A few years ago I was working on a low-level superhero game. The campaign never properly launched, but there were a few adversaries I had planned. Four Eva is a possible adversary for a superhero or urban fantasy game.
Four Eva
High Concept: Replicating Ex-Wrestler
Trouble: Anger Management Issues
Other Aspects: Short but Imposing, Perpetually Broke, Relentless
Dolores Montiver believed she was pregnant with quadruplets. Doctors and hospital staff believed it, too. When Dolores went into labor, however, only one baby appeared. Despite all medical evidence of four fetuses prior to birth, there was only a single child that appeared for the single mother. She named her daughter Eva.
Growing up, Eva Montiver quickly took to sports and martial arts. She began training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at age 8 and Bearport’s Behemoth Wrestling kid’s program at 9. It took little time at all for the girl to begin winning competitions. Not only was Eva talented, she was exceptionally strong and incredibly persistent, pushing off pain in order to win. Dolores was proud of her daughter, but saw the activities as more of a daycare for the child, while she worked two jobs to pay for rent, food, and necessities.
The lack of funds in the family often meant that Eva could not participate at a regional or national level. Despite her skill, her trophies were limited primarily to conference or district competitions. Thanks to her coaches, she was able to enter two state-wide wrestling tournaments at age 15 and 16. For both, she took home trophies and the cash prizes. With the winnings, she bought a car so she would not be as limited in her range.
Eva was 17 when her mother fell ill with Huntington’s Chorea, a rapid degenerative brain disease. The daughter sold her car to help pay for hospital treatments and stay. With no cure available, Dolores Montiver passed away within months after her diagnosis. If it weren’t for the support and encouragement of her coaches, Eva would have dropped out of high school. Along with scholastic and athletic endeavors, Eva had to work part-time to keep a roof over her head and herself fed.
Pulled in every direction, fatigued, and depressed; Eva turned to drugs to give her the boost she needed. Her life was a cocktail of low-dose uppers, anti-depressants, and steroids. Unfortunately, her drug use was evident to tournament judges and, following a drug test, she was banned from competition at age 18. The anger and chemicals awoke Eva’s dormant mutant power. She could create three duplicates of herself. Though each “twin” would need to merge back into Eva’s body within 8 hours, that still gave each duplicate plenty of time to operate as an entity.
Without the money from tournament wins, Eva decided to use her newfound power to rob stores. The three duplicates acted as two armed robbers and a get-away driver, while Eva would publicly be elsewhere, providing a perfect alibi. The take from these hold-ups is never that much, but it’s allowed Eva to get by. And her abilities are getting better; possibly good enough to pull off a greater heist. Best part? When you’re four people, you don’t have to split the take with anyone but yourself.
Skills
Superb: Physique
Great: Athletics, Fight
Good: Burglary, Drive, Shoot
Powers
Replication (x3) You can create a copy of yourself that acts independently (but not at cross-purposes with your desires); the duplicate can exist for up to eight hours outside your body but will begin to break down if not re-absorbed. If the duplicate breaks down before reabsorbtion it will take a week before a new copy can be created.
Stunts
Grappler +2 to Physique rolls made to create advantages on an enemy by wrestling or grappling with them,
Dazing Counter When you succeed with style on a defend action against an opponent’s Fight roll, you automatically counter with some sort of nerve punch or stunning blow. You get to attach the Dazed situation aspect to your opponent with a free invoke, instead of just a boost.
Killing Stroke Once per scene, when you force an opponent to take a consequence, you can spend a fate point to increase the consequence’s severity (so mild becomes moderate, moderate becomes severe). If your opponent was already going to take a severe consequence, he must either take a severe consequence and a second consequence or be taken out.
Stress Tracks
Physical OOOO
Mental OO
Four Eva Adventure Seed
Working Out Your Quads
A string of robberies has been happening across town. Three women, all about the same height and build, have been holding up local convenience stores, gyms, and dojos. One of the robberies occur when a PC (in their civilian attire) is in the building. During conflict or if the PC follows the robbers, they should note that the women look exactly the same, down to the tattoos.
The PCs will need to identify the robbers. This should lead them to Eva Montiver; who, by all records and accounts, is an only child with no criminal record. She also has an airtight alibi for the evening, as she was attending a roller-derby. Is she simply a pawn being used by mimicking criminals? She does have an ex-boyfriend with a shady past as a drug dealer—could he be involved?
The heroes will need to work through the mystery and, once solved, confront Eva. But will they be ready when her duplicates also attack?
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