- Probe 17
- Jul 27, 2014
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Red Rain is coming down
Red Rain
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Kolbaius, the Outsider
quote:• Where do you come from?
quote:• Why did you come to Earth?
quote:• Why do you want to stay here (for now at least)?
Okay, sorry, sorry, we don't yell at other people, we don't yell at other people...
Alright, I know a lot of other aliens tend to come here when they're around my age. They wanna get what the human experience is all about. See what us... I mean, you Earthlings get up to. But I'm not like that. I may not have been born here, but Earth's all I've ever known. And just because other Squatters wanna show up NOW, when they think I've been spending my adolescence building up a dying planet for them, and make some big deal about me not "acting like myself", they can shove it up their... um... well, I suppose it depends on their specific adaptations, doesn't it? Look, I just don't want to leave here to "go back" to a life I never knew, and don't want to know. Earth is my home, and it always will be.
quote:• Why do your people want you to come home?
But that ALSO means we're "supposed" to value our own people above all else, because usually we're the only people we've got. So now that I'm on a planet with other living people, who raised me from childhood, who have been friends with me since childhood, who're helping me understand a world that I was never supposed to arrive in, they just don't get it. They expect me to be instinctively hostile to non-Squatter life, and to love them all to death just by virtue of us being the same species. But I'm not, and I don't, and they're pretty pissy about that. Let them be.
quote: Why do you care about the team?
quote:HERO NAME: Kolbaius
REAL NAME (IF DIFFERENT): Kolby
Moment of Truth
You embrace your home and call them for aid. They will answer your call—in force!—arriving
exactly when you need them to turn the tide. They fight and serve you for the rest of the battle. Of
course, when all is said and done...they’d probably like to take you home with them. You did, after
all, just prove yourself worthy.
Team Moves
When you share a triumphant celebration with someone, take Influence over them if you show
them meaningful affection, physical or emotional. They decide if it’s meaningful.
When you share a vulnerability or weakness with someone, they tell you what you should do to fit
in more. Take +1 forward to do it, and mark potential if you do.
POTENTIAL >>>>❑ >>>>❑ >>>>❑ >>>>❑ >>>>❑
Every time you roll a miss on a move, mark potential.
Advancement
When you fill your potential track, you advance. Choose from the list below.
❑ Take another move from your playbook
❑ Take another move from your playbook
❑ Take a move from another playbook
❑ Someone permanently loses Influence over you;
add +1 to a Label
❑ Rearrange your Labels as you choose, and add
+1 to a Label
❑ Unlock your Moment of Truth
❑ Choose two new abilities from any playbook as
you come into your own
❑ You adopt a human life; take Secret Identity and
The Mask from the Janus playbook
When you’ve taken five advances from the top list, you can take advances from the list below.
❑ Unlock your Moment of Truth after you’ve used it
once
❑ Change playbooks
❑ Take an adult move
❑ Take an adult move
❑ Lock a Label, and add +1 to a Label of your
choice
❑ Retire from the life or become a paragon of the
city
Look
• man
• animalistic body
• glowing eyes
• average clothing
• no costume
Kolby's adaptations have resulted in his taking on a form that can best be described as "mammalian". His skin is covered entirely by a layer of white fur, his hands end in pointed claws, and his teeth are those of a predator, grown to the point that they outright impede his speech slightly. His eyes glow a soft blue, a side-effect of the Gestation Pod's technology adapting his body.
Abilities
You can fly, and you’re pretty tough. Choose any two of the following:
❑ density control
❑ alien weaponry
Kolby's people, "The Squatters", are known mostly for their powerful technology cobbled together from that of dozens of dead species. The one adaptation that's "all them" is a limited ability to control the density of themselves and a small radius around them. This is typically used to increase the strength of their already powerful blows by making a limb much heavier just before the moment of impact, by the time momentum's done all the grunt-work for them.
Labels
Danger -1
Freak +2
Savior 0
Superior +2
Mundane 0
Influence
If you’re cheerful, you’re thrilled to be here. Give everyone Influence over you.
Moves
❑ Alien tech: When you alter a human device
with your alien technology, roll + Freak. On a
hit, you create a device that can do something
impossible once and then fizzle. When you roll a
10+, choose one:
- it works exceptionally well
- you get an additional use out of it
On a miss, the device works, but it has a
completely unintended side effect that the GM
will reveal when you use it.
❑ Kirby-craft: You have a vehicle, something
from your home. Detail its look, and choose two
strengths and two weaknesses. When you are
flying your ship, you can use it to unleash your
powers, directly engage a threat, or defend
someone using Superior.
The Gestational Pod is, technically speaking, designed to protect and adapt a Squatter embryo from the world around it. However, it is also capable of altering itself after the fact to serve as a basic vessel for the growing Squatter until others can arrive and provide the youth something more "suitable". However, as Kolby is pretty empathetic about where his fellow Squatters can stick their "gifts", he is stuck with this. The pod itself is roughly the size of a minivan, and just as powerful as you'd expect for something designed to protect a growing Squatter, but as it is expected to only see non-sentient life it has no way to disguise itself from smarter foes, or protect itself from its systems being interfered with.
Strengths: powerful weaponry, regenerating
Weaknesses: susceptible to
hacking, easily detectable
❑ The best of them: When you comfort or support
someone by telling them how they exemplify the
best parts of Earth, roll + Freak instead of
+ Mundane Probe 17 fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Sep 8, 2018
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