This is the Mental Diary for El Diablo, my Plan B superhero.
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Description:
Name: Esteban Cornejo or Stan
Superhero Name: El Diablo (or Beast Boy)
Concept: Zoo Keeper
Powers: Ability to converse with animals and take on their characteristics. Ain't it cool?
Stan stands at about 2.2 metres tall, with olive skin and long black hair. He is a simple boy (aged 16). He comes from Central America where he grew up in a rural village.
Origin Story: While exploring the jungle at the age of 15 he came upon and ancient Aztec ruin. Geologists and Archaeologists had long since poured through the area and had documented everything.
He, being the curious boy that he is, decided to investigate...
Form of the Beast (the custom power he has)
Level: 3
Quantum Minimum: 4
Dice Pool: (Quantum + Form of the Beast) automatic successes
Range: Self
Area: N/A
Duration Special
Multiple Actions: Yes
The Superhero has the ability to gain the powers of the animals he shares his planet with.
The Superhero spends the nessessary Quantum to turn the power “on”. When turning the power on he gains (Quantum + Form of the Beast) successes to spend on attributes and/or powers. To Turn the power “off” he makes a Willpower roll. Failure indicates the animal instincts are taking over the Superheroes psyche and a point of Willpower must be spent in order to turn the power off. A Botch indicates the Superhero loses himself in the animal instincts and enters Bedlam (see below).
The Superhero can spend one success to augment his attributes or powers from an animal’s powers at a rate of 1 for 1 when he first gains this power. The Superhero gains the powers in addition to his own physical and mental capabilities.
The powers of various animals are described above but the Superhero is not limited to these animals; on the contrary he has access to all creatures in the animal kingdom. He cannot exceed the given limits of each animal above and any new animals can be used at the DMs? discretion.
The Superhero can have characteristics from (Form of the Beast) different animals at the same time, however he does not gain the same bonus from 2 different animals (aka he can’t get Mega Strength 3 from a shark and gorilla. To change powers from one animal to another, the Superhero rolls Willpower and the successes generated can be used to change powers/attributes/enhancements on a 1 for 1 basis.
The Superhero manifests the physical attributes of the animal(s) he is incorporating and also the mental instincts of the animals. Normally the Superhero has the calm to suppress the instincts but when the Superhero enters a stressful situation (combat) the instincts begin to come to the fore. The Superhero must make a Willpower roll at Difficulty (0 + (number of rounds in the situation/3) rounded down) when entering the situation and during the situation. Failure on the roll indicates the Superhero loses control and enters Bedlam.
Bedlam:
The Superhero loses himself in the animal’s instincts. He usually would become aggressive but emotions such as fear, anger and nervousness can also set in. The Superhero will remain in this state until he is calmed down or the situation resolves itself.
Comments/Suggestions:
Grab yourself the 3xp for putting up your description page. - Garrick Grabbed - Chris
Mental Diary:
Session 1:
So Bounce-Boy (he’s fat) and I were going on patrol. Just the usual route, from Central Park to…well…Im not sure where we go but we were on patrol.
I had a really good conversation with a rat about which cheeses he preferred before he ran off to find a cat to eat. The rats are decidedly larger here that at home but one must adapt to survive.
When suddenly…a moth flew in front of me. There was also an alarm going off in the background about 5 blocks away. Informing Bounce-Boy we landed at the scene to find a large panel-van departing and a bank in ruins. BB bounded after the villains while I checked for any injuries. Finding none, I ran after the van. BB had sufficiently thrown his weight around such that the engine block from the van was making babies with the concrete and was lugging the drivers out of the van. I strung the 2 drivers up in webs and watched with anticipation as BB opened the back doors. Unfortunately the doors didn’t want to be opened and the plan blew up in his face. I was then faced with a golden mask and diving for cover while calling on the powers of the chameleon and lionfish.
Four heavily armed thugs stepped from the van wielding Bastion level weaponry and armor. I quickly found my poisoned spines were ineffectual and called upon the swarms of Manhattan (who is Manhattan anyway?) to aid me in my battle.
I was subsequently joined by BB, Captain Commonwealth, Paladin and the attractive Kestrel. She has adequate breasts and buttocks. We defeated the villains and became more acquainted with the thugs.
We discovered they were hired by Tony “The Tuna” Gamboni who resides in a mansion downtown.
After meeting up with the rest of group, I had a chat with the guard dogs. They were very nice, told me where the other guards were. I proceeded to creep around the mansion knocking the guards out with poisoned spines before going inside and clearing the place. I came across an alarm system but I had no idea how to disable it.
This is where Kestrel stepped in to help. With her -mental capabilities-head powers and -awesome intellect- smartness, she instructed me, slowly, on how to turn off the system.
After the alarm was turned off, everyone but Tony and his assossiate sedated, I let everyone in. Being very stealthy, Captain Commonwealth *cough cough elephant cough* we made our way to the door. I could hear Tony talking to his friend, who was wearing big-ass battle armor with a bigger cannon attached.
Calling upon the power the the chameleon and spider, I scurried into the room along the wall. Positioning myself within tongue distance I got both of them with quick flicks of my poison-barbed tongue to put them to sleep. Boobies...
Kestrel then proceeded to glance at the memories of where Tony had aquired these weapons while I went over to the book shelf and presses buttons (hoping something wouldn't happen). WHOOSH...a big door opened with lots of the armor and guns lying on the wall. Everyone told me not to but I tried to touch them anyway. They proceeded to melt into blue goop...didn't taste too good.
Turns out the guns and stuff were being sold on eBay under fake items...an apple for $3000000 etc.
After checking out the auction from the top of the warehouse where it was being held, seeing a whole bunch of bad guys like Commander Crush (strong as ox! and smart like ox as well) and Ice Pick and the big bad-ass looking guard in mech suit, we decided the best idea was to go after the main guard and get the guns back.
I called upson the power of the mantis and ant, cut a large hole in the ceiling and Captain Commonwealth and I leapt through. CC managed to get the guy smack bang on his head while I got to work cutting off his armor. One round later his armor was eviscerated, the guy in the suit (a big-ass lizard with green lizard skin!!) was being pummeled by CC left me with being left on the ground.
All the scientists and guards surrounding the lizard guy turned into ghosts and ran away into their ghost ship and starting flying away. I tried to stop them but they zapped me with a stun ray and I went to sleep for a little while...
All in all it was a good evening! Moo...
Grab yourself the 2xp for logging the session. - Garrick Grabbed - Chris
Session 2:
I was sitting peacefully in my tree house in Central park. It was a cloudy evening, strange for the middle of summer. I could feel something was different...
I had recently watched the movie, Flubber, and decided that Ricochet would look awesome in a green costume. Finding a costume designer would be the most difficult part though.
There were a multitude of cloth shops around central park so I decided to try out my luck in my 'human' disguise. I eventually found an old cloth shop with material for sale. There was a kindly old lady behind the counter who helped me pick out some stunning green material.
Together with the help of my mice friends, we got the costume cut and sowed in a nominal amount of time. It looked awesome.
I heard the familiar BOING of Bounce Boy entering the area and was filled with glee as I could give my present to my friend. He was busy chatting to Kestrel (Ive decided she's too old for a mate but she is still attractive).
I guess deep down I knew he wouldn't like it but I tried anyway. I am very young you know. But still I persevered and presented Bounce Boy with his Flubber outfit. He didn't like it...
So a storm ensued, we all went for cover in my tree house. I could feel a larger storm comign so I started taking my house down. It was nice. We all went to the warehouse distric to search for Dr Chernobyl. It was wet. We found his Nuke Troopers (stupid name) at a warehouse destroying documents. After dealing with them we proceeded to Times Square to find Dr Chernobyl with 8 Nuke Troopers and a weather controlling device. It was radioactive. Quatsawhatshisname disposed of the Nuke Troopers while we rescued the hostages. Go us...I used my powers of the Spider to web up Dr Chernobyl and Quatsamadoodeekins stunned him. He went radioactive on our buttocks and I had to jump him into the Ocean to cool him off. Bastion took him. We were on TV.
End...*cry sob*
Grab yourself the 2xp for logging the session. - Garrick Grabbed. - Chris