the Dirty Hippie

Powers:

Lightning Speed (a): Gilbert's sole power, save for his super-human agility, is his ability to move incredibly fast. He possesses this power at intensity 4, which lets him run at speeds of 60 miles per hour, and allows him to divide his pre-cardplay action score into as many attacks as he likes.

Of course, all but one of these occur as contingent actions.

Equipment:

Baseball Bats (s): Gilbert goes through a lot of baseball bats, as often as he can hit people with them. He typically carries at least one aluminum baseball bat with him while adventuring, which allows him to inflict his Strength +2 damage with every painful swing in melee combat.

Hindrances:

(none)

Skills:

Acrobatics (a): thanks to the accident that enhanced his physical frame, Gilbert was left with this skill as a natural ability. Thanks to this odd quirk, he can reduce the difficulty of actions meant to reduce falling damage or to dodge attacks by one difficulty level.

Biology (i): Gilbert is an accredited biologist, who gained his masters degree in this area years before he became a radical environmentalist due to Pastordyne's chicanery. He can attempt biology-related Intellect actions at a reduced difficulty, whether identifying life forms or working to cure them from poison.

Clubs (s): though he prefers baseball bats, Gilbert has learned over time how to wield just about any blunt instrument effectively in battle. When he does so, he may do so at one difficulty level lower than is usually necessary, but loses the higher accuracy he has with unarmed attacks.

Martial Arts (a): complementing his super human Agility, this skill allows Gilbert several benefits in battle. He can use either his Strength or Agility to resolve unarmed melee attacks, and can lower the difficulty of actions meant to reduce falling damage or catch thrown weapons.

Calling:

Idealist: Gilbert was originally motivated by the urge to avenge himself upon Pastordyne, but the mutagenic chemicals that gave him his powers didn't really do all that bad by him. Of course, they did reinforce his beliefs about the environment tenfold, and made them exponentially more potent...

Costume:

Gilbert doesn't wear much of a costume when operating as the Dirty Hippie; in fact, his super-costume is the same as his normal apparel. Gilbert wears a blue pair of faded bell-bottom denim jeans, a pair of thick brown leather sandals, a large bag to hold spare baseball bats, and a pair of round-rimmed sunglasses.

Personality:

Gilbert is a highly motivated, extremist environmentalist - he was so years before it became 'popular'. He strongly believes that advanced industry is destroying the world's ecosystem, and will do anything he feels is necessary to protect innocent plants and animals from the depravity of humanity.

Real Name: Gilbert Giles
Occupation: radical eco-terrorist, former biologist
Legal Status: citizen of the United States with a considerable criminal record (whether or not you take his secondary, B.A.H. criminal record into account)
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none
Group Affiliation: the new Boogie Brigade

Height: 6' 5"
Hair: brown
Eyes: green
Weight: 180 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: Gilbert is exceedingly skinny for a man his height, and has an unbelievably 'wiry' look about him. He wears his rather straight hair very long, usually at least two feet in length, and it will normally be that way unless some foe has removed it somehow...

Story:

Gilbert was formerly a well-respected biologist who held generally moderate views on environmental contamination; he was against pollution and all that, but felt that simply educating people was the way to make things better. This all changed after he was attacked by Pastordyne thugs, however.

Though he wasn't causing trouble, Gilbert was picketing the corporation along with a few pals after it became public knowledge that they were dumping toxic goo into the Missouri River. Wishing the bad press to go away, Pastordyne's upper management had their elite thugs make the protesters outside 'disappear'.

They did this by shoving all five of them into barrels of the same toxic goo Pastordyne was illegally dumping, and then dropped them into the Missouri River as well. While his friends died, Gilbert instead changed into something else... something unnatural. He looked human, but was different indeed.

Making his way to shore after busting out of the drum that was to be his coffin, Gilbert noted that he was now exceedingly nimble, not to mention incredibly fast. But, most of all, the man was insanely angry that a company would stoop to such depths to get rid of what was in truth a minor P.R. issue.

Racing back to the Pastordyne building in Omaha, Nebraska, Gilbert trashed the place up real good, and even dealt with the thugs that dropped him in the drink as they returned from the foul deed. Dealt with them permanently, in fact, for he felt that it was his right to avenge his 'death'.

Naturally, the police frowned on this crime, so Gilbert went underground, leaving his former life behind. He committed one act of ecological terrorism after another, working his way across the country and smashing up one polluting company after another. At least, he did until the B.A.H. showed up.

After receiving police reports about Gilbert and his stunning nimbleness, Captain Cocksure sent some of his fellows to collect the man, who was known in media circles as the Dirty Hippie thanks to his knack for not bathing. Though he's quite a handful in battle, the B.A.H. collected Gilbert easily enough.

And that should've been the end of his reign of terror. This didn't come to pass, however, for when Disco Head sought to create a new Boogie Brigade to combat Gerald R. Ford, he broke back into the B.A.H. detention facility after escaping, and liberated a bunch of super-powered freaks to do his bidding.

Thankful for his liberation, Gilbert was happy to aid Disco Head in this one task, the elimination of Ford, before resuming his own agenda. To this end he did indeed join the new Boogie Brigade, though the group was quickly taken apart by Captain Cocksure, leader of the B.A.H., and several vigilantes.

Gilbert himself was narrowly defeated by Cocksure, who decided to handle the potent physical combatant personally. So, as he and his friends pursued the leader of the Boogie Brigade, Cocksure had his minions collect Gilbert and the rest of the Boogie Brigade, and put them all back on ice.

So, unless he eventually makes parole, Gilbert will likely be trapped in cryogenic incarceration for the foreseeable future...

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