Pretty Perfect Monsters:Selene Iris

Selene Iris

Affiliations:

• Hunter d10
• Stalker d8
• Destroyer d6

Distinctions:

• Lay off me I'm starving!
• Only "mostly" dead
• Pie.... I smell pie!

Power Sets

All Consuming Shadow

Traits

• Intangibility - d10
• Mind Control - d8
• Devour - d8
• Shapeshifting - d8
• Flight - d6

SFX:

• You're My New Best Friend - Selene can attach herself to prey to become their shadow, or draw herself inside if the prey, or prey's own shadow, makes physical contact with Selene's shadow forms. Selene can transfer from prey to prey in the same manner. Physical based attacks only affect prey.
• Spacial Temporal Hyperlink - While appearing as a shadow against any solid surface (less than 4' thick), Selene can use Intangibility to pass various objects (even people) through to the other side.
• Non-Terminal Repeating Phantasm - Use two or more All Consuming Shadow powers in Selene's dice pool, at -1 step for each additional power.
• Class Five Full-Roaming Vapor - Step up, or double-up any All Consuming Shadow power for one action. If that action fails, add a die to the doom pool equal to the power of the die used.

Limit

• This Must Be What Going Mad Feels Like - Mental/Emotional stress attacks against Selene while All Consuming Shadow is activated adds 1d4 to their attack roll against her (discarded afterwards). A failed attack reduces Selene's targeted stress level by one step.
• What Phantasmagoria Is This? - When attacking someone who has spotted Selene, reduce one die one step.
• My Mind Is Totally Blank - If a 1 is rolled during a Mind Control action, shut down Mind Control until Necrotic Blossom is activated.

Necrotic Blossom

Traits

• Godlike Durability - d12
• Superhuman Strength - d10
• Enhanced Speed - d8
• Enhanced Reflexes - d8
• Enhanced Senses - d8
• Teleport - d6
• Necrotic Touch (weapon) d6 - A physical attack against organic matter to induce decomposition. Adds 1d4 to further physical attack rolls against this target after initial Necrotic Touch attack succeeds.

SFX:

• Pain Is Scary - Use two or more Necrotic Blossom powers in Selene's dice pool at -1 for each additional power.
• Vile Siphon - Selene can inhale life forces from incapacitated or grappled prey to reduce her stress (declare one type) by one step and reset her decomposition time. Send die with highest rolled number to doom pool (in case of a tie, then the lower die step is added.
• Shambling Horror - Selene gains Intimidate Mastery (1d10 or 2d8 or 3d6) while rotting.
• Over My Dead Body! - Spend 1 PP to borrow the highest die from the doom pool as an asset on Selene's next action, then step back and return the doom die.

Limit

• Shutdown - When Selene is stressed by mental trauma, activates Ditch or Countdown, or is in the presence of a high grade life force (cake/pie smells), take a power point to shutdown Necrotic Blossom and activate All Consuming Shadow. Selene takes +1 Physical Stress. Successfully feed in order to reactive Necrotic Blossom and shutdown All Consuming Shadow.
• Countdown - While her husk is invulnerable, it will completely rot away after 24 hours and revert Selene back into shadow regardless of her condition. Initiates Shutdown.
• Ditch - Selene can leave her husk at will. Initiates Shutdown.

Specialties

• Combat Master - d10
• Acrobatic Expert - d8
• Not Everyone Comes Back Out Of The Dark - Selene gains 1d4 to feeding rolls done in low-light environments. Adds this die to Doom pool regardless of result when finished.
• Let's Go Be Bad Guys! - When Selene assists another monster in feeding, step up their support die one step.

Milestones:

We Must Feed

• 1 XP - Assist another monster in feeding.
• 3 XP - Get a human to assist you in feeding in some way.
• 10 XP - Save a victim from being killed, only to consume them later.

I Swear By My Pretty Floral Bonnet I Will End You

• 1 XP for killing/devouring any member of the Cult Of Corprus
• 3 XP for ruining the Cult Of Corprus
• 10 XP for decimating the entirety of the Cult Of Corprus, including revenge against Tsokuda

Description

Backstory

Selene is an entity from a distant solar system. Once the heiress to a mighty kingdom, she was adored by all as a loving, sweet, and gentile soul. She was professed to be destined for greatness. The kingdom's own powerful Void Gazers determined that she was the reconfigured essence of a powerful celestial Titan, if you believed in that sort of thing. It was all her family could do but wait till she matured enough, both physically and mentally, to receive her birthright. But all that ended the eve of the great uprising, the very night before her birthday ceremony. The Cult of Corprus had turned her father's most trusted friend, a powerful sorcerer named Tsokuda, against them. She watched helplessly as he gutted her father with his bare hands. Tsokuda gave her grieving, and hysterical mother over to his wretched companions to do with her as they saw fit. Selene's ears still ringing with her mother's screams, she mustered up the courage to take her father's knife from his belt, and lunge at Tsokuda while he was staring down her mother. Her attack, while brave, wasn't fatal. Tsokuda growled as he reached up to his left cheek, he was cut deep. With a violent backhand he knocks Selene across the floor. He realized he had to kill her now. She was beginning to become what the cult feared. He had to send her life force into the Maw Of Corprus, a sentient black hole.

It was an agony unlike anything she has ever experienced in her short life. A scathing, searing torment of pain consumed her as her body twisted and snapped from the assault. With her disfigured, lifeless husk in a heap on the floor, Tsokuda held aloft her life force, turned black from the vicious onslaught. As he was a mere moment away from casting her into the Maw Of Corprus, a lone battle fatigued palace guard had found a sliver of fortitude, enough to creep in and fire his weapon at Tsokuda before succumbing to the extent of his injuries. The shot hit Tsokuda square in the arm holding Selene, disrupting his concentration at the final moment, sending her life off randomly into the depths of space, ultimately landing on Earth.

Personality and Physicality

Selene's shadow form is how she sustains herself, feeding on the life forces of others. The longer she goes without eating, the more frequent and powerful her bouts of pain become. She eats to stop the anguish inside, but suffers from short yet intense fits of rage immediately after killing someone. She tries her best to go as long as she can without feeding, but the better the life force is, the more potent the aroma of it coerces her to give in. The alluring effect triggers a personality effect bouncing between maniacal and catatonic states. As if her actions are now well beyond her control, or even her awareness. Oh yeah, life forces smell like fresh baked pastries to her. The average ones smelling like doughnuts and cupcakes, while stronger ones smell like brownies, cakes, and pie. She knows better than to attack out in the open in view of the public. But a succulent pie is nearly too good to pass up, and usually gets the better of her judgement. Once she inhabits her prey she drains the life force from them as their body is bent, twisted, and broken into an exact image of her old body, that she can now channel her destructive powers through.

Once her assimilation of her victim is complete, Selene's body is a nearly indestructible cannonball of violence. After repeated, and unsuccessful, attempts to kill herself, she realized it was just not in the cards for her. She is cursed to live forever as a rotting corpse, only because it's too painful to live as a shadow. There are 3 ways Selene can lose her undead form: decomposition, high levels of stress, and willingly abandoning it.

Decomposition: Selene's body is indestructible to physical attacks. But she can only inhabit the husk for 24 hours, after that it begins to rapidly rot. Within the span of 2 hours after the first signs of necrosis, Selene's physical form will be rendered completely uninhabitable, and she will be forced back to the shadows to hunt for a replacement. Using Vile Siphon completely reverses the effects of decomposition.

Stress Levels: If Selene is inflicted with enough psychological stress, it can break her hold on her body and subsequently eject her from it. Once removed from a corpse, she cannot reenter it.

Free Will: She can abandon her body at will at any time she chooses. Mostly she tries to ride out the time till the body is rendered useless. But there have been a few occasions where she has ditched them in the pursuit of high-grade life forces before.