Character Creation

I am looking at building a flying brawler/caster.

Also there are the Taint I was looking at: Other than that I have a fair amout of a character figgured out.

Nice! I may decide to dabble in some Taint myself. Not sure yet. It’s very tempting.

Is this game going to be a twist on the Aberrant setting, or is the setting entirely home brewed? Just wondering if the factions in the books are something we should be thinking about.

Superman is super-powered alien. SUPER yes. MAN, no.

My character is Tyr clone of Odin. He is both super and man.

His philosophy is that all humans have identical potential to him. They just lack discipline, focus, determination, and commitment.

He maintains that psilocybin and psilocybe are here from the Goddess Eir heal humanity. And naturally Tyr leads the Cult of Asatru as he is literally their Demigod.

If you don't know who Tyr is, Tyr is the Son of Odin, God of Law, Mankind(sic The Thing), and War. He has a whole day to himself. Its even celebrated before Odin's day. Tuesday, Because Tyr is the same as Mars-Tuatha-Nuada-Vishnu-Marduk-Hanuman-Bahamut-Enki-Ningishzida, they are all the same demigod, it has always been Tyr Odinsson. Since before words existed that could name it.

It has died and reincarnated with the centuries, but in this particular instance it reincarnated in a Caucasian boy, who was raised in the most impoverished community in Florida. It has retained much of its previous incarnations memories and powers.


I think this would make him the leader of the justice league in place of Superman.

I should assert that equal to the sun and moon War is the God of humanity. Tyr is a solipsism. He is the consciousness we all share.

If he died in a physical form it was a gambit.

Homelander thinks he killed Tyr. But Tyr is going to let the false victory give his enemy a sense of security, that will make it so much more satisfying when Tyr blasts him into atoms with his Qi.

I was also thinking of a charisma/telepathy build. If we need something other than more fighters. Don't know what others (besides having Tyr) are looking at.

Having more than one physically capable member isn't a bad idea, Phoenix, so I don't think there'd be much character overlap between your fire guy and Jom's guy.

I think Gnome was going for a super solider, iirc, and I had an idea for a mastermind. Gnome could've moved on to a different idea by now so I'll let him chime in on that whenever he has time to post.

I have about five ideas percolating at the moment, and I’m trying to decide on one. I’ve been wanting to try this game for a while, so I have a backlog of concepts to explore.

My initial character idea isn’t specifically a super-soldier. I just call it the Captain America build because the character has no flashy super powers; he’s just a normal looking guy with several attributes at superhuman levels. Kind of a "stealth nova" in that he can pass for baseline fairly easily (I’d also have lots of dots in Dormancy).

I was also considering a speedster character who fights by grabbing people, running at full speed, and then coming to a sudden stop. His name would be Whiplash.

Additionally, I like the idea of a set of triplets that form a hive mind. Essentially, a single mind existing simultaneously in three bodies. I’d probably call him/them by the name Gestalt, or something similar. Based on the Stepford Cuckoos from the New X-Men.

I’ll settle on something in the next few days.

Hello, all! Glad to be here! I haven't played Aberrant in close to 8 years so I'm rusty.

I'll hopefully find a home here for a game-orphaned Banshee/Tyroc-inspired character. In addition to the sonic scream, he's charismatic and can calm/manipulate/control people with his voice.

He has eufiber so he can glide if not fully fly (couldn't afford flight at char gen), plus have extra protection. Are we using eufiber in this game? If not, I can see about shifting points into flight if possible. Like I said, it's been a while.

I had an idea for a very obvious super, but I don't know how much hassle that would be. ..
AKA I don't whant to hide whenever we have to interact with a normie, but also would probably not have all(or any) of his powers registered.

Oh pleeeeeeeease let the FF analogue be like Planetary's The Four!

My idea is that Larry/Larynx's vocal abilities manifested spectacularly in public, and he was taken to the Quaternary Quarter :P for 'assessment'... which just meant that not-Mr. Fantastic tried to vivisect him. Either Larynx escaped or not-MF thought Larynx's powers broken after the experimentation and they released him, giving Larynx many reasons to distrust authority (who can also be a great Justice League analogue). Maybe he managed to steal some eufiber on the way out... or maybe he was experimented on using eufiber.

Tarathustra did not know what it was to be, before he awoke, he was not meant to know individuality. Processed and created by a singular will, all of Zarathustra was subtly implanted with knowledge within their mutual stasis chambers.

They, Tarathustra, did not need to know much. Cocktails of magical mushrooms were injected into the brainstem, stimulating growth, enhancing awareness, directing all energies in the chamber to the Tarathustra within them.

Countless billions, identical, perfectly formed human beings, each identical to another. Growing according to the infallible logic of the Godmind. Who's purpose with these sleeping humans? Balance.

A Tarathustra knew only this balance. And how to draw upon the balance, to create, to destroy. Aeons of learning poured into their minds while the body remained in stasis. All such teachings to reinforce the connection between physical struggle, and the pursuit of perfection.

The shared consciousness carried on in such a manner until events outside the Axis of worlds dictated the need for Tarathustra to awake. Inevitably one was the perfect solution to the problem. Inevitably that one would bring balance.

Tarathustra awoke, in terrible fear, his instincts honed by thousands, perhaps millions of years in stasis. Immediately recognized he was both restrained, and deep in hot water. The green murky waters of the stasis pod were receding, bringing light which blinded his eyes. Eyes that had never before seen the light. The pain was intense, but dwarfed by the tube, catheters, and shunts being withdrawn from his physical form. The psychic scream of anguish brought about a release of The Might, as the forces of gravity and light tore apart the machine womb that had carried Tarathustra for so many aeons.

Muscles which had never before held weight collapsed under the strain. A circulatory system that had never worked in isolation too weak to keep such a powerful frame ambulatory. Tarathustra collapsed, and when the pain abated was able to focus. Seeing his face for the first time in the pool of fluids that had gushed from the destroyed stasis chamber.

Coal black irises around an even blacker pupil tasted self awareness and at once, Tarathustra looking upon his reflection knew himself. The neon pink hair, rugged angular features suggesting elven blood. Soft pink lips and alabaster flesh, these things he knew upon sight, but the voice that told him what they were he knew as The Other. Billions of his voices shared ideas amongst the collective, a collective he was no longer in contact with. All that remained was this voice, The Other, telling him that he was indeed this creature who he spied in his reflection.

His head spinning Zarathustra tried to stand, only to be overtaken by nausea. Retching he cleared his stomach of its contents, the same green fluid he had been drowning in only moments prior. His head was pounding, stomach growling, functions that had never been processed overwhelmed him. Hunger, nausea, a working inner ear such strange, wonderful, intense sensations that he couldn't help but marvel at.

The urge to urinate hit him hard, as well as to defecate. These feelings were accompanied with shame, another new emotion that he had never experienced in the collective. The urgency of which caused him to hide in a corner to relieve himself. The smell was awful, Zarathustra wondered how his body could even produce such a substance. But decided when he had finished that he rather enjoyed the process and that it was itself humorous.

A sound alerted him to the presence of others. And before he could further conceal himself, he saw metallic creations. Recognizing them immediately as they were so closely resembling the machinery around him he knew they were the caretakers of this place. The Caretakers of the collective. This was in his own voice, a sound he had never processed before - even internally. Yet knew it to be his own. He decided to call them Nurse, and the machine he had only recently destroyed The Metal Womb.

These Nurses began to collect scrap, and fluids from the vicinity and carry them out disappearing before he could stop them. The last one he did manage to get in front of, painted him with a soft blue light, then left following the others. Tarathustra followed curiosity taking the better of him. What he saw next made him wish he hadn't.

The corridor, if it could be called that spanned as far as his perfected eyes could see, up, down, or along its span. Untold millions of metal wombs stretched its length, spaced ten feet apart. He wondered where he was briefly, until he saw painted upon the floor (0, 0, 0). The Other told him it was the Origin, and he had been here, throughout the infinite universe, countless times before. A cold chill ran down his spine, Tarathustra peered into the nearest of the Metal Wombs and fell back in shock. Neon pink hair, angular features, black irises. The creature within the machine was not him, but it was simultaneously identical to him. In shock Tarathustra moved to the next Metal Womb, and the next, and the following. Seeing in each identical copies of himself.

In horror Tarathustra was taken aback, too far back. He fell from the walkway into the center of the corridor. Catching himself to no avail as his skin was far too slippery from the fluid he had been covered in. Tarathustra fell, though he did not feel the sensation of freefall, he could see the Metal Wombs rushing past him. It took him several hours of this to realize he was not in fact falling, but orbiting the corridor. And using his telekinetic power generated enough thrust to break his inertia and fall into a brightly lit room at the place he knew to be out of place and time entirely.

A web of yellow energy caught him before impact, saving him from being turned into a fine paste as it stole the energy of his fall. Zarathustra found himself righted, standing on his feet looking at a massive liquid crystal portal. Illuminated from within by a face. A face he recognized as his creator, a face that he knew to be The Other. He was paralyzed in fear.

Tarathustra stared at the face of his father. Or what was once a human face, now perfectly preserved upon the withering body of two enormous human men. One missing an eye, and armed with a spear. The other missing his left arm, they looked so alike they must have been father and son. Making the One Eyed Man his grandfather. Considering the face he found when he awoke he knew it to be so. The crystals they were encased in almost invisible, so perfectly transparent they only reflected as they had turned to directly "face" Tarathustra.

Hundreds, metallic and crystaline orbs mounted within silvery discs of glowing golden light were released from a metal encasing at the cap of the crystal. It looked like a crown to Tarathustra's eyes, but he could not fathom its purpose. Nor how the orbs traced down and began to form two apparitions, representations of the men within the crystals. They, stared silently at the boy.

~

"T"

Human Nomad Hedonistic Nature
Allied to himself
NP: 28
BP: 15+7
QP: 30/30
Taint: 8

MEGA ATTRIBUTES
Mega-Strength (3np+1 Taint)
Mega-Stamina (3np+1 Taint)
Mega-Dexterity (3np+1 Taint)
Mega-Perception (2np +1 Taint)

ATTRIBUTES
Strength 5 [Might 3]
Dexterity 5 [Martial Arts 4]
Stamina 5 [Endurance 4, Resistance 5]

Perception 5 [Awareness 5]
Intelligence 3 []
Wits 4 [Biz 1]

Appearance 3 []
Manipulation 1 []
Charisma 5 [Leadership 3]

(4 NP Spent for 9 Attribute points)
(1 NP Spent for Ability Dots)

Backgrounds
Mentor (5)
Attunement (1)
Eufiber (2)
Node (4)
Allies (4) He's got a cult of followers that practice different forms of occult magic, they shelter him
Connections (1) He has Houngan of Vodou who is his friend and business associate.
Resources (1) He's just starting out.
Follower (5) Sigrdrifa, his TARDIS.

Armor 3
Flight 2np+1 taint
Quantum Bolt 2

Range: (Quantum + power rating) x 15 meters | Area: NIA | Duration: lnstant | Effect: lnflicts [Quantum x 31 levels + (power rat-ing x 4) dice of bashing damage or [Quantum x 21 levels + (power rating x 4) dice of lethal damage (player’s choice).

Bulging Muscles 2(Arms and legs are unnaturally beefy for his frame. His skeletal muscles are toned and lithe in spite of this he looks like he's trained at the pinnacle of fighting though he can't be more than 13.)
Glow 1(His Tail and Pupils Glow with Golden Light, they are very hot to the touch)
Hardened Skin 2(Its dense like metal, his bones are too)
Vestigial Tail 2(Its brindle striped and wrapped around his waist like a belt, doesn't look like it moves)

T is a 12 year old boy from Miami, he wears a pair of swim trunks, and a golden fur belt. Barefoot, as his massive feet have been numbed due to decades on hot asphalt and walking through acid rain. He's quite dirty, and has various healing bruises and scabs on his torso and knuckles. He was smoking a menthol cigarette, sheltering it from the rain in a massive paw of a hand. He looked like he was made of muscle. But also quite the fool in only a pair of shorts, sporting a pair of shades that were just slightly too big for his head.

There was a glow to him, even more than his ruddy tan. And to say he was jacked was an understatement, the kid looked like he was a juice fiend with as large his muscles were. He carried a stick and was practicing a drill with it. All in all he wasn't out of place considering the neighborhood, except that he was the only white kid, and he was a very strange looking child. Gorilla like arms, and legs like an elephant.

Officially he was a ward to the state, and attending a school for talented and gifted youths. Only, wild as he was he preferred hunting and fishing in the Everglades to actual schoolwork. And due to his superhuman capabilities being as natural to him as breathing, and his incredible durability, hunting came easy to him. He loved Florida, delicious monsters were everywhere to be found. The young Demigod grew up eating boa constrictor-anaconda hybrid snakes that were 22ft in length on average. He barbecued a 17ft bullshark for his tenth birthday present to himself. And knew every possible preparation for alligator meat.

Naturally he monetized this, people might ask the wrong kind of questions about a grown man peddling bushmeat. But a youth? They greedily accepted his prices, honest as they were. His choice cuts catching even better prices among the stranger circles in the communities. "T" spent a lot of time with Santeria priests, and enjoyed a good business relationship when it came to more difficult to obtain hearts. He was saving his pennies for a food cart.

Academically he was able to make his marks. Being able to study faster than most children he maintained passing grades. Attending school only on days where tests were assigned. He was honest to his teachers about it, he was living in the slums and it was more important for him to make money to live out there than attend class.

Believing himself to be the God of Law, T enforces crime. He wouldn't go out of his way to help a person in distress, but if that person was distressing others he would handle the situation swiftly. Believing himself adequate to judge the actions right, or wrong. He has a code, and it is important not to be caught violating it.

Whenever possible T prefers to handle criminals as a "mere human" avoiding if at all possible using his quantum power. He also prefers to take people alive, but has no moral issue with killing and will kill when necessary. Generally speaking he likes to "play" in dangerous situations. Using dangerous criminals as free practice at the ultimate stakes.

However it impossible for T to divorce himself entirely from his super nature, his connection to TYR and All-Father allow him to understand features in his environment intuitively. It makes his reaction times significantly quicker and the ability to process his sensory input with great acuity. This combined with his elite martial arts skills makes him truly terrifying with a minimum exertion of his power. Hitting as lightly as possible to exercise his control of his body, he plays a game with his opponent trying to draw out their full power. He only goes full out on someone he knows is a threat.

I love [to hate] The Four!
I wasn't sure if Larynx's build was baseline or had levels. Will it be easier to rebuild him or to just slice off the extras?

I'm open to revision. Just scratching out some thoughts.

So I put my character in the pregen WOD sheet up here , forgetting that it was NWOD not OWOD...
But I should have all the numbers adjusted later today then you can look it over Bedzonell.
But I have an idea for my chatacter.
Jack Neon ( yes Neon is a real last name) was a career security guard before his emergence. He worked his way up positions, and ended up working the door at a high end hotel, Lavender Throne. Unfortinately this hotel was one of the fronts for a criminal ring, and was actually as much a safehouse and money laundering as a hotel as a legitimate hotel. Plus this one was run by a Nova known as Gloam, a shadowmancer of some considerable power (both as a Nova and criminal).
Then Jack Nova erupted one day when he was shot. When he was shot and knocked back (through the lobby fishtank), but not killed. In fact once the ringing in his eaes cleared he found he was surprisibgly ok, aching for sure, but surprisingly ok. He lept up, and charged he gunman who had shot him. A crumpled form hit pillar a dozen feet away a momet later and broke against it.
Jack was later told it wasan attempted robbery by a disgruntled ex-employee, which wasn't entierly inaccurate if you ignore the criminal elemnets, the underground deal Gloam had made a week before that cut oneof theit 'business partners' out of the market.
What Jack did know is he had been requested to be one of Mrs. Caroline Withers' (who, as it happens, is the owner of the Lavender Throne) bodyguard. (It's always good to have someone who can get shot and get back up protecting you).
Over the next few months as he settled into his powers he started putting together all the little pieces rhat didn't add up where he worked.
Not fast enough to avoid thr attack on the Lavender Throne by the vigilante known as Warp, a timebender with a high amount of Taint.
Though Jack was incredibly strong and tough he was not on the same playingfield as Gloam or Warp, and was quickly incapacitated in a field of slow moving time, and watched as shadows writhed and time shifted in front of him. And watched as Gloam's shadows pierced into Warp and Warp's powers unwraveled. Time and Quantum energy warped reality; something bent and snapped. And a portion of Warp's psychee, quantum energy, and associated taint imprinted on Jack.
When he came to he was changed. Whenever he looks back on it he calls this his second eruption.

A person, a winged creature of steely feathers and rending claws who found he was able to send out blasts of warping, aging energy, awoke.
A person, who was finding that the strings of time had started weaving their way into his psychee, awoke.
Comet awoke.

Man T and Comet are going to have either a solid bromance, or bitter rivalry.

I kinda thought so too. Possibly one of those 'too similar to get along'.
Though I imagine they have different views on their abilities, which may be interesting to play out.

I think Comet is much more Vegeta. I'll make Goku it'll be a good dynamic regardless of how it plays out.

I'll build Larynx from the ground up. I hate manual chargen. :p

I think for yours, keep the Attributes and Abilities (you didn't spend points on them at all, so there's nothing to tweak). You can keep the Mega-Attributes and Powers. You probably just need to recalculate either Willpower, Quantum or Backgrounds. I think the easiest is to give up some Background points.

I should have one or two ideas up later this evening (US CST). Suffering from not having a good focus for powers & abilities. I think there's two good characters jammed together in the concept I had. I'll tease the two out and see which I like better.

Edited Backgrounds. How're these?

Just realised that Home Base is a NWOD backgeound, so going to replace that and Library.

By the way. The forum is set up to accept WOD chatacter sheets, which won't work because it's set up for NWOD. We'll have to do custom sheets.

I think I have the count right can someone double check my math?

Wow I don't even know what NP corresponds to I now remember why I don't play WOD. My attention span is measured in seconds. It'll be a challenge but I'll figure it out.

Ok wow, chargen is even more annoying than I thought. No wonder they rebuilt the shole system of OWOD.
Where can I find the nova price for Quantum Powers lv 4+,

And I was beginning to think I was missing something somewhere because I was running out of Nova Points trying to buy Mega Attributes...
Aberrant has one of the more complex chargen systems in WoD!

I'm still tinkering with my build but I may just submit it and see if you have any suggestions, BZII.

Those are in the Players Book.

Has anyone looked at the Onyx Path version of Aberrant? How is it?

Here's a preliminary stat block for one of the characters I had in mind. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Is it possible to purchase additional aberrations as Flaws? The Player's Guide mentions it on p. 92.

I changed my concept and decided to go with a Mega-Ugly nova. He has some physical ability but relies more on intimidation and Mega-Manipulation to coerce others. Keeps himself constantly wrapped in a eufiber hooded cloak so that baselines don't accidentally see his face and lose their sanity. He's not a villain, but his horrifying transformation has left him incredibly bitter at the world. I mostly avoided powers and focused on Mega-Attributes and Enhancements, though I didn't have enough points to get everything I wanted. Admittedly, he is very high Taint, but this was so I'd have access to some of the high-level aberrations.

The character still needs some major tweaking, but here's what I have.

---

Anders Dvořák (aka "The Horror")

"The world is an ugly place… but not as ugly as me."





Attributes


Mega-Attributes


Abilities






Advantages


Quantum


Health


Aberrations
Note: +3 difficulty to Social rolls with baseline humans. -3 to Willpower rolls to resist mental disorders. Backgrounds Merits

Flaws Enhancements Quantum Powers Equipment

Character Creation Notes

18 total Bonus Points (15 + 3 from Flaws)

● 14 bonus points for 2 more dots of Quantum
● 4 bonus points for 2 more dots of Willpower

● 8 nova points for four dots of Mega-Ugliness (4 points of Taint)
● 6 nova points for three dots of Mega-Strength (3 points of Taint)
● 2 nova points for Revolting enhancement (1 point of Taint)
● 9 nova points for three dots of Armor
● 1 nova point for six Ability dots
● 1 nova point for three Attribute dots

3 nova points left to spend.

Ok New numbers.
(Note: mega attributes were bought with Flaw xp
Quantum was bought with bonus xp)Looks like I have 1 exp(????) Was thinkingof getti g a specialty?

Can I steal/procure your great formatting, Gnome_Chomsky?

Also
When you buy willpower at start, aren'y you buying something you'll spend later?

Noone forget:

All novas start with at least three (free) dots in
Endurance; see "Mega-Stamina" (p. 160).
All novas start with at
least three (free) dots in Resistance; see "Mega-
Stamina" (p. 160

-pg139

@witchdoctor, my biggest advice would be to specilize skills just a smidge more. That may just be opinion though.
Going for a psionic manipulator/tactician? Looks good

A lot of flying going on, I like it.

Y'all are flying. I'm just gliding. :P

Be my guest 😁
If you "Quote" my post, that should provide the underlying BBCode.

You’re increasing your permanent Willpower rating, which in turn increases your pool of Willpower points. Although you do spend Willpower, it gets recovered through play. Your Nature provides a means of regaining Willpower, for instance. Also, a lot of rolls to resist mental/psychic effects hinge on your Willpower, so I’d say it’s not a bad idea to invest into it.

@Witchdoctor, what’s your character concept again? I might be able to give suggestions based on what you’re going for.

I just need to focus on what I need instead of what I want ;) I'm definitely stealing your character sheet format tho. That's some seriously beautiful work!

Ive never heard of Forceful Personalities, but I’ll check it out! I was going to ask if you knew of any other rules for Mega-Ugly novas, as I didn’t see anything other than a short paragraph in the rule book.

Yeah, going high Taint wasn’t my first idea. Usually I try to avoid making characters that are sixty seconds from meltdown 😂. But the reason that I went for high Taint is because of the Sheer Hideousness aberration, which fits my character really well. It’s a high level aberration, so I needed at least Taint 8 to get it. I also wanted to take a few other aberrations as Flaws, just because I want to make the character as freaky as possible.

Problem is that I also built this character to be a Mega-Manipulator, but my high Taint and aberrations mean major penalties to Social rolls. I may need to revisit whether I should keen Mega-Manipulation or not.

Rules question: can you start with an Ability above three dots? The first Phase of character creation says that Abilities cap at 3 dots, but can they be increased beyond the cap with Bonus Points or Nova Points?

Pg 126 has the price for Mega s in xp whkch is bp
The dice pool for flying ia based on dexterity +flying(power level), not dexterity+flying(skill level)?

Bedzonell, were the tyrant's of this world always evil (like the Syndicate of DC's Earth 3) or fallen heroes (like the Justice League in the Injustice storyline) or public heroes/secretly evil (as in The Boys)? It defines how Terrapin's backstory plans out.

Phoenix, that's the table for increasing Attributes, Abilities, Backgrounds & Powers by earned experience after play begins. The costs at character creation are on pg. 120

Ok, all these purchasing pools are confusing.

I may have it figgured out.
Have 15+7 bonus points
Spend 18 on 9 skills
Get 4 pts of background merits

The only issues still see is that QBolt does (Quantum X2) and (Quantum X3) as damage multipliers, not 21 & 31, but that looks like maybe a copy/paste error.

Yeah it was a copy paste error.

I hope I'm good to go.
I included some bio and eruption possibilities at the end.

Possible look...

Here’s a brief summary of all the characters so far. All of this is obviously still subject to change as people tweak and fix characters. I included stats about powers and attributes to provide a sense of what we all can do, and what the team’s strengths and weaknesses might be. If I’m missing info about your character or I got something wrong, please let me know and I’ll update the summary.

annex
Real Name: Larry Nixon
Nova Name: Larynx
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 3/0
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Dexterity 1, Mega-Manipulation 1, Mega-Charisma 1
Enhancements: Accuracy, Soothe, The Voice
Powers: Disorient 1, Quantum Bolt 2, Sensory Shield 1
Aberrations: None
Top Abilities: Command, Perform, Endurance, Resistance
Backgrounds: Attunement 1, Node 2, Influence 1, Resources 1, Eufiber 2

PhoenixScientist
Real Name: Jack Neon
Nova Name: Comet
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 3/2
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Dexterity 1
Enhancements: Accuracy
Powers: Armor 2, Claws 1, Flight 2, Premonition 1, Quantum Bolt 3
Aberrations: Fur/Feathers
Top Abilities: Athletics, Martial Arts, Endurance, Resistance
Backgrounds: Cipher 1, Node 3, Resources 1

witchdoctor
Real Name: ?
Nova Name: The Terrapin
Age: ?
Gender: ?
Quantum/Taint: 3/3
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Intelligence 2
Enhancements: Analyze Weakness, Mental Prodigy (Tactics)
Powers: ESP 1, Flight 1, Force Field, 1, Psychic Shield 1, Telekinesis 3
Aberrations: None
Top Abilities: Brawl, Stealth, Interrogation, Intimidation
Backgrounds: Contacts 1, Node 4, Resources 2

Jomsviking
Real Name: "T"
Nova Name: Tarathustra
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 4/1
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Strength 2, Mega-Stamina 2, Mega-Dexterity 1, Mega-Wits 1
Enhancements: ?
Powers: Armor 3, Flight 2, Quantum Bolt 4
Aberrations: ?
Top Abilities: Awareness, Martial Arts, Athletics, Might, Resistance, Endurance
Backgrounds: Mentor 5, Node 4, Eufiber 1, Attunement 1

Gnome_Chomsky
Real Name: Anders Dvořák
Nova Name: The Horror
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 3/8
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Ugliness 4, Mega-Strength 3
Enhancements: Revolting, Mr. Nobody, Quantum Leap
Powers: Armor 3
Aberrations: Sheer Hideousness, Disturbing Voice, Twisted Limbs
Top Abilities: Weave, Brawl, Interrogation, Intimidation
Backgrounds: Eufiber 5, Node 2

Your compilation looks right for me, Noam. I mean... Gnome.
Larynx is the prettiest and the pretty weakest of this bunch. :P

Well, we have a Face, and a Hannibal, who wants to be Howlin' Mad Murdock or B.A. Barackus?

Thinking of taking Accuracy?

Probably the best fit from the Mega-Dex Enhancements for Comet since he has QBlast

This sounds awesome.

Good to hear! I've revised the sheet & added his background, Nature, etc. Let me know if there's anything that needs tweaking or changing.

I don't really know what to do for the other two backgrounds...Maybe Cypher and ?something else?
I considered Huge Size asset?

Ok I think my math has mathed.

But I'm bad at math so someone should double check it.

I can double check now that I understand the system (I think).

Constant death ray, you say...

Don't know why, but Gamers Plane isn't giving me the option to submit my character to the game. It just says that I have no characters to submit.

Did you build yours as a Custom or as a WoD character? I applied using the WoD template with my real stats in the Notes.

That would be confusing for me considering every stat is different.

I read the Flaw as having two parts. One for the intent of the Enemy (wanting to humiliate/ruin the character for 1 point and wanting them dead for two points) and then the relative strength of their Enemy as a separate element that combined together with the intent for the Flaw total.

I had imagined it as a group that was approximately as power as Terrapin (3 pts) that wanted him dead (2 pts) for a total of five points. If I misunderstood, I'll still take the Flaw as is. 'Go Big or Go Home' as the saying goes :D

I just left the WoD stuff alone entirely and copy/pasted my stats in the Notes section. The Custom character sheet is really just a bit Notes section anyhow. :P

Yeah, but if we do that it won't keep the formatting...

The Custom sheet keeps the formatting but the WoD Notes section doesn't? OK. I was just using text, not html in mine.

Wow I'm glad I have more to work with. Yes I think that T will be allied with his neighborhood. And I'll get revisions up soon

Yeah doesn't look like there's a way to control it like cyclops does. So I'll have to get rid of that. And since I don't need more the 3 taint I spent I'll just angle to make more human traits in him

Roger that, I'm good with it. Just wanted to hear how it clicks together in your head. And I love the backstory with all the former teammates, I'll tweak the in-game name of your enemy team.

We have our nemeses! Our insanely powerful nemeses...

Oooh enemy 5 homelander!

I think my enemy should be Gloam, or maybe a rival that blames me for something.
Also should I take contacts?

In case anyone is interested, I found a nifty index of Aberrant source material.

https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1534768758253.pdf

That's a really handy guide! I'd forgotten about the various Mega Attribute splat books... primarily because they're a bit OP and unsettling.

Sanctum might be a good fit for Terrapin's "Murder Mountain" lair. I might have to shuffle some background points around for that one!

I did mention the splatbooks, go ahead if y'all want further reading.

I was wondering wouldn't Gloam, or even possibly Caroline Withers be a contact, rather than an enemy? After all Comet was just doing his job.

If anything, Warp (or his associates) might be the enemy instead, possibly because Comet 'stole' some of his powers? There's a sub-plot here somewhere ...

Alright. I took contacts 2, one of the main ones I think should be Gloam/Mrs. Caroline Withers, who personally is more well connected than 2 points of contacts would buy. But it more represents how far she would go to help Jack Neon.
The other connection I have no idea yet.

Though Warp is dead, I like the idea of someone looking for revenge being my enemy?

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After that. I think I'm ready?

I just have a bit of detail clean-up to do before I slog into translating Terrapin into Gnome's formatted sheet. Beyond that, I think I'm good to go as well.

Let's go with both! He erupted on stage and was later attacked by an obsessed Nova fan. What about the 'experimented on by the Evil Four' part? I can forgo the obsessed fan for Reed Richards: Vivisector.

BedzoneII, does the Mr. Nobody enhancement compensate for my aberrations, such as Sheer Hideousness? I don’t have any aberrations that make me overtly inhuman, but I was still wondering.

Just wondering. How do we know eachother? Anyone possibly run with, or into, organised crime.
I could see a few options. Larnyx may have played at locations Jack Neon worked. Or maybe needed a safehouse and Jack did the setup?
That works for anyone actually, I could see all of you needing to find a secure place out of the way of the law.
I see a security for Gloam/Mrs. C. Withers doing whatever she needed at the moment, so he certanly could have come across any of you while he was in employ of theLavender Throne.

I think we might all have need of a safe house, too. Seems like the easiest way to get the band together. Let's go with Larynx having sung for the nefarious types, so he's known to Comet and vice versa.

I could shuffle around a few points and take Sanctum and we could work out of Terrapin's 'Murder Mountain' abandoned amusement park.

I thought you'd never ask. :P

Sheer Hideousness causes my Appearance to drop to zero (which I think is actually really funny).

Is there anything special that we should do for equipment?

'Murder Mountain' park is part of my backstory so I'll drop the points on it. We'll just maneuver everyone to operate from there if that's what they want.
Honestly, just having someone sanity-rendingly ugly running around in a black cloak on the park grounds would be enough to get The Horror an invite. Now all he needs is a creepy, yet goofy, laugh and chase meddling kids around the park...

I'm not able to drop any points.... for now

Lol I missed that, probably because I'm thinking of the splatbook rules (see next post). Yes I think it's awesome too.

Don't think we need anything by way of equipment, unless your character is built around a Batman-style build. Let's treat your Resources dots as a means to explain your possible access to both quantity as well as tech-levels of equipment. Not likely to role-play needing to go to a gun shop to buy weapons, unless you're the Punisher.

Your sacrifice is appreciated, fine human being.
I always assumed 90s X-Men creators were fans of classic Scooby Doo.

This makes me think that Ultimate Instinct Shaggy would be a Nova.
I don't know what to do with this information.

Except maybe.... stat it out... ?

MEGA ATTRIBUTES
Mega-Strength (3np+1 Taint)
Mega-Stamina (3np+1 Taint)
Mega-Dexterity (3np+1 Taint)
Mega-Perception (2np +1 Taint)

ATTRIBUTES
Strength 5 [Might 3]
Dexterity 5 [Martial Arts 4]
Stamina 5 [Endurance 4, Resistance 5]

Perception 5 [Awareness 5]
Intelligence 3 []
Wits 4 [Biz 1]

Appearance 3 []
Manipulation 1 []
Charisma 5 [Leadership 3]

(4 NP Spent for 9 Attribute points)
(1 NP Spent for Ability Dots)

Backgrounds
Mentor (5)
Attunement (1)
Eufiber (2)
Node (4)
Allies (4) He's got a cult of followers that practice different forms of occult magic, they shelter him
Connections (1) He has Houngan of Vodou who is his friend and business associate.
Resources (1) He's just starting out.
Follower (5) Sigrdrifa, his TARDIS.

Armor 3
Flight 2np+1 taint
Quantum Bolt 2

So how am I looking on points here?

Don't forget endurance and resistance 3 is free
Also why is megaperception 2np with taint where all others are 3

I see about posting something for tomorrow.

Just to clarify, are we playing heroes/vigilantes? And is it safe to assume that we’re fighting against the main supers league and/or power registration act?

I know my characther is likly not working with the big supers.

I think the best way to get my guy into Murderous Mount is to have him on the run from corrupt authorities. Larynx has probably been done wrong by The Evil Four and is in hiding with the tainted.

I'd like to go with resisting the main supers.

Anyone want to volunteer to be the person who found my character and brought him out of isolation? Maybe convinced him to join the fight.

Larynx has got the soothing voice and general manipulation... but would The Horror listen to a normal-looking person?

𝙹.𝙰.𝙽.𝚄.𝚂. 𝙰𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝙵𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝙹𝟸𝟷𝟻-𝟺𝚊𝟸
Subject: Anders Dvořák (Codename: "The Horror"), Assessment Interview
Interview Date: 11.22.2015
Location: ████████
Interviewer: Dr. Adam Kettering

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The recording opens with a black screen displaying the file number of the interview in blocky white characters, along with the following warning: Sigma Nine Clearance Required. Video presents threat of psychological impairment. Do not view without proper authorization.

The screen then changes to show a dimly lit room with no apparent furnishings other than a metal table, behind which is a bare wall. Seated at the table is a cloaked figure. The subject's head is tilted down, and a large hood obscures his face. His hands are gloved and resting on the table's surface. Not an inch of the subject's skin is visible.

The view shifts abruptly for a few seconds as someone off-screen adjusts the recording device. The interviewer, Dr. Kettering, is not seen in the video. He speaks from somewhere behind the camera. Dr. K's first few words are muffled by the sounds of his chair as he sits.

DR.K - … the first thing you remember, Mr. Dvořák?
AD – My earliest memory? (The subject speaks with a thick slavic accent. His voice is highly distorted; it has a much deeper register than is possible for human vocal chords.)
DR.K – (Nervously clears his throat) ...of your eruption, yes.
AD – At the time I became nova — what you call "eruption" — I was living in Harrachov. It a small town in the north, near border with Poland. Maybe two hours from Prague by automobile. It is nice place. Simple and quiet. I grew up there. Have you ever been to my country?
DR.K – The Czech Republic? No, I'm sorry to say that I have not. I've heard good things.
AD – You should see it one day. My hometown is at foot of the Sudetes Mountains. In the spring, the hills and forests turn a lusher green than anything you could imagine. The countryside fill with wild flowers and deer and birds singing. The Mumlava River fattens with snow melt and rocky steps make waterfalls as you walk the banks. In autumn, trees become so orange and red that the land looks on fire. It is...
DR.K - Were you going to say "beautiful"?
AD - Some might say that.
DR.K - It sounds lovely. (Sound of shuffling pages.) Now you said you were in Harrachov, your hometown, when you erupted. This was 1989?
AD - Máte pravdu.
DR.K - English, please.
AD - I said you are correct. It was year of Velvet Revolution. My country not yet independent. We were still part of Czechoslovakia, but things were changing. The Soviet Union get weaker every day. All the time, citizens protest against rule of Communist Party. Politicians embrace perestroika. East Germans travel to Prague to get around Berlin Wall, and no one stopping them. It was exciting time to be alive. I was a young man going to university. I was... full of ideas and very political. I participate in peaceful student demonstrations at Prague and Bratislava. Doing my part to change the world, or so I believed.
DR.K - And what specific situation do you think triggered your eruption?
AD - What made me the monster I am? That is what you want to know, doctor?
DR.K - That's... not how I would have phrased it.
AD - Violence.
DR.K - Pardon me?
AD - You heard me. It was violence that caused me to "erupt," as you say.
DR.K - I must confess that my knowledge of Czech history is limited, but wasn't the Velvet Revolution a non-violent transition of power?
AD - There was no physical violence. That is true... for the most part. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia did not shoot us with bullets, but they had their novas. Novas that could crush our spirit of dissent and change our minds with honeyed words. When someone forces their will on yours, is that not a kind of violence? The Party disbanded entire crowds of protesters with tools like telepathy and superhuman charisma. But as they watched the governments of the Warsaw Pact fall, one after another, the Party leaders grew more desperate.
AD - (Subject sighs.) I worked at factory that made aircraft parts. Czechoslovakia was major supplier of high quality parts for other socialist countries. The company decided to go on strike as workers insisted the Communist Party be removed from ruling position in the country’s Constitution. Government pretend to be sympathetic to our demands, so they do not send soldiers. They send negotiator, instead. But this negotiator is a nova. A flawless looking person with an angelic face that begged to be trusted. He come in and give speech; the most persuasive speech a human could make. His words are too perfect for a baseline human to stand any chance of saying 'no'. Most of us are quickly swayed, but a few strong-willed workers hold out and resist. I am one of them. With the strong-willed ones, the nova resorts to psychically dominating our minds. As the nova batters down my willpower with his thoughts, something happens. I fight and fight as he grind away my mental strength, and I start to feel sharp pain in forehead.
DR.K - At the location of the MR-node?
AD - (Subject uses his left index finger to point directly at the center of his forehead.) Yes, it was my node, but I not understand that at the time. Headache get worse and worse. I heard that resisting mind powers too hard can cause brain hemorrhage, so I think I am dying. Pain is almost unbearable, but it just my node roaring to life. Being awashed in that nova's quantum energy triggered my own eruption. It turn out that I was latent nova, and all I needed was exposure to a quantum source to complete the transformation. In this case, the quantum source was an active MR-node.
DR.K - And then what happened?
AD - (Contemplative silence. Subject responds after a minute long pause.) I changed. I not know anything happen until the pain stopped. My eyes are closed but I hear... screams. The most primal, blood-curdling screams that you ever imagine a human making. I hear that sound many times over, from a hundred people at once. I open my eyes and see the nova standing in front of me, but he is... gouging out his own eyes with his thumbs. I still remember his eyeballs bursting; the blood and macula pouring down his cheeks. I look around and the other workers... they are facing me and also screaming. Some are blinding themselves with their own fingers or tools. Others have fainted or started vomiting uncontrollably. A few are even committing suicide: they slash their own throats with utility knives or shove their heads into industrial machinery. In less than a minute, everyone in the factory is self-blinded, dead, or traumatized to brink of insanity. Except for me. I am surrounded by blood and screams... I not realize I was the reason until it all over. But you already know all this.
DR.K - Why do you think that?
AD - Please, doctor. I do not doubt you already aware of my history. You knew my birth name. Your field agents knew enough to capture me without using direct visual contact. Czech government and European Union are sharing information with J.A.N.U.S., I suspect.
DR.K - It's true that we try to thoroughly research our targets before acquisition. I did read the file about the massacre at the Aero Vodochody factory in August, 1989. You erupted more than thirty years ago, yet shortly after this incident, you vanished for the better part of three decades. Had you been hiding all this time?
AD - After factory, I ran home. I cover my face with jacket and try to get to my house. I was scared and did not understand what was happening. My parents were waiting when I arrived.
DR.K - And they also... saw your face?
AD - (Subjects nods slowly.)
DR.K - What became of them?
AD - They did not fare any better than my coworkers.
DR.K - I'm so very sorry.
AD - (Subject shrugs.) It was long time ago. But when I saw what I did to my mother and father, I fled to the forest and stayed there. In time, I found an old abandoned church, very remote, and fixed it up as best I could. I lived there in solitude, far away from civilization. I survived as a hermit; completely alone. I could not even keep animals for company as my appearance affects them, too. Even the insects avoid me. This how I survived unnoticed for many years.
DR.K - Well, not entirely unnoticed. The Liberec Region of the Czech Republic, where Harrachov is located, has a number of urbans legends about a terrifying figure that lives in the depths of the wilderness. The stories are used to scare young children. Those who've witnessed his face say it's the stuff of nightmares. Locals refer to him as hrůza... "The Horror."
AD - Your translation is accurate.
DR.K - You could have remained in hiding. Better yet, you could have reported yourself to the government, gotten registered, and received some help for your... condition.
AD - (Subject makes a sound that seems to be laughter, but there is no humor to it whatsoever.) Registration? I will never register myself with any government or organization. If I registered, how long before I get eliminated, hmm? You think anyone would tolerate the existence of a nova like me? As a species, humans worship at the altar of beauty. Someone who reminds people of their ugliness is a problem.
DR.K - I believe the main concern regarding you, Mr. Dvořák, is the nature of your quantum expression. Your abilities cannot be deactivated or suppressed, at least not without great difficulty. You possess the power to shatter the minds of millions or drive them to kill themselves - all it would take is one televised broadcast of your face. Surely you can understand why the world's nations would view you as a possible existential threat.
AD - I understand. I am too dangerous to let live. Either I should be locked away forever or executed for the good of all. Does J.A.N.U.S. not agree with that assessment?
DR.K - I'm confident that you will be treated fairly by the authorities. J.A.N.U.S. is only holding you temporarily. You are to be transferred into the custody of the League. It's standard procedure. They are better equipped to handle your unique needs. Your ultimate fate will be decided by your fellow novas.
AD - Then you have sentenced me to death.
DR.K - So why did you leave your hermitage, then? Only in recent years have your activities caught our attention. Had you remained hidden, you might have stayed off of our radar.
AD - (Subject sighs.) Someone found me.
DR.K - Really? And who found you?
AD - Another nova. Somehow, he tracked my quantum signature and found me in wilderness.
DR.K - Do you know this nova's name?
AD - I do, but I have no intention of telling you.
DR.K - And did this nova visitor wish you harm?
AD - No. He located me because he wanted to recruit me. You should understand, until that visit, I had no social interactions with anyone else for almost thirty years. I ran into occasional hikers or hunters while foraging in the woods, but those weren't real interactions. Just lot of screaming. But this nova arrives, and he catches me up on everything. Living in isolation, you don't get much news. He explain to me the state of the world.
DR.K - Was he immune to your appearance, or did you cover yourself up?
AD - No one is immune to me.
DR.K - What was he trying to recruit you for?
AD - What do you think?
DR.K - So your aims are political? There's no point in resisting the Powers Registration Act. Nearly all of the world's novas have come to accept it. You must realize that you are hopelessly outmatched?
AD - I grew up in a non-democratic society, doctor. I know what authoritarianism looks like. But like such societies, I wield same weapon.
DR.K - And what's that?
AD - Fear. Did you know that I feed on it? I don't know if that piece of information is in your file.
DR.K - (Sound of interviewer shifting nervously in his chair.) No... I did not.
AD - The Czech government is aware of my appearance, of course. They know I am very strong. They also know that my skin is difficult to damage, because... well, they have tried. But what many do not know is that the fear and disgust of others... these emotions sustain me. They nourish me. The greater the heights of terror, the sweeter the meal. In fact, I not eat actual food in decades.
DR.K - Um... how did you keep yourself fed during your isolation? I thought you rarely saw anyone.
AD - I'm sorry, doctor. I may have lied about that. I discovered my strange diet not long after eruption. I tried to fight it, but I got too hungry. Regular food and water weren't enough. So I start visiting nearby communities. But I behaved myself. I only terrify those that deserve it. You know... murderers, rapists, pedophiles. I make many trips to bad parts of town. How do you think those urban legends about me began?
AD - (Subject leans forward and audibly inhales.) You are afraid, too. I can smell it. You hide it well, but you have been ready to shit yourself this whole interview...
DR.K - I... of course, I'm scared. Any sane person would be. Even with your face obscured, you exude a palpable aura of terror.
AD - What you are experiencing is effects of the Taint that afflicts my body. But you cannot know horror, true horror, until you see what is under the hood. What do you say, Doctor Kettering? Care for a peek?
DR.K - No... thank you.
AD - Come now, doctor. No scientific curiosity? I can show you hideousness that no human mind can fathom.
DR.K - Keep your hands down. Mr. Dvořák... don't! This is your last warning!
AD - (Subject slowly moves his hands toward his hood.) I've enjoyed seeing your J.A.N.U.S. facility. It was very informative visit. Now, it is time for me to go.
DR.K - Don't do it. Don't touch that hood. We have enhanced individuals on standby. If you try to show your face, they will subdue you...
AD - By all means, call them in. Let them stare into the abyss, as well.
DR.K - (Interviewer stammers uncontrollably. Sound of a chair being knocked to the floor.) Please! Dear God, please don't! I beg you!
AD - God is not here, doctor. Only me.
DR.K - (An alarm begins to blare somewhere outside of the room. There are sounds of fists banging on a metal door.) LET ME OUT OF HERE!!! CODE RED!!! I REPEAT, CODE RED!!! TURN OFF THE LIGHTS!!! TURN OFF THE FUCKING LIGHTS!!!!!!!
AD - Look at me, doctor. See the ugliness of the world, of yourself, reflected in me. Look at me. I said, LOOK AT ME!!!!!
DR.K - (Sounds of interviewer whimpering, crying, and gagging.) No... I... no... my mind... can't... please....

The lights shut off, and the screen goes black. The interviewer screams, and continues screaming unabated for a full ten seconds. Subject can be heard laughing before the recording is turned off. Session ends.

Well we know Larnyx knows I can get safehouse connections. Plus you know Comet looks weird. So that would be a double plus to bring Comet in.
Maybe they are transferring Horror or we are breaking in as he breaks out and I had already goten is a place to.lay low (because it would take a while to travel from where Horror was being held)
Of course you can do a couple things from there. Maybe the sagehouse we use came with the stipulation of a favor or something happens before we get to it or inbetween it and Murderous Mount.

SO many anus jokes which I will only occasionally make both in and out of character. :P

The question is: why would we want to retrieve The Horror? What's our stake in this rescue? Maybe we're all escaping from a J.A.N.U.S. facility after The Horror goes on the presumed rampage at the end of that disturbingly good flashback. We team up out of self preservation [Larynx and Comet recognizing each other is a plus] and so the band got together.

Unless someone else wants Horror out and we were tasked with getting him out. ?

I'm fine with whatever people want to do.

I think the idea that makes most sense would be that we all happen to be escaping the same J.A.N.U.S. facility and become breakout buddies.

The idea about someone hiring people to break out The Horror also works. Could be the same person who brought my character out of his isolation.
Now that you mention it, the character does have an SCP vibe.

I obviously took some creative license with my backstory. I exaggerated my character's abilities for dramatic effect. He can't quite drive people to suicide or madness (yet), but I'm working on that.

Nah it's all good 👍

Too much work to build a character and you're starting so I'm just bowing out. Thanks for the help. Maybe just build something for me at this point I don't really care about mechanics in these kinds of games.

No problem Jomsviking! Your ideas and backstory were an interesting read to be sure. Perhaps we can meet again in future in a less crunchy RPG system. :)

Good except Gloam is withers

Also I can help finish your character Jomsviking .

I'm new to the system, so it might take me a day or two to get a character together, but I wanted to at least bring up the spark of an idea I was going to work up and see if it will work in the party as currently developed.

The character is a former college student, maybe a graduate student, a philosophy major who was working with a professor interested in the conjunction of metaphysics and quantum physics. Thanks to a collaboration between her professor and another in the physics department, there's an experiment that goes wrong that leads to her eruption. I'm thinking powers involving quantum and/or mental manipulation, attributes tilted toward intelligence and social over strength, backgrounds of dormancy and node, probably take an aberration.

I'm open to suggestions!

A mentalist is a good 'stealth Nova' concept. Squishy but useful. Node, as a background, is honestly one of the most useful to put points into mechanically but don't forget to build out the person attached to the Powers as well. It'd be a good idea to delve into the whys and hows of their situation, given the gist of the game. It seems that the GM is going to put a good bit of the agency of the game in our hands so having a good handle on your characters's motivation, aims, outlook and goals would be handy. If you need a 'sounding board' for ideas or inspiration, or even help wrangling the game system, we'd all be glad to help!

Okay, here's an attempt at a sheet. I think I did most of it right, though I wasn't sure what to put for recovery rates. I'll have a backstory and motivations/aims/goals in a little while, hopefully. Thanks to gnome_chomsky for the amazing sheet!

Holly Shepard, highly entangled in the quantum universe.





Attributes


Mega-Attributes


Abilities






Advantages


Quantum


Health


Aberrations

Backgrounds Quantum Powers Equipment

Character Creation Notes

15 total Bonus Points

● 7 bonus points for 1 more dot of Quantum
● 2 bonus points for 1 more dots of Willpower
● 1 bonus point for 1 dot of Attunement
● 5 bonus points for 1 dot of Perception

● 6 nova points for two dots of Mega-Perception
● 5 nova points for three more dots of Quantum (2 points of Taint)
● 5 nova points for two dots of Entropy Control (2 points of Taint)
● 3 nova points for two dots of Quantum Conversion
● 6 nova points for two dots of Teleport
● 3 nova points for one dot of Premonition
● 1 nova point for one dot of Willpower
● 1 nova point for three Attribute dots (Perception, Manipulation, Dexterity)

...that new character I was going to make? 78RPMLife just made her. :|

Updated list of player characters.

annex
Real Name: Larry Nixon
Nova Name: Larynx
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 3/0
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Dexterity 1, Mega-Manipulation 1, Mega-Charisma 1
Enhancements: Accuracy, Soothe, The Voice
Powers: Disorient 1, Quantum Bolt 2, Sensory Shield 1
Aberrations: None
Top Abilities: Command, Perform, Endurance, Resistance
Backgrounds: Attunement 1, Node 2, Influence 1, Resources 1, Eufiber 2

PhoenixScientist
Real Name: Jack Neon
Nova Name: Comet
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 3/2
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Dexterity 1
Enhancements: Accuracy
Powers: Armor 2, Claws 1, Flight 2, Premonition 1, Quantum Bolt 3
Aberrations: Fur/Feathers
Top Abilities: Athletics, Martial Arts, Endurance, Resistance
Backgrounds: Cipher 1, Node 3, Resources 1

witchdoctor
Real Name: ?
Nova Name: The Terrapin
Age: ?
Gender: ?
Quantum/Taint: 3/3
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Intelligence 2
Enhancements: Analyze Weakness, Mental Prodigy (Tactics)
Powers: ESP 1, Flight 1, Force Field, 1, Psychic Shield 1, Telekinesis 3
Aberrations: None
Top Abilities: Brawl, Stealth, Interrogation, Intimidation
Backgrounds: Contacts 1, Node 4, Resources 2

78RPMLife
Real Name: Holly Shepard
Nova Name: Duality
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 4/5
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Perception 2
Enhancements: ?
Powers: Entropy Control 2, Quantum Conversion 3, Teleport 2, Premonition 1
Aberrations: Aberrant Eyes, Delusions
Top Abilities: Awareness, Investigation, Stealth, Subterfuge, Interrogation
Backgrounds: Eufiber 1, Node 3, Dormancy 2, Attunement 1, Allies 1

Gnome_Chomsky
Real Name: Anders Dvořák
Nova Name: The Horror
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Quantum/Taint: 3/8
Mega-Attributes: Mega-Ugliness 4, Mega-Strength 3
Enhancements: Revolting, Mr. Nobody, Quantum Leap
Powers: Armor 3, Empathic Manipulation 3
Aberrations: Sheer Hideousness, Disturbing Voice, Hairless, Feeding Requirement, Allergic Reaction, Black Thumb
Top Abilities: Weave, Brawl, Interrogation, Intimidation
Backgrounds: Eufiber 5, Node 2

It looks really good. You did a great job for making a first time character with this system.

The only corrections I can offer is that your Quantum recovery should be 5 and 7. It’s normally 2 per hour at ease, and 4 per hour of complete relaxation, plus your Node rating of 3.

Also your Quantum per turn is 12 (it’s listed under the Node Background, which is admittedly a weird place to put that information).

It also looks like you may be one dot over on Backgrounds.

Thank you! I'm not kidding when I say it gave me a headache.

Thanks for the corrections; I spent one Bonus Point on the extra Background dot, after I realized that if I didn't take Attunement, I'd end up being naked every time I used Teleport. While that would maybe afford some possibilities for awkward/comic relief RP, I thought it was easier if I took the extra Background. If I'm still off, let me know!

Oh, you're kidding me. What are the odds?

Dead serious. I was going to upload notScarlet Witch later tonight. :(
I will rejig my previous character to make it in line with the backstory I came up with for dearly departed notWanda.

I'm happy to tweak a little bit too, maybe we can come up with some ideas that work well together?

Also, forgot to include the Mega-Perception enhancement: Quantum Attunement.

You can hit me up on Discord if you want to chat it out. I'm 78RPMLife#6342 there.

It's fine. Your notWanda looks better than mine, anyhow. :P

Hm. I’ll look back over my records when I’m able to get on my computer. I feel like I had that worked out on my spreadsheet, maybe I just flubbed it on the character sheet.

Turns out it was a typo on my post. Spent 5 Nova points on two dots of Quantum (plus 2 Taint), not 3 dots as I originally indicated. We're all good.