Prelate Summers

[malice]

This is my attempt at the AoA Scott Summers. The write-up is just him sitting in prison basically.

Int 3
Str 3
Agi 2
Spd 2
Dur 3

Actions:

Close Combat 6
(Intelligence Bonus or Weapon Modifier)
Don't know about specializations

Ranged Combat 3
(Weapon Modifier)
-Handguns
-Energy Weapons

Technology 3
(Intelligence Bonus)

Vehicle Operations 4
-Military vehicles
-Motorcycles
-Aircraft

Leadership 5
-Strategist

Social Skills 3
-Authoriy
-Streetwise
-Apocalypse's command heirarchy

Modifiers:
Mutant

Reflexive Dodge +2

Targeting +2
-Only with optic blast

Optic Blast 10
-2x Damage
-Out of Control without device (Ruby Eyepiece)
-Family immunity (Both Scott and Alex Summers are immune to and absorb each other's force blasts fully. When one absorbs the other's power, it gives the targeted one the ability to exceed their action number by half, and increases the damage multiplier from 2x to 3x)
-Immune to effects
-Action made into a modifier

Wealth (According to Apocalypse)

Equipment:
Ruby Eyepiece: Adjustable, covers his remaining eye. If he loses it he must keep his eye close or power goes out of control.

Prelate Armor +2

Communicator

Challenges:
Starting
-Mutant 3
-Envious brother 1
-Guilty Conscience 1
-Tragic love
Gained during play
-Joined the enemy/sold out 2
-Guilty Conscience raised to 2
-Haunted Past 2
-Lost an eye 4 (This means he has a blind spot in combat, and it dropped his targeting from +4 to +2 when it happened)
-Gave up a sample of DNA/Blood (unwittingly) 2
-Branded an outlaw 2
-Traitor/disgrace 2
-Deadly Enemies: Weapon X 3

A few notes:
Holy crap do you get a lot of challenge stones from betraying people. I probably didn't get all his challenges, he got like 20 stones there at the end.

Also, if anyone has a problem with the 10 on his force blast (because people don't like the idea of him destroying adamantium) that's tough. AoA Cyclops blasted off Wolverine's hand, which was enforced with adamantium. My guess is the loss of his eye focused his blast more. Prelate Summers is one of the few people who can destroy adamantium.

[Scriptus]

Well techincally an hardness of 10 is only secondary adamantium. I am pretty sure that isn't the sturdiest form of adamantium out there.

Just out of curiousity who else can destroy adamatium? I know Magneto can manipulate it. I'm not really up on all my marvel mythology so I haven't run across any cases of someone destroying it.

[venkelos]

Overall, I'd say I like this write-up of Cyclops. He seems a lot better than the actual CAD. I still kind of wish that he, and this one, had Efficient on the Optic Blast. What was the point in making it 10 though (fine with me), if he still has 9 Energy? He couldn't spend in 10, other than with Targeting, which was already high enough.

I really like the option on Leadership.

Thanks for making a Cyclops that doesn't suck.

Vibranium can trash adamantium, but that's about it. Thor's hammer can create just the hint of a dent, and we've all seen the write-up of Thor and Mjolnir. Some might say Hulk can BEND it slightly. I don't think any characters in Marvel can "destroy" adamantium; I'm still uncertain exactly WHAT Magneto did. It looks like he liquefied it, but that is nigh-impossible. If he had just ripped the whole skeleton out, and that hadn't brought his brain and several organs with, so he could heal, I'd live with it, but it seems Magneto can liquefy it, or some such. Antarctic vibranium is the only really useful method.

[malice]

venkelos said:

Overall, I'd say I like this write-up of Cyclops. He seems a lot better than the actual CAD. I still kind of wish that he, and this one, had Efficient on the Optic Blast. What was the point in making it 10 though (fine with me), if he still has 9 Energy? He couldn't spend in 10, other than with Targeting, which was already high enough.

I really like the option on Leadership.

Thanks for making a Cyclops that doesn't suck.

Vibranium can trash adamantium, but that's about it. Thor's hammer can create just the hint of a dent, and we've all seen the write-up of Thor and Mjolnir. Some might say Hulk can BEND it slightly. I don't think any characters in Marvel can "destroy" adamantium; I'm still uncertain exactly WHAT Magneto did. It looks like he liquefied it, but that is nigh-impossible. If he had just ripped the whole skeleton out, and that hadn't brought his brain and several organs with, so he could heal, I'd live with it, but it seems Magneto can liquefy it, or some such. Antarctic vibranium is the only really useful method.

His Force Blast is a modifier, so the stones for it are free. This makes the efficient advantage somewhat pointless. However, if I did keep it as an action, I would've added the efficient advantage so it would've looked like this:

Optic Blast 10
-2x damage
-Efficient (For every 2 stones placed in action box, an additional 1 is gained from the general pool.)
-Can't be improved by lines
-Family immunity (Both Scott and Alex Summers are immune to and absorb each other's force blasts fully. When one absorbs the other's power, it gives the targeted one the ability to exceed their action number by half, and increases the damage multiplier from 2x to 3x)
-Immune to effects
-Out of Control without device (Ruby Visor)

Keep in mind that I don't think Earth 616 Cyclops has 10, I think he has only 9. However AoA Cyclops seemed to have an amplified blast (perhaps from his different visor?), because he blasted the Blob into nothingness and vaporized Weapon X's adamantium-boned hand. I'm pretty sure Earth 616 Cyclops couldn't do that, and I always assumed it was because Prelate Summers lost an eye. A combination of losing an eye and having a special amplification on his eye-piece would be a decent explanation.

As for who else can mess with adamantium? Obviously Magneto can manipulate it, but I'm not sure there's many other people who can do much with it.

[venkelos]

Yeah, the brain was pretty slow there, huh? Galen's brain is a computer, but mine's a crappy one somedays. Making it a Modifier seemed really cool, after I stopped to think about it. If I didn't see the book write-up as an Action, I would've guessed it should be, and at only 23w or so cost, he could've afforded the extra cost to the Action, making it a Modifier. I certainly never see Cyclops get tired of firing consecutive, high-output blasts. Only in the 90's series, when in the sewers for a long period, where he runs out of gas, does he seem "fatigued". Comics-Cyc might not even be thus hindered.

Where is the cool option/advantage for Leadership you used? I very much like that thing. Not quite area-effect Leadership, but much more believable, too.

[Grimsolace]

You'll find it, and several other interesting actions bwonsamdi has penned up, here.
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