Claim the Sky
Kaiden Karlsson liked to push his luck long before he tried to steal an experimental graviton-generating device from the university research lab. Or, as his siblings used to say, he wasn't quite right in the head. His yards-long rap sheet described a series of petty thefts, simple assaults, cons gone wrong, and several stays in the county jail before his wealthy mother would inevitably bail him out and sic enough lawyers on the problem to make it go away.
So when Kaiden was hired to steal intellectual property, it wasn't too surprising that he decided to deviate from the job and grab the device itself. Which of course promptly exploded. The entire building came down on him—or would have, if his newly bequeathed gravity powers hadn't kicked in just in time to save his life.
Has Kaiden's luck—make that Gravitas's luck—finally changed?
Motive: Acquire wealth and notoriety
Environment: Anywhere
Health: 53
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (12 points)
Armor: 5
Movement: Short; long when gravitationally levitating
Modifications: Speed defense as level 9 due to gravitational deflection; gravity power as level 9; see through deception and flattery as level 3
Combat: Gravitas can make people fall into the sky or crush them using his ability to control gravity within very long range. He can usually affect only a couple of targets that are next to each other at one time, but since a target could be an entire train or other equally large vehicle or structure (which he can bring down like a massive hammer on a given area), he has the potential to attack several targets at once. Targets struck by a vehicle or small building are trapped underneath, crushed for a moderate wound (5 points of ambient damage) each round until they escape or are rescued.
Interaction: Gravitas is especially vulnerable to flattery, given that one of his main motivations is notoriety. A devious negotiator might be able to influence him to act as they wish, at least for a while. Whatever the situation, Gravitas has little sense of consequences and would risk much for little reward, as long as there was some media exposure involved.
Use: Voltage has offered a reward for Gravitas, hoping that if she has the defeated man's remains, she'll be able to extract what she assumes is the gravity generator component that gives him his abilities, and use it for herself.
GM Intrusion: The character keeps falling up each round until they can succeed on a Speed defense roll. After just one round, a character has fallen nearly 600 feet (180 m) up.