Wildcharge
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Wildcharge | |
| Player: User: Bit-Player | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | SS/Inv Brute |
| Threat Level: | Confidential |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Allison Mueller |
| Known Aliases: | Wildcharge, Asterion |
| Species: | Human (Magically Altered) |
| Age: | 25 (3500) |
| Height: | Allison 6' 0" (Wildcharge 9' 3") |
| Weight: | 160lb (1200lb.) |
| Eye Color: | Red, glow dependent on mood. |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | US Citizen |
| Occupation: | Artifact Collector, Casino Owner |
| Place of Birth: | ' |
| Base of Operations: | St. Martial |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | None known |
| Known Powers | |
| Magically endowed with Strength and Invulnerability. | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Extremely dense muscle mass, Extremely tough skin. Strength sufficient to lift a Main Battle Tank reliably. Self-taught Mu Magic, as well as myriad artifacts, weapons, and trinkets. | |
| Equipment | |
| Rarely uses offensive weaponry. | |
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Contents |
Mythical Origins (As currently accepted)
Asterion, the Minotaur. The ancient monster that was said to roam the Labyrinth beneath the Minoan city of Knossos. The monster was so fearsome that King Minos had the artisan Daedalus construct the elaborate maze to keep the creature contained.
Following a successful war with the city of Athens, King Minos demanded that at seven-year intervals seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent into the Labyrinth to be devoured by the creature. A young Athenian, Theseus, volunteered to kill the creature. He took the place of one of the youths, and ventured to Crete. Once inside the Labyrinth, the young warrior tied the end of a string to a post near the entrance. He then used the string to navigate his way into the maze, and upon reaching the center, found the Minotaur, asleep.
Theseus attacked the beast with a sword he'd hidden under his clothing. The fight was close, fierce, and brutal. But in the end, the creature met its end on Theseus' blade.
Theseus returned to Athens a hero... and the creature's remains remained in the maze, to be lost to the ages. ---
Awakened
Allison Mueller was your average college student, working toward a major in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures. She made decent grades in her courses and enjoyed school, for the most part. Her parents were still happily married and she'd never been struck with any sort of major tragedy - nearly unheard of, in Paragon City.
It just so happened that over the summer of her junior year she was able to accompany her professor to the island of Crete to help with an archaeological dig site. The city of Knossos, center of the Minoan culture, had been found decades earlier, and was a relatively easy place to dig and learn procedures. The Professor was a leading scholar on the Minoans, and had found a passage into a lower, unexplored area of the city over the previous summer. Allison settled easily into her role assisting the exploration into the depths. For several weeks, the job was uneventful as expected.
One evening, while mapping one of the deeper areas of the city, Allison found herself lost, her GPS too far underground to get a good signal. She wandered for several hours before coming across what appeared to be a carefully-cut gap in a massive wall of stone. Just inside she found two small torch posts, long extinguished. Around one of the posts was the remains of what appeared to be a loop of string. Only pieces remained, the rest of the string had decayed centuries earlier. Her mind reeled. Had she found the Labyrinth of myth? She hadn't believed it actually existed. She ventured inside, able to see the ancient shreds of string on the dusty stone floor. For a long time she followed the string, before realizing that her flashlight was dying. ---
Lost and Found
Allison started to panic. As the light slowly faded, she ran as fast as she could manage, following the bits of string that would lead her out again. In the meager remaining light she tripped, the light smashing against a stone wall, and herself sprawling out on the floor, suddenly enveloped in absolute pitch-black darkness.
She continued to run, hysterical, screaming until her throat was raw. Several more times she ran painfully into walls in the darkness, before finally coming to her senses. Picking the wall on her left side, she began to walk along it. IT may not be the best solution, but in any maze, hugging one wall WOULD eventually lead one out. Her main concern was how long it would take. She was already thirsty, and had no idea how big the maze was.
The minutes ran into hours as she walked. The hours eventually ran into days. Panicked, aching, and dehydrated, she turned a corner in the pitch blackness and found herself in a circular room lit by an eerie red glow. The floor below crunched as she stepped forward, ancient bones crumbling to dust as she staggered toward the source of the dim light. In the center of the room, she peered down into a small pool of water. In her condition she didn't think twice, bending down to drink greedily from the pool. The water was foul and metallic tasting, but it was cool. As she sat back at the edge of the pool, she became more aware of her surroundings. In the dim light she could make out little of the room's contents. She looked back into the pool to find the source of the light. Instead, she gasped as she saw a massive skeleton. Easily eight feet in height and apparently topped with the head of a bull.
The Minotaur! She'd found it. The myth was true.
The skeleton was transfixed by a bronze sword, the tip broken against the bottom of the pool. She reached into the glowing red water, grasping the sword by the hilt. She struggled a moment to pull it free, shaking it a bit until it slid out of the skeleton's ribcage. Then suddenly something roared in her mind, and her body convulsed, sending her tumbling into the pool. She'd have panicked if she weren't already unconscious. ---
Emergence
The City of Heraklion, Crete was a quiet, peaceful mediterranean locale. With a pleasant climate and a beautiful landscape it was a choice resort area for those looking to get away. The archaeology community was also fond of the area for its many ancient structures and ruins. Nothing bad ever happened in such a place. Except, that is, for the unfortunate disappearance of an American college student two months earlier. No trace had been found of the girl, and her party had returned to the United States.
It was a quiet September morning when the creature appeared. The first warning was a crash, as something ripped through a building on the outskirts of the city. Police responded of course, but to no avail. The massive creature shrugged off bullets, and was annoyed by tear gas. The more they fought it, the angrier it became. News broadcasts showed a creature easily nine feet tall, female, and definitely bovine in nature. However, even so large a being shouldn't have been able to hurl a semi trailer half a block. The creature seemed to be animalistic, operating without reason, on instinct and rage alone. Wildly charging anything in sight. The thing continued its rampage for six hours before help arrived from Greece. The Greek hero Stavros confronted the beast, and after two hours of fighting was able to psionically bludgeon it into unconsciousness. The effort left the hero hospitalized, and the creature was turned over to Longbow operatives from the US for containment. ---
Across the Pond
((Work In Progress. Will continue when I have time))
