Batman Year One - PL 8
Strength 2, Stamina 2, Agility 3, Dexterity 3, Fighting 9, Intellect 3, Awareness 3, Presence 3
Advantages
Agile Feint, Assessment, Attractive, Benefit, Cipher 2, Benefit, Wealth 3 (millionare), Chokehold, Close Attack 2, Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll 2, Equipment 10, Evasion, Extraordinary Effort, Great Endurance, Improved Critical 2: Gauntlets: Strength-based Damage 2, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Move-by Action, Power Attack, Precise Attack (Close, Concealment), Prone Fighting, Quick Draw, Ranged Attack 8, Startle, Takedown, Tracking, Trance
Skills
Acrobatics 6 (+9), Athletics 8 (+10), Deception 6 (+9), Insight 6 (+9), Intimidation 8 (+11), Investigation 8 (+11), Perception 8 (+11), Persuasion 6 (+9), Sleight of Hand 6 (+9), Stealth 8 (+11), Technology 6 (+9), Treatment 4 (+7), Vehicles 6 (+9)
Powers
Body Armor: Protection 3 (+3 Toughness; Impervious)
Gauntlets: Strength-based Damage 2 (DC 19)
Grapple Gun: Move Object 3 (400 lbs., DC 18; Custom: Tether, Damaging; Limited Direction: Towards)
Grapple: Movement 1 (Swinging)
Equipment
Binoculars, Bolos, Boomerang, Camo Clothing, Cell Phone (Smartphone), Combat Suit [Body Armor: Protection 3, +3 Toughness; Impervious; Gauntlets: Strength-based Damage 2, DC 19], Commlink, Concealable Microphone, Flashlight, Gas Mask, Grapple Gun [Grapple Gun: Move Object 3, 400 lbs., DC 18; Custom: Tether, Damaging; Limited Direction: Towards; Grapple: Movement 1, Swinging], Handcuffs, Mini-tracer, Night Vision Goggles, Rebreather, Smoke Grenade, Toolkit (Basic)
Offense
Initiative +7
Bolos, +11 (DC Dog 13)
Boomerang, +11 (DC 18)
Gauntlets: Strength-based Damage 2, +11 (DC 19)
Grab, +11 (DC Spec 12)
Grapple Gun: Move Object 3, +11 (DC 18)
Smoke Grenade, +11 (DC 19)
Throw, +11 (DC 17)
Unarmed, +11 (DC 17)
Languages
Other Language
Defense
Dodge 9, Parry 9, Fortitude 6, Toughness 7/2, Will 9
Power Points
Abilities 56 + Powers 0 + Advantages 49 + Skills 43 (86 ranks) + Defenses 16 = 164
There are rumors among the nocturnal vigilantes of Gotham that the current Batman is not the first one. Some years before the Batman began his activity in the city there were stories going round of an unstoppable vigilante in an extraordinary costume beating up and apprehending criminals. The GCPD at the time dismissed this as an urban myth, nothing more than people's fantasies. No one ever got a good look at this supposed crimefighter and after about a year the reports by people who had been rescued by him and criminals who had been foiled by him ceased. The descriptions by these witness, garbled and unreliable as they were, do speak of a bat themed suit and a method of operation very similar to Batman. Is it possible that Batman actually operated for a while then stopped for some reason? Or was it a different person operating under the Batman persona and the current Batman is someone new who took over the crimefighting identity?
The person best placed to know is Jim Gordon, who has always been Batman's contact on the GCPD. Jim though never speaks about the Batman to anyone, not even his own daughter. He has always consistently denied any link between the police and Batman, indeed it took years before he publicly confirmed that the Batman even existed. Most of the Bat-clan are unaware of all this, it is only suspected by some of the better connected and more suspicious, namely Batwoman and Batgirl. They have always been independent allies of Batman rather than his apprentices like the Robins and do not take orders from him. Each for their own reasons would like to know the true story behind Batman and have made several attempts down the years to find out more. Barbara Gordon has succeeded in decoding her father's private diaries after she found them in a concealed location in the GCPD station where her father worked and has come across references to a source or contact from the period who is referred to in an oblique and cryptic manner, even in this secret private record. That is how her father always refers to Batman in his current diaries, which she also reads. She has tracked down and interviewed some of the crime victims and perpetrators who allege that they saw the rumored urban vigilante of the time. It is hard to know how accurate their testimony is, very few people have anything like the memory Barbara is blessed with, but Barbara is expert at eliciting memories from people without suggesting them.The figure they describe does definitely seem to be Batman, but their reports are not detailed enough to know whether it is the same man she knows now. It doesn't help that Barbara still does not know who the current Batman is, she has never seen him without his mask on and does not know that he is Bruce Wayne.
Batwoman has her own lines of inquiry. She thinks she may have known the man who is now Batman as the desert warrior Khuffash. Once again though it is difficult to know as she too has never seen Batman without his mask on or is aware he is Bruce Wayne. She is pretty sure though that if Khuffash is indeed Batman then he cannot be the same man as this rumored first Batman, as at the time he was supposed to be active she was with Khuffash in the desert, operating alongside him and seeing him nearly every day. There is just no way one man could fight crime in Gotham and wage a guerrilla campaign half a world away at the same time. She has considered several scenarios but the one that seems most likely to her is that whoever came up with and sponsored the idea of Batman recruited an initial operative, but for reasons unknown later passed the cowl to the desert warrior. If Kate knew Batman was Bruce Wayne she might be able to take her investigation further, but of the Bat-clan only Dick Grayson and Tim Drake know Batman's secret identity and they will never reveal it (only Alfred and Damien may know who he really truly is).
The rumored first Batman does not seem to have been as well-trained and equipped as the current one. There was no Batmobile and he apparently spent much of his time just taking out common street thugs rather than running ambitious schemes to take down organized crime in the city. Why he stopped is still unknown. Did he quit? Was he fired for not being good enough? Maybe he was killed in action, fighting crime as a vigilante is an extremely dangerous thing to do. No one other than known kooks have ever claimed to be the Batman however, and if criminals had killed a Batman there is no way they would be able to keep from boasting about it since most crooks are stupid and have big mouths. Whoever it was must have been a talented operative but but there is no trace of them now. Kate does not think the Batman she knows got rid of him, there is a gap of several years between their operations and she can see no reason why he would do so. The more they learn about Batman the more mysterious he seems to get to the two women crimefighters.
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