Bullet Witch

"Taste fear as your soul burns away!"

BULLET WITCH
Affiliations: SOLO D10, BUDDY D8, TEAM D6
Distinctions:
BEAUTIFUL WITCH
DARKNESS WITHIN
HAUNTED PAST
Power Sets:
BULLET WITCH
ENHANCED DURABILITY D8, ENHANCED REFLEXES D8, ENHANCED STAMINA D8, ENHANCED STRENGTH D8
SFX: Focus. If a pool includes a BULLET WITCH power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one die +1 step larger.
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma or complications from poisons, disease, fatigue or environmental conditions.
SFX: Second Chance. Spend 1 PP to reroll when using any BULLET WITCH power.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any BULLET WITCH power to gain 1 PP. Recover power during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.

ELEMENTAL MAGIC
BLAST D10, SORCERY ADEPT D8, SUPERHUMAN DURABILITY D10, TELEKINETIC MASTERY D10, WEATHER SUPREMACY D12
SFX: Afflict. Add a D6 and step up your effect die by +1 when inflicting a confused or immobilized complication on a target with SORCERY ADEPT.
SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: Constructs. Add a D6 and step up your effect die by +1 when using ELEMENTAL MAGIC to create assets.
SFX: Sacrifice. Add TELEKINETIC MASTERY to your dice pool when helping others recover stress. Spend 1 PP to recover another's physical stress and step up your own physical stress by +1, or to step back another's physical trauma by -1 and step up your own physical stress by +1.
Limit: Collateral Damage. When using the Great Spells (BLAST or WEATHER SUPREMACY), you must use the Area Attack SFX, targeting everyone in the affected area, friend or foe.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any ELEMENTAL MAGIC power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.
Limit: Growing Dread. Both 1 and 2 on your dice count as opportunities, but only 1s are prevented from being used for totals or effect dice.
Limit: Mutually Exclusive. Shutdown GUN ROD to activate ELEMENTAL MAGIC. Shutdown ELEMENTAL MAGIC to recover GUN ROD.

GUN ROD
WEAPON D8
SFX: Cannon. Step up or double your WEAPON die when attacking a machine. Spend 1 PP to do both.
SFX: Elemental Properties. Spend 1 PP to choose an element: fire, ice, lightning or thunder. Step up physical stress inflicted by +1 against targets weak to that element. The chosen elemental property lasts until the next Transition Scene or you spend another PP to change elements.
SFX: Gatling Gun. Shutdown ENHANCED REFLEXES to step up WEAPON by +1. Recover ENHANCED REFLEXES during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.
SFX: Shotgun. Step up or double your WEAPON die against a single target. Remove the highest rolling die and add 3 dice for your total.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown GUN ROD and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. Doom Pool to recover.

Specialties:
ACROBATIC EXPERT D8, COMBAT EXPERT D8, MYSTIC EXPERT D8
Milestones:
SLAY THE GREAT DEMONS
Your burden and your power both compel you to fight back against the demons, and perhaps spare humanity an apocalyptic extinction.
1 XP when you join a new ally in the fight against the demons.
3 XP when you defeat a powerful demon, or help a group of survivors reach safety.
10 XP when you slay one of the greater demons, or when your powers destroy the city you were trying to save.

The second Milestone can be tailored to a specific story.

ID: Alicia Claus (Secret)
History:
In 2006, young Alicia died in a tragic plane crash. She and her father were close and had been since he raised her after her mother's death when she was young. Alicia was a cheerful girl and the light of her father's life. When she died, he snapped and became consumed with something... unholy. An archaeologist, Alicia's father had discovered some things that would lead him to attempt a ritual to bring his beloved daughter back to life. He traveled to a distant land to perform the ritual, which involved sacrificing his own life (yet remaining in a Purgatory, unable to die and unable to live, trapped, impaled on the horns of the demonic gateway forever) to bring Alicia back. Alicia remembered none of this after her resurrection.

Unfortunately, opening that demonic gateway allowed the demon world to flood into ours. One year after Alicia's death, Earth became a battleground as demons large and small, of all shapes and terrible powers, invaded the mortal world intent on destroying and subjugating mankind. In less than a year, our population was reduced to less than a billion and hope quickly faded. A long, bloody war would lead to extinction or total subjugation.

Enter Alicia. Rumors spread of a mysterious woman, beautiful, clad in black, wielding demonic powers of her own yet fighting against the demons. This "witch" was Alicia, gifted with incredible magic powers and an artifact, the broom-like Gun Rod, which could take many configurations and even be enchanted with elemental energies. Alicia traveled across the war-torn landscape, saving people and destroying demons wherever possible.

Ultimately, her quest led her to the truth, to the demonic gateway and her father trapped in unholy stasis. After coming to grips with what her own resurrection had meant, and asking him why he couldn't have left her dead, Alicia killed her father, freeing him and closing the demonic gateway. That stopped the incoming flood of demons, but there were still many to deal with. Alicia then went on to face Omega, a gigantic red, horned demon with terrible powers, one that had haunted her for a long time and corrupted a great city by its very presence.

After a pitched battle, Alicia brought Omega down with the help of human soldiers. She freed that city to see the sunrise once more, but elected to continue her fight across the world.
Personality:
Alicia is a young woman torn by strong emotions. She wants to help the world and fight the demons, and feels burdened to do so by the demonic power she wields. She also feels guilt and sadness over the fact that it was her own death that led to her father breaking the seal and ruining the world. Yet at the same time, Alicia is hopeful and vigilant, approaching the battle and her life with the undeniable optimism of a young woman. When provoked, she can be quiet fierce and prone to frightening displays of anger.
Abilities and Resources:
Alicia has tremendous power, even if she's a bit frail. Her return also gave her an ally in the Darkness, some kind of demonic presence that resides within her mind and grants her power and information. Though the Darkness seems to think little of humans, it nevertheless helps Alicia in her fight. Why this is has yet to be discovered; it could have its own agenda or it could simply be sick of the twisted demon world.

Over the course of her adventure, Alicia gains many new spells and abilities for the Gun Rod.

Witchcraft:
Meteor is Alicia's most powerful spell, and the most dangerous. Once cast, it can level entire city blocks, bringing down buildings and demons alike—or allies who are caught in the path of destruction. Alicia must be careful when unleashing her full power because the collateral damage is tremendous.
Tornado does what it says on the tin: it summons a tornado that tears a swathe of mayhem through anything in its path, sucking up enemy soldiers, vehicles, small buildings and scattering them as dust on the wind.
Lightning summons a hail of destructive lightning bolts, culminating in one massive strike that destroys almost anything.
Rose Spear is a smaller area attack, wherein Alicia throws a rose at a group of enemies, and spikes erupt beneath them, impaling them for damage and immobilizing them briefly even if they survive.
With Raven's Panic, Alicia summons a large flock of ravens to harry and confuse her foes, potentially leaving them defenseless for further attack.
Willpower is a telekinetic blast that, at its most powerful, can throw even heavy object like semi trucks, city buses and tanks like children's toys, crushing those demons unfortunate enough to get in the way.
Sacrifice lets Alicia heal humans at the cost of her own health.
Ancient Wall summons up a rune-covered stone wall to shield Alicia from enemy fire.

The Gun Rod can be enchanted to deal elemental damage depending on which form it takes:
Machine Gun is the standard form, a fast and supernaturally-powerful hail of bullets. It can cut down enemies quickly and works well at all ranges. It can be enchanted to use the fire descriptor.
Shotgun is, naturally, a more powerful form for close-quarters battle. It has little range but great stopping power. Its enchantment is the wind descriptor.
The Cannon form is an anti-tank (and sometimes anti-helicopter) weapon, useful against machines of all kinds. It is less powerful when dealing with (un)living demons, however. When enchanted, the Cannon uses lightning.
Finally, the Gun Rod's Gatling Gun form is pure power. It's fast, it's very strong, but it slows Alicia down to wield it. The Gatling enchantment is thunder.