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About Arcfire

Arcfire
(Composite Electrical Entity)

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Super Hero (PL8)

STRENGTH: -5
AGILITY: 4
FIGHTING: 0
AWARENESS: 4
STAMINA: 8
DEXTERITY: 4
INTELLECT: 4
PRESENCE: 0

POWERS

Intangible 3: Electrical (Permanent/Innate) 16pp
Immunity 5: Suffocation, Critical Hits, Sleep 5pp
Flight 1 (Continuous) 3pp
Interface: Comprehend Machines 2 • 4 pp
Cyberspace: Movement 1 (Dimensional Travel, Cyberspace) • 2 points
Possession Machines: Affliction 8 (Resisted by Dodge; Dazed, Compelled, Controlled), Cumulative, Concentration, Instant Recovery, Limited to Machines, Limited: Merges with Machines, Quirk (Glowing Electrical Nimbus): 1pp

Transmit: Teleport 14, Accurate, Extended, Limited to Energy Only (no mass), Medium: Electrical Conduits, Partially Limited: 4 ranks Extended (Anything past 1 mile is an extended teleport). 24pp
*Summon Empowered Vehicle: Summon: Controlled, Limited: Available parts required, Check Required: Technology, General type (Machines), Multiple Minions 1, Feedback • 3 points per rank = 24pp
*Sensor Network: Remote Sensing 12 (Visual and Auditory), Limited to Technological Sensors • 2 points per rank 24pp
*Blackout: Nullify Technology 6, Burst Area (30-foot radius), Broad (Technological), Simultaneous • 4 points per rank
*Lightning Shift: Teleport/Damage Linked Power (Teleport 7 {1/2 Mile}, Limited to Energy Only (no mass), Limited: Must pass through intervening space in Lightning Form, Limited to Line of Sight); (Damage 8, Penetrating 8, Accurate 4, Precise); Linked.
*Lightning Arc: Damage 8 (Penetrating 6, Accurate 2)
*Taser Blast: Affliction 8 (Dazed, Stunned, Incapacitated, Ranged), Accurate 2)
*Utility Powers: EMP: Weaken/Damage 8 (Objects only, Limited to Circuitry, Cone Area, Linked); Electrostatic Shift (Move Object 2 (Perception, Precise); Flight Boost (Flight 4(5) 60mph)

Personalities: Enhanced Trait Array 6 (Distracting) 6pp
*Garrett: Expertise Computers +12
*Inuou: Technology +10, Fearless
*Alfonzo: Expertise Technology +12
*Electric Mind: Investigation +6, Quickness 6 (Limited to Mental Activities)

Advantages: Inventor, Eidetic Memory, Well Informed
Skills 10pp

Investigation 4 +8
Perception 4 +8
Expertise: Technology 4 +8
Technology 4 +8
Vehicles 4 +8

Offense
~INITIATIVE +4
~Ranged +4
~Unarmed -

Defense
DODGE 4 (0) FORTITUDE 8
PARRY 0 (0) TOUGHNESS 8
WILL 4 (0)

Possible Complications:
Families
Fractured Psyche

Character Point Totals
ABILITIES 38
POWERS 66 (31+29+6)
ADVANTAGES 3
SKILLS 10
DEFENSES -
Total: 116

Short Background:
A team of three teams built themselves a Neural Interface system they Called the Arcfire System. During a regional Science Fair where they intended to get themselves some attention and mainstream backing. Of course, they were going to be breaking quite a few rules to do it, but winning the Science Fair wasn’t the point.

Toy Maker attacked the Science Fair, probably with his eye on one project or another, but during the attack, the Arcfire was damaged. Their power supply overloaded and exploded. All three boys were incinerated, and many others were injured. Toy Maker’s bot was damaged and he had to run, but empty handed.

Over a few months, a new entity gained awareness on the internet. He was an amalgamation of the three Arcfire team members, and seemed to exist as energy only. Only when an emergency appeared, did he discover he could manifest in the real world. An office building where someone he used to know worked. He stepped into the real world, built himself a body out of office computers and scrap, and helped get the people to safety. When the JLA showed up, he was brought in for screening. A few months later, he is being trialed to a new team.

Background:

Early November, Sophomore year. A few old friends and rivals were working together on a big project the regional Science Fair. They had developed the software and hardware to allow a remote operated vehicle to function in an urban environment, not unlike a drone, but much less militaristic. Their key achievement was what they were calling the Arcfire Interface; a neural feedback machine that allowed you to control a system at the speed of thought.

Their system allowed anyone, even a member of the public, to operate a vehicle in real time, even working at high rates of speed. To prove the concept, they were probably going to be breaking a few rules, but they were counting on it being worth it. They'd be disqualified, but winning the science fair was not the real motivation here, getting noticed was, and sometimes getting called for more dramatic actions.

Garrett Tiber had written the code, Alfonzo Mendez had built the hardware, and Inuou Ishikawa, as a competative racer, gearhead, and general video game nut, was their operator.

If they could attract the right kind of notice with their demonstration, further developing their VR immersive remote control system into something massive. Taxis could be remote piloted, allowing for more passengers, medevac vehicles could go places too dangerous to send personnel, and most important to Inuou, race vehicles could go faster, and develop in ways that would not be safe for human operators.

The demonstration was going great. Inuou was competing via remote link in a real race occurring at the same time, his bike rigged to operate via his control. They'd gathered quite a crowd when things went sideways. The Toy Maker crashed the fair in one of his giant robots. Afterwards, nobody is sure exactly what he was after, though it is possible it was their remote piloting system he'd come looking for.

Part of their system involved using a significant power source to maintain the high intensity real-time connection with the controlled vehicle. Toy Maker's robot smashed into their rig as he burst into the community centre, sending the power system into a surge, and causing an explosion. A few dozen people were injured. Toy Maker's robot was damaged enough that he had to make an impromptu retreat, and probably only escaped because everything had happened so quickly there was never a chance for Super Heroes to show up.

While most of the injuries were minor, a few bystanders had been hurt badly enough to need surgery or hospital time. Of the three boys however, little to nothing remained. The power surge had been intense enough to almost completely incinerate all three. Identifications were confirmed with dental fragments.

The entity that would later be known as Arcfire became aware of himself sometime later. He existed within the expanse of the world wide web. For a while, he merely watched, as he could not remember how he had come to be, and did not know his purpose. Gradually, he found himself drawn to particular parts of the web that seemed familiar. Social media sites with faces he recognized, school website with pictures and videos of familiar places. Social clubs that seemed familiar.

Over several months, he pieced his memory back together, and figured out what had happened. The power surge had overpowered their neural interface, and when their bodies were destroyed, their minds transferred along the link, into the web. For whatever reason, the three minds had merged; maybe because in all the internet, the three neural patterns were the only thing similar to each other; or perhaps it was just chance.

At first they assumed they were trapped in the web, unable to touch the real world. They established some new online aliases, not wanting to hurt their grieving families showing up online claiming to be a lost loved one, but unable to prove it. It wasn't until a great enough motivator was present that they discovered they could leave the web.

While keeping an eye on loved ones, they observed a bombing in an office building Garrett's sister worked in. Near structural collapse, a lot of people were going to be hurt or die. At that moment, Arcfire stepped out of the machine, and appeared in the office. He was a glowing cloud of electric energy, vaguely humanoid, but pure electrons and cohesive energy. He found almost immediately that in this form, his ability to interact with the world was very limited. Knowing what he did about controlling machines however… his power ripped apart several computer terminals, office chairs, kitchen appliances, and odds and ends, assembling into a rapidly constructed avatar.

Moving around the building, he rescued the injured, shored up collapsing walls and floors, and repaired fire suppression systems. By the time Superman arrived, most of the people were safe.

Superman took the unknown hero to the Justice League for a thorough debriefing. Now, a few months later, after counselling and thorough vetting, he has been put forward as a candidate for hero training. Still a bit confused, and adapting to his/their new existance, Arcfire is also enjoying some of the new challenges in his life. Still, he is troubled by the loved ones he left behind, and feels highly conflicted about contacting them, but feels duty bound to watch after them.

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