Twilight (deceased)
| F Ex 20 |
A Ex 20 |
S Gd 10 |
E In 40 |
R Gd 10 |
I Gd 20 |
P Gd 20 |
Res Ex 20 |
Pop Sh 0 |
| Health: Karma: |
90 50 |
Origin:
Lenore Fenzl, also known as Twilight, was a retired Latin teacher living in a retirement home when the White Event occurred. This bizarre astronomical occurrence bathed her body in mutagenic energies, energies which forever changed both her and the path her life would take. Transformed into an extremely potent vampire of life force, Twilight is possibly one of the world's most dangerous paranormals!
Known Powers:
Vampirism: every exposed inch of Twilight's skin gives off a strange, heatless bioluminescence. This Excellent (20) ranked light (when she's fully uncovered, at least) is blinding in its own right, but that's the least of someone's problems should they find themselves exposed to it. You see, every turn someone is graced by Twilight's glow, they must pass a Psyche FEAT roll against its intensity if within one area of her.
If this FEAT roll fails, those within range will lose an amount of Health points equal to this power rank. This is often enough to drop 'normals' with just one turn of exposure. In and of itself, Twilight's vampirism is not deadly; reducing someone to zero (0) Health won't automatically kill them. However, it is theorized that continuous exposure to her light will ultimately kill her victims (but this has never been demonstrated).
This drained Health will immediately transfer back to Twilight. It often has the effect of instantly invigorating her, and if she's at full Health upon draining someone's life force, Twilight will gain a +1 CS to her Strength, Endurance and Psyche scores for 1d100 turns. This on top of the other beneficial effects of this power. Despite being over sixty-five years old, Twilight's power can restore her apparent youth!
While this originally took longer for her, Twilight can restore or maintain her youthful vitality with just one feeding, if it has lapsed. If she goes without draining the energies of others, she will lose said vitality after about a month, though she'll only need a singular 'charge' to recover her youth once more. If in an 'old' state, Twilight's physical abilities should be reduced to Poor (4).
While her vampiric power is quite potent, being an area effect drain on everyone around her, Twilight cannot deactivate this power. In order to hide her paranormal nature, much less avoid sapping the energies of everyone present (both friend and foe), Twilight must completely cover every inch of her body - save for her eyes, and the inside of her mouth, neither of which emit her trademark, soporific luminescence.
Limitations / Enhancements:
(none)
Equipment:
(none)
Quirks:
Abnormal Attribute: like many of her friends from the Clinic for Paranormal Research, Twilight's very appearance has been altered by the emergence of her paranormal power. Her skin constantly gives off an eerie white glow, and even if she can cover this up with a liberal amount of clothing, Twilight will appear odd simply because she is covered head to toe, and usually wearing a mask to boot.
Talents:
Detective / Espionage: her second career path, adopted after her capture near the Pitt, Twilight has been trained in a variety of 'dirty tricks' by the Central Intelligence Agency. She's adept at acquiring information from a variety of sources, whether verbally or when searching for clues, and should receive a +1 CS on any such efforts - a great complement to her generally inquisitive nature.
Education: her first career path, Twilight was originally a Latin teacher before she retired. While she specializes in Latin of course, Twilight has the capability to teach a wide variety of subjects should she put her mind to it, and is often a mentor to others. Any attempt to impart her knowledge to others should benefit from a +1 CS thanks to her professional training in this field.
Languages / English and Latin: Twilight is an expert in the Latin tongue, in addition to her own, native English. She knows this obscure language incredibly well, and often even thinks in Latin instead of English - which makes her a very good teacher on the subject. She can read, write and speak in both of these languages, though she really has little cause to use Latin in everyday life.
Martial Arts types A and B: once she'd signed up with the Central Intelligence Agency for a time, Twilight was given a variety of martial arts training, to better take advantage of her enhanced physical capabilities (while 'well fed', anyway). She should receive a +1 CS when attempting unarmed melee attacks, and can Slam or Stun a foe regardless of his comparative Strength or Endurance scores.
Contacts:
Twilight can readily rely upon her fellow paranormals from therapy group C in the Clinic for Paranormal Research - even Scuzz, who originally left them on hostile terms. Over time others have joined their little band, including Chrome, Mutator and Sponge. Twilight has a few additional contacts from the Clinic, as well as her 'handler' in the Central Intelligence Agency, Miss Dobish.
Costume:
Twilight's 'costume' has varied over the years, though it's usually of a predominantly purple hue. Her first 'look' included a purple rain coat that obscured most of her body, accented with purple heels, a white sweater, white gloves, and a white mask. She often topped off this outfit with a purple fedora that drew attention away from the eerie mask she wore (or so she hoped).
Her second 'main' outfit was adopted shortly before she journeyed to the Pitt with her friends. It includes a purple, loose-fitting shirt that buttons up the side, purple trousers, purple gloves, purple boots, and again her white mask. By this time however, Lenore had decided to go without the large purple hat, as she'd grown more comfortable with herself by this time, and didn't feel the need to hide so much.
Personality:
While she was seemingly frail, Lenore's personality hid a secret strength. The more her friends were put in danger, the further Lenore would go to help them out, often taking risks that she would, on hindsight, consider foolhardy (to say the least). She quickly grew to be admired by her fellow Displaced Paranormals for the bravery, intelligence and level-headedness that she increasingly demonstrated over time.
Real Name: Lenore Fenzl
Occupation: CIA operative, former Latin instructor
Legal Status: citizen of the United States with no criminal record, legally deceased
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none
Group Affiliation: the CIA, DP 7 (therapy group C)
Height: 5' 9"
Hair: gray
Eyes: blue
Weight: 135 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: Lenore Fenzl, also known as Twilight, is constantly aglow. Her whole body gives off a soporific luminescence, which makes it hard to actually see any distinguishing features on her at all - aside from the glow, that is. Even when she covers up her entire body to avoid affecting folks with her vampiric lights, Twilight stands out since she's so heavily dressed.
Her actual skin, should one be able to see it without her power being on somehow, is a solid gray in hue.
Story:
Lenore Fenzl was something of an old maid, a former Latin teacher who thought she was spending her last days in a retirement home - until the White Event occurred. While she thought nothing of it at first, Lenore began to experience bizarre changes as a result of the White Event's mutagenic properties. For one thing, she was developing strange gray patches on her skin, and was worried it was leprosy.
Showing them to a fellow resident of her retirement home, Lenore was mortified when her friend immediately passed out. Thinking it must be bad, Lenore then went to a doctor to have the spots looked at, but he too fell unconscious upon viewing them. Truly frightened at this point, Lenore wasn't sure what she should do next, but ultimately was made aware of the Clinic for Paranormal Research.
This new facility informed Lenore that it was designed to aid people with a variety of inexplicable problems that modern medicine had no solutions for. Thinking nothing else for it, Lenore went ahead and checked herself into the Clinic, at which point she was studied by its staff for a time. By this time her entire skin had changed to a gray coloration, and was now emitting a white, soporific light.
Unable to expose any of her flesh without causing others in her vicinity to fall unconscious, Lenore began to wear heavy clothing that completely obscured her appearance. She was assigned to therapy group b in the Clinic, but quickly changed over to therapy group c as it began to form. The specific reasons for her doing so have never been revealed, but it's possible she just didn't like most of the folks in that group.
They were jerks, for the most part.
Lenore's new group got along pretty well, and things were going well for them overall, but the later addition of Randy O'Brien and David Landers changed things. Randy seemed to be rather paranoid about the Clinic's motivations, and while Lenore was curious why they hadn't mentioned any sort of remuneration thus far, she was content to stay there and let them help her with her 'problem' regardless.
This all changed when Randy finally figured out that the Clinic was spying on them, and upon informing the group that this was the case, they were attacked by Hackbarth, one of the Clinic's leaders. This man had a devastating paranormal power all his own, and he turned it on the entire therapy group to keep them in line. With his ultimate defeat, the group as a whole decided it was going to bug out - and promptly did so.
Lenore thus joined the other six Displaced Paranormals as they fled into the wilds of Wisconsin, and fought off several attempts by the Clinic to recapture them alongside her new friends. In time, Lenore was eventually captured, as were the rest of her fellow Displaced Paranormals, though the Clinic's evil leader, Philip Nolan Voigt, was forcibly removed from the premises shortly thereafter by Randy and David.
With this, the Clinic's patients slowly began to lose their discipline. While Voigt was a despicable human being with delusions of supremacy, the mind control techniques his minions used at least kept the Clinic's paranormals in line. At around this time, Lenore was beginning to grow dependent on the 'rush' she received after using her powers to drain the life forces of others, and worked hard to defeat this addiction.
Though this involved her totally isolating herself from others for several months.
Soon enough, Lenore wound up rejoining her friends only to leave the Clinic once more, doing so when several of the others went looking after fellow groupie Jeffrey Walters. He'd ran out of the Clinic in a panic when his family was annihilated in the wake of the 'Pitt' incident, and Randy wanted to help him out - and since his therapy group seemed to do what he asked of them, they (Lenore included) tagged along for the ride.
In their effort to find Jeffrey, many of the Clinic's former patients were captured by the military; martial law was in effect around the former city of Pittsburgh, and these paranormals were definitely violating curfew. Though the males of the group were forced to join the military as a result of the Draft that the (paranormal) President Reagan signed into law, Lenore and the women were a bit more fortunate.
In exchange for avoiding jail time, Lenore was offered a position within the Central Intelligence Agency. Though she found the idea of someone her age beginning 'secret agent' training ludicrous, Lenore really didn't want to go to jail. Thus, she agreed to the CIA's terms, along with Charlotte Beck and Merriam Sorensen. They would train for several months, and were eventually joined by Stephanie Harrington and Jennifer Swensen.
On their first field mission, these five paranormal ladies would be sent down to South America, to investigate a strange biological weapon run amok. As it turned out, this creature was the so-called Famileech, a former family of four that was adversely affected by their exposure to Pitt-Juice, and horrifically merged into a singular monstrosity that lacked form or even bones - it just looked like skin.
And it had a hunger for human flesh.
Though this creature was previously held by the Army in its paranormal hospital at Fort Benning, the thing apparently proved too dangerous to keep around after it ate half of the staff. Though means unknown, it found is way halfway around the globe shortly thereafter (likely dumped there by the military), and the CIA was trying to figure out what it was - not being privy to the Army's paranormal intelligence.
Quickly blundering into it, the female fighting force struggled to survive against the Famileech, which had been eating every animal life form it could find - and it was in a rain forest! Having grown to an immense size, the creature quickly panicked and separated its five paranormal foes. While helping Stephanie escape from its grasp, Lenore was overwhelmed by the sheer bulk of the Famileech.
Unlike some of the others that were subsumed into its mass, Lenore was unable to make her escape from the creature before it seemingly consumed her. While her allies fled to safety, Lenore was apparently lost in action... it would appear. Her ultimate fate was never revealed, nor was the story of the Famileech ever resolved, so it's possible that Lenore managed to escape or defeat it somehow - though this isn't too likely.
When her friends were revisited several years later, after all, Lenore was nowhere to be seen...
Extra Goodies:
The Twilight entry written with Ty R. States!
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