Carbon Copy

Carbon Copy (minor) by Stone Gargoyle

The superbeing can make a nonliving duplicate of himself out of an equivalent mass of stone or other nonliving substance. The duplicate will look for all intents and purposes like the character, at first glance at any rate. The duplicate, upon inspection, will reveal itself to be what it is, but at a distance will fool onlookers.

1. Decoy: The superbeing transmutes matter to resemble flesh and, with a sculpting skill the equivalent of 70% +4% per level, molds it to resemble himself (molding it to look like others must be done with the sculpting skill at its normal percentage, this increased ability due only to the character's familiarity with his own face and body). This is done by touch and requires a full melee of contact to be successful. If the skill roll fails, though, it will not fool anyone.

Power uses per day: Equal to half the character's ME number

Duration: 24 hours, after which the substance turns to sludge.

Perception: Onlookers more than 2 feet away must roll a 16 or better to realize the successfully sculpted duplicate is not the individual who created it (or who it is made to resemble). Closer inspection without touching the body requires a 12 or better to see past the facade. Touching the "body" will make its true nature obvious.

2. Limitations: Genetic analysis will prove the mass to not even be human. Unless this method is used, the body will appear to be a corpse, though touching it will make one think it is fossilized, even if the onlooker no longer believes it to be the superbeing who created it (or the one it is sculpted to resemble). Body heat and other signs of life cannot be duplicated, nor can the decoy be made to move by means of this power. The power cannot be used to alter living things or previously living things, only inert matter, though bodies which have fossilized into rock and dirt made of decomposed organic matter can be used, just not plants or dead animals or things made from the same.

3. Other Abilities and Bonuses:

+5% to Medical skills, +10% to art skills

+1d4 ME