SHADOWS ANGELUS

GRAHAM BURTON

Campaign Start

Val	CHA	Cost	Roll	Notes
11	STR	1	11-	Lift 114.9 kg; 2d6 HTH Damage [1]
13	DEX	9	12-	OCV:  4/DCV:  4
15	CON	10	12-
12	BODY	4	11-
18	INT	8	13-	PER Roll 13-
18	EGO	16	13-	ECV:  6
10	PRE	0	11-	PRE Attack:  2d6
12	COM	1	11-

3	PD	1		Total:  3 PD (0 rPD)
3	ED	0		Total:  3 ED (0 rED)
3	SPD	7		Phases:  4, 8, 12
5	REC	0
30	END	0
30	STUN	4		Total Characteristic Cost:  61


Movement:   Running:	6"/12"
		Leaping:	2"/4"
		Swimming:	2"/4"

Cost    Powers & Skills
7	Scientific Detachment:  +15 PRE; Defensive Only (-1)

65	Science Against the Entities:  Variable Power Pool (Gadget Pool),
	49 base + 16 control cost; all slots IAF/OIF/OAF (-1/2)

	Perks
6	I'm A Line Item In The XSWAT Budget:  Contact:  Councilman Hart (Contact has significant 
	Contacts of his own, Contact has very useful Skills or resources, Good relationship with 
	Contact) 11-
2	Fringe Benefit:  XSWAT Police Powers
2	Fringe Benefit:  Concealed Weapon Permit (where appropriate)

	Skills
9	Combat Skill Levels:  +3 with invented weaponry

1	Bureaucratics 8-
2	CK: Angelus 11-
3	Computer Programming 13-
3	Criminology 13-
3	Electronics 13-
3	Inventor 13-
2	KS: Criminal Law And Procedure 11-
2	KS: Entities 11-
2	KS: The Occult World 11-
3	Mechanics 13-
3	Paramedics 13-
9	Gadgeteering:  Power Skill 16-
3	Streetwise 11- (14-)
2	TF:  Grav Vehicles/Hovercraft, Small Motorized Ground Vehicles
5	Weaponsmith (Anti-Entity Devices, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Energy Weapons) 13-
4	WF:  Handguns, Invented Weaponry , Tonfa/Nightstick
3	Scientist
3	1)  SS:  Biology 14-
2	2)  SS:  Computer Engineering 13-
2	3)  SS:  Materials Science 13-
2	4)  SS:  Nanotechnology 13-
2	5)  SS:  Organic Chemistry 13-
2	6)  SS:  Physics 13-
2	7)  SS:  Psionic Technology 13-
2	8)  SS:  Transdimensional Physics 13-
2	9)  SS:  Weapon Systems 13-
3	10)  SS:  Xenobiology 14-

Total Powers & Skill Cost:  166
Total Cost:  227

100+	Disadvantages
5	Distinctive Features:  XSWAT Uniform (Easily Concealed; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable 
	By Commonly-Used Senses)
15	Hunted:  Shadow Entities 8- (Mo Pow, Harshly Punish)
15	Hunted:  XSWAT 11- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
	Notes:  Burton's position and activities are a line item inserted into the XSWAT budget 
	by a powerful city councilman. The XSWAT brass aren't particularly pleased to have Burton and 
	his consumption of XSWAT resources foisted on them. Hence, the Hunted roll is raised to 11-.
20	Psychological Limitation:  Committed to Discovering the Truth about the Entities (Common, Total)
	Notes:  Burton will pursue any and all avenues of investigation of the Entities 
	regardless of the danger to himself or others.
15	Psychological Limitation:  Curious (Common, Strong)
	Notes:  Burton cannot resist checking out anything mysterious or unusual. He will stop 
	what he is doing and take a minute or two to examine the unusual object or occurrence, and 
	sometimes even forget what he was doing.
5	Reputation:  XSWAT Officer (not "normal" law enforcement, involved with bizarre cases and 
	monsters), 8-
20	Social Limitation:  Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
5	Unluck: 1d6
	Notes:  BurtonŐs family was snuffed out by Entity activity. How unlucky is that!!!
27	Experience Points

Total Disadvantage Points:  227

Background/History: Burton was 9 when his family was killed during a battle between the military and one of the first Entities to appear in Angelus. He was raised in a Catholic orphanage until he was 16, when he was admitted to UCLA on a full scholarship. Burton breezed through the undergraduate program and was a brilliant graduate student, but his professors were frustrated with his inability to focus and complete a thesis project. He was finally given an honorary doctorate in chemistry and kicked out of the UCLA graduate program.

Burton knew of X-SWAT; he knew what they really investigated, and he wanted in. He joined the LAPD and managed to secure a technical support position in X-SWAT. Servicing other officers’ C-60s was not what he had in mind, however. When Councilman Hart was touring X-SWAT central HQ, Burton fooled his secretary into arranging a private audience with him and convinced Hart of the need for a research program to study the Entities. Hart added a line item to the X-SWAT budget that created a special position for Burton within X-SWAT, with funding to set up a top-notch laboratory.

Personality/Motivation: Burton’s life has been consumed by the need to bring some meaning, some sense, some explanation for the senseless loss of his family. This need is filled by his tireless efforts to learn more about the Entities and figure out what they are, why they're here, and what they want. Fighting and destroying them are almost afterthoughts.

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Powers/Tactics: Burton builds gadgets that incorporate the most advanced concepts in physics, chemistry, and biology and uses them to pursue his goals and keep himself in one piece.

Appearance: Mid-20’s; 5’10”, 175 lbs.; blond hair that flirts with X-SWAT length regulations, doesn’t look like he quite belongs in an X-SWAT uniform.


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