Post by jammin on Oct 7, 2003 7:15:46 GMT -5
Name - Baron Blood
Identity - Lord John Falsworth
(Vampire/Bat/Wolf/Mist)
Intelligence 2/2/2/2
Strength 6/1/2/1
Agility 5/1/2/2
Speed 2/2/4/3
Durability 4/2/4/3
Health 4/2/4/3
Energy 12/6/12/9
Actions
Wolf only:
Tracking 3
Mist only:
Phase shift 3
All:
Drain Energy 4 - Improved Drain, Death Factor, Tied to coffin or sanctuary, if completely drains target they rise as a vampire (Drain energy 1)
Mesmerism 5 - Can affect small animals such as Mice and Rats
Flight 1
Mastery of Weather 1
Close Combat 3
Ranged Combat 2
Social Skills 5
Black Ops 4
Modifiers
Self Contained Life form
Reflexive Dodge +3
Toughness +5
Immortality
Invulnerable to Mind Control - except control by other vampires
Healing Factor
Mental Defence +5
Teeth +1
Transform self (Vampire, Bat, Wolf and Mist forms)
Claws +2 (Wolf only)
Animal Senses +3 (Wolf only)
Radar (Sonar) Senses +3 (Bat only)
Challenges
Addicted to Blood
Vampiric Ancestry
Phobic of Crosses, Garlic and Entering without invitation
Susceptible to Sunlight/UV light, running water, stake through the heart and silver
For a time Sunlight/UV light causes discomfort but not daamge as with others of his kind
Background:
John Falsworth was the younger son of the rich and noble Falsworth family. In the days just before the start of what proved to be the First World War his father died, and with his brother Montgomery inheriting the family title and fortune, John saw little point staying in England. A shallow and bitter man, he wanted what his brother had, and cared little about his father's passing, save that he would now have to pay his own way in the world.
John had long held the conviction that Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 novel Dracula, had based his story in fact rather than imagination. And he reasoned that if he could gain control of the Lord of the Vampires, then nothing would be able to stand in the way of his ambitions. Thus it was that when young Falsworth left England's Green and Pleasant Land, he decided to make his way to the wilds of Transylvania. He eventually found his way to Castle Dracula, and armed with a crucifix he braved that eerie ediface. Within its walls his theory proved true, for he did indeed discover the lair of the dreaded Count, deep in the crypts beneath the castle. But while he had brought protection in the form of the cross, he had not reckoned with Dracula's hypnotic abilities. Arriving as evening fell, he found the Count all too awake, and the vampire's mesmerism caused him to cast aside his only safeguard. Thus it was that John Falsworth, who had sought to control the undead, became one instead.
War came, and John allied himself to the German cause. He travelled to England to spread terror and destruction, taking on the costumed identity of Baron Blood so that sightings of him would cause panic. This brought him into conflict with the costumed hero Union Jack, who was actually his elder brother Montgomery. While John figured out who lay behind Union Jack's mask, the reverse was not true. After the Great War concluded Baron Blood decided to lay low. But when Hitler came to power Baron Blood again offered his services to Germany, sensing in the Fuhrer someone even more evil than Dracula. Nazi scientists operated on him, granting him limited immunity to sunlight at the cost of his shapeshifting abilities. When war again erupted across Europe, John saw the opportunity to gain revenge on his hated elder brother, whom he irrationally blamed for "stealing his birthright". He returned to England and pretended to be his own son; naturally his "uncle" Montgomery insisted he stay in the family home, Falsworth Manor. Once there he set his sights on his niece Jacqueline, feeling that transforming her into a vampire would destroy her father, his brother.
He probably would have succeeded if it had not been for the intervention of the Invaders, and his brother taking on the mantle of Union Jack once more. Confronted, Baron Blood fled to the caves beneath the Manor. His brother pursued him, and the Baron crsuhed his legs with a huge boulder. Before he could finish him off Captain America intervened. Baron Blood fell backwards, and impaled himself on a stalagmite, turning instantly into a rotted skeleton. Lord Falsworth, his legs crippled was confined to a wheelchair (although his son Brian would later take on the identity of the second Union Jack), and Jacqueline, her life endangered by the amount of blood she had lost, was saved by a transfusion from the Human Torch, which inadvertantly gave her superhuman powers too; she became the heroine Spitfire.
Some time later the Japanese agent known as Lady Lotus set out to form a "Super-Axis" to combat the Invaders. She sent her troops to recover Baron Blood's body, and once they removed him from the stalagmite he was instantly restored. Working as one of the Super-Axis he again faced the Invaders; and once again he was defeated and impaled.
His body was stored at the Tower of London, to ensure he would not be revived again. Decades later a pawn of Dracula's, Dr. Cromwell, was sent to awake him once more. The Baron killed Cromwell and stole his identity, sustaining himself from "anemic" patients to hide his feedings. He also transformed Cromwell's daughter, turning her into a vampire who would later call herself the Baroness. But Blood missed the kill, and so he began a series of "slasher" murders. This drew his now-extremely aged brother's attentions, and Lord Falsworth became convinced that Baron Blood had returned. He contacted his old ally Captain America, and asked him to come and investigate. Cap confirmed that the vampire was loose again, and Lord Falsworth donned his costume once more, hoping to draw the killer out of hiding. Deciding that Jacqueline's son Kenneth was too weak to take the elder Falsworth's place as the stalking goat, Kenneth's friend Joey Chapman instead put on the costume, becoming the third Union Jack. Blood came for his brother, intending to make him one of the undead so that he would be trapped in an old and crippled body for eternity, but was confronted by Captain America. The American hero decapitated the vampire using his shield, and to ensure that he could never return, his body and head were burned in separate piles and the ashes scattered in different locations. The threat of his brother's evil finally over, Lord Falsworth quietly passed away.
However this was not the end. Not only was John Falsworth temporarily brought back into existence by the evil magics of Mys-Tech, but his progeny, the Baroness eventually transformed Kenneth Falsworth in the third Baron Blood.
Identity - Lord John Falsworth
(Vampire/Bat/Wolf/Mist)
Intelligence 2/2/2/2
Strength 6/1/2/1
Agility 5/1/2/2
Speed 2/2/4/3
Durability 4/2/4/3
Health 4/2/4/3
Energy 12/6/12/9
Actions
Wolf only:
Tracking 3
Mist only:
Phase shift 3
All:
Drain Energy 4 - Improved Drain, Death Factor, Tied to coffin or sanctuary, if completely drains target they rise as a vampire (Drain energy 1)
Mesmerism 5 - Can affect small animals such as Mice and Rats
Flight 1
Mastery of Weather 1
Close Combat 3
Ranged Combat 2
Social Skills 5
Black Ops 4
Modifiers
Self Contained Life form
Reflexive Dodge +3
Toughness +5
Immortality
Invulnerable to Mind Control - except control by other vampires
Healing Factor
Mental Defence +5
Teeth +1
Transform self (Vampire, Bat, Wolf and Mist forms)
Claws +2 (Wolf only)
Animal Senses +3 (Wolf only)
Radar (Sonar) Senses +3 (Bat only)
Challenges
Addicted to Blood
Vampiric Ancestry
Phobic of Crosses, Garlic and Entering without invitation
Susceptible to Sunlight/UV light, running water, stake through the heart and silver
For a time Sunlight/UV light causes discomfort but not daamge as with others of his kind
Background:
John Falsworth was the younger son of the rich and noble Falsworth family. In the days just before the start of what proved to be the First World War his father died, and with his brother Montgomery inheriting the family title and fortune, John saw little point staying in England. A shallow and bitter man, he wanted what his brother had, and cared little about his father's passing, save that he would now have to pay his own way in the world.
John had long held the conviction that Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 novel Dracula, had based his story in fact rather than imagination. And he reasoned that if he could gain control of the Lord of the Vampires, then nothing would be able to stand in the way of his ambitions. Thus it was that when young Falsworth left England's Green and Pleasant Land, he decided to make his way to the wilds of Transylvania. He eventually found his way to Castle Dracula, and armed with a crucifix he braved that eerie ediface. Within its walls his theory proved true, for he did indeed discover the lair of the dreaded Count, deep in the crypts beneath the castle. But while he had brought protection in the form of the cross, he had not reckoned with Dracula's hypnotic abilities. Arriving as evening fell, he found the Count all too awake, and the vampire's mesmerism caused him to cast aside his only safeguard. Thus it was that John Falsworth, who had sought to control the undead, became one instead.
War came, and John allied himself to the German cause. He travelled to England to spread terror and destruction, taking on the costumed identity of Baron Blood so that sightings of him would cause panic. This brought him into conflict with the costumed hero Union Jack, who was actually his elder brother Montgomery. While John figured out who lay behind Union Jack's mask, the reverse was not true. After the Great War concluded Baron Blood decided to lay low. But when Hitler came to power Baron Blood again offered his services to Germany, sensing in the Fuhrer someone even more evil than Dracula. Nazi scientists operated on him, granting him limited immunity to sunlight at the cost of his shapeshifting abilities. When war again erupted across Europe, John saw the opportunity to gain revenge on his hated elder brother, whom he irrationally blamed for "stealing his birthright". He returned to England and pretended to be his own son; naturally his "uncle" Montgomery insisted he stay in the family home, Falsworth Manor. Once there he set his sights on his niece Jacqueline, feeling that transforming her into a vampire would destroy her father, his brother.
He probably would have succeeded if it had not been for the intervention of the Invaders, and his brother taking on the mantle of Union Jack once more. Confronted, Baron Blood fled to the caves beneath the Manor. His brother pursued him, and the Baron crsuhed his legs with a huge boulder. Before he could finish him off Captain America intervened. Baron Blood fell backwards, and impaled himself on a stalagmite, turning instantly into a rotted skeleton. Lord Falsworth, his legs crippled was confined to a wheelchair (although his son Brian would later take on the identity of the second Union Jack), and Jacqueline, her life endangered by the amount of blood she had lost, was saved by a transfusion from the Human Torch, which inadvertantly gave her superhuman powers too; she became the heroine Spitfire.
Some time later the Japanese agent known as Lady Lotus set out to form a "Super-Axis" to combat the Invaders. She sent her troops to recover Baron Blood's body, and once they removed him from the stalagmite he was instantly restored. Working as one of the Super-Axis he again faced the Invaders; and once again he was defeated and impaled.
His body was stored at the Tower of London, to ensure he would not be revived again. Decades later a pawn of Dracula's, Dr. Cromwell, was sent to awake him once more. The Baron killed Cromwell and stole his identity, sustaining himself from "anemic" patients to hide his feedings. He also transformed Cromwell's daughter, turning her into a vampire who would later call herself the Baroness. But Blood missed the kill, and so he began a series of "slasher" murders. This drew his now-extremely aged brother's attentions, and Lord Falsworth became convinced that Baron Blood had returned. He contacted his old ally Captain America, and asked him to come and investigate. Cap confirmed that the vampire was loose again, and Lord Falsworth donned his costume once more, hoping to draw the killer out of hiding. Deciding that Jacqueline's son Kenneth was too weak to take the elder Falsworth's place as the stalking goat, Kenneth's friend Joey Chapman instead put on the costume, becoming the third Union Jack. Blood came for his brother, intending to make him one of the undead so that he would be trapped in an old and crippled body for eternity, but was confronted by Captain America. The American hero decapitated the vampire using his shield, and to ensure that he could never return, his body and head were burned in separate piles and the ashes scattered in different locations. The threat of his brother's evil finally over, Lord Falsworth quietly passed away.
However this was not the end. Not only was John Falsworth temporarily brought back into existence by the evil magics of Mys-Tech, but his progeny, the Baroness eventually transformed Kenneth Falsworth in the third Baron Blood.