Force, DayTripper as Paradox, and Turtleboy as Tarrasque.
**In his world, Turtleboy's mind was lost in The Other Place, so the conscious, sentient entity in his body is the Tarrasque power.

*FlashFire never became Flashback in this reality.

*Jules Alder is an unknown entity in his reality.

*Benny has seen the New Age kill thousands of humans, and do worse things to hundreds of others.












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