(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg206/Animeandartlover/anime%20guy/381396.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://dreager1.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ghost-rider-coverc.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER SHEET<br/><br/>Name: Matthias Graves<br/><br/>Nom De Guerre: Ghost Rider<br/><br/>Sex: Male<br/><br/>Height: 5’11”<br/><br/>Weight: 165 lbs<br/><br/>Place of Birth: Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, USA, Earth-616<br/><br/>Current Nationality: American<br/><br/>Known Relatives: Tobias Graves (father); Audrey Graves (mother, deceased); Jennifer Graves (older sister)<br/><br/>Current Occupation: Bounty Hunter<br/><br/>Current Place of Residence: The Open Road<br/><br/>Affiliations: Midnight Sons (former at best, tenuous at worst), Heaven<br/><br/>Hobbies: Occult Lore, Engineering (his program before life went south)<br/><br/>Quote:  (As himself) “Because I’m just that hard.” / (As the Rider) “Those who are evil, beware my might.  For the Spirit of Vengeance rides tonight!”<br/><br/>Origin of Powers: Possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance<br/><br/>Strength Level: Ghost Rider possesses Class 10 Superhuman Strength, enabling him to lift (press) 10 tons.<br/><br/>FIGHTING: Amazing<br/>AGILITY: Incredible<br/>STRENGTH: Incredible<br/>ENDURANCE: Monstrous<br/>REASON: Remarkable<br/>INTUITION: Remarkable<br/>PSYCHE: Amazing<br/><br/>HEALTH: 205<br/>KARMA: 110<br/><br/>RESOURCES: Shift 0<br/>POPULARITY: Unknown to Most in the Galaxy (For Now)<br/><br/>COMBAT STATS:<br/><br/>Can Take 2 Combat Actions Without Rolling, Each at a -1CS<br/>Initiative: +3<br/>Hand to Hand: Monstrous (+1CS) <br/>Shotgun: Monstrous (+2CS)<br/>Chains: Unearthly (+2CS)<br/>Damage (HtH): Incredible 40 (Amazing 50 magical damage if fists are wreathed in Hellfire)<br/>Dodging: Incredible<br/>Evading: Amazing <br/>Grappling Strength: Incredible<br/>Grappling Strength with Chains: Unearthly<br/><br/>POWERS: <br/><br/>Body Resistance - Ghost Rider possesses Amazing resistance to physical and energy attacks.<br/><br/>Invulnerabilities - Class 1000 Resistance to Fire/Heat, Poison, Radiation, and Soul Attacks.<br/><br/>Pennance Stare - If Ghost Rider successfully grapples someone for one round and forces the other to look into his eyes, it forces the victim to experience the pain he has inflicted on others. The victim must make a Psyche Feat roll or permanently loose 1 rank in Psyche. Additionally the victim must then make another Psyche Feat versus Amazing intensity or pass out for 1-100 rounds. <br/><br/>Hellfire - Ghost Rider’s body is sheathed in Amazing hellfire. Only his riding leathers keep it in check. If someone uses an edged weapon against him and scores a Red result an explosion of Amazing intensity occurs and effects everyone within the area including Ghost Rider.<br/>* Increase Hand to hand Damage: By wreathing his hands in hellfire, he may increase his punching damage +1cs.  This is magical damage.<br/><br/>Regeneration - When out of combat and at rest, Ghost Rider's wounds heal at a rate of 5 health per round.<br/><br/>Life Support - Ghost Rider has no need to eat, drink or breathe, and may survive in hostile environments such as the bottom of the ocean or deep space indefinitely.<br/><br/>Immortality - As long as he remains possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance, Ghost Rider cannot truly die.  He will return.<br/><br/>Magic Resistance - Ghost Rider possesses Remarkable Magic Resistance.  Magic tends not to affect him as bad as it would others.<br/><br/>Vengeance Sense - Ghost Rider has the ability to sense when innocent blood has been spilled up to a mile away with Unearthly ability.  Using this ability, he is able to track individuals who have harmed the innocent across the galaxies.  <br/><br/>LIMITATIONS:<br/><br/>Alter Ego (Matthias Graves)<br/><br/>Fighting    Good<br/>Agility                Good<br/>Strength    Typical<br/>Endurance    Good<br/>Reason    Excellent<br/>Intuition    Typical<br/>Psyche    Excellent<br/><br/>Equipment Can Be Taken Away<br/><br/>UNUSUAL FEATURES:<br/><br/>Ghost Rider is essentially a skeleton ablaze in Hellfire wearing motorcycle leathers.  Most of the time only his head is exposed, a flaming skull.<br/><br/>EQUIPMENT:<br/><br/>Mystic Chain: Unearthly Material<br/><br/>    Grapple with Unearthly ability<br/>    Inflict up to Monstrous damage, blunt or edged<br/>    Elongation: Excellent (1 Area away)<br/>    Individual links turn into shurikens, each causing Good damage. May attack everybody in an area with 1-8 shurikens causing Good damage each (for a total of 80 damage to a single target if he so chooses)<br/>    May also spin to form a shield of Remarkable.<br/>    Unlimited amount of chain as long as Ghost Rider has any of it.<br/><br/>Hellfire Shotgun: Shift Y Material<br/><br/>    Fires a blast of Hellfire for Unearthly magical damage up to 2 areas away.  Can hit up to 3 (total) adjacent targets.<br/><br/>Motorcycle: Unearthly Material<br/><br/>    Can can fly at up to Shift Z speeds (3,750 mph) in an atmosphere and up to Class 1000 speeds (.5 lightyears per hour) in space.  The bike must accelerate normally however, starting at 3 areas per round, then 6, then 12, then 25, then 50, then 100, then 200.  It takes a total of 7 rounds to reach maximum speed inside an atmosphere.  On the ground the bike can speed along at up to Shift Z groundspeed (240 mph), leaving behind a trail of hellfire.  Ghost Rider can mentally call his bike to him from nearly anywhere in the universe, though in summoning the bike it is still limited to it's normal speed ranks.<br/><br/><br/>TALENTS:<br/><br/>Weapon Specialist: Chains, Weapon Specialist: Hellfire Shotgun, Martial Arts B, Occult Knowledge<br/><br/>CONTACTS:<br/><br/>Dr Strange, Jonny Blaze<br/><br/>HISTORY:He once made a deal to save someone he loved.<br/><br/>And if you asked him, would he do it again, he would reply, yes, he would.<br/><br/>Because someone with the guts to sell his soul for love…<br/><br/>…has the power to change the world.<br/><br/>Matthias Graves was a kid from Hell’s Kitchen who made good.  Escaped the gangs and the crime and got to where his family wanted him, to college, to a better life, far from Hell’s Kitchen.<br/><br/>But life has a funny way of showing you where your priorities lay.  Especially when it turns out Mom is dying of cancer.  The doctors tried everything, but nothing worked.  Desperate for a solution, Matthias turned to the books of occult lore he’d found in the libraries of Columbia University for an answer.  Even if it was nothing, even if they were just words, as long as there was some hope, he could go on, despite all the sacrifice his family had made.<br/><br/>Matthias found the same spell that a stunt cyclist named Johnny Blaze had so many years ago, and struck the same deal…his mother, for the cost of his own soul.  And it worked.  Overnight, the cancer just up and vanished, curing her.<br/><br/>But life has a strange way of turning things on its head…especially when the one doing the turning is capable of things beyond human imagination.  Mephisto cured his mother’s cancer, only for her to die in a convenience store holdup gone wrong by a junkie strung out on too much meth and carrying a Saturday Night Special.<br/><br/>Matthias knew his number was up, and that all the sacrifice his family had made was for nothing…until a man wearing white approached him.  This time with another deal.  He could protect Matthias, he promised, from Mephisto.  But he would have to do something in exchange.<br/><br/>The man in white was Raziel, one of the archangels of Heaven who had survived Zadkiel’s rebellion against God, and he saw in Matthias the makings of a new Spirit of Vengeance.<br/><br/>With nowhere else to turn, Matthias agreed…and bonded to a Spirit, became one of the new generation of Ghost Riders.  Matthias graduated from college not long after that, taking up a job as a bounty hunter (an arrangement he made with Raziel), and sending all the money he could home to his family to replace the money spent to save his mother.<br/><br/>It’s been 5 years since then, and this Rider has grown in power and talent far beyond the projections of even Heaven’s best thinkers.<br/><br/>But for Matthias, the pattern remains the same.  Hunt the guilty.  Earn money.  Send home.</strong>