SUCCUBUS

aka Pretty Persuasion.

" You know it's what you Really WANT to do"

ID: Sara Morgenstern

Secret ID:John Beau

Written by Mike Pegg

By the age of 21 she was one of the most sought after leading ladies in Hollywood, her legs were adorning every pubescent boys bedroom wall throughout America. It carried on as such for a couple of years before the pressures of work began to take their toll, she developed a eating disorder, she ate more and more comfort food, particularly chocolate. She put weight on rapidly, to begin with this didn’t concern her but when her agent pointed out that not many leading ladies were of the “rotund” stature she decided that she really must do something about her problem. So like most wealthy Americans, when they have a problem, she hired a psychiatrist and enrolled in a Health Farm. The health farm was relatively new, only open for six months but had incredible reviews. It was at the forefront of slimming and fitness technology, able to work miracles, or sothe expensive video ad. she received stated. She enrolled for a month.

Promiethian Health & Fitness Community of Tomorrow (PHFCT) was really a front for a certain Dr Mutate, who used his rich clients as guiney pigs for his mutagenic serum

Dr Mutate had found the genetic cause of obesity and was doing something unethical but something that rich vain Americans wanted. He “threw the rich into the melting pot of America” and they were reborn as former “shadows” of themselves, minus the huge fee he charged for his technique. So what if the technique had changed one clients skin colour (blue had always been one of his favourite colours), so what that one clients hair fell out or the unfortunate case where a mans skin elasticity was totally removed. These were minor problems, one in a thousand chance, besides they all signed the disclaimers totally exonerating PHFCT of any liability. They just weren’t his problem. There are all ways risks with any new scientific breakthrough.

Let’s just say that Sara was one in a thousand, big time! She was worst case senario; everything went wrong, hair, skin, colour, and height. It all changed; her face was like something out of the “Incredible Melting Man”.

She screamed. Ordering Dr Mutate to do something about it, uncharacteristically did. He went and got a vial from his lower lab, telling Sara that the serum was untested on humans but tests on mice were quite promising. What it promised we would never know, Sara snatched the vial and drunk it down.“It’s meant to be injected!” Mutate stated, watching his scientific curiosity aroused as Sara fell to the floor in convulsions.

The next Sara knew was waking up in hospital. She immediately wanted a mirror. She was normal and slim; well she looked normal at least. Her skin still felt all tingly and tight but that could just be after effects of the treatment.

The doctors wanted to keep her in another night. Another? How long had she been here? Oh my god think of the press. She had to get out. At first the doctors refused but then something strange happened. In mid sentence one doctor changed from telling her she had to stay to telling her if they were to allow her to go she must get plenty of bed rest and come back next week for a check up. She gladly agreed and left.

Over the following few weeks she gradually found out about the little gifts Dr Mutate had bestowed on her. She was horrified the first time she made her appearance change. Fearing that she would never see her own face again.

She also found out that she could heavily influence others, at first she used this to secure parts in films. She gave up doing this when she decided this took all the skill out of her acting ability, from then on it was her skill alone that got her parts.

One aspect of her special abilities she has particularly grown to enjoy is the ability to change into exact duplicates of others, especially men. It allows her to explore so much more into a world that was barred by gender. Talk about the ultimate in method acting.

She has recently grown into the habit of assuming a false identity (John Beau) and exploring the city's darker side, falling in with the local Mafia Capo. She plans on using this experience in a future roll she has been scripted for. She has had a few scary moments but her unexpected strength and the ability to control others have got her through. She is growing to enjoy the adrenaline rush she gets on these little trips and is assuming the John Beau persona for longer periods of time, some times up to a week.

Succubus is getting in over her head with Mafia; she is being pressured to going on an armed raid. She is not sure how to handle this but doesn’t want to end the deception.The Mafia has noticed John’s long absences and has tried finding out where he goes but has so far not connected Sara and John. They suspect him of being a police plant and are trying to force him to exposing or incriminate himself, if he doesn’t agree to go on the armed raid they may have to eliminate him before things get to well planned.

She is somewhat of an eternal optimist, ready to assume the best of anybody. She has had a few knocks in her time especially from directors and producers but those have all mostly been forgotten. She’s had no bad experiences like that since she became famous.

Her experiences as John Beau may be about to shatter some of those illusions

She can strengthen herself to normal human maximums, even increase her hardiness to a small degree, make herself one of the most beautiful men or women on the planet and give herself a formidable presence.

With extreme effort she can even heal small wounds quite quickly, given time she can heal major ones, as long as she is conscious.

She also is able to manipulate her clothing to form any other type of clothing she wants, all clothing stays as normal cloth or leather but the appearance, colour, etc changes as desired. She can not manipulate clothes into armour.

She also has the ability to manipulate another’s mind; she mostly uses this to enhance her persuasion and seduction, as most victims tend to be inclined to want to help her to start with this tends to be quite easy.

She can control most weak-minded people fully if she has to but finds the experience distasteful, lacking any skill on her part. The only restriction she has on this ability is that she has to have touched the victim in the previous hour for her beguiling to have any effect.

As John Beau, Succubus is a small time gangster or a police informer depending on who you ask.

Hero 4th Edition Version/Fuzion Version

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