The Spiderweb: Measure The Beacon

Concept

Victorian / Steampunk martial artist with gadgets

Identity

Hero Name: Measure

Real Name: William Brown

Look

• White
• Male
• Average face
• Well dressed
• Anachronistic costume

Abilities

Martial Arts

Measure has adapted the Filipino martial art arnis to use a variety of canes that fit his neo-Victorian aesthetic.

Gadgets

Measure has developed lots of small gadgets which he keeps on his person, most of which are relatively low-tech. There is a grappling hook in his cane.

Labels

	Danger	Freak	Savior	Superior	Mundane
Starting	+0	-1	+2	+0	+2
Current	+0	-1	+2	+0	+2

Moves

No powers and not nearly enough training

• You’re always picking up new gear to keep yourself in the game. Whenever you pick up a new piece of gear, you can write it in as a new ability if this line is empty.
  • CURRENTLY EMPTY
• The first time you use each piece of gear to directly engage a threat, unleash your powers, or defend someone, you can roll + Mundane instead of the normal Label

Won’t let you down:

• When you help a teammate, you can spend 2 out of the Team pool to add +2 to their roll.

Backstory

Who were you before?

A regular fifteen going on sixteen year old who admired heroes but never thought he'd be one of them. And never thought that becoming one of them would cost so much. Johnny Boer did well enough in classes, though it was sometimes a struggle. He had vague plans to become a fighter pilot or something, especially if he never hit his growth spurt.

When did you change? What caused it?"

Around halfway between his fifteenth and sixteenth birthday, not long after school let out for the summer, something plunged into the parkette near Johnny's home. He rushed off to investigate it, hoping it might be a piece of a spaceship or some similar interesting sign of the more interesting side of life. Instead he found a ring of things like a toadstool. As he explored, the toadstools exploded and the spores got everywhere. At first he figured that he was just having an allergic reaction, but soon enough it was clear that there was something unearthly colonizing and transforming his body radically.

Why don’t you just try to hide yourself away?

Going through all of that and then not joining a super team? That's just absurd. Got to get something out of this.

Who, outside of the team, is helping you understand your new body?

Doctor Lillian Demeter, a top exomycologists (well one of the only exomycologists) conducted the initial examination of Seed's body and continues to run checkups and help understand what's going on from a scientific point of view.

Why do you care about the team?

Because being on a team is how to be a superhero and not some weirdo falling into their own weird symbiot driven obsession.

Relationships

Trigger comforted Seed when they were at their lowest.

Hellion knew Seed before they changed.

Influence

Trigger has Influence over Seed.

Melody has Influence over Seed.

Conditions

None Currently

XP

None currently