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Old 02-14-2018, 02:19 AM   #27
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#52): Extra Attack

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Originally Posted by evileeyore View Post
I believe it's a "Batman" level Supers game.

Chase Taylor is clearly a superior athlete, super soldier, and The Sentinel all wrapped up in one.

This is Icelander's game write up.
Heh.

I'd literally never heard of the Canadian TV show 'The Sentinel' before. Amusingly, the main character there seems to be a US Army Ranger who worked with 7th SFG (A) on a covert operation in South America (Peru). Chase Taylor, before Project Jade Serenity, was a US Army Ranger who worked with 7th SFG (A) on a covert operation in South America (Colombia).

When his former platoon leader and the current XO of his company decided to volunteer for some special version of Special Forces Assessment and Selection, Chase volunteered as well. He idolised the officer, as an older, wiser brother or maybe even a father figure. Hence, Project Jade Serenity, where they went through a modified version of the Special Forces Qualifying Course while taking a variety of nootropics and performance enhancing drugs.

But, yeah, Chase Taylor's power seems to match the Wikipedia description of the Sentinel. Enhanced Senses, all five, to a ridiculous degree. All Discriminitory Senses (Sensitive Touch is the equivalent for touch and the targeting sensor eyes for vision), Per 20.

Aside from that, he's actually within realistic human norms.

Well, Tom Brady human norms for continuing to perform at a top level as he approaches forty, Olympic gymnast human norms for his strength for his size, agility and physical coordination, top NFL pass-rushing outside linemen* human norms for aggression, reaction speeds and tackling ability, top MMA fighters for his Bando and combatives work, and top CAG or DEVGRU snipers and assaulters for fieldcraft, sharpshooting, MOUT, QCC, dynamic entry and pretty much all commando skills.

So... I guess that being at the extreme end of the human norm at a very wide range of adventuring useful endeavours might constitute, to some people, as being functionally outside the human norm. :-)

*Though as he weighs only about 50% of a real OLB, he couldn't make a team anywhere. Doesn't matter how fast you react if your best solid hit can't bring Jason Kelce, Dave DeCastro, Alex Mack or Brandon Brooks down or even push them backwards, except on a stroke of luck (critical hit).
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