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« on: July 03, 2013, 08:51:14 pm »
Kyle sat, casually shaping and reshaping his left hand into various forms, trying to piece together exactly what happened.
It had gone well at first. He had been sitting on the street corner, begging for money and wallowing in self-pity, when a sharply-dressed man approached him, saying that his team were developing a new serum designed to induce regeneration, and were offering $600 to anyone willing to test it. While this seemed very dubious, not to mention incredibly dangerous, the money was just too much to pass up and he accepted the offer, providing he could get half the money upfront. The man responded by pulling out a wad of cash from his jacket and tossing it into Kyle's lap, gesturing for him to follow. Before following the man Kyle hid the money, along with the rest of his day's earnings, behind a loose brick in the wall behind a bin, just in case. Kyle followed the man down an alleyway to a shabby looking building, where he told Kyle to go inside.
The next thing Kyle remembered was waking up, feeling disoriented and sore all over. He staggered to his feet and looked around. He appeared to be right outside the building which he had been led to. A quick check inside revealed that it was abandoned, though footprints show that people had been there recently. He began to doubt that there had even been a serum test, though he did feel slightly, different. While mulling this over, he decided to return to get his money from before, if it was still there. When he got back to his hiding spot, he was relieved to find the money was still there. That relief was short-lived however, as he heard a voice from behind him demanding that he hand the money over. He turned to find he had been confronted by a rather shabby looking man with a knife. Angered by the confrontation and determined not to lose the money, he struck out at the man. However in his weakened state he was easily blocked, and the man in return stabbed Kyle in the stomach. In his shock Kyle flailed out at the attacker, and was horrified to see his fingers turn into sharp claws that tore into the man, who dropped to the floor with blood pouring out of him. In his panic, Kyle fled, hiding his clawed hands in his jacket as he ran. His panicked running took him right back to the abandoned building where he woke. He decided to hide out in the building for a while until he figured out what was going on with himself. Once he had calmed down, he was shocked to realise he still had the knife sticking out of his chest, but was most surprised to find that it didn't hurt. He pulled out the knife, noticing that his fingers had returned to normal, and that the wound was closing rapidly. He experimented for a while, and found that he could control this change, and reshape his body into many forms.
A thought then came to him, that he now had the power to bring justice to those who are denied it, that he could use these new-found powers for good. But first he would have to master his new-found talent, and disguise his identity.
Search city for criminal activity, using his power to disguise his facial features if necessary
