Elektra Kaur

Born a mutant, raised a Buddhist, needs to decide if she is going to be a nun or a superhero.

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I taught myself to read at 4 years of age because I was impatient. I decided the available books were not the story I wanted to read, and wrote a story, at 5.

It was pretty awful.

I mean, I was five, that's not going to be a coherent plot anyhow! But still. It was awful. I was astounded to realize that good stories don't just burst off the page because I apply a crayon. I went back to reading for a while, but sometimes I was looking at what made one book a good read while another was merely a way to pass the time.

Here we are, twoscore and change years later, and I think I am starting to really grasp how a plot is different from a narrative which is not the same thing as a roughly chronological sequence of scenes?

Building worlds certainly makes for a better story!

My native language is American English, with several regional contributions as I moved around a lot in my early years. I can communicate tolerably well in a couple of other languages, if the other converser is patient and of good cheer. I'm familiar with several specialized vocabularies in the greater category "Nerd" and I know the responsibility for being understood is mine.

(I also sometimes have trouble understanding spoken words because I'm missing a bit of the hearing register in the middle. Maybe that's why I use the "Maximum Verbosity" setting in written communication! Sorry.)

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Born a mutant, raised a Buddhist, needs to decide if she is going to be a nun or a superhero.

Gender: female
Eyes: brown
Hair: extremely short bright auburn, shaved bald between adventures
Height: 5'10"

Appearance

Facial Features

barely visible eyebrows; triangular face with slightly sharp chin

Apparel & Accessories

In civilian life, Elektra wears the usual robes of what most New Yorkers call "a Buddhist nun", with flat sandals or plain boots as weather requires outside the Temple. She also usually has an anti-static heel strap that wraps around her ankle and the heel of her shoe.

When on a mission for SAFEGUARD Elektra normally wears the SAFEGUARD uniform, or whatever the mission requires her to wear. She may wear a short haired wig in order to not draw notice.

Specialized Equipment

SAFEGUARD UNIFORM

{R# 0, BODY 08, Flame immunity: 03, Radio communications: 05, Skin armor: 02, Limitation: Skin armor only vs piercing and edged attacks}

Cost: 089 HP

Special abilities

Electric Being 3

Energy Absorption (limit: Electricity only) 10

Force Shield 6

Lightning 5

Magnetic Control (special effect: all the PLUSES and MINUSES of being shaped live electric current) 9

Reflection/Deflection 6

All Power usage has a Special Effect: Made of Glowing Circuitry. I’m not going to take that as a Power Limitation right now because the case of an opponent using it to defeat me would be 1) special circumstances, and 2) roleplaying!

Mentality

Taboos

1. Refrain from killing living things.

2. Refrain from stealing.

3. Refrain from unchastity (sensuality, sexuality, lust).

4. Refrain from lying.

5. Refrain from taking intoxicants.

6. Refrain from taking food at inappropriate times (after noon).

7. Refrain from singing, dancing, playing music or attending entertainment programs (performances).

8. Refrain from wearing perfume, cosmetics and garland (decorative accessories).

9. Refrain from sitting on high chairs and sleeping on luxurious, soft beds.

10. Refrain from accepting money.

Personality

Motivation

Elettra Kaur has what might be divided into "the responsible motivation" and "the private motivation".

Responsible Motivation

As a citizen of this life, Elettra feels an obligation to take actions that make the lives around her better in small ways. She looks for things she is capable of doing that another person cannot currently do for themselves.

This is why she took the teaching position for "Continuing Education students"; this is why she entered training, and stayed with it for so long, with a goal of becoming a NYC Buddhist nun.

The thing is, she saw a way to make a more definite difference when she teamed up with a graduate student and a fellow part-time instructor to stop the plot of a minor villain. Three mutants were able to help one another to use their unusual capacities; by those joint efforts, the trio were able to solve a problem, permanently, caused by one determined Bad Guy. They made a difference in many lives -- not a huge difference, but a measurable one. They reversed some causes of suffering and they prevented future misery. They made the city a better place.

This must be why people become Superheroes. This must be why people join Supergroups.

As 2010 approaches, Elektra seeks a means of finding strangers who need the sort of help she can give. She wants to uplift others. She prefers to avoid any plan of hunting down strangers for destructive purposes.

Private Motivation

The work in that first, temporary teamup required all three to push their abilities past the point of self-damage, costing them some of their abilities. The personal losses were more than they were prepared to face. That is likely why they did not form a new neighborhood SuperGroup of their own.

After several discussions with her mentors at the Temple about how the "temporary superhero adventure" was good for her soul and how it was detrimental, "Elektra" began to work with The Trenchcoat Brigade and SAFEGUARD.

It proved not to be a great fit. The life of a superhero seems to be quick to aggression, which naturalized citizen Elettra Kaur found unsettling at best. Forceful responses have their time and place, absolutely, but Elektra would prefer to meet the first burst of aggression with kindness.

Thus far, the work with SAFEGUARD has helped Elektra to learn new skills. It has led her to discover at least one aspect of her mutant ability that she had never before considered. Elettra appreciates her time "consulting with" this international Supergroup for all the things she has learned about the people of the world and about herself.

One of the things she learned is that she is probably not destined to become fully ordained. The path of her life leads more outward than inward. She has walked in Nirvana and returned to the world, and yet she is not ready to retreat into a life of quiet prayer.

As 2010 swings into motion with the Metal Tiger's customary pounce, Elettra continues to work on recovering the flexibility she lost. She seeks to explore new parts of existence. She seeks to find a new way.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Acrobatics 5

Artist (sculptor) 6

Detective 3

Martial Artist 4

Scientist 2

Thief (stealth, security systems) 5

Weaponry (melee) 5

Virtues & Personality perks

Connection (Low, SUNY)

Headquarters (Expansive)

Scholar (circuitry)

Security Clearance (medium, SAFEGUARD)

Sharp Eye (not blind)

Vices & Personality flaws

Mistrust (mandatory)

Secret Identity

Loss Vulnerability: Being electrically grounded {static charge, needs to be grounded somehow when not actively using powers} (0 APs) (all powers and skills)

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August 19, 2009

Phases

by Elektra Kaur

Ninjas in green led by a woman in blue come to announce that they are taking the Bell away from Madame Von Brandenburg. They scorn each other and part-chameleon minions all in white suddenly separate from the wall.

Meanwhile all of Madame Von Brandenburg's scientist minions are putting on black gloves trimmed in yellow.

I link my electromagnetic phase to the Bell's and try to teleport. Succeed! But only to a nearby hallway.

While I try to update my Team Leader on what I have learned, a man with darkness powers (???) tries to steal the Bell in the name of something called "SHADE".

I reconnect to the Bell and am dragged away with it into the pool of darkness!

Since I am having trouble with teleportation, I try extending my Electric Being field around "my body", which is the Bells and possibly the network between them. The device on the side of the Bell is a transdimensional locator. Something has already received a signal. Ohhhhh dear.

Archaeopotamus in the grass below the building is having things to do with all the men of this team but I am not coming out of phase.

A jackal man is in fact Mr. Von Brandenburg!

I wonder if I am better connected to the Bell?

I wonder if I can summon all of "myself" into this space so that we can be One and we can focus and could try to reach an enlightened state of being together.

... I have all of the Bells appearing here in "mushroom circle" form ...

Team Leader Agent Chameleon wants to know if I can take all of the Bells to another dimension, using the Stargates inside them, where they will be out of reach.

I take a deep breath.

"Yes. I can."

I pass the Blue Ring to a courier -- Loki, on the advice of Psypher; Loki, God of Stories, who will see this woman's story with the ring to a proper start.

I ask Captain Fel for an image of the coordinates for the far away place where the Thanagarians came from. This is a spot that fits most of our requirements: no one is there, it will do the one who answered the signal no good in coming to Earth, it will not increase the danger to Earth, it will bring almost all of the Bells far out of reach of all the villains. Captain Fel has an easier time connecting me to his ship first, which can act as a relay.

SO MANY ATTACKERS arrive right now!

I have to concentrate to ignore the combat for a few seconds before I can move us to the Endupaar in a very bright flash of light.

Loki shuts that portal down.

I get ready to go through. Captain Fel is asking me again if I am sure.
I am about to transmit when Sahara suddenly asks about putting the transdimensional locator into Saturn's gas cloud and then MOVE the Endupaar. What a nifty idea! Agent Chameleon detaches the locator from the large Bell and they put it in a little probe and send it away.

Agent Chameleon decides everyone will go to Thanagar, and guard me from interference while I settle and try to detach the Bells from me (and vice versa) throughout the magnetosphere of the planet. Agent Chameleon then instructs me on what to look for as I examine the magnetosphere, and when I am disconnected he has us go back through the gate to the Endupaar.

When it is done, Captain Fel says he can return us to Matumaini.

Did we not still have people to rescue?

We get back to Matumaini and the crystal pillars are all glowing blue-white.

Loki tries to fix it with his Tesseract cube, says "Oh my," and disappears. He tells Sahara that he thinks General Zod is free of King Solovar's prison.

Elektra's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

I would like to eat a food.
August 15, 2009

Welcome to the City of Hope
August 18, 2009

Reconnoiter in the Jungle
August 19, 2009

House Call
August 19, 2009

Phases
August 19, 2009

The major events and journals in Elektra's history, from the beginning to today.

Chapter 24: House of Glass and Cards

05:16 am - 24.08.2019

Spent 18 HP on boosting my Magnetic Control to take me and the Bells through their Stargate to the place at the end of a wormhole tunnel configured like :portal to Thanagar:

04:25 am - 24.08.2019

Everybody seems to be fighting their personal Arch-Nemesis tonight except for me. And I am OKAY with that!

03:02 am - 24.08.2019

Phases
Ninjas in green led by a woman in blue come to announce that they are taking the Bell away from Madame Von Brandenburg. They scorn each other and part-chameleon minions all in white suddenly separate from the wall. Meanwhile all of Madame Von Brandenb...
03:01 am - 24.08.2019

Chapter 24: House of Glass and Cards

01:32 am - 24.08.2019

Chapter 23: House calls

06:06 am - 10.08.2019

We've been using the Dicelog since almost 2 hours ago, only I can't see MY rolls or ANYBODY ELSE'S rolls. Even though I am using the same browser as 3 of 4 other people logged into session. Time for a bug report!

03:39 am - 10.08.2019

House Call
When the Jeep parks in the garage at the Von Brandenburg complex, it then sinks down into the bedrock on a concealed platform. Clear doors slide shut above us. Once we have truly arrived, Dr. Von Brandenburg addresses me as "Agent Elektra" (which is not [...
02:52 am - 10.08.2019

I am in a car with Kabuki's father and a woman who is probably a supervillain. I am probably not going to be okay. Fortunately, there is a team of heroes who are secretly following my progress!

01:51 am - 10.08.2019

Chapter 23: House calls

01:50 am - 10.08.2019

Chapter 22: Stalked in the Jungles of Madness

05:39 am - 29.06.2019

Reconnoiter in the Jungle
We get clean, and clean clothes, and more food, and some information. We need to go reconnoiter the Van Brandenberg property near Matumaini because the Van Brandenbergs may be a threat to this hidden city. After, we will probably need to go talk to the ge...
04:27 am - 29.06.2019

I need electrolytes. My personal electromagnetic field is definitely out of whack!

02:11 am - 29.06.2019

Chapter 21: Directed Misdirection

06:27 am - 15.06.2019

Welcome to the City of Hope
King Solovar offers us medical care, resupply, and a meal, but cannot allow us to enter his city of Matumaini. He says he has a refugee population living there, and he cannot allow us to enter nor to take pictures with our phones. He wants us to leave onc...
02:59 am - 15.06.2019

Here we are in Matumaini and these people seem to know what to do about hostile alien military colonizer types. Good! And food is coming. And information! #righttothebone

01:31 am - 15.06.2019

Chapter 21: Directed Misdirection

01:19 am - 15.06.2019

The list of amazing people following the adventures of Elektra.

Played by
Jarissa

I taught myself to read at 4 years of age because I was impatient. I decided the available books were not the story I wanted to read, and wrote a story, at 5.

It was pretty awful.

Building worlds certainly makes for a better story!

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