The son of the most wanted man in North America.
Well, in my groups' Rifts universe anyways...
Way back in the day a wiley and impulsive merc headhunter by the alias
Makko Gridspike (
yeah, I love really cheesy and bad names) caught wind of a transaction going down in the 'burbs, and after a couple of failed business attempts of his own was meaning to prey on the other criminal elements in the burbs.
This transaction however, found him in possession of
Marsellus Wallaces' soul! Not really, but the briefcase he found had a very similar effect - it contained the black credstick.
Word on the market (the black market) is that these sticks are untraceable, unblockable, and always good no matter where you are. This stick was juiced to an account for 2,000,000,000Cr. That's 2 billion - more money than any man should see in a lifetime.
So like an idiot, he spent it unchecked. He learned that lession quick, and found that he needed friends to help him protect
his stolen goods.
Enter
Blink - the fastest Hyperion Juicer you ever saw, and quite the looker too. These two quickly became friends, and soon more than that. Normally though getting juiced would stop something like menstration, or otherwise cause a miscarrage in the mother. Well, one stormy night while on the lamb from the CS, these two found themselves knocking boots in a ley-line storm. She was struck that night and killed instantly on the spot - but some <plot-device> magic event happened, and within that charred husk was a baby.
Skip ahead to today, 109PA and now that baby is 18 years old. That ley-storm had some lasting effects, namingly the imbuement of super-powers!
This Rifts-native has the powers of...
Extrodinary physical speed,
Extrodinary physical prowess,
Lightning reflexes,
Extrodinary physical endurance,
Superhuman strength, and
Healing factor
Additionally he's been trained personally by his father, whose' personal life philosophy has been survival of the fittest. He trained is kid to fire an e-rifle at the age of three (and as some of you might think this is not likely, I personally fired my first gun at the age of 4; a 12 gauge shotgun no less). Combined with memories of his mother, this kid learned the merc life as good as anyone by the age of 14. It was then (at the on-set of puberty) that his super-powers manifested.
Now, this superhuman merc has the training of a wilderness scout, with the additions of sharp-shooting (memories of mother) and his father's favored hand-to-hand, commando.
This character has munchkin qualities - he is an experiment superhero with skills from a Rifts OCC, as well as two illegal skill choices; sharp-shooting and HtH: Commando. This is not typically allowed in a game, but given the player (myself) and the GM (my buddy) as well as previous storylines (the above history of this character and the others is true; Gridspike is a techno-warrior character of mine) we are allowing this to take place. Why is it a "we"? Normally I am loathe to play a character that I feel is too powerful for my personal tastes, like a Glitterboy (I favor an underdog type). But I figured a change of pace would be nice for once, and this idea was actually propositioned to me by the GM.
Currently the young super-merc has found himself in a hairy predicament, as his father has disappeared and he has been left only with the equipment he took whilst on a training mission. Family history might also come back to bite him as he learns of his fathers' sorted past, as he learns of his hidden family fortune, as well as a private trust-fund set up for him...
This is my favorite munchkin character. His name?
Flash Gridspike. I was gonna use
Thunder-Cougar-Falcon-Bird Gridspike, but I figured
T.C.F.B. was kind of a mouthful.
