Claim the Sky
News anchor extraordinaire Tuck Maier was riding high on stellar ratings. For years, he callously encouraged division on topics both pressing and picayune.
Outrage was his weapon of choice, and he wielded it like an Olympic fencer. Until, one day, he trash-talked the musical stylings of one Revon Rhodes. Unfortunately for Tuck, Revon Rhodes is the secret identity of Malevolence. And Malevolence cursed him.
Tuck's skin became an oozing grey expanse of wormy flesh. His career as a news anchor was over. The same seemed to be true for his freedom when his touch turned several bystanders into sagging piles of grey goo, except the authorities soon lost track of him. His touch also turns restraints, jail cell walls, and solid stone into grey goo, allowing him to worm his way out of—or into—nearly anything.
Worm is currently a member of Dread.
Motive: Fear and loathing of anyone normal
Environment: Alone or with one or more members of Dread
Health: 30
Damage Inflicted: 5 Speed damage
Armor: 2
Movement: Short; short when sliding along walls and ceilings like a slug; immediate when burrowing
Modifications: Touch attacks as level 7
Combat: Worm's mere touch inflicts 5 Speed damage (ignores Armor), turning whatever he touches into grey goo. In addition, on a failed Might defense roll, a victim descends one step on the damage track. Worm's touch can also turn objects or a portion of a larger object into grey goo.
Worm can hold his action until a foe attacks with a melee weapon. The foe must make a Speed defense roll to avoid having the weapon turned to grey goo, destroying it.
If the attack is with a body part (such as a punch or kick), the foe takes a moderate wound (ignores Armor). This negates the attack regardless of whether the Speed defense roll is successful.
Interaction: Though his speech sounds a bit mushy, few are as adept at conversation—or, at least, commentator-style analysis of the situation—as Worm. To really engage him, one need only bring up Malevolence. Worm would do anything to get back at her, even turn on his fellow Dreadmates.
Use: Several murders in the area recently left puzzling remains—just so much grey goo.
GM Intrusion: Worm makes a "snowball" of goo and throws it, turning his melee attack into a short-range attack on the character.