Birth Name: ‘Randi’ Patterson

Nova Name: Megarea the Jealous / Lethe / Amnesia / Shutdown
Series:

Eruption: Laboratory accident?

Nature: Explorer

Allegiance: the Furies (subset of Greek Avatars)

Strength: 2

Dexterity: 3, Athletics 1, Drive 1, Firearms 1, Martial Arts 1, Stealth 1

Stamina: 4, Endurance 3, Resistance 3

Perception: 2, Awareness 1, Investigation 2

Intelligence: 5, Academics 2, Bureaucracy 1, Computer 1, Linguistics 1 (Greek,

English), Medicine 2, Science 4

Wits: 3, Biz 1, Rapport 1

Appearance: 3, Style 1

Manipulation: 3, Subterfuge 2

Charisma: 2, Etiquette 1

Backgrounds: Resources 3, Attunement 1, Eufiber 1, Influence 2

Willpower: 5

Taint: 1

Aberrations: Forgetfulness

Quantum: 3 (1 Tainted Quantum)

Quantum Pool: 26

Mega-Attributes: None

Quantum Powers: Armor 5 (Only applies vs Quantum powers!), Disrupt 2 (Extra:

Can affect Mega-Attributes as well), Psychic Shield 1, Quantum Leech 1

Born to a British oceanographer and a Greek research assistant on a 12 month

study of the Aegean marine ecosystem, Randi was always deeply uninterested

in her parents work and the ocean in general, being somewhat jealous of how much

they loved the sea and how much time they spent focussed on marine matters.

She grew up to go to college in Britain, studying vertebrate biology and getting

into the newly developed ‘field’ of Quantum research with the pioneer researcher

in that field, a Dr Shelton Wilberforce (since gone missing). The good Dr had a

penchant for picking interns almost randomly and tended to keep to an admirable

practice of not publishing his findings until he was quite sure that his case was

unassailable. Randi, who was somewhat mixed up with some radical feminists

in her college years, applied first for the position as a man, thinking that she could

get the role better if she pretended to be ‘one of the boys.’ Dr Wilberforce went

ahead and interviewed ‘Randy Paterson’ the same as any other student, since

gender was not part of selection criteria and chose her regardless of whether he

believed her make-up job. Working for the Dr, Randi learned many things about

how the MR Node worked, or didn’t work, In some cases, as the Dr was more

concerned with people who had a Node, But remained unable to express Quantum

powers.

It was in research on a recently erupted volunteer, a fellow research assistant

actually, that Randi also erupted, gaining a resistance to the out of control matter-

dissolving blasts of greenish-gold fire from the test subject and the ability to shut

down her powers and render them inaccessible for a short time.

She and ‘Darkfire’ (named after her second flame blast, one of dark purple fire

that could heal or repair people or items) became friends and ‘adventured’ together

briefly with a third female Nova called Hysteria (who had a Psychic Strobe effect,

Empathic Powers and Mega-Strength and Stamina). They broke apart after many

conflicts between the somewhat manic depressive Hysteria, no-nonsense and

tactless Darkfire and her own whimsical name and persona-changing selfless

personalities. In that time alone she used the names Shutdown and Amnesia,

even masquerading as a male with the Shutdown name, but it wasn’t until she

returned to her native Greece that she adopted the name Lethe and a more thematic

attire. She lasted less than three months in this guise before meeting the young

Portuguese heroine known as Tag and the two of them hit it off, forming the idea

seemingly simultaneously of forming a new team. They weren’t the only ones,

as Randi was approached by members of the Greek government telling her that

they were forming a new national Nova team and that they were thinking of

a full group of such ‘Avatars’ working to defend the nation from threats both

Quantum-empowered and mundane, foreign and domestic. She accepted under

one condition (after talking it over with Tag), that she and Tag were part of a

sub-set of the team, to be called the Furies, after the legendary Furies of Greek

myth. The authorities accepted this and even introduced her to the other female

member of the Avatars, the girl know only as Talon. So the Furies was born…