Opal (Calliope ‘Calli’ Kafkoulas)
PL 10 (130 pp)

Abilities: Str 10, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 16 [22 pp]

Attack: Melee +2, Ranged +2, +6 with opal constructs [4 pp]
Defense: +4 (+2 flat-footed) [8 pp]
Initiative: +3
Damage +0 hand to hand, +10 with opal constructs
Saves: Toughness +2 (*), Fort +2, Ref +3, Will +1 [0 pp]

Skills: Acrobatics 4 (+7), Bluff 4 (+7, +11 vs. those who might find her attractive), Climb 0 (+0), Computers 1 (+3), Concentration 0 (+1), Craft (artistic) 2 (+4), Diplomacy 4 (+7, +11 vs. those who might find her attractive), Disguise 1 (+4), Escape Artist 0 (+3), Gather Information 2 (+5), Handle Animal 0 (+3), Intimidate 0 (+3), Knowledge (life sciences) 4 (+6), Knowledge (physical sciences) 1 (+3), Knowledge (current events) 2 (+4), Knowledge (civics) 1 (+3), Knowledge (popular culture) 2 (+4), Language (English, native), Language (Greek), Language (Italian), Medicine 2 (+3), Notice 2 (+3), Perform (piano) 2 (+5), Perform (dance) 2 (+5), Ride 1 (+4), Search 0 (+2), Sense Motive 4 (+5), Stealth 0 (+3), Survival 0 (+1), Swim 1 (+1)
[11 pp, 44 ranks in skills]

Feats: Attack Specialization (opal constructs) 2, Attractive 1, Benefit 1 (wealth), Trance
[5 pp]

Powers:
Create Object 10 (Extras: Action 1 (movement), Damaging, Impervious, Movable, Power Feats: Affects Insubstantial 1, Progression 1, Selective, Stationary), [64]
Immunity 9 (life support, Flaw: Limited (only when inside her opal shield)), [5]
Environmental Control 3 (daylight intensity light, 25’ radius, Extra: Link +0 to EC (dim light), Flaws: Limited (only when her opal shield is active), Range 1 (touch)), [2]
Environmental Control +2 (dim light, 26-100’ radius, Extra: Link +0 to EC (daylight), Flaws: Limited (only when her opal shield is active), Range 1 (touch)) [1]
[72 pp]

Abilities 22 + Combat 12 + Saves 0 + Skills 11 + Feats 5 + Powers 72 = 130 pp

As a movement action, can repair damaged constructs, move constructs (including the one she is ‘riding in’) or create a non-attack construct. She must use a standard action to ‘attack’ if she wants to slam (or constrict) someone with a construct. Floating inside one of her Selective constructs, resembling an ovoid opal, she has total cover, and the construct itself must be penetrated before a damaging effect can reach her. Her own attacks are unaffected.

‘Calli’ was born two days before her identical twin sister, ‘Nemo,’ and while much is made of the ‘special relationship’ and ‘shared language’ and ‘unique connection’ between identical twins, Calli and Nemo could never stand each other. When Calli sees her sister, all she can see is someone who looks exactly like her, but does *everything wrong,* and the one thing the sisters truly share is a smouldering disdain for each other.

Rapidly poo-poohing any notions of dressing them similarly, they insisted on differing their looks, and wore very different clothes, as much as they were allowed to do so, being raised by well-to-do parents (a Greek-American businessman who owned his own newspaper and an Italian-American lobbyist, neither of whom spent much time at home, due to their hectic work-schedules, and their incessant political clashes when they were in the house together…), and sent off to uniform-dress private schools.

Calli became the social butterfly, always smartly dressed and using make-up from an early age to heighten her natural beauty. She allowed her wavy dark brown hair to grow long, and added blonde streaks on a whim that have pretty much become her trademark. Whenever given the chance, she will dress ‘up’ to a situation, often in classy evening wear. Calli performed well at preparatory school, and began a pre-med career in college, which was side-tracked for a year when she found a steady boyfriend who, like her, had agreed to ‘wait until they were married.’ They ended up taking a year off together to do volunteer work in Africa, and there Calli’s life changed forever when she was dragged into a mystical conflict that had lain dormant for many centuries. After a harrowing encounter with strange cultists, Calli and Ben escaped into a series of underground caverns, and were forced to work together to navigate the unknown darkness. The shared danger inspired Calli to tell Ben that she was ‘ready,’ and in the stress of the life-threatening situation, Ben admitted to Calli that he wasn’t, and never would be, having been relieved to find a girlfriend who didn’t want to ‘go to the next level,’ since his political aspirations would be over in a second if he ‘came out.’

While he was picking himself up off the ground, rubbing his cheek, Calli ran into the darkness, and through her tears, soon saw a soft light in the darkness. Following it, she stumbled upon a strange glowing gemstone, one that resembled an oversized opal. Touching it, she was transformed, and Calli became infused with the bound slumbering life-essence of an entity that could not even remember its own name, and whom she called ‘Opal.’

‘Opal’ had been sealed away from the light for centuries due to the erosion of her sanity. With fantastic powers, she had deemed herself judge, jury and executioner of the ‘will of the gods,’ using her powers to burn away all that she judged ‘impure.’ Only a second cosmic force, as dark and sheltering as she was harsh and bright, contained her essence within this fragment of stone, at the cost of its own existence.

Rising like a phoenix from the ground, which she thrust out of her way with massive construct of opaline force, lighting up the night around her, and sweeping away the cultists who had been uprooting the local village in search for the aid workers. Generations ago, the village had been settled by devotees of those who overthrew the Opaline Entity, entrusted to ensure that she was never disturbed. But over many centuries, the tales grew distorted and the true nature of the sacred trust forgotten, so that the descendents many times removed knew only legends that a ‘great force of darkness’ fell here, defeated by some champion.

When she rose from the earth, Opal was seen by some as the champion reborn, by others as a threat, and in her rage over the betrayal by her fiancé, Calli unleashed the power of the Opaline entity mercilessly, having never wanted to come to Africa in the first place, only brought in tow by Ben, who, it now turned out, only wanted to be a social worker because it looked good on his resume!

She carried herself out of Africa, in a glistening sphere of opaline force, wreaking havoc on anything that tried to stop her, torn by warring instincts that overshadowed her own will. It took a half-dozen superhumans to bring her down, and she remained uncontrolled and savage until her sister came to visit her in prison. For the first time, she felt happy to see her sister, and reached her hand through the supposedly impenetrable barrier to clutch her sisters hand, and a blast of power destroyed the room around them. Opal flew off in her trademark opal shield of force, while her sister sat stunned in the center of the destruction as new power flooded into her body. The entity known as Twilight had been trapped in endless fight with Opal, and now she too was free, in a new body of her own, able to take the fight to her eternal nemesis. Unlike Opal, Twilight was less draconian in her ‘hostile takeover,’ and Nemo retains her own personality, and has insisted that she will not kill her sister, that Twilight must find a way to bind her powers, or allow her sister to control the entity within her.

Calli is coming to terms with the Opaline entity, which has only fragments of its own original memories and personality, and is now hopelessly interwoven with Calli’s own feelings and recollections. Primarily through Calli’s intervention, Opal has not yet killed anyone, but her actions are definitely violent and destructive, as the entity is outraged that the peoples of Earth are not ‘properly accepting their place’ as her meek and humble worshippers. She is *supposed* to have a faithful army marching behind her to sweep these ingrateful mud-people before her! It’s all gone wrong, and she can’t control her temper, or these weak human feelings that constantly foil her plans, long enough to assemble the sort of power-base she needs to meet her goals.