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Real Name: Unknown
Alias: Stephen Lords
Occupation: Corporate CEO, crime boss, killer
Legal Status: Unrevealed
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Manhattan, New York
Past Group Affiliations: Former partner of Blackout, current superior of Hag and Troll
Known Powers:
Telepathy: Deathwatch has Amazing powers of telepathy with a range of zero. He can only utilize this power by touching his intended subject. Any creatures with a non-mystical nature who are touched by this telepathy must make a yellow Psyche FEAT roll or fall unconscious for 1- 10 turns. If they fail to make a green FEAT, they will die as Deathwatch forcibly tears information from their minds.
Death-Feed Field: Deathwatch gains Health from being in the same area as a dying person, 50 Health points per death, with a maximum of 250. In addition, Deathwatch can concentrate his “death sense” on deaths that occur in any area within a five-mile radius; he does not gain Health from these deaths, but gets a perverse enjoyment from them.
Talents:
Deathwatch has the Business/Finance and Occult talents. Deathwatch also has Wrestling and Martial Arts A and E.
Contacts:
Deathwatch has a large following of ninja. Use the statistics listed for a Mercenary in Judge’s Book, pg. 63, but replace the Shooting talent with Thrown Weapons and the Military talent with the Edged Weapons talent. Deathwatch has also been a partner of Blackout.
Role-Playing Notes:
More demon than man, Deathwatch is a sadistic killer who feeds on death itself. He is incapable of positive emotions or friendships, there is not a single redeeming feature to this cruel and pitiless creature. Deathwatch’s major goals are the destruction of Ghost Rider and the painful death of all that lives. He seeks not to rule the world, but to destroy it.
History:
Deathwatch’s background is shrouded in mystery. Given his powers and his knowledge of Zarathos, the demon who is linked to the Ghost Rider, it is probable that he is actually a demon of some sort himself who is taking human form.
Deathwatch first appeared as one of the many criminals challenging the Kingpin’s rule of New York City’s criminal activities. He was trying to get hold of three canisters which contained a bio-toxin that, according to Deathwatch, would have immediately killed half the population of the New York Tri-State area, driven the rest mad, and which would have eventually made its way across the United States on wind currents.
Deathwatch, employing Blackout and a cadre of ninja as his personal assassins, traced the canisters to a street gang who were hiding out at the Cypress Hills cemetery on Halloween. They failed to get the canisters, and inadvertently recreated the Ghost Rider, who bonded with Dan Ketch. Deathwatch continued to seek out the canisters for a mysterious “employer,” using Blackout, who left a large trail of dead bodies in his wake. Deathwatch was finally foiled by the Kingpin and Ghost Rider, but was never captured or imprisoned for his acts.
Deathwatch bided his time, waiting for a chance to avenge himself on Ghost Rider. Following Blackout’s imprisonment, Deathwatch used the assassin Snowblind as his next pawn, then discarded him when he was no longer needed.
Next, he lured Ghost Rider to an office building, then collapsed the building on him, killing hundreds of people in the process. Ghost Rider managed to dig his way out, by which time Deathwatch had recruited two new allies, Troll and Hag. The final confrontation between Deathwatch and Ghost Rider occurred in Snowblind’s hospital room (he was severely injured in a previous encounter with the Ghost Rider). Despite Troll and Hag’s interference and Deathwatch’s own great powers, Ghost Rider formed his mystic chain into a knife and stabbed Deathwatch, apparently killing him. Whether or not Deathwatch can return from his own “death” is unknown.