GlizCoreline: Firewalls Inactive game, run by marcoasalazarm. I've
withdrawn from the game. It appears to have
limped off into the sunsetCharacters Name: Sergeant Major Eliglizanda Tanknoddy
Height: 3'4"
Weight: 62#
Hair: Platinum
Eyes: Ice Blue
Description: Gliz is a Fiction, and comes from a bending of reality where Swords, Sorcery and Fantastical Creatures are very real. Specifically, she is a Gnome. Short, with three fingers (and opposable thumb), and ridiculously large eyes. In some fantasy fiction, Gnomes are disproportionately strong -this certainly applies to her. Ms. Tanknoddy's small frame is packed with hardened muscle, and latticed with fine scars. She wears her hair in a short, punky, spiked up style. At first glance, because she is tiny with big eyes, she seems very cute... but she's racked up an astronomical body-count, and that gives her eyes a look that would freeze vodka. She has half-a-dozen silver stud & hoop rings in her disproportionately large ears. Since coming to this world, she's gotten a tattoo of
Rosie the Riveter on her left deltoid.
History: Like many fantasy worlds (or epic fantasy stories), the world that Gliz came from is beset by a powerful enemy, who controls hordes of undead mutant warriors and who is hellbent on world domination and/or destruction. On her world, she was a soldier -an expert in small squad tactics, who lead an elite strike team on hundreds of high risk missions. While on a mission to demolish an enemy gate-house, Sergeant Major Tanknoddy became inexplicably dizzy, and passed out -awakening somewhere else.
She spent almost two weeks in concealment in this strange, apparently human city. The people she observed were clearly normal citizens... even the few who carried themselves like warriors seemed to lack skill, and most definitely did not have the aggression in them to be servants of the Adversary. Finally, after interviewing a rabbit
(?!) she felt that it was safe enough to approach a human. After spending some time with various authorities, she arranged to be recruited into the Military. Her preference was to serve with the Green Berets, Navy SEALS or Army Rangers... but she ended up in Mechanized Cavalry... primarily as a field technician. When the man from Firewall stuck his head under the APC she was changing the oil on, she was more than ready to listen...
Personality & Motivation: Sergeant Major Tanknoddy is a soldier through and through. When she has a mission, there is nothing but the mission. When there is no mission, she is generally at a state of high-readiness for the next mission. Although the world she came from is one where people of all genders and races are free to pursue any career they wish, "lifers" in the military tended to be men at least in combat roles, as women in the service tended to have babies and move to support roles. Consequently, the elite combat groups that Gliz worked with were primarily men. Gliz has easily stepped into the role of "one of the boys." Like many professions that are so intimately involved with life and death, gallows humour and vulgarity were very much part of the off-duty culture; on duty, Gliz wouldn't tolerate any ass-grabbing nonsense, and the soldiers on her squad quickly learned not to cross "the ice cube." Gliz is very, very hard.
Complications:
Ain't you the cutest widdle fing! Because of her diminutive stature, enormous blue eyes, and piping song-bird voice, Gliz is frequently mistaken for someone who should be sitting on someone's lap, or offered candy, instead of the stone cold killer that she actually is.
Speaking of being a killer... Who's got a body count? She do. Given a situation where lethal force is the slightest bit justified or authorized, Gliz tends toward a philosophy that dead enemies make paper-work easier.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Gliz is "one of the good" or as the French say,
Lesbien. This can be a slightly delicate situation for someone who is a career soldier living in the United States. Don't break your promise, Obama!
Cold Snap! -If it don't bend, it'll break. Gliz has seen, done, and suffered things that would break most people. She continues to function by being relentlessly rigid. Sometimes though, she needs to let it out. When she starts having too many terrifying dreams, seeing ghosts of dead friends, has a panic attack or a crying spell, she needs to cut loose. This tends to involve emptying liquor bottles and filling beds (hospital beds, and her bed at home).
Even after Labour Day! Gliz has a fetish for the colour white. She likes to wear clothes that are white, and is drawn to objects, et al, that are white.
Power Level: PL10
Trade-Offs: Dependent on Stance
Unspent PP: 0
Stats: 46pp
Str: 22 (+6)
Dex: 12 (+1)
Con: 22 (+6)
Int: 20 (+5)
Wis: 14 (+2)
Cha: 16 (+3)
Combat and Save values will fluctuate wildly depending on her Combat Form!Combat: 12pp
Base Attack: +3 (+1 Small Size)
Base Defense: +3 (+1 Small Size)
Grapple: +10
Initiative: +1
Knockback: -4
Saves: 12pp
Toughness: +0 (+6 Con, +2 Armour )
Fortitude: +10 (+6 Con, +4)
Reflex: +5 (+1 Dex, +4)
Will: +6 (+2 Wis, +4)
Skills: 52r = 13pp
Computers 1 (+6)
Craft: (al)Chemical 2 (+7)
Craft: Electronic 2 (+7)
Craft: Mechanical 5 (+10)
Knowledge: Tactics 5 (+10)
Knowledge: Technology 5 (+10)
Disable Device 5 (+10)
Diplomacy 2 (+5)
Intimidate 7 (+10)
Investigate 4 (+9)*
Profession: Soldier 2 (+4)
Sense Motive 3 (+5)
Notice 3 (+5)
Climb 1 (+7)
Swim 1 (+7)
Stealth 4 (+5)
*Gliz is specialized in Combat Forensics. Triple her Investigate Ranks when interpreting what happened at the scene of a battle or struggle, and Half them in any other circumstance.
Feats: 11pp
Assessment
Critical Strike
Fearless
Improved Critical: Melee Weapons
Inventor: Rubber Science
"Tech" based devices, but the physical science behind most devices is Fantastical in nature.Headquarters [Size: Medium, Toughness 10, Features: Communications, Computer, Garage, Gym, Living Space, Power System, Security System, Workshop] [10eq]
Rallying Cry (W&W (
As a Standard Action, allows allies within vocal range re-take Will saves.))
Skill Mastery (Disable Device, Intimidate, Knowledge: Tactics, Knowledge: Technology)
Startle
Swift (W&W (
Speed 1, as a Feat))
Powers: 57pp
Gnome Racial Package (Feat: Innate) [10pp]
Improved Attack & Defense (Descriptor: Small Size), Illusion 1 (Visual, Aural, Flaw: Phantasm), Infravision, Ultravision, Speak with Burrowing Animals (W&W (As comprehend, but limited to animals that burrow in earth.))
Combat Sense (Immunity: Interaction Effects in Combat, Danger Sense (Mental), Feat: Innate) [4pp]
Modular Transportation Device 2 [Easy to Lose, Power Loss: Requires Assembly/Re-Assembly (1 min)] [4pp]
Gyro-Copter: Flight 3 (Feats: Progression 1, Adaption to High Altitude Conditions) +2AP
This whirligig can take a single passengerAP: Land Strider: Speed 4 (Feat: Progression 2) + Leaping 2
This walker can take up to 5 passengersAP: Nautilette: Swimming 4 (Feat: Progression 2) Immunity: Drowning, High Pressure
This submersible can take up to 5 passengersGnomish Cookie Jar [Device: Hard to Lose] (Dimensional Pocket 1, Flaw: Requires Grapple, Feats: Progression 4, Quick Draw, Equipment 9)
Two conjoined disks that unscrew, opening a fissure into another reality. The Quickdraw feat applied to the device allows her to grab the specific item(s) she wants easily. Holds 2500 pounds of matter. [12pp]
Contents wrote:Equipment: Combat Armour (Protection 2, Environmental Immunity: Heat, Cold, Radiation) Snow-white Kevlar and articulated white ceramic [5eq]
Equipment: Collection of Melee Weapons [Strike 2, Mighty, Improved Critical, Penetrating 4, Affects Insubstantial, Variable Effect, Progression 4, Feature: Magic] Gliz carries anywhere two or three dozen melee weapons. They are high quality, and enchanted. Her arsenal includes flame tongue, frost brand, lightning runed, bane weapons... you name it, she has it. [15eq]
Equipment: The Kitchen Sink (Variable Equipment Pool: 25eq) ...no, I've got that in here too. [25eq]
Combat Form:
Like Rapids in a Swift River [23 +2AP]
No Trade-offs, Evasion, Elusive Target, Improved Initiative, Move-by Action
Strength +4, Constitution +4, Attack Focus: Melee 6, Dodge Focus 6
AP: Combat Form:
Roaring like an Avalanche, Coming down the Mountain Trade Offs: -2 Attack/+2 Damage, +2 Defense/-2 Toughness
Attack Specialization: Melee Weapons 2, Dodge Focus: 8, Takedown Attack 2
Defensive Strike (W&W (Gain a +4 to Attack against any target that has just missed an attack against you))
Strike 6 (Descriptor: Skilled; Extra: Vampiric; Feat: Mighty; Power Loss: Requires Melee Weapon) [11 +1AP]
AP: Strike 6 (Extra: Autofire, Feat: Mighty; Power Loss: Requires Melee Weapon)
AP: Combat Form:
The Eye of the Swirling Storm Trade Offs: +2 Damage/-2 Attack, +2 Toughness/-2 Defense
Interpose, Weapon Break
Dodge Focus 4, Toughness 4 (W&W (Protection, but a Feat rather than a Power)
Deflect 8 (Slow Projectiles; Extra: Reflection; Power Loss: Requires Melee Weapon -2)
AP: Stun 4 (PF: Accurate 4) and - Linked - (Strength Bonus) Strike (Accurate 4)
Drawbacks: 1pp
Noticeable: Her size, and non-human traits makes it obvious that Gliz is a Fiction. (-1)
Costs: Abilities (46) + Combat (12) + Saves (12) + Skills (13) + Feats (11) + Powers (57) - Drawbacks (1) = Total Cost (150)
