pc Requiem (PL10) Badgerking777

[Badgerking777]

Requiem

Power Level: 10 (150PP)
Trade-Offs: +1 Damage, -1 Attack
Unspent Power Points: 0
 

In Brief: Carter Corvin is the third man to bear the title and belt of Requiem, a mantle he has worn for a short time in the grand scheme of things. The purpose of Requiem is and has always been to avenge those spirits who have been wronged... and Carter takes that job very seriously, communicating and investigating with the help of ghostly victims in order to find the villains responsible.

Residence: Freedom City, NJ.
Base of Operations: Freedom City, NJ
Catchphrase:

Alternate Identity: Carter Corvin
Identity: Secret
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan
Occupation: Auto shop/bar owner
Affiliations:

           

Family: Mother & Father (Both deceased)

Description:
Age: 23 (DoB: October 30, 1992)
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 215 Lbs.
Eyes: Pale blue/gray
Hair: Brown

Carter tends to be the dark brooding figure in the back of a room, making his way around the edges of a crowd. He tends to wear dark clothing, boots, leather jackets, jeans, etc. He spends most of his day and evening in his bar and motorcycle shop he set up with a hefty inheritance. He keeps to himself mostly, focusing on his job. When he’s not working on a bike or attending his bar, he works on his belt and suit, also using the special scanner device that allows him to see and speak with ghosts who have been murdered or otherwise require avenging. He hopes to bring justice for those restless souls, as did his predecessors.

When Carter activates the power of Requiem via mental or verbal trigger, his belt buckle flashes a bright green, and a thick black liquid quickly rushes over his skin and clothing, which finally seals over his face, and his solid armor rises and solidifies. This dramatic effect is finalized with the shape on his helmet of a jagged, jack-o-lantern-esque smile lighting up in green to match his belt. His gauntlets bear three large bladed spikes. The top half of his helmet is a solid black visor with antennae coming from a slight ridge down the middle. The bottom half is a lighter metal with a jagged mouth indention.

Power Descriptions:
Carter's powers are not always visible outside of his armor. The belt's activation is one of the only demonstrations of his superhuman abilities outside of the suit. Even without it however, he shows great athleticism, heightened senses and strength. These only increase upon activation of the belt.
 

History:
Carter was born to rock star Eddie Corvin and groupie Shelly O'Landron. At a young age, they moved out east, where his father and mother were both tragically murdered by a group of thugs when Carter was only 10 years old. Carter was found by Hal Owens, a middle aged man who, by day worked as a journalist, but by night, roamed the streets, avenging restless ghosts who had been wronged, using a special device to contact the spirits and dish out justice to those who cause the spirit restlessness. Carter learned of Hal's secret before long, as Hal had chosen him to one day become his replacement. for 10 years, Hal trained young Carter in how to fight and how to upgrade and repair the suit summoned by the belt, which had been given to Hal by his predecessor, Jack O'Landron, Carter's grandfather and the first Requiem. Hal, a great teacher and excellent fighter, unfortunately for Carter, was not the most stable man to roam the earth. He used many harsh tactics to teach Carter the skills of Requiem, and focused largely on prepping Carter for his ultimate brutal revenge on the group of thugs who killed his parents. When Carter was 20 years old, he was allowed to use the belt on his own, which led to him to tracking down those who had wronged him 10 years ago and dealing with them in such a brutal way, a time he does not talk about.

Carter's combat prowess and aptitude for dishing out justice led Hal to one day retire from his role as the Requiem. Carter returned to their secret lair to find the belt and a simple note from Hal saying that he was leaving, and that it was now Carter's responsibility to avenge those who have been wronged. This scenario was almost identical to that which had occurred in Hal's assumption of the Requiem belt, in which Jack, the first Requiem, mysteriously vanished. Jack, unlike Hal, had left a positive memory behind him.

Carter, now slapped in the face with great power and great responsibility... and no more brutal mentor, decided to head to Freedom City in order to make a new name for himself and for the persona of the Requiem. He sought the city of super powered heroes as the place to find who he truly was, and to escape the teachings of Hal Owens.

Even though Hal had not left a positive imprint, Carter was still curious as to why he vanished. Upon rigorous research of the Second Requiem's lair, Carter finally realized that his grandfather Jack was the first Requiem, and that his own assumption to the title was not a coincidence. Neither was the disappearance of his grandfather, much like the disappearance of Hal, or how the origin of the original Requiem was tied to an evil organization named SHADOW. Carter began a rigorous search for the truth in the two years after his move to Freedom. This search yielded only enough information to whet his appetite for mystery. The original Requiem was a detective who took cases for ghosts in order to rest their spirit, who eventually gained a high tech power suit after fighting in WWII and being captured and experimented on by the Axis organization SHADOW.

Personality & Motivation:
Carter spent his early years watching his parents struggle to support him. His father gave everything but his guitar to feed and support Carter. Even though he was in a popular band, he didn't make much and often hit hard times. After both is parents were killed, Carter came to the assumption that the purely good are always betrayed in the end. As with the previous men to wear the belt of Requiem, Carter's mission in life is to avenge those who have been wronged and punish those who prey on the weak.

Carter isn't the most trusting person of all time, as the man who raised him after his parents' deaths had abandoned him, and many record companies had screwed over his father, and many jobs didn't treat his mother fairly. But past his low faith in humanity and mistrust of large corporations, Carter tries to have fun. Sometimes that comes out violently when in costume, as he is known for using laughter and a seemingly crazy persona to intimidate his enemies. Outside of costume, he tends to find an escape in music and playing guitar like his father.

As a young man overcoming the depression of his childhood, Carter seeks many other escapes during his normal life besides just playing guitar. Carter is a big fan of motorcycles and going very fast. As a young boy he always wanted to become either a stunt man or some sort of athlete. He took gymnastics and martial arts as a boy. Now having the superhuman abilities implanted in him by his first use of the Requiem suit, Carter likes to go on sprints across rooftops in costume, or driving his bike incredibly fast. The rush of speed has always appealed to him, so much that it could almost be like an addiction.

Powers & Tactics:
The cybernetic bond the Requiem belt made to his body has allowed Carter superhuman strength, speed, agility, and reflexes. The armor is 'summoned' at will typically. When struck with something of high impact (such as a bullet), green sparks are known to flash out of the suit. The suit allows Carter superior vision as well as hearing. He can see almost 360 degrees around him and hear a whisper a block away. His fondness of listening to music can negate the advantage of hearing, however.

Requiem's martial arts training was only expanded on by his mentor, Hal. Beyond that, though, his experience with combat is largely improvised. He tends to deal with lower level criminals with a few quick moves to utterly disable them, but when in combat with many people or a tougher opponent, he is more inclined to whip out something more dramatic that he may or may not have just stolen from a movie or video game.

 

Concept:  The third incarnation of Requiem as a concept is the love child of Batman, The Crow, and a Kamen Rider. Personality wise, he flops back and forth from Eric Draven and Matt Murdock. His angst is a personality flaw that comes up from time to time and keeps him from being the clean cut golden age hero that the original Requiem was. At the same time, he's trying to be better than Hal, the second Requiem, who was more like Frank Miller's All Star Batman, mixed with Frank Castle.

 
Complications:
90's angst: Carter suffers from what most characters from the 90's did. He is quite gritty and dark at times, especially when in costume, he assumes the role of an angst-ridden dark avenger. This can easily get in the way of trying to talk to people in costume, and it tends to bleed out into his real life as well, not making him the most charismatic guy around. This can interfere with his social interaction as he also can get a bit of a temper, akin to that of Wolverine.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time...": Carter has many God-given gifts such as his aptitude for fighting, his observance, and talent in music. Brilliant planning, however, was not among the gifts given to him. To make up for this, he tends to try things that are a tad ridiculous when observed in retrospect. He focuses too much on intimidation at times, and takes unorthodox measures with very exaggerated finishing moves and complicated execution of rather simple tasks, just for the sake of looking cool.

In nothing we trust: Carter has low faith in humanity, and desires to see it change. Good people are constantly being cheated by those with money and power, as he observed in his youth, and as was indoctrinated in him by his mentor. He distrusts large organizations, as they are what seems to be tied to his own harm and the harm of his predecessors. His cynicism could easily cause penalty toward any kind of empathy. Even when he tries to be kind, he could easily say the wrong thing.

Shadow of Requiem: The mantle that was left for Carter has a long history, one that he hopes to live up to. Carter goes through a reoccurring existential crisis based on the example set by Hal, and the example of his grandfather Jack, the original. Finding the middle ground between clean cut hero and angsty anti-hero plagues Carter in every choice he makes in costume, sometimes causing him to hesitate or act too harshly.

“Music is my LIFE, mom!”: Music is something very important to many people. Most people listen to music fairly regularly, but that would be an understatement for Carter, however. As the owner of a small bar, it is very important to him. He often sacrifices being able to hear what is around him in order to listen to music through his helmet when he fights. This can easily serve as a distraction or hindrance to detecting sounds on occasion.

Abilities: 8 + 4 + 8 + 4 + 4 + 0 = 28PP
Strength: 32/18 (+11/+4)
Dexterity: 20/14 (+5/+2)
Constitution: 22/18 (+6/+4)
Intelligence: 14 (+2)
Wisdom: 14 (+2)
Charisma: 10 (+0)


Combat: 10 + 10 = 20PP
Initiative: +9
Attack: +5 Base, +9 Melee (5 Base + 4 Melee Focus), +5 Ranged
Grapple: +20
Defense: +10 (+5 Base, +5 Dodge Focus), +5 Flat-Footed
Knockback: -6/-3


Saving Throws: 0 + 2 + 7 = 9PP
Toughness: +10/+6(+6/+4 Con, +4 from Device/Battle Armor)
Fortitude: +6/+4 (+6/+4 Con, 0)
Reflex: +7/+2 (+7/+2 Dex)
Will: +9 (+2 Wis, +7)


Skills: 124R = 31PP
Acrobatics 10 (+15)

Bluff 5 (+5)

Climb 4 (+15)

Craft (Mechanical) 12 (+14)

Disable Device 3 (+5)

Drive 14 (+19)

Escape Artist 5 (+10)

Gather Information 10 (+10)

Intimidate 15 (+15)

Knowledge (Arcane Lore) 12 (+14)

Knowledge (Streetwise) 4 (+6)

Notice 8 (+10)

Search 3 (+5)

Sense Motive 8 (+10)

Stealth 11 (+16)

 

Feats: 20PP
Attack Focus: Melee 4

Dodge Focus 5

Equipment 4 *

Fearless

Improved Disarm

Improved Initiative

Quick Change

Skill Mastery (Intimidate, Drive, Gather Information, Climb)

Takedown Attack 2

 

Equipment: 4PP = 19/20EP

Motorcycle (15 Str, 5 Spd, 10 Def, 8 Tough) [9EP]

Base: Medium, Toughness 10, Garage, Gym, Living Space, Workshop, Concealed [8 EP]

Comm-Link (Free)

Power: Super Movement ( Dimension 1 [Ghost Zone]) [1EP]

           

Powers: 12 + 30 = 42PP

Device 3: [12PP] (15PP Container, Hard to Lose) (Battle Armor)

             Immovable 1  [1PP]  

                Protection 4 [4PP]

             Immunity 2 (Suffocation, all) [2PP]          

             Comprehend [Spirits]  [2PP] 

             Super Senses 7 [6PP] (Darkvision, Extended Hearing 2,Awareness 2 [Spiritual – Audio and Visual] )

Nanotech Blood 5.8: (29PP Container, Feat: Innate, [Passive, Permanent], ) [30PP] (Technological)

             Enhanced Constitution 4  [4PP]

             Enhanced Dexterity 6  [6PP] 

             Enhanced Strength 14  [14PP] 

             Super Movement 1 [2PP] (Sure Footed)

             Leaping 1 [1PP]

             Speed 2 ( 25 mph, 250' rnd ) [2PP] 
 

Drawbacks: (-0) + (-0) = -0PP


DC Block

ATTACK                                  RANGE      SAVE                                      EFFECT

Unarmed                                   Touch        DC20 Toughness (Staged)     Damage (Physical)

Totals: Abilities (28) + Combat (20) + Saving Throws (9) + Skills (31) + Feats (20) + Powers (42) - Drawbacks (0) = 150/150 Power Points

 

[Avenger Assembled]

This is absolutely wonderful (and I'm sorry it took this long to look at it) - the one thing you need to do is fix the math on his powers - I think that's supposed to be a rank 3 device? And how much Protection is he supposed to get, and how much Impervious

[Badgerking777]

Thanks! I'm working on fleshing it out and smoothing some of the skills etc. in addition to the wonky math now.

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[Brown Dynamite]

You're actually breaking offensive caps with the Mighty Strike.  As you already hit PL Caps with the Enhanced STR it might behoove you to just drop the Strike or lower your Melee bonus.

 

Speaking of Caps.  In your Toughness you have this listed:

 

Toughness: +9/+7 (+6/+4 Con, +3 from Device/Battle Armor)

 

But in reality you only get +2 from the Armor.  Which means the Toughness is more like +8/+6  You need either 2 more Toughness or 2 more Def Bonus (whether through Dodge Focus or Base is up to you) to reach your caps.  Buuut, as piece of advice when you lower either the Melee Bonus, Total Enhanced STR, or Drop the Strike Power to make your Offensive Caps correct you'll have the spare PP to get this done.

 

Drive 14 (+20)  is actually Drive 14 (+19)

 

Knowledge (Arcane Lore) covers what you're looking for in Knowledge (Paranormal), I assume

 

I'm gonna be honest there's something confusing me in your Equipment:

 

Dimension Hopper (Portal to Ghost Zone) [3EP]

 

Totals: Abilities (28) + Combat (20) + Saving Throws (9) + Skills (32) + Feats (20) + Powers (41) - Drawbacks (0) = 150/150 Power Points

is actually

Totals: Abilities (28) + Combat (20) + Saving Throws (9) + Skills (31) + Feats (20) + Powers (41) - Drawbacks (0) = 149/150 Power Points

Meaning you have 1 spare PP floating around there.

 

 

I don't know what you're doing with that ^  Is it meant to be a power of the base?  What even is it Power Breakdown wise, Super-Movement, Teleport?

[Badgerking777]

I'll get on fixing those cap things and reallocating the PP after dropping Strike.

 

Also the dimension hopper was meant to be a device in his base I didn't really describe very well (sorry). The idea behind that was a device that he would use in dire situations or very important missions in order to go to a spirit realm or something of the sort in order to have better interaction with ghosts if need be. It was sort of an afterthought to be honest. Also an excuse to make a Danny Phantom reference (sorry again).

Edited June 24, 2016 by Badgerking777

[Brown Dynamite]

Alright so there's nothing left for confusion I fixed some annotation errors from you Grapple score, actual Tou, etc.

 

There's only two real problems left.  The first is you still don't reach Defensive caps.  With a Toughness of +7 and a Defense of +10.  You still need 3 more points in either Def or Toughness.

 

The second problem is that you actually have too much pp put inside the Device.  I didn't realize you were buying the Unstoppable Extra on Immovable before since you didn't annotate it as such I just assumed it was the fluff name for your Immovable.  But, seeing as that's not the case Immovable 2 with that Extra costs 4PP.

 

The easiest fix would be to either drop the Immovable entirely and buy three ranks of Protection (Or Shield or Enhanced Dodge Focus) in the Device or Drop the Enhanced Con and Unstoppable from Immovable lower it to 1 rank, and buy 4 ranks of Protection (Or Shield or Enhanced Dodge Focus).  That said, those are not your only options by any means, just the options that I saw would take the least adjusting on the sheet for you.

[Badgerking777]

I thought unstoppable only costed 1 PP? Either way I see what you're saying about the defensive caps though. I may take the first option you suggested and replace immovable with protection 3.

 

Something I don't understand however is why toughness was changed to only +1 from battle armor instead of the +2 you mentioned in your first comment. No big deal, just wanted to be sure as of why before we change up the Tou with protection.

[Brown Dynamite]

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