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NAME: Vic
Charlton. OCCUPATION: Freelance journalist, part-time instructor at Collegium Caine. STATUS: US citizen, no criminal record. EDUCATION: College dropout. MAIN POWERS: Highly-skilled, non-powered human near or above the peak of human achievement. Victor O'Neill Charlton was born sometime around February 1969 during an unseasonably cold winter not unlike the Winter of 2002. His parentage is unknown, and it is not known which parent abandoned him on the steps of the St. Hubbins Orphanage in Rust City on Easter Sunday, 1969. The nun who found him, Sister Esther Polley, named the infant--after a saint (Pope Victor I, who established Sunday as the day Easter would be observed), the local monsignor (Eustace O'Neill) and a brand of cigarettes. Young Vic grew up in tough Rust City, acquiring street smarts and brawling skills. He also showed a tender, contemplative side capable of grasping philosophy and expressing himself in writing. This side of him was what landed him at the University of Ravensgate as a National Merit Scholar and a holder of a St. Hubbins Society Academic Merit scholarship. [It is unclear why no one adopted Vic, and no records survive.] Due to an unspecified incident at UR, he was expelled and transferred to a college in Maryland, where he met and befriended a street-smart journalism major from Baltimore named Veljon Wilson. Both men survived on Associated Press stringer jobs and back-room bare-knuckles boxing matches. Vic and "VL" ended up in Ravensgate, where they were hired by Morrie Rosenklein at TV station KRGO. Both proved too hot-headed for mainstream journalism. VL left KRGO to found The Ravensgate Mercury Weekly alternative newspaper, but Vic stayed on as a commentator and, due to the success of "You Know I'm Right," a decade-long fixture at the station. In 2001, hoodlums from Gang Green burned down the St. Hubbins Society Home, killing Sister Polly and two priests. Using a friend's invention, a prototype spray-on gas mask, for disguise, Vic took revenge against Gang Green, but his first documented sighting as Tabula Rasa was at the Chung Muhl Market in Shanghai Hill in February 2002 [see Tabula Rasa #0]. Since that time, he has been a near-fixture on The Foundry as Tabula Rasa, the only non-superpowered member of the team. In fact, he’s now the team leader. You may not like what he has to say, or how he says it, but you know he's right. S: 11 (1.0) BASIC HITS: 4 (Weight 180) E: 22 (2.6) CARRY CAP.: 318 I: 16 (1.2) BASE HTH DMG.: 1d6 A: 24 (2.5) HEALING RATE: 2.0 C: 18 (-4/-2/-3) MOVEMENT: 57” INITIATIVE: 24-33 ACCURACY: +4 (+12 HTH) DAMAGE: +4 (+8 HTH) HIT POINTS: 32 POWER: 73 DETECT HIDDEN: 12 DETECT DANGER: 16 INVENTING PTS.: 8 CASH: unspecified LEVEL: 6 TRAINING: +2 Evasion, +2 HTH. SKILLS: 1) WILLPOWER A: primarily as defense, PR=1. 2) HEIGHTENED ENDURANCE A (+11). 3) HEIGHTENED AGILITY A (+7) 4) HEIGHTENED EXPERTISE (HTH, +4). 5) NATURAL WEAPONRY (Martial Arts): 17 to hit, +4 damage DEVICE: 6) ADAPTATION: “No-Face” mask provides defense against gases and blinding attacks. WEAKNESS: 7) PREJUDICE: Hero identity has no face; civilian identity is strongly opinionated. |
Nevermore's Evaluation:
Tabula Rasa harbors deep anger and resentment on all levels, yet he would
not be doing what he is doing unless compassion for others drove him. He
may not admit it, but he seems to care about his fellow citizens in "this
cesspool we call home." His native intelligence, when combined with
real-world experience, gives him an edge over those on The Foundry whose
youth tempers their superior intellect. |
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