Gulf State Guardsmen
MOZOU

NAME : "Maxine Viridans" IDENTITY : Not Secret OPERATIONS : Tallahassee, FL, USA POWER LEVEL : 9 PLAYER : "Prof Weird"
Mozou

STRENGTH 1 STAMINA 1 AGILITY 1 DEXTERITY 1 FIGHTING 6 INTELLECT 2 AWARENESS 1 PRESENCE 1
Abilities Cost: 28
 Lifting STR 1 
100 lbs.


 Running SPD 1 
4 mph

 Swimming SPD 2 
2 mph



* - without
Defensive Roll

DODGE (AGL) 7 (DC 17) PARRY (FGT) 7 (DC 17) FORTITUDE(STA) 6 TOUGHNESS(STA) 5/3* WILL (AWE) 7
Defense Cost: 18
Offense:

Unarmed
+8 Close, Damage 1 Baton +6 Close, Damage 3 Blaster Rifle +10 Ranged, Damage 8

INITIATIVE +5

Acrobatics -- 1 -- Athletics 5 1 4 Unarmed Combat 8 6 2 Deception 9 1 8 Expertise
Mercenary 5 2 3 Parahumans 7 2 5 Science 5 2 3 Insight 7 1 6 Intimidation 1 1 --

Investigation -- 2 -- Perception 5 1 4 Persuasion 5 1 4 Ranged Combat
Blaster Rifle 10 1/6 3 Sleight of Hand -- 1 -- Stealth 7 1 6 Technology -- 2 -- Treatment -- 2 -- Vehicles -- 1 --
Skills Cost: 24
Notes:

Assessment Beginner's Luck Defensive Roll 2 Equipment 8 Hide In Plain Sight

Improved Block Improved Disarm Improved Initiative Move-By Action Power Attack Ranged Attack 6

Set-Up Taunt Teamwork Uncanny Dodge Well-Informed
Advantages Cost: 27

Detect Powers: Senses 4 (Ranged Acute, Analytical Detect Powers, Noticable) 4 Comprehend: Comprehend 2 (Speak & Understand All, Subtle, Quirk: Minds only, can speak any language someone is speaking, but power does not work over the phone or radio. Ability is copying the subject's language skill) Octopus Powers: Concealment 2 (Sight, Blending, Passive), Immunity 2 16 (Environmental Pressure, Drowning), Movement 1 (Underwater Adaptation), Senses 1 (Low-Light Vision), Swimming 2, Elongation 3 (+3 to Grab) OR Movement 2 (Safe Fall, Wall-Crawling 1, Only near surfaces) OR Leaping 2 & Speed 1 OR Nerve Strike (STR-based Damage 1, Resisted by Will), Healing 3 (Science Check 2 Required [DC11]) Power Mimic: Variable 8 (40 pts), Limited to powers of one subject, Limited 32 to touch range
Powers Cost: 52
Devices Cost: 0
Total Cost: 149
Base Points: 144 ExP Spent: 5 Experience Points Total: 3 Total Points: 149
Equipment:

Body Armor: Protection 2, Subtle 3 Combat Baton: STR-based Damage 2, Improved Block & Disarm 4 Weapon Array 20 Blaster Rifle w/ Tageting Scope: Extended Range Damage 8 Glue String Grenade: Ranged Cumulative Cloud Area Affliction 4, Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Damage or Slight of Hand, Extra Condition, Limited Degree (Hindered & Vulnerable, Defenseless & Immobilized) Heavy Concussion Grenade: Ranged Burst Area Affliction 8, Diminished Range, Limited Degree (Dazed, Stunned) Gulf State Guardsmen Communicator 1 Contribution to the Guardsmen Transport 9
Complications:
Acceptance - Mozou wants to feel as though she belongs somewhere.
Responsibility - She feels the need to protect the world from overpowered idiots. For some peculiar reason, the first (and usually ONLY) thing some people do when they get powers is go on a rampage. She was created to deal with sort of thing... more or less.
Obsession - Defeating supers (she WAS originally designed to be a weapon after all).
Power Loss - She cannot mimic Device-based powers.
Relationship - An inversion to the standard Frankenstein trope, Mozou actually likes and respects her creator. He's in prison right now (serving a few dozen life sentences for 'unethical genetic experiments', as well as embezzlement of a few billion dollars), but if she can hire some sufficiently dedicated lawyers ...
Weakness - She gains the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of the subject she copies from.

Background: Back in 1985, an overworked researcher 'knew' that at the turn of the millenium, all of those superpowered beings starting to litter the place would unite and subjugate the normal people of the world. So he managed to get investors to back his plan to create an Ultimate Weapon - a living being capable of taking down any metapowered threats that arose.

When the year 2000 came and went without a massive superhero uprising, his investors became a bit concerned about what he was spending their money on. Mozou (Japanese for 'imitation') was one of the earliest attempts of human genomic alteration and assembly; she is the Model T of genetically designed superbeings. Dr Green couldn't direct the insertion of new genetic material very well, so he just stepped around the problem by simply synthesizing designer chromosomes from the nucleotide sequences up (designed with 4096 'safe habor' loci for addition of new genes and gene complexes). This step was rendered pointless in 2015 with the development of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology.

Dr. Green realized that Mozou would have to be VERY versatile, since she would be facing off against beings with powers numerous, diverse and bizarre. So he engineered in the ability to copy another being's traits, figuring that if she encountered something useful, she could copy it and dish it out as well.

For most researchers, the 'standard' Ultimate Weapon would be a superstrong, supertough thug that could shoot death beams from his eyes, and tough enough to break cinder blocks with his face; Dr Green decided to make something a bit more discrete and, well, SANE ...

Things didn't go as well as expected - she could only copy powers, and she had to touch the subject. Later alterations to correct those flaws didn't work, and only granted new abilities (something rarely seen with mimics - he had installed genes from the mimic octopus just to see if they would help. They didn't.) The investors were not impressed with his work, given that practically every super out there outclassed Mozou at just about everything. She was an outdated relic. A has-been before she ever was.

So Dr Green did the smartest thing he could : run like mad and turn himself in to the authorities to protect himself from all those disappointed investors. They tried to kill him a few times, but he lucked out and survived (they quit trying after the fifth attempt because it was just throwing good money after bad).

Growing up in a lab rendered her very curious, and managed to uncover details about her origins. Which really didn't bother her - it doesn't matter HOW one is given life, it is what one chooses to DO with that life that matters (as paraphrased from Hellboy, more or less). She's seen her design specs and production protocols, and is trying to improve them; thus, she reads every biology journal she can get hold of. Most are still over her head, but she's learning as much as she can. Meanwhile, she earns a living acting as a security officer/bodyguard, usually for researchers doing oceanographic research.

Mozou was created, designed and played by "Prof Weird".

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Last updated on 24 February 2024