Jessica Fletcher
Bryan Maloney
STR 8
DEX 8
CON 10
BODY 9
INT 23
EGO 23
PRE 12
COM 10
PD 2
ED 2
SPD 2
REC 4
END 20
STUN 18
Skills
Writing (Mysteries) 15-
Deduction 17-
Forensics 19-
Acting 21-
Powers
Invisibility, no fringe, vs. all visual senses.
Telepathy 10d6
Mind Control 10d6
Mental Illusions 10d6
Note: All three powers are linked and can only be used for the "Fletcher
Effect"
Ego Defense: 25
Disadvantages
Psych Lim: Serial Killer, total commitment
Psych Lim: Loves to send innocents to their "punishment", total commitment
Background
Perhaps the most insidious and evil villain to ever plague the heroes of
New England was the heartless murderess Jessica Fletcher. After two decades
as a popular writer of mysteries, for reasons still unknown, this apparently
kindly old woman began a string of murders that may never be completely
solved. Indeed, had it not been the combination of a masterful costumed
detective working in conjunction with a reputed sorcerer, she could very
well be still operating to the present day.
The origin of her powers is as mysterious as her motives. However,
investigation has at least revealed her method. Her career as an author
gave her ample opportunity to travel nationwide for "book signings". When
in a city for a "signing", in addition to her publicity appearance, she
would use a low level telepathic power to scan the crowd for anyone who felt
he or she had a grievance against someone. This person would be her patsy.
The target of that grievance would be her victim.
She would then later become invisible, acquire appropriate weaponry from the
possessions of the patsy, and kill her victim. Then she would use what has
come to be called the "Fletcher Effect" on her patsy. Using a very
powerful, but tightly focussed form of telepathic control, she would hunt
through the patsy's mind and create a plausible murder scenario in his or
her memories. Then she would go to work with her almost unrivalled forensic
skills to make sure the proper physical evidence was available.
Once the corpse was found, she completed her plan, pinning the murder on her
patsy and heading to another city, her reputation as a sleuth enhanced.
--
"Why then did the passengers on the plane that went down near Pittsburgh
decide to resist the hijackers and prevent them from completing their
mission? Because they knew: their relatives had told them by cell phone that
the World Trade Center had already been attacked by hijacked planes. They
were armed with final awareness of the nature of the evil they faced.
So armed, they could act. So armed, they did."
--Time Magazine
David Johnston
>She would then later become invisible, acquire appropriate weaponry from the
>possessions of the patsy, and kill her victim. Then she would use what has
>come to be called the "Fletcher Effect" on her patsy. Using a very
>powerful, but tightly focussed form of telepathic control, she would hunt
>through the patsy's mind and create a plausible murder scenario in his or
>her memories. Then she would go to work with her almost unrivalled forensic
>skills to make sure the proper physical evidence was available.
Agatha Christie had the same basic concept except that the killer
would mind control susceptible people into actually committing the
murders.
Forge
time .. Hercule Poirot and Ms Marple being the 2 I'm most aware of (dunno if
there are others)
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Jim Longo
> Yeah but at least Agatha Christie didn't have the same investigator all the
> time .. Hercule Poirot and Ms Marple being the 2 I'm most aware of (dunno if
> there are others)
The only multi-book ones were Tommy and Tuppence Beresford (they had
about a half-dozen books, but while the characters themselves were
quite likeable, the stories were less than Christie's best, especially
the later ones), Superintendent Battle, and Colonel Johnny Race (both
of whom also appeared in a Poirot mystery, "Cards on the Table").
However, Poirot, by virtue of being both her earliest and most
popular, had over 40 books on him, more than any of her others.
your friendly neighborhood librarian
j.
Bryan J. Maloney
<gasp...@jscomm.net> wrote:
> Just plain Evil! Is this the 250pt version?
Haven't the faintest idea. I just give villains abilities as amuse me.
--
"A 'Cape Cod Salsa' just isn't right."
David Rhode
help us all, the Three Investigators might be proto-Fletchers?
Clearly, Jessica Fletcher is not a unique phenomenon. What force
might be behind the proliferation of super-powered psychotic
murderers? Is this some mutant phenotype, a recessive gene buried
within us all... or something even more sinister?
David Johnston
>
> Hmm... does this mean that the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, or even, God
> help us all, the Three Investigators might be proto-Fletchers?
Who?
> Clearly, Jessica Fletcher is not a unique phenomenon. What force
> might be behind the proliferation of super-powered psychotic
> murderers? Is this some mutant phenotype, a recessive gene buried
> within us all... or something even more sinister?
In truth most fictional detectives do not have Jessica Fletcher's peculiar
talent for causing murders in their close proximity. Most of them get
involved only after someone is dead, most of the time. But I'll tell you who
DID follow Jessica Fletcher's pattern: Dr. Kimble. It was positively
extraordinary how the moment that man showed up, hidden animosities and greed
surfaced. He had a rare gift for bringing out criminal urges.
Bryan Maloney
> David Rhode wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... does this mean that the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, or even, God
>> help us all, the Three Investigators might be proto-Fletchers?
>
> Who?
A slightly amusing series that tried to cash in on Alfred Hitchcock's name.
Hitchcock never actually was an author nor active character, merely used as
a "presenter".
SkullNinja
I had always attributed Jessica's problems to 20d6 of unluck and 20d6 of Luck
(the luck prevented her from getting killed, but the unluck washed off on
everybody else and resulted in somebody getting killed every week, but this
even answers more questions than that explanation.
Mathew R. Ignash
Slayer, where Willow was actually an evil mastermind who arranged for
Buffy's mom to get a job in Sunnydale so she could have Buffy eliminate
all the OTHER evils in Sunnydale, to make it easier to take over.
Mathew
SD Anderson
> time .. Hercule Poirot and Ms Marple being the 2 I'm most aware of (dunno if
> there are others)
There was a WHOLE season of 'other investigators' as I recall,
including a clearly recycled from the Ellery Queen show episode, with
Robert Vaughn in John Hillerman's role.
Brad Carletti
>>> help us all, the Three Investigators might be proto-Fletchers?
>>
>> Who?
>
>A slightly amusing series that tried to cash in on Alfred Hitchcock's name.
>Hitchcock never actually was an author nor active character, merely used as
>a "presenter".
To be fair, he did appear in the first book.
--
Brad Carletti
"However, it is important not to stare at the enemy
because he may sense the stalker's presence through
a sixth sense."
- US Army Field Manual 21-150 Chapter 7 "Sentry Removal"
SkullNinja
>>>> help us all, the Three Investigators might be proto-Fletchers?
>>>
>>> Who?
>>
>>A slightly amusing series that tried to cash in on Alfred Hitchcock's name.
>
>>Hitchcock never actually was an author nor active character, merely used as
>>a "presenter".
>
>To be fair, he did appear in the first book.
>
>--
He appeared in just about every book of the first series (and maybe every one,
I can say for sure in the one where the boys were in New Mexico.)
He was written out of the series and replaced with the fictional Hector
Sebastian in newer copies.
Robert Patrick Duffy
eerily prophetic.
Michael Sears
news:20011030114204...@mb-ct.aol.com...
And he was officially introduced in "The Mystery of the Scar-Faced Beggar",
which mentioned Hitchcock's death during the book.
(Had the whole series)
--
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"No turning back where the end is in sight.
There's a job to be done, a fight to be won."
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Paul "Duggy" Duggan
>In truth most fictional detectives do not have Jessica Fletcher's peculiar
>talent for causing murders in their close proximity. Most of them get
>involved only after someone is dead, most of the time. But I'll tell you who
>DID follow Jessica Fletcher's pattern: Dr. Kimble. It was positively
>extraordinary how the moment that man showed up, hidden animosities and greed
>surfaced. He had a rare gift for bringing out criminal urges.
I always wondered about Danger Mouse. I mean his theme song says
"Wherever there is danger, he'll be there."
Sounds pretty damn dangerous to me.
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Brad Carletti
>"Wherever there is danger, he'll be there."
>
>Sounds pretty damn dangerous to me.
"Whereever there is evil
Whereever an innocent suffers
There would be...
Hercules!"