
Name: Daniel Holycross
Age: 22
Height: 6'2
Weight 170
Hair- Black
Eyes- Blue
Ethnicity- White
Quote:
"I will help where I can, when I can, how I can."
PL 07 00/105
Abilities ( 44pp)
STR: 2
STA: 0
AGL: 3
DEX: 4
FGT: 8
INT: 2
AWR: 1
PRE: 2
Skills: (29pp)
Acrobatics 3 (+6), Athletics 3 (+5) Deception 4 (+6), Expertise: Magic 4 (+6), Expertise: Streetwise 4 (+6), Insight 6 (+8), Intimidation 4 (+6), Investigation 7 (+9), Perception 4 (+5), Persuasion 4 (+6), Ranged Combat: Throwing 4 (+8), Stealth 3 (+7), Technology 5 (+7), and Treatment 4 (+6)
Advantages: (13pp)
Benefit 3 (Millionaire), Accurate Attack, Connected, Improved Disarm, Defensive Roll 3, Evasion, Power Attack,Equipment 1, and Takedown
Powers: ( 6PP)
The Yellow Ring from the Yellow King: A ring made of a unknown yellow metal holds the key to mystical powers. The limit to the rings powers is unknown to the Holycross family.
-Great Leaps: The yellow ring gives The Phantom Stranger the ability to leap great distances. Leap 2 (Link: Safe Fall 1)(Removeable -1) (30ft)
--The Yellow Staff: A mysterious staff is summoned from the ring. So far The Phantom Stranger has found nothing it can't hurt.(Str) Damage 4 (Variable Descriptor 2 (anything), Effect Insubstantial 2, Reach 1, and Incurable) (Flaw: Removeable -2, Activation -1)(5pp)
Voices of the Family: (Advantages: Well Informed)
Offense:
Melee: +8
Ranged: +8
Initiative: +4
Defense: (11PP)
Dodge: 4 (+7)
Fortitude: 2(+3)
Parry: 0 (+9)
Will: 5 (+7)
Toughness: 0 (+0/*3/**6)(*=Defensive Roll)(**Armor)
Equipment: (5ep)
Phantom Stranger Custom (Protection 3)(3ep)
Glowing Gloves (Flashlight)(1ep)
Handcuffs(1ep)
Downfalls:
False Hero: Though the Phantom Stranger is a lineage for Holycross' family. The name itself is of an Acient Hero whom mysteriously vanished after rescueing Queen Victoria. If they real one returns, questions may arise.
Phantom Ability: Though The Phantom Strangers have no real powers, the family line itself is has access to the afterlife. Able to talk to ancestors of the family line. No one knows why but it all started around the 2nd generation of the hero. Thus some people might catch Phantom talking to himself.
Dark Secret: The Holycross family is bond to keep the secret that they are 1 hero whom has lived for at least 100 years. If anyone knows this secret, it could destory the name and the lineage.
Queen and Country versus The Church: Being that The Phantom Strangers work both for the queen and for the church, he most make some hard choices which might reflect badly on some others.
Responsibilty: Though Daniel is resposible for being The Phantom Stranger, he also must run the million dollar factory that his family has put together. Because of this, Daniel finds himself getting annoyed easily due to lack of sleep. He may also have to choose between working overtime at the factory when needed or leaving to roam the streets as Phantom Stranger.
The Yellow King: With the first generation Phantom Stranger stumbled upon the ring, they took it to use the powers it contained for good. However, the King knows it's missing and is out to find it. This is unknown to Daniel.
Background Information:
The year was 1835 when the Holycross family's destiny changed forever. It was the celebration of Princess Victoria’s 16th birthday. Everyone was invited to celebrate this special event and the Holycross family was no exception. The whole city watched as the young princess walked out onto her balcony and begun to wave at the people below. At this time, a evil mad man known only as The Cultist appeared behind her in a puff a smoke and with dagger in hand claimed that her life must be sacrificed to stop the anger of The Great Old Ones.
Many men responded by climbing the castle to aid the princess, including one Benjamin Holycross. The Cultist however, held great magic powers. With a simple mutter of a few words and a flick of his wrist, let out a great blast of energy which slain most of the men and injured many others.
Just as it seemed all hope was lost, a hero appeared from shadows of the bedroom from behind. The hero's face was covered by a simple mask as most of his body was covered by a great purple cape. From there he and The Cultist fought for what it seemed like ages. It appeared that the hero wielded magic just like The Cultists. It seemed that the battle was dead even. That is until a unknown man (who was minorly injured in the blast) got to the balcony and grappled The Cultist from behind. That man was a no name inventor known as Benjamin Holycross.
Defenseless, the hero was able to subdue The Cultist. Refusing to be taking to jail, The Cultist took his own life from his own blade. The hero merely shook hands with Ben before quickly vanishing as fast as he arrived, leaving Holycross and the princess alone.
The papers deemed the hero ‘The Phantom Stranger’. Many claimed to be him but held no proof to back up the claims. As for Ben, he was rewarded by being the first person the princess would knight.
With many doors now opened thanks to his knighthood, Ben gained grants and connections that allowed him to get started on an improvement on a invention called the rechargeable battery. As Ben dove into his research, his brother Damien took another route.
Copying the suit the Phantom Stranger dawned, Damien started to walk the streets as this unknown hero. Unlike the others whom claimed to be The Phantom Stranger, Damien had knowledge of previous inventions from his brother to make seem like he had magic abtilites.
At first it was to simply draw attention to himself, for being the brother of a national hero left quite a shadow to get out from under. With Damien merely just walking the streets of London wearing the uniform and using his brother's Lantern Gloves that most thought was some kind of magical energy, crime dropped and papers instantly posted all they could about this stranger and how his return to clean the streets was for the future queen.
Damien wasn’t put to the test until one night were a criminal decided to confront this Stranger. Unfortunately, Damien was beaten senseless and the crooks made off with what they stole. It didn't take long for the rumor of The Phantom Stranger being a fake to spread. Quickly many Englishman started to lose faith of the hero and thought him to be one of many copycats of the original. Crime started to climb again.
Determined not be responsible for the new crime wave, Damien let his secret out to his family. In shock and in fear of what Damion had done, his family started to talk about what to do. The family feared that rumors of the false hero being Damien could get out, which would destroy the new found fame and fortune. Once again, Benjamin stepped up.
Together, Benjamin and Damien teamed up as the first Phantom Stranger. Ben decided that they must first train before they start to roam the streets again. Using the family fortune, they began training. The next time The Phantom Stranger roamed the streets, he started to actually confront and attack the criminals of the night Again, the papers spread the news and once again crime started to drop.
After months of being The Phantom Stranger, Ben and Damien found that this hero simply couldn’t go away. With that they decided to write a code of conduct for the hero and to keep the legacy of the hero within the family so that all Holycross’ will know how to act as the Phantom Stranger in the future. Around this same time, Ben's rechargable battery invention became an instant success.
With this new code, the family continued the legacy. Unlike most legacies, this one was built to be open to the whole family of the orginal Holycross. The person whom was elected to become the new Phantom Stranger didn’t have to be a direct descendant like it was with kings and princes. This meant that any male Holycross could become the next Phantom Stranger. When injury or death happened, the family would quickly elect another to take the Phantom's mantle.
Due to the original’s obvious magic abilities, many cultists and mages came after Phantom Stranger. This lead to some family members to become insane from the unnatural things they witnessed. When more and more of the male sons started being hauled off to mental institutions or locked in their rooms for years, rumors started to flow in the royal family that the Holycross’ started to become unstable. Much of the fortune was lost.
Thus a new law was enforced into the family by the 4th Phantom. It said that only 1 member of the family at a time shall be the Phantom until death or until he steps down. They also made the bearer (as they called it) attend and be active in church. They found that a link with the Holy Spirit kept the creatures of the Void from affecting their minds as much, so required all Holycross’ to attended church.
Throughout the years, Phantoms have collected many books, items, and objects of the unknown. Most were destroyed unless found a purpose in the fight against evil. Contacts were also made in the church so that the Phantom could locate the weird or unnatural easier.
The only change throughout the years is the look of the Phantom Stranger. The family felt that a small reward of being elected into the role should allow the said person to make his own suit. It had to follow the normal suit in some way so that most would recognize it.
The 5th Phantom Stranger was recently elected by the family. His name was Daniel and he also so happened to be the new chairman for Alkaline Batteries Inc factory. There wasn’t a rule saying that a Holycross couldn’t run the business AND be the Phantom Stranger(though this was the first time one was both since Benjamin), so it was decided that Daniel would be both, until he decided to step down from one or the other. Thanks to the family fortune, Daniel is excelled in many things and though hasn’t had much experience with being the Phantom Stranger, had enough training to gain faith from the family.














