The last member of the Scales of Justice, replacing Metamorph, the Mandrill of 1000 Faces.


Chameleon (Joy Redscale)
PL 10 (150 pp)

Abilities: Str 14, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 14 [24 pp]

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

Skills: Acrobatics 1 (+3), Bluff 8 (+10, +14 vs. those who might find her attractive), Climb 1 (+3), Concentration 0 (+2), Diplomacy 4 (+6, +10 vs. those who might find her attractive), Disguise 4 (+6), Drive 1 (+3), Escape Artist 0 (+2), Gather Information 6 (+8), Handle Animal 1 (+3), Intimidate 4 (+6), Investigate 4 (+6), Knowledge (civics) 2 (+4), Knowledge (business) 2 (+4), Knowledge (behavioral science) 2 (+4), Knowledge (current events) 2 (+4), Knowledge (popular culture) 2 (+4), Knowledge (streetwise) 8 (+10), Language (Saurian, native), Medicine 1 (+3), Notice 6 (+8), Perform (acting) 4 (+6), Pilot 1 (+3), Ride 1 (+3), Search 4 (+6), Sense Motive 8 (+10), Sleight of Hand 4 (+6), Stealth 8 (+10), Survival 2 (+4), Swim 1 (+4) [23 pp, 92 pp]

Feats: Ambidexterity, Assessment, Attack Focus (melee) 2, Attractive 1, Connected, Contacts, Diehard, Improved Aim, Improved Initiative 1, Power Attack, Sneak Attack 2, Stunning Attack, Trance
Challenge* (can feint with Bluff as a move action)
[16 pp]
*Feat from the Mastermind’s Manual

Powers:
Iguanadon ‘powers’ Container 1 (Speed 1, Protection 1, Super-Senses 3 (Extended 2 (voice*), Low-light vision)) [5]

Shapeshifting 5 (add 25 pp of abilities, Flaw: Limited (only other saurians / reptiles / fish / birds)), [35]

Morph 2 (any humanoid, Power Feat:
Alternate Power – Morph 2 (any animal)), [3]

Elongation 2 (Extra: Action 1 (free)), [4]

Growth 4 (+8 Str, +4 Con, -1 Atk/-1 Def, +4 Grapple, -4 Stealth, +2 Intimidate, 10’ Space, 10’ Reach, 8-16’ tall, 500-4,000 lbs, +5 Str for CC, +5’ ground move, Power Feat:
Alternate Power – Shrinking 8 (Extra: Normal Strength, +2 Atk/Def, -8 Grapple, +8 Stealth, -4 Intimidate, 1-2’ tall, 1-8 lbs, ½ Str for CC),
Alternate Power – Regeneration 18 (Recovery Bonus 7, Ability Damage 2 (/hour), Recovery Rate 9 (Bruised 1 (/round), Injured 3 (/minute), Staggered 3 (/minute), Disabled 2 (/hour), Flaw: Duration 2 (concentration))), [18]

Concealment 3 (visual and scent, Flaw: Blending) [3]
[68 pp]

*A Saurian of Iquanadon heritage can project its voice through the horn like structure atop it’s head, increasing the range at which it can be heard and understood 100x, giving it a ‘natural megaphone.’

Abilities 24 + Atk/Def 16 + Saves 3 + Skills 23 + Feats 16 + Powers 68 = 150 pp

Joy was a very focused young woman throughout her schooling, and quickly ended up working in law enforcement, and then as part of a government anti-gang task force, where her job was to infiltrate youth gangs and serve as a combined ‘mole’ and ‘narc.’

She was always adaptable in nature, hanging out with a fair cross-section of people, and finding something about just about anyone that she could ‘latch onto’ and use to fit in. But after a few years of this sort of undercover work, her natural talent underwent a dramatic change, and her actual *body* began to subtly change to fit the roles she was playing, something which she herself hardly noticed, but her rarely seen police associates at ‘work’ began to notice, and find increasingly creepy.

In the distant past, her kind had been able to shift the pigments in their skin, to better camouflage themselves against predators, but this ability had been long lost. At first, she thought that perhaps she was some sort of throwback, but when an infiltration went wrong, weapons flew and she found herself striking back as a ten foot tall juggernaut of armor-plated destruction, with a massive mace-like tail bludgeoning her attackers into submission, Joy realized that she was something *more* than just a ‘throwback.’

Recognizing that her talents were suitable for far more than infiltrating gangs of rowdy kids, she began working for faceless figures in the upper echelons of the government, infiltrating all sorts of groups. Businessmen, diplomats, aides to important political figures, underworld criminal groups, all became her second home, and she played many roles, and betrayed hundreds of powerful people, during those years working for the shadow company.

She received her toughest job yet, to infiltrate the Scales of Justice, as not all agencies within the government entirely trusted Doctor Scales’ famous record of lucky finds and convenient discoveries… But her powers failed to prepare her for a leader who could read and control minds, and, for now, she is as trapped as the rest of her team-mates, her true motives twisted and obscured, replaced with loyalty to Doctor Scale. Ironically, in the months that she’s been serving as a Scale of Justice, she’s probably done more ‘good’ than she would have working for the Company, and, more importantly, she’s actually being *recognized* for it, and not simply shuffled off to another top-secret assignment that nobody can ever know of.

Doctor Scale’s manipulations have played to this buried longing for recognition and acceptance for herself, instead of her ‘utility’ as one of the many masks and lies she can live, and so she has fallen into his thrall. In truth, she’s never *really* craved recognition, and was content for years to live this shadowy half-life, but the Doctor’s spells have flagged the flames of old resentments and brought this small facet of her personality to the forefront, reminding her of her teen years, when she was the envy of her drama-class peers for her acting skills, and allowing her to be famous, as herself, for the first time.

The fact that unmasking the mask and having her flaunt her abilities has greatly compromised her effectiveness for undercover work in the future is something of a delightful irony in the Doctor’s eyes… He wants to make her enjoy her newfound fame and popularity, and yet also to insure that she *can never go back.*

As for her team-mates, Joy, as always, fits in well, and has taken to nagging Veloci-Raptor for his ‘laziness’ and ‘sense of entitlement,’ with the two having a sense of rivalry, and yet that masking her very real irritation at how he never seems to have to work for anything, lounging about and never studying to master any of the seemingly endless things he ‘figures out.’

In a fight, Joy takes a large armored form with some form of potent natural Strike (her favorite being an ankylosaur, modeled on an old boyfriend), and then uses Assessment to choose a target (from under cloak of Concealment), move to within near the target, take Improved Aim, and then Power Attack a Stunning Attack to knock them silly. Note that her Large size and her fast Elongation allows her to make a ‘melee’ attack on a foe up to 15’ away! If seriously hurt, she will back off, re-Conceal in a safe location, and enter her healing trance, which requires full Concentration, but is sufficient to purge her body of any injury.