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Potiphar
Strength 8c |
Agility 6c |
Intellect 4x |
Willpower 6c |
Powers:
(none)
Equipment:
Guns: Nungali has a veritable arsenal at his disposal, thanks to the nigh-infinite coffers of the Medusa Web. He usually wields the most advanced guns available, guns that typically act as +6 weapons with every deadly assault - these are fully automatic 'lawn mowers'.
He may have other guns on hand, depending on the situation, but he does like to add custom modifications to weaponry, like silencers, infrared sights (allow for effective sniping in the dark), telescopic sights (virtually line of sight strike capability), and other homicidal niceties.
Knives: Nungali also tends to carry at least two bladed weapons on his person at all times, as he doesn't like to rely solely on his guns in the event that they may fail him. He can use these per +2 weapons with each and every personal, yet lethal attack.
He can use the knives to cut through items made from at least strength 10 materials, and possibly up to strength 16 materials, depending on the stuff his knives are made of. He will use those made of at least solid steel (strength 10), but prefers titanium (strength 16).
Body Armor: Nungali always wears his big, brownish-gray padded armor suit in battle, which provides him +2 protection from physical attack, +1 defense vs. fiery attack. Keeps him alive in battle with normals, typical authority figures, and less powerful paranormals.
Communications Gear: Nungali has a complete comm system in his helmet that he can use to communicate with Babel (he speaks little else besides his native Egyptian, so he doesn't bother talking to his fellows). His gear has intensity 5 range (100 miles), with audio / video transmission capabilities.
Hindrances:
(none)
Skills:
Boxing: a master of combat, whether armed or not, Nungali can fight anytime, anywhere. As such, he can divide his pre-cardplay action score between two unarmed melee attacks, the last of which will occur as a contingent action. Coupled with his martial arts, this can be highly dangerous...
Knives: while he can utilize any personal weapon with ease, Nungali truly excels in the usage of knives. He can brandish these at an opponent, and then strike him at one difficulty level lower than is normally required; the scary part is that he likes using knives as much as he does guns.
Marksmanship: regardless of what kind of gun it is, whether it be a standard, semi-automatic, or fully automatic rifle or pistol, Nungali can use it to kill you - he rarely needs more than one shot to do so, actually. When firing any non-directed energy weapon, Nungali does so at a reduced difficulty level.
Martial Arts: Nungali has enhanced his boxing skills with this talent, which allows him to utilize either his Strength or Agility in unarmed melee combat - including the use of trump cards. Further, he may lower the difficulty of actions meant to dodge attacks or reduce falling damage by one level.
Military: Nungali was well trained by the military of Egypt, where he gained his basics in the other skills listed here. He has also received further training from the K.G.B. in Syria, where he worked for a time in his particular trade, and from the Medusa Web itself.
Survival: Nungali is good at keeping himself alive; he's been doing it under extremely adverse conditions for over twenty years. As such, he can easily scrounge up enough food and water to keep himself going just about forever, as long as it is feasible (say, on the earth).
Calling:
Idealist: Nungali clings to the mad ideal that Egypt, his homeland, will become dominant in world affairs once again - and that he will bring about that change in the global order. He is unwavering in this bizarre belief, and would gladly do anything - kill anyone - to significantly further this goal.
Costume:
Nungali wears a padded body suit capable of deflecting most standard gunfire. The top is brown, the pants are gray, the boots, gloves, and belt are black. Nungali also wears a rather distinctive helmet with a large visor and microphone on it, and has enough straps and such to contain all his gear.
Personality:
Nungali is very, very sociopathic. He's the type of guy that, when you run into him in a dark alley, you really hope he's after your friends instead of you, because he actually enjoys killing people. If it's a real challenge, of course. Mind you, he'll only be after you if there's money in it for him...
Real Name: Nungali Kashab
Occupation: mercenary, assassin
Legal Status: Egyptian citizen wanted by authorities in fourteen nations for various acts of terrorism and mayhem
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: lots of 'em. they're just unrevealed, as of yet.
Group Affiliation: the Medusa Web
Height: 6'
Hair: black
Eyes: brown
Weight: 178 lbs.
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: Nungali has a long scar on his face, that runs from his forehead to his jaw, across his left eye (but his eye is fine).
Story:
Nungali Kashab, the man known to his targets as Potiphar, is a very dangerous man, as it is his job to kill people... and he's extremely good at it. He's named for the Biblical executioner to the Pharaohs, a name that helps to strike fear into his quarry - those that know the reference, at any rate.
He's been a professional mercenary and assassin for all of his adult life, and for a large portion of his time before adulthood. He's an operative of the Medusa Web, but little of his story is known before the published accounts of his time with that group - which is probably a good thing.
He was first seen when he accompanied a large number of Medusa Web operatives in their mission to capture Psi-Force in San Diego, a job that he helped to succeed by viciously shooting down Kathy Ling, that group's telekinetic paranormal, with a full auto burst from his (currently) favorite gun.
She would've died if not for her healer companion, who managed to patch up the series of holes Potiphar put in her torso. He was next seen during an odd Medusa Web operation where he was to recover some stolen nerve gas from Iranian agents, and return them to the Iraqi forces that originally purchased them.
Potiphar recovered the gas all too easily, decimating the Iranians in the progress, but when the Iraqis arrived to collect the goods, he killed all of them after he was paid; he has a thing against Iraqis, it would seem - and this was even before all that Desert Storm mess took place.
His next op teamed him with Troublemaker and Skybreaker in the recovery of Jake Travest, the current Spitfire, in order to acquire a schematic of the Mark 3 M.A.X. armor. Easily defeating Travest's Canadian jailers, the three Web agents freed him and took him to the government warehouse holding the armor.
Believing the Web men to be American agents, he gave them the M.A.X. schematic so they could help him fix it, at which point they blew up the suit, the warehouse it was being kept in, and Travest - all in order to cover both their tracks and the knowledge that they now had M.A.X. technological capability.
Potiphar's next mission saw him teamed up with most all of the Medusa Web and the paranormal vigilante known as Justice, in order to free the paranormal group known as Psi-Force from the Siberian Project, deep in the heart of the U.S.S.R.
While there, he had killed Sillatochca ('Force Point', a psychokinetic member of the Soviet paranormal strike force known as Red Sun). After this was accomplished, Potiphar joined in with the rest of the Medusa Web, Psi-Force, Justice, and Red Sun in their effort to kill Rodstvow.
After all, it wanted to kill all of them, and just about everybody else on the planet.
After all this mayhem, Potiphar helped to train the paranormals in Psi-Force in military operations, as they'd just joined the Medusa Web, and he was more than good at such things, having been trained by the Web as well as the K.G.B. in that area of expertise. His further exploits have yet to be revealed...
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