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About Johnny Illuminati

Johnny Illuminati - The Seeker in the Dark, The Parter of the Veil of Lies

Attributes:
Fighting: Excellent Nightcrawler
Agility: Excellent Human Torch
Strength: Poor [/ooc]
Endurance: Good [ooc]Beast
Reason: Remarkable Red Ghost
Intuition: Remarkable... upgraded to Incredible Captain America
Psyche: Good Angel

Health: 43
Karma: 40
Resources: Typical 5
Popularity: (hero/secret ID) 5/5

Weakness:
[19]Energy Allergy: Light
[32] Power Negation
[03] Continuous with Contact

Powers: [54] 5 out of 7

1) Energy Control: Darkforce Manipulation [66]Remarkable 26 use Column B Can generate and control Darkforce energy- Stunt: Blunt attack damage at Remarkable rank.

2) Energy Control: Shadowshaping [48]Excellent 16 use Column B Hero can effect normal shadows and, indirectly, light as well. Can shift location and size of shadows, make 2-D images that can do Power Rank damage to real targets, can Remote Sense through shadow constructs, can increase/decrease the intensity of any shadow (Natural or Power Based) by Power rank number. This overlaps with Light Generation and Shadowcasting, but differs in that either effect is possible and only existing shadows or Shadow-related Powers are effected. Can see through shadow as if normally lit, as long as Intensity is = to or less than Power rank (not Darkforce, though). Excellent Resistence to shadow-based Powers.

3) Energy Emination: Shadowcasting [54]Excellent 16 Summon Shadows: Emits field that dampens light and radiation. Obscured energy is decreased by the Shadowcasting rank. Effects Light and Heat. Can see through his own shadows and any of a lower Powers Intensity level. Can disrupt Darkforce Manipulation on a Typical FEAT if less than rank, Remarkable FEAT if equal, and Unearthly FEAT if greater.
Emination Point: [94] Any use Column A

4) Mental: Mental Probe [15]Typical 5 Truth Revealed!: Can probe living mind or psionic phenomenon to gain detailed analysis of the target. Living minds may be searched for specific information, but Johnny must have an idea of what he is looking for. Target may make Psyche FEAT to resist probe. If target resests, sends psychic backlash back, hitting Johnny as a headache preventing him from trying probe again for 24 hours. If successful, second FEAT determins if target's Psyche is dropped -1CS for 24hrs. The probe can show only info known by the target. Used similarly for psionic phenomenon. Range of Probe: 2 areas.

5) Travel: Floating Disk [36]Good 8 Dark Disks give flight: move 8 spaces/turn(120 MPH/2 MPM)

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Talents: [86] 3 out of 6
1) Journalism (+2 Contacts at creation)
2) Trivia: Conspiracy Theories
3) Acrobatics
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Contacts: [28] 1 out of 4
1) Conrad T Wesselman, Editor of The PuppetMaster Magazine
B1) Detective Sgt. Rick McKinney
B2) U.S. Senator Arthur Milbanks
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Background:Even in college young Johnathon Flaag, Jon to his friends, won several awards for his probing and insightful story development style. He was seen as the student on the fast track to a job at one of the nations major publications, but then, he locked onto a story that was much larger than he was... Government funding into sociology and biology experiments on unwitting students, one nearly homicidal break-down of a student test subject during mid-terms, three deaths in as many months tied to information leakage... It was huge! It was the kind of story that could lock him in for a Pulitzer before he even graduated! Instead, it got him laughed out of the department when they wouldn't back him for 'fabricating such an outlandish smear of the university'.

A career broken before it even really began, Jon was further crushed by the mysterious death of his parents... an accident that to this day he believes was retribution against his attempt at breaking the story of a lifetime. Destitute, Jon was forced to live on the streets for a time. One night as he slept under a bridge he was grabbed, thrown in a trunk, and driven to a secret lab. Over the next week he was subjected to a battery of mental and physical tests and finally forced to undergo a treatment where he was strapped to a table and a group men wearing outlandish masks drilled a hole in his forehead and injected a black substance directly into his pineal gland. The subsance changed him... made him more susceptable to the light, made him feel at one with the cloying velvety darkness of night. It gave him access to amazing new abilities.

Shortly thereafter, Jon was taken to the outskirts of the city and told that he had been given a gift by the Scions of Argus, a society that was seeking the truth in all its forms. They told him he now had the powers to use to break open the casque of mystery that the creed of evil men use to hide themselves. And he realized that they were speaking the truth and wanted him to be good and true himself. Armed with the new weapons the Scions of Argus gave him, he rebuilt his life.

Johnathon Flaag now works for a conspiracy theory magazine called 'The Puppet Masters" searching down leads in his mundane life that he is can aid or topple in his secret life. Recently, a group called the Vigilantes has attracted his attention.

Costume: Johnny Illuminati is an averaged sized man wearing a smokey blue-grey spandex suit with black boots, belt, gloves and cape. On the chest is the emblem of a red right hand holding a pyramid with an eye floating on it (the classic Illuminati symbol). He wears a cowl that covers his lower face and head allowing a spray of silvery white hair to sweep about. A pair of dark shaded goggles cover his eyes and there is an odd black spot in the center of his forehead just above his brows.