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Everyone in the Majestic Family has extraordinary abilities, and the world knows it. They don't have secret identities; they go by their actual names. And yes, their last name really is Majestic.
The core family is composed of Natalie Majestic and her husband Jack, their teenage son "Ace," and Jack's sister Olive. And thanks to Olive's inventions, the Majestics routinely leave their compound in Virginia to travel the world—and beyond—in their M-jet, their space-faring M-shuttle, and even their faster-than-light M-craft that allows them to travel to other stars.
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Natalie is a force of nature. As one of the strongest and toughest people on the planet and the unofficial head of the Majestics, she and her team are in high demand with law enforcement, governments, and other super teams.
However, she and her family are more explorers than crimefighters, so she rarely answers such calls. Her impressive strength is often used to help out in her sister-in-law's lab and sometimes to safeguard the other family members on their frequent outings to strange places. But of course, when true planetary threats loom, the Majestics help. Assuming they're not on the far side of the galaxy.
Motive: Explore the universe, safeguard her family
Health: 80
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (15 points)
Armor: 15
Movement: Short; very long when jumping
Combat: Natalie's punch can demolish buildings, and with her Armor (which also protects her from things that regular armor can't, like psychic and ambient damage), she can withstand debris should that building come down on her. She's so tough, in fact, that she can brush off brutal pressures at the sea bottom and the vacuum of space with equal ease, apparently able to exist in an anoxic state indefinitely.
Interaction: Bold but kind, decisive but willing to listen, Natalie usually speaks for the team. She certainly cares about the rest of the world, and is willing to offer aid, but her first priority is her family.
Use: Natalie shows up in plain clothes asking about a particular artifact going up for sale. She wants to procure it for her sister-in-law Olive, but it turns out, so does Lord Ash.
Other Equipment: Like everyone in the family, Natalie carries several devices created by Olive Majestic, including the following cyphers: attractor, best tool, and comprehension.
GM Intrusion: Natalie slaps both hands together, creating a shock wave (level 10 )that attacks everything in a cone-shaped area up to a long distance from her.
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Jack met Natalie when they attended a semester abroad together in Ireland twenty years ago.
Since then, they've been inseparable. They married, raised a child, and with the help of Jack's sister Olive, made the Majestic family what it is today. In fact, it's Jack's infectious excitement about exploring that transformed the Family into celebrity explorers. Who can forget that momentous day when the Majestic Family traveled to Mars? They were the first Earth people to do so, and that's all down to Jack and his passion for travel.
Like his wife, Jack is powerful. In his case, it's because he can command the fundamental force of gravity, granting him fine control over the environment. If his wife can demolish a building with a punch, he can lift it off its foundations by thinking about it.
Motive: Explore the universe, safeguard his family
Health: 40
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (12 points)
Armor: 4
Movement: Short; very long when flying
Modifications: Gravity powers, gravity attacks, and Speed defense against physical attacks as level 9
Combat: Jack's gravity-manipulation abilities give him the power of flight, improve his defenses (as already noted), allow him to pin up to three targets within long range to the ground or another hard surface (and crush them each round, if he chooses) until they escape, or send those same targets falling into the sky.
He can also emit a very-long-range graviton beam at a single target that inflicts damage at the subatomic level (and thus ignores Armor).
He can impart a gravitational field to objects or make them repel gravity (creating antigravity) for several hours. If he has minutes to concentrate, he can lift buildings from their foundations or cause them to collapse. If he has hours to concentrate, he can extend his influence for several miles into the surrounding ground, and then lift that chunk of earth into the sky.
Interaction: Curiosity and a desire to explore with family and friends are Jack's most endearing qualities. If interacting with a stranger, he usually wants to show them some weird keepsake he acquired on an earlier trip, or wants to know all about the strange places they've been.
Use: Jack Majestic shows up and has questions about a villain the PCs recently faced, because he thinks they may know about a previously undiscovered hollow world far beneath the continents.
Other Equipment: Like everyone in the family, Jack carries several devices created by Olive Majestic, including the following cyphers: blackout, darksight, and disguise module.
GM Intrusion: Jack Majestic takes another action.
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The nickname "Ace" was given to Bernard Majestic by his aunt Olive when he first demonstrated his amazing regeneration abilities. His wound-healing power was the only reason the Majestic Family continued its wide-ranging, explore-strange-new-worlds tradition after the kid was born.
Without such resilience, no responsible parent would consider taking a child into harm's way.
Ace's ability to heal others is also a plus.
Ace loves everyone in his family, but his favorite "family" member is Duke, a companion and guardian machine Aunt Olive built for him when he was just two years old. Though everyone else thinks of Duke as a robot, Ace is sure that the mechanism is as deserving of love as anyone. In fact, inspired by Duke, he's become Olive Majestic's apprentice in all things robotic.
Motive: Explore the universe, improve Duke
Health: 30
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (8 points)
Armor: 4
Movement: Short
Modifications: Robotics tasks as level 7
Combat: Ace often uses a long-range stun pistol in combat provided to him by Aunt Olive. On a successful attack, the target is stunned and unable to take turns for a minute, or until it can succeed on a difficulty 8 Might defense roll.
Ace regains 15 health every round, even if at 0 health. He can restore up to 10 points of health or Pool points to an ally within short distance, as long as the target and Ace are both standing on the same surface, touching the same wall, or the like. A given target can be affected by this only once per day.
Though the Majestic Family doesn't really want him to use his power this way, Ace's touch can also be used in reverse, inflicting 10 points of Speed damage (ignores Armor). Ace normally keeps this power under wraps until a true emergency occurs. Luckily, in addition to his stun pistol, his robotic companion Duke is a powerful defender.
Interaction: Ace is no sullen teen, but his interests are starting to diverge from those of his parents. He is happy to meet new people and learn about new opportunities, and he is especially responsive to people closer to his own age.
Use: Ace goes missing from the Majestic Family compound in Virginia. A few hours later, he is sighted with a group of kids his own age touring a museum in D.C.
Other Equipment: Like everyone in the family, Ace carries several devices created by Olive Majestic, including the stun pistol described above, and the following cyphers: best tool, detonation (web), and disguise module.
Level 8 artifact
Effect long-range attack stuns target for one minute.
Depletion: 1 in 1d20.
GM Intrusion: Ace touches the character, inflicting 10 points of Speed damage (ignores Armor). It's his healing ability reversed, retarding biological function rather than supercharging it.
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If Olive Majestic wanted to, she could be the richest multibillionaire on the planet. Her inventions outstrip most other advanced technology, very likely second only to Valerie Lincoln, and she's always working on something new. If she were to release even a fraction of her designs into the world, the act would revolutionize a rainbow of industries, including transportation, communication, computation, and more. It's a poorly kept secret that she built the Majestic Family a faster-than-light spacecraft, called the M-craft (of course).
But Olive's inventions are retained for her family. In a very real sense, her superpower is her genius with invention and engineering. Though others might scoff when she says it, most of her radical designs really are too advanced for the world to handle. Her minor "tame" patents are the source of most of the family's finances.
Motive: Invent, safeguard the Majestic Family
Health: 35
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (8 points)
Armor: 8
Movement: Short; long when flying
Modifications: Mechanical design, engineering, and gadgeteer tasks as level 9
Combat: Olive's suit is outfitted with a protective force field, reactionless thrusters for flying, and an array of deployable laser, stun, plasma, and sonic weapons, allowing her to target a foe up to a very long distance away and inflict the damage of her choice.
If Olive has time to prepare and has material from her lab or one of the M-vehicles on hand, she can create a device capable of almost anything the family needs, whether that's a cryonic cell to keep a villain on ice, a one-use dimensional portal, a communicator to signal another star, and so on.
Interaction: Even when talking with others, Olive is usually multitasking and checking a heads-up display in her goggles, so she is usually distracted. One can get her full attention by showing her a gadget of alien technology or something else technical she's never seen before.
Use: The lab of an evil genius was recently uncovered. It's been unused since World War II but still contains objects and devices that only someone of Olive Majestic's brilliance is likely to comprehend.
Other Equipment: In addition to her suit (level 9; biometrically locked to Olive's use) described above, she carries several devices, including the following manifest cyphers: information sensor, instant shelter, and lightning wall.