Enforcer(Nicholas Kozloz)

[Joseph Barros]

Background Overview
His grandmother was a test subject during the cold war for a Russian serum to give normal people super powers. The serum did little to give her powers, but her daughter was born with powerful telekinetic powers. The daughter defected from the soviet union to America and married a Russian loan shark who also defected. Their child was Nicholas Kozloz. His mother worked as a enforcer for her husband and Nicholas did the same thing when he got old enough. Nicholas also fought in supehuman underground fights for money. He was a staple fighter for the circuit maximus. His father pressed the wrong man to repay a loan and the family was sent to jail. In prison, he was approached by AEGIS with a deal to work for them as an undercover agent and in return he and his family would get early release. As part of his cover he became the super hero Enforcer and joined/tried to join a super hero team. He is secretly dating his AEGIS handler.

Enforcer(Nicholas Kozloz)

PL 10 (150 pp)

Abilities: STR: 14, DEX: 18, CON: 18, INT: 10, WIS: 10, CHA: 12

Skills: bluff +7(+8), diplomacy +13(+14), gather information +7 (+), knowledge streetwise +13(+13), notice +10(+10), profession(agent) +5(+5), sense motive +8(+8), Drive +5(+9)

Feats: Dodge Focus 2, Power Attack, Stunning Attack, Improved Pin, Grappling Finesse, Contacts, Connected, Equipment 3

Equipment: Cell phone, Laptop, Digital Camera, Handcuffs, Commlink

Powers:
Telekinesis 10 (Extra: Perception Range; PF: precise)[32 pp]
AP: Blast 10 (Extra: Knockback)
Force field 8 [8 pp]
Strike 8 (PF: Mighty) [9 pp]

Combat: Base Attack Bonus: +10 (Telekinetic Grapple: +20); Damage Bonus: Strike +10, Blast +10(Knockback +10); Defense: +8 (Flat-footed: +4), Knockback: -6; Initiative: +4

Saves: Toughness +12*/+4, Fort: +10, Ref: +12, Will: +5

Totals: Abilities 22 + Skills 17 (40 ranks) + Feats 11 + Powers 49 + Combat 32 + Saves 19 = 150

Complications: Criminal Record, Secret Identity

Personality: For the past several years he has been the consummate undercover agent. He keeps up his relationships with the criminal underground of Freedom City in his normal appearance by being nice to them and acting like someone who got out of the life of a fighter and trying to make ends meet.

[redbstrd]

I like Enforcer, he's got a very efficient build. I also like his name (the root, kozel, means "goat").

I noticed a couple of things when glancing it over, though:

1. His flat-footed Defense should be +3. He bought 6 ranks of Defense and 2 ranks of Dodge Focus. The Defense he purchased gives him +3 real Defense and +3 dodge. The 2 ranks of Dodge Focus just increase that to +3 real Defense and +5 dodge.

2. You overcharged him for equipment. He has 5 pieces of 1 ep gear, which would be covered by Equipment 1. You may want him to have access to 10 ep more for future need, but I can't tell if it's an oversight. If it was an oversight, then you still have 2 pp to spend.

3. He could get his Strike as an AP of the Telekinesis unless he wants to be able to use both as once. It could be described as a punch that is strengthened by telekinetic energy. Structuring it that way could free up 8 pp to use on things like making your Force Field impervious or buying a telekinetic/mental Blindsight (from the Super-Senses power).

4. His Blast AP is under the maximum by 1 point (the "parent" power of Telekinesis costs 31 without the AP), so you could add on the feat Precise Shot to the AP itself so that you could use that power to fire into melee without penalty.

Note: I'm posting this stuff to be helpful, not to manage other peoples' characters.

[frobones]

Having Strike not in the AP can be rational. What if he's maintaining the levitation of some enormous object but still wants to throw down with the villain.

[redbstrd]

Aug 22, 2010 22:14:51 GMT -8 frobones said:

Having Strike not in the AP can be rational. What if he's maintaining the levitation of some enormous object but still wants to throw down with the villain.

Yes, definitely. It's sustained, so he only needs to make a free action to maintain it. It's just a question of utility (whether using Strike and Telekinesis at the same time is more useful/common than something else he wanted but maybe didn't have the points to purchase).

[mrdent12]

Aug 22, 2010 21:46:45 GMT -8 redbstrd said:

1. His flat-footed Defense should be +3. He bought 6 ranks of Defense and 2 ranks of Dodge Focus. The Defense he purchased gives him +3 real Defense and +3 dodge. The 2 ranks of Dodge Focus just increase that to +3 real Defense and +5 dodge.

That was a miscalculation on my part. I wrote the character up in an excel spread sheet and after I put it on the boards I changed the excel sheet and forgot to change the calculations.

Aug 22, 2010 21:46:45 GMT -8 redbstrd said:

2. You overcharged him for equipment. He has 5 pieces of 1 ep gear, which would be covered by Equipment 1. You may want him to have access to 10 ep more for future need, but I can't tell if it's an oversight. If it was an oversight, then you still have 2 pp to spend.

Another change to the spreadsheet that didn't get copied over. I added a motor cycle 9ep and a lock release gun 1ep to the equipment.

Aug 22, 2010 21:46:45 GMT -8 redbstrd said:

3. He could get his Strike as an AP of the Telekinesis unless he wants to be able to use both as once. It could be described as a punch that is strengthened by telekinetic energy. Structuring it that way could free up 8 pp to use on things like making your Force Field impervious or buying a telekinetic/mental Blindsight (from the Super-Senses power).

I started with strike as a AP of Telekinesis and having an impervious force field, but I changed my mind. I wanted to be able to pull a guy towards me with telekinesis, pin him, and then beat him up with telekinetic enhanced punches. Impervious force field seemed too strong for me. I like having the idea he is tougher than average with 12 toughness, but isn't impervious to anything less than super damage. It also helped free up some power points for skills and equipment.

Aug 22, 2010 21:46:45 GMT -8 redbstrd said:

4. His Blast AP is under the maximum by 1 point (the "parent" power of Telekinesis costs 31 without the AP), so you could add on the feat Precise Shot to the AP itself so that you could use that power to fire into melee without penalty.

I didn't know about that feat. I will definitely add it to my build. Thanks for the advice.

[redbstrd]

Aug 23, 2010 1:02:33 GMT -8 mrdent12 said:

I started with strike as a AP of Telekinesis and having an impervious force field, but I changed my mind. I wanted to be able to pull a guy towards me with telekinesis, pin him, and then beat him up with telekinetic enhanced punches.

I like where your head is right now!

[mrdent12]

Background Summary
His grandmother was a test subject during the cold war for a Russian serum to give normal people super powers. The serum did little to give her powers, but her daughter was born with powerful telekinetic powers. His mother became one of the Soviet Unions best tools in putting down dissent. At the age of 20, after 5 years of being a tool of terror for the USSR, she defected to America. As a result of her defection her handler and the person who created the serum was killed for incompetence, but not before creating a clone and sending the child to America. In America, she started working for a loan shark, with emotion control powers limited to calm, as muscle and eventually fell in love with him. After a couple years of being married they had Nicholas. They both vowed to raise their son to shy away from violence and killing if possible.

Nicholas inherited his mothers powers, but at a even stronger level. When he got old enough he started working for his father as muscle. He also started fighting in underground super human fights. When his parents found out they were extremely disappointed and made him promise not to take part in the fights anymore. He ignored the promise he made and became a star on the Circuit Maximus. People always approached him to hire him as muscle for their criminal enterprises, but he refused all of them except one. His friend Reggie got him to take part in the heist of a device from a government research lab on the premise that his share would help out his other friends. The other person taking part in the heist turned out to be the clone of the scientist who got killed when Nicholas's mother defected to America. The heist was all a setup to get Nicholas sent to jail. Nicholas's parents were framed for bribery and extortion by the clone and sent to jail as well.

In jail, AEGIS offered to get Nicholas and his parents out of jail on the conditions that Nicholas come work for them as an undercover agent and his parents stop loan sharking. Nicholas accepted the offer and was given the cover of being a private investigator so that he would not arouse suspicion when he asked a lot of questions. His assigned handler was a beautiful woman who could conceal an area from all machine surveillance. After getting out, he started socializing with his friends and settling into life as an undercover agent. He was assigned to become the super hero Enforcer and infiltrate the Freedom League so that AEGIS could keep tabs on them. On a personal level, he started having a romantic relationship with his handler six months after starting undercover work. A few years later they secretly got married. They currently are hiding their relationship from AEGIS because they fear they would both be given different assignments and possibly fired.

For the last two years, Nicholas has been the super hero Enforcer. He managed to join a Freedom League team and is giving information AEGIS.

docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1nBiTAOJ4jtM04Mf4fIWrAhjwXUnDx5-z2bA08433Oz4&hl=en&authkey=CP7gmNYK is a link to a much longer and more detailed version of his back story written in the format of a script.

Enforcer(Nicholas Kozloz)

PL 10 (150 pp)

Abilities: STR: 14, DEX: 18, CON: 18, INT: 10, WIS: 10, CHA: 12

Skills: bluff +10(+11), diplomacy +15(+16), gather information +7 (+8), knowledge streetwise +13(+13), notice +10(+10), profession(agent) +5(+5), sense motive +8(+8)

Feats: Dodge Focus 2, Power Attack, Stunning Attack, Improved Pin, Grappling Finesse, Contacts, Connected, Equipment 1

Equipment: Cell phone, Laptop, Digital Camera, Handcuffs, Commlink

Powers:
Gravity Control 10 (Extra: Selective Attack; PF: Improved Range 1)[34pp]
AP: Telekinesis 10 (Extra: Perception Range; PF: precise)
AP: Blast 10 (Extra: Autofire; PF: precise)
AP: Trip 10 (Extra: Knockback, Perception; Flaws: Full Round Action; PF: precise, Knockback 9, improved trip)
Force field 8 [8 pp]
Strike 8 (PF: Mighty) [9 pp]

Combat: Base Attack Bonus: +10 (Telekinetic Grapple: +20); Damage Bonus: Strike +10, Blast +10, Trip +0 (Knockback +19); Defense: 18 (Flat-footed: 13), Knockback: -6; Initiative: +4

Saves: Toughness +12*/+4, Fort: +12, Ref: +10, Will: +5

Totals: Abilities 22 + Skills 17 (40 ranks) + Feats 9 + Powers 51 + Combat 32 + Saves 19 = 150

Complications: Criminal Record, Secret Identity, Secret Marriage

Personality: He is the nicest guy you will ever meet. To friends and comrades he is extremely loyal. He goes to great lengths to avoid having to fight. If he does have to fight, he uses the least amount of force possible. Life is the most sacred thing in the world to him, so if given the choice between saving a life or avoiding harm he will always choose saving a life.

The general idea behind his telekinesis is that it alters gravity. His telekinesis is used to move objects, grapple opponents, and to throw opponents. Blast and Trip manifest as small squares flying through the air. Strike looks like his hand is surrounded by almost clear, rippling water.

The Trip power is not trip in the truest sense of the word. It is more like a really powerful telekinetic push. It is so powerful it requires a full round action to "charge" for 3 seconds and then fire. It works by throwing the target off balance and raw force of pushing. So, if the target is particularly strong the power is taking advantage of the target being unstable. If the target is really good at balancing the power takes advantage of the raw force.

Blast is just the instant manipulation of gravity to create instant gravitational fields that slam into the target. He has the power to do this multiple times and precisely as not to effect anything other than his intended targets.

Strike is just a standard punch, kick, head butt, etc with an extra strong gravitational field added on for extra damage.

Forcefield is him putting up a gravitational field around him that slows down the momentum of things, warps light, etc. When the forcefield is hit it creates a rippling effect in the area that was hit.

Other than his powers, he has the basic resources you would expect an undercover federal agent to have and street fighting skills. His talking skills were taught to him by his father and AEGIS training that emphasized don't engage with force if you don't have to. His contacts are his old friends from his fighting days, his handler, AEGIS intelligence agents, and his current friends who still know people in the underground world. His connections are AEGIS if the assignment calls for something he can't get through his other connections on the street.

[mrdent12]

Added his back story and more detail to the basic mechanics of the character.