The Library/Ajax
Name: Daniel Warburton
Alternate Identity: Ajax
Age: 25
Height: 6'2"
Weight:
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: Yoruba
Statistics[edit]
Power Level: 8
Power Points: 120
Initiative: +5 Defense: 21/16 Base Speed: 50/100/200 (Leaping 20/40/80)
Attack Bonuses: Melee +13 Ranged +5 Mental +3
Saves: Damage +13 Fortitude +9 Reflex +5 Will: +7
Abilities: STR 20 (+9) DEX 20 (+5) CON 20 (+9) INT 12 (+1) WIS 16 (+3) CHA 10 (+0)
Skills: Acrobatics +10, Athletics +10, Handle Animal +1 (Ride +6), Intimidate +10, Knowledge (Current Affairs) +2, Notice +7, Profession (Law) +5, Sense Motive +4
Feats: Ambidexterity, Durability, Endurance, Iron Will, Power Attack, Takedown Attack, Two-Weapon Fighting
Powers:
ALCHEMICAL SERUM [+4] [CHEMICAL]:
Super Strength (Extras: Amazing Save (Dmg), Leaping)
Super Constitution
Regeneration
Running
AMAZING SAVE (WILL) [+2] [TRAINING]
STRIKE [+2] [TRAINING]
Weakness: Chemical Dependency.
Cost: Abilities 38, Combat 20, Skills 8, Feats 14, Powers 50, Weakness -10, Total: 120
Biography[edit]
Origins
- Born in West Africa, taken as a war captive as a small boy.
- His adoptive father, Thomas Henry Warburton, Viscount [TBD - looking at real ones to twist] bought him at a slave market in Salaga (northern Ghana).
- Wrapped up in him wanting to prove that nurture, rather than nature determined a man's character.
- Taken back to England and raised with his own son and daughters; always told he was "found while on expedition".
- Unlike the Viscount's biological son, James, excelled at sports and martial studies the Viscount (a xenophile and dabbler in many things) favoured.
- Both boys joined the Viscount while he was on diplomatic post in Singapore; encouraged to learn the local fighting styles.
- When they returned to England, they brought an instructor with them.
- Went to university [no idea what profession he was being aimed towards - perhaps law?].
Crisis
- As an adult he was framed (by his adoptive brother, James) for murder and robbery (a servant was killed during a break-in, the stolen goods planted in his possessions).
- His father's enemies were involved in the plot, police and judges were bribed.
- Tried and sentenced to death; sentence carried out but his hanging was staged to make it look like he died.
- Transferred to the lab of an alchemist [who needs a sinister Dr Somebody name] trying to perfect the moral character of a man - by "fixing" convicts.
- His Elixir to Grant Virtuous Morality was a failure; perhaps because Ajax wasn't corrupt and debase in the first place.
- Instead he was granted enhanced strength, stamina and healing, his physicality boosted to the limit of human potential (and beyond).
- Feigning death after the transformation, he was able to break free and stole a sample of the elixir as he escaped.
The Calling
- Found at some point by agents of the Ministry offering him a way to get his life back (since he was legally dead and a convicted criminal).
- In return for service and he vial of the elixir he took, they would give him an identity and a job, and work behind the scenes to clear his (real) name, along with find out how it happened.
- Some months into working for the Ministry, he began to get progressively more ill - their alchemist discovered the elixir was unstable and to avoid side-effects, he needed weekly doses of a tonic that brought the alchemical processes in his body back into equilibrium.
- The Ministry's alchemist theorises that by adding specially-designed tonics to those already resident in his body, other effects might be possible.
