Sunday, February 21, 2016

Trekker

Secret Identity: Trekker
Name: Patrick Cavanagh
Age: ??
Gender: M
Height: 5'8"

Weight: 190 lbs
Level: 1
Experience Points: 0
Player: Chris
Super Powers and Super Skills:
1. Teleportation: Maximum Range = 500000000" (473485 miles), PR = 8 per use. 
        a. Limitation: He can only carry inanimate matter when teleporting.  He cannot bring other living
2. Heightened Speed (Multiple Teleports): +820" ground movement, +28 initiative.
3. Adaptation: PR = 1 point of Power when used to defend against an attack, activates automatically (no action or PR cost)

Equipment: Caduceus (staff): Accuracy: +3, HTH + 1d6 damage

Statistics:
Strength: 10
Endurance: 18
Agility: 12
Intelligence: 10
Charisma: 10

Hit Points: 11
Power Points: 50

Carrying Capacity: 266 lbs
Hand-to-Hand Damage: 1d6

Accuracy: +1 (Including Power Mods)
Damage Modifier: +1 (Including Power Mods)

Detect Hidden: 8
Detect Danger:  12

Reaction Modifiers: 0 from Good 0 from Evil

Movement: Ground:  40 per turn
Movement: Teleportation: 860 per turn
Healing Rate: 2 hit points per day

Occupation: Traveling Photojournalist
Security Clearance: 6
Wealth: 10

Skills:
Fine Arts (Photography)
Scholar (Mythology)
Luck Points: 1

AKA Emissary and Harbinger

Patrick was born to upper middle class parents in a suburb of Our Fair City.  Enjoying a comfortable childhood, he developed an interest in photography at an early age, earning spare cash as a portrait photographer while in high school.  He attended college, pursuing a fine arts degree (with a focus in photography), but lacked the discipline to complete his studies, dropping out after two years.

He also developed an early and abiding interest in mythology, particularly Greek and Roman myth.  He took a few courses in courses in comparative mythology while still in college, but conflated his serious academic studies with the ancient astronaut theories of Zacharia Sitchin (Sitchin's theories concerned the gods of ancient Sumeria, but Patrick applied them more generally to all the gods of ancient myth, including the Greek gods).

A lifelong hiker, Patrick set out to see the world, hitchhiking across the globe, visiting ancient temples and ruins, museums housing religious relics and works of art depicting mythological figures, etc., earning a modest living (enough to support his nomadic lifestyle) by selling photos of the great works.

While he was photographing ruins in Crete, an earthquake trapped him under a pile of collapsed rubble.  While trapped, he experienced a vision of Hermes Diaktoros (Hermes in his capacity as messenger of the Greeks gods), who confirmed Patrick's theories about the Olympians being "space gods" and stated that they would soon return to Earth to end the current "Iron Age" and usher in a new "Golden Age of Man."  Furthermore, the gods had chosen Patrick to act as the harbinger of their return and an emissary between the gods and humanity.  To this end, they granted Patrick the power to "trek between worlds," the better to act as an agent of the gods. 

Hermes vanished in a cloud of mist, after which Patrick awakened from his vision, mysteriously freed from the rubble.  Over the following weeks, he discovered that he had the power to warp spacetime, enabling him to puncture holes into an alternate universe (which he believes corresponds to the Greek underworld, Hades) in order to teleport vast distances in our dimension, and to simulate superhuman speed by combining "micro-jumps" with a time dilation effect.


Patrick has chosen to use his newfound gifts as a superhero while awaiting further instructions from the space gods...