Cockroach

Cockroach
January 28, 2019 07:35PM
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COCKROACH

Fighting: 4 Poor
Agility: 30 Remarkable
Strength: 6 Typical
Endurance: 20 Excellent
Reason: 4 Poor
Intuition: 6 Typical
Psyche: 6 Typical

Health: 60
Karma: 16

Resources: Poor
Pop: 0, -20 with humans and anyone else who traditionally doesn't like cockroaches.

Known Powers:

-Insect Communication and Control: Ty ability to command cockroaches (and only cockroaches and their close relatives).

-Resistance to Toxins: Cockroach has Excellent resistance to all forms of poisons, even ones whose makers claim will instantly kill a cockroach.

Equipment:
+Street clothes
+The Cosmic Key

Talents :
Trap Evasion, Survivalist

Contacts:
The worldwide population of cockroaches.

Limitations:
The Cockroach is a human-sized cockroach. If cockroach threats can be scaled up in size they work extremely well on the creature, inflicting a -2CS penalty on any attempts by the Cockroach to evade or escape them. The only exception to this weakness is poison, which the Cockroach suffers no penalty when resisting.

Biography:
The Cockroach was an enemy of Howard the Duck.

The Cockroach was originally a normal insect within a bookstore in New York City. The owner of the bookstore, R. L. Haney, purchased a large order of books from a dealer in Cleveland, which contained the Cosmic Key (which had been hocked by Howard the Duck in order to buy clothing). Unaware of its true nature, Haney placed the Key inside a desk drawer, where it was encountered by the cockroach. Mistaking the Key for food, the hungry cockroach nibbled off the tarnish on the Key, and was filled with magical energy. It staggered back to the paperback section and transformed into a large, humanoid Cockroach.

Hemlock Shoals, an insectoid native of the extra-dimensional realm Maltesia, came to the Barqu Bookstore on the trail of the Key, which had vanished from his dimension during an encounter with the sorceror Pro-Rata months before. However, when Shoals located the Key, the Cockroach leaped out of the paperback section and claimed the Key for himself. The Cockroach realized that he could use the Key to similarly evolve an army of Cockroaches and take over the world.

Shoals, Haney, and Howard the Duck (would had traveled to the bookstore alongside Shoals) pursued the Cockroach, hoping to stop him before he could succeed in his plans. The Cockroach evaded all attempts to capture him, until confronted by Howard, who had anticipated the ramshackle hotel that the Cockroach had chosen to search for his fellow insects, and cut him off. The Cockroach attempted to mesmerize Howard with plans of joining him in power, but Howard trapped him in a pre-made glue-trap and took the Key from him. The Cockroach tore free from the glue and came after Howard again, who doused him in a powerful insecticide. In desperation, the rapidly weakening Cockroach leapt at Howard one last time, but he was skewered by the bladed walking stick of Hemlock Shoals, thrown by R. L. Haney. In apparent death, the Cockroach returned to its original form. The Cosmic Key was returned to its rightful home in Maltesia.

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Re: Cockroach
August 28, 2019 07:41PM
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Interesting take on a weird but common character/theme
 
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