Captain
Thunder (Astrid
Tondar)
PL 10 (150 pp)
Abilities: Str 14/30, Dex 14/30,
Con 14/30, Int 14/28, Wis
12, Cha 12
[20 pp]
Attack: Melee +4 (+8 in hand to hand), Ranged +4 [8 pp]
Defense: +8, +12 in thunderbolt form (+2 flat-footed) [8
pp]
Initiative: +6/+14
Damage: +2 hand to hand, +10 when ‘charged up’ (with a +5
Strike Aura ‘carrier’), +10 as in thunderbolt form
Saves: Toughness +2/+10, Fort +2/+10, Ref +2/+10, Will +5
[4 pp]
Skills: Acrobatics 2 (+4/+12), Bluff 1 (+2), Climb 2
(+4/+12), Computers 4 (+6/+13), Concentration 2 (+3), Craft (mechanical) 2
(+4/+11), Craft (electronics) 1 (+3/+10), Diplomacy 4 (+5), Disable Device 1
(+3/+10), Disguise 0 (+1), Drive 2 (+4/+12), Escape Artist 0 (+2/+10), Gather
Information 2 (+3), Handle Animal 0 (+1), Intimidate 4 (+5), Investigate 4
(+6/+13), Knowledge (civics) 1 (+3/+10), Knowledge (tactics) 4 (+6/+13),
Language (English, native), Language (German), Medicine 2 (+3), Notice 4 (+5),
Pilot 4 (+6/+14), Profession (administrator) 2 (+3), Profession (career military)
4 (+7), Search 2 (+4/+11), Sense Motive 0 (+1), Stealth 2 (+4/+12), Survival 2
(+3), Swim 1 (+3/+11)
[15 pp, 60 ranks in skills]
Feats: Connected, Contacts, Benefits 2 (security
clearance, wealth 1), Accurate Attack, All-Out Attack, Defensive Attack, Power
Attack, Assessment, Attack Specialization 2 (hand to hand), Dodge Focus 4,
Improved Initiative 1, Improved Grab, Improved Grapple, Improved Pin,
Chokehold, Improved Throw, Improved Trip, Evasion 1
[23]
Dodge Focus 4 (Flaw: Only in lightning form)
[2]
[25 pp]
Powers:
Alternate Form (energy) 12 (sustained, transforms
into a living thunderbolt, Insubstantial 3 (electricity, Power Feat:
Selective), Flight 7 (1000 MPH), Strike 10 (Extra: Aura, Power
Feat: Selective), Immunity 18 (life support, starvation / thirst, need
for sleep, critical hits, fire, Flaw: Duration (sustained)),
Power Feat: Alternate Power –
Alternate Form (energized human form) 12 (sustained,
body is supercharged with electrical energy, Enhanced Strength 16 (Flaw:
Duration (sustained)), Enhanced Dexterity 16 (Flaw: Duration
(sustained)), Enhanced Constitution 16 (Flaw: Duration (sustained)), Enhanced
Intelligence 14 (Flaw: Duration (sustained)), Regeneration 20* (Ability
Damage 5 (/minute), Bruised 3 (/round with no rest), Injured 6 (/round with no
rest), Staggered 6 (/round with no rest), Flaw: Duration (sustained)), Speed
2, Super-Strength 2 (Flaw: Duration (sustained), Power Feat: Thunderclap), Strike
5 (electrical, Extra: Aura, Power Feat: Selective), Immunity 6 (electricity,
need for sleep, Flaw: Duration (sustained)), Quickness 4 (25x speed,
Flaws: Mental Tasks only, Duration (sustained))
[61]
Regeneration 10 (Resurrection 10, Flaw: Source
(electricity)) [5]
Super-Senses 4 (Detect (electricity), Acute,
Action, Ranged)) [4]
[70 pp]
*Since she can't maintain her energized state while
Unconscious, she doesn't have any Recovery Rate applicable to that state. Her
inability to Recover from a Disabled state is less clear, but she describes it
as being too hard to focus in that state, that she feels like the energy is
'out of whack' or something.
Abilities 20 + Combat 16 + Saves 4 + Skills 15 + Feats
25 + Powers 70 = 150
Astrid Tondar, a Navy helicopter
pilot (rank captain) was struck by lightning and transmuted into living electricity.
She reformed her body later, and now retired (she joined the Navy after high
school, and completed her 20 years in by the age of 38), she functions as a
super-hero.
Astrid was a tom-boy in high school, good at basketball
and mechanics (thanks to her car-nut dad), and over her 20 years of service,
intimidated most men with her outspoken manners, perfectionist nature (if it’s
not being done her way, it’s being done *wrong*) and appearance. Her heritage
comes across in her height, piercing blue eyes and close-cropped blonde hair,
but she’s not at all feminine, with tight muscles, small breasts and a ‘man’s
face.’ More than one guy she’s been interested has been completely convinced
that she ‘doesn’t swing that way,’ to her frustration… It wasn’t until her
‘retirement,’ that she managed to land a man long enough to have a son
(although the father and she divorced two years later), and she’s currently
fifty some years old (although she certainly doesn’t look it!), raising a
teenager on her own, while ‘heroing.’
The electrical energy that courses through her allows her
to transform into pure electricity, and in that state she can fly at over a
thousand miles per hour as a bolt of living lightning. In her human form, the
electricity still amplifies her strength, reaction speeds, toughness and
healing rate to superhuman levels, as well as giving a hefty jolt to anyone
whom she strikes with force. She has learned a few stunts, such as clapping her
hands and creating a deafening peal of thunder, which she often does to start
off a fight, disorienting potential attackers (and sometimes discouraging those
who aren’t eager to fight an actual super-hero).
‘Captain’ Thunder still works for the Department of
Defense, and has an office in [campaign city], which her commanding officer
never fails to point out is nicer than his, with a closing door and everything.
Those who appointed her recognize that her hours will be unpredictable, and
expect that she may well catch up on her sleep while ‘at work’ after a night of
fighting crime. Her superiors have never quite twigged to the fact that she
doesn’t need to sleep any longer, and merely chooses to do so from time to time
because she gets ‘cranky’ (or, more accurately, irrational and violent) if she
goes more than five days without. Despite her ‘attachment,’ she has a lot of
static at her current posting, and finds it difficult to cut through the red
tape and deliberate foot-dragging from her resentful co-workers over her
‘special treatment’ to get anything in the way of requisitions.
Her younger ex-husband, police officer and volunteer
fireman Carl Morris, also lives in town, and spends a fair amount of time
checking in on their son Jamie, of whom he is seriously considering trying to
take custody, having the notion that Astrid isn’t a ‘good role-model’ since his
brief marriage to a superhuman woman has promoted in his a parochial notion
that she should ‘act more like a woman should’ and not ‘confuse the boy’ with
‘mixed messages about the differences between men and women.’ (While he always
thought of himself as progressive-minded, Carl really just couldn’t adjust to
not being the big hero come to rescue the fair damsel, at the end of the day.)
Jamie, for his part, is really sick and tired of playing
pivot-man in this decade long struggle between his parents and recently blew up
and told them so. Of course, neither of his parents had the slightest clue what
a pivot-man was and now he’s gotten them to agree on something (for the first
time in years!), that he’s grounded from surfing the internet until he’s 20...