Spook [revised]

[Spook]

Character Profile (Revised 10/23/07)

Name: Spook

Age: Can only be described as "ancient," in the terms of the universe.

Gender: Spook himself has no gender, but the form he assumes looks to be male.

Species: Spook is unsure of the name of his species. In his ancestors memories, they never refer to themselves by name. Regardless, he is a ghost-like lifeform, originating from space.

Physical Description: Spook, being only a faint ghost of a being, has no permanent shape. However, he has taken a liking to one in particular. Short and slim, the shape of a small undernourished human child. No one is sure why he chose this rather disturbing form. (Just don't underestimate him because of his looks.) Being always in shadow, a total lack of light, Spook's features are indecernable except for his eyes, which glow white. Since physical objects are only a burden when it comes to traveling around, Spook prefers to carry as little as possible with him, relying more on his abilities than physical weapons. (Although occasionally he uses them.)

Physical Abilities:
• Camoflauge: Can change color and transparency to blend in with surroundings.
• Light Deficit: While taxing on his body, Spook can absorb all the light in an area, to make it pitch black for a short period of time, rendering his enemies without conventional sight. He can also release this stored energy in a violent, blinding fashion.
• Form Change: Aeons ago, Spook's ghostly ancestors recorded in their collective memories a variety of horrible, shadowy monstrous lifeforms while passing through alien worlds as they drifted through space. Calling on the memories of his ancestors, Spook can change his form into any of these creatures, inheriting their abilities. (While powerful, this can be quite dangerous. Spook must maintain a focused mind, else he lose control of his body to the desires of the beast.)
• Floating: Of course, being a ghostly life form, Spook can float about in the air, and pass through some barriers, assuming he is not carrying any objects that could not do the same.

Weaponry:
• Photon Pistol: A small, lightweight pistol, of alien origin. When fired, sends a beam of excited photon particles at its target, either cutting through, or inflicting damage on it. Spook has used this weapon for quite some time, and has invented many creative ways to use it, some other than it was intended for.
• Ligu•- Bazlid': The only physical remnant Spook has from his ancient ancestors, this small blade weapon has many intricate curves, as well as the phrase "isa wu•t arkãn'" inscribed. It is made of an incredibly hard, but lightweight material, and has no handle, since it was designed exclusively for ghost-beings to use, as it cannot cut them.

Equipment:
• Spatial Distortion Generator: Who knows where Spook picked this device up along his way through space. It is a small, polished metal sphere, with three small indentations in the top which form a triangle. When activated, it distorts space and time around it, much in the fashion of a miniature black hole. Anything nearby is pulled towards it, and sucked in, including light. The effects only last for a short time, and when the device deactivates, everything is released in a violent, exploding fashion, although through some miracle of engineering, the device is never damaged.

Home: Spook, being an EC member, makes residence in the Corrupted Cave.

Origin & History: Spook's past has been mostly forgotten, eroded away by the vastness of time and space. The only thing Spook knows of his ancient ancestors is what he can gather from their collective memories, all of which are in the Arko'nima, the language of Spook's ancestors, which he has almost completety forgotten how to translate. Spook's first memories are bleak. Floating through the depths of space. He can vaguely remember a sense of tradgedy, cast away from his home in it's last violent throes of life. While on his journeys through space, Spook happened across the Dojo, and decided to stay, longing for somewhere he could finally belong.

Alignment:
Evil and mischevious, of course.

Personality: Spook is quiet, was always quiet. A loner by nature. Floating in space for eons tends to rob one of any meaningful social skills. He loves using his ghostly abilities to eavesdrop on people, and has a tendency to get into trouble this way.

Known Weaknesses:
• Light: Spook's people were greatly accustomed to space, and it's darkness. Spook is weakened by bright light, and will try to stay out of it whenever possible.
• Energy-based attacks: Spook, while hardly succeptible to standard physical attacks, is affected greatly by any attacks using any form of energy. (eg. electricity, various energy bolts..)

Allies: The EC