ANIMAL

STATISTICS
Animal Communication and Control:
F RM (35) Animal has the ability to communicate
A TY (7) with and control all animals. He does
S TY (7) this with Excellent (16) ability.
E UN (125)
R RM (30) EQUIPMENT:
I GD (10) Knives: Animal carries two knives made
P TY (6) of Excellent material and allow him to
inflict Good (10) edged damage.
Health: 174
Karma: LIMITATIONS:
Resources: TY (6) Alcoholic: Animal has a drinking
Popularity: -1 problem! Each day he must make a
Psyche FEAT roll to avoid turning to the
BACKGROUND bottle. The Judge can also call for this
Real Name: Kenneth Alles check any time he feels that there seems
Occupation: Journalist to be an appropriate reason for Animal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no to take a drink during the adventure. If
criminal record the Psyche FEAT fails roll 1d10 on the
Identity: Public bottle chart to see how much Animal has ROLE-PLAYING NOTES:
Origin: Mutant drank: Animal wants to do the right thing, but
Other Known Aliases: None often succumbs to his desire for alcohol
Marital Status: Married which seems to affect more often than it
ROLL EFFECT
Known Relatives: Diamond (wife), should given his rather high physical
1 None
Pangolin (son) fortitude. For reasons that only his
2 Swig
Base of Operations: Mobile alcohol soaked brain understands, He
3-4 Couple of swallows has a particular hatred for Spider-man,
Past Group Affiliations: Outsiders
Present Group Affiliation: Secret
5-6 ½ bottle – Drunk Check and will often find himself helping a villain
Warriors 7-8 ¾ bottle – Drunk Check if it means humiliating Spider-man.
9 Whole bottle –Drunk
Check HISTORY
KNOWN POWERS: 10 1 down & roll again – Animal has had a long and varied history
Animal Mimicry: Animal has the IN (36) Drunk Check at –1CS END in the world of superheroes. In one of his
ability to assume the natural qualities of earliest adventures. Animal met and
any animal. Only one animal aspect may When a Drunk Check is called for, Animal rescued the woman who he would
be taken at a time, and the effects last for makes an Endurance FEAT. Failure of this eventually fall in love with and marry. She
a power rank number of rounds. When alters Animal’s abilities in the following took the name Diamond and they have
the effects have dissipated, he must wait manner: +1CS Fighting, -2CS Agility and had a long career together.
1 hour before he can call on that Intuition (minimum of Poor). The next day,
particular ability of that animal again. or when he sobers up, he must make a At some point Animal became an
Assuming the abilities of mythological Yellow Endurance FEAT or be at –1CS on alcoholic which has led to a number of
animals is a power stunt, and Animal has all of his abilities for 1d10 hours. bad choices in his life. One of those is his
developed the following: unreasonable hatred of Spider-man. This
TALENTS: has become such a powerful factor of his
● Behemoth: When Animal’s health
Resist Domination, Zoology, Sharp life that, even when he is not drunk, it
drops to 50 or less he can call on this Weapons leads him to make bad decisions. There
creature’s abilities. have been times in which he has helped
CONTACTS: villains, just to try and make a fool of
Combat Tail: Animal has a tail that can be Diamond, Pangolin, Psylocke Spider-man.
used in combat to inflict Good (8) blunt
damage. ADDITIONAL NOTES: There have been times during his career
in which Animal will go on a drunken
Bad Luck: Animal has the ability to alter binge and disappear for long periods of
probability in his immediate area at time. During one of these times, Diamond
Remarkable (26) rank. When active, this became concerned and turned to Lex
power causes everyone in the same area Luthor for help. When Animal eventually
as Animal to have bad luck. sobered up and reemerged, he was not
happy about Diamond’s association with
Luthor. Because of this, Animal will gladly
disrupt any plans of Luthor’s that he
learns about.

After getting Animal some help, the

couple got back to their regular
superhero lives. Eventually Diamond
became pregnant. When the child was
born with obvious mutant deformities, the
couple decided to take some time to find
ways to help their son gain a somewhat
normal life. They retired from the
superhero community to do this.

After being gone for many years, during

which time their son grew and flourished,
the couple has returned to their
superhero lives.