Next is Malibu's resident Punisher with a Daddy Complex,Soliatire!
I Told you NO 52 CARD PICK-UP!
Solitaire ID:Nicholas Lone
Occupation:Hacker,Vigilante
STRENGTH 3
STAMINA 4
AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 10
DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 3
AWARENESS 1
PRESENCE 0
Skills:
Acrobatics 2 (+6) Athletics 5 (+8) Close Combat (Unarmed) 1 (+11) Deception 3 (+3) Expertise (Current Events) 4 (+7) Intimidation 8 (+8)
Investigation 3 (+4) Perception 4 (+5) Stealth 4 (+8) Technology 5 (+8) Vehicles 3 (+8)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, All-Out Attack, Diehard, Equipment 8 (Arsenal), Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Machine Guns), Improved Initiative, Quick Draw, Ranged Attack 4
Powers:
"Nanite Healers" (
AKA:The Bloodshot Effect)
Regeneration 8 (Feats: Regrow Limbs) [9]
Immunity 3 (Aging, Disease, Poison) [3]
Equipment:
"Arsenal"
Base (8)
"Kevlar Body Armour" Protection 3 (3), Protection 2 (Extras: Impervious 5) (Flaws: Limited to Ballistics) (6)
"Sub-Machine Gun" Blast 7 (Extras: Multiattack) (Inaccurate -1) (20) -- (24)
AE: "Laser Rifle" Blast 7 (Extras: Penetrating) (21)
AE: "Grenades" Blast 7 (Feats: Triggered) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (Diminished Range -1) (21)
AE: "Knives" Strength-Damage +1 (Feats: Improved Critical) (2)
AE: "Super-Cannon" Blast 12 (Inaccurate -3) (21)
Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Knife +10 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Guns +9 (+7 Ranged Damage, DC 22)
Grenade +7 Area (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +8
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4 (+7 Kevlar, +9 Ballistics), Fortitude +7, Will +5
Complications:
Enemy (Anton Lone,Jinn,JD Hunt,Etc.)-After watching his Dad kill his mom,Our Boy Nick made it his life's mission(
After he tried to commit Suicide&Got reborn,natch!)to stop not just his father,but anyone else remotely like him...
Vulnerability(Nanite Mind Control)-the wierd thing about this was that,the more Nick got Unjured and had to be healed,the more he became his father's Obedient Son...
Backstory:
Nicholas Lone is the son of Anton Lone, an exceptionally ruthless and powerful crime lord and businessman. Anton Lone chose a call girl to father him, so he could inherit his empire ; when Nicholas was about eight, one of his fights with the call girl ended in her death. While Nicholas loved his mother, she died while he was too young, leaving him scarred and unable to remember her face or name.
Nicholas grew up very lonely and quite empty, although he was quite intelligent. He discovered his father’s criminal activities when he was a teenager. That was about the same time he discovered the first home computers and BBSes, on which he spent hours. He spend some months, using computers, gaining information on his father’s activities, foiling some of his crimes (mostly deadly arsons intended as insurance scams).
However, when he first contacted a reporter with hot information, he found the reporter and a dozen innocents gunned down in a drive-by shooting. Anton Lone had discovered his son’s whereabout, and made clear more people would die if that continued.
Nicholas was broken by the slaughter, and became the gossip pages’ favorite bored, rich brat. He started to drift more and more, but was dead inside. He more or less willingly committed suicide by drinking a lot and crashing his car over a cliff.
However, he didn’t die. His father’s men found him, and his father struck a deal with a secret cabal of apparently alien scientists so that they would inject him with their rarest, most efficient nanotech culture. It worked ; Nicholas survived unscathed, and became very hard to hurt. His father was delighted he could save his heir.
Nicholas Lone realized he had been given his second chance at life and decided this time he would use that gift to really fight his father. He designed the Solitaire identity, found a lookalike he sent in remote locations with orders to party and enjoy himself, and found new teachers in order to start his career (his first teacher years before having been Jinn, his father’s elite bodyguard).
The masked Solitaire started to bitterly fight crime in the L.A. area, concentrating much of his efforts against Anton Lone’s criminal activities. In a matter of months, he became a urban myth in L.A., seen as a defender of the defenseless and foe of criminals everywhere.
Although Lone’s empire was huge, he scored significant victories against parts of it, such as defeating a sadistic mob king known as King Pleasure (who accidentally died), escaping several times from Jinn and his men through talent and clever manipulations, and taking down a strange monkey cult connected with Lone.
Then Anton Lone’s plans started to reach terrible proportions. He hatched a gambit in which he bought nuclear warheads, with the intend of destroying Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Lone had access to special anti-radiation technology that would render Los Angeles habitable again within two years ; he was planning to buy low after the detonation and sell when the real estate value would peak again later.
Solitaire became aware of that plot through a clever trick, and had little choice but to storm Anton Lone’s headquarter. He managed to snatch Anton Lone and bring him close to the detonation site, where Lone told him where the bomb was exactly, enabling Solitaire to disarm it.
Solitaire then tried to stop psycho criminals Double Edge and the Degenerate ; during that period it became obvious to his agents so something was wrong with him, and he started to completely ignore any information or sentence that had to do with Anton Lone. When confronted by his agents, his mind started to play other tricks on him, creating phantom disturbances to draw his attention away from the struggle against Anton Lone.
Still, Solitaire tried to carry on. He heard about a team led by Jinn heading for New York, and quickly discovered they were going to exploit the chaos around the Ultratech tower (triggered by an attempt by ambitious billionaire J.D. Hunt, Nuware’s CEO) to steal the best kept secrets of that corporation right before Hunt could. Jinn’s team, being equipped with the terribly powerful weapons of the Fire People, was quite successful in appropriating Ultratech’s secrets.
Solitaire failed to stop them, and was badly wounded during the fight. That was when he discovered the other function of the nanites in his blood – to make him loyal to his father. The more he got wounded, the more the nanites could get a hold on his mind. While he physically survived the New York fight, he was now Nicholas Lone, Anton’s obedient son.
Meanwhile, Anton Lone used the leverage gained by the information gained at Ultratech to strongarm JD Hunt into giving him access to the secrets of wetware, the tech that could make ultras.
With the help of his son, Lone created three superhumans with wetware-based powers and empty, loyal minds. But the nanite’s conditioning started to break after a few days, and Nicholas Lone went on a quest in L.A. to understand the ever-fleeing memories that were plaguing him. Finding his old HQ, he remembered all about being Solitaire – but he had been followed by Jinn.
Both men struck a deal ; Jinn would say nothing about Nicholas being Solitaire. Solitaire then made contact with the scientific nanotech cabal working for his father, and paid them to remove the nanites from his body in order to regain his freedom of thought.
He then fought Jinn, who was killed by Anton Lone, and Anton Lone, who was killed by the first ultra he had created.
Notes:
I Honestly liked the Twist with the nanites,as it gave him an invested reason NOT to get hit....
. Holy crap- she's really PL 11? I had to look at her stuff just to check, since PL's not listed, but yeah- offensively & defensively she's a powerhouse.
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