About Tabula Rasa: The Gaunt Helm
The Gaunt Helm AKA Tabula Rasa, AKA the new Sandman
Power Level 8, 120 points
Strength: 0, Stamina 6[12], Agility 0, Dexterity 0, Fighting 0, Awareness 4[8], Presence 4[8]
Dodge: 0+10=10[10]
Parry: 0
Toughness: 6
Fortitude: 6
Will: 5+5=10 [5]
Skills:
Ranged attack (Soothing Sands): +8[4]
Deception 4+6=10[3]
Insight 4
Imtimidation 4+14=18[7]
Perception 4
Advantages:
Fearless [1]
Powers:
The Tools of the Trade Array: Easily Removable(-12)
-Soothing Sands: Cumulative Concentration Sleep(8 ranks), Affects insubstantial: 4/ranks +2 [34(22]]
-Dream made flesh: Illusion(5) all senses, independant affects insubstantial: 6/rank +2
Have you ever dreamed of flying?: Flight 1 [2]
Thoughts can never die: Immortality 5 [10]
Meeting of the minds & Do Androids dream?: Language 8, can understand any language, when speaking, any can understand, can read any language, can speak to and understand animals and machines[16]
Mental Master Array
Effortless knowledge: Mind reading(8) Subtle, cumulative, concentration, distracting 1/rank +2[10]
Implacable communication: Communication Telepathy 1 Rapid, subtle 2 [9]
Rend thought: Ranged damage 8 limited(only sleeping targets) 1/rank [10]
The Gaunt Helm dresses very similarly to the Phantom Stranger. Due to the strange, featureless skintight helmet he wears, made of a mysterious taupe metal, he gives off a vaguely menacing aura. The monotone voice that he speaks in is slightly modulated, and hard to determine exactly what qualities it has to it. No skin shows anywhere on his costume, in fact people merely assume that the Gaunt Helm is in fact, a him. Also known as Tabula Rasa in mystic circles due to the blank helmet that is the Gaunt Helm's face, not much is publically known about the hero.
But where did the Gaunt Helm come from? Schollars of the arcane will tell you that a helmeted figure of vengence, similar to spectre has occasionally appeared throughout history, during times of particular unrest, bonding to a host, and imbuing them with the collected power from across generations. The last appearance of the helmet was in midevial times, in which after spending several years beating back a demonic invasion, it became unhinged after the threat was distroyed, going after even the smallest infractions of the law with extreme predjudice. Disheartened, it's previous allies banished it back to where it had come from, the land of dreams.
For the Gaunt Helm is not just a man, or an artifact but in fact a nightmare, escaped from the land of the Dream Lord. It is the nightmare of criminals, but it has been tempered over the years. In the past being nothing more than a one track minded automoton of violence, the Gaunt Helm has gained nuance, subtlety, and the faintest glimmer of compassion. The current wearer of the helm was a detective, shot and on the brink of death. In the past, the Tabula Rasa would have completely overwritten the man's personality, leaving only the burning desire for justice. However, this time, it merged, fused, became something more. There are glimmers of the man that Detective Crazwick used to be, favored paintings, a desire to protect instead of merely destroy, and perhaps most tellingly, a genuine appreciation for good partners.
Armed with a small portion of the Dream Lord's sand, the Tabula Rasa took on the mantle of the Gaunt Helm. Many have noticed his similarity to other heros, but the resemblance to the hero known as the Sandman have lead some to beleive that Detective Crazwick may have been related to the man in some way.
