Arcadian Academy

A PbP game of Mutants & Masterminds 3e, run by JohnStarGazer.

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Main Cast

Our ragtag band of teenage protagonists!

Lupe Zitlal, "Silvereyes" (played by Unka Josh)

Lupe Zitlal's grandfather was naturalized after his service in Viet Nam; her father took the family money and family connections and turned that into a growing construction company. Lupe grew up around the all-consuming family business; from her father, she inherited a strong will, stamina, and alertness.

From her mother's side of the family, she inherited something else entirely - a dark sphere that, she was told, belonged to her alone, as she had inherited the silver eyes that, it was said, sometimes appeared in her mother's line. (That lineage traced back to an ancestor who, it is said, washed up on the coast in 1650, explaining that their ship had sunk in the ocean.)

When Lupe touched the sphere, it began to shine - and when, shortly thereafter, she saw a truck lose control and flip towards a crowd of pedestrians, it opened, now resembling a large silver eye, and projected a force field that stopped the truck!

Since then, Lupe has started to explore the full potential of the Eye, but it's still mysterious, and she's nervous about pushing it too far, especially after a test for top flight speed left her looking down at Mars. She also wonders about the strange language that the Eye communicates in - it resembles no known language on Earth, and yet she understands it instinctively...

Complications

Dependents - Lupe's family has a way of getting caught up in SG's affairs, especially her father's construction company. ("Red Eagle Construction")

Enemy - The Eye is open again at last. This power cannot be overlooked.

Fame - Lupe wound up on YouTube stopping a truck from crashing into a crowd, before she knew how to fully use the Eye. She has no secret identity.

Motivation - Responsibility of Power

Abilities (26pp)

Strength 0, Stamina 3, Agility 3, Dexterity 0, Fighting 0, Intellect 1, Awareness 6, Presence 0

Skills (15pp)

Expertise (construction) 4 (+5), Insight 2 (+8), Perception 6 (+12), Persuasion 6 (+6), Ranged Combat (the Eye) 6 (+6), Stealth 2 (+5), Technology 2 (+3), Treatment 2 (+3)

Advantages (4pp)

Luck 3, Languages (Spanish)

Powers (63pp)

Marked For The Eye - Senses 2 (darkvision), Enhanced Advantage 1 (Languages 1: ???), Regeneration 1, Movement 1 (environmental adaptation: zero-G) = 6pp

Silver Aura - Flight 3, Immunity 10 (life support), Protection 9 = 25pp

The Eye Sees All - Senses 3 (extended sight 3) = 3pp

Silver Beam - Ranged Damage 10 (precise, extended range 4) = 25+4pp

• alt: Force Field Structures - Create 8 (precise, selective)
• alt: Crowd Control Mode - Damage 8 (area: burst, selective)
• alt: Precision Force Waves - Move Object 10 (precise, affects insubstantial 2)
• alt: High Speed Mode - Movement 5 (space travel 2, permeate 3), Flight +15 (distracting)

Defense & Initiative (12pp)

Initiative 0

Dodge 1 (+4), Fortitude 2 (+5), Parry 4 (+4), Toughness 0 (+12), Will 5 (+11)

Offense

Silver Beam (range 400/800/1600ft, damage 10, precise)

Equipment

Smart phone

Stefan Skarsgård, "Healbot" (played by Max)

(It's pronounced "scars-gored", more or less.)

A Swedish exchange student who was trapped in a burning building during the Silver Storm and subsequently fused with an experimental first responder robot sent to rescue him. The technological half of him being technically property of the US government caused overwhelming complications in trying to bring him back home after the incident, and eventually his family just moved to the States and enrolled him in the Arcadian in the hopes of helping him cope with his transformation.

Stefan's body is now a stable yet highly flexible colony of techno-organic nanomachines, most of the time resembling a stockier, heavier and somewhat abstracted sculpture of his former self in what looks like dull grey metal, although his proportions and features can shift significantly according to his moods and needs. There's no real point in trying to mask his identity, so instead of a costume he just wears regular street clothes - jeans, sneakers and T-shirts - but on missions he does like to don a sleeveless white hoodie with a big cross outlined in red on the back; it just feels more legit, somehow, and makes him feel more like part of a real team.

Cheerfully stoic and calm by nature, he's actually taking quite well to his new existence, his main internal source of stress being just a nagging desire to belong, born of feeling like a freak among strangers in a foreign land ('cos, well, he is). While no life of the party, as such, he's always pleasant to be around, mostly a bit of a goof, quick to make friends and loyal to an extreme.

Complications

Enemy - Edward Aardman, a rogue scientist who originally designed the nanite technology and wants it back

Motivation - acceptance, responsibility

Abilities (50pp)

Strength 8, Stamina 10, Agility 0, Dexterity 0, Fighting 0, Intellect 2, Awareness 3, Presence 2

Skills (15pp)

Close Combat 8 (+8), Insight 3 (+6), Perception 3 (+6), Persuasion 4 (+6), Technology 4 (+6), Treatment 8 (+10)

Advantages (5pp)

Improved Grab, Improved Hold, Interpose, Languages (Swedish), Teamwork

Powers (35pp)

Malleable - Elongation 1, Feature (mutable features), Movement 1 (wall-crawling), Speed 1 (60ft) = 4pp

Medical nanites - Regeneration 10 (persistent; alternate effect) = 20+1pp

• alternate: Healing 18 (limited to others; persistent, stabilize)

Resilient - Immortality 5 (limited: extreme cold), Immunity 5 (aging, disease, poison, suffocation) = 10pp

Defense & Initiative (15pp)

Initiative 0

Dodge 6 (+6), Fortitude 0 (+10), Parry 6 (+6), Toughness 0 (+10), Will 3 (+6)

Offense

Unarmed +8 (close, damage 8)

Grab +8 (close, strength 13)

Equipment

Smart phone

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