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Real Name: Marc Spector
Alias: Fist of Konshu, Steven Grant (defunct), Jake Lockley (defunct)
Occupation: Adventurer, entrepreneur, ex-mercenary, ex-cab driver
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: United States citizen with criminal record
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Randall (brother, deceased), Elias (father, deceased)
Base of Operations: Spector Mansion, Long Island, NY
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Power Boost: While the moon is up, his Fighting, Agility, Strength, and Endurance ranks increase +1 CS. His Health increases to 130.
Equipment:
Ankh: This object glows in the presence of danger, giving Moon Knight Monstrous Danger Sense. Using the Ankh raises his Intuition +3 CS to Amazing. It can be thrown to do Good damage.
Bola: This weapon can be thrown up to 3 areas to do Typical damage or inflict a Good Grappling attack.
Ivory Boomerang: Like the bolo, this weapon has a range of 3 areas. It does Excellent damage and normally returns to thrower.
Lasso-Grapple: This can be used at a maximum range of 1 area to cause Good damage or make an Excellent grappling attack versus a single tar get. Moon Knight can also use it as a grapple, enabling him to climb walls at a rate of 2 stories per turn.
Scarab Darts: With a range of 3 areas, these weapons can cause Good Edged Throwing damage. As a “called shot,” they can be used to pin a target to a wall.
Throwing Irons: These can be used at a range of up to 5 areas to inflict Good Blunt Throwing damage.
Talents:
Moon Knight has acquired the skills of a Soldier, Driver, and Financial specialist
Contacts:
When he needs help, Moon Knight can (or could) call on Marlene Alraud, Jean-Paul “Frenchie” Du Champ (deceased), Bertram Crawly, and Rick and Ray Johnson
Role-Playing Notes:
Basically Marc Spector is a mentally disturbed man dealing with his problems through multiple personalities and superheroics. His guilt and disgust over his past life compel him to atone by acting as a hero. He reacts strongly when he confronts people from his past. While his associates find him difficult, he readily accepts orders from superiors.
History:
Marc Spector was the son of rabbi Elias Spector, a noted European Hebrew scholar who had fled to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. As Marc grew up, he rejected his father’s way of life and began to pursue a very materialistic existence. He first became a liaison to the Central Intelligence Agency, and resigned a few years later to become a mercenary soldier. He fought in three African wars and five South American revolutions. It was in Africa that Spector met pilot Jean-Paul DuChamp, whom he nicknamed “Frenchie,” a man who would become his most trusted aide and constant companion.
At the peak of his career as a soldier of fortune, Spector worked as second-in-command to Roald Bushman, a terrorist for hire who had his face tattooed as a death mask. While fighting rebel forces in the Sudan, Spector learned that Bushman planned to loot a nearby archeological dig. Already aware that he was working on the wrong side, Spector decided to leave Bushman that night. However, Dr. Peter Alraune, an American archeologist trying to preserve the dig’s treasures, tried to stab Bushman in the back. Spector instinctively stopped him. Bushman murdered the archeologist. Sickened, Spector warned the archeologist’s daughter Marlene to get to safety, and then challenged Bushman. Bushman bested Spector and left him out in the desert to die.
Spector was carried to shelter by adherents of the ancient Egyptian religion, but it was apparently too late to save his life. For nearly a minute, Spector lay before the statue of Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon. Inexplicably, Spector’s heart began beating again. In a delirium, he attributed his revival to Khonshu and declared himself the moon’s knight of vengeance. Draping him self in a white cloth, Spector destroyed Bushman’s organization in that part of the world, and then took Frenchie and Marlene with him back to America.
After months of deliberation, Spector decided to adopt the costumed identity of the Moon Knight in order to use his acquired wealth and resources to wage war against criminals and terrorists. Frenchie became Spector’s pilot, confidant, and special agent. Marlene became Spector’s confidant and paramour.
Learning of the underworld connections of a group of businessmen called the Committee, Spector sent Frenchie to infiltrate the group. When the Committee became interested in using Jack Russell, the local werewolf, as an agent of terror, Frenchie recommended Spector for the job of capturing the beast. Frenchie provided the Committee with Spector’s Moon Knight costume, pretending to have created the identity for the job. Spector, as Moon Knight, found Russell and took him to the Committee, but then set him free, halting the Committee’s operations.
Shortly thereafter, Spector adopted the identity of millionaire Steven Grant. He bought a mansion on Long Island for use as his base of operations in his war against crime. Seeking to travel incognito, Spector also adopted the identity of cab driver Jake Lockley. As Lockley, he assembled a network of street informants and aides, including Bertram Crawley, and Ray and Rick Johnson.
The Moon Knight led a successful crime-fighting career in the New York area, battling such foes as the Midnight Man, Morpheus, the Jester, and the Black Spectre. He also vanquished his old enemy Bushman in battle. However, the strain of maintaining four separate identities began to take its toll. Finally, at Marlene’s behest, he retired all of his false identities so that he could concentrate on his true identity of Marc Spector. He legally transferred ownership of his mansion from Grant to Spector, and then became a world-traveling dealer of fine art. Symbols of his abandonment of his Moon Knight persona included his putting the statue of Khonshu, which he had acquired long ago, onto the auction block.
A few weeks later, Spector began having vivid dreams that Khonshu was summoning him. These proving to be irresistible, he boarded a flight to Egypt to investigate their significance. Three priests of Khonshu told him that being Moon Knight was his destiny. Not able to help himself, he donned the new Moon Knight costume they had for him and accepted their new weapons. The priests, who claimed to be unable to leave the tomb, assigned him the task of returning to them the statue of Khonshu which he had sold. In the process, he encountered his counterpart, the champion of Anubis, the jackal headed god, and defeated him. Since returning the statue to them, he has acted as the agent of the priests of Khonshu, traveling the world at their bidding to battle the forces of evil.