Birth Name: Allen Ramey Eruption: Heart attack Nova Name: Gargoyle Nature: Rebel Series: Allegiance: Teragen Allen Ramey had a long successful career as a librarian. Born in a factory town outside Boston in 1926, he grew up as something of a lonely bookworm. He was recruited at the war's end, but never saw any action. Returning home, he tried a few odd jobs before moving to New York to put himself through school. In 1953 with his degree he got himself a job with a Manhattan branch library, where he worked for the next 43 years. His wife died in 1994, and he retired a few years after that. However, he still came to the library to hang out. In 2002, at the age of 76, he was still living by himself and was taking the stairs up two floors to the map room when he felt a pain in his chest. His heart attack culminated in his unexpected eruption as a nova, sprouting wings and tail into a living neo-gothic gargoyle. Allen suddenly went from being in the twilight of his life into a superpowered nova at the start of his career. He has become very philosophical about this, and has become something of a spokesman for change. While he has not publically avowed Teragen sympathies, his ideas are along their lines and Teragen members have contacted him secretly. He espouses that novas should form their own communities with their own laws, rather than playing gods-among-mortals. Certainly he feels profoundly changed by his experience and no longer lives a "normal" life. STRENGTH: #**** PERCEPTION #**OO APPEARANCE #OOOO Brawl OOOOO Awareness OOOOO Intimidation OOOOO Might OOOOO Investigation OOOOO Style OOOOO DEXTERITY: #**** INTELLIGENCE #**OO MANIPULATION #*OOO Athletics OOOOO Academics OOOOO Interrogation OOOOO Drive OOOOO Bureaucracy OOOOO Streetwise OOOOO Firearms OOOOO Computer OOOOO Subterfuge OOOOO Legerdemain OOOOO Engineering OOOOO Martial Arts OOOOO Intrusion OOOOO Melee OOOOO Linguistics OOOOO Pilot OOOOO Medicine OOOOO Stealth OOOOO Science OOOOO Survival OOOOO STAMINA #**** WITS #*OOO CHARISMA #**OO Endurance ###OO Arts OOOOO Command OOOOO Resistance ###OO Biz OOOOO Etiquette OOOOO Rapport OOOOO Perform OOOOO WILLPOWER ###*****OO QUANTUM #**OO QUANTUM POOL 26 TAINT ****O BACKGROUNDS: Node 1, Eufiber 4, Influence 1, Resources 2 BONUS PTS: +2 Quantum, +1 Background POWERS: |POWERS: 3 Attributes +9 | 4 Armor @@OOO 5 Willpower +5 | 1 Body Mod: Tendril (B) 4 Mega-Strength @*OOO | 3 Body Mod: Wings (Lifter) | 2 Bodymorph:Stone @OOOO 3 Mega-Dexterity *OOOO | (Density Increase) (Enh. Move) | 1 Claws *OOOO 3 Mega-Stamina *OOOO | (Adaptability) | NOTE: # indicates built-in dots, @ indicates tainted dots SOAK Bashing 12, Lethal 9 (+4 for Eufiber, +1-3 when bodymorphed) Density Increase Level 0 : 1 : 2 : 3 ATTACKS: Punch (B) [10]+ 5d : [15]+ 5d : [20]+ 5d : [25]+ 5d Claw (L) [10]+ 6d : [15]+ 6d : [20]+ 6d : [25]+ 6d Tailswipe (B) [10]+10d : [15]+10d : [20]+10d : [25]+10d