Bitter Angels (SWADE PbP)/The Purple Haze

Player character in the Bitter Angels PbP game.

The Purple Haze

A baby photo. Purple Haze has grown two more orbs and lots of blue since then.

General Stats

Race: Ixxzahnchi

Height: about a 4ft diameter depending on air pressure

Weight: Lighter than air

Description: The Purple Haze is a translucent cloud of purples shifting from darker shades to lighter shades. Periodic crackles of what appear to be electricity flicker inside the cloud between the three orbs inside. One orb is larger than the other two who are about the same size. All three float randomly inside emitting light.

Attributes

• Agility - d4

• Smarts - d12

• Spirit - d12

• Strength - d4

• Vigor - d8

Pace: 6"

Parry: 4

Toughness: 9

Skills

• Athletics d4

• Common Knowledge d8

• Notice d8

• Persuasion d12

• Stealth d6

• Focus d12

• Academics d8

• Taunt d10

Racial Abilities

• Flight 1

• Doesn't Breathe

• Not Vital Organs

• Immune to Poison

Hindrances

Attribute Penalty (Strength)

Racial enemy Scyphozoan

Poor Parry

Size -1

Edges

• Retort
• Linguist

1. Galactic Common

2. Scyphozoan

3. Octopoid

4. Serpentine

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Powers

• Intangibility: Permanent
• Mind Control: Strong
• Mind reading: Memory Master (+5)
• Mind Shield: Strong
• Telekinesis: Strength d10
• Telepathy
• Energy Control: Radiation
• Negation: Full Spectrum/Area/Strong
• Doesn't Eat: extreme
• Damage Field: Lethal

Background

Ixxzahnchi's come from a pulsar planet orbiting a neutron star. An individual member of the species has enough radiation inside to kill most living things, but they're able to consciously control it. Between the radiation and the gravity, their home world is uninhabitable for any other race or tangible creature. Even if this wasn't the case, they'd still be isolationists. Groups of Ixxzahnchi have moved on to other worlds, drenched in radiation to build new societies. In their travels they've encountered the Scyphozoan. Each encounter has gone worse than before. The only members of the species that interact with others are scientists, and outcasts. Purple Haze is a bit of both.

Amongst Purple Haze's people Purple Haze (as no English pronoun fits the Ixxzahnchi people) was an adventurer with the intent to head out beyond their isolated homes to study the "primitive tangible races." The others believed Purple Haze would be better at studying the data that a kinder member of the race discovered. Purple Haze wasn't having that and stole a ship. Soon, Purple Haze was off to strange lands beyond. Two years later Purple Haze returned with what Purple Haze had found, but the Ixxzahnchi decided that Purple Haze's impulsiveness would only be worsened by the years of exposure and ostracised Purple Haze.

Angry, Purple Haze decided to build a paradise to stay in. It started with rewriting the memories of the monarch. Eventually Purple Haze helped them create what they called a "power plant." For Purple Haze it was a castle that no other could live within. One day Haepali happened across Purple Haze's people and asked the wrong questions causing things to come crashing down. Purple Haze angrily responded attempting to destroy the plant and flood the city with radiation. Purple Haze was stopped, and arrested, and has stewed, angrily ever since.

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Secret Purple Haze is terribly lonely and wants to make friends. Purple Haze has discovered that most tangible beings serve superior members of their society and has thus decided the best way to make friends is to dominate them.

Driving Goal At the core Purple Haze just wants to go home. The world of tangible beings is too alien for Purple Haze's liking. As far as Purple Haze knows, no one has returned from ostracism.