Alex Mercer

Alexander J. Mercer

played by Random_Encounter

Alex Mercer A.K.A. Zeus

Affiliations

Solo d10, Team d8, Buddy d6

Distinctions

• If I'm not Alex Mercer, Who Am I?
• Infected, Evolved
• They have no idea what I'm capable of

Powers

Blacklight Virus

Melee Attack D8; Superhuman Strength D10; Enhanced Durability D8; Leaping/Gliding D8; Thermal Vision D6; Assimilate D8; Enhanced Movement d6

• SFX: Claws - add a D6 to your dice pool, step back highest die in your pool by -1, step up effect die +1
• SFX: Blade - Double Melee Attack, if action fails, add a die to the Doom Pool equal to your normal Melee Attack
• SFX: Hammerfist - Add a D6 and keep an extra effect die for each additional target
• SFX: Musclemass - add a D6 and step up effect die +1 when creating an asset related to using the scenery as a weapon
• SFX: Whipfist - add an additional die to your total and step back your effect die -1.
• SFX: Devastator - add a die from the Doom Pool to your attack; step up die and return to the Doom Pool
• SFX: Armor Carapace - spend a PP to ignore Physical Stress or Trauma unless caused by chemical attacks
• SFX: Regeneration - On a successful attack against an organic target that includes Assimilate in the dice pool, spend 1 PP to recover your Physical Stress or step back Physical Trauma by -1
• SFX: Disguise - Upon stressing out a human character with a dice pool that includes Assimilate, shutdown BLACKLIGHT VIRUS and activate PHAGIC ADAPTATION. Shutdown PHAGIC ADAPTATION to recover BLACKLIGHT VIRUS
• Limit: Feeding - Assimilation may only be used to stress out an organic target. If Mercer fails to stress out his target with a dice pool that includes Assimilate, the target gets to apply their effect die as Physical Stress against Mercer, even if his total was higher
• Limit: Exhausted - Shutdown BLACKLIGHT VIRUS and gain +1 PP. Spend a transition scene to recover BLACKLIGHT VIRUS.

Phagic Adaptation

Shapeshift D8; Mind Reading D10; Mimic D8

• SFX: -Blank-
• Limit: Genetic Memory - Mind Reading only works upon the human whose form Alex Mercer has assimilated, and Mimic may only be used to copy Specialties or Physical Powers his target possessed

Specialties

Acrobatics Master, Combat Expert, Menace Master, Vehicle Expert

Milestones

Who is Alex Mercer?

1 XP when you consume someone and assume their identity.

3 XP when you uncover secrets about Alex Mercer.

10 XP when you take responsibility for Alex Mercer's friends and family or destroy any links to that identity.

Heroic Monster

1 XP When your actions cause another hero to confront you.

3 XP When you aid another hero or convince them to aid you.

10 XP When you officially join a team or reject an offer to do so.