Marcie Peppin
STEEL ANGEL / SILVERHAWK / SILVERWIND / IRON ANGEL? (she can’t pick one!)
ST: 11 (10), DX: 15 (60), IQ: 12 (20), HT: 11 (10) (100 CP)
Combat Reflexes (15), Acute Hearing +3 (6) (21)
Bad Sight (Farsighted, wears Contacts) (-10), Miserliness (-10), Pacifism: Cannot Kill (-15), Sense of Duty (to friends and family) (-5) (-40 CP)
Quirks including Mild Feminist (prefers female singers, actors, authors and politicians, avoids makeup, never wears dresses, etc) (-1), Obnoxiously Cheerful & Friendly (-1), Neat Freak, has a system for everything (-1), Nosy / Curious (-1), Can do nothing with her hair, hacks it off herself (-1) (-5 CP)
Acrobatics 1-13, Running 1/2-8, Judo 1/2-12, Staff (default from Spear) 0-11
Climbing 1-14, Stealth 1/2-13, Spear 1/2-13
Brawling 1-15, Jumping 1-15
English 0-12, R/W: English 0-11
Botany 1/2-9, Chemistry 1/2-9, Physics 1/2-9, Ecology/Naturalist 4-12
Agronomy 1-11, Orienteering 2-12, Surveying 1-11, Meteorology 4-13, Tracking 1-11, Survival: Woods 1-11, Lip Reading 1-11
First Aid 1/2-11, Scrounging 1-12 (24 CP)
100 CP Total
Winged Flight (30), Super-Flight x1 (20), Claws (Swing Cutting, Thrust Impaling, Nuisance Effect: Only Strikers –10%) (36), 2 Strikers (+1 hex reach +10, Nuisance Effect: Flight roll to use while Flying, lose 5 yds height on a failed roll –10%) (18), Damage Resistance: +5 (15), Damage Resistance: +10 (Nuisance Effect: Must make a DX roll -40%, Accessibility Limit: Only 2 / turn -10%, Nuisance Effect: Flight roll or lose 5 yds height if used while Flying –10%) (12), Enhanced ST +11 (Only to Wing-Strikers and Flying Encumbrance -40%, No Extra Fatigue -10%) (60), Reflection Power 1 vs Light (SE: Reflects as Power 1 Flash centered on self +/-0%) (4), Damage Control 1 (3) (198 CP)
Vulnerability (3d, Sonic) (-30), Vulnerability (3d, Vibratory) (-15), Weirdness Magnet (-15) (-60 CP)
[Super-Quirk]
No Shadow in metal form (No extra CP, replaces appearance-related quirk as her hair is no less weird than the rest of her in metal form)
Damage Control 4-14
Flight 8-16 (12 CP)
+150 CP
Marci is a freshman, studying climatology and environmental science. Someday she wants to be a meteorologist, but probably doesn’t have the looks to pull it off (additionally she is a bit awkward socially). Personality-wise (and in appearance) is best summed up as Buffy's roommate Kathy from Living Conditions. She is outgoing, chirpy and likes to listen to music by fem-rock 'divas' like Madonna, No Doubt, the Cranberries, Sheryl Crow, Meredith Brooks, Garbage and Cher, while ironing her jeans and organizing and labeling everything in sight. She has a 'system' for everything, which leaves her very little time to take advantage of all the time she is saving in the process... Marci was raised by her divorced father, a high school science teacher who was also raising his two older sons. (Her feminist streak could be a reaction to growing up in such a testosterone heavy setting.) Having no patience with the educational standards at the baptist school where he taught, he ended up home schooling his children (allowing them to sit in on his classes during the day, and then teaching them at nights and on the weekends, generally by taking them hiking and using these camping trips as a sort of living laboratory to teach them about the natural world). As a result of being the home-schooled teachers kid, she didn’t have a lot of close friends growing up, and often is somewhat clueless about social interaction, just assuming that everyone is going to act like the adults and family members she did tend to associate with and be accepting and easygoing, and she will tend to avoid anyone who reacts poorly to her clumsy and blunt conversational gambits as being ‘weird,’ rude and / or high-strung.
She went on a month long hiking and caving expedition with some members of a local expeditionary club over the summer between high school and college, and found a water-smoothed oval of silvery stone or metal (probably hematite, she thinks) that she pocketed (against the ‘take nothing out’ rule) and has had made into a pendent that she wears around her neck to remember the expedition and her first time away from her family for any length of time (which she immensely enjoyed). Until she swiped this rock, she was considered a stickler for rules, and never seemed to defy authority. It was holding this silvery pebble, away from her father and his classrooms, the various authorities that she had followed all of her young life, that she finally realized that she could do whatever she wanted now, that she was the one who would make her own rules. Taking the stone from the cave was her first act of teenage rebellion, however timid by comparison to some, and she keeps it to remind her that she must now make her own rules to live by, instead of blindly accepting those of church or state or family. She has just discovered the concepts of philosophy, ethics and moral relativism, which were somewhat lacking in her fathers hard-science-centric curriculum… No doubt her freshman Intro to Philosophy class will expand her views considerably, if it doesn’t derail her from her hard scientific goals entirely and end up side-tracking her life.
Because of her Miserliness, she tends to improvise things (and will probably increase her Scrounging levels), and use things in unusual ways (a coffeemaker, for instance, serves as her hotplate, since she doesn’t drink coffee, but uses it to cook Ramen noodles, boil eggs and heat water for her hot cereal). She similarly tends to wear clothes that were gifts (and that no fashion-conscious person would be caught dead wearing), have a cheap steel neck-chain for her rock pendant, etc. She has a mountain bike instead of a car, and buys her books and CDs at the used racks of local stores. When she figures out how to rip CDs into MP3s, she will no doubt pillage all of her friends music collections, rather than buy them herself… Fortunately, her scholarship includes access to the cafeteria, and while she doesn’t overtly steal from it, she does squirrel away plenty of granola, apples, bagels and trail mix-type stuff to munch during her classes, as she prefers nibbling all day to eating big meals at any particular time (she fills up after a few bites).
Marci will develop wings that resemble liquid quicksilver, and that allow her to fly, protect her from damage to a limited extent, and strike out with razor edged pinions to slice at her foes. Liquid metal seems to flow over her body in a seconds time (as she activates her Damage Resistance advantage), although once it is generated, she can mute the color to a subtle shiny pallor just makes her look somewhat sickly (sweaty and pale) and an additional second is required for her Wings to grow out (as she activates her Winged Flight advantage). The metal seems to react with supernatural speed to danger, so that an attack approaching her, even one as fast as a Laser, will cause it to grow into a bulky protective sheath of metal, in a strangely organic scaled motif, with spines and crests and intricate whorls. Once the attack has ended, the armor will fade back as quickly into her skin, leaving only the barely noticeable grayish sheen. While so prepared, her skin will feel cool to the touch, and slightly greasy (although there is no secreted residue, it’s just a sensation). The Wings, once called forth, remain until dismissed, and react to her thoughts, lashing out to defend or attack as readily as to hold her aloft. They appear as long spars of metal that jut from her back, a sort of V-shaped backpack of silvery metal that rises a meter above each shoulder initially, resembling the sorts of things seen on giant robots in Japanese animation. A secondary spar, also a meter long, switchblades from this primary strut, and from these support arms, long blades of flexible razor-thin metal protrude like feathers, seeming to pour forth like liquid, and overlapped by an additional set of shorter vanes. The wings end up being a total of six feet in length each, at full extension, and the ‘V-shaped backpack’ is flexible as well, the two central support spars being able to flex and extend to point straight up, straight back or almost straight down (only 60 degrees of separation will remain on the ‘backbeat’). Their ‘resting’ position is the opposite, approximately 60 degrees apart, facing up and to the sides (and a few degrees back, so that they do not impair her shoulder movements). The ‘feathers’ may or may not be deployed at any given time, and extrude instantly from the ‘wingbones,’ which can fold up and sink back into her flesh at any time. Once the supports extend, additional metal ‘armor’ appears around her body, helping to provide support when she is airborne, and any pretense at looking ‘normal’ can be dispensed with, even if she somehow hides her wings (behind a curtain, or leaning out from behind a doorway, for instance). While armored up, or winged, her eyes become reflective silver, and she has taken to wearing sunglasses to hide this effect, as she prefers to keep the very basic level of ‘armor’ active at all times now, which also requires her to use a powder base to cut down the shine from her skin and make it a little pinker (despite her dislike of cosmetics). Even her hair will tend to appear greasy in this form, and when she is fully armored, the individual hairs will no longer be discernable, the entire mass being covered as one spiky wavy unit.
Her pendent will disappear during her initial transformation into a super-person, leaving behind the chain and setting, the ‘stone’ having vanished. Whether it was some bizarre alien metal, or extradimensional creature, or just a hunk of hematite that her fledgling powers seized upon and ripped apart, she’ll probably never know, although the increasingly strange things happening in her life of late tend to support one of the whackier interpretations…
Base Spd: 6.5, Move 6 (7.25 Running), Flight 24,
Encumbrance (Normal / Winged Flight)
None 22 lbs / 44 lbs Move 6 / 24
Light 44 lbs / 132 lbs 5 / 20
Medium 66 lbs / 220 lbs 4 / 16
Heavy 132 lbs / 330 lbs 3 / 12
Extra-Heavy 220 lbs / cannot fly 2 / -
Active Defenses (+1 for Combat Reflexes)
Dodge: 6
Parry: Brawl: 9, Judo: 8, Spear/Staff: 6
Block: -
Damage: Thrust: 1d-1, Swing: 1d+1, Punch: 1d-2 Cr (+1 for Brawling skill), Kick: 1d Cr (+1 for Brawling skill), Wing-Striker: 2d Imp or 4d Cut.
Light attacks striking her silvery skin surfaces tend to reflect as dazzling displays of harmless light blinding all in the area.
She will develop greater Damage Resistance (DR 6 to 12, and DR 12 ‘wing-block’ DR as well), greater wing-strength (+11 more hopefully), and wing-blades will increase to 50% armor piercing (+80%) and add +2 damage via the +15 CP Claws enhancement. Will likely add to personal Strength, a level of Chameleon and increase her Damage Control to 10 (SE takes 10 seconds to take effect, Touch Only and Affects Others). In the more mundane world, she will pick up Cartography and increase her Surveying skills, to reflect her newfound mapping potential (from her ability to fly), as well as pick up a few dots in Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, Anthropology, Computer Ops and Research to reflect her new courses and interests.
http://www.omnology.com/gurps-wings.html
"To calculate his Move penalty, divide his encumbrance weight by his ST score, then subtract 2. This conforms to the figures on p. B139 (and adds some intermediate steps)."
So Marci has a wing-Strength of 22, and if carrying a 180 lb man, her flying move is reduced by 6.18 (round up to 7). [If wing-ST is 33, her flying move would only be reduced by 3.4 (round up to 4) when carrying a 180 lb man.]
"If you want to know the character's maximum flying encumbrance, multiply (top flying Move + 2) by his ST score."
+22 CP [+44 CP]
Variant Striker
rules
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/daws3.htm#New%20Striker%20Rules
Marci would have 4d cut (14 CP), 2d imp (+5%), Reach C,1,2 (+35%) and Switchable (+10%). Her razor-edged metallic wing-strikers would cost 21 CP. If 50% Armor-Piercing, cost increases to 35 CP. [If wing-ST is 33, damage increases to 6d Cut or 3d+2 Imp, and cost to 31.5 CP or 52.5 CP if 50% Armor-Piercing.]
+21 to 35 CP depending on if Armor-Piercing [+32 to 53 CP, depending on if AP]
Would subtract;
2 Strikers (+1 hex reach, NE: Flight roll to use while flying, lose 5 yds
height on a failure -10%) (18)
Enh ST +11 (Only to wing-damage and flying encumbrance -40%, No fatigue -10%)
(60)
Claws (Sw Cut, Th Imp, Only to Strikers -10%) (36)
+3 CP in DR (max modifier -50%)