Black Bolt PL18

Black Bolt

Black Bolt was born to two of Attilan’s top geneticists, Agon, head of the ruling Council of Genetics, and Rynda, director of the Prenatal Care Center. Subjected to the mutagenic Terrigen Mist while still an embryo, Bolt was born with strange powers surpassing even the Inhumans’ norm. As an infant, he demonstrated certain energy-manipulative abilities which he could not yet control, particularly that of producing quasi-sonic energy of great destructive potential. To protect the community, he was placed inside a sound-proofed chamber and given an energy-harnessing suit. There he was schooled in the art of controlling his powers until the age of nineteen, when he was permitted to enter society.

A month after being awarded his freedom, Black Bolt discovered his younger brother Maximus in the process of making a treacherous pact with emissaries of the alien Kree. Attempting to stop the Kree ship before it escaped, Bolt used the forbidden power of his quasi-sonic voice to knock the ship out of the sky. When the ship crashed to Earth, it landed on the parliament, killing several key members of the Council of Genetics, including his parents, Agon and Rynda. The reverberations of his brother’s shout affected Maximus’s sanity and suppressed his nascent mental powers. Despite his guilt and silent protests, Black Bolt was obligated to accept the mantle of leadership of the Inhumans at age twenty.

Black Bolt’s first crisis in leadership came when his cousin Triton was briefly held captive by humans. Learning of Triton’s encounter upon his escape , Black Bolt decided that the Inhuman’ island of Attilan was in imminent danger of discovery by humanity. Black Bolt scouted out possible sites to which to move, and settled upon the remote Himalayan mountains. After the great migration, Black Bolt faced his second great crisis when his now mad brother Maximus unleashed the Trikon, three of the Inhumans’ worker drones who were transformed into energy-beings. The Trikon enabled Maximus to wrest the rule of the Inhuman from his brother and send Black Bolt and the other members of the Royal Family into exile. For the next few years, Black Bolt and his kinsmen wandered Asia, Europe, and finally America, in search of Medusa, his betrothed mate, who had been separated from the others during the battle with the Trikon. Eventually Black Bolt was reunited with Medusa and the Royal Family returned to Attilan and resumed the crown.

Black Bolt has led the Inhumans through some of the most turbulent times in their history, including several more attempts by Maximus to usurp the throne, revolts by the worker class, attacks by human renegades, the kidnapping of Medusa, the destruction and rebuilding of Attilan, the revelation of the Inhuman existence to humanity, and finally the second relocation of Attilan. Following the traditionally lengthy period of betrothal, Black Bolt and Medusa were wed.

BLACK BOLT, PL: 18;

INIT: +3, DEF: 17/13; Base Speed 30/60/120, Flight 75/150/9,830,400; MELEE +8(3S Fist), RANGED +8(15L Energy Blast).

SAVES: DMG +3, FORT +3, REF +3, WILL +2;

ABILITIES: STR 16 (+3), DEX 16 (+3), CON 16 (+3), INT 14 (+2), WIS 14 (+2), CHA 16 (+3)

SKILLS: Diplomacy +13/8, Innuendo* +20/15, Knowledge: Inhumans +8/6, Listen +12/10, Read Lips* +5/3, Sense Motive +10/8, Spot +12/1.

FEATS: Accurate Attack, Aerial Combat, Assessment, Detect, Dodge, Evasion, Headquarters, Inspire, Leadership.

POWERS:

• ENERGY CONTROL: ELECTRICAL +15 [extras: Absobtion, Shape, Field, Flight, Forcefeild;{stunt:Super Flight};source: Mutant
• DISINTEGRATION +18 [extras: Disruption, Area]; Flaw:Uncontrolled; source: Mutant

WEAKNESS: Disabled [min] - Needs Tuning fork to control Powers .