HOWLER Prince Quintus of Virunga
F: Astounding (50)
A: Wondrous (75)
S: Astounding (50)
E: Fantastic (40)
R: Average (06)
I: Decent (10)
P: Great (20)
Health: 175
Karma: 36
Resources: World Class (30) [Virunga Refuge guards a fortune in gemstones and gold as well as unusual elemental minerals and Howler is the Prince of that Refuge with full access to its Wealth]
Popularity: 0
Specialities:
Acrobatics.
Horse Riding (Drive applied to a Horse)
Pilot (Virungan hoverships in particular)
Powers:
Apes are Transformed simians taken from the Great Ape families and Risen using a process that combines transgenic injections and chemical treatments. The children of the first generation of the modified animals are intelligent Ape capable of speech, controlling their breathing (the major barrier to all non-humans speaking) and using tools and weapons. Escaped populations of Apes live in Refuges in the form of forgotten military bases or lost valleys, plotting for the day when they will overthrow the human race. Some "basic" Apes are super-powered meaning that in addition to the species characteristics listed here they have an additional Origin as a superbeing of some kind.
Howler is an Ape from the Virunga Refuge in the Congo, an enclosed and hidden high tech city of Apes.
- ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS (Decent): Apes have a natural sensitivity for the living world, natural environment, especially jungles and forests but extending to all natural unspoiled areas and their state of health.
- SONIC CONTROL (BLAST) (Great): Howler has inherited his family's main legacy super-power, the ability to emit a deafening roar, hoot, holler or shriek that can stun, kill or even incapacitate unliving objects like machinery.
Contacts:
King Quaternus of Virunga, ruler of their ape colony Refuge and his father;
CIRCUS team members since Howler is an active superhero in CIRCUS;
Retired members of the US armed forces who served with his father, grandfather or great grandfather;
The Allard family who have been family friends of Howler's family since the early 1920s.
Limitations:
- Dirty Stinking Nonhuman: all human characters have an innate immediate dislike of Apes on first contact. A Psyche feat can overcome this feeling which may never return. For humans only having casual contact with Apes this prejudice never goes away and makes all negotiations and discussions between Apes and humans suffer a -2RS penalty.
- Noblesse Oblige: The character is a ranking member of a royal family and is expected to be active in all royal duties when called upon to do so. If this means they have to drop everything and race halway across the world, or dress up in ridiculous formal wear to attend a state banquet, so be it.
Notes:
There are several enclaves of Apes across the Earth. The Ape superhero Howler comes from one such Refuge in the Virunga region of the Congo.