The details of Junkpile’s origin are a mystery to the people of Emerald City. One AEGIS and other interested parties, would like to solve. What is known by those with the proper resources is that the entity’s “birth” appears to be recent and that sophisticated sensor scans show residual energy traces similar to those released during the Silver Storm event. Since Junkpile’s first appearance, it has been an unpredictable and destructive; like a force of nature. It has been duped into aiding more than one criminal, as well as allying itself with Pack-Rat and the Rats in the Wall on multiple occasions.

Junkpile exists only through elaborate chance. Emerald City has been host to a number of salvaged alien tech-nologies, and some components lost during a covert battle made their way to a pile of unclaimed refuse in a large junkyard on the outskirts of town. One evening a lightning storm sent several errant bolts into the junkyard and the resulting power surge and the unidentified tech created a sentient energy field that gradually learned to animate the surrounding mass as a physical body. As even Junkpile retains no memory or any clue as to the origi-nal location of this freak happenstance, it is unlikely these facts will ever come to light. It’s unclear as to whether or not there’s any sort of connection between Junkpile and beings like Dr. Metropolis.

PERSONALITY

Junkpile is new to the world of the living and the animate, a fact immedi-

ately apparent when interact-ing with it. The entity is child-like, naïve, and more than a little slow on the uptake. It is easily manipulated but quick to anger when it figures out it has been used. Most of all,

Junkpile is constant-ly searching for the same things any

child seeks, friend-ship, acceptance, and a home. None of these

are easy when the seeker is a monstrously large pile

of animate detritus.

JUNKPILEREAL NAME: Not applicable OCCUPATION: Elemental force and occasional pawnBASE: Emerald City

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JUNKPILE PL12STR STA AGL DEX FGT INT AWE PRE

16* --- 2 -2 8 -3 0 -3

POWERS

Elemental Force: Immunity 40 (Fortitude Effects, Mental Effects), Immortality 3, Regeneration 5 • 51 pointsJunkyard Transit: Teleport 12 (16 miles), Medium—junk piles (must be at least a couple of tons of material to work with) and junk yards, Quirk (leaves old mass behind) • 11 pointsMassive: Feature 1 (Increased Mass; 3 tons), Growth 4 (Innate, Permanent), Impervious Protection 10 • 30 pointsNot Really Solid: Elongation 1 (15 feet), Insubstantial 1 (Quirk—Can’t cushion falls), Move 1 (Permeate 1, Limited to junk) • 6 points

SKILLS

Athletics 2 (+18), Intimidation 13 (+12*), Perception 2 (+2), Ranged Combat (Throw) 8 (+6), Stealth 0 (–3)*

ADVANTAGES

Fast Grab, Fearless, Improved Grab, Power Attack, Ultimate Effort (Toughness checks)

OFFENSE

INITIATIVE +2

Throw +6 Ranged, Damage varies

Unarmed +8 Close, Damage 16

DEFENSE

DODGE 6* FORTITUDE Immune

PARRY 8* TOUGHNESS 15*

WILL Immune *Includes Growth modifiers.

POWER POINTS

ABILITIES 16 SKILLS 13

POWERS 98 DEFENSES 8

ADVANTAGES 5 TOTAL 150

COMPLICATIONS

Motivation — Misguided: Junkpile wants acceptance from the world, but has no real understanding of how to achieve it. This results in frustrated violence and mistaken hostility. Prejudice — Monstrous Form: Junkpile is very frightening to most people.Quirk — Inhuman: Junkpile has no real understanding of human behavior, motivation, or interaction beyond instilling fear (which is mostly inadvertent).Quirk — Slow: The entity animating the physical mass is naïve and not terribly bright.Temper: Junkpile loses its temper very easily and is prone to epic tantrums. Sometimes for no reason whatsoever.

POWERS & ABILITIES

An animating force giving “life” of sorts to large collections of junk, Junkpile isn’t really alive in the way most people un-derstand the term. Its animating force enhances the durabil-ity of whatever it uses as a body, so it is terrifyingly strong and quite difficult to actually damage. Junkpile “heals” itself constantly as it moves, reallocating existing body mass, so the minor losses of body mass to incoming attacks is rapidly dealt with in the same way, and destroying it’s physical mass only disincorporates the creature temporarily… unless the animating will is somehow neutralized directly, it may not be possible to “kill” it in any meaningful way. Its surface form shifts to some extent at will, allowing it to expand and in-crease its reach and it can move from one suitable collection of usable mass to another almost instantly.

ALLIES

Junkpile doesn’t have many friends, though a few criminal types have faked a relationship to get what they wanted out of it. The closest it has come to a true friend is Pack-Rat and the mutated rodent’s gang. Pack-Rat isn’t the judgmen-tal kind and he accepts Junkpile for what it is…a lifeform in need of acceptance. For this reason, Junkpile is always eager to help Pack-Rat, though the alliances are generally brief given Pack-Rat’s need for stealth and a good hiding place, both of which are alien concepts to Junkpile.

ENEMIES

Junkpile doesn’t have enemies per se. It doesn’t really have the memory or temperament to hold grudges, though anyone who has tricked it or otherwise taken ad-vantage of it will temporarily hold that status during the tantrum once Junkpile figures out the situation.

It really doesn’t understand why these uniformed people with guns keep attacking it, so it holds more confusion toward the authorities than it does animosity, though it’s beginning to recognize them as a threat, which will no doubt lead to greater violence against them.

HOOKS

Will You Be My Friend?: Junkpile takes a liking to one of the heroes after being on the receiving end of an act of kindness. It begins following the character around like a happy—albeit incredibly destructive—puppy. The “lucky” hero must figure out how to handle the new re-sponsibility.

All Your Junkpiles Are Belong to Us!: Some very bad people figure out a way to control Junkpile and soon, these unpleasant souls find they can use it not only to create smaller, weaker versions of Junkpile... but in great numbers. The heroes must stop this new threat before its artificial army crushes the city beneath their feet.

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