Name: Chester Ades
Gender: Male
Race: Human / Mutant
Apparent Age: 26

Appearance:
Stands exactly 6'0" tall, with a thin angular build which seems to contrast with his rounded face. Pale complexion, wide brown eyes, with an almost-certain reddish tint. Thin nose, unpronounced cheeks, pointed chin, well-shaved. Coarse yet well-kept ginger hair, hanging low enough to cover his ears, with a fringe that balances above his eyeline. A couple blade scars are visible at his left upper neck, but are mostly covered by his collar.
Attire:
A somewhat-futuristic black leather jacket, left unzipped yet still secured around his frame. A formal light-grey collared shirt and pressed charcoal trousers are worn underneath. Simple red leather belt, lightweight black shoes.

Weapons/Equipment:
•A worn, yet reliable 4-inch retractable penknife. Stainless steel blade, charcoal-grey plastic handle.
•A dozen newly-pressed quarters.
A red metallic visor that covers one eye when worn, and folds into his coat pocket when not. Functions as a highly-accurate digital telescope.

Abilities/Skills:
•Atheletic: Chester is naturally strong and agile, although no more than what would be expected from his build.
•Hand-to-Hand Proficiency: Chester is an able street fighter, as is often required of his job. Has undergone no more than four months of formal training.

•PlasTec Genetics: All plasma, fire, lightning and non-elemental magic which comes within immediate range of Chester, is passively converted into kinetic energy travelling in the same direction. It is impossible to burn or electrocute him externally, but such attacks can physically injure him if he collides with them head-on. All PlasTec Concepts also hold this effect.
•PlasTec Anomaly Common-005 [Gear]: All of Chester's movements are made with near-perfect accuracy and hand-eye coordination. This can be enhanced further with use of his visor.

•PlasTec Concept 017 [Vertex]: Chester is able to create thin, sturdy telekinetic beams at will - up to 3" wide, neon-purple in colour, and made between any two points within his focus. These Vertexes take a split-second to form; each end must fasten to a non-living object, and they cannot be created inside of other objects. It is nigh impossible for Chester to attach one to anything moving, besides objects which he moves or throws himself.
Chester can maintain up to five Vertexes at a time, and may unsummon them with a thought. They will deteriorate over time while they are outside his vision. Their sturdiness resembles a solid, brittle steel. If a Vertex is broken or snapped, it will disappear with a static discharge.
While in contact with a beam, Chester can accelerate his entire body along the beam's direction, with a force slightly greater than that of gravity.
By utilising preps/charges, Chester may create Vertexes with all-round increased width sturdiness and acceleration.

Personality:
Smart and talkative, yet fearless and overconfident. Enjoys making gambles, but often makes trivial profits or successes. Quickly loses his temper when things don't go as planned.

Background:
Born fifteen years before a global-scale nuclear accident; himself and two of his younger siblings were survivors of the ordeal. Some time later, an unnamed research project was the first to offer them and other victims shelter, particularly selecting individuals who showed signs of resistance to the nuclear radiation. There it was proved that the trio's mutated genetics were compatible with the PlasTec Gene; a nigh-magical technology discovered long before the incident, but which no unaltered human could possess without instant fatality.
Chester's younger brother, Mikael, inherited the most destructive PlasTec Concepts of the three by far, and was tainted by his newfound power as years passed. Unable to return him to his senses, a fight arose between Chester and Mikael, much to the final sibling's dismay. Damage escalated to a city-wide scale, erasing all trace of the research base in the process. Authorities thusly branded the three of them as criminals, which forced them to disband in fear of their lives.
Chester now takes occupation as an information broker, and in doing so he attempts to discover the whereabouts of Mikael's whimsical schemes, seeking to exact revenge for his ruined image.

Name: Jaldoa

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Age: 54

Gender: Male

Race: Troll

Height: 7ft 2” (Usually stands hunched at 6ft 4”)

Weight: 205 pounds

Physical Description: Jaldoa dresses in standard shamanistic clothing much akin to Native American tribal outfits; he has nothing even remotely resembling armour and simply a loin cloth to protect his modesty. He does however have a bag not unlike a large quiver which is strapped to his back, holding his wards. He has two pronounced tusks and pointed ears. His nose is incredibly angular and his skin is a dark greenish colour. Although incredibly tall, he usually creeps low to the ground and even when standing normally hunches down somewhat. He has a long loping stride due to the length of his legs, with a muscled athletic build from a life outdoors. He never wears shoes, but has hardened soles on his feet not unlike hide, more than capable of taking pinpricks and the like with no harm. He speaks in an accent somewhat like Jamaican or Cuban.



Personality Description: Jaldoa is a shaman, witch doctor and hex master, he fights for the honour of his clan and whenever the will takes him. Although not inherently evil, he has no particular morals on either side of the alignment tree and respects no authority except his own. He follows the whispers of the Loa, the troll gods, and gains his powers through their wisdom. He practises animal sacrifice as part of these rituals. The Troll is cunning and mischievous like most of his race, he himself is somewhat wise as an elder of the clan.

Skills, powers and abilities:

Physically: Jaldoa is a troll, which means he has a few natural abilities which mean he surpasses humans. For one, he has far more greater stamina, capable of running at full speed for at least an hour without tiring.

He can run at about peak human speed, 30mph max.

He has brilliant vision and awareness, meaning he can traverse forests etc without tripping over barely visible tree roots.

His muscles are compact; he can bench around 300kg.

Although his endurance is not particularly more impressive than a human, troll regeneration is unparalleled. He is capable of regenerating from minor wounds slowly during a fight, and can recover from devastating injuries much faster than humans if given the time to rest.

He also has a deep spiritual connection to the Loa allowing him to access his troll magic.

He is trained to use his staff as a weapon; he’s also accomplished at bush craft and has a fair amount of acrobatic ability, climbing trees etc with ease.

Loa magic:

Ward magic:
Ward of Seeing: A branch with an eye fashioned into the head, when thrown it sticks into the ground (or if the ground is unrelenting it hovers above it) and allows Jaldoa to see clearly in the area through his second sight. His practise with the art allows him to still concentrate on the real world as he does this, and the eye illuminates hidden opponents etc.

Ward of Healing: A branch with a smaller branch wrapped three quarters of the way up with twine or rope, it activates in much the same way as the Ward of Seeing and imbues a light healing aura in a small area. It can only affect those he is connected to by the Loa, and obviously it still heals him as well. It works at about one graze every ten seconds, meaning it would staunch blood flow from a cut wound for example in about twenty seconds. It has an effective range of about twenty meters. The range decreases to 15 meters for two people 10 for three etc. Five is the max at a two meter radius.

Ward of Warning: A branch split half way down, it deploys the same as the others. Any enemy which strays within ten meters of it is shocked by Loa magic and the ward makes a loud detonating sound as it disintegrates.

Ward of Cleansing: Loa magic is considered divine, and the undead are unnatural. The ward is a simple pole with three lines cut into the top, and when deployed it immediately releases a short burst of light which causes severe burning damage to spirits and the undead, or clears blighted ground over a larger radius.

Character Equipment:

Voodoo Staff: Crafted from the branches of the Loa tree, a Hex Master’s Voodoo staff is the sign of his power as a witch doctor. Some practitioners of Voodoo choose to wear a mask instead, but it’s optional and Joldoa decided on the staff because it can also be used as a weapon. The wood is incredibly resilient, almost on par to steel, and can be used to channel his power.

Ward Quiver: Like a small basket strapped to his back, it allows him to carry his wards which he can create through imbuing magical energy into the branches of trees cut into specific shapes.

A snare and a spike net kept in his ‘Ward Quiver’

Sacrificial knife