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Stone-fleshed scientist whose heart burns for revenge

Vulcan
Quotation   "You should not have interfered."
First Appearance   Mongoose #121, 1959
Real Name   Bernard Vulcan
Identity   Public ID
Player   NPC
Team Affiliation   Solo
Base Of Operations   Chicago, Illinois
Range Of Operations   National
Origin   Altered
Archetype   Elemental

Description

Age   52 Nationality   American
Height   6’ 7” Hair   Grey
Weight   480 lbs. Eyes   Grey
Gender   Cis Male Sexuality   Heterosexual

The only part of Vulcan's body not covered by his armor his is head. He is gaunt, with a square jaw, broad forehead, and close-cropped hair. His skin, eyes, and hair are normally all grey and rough, with an appearance not unlike granite, but the lasers in his suit's collar bathe his head in intense heat, making it glow like molten magma, and making the air around his head shimmer. His armor is rigid and bulky, having the appearance of a space suit or diving suit, with smooth areas around his limbs and torso, and pleated sections at the elbows, hips, and knees. Most of the armor is a deep red, almost black.

Attributes

Brawn 6
Agility 3
Reason 6
Perception 3
Willpower 5
Prowess 3
Accuracy 6

At room temperature, without his armor, Vulcan is nearly immobile.

Endurance: 11
Plot Points: 1

Character Points Spent: 80
Unspent Experience: 0

Advantages

  • Master Plan
  • Minions

Skills

  • Combat
    • Heat Ray Gun +3
  • Computing
  • Engineering
  • Investigation
  • Medicine
  • Science

Powers

Invulnerability 10
Environment suit (without his armor, Vulcan has Rank 6 Invulnerability)
Heat Ray Gun [Ultra-power] 8
Immortality 1
Immunity 10
(Full -- all effects)

Heat Ray Gun

Barrier 8
(Melted metal, stone, and concrete)
Blast 8
Blast 7
Explosive (+1)
Blindness 8
Blindness 7
Mass Blindness (+1)

Movement

  Base Move     Double Move     All-out Move  
Run   30 feet 60 feet 180 feet (20 mph)
Swim   6 feet 12 feet 36 feet (4 mph)
Jump   18 feet 18 feet 18 feet

Personality

Vulcan believes that he has lost everything that he loved and that once made him human. He no longer values, or believes that he feels, such human emotions as pity, or regret, or compassion. In fact, he feels all of these things, but he suppresses these feelings as part of his mechanism for coping with the pain at the loss of his daughter. He will make a point of being merciless and ruthlessly logical as part of his emotional defenses against his pain.

Vulcan plans obsessively, analyzing each possible obstacle and formulating a counter to it. When faced with what he expected, he is efficient and precise in his response. When faced with the unexpected, he reacts by using the most direct means at his disposal: typically, his heat ray gun. He does not respond gracefully to the unexpected.

Motivations

  • Vengeance: The character seeks revenge for some past wrong done to them or their loved ones.
  • Anger: The character is driven to overcome challenges and exceed their limits.

Complications

  • Gruesome: Vulcan is incapable of passing for a normal person.
  • Vulnerability: At room temperature, without his armor, Vulcan is nearly immobile.

History

Bernard Vulcan was a biomedical engineer at Panco Medical Technologies, where his primary field of expertise was lasers. He was successful and reasonably happy with his daughter Elizabeth, whom he raised by himself after his wife died from complications during Elizabeth's birth. When Elizabeth was 14, she was diagnosed with an inoperable cancer of the brain stem. After consulting with every expert money could buy, Bernard was told that the available technology made surgery impossible, and Elizabeth's recovery unlikely. She would be dead within months. After that, Bernard focused every hour on research, trying to invent a new type of surgical tool which would enable doctors to operate on Elizabeth and save her life.

He created a laser so precise that it could vaporize individual cells, and a process which would crystallize human tissue so that the cells would be safely immobilized during the surgery. Unfortunately, while testing the crystallization process, he was interrupted by William Dees, CEO of Panco, who had terminated Vulcan’s research funding weeks weeks before. A struggle ensued, and Dees shoved Vulcan backward into a rack of equipment and volatile chemicals. The research facility was destroyed, and Vulcan's flesh was turned to stone. Later, he created an armored suit which bathed his stony flesh with enough heat to grant him near-normal mobility. Thus enabled, he began plotting his revenge.

Powers and Abilities

Vulcan’s crystallized body is immune to virtually all environmental hazards, and he may in fact be immortal. In addition to heating up his tissues enough to be flexible, Vulcan’s suit provides him with nearly impenetrable armor. He carries a heat ray gun of his own design, which is capable of melting through metal and stone as if they were butter.

Summary

Attributes 32 + Skills 1 + Advantages 2 + Powers 45 = 80 / 80