Claim the Sky
Merle Dyson enjoyed a career as a military sharpshooter on an elite and covert joint special operations team. That abruptly ended when an operation was blown, resulting in the deaths of most of the team, while leaving the survivors permanently disabled, including Merle.
During Merle's military service, his personal network grew exponentially, including into some unsavory spaces—which is how he met Voltage, Dread's leader. He promised her his not-inconsiderable services if she would "fix" him. She came through. The theft of smart materials from the private laboratory of a Faust Industries researcher, once refined and grafted directly into Merle's body, gave him a new lease on life. Or perhaps more accurately, on other people's deaths. Now known as Manslaughter, he can transform his body into weapons, even complex weapons like firearms. One of his favorite ways to go into action is with both arms transformed into autocannons or combat shotguns.
In the Boundless setting, Manslaughter is a member of Dread.
Motive: Thirst for violence
Environment: Alone or with one or more members of Dread
Health: 40
Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (7 points)
Armor: 5
Movement: Short
Combat: Manslaughter can use his action to transform parts of his body into weapons, such as transforming both arms into autocannons or combat shotguns, allowing him to make two short-range attacks each round. If he takes two rounds to change himself, he can transform more radically, becoming something equivalent to a heavy-caliber turret (immobile) able to inflict 12 points of damage each round. He usually can't maintain such a whole-body transformation for more than three rounds at a time.
If damaged, Manslaughter can use his action to regain 10 health, or 20 health if he absorbs a small machine or firearm of some kind.
It's possible that Manslaughter could transform himself into machines or devices other than weapons, such as becoming a vehicle or a vending machine.
However, given his love for violence, it would have to be a car with a ram designed for hitting people, or a very tippy vending machine. He once transformed into a gargantuan chain-sword weapon wielded by Highrise.
Interaction: Manslaughter is a "shoot first, ask questions later" sort of guy.
Use: The PCs hear gunfire.
GM Intrusion: Manslaughter creates a weapon pod that fires a very-long-range missile that inflicts 12 points of damage on all targets within immediate range of each other.