Punk Mambo (Icons Writeup)

Punk Mambo
aka Victoria Greaves-Trott

Prowess 4
Coordination 4
Strength 4
Intellect 5
Awareness 6
Willpower 8

Stamina 12

Powers
*Voodoo Magic 7 (Punk Mambo has mastered the following spells and may use them without the Performance Limit: Astral Projection, Blast, and Illusion)
*Immortality 1
*Ghost Lantern – Binding 7 (Limit: Only works on spirits and demons)
*Gris-gris – Magic Resistance 6
*Ring of Solomon – Dimensional Travel 10 (Limit: Only allows Punk Mambo to travel to and from a pocket dimension located within the ring. She may use it in conjunction with the Ghost Lantern to bind spirits and then dispatch them into the Ring)
*Various voodoo talismans and trinkets – Gadgets 5
*Punk Mambo can summon, control, and ride the Loa Ayezan, granting her the following powers and abilities while utilizing the Loa:

• Dimensional Travel 7 (Limit: Deadside Only)
• Flight 5
• Force Field 8
• Servant 6

Specialties
Investigation, Mental Resistance, Occult – Master (+3 bonus)

Qualities
*Rude, Crude, & Socially Unacceptable
*Mystical Mercenary
*Voodoo Priestess

Background

Victoria Greaves-Trott is a Mohawk-sporting, voodoo priestess. Dwelling in the Bayou outside New Orleans, Punk Mambo helps the wayward, troubled, and damned remedy what afflicts them for a price.

As a teenager in 1970s London, young punk rocker Victoria was abducted by Houngan, a lecherous voodoo priest. Much older than his youthful appearance suggested, the houngan- then operative under the name Joe Mayhem- collected Victoria and other young souls like her, forcing them into debauched rites and practices that fueled his immortality. Victoria observed Joe’s rites closely, and on breaking free, used their power for herself. Years later she would return to London to exact her revenge on Joe Mayhem and so-called friends who had placed her in his power. Ever the rebel, Punk Mambo left Mayhem humiliated, but alive.

It was Punk Mambo who Jack Boniface turned to when he was trying to rid himself of the loa that gave him his powers of Shadowman. And when MI-6 needed an occult expert to guide a team into the Deadside, they naturally turned to the most mystically accomplished British national they could find. When this team went missing, Punk Mambo would enter the Deadside side-by-side with Ninjak to retrieve them. There, the two of them faced a Shadowman slaved to the will of the villainous necromancer Master Darque. Ninjak and Punk Mambo subdued Shadowman and returned the lost team and the fallen hero into the hands of MI-6. Since then, she has worked alongside other heroes such as Doctor Mirage, though she hates being drawn into world-saving adventures, preferring to operate on a more personal level.