The Book of Jesse Quick
 

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Character Bio - Born into the life of superheroics as the daughter of two Golden Age heroes, Jessica Chambers became a crime fighter at a young age. Learning to use the formula “3x2(9yZ)4A” that he father, Johnny Quick, invented, she took the name Jesse Quick to fight by her father’s side. Later, after her father’s death, she joined the Teen Titans. When Wally West needed help fighting the evil speedster Zoom, Jesse gave him her powers, which she didn’t regain. After joining the Justice Society of America and falling in love with Rick Tyler, Jesse took up her mother’s mantle and became the second Liberty Belle, channeling her mother’s super strength and invulnerability. But when the life of one of Jesse’s best friends, Damage, was put in danger by Zoom, Jesse discovered she could still tap into her father’s powers by once again reciting “3x2(9yZ)4A”.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Q: Exactly how does 3x2(9yZ)4A work with multiple opponent figures that are standing on varying levels of height in relation to Jesse Quick?
• A: The first attack "locks in" a number of attack dice to roll, and every subsequent attack after that is based on the initial roll. Lets do an example: If Jesse Quick (with 4 Attack) had height advantage on the first target, she would be able to use 3x2(9yZ)4A for 2 attacks (using 5 and then 4 dice), regardless of who she attacked after the first attack.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Metahuman, Jesse Quick has these Metahuman Synergies.
• As a Titan, Jesse Quick has these Titan Synergies.
• As a figure with the Superspeed special power, Jesse Quick has these Superspeed Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• Jesse Quick may be drafted into an army with a Jesse Chambers figure that is a Protégé and boosts that figure with her Metagenes special power. Current Jesse Chambers figures that are Protégés: Liberty Belle.

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-Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses-

Immunities:

• As a figure with the Flying special power, Jesse Quick cannot be affected by aspects of certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with the Flying special power.
• As a figure with the Superspeed special power, Jesse Quick does not roll a fewer defense die against Professor Zoom's Negative Speed Force Special Attack.

Benefits:

• N/A

Weaknesses:

• As a figure with the Flying special power, Jesse Quick interacts differently with certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with the Flying special power.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• Flash Family Faction Strategy
• Justice Society Faction Strategy

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Viegon
• Second playtest: Viegon (after tweaks)
• Third playtest: Aggressive Sock
• Fourth playtest: TrollBrute
• Fifth playtest: Midgieboy3
• Sixth playtest: bsbush
• Seventh playtest: Asterius
• Eighth playtest: Viegon (at 120 points)
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by japes

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

NAME = JESSE QUICK
SECRET IDENTITY = JESSE CHAMBERS

SPECIES = METAHUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = TITAN
PERSONALITY = CONFIDENT

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 10
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = 120

METAGENES
You may draft one other Jesse Chambers figure that is a Protégé. Place Jesse Quick's figure on the other Jesse Chambers’ card. While Jesse Quick’s figure is on the other Jesse Chambers’ card, that Jesse Chambers adds 5 to her Move number and may use any special powers on this card in addition to her own. If any of Jesse Quick’s special powers refer to Jesse Quick or Jesse Quick’s card, they refer to the other Jesse Chambers or the other Jesse Chambers’ card instead.

SUPERSPEED
Jesse Quick may move through all figures, never takes leaving engagement attacks, and does not have to stop her movement when entering water spaces. After taking a turn with Jesse Quick, if she did not use her Flying special power this turn, she may move up to an additional 4 spaces without using the Flying special power.

3x2(9yZ)4A
When Jesse Quick attacks, she may attack one additional time, rolling 1 fewer attack die for the second attack. After rolling defense dice with Jesse Quick, you may immediately move her up to 4 spaces.

FLYING


ORIGINAL DESIGN:

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

So this one we discussed over in Liberty Belle’s thread, where we worked out the above write-up. However, since we last discussed her, I’ve come up with a few of changes I’d like to make:
1) Instead of having Liberty Belle get placed on Jesse Quick and boosting her up, I want to switch it so Jesse Quick’s figure goes on Liberty Belle’s card. Mechanically it’s not much different, but it’s a lot more thematic (she stayed with the name Liberty Belle even after she had both power sets).
2) I want to give her a Speed Dodge-lite effect (the movement after defending but not the blank=auto-defend). I think it’d make her slightly more interesting and more in-line with the other speedsters, but it will also make the combined version better (which I worry won’t be worth the combined cost right now).
3) I want to split 3x2(9yZ)4A into two powers (the generic Superspeed power and 3x2(9yZ)4A). The main reason is to keep the one power from getting too crowded, but also to keep her consistent with the other DC speedsters (which also gives us the ability to catch them all for synergy by just naming Superspeed and Speed Force, which is my plan for Jay).

Put together, we’d get something like:

Thoughts?

ADDITIONAL COMIC ART:

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

Flying + Superspeed always feels odd to me. Not much we can do about it, though... I guess we could swap out the "multiple attacks" bit for Flying but that'd be theme over balance.

Overall seems fine - pretty standard speedster with the Metagenes being the most interesting bit (I agree with your reasoning on the switch by the way).

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

I agree with Flying and Superspeed being weird on the same card, but both are necessary thematically. I like your suggestion for using Flying as the limitation for Superspeed, but then the extra movement gets a little weird with 3x2(9yZ)4A. Maybe remove the move while attacking part? She'd then have a basic multi-attack that she'd get to move after using.

Brainstorming that direction, maybe:

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

Shouldn't she have Superstrength? Wikipedia says she can lift a car.

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

That'd definitely assuage some of the weirdness. :up: Your call if you'd prefer that take over the prior one, though.

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

I thought the addition of Superspeed meant the subtraction of Flying.

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

Did she really have Flying at the same time as she was Jesse Quick and super speeding all over? I don't recall her ever flying when I read stories with her in the pages of Flash during Wally West's run in the 90s.

Other than hashing out the flying thing, I definitely like the overall direction (especially the placement of her on Liberty Belle's card instead of vice versa).

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

Not at this point of her character. When she was Jesse Quick, she was just a speedster. Later, she lost her speed powers but gained her mother's super strength and invulnerability, and started going as Liberty Belle. After that she regained her superspeed and used it in-conjunction with her super strength, sticking with the name Liberty Belle.

The three different phases of her character are being represented by the two designs. Jesse Quick by herself represents her early career, Liberty Belle by herself represents the middle period, and the two of them combined into one represent her later.

I don't know her as Jesse Quick that well, but I was under the impression she could fly. Quoting Spidey from Liberty Belle's thread:

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

I agree that Flying and Superspeed is weird, but if we're stuck with it, we're stuck with it.

Other than that, I like your latest direction. I am worried that triple attack on the combined version would be too strong. I'm willing to let testing show on that one though. Or you could try it as a Special Attack.

Re: The Book of Jesse Quick - Design Phase
 

Yeah, I think the primary thing to figure out is whether or not that's true. I'm not 100% convinced that it was iconic for her to fly at all stages in her Jesse Quick career. And I think the design is stronger if she can't, honestly.
@Spidey'tilIDie - any thoughts?