Tuning Fork

Characteristics val cha cost 13 STR 3 18 DEX 24 18 CON 16 10 BODY 13 INT 3 11 EGO 2 10 PRE 10 COM 8 PD 5 8 ED 4 4 SPD 12 7 REC 36 END 27 STUN Total cost 69

Skills, Perks, and Powers cost Skill, Perk, or Power END 2 Longitudinal Wave Mechanics (11 or less) 20 50% physical Damage Reduction 3 Ultrasonic Perception 3 5 PD Armor, Only works versus vibratory      or sonic attacks (-1) 60 Multipower - vibratory things 12 m12d6 physical EB 6 12 m8d6 physical EB, Explosion 6 12 m30" Flight 6 4 m20 PD, 10 ED Force Field, 2x END 6 4 uDesolidification 4 4 uShape Shift to any human, Imitation, 4      Costs END Only To Change Shape 1 uMissile Deflection vs. all, costs END 2 137 Total cost of Skills, Perks, and Powers

Running: 6", 12" noncombat Swimming: 2", 4" noncombat OCV: 6 DCV: 6 ECV: 4

Total Points: 69 + 137 = 206 Experience Points Spent: 1 Unspent Experience Points: 5

100+ Disadvantages 15 Public Identity 20 Normal Characteristic Maxima 5 Must use body for ears: -2 to all hearing perception rolls 5 1½x STUN from cold 10 DNPC: generic boyfriend (N, 8-) 20 Hunted by Viper (8 or less) 15 Hunted by the Speed Demon (8-) 5 Berserk at strong ultrasonic devices (8 or less, recover 14-) 10 Must live up to the Ray, and fake being him when he can't be super 105 Disadvantages Total

Lying prone on a lab table, science assintant Jill Garnen was playing third human Guinea pig to an ultrasonic generator soon to be used in medicine, when an accident occurred.  Alternating and static currents flash through the room, affecting mostly the ultrasonic generator and its human target.  The mandatory circuit breakers cut out almost immediately, and the remaining power to the apparatus was cut right afterward by the observing technicians, but by then the effects on Jill's body had become irreversible.  Slowly, but with mounting intensity, Jill's body began to vibrate at about an A-flat below middle C.

Eventually, this oscillation reached deafening proportions, nearly shaking the lab to pieces.  A single instruction was yelled to her.  Although her eardrums had already been destroyed by then, she was still able to lip-read the command: "You must control it — force it down!"  Concentrating with all her will, she slowly, sluggishly forced her body's vibrations to lapse off.

Though her ears were destroyed, the experience had made her body infinitely more sensitive to sonic vibrations.  She has trained her body to be her ears, but she still doesn't hear quite as well as she used to (the signals just don't go to the right part of her brain to process audio information).  The Ray has visited her and briefly taught her how to use the randomly-accelerated molecules of her body more effectively.  Ultimately, she's discovered how to: create repulsive forces near herself; fly (or at least move quickly in one direction) by channeling all that vibrational energy into translational kinetic energy; direct the vibrations she creates into thin, long ranged streams; and finally lose her solid form at will.  She gains maximum control over her power by sticking her arms out-and-up on either side in an "L" shape, so that they resemble a tuning fork.

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