ORCA
Original Animal Characteristics
Description: Commonly known as killer whales, orcas belong to a group of cetaceans known as the 'blackfish', all of which are actually dolphins! Of the cetaceans, they have the most diverse behavior, generally falling into one of three
categories; resident, transient, and offshore. Resident orcas have a complex matriarchial society where both sexes live with their mothers in pods, all speaking the same dialect, these pods (typically 5-25 individuals) will further form clans in
which all the pods in a geographical area speak with a similar dialect, and lastly, the clans sometimes form together into a community. Transient orcas tend to form smaller pods of 1-7 individuals and hunt using less echolocation because their
prey tends to be other aquatic mammals spread over a larger area. Offshore orca tend to travel in groups of 25-60 individuals and live in the open sea rather than closer to shore as their bretheren do, also they tend to use echolocation to search
for their prey more often.
Size Level: 23
Height: 16-30 feet
Weight: to 20,000 pounds
Build: Short
Mutant Changes & Costs
Total BIO-E: 0
Attribute Bonuses: +5 to I.Q., +5 to M.A., +4 to P.S., Brute Strength.
Human Features
Hands: 5 BIO-E for Partial hands at the end of the flippers (applicable even with arms and hands).
10 BIO-E for full hands at the end of the flippers (applicable even with arms and hands).
20 BIO-E for Extra Limbs; a set of fully developed arms and hands.
Biped: 5 BIO-E for Partial feet at the end of the fluke.
10 BIO-E for Full fluke develops into legs and feet.
Speech: Partial Speech is automatic. 5 BIO-E for Full Speech.
Looks: None; Rounded head and body with thick, black skin; awkward, flat legs and arms.
5 BIO-E for Partial; Rounded head with bottlenose snout, eyes on the side of the head, thick, black skin, short arms and legs.
10 BIO-E for Full; Rounded features, hairless, black skin, fat-looking.
Natural Weapons:
10 BIO-E for 3D6 damage Bite
Mutant Animal Powers:
Automatically receives Hold Breath: Basic Cetacean and Swimming: Basic
5 BIO-E for Sonar
5 BIO-E for Thick Blubber (protection against cold, � damage) and +40 S.D.C.
5 BIO-E for Extra Intelligence Quotient
5 BIO-E for Electroreception: Passive (Detect Electrical Fields)
10 BIO-E for Extra Mental Endurance
10 BIO-E for Extra Thick Skin (protection against cold, 1/4 damage) and +60 S.D.C.
10 BIO-E for Nightvision
10 BIO-E for Sonic Echo-Location
10 BIO-E for Predator Burst
10 BIO-E for Swimming & Surfacing: Orca
15 BIO-E for Ultrasonic Probe
Vestigial Disadvantages:
-5 BIO-E for Masked Face (in this case, a reversal of the racoon, a white mask around the eyes)
-5 BIO-E for Vestigial Dorsal Fin (treat as vestigial tail)
-5 BIO-E for Webbed Hands & Feet
-5 BIO-E for Limited Buoyancy
-10 BIO-E for Diet: Carnivore
-10 BIO-E for Reptile Brain: Predator
-15 BIO-E for No Sense of Smell
-15 BIO-E for Dehydration: Severe
-20 BIO-E for Diet: Cannibalism
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