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Verity James

Portrayed By: Rebecca Ferguson

Everyone needs their little secrets; not everyone deserves to keep them.

Codename:

Veritas

Occupation:

Institute Advocate (Fixer)

Age:

31

Height:

5'7"

Eyes:

Blue

Hair:

Auburn

Creation:

Chimera

Legacy:

Clone

Biography

Subject #8-A came to the attention of the world some 18 years ago when the Institute broke a bombshell story of certain corps engaged in off-the-books sales of discard clones. Plastering the scandalous story everywhere they could– with a heavy focus on the rescue, recovery and rehabilitation of the subjects parceled out to private buyers– allowed the Institute to begin to push for much of the legislation which protects clones to this day.

She and those like her were some of the first thawed, and many of their records were destroyed in the attempted cover-up. It was recognized quickly that Subject #8-A was a potent telepath. The Institute was able to provide the structure and training she needed. They fed, clothed, and educated her. When given the opportunity to choose her own name, she took as surname the last name of the teacher who’d helped to bring stability to her mind.

For her first name, she chose Verity.

Verity has worn a number of hats since completing her training and officially joining the ranks of the Institute’s employees. She’s publicly acted as counselor, teacher, lobbyist and advocate, using her abilities when and where they can do the most good for the Institute’s mission. Given some of the circles she must navigate, she’s developed a reputation as an aloof and formidable woman, as so often happens with visible and intimidating women of authority– she is the ice queen, the iron lady, and less kind descriptions too.

Verity doesn’t mind these labels. Sometimes reputation alone is enough to get the ball rolling, and the less she has to sift through other people’s minds, the better.

 

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Aspects

High Concept:

Front-Line Telepathic Mutant Activist

Verity has taken her forced visibility and made it a tool, to be used for the good of the Institute and all mutantkind. Whether the Institute needs a spokesperson, an educator, an investigator or... other things, she steps in to do what's necessary for those like her.

Trouble:

Paranoia Fuel

No one wants to be in a room with a known telepath, and Verity has been extremely visible as just that. Is she...? Isn't she...? It's so hard to tell!

And I Lay Me Down With A Will

Verity's own experiences, and what she's witnessed through her work with the Institute, have left her forward thinking. She plans and strives for a future that may never come and, when weighing the costs and consequences of her actions, she places the well-being of mutants as a whole over the needs and well-being of an individual-- including herself. If this sets her into morally grey territory, so be it. Some costs are worth paying.

Hell Is Other People

The roar of a crowd is deafening. The roar of a crowd, throats and minds all together, can be maddening. Too many minds, and Verity struggles with the sheer volume of noise. Individuals can be equally challenging, as touch-provoked psychic feedback threatens the sanctity of her (and their) sense of self. She often finds herself wrestling with the hedgehog's dilemma, wanting very much to belong but needing to keep others at arm's length.

Skills

Superb (+5)

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Great (+4)

Will

Good (+3)

Investigate

Notice

Fair (+2)

Contacts

Deceive

Resources

Average (+1)

Athletics

Lore

Rapport

Shoot

Stunts

Indomitable

Description: Verity has been called both a woman of indomitable spirit and just really, really, really stubborn.

Mechanical Effect: +2 to defend against Provoke attacks specifically related to intimidation and fear

Stunt Cost: 1

Power Suite One: Telepathy

Verity possesses the ability to delve into the minds of others, both shallowly and deeply.

Power Breakdown

  • Telepathy - Choose one: Read emotions with Empathy, surface thoughts with Notice or deep thoughts and memories with Investigate in your zone or adjacent zone. Targets aware of telepathic capabilities may oppose with Will.
    • Telepathic Flexibility - Choose another skill you can use to read minds.
    • Mental Blasts - You can make mental attacks with Will. Range is 3 zones. Someone taken out by a mental attack may be mind controlled or rendered comatose.
    • Long-Distance Telepathy - You can read minds so long as you can see your target.
    • Master Telepathy - +2 to your telepathic skills when mind reading.

Special Effects

  • Area Attack - Attack everyone in a zone
  • Inflict Condition - You add an aspect to the target which you can invoke once for free

Drawbacks

  • Psychic Feedback -Delving too deep into someone’s brain is risky; their thoughts may start to resonate with yours and generate Psychic Feedback. -

Collateral Damage

  • Psychic Maelstrom - Anyone who ends their turn in your zone takes 2 mental stress, and anyone who ends in a zone adjacent to yours takes 1 mental stress. This effect persists until you choose to end it or the end of the scene.

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  • Always a Way Out
  • Always Making Useful Things
  • Armor of Fear
  • Attention to Detail
  • Backup Weapon
  • Best Foot Forward
  • Better than New!
  • Body Language Reader
  • Called Shot
  • Danger Sense
  • Dazing Counter
  • Demagogue
  • Ear to the Ground
  • Eavesdropper
  • Face in the Crowd
  • Grappler
  • Hard Boiled
  • Hard to Shake
  • Hardcore Parkour
  • Heavy Hitter
  • Hidden Knowledge
  • I’ve Read about That!
  • Indomitable
  • Killing Stroke
  • Lie Whisperer
  • Lies upon Lies
  • Mind Games
  • Money Talks
  • Ninja Vanish
  • Nose for Trouble
  • Okay, Fine!
  • One Person, Many Faces
  • Pedal to the Metal
  • Popular
  • Provoke Violence
  • Psychologist
  • Quick on the Draw
  • Ramming Speed!
  • Reactive Shot
  • Ride
  • Rumormonger
  • Savvy Investor
  • Security Specialist
  • Shield of Reason
  • Slippery Target
  • Specialist
  • Sprinter
  • Strength From Determination
  • Surgical Strikes
  • Take the Blow
  • Talk the Talk
  • The Power of Deduction
  • The Weight of Reputation
  • Tough as Nails
  • Trust Fund Baby
  • Uncanny Accuracy

Powers

  • Animal Control
  • Creature Summoning
  • Disguise
  • Duplication
  • Elasticity
  • Energy Absorption
  • Energy Blast
  • Flight
  • Gadgeteering
  • Harm
  • Healing
  • Illusion
  • Influence
  • Invisibility
  • Item Summoning
  • Machine Control
  • Machine Control (Hacking Variant)
  • Material Mimic
  • Natural Weapon
  • Phasing
  • Plant Control
  • Power Amplification
  • Power Nullification
  • Power Replication
  • Precognition
  • Regeneration
  • Shape-Shifting
  • Shielding
  • Slowing
  • Super Agility
  • Super Intelligence
  • Super Senses
  • Super Speed
  • Super Strength
  • Super Toughness
  • Telekinesis
  • Telepathy
  • Teleportation
  • Teleportation: Portals (Variant)
  • Theme: Chaos Conduit (Mutant Only)
  • Theme: Corruption
  • Theme: Dark Conduit (Mutant Only)
  • Theme: Electricity Projection
  • Theme: Energy Manipulation
  • Theme: Fire Projection
  • Theme: Frost Projection
  • Theme: Gravity Manipulation
  • Theme: Light Conduit (Mutant Only)
  • Theme: Shadow Projection
  • Theme: Super Form
  • Theme: Technology
  • Wall-Crawling
  • Weather Control

Enhancements

  • Accelerated Growth
  • Alarm Bypass
  • Alertness
  • All the Things
  • Animal Telepathy
  • Banish Darkness
  • Black Bargain
  • Bloody Weapon
  • Built-In Wi-Fi
  • Capacitance
  • Cat’s Landing
  • Chessmastery
  • Close Observation
  • Cocoon
  • Collective Teleportation
  • Complex Summoning
  • Conductive Trip
  • Convincing
  • Critical Hit
  • Dark Aura
  • Dark Rites
  • Dark Sight
  • Dazzle
  • Defensive Blasts
  • Defensive Phasing
  • Disposable Duplicates
  • Distant Power Nullification
  • Dryad Step
  • Eagle-Eyed
  • Effective Duplication
  • Eye of the Needle
  • Familiar Presence
  • Fast Healing
  • Featherstep
  • Fire Control
  • Fortean Storm
  • Friend to Flames
  • Full Nullification
  • Full Sensory Overload
  • Giant Illusions
  • Growth
  • Horrifying to Behold
  • Hot Blooded
  • Human Pincushion
  • Ice Slick
  • Icy Aura
  • Immortal
  • Implacable
  • Improved Reaction Time
  • Intense Training
  • Ionize
  • Jaunt
  • Juggernaut
  • Kinetic Acceleration
  • Lasting Harm
  • Lingering Power Amplification
  • Lingering Power Replication
  • Lingering Weather
  • Long-Distance Telekinesis
  • Long-Distance Telepathy
  • Long-Range Blaster
  • Luck Curse
  • Machine Language
  • Mark and Recall
  • Master Absorption
  • Master Animal Control
  • Master Creature Summoning
  • Master Disguise
  • Master Duplication
  • Master Elasticity
  • Master Energy Blast
  • Master Flight
  • Master Gadgeteering
  • Master Hacking
  • Master Harm
  • Master Healing
  • Master Illusion
  • Master Influence
  • Master Invisibility
  • Master Item Summoning
  • Master Machine Control
  • Master Mimicry
  • Master Natural Weapon
  • Master Phasing
  • Master Plant Control
  • Master Power Amplification
  • Master Power Nullification
  • Master Power Replication
  • Master Precognition
  • Master Regeneration
  • Master Shape-Shifting
  • Master Shielding
  • Master Slowing
  • Master Super Agility
  • Master Super Intelligence
  • Master Super Senses
  • Master Super Speed
  • Master Super Strength
  • Master Super Toughness
  • Master Telekinesis
  • Master Telekinesis
  • Master Telepathy
  • Master Wall-Crawling
  • Master Weather Control
  • Menagerie
  • Mental Blasts
  • Mimicry Memory
  • Multiple Mimicry
  • Nice Toys
  • Obvious Target
  • Ongoing Mutations
  • Opaque Shields
  • Orbital Path
  • Out of the Shadows
  • Overhealing
  • Overwhelming Voice
  • Pain for Power
  • Piercing Damage
  • Portal Mastery
  • Power Generation
  • Power Suite Duplication
  • Power Vampire
  • Precise Invisibility
  • Precision Shielding
  • Quick Recovery
  • Radiohead
  • Rapid Shifting
  • Ray of Empowerment
  • Ray of Harm
  • Realm Warp
  • Restore Sanity
  • Sartorial Doubling
  • Semi-Permeable Shield
  • Sensory Suite
  • Shadow Dodge
  • Shareable Invisibility
  • Shiny Shiny
  • Shrinking
  • Skill Shifting
  • Slow Field
  • Spatial Distortion
  • Stand Fast
  • Stop
  • Stunning Blow
  • Superior Gadgeteering
  • Supersonic Flight
  • Taskmastery
  • Telekinetic Might
  • Telepathic Flexibility
  • Teleportation Mastery
  • Temperature Reduction
  • The Right Tools for the Job
  • Tireless Grip
  • TK Shield
  • Tough Little Thing
  • Tunneling
  • Uncanny Dodge
  • Useful Devices
  • Visions
  • Walking Library
  • Wall Kick
  • Weather Precision
  • X-Ray Vision
  • Zoological Polyglot

Improved Special Effects

  • Bullrush
  • Dangerous Weather
  • Duplicate Action
  • Flame On
  • Hammer Toss
  • Healing Wave
  • Ice Shield
  • Magical Disruption
  • Visions of Change

Drawbacks

  • A Danger to Anyone Nearby
  • Accident-Prone While Indoors
  • Always Freezing
  • Always on Fire
  • Always Shrouded in Darkness
  • Bright Green Skin
  • Burnout
  • Can’t Climb Perfectly Smooth Surfaces
  • Can’t Get Rid of Your Creature
  • Can’t Heal Someone You Don’t Like
  • Can’t Shut It Off
  • Caught Up In Dark Plans
  • Clumsy
  • Completely Visible Reflection
  • Constant Migraines
  • Darkened Soul
  • Destructive Rage
  • Doesn’t Work on Clothes
  • Don’t Get Along with Yourself
  • Don’t Know Who You Are Anymore
  • Don’t Know Your Own Strength
  • Easily Distracted
  • Easily Forgotten
  • Easily Overwhelmed
  • Energetic Diet
  • Energetic Distraction
  • Exhausting
  • Extended Transformation Sequence
  • Feel Their Pain
  • Fragile as Glass
  • From Another Time
  • Fueled By Rage
  • Grotesque
  • Grotesquely Scarred
  • Hackable
  • Half-Feral
  • Hard to Maneuver in Flight
  • Horrifying to Behold
  • Hot-Tempered
  • Huge, Visible, Pulsating Brain
  • Hyperactive
  • Illusions Dissipate in Daylight
  • Illusions Don’t Show Up on Video
  • Inaccurate at Close Range
  • Inhuman Visage
  • Intensely Sleep-Deprived
  • Involuntary Bursts of Energy
  • Involuntary Energy Field
  • Involuntary Mimicry
  • It Has a Mind of Its Own
  • It Looks Like a Living Nightmare
  • Kept Alive by Your Own Devices
  • Leaves You Weakened
  • Lethargic
  • Limited Fuel
  • Limited Fuel
  • Limited to Organic Materials
  • Limited to Terrestrial Mammals
  • Lots of Collateral Damage
  • Machinery Tends to Fail Around You
  • Massive Bursts of Ill-Smelling Smoke
  • Modern Tech Just Doesn’t Like You
  • Must Maintain Physical Contact
  • Need a Hardline
  • Need a Mask to Protect Those Around You
  • Need a Spark
  • Need Solid Anchor Points
  • Need to Concentrate to Stay Solid
  • No Empathy
  • Not Useful Indoors
  • Not Very Useful Indoors
  • Often Arguing with Yourself
  • Only Effective While Indoors
  • Only Good Up Close
  • Only Live in the Cold
  • Overflowing Light
  • Overwhelming Animal Instincts
  • Power Drain
  • Power-Hungry
  • Psychic Feedback
  • Quite Frail
  • Racked with Guilt
  • Radioactive
  • Reality Kind of Hates You
  • Require a Prop
  • Require Complete Concentration
  • Requires Physical Contact
  • Requires Sustained Physical Contact
  • Restless
  • Shabby Equipment
  • Short-Range Control
  • Slow
  • Slow to Form
  • Slowed Reaction Time
  • Sometimes Things Drop Right Through Your Hands
  • Sticky-Fingered (Literally)
  • Subconscious Made Real
  • Surrounded by Admirers
  • Sympathetic Weather Patterns
  • Tend to Abuse Your Power
  • The Machines Never Stop Talking!
  • Touch-Activated
  • Trail of Random Stuff
  • Unpredictable Superpower Misfires
  • Unwanted Feedback
  • Unwanted Feedback (Hacking)
  • Unwanted Menagerie
  • Up, up and away
  • Very Noticeable
  • Visibly Corrupted
  • Water Shorts You Out
  • Weak
  • Weak and Frail Body
  • Weakened by Daylight
  • Weakened in Ordered Environments
  • Weighty
  • You Can’t Breathe While Phasing
  • You Can’t Feel Much of Anything
  • You Can’t Turn It Off
  • You Don’t Look Quite Human
  • You Have Trouble Seeing the Present
  • You Think You’re Better than Everyone

Collateral Damage

  • “DIE!”
  • Armor Piercing
  • Army of Me
  • Bad Ride
  • Balloon
  • Battle Plan
  • Berserk
  • Black Blessing
  • Blizzard
  • Bulking Up
  • Bulletproof
  • Charged Shot
  • Come to Me!
  • Deadly Ivy
  • Decay
  • Deflection
  • Demonic Gaze
  • Direct Control
  • Dramatic Entrance
  • Earthing
  • Escape Plan
  • Eviscerate
  • Expected Backup
  • Extra Copies
  • Flaming
  • Flashburn
  • Foreign Objects
  • Future Echoes
  • Gravity Manipulation
  • Grounded Discharge
  • Hair-Trigger Reaction
  • Handmade Off Button
  • Highly Experimental Device
  • Hold Fast
  • Holding Pattern
  • Horror Show
  • Hyper-Mode
  • Hyper-Visibility
  • Hyperfocus
  • Interception
  • Invulnerability Charge
  • Jaunt
  • Killing Disguise
  • Killswitch
  • Mass Empowerment
  • Mass Hysteria
  • Mass Illness
  • Mass Slowing
  • Megaton Punch
  • Mental Map
  • Micro Singularity
  • Mighty Bound
  • Missed Me
  • No More
  • Noble Sacrifice
  • Overload
  • Pacifist Aura
  • Pawn Interception
  • Perfect Evasion
  • POW!
  • Psychic Lockdown
  • Psychic Maelstrom
  • Puppetry
  • Quantum Tunneling
  • Rapid Fire
  • Rapid Reforestation
  • Ravage
  • Replicated Collateral Damage
  • Rubber Vengeance
  • Shadow Beast
  • Shield Bubble
  • SMASH!
  • Speed Demon
  • Stegosaurus
  • Sturm und Drang
  • Super-Power Strike
  • Sweet Ride
  • T-Rex
  • Take Up Arms
  • Through the Grid
  • Timeless Zone
  • Unstoppable Telekinesis
  • Untouchably Airy
  • Virtual Possession
  • Whirlwind
  • Winds of Change
  • Wormhole

News

  • Website Updates 2 Jul 2020
  • Pandora Jones has been approved for Roleplay 23 Mar 2019
  • Empire State Heroes MUSH 1 Mar 2019
  • Adrien Thomas has been approved for Roleplay 29 Dec 2018
  • Nate Forgeson has been approved for Roleplay 5 Dec 2018
  • Lincoln Fox has been approved for Roleplay 24 Nov 2018
  • Miranda Moore has been approved for Roleplay 22 Nov 2018
  • Lilli Remilliard has been approved for Roleplay 18 Nov 2018
  • Ivara Lee Armstrong has been approved for Roleplay 9 Oct 2018
  • Website Updates 15 Sep 2018
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