B.A.D.A.S.S.
BALATAR 

 NAME : Hans Baker-Schmidt; Basil McKenna
 IDENTITY : Secret
 OPERATIONS : The Pocket Manor, mobile 
 POWER LEVEL : 11
 PLAYER : Ken Hallaron
Balatar 

 STRENGTH	 1
 STAMINA	 6/2
 AGILITY	 0
 DEXTERITY	 0
 FIGHTING	 1
 INTELLECT	 6
 AWARENESS	 8
 PRESENCE	 3

 Abilities Cost: 42 

 Lifting STR 1 
100 lbs.


Flight 6/12
120/8000 MPH

Teleport rank
21: 8000 miles


Impervious
 ignores up to 8 

Regenerate
 every 3.3 rounds 



 DODGE (AGL)	 6 (DC 16) 
 PARRY (FGT)	 6 (DC 16) 
 FORTITUDE(STA)	10/2 
 TOUGHNESS(STA)	16/12 
 WILL (AWE)	12

 Defense Cost: 15

Offense:




 Unarmed		+1	Close, Damage 1
 Magic Missile		+11	Ranged Damage 11, Multiattack, 
				Homing 5, Improved Crit. 16-20 
 Magic Blast		--	Perception Damage 11, 2nd Effect 
 Magic Attack		+5	Ranged Damage 17, Crit. 16-20 
 Magickinisis II 	+9	Ranged Move Object 13
 Magic Spasm		--	Perception Damage 11 vs Will
 "Die."   		--	Perception Damage 11 vs Fortitude


INITIATIVE
+10




Accurate Attack
All-Out Attack
Artificer
Assessment
Benefit 3 (Cipher,
Wealth 1, Alternate 
ID Basil McKenna)


Connected
Equipment 8
Extraordinary Effort
Languages 2 (German,
French) [King's English] 
Improved Initiative 1
Improvisation 1


Move-By Attack
Power Attack
Ritualist
Speed of Thought
Ultimate Effort (Magic)
Well-Informed
Holding Back 1

Advantages Cost: 27

Notes:




Acrobatics	 --	 0	--
Athletics	  4	 1	 3
Close Combat	  1	 1	--
Deception	  6	 3	 3
Expertise			  
 Magic		 16	 6	10
 Cryptography	  7	 6	 1
 Forgery	  7	 6	 1
 Teaching	  7	 6	 1
 Mystic World	  9	 6	 3
Insight		  8	 8	 0


Intimidation	  5	 3	 2
Investigation	  7	 6	 1
Perception	 11	 8	 3
Persuasion	  6	 3	 3
Ranged Combat	  0	 0	--
 Magic		  5	 0	 5
Sleight of Hand	 --	 0	--
Stealth		  7	 0	 7
Technology	  7	 6	 1
Treatment	  8	 6	 2
Vehicles	 --	 0	--

Skills Cost: 23



 Spell of Protection: Protection 10, Impervious Toughness 15		    25
 Magic Awareness: Senses 1 (Awareness: Magic)				     1
 Spell of Communication: Feature: Make Magic Communicators		     1
 Spell of Counter of Babel: Comprehend 3 (Speak, Undersatnd, Read all),	     3	
	Limited to languages that Balatar has encountered users of
	(e.g. Spanish, Arabic, Tibetan, Nepalese, Mandarin, Romanian, Russian)  
 Tapping his Mystic Potential Array					    62
   AE Magic Missile Barrage: Shapeable Area 2 Damage 11, Selective,    48
	Affects Insubstantial 2, Variable Descriptor 2
   AE Magic Missiles: Ranged Damage 11, Multiattack, Homing 4,	        1
	Accurate 4 (+6), Variable Descriptor 2 (Magic),	Affects
	Insubstantial 2, Improved Critical 4
   AE Magic Boom: Burst Area 2 Ranged Damage 11, Variable	        1
	 Descriptor 2, Affects Insubstantial 2
   AE Never say "Die": Perception Ranged Damage 11, vs Fortitude,       1
	Variable Descriptor 1 (Verbal Single Word Commands), Affects
	Insubstantial 2, Subtle 1 (whisper)
   AE Magical Pain: Perception Ranged Cumulative Affliction 11,	        1
	Extra Condition, Concentration, Limited Degree (Dazed & 
	Impaired, Stunned & Disabled), vs Will
   AE Magical Bindings: Perception Snare 11, Variable Descriptor 2      1
   AE Magikinisis I: Perception Move Object 11, Subtle 2, Affects       1
	Insubstantial 2, Damaging
   AE Magikinisis II: Move Object 13, Damaging, Accurate 2, Affects     1
	Insubstantial 2, Variable Descriptor 2, Precise
   AE Magic Attack: Ranged Damage 17, Variable Descriptor 2, Affects    1
	Insubstantial 2, Improved Critical 4
   AE Magic Blast: Perception Ranged Damage 11, Secondary Effect,       1
	Affects Insubstantial 2, Variable Descriptor 2
   AE Magic Matter: Create 11, Precise, Subtle, Innate, Impervious,     1
	Variable Descriptor 2 (Magic)
   AE Magic Brain Spasm: Perception Ranged Damage 11, vs Will,	        1
	Variable Descriptor 2, Affects Insubstantial 2
   AE Team Transport: Teleport 13, Accurate, Extended, Change	        1
	Direction, Change Velocity, Increased Mass 7, Extended
	Only (distance 21; 8000 miles)
   AE Undercover Super Hero: Enhanced STR 4 limited to Lifting;	        1
	Enhanced STR +12; Unarmed Combat: +8; Morph 1; Senses 7
	(Low-Light Extended 2 Vision Penetrates Concealment)
   AE Spells on the Fly: Variable 5, Free Action (25 pts.)	        1
   - Basic Healing: Healing 12, Stabelise
   - Cleaning/Packing: Shapable Area Move Object 3, Continuous, Precise
   - Let Me See With You Eyes: Mind Reading 8, Sensory Link, Insidious
   - Magic Flail: STR-based Damage 8, Accurate 6, Penetrating 9,
	Reach 2
   - Magic Sword: STR-based Damage 8, Accurate 6, Penetrating 9,
	Affects Insubstanial 2,
   - Mysteria Gate: Movement 2 (Dimensional: Mysteria, Time: Present),
	Portal (8)
   - No, not the Mind Probe: Mind Reading 11, Subtle 1, Insidious
   - Glamour: Morph 2, Affects Others, Area Perception, Selective,
	Continuous (18)
   - Spirit Travel: Concealment 10 (All), Passive; Insubstantial 3
   - Magical Analysis: Enhanced Perception +10; Senses 19 (Accurate,
	Acute, Analytical, Extended 3, Radius, Counters and Penetrates
	All Concealment all on Detect 2: Extranormal Energies)
 Dark Magicks: Enhanced Advantage: Holding Back 1			     1

Powers Cost: 93



 Cloak of Levitation Array (Removable -2), Indestructible	       13   11
   AE Basic Flight: Flight 6					       12
   AE Fast Flight: Flight 12, Distracting			        1
 Gem of Fortitude: (Removable -4) Regeneration 3; Enhanced Stamina 4  	    14
	Enhanced Fortitude 4; Immortality 4, limited - jewel must
	remain with the corpse during the 4 days
 Orb of Scrying: (Easily Removable -2) Variable 3, Limited 2: Sensory  	     4
	powers only, Slow, Check Required: Expertise Magic DC 15

Devices Cost: 29

Total Cost: 229


Base Points: 176
ExP Spent: 53		Experience Points Total: 62
Total Points: 229


Equipment:


 Contribution to the Pocket Manor				       19
 The Pocket Vault Library					       16
 Magic B.A.D.A.S.S. Communicator				        2
 Germanicus Manual x2 (Latin Translations)			        0
 Germanicus Manual (ancient German Rune Translation)		        0
 The Feral Book							        3
Complications:
Obsession - Balatar has a very strong hatred of evil and Black Magic.
Responsibility - As his number of allies grows, Hans is finding it harder and harder to figure out which can be trusted and relied upon.
Relationships - Balatar and Artemis have begun an occasional physical relationship. Hans hasn't figured out if they are "just" Monster-Hunters-With-Benefits or something more than that. He is still close with his mentor, and has taken on a set of pupils of his own: the reluctant Damon Flagg and the technology-centric GUI.
Enemy/Mistaken Identity - Balatar resembles and is the unknown grandson of Kristoffer, Son of Mordred.
Names Have Power In Magic - Using a person's full name is evidence of a level of personal knowledge, and knowledge is power. If a mage uses a person's given name in conjunction with a spell, it will have a stronger effect, depending on how intimate that knowledge is. This is why most magic-users keep their identities a closely-guarded secret. If the mage has read the full name somewhere (personal records, internet, etc.), the attack gains a +2 effect. If they have heard the full name spoken, they get a +5. And if they have heard the person speak the name from their own mouth, +10 effect is applied.
Stay off the Sidewalks - Hans Baker-Schmidt never learned to drive at all. Balatar cannot make routine Vehicles checks, and must make a Vehicles check even under routine conditions.
Vulnerability - Balatar's Spell of Protection is magic, and, as such, it can be countered by certain other magicks. Certain magical attacks might, for example, gain a +5 damage against Balatar, or the Protection may be Unreliable (roll), or any of a number of other possibilities, depending on the precise circumstance.

POCKET MANOR 

 LOCATION : Pocket Dimension 
 SIZE : Large
 OWNERS : Balatar (18) and GUI (15)
Pocket Manor 

 SIZE		 2
 TOUGHNESS	 8 
 ARMORY		 1
 CONCEALED	 6
 (Pocket Dimension) 
 CHANGING LAYOUT 1
 COMMUNICATIONS	 2
 (BADASS Rune 
  Switchboard)
 COMPUTER	 1
 DEFENSE SYSTEM	 1
 DIMENIONAL
  PORTAL, MOBILE 2


 GROUNDS	 1
 HOLDING CELLS	 1
 LABORATORY	 1
 LIVING SPACES	 1
 POWER SYSTEM	 1
 SEALED		 1
 SECURITY SYSTEM 5
 SECURITY USES   1
  Exp: Magic
 SELF-REPAIRING	 1
 SUPER WARDROBE  1
 SWIMMING POOL   1  
 WORKSHOP	 1
Total Points: 34

Notes: This is a magically-created dimension that holds a large Victorian-era house on a dreary, grey landscape, that, if explored leads back to the house. The realm is a möbius strip.

POCKET VAULT LIBRARY 

 LOCATION : Pocket Dimension 
 SIZE : Small
 OWNERS : Balatar (15)
Pocket Library 

 SIZE		 0
 TOUGHNESS	 6 
 CONCEALED	 6
 (Pocket Dimension) 
 DIMENIONAL
  PORTAL	 1 


 DEFENSE SYSTEM	 1
 LIBRARY	 1  
 SEALED		 1
 SECURITY SYSTEM 5
 SECURITY USES   1
  Exp: Magic
Total Points: 16

Notes: This is a magically-created sub-dimension, accessible only through the Pocket Manor, that now holds the library that used to just be in the Manor.

Background: While the general public was never made aware of it, Adolf Hitler's fascination with the occult was so deep that he actually recruited a mage to be his sorcerous advisor. Curiously, this mage was English, although he did desire to see England fall to Germany. This mage, while staying at the German chancellery took a perverse liking to one of the young women the Nazis had pressed into servitude. He forced himself on her in 1944. Had he ever learned he had impregnated her he would have had her killed. The arrival of the Allied forces in Germany gave him other things to worry about before he or she learned of her condition. The servant girl escaped and was found by Allied forces.

Balatar in his current 'supersuit' As luck would have it, she and a British soldier fell in love. When her delicate condition was discovered, he married her, assuming the child she carried was his. A career soldier, he stayed in West Germany through the Occupation, and then endeavoured to stay. Their daughter grew up having a fairly normal, healthy childhood, never knowing that her true father was a 1300 year old sorcerer from England.

Eventually, she married, and thirty years ago her son, Hans, was born. Hans was born with strong magic potential, inherited from his grandfather and his grandfather's mother before him. Growing up, many strange and yet beneficial events happened to or around Hans, who never realised it was his unconscious. While he was in college, he was approached by a man named Frederick Hall (known to some as Professor Möbius) who offered to teach Hans how to control his magic.

As the time of him finishing his training neared, he was one of a handful of novice adventurers (Fantasia, Alistair Munroe, Mr. Menagerie, Quadtron, and D'stani) who were brought to der Nacht. After escaping he went and completed his training. He then fell in with another group, one that hates evil magic the way he does.


After exterminating a lot of evil monsters, Balatar discovered that one of his allies, Damon Flagg, was the der Nacht-Earth link. After severing that link, Balatar brought Flagg to Möbius for training. Möbius made Balatar promise to start learning how to train. Having returned to Möbius for training on training, he and GUI have restructured how their group does things. Balatar's response to GUI's new name for the team, BADASS, was to start referring to the 'Reservists' as 'GUI's Reserve Army Battling Against Supernatural Sociopaths'.

Balatar is created, designed and played by Ken Hallaron. His second supersuit was designed by Matt Hallaron.

© Copyright 1999, 2024 - Kenneth G. Hallaron

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Last updated on 31 August 2024