Post by Toptomcat on Jan 12, 2008 23:36:35 GMT -5
Dr. Henry Hall, The Röntgen Man- pre-accident (PL 4- 60 PP)
Strength: 12 +1
Dexterity: 10 +0
Constitution: 10 +0
Intelligence: 12 +1
Wisdom: 16 +3
Charisma: 12 +1
Fort: +3
Ref: +3
Will: +9
Toughness: +3
BAB: +2
BDB: +5
Skills:
Concentration 4 ranks
Survival 4 ranks
Swim 4 ranks
Stealth 4 ranks
Notice 6 ranks
Medicine 9 ranks
Knowledge (life sciences) 9 ranks
Feats:
Skill Mastery (Medicine, Knowledge (life sciences), Concentration, Notice)
Improvised Tools
Ultimate Effort (Medicine checks)
Benefit (medic)
Equipment 6 (Knife, heavy pistol, masterwork medical tools, binoculars, flashlight, gas mask, customized medic bag [Healing 8, Total extra, Check Required {Medicine} flaw]
Powers:
None
Appearence: Dr. Hall is a serious-looking man in his early thirties, displaying the medic's Red Cross on his medical bag, uniform and helmet. His only weapon is a sidearm at his hip. Since the accident, he has a perpetually haggard look, and the faint suggestion of a pale electric glow aroound his eye sockets.
Personality: Henry Hall is a doctor through and through, and is an extraordinarily intense man. He takes the proscriptions of the Hippocratic Oath and First Geneva Convention very seriously, and deems the purpose of the medical profession- the purpose of his life- to be the struggle against Death itself.
History: Doctor Henry Hall began as a medical student at Columbia University. Joining the New York Presbyterian Hospital during the lean years of the Great Depression, he formed a formidable reputation for mantaining high standards of care despite limited medical supplies- pioneering and publishing on a number of new surgical techniques in a time when most hospitals were struggling to keep their doors open. He met and married Nora, a nurse without much ceremony, in a marriage that remained childless. Then came Hitler's invasion of Poland, and a single day' research into the number of casualties that graced World War I was all the deliberation Dr. Hall needed to give his two week's notice at the hospital, say goodbye to his wife, and join the International Red Cross. From 1939 to the end of 1941 he worked like a madman, putting in fifteen months of fifteen-hour days in the field hospitals of Europe. When his superiors refused to let him work more than double the standard hours, he made a practice of registering under two different names at pairs of nearby hospitals, convincing those who discovered his deception on three separate occasions staff to let him continue working overtime and saving lives. Rumors began to circulate among the hospitals about the deadly calm yet wild-eyed man who dove into operating theaters and saved dozens of lives at a time before collapsing with exhaustion for a few hours, waking, and vanishing- like some kind of macabre carnival stunt. When Pearl Harbor came, he hopped a cargo plane back to the states that day, spent three days with his Wife, and signed up with the United States army as a medic. He proved absolutely impossible to rattle in live-fire drills, as well as superbly medically talented- impressing his drill sergeants and putting him on the fast track to join the newly-formed Paratrooper division. When Operation Deep Roots came around, Hall volunteered just quickly enough to be drawn into the biggest bloodbath of Allied airborne history (with the infamous exception of Operation Market Garden). During the thirty-six hour slobberknocker that gave the Iron Regents their name and reputation, Hall was the only medic present; he gave medical attention to every one of the other nneteen soldiers in the platoon at least twice each, performing three major surgeries and giving himself thirteen stitches to close up a shrapnel wound on his thigh. His presence was what kept them all alive during those nightmarish thirty-six hours.
He reguards the entire incident as a personal failure, because he failed to resuscitate and capture the Waffen-SS officer that charged the machine-gun nest and fell close enough for him to drag into his improvised field hospital.
Dr. Henry Hall, The Röntgen Man- post-accident (PL 9- 135 PP)
75 pp
Strength: 12 +1
Dexterity: 10 +0
Constitution: 10 +0
Intelligence: 12 +1
Wisdom: 16 +3
Charisma: 12 +1
Fort: +3
Ref: +3
Will: +9
Toughness: +3
BAB: +2
BDB: +5
Skills:
Concentration 4 ranks
Survival 4 ranks
Swim 4 ranks
Stealth 4 ranks
Notice 6 ranks
Medicine 9 ranks
Knowledge (life sciences) 9 ranks
Feats:
Skill Mastery (Medicine, Knowledge (life sciences), Concentration, Notice)
Improvised Tools
Ultimate Effort (Medicine checks)
Benefit (medic)
Equipment 6 (Knife, heavy pistol, masterwork medical tools, binoculars, flashlight, gas mask, customized medic bag [Healing 8, Total extra, Check Required {Medicine} flaw]
Powers:
Slow Death of the Atom
Drain Constitution 10 (Radiation descriptor)
Extras: Area (Cone), Contagious, Disease
Power Feats: Subtle, Alternate Power
The most powerful and most lethal of the abilities Dr. Hall has gained from the incident at Königsberg is also the most mysterious. With a moment's concentration (and the gut-wrenching pain that attends any use of the abilities), Henry Hall can condemn vast numbers of men to death in the blink of an eye. Only a faint flickering of blue light- and complete whiteout of all photographic plates in the area effect- attends the ability's use. Initial exposure causes relatively mild effects; some nausea and the emergence of strange, painful, but ultimately inconsequential burns. Within twenty-four hours, however, the body begins to simply shut down: bone marrow and gastrointestinal tissue is destroyed, the immune system ceases function, and massive internal bleeding occurs. Death is almost inevitable within 48 hours.
(This is, in point of fact, massive radiation poisoning- but where science is in 1945 can't tell that. A clever atomic scientist may puzzle it out if given a detailed description.)
AP: X-Ray Laser
Radiation Control 14
Extras: Penetrating
Power Feats: Accurate, Affects Insubstantial, Improved Range x5, Split Attack, Subtle
Flaw (no points recieved): applies two Surge Points on a failed Will save, makes the Will save for the power +5 DC
If a determined effort is made and a tremendous amount of pain is endured, Hall can focus his debilitating power to far more immediately devastating effect, creating an invisible beam that melts or burns almost anything in its path.
Regeneration 16
Ressurection 7, Recovery bonus +9
Flaw: Side-Effect: Lose 2 Con and 2 Wis each ressurection. Gain a point of the Disability (disturbing experience) Drawback as flesh is replaced by exotic energy fields peicemeal every two ressurections.
The strange radiactive energies that have taken residence within Henry Hall's body will not let anything so petty as death stop him. It'll be a Hell of a shock to him when he first finds out about it.
Immunity 4 (radiation descriptor, starvation and thirst, need for sleep)
Ever since the accident, Dr. Hall can't sleep, can't eat...
Protection 8
Flaw: Limited: Energy
...and anywhere he stays too long gets a little colder and darker. Light bulbs flicker, fires dim, speakers crackle and quiet. His own best medical diagnosis is that his metabolism has been somehow radically altered to depend on radiant energy rather than food for sustinance. As it is, it's a nuisance, but should a flamethrower ever be turned on him or a lightning bolt strike him, it may be quite useful.
Strength: 12 +1
Dexterity: 10 +0
Constitution: 10 +0
Intelligence: 12 +1
Wisdom: 16 +3
Charisma: 12 +1
Fort: +3
Ref: +3
Will: +9
Toughness: +3
BAB: +2
BDB: +5
Skills:
Concentration 4 ranks
Survival 4 ranks
Swim 4 ranks
Stealth 4 ranks
Notice 6 ranks
Medicine 9 ranks
Knowledge (life sciences) 9 ranks
Feats:
Skill Mastery (Medicine, Knowledge (life sciences), Concentration, Notice)
Improvised Tools
Ultimate Effort (Medicine checks)
Benefit (medic)
Equipment 6 (Knife, heavy pistol, masterwork medical tools, binoculars, flashlight, gas mask, customized medic bag [Healing 8, Total extra, Check Required {Medicine} flaw]
Powers:
None
Appearence: Dr. Hall is a serious-looking man in his early thirties, displaying the medic's Red Cross on his medical bag, uniform and helmet. His only weapon is a sidearm at his hip. Since the accident, he has a perpetually haggard look, and the faint suggestion of a pale electric glow aroound his eye sockets.
Personality: Henry Hall is a doctor through and through, and is an extraordinarily intense man. He takes the proscriptions of the Hippocratic Oath and First Geneva Convention very seriously, and deems the purpose of the medical profession- the purpose of his life- to be the struggle against Death itself.
History: Doctor Henry Hall began as a medical student at Columbia University. Joining the New York Presbyterian Hospital during the lean years of the Great Depression, he formed a formidable reputation for mantaining high standards of care despite limited medical supplies- pioneering and publishing on a number of new surgical techniques in a time when most hospitals were struggling to keep their doors open. He met and married Nora, a nurse without much ceremony, in a marriage that remained childless. Then came Hitler's invasion of Poland, and a single day' research into the number of casualties that graced World War I was all the deliberation Dr. Hall needed to give his two week's notice at the hospital, say goodbye to his wife, and join the International Red Cross. From 1939 to the end of 1941 he worked like a madman, putting in fifteen months of fifteen-hour days in the field hospitals of Europe. When his superiors refused to let him work more than double the standard hours, he made a practice of registering under two different names at pairs of nearby hospitals, convincing those who discovered his deception on three separate occasions staff to let him continue working overtime and saving lives. Rumors began to circulate among the hospitals about the deadly calm yet wild-eyed man who dove into operating theaters and saved dozens of lives at a time before collapsing with exhaustion for a few hours, waking, and vanishing- like some kind of macabre carnival stunt. When Pearl Harbor came, he hopped a cargo plane back to the states that day, spent three days with his Wife, and signed up with the United States army as a medic. He proved absolutely impossible to rattle in live-fire drills, as well as superbly medically talented- impressing his drill sergeants and putting him on the fast track to join the newly-formed Paratrooper division. When Operation Deep Roots came around, Hall volunteered just quickly enough to be drawn into the biggest bloodbath of Allied airborne history (with the infamous exception of Operation Market Garden). During the thirty-six hour slobberknocker that gave the Iron Regents their name and reputation, Hall was the only medic present; he gave medical attention to every one of the other nneteen soldiers in the platoon at least twice each, performing three major surgeries and giving himself thirteen stitches to close up a shrapnel wound on his thigh. His presence was what kept them all alive during those nightmarish thirty-six hours.
He reguards the entire incident as a personal failure, because he failed to resuscitate and capture the Waffen-SS officer that charged the machine-gun nest and fell close enough for him to drag into his improvised field hospital.
Dr. Henry Hall, The Röntgen Man- post-accident (PL 9- 135 PP)
75 pp
Strength: 12 +1
Dexterity: 10 +0
Constitution: 10 +0
Intelligence: 12 +1
Wisdom: 16 +3
Charisma: 12 +1
Fort: +3
Ref: +3
Will: +9
Toughness: +3
BAB: +2
BDB: +5
Skills:
Concentration 4 ranks
Survival 4 ranks
Swim 4 ranks
Stealth 4 ranks
Notice 6 ranks
Medicine 9 ranks
Knowledge (life sciences) 9 ranks
Feats:
Skill Mastery (Medicine, Knowledge (life sciences), Concentration, Notice)
Improvised Tools
Ultimate Effort (Medicine checks)
Benefit (medic)
Equipment 6 (Knife, heavy pistol, masterwork medical tools, binoculars, flashlight, gas mask, customized medic bag [Healing 8, Total extra, Check Required {Medicine} flaw]
Powers:
Slow Death of the Atom
Drain Constitution 10 (Radiation descriptor)
Extras: Area (Cone), Contagious, Disease
Power Feats: Subtle, Alternate Power
The most powerful and most lethal of the abilities Dr. Hall has gained from the incident at Königsberg is also the most mysterious. With a moment's concentration (and the gut-wrenching pain that attends any use of the abilities), Henry Hall can condemn vast numbers of men to death in the blink of an eye. Only a faint flickering of blue light- and complete whiteout of all photographic plates in the area effect- attends the ability's use. Initial exposure causes relatively mild effects; some nausea and the emergence of strange, painful, but ultimately inconsequential burns. Within twenty-four hours, however, the body begins to simply shut down: bone marrow and gastrointestinal tissue is destroyed, the immune system ceases function, and massive internal bleeding occurs. Death is almost inevitable within 48 hours.
(This is, in point of fact, massive radiation poisoning- but where science is in 1945 can't tell that. A clever atomic scientist may puzzle it out if given a detailed description.)
AP: X-Ray Laser
Radiation Control 14
Extras: Penetrating
Power Feats: Accurate, Affects Insubstantial, Improved Range x5, Split Attack, Subtle
Flaw (no points recieved): applies two Surge Points on a failed Will save, makes the Will save for the power +5 DC
If a determined effort is made and a tremendous amount of pain is endured, Hall can focus his debilitating power to far more immediately devastating effect, creating an invisible beam that melts or burns almost anything in its path.
Regeneration 16
Ressurection 7, Recovery bonus +9
Flaw: Side-Effect: Lose 2 Con and 2 Wis each ressurection. Gain a point of the Disability (disturbing experience) Drawback as flesh is replaced by exotic energy fields peicemeal every two ressurections.
The strange radiactive energies that have taken residence within Henry Hall's body will not let anything so petty as death stop him. It'll be a Hell of a shock to him when he first finds out about it.
Immunity 4 (radiation descriptor, starvation and thirst, need for sleep)
Ever since the accident, Dr. Hall can't sleep, can't eat...
Protection 8
Flaw: Limited: Energy
...and anywhere he stays too long gets a little colder and darker. Light bulbs flicker, fires dim, speakers crackle and quiet. His own best medical diagnosis is that his metabolism has been somehow radically altered to depend on radiant energy rather than food for sustinance. As it is, it's a nuisance, but should a flamethrower ever be turned on him or a lightning bolt strike him, it may be quite useful.