Stranglevine

   Stranglevine is usually a “member” of the Bayou Brigade, a loosely-organized superhero team operating in the southern United States. Unlike most heroes with “plant powers”, Stranglevine is actually a powerful plant spirit operating through a (more mobile and reactive) animal body – but transforming it utterly and completely suppressing the native consciousness. In battle, Stranglevine’s tactics are simple: it sprawls across an area, extends tendrils (via stretching and selective area-effect affects desolids strength) to grab everyone it “dislikes” (not a known ally and apparently disruptive) and immerses their consciousness in the slow rhythms of the life of a plant. No one really knows why Stranglevine usually acts as a “hero” (although most speculation revolves around some sort of inherent rebelion against whatever Manitou intended in summoning it). It certainly doesn’t seem to “think” in any comprehensible fashion.
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Stranglevine

Value	Characteristic	Points
20/60	STR	10
15	DEX	15
18	CON	16
12/50	BODY	4
10	INT	0
11	EGO	2
30	PRE	20
10	COM	0
20	PD	16
20	ED	16
4	SPD	15
8	REC	0
36	END	0
	Total	114

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Points	Powers	END
7	Elemental Control: Plant Powers (30-pt reserve); Plant Powers Only (-.5), Independent (The plant powers may move on at their own whim -and pretty much take total control of whoever or whatever they possess, -2), User becomes a plant – unable to speak, driven to protect the environment and integrity of the biosphere of whatever planet it happens to be on, and subject to various vulnerabilities. -1).
a-18	2d6 Drain: Speed (Return/min.); Range: 0; Affects: Single Power, +0; Damage Shield: +½; Reduced END: Zero, +1; Autofire: 30 shots, 1¾; No Normal Defense (Vrs Inorganic Metabolism, Hardened Force Field and Life Support.): +1	0
b-20	2d6 Drain: Speed (Return/min.); Range: 0; Affects: Single Power, +0; Damage Shield: +½; Reduced END: Zero, +1; Autofire: 20 shots, 1¼; No Normal Defense (Vrs Mental Regeneration, Hardened Mental Defense): +1; Based on EGO Combat Value: vs. ECV, +1	0
c-18	+30 STR; Reduced END: Zero, +½; Damage Shield: +½; Affects Desolidified: +½; Area Effect (Radius): 8″ radius, +1; Selective Target: +¼	0
d-7	+30 BODY
e-10	Mental Defense (62 pts); Add to Total; Hardened: ×1, ¼
f-7	Power Defense (60 pts)
g-16	Regeneration (6 BODY/Turn); Regenerate: From Death, +20; Addition (Broad Spectrum: Restores all powers/traits): +20
h-7	Damage Resistance (20 PD/20 ED)
i-7	Growth-8 (×250 mass, ×6.3 height); Mass: 15,000 kg/33,000 lbs; Height: 1,134 cm/37’2″; Extra STR: 40; Knockback Reduction: -8; Extra BODY: 8; Extra STUN: 8; DCV Penalty: -5; PER Penalty: +5; Reduced END: Zero, +½	0
j-10	Stretching (10″, NC: 20); Non-Combat Multiplier: ×2, +0; Reduced END: Zero, +½	0
k-7	Takes No Stun; Loses: Body Only, 60
l-7	Modified Characteristic: STR; Affects Desolidified: +½; Reduced END: Zero, +½
2	Elemental Control: Lesser Plant Powers (10-pt reserve); Plant Powers Only (-.5), Independent (The plant powers may move on at their own whim -and pretty much take total control of whoever or whatever they possess, -2), User becomes a plant – unable to speak, driven to protect the environment and integrity of the biosphere of whatever planet it happens to be on, and subject to various vulnerabilities. -1).
a-3	Spatial Awareness
b-4	Life Support (total)
c-2	Clinging (Clinging STR +30)
5	Extra Limbs (20); Number: 20
2	Radio Listen and Transmit; IIF (Transciever): -¼; Can understand transmissions, but can only reply with simple signals: -1
159	Total Powers

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Points	Skills, Talents, Perks	Roll
30	+15 level w/with Grab
10	+2 level w/HTH Combat
5	Area Knowledge: Swamps	14-
3	Knowledge: Naturalist	12-
4	Disguise; Only as a mass of plants.: -1	14-
52	Total Skills, Talents, Perks

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125+	Disadvantages
25	Blindness
15	Deafness (Frequently, Greatly)
10	Cannot Speak (Frequently, Slightly)
10	Destitute
15	Hunted: The Totems (8-); Capabilities: More Powerful, 15; Non-combat Influence: None, +0; Geographical Area: Unlimited, -0; Actions: Hunting, ×1; Punishment: Harsh, 0
25	Driven to confront unnatural things (Very Common, Total)
25	No comprehension of normal life (Very Common, Total)
10	Public Identity
20	Reputation: Unthinking force of nature (14-, Extreme)
10	Susceptibility: Herbicides (3d6 BODY/1 Hour); Condition: Common, +10
30	Vulnerability: Fire (2× BODY); Attack: Very Common, +15
5	1d6 Unluck
200	Total Disadvantages

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COSTS:	Char.		Powers		Total	Total		Disadv.		Base
	114	+	211	=	325	325	=	200	+	125

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OCV	DCV	ECV	Mental Def.	PD/rPD	ED/rED	Phases
5	5 / 0	4	62	20/20	20/20	3, 6, 9, 12

   Story: Stranglevine has been around since Manitou, of the Totems, summoned the elemental power of the natural world and attempted to bind it to his will. This did not work out: the elemental power he’d unleashed possessed the dying body of the sacrifice he’d offered – and Manitou barely escaped with his unlife. Since then, the power of Stranglevine has transferred – seemingly at random – between the bodies of various dying men and animals, completely suppressing their minds while it’s present, but leaving them healthy and healed when it departs.

   Height: 180/1134cm (5’11″/37’2″), Weight: 60/15000kg  (132 lbs/33,000 lbs)

   Appearance: Stranglevine is a mass of creepers, vines, and leaves, which can roll itself up into a ball, appear as nothing more than a mass of shrubbery, or sprawl over a massive area.