The Unsquad

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With Halloween around the corner, I wanted to do something a little odd but was out of inspiration on the whole monster thing. So here's a team of PCs I might use for some con thing or another and which try to get a bit of that Grant Morrison Doom Patrol flavour.

The Unsquad

Meet the Unsquad.
The leader of the Unsquad, Director Wye, has brought together individuals with the promise of giving them control over their new selves and improvement. Each member joined for separate reasons:

• Headache thinks he needs more control over his powers.
• Gallowglass thinks she needs access to Headache and some way to control the Faery curse so that she can die on her own terms.
• Rorrim wants to be freed of the malign spirit that makes her a succubus killer.
• Rabbit Howl wants controlled contact with humanity.

Of course, none of them know much about Director Wye, who is in fact a union of spirits. Director Wye's ultimaet purpose can be good or sinister, as you wish.

Headache

Headache (Karl Young)
PRW	CRD	STR	INT	AWR	WIL	DP	Stamina
3	4	3	6	4	6	1	9
Specialties		Psychiatry (+1) Stealth (+1)
Powers		Great (6) Reach out and touch... (Mental Blast) Extra: Telekinesis Extra: Telepathy Limit: Preparation Good (5) Hinky-sense (Detect Psionic powers) Limit: Preparation Extra: Detect Metaphysical weirdness
Qualities		It's science, baby. Feels like he couldn't hack the big leagues Needs family and support

Notes

• A distruster of magic and cosmic weirdness.
• A special distruster of people who claim they are relatives way back.
• Protective of Emily, and oddly possessive of Rabbit Howl: when drunk, he considers the cryptid his ticket back to the big names of superhero-dom.

Gallowglass

Gallowglass (not Headache) might be the token "normal" or average person. Just an immortal mercenary who has been cross-dressing as a man for so long she/he doesn't really remember what sex is preferred.

Gallowglass (Aubrey Young)
PRW	CRD	STR	INT	AWR	WIL	DP	Stamina
5	5	4	4	4	5	2	9
Specialties		Military Master (+3) Stealth (+1) Leadership (+1) Weapons (Blades) (+1) Weapons (Guns) (+1)
Powers		Supreme (5) Immortality Weak (1) Life Support (unaging) Fair (4) Magic Sword (Slashing) Fair (4) Gadgets
Qualities		Immortal mercenary, cursed by Faery Always has something handy Has seen most everything: "This is just like the time..."

Notes

• Though the Gadgets covers some improvisation and tinkering, it is mostly about whatever equipment Gallowglass brings along.
• The choice of last names is not accidental: Her brother was Headache's great-to-the-fifteenth grandfather.
• Has a secret that must be imparted to Headache, once he believes.
• The sword always returns, even if it has been taken or destroyed, though the right magical restraints can keep it away. It never needs sharpening. Its magic nature might allow it to penetrate some magical defenses, but that hasn't been tested.
• A mercenary in Joan of Arc's army, Aubrey pleased the Queen of the Faeries and received the sword as a gift. But then she angered the King of the Faeries, and received a curse that included everlasting life.

Rirrom

Rirrom (Emily Lime)
PRW	CRD	STR	INT	AWR	WIL	DP	Stamina
6	4	3	5	3	5	2	8
Specialties		Athletics (+1)
Powers		Supreme (10) Power Mimicry Extra: Theft Limit: Unstable; theft starts after failed roll, 1 level per page Extra: Side Effect: Energy Drain on theft; Extra: Life Drain; Limit: Uncontrollable
Qualities		Looks like a bad copy of the person whose powers she has stolen. Deathly afraid of touch, but needs to touch. A tween who looks like an adult

Notes

• Summer vacation. Her parents, true nerds, were helping on an archaeological expedition. A seal was opened; a thing was freed. Poor Emily was standing in the wrong place: She was standing in the spirit trap. Now she and the spirit are fused, and her parents have sent her to live with Director Wye.
• Was on the track team and the basketball team before the entity came.
• Regards Rabbit Howl as her pet.
  

Rabbit Howl

Rabbit Howl (Unpronounceable)
PRW	CRD	STR	INT	AWR	WIL	DP	Stamina
5	4	8	3	4	3	1	11
Specialties		Linguist (+1) Occult (+1) Stealth (+1)
Powers		Fair (4) Invisiblity Limit: While standing still Fair (4) Extra Body Parts (claws: Slashing) Extra: Carapace (Damage Resistance) Good (5) Mind Control (the Rabbit Howl) Extra: Broadcast Limits: Only confusion/amnesia (pays off extra), preparation (+2 to level), performance (+2 to level) Weak (1) Super-Senses (see in dark) Weak (1) Super-Speed
Qualities		Looks like a monster Cryptid: Shy and secretive Loves novelty

Notes

• Rabbit Howl is a cryptid, from a secret society of cryptids. His appearance in the Unsquad is the result of his own isolation and the clan pushing him out to test living openly among humans. (If this experiment doesn't work, there are no cryptids, there never were, Rabbit Howl was a mutant, no need to look for them, bye.)