HAPPY GUY FAWKES NIGHT loyal customers! As we try to return to form, we're stocking this new item on Aisle 1 to celebrate the day!
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. - V
V
PL10
OPL: 10;
SPL: 3;
DPL: 10;
FWPL: 8;
HP: 1
Real Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Height: 6-2
Weight: 200
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Skin: Fair
Race: Human Mutate
Identity: Secret
Alignment: Neutral
Status: Deceased(?)
Occupation: Vigilante
Base of Operations: London, England
Team Affiliations: None
ABILITIES: STRENGTH 5, STAMINA 5, AGILITY 5, DEXTERITY 5, FIGHTING 12, INTELLECT 5, AWARENESS 4, PRESENCE 3
SKILLS: Acrobatics 7 (+12), Athletics 6 (+11), Deception 9 (+12), Expertise [Theology and Philosophy] 5 (+10), Insight 8 (+12), Intimidation 7 (+10), Investigation 5 (+10), Perception 9 (+13), Persuasion 7 (+10), Ranged Combat [Throwing] 5 (+13), Sleight of Hand 5 (+10), Stealth 8 (+13), Technology 3 (+8), Vehicles 2 (+7)
ADVANTAGES: All-Out Attack, Benefit (2), Close Attack (2), Deep Ties* (1), Defensive Roll (1), Diehard, Equipment (9), Improved Critical (1), Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative (1), Languages (1), Last Stand*, Move-by Action, Quick Draw, Ranged Attack (3), Startle, Takedown (2), Well-Informed
POWERS:
Batch-5 Enhancements: Immunity 2 (Disease, Poison); 2 pts
EQUIPMENT:
(45 pts)
Armored Costume: Protection 2; 2 pts
Knives: Piercing Strength-Based Damage 1, Dangerous, Double; 3 pts
Arsenal: (27 pts)
Explosives: Burst Area Ballistic Damage 8 (Extra: Burst Area [30 ft radius], Triggered); 25 pts
Bat Flash Bang Grenade: Burst Area Affliction 5 (Resisted, Overcome by Fortitude; 1st: Visually and Auditory Impaired, 2nd: Visually and Auditory Disabled, 3rd: Visual and Auditory Unaware, Extra: Burst Area [30 ft radius], Extra Condition); 1 pt
Throwing Knives: Ranged Piercing Damage 5, Dangerous (Flaw: Unreliable [5 uses]); 1 pt
Headquarters: (9 pts)
The Shadow Gallery: Size – H, Tough – 8, Features - Concealed, Holding Cells, Infirmary, Library, Living Space, Power System, Security System, Workshop; 9 pts
OFFENSE:
Initiative +9
Close Attack +14 [Unarmed +5; Knives +6, Critical 19-20]
Ranged Attack +8
Throwing +13 [Throwing Knives +5, Critical 19-20]
Special Attack [Explosives +8,
Burst Area; Tear Gas Grenades +5,
Burst Area]
DEFENSES:
Dodge +12 [DC22] Parry +12 [DC22]
Toughness +8 (+7 without Defensive Roll, +0 Impervious), Fortitude +8, Will +8
COMPLICATIONS:
Obsession: With taking down the Norsefire regime and justice for all.
Relationships: With Evey.
Responsibility: To the Vox Populi.
Abilities 88 + Skills 43 (86 ranks) + Advantages 31 + Powers 2 + Defenses 14 = 178 / 178
Build Comments: Happy Guy Fawkes Night everyone! I couldn’t let this one pass without dropping the man who has become a symbol the day for us geeks, the one and only V.
Sadly, I have never read the comic and only seen the movie once a good while ago, so this is mostly Wiki and Wordverse (Wordmaker handled him wonderfully in his setting on the old ATT, if you haven’t read those stories, check them out) fueled.
Secret Origins/The Story so Far: On V’s Earth, the world is in turmoil and warfare, with the United States fractured as a result of prolonged second civil war and a pandemic of the "St. Mary's Virus" ravaging Europe. The United Kingdom is ruled as a fascist police state by the Norsefire Party, helmed by all-powerful High Chancellor Adam Sutler. Political opponents, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, atheists, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" are imprisoned and executed in concentration camps.
On November 4, a vigilante in a Guy Fawkes mask identifying himself as "V" rescues Evey Hammond, an employee of the state-run British Television Network, from members of the "Fingermen" secret police while she is out past curfew. From a rooftop, they watch his demolition of London's main criminal court, the Old Bailey, accompanied by fireworks and the 1812 Overture. Inspector Finch of Scotland Yard is tasked with investigating V's activities while BTN declares the incident an "emergency demolition". V interrupts the broadcast to claim responsibility, encouraging the people of Britain to rise up against their government and meet him on next year's Guy Fawkes Night outside the Houses of Parliament. During the broadcast, the police attempt to capture V. Evey helps him escape, but is knocked unconscious.
V takes Evey to his home, where she is told she must remain for one year. V then kills Lewis Prothero, Norsefire's chief propagandist, and Anthony Lilliman, the Bishop of London. Evey offers to help, and uses the opportunity to escape to the home of her boss, comedian and talk show host Gordon Deitrich. In return for Evey trusting him with her safety, Gordon reveals prohibited materials including subversive paintings, an antique Quran, and homoerotic photographs. Meanwhile, V confronts Dr. Delia Surridge, who had experimented on him and many other "undesirables" 20 years ago at Larkhill concentration camp; seeing her remorse for her past actions, he kills her painlessly.
After Gordon performs a satire of the government on his show, his home is raided and Evey is captured. She is imprisoned and tortured for information about V, with her only solace being a note written by actress Valerie Page, a former prisoner who was tortured and killed for her lesbianism. Evey is told she will be executed unless she reveals V's location. When she says she would rather die, she is inexplicably released and then finds herself in V's home. It turns out that V was the one who had "captured" her at Gordon's home, and staged her imprisonment and torture to free her from her fears. The note was real, passed from Valerie to V when he was imprisoned. He also informs her that Deitrich had been executed when the Quran was found in his home. While Evey initially hates V for what he did to her, she realises she has become a stronger person. She leaves him, promising to return before 5 November.
Reading the deceased Surridge's journal, Finch learns V is the result of human experimentation and has been targeting the people who detained him. Despite being stonewalled by the government, Finch searches for the true identity of V, tracing him to a bioweapons program in Larkhill. Finch meets William Rookwood, who tells him that the program, which was directed by Sutler (who was then Undersecretary of Defence), resulted in the creation of the deadly St. Mary's Virus. He further reveals that Creedy, a leader of the Norsefire Party, released the virus onto English soil, killing 100,000 British residents and framing the outbreak as an attack by a terrorist organisation. The Party, which promised security in times of social instability, used the ensuing wave of fear to elevate Sutler to the newly created office of High Chancellor and win an overwhelming majority in Parliament, becoming the elected government. Finch later discovers the man he met was V in disguise, and though he initially disbelieves the story, his faith in the Norsefire government is severely shaken.
As 5 November nears, V distributes thousands of Guy Fawkes masks, and the population questions Party rule as the nation slowly descends into anarchy. On the eve of 5 November, Evey visits V, who shows her an explosive-laden train in the abandoned London Underground, set to destroy Parliament. He leaves it to Evey to decide whether to use it. V meets Party Leader Creedy, with whom he made a deal to surrender in exchange for Sutler's execution. After Creedy executes Sutler, V reneges on his deal and kills Creedy and his men. Mortally wounded, he returns to Evey and tells her he loves her before dying.
As Evey places V's body aboard the train, she is found by Finch. Disillusioned by the Party's regime, Finch allows Evey to send the train off. On the surface, thousands of unarmed Londoners wearing Guy Fawkes masks march towards Parliament. Since Creedy and Sutler are both dead, the military receives no orders, and allows the crowd to pass. As Parliament is destroyed, Finch asks Evey for V's identity, to which she replies, "He was all of us."
However, rumors persist that V still lives…
Characterization: A charismatic and skilled anarchist terrorist who had been the unwilling subject of experimentation by Norsefire.