Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

break to let them be themselves again. When she
successfully broke through, the fact that their minds
had been tampered with made them all the more
afraid of her. They wanted her gone, so she was
sent to Freedom Academy. As she boarded the bus,
Vanessa hoped that she would finally find people
who would accept her.
Capabilities and Motivations
As a telepath and telekinetic, Muse’s powers have
a wide range of applications, limited mostly by her
own inhibitions and sense of morality. While she
often uses her powers to enhance her teammates
by boosting their morale and making them their
best version of themselves, she can also use them to
directly influence the mind. She can read thoughts,
alter the senses of others to become imperceptible
or create illusions. If she is willing to let her darker
nature out, she can implant suggestions, make
their worst fears come to life, directly control the
will of other beings, or even warp reality. After all,
wouldn’t it be simpler to just change their minds?
This struggle is the center of Muse’s existence as
a hero. She fears that she might never be free of
what she did as The Dreamer, but at the same time,
there is a freedom in letting her powers out to
command and prey on the fears of others that can
be difficult to resist.
Personal Life
Muse is in the right place to learn to use and control
her powers, but finding acceptance is proving to be
more complicated than she’d hoped. Part of this
is due to the nature of her powers. Even when
she isn’t trying to be invasive, she picks up on the
thoughts and emotions of those around her. When
someone gets freaked out by something she does,
she immediately senses it. Without realizing what’s
happening, this upsets her, which influences how
she uses her powers, leading to a self-perpetuating
cycle of fear. Learning how to accept herself and
her past is part of her training, but there is a world
of difference between talking with Heritage about
communication and putting it into practice.
Muse likes the other members of Daybreak, but
is especially close with Aeon Girl. Rockstar and
Headlong are fun to be around, but they tend to be
a bit self involved, and sometimes can treat her like
the kid sister of the team. Fortunately, Aeon Girl
helps, as she’s the least likely to be afraid of Muse,
has a similar level of maturity, and is more than
happy to hang out at every available opportunity.
Muerto is on the other end of the spectrum. The
tragedy he has seen and the way it has marked his
psyche makes Muse find him difficult to be around,
but also the one that she wants to help the most.
Still, just having a group of people that actively want
her around is a novel feeling, and when things are
going well, it makes her happy.
Being a part of Daybreak has its ups and downs
for Muse. The battles test her abilities to their
limits, helping her grow and develop her powers.
However her moral and ethical limits are also
tested as to how far she is willing to go to use
them. Afraid of being thought of as a monster again,
she focuses on helping her teammates instead of
taking a more active role in the fight. She’s secretly
terrified that one day she’ll go too far and ruin the
few friendships she’s made. Even though she can
tell that the teachers at the academy are genuinely
concerned, she keeps her fears to herself. The
person that she most wishes she could talk to is
Visionary, but even that is complex — she knows
that Visionary is in a unique position to understand
her, but she is also the person (albeit an evil version)
who misused their powers in exactly the way that
she fears.
For Vanessa Long, there are no easy answers.
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Intro
Playing
the Game
Creating
Heroes
Moderating
the Game
the
Bullpen
Adventure
Issues
A rchives
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Appendices