Darkness' Shadow

[Gryphynx]

My favorite 40 White (10 White in Disadvantages) character I've played.

Shadow is a young and potentially powerful mutant whose mutation has taken the form of Darkforce Control. Upon gaining his mutation, Shadow seemed to release a vast number of shadow-like tentacles from his body which tore his house apart and resulted in the hospitalization of his family who nearly died at his mutations emergence. When the X-Men reached him, there were hundreds if not thousands of writhing Darkforce tentacles whipping around him in a maelstrom of damage. Though able to contain him, and eventually train him to control these Tentacles, they do still seem to have a life of their own at times, and rise to protect the boy unconsciously.

These days, most of the Darkforce tentacles are under control, staying within the Darkforce Dimension from which they came, but enough remain lose to make his existence complicated. He has even learned to use their non-physical aspects, allowing him to communicate with others by touching their minds with a tentacle, and though the mental versions of the tentacles are not visible (except to those that can see Auras or Supernatural), they do leave a mental effect on those he communicates with, causing them to have nightmares when they sleep, and become more edgy in the minutes during and after such contact.

Shadow is a young teenage boy, whose face is often the only part of him that anyone can see. Though not unattractive, he stimulates a base fear in those that look at him, making it pretty much impossible to develop any sort of serious relationship, which is emotionally detrimental to this teenager. That, and the fact that it's questionable whether or not he still has a body underneath the sheet of Darkforce that envelops him perpetually.

Intelligence: 6 (8 White) **Energy
Agility: 3 (1 White)
Speed: 3 (1 White)
Strength: 3 (1 White)
Durability: 3 (3 White)

Close Combat: 3 (1 White)
- Intelligence Bonus (He controls his body through his mind)
ShadowTentacles (PsiWeapon): 5 (4 White)
- Can not improve with LoE's (-2)
Social Skills: 3 (1 White)
Technology: 2 (1 White)
- Int Bonus
Telepathy: 1 (1 Red)
- Communicate (+1)
- Can Not Read Minds (-1)
Telekinesis: 2 (4 White)
- Int Bonus (+2)
- Weapon Modifier (+1)
- Telepathy (-1)
Flight: 2 (1 White)
- Thematic

Tactile Tendrils (Animal Senses): 3 (2 Red)
- Linked to Shadow Tentacles, can only be used for tactile, 'feeling' when his Tentacles brush against something. Not smell nor hearing, nor vision.
Dark Force Sentience (PsychoCentric Template): 5 (15 White)
Tentacle Parrying (Reflexive Dodge): 4 (4 White)
- Linked to Shadow Tentacles (Tentacles parry attacks)
Tentacle Absorption (Toughness): 4 (4 White)
- Linked to Shadow Tentacles (Tentacles are hit, soaking the damage)

Challenges:
-3 Mutant
-2 Darkforce Overflow (a hundred writhing tentacles is hard to control, all objects in nearby vicinity are 'moved' if under 1 KG as if pushed or tossed)
-2 Psychological : Teen Angst (Underage, and not sure of the world. Needs parents/guardian permission to do things and treated as a kid)
-3 Looking Non-Human : Darkforce exudes from his being, covering him in a sheet of darkness. He can mentally pull parts of it back at will, allowing his head to show (though his eyes always exude darkness), or hands. Otherwise he seems covered in a sheet whilst standing, or amidst a storm of shadows while moving.

[angel]

Very nice write up, old friend.
i'm interested in knowing his outlook at the current Human/mutant relationship in your campaign.

has any organization taken in an interest in Shadow? and if so, what intent do they have?

[Brainstem]

Jesus... this thing's a monster. I think it's a good sheet, but I don't know that I'd allow it only because of the 10 free CC stones that it gets with Shadow Tentacles + Sentience.

Still, it's a solid sheet and definitely shows how much bang you can get for your buck.

[Gryphynx]

Angel: Thanks. Good to be back, all my favorite online RPGs were on this forum.

We kinda broke off from 616 when "No More Mutants" shoulda killed most of us. As such, mutants are a lot more common, and a lot more hated. But... we stopped playing this game years ago... I'd all but forgotten about this game because we were really into Anima (and very shortly, 4e D&D and Pathfinder before going back to Anima).

By the time the campaign stopped, he was an immortal living off of Darkforce energy (Self-Contained). Never really improved his combat any. And he was still one of the X-Men by the time the game was finished.

XRob: Only see 10, eh? With the Weapon Modifier of TK, and Sentience, he gets to add another 5 to his TK per turn that gives a bonus to his Tentacles. (not to mention the obvious +8 to defenses from Parrying and Absorption). Plus, regening 6 per turn from Int, he gets 29 points most turns for CC (23 freebies). So yeah, he was a bit of a Monster. Would love to play this "monster" again too... just not gonna happen in our group.

Of interest, and should have been posted, his Sentience didn't apply to his Technology, but did apply to his Thieving (stealth) when he picked up that skill...

[Kaimontfendo]

I'm confused. How do you get so many stones of attack? From what I can tell, the only free ones are 5 from Psi-Weapon, and another 5 from PCPT. (Well, an whatever weapon modifier you've got, but somehow I doubt that covers the other 13 stones you mentioned getting for free.)

Then his energy reserve caps out at 12, so shouldn't his biggest, nastiest attack cap out at 22 stones + weapon modifier?

Also, TK can't combine with Close Combat. Can it?

[Gryphynx]

Conjure Psi Weapon using the Template: 10
Telekinesis is bought with the +1 option, Weapon Modifier (allowing a Weapon Modifier, in this case, the Psi Weapon's Modifier, to stack with it in an attack).
Telekinesis is used on followup rounds with the Template (+5): 8 Energy (2 for TK, 6 for Int) + 5 = 13 + 10 for the Weapon = 23.
4 levels each of Toughness and Reflexive Dodge is a +8 to his dice pool (up to 31).

So, his total "free" pool is 10 for 2x Template (once for PsiBlade in an earlier round, once for TK in the current round), 8 for the 2 defenses, 5 for the PsiBlade. That's 23 freebies, plus up to 8 from TK. At least 8 of those has to go into defense leaving 15 freebies to split at will, plus whatever energy is spent (which should always be at least 6 since he regenerates that much per turn, but can be up to 8).

Just an FYI though, this character was made to show how optimized a combat character could be. I only got to play him because my GM insisted I try him out in a game, he wasn't made to actually play.

[kito]

lol love this monster of a teen, tryed to do somting simaler but was a fail to get it lower, but your is just woderful, but how would the x-men ever tame this beast or even get close to it if it ever went crazy?

[kito]

i gto a question about this tho? can he not only make one +5 tendrell a turn? how does he make more? i thoight you could only do 2 action a pannel and only fill a action once a pannel?


Conjure Psi Weapon using the Template: 10
Telekinesis is bought with the +1 option, Weapon Modifier (allowing a Weapon Modifier, in this case, the Psi Weapon's Modifier, to stack with it in an attack).
Telekinesis is used on followup rounds with the Template (+5): 8 Energy (2 for TK, 6 for Int) + 5 = 13 + 10 for the Weapon = 23.
4 levels each of Toughness and Reflexive Dodge is a +8 to his dice pool (up to 31).

i dont fully understand this part maby im just to new to the system of maby just not seeing it right.

and how would splitting stones work for him im asuming Drak Force would not click in for each attack.

[Gryphynx]

Tendrils are his "Psi Weapon", meaning, he conjures it, and has a "modifier" from it until it is dispelled. He only needs to conjure one, it lasts the whole combat giving him a bonus until the combat is over. That bonus is decided when the Weapon is created based on how many stones are used to create it. He uses 5 Energy to create it, +5 from the Template, so he has a +10 Weapon.

His Telekinesis can use a Weapon Modifier, so he can add a "free" 10 to all Telekinetic Close Combat attacks. He spends his Energy for Telekinesis, say... 8 Energy, adds in his +5 for the Template, and his Telekinesis is 13 +10 from the weapon (23).

And yes, Dark Force (err... Psychocentric Template) kicks in for every attack in which he uses Telekinesis, which is pretty much every combat round.

Hope that helps.

[Ricochet]

I'm still amazed at what you did here. Honestly, I'd have given him tendril whip instead.

[kito]

Thx alot that does help wiht some of my misunderstanding. wut i thout you could not put more stones into your action mod then its max that all. also so he can only make 1 tendeal a Turn.

[Gryphynx]

Well, he could make more, but to use more than one would require increasing the cost of the action you use the Tendril with by +5 in order to wield an additional weapon modifier.