Alias: Slipshade
Name: Daniel Black
Build Points:150
Concept: Experimental Accident
Age: 26
Birthday: 2/25/89
Gender: Male (Heterosexual)
height: 6’0”
Weight: 220lbs
Hair: Dark with long bluish bangs
Eyes: Brown
History: See below.
Motivation: Responsibility, Thrill
Complications: Enemies: Former Co-Worker and Fiancée (Milly Nocturne – Midnight) and Owner of Deep Water Industries (Lucas Shrike – Master of Shadows)
Total Points: 150
Advantages: 5
Attributes: 36
Powers: 78
Saves: 18
Skills: 13
Attributes:
Strength: 2
Stamina: 2
Agility: 4
Dexterity: 2
Fighting: 4
Intellect: 4
Awareness: 0
Presence: 0
Defenses:
Dodge: 15
Parry:15
Fortitude: 7
Toughness: 7/4* Without Defensive Roll
Will: 9
Skills:
Athletics:
2 +1 +0 =+3
Close Combat: Unarmed
6 +4 +0 =+10
Deception
0 +0 +0 =+0
Expertise: Quantum Mechanics
4 +4 +0 =+8
Insight
0 +0 +0 =+0
Intimidation
0 +0 +0 =+0
Investigation
4 +4 +0 =+8
Perception
4 +0 +0 =+4
Persuasion
0 +0 +0 =+0
Ranged Combat:
0 +2 +0 =+2
Stealth
0 +4 +0 =+4
Technology
4 +4 +0 =+8
Vehicles: Car
2 +2 +0 =+4
Advantages: Defensive Roll 3, Instant Up, Move-by Action
Powers:
Dark Vision
Senses 2 (Vision Counters Concealment –darkness) • 2 points
Scry Through Shadow: Remote Sensing 3 (visual and auditory), Medium (shadows and darkness) • 6 points
Healing Darkness:
Regeneration 2, Source (darkness) • 1 point
Shadow Strike:
Damage, Strength-based Attack 8, Affects Insubstantial 2, Penetrating 3 • 13 points
Shadow Form – Fades (Recharges when resting darkness)
Shadow Dimension Phasing: Insubstantial 4 (Incorporeal), Fades • 16 points
Shadow Walk: Teleport 2, Medium (shadows) • 1 point
Super Speed
Speed 10 • 10 points
Enhanced Advantage (Improved Initiative) • 3 points
Fast Attack
Damage 3, Strength-based, Multiattack • 4 points
Fast Defense: Enhanced Dodge 10, Enhanced Parry 10 • 20 Points
Run On Water:
Movement 1 (Water-Walking), Limited to while moving • 1 point.
Run Up Walls:
Movement 1 (Wall-crawling), Limited to while moving • 1 point.
Attacks:
Initiative: +16
Shadow Strike (Attack +10, Damage +10)
Fast Attack (Multistrike) (Attack +10, Damage +5)
Background:
Daniel Black was a rising star in the field of quantum mechanics. His graduate work had won international recognition as breakthrough work in the field of extra dimensional theory. He was snatched up immediately after earning his PhD by Deep Water Industries, a leader in cutting edge science and technology. It was here that Daniel met his fiancée Milly Nocturne. They were part of an R&D group tasked with finding an unlimited source of extra-dimensional energy. It took a year but the team was sure they had found a break through. Using new theories in dark energy and anti-matter Daniel formulated a way to breach the shadow dimension where dark matter and energy originated and leaked into our reality. Extra funding and personal were dedicated to the project and a prototype breach, extraction and containment facility was in place in surprising little time.
The owner/president and the entire board of directors was onsite for the initial breach, but something went horribly wrong with the containment field. The ensuing explosion destroyed the small facility located on an isolated island out of the Keys. The owner/president of Deep Water Industries, Lucas Shrike survived, but many of the board of directors and much of the research staff did not. The extent of the accident was covered up by Deep Water Industries and Daniel as the only (known) surviving member of the research team was blamed for the accident.
Daniel and Milly were closest to the containment field at the time working desperately to keep the field for exploding. While Daniel miraculously survived Milly did not. She was completely vaporized by the explosion (or so he thought). Days after the explosion Daniel began experiencing strange dreams and waking visions as the shadow energy he had been exposed to changed him. Daniel was now a creature of multiple dimensions. He has since used those abilities in an attempt find out what actually went wrong with the experiment. These attempts caught the attention of Overwatch and he was recruited with the assurance that he would be able to continue his investigation into the accident.
Deep Water Industries/Order of Shadows
Daniel wasn’t the only person changed from the exposure to the Shadow Dimension. Lucas Shrike and the surviving board of directors were too. Lucas’s exposer gave him insight into the nature of Shadow energy and he has used this to create a new form of shadow technology. He sells some of this technology to the government, but keeps the best for his own organization, the Order of Shadows. Lucas’s company got its start-up funding from organized crime. Being beholden to the mob as always rankled Lucas. A bit of a megalomaniac before his transformation Lucas’s mastery of shadow energy has broadened his delusions of grandeur. Now dubbing himself Master of Shadows Lucas has used his shadow technology as a new weapon in the war to become the only criminal organization in Peninsula City.
Milly Nocturne/Midnight
Milly wasn’t vaporized in the accident. She was shifted from our dimension to the Shadow Dimension. Completely isolated and faced with beings completely alien to her Milly’s mind eventually broke from the alien influences she encountered there. Her insanity brought new insight into the realm and the hive mind that found her wandering in their world. Milly was connected to the hive, but her human mind though shattered infected the creatures. They no longer followed there queen and only followed Milly’s commands. The human part of her was still desperate to find a way home and the hive known as The Hex set about doing just that. The pain, loneliness and isolation of her time has twisted her mind into a hatred of both Deep Water Industries and Daniel Black who she has convinced herself betrayed her and left her to die. It is only a matter of time until Milly and her Hex find a way into our reality again to seek out their revenge.
