Manah-Tan Project (Official CADs - Villains)

[Manah]

LIVING PLANET FORM
Intelligent, living planet gifted with formidable powers

QUOTE: "There's - almost - always a bigger fish."

Occupation: Living Planet
Diameter: 4165 miles
Weight: 661 sextillion tons
Appearance: Usually manifests as a beautiful planet with a breathable atmosphere, hospitable lands, and lush vegetation, with a heavily varied range of lands such as plains, valleys, forests, mountains, snowy areas and wonderful beaches. Out of habit, Jessica often assumes an Earth-like geography, but almost ideal in beauty and resources.
Species: Living Planet


ABILITIES
Int: 11
Str: 28
Agl: 8
Spd: 0 (See Flight)
Dur: 26

HEALTH: 26 P.L: 5
ENERGY: 78 P.L: 15
REGEN: 26 P.L: 7


ACTIONS
Tendril Whip: 12
(Str.bonus)
-Super-Efficient
-Range up to 9
-Can extend up to AN tendrils at once, paying only for the highest use
-Can also be used for much finer manipulation than just attacking

Mastery of Matter: 12
(Int.bonus)
-Efficient
-Immune to own effects (It may visually affect her, but in doesn't harm her and she can correct it with a thought.)
-Unlimited Create/Manipulate Matter, and 'basic' forms of Elements related to a planet, such as Plants, Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Weather, etc.
-Force Blast (With any, some or none of the following advantages: 2x damage, 3x damage, Limited AP, AP, Area attack/Effect, Normal and/or Stun damage, Atk VS Durability, Disables if any damage occurs, etc.)
-Shape shifting/Metamorphosis of self (May alter features, temperature, weather, geography, etc. at will; Needs not maintain.)
-Range 10 (May pay for area, but Free area for any uses centered on self, both inside and on the planet's surface)
-Uses outside of its own atmosphere take a -3 Penalty from its lessened influence
-Accumulate Energy for greater effect
-For all its power, this action will take a -8 Penalty when faced with alterations to its effects by a mystical source, such as Thor's Hammer's power over Weather, making undoing such effects very difficult compared to normal

Gravity Control: 14
(Dur.bonus)
-Efficient
-Manipulate own Gravity at will
-Force Blast (3x damage, Range 10, Automatically causes massive collateral damage, Accumulate energy for greater effect, Only functions VS moon-sized targets and bigger)

Absorption: 14
(Dur.bonus)
-Efficient
-Atk VS Dur functioning as Energy Drain; Area effect of its own surface; May target specific creatures and ignore others at will
-If more than Intelligence+Durability energy stones are absorbed (in total, not in one panel) from a single victim, said creature is absorbed within the planet, empowering it (it will get 1 LoEs or 1r Character Creation stone per 100 absorbed normal humans or weaker beings, possibly gaining much more from superhuman/supernatural beings, from 1 up to 2 times their highest AN/MN modified by CL modifier in aforementioned values (so a superhuman/supernatural being with a highest AN/MN in, say, Invisiblity 8, a +2 action, would yield from 10 to 20 LoEs, or 3w1r to 6w2r from being absorbed. NOTE: Said stones and LoEs may only be spent on the Living planet's form to increase its power, make it bigger, etc.)
-World Eater (Alternately, can 'devour' other massive objects such as other planets and such. Stones VS Resistance, Ignores Hardness of objects, as per GM's call; will probably take a while to do if the targeted object is much bigger in size than Jessica. At GM's discretion, doing so may also grants more power/experience/size to Jessica's living planet form as per regular absorption.)

Antibodies Creation: 12
(Dur.bonus)
-Efficient
-Jessica is capable of manifesting humanoids created with her energy, as mindless superhumanly powerful 'drones', normally meant to fight possible threats on her surface or inside her, but who can basically perform a multitude of tasks as necessary.
-Created beings have her Intelligence -2 (in this case 10; not reflecting their own intellect but hers, and the fact that she has to think 'through' them making them less easy to use than a clone or Jessica's own body), Str 10, Agl 5, Spd 4, Dur 9, and a Close/Ranged Combat AN of 5 (Str.bonus), as well as being Immune to Mental effects as in 'if it can't affect Jessica, it can't affect them'; she may also further alter their powers via Metamorphosis at stones played to give them superhuman powers.
-Pays for 1 stone per created being, or for the modifications made via Metamorphosis, whichever is higher; and may have up to twice her AN active antibodies at once.

Awaken Planet Consciousness: 10
(Dur.bonus)
-Tiresome
-Stones VS Resistance to awaken a plantary body into a Living Planet state, Granting them any Living Planet-like powers that she wishes at up to 1 AN lower than hers; although their Physical Abilities and some effects may vary depending on the size and characteritics of the awakened planet

Planet Killer Impact: 20
(Str.bonus)
-Super-Efficient
-As Unstoppable
-3x damage, Area effect (of its own size), Ignores Hardness of objects, Automatically causes massive collateral damage
-User will take 1w of damage per 5 Stones played in this from the impact if she hits something half its own size or more
-Usable only in conjunction with Flight

Flight: 9
-Limited Maneuverability
-Anything within its atmosphere is shielded from negative effects from such incredibly fast travel speed


MODIFIERS
Immortal

Self-Contained Lifeform

Transform Self
-Back to normal Jessica form

Acute Senses +10
-Can hear, see, smell, touch and even taste anything on its surface or within it

Power Level 10
-Power Level Regeneration

Instant Healing Factor

Energy Battery 10

Deep Reserves 15
-5 from Absrobing even more energy from surrounding stars, cosmic energy, etc.

Reflexive Dodge +12

Toughness +30
-No 2x damage
-No AP

Energy/Disease Defense +15

Mental Defense +10

Enhanced Vision 8
-Scan biological structures

Immovability
-Useless against beings of half its size and larger


CHALLENGES
-Looking non-Planet (-3; a proper examination of her surface and matter will reveal that she is actually made of organic molecules, and a more thorough exploration, given the time, would reveal arteries-like tunnels, internal organs, and a center appearing like a massive brain-like organ. More than baffling to a scientist who thought he had just landed on a normal world.)


EQUIPMENT
-N/A

[Manah]

Professor Moriarty
The Napoleon of Crime

"You see, most people fail to understand the true nature of crime. Its... potential, its ability to challenge established order, to bring down those believing themselves to be untouchable, invincible. The Law of Entropy... Order always and forever tends towards Chaos. Nothing lasts forever, and that, precisely, is what gives value to everything."

Full Name: Helena James Moriarty
Age: 27
Other Aliases: Jamie, Jim, The Spider, "M"
Occupation: Businesswoman, Scientist, Inventor, Master Thief, Criminal Mastermind, Consulting Criminal, Self-Procclaimed Agent of Chaos
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 142 lbs
Eye color: Red
Hair color: Red
Species: Human


ABILITIES
Int: 9*
Str: 2
Agl: 3
Spd: 2
Dur: 3

HEALTH: 3
ENERGY: 21(i)
REGEN: 15

*Intelligence is used instead of Agility to determine Initiative.


ACTIONS
Close Combat: 5
(Int.bonus and Wpn.modifier)
-Efficient
-Hand-to-hand
-Martial Arts
-Knives
-Acrobatic fighting
-Fighting multiple opponents

Ranged Combat: 5
(Int.bonus and Wpn.modifier)
-Efficient
-Handguns
-Thrown objects
-Precise shot/throw
-Handling recoil
-Trick shots

Parkour: 4
(Agl.bonus)
-As Acrobatics, Swimming and Wall-climbing
-Cannot exceed normal human swimming speed

Deductive Reasoning: 9
(Int.bonus)
-Efficient
-As Clairvoyance
-Must observe people, locations and/or clues for 1 panel in order to deduce past actions related to target, or future intents related to them with near perfect accuracy, up to AN in Duration in the past or the future

Natural Insight: 8
(Int.bonus)
-Efficient
-As an Atk VS Int+Mental Defense, to identify a target's unusual characteristics, flaws, main personality traits, and any other information the GM deems to be discernible from acute, precise perception of the victim's appearance, body language, stance, looks and other visible details.

Criminal Mastermind: 9
(Int.bonus)
-Efficient
-As Black Ops/Thieving
-Stealth
-Search room/area
-Surveillance
-Disguise
-Lockpicking
-Pickpocketing
-Security systems
-Assassination
-Escape artist

Technology: 6
(Int.bonus)

Inventing: 5
(Int.bonus)

Vehicle Operations: 6
-Light vehicles
-Motorcycles
-Boats
-Planes
-Helicopters
-High Speed driving

Business: 7
(Int.bonus)

Medical Healing: 7

General Knowledge: 9
(Int.bonus)
-Efficient
-History & Geography
-The Human Mind/Body
-Most Sciences
-Philosophy
-Chemistry
-Mathematics
-Astrophysics
-The Big Names
-Tactical lore

Perform: 6
(Agl.bonus)
-Singing
-Dancing
-Calligraphy
-Piano
-Poetry
-Videogames

Concentration: 6
(Int.bonus)

Iron Will: 5

Psychiatry: 7
(Int.bonus)
-Criminal Psychology
-Psychological Disorders
-Mindgames
-Manipulate Others
-Impersonate Others
-Bluff/Lie
-Interrogation

Social Skills: 8
-Beautiful
-Persuade
-Etiquette
-Charm/Seduce
-Humor/Dark Humor
-Intimidate
-Put up an Act
-Criminal Genius


MODIFIERS
Acute Smell/Hearing +2

Genius +4
-As P.C.P.T
-May not directly interact with computers

Rapid Recovery

Energy Battery 1

Deep Reserves +3

Reflexive Dodge +3

Toughness +1

Flexible Skeleton +2

Mental Defense +6

Targeting +3

Fast-Draw +2

Prescience
-While it has essentially the same effects in game terms, this isn't due to a superpower, as much as Helena's vastly superior ability to think several steps ahead of nearly anyone else, allowing her to react ahead of time.

Photographic Memory

Natural Linguist
-As Normal Translation, but Must still spend some limited time to learn new languages; merely a few days for languages similar to those she knows, couple of weeks for unrelated ones, and perhaps a month for dead, complex languages.

Wealth: 8
-Gains $100 million per month/issue

Resources: 8
-Moriarty has acquired a large, vast number of resources thanks to her genius, criminal activities and wealth, and uses most of it as effectively as any great world leader possibly could. Said resources include:

• Corporate Leader (Moriarty is, under multiple false names and identities, secretly the head of multiple companies, organizations, businesses and others which she runs mostly through proxies and agents. Put together, all those assets could qualify for an international megacorportation, were one to realize they are all under the control of a single person.)
• Controlled Pawn (x2) (While Moriarty actually has multiple similar 'deals' with several people, her two most importan pawns are Henry Miller, a Supreme Court judge, and Francis Williamson, an elected Federal Senator, both of which are forced to obey most any command or request she makes, given her threats towards both men's families and loved ones should they fail to comply.)
• Respected Status (Helena is a worldwide authority in several scientific fields, especially mathematics, astrophysics, chemistry and philosophy. She is widely recognized as a peerless genius, and a simple meeting with her is worth more to many than their weight in gold.)
• Position of Authority (While not a specific, clear 'position' in either circles, Moriarty is an highly influential voice in both the public eye, and the criminal underworld. People would gladly go out of their way to assist to one of her speechs, and often go to her for various matters and to seek her counsel.)
• Influential Connections (Helena has provided a considerable degree of support, financial aid and advice to Republican runner-up for Presidency Jonathan Connors, a popular, relatively young though promising and highly charismatic politician. Her goal is naturally to guide him to attain his owns, so she can then request favors in return for all of her own help.)
• Network of Informants (While the vast majority of them have no idea who they are actually working for, Helena has multiple informants in most known spheres of society keeping an eye out for any information that might be useful to the criminal mastermind, and relaying said infos whenever requested or on a fairly regular basis otherwise. Quite often, a simple phone call to the right person is enough to learn what she needs to know on a given person, subject or location. That is, of course, if she doesn't know it already.)
• Financial Backing (Moriarty has provided ample financial backing to support American and Eurpean authorities, be it legal, medical or law enforcement, allowing her to appear to them in essentially very positive light, and opening doors that would otherwise be either closed, or far more difficult to open.)

CHALLENGES
-Minor disability (-1; mildly shortsighted. Wears glasses to make up for it.)
-Psychological (-4; severe psychopathy and moral insanity. Helena was essentially born without the innate ability to feel guilt, remorse or empathy towards others. She does not feel any need to form any sort of serious emotional attachment, is naturally deceptive and deeply manipulative. Yet, for all those traits, she is also extremely charming and disarmingly talented at appearing 'normal' to the untrained eye, and even most trained ones.)
-Psychological (-2; moderate cruelty. While she usually prefers cleaner forms of crime, Helena has essentially no problem whatsoever with inflicting pain onto others in order to achieve her goals if she deems doing so necessary, or to witness pain being inflicted by other people. It's not necessarily that she enjoys it truly, but she is quite indifferent to the suffering of others as things stand.)
-Psychological (-3; severe nihilism. Helena has a very self-destructive understanding of life and the world around her, as she sees everything as meaningless and lacking purpose, due to how her intellect sets her so ridiculously apart from most people, how most people seem to waste their own gifts in what she believes to be nonsensical pursuits of worthless pleasures and interests. She sees the world as boring, colorless and pointless. This perception could, however, change if she were to come across an adversary worthy and capable of challenging her, which in her opinion would give her the purpose she's lacked.)
-Extreme Vanity (-2; Helena is one of the smartest people in the entire world, a fact which she is painfully reminded of everytime nearly anyone else speaks or acts, causing her to view most other sentient beings as abysmally stupid, boring and worthless because of how incredibly below her own intellectual level they are.)
-Hatred/prejudice (-2; towards the established order, people who see themselves as 'untouchable', people thinking themselves invincible or beyond the reach of anyone else.)
-Obsession (-3; Helena strives to face off against a worthy opponent, someone of sufficient intellectual prowess and gifted with the skills, competence and might to actually and effectively oppose her, potentially even defeat her. The greatest criminal, she believes, must have an equally fantastic adversary in order to have any purpose.)
-Disinterest in love/intimacy (-2; due to her psychopathic nature and high intellect, Helena is currently thoroughly uninterested by the prospect of love and companionship. If she appears to work towards building such a relationship, she most likely has an ulterior motive behind it. It would likely take some serious psychological work to help her through her various most severe mental issues to make her genuinely seek such a thing as love in the future.)
-Fame (-3; Helena has cultivated a facade of perfection, genius, success and popularity that the world still believes to this very day. She is a widely recognized scientist, astrophysician and mathematician, and many think she couldn't possibly do any wrong nor hurt a fly. And while that is advantageous to her in general, it also means being easily recognized on the street. This challenge would turn into Infamy should her true nature as a criminal mastermind be discovered and proven without a doubt, although it is unclear which would please Moriarty the most.)
-Modus operandi (-2; while Moriarty is an exceptionally dangerous and difficult to predict criminal, she still has some 'rules' which she tends to stick to. She despises unnecessary murders, as a death without reason is a waste of potential future resources in her eyes. She loves to warn the authorities - or her nemesis, if any - of any of her crimes in advance, both as a taunt and a challenge for them to stop her. She also only rarely directly perform her crimes herself, usually manipulating others to do the dirty work for her.)
-Addiction (-1; mild smoking. Helena enjoys a cigarette once in a while, finding the act of smoking oddly calming for the mind. She is not highly dependent on it, but is nonetheless quite a bit fond of the practice.)
-Secret (-3; is actually one of the greatest criminal minds of all time, a fact which no one but her underlings actually involved with her criminal activities has picked on just yet.)


EQUIPMENT
-White buttoned blouse, Black pantsuit and matching flats
-Prescription Glasses
-Smartphone
-Expensive Wristwatch
-9mm Semi-Automatic Hangun (+2, 2x damage, Range 4, Holds 12 rounds per magazine) with high quality Silencer (+5R to being heard)
-9mm Ammo Magazine for Handgun
-Carton of cigarettes
-Zippo Lighter


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STORY: Helena James Moriarty was born in a wealthy British family to a real estate mogul father and a successful businesswoman mother. She could have been a simple rich brat dilettante, living very comfortably off the family's wealth alone, or choose to undertake studies for most any given career of her choice, and given her competences and talent, she would have likely exceeded the success of both of her parents put together. And as far as the world knows, it seems like that is the road she picked. She breezed through all academic levels at an incredible pace, achieving six different PhDs in less time it took most people to obtain one, along with several Master's Degrees. A bona fide unprecedented genius, the girl apparently had a wonderful future ahead of her as a very productive member of society. She's become a widely recognized scientifical authority in various domains, a successful businesswoman in her own right, and a general success in pretty much anything she has ever tried her hand at.

However, behind the scenes, she has, in fact, chosen to use her incredible skills, knowledge and intellect against the society which so highly sings her praises, becoming a criminal mastermind unlike anyone had ever seen before. What her parents, teachers and other people around her had failed to notice was how her superb intellect and unique talents had unfortunately developped alongside some fairly serious mental problems, including a major level of psychopathy, severe lack of guilt, remorse, and empathy, and an undeniable love for manipulating people around her like puppets, along with deeply-rooted moral insanity and narcissism.

It's the latter which caused her to dissociate the most with the rest of society, and embrace a life of crime. In her eyes, most humans were abysmally stupid - at least in comparison to herself - wasting their potential away in pursuit of useless and pathetic interests instead of improving what abilities they possessed, of working at negating what flaws they had. She saw modern society as a dying prehistoric entity, filled with so many flaws and weaknesses that it was a miracle it had not collapsed onto itself already. War, injustice, selfishness, greed, laziness, and so many others, were all cancerous tumors that humankind was only to happy to allow to grow in the collective body of their species without most of them giving a damn, because... why should they care? Until it affects them directly, it's not their problem, is it?

Politicians, celebrities, high-class nobility, companies' CEOs, the authorities, rich people like her parents, were all too happy to let people fall further into those pits of patheticness, as it served their interests far too well. They were untouchable, unreachable, invincible. Nothing could go wrong, because they were the top dogs, the highest on the food chain. Such is the established order. Them at the top, and the rest of the world below them. Or so they would love to think. But Helena Moriarty knows otherwise. Criminals operate outside the food chain, outside the known paths and the reach of society's enforcers, as long as they were skilled enough to stay one, or even several, steps ahead. Such an individual could act as the great equalizer. An agent of chaos in the so-called 'established order' those so-called untouchables were so proud to rule over.

She would act as that great equalizer. She would bring down those kings in their great towers, those lords gazing down at the masses below. She would drag into the light all the dirty little skeletons in their closets, expose all the rotten materials in their walls and basements, show for all to see the corruption, the nonsense and the weakness of those who think themselves incorruptible, sensible and invincible. She would show the world that if it truly cared about itself, it would have to change, because right now, it was rotten to the core. She would do all that and more...

...unless someone could stop her?