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Albert "The Epicure' Donner
"And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 4 And there went out another horse that was red (blood): and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another:(for food i.e. cannibalism) and there was given unto him a great sword."
(Rev 6:3-4KJV)
REAL NAME Mælgəm
Identity/Class: Monster
Occupation: Cosmic Hijacker
Affiliations: None
Enemies: nameless billions of its victims
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: The Bogeyman, Darth Deinos
Base of Operations: Mobile throughout countless realities.
Because one of his crimes involved him torturing, butchering, and eating a young woman while she was still alive. As in proper serial killer stuff, like dismembering people on the streets, cannibalism, etc. Albert went so far as to wear masks made of other people's faces, or even wear human skins as clothing or armor. It is not known what Albert truly looks like, as he appears in different forms during their encounters with others.
"Yes, people who can't think their way into this find it monstrous. But in principle I'm a normal human being,"
He is a simple man, who enjoys comfort, food, socialization and commerce. His fondness of food and drinks drive him to have about six meals a day (in human guise). If man is the most dangerous animal on the planet, then hunting man is the most dangerous game. He spends the bulk of his lives in human form, seeking out justice and punishing do-gooders to the best of its considerable abilities. Its typical mode of operation runs roughly along the lines of a sting operation: the monster will listen for stories of generous or good beings or persons, then reveal its true form and dish out punishment. They prefer to turn heroes over to law breaking if plasible, but will ultimately take whatever actions they deem necessary in order to see injustice served.
The monster there!
Vast as a rock he lies!
How angrily his eyeballs glare!
How flash his fiery eyes!
Come Sleep, come Sleep;
Let the slumberous spells be laid
In depths below, in depths below;
Let Sleep be as of night,
Like the Great Night,
The Long Night,
The Sleep-bringing Night,
Sleep on – sleep on!
It is unknown when Albert Donner first developed his voracious appetite for human flesh. What is known is that he has consumed literally thousands of victims in a reign of terror that has lasted decades. Curiously, although Albert has satiated his appealing usance in virtually every country on Earth, he still has yet to stroke the Northern Americas. Some say that he fears the superheroes. Others are too overcome with terror at the mention of his very name to consider this. Some men keep their evil hidden from the world, while the iniquity of others emerges. In Albert's case, this is literally true. Security cameras have only ever captured the image of a ghostly shade at the scene of Albert's crimes, leaving authorities horrifying thoughts that this mass murderer could strike at any time, anywhere on the planet. Anyone could become the next meal for this rapacious ghoul. Nobody is safe. Nobody.
The Donner became so successful in his butchery that he cast unwanted limbs into the sea. These were washed up on distant and local beaches, much to the horror of the coastal communities. In time the areas reputation reached the ears of the authorities and, in these suspicious times, many innocent people were executed for Albert's crimes. The hardest hit were innkeepers as, more often than not, the missing person was last seen in an inn or lodgings: suspicion naturally falling on those who had seen them last. This happened on so many occasions that numerous innkeepers fled to take up other less risky occupations, and the area became a shunned and depopulated place.
Natives say he kills for fun, not just for food; that he kills several people in every attack, and then disappears for months, or even years, only to reappear later in another, different location to kill again. No one can predict when or where he will appear next. He is also said to have a monstrous appetite, and rumor has it that he killed and devoured an adult male hippopotamus.
Albert's body carries countless scars made by knives, spears and even firearms. A dark spot on the top of his head is the only remaining trace of a bullet wound that was supposed to put and end to his reign. But all hunters (and even, a group of armed soldiers) have failed to kill him.
While he has a variety of magical powers, Albert is feared for his ability to consume those he slays and absorb their powers. Replenishing his energies (eating objects like rocks converting it into energy for the eatter); Regenerating lost limbs or healing by consuming matter,rocks and converting it into a limb; Evolve into a new lifeform. (By turning into the object eaten)
Albert is probably too experienced and smart to be fooled, so it seems likely that he will continue with his depredations and perhaps, soon, claim the title of the most prolific man eater for himself. He is a mastersof epicurean bliss, and it seems only fi tting that his warped body provides him with a mystical outlet for his gourmandizing sensibilities.
Prime characteristics:
“eats matter and spits energy”
- can eat people at super speeds and the possessed superhuman strength and speed, capable of moving faster than the eye could follow. Getting larger as he gets angrier.
- can consume and digest any substance without internal poisoning or organ tissue ruptures. It kills humans and animals with poison and consumes every part of its prey – bones, fur, hair, clothes, etc.; and his droppings are poisonous. For every person he eats, he grew larger, ensuring he is never full and must constantly engorge himself. It can also be handy for getting rid of evidence. Albert can also consume human beings, which means that he can access their DNA and shapeshift into them. He's able to take in some of their energy, enough to make him immune to their powers.
- can assimilate anything he eats into his physical structure. Albert possessed all the properties and powers of the lifeforms or mineral he mimicked.
Albert Donner is one of the toughest creatures alive, possessing massive strength, incredible resistance to injury and hyperactive healing rate tough enough to stun, he's more than likely impossible to truly kill. He's also got claws and teeth for rending flesh and is able to track unlucky prey with little problem. He has paired hollow tongues, which can extend and penetrate flesh and/or chitin and siphon life energy and/or blood, upon which he feeds. The tongues can also grab and pull beings or objects toward its maw.He also cooked certain parts of his victims, ate the remains, and served the human meat to his friends at parties. His hair, pulled out from the roots, is strong enough to be used to cut through things.He has extremely thick skin, which is heat-resistant and enables it to thrive in extremely high pressure environments, as well as cope under heavy fire from human weaponry.
To my mind the only possible pet is a human. Humans love you…They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them you can kill them and eat them. Perfect.
The eyes are particularly interesting. Normal nocturnal creatures often have a mirror-like membrane in their eyes called a tapetum, which helps the retina absorb more light and which makes their eyes appear to glow when flashlights shines on them. But the eyes of Albert display clear ocular bioluminescence — a rarity among Earth’s natural animal species.
Being an omnivore in the truest sense of the word, it eats vegetable, animal and mineral material, making no distinctions or preferences. Due to his size and non-restrictive eating habits, he tends to simply cut swaths of destruction in areas, causing massive damage to areas.
In some traditions, Albert captured people and ate them. Occasionally, it was said that he would kidnap women to live with them as wives. Because of its size and strength, it is said that Albert is capable of tunneling through the ground, uprooting trees and overturning houses in the process.
These two problems, overpopulation and hunger, are two of the most devastating issues facing our world, but they could both be completely eradicated if everyone would just do their part and eat one other person. Not only is it entirely acceptable to practice cannibalism, but it is his duty! We must act now if we will save not only mankind, but also the delicate planet we live on!
Current Form
Mythical creatures have existed in the imaginations of mankind for thousands of years, in one form or another. Some of the creatures were benevolent, some were evil, and some were a mixture of both.
A myth is a story that was created in order to explain natural phenomena that ancient people didn’t understand. Many myths explain how the world and/or how mankind was created, and others might offer an explanation for volcanoes, floods, storms, rainbows, specific land masses, the changing of the seasons, or the existence of certain animals.
Slashers, are former human murderers who have undergone a mysterious change that transforms them into nearly unstoppable killing machines.A Slasher looks the same as it did when it was a normal humanoid, except for a maniacal gleam in its eyes. A Slasher appears to have a pulse, to breathe and otherwise to be alive. A Slasher does not age, however, nor does one need to sleep, drink, or eat (although he consumes human flesh as a compulsion).
Every Slasher once experienced a trauma (such as a personal loss, or extreme abuse) that drove them mad, and turned them into a killer. The Slasher’s obsession with their past trauma ultimately costs him his soul, but binds his mind to his body. He becomes literally unable to die, and compelled to continue murdering. The first Slasher was a mortal whowas betrayed by his sweetheart. In revenge for the treachery he slew his love and ate her heart.
Unless a Slasher's body is completely destroyed (by fire, disintegration, or similar means), killing him simply causes his body to become dormant for a period of time. The period of dormancy can last anywhere from a few minutes to years, but the Slasher will inevitably return. Even such normally final deaths as beheading or the removal of major organs will not end a Slasher who retains his body otherwise intact. Such creatures have been known to survive explosions, electrocution, immersion in freezing water, and even baths in hydrochloric acid.
Albert’s body shows the evidence of many deaths and subsequent reanimation.
His fate is to wander the Earth feasting on human hearts. Human remains in the refrigerator, a frying pan full of cooked human flesh, and muscle tissue in a box of cereal. Cooking and eating humans with his homemade barbeque sauce, making ethnic dishes out of his victims. He would defrost them portion by portion and turned them into gourmet recipes: “I sauteed the steak of Man, with salt, pepper, garlic and nutmeg.
Background
Cannibalism, also called anthropophagy (is the act or practice of humans consuming other humans).
A growing body of evidence, such as piles of human bones with clear signs of human butchery, suggests cannibalism was widespread among ancient cultures. The discovery of this genetic resistance, which shows signs of having spread as a result of natural selection, supports the physical evidence for cannibalism, say the scientists.
For centuries in the Fiji Islands, tribal chiefs would bring out their best utensils for special people, not to serve them, but to eat them. The tribal chiefs were cannibals, and the special people were the meal. Fijians lived in the "Cannibal Islands" for thousands of years. Many ships had been lost, and many men had gone into lovo earth ovens before European settlers finally established a town at the site of Levuka in the 1820’s. Despite Fiji’s reputation for cannibalism, only one white person was killed and eaten in Fiji.
The cannibal fork, or iculanibokola, was used by attendants during ritual feasts to feed individuals considered too holy to touch food.
In the Nara period, magic called kodoku was used for curses, invoking the spirit of the last remaining creature among poisonous insects, snakes, foxes, etc., which were placed together in a pot.
In 18th and 19th century seagoing communities, it was pretty much accepted as something that happened from time to time as a hazard of the occupation and lifestyle. By the 19th century, sailors and fishermen had even worked out some general guidelines should the “custom of the sea” need to be performed. Straws were drawn to decide who would be killed and eaten and who would have to do the killing (usually the second shortest straw made you the killer, and the shortest made you dinner).
He is confident he would not be discovered: the cave that he had chosen had kept them well hidden from prying eyes. The tide passed right into the mouth of the cave, which went almost a mile into the cliffs. Legend has it that once the Albert was finished consuming the more delicate portions of its victims, it would delight in a macabre game in which it would ignite the disembodied heads of the young girls who were sacrificed to it, and hurtle them from the mouth of its volcanic home, where it would roll down the rocky slope and land at the feet of the mortified mourners.
It lures unwary travelers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them and quench his insatiable sexual appetites on other beings and any humans he can get his hands on. (Yes, Albert does have particularly large, endowments.) He can absorb the memories of the dead, and take on their appearance. The creature also preys on young children, robs graves, drinks blood, steals coins and eats the dead, taking on the form of the one they previously ate. This gluttonous monster gobbles up anything it can. Whether it eats friend or foe, it grows stronger with each creature it consumes. Although this helps cut down on the number of enemies, it also gives his attacks a bigger bite.
Religious View
- Syncretism: the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.
- Solipsism: the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
- Misotheism:The word means literally God-hatred. This extends to GAPE' (Generic All-Powerful Entities). God is but a phantom of human hope.
- Pantheism: a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
- Animism: The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
A desperate need seemed to exist among these religious leaders to demonstrate that God was still in charge. When tragedies occur and no divine protection is forthcoming, human hysteria forces them struggle to restore their protective, parent God to believability. Many people pretend that they still believe those things, but deep down they know they only believe in believing them.
Diet
Albert is an durable and lightning quick cuisine creating monster. Made to be a guardian when not busy in the kitchen, he was also awakened with state-of-the-art biology and the instincts of a prime combatant. Approaches the relationship with mortals much as a rancher does his herd of prime cattle; proper care causes the meat to thrive, improving the selection to choose from for slaughter.
Albert's diet covers a large array of foods. The first hint at the monster's diet was when a photo of whales the monster had partially consumed appeared on the internet. Other amateur video footage of the his appearance reveal that the monster was also seen eating multiple horses at the same time. However, it also eats humans with its mouth, as it bit humans in half.
It was like good, fully-developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable
Q:What did the cannibal get when he was late for dinner? A: The cold shoulder.
A 50 kg man might yield 30 kg edible muscle mass if well and skillfully butchered, and 30 kg edible muscle would yield about 4.5 kg (4500 gm) protein, or 4.0 kg protein assuming 90% digestibility.
Assuming quality protein requirements as 1 gm per kilogram of body weight, this would provide one-day's protein requirements for approximately 60 60-kilogram adults. One man, in other words, serves 60, skimpily.
Reducing the man-a-day ration to a more realistic man a week, this would barely amount to 9 gm quality protein per day, which might still be viewed as a useful protein supplement in a one-cereal culture experiencing protein malnutrition.
Less than one man per week for a group of 60 would not appear to be nutritionally worthwhile, even as a protein supplement to a cereal or tuber diet with limiting amino acids.
The butcher will need a fairly roomy space in which to work (an interior location is suggested), and a large table for a butcher's block. A central overhead support will need to be chosen or installed ahead of time to hang the carcass from. Large tubs or barrels for blood and waste trimmings should be convenient, and a water source close by. Most of the work can be done with a few simple tools: sharp, clean short and long bladed knives, a cleaver or hatchet, and a hacksaw.
Gems are also eaten by Al. He can use jewelry for everything he needs, from furniture to toys or vehicles. Albert had a castle that looked rather like a city with spires until he became hungry and ate it.
DON’T Call him a big anthropofag. He hates that.
M.O.
When hunting for victims, Albert actively go out into the world and search for them — stalking the mortal pulse through nightclubs, alleys, parking garages and the like.
Components
- Brains: Slow-burning energy. Since the brain is high in fat and glucose (sugar), that makes it the perfect food. For a human with a limited food supply, the brain isn’t a bad choice, either.
- Liver & kidneys: there’s a ton of chemicals inside that won’t taste good
- Muscles (butt, biceps & legs): For humans, protein is a necessity. Start by eating the bigger muscle groups like the legs and glutes (butt) that will provide larger, meatier portions before moving to the forearms, biceps, or calves.
- P****: it’s porous tissue with little to no nutritional value; think of it like a sponge
- Eyeballs: Eyeballs are like candy to them, like a Cadbury Creme Egg.
- Fingers, toes & ears: These are basically like table scraps. Hands and toes are made mostly of bone. The ears are predominantly cartilage.
For best results and health, freshness is imperative. A living human in captivity is optimal, but not always available. When possible make sure the animal has no food for 48 hours, but plenty of water. This fasting helps flush the system, purging stored toxins and bodily wastes, as well as making bleeding and cleaning easier. Under ideal conditions, the specimen will then be stunned into insensitivity. Sharp unexpected blows to the head are best, tranquilizers not being recommended as they may taint the flavor of the meat. If this is not possible without exciting the animal and causing a struggle (which will pump a greater volume of blood and secretions such as adrenaline throughout the body), a single bullet through the middle of the forehead or back of the skull will suffice.
An average freezer provides plenty of storage space, or build a simple old-fashioned smokehouse (just like an outhouse, with a stonefirepit instead of a shitter). Offal and other waste trimmings can be disposed of in a number of ways, burial, animal feed,and puree and flush being just a few. Bones will dry and become brittle after being baked an oven, and can be pulverized.
Everyone eats here on Earth and cooking has become a very delicate art in today’s society. Every recipe expresses an idea about the energy of the ingredients and also the energy and intent that the chef put into the food. When cooking, we usually change our emotional connection to the food based on how we feel that day.
Our food can have a good or bad kick based on a positive or negative emotion while cooking it or even the manner in which we farm the ingredients beforehand. With food, one can cook a high vibrational meal filled with vegetables and fresh herbs to bring physical body cleansing to assist emotional body cleansing within.
Whilst devouring a meal of human flesh Albert retains all of the etiquette of his table manners, eating from a monogrammed plate and become satiated and placing the knife and fork politely together, a polite sign of having completed the repast. Known as both an impeccably gracious host, and a horrifyingly gluttonous cannibal, Albert is a product of the voracious monsters of lore with aeons of culinary refinement. While others view his unique tastes for living, human flesh with disgust and utter revulsion, Albert view himself as merely the highest order of conniseurs, hungry for forbidden delicacies and thirsty for temporal power.
Power Foods
Philosophy
No matter as how cruel or nasty humans like to see the natural eating rituals of monsters, for example, these moments are always happening in the name of love. Their limited way to see these moments is just another example of how arrogant they are as humans, judging the ways others live on this planet solely with their eyes and way too rational minds, not with their hearts. If they, for once, took the effort and looked and listened to these hunters, truly with open hearts, they would see and hear and understand that it is just love and respect and gratitude taking place in every hunt that ever happens out there, in the nature, or even in the barn yards.
Monsters do eat with gratitude and sometimes even sing to their prey, or bless their food, because then their prey/food nourishes their cells much better. Whereas humans like to name their precious food with negative words like junk food.
Original set of abilities - 'Splatterpunk'
To fuse extreme violence and horror (the "splatter") with a confrontational social sensibility (the "punk") to provide a counter-cultural, more streetwise take on our collective fears at the end of the century. It was not just extreme violence and viscera and degradation - psychological insight into alienated characters was as essential as blood-on-the-walls-and-ceiling taboo-smashing. Albert has potentially limitless psionic powers of telepathy, telekinesis, and cosmic pyrokinesis.
- Tactile Telekinesis: The ability to move objects with his mind but he has to touch them first. As to appear as though one had superhuman strength. One with this ability has nearly all the same faculties as super strength (hitting with phenomenal force, have an amazing grip, and easily manipulate tough materials). One with this ability, however, could only lift or manipulate objects based on the level of his telekinesis, which would have to develop over time. He manifests a "telekinetic sensitivity" to objects in his immediate environment that lets him feel the texture of objects, their molecular patterns, feel when other objects come into contact with them, and probe them at a molecular level. In ability to repel matter and energy away from him, and is able to change its force of velocity as well. His hair can be used as a garrote or whip.
- Tactile Telepathy: The ability to make someone does what he wants by touching him/her. He can place his thoughts into another person's mind, whether they have the ability or not. He can invade countless people's minds at once making them think or see what ever he wants them to. Once He enters her target's mind she has complete control over them, being able to make them say or do what ever he wants them to. Albert is one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals (animals with high intelligence, such as dolphins,dogs, and ravens). He can also telepathically take away or control people's natural bodily functions and senses, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or even powers. Albert has the ability to completely shut down someone's mind if he so chooses. Depleting, negating, or even destroying a target's mental faculties. This alters the target's personality, memory, thought process, and any Mental or Psionic Powers the target had. The target becomes forgetful or outright amnesiac and develops a bland personality.A side effect of his telepathy is that he is gifted with total recall - he remembers everything. Albert's mind has a self-replicating, parasitic ability to "lay eggs" and reproduce in other people's minds. Anyone who's been in any kind of close contact to him "probably is Albert Donner," not in outward appearance, but insofar as Donner is essentially sharing brainspace with them. Infecting others with a highly contagious psychic virus which causes utter devotion to himself, and channels a portion of the infected's energies into him.
- Tactile Pyrokinesis: The ability to mentally control fire by touch, cook and/or heat: food, air, or objects around him. To control, ignite and extinguish fire, using the powers of one's mind. Note that his cosmic fire is not dependent on oxygen, which means that he can ignite it under seemingly impossible conditions such as the vacuum of space or underwater. His cosmic pyrokinesis derives from his ability to generate intense heat. His aura seems to have been transformed into a a plume of unknown energy that resembles plasma, like the surface of the sun. The aura may be able to fluctuate its' own temperature however, because if it was plasma, Albert would instantly burn through whatever he was touching. So it may be that as a precaution, his skin can decrease its' temperature immensely on whatever ground it touches. AIbert can create fire out of thought. Due to his natural temperature, Albert can manipulate the fire that comes off and out of his body. Useful for camping, survival and recreational BBQ’s
- Digestive Adaptation: the superhuman ability to ingest and pass any substance through the body without the substance inducing bodily harm, even if it is corrosive like acid or sharp like glass or dense like titanium. Both his physiology is built for the ingestion of any material (pliable digestive tract, super-strong teeth), and he is capable of psychically rendering a subject harmless so that it is safe enough to ingest (the digestive tract may even reactively adapt). The digestive tract extracts useful materials and synthesizes new ones from the available material.People with this ability are immune to food-borne sicknesses like food-poisoning, alcohol poisoning or salmonella. He has the ability to eat materials and then convert their matter into energy . Ingest awesome amounts of matter, retain them indefinitely, and expel them with powerful force. The ingested matter is compressed, diminished in size, and displaced into a pocket dimension; this enables him to retain ordinary shape, a side effect of the power gives him internal invulnerability, preventing any internal damage due to ingested poisons or physically damaging materials.
Albert's body constantly generates a pliant psionic-aura of nigh-impenetrable energy that permeates his molecular structure, granting his skin high durability. His skin deflects most physical or energy impacts, but Al still feels the force of such blows. Al's psionic-aura also protects him from temperature extremes. He has been dropped over 150 feet, hitting the ground without suffering physical damage. He did however suffer pain from the impact, but was otherwise unscathed. With his psionic-aura in place, such things as adhesives can't stick to him. His personal force field disperses energy assaults, reflects kinetic impact off itself, and even negates friction, making it impossible for anyone to hold on to him. Therefore, Albert cannot be grabbed or entangled and can move at moderate speeds by "skating" the surface of his force field across the ground. The aura absorbs energy and dampened inertia, but did not cancel it; Albert could be staggered by a sufficient impact. It has been shown to absorb EM energies (he especially enjoys absorbing the e-m fields of human brains, usually incinerating its victims in the process), ultrasound attacks, etc. This is performed by re-channeling the extra energy though his body and can be sent back to the attacker much stronger than the original attack.
Albert possesses the ability to generate and discharge his psionic energies through conductive media (i.e. he cannot discharge it through air or concrete) at sufficiently high amounts to kill or disrupt. Albert Donner uses his touch as he cooks fish. It makes him look like a fire elemental. But he still has a monster's appetites, and satisfies them with destruction, cannibalism and killing, which, in his case, are one and the same, thanks to his constantly superheated body.
He can channel his aura, with which he surrounds an object. This aura is able to be focused on anything through touch. He can for example use a wooden stick, when energized, to slice through any known substance. To imbue the structure of matter into different field signatures that can stun, kill, paralyze, explode or disintegrate on contact. He can stun, paralyze or kill living beings with these charged items.
Applications to this 'powerset'
Power(s) obtained from eating his superhuman victims
Q:When do cannibals leave the table? A: When everyone's eaten.
Power(s) obtained from eating his supernatural victims
Q: What is a cannibal's favorite type of TV show? A: A celebrity roast.
Power(s) obtained from eating his alien victims
Q: What did the cannibal get when he was late for dinner? A: The cold shoulder.
Weakness
- Accelerated Metabolism: Because of his accelerated metabolism, he must consume a lot of food in order to keep his energy up.
Talent(s)
Using his trademarked illusionary magic, his personality are what most children would describe as " the boogie man." The way Albert feeds depends on nature, he can be sustained on generating fear, or small amounts of blood, but often times he will literally rip their victim to bite sized pieces. Albert's excel at causing trouble or fear, for it's the main objective of their existence.
The path of the flux adept is far more physical and bloody than most mages would ever want to experience. The creed of the adept is that the body is in constant turmoil, and that turmoil should be embraced and empowered, not overcome. Arcane magic opens the door to the true potential of what is usually thought as mere scaffolding for the brain: muscles, glands, organs. However, these systems, given their due, can turn any creature - mage or not - into an awesome force.
Blood and flesh contain power; Albert recognize this. Locked in the fibers of muscle tissue, hidden in the crimson depths of blood, flows the essence of the victim. He not only understand this, but have learned how to unlock that essence — and appropriate it for himself. After swallowing a mouthful of the victim’s flesh, he can use the victim’s power as if it were his own.
Al can analyze technological devices from the simple to the advanced and, given time and favorable circumstances, stands a good chance of figuring out some basic uses at the very least. He could, for instance, figure out a television in very short order, or board an alien spaceship and get a good idea of where the engines were and how the main power source was routed through the vessel.
Albert can devise and assemble any weapon that can be made with the available materials. Albert can even improvise a means of creating unavailable materials (adamantium, for example). Provided he has the resources, he can assemble a functional copy of any weapon.
Technique(s)
Melee: He can alternatively feed by way of the mouths on the palms of his hands. Mouths that can be added to his body by slightly modifying his form, his palm-mouth carries the same capabilities of his head-mouth; He would remove the skin and place his hands about a victim's body in a clutch, then use the fangs to gnaw and feed, leaving the victim's form horribly mutilated in the process.
These were were effective at parrying a blade. They were used for feeding but also for fighting to tear like that of a ferocious tiger or bear. Four sharp teeth protruded from the center of the palm. The mouthcould also be used to aid in climbing walls and trees. He uses these mouths in a style similar to the 'Tiger Fist,' the merging of Southern Shaolin fighting styles of Chinese kung fu. It is based on the movements of animals, such as the tiger and the crane. Heavily rooted stances and strong kicks and punches that evoke the mass and power of earth.
“Tiger style? I thought that clan was extinct!”
“That clan is extinct”
“*I* ate them”
Ranged: He can fire bullets from his index finger as if his hand were a pistol and form his arms into various types of guns, such as automatic weapons (compact chain gun), sniper rifles, a photon weapon, micro-rocket launcher, a huge high-yield plasma-fusion flamethrower, grenade launcher and adjust the shape of his right arm to enable it to function like shotgun, firing blasts of highly concussive energy through the openings. He manages to load the weapons by swallowing ammo, such as bullets or flamethrower fuel. He is quite famous for various ricochet trick shots with these blasters.
Support: Albert can spontaneously and harmlessly separate his body into independently functioning segments. If any detached part is damaged or destroyed his body reassembles immediately. With this he can create living matter and even complete bio-organisms from within. The new life can be of any nature, although it can only possess Powers that are intrinsic to its physical structure.
Spiritual: He can capture and indefinitely hold within himself any number of disembodied spirits. Such spirits find themselves within a pocket dimension of his creation; while within it, they retain a semblance to their original forms. This pocket dimension can have any appearance. This is a timeless space of near-infinite volume. He can shape conditions within the Internal space and create any environment he desires. He can freely communicate with any spirits held within. He can also control the basic attitudes and emotions of any being within this space. Everyone feels peace and happiness, even if they were vicious, violent people in the outside world. Conversely, he might modify his particular Internal space to terrify anyone he draws into it. He is immune to any attempts they might make to possess his body. He can capture disembodied spirits and merge them into new bodies. The spirits can be the newly-dead, ghosts, or free spirits . The bodies can be anything---newborn infants, clones, androids, robots, animals, or plants. The reincarnated person can be granted full memories and Mental Powers. The spirit is permanently bonded to the new body for as long as that body lives, unless the bond is deliberately broken by the spirit or by an exorcist.
Biohacker
Albert's science is more advanced in the fields of chemistry and genetic manipulation than most space-faring races. Albert is also quite knowledgeable about materials science and the advances in the latter are often related to the former. Albert is able to take power from human torsos and used many biological systems wired directly into their facilities. He is able to power whole facilities using torsos, many of which were headless and regulated by a neural link that kept their body functions going. Others still had heads but showed signs of extreme intoxication. His combination of biological and mechanical systems is a defining characteristic about their technology since it is how their own bodies work. This has resulted in the creation of a wide array of organisms, many grotesque and highly unconventional, that fulfill a variety of functions. He can infuse their DNA with ectoplasm, converting them into half ghost organisms.
His starships are unique in that his ships are cybernetic organisms, living starships that can regenerate armor. Albert advanced towards more organic technology. Much of their biotechnological knowledge was gained by reverse engineering other Aliens. He is dedicated to capturing and experimenting on other lifeforms to benefit his own technology and investments. He has been building bioweaponry and manufacturing next generation weapons for thralls and associates alike.
He possesses his own laboratory, which has a very red-and-black color scheme and is organic-based. It also is sphere shaped. Turning to equipment that previously was only found in a laboratory to create new dishes that have the potential to revolutionize the concept of cooking. Universal superchef and inventor of eccentric and description-defying food, plans to post a daily recipe from the new research laboratory that is due to replace his older restaurant. Albert told an audience at the Negatice Zone, where he gave a lecture on the science of cooking, that his new laboratory would put the results of every day's experimentation on the neuronet in the evening.
RPG(s)
- Origins - the myth
Workaholism
A living idea that had turned into a ferocious parasite. It grew by hiring new employees and by devouring its rivals. It adapted quick to the needs of its target world and imitated what people wanted. It hypnotized them with advertising and then turned them into employees. He used custom made brain-stem parasites to gain obedience additional of his victims. He can punish his slaves any time by exciting the parasites that were placed on their necks into a feeding frenzy and could inflict pain whenever Albert wanted to.
specialty
- Cosmic Bananas: bananas sent into space. Once in orbit, the bananas were bombarded with cosmic rays and when they returned, the bananas displayed super-banana abilities. (akin to heroes/villains bombarded with cosmic rays)
Branch locations
- Pankration Island - Seymour Soylent got the deal with Heron
It is most often not violent, but can become very dangerous both to the person infected and other people. It realizes their aims in manipulating others, taking control of their actions. Relatively new parasites, thus a stable, in ideal mutualistic relationship has not yet developed.
Cont'd
Living in darkness, making his homes in cupboards, under beds, and in closets. He appears as amorphous puffs of dust, perhaps having the ability of shape-shifting. He causes all sorts of mischief at night and have even been known to steal souls, but he is harmless during daylight hours.
He also hovers around a person's back, creating an aura of uneasiness, and is known to eavesdrop on conversations. When attacking lost children or sleeping humans, he would suck out the insides of anyone he catches.
For countless generations children in the English-speaking world have been threatened into obedience by the Bogeyman who inhabits the darkness and can quickly materialize to snatch away naughty boys and girls if they aren't careful.
Raison d'être
Every day over the course of several million years, our ancestors saw (and heard) living creatures being torn apart and devoured by hungry animals — with some victims still kicking as they were eviscerated and dismembered. No wonder our brains are wired to make us dread this awful fate, and that the stories we tell ourselves reflect this dread and attempt to express it — press it out.
The archetype of the monster is an expression of this primal fear writ large, exaggerated and intensified to an outlandish degree. But why does this primal fear take the form of a “monster,” that is, a predatory creature that grotesquely mixes animal or human-and-animal physical features? In what way did our experiences as a prey species contribute to the formation of the mythic monster ?
Albert's role is to police and maintain the World by eliminating potential threats to the stability of the system such as humans and defective entities. Nowadays the humankind -or rather the technological progression realized by it- is a parasite for the Gaia (for the Earth as a superorganism). The greatest challenge of the 21st century is the transformation of this relation between the parasite (tick) and host-organism into a symbiosis. Humans are destructive to Nature and so Nature, striving for balance, created monsters in order to "cull the herd". Seems fitting that it would be Albert, since he would be able to walk with humans without creating too much notice.
“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong — Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke.”
When humans attack the Earth, an underground network of monsters honor an ancient code to maintain balance between man and the wild, by killing only what they eat, and eating all that they kill.
- A monster is lurking in the depths of the darkness and is only in this world to bite into juicy and tender human flesh.
- If a monster sees a human, it immediately goes into a feeding frenzy.
- To get at human flesh monsters will even eat buildings!
Where the Abominations came from remains a mystery to this day. Many sages have theorized they were the unwanted offspring between roaming deities and demonic beasts. However what is certain is that the Abominations are unwanted offspring. They are misshapen, grotesque, and horribly marked from their godly birth-throes.
They however survive such a birth and live on, nurtured by their quasi-deific powers and pure, undiluted hate of their forebears and all naturally formed creatures. Rejected by both the heavens and the darkest of hells, they are usually sealed away for eons at a time however some tend to escape either by their own plans and design or accidentally freed by some wanderer. An abomination's appearance can panic nations, worlds, or entire planes of existence.
True Purpose [Secret]
Albert is a cosmic parasite (a parasite is defined as the dominant partner in an unwelcome relationship of different organisms.), it seeks out cosmic entities rife with energy, which it then feeds off over the course of several hours. First, possession by the parasite causes a nervous breakdown, but eventually the host mind is erased completely, and the Parasite is in total control of his cosmic steed. Parasiting the persona and performing a perverse type of mind control. They can be guided to to travel through space, and they can be forced to fight against something or someone when its own life is threatened by said being. Eventually, it emerges, destroying the host in a catastrophic explosion, at which point it absorbs the host's powers through feeding, and then seizes its authority in the Cosmic Hierarchy. The creature then moves on to the next source. The Cosmic Parasite remains hidden waiting for the proper time to strike. Since then, Alwanted to go down in the Akashic Records as the most deadly cosmic disease in the omniverse and take down all of his victims through the psyche and storing them in his essence.
Their bodies can be used and abused by an intelligence not their own; that their bodies are viewed as a resource primarily as food by him. Assuming control of their physical selves, and replace their intelligence with his. He sees them, alarmingly, just as meat. Every time the host's immune systems get close to destroying the parasite, it escapes detection by rearranging its 'existence' and changing its appearance. During this cat-and-mouse game, the immune system never gains the upper hand and the victim dies.
Albert traveled the universe for years, relieving many other alien races from their gods, whether they wanted this or not. He can grow stronger if attacked, he becomes more entrenched and can take more dangerous, sometimes hardly recognizable forms, if they try to cast him out.
Arsenal
- Raksasa knife: This knife was forged of Orichalcum (an arcane element) and offers great mystic powers to those who know how to employ it. Anyone who wields the knife has great physical and mystical might bestowed upon them. The blade is so ensorcelled as to cut through magic defenses as if they were air, and is itself unbreakable. It can break or dispel enchantments, magic shields, and barriers. Raksasa knife has allowed him to live an extended life, using the life force of those he kills. His skill is so great with the knife, he sliced a dragon into multiple pieces in "less than a second". It has been used to intercept attacks of cosmic power and could be easily hurled from orbit to a planet's surface (causing incredible devastation) and come through without a scratch.
- Asura chopping block: Whether you've got a taste for meat, vegetables or human flesh, no kitchen is complete without a cutting board.
- Titan fork & spoon: It enabled Albert to sunder the fabric of dimensional space, manipulate coordinates, and open doorways from one reality to another. They could also discern transfer coordinates of other portals and create a portal to the same location. It could be used as guidance through space/time and other no-spaces used as corridors by teleporters. Short distance teleportation worked as well as long distance teleportation throughout space. The creation of a portal required the utensils to be spun to cut open the substance of space revealing a pathway. It could map the dimensions of space/time and through hex-powers it could even reveal everything on the mystical landscape. It could scan many different things concerning their properties and detected any energy form it once encountered. They could also be used like a conventional weapon and the sharp blades could easily decapitate someone.
Artifact(s) Assimilated [Secret]
Carl - The Human Club
A metahuman who is by all terms indestructible, and has been constantly tested to be so. He is Albert's toothpick and favorite bludgeon as he is virtually immortal (pretty much everything). As a blunt force weapon Carl is invulnerable to all forms of physical and mental attacks, but relatively mundane in terms of his physical capabilities. This human cudgel can move without breaking a sweat, even walk forever in infinite stamina.
- Invulnerability
- Regeneration
- Reincarnation
Carl is completely indestructible and immortal, as well as being a mediocre fighter.
Giant Monster
Height: 165'
Mass: 25 kt
Albert's long range attacks are tracking fireballs that reach a far distance and do good damage; excellent singing voice. Albert could animate and control the rock around him, which could be used to create multiple duplicates of himself (including a humanoid form). Due to its size, it was invulnerable to most known weapons. The flaming monster has a protective energy field and the power to incinerate.
Mankind falls to the threat of a ring of flames around the planet. This flaming tyrant possesses incalculable strength surpassing the 100 ton range and is capable of generating extraordinary heat and flame, including the creation of a flaming sword he used to bring down buildings and slay his enemies.
Biovessel
It steals or "jacks" other planets and throw them into the star like "firewood". It is shown to have advanced planet-moving technology. A giant robot ship, a planet-eating machine made by a long-dead alien race, is roaming the galaxies, consuming all in its path for fuel, including whole planets. It travels the galaxy searching for various alien races to maintain it. It also uses these races as food.
One of the biggest appetites in the Galaxy, Having spent ages living off unfortunate planets. Eating his way tasty solar systems, watch-out!
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