From: Michael Surbrook 
Subject: CHAR: Puppetman

Puppetman
(Greg Hartmann)

Designers Notes:
Puppetman is plain looking man who stands 5'10" and weighs 170 lbs. He has unremarkable features, a receding hair line and is a bit over weight. Most people describe him as 'handsome' of 'compelling'. Currently he is an influential senator, who stands for joker rights and other oppressed minorities. He's considered to be good natured and openly friendly and concerned to the plight of jokers everywhere. He's also unrelentingly evil and sadistic...

Puppetman is a psychic vampire, who takes people as 'puppets' by shaking their hand (or through other physical contact). Once he has achieved contact he can than manipulate their emotional state to feed his sick desires. He can cause people to like him (even love him) as well as intensify anger and hatreds in order to start fights (or other acts of violence).

His range (after setting up his initial contact) is usually fairly limited, although he could control someone in a house from the sidewalk outside. He has used his puppets to kill before and won't hesitate to do it again. As of Wild Cards Book 6 he was seeking the Democratic nomination to the presidency.

The Character:

STAT		VAL		COST
Str		9		-1
Dex		10		0
Con		10		0
Body		9		-2
Int		20		10
Ego		15		10
Pre		18		8
Com		14		2
PD		2		0
ED		2		0
Spd		2		0
Rec		4		0
End		20		0
Stun		18		0
Char Total			27
Power Total			183
Total Cost			210

COST	POWERS & SKILLS
96	15d6 Mind Control, Telepathic, Invisible (+1/2), Empathic control
only (-1/2), 
	Must first touch his target to set up control (-1/4), 0 END
17	Detect: Emotions, Sense, Ranged, Discriminatory 18-, Only works on
puppets 
	or people withing a few feet (-1/2)

5	Perk: US Senator
10	Perk: Wealth

3	Acting 13-
4	AK: USA 14-
4	AK: World 14-
3	Bureaucratics 13-
3	Conversation 13- 
3	High Society 13-
4	KS: Law 14-
5	KS: Politics 15-
3	Oratory 13-
3	Persuasion 13-
2	PS: Lawyer 11-
2	PS: Senator 11-
6	SL: +2 with all PRE Skills
10	CSL: +5 with Mind Control

Disadvantages
100	Base
10	Psych: Bully, he takes great joy in tormenting his 'puppets'
20	Psych: Megalomaniac who desires all the power he can get
15	Psych: Sadistic, will kill for the pleasure it gives him
5	(15) Psych: Coward at heart who is afraid of discovery (and
	unknown aces)
10	Public ID: Well known US Senator
15	SID: He is a vicious psychopathic psychic vampire
35	Experience

(Puppetman created by Stephen Leigh, character sheet created by Michael
Surbrook)

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