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Character name:  Salamae Artika Katz
Nickname(s):  As self: Artika, Artie  As heroine: Lady Red, Silent Woman, Bodica, Bodica the unknown Babeasaurus
Show represented:  The Greatest American Hero
Concept represented:  Alien Supersuit run on willpower and imagination (science fantasy)
Played by: Miss Rachel
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Race/Ethnicity: Eastern European Jewish/American/New Yorker
Appearance:  Height: 5’5”;  Weight: 150 lbs, looks 140 lbs; martial artist muscles, not too showy, but there; dress size/pants size 8 to 12 depending on brand; slender waist with hour glass figure: wide hips, rounded "D-cup” bosom, and rounded, thought tight and muscular butt -- shoulders are broad, shoulder pads are redundant.
Hair Color: Ash Brown/Auburn Brown, shoulder length wavy; Eye color: “Hazel” --- Tri-color in rings -- closest to pupil: light brown, almost yellow “sun”, center ring: dark green, outer ring closest to whites of the eyes brown/grey. People who look quickly usually say brown or green.  Eyes are set in to face, cheek bones high and showing “Mongolian” influence, oval shaped head with high forehead.
Nose: somewhat broad and turned up, but not overly large-- show Asian/Mongolian influence in genetics.  Lips: broad and thick for a non-African about average for an African, naturally dark petal pink; Skin tone: generally Caucasian in appearance, but actually a combination of Semitic (Arabic/middle eastern)  and Asian, thus pale skin has both pink and yellow undertones.
Birth Mark: Inside right forearm has a tan spray of spots that looks like a map of a star cluster or galaxy, right lower side of chin has a brown mole. Voice: is usually sweet and musical unless putting on an accent or angry.
Appearance of the Supersuit: There is large a white black and red target-like emblem in the center of the chest, the main color of the suit is deep red with red piping at various seams.  The top is like a long sleeved tunic and goes  the bottom of the hip bone, with splits on the side, the bottom is like a legging or heavy tights. There is a belt, but it doesn't do much, so Artika added a fanny pack in which she has the following items: small deck of tarot cards about 4” x 2.5”, a fold up hair brush, first aid ointments for burns and bacteria, first aid tape and gauze, lip balm and lipstick, cash folded in a plastic covered metal paper clip, the smallest cell phone available, a small store bought spiral notebook and a couple of pens.
There is a cape which only goes in length to about half way down the hip bone (you can't sit on it) and it is black with red piping. Underneath the cape, Artika has added a “flat pack” which is a back-pack which only extends to 2.5” inches in width. It is strapped under her shoulders and around her hip under the belt and is the same red as the supersuit. Most people don't notice it. She stores her reversible long duster (cloth: matte black on one side and dirt brown on the other.) She keeps her identification and wallet in a hidden pocket in the seam of the duster. She can also fit in the “flat pack” whatever shirts or sweater she might be wearing in her civilian identity.
When she's wearing the suit, she can change clothing (layers over the suit) very fast. In her civilian identity she usually wears a loose sweater or “bowling” shirt so she can wear the flat back underneath without  likely detection, and she stores the cape and the fanny pack in the flat pack.
Her first color scheme choice is earth tones, but sometimes she does something with lavender and black mixed with earth tones. Although, the fanny pack is perfectly nondescript black, and she sometimes - but not always - wears it over her civilian clothes. She never adds anything personal to it, leaving personal and additional items in her duster pockets.  Mask: at first using a simple “Zorro” type black head kerchief with holes cut out of it, she added a gray gauze piece to cover her lower face, but not hinder her breathing. The mask goes in the flat pack with the cape when not in use, and in a pinch can be stuffed into the fanny pack or duster jacket.
Marital Status:  Single
Sexual Orientation:  Heterosexual - straight, but not narrow
Date of Birth:  June 5, 1967
Place of Birth:  New York, NY
Place of Residence:  New York and California
Occupation:  Writer - scripts, novels, comic books
Income:  averages currently at about $40,000 a year, but since works as a freelancer can be as little as $20,000 and as much as $200,000 in any given year. She lives on a budget because of this, and has two mortgages to support - a house in Queens NY and an apartment/condo in Santa Monica, CA
Religion:  spiritual agnostic, identifies the most with Buddhism, but talks also in terms of Jewish Cultural roots and cross-cultural metaphor including pagan (Wiccan/Earth Mother/The Creator) and animist (both Amerind and Japanese)
Family:  Parents living, but divorced, younger brother and older sister
Media Characters Connection:  E-pen pal with Blair Sandburg (The Sentinel), may have met Blair and Jim during a stop over in Cascade, may be long distant friends with them.
Education:  College degree in liberal arts, Bronx High School of Science; an avid researcher and student of cultures and folk lore, lay anthropologist, sociologist and folklorist.
Gift:  The Alien “Supersuit” is run on the power of thought, but it is not omnipotent. The abilities that are used the most often are the ones that are accessed by mantra/incantation or thought, while “pushing” abilities and using new abilities requires deep concentration and in some cases a trance.  Artika has had the “supersuit” for 11 years and has developed the following repertoire:

• Super Strength: With little or no concentration she can throw a honda scooter (about 225 pounds the distance of 25 feet), with some concentration she can throw a heavy motor cycle (up to about 550 pounds) about twenty feet. With strong concentration  [basically adding telekinesis to the lift] she can lift a compact automobile (weight?) over her head and throw it about 7 feet. With intense concentration [also adding telekinesis] she can lift a sedan to waist level and throw it four feet. Can bend steel bars with some concentration.
• Super Leap, an extension of super strength: with no or little concentration she can jump up 12 feet -- beyond that she'd probably switch to flight, unless she needed to jump while carrying a heavy load (one to two people) in which case flight and strength jumping would be combined with strong concentration.
• Flight and landing: carrying less than 100 pounds Artika can easily fly and land, even in the upper atmosphere, pretty darned fast-- let's say up to 350 miles per hour. carrying between 100 and 250 pounds requires some concentration and flight speed is reduced to a maximum of 200 miles per hour, however she can extend her “pressurization protection” to up to two additional people, regardless of weight. carrying between 250 and 550 pounds while flying requires strong concentration, and she cannot extend pressurization protection beyond two additional people. Speed maximum drops to about 150 miles per hour. carrying between 550 to 2000 pounds requires intense concentration as it combines super-strength and telekinesis at the same time as flying.  speed ball runs: while flying and relatively unencumbered she could fly fast at something beyond her weight maximum and effect it by ramming it.
• Super Running: on the ground based on body coordination and under 225 pounds of encumbrance about 140 miles per hour, 225 to 500 about 65 miles per hour and requires concentration.
• Energy Deflection and Redirection: rather than “bouncing” bullets off her body and worrying about ricochet, she's been able to conceptualize a shield around her body that absorbs all of the kinetic energy of the missile/bullet and renders the flammable part into a chemically inert substance. The projectile, hits the wall, momentarily appears caught in flypaper or Jell-O and then drops to the ground harmlessly except for its weight. Absorbed kinetic energy can be released as a force wave, sound or with some concentration light. She can sense if there is a build up beyond the containment of the suit and expel excess energy as “super jump start” in jumping or flight. Some energy attacks can be absorbed or deflected, but it's not a 100% sure thing...she needs to concentrate and hope for the best... there is a risk of overload in energy attacks that would result in damage or unconsciousness to her body, but not the supersuit. There is a surrounding her body limited invulnerability to physical attacks based on the energy deflection and redirection principal.

• Invisible with some thought: only her clothes and things that have at least 30% of their surface area touching her will become invisible.
• Silence: with concentration sound waves can be absorbed
• darkness or bright out: with strong concentration light can be absorbed or shot out
• Staunch the flow of blood: no healing ability but blood flow in a wound of herself or another can be stopped with concentration
• Far Seeing: not clairvoyance in a true psychic sense, but rather the computer system of the alien ship analyzes potential situations and sends her visual and audio information in the form of a holograph only she can see. She uses tarot cards to help focus the ability, but will sometimes get “signals” that the alien and computer think are “cases” she could solve or get involved in for the betterment of humanity.
• change the color of the supersuit, in parts: When she is wearing civilian clothes she can make the top of the super suit look like any color texture, except for changing the emblem in any way; she can change the “leggings” part to any color, pattern or texture she can imagine, though they always have the same mass and appear as leggings or heavy tights; she can make the boots appear in two colors, one to match the leggings so as to appear as part of the pants leg, and one for the bottom part of the boot so as to appear as some kind of shoes or low boots. She uses a mantra/incantation to change the clothing back to its “normal” red and black appearance, and has to concentrate on each color she wants to change the suit into when she uses it as part of her civilian clothes.
• Menstrual Cycle: the supersuit can absorb the blood and tissue from the menstrual cycle and convert it into an energy source... also it doesn't stain. It doesn't take away cramps.
• untraceable phone calls. Using a cell phone and the suit as a power source, any calls she makes are untraceable back to her cell phone.
• She doesn't use super shrinking and that would be accessed only by a trance

Character name: Yvonne ("Von") O'Shea
Nickname(s):  Von, Eve, "Oh My God!"
Show represented:  The Sentinel
Concept represented:  Sentinel
Played by:  LadyRhian
Gender:  Female
Age:  32
Race/Ethnicity:  Caucasian, Black Irish/Italian
Appearance:  Yvonne is 6'4 and weighs close to 190 lbs, most of it hard muscle. Her size and athleticism have caused people to look up (and up, and up...) when seeing her and saying, "Oh my god!" She has now claimed this as one of her nicknames, and will reply, half in jest, "Yes?"
She has long, black hair, down to the small of her back (not that much about her is small, by any means), and piercing green eyes, as well as fair skin that tans rather than freckles, due to her italian heritage. She is in superb physical shape, but not excessively ripped due to her martial arts training. In street clothes, she looks normal, if a little heavy, perhaps. She has to buy her pants in special catalogs due to her height, but normal shirts fit okay.
Her voice is slightly husky, and her manner is frank, but never brusque. Around her friends, she really cuts loose and shows the less serious side of herself.
Marital Status:  Single
Sexual Orientation:  Heterosexual, but is not really shocked/horrified/surprised by anything
Date of Birth:  July 29th, 1967
Place of Birth:  New York City, New York
Place of Residence:  Forest Hills, Queens, NYC
Occupation:  Firefighter/EMT/Paramedic, also teaches Martial Arts, specifically Wing Chun, out of a small office front in the middle of town.
Income:  60,000/year (because of the general prosperity of the area, town workers are paid more here)
Religion:  Wiccan/Pagan
Family:  Parents living, no siblings
Education:  Yvonne attended college upstate in SUNY Albany. She graduated with a B.A. in English and an A.A. in Fire Training
Gift:  Yvonne has all the Sentinel powers: Greatly expanded senses, though without a guide at this point, her control is fragmentary at best. She is less prone to "zone-outs", and when she does have them, they don't cause her to pass out or fall over, but she is unable to stop what she is currently doing (feeling/smelling/looking at something).
She is partly able to control her abilities due to her martial-arts training and at least understands her expanded sight in relation to that. The rest confuse her, but don't traumatize her. She doesn't think she's going crazy or
that this shouldn't be happening to her. She realizes something *is* happening to her, and she wants to control it, but it frustrates her that she isn't able to...yet.
She can also use her abilities along with her strength to say, find a hidden flaw in a door and break it in half or to pieces.
Skills:  Von is very strong, and lifts weights to keep herself in shape for her job. She also has a 3rd dan black belt in Wing Chun, and enjoys physical activities such as bare-handed rock climbing and spelunking. She is a
voracious reader and enjoys surfing the web (in moderation) and writing to her pen-pals on various internet e-mail lists (she includes Blair Sandburg and Salamae Katz among them).
She is able to prepare various herbal brews and infusions to keep herself healthy, as normal medicines have always had strange effects on her, with fairly unpleasant side-effects she'd rather not experience more than once. She also meditates and does ballet.
Hobbies and interests:  Science-fiction and fantasy writing and reading (she is still an amateur writer, but it fills some of her off-hours), archaeology/paleontolgy/ethnography, music of many different types and styles, collecting precious gems and rocks (she has quite a wide collection), various sorts of magick, such as candle magick and color magick, as well as rune-casting and tarot reading. She reads voraciously on a wide variety of
subjects and is (according to some of her relatives, including her parents) "a storehouse of useless information". She also attends science-fiction conventions in New York City dressed as a female Klingon and uses sci-fi quotes in her normal conversations.
Basic backstory:  Von grew up in Queens, and spent most of her time proving that she was equal to any boy she knew, including her cousins (who are all now taller than her, and just as muscular). Her father was the town's fire chief and she looked forward to becoming one since the time she was young. Even though women firefighters were not allowed at the time, she spent a great deal of time working out with the weight machines in her family's basement. In school, she also discovered martial arts and took Wing Chun at the local Dojo.
When it was time for college, she went upstate to Suny Albany. Located near a state police training facility and with a large ROTC facility on campus, she considered both, but ultimately decided that neither was for her. She was too independent to find the army comfortable (and she was not willing to take orders blindly), and while serving and protecting in the police seemed like a good thing, she hated guns and wasn't willing to shoot anyone. Instead, she went for an English degree as an all-around education. She graduated with high honors and came back to Forest Hills with a minor degree in Fire Training. By that time, the fire department was accepting women, but they had to be as good as the men. And once again, she proved herself to be so.
While other women might have been harassed and intimidated in her position, she was also the chief's daughter and that kept any sort of that stuff to a minimum. She earned the respect of her fellow firefighters and in addition, recieved her EMT and paramedics license after a few years of study. She also achieved her black belt at this time and started teaching in the Dojo.
At one fire, she found evidence that pointed to arson. The owner of the property was on the city council and was not amused to be thrust into the center of the investigation. When Von wouldn't back down, he sent some of his
men to teach her a lesson. They found her in the sensory deprivation tank in her basement, meditating. So, they beat her up and threw her back in the tank, then locked her in.
She spent five days in sensory deprivation, barely able to move. The shock to her mind would have driven her insane, but she saved herself by going into meditation. During her time in confinement, she sank deeper and deeper into a trance, and had half-remembered dreams of being visited by a huge, snow-white lynx with blue eyes, a white lynx that sometimes curled protectively around her, and sometimes *was* her.
When she was finally rescued, she went into complete catatonic withdrawal for a week and a half. When she finally came out of it, her senses had gone "wild", everything felt keener than a knife, from fabrics to the taste of her favorite foods. She's adapted by dressing only in cotton, silk, leather and other "natural" fabrics, since synthetics seem to make her skin break out in "nasty" rashes, and staying away from the spicy foods she normally loves. Since she doesn't try to deny her senses, they are much keener than normal, but not as sensitive as they could be, nor can she "dial down" the intensity.
She's back on the job, but has noticed that her need to protect people has increased, and she often finds herself taking risks that she would not have previously.
Most of her friends are people she knows in town (her fellow firefighters and such, who treat her as "one of the boys"), but she also has many friends among the science-fiction fans of NYC and on the internet. Her sense of humor is somewhat crude and a little on the lewd side, but she also has a brain and laughs just as hard at the intellectual jokes. Being a friendly person, she has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances and knows somebody just about everywhere she is likely to go.
Von lives alone in a small, two-story house. She has a small gym and weight set in her basement, along with a sensory deprivation tank and sauna (though she's been hesitant to use the tank since her imprisonment in it). She lives with two female cats, Peaches (a dilute calico, gray/cream and white, with green eyes) and Cleopatra (a black and white cat with green eyes, this one has black outlines around her eyes like kohl paint), aka "Peach" or "the Peachster" and "Cleo". Both are very affectionate.
Spirit animal:  white lynx
Casting choice:  None.

Character name: Rumor Black
Nickname(s):  That is her nickname
Show represented:  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Concept represented:  Witch
Played by:  Ellen
Gender:  Female
Age:  18
Race/Ethnicity:  Jewish
Appearance:  5'8, 300lbs, Curly red hair that's down below her shoulders.  Wears tie-dye all year round. berkenstokes on her feet. Old beat up leather jacket. Blue eyes, full lips, round face, glitter.
Marital Status:  very single
Sexual Orientation:  Bi
Date of Birth:  whatever would make her 18
Place of Birth:  San Francisco
Place of Residence:  dorms at U of C
Occupation:  tarot reader
Income:  tarot reader/ book store clerk at Psychic eye
Religion:  Wicca
Family:  dead
Education:  Currently at U of C
Gift:  wicca. earth magic
Skills:  can read people.
Hobbies and interests:  music, horror books, magic, contacting the other side.
Basic backstory:  Rumor was a normal kid until she met her weird aunt Eli.  She was a practitioner of the magic arts and got her interested in wicca.  Rumor's parents were killed in a plane crash when she was 15. at that point she was sent to live with aunt Eli who further trained her in the arts of magic. At 18 rumor enrolled at university of California. She got a scholarship and is working her way through college by giving tarot readings
at the psychic eye book store.
Rumor hides behind her studies. She doesn't have many friends and is ostracized by her size.
Casting choice:

*NOTE: This character is currently on "inactive" status, as Ellen has had to withdraw for the time being from UH. If you are interested in this concept, contact me and I will ask Ellen about the likelyhood of her return. If she plans not to return, the concept can be claimed but, if she does, it remains reserved for her character.

Character name: Morghan Bethenae
Nickname(s):  None Currently
Show represented:  Highlander
Concept represented:  Brand spankin' new Watcher!
Played by:  Dany
Gender:  Female
Age:  23
Race/Ethnicity:  Caucasian
Appearance:  Black hair, blue eyes, gothy type. A link to a picture for her that I have used for online RPG purposes: http://homepages.go.com/~danycat/Morghan1.jpg
Marital Status:  Single
Sexual Orientation:  Hetero
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Place of Residence:  Currently Seacouver, WA
Occupation:  Goth DJ by day, Watcher some other times.  Mostly research at the moment
Income:  Typical DJ/Watcher income
Religion:  Wiccan
Family:  Typical parents, though her relations with them are tolerable at best.
Education:  High School, very little college
Gift:
Skills:  Computer/research skills.
Hobbies and interests:
Basic backstory:  Only recently penned up as a Watcher, based on her love for history and the ability she has for research.
Casting choice:  Calla...see the picture ;)

Any more info can be found at http://www.msu.edu/~sloneeri/HighlanderRPG/Morghan/  The information here is for the RPG online that I currently run her in, however, some of the things in the journals can be tweeked for the sake of better fitting into things...