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Real Name: Tandy Bowen
Occupation: Vigilante
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Shaker Heights, Ohio
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Melissa (mother), unnamed father, Phillip Carlisle (stepfather), Father Michael Bowen (uncle)
Base of Operations: The Holy Ghost Church, 42nd Street, New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Cloak and Dagger
Known Powers:
Dagger’s internal “light” allows her to protect herself and anyone touching her from the effects of her partner Cloak’s dimension of darkness.
Solid Light Daggers: In her new incarnation, Dagger can generate and throw daggers of “solid light” which inflict Excellent (20) Force damage. In addition to the physical damage to Health which these daggers inflict, targets with Body Armor, force fields, or Invulnerability of Excellent (20) or less, who are struck by her daggers, must make an Endurance FEAT against Excellent Intensity stunning. Failure means the target falls unconscious for 1-100 rounds (6 seconds to 10 minutes) and is -3CS for all FEATS for an additional 1-100 rounds. Success means the target is -1CS on all FEATS for the next 1-10 rounds, although he remains conscious. This means Dagger can stun an opponent on any colored result rather than only on a red result as with most Force attacks. Her rank with her daggers is also Excellent.
Due to the resent change in her powers, this systemic shock is no longer limited to individuals who suffer the darkness of inner evil and her light daggers can no longer purge a target’s body of foreign substances or cure the effects of drug addition.
- Light Sword: Merge her daggers in to a single “sword” which does Remarkable damage and penetrates force fields and barriers of Excellent rank.
- Light Punch: Channel her power directly into a victim without a visible display, by touching them.
- Telelocation: Will her dagger, to go to Cloak with 100% accuracy despite the distance involved or if she was previously unaware of his location. By following such daggers, she could trace Cloak’s current location or the last point at which he entered the Ebon Void.
- Flares: Dagger can create a flare of Remarkable Intensity and illuminate up to 2 areas. If used as an attack, it is considered a blinding flash of Remarkable Intensity. Characters whose sense of sight is not protected at equal rank or better, and are facing the flash, are blind ed for 1-10 rounds. All FEATs by affected characters are at -2CS. All characters, even those who are not facing the flash, and are within a 40’ radius of Dagger, are subject to its stunning effects. They must make a successful Endurance FEAT or be stunned, unable to take any action, for 1 round.
- Light-Shields: Dagger has also added the ability to surround herself in a Light-Shield. So far, this field has only shown properties of a personal force field which provides Dagger with Excellent protection from physical (It has provided effective protection versus small-scale weapons fire.) and energy attacks. Dagger’s internal “light” allows her to protect herself and anyone touching her from the effects of her partner Cloak’s dimension of darkness.
- Lightning Reflexes: Dagger now has the ability to dodge slower moving artillery fire. Her agility should be considered Incredible for the purposes of dodging.
Talents:
Tandy is a dancer. Her internal “light” gives her heightened agility which, combined with her dancing talent, gives her a unique fighting style that combines Acrobatics, Tumbling, and Martial Arts C.
Contacts:
Dagger is the partner of Cloak and has cooperated with Mayhem, a super-powered vigilante. She and Cloak currently take refuge in the church run by Father Delgado. The two are on good terms with NYPD detectives Rebecca “Rusty” Nales, Spider-Man, Power Pack, Dr. Strange, Black Cat, and the New Mutants.
Role-Playing Notes:
With the recent death of her step-father Philip Carlisle, the only relative who ever loved her, Dagger has come to view Cloak as her only family. No longer the young innocent who arrived at the Manhattan Port Authority Bus Terminal, Dagger feels what she and Cloak truly represent to the streets of the troubled city of New York is a chance.
History:
Tandy Bowen was a 16-year-old who grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland where many wealthy people lived. Bowen’s mother, Melissa, was a celebrated model who had become rich not only from her own career but also from receiving her previous husband’s estate. That earlier husband, who was Tandy’s father, had left for India, for “spiritual rebirth.” Subsequently Melissa married a kindly man named Phillip Carlisle. But the self-centered Melissa, wrapped up in her career and social circles, neglected both Phillip and Tandy, and Tandy, hurt by her father’s desertion, refused to accept her new stepfather. Feeling unloved, Tandy turned for affection to an older teenager, Rob Daltry. But when he left for college shortly there after, the despondent Tandy left home on a bus for New York City.
She arrived at Manhattan’s Port Authority Bus Terminal and was spotted by another teenage runaway, the penniless Tyrone Johnson. Outside the terminal, he was about to rob her when another person snatched her purse. Johnson tackled the thief and returned Bowen’s purse. In reward, Bowen bought Johnson some food at a nearby restaurant and they talked about why they had become runaways.
Upon leaving, the two teenagers were approached by men working for criminal pharmaceutical chemist Simon Marshall. The men offered the two runaways a place to stay. Bowen naively accepted, and Johnson, knowing the men were up to no good, went along to protect her. At the Hudson River the thugs knocked Johnson out and then took him and Bowen by boat to Ellis Island, where Marshall had set up his secret laboratory.
Marshall was working for the Maggia to develop a new synthetic addictive narcotic drug which the mob hoped would be a cheaper substitute for imported heroin. Marshall experimented with the drug by injecting it into the bloodstreams of the runaways his men captured. He injected it into Bowen and Johnson as well. All of the other runaways who had been injected with the drug died, but Bowen and Johnson somehow survived. The two runaways escaped their cell, and, pursued by gunfire, were forced to dive into the river.
As they attempted to swim to Manhattan, Johnson found himself engulfed by total blackness. But then he saw Bowen, glowing with light. He swam to her and her light dispelled the blackness. They reached the Manhattan shore, where Bowen fell into a delirium. Johnson then discovered that he had been transformed into a strange, inhuman being. Bowen and Johnson were then found by the thugs who had taken them to Marshall. Johnson began to swallow them up within the eerie blackness within the large cloak he had just improvised for himself. Just then Bowen awoke and, acting instinctively, struck the thugs down with daggers of light that she projected from her fingertips.
The two runaways realized that the drug had transformed them into superhumanly powerful beings. Calling themselves Cloak and Dagger, they dedicated their lives to using their powers to save other children and teenagers from being harmed by drug dealers and other criminals. As Dagger, Bowen often tries to restrain Cloak from giving in entirely to the “hunger” that drives him to project people into a dimension of darkness. She also uses the “light” she generates to help satisfy that “hunger.” She has attempted to leave her life as a vigilante, but has returned to it, convinced that only Cloak truly loves her.
After traveling the world to search out and destroy a major drug maker, the team recently returned to New York. Defeating a plan by Mister Jip and his minions, Day and Night, to steal Cloak’s body, they have now come to the attention of the Kingpin once more.