Freefall

Brian J Smith as Chance Alexander

GENERAL Name: Chance Alexander Birthdate: 05/04/1935 Faction: Superhero Team Codename: Freefall Position: Position/Job Title/Rank Hometown: Hometown FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: {$height} Father: NA Weight: {$weight} Mother: NA Hair Color: {$haircolor} Siblings: NA Eye Color: {$eyecolor} Children: NA

Background

IC Events

Traits

Powers

• Gravity Control: Chance is a mutant who has control over gravity. Fundamentally, he can manipulate the strength and orientation of gravity fields. This is done by 'binding' an object (currently, any discrete, complete, coherent object: living or inanimate) either to another object or simply to a direction. Something thus bound is pulled by gravity towards what it is bound to. Bindings can be maintained as long as he keeps them in mind, or up to a day after if he wishes them to be lasting. To bind something he has to touch it and what he is binding it to— unless that 'to' is a direction. The strength of a binding can be fractional (ie, less then 1G) or multiplicitive up to 10G. If a bond is at least 1G, then it *replaces* the pull that the earth pulls on an object. Fractional bindings cause things to effectively become lighter: if an object has 0.9 gravity binding lifting up, then the object is one tenth the weight being pulled down. At any one time he can have any number of bindings active, but only to a total limit of 20G.
• Some common uses of this are:
• Up Is Down: By binding a thing to a direction, that thing will fall towards that direction. A common application is for him to bind himself towards the wall, and with a bit of dexterity, he can be running on the wall. If he releases that binding at the same time he binds himself towards the ceiling, another bit of dexterity will have him running on the ceiling. He is very adept at these manipulations and this can lead him to seemingly amazing feats of dexterity and acrobatics, when in fact much of it is him doing subtle shifts of his own personal gravitational binding.
• Stay Put: By putting a very strong bond on an object that can withstand force, such as a solid object, he can functionally attach two things so that it would take incredible strength to move it.
• Crush: Most people can handle up to 5G with discomfort, but after 6 or so for prolonged effects there's danger of bodily harm, while at 9 most standard people will begin to lose consciousness and suffer broken bones depending on directionality and situational details. Regular humans can't survive over 5G for very long, and 10G is likely immediately fatal. That said, the world is full of people who are not regular and who have strength and endurance to survive these conditions. For those people, bindings have the obvious effects of making them fall up — but once they hit a ceiling, they're just standing on the ceiling. The strength of the binding effectively becomes a limit of the strength of the person for the strong and durable. At 2G, they're half as strong. At 3G, they're a third as strong, and so on.
• Pew, Pew: By holding a projectile and binding it at 10G's towards a person, he can hurl things at over 220 mph. This is slower then bullets by about a tenth, but enough to do real damage to mundanes, and make those that are durable have some trouble (if only as inconvienence)… though if he binds a car towards someone, that trouble can be a lot more problematic then a bullet they can shrug off.
• Flight: By binding himself up in areas without ceilings, he falls up into the air: he can bind himself up and forward to move at an angle, continually altering exactly where he's bound to to fly with a rough sort of dexterity. Its a bit jerking and angular, but he can maneuver effectively. He can hover by binding himself simultaneously up and down to equal measure. A 10G binding would let him fly about 220mph, but his power currently offers no extra durability so that would pretty much kill him. He can safely fly at 5G, or about 110mph.
• Super Strength: Its not, in any way, super strength. However, in effect— if something is bound up 0.9G, its a tenth as heavy.
• Slow Down, Speed Up: If someone is bound down 2G, they will be relatively sluggish. This is bad for most people— even super people would find themselves notable weaker. If someone is bound up 0.5G, they will be light. If someone is trained in this, that can give them major advantages and a seemingly impossible level of dexterity and acrobatics (which he uses almost instinctively).

Skills

• Investigation: Chance's father was a Detective for NYPD, and he learned at his father's knee the ins and outs of investigations. However, since his father was killed and the perpetrator got off on a technicality, he never had any interest in joining the police department. Instead, he's a vigilante by night and a private investigator by day. He loathes the 'is my husband cheating on me' assignments but they pay the bills.
• Acrobatics: Chance has incredible skill with acrobatics: it began with training as a youth in gymnastics (especially floor), through his high school years for floor gymnastics. He was good enough that he got multiple offers for scholarships to some top tier schools. Since then, with his nightly activities, his skill has expanded and not lessened as he got older. He leaps and jumps and spins and always finds his footing in feats of superhuman gymnastics as a mix between this training and his practice in using his power.
• Combat: He is a skilled combatant, focused on dexterity and speed over strength. He's particularly adept at crazy maneuvers involving gravity and spinning through the air.
• Education: He has a bachelors degree in Criminology from UC Berkeley, one of the first schools to offer such courses.
• Foodie: He's an amateur, self-taught (well, Julia Child's TV show has helped refine it a lot over the last year) chef who likes to think he can put out restaurant quality food. Its not really as good at that but its more then satisfactory to most people.
• Poker Face: He's exceptionally good at hiding his true motivations and thoughts: he presents himelf exactly who he intends people to see. That doesn't mean he's dishonest, but it does mean he can be very effectively. This is useful only against mundane empathy, though.

Advantages

• License: He's a licensed Private Investigator.
• Business: Will Chance Investigations is a successful, if small, company. Chance has partner (Will Johnston) and a secretary (Donna Moore) that he can rely on, and there's enough money coming in to keep him in a comfortable, if not lavish, lifestyle. He has a nice, fairly new car, a decent apartment, and all the requisite PI gear one would expect.
• Freefall Uniform: It's all black, made up of ballistic nylon, with black fabric over it. Its not bulletproof (kevlar isn't a thing for another decade), but its bullet *resistant*, so would lessen a bullet or blade wound. It covers his chest and upper legs. There's a hood and black mask that covers his face also made out of ballistic nylon.
• Spear: A specially commissioned spear made by a mutant with a knack for machines, this spear is his primary weapon. It is six feet tall and has a two foot steel straight blade on the end. On the other end is a thick band of metal. The blade is retractable and the spear may be split in two to provide what amounts to a short sword and a baton, or a pair of batons. The mechanism for how to retract and extend the blade and split the spear requires the use of a small bit of gravity binding to trigger the mechanisms.

Flaws

• Secret Identity: Freefall is a vigilante who is not really afraid to take justice into his own hands. If it got out that he was Chance Alexander, PI, things would be bad.
• Shellfish Allergy: Serious enough he could die.
• Alcoholic: He's a functional alcoholic, but an alcoholic nonetheless. He doesn't often get completely wasted and lose control (though he does, sometimes) but if he's deprived of a drink for more then a day he gets jittery.
• Claustrophobia: He can handle an elevator, just. Until it breaks down. Anything more confining and he has panic attacks.

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Logs

▼ Show logs

1965-04-26 - Riot in Mutant Town (log: chance noh-varr plot robbie thea)

1965-04-15 - Fixing and Entering (log: chance elmo jp social)

1964-11-21 - Goons are Bad (log: chance jp plot severin sunspot x-ternals)

1964-11-14 - The Taking of Jay (log: chance jay lextalionis ninette plot the-taken)

1964-11-13 - In Good Social Graces (log: chance inhumans maximus sine social)

1964-11-09 - Interrogating a Jar (log: chance constantine lamont lextalionis plot the-taken)

1964-10-30 - The Haunting of Cassidy (log: cassidy chance constantine lamont plot the-taken)

1964-10-21 - When Masks Attack (log: cassidy chance lextalionis plot the-taken)

1964-10-17 - The Rising (log: chance constantine lextalionis plot the-taken)

1964-10-16 - Thugs in Mutant Town (log: chance clarice-ferguson lorna plot)

1964-10-16 - A Chance Meeting (log: bobby chance remy-lebeau social)

1964-10-14 - Investigating Doctor Moreau (log: chance hope plot remy-lebeau)

1964-10-13 - Goons and Blanks (log: chance danny keith plot)

1964-09-25 - Clowns are Creepy says the Vampire (log: cassidy chance social)

1964-09-17 - Foiling a Bank Robbery (log: chance lextalionis plot robbie)

1964-08-29 - Walking Sideways (log: chance danny social)

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