Lineage: Amanda Sykes - Abe Sykes - Jarvis West
Personality: Brittle, perfectionist, insecure,
clingy and obsessive. After she comes into her
powers, she adds manipulative, shrill and pushy.
One thing she isn’t is introspective.
Loyalties: Current Host (2)
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Passions: Destroying Villains (2)
Power Suite
Insubstantial 3HD (48 Points): Alyssa
doesn’t interact with matter, as a general rule.
Note that this prevents her from speaking.
Defends (+2), Permanent (+4), Always On (-1)
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Always On (-1), Self Only (-1)
Invisible 5HD (50 Points): What did you
think it meant when she wished she could
disappear?
Defends (+2), Permanent (+4), Always On (-1), Attached
(Insubstantial) (-2)
Useful (+2), Permanent (+4), Always On (-1), Self Only
(-1), Attached (Insubstantial) (-2)
Telepathic Exchange 7HD (28 Points): This
is pretty much her only means of communication.
She overlaps with someone and interacts with
their brain. Usually she stays on her man, but
when needed she floats over to someone else
and fries their cortex. While this attack ignores
armor, it can be resisted with any successful
Stability roll.
Attacks (+2), Touch Only (-2), Non-Physical (+2), Daze
(+1), Attached (Insubstantial) (-2), Limited Damage
(Shock) (-1)
Useful (+2), Touch Only (-2), Endless (+3), Attached
(Insubstantial) (-2)
Hyperbody 5d (25 Points): Being
insubstantial, she can’t use this herself, but
anyone she’s riding can (at her discretion) be
strong.
Hyperstat (+4), Useable by Others (+2), Attached
(Insubstantial) (-2), If/Then (Only others can use it, not
her) (-1), Speeding Bullet (+2)
Hypermind 5d (15 Points): The weirdness
here is surely a function of her self-abnegating
tendencies. She’s no smarter than she ever was,
but she can (when she wishes) hook her man of
the hour into a dark energy exocortex that makes
him a genius.
Hyperstat (+4), Useable by Others (+2), Attached
(Insubstantial) (-2), If/Then (Only others can use it, not
her) (-1)
Aces 8d+2WD (96 Points): You know what’s
nice about having a Tier Four neurotic fixated on
your safety and success? You tend to succeed a
lot, that’s what. Alyssa isn’t even sure how she
does this one, she just hopes real hard for an
outcome for her host and, often as not, it happens.
Attacks (+2), Augments (+4), Willpower Cost (-2), Usable
by Others (+2), Attached (Insubstantial) (-2), If/Then (only
for Augment) -1, If/Then (Only for the host’s actions) (-1)
Defends (+2), Augments (+4), Willpower Cost (-2),
Usable by Others (+2), Attached (Insubstantial) (-2), If/
Then (only for Augment) -1, If/Then (Only for the host’s
actions) (-1)
Useful (+2), Augments (+4), Willpower Cost (-2), Usable
by Others (+2), Attached (Insubstantial) (-2), If/Then (only
for Augment) -1, If/Then (Only for the host’s actions) (-1)
Regeneration 2d+2HD (30 Points): This
is standard to Wild Talents. As long as she’s
insubstantial, about the only thing that hurts her
is self-inflicted damage from using Soul Fortress
(see below), but if she was restored to material
form (Abe Sykes, from p. 173, could do it, for
instance) she could take normal damage and
she’d recover from it quickly.
Useful (+2), Engulf (+2), Permanent (+4), Self Only (-3)
Soul Fortress 10HD (40 Points): She is
shielded from mind control, influence, coercion
and psychic attack. It’s hard to even find her
with clairvoyance or telepathic searching. This
protection can extend to her host. But setting
up the shield costs her. Every time she defends
against an attack, the Flaws of Mental Strain and
Backfires apply, giving her a point of Shock to the
head and a point of Killing damage to her torso.
Useful (+2), Touch Only (-2), Attached (Insubstantial)
(-2), Duration (+2), Variable Effects (+4), Useable by
others (+2), Backfires (-2), Mental Strain (-2)
Willpower Battery 9d (18 Points): Here’s the
dark side of hosting Alyssa. She wears on you.
She draws strength from the relationship and
buddy, it has to come from somewhere. Is she
literally vampirizing her hosts? Or is it just that
the degree to which hearing her constant nagging
and suggestions and encouragement wear down
her man is proportional to the strength she steals
from the codependency? Either way, the result is
the same. He weakens. She thrives. Right up to
the point that he crashes.
Useful (Hold extra Willpower) (+2), Endless (+3), Self
Only (-3), Attached (Insubstantial) (-2)
Useful (Drain Willpower from host) (+2), Attached
(Insubstantial) (-2)