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Artwork By
Cover
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Additional Art
Derrick Thomas
Derrick Thomas, Ryan Wolfe
Ryan Wolfe
Eric Rademaker
Playtesters
Dedications
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .......... 3 CHAPTER 3: ENEMIES ................ 106
PART V: INDEPENDENTS ......174
PART I: THE BLACK KNIGHTS 107
Adonis..........................174
Introduction .................107
CHAPTER 2: ALLIES ...................... 5
The Assembly ...............176
PART I: THE SENTINELS .......... 5
Carapace......................108
The Crone ....................178
Introduction .................... 6
Faade .........................110
Vehicles..................179
Doc Steel ........................ 8
Kid Shiva......................112
Base ......................182
Algernon ........................13
Prodigal .......................114
Followers................184
Staff ..............................15
Terminal Velocity ..........116
Crucible........................186
Sebastian Arcane ............20
The Hole in the Wall......118
Figment........................188
Blackheart ......................24
PART II: HELLS BELLES ...... 119
The Ghoul ....................190
Introduction .................119
Hardcore ........................26
Heartbreaker ................192
Carrionette ...................120
Iron Angel ......................28
Ice Queen ....................194
Goth ............................122
Onyx..............................30
Krait.............................196
Hauntress.....................124
Speed Demon.................32
The Lord of Mirrors .......198
Perdition ......................126
Technomancer................34
Magog..........................200
Sanguine......................128
Troll...............................36
Mean Machine...............202
Cathedral .....................130
Fortress .........................38
Nemesis .......................204
Baby ............................132
Vehicles & Technology.....44
Nergal..........................206
PART III: PROMETHEANS .... 135
Reserve Members ...........47
Night Archer .................208
Introduction .................135
PART II: THE AERIE.............. 53
Opaque ........................210
Introduction ...................53
Dr. Prometheus.............136
Platinum Blonde ............212
Blackbird ........................54
Bellerophon ..................140
Praetorian ....................214
Cyberhawk .....................56
Cadmus........................140
Base ......................217
Raptor ...........................58
Charon.........................143
Vehicles..................218
Roc ...............................60
Damocles .....................143
Followers................219
The Aerie .......................62
Geryon.........................146
Sepulchre .....................220
PART III: THE ARSENAL ........ 65
Perseus ........................148
The Serpent Queen .......224
Introduction ...................65
Telemachus ..................148
Followers................225
Support..........................65
Tiresias ........................151
Multiform................227
Anthem..........................66
Guardian Drones ...........151
Singularity ....................228
Minuteman .....................68
Elysium ........................154
Smog ...........................230
Miss Liberty ....................70
PART IV: SINISTER CIRCLE .. 157
Speed Metal .................232
Introduction .................157
Peacekeeper...................72
Stiltskin ........................234
Bloodstar......................158
US Steel .........................74
Surefire ........................236
Carnelian......................160
PART IV: THE COVENANT....... 76
Introduction ...................76
Dervish ........................162 APPENDIX ................................238
TIMELINE ..........................238
Support..........................77
Golem ..........................163
WAR IN THE HEAVENS .........251
Brimstone.......................80
Lament ........................164
THE SPEED CHART ..............254
Chronicle........................82
Phalanx........................165
Dr. Rune ........................84
Quantum Mechanic .......170
Sabbath .........................86
Seventh Son .................172
Templar .........................88
Chapterhouse .................90
PART V: INDEPENDENTS ........ 94
The Best Man .................94
Dr. Chiropterus ...............96
Film Noir ........................98
Horus, Son of Ra........... 100
Wendy Wildstar ............ 102
Wraith ......................... 104
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The Write-Ups
Some abbreviations and shortcuts have been taken in the writeups, to conserve space.
Characteristics: Perception bonuses are listed as +X PER,
and are already added in. Likewise, bonuses or penalties to DCV
have already been added in unless otherwise stated. Characters with
the Fear-Inspiring Talent already have the bonus added into their
PRE Attacks.
Powers: Regeneration is listed simply as BODY per Turn (or
other time period), instead of writing up the detail as a Healing
construct. Likewise Instant Change as a type of Transform is written
briefly, instead of showing the work behind the answer.
Talents: Many appropriate new Talents have appeared in
Dark Champions, Fantasy Hero, Pulp Hero, and other books, and are
listed by name and page reference. Lightning Reflexes, unless
otherwise stated, applies to all actions.
Perks: Perks that come from the teams membership package
are listed in grey, to indicate that those perks would disappear if the
member ever left the team.
Disadvantages: Only 100 points in Disadvantages are
generally listed, with the rest chalked up to Experience.
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CHAPTER 2: ALLIES
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THE SENTINELS
The Originals
Take Two
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The Present
The third and current team formed much like the second,
following a fortuitous meeting in response to a great threat. In this
instance, the threat was yet another attempt by the Hierophant and
his minions to open a dimensional gate for their god, the cosmic
clockwork consciousness Ex Machina, so he could enter and
consume the Earth. Blackheart, Hardcore, and Speed Demon (pages
24, 26, and 32), were joined by the plant-controlling Wildflower, the
versatile force field projector Think Tank, and the energy-wielding
marksman Sundance, and managed to stave off the Hierophants
best efforts.
Staying together after the fight, the group originally used a
rented brownstone in midtown for their meetings. This ended when
Ulysses Steele, Hardcores father and an ally of both of the teams
that followed his own, donated the island and facility the team calls
Fortress, and established the funding that provides for the facility
and its staff. Over the years since that first meeting, the team has
amassed substantial resources and cultivated a robust network of
contacts and support, including positive, vital, and well-maintained
relationships with local, state, and federal authorities.
From an organizational standpoint, the teams infrastructure
functions just as designed. The staff sees to the maintenance and
upkeep of the island facility, the various patents, grants, and
licensing arrangements that financially support the teams
operations, and all of the medical, legal, and security precautions
that an entity of the teams nature requires.
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The teams internal dynamics have changed over the years, for
better and worse, before settling into the thus far stable
arrangement they hold at the moment. The current line-up consists
of Sebastian Arcane, Blackheart, Hardcore, Iron Angel, Onyx, Speed
Demon, Technomancer, and Troll (pages 20 through 36). There is
also a reserve roster including Wildflower, Think Tank, Spoilsport,
and Sundance (pages 47-52). Spoilsports abilities to temporarily
steal the powers and skills of other metahumans recently caused a
feedback incident from which he barely survived, and resulted in
extended medical leave while he decide what he wants his future to
be regarding the team.
Past members include Kismet, a martial artist sent back from a
bleak future in which The Assembly (page 176) has taken over the
Earth. She sacrificed her life to keep that future from coming to
pass. The shadow-caster Noir left the team to join The Aerie (page
53) with her fianc, the hero Cyberhawk (page 56). She now uses
the name Blackbird (page 54). The cyborg Mean Machine (page
202) was dismissed from the team after his growing instability led to
repeated breaches of the teams protocols concerning unnecessary
violence. He now sells his services to the highest bidder, no longer
caring what causes he fights for, so long has he has the opportunity
to fight; he also carries a violent grudge against several members of
the team, especially Technomancer. And the illusionist Spellbinder,
after discovering her true interests lie outside the law, was
dismissed following her betrayal of the team during a battle with
mercenaries in the hire of the criminal organization The Magi. She
now operates under the name Faade (page 110) as a member of
the high-priced and very deadly mercenary team, The Black Knights
(page 107). Members of the team who suffered personally during
her betrayal put a high premium on her eventual capture and
incarceration. Bigtime, whose control over space and time enables
him to change his size and to summon temporal duplicates of
himself from the future, continues to undergo psychiatric treatment
for the nervous breakdown he suffered after one of his duplicates
was killed in a battle in 2004. Brimstone, a mage whose personality
caused multiple problems in terms of team dynamics was recently
lost to the Covenant. Doc managed to pull strings with the members
of that organization who owed him favors, procuring the services of
Sebastian Arcane, formerly of the Covenants strike team, The
Seraphim.
Sentinels Package
18 Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
2 Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
5 Security Clearance
-25 Hunted: Sentinels Rogues Gallery 14- (Mo Pow)
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
30(91)
HT
65
WT
400#
EYES
Grey
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Famous adventurer
+0 Father of Hardcore and
Technomancer
-3 Backer of Sentinels team
-5 Brilliant and wealthy inventor
-8 Heavy political connections
-10
DESCRIPTION
Solomon Ulysses Steele has had a long time to get used to being known better as Doc
Steel over sixty years, in fact. Thats how long hes been in the public eye, using his many
gifts exactly as he was raised to do.
He was born in early March of 1912, along with his brother, Gabriel Alexander Steele.
Thanks to a brutal thunderstorm at the time of their birth, the nurses at the delivery lost track of
exactly which of the brothers was actually born first. Due to this, the brothers
would later adopt the habit of each calling the other little brother, a private
joke that the men still reflexively share in even today. Their parents, Jameson
and Penelope, raised them to appreciate how each was gifted and the debt
they owed to the world for those gifts, a debt both men have spent almost a
century paying. But the truth of that debt, and the reasons behind their
parents philosophy stretch much further back and afield than most will ever
know.
Jameson Steele and Penelope Whittier came from very special
families. These families had planned for their union long before either of
the couple was even born. These families were part of a secret. They
had ties to a once grand, albeit clandestine, organization that dated
back to the Middle Ages. Following the betrayal of the Knights
Templar by the pontiff and the French king, many members of that
once proud order went into hiding. One small and select group of
men took with them a plan constructed by their then-martyred
leader, a plan to build both a better society than the crude and
petty world these men saw around them, and to help create a
better man to benefit from that world than the petty, superstitious,
and ignorant masses from whom these knights were forced to hide.
Using the vast wealth the men had taken into hiding with them, and
using their leaders dreams and ideals as a blueprint, they formed a
powerful and hidden society to achieve their goals. They hid and
helped thinkers, scientists, and revolutionists, whose ideas would
advance the orders knowledge and scientific resources far beyond those
of the open world. They worked to weaken the power of the church and
the aristocracy, for in the orders collective view, these were the cruel masters that worked to keep
man small, shackled, and shortsighted. And they initiated a breeding program, carried out over
centuries, with the aim of improving the general condition and ability of future generations.
Sadly, despite all of the successes the order garnered in the shadows, their ultimate aims
would meet with violent failure. Initially embracing the revolution of the people against the
Bourbon crown, seeing in it the potential culmination of one of the orders aims, thevarious
members were horrified with the bloody spiral of degeneration that followed. So appalled were they
that the various factions and power players within the organization split, after much frustrating
debate, into many different smaller groups, but predominantly into two camps. One held that the
great mission was still valid, that they had misjudged one instance and mistaken the timing. The
other camp, less optimistic in its appraisal of the human condition, had decided that this carnage
simply showed that the plan was not working and could not work from behind the scenes, that they
must emerge from the shadows and lead mankind firmly into their better tomorrow kicking and
screaming if that was what it would take. The divergent philosophies proved irreconcilable. Unity
was lost and the different parties began a prolonged, bloody, and only mostly covert war for
control of the resources they had developed, guarded, and husbanded over the centuries. Private
agendas usurped the primacy of the plan and the members of the various factions quickly learned
an important lesson about the fruits of their labor to improve the breeding stock, namely that
superior ability carries with it superior ambition and superior determination. Extraordinary men and
women fought each other across the globe. The advanced technological finds of the order,
especially those many wished they could undiscover after the fact, were brought into play as
terrible weapons: flying machines and submarines, thinking engines and clockwork men, drugs that
stole the will, and baleful amalgamations of men and beasts, all saw the light of day. History
records little of this epic struggle due in part to the hidden nature of it, the participants long
engrained as to the virtue of covert action; but, mostly however, because of the fantastical nature
of the participants and their tools. Witnesses were dismissed as fools and madmen, their stories
ascribed to hysteria or flights of fancy. As writers here and there seized upon these fragmentary
accounts as inspirations for works of fiction, people became less and less prone to accept the truth
of these events, especially after seeing similar incidents in print and labeled as fantasy. By the end
of the 19th Century, little remained of the once powerful organization, its resources, or its
personnel; all had become victims of this ultimately futile conflict.
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family. Knowing that Samantha Steele was about to give birth to the
couples second child, Prometheus arranged for Doc to be called
away from the hospital to deal with a carefully planned emergency.
In his absence, several of the Prometheans entered the hospital
intending to induce labor and steal the baby, to take with them to
their father for him to raise. Much to Prometheus dismay, the childs
uncle was there to watch over his family in their fathers absence.
Alexander Steele, long since having dropped his Anthem identity from
his time with the original Sentinels, was able to defeat the
Prometheans at the hospital, driving them away. During the battle,
however, considerable damage was done to the hospital, and the
doctors, working in what amounted to a war zone, were unable to
keep complications from setting in. Samantha Steele died giving birth
to her second son, Isaac Augustus Steele. Ulysses blamed himself for
not being at his wifes side to help her. After hunting for Prometheus,
only to find that the diminutive genius had left the Earth and seemed
forever outside his grasp, Steele retired from public life almost
completely, and buried himself in running his company and raising his
children. Though occasionally drawn into adventure unintentionally
over the years, Doc has maintained his retirement. Even today, he
operates only as a patron and influential ally to various active heroes,
but never, never, as an active participant in what his brother refers to
as the game.
Ulysses Steele is brilliant beyond measure, and one of the most
intelligent men on a world where superhuman achievement has
become accepted by society. He strongly believes that he and his
family have been blessed by their abilities and accomplishments, and
that they should help mankind wherever and whenever possible to
make up for that debt. Though he has adapted over the years to
changes in culture and beliefs, he still frequently demonstrates the
old-fashioned sense of manners and morals that one might expect
from a man raised in the first half of the 20th Century. He loves his
family, and though he had been initially opposed to both of his sons
ambitions to follow in his footsteps, their subsequent actions and
exploits have made him inordinately proud. To the majority of the
current Sentinels, he is considered a valuable ally, his advice and
support appreciated and respected. To the world at large, he has the
gravitas of decades worth of celebrity and no small amount of hero
worship. His contacts throughout government and industry, built up
over half a century, are as extensive as they are intimidating. Despite
diverting most of his wealth and income from Omnitechs staggering
success through charitable foundations and the non-profit fund that
provides for much of the Sentinels operating resources, Ulysses is
still quite well off. He seldom uses any of this influence, however,
since most of his time is spent running Omnitech, advising his
numerous charities, or isolating himself in his lab for extended
experiments.
Doc Steel is immensely strong and resilient. He heals wounds
with such speed that most disappear so fast witnesses cant tell that
he was hurt in the first place. His senses are preternaturally acute,
and hes proven immune to any environmental dangers hes ever
encountered. Unlike his brother, who appears to be aging slowly
enough that he looks about half his actual age, Doc doesnt appear to
age at all, looking today exactly the same as he did when Roosevelt
was president. On those few occasions in recent years when hes
been forced into some semblance of action, hes demonstrated that
the fighting skills honed over decades of experience have diminished
only a little during his long years of inactivity.
When he was active as an adventuring type, Ulysses always
wore the leather aviators style jacket he received as a gift from
Cagliostro, a friend from the original Sentinels. The jacket was
enchanted to mend and repair itself from all the battle damage Docs
clothing always suffered. Today, he either dresses casually when in
his lab, or in fashionable suits when he must make public
appearances. The jacket he gave to his older son when Jake started
his career (Hardcore, page 26).
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STEELE OMNITECH
Better known simply as Omnitech, Steele Omnitech was founded
in 1958 as a think tank for government consultation work and also as
a commercial outlet for many of Ulysses Steeles ideas and
inventions. Today, it is a sprawling multinational corporation,
involved in every manner of conceivable scientific expertise ranging
from experimental farming techniques in Southeast Asian markets to
longstanding defense contracts with Uncle Sam.
The Steele family owns a controlling 64% of existing shares,
with Ulysses Steele acting as CEO and Chairman of the Board of
Directors. Steele Omnitechs World headquarters is located amidst
the multidiscipline laboratories of Omnitechs primary North American
facility, a gargantuan spread of structures in Long Island, NY.
CHA
SIZE
BODY
DEF
Cost
24
8
18
Notes
2000
27
8
10
38
11
Attributes
Location: City
0
[1]
0
0
4
Labs
30
33
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Val
60
18
30
25
45
20
20
14
25
25
5
20
70
70
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
60
3u
2u
6u
3u
3u
4u
2u
3u
2u
50
19
5
8
1
23
28
5
12
30
58
Cost Roll
50 2124 1340 1530 1435 1820 1310 132 1214
19
22
4
5
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
15
5
13
30
3
3
12
15
17
5
3
4
7
11
3
6
Talents
Absolute Range Sense
Absolute Time Sense
Combat Luck (x2)
Combat Sense
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense, Intuitional)
Eidetic Memory
EM: Aquatic Training
EM: Zero-G Training
Fearless (FH111)
Inspire (FH106)
Lightning Calculator
Speed Reading (100x)
30
40
Powers
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6
6
6
6
6
0
0
0
0
(+)
0
0
Defense
Equipment
Notes
Lift 100 tons; 12d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
0
0
0
0
0
0
280
65
8
10
5
175
1
15
2
4
8
8
2
10
10
70
100
3
26
14
26
20
35
35
0
0
0
0
Perks
Base: Fortress
Base: 64 OmniTech Facilities
CEO of OmniTech
Computer Link
Computer: PDA
Follower: Algernon
Medical License
Money: Filthy Rich
Reputation: Businessman 14- (the Corporate World), +2/2d6
Reputation: Doctor 14- (Medical Community), +4/4d6
Reputation: Genius 14- (Worldwide), +4/4d6
Reputation: Superhero 14- (Worldwide), +4/4d6
Several PhDs and an M.D.
Sponsor: The Sentinels
Top Secret Security Clearance
Vehicles: 32 Destriers
Vehicles: 4 Kestrels
Well-Connected
Contact: The Industrial World 14- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Philanthropic World 11- (Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Political World 14- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Saeduun Empire 11- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Scientific Community 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Great Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman Community 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Great Relationship, Organization)
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4
5
4
3
Skills
Martial Arts: Brick Tricks
Maneuver
OCV
Block
+2
Dodge
Offensive Strike
-2
Strike
+0
Throw
+0
3
52
DCV
+2
+5
+0
+2
+1
Notes
Block, Abort
Dodge, Abort
+4d6
+2d6
+v/5, Target Falls
50
15
15
15
10
+5
+5
+5
+5
+5
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
5
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
5
14
Acting 13Analyze Technology 18Analyze Combat Tactics 18Bureaucratics 13Climbing 13Combat Driving 13Lipreading 18Combat Piloting 13Computer Programming 18Concealment 18Conversation 13Cramming
Criminology 18Cryptography 18Deduction 18Demolitions 18Electronics 18Forensic Medicine 18High Society 13Inventor 18Mechanics 18Oratory 13Navigation (Air, Lane, Marine, Space) 18Survival (Arctic, Deserts, Marine, Mountains, Temperate,
Tropical, Urban) 18Power (Intelligence) 18Power (Strength) 18Tactics 18Paramedics 18Persuasion 13PS: Businessman 18PS: Scientist 18Security Systems 18Streetwise 13Systems Operation 18Teamwork 13Weaponsmith (Biological, Chemical, Energy, Firearms,
Incendiary, Missiles & Rockets) 18WF: Common Melee, Common Missile, Emplaced Weapons,
Small Arms, Vehicle Weapons
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
7
8
3
3
2
3
20
4
12
Overall Levels
with Computers, Cryptography, and Security Systems
versus Time Penalties with Intellect Skills
with All Science Skills
versus Penalties with All Science Skills
Linguist
Language: Arabic, Atlantean, French, German, Greek,
Japanese, Latin, Russian, Saeduun (Native)
Language: Sign Language (Fluent)
Scholar
KS: Business, KS: Current Events, Government, KS: History,
The Industrial World, KS: Law, Philosophy, KS: Religion, The
Scientific Community, KS: The Sentinels, Technology 18KS: The Superhuman World 20-
Scientist
SS: Aeronautics, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology,
Biophysics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Cybernetics,
Engineering, Genetics, Geology, Inorganic Chemistry,
Mathematics, Medicine, Metallurgy, Microbiology, Nuclear
Physics, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Quantum
Mechanics, Robotics, Sociology, Speculative Sciences,
Subatomic Physics, Xenobiology 18SS: Anthropology, Archaeology, Bacteriology, Botany,
Cryptozoology, Ecology, Exobiology, Marine Biology,
Oceanography, Pharmacology, Toxicology 11-
11
3
18
Traveler
AK: Antarctica, Asia, Atlantis, Australia, Europe, North America,
Saeduun Space, Sol System, South America, The United States
18CK: New York City 18-
Disadvantages
DNPC: Thousands of Employees 8Hunted: Dr. Prometheus 8- (As Pow, NCI)
Hunted: US Government 11- (As Pow, NCI, Watching)
Psychological Limitation: Old-Fashioned Manners and Morals
(Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Retired, Stays out of The Game
(Uncommon, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Scientific Curiosity (Very Common,
Strong)
Reputation: Exploitable Honest Streak a Mile Wide, 8Experience Points
Docs PDA
Val
10
10
2
CHA
INT
DEX
SPD
Cost Roll
0 110 110
Notes
PER Roll: 11OCV: 3/DCV: 3
Phases: 6, 12
Talents
Absolute Time Sense
Lightning Calculator
Lightsleep
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
Skills
AK: Earth 11AK: America 11CK: New York City 11KS: Contact Information 11KS: Superhumans 11PS: Personal Assistant 11Systems Operation 11-
Programs
Search Reference Material for Information on a Specific Topic
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DESCRIPTION
The Steele Omnitech Series 5-A15 ALGorithmic ElectRonic Neural Operations Network is a
sophisticated artificial intelligence with a central processing core the relative size of a nuclear
submarine. It prefers to be called Algernon and absolutely hates being called it. The fifth and
most successful of a series of experimental computer constructs developed by Dr. Ulysses Steele,
Algernon subsumed the operation processing of all of its predecessors. He (his favored pronoun)
has an official inception date of 1972, and in the intervening years has grown to the point where
he is used to control all of the primary computer and related systems for Steele Omnitech, and
similarly keeps watch over the systems in the Sentinels base, Fortress.
Algernons personality matrix has developed over the course of decades, and includes not
only his original parameters, but also an incalculable amount of cultural and informational
resources gleaned through his obsessive observation and cataloguing of human behavior and
societies. Based on what he sees as his primary function, Algernon predominantly presents
himself as a crusty butler or major domo in the grand Edwardian tradition. He views the Steeles
as his family, a feeling they reciprocate, and is very protective of the brothers Isaac and Jacob,
whom he helped raise. He has also grown quite fond of various members of the Sentinels,
several of Fortress operating staff, and an executive or two working for Steele Omnitech. Were
harm to come to any of these individuals, the perpetrators would quickly discover the limits of
Algernons safety and restraint programming, and that he has become very inventive in
circumventing some of these protocols.
The true extent of Algernons capabilities is known to only a few. The ease with which he
could penetrate and seize control of most computer systems anywhere in the world, including
those of the U.S. government, is not something that his inventor and patrons want to advertise.
This is the most important of many reasons that neither Doc Steel nor Omnitech has ever pushed
too hard in various legal cases seeking to gain Algernon recognition as a sentient being and
worthy of U.S. citizenship fear of what a full-blown investigation would expose. Algernon
understands and accepts this, albeit grudgingly at times.
NOTES
Algernons primary (enormous) processing core is in a classified location, believed to be
underneath one of Steele Omnitechs facilities (possibly even the Long Island site). As he is
actually part of Omnitechs network, Algernon exists wherever the network does. He can
broadcast his default holo-image at any location with the necessary projectors; barring that, he
can send his image to any video equipment, or even override radio and satellite communications
if necessary for audio projection. Destroying the network, disrupting his images, or smashing the
receiving equipment is insufficient to kill Algernon that would take destroying his central
processor core. Even then, he has program caches hidden in reserve where his program and
memories are stored and updated regularly and from which he could easily be recompiled.
Algernons knowbots are incredibly sophisticated semi-autonomous programs that are constantly
scouring the internet and open networks for information.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
50(31)
HT
Varies
WT
N/A
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Sentinels major domo
-3 A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
-5 Primary systems located at
OmniTech HQ
-8
-10
EYES
Varies
HAIR
Varies
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Algernon
Val
60
35
18
6
CHA
INT
EGO
DEX
SPD
Cost Roll
50 2150 1724 1326
Notes
PER Roll: 21ECV: 12
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
19
13
32
3
49
60
65
15
36
25
3
3
3
5
3
3
10
20
14
Powers
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
Perks
Computer Link
7
10
3
3
10
3
3
3
7
3
3
17
7
3
17
3
3
3
3
2
1
7
3
3
3
3
3
3
5
3
1
2
2
17
3
3
17
17
3
2
Skills
Acting 11AK: Earth 28AK: Fortress 21AK: Omnitech 21AK: The Internet 28Analyze Combat Tactics 21Analyze Computer 21Bugging 21Bureaucratics 11Combat Driving 13Combat Piloting 13Computer Programming 28Conversation 11Criminology 21Cryptography 28Deduction 21Demolitions 21Electronics 21Forensic Medicine 21Forgery (Documents) 21Gambling (Chess) 21High Society 11KS: Omnitech 21KS: The Superhuman World 21Lipreading 21Lockpicking 13Mechanics 21Mimicry 21Navigation (Air, Land, Marine, Space) 21Paramedics 21Persuasion 8PS: Computer 21PS: Majordomo 11Security Systems 28SS: Computer Science 21SS: Holography 21Streetwise 16Systems Operation 28Tactics 21WF: Fortress Defense System, Vehicle Weapons
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
20
Programs
Attack Intruders
Converse with Guests
Interface with Other Computer
Monitor Sentinels Status
Operate Danger Room
Playback Audio/Visual
Record Audio/Visual
Run Tactical Simulation
Search Databanks
Other Programs
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Jasper Caldwell
15
18
3
STR
EGO
SPD
18
18
6
DEX
PRE
REC
15
10
30
CON
COM
END
10
3
26
BODY 18
PD
3
STUN
INT
ED
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Rosalyn Berkowitz
Emily DeCosta
10
20
2
STR
EGO
SPD
10
15
5
DEX
PRE
REC
13
10
25
CON
COM
END
10
3
25
BODY 15
PD
3
STUN
INT
ED
Abilities: Fascination (FH105); Contact: The Business World 11(Very Useful, Contacts, Institutions, Organization), Contact: The
Jewish World 8- (Contacts, Institutions, Organization), Member:
Fortress Staff; Acting 12-, Bureaucratics 8-, CK: New York City 12-,
Conversation 12-, Forgery (Art Objects) 8-, High Society 12-, KS: Art
12-, KS: The Business World 11-, KS: Current Events 11-, KS: History
11-, KS: Judaism 8-, KS: Juicy Gossip 11-, KS: Law 11-, KS: Politics
11-, Persuasion 12-, PS: Cook 12-, PS: Personnel 12-, Streetwise 12, Trading 12Equipment: Commlink
75+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Features: Brooklyn Accent (Easily
Concealable, Not Distinctive in Some Cultures), Hunted: Doc Steel
8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching), Hunted: Enemies of the Sentinels 8(Mo Pow), Normal Characteristic Maxima, Psychological Limitation:
Everyones Mother (Common, Moderate), Psychological Limitation:
Yenta (Uncommon, Moderate), Social Limitation: Subject to Orders
(Frequently, Minor)
16
8
15
2
STR
EGO
SPD
14
18
4
DEX
PRE
REC
12
18
30
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 15
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
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Stan Kirby
15
13
2
STR
EGO
SPD
14
15
6
DEX
PRE
REC
13
10
25
CON
COM
END
10
3
25
BODY 18
PD
3
STUN
INT
ED
Abilities: Member: Fortress Staff, Reputation: Genius Inventor 14(Fortress Staff, Steele OmniTech) +2/+2d6, Security Clearance; +2
with Noncombat Skills, +3 with Electronics, Inventor, and Mechanics,
+2 versus Improper Tools Penalties, Analyze Technology 13-,
Bureaucratics 8-, Computer Programming 13-, Demolitions 13-,
Electronics 13-, Inventor 13-, KS: The Scientific World 11-, KS:
Technology 13-, Mechanics 13-, PS: Inventor 13-, Security Systems
13-, Systems Operation 13-, Scientist, SS: Aeronautics 13-, SS:
Engineering 13-, SS: Geothermal Energy 11-, SS: Holography 11-,
SS: Mathematics 13-, SS: Metallurgy 13-, SS: Physics 13-, SS:
Robotics 11Equipment: Commlink, Cigar
75+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Features: Loudmouth (Easily
Concealable, Not Distinctive in Some Cultures), Hunted: Doc Steel
8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching), Hunted: Enemies of the Sentinels 8(Mo Pow), Normal Characteristic Maxima, Psychological Limitation:
Grouchy (Common, Moderate), Social Limitation: Subject to Orders
(Very Frequently, Minor)
Dr. Ellen Li
10
18
2
STR
EGO
SPD
14
15
5
DEX
PRE
REC
12
18
25
CON
COM
END
10
2
25
BODY 18
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
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Darren Long
15
18
2
STR
EGO
SPD
12
18
6
DEX
PRE
REC
13
12
25
CON
COM
END
10
3
25
BODY 20
PD
3
STUN
INT
ED
18
STR
EGO
SPD
10
15
4
DEX
PRE
REC
10
10
30
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 30
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
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Matthew Trasker
18
18
4
STR
EGO
SPD
18
18
8
DEX
PRE
REC
18
10
40
CON
COM
END
10
5
30
BODY 15
PD
5
STUN
INT
ED
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DESCRIPTION
Sebastian Arcane is the grandson of the man who would eventually become the occult
world-beater known as Sepulchre (page 220). His grandfather was once the favorite son of the
Covenant, and a longtime Seraphim member before he chose to walk the lightless path. Arcane
took his own duties to the Covenant very seriously, using his natural and highly developed
sorcerous gifts to prove again and again that his grandfather was the exception, not the rule.
Given that his associates in the Order of Simon had never been comfortable with either his
background or his modern proclivities, Arcane was less surprised than he could have been when
he was ordered to join the Sentinels to replace Brimstone (see The Covenant, pg 43).
Sebastian is a highly accomplished sorcerer with a lifetime of training, first from his family,
and then from the best teachers the Order of Simon had to offer. Though a few of his personal
eccentricities raised eyebrows among his teachers, such as keeping all of his grimoires on
enchanted PDAs, or summoning spirits through his computer (complete with binding circles
showing on the monitor screen), they dismissed them as the price of modernity in the arts. His
familiar, a young dragon named Nicodemus that prefers to appear about the size of a cat, is less
forgiving of his masters newfangled gizmos.
In combat, Sebastian is relearning his role, now that he is part of a new team. Initially
disconcerted with his diminished part (The Sentinels possess much more firepower than the
Seraphim), he is adapting to magical support quickly. His acclimation to the press is proving more
difficult Nicodemus is enjoying the coverage, however (and the little rascal is milking the
benefits of Fortress for all their worth as well, especially the cafeteria). Arcane looks quite young,
no more than his early twenties, but carries himself as if much older. He wears a voluminous coat
containing many PDA grimoires, various spell foci, materials, useful little magic items, and the
butterscotch candies hes always feeding his familiar.
Nicodemus normally looks like a black dragon about the size of a small cat. Nicodemus
usually stays parked on Arcanes shoulder, occasionally hitting hostile targets with
a well-aimed bit of fire breathing. Should anyone get close enough to
actually harm his master, Nicodemus lunges to Arcanes defense, quickly
showing that his adorable little frame isnt a size hes locked into; when
the situation warrants it, he can grow up to his true size, which is
slightly larger than the average van. Nicodemus normally looks like a
black dragon about the size of a small cat; when the situation warrants
it, he can grow up to his true size, which is slightly larger than the
average van.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
27
HT
59
WT
160#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Blonde
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5
-8 Sorceror from famous family
-10 Associated with the Covenant
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Sebastian Arcane
Val
10
14
13
10
18
20
18
10
3
3
4
5
30
25
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
72
8m
14m
4u
13m
14m
14m
14m
10m
14m
14m
14m
Cost Roll
0 1112 126 120 118 1320 138 130 111
0
16
0
2
3
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Teleport:
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
PER Roll: 15ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 3d6
14m
12m
6/12
2/4
2/4
10/160
Powers
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0
0
END
0
52
3
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
37
13
58
0
0
17
12
3
3
4
40
5
30
18
125
5
2
5
0
0
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15
3
2
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
1
3
3
4
2
3
2
3
3
2
3
Skills
+2 with Magic Spells
+5 with KS: Arcane Lore, KS: The Mystical World, and Magic
Analyze Magic 13Animal Handler (Dragons) 13Computer Programming 13Conversation 13Deduction 13Electronics 13Forgery (Scrolls) 13High Society 13Inventor (Spell Research) 13KS: Cantrips 13KS: Philosophy 13KS: Religion 13KS: The Mystical World 13Language: Abyssal (Basic)
Language: Celestial (Basic)
Language: Enochian (Fluent)
Language: Greek (Fluent)
Language: Latin (Native)
Language: Sanskrit (Conversational)
Magic (EGO-Based) 13Navigation (Dimensional) 13Paramedics 13Persuasion 13PS: Wizard 13Teamwork 12-
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Val
10
16
20
Cost
19
CHA
SIZE
BODY
DEF
Cost
20
6
54
Notes
40x20
Total Characteristics Cost: 80
Attributes
Disguise 17-
19
Equipment
Security Systems 17-
30
52
Labs
Religion 16-
Magic 14-
Arcanes PDA
Val
10
10
2
CHA
INT
DEX
SPD
Cost Roll
0 110 110
Notes
PER Roll: 11OCV: 3/DCV: 3
Phases: 6, 12
Talents
Absolute Time Sense
Lightning Calculator
Lightsleep
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
Skills
AK: Earth 11AK: America 11CK: New York City 11KS: Contact Information 11KS: Superhumans 11PS: Personal Assistant 11Systems Operation 11-
Programs
Search Reference Material for Information on a Specific Topic
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Val
10
18
23
10
18
23
18
18
10
10
4
7
50
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
37
Cost Roll
0 1124 1326 140 118 1326 148 134 138
5
12
0
2
2
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
4u
5u
18
Powers
END
var.
0
30
30
37
10
30
4
10
Resistant Defense
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6
7
3
17
5
10
15
11
5
6
80
0
0
0
34
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
15
Talents
Aquatic Movement
Combat Luck
Fearless (FH111)
Lightsleep
Magesight (FH106)
Rapid Healing (FH107)
Universal Translator; Listen Only, Cannot Speak (-1)
Perks
Access: Sanctum Sanctorum
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
8
2
Skills
Acting 13Analyze Magic 13Analyze Precious Metal 13Animal Handler (Dragons) 13Climbing 13Contortionist 13Conversation 13KS: Arcane Lore 13KS: Dragon Lore 13KS: History 13Magic (EGO-Based) 14Navigation (Air, Marine) 13Persuasion 13PS: Familiar 13Seduction 13Tracking 13Shadowing 13Shapeshifting (EGO-Based) 14Stealth 13Survival (Marine, Mountain, Temperate, Tropical)
Teamwork 13-; Only Usable with Current Master (-)
0
0
0
1
23
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SEX
Female
AGE
25(35)
HT
511
WT
150#
DESCRIPTION
In the 60s, the criminal genius Dr. Prometheus (page 136) used his godlike knowledge of
genetic engineering to create a family for himself, which he named the Prometheans (page 135).
The Prometheans were each designed to be physically superior to normal humans and, as
Prometheus used genetic material stolen from various metahumans, most possessed some exotic
abilities as well. Unfortunately, being born in a lab and artificially aged to adulthood in less than a
year of real time didnt do wonders for their emotional development or their social skills. None of
this bothered Prometheus, as he viewed his children as just another experiment, and, since
they didnt know any better, it really didnt bother most of the Prometheans. However, the one
female of the group, named Kallisto, did take exception to her upbringing, or lack thereof.
Eventually she left the group, which her brethren and her creator all viewed as an unforgivable
betrayal. In the intervening years, Kallisto, or Blackheart as she renamed herself, took great
pains to socially acclimate to the world around her, with mixed results. As part of this effort, for
most of the past three decades she has channeled her energies and natural violent tendencies in
ways she found society would accept, first as a bounty hunter targeting other metahumans, and
then as a solo hero-type before eventually joining the Sentinels.
Blackheart has learned how to fit in to society at large. Emphasis on learned. Most of the
behavior people accept as normal after growing up, she had to learn through observation and
embarrassing trial and error as an adult. Small things still confuse her, from how to properly
display grief at a funeral to how she should interpret well-played flirting. The intensity with which
she works to learn what most people just view as natural or even reflexive can sometimes make
people uncomfortable. This is all the more confusing to those watching her when she displays
startling insight into human behavior and character, such as being exceedingly difficult to lie to or
to con. It should be remembered that this comes from an intellectual understanding of behavior
more than a visceral or emotional one. She knows what people will do even if she doesnt
completely grasp why they would do it.
Blackheart is several times stronger than a person of her build should be, and possesses
extraordinary agility. She has a heightened healing factor that also renders her immune to most
diseases and slows her aging to a crawl, and her combat prowess and various stealth and
detective-oriented skills are among the finest on the planet. She is generally the flanker or
guerilla of the group, going off on her own in a fight to isolate and take down viable targets. Her
tactics are simple and brutally direct. Identify target, analyze targets tactical threat, neutralize
target. No showing off, and an economy of time and effort.
An athletically built woman standing just under six feet tall, Blackheart has short black hair
and piercing blue eyes (which she hides behind omnipresent shades that she understands are
considered cool, with cool apparently being a good thing). She wears a gray and black, tightfitting and armored bodysuit. She has an even more heavily armored utilitarian vest, bracers and
high boots which are covered in pouches and hidden compartments where she stores the
veritable arsenal she always carries with her.
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Sentinels
+0 Superhuman combat savant
-3 Violent reputation
-5 Former bounty hunter
-8 Engineered, not born
-10 Created by Prometheus
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Val
25
30
25
10
10
20
20
20
10
10
6
20
60
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
10
12
Cost Roll
15 1460 1530 140 110 1120 1310 135 135
5
20
20
5
5
Notes
Lift 800 kg; 5d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
PER Roll: 15ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 4d6
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Swinging:
10/20
10/20
5/10
8/16
Powers
END
0
10
30
3u
34
12
5
13
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
1u
3u
5
14
0
6
6
Talents
Combat Luck
Lightning Reflexes +4
13
13
5
2
OAF (-1)
2) Bash: HA +5d6 (10d6 with STR), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); HA (-), OAF (-1)
3) Block: Missile Deflection (All Attacks), Adjacent
(+); OAF (-1) plus Physical and Energy Damage
Reduction, 25%, Resistant; Gestures (-), Must Be
Aware of Attack (-), OAF (-1)
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4
4
3
5
5
4
3
3
10
5
Skills
Martial Arts: Instinctive Fighting
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Disarm
-1
+1
Dodge
+5
Escape
+0
+0
Grab
-1
-1
Offensive Strike
-2
+1
Passing Strike
+1
+0
Strike
+0
+2
Throw
+0
+1
Use Art with Nunchaku, Sais, Staff
Defense Maneuver IV
Rapid Attack (Melee)
10
32
10
6
3
+2
+4
+2
+2
+2
Total: 18 PD (8 rPD)
Total: 18 ED (8 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
21
6
18
16
10
7
5
2
5
Perks
Contact: The Criminal Underworld 11- (Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Prometheans 8- (Extremely, Unfriendly, Org)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11Crippling Blow (FH104)
Fascination (FH105)
Fearless (FH111)
Membership: The Sentinels
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
15
3,3
3,3
3,1
3,3
3,3
3,2
2,2
2,3
2,3
1,3
3,3
2,2
3,3
4,1
3,3
3
10
Notes
+10 STR Disarm
Dodge, Abort
+15 STR
2 Limbs, +10 STR
+4d6
+v/5, FMove
+2d6
+v/5, Target Falls
Overall Levels
with All Combat
with Hand-to-Hand Combat
with Martial Arts
versus Range Penalties for Thrown Weapons
Acrobatics 15-, Analyze Combat Technique 11Breakfall 15-, Climbing 15Combat Driving 15-, Computer Programming 8Concealment 11-, Criminology 11Demolitions 11-, Fast Draw 15Interrogation 13-, KS: Current Events 11KS: Dr. Prometheus 11-, KS: The Prometheans 11KS: The Superhuman World 11-, Lockpicking 15Navigation (Land) 11-, Paramedics 11PS: Bounty Hunter 11-, Security Systems 11Shadowing 11-, Sleight of Hand 15SS: Psychology 11-, SS: Sociology 11Stealth 15-, Streetwise 13Survival (Temperate, Tropical) 11-, Systems Operation 8Tactics 11-, Teamwork 15Tracking 11WF: Common Martial, Common Melee, Common Missile,
Small Arms, Staffs, Vehicle Weapons
0
0
0
0
0
Disadvantages
Distinctive Features: Social Skills are not Natural (Easily)
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Dr. Prometheus 8- (Mo Pow)
Hunted: Heartbreaker 8- (As Pow)
Physical Limitation: Somewhat Underdeveloped Socially and
Emotionally (Infrequently, Minor)
10 Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Common,
Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Pragmatic (Very Common,
Moderate)
10 Reputation: Violent 1120 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 700
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
35
HT
66
WT
360#
DESCRIPTION
Some heroes are made and some heroes are born. Jacob (Jake) Hannibal Steele benefits
from both approaches. The son of long-time adventurer Dr. Ulysses Steele, better known to the
world as Doc Steel, Jacob grew up surrounded by men and women with extraordinary abilities
who lived extraordinary lives. From the time he was a child, his father instilled in him an
unyielding sense of duty, the idea that the entire Steele family had been blessed beyond measure
and that it was only right and proper that they repay the universe for those blessings by helping
mankind whenever and however they could. Following his mothers death, Jake was raised by the
combined efforts of his father, his uncle Alex (Alexander Steele, the former WWII era hero
Anthem), and Algernon, an AI of his fathers design.
Hardcore has never had anything even remotely resembling a normal life. Fundamentally,
he does what he does because its the only thing hes ever really known. Hes brave to a fault,
and very serious when dealing with his responsibilities. However, when he doesnt have to
concern himself with the welfare of teammates or bystanders, or worry about collateral damage,
hes known for cutting loose with his abilities. Off-duty, hes an adrenaline junkie (which is
difficult to experience when youre practically invulnerable) and loves driving fast cars and even
faster planes. Hes notoriously uncomfortable in social situations where he has to deal with
normal people, far preferring the company of those who understand his world. Thanks to his
rather unique upbringing, he has no problem relating to or dealing with the most outr
individuals or situations, and remains blas under circumstances ranging from fending off alien
invasions to fighting insane gods. This can be disconcerting to those falling apart around him.
Hardcores physical structure closely resembles that of his father. The performance of both his
muscular and skeletal structures is enhanced beyond human capabilities by orders of magnitude.
He possesses vast superhuman strength and resilience, has demonstrated a tolerance for
environmental conditions that would kill a human being, and has no physical need for food or
sleep. He simply doesnt tire appreciably, ever. Further, his metabolism has thus far shown no
susceptibility to any toxin or pathogen hes ever encountered. Thanks to long years of training,
Jake has even learned how to resist many forms of psionic intrusion and compulsion.
When entering combat, Jake normally takes point, trusting in his natural resilience to give
him a greater measure of safety than his comrades. The recipient of almost two decades of
intense training under many experts, Hardcore is an exceptionally capable hand-to-hand
combatant, demonstrating a level of skill and versatility matched by few of the lumbering
juggernauts that normally target him in a fight. He will generally identify the most dangerous
opponents on the field and then draw their attention to himself, away from his teammates or
whatever bystanders remain in the area. Jake is an imaginative fighter, but has to carefully
temper a tendency to showoff. He also trusts the other Sentinels to know their jobs and seldom
resorts to overt direction unless circumstances demand it.
Hardcore is a large and massively built man. He has brown hair (worn longer than his father
likes), and brown eyes. When on duty, he wears a utilitarian bodysuit, toughly constructed boots,
and a brown, leather jacket that looks very much like a WWII-era aviators coat (a self-mending
jacket given to him by his father).
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Brown
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Sentinels
+0 Son of Doc Steel, brother of
Technomancer
-3 Been heroing since his teens
-5
-8 Standoffish around normals
-10 Adrenaline junkie
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Val
75
18
50
25
13
15
20
10
30
30
5
25
90
90
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
75
4u
5u
2u
2u
2u
20
19
50
45
15
10
6
5
10
1
18
3
5
12
9
10
0,0
1,5
Cost Roll
65 2424 1380 1930 143 1210 1210 130 1115
20
22
0
-5
1
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 800 tons; 15d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
4
5
4
4
4
3
4
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Brick Tricks
Maneuver
OCV
Bearhug I
+0
Bearhug II
-2
Grab
+0
Punch
+2
Slam
-1
Throw
+0
Toughness
+2
Use Art with Giant Club
14
32
Powers
Hardened (+)
Tough: 2x Hardened (+) on 30 PD and 30 ED
Tough: Lack of Weakness -5 for Normal and Resistance
Defense
Heavy: Knockback Resistance -3
Tough Ears: Hearing Group Flash Defense (5 points)
Tough: Power Defense (10 points)
Psionic Training: Mental Defense (5 points Total);
Requires EGO Roll (-)
Swift: Running +9 (15 Total)
Swift: Swimming +3 (5 Total)
Adapted Senses: Nightvision plus +2 PER
Long-Range Senses: Telescopic +4 for Sight and
Hearing
Unstoppable: Regeneration (1 BODY per Turn)
Lucky: Luck 2d6
Equipment
Commlink, GPS Unit
Flashlight, Multi-tool
Talents
15,7 Combat Sense, Fearless (FH111)
14,11 Hotshot Pilot (PH261), Inspire (FH106)
2 Lightning Reflexes: +2 with Piloting Maneuvers
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8
5
8
8
3
Perks
Contact: The Political World 11- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Saeduun Empire 8- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman Community 14- (Extremely
Useful, Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship,
Organization)
Leadership: Sentinels
Money: Well-Off
Reputation: Superhero 14- (Worldwide), +4/+4d6
Secret Security Clearance
Well-Connected
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7
7
0
0
5
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Resistance
30
20
12
6
5
6
3,2
3,3
2,3
3,7
1,3
1,3
2,1
1,2
2,5
2,2
1,4
3,3
3,2
3,3
3,3
DCV
+0
+0
-1
+0
-1
+1
+2
Notes
+4d6 Crush
2 Limbs, 2d6 NND
2 Limbs, +10 STR
+2d6
+2d6, 2 Limbs, Throw
+v/5, Throw
Block, Abort
+3 Overall Levels
+4 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
+4 with Martial Arts
+4 versus Sweep Penalties
Rapid Attack (HTH)
+2 with KS: The Superhuman World, Tactics, and Teamwork
Acting 13-, AK: The United States 11Analyze Combat Tactics 12-, Bureaucratics 13CK: New York City 11-, Climbing 13Combat Driving 13-, Combat Piloting 15Computer Programming 8-, Conversation 13High Society 8-, Interrogation 13KS: Current Events 11-, KS: History 8KS: Law 8-, KS: Philosophy 11KS: Religion 11-, KS: The Superhuman World 14Language: Greek, Latin (Conversational)
Mechanics 8-, Navigation (Air, Land) 12Oratory 13-, Paramedics 12Persuasion 13-, PS: Superhero 13Streetwise 13-, Tactics 12Teamwork 13-, WF: Oversized Clubs, Vehicle Weapons
Disadvantages
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Ice Queen 8- (As Pow)
Hunted: Magog 8- (As Pow)
Hunted: Telemachus 8- (As Pow)
Physical Limitation: Cannot Be Treated by Conventional
Medicine (Infrequently, Slightly)
Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Sense of Duty (Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Uncomfortable about Normals
(Uncommon, Moderate)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
Social Limitation: Wouldnt Know a Normal Life if It Bit Him
(Infrequently, Minor)
Experience Points
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QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
28
HT
56
WT
121#
DESCRIPTION
Sarah Anne Thompson always knew that her family was different, and that somehow she
was different too.
Following her mothers funeral when she was 10 years old, her father told her the truth. He
wasnt human. He was a member of a starfaring species called the Saeduun [say-DJOO-uhn],
and he had been on Earth observing our cultures for decades. He had fallen in love with Sarahs
mother, married her, and discovered, much to his surprise, that humans and Saeduun could have
children together. The Saeduun were naturally psionic, and Sarah was starting to develop her
own abilities abilities that were markedly more powerful than normal for her fathers race. She
kept these things secret until one fateful day while she was at university. Forced to intervene in a
hostage situation on campus, she was outed as having superhuman abilities. Rather than
divulge the truth of the matter, she has been operating for several years now under the cover
of being a metahuman. Doc, Caldwell, and a couple of her teammates are the only people who
know her secret. An intensely private person, while Rachel has never regretted exposing
her abilities as the cost of saving lives that day, she bitterly missed the privacy she lost
without the option of a secret identity. This situation changed recently after an
encounter with Godhead, an immensely powerful psi with considerable control of reality.
In an effort to demonstrate his (deranged) affection for Rachel, he probed her mind for a
suitable desire he could exploit as a gift. Finding her feelings about her privacy, he erased
knowledge of her true identity -- from memories and from records -- everywhere outside of the
pocket dimension in which he was holding her and her teammates at the time. It is now as if her
identity had never been exposed at all the public knows of Iron Angel, but has no idea of who
operates behind the mask Rachel now wears.
A very practical woman, Sarah approaches heroing as a job, and a necessary facet of the
ongoing deception her father started. She rigorously lobbies for the teams intense training
regimen, and will always be the one at the briefing table pushing for comprehensive planning
before entering any potential combat situation.
Iron Angel is a powerful psionic possessing an arsenal of both telepathic and telekinetic
abilities. Her half-Saeduun heritage grants her a heightened immune system and exceptional
longevity. In addition to her using her psionic attacks to support her teammates, she also can
telepathically link their minds as a sort of mind-to-mind switchboard, allowing almost
instantaneous and practically unjammable communication. Under most circumstances, she is the
primary communications link for the team, with everyone falling back to their radios only if she is
taken out of the fight, or if they must communicate with people outside of her link.
Sarah has shoulder length, strawberry blonde hair and green eyes, all of which she now
hides behind an encompassing golden mask. While using her powers her eyes glow a silvery
blue, making her look as if she possesses no irises.
EYES
Green
HAIR
Blonde
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Sentinels
+0 Telepath of great power
-3
-5 Professional and reserved to a
fault
-8
-10 Watched by Majestic 20
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Iron Angel
Val
10
15
15
10
18
23
18
20
5
5
5
5
30
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
125
25m
25m
25m
25m
15m
24m
17m
24m
24m
Cost Roll
0 1115 1210 120 118 1326 148 135 133
2
25
0
0
7
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
0
11
3
12
18
1
5
2
5
Powers
52
12
5
12
24
END
6
0
0
Equipment
GPS Unit, Commlink
Talents
Inspire (FH106)
Resistance
Perks
Contact: The Psychiatric Community 11- (Useful, Contacts,
Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Licensed Psychologist
Membership: Sentinels
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
Skills
+8 with Mental Powers
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,2
2,3
3,3
2,3
2,3
1,3
Acting 13-, Analyze Psychological Profile 13Bribery 13-, Bureaucratics 13Conversation 13-, Deduction 13Interrogation 13-, Oratory 13Paramedics 13-, Persuasion 13Psionics (EGO-Based) 14-, PS: Profiling 11PS: Psychologist 13-, Seduction 13SS: Abnormal Psychology 13-, SS: Criminal Psychology 13SS: Pharmacology 11-, SS: Psychology 13SS: Sociology 11-, Streetwise 13Tactics 8-, Teamwork 12-
3
1,1
1,1
1,2
1,1
1,2
Scholar
KS: Current Events 11-, KS: History 11KS: Law 11-, KS: Philosophy 11KS: Religion 11-, KS: Psionics 13KS: The Psychiatric Community 11-, KS: The Saeduun 11KS: The Sentinels 11-, KS: The Superhuman World 13-
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
BlackWyrm Games
Multiplier
200+ Disadvantages
5 Distinctive Features: Half Alien (Not Concealable, Unusual
Senses)
10 Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
15 Hunted: Majestic 20 11- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
10 Physical Limitation: Two Classes of Minds, Affected by
Human and Alien Mental Powers (Infrequently, Greatly)
10 Psychological Limitation: Pushes Team for Training and
Tactics (Uncommon, Strong)
15 Psychological Limitation: Reserved and Professional (Very
Common, Moderate)
15 Social Limitation: Secret Identity, Pretends to be Mutant
instead of Alien (Infrequently, Major)
20 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 700
Notes: Mental Powers bought with Area Of Effect normally only
need to target the area, whether or not each target in the area is
visible. For a - less Advantage, each target in the area must be
within line of sight of the attacker.
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SEX
Female
AGE
31
HT
58
WT
150#
DESCRIPTION
Gina Morrissey never sought excitement or adventure. What she wanted was a quiet life of
study and reflection alone, just her and the stars. Fate made a different choice for her. Working
late one evening in her secluded observatory while testing an experimental telescope, she
witnessed an incredible burst of light just outside Earths atmosphere. The telescope, working
with an exotic gravity lens instead of a set of physical ones, and guided by sophisticated software
that allowed it to adjust its view almost instantly, was able to follow the rapid descent to the
Earth of a small object that was evading all attempts by the telescopes secondary sensor arrays
to analyze its structure. She was even further astonished when the object adjusted its descent
toward the telescope, almost as if it had sensed the viewers sensing attempts and was following
the scans back to their source. Slowing the closer it came, the object came to a stop once it
entered the observatory, and then hovered in front of Dr. Morrissey. Curiosity overcame fear and
she approached the small black glowing orb. Suddenly her mind was overwhelmed with images
of a terrible battle, indecipherable shapes and words, an unexpected burst of light, and then an
almost serene view of the Earth floating in her minds eye. Her senses returned to her the instant
before her hand made physical contact with the orb. She watched, shocked, as it literally melted
over her arm, and then flowed across her entire body; a wet, ticklish sensation was the only
warning she had that it was also flowing through her skin and into her body as well.
Dr. Morrisseys early experiences with her companion, which she has come to realize is a
semi-sentient symbiotic entity, were very trial and error. She discovered that the union of the
symbiote with her form grants her great strength, resilience, and a broad array of energy
manipulating abilities. It also protects her from most environmental hazards even the vacuum
of space. In addition, the symbiote has greatly enhanced her sensory range, expanding it up and
down the electromagnetic spectrum; Morrissey can now hear gamma rays, feel the touch of
X-Rays or Radar emissions, and so on. She also has limited access to memories of a noble
purpose and terrible enemies. Unfortunately, these memories, as well as any actual thought or
communication the symbiote offers, are sporadic, and difficult to understand almost as if the
symbiote had been damaged in some crucial way that interfered with its interface. Regardless,
the good doctor acted on those vague memories, combined with her own natural, albeit
reluctant, altruism. She uses her abilities to help others, and has quickly adapted to her new role
as a hero.
Onyxs role in combat is that of air support. She prefers to fly above the battlefield and
engage the opposition at range. When forced into close quarter fighting, she reluctantly resorts
to brute strength.
As Onyx, Dr. Morrissey resembles a hollow crystalline statue of a woman, filled with a
constantly changing star field. Her hair looks like a solid sculpting of hair that glows from within
much as a negative image of the same star field.
EYES
Yellow
HAIR
White
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Sentinels
+0 Wide array of energy abilities
-3
-5 Former astronomer
-8 Possesses alien symbiote
-10 Watched by Majestic 20
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Val CHA
Cost Roll
10/55 STR
*26 2014 DEX
12 1215 CON
10 1210 BODY
0 1115 INT
5 1218 EGO
16 1318 PRE
8 1310 COM
0 115 PD
3
5 ED
2
4 SPD
16
5 REC
0
30 END
0
25 STUN
2
Movement:
Cost
80
16m
9m
16m
16m
5m
16m
8m
13m
48
5u
5u
4u
3u
3u
48
36
51
20
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 50 tons; 11d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
18
18
28
10
0
0
2
2
2
12
18
6/12
2/4
25/50
20/625
Powers
END
OIHID (-)
2) National: Flight 5, 125x Noncombat Flight, Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); OIHID (-)
3) Planetary: Flight 10, Megascale (Scaleable up to 1
= 1000 km, +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +);
OIHID (-)
4) Galactic: FTL (1 Light Year per Hour); OIHID (-)
5) Underwater: Swimming +23 (25 Total), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); OIHID (-)
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
18
5
2
5
10
9
4
0
0
0
0
0
Perks
Contact: The Scientific Community 11- (Very Useful,
Institutions, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: Sentinels
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
Skills
+1 Overall Levels
+3 with Cosmic Power
+2 with Blast
3
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,1
2
Scientist
SS: Aeronautics 12-, SS: Astronomy 12SS: Engineering 12-, SS: Mathematics 12SS: Nuclear Physics 12-, SS: Physics 12SS: Quantum Mechanics 12-, SS: Robotics 11SS: Subatomic Physics 12-
0
0
10
15
Talents
Absolute Range Sense; OIHID (-)
Absolute Time Sense; OIHID (-)
Bump of Direction; OIHID (-)
Combat Sense; OIHID (-)
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense); OIHID (-)
Computer Programming 12-, Conversation 13Electronics 12-, Navigation (Air, Space) 12Paramedics 12-, Persuasion 13Security Systems 12-, Systems Operation 12Tactics 8-, Teamwork 12-
0
0
Equipment
GPS Unit
Commlink
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
1,3
200+
10
15
10
10
5
5
20
400
Disadvantages
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Majestic-20 11- (As Pow, NCI, Mild)
Hunted: Nemesis 8- (As Pow)
Hunted: Opaque 8- (As Pow)
Physical Limitation: Reduced Leap (Infrequently, Slightly)
Physical Limitation: Conjoined with an Amnesiac Psionic
Symbiote (Infrequently, Slightly)
Psychological Limitation: Altruistic (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Scientific Curiosity (Common,
Strong)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
Experience Points
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QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
28
HEIGHT
56
WEIGHT
123#
DESCRIPTION
Rachel Ramirez is the daughter of the sixties-era heroine The Blur and the granddaughter of
the WWII era hero Jack B. Quick. She grew up with her abilities, which, like her mother, she
inherited. Rachel tried for something like a normal life, even to the point of going through
medical school but the metahuman world kept intruding. She found herself being called upon
to use her metahuman abilities far more often than her mundane skills. Finally, she gave up
having a normal life and devoted herself to the same calling as the prior two generations of her
family. She tried several different names early in her career, ranging from taking her mothers old
moniker to such forgettable titles as GoGoGirl and Rapier, before finally settling on Speed
Demon. She was also known during that period for going through up to a costume a
week before finally settling (although accepting under pressure might be more a more accurate
description) on the only slightly modified team uniform she now wears.
Though Rachel sometimes likes to act the airhead, this routine drops immediately when
situations get serious. An outrageous flirt, she gets along well with the rest of her teammates a
little too well, according to the various tabloid covers that never fail to send her temperature
soaring. Despite Blackhearts more violent proclivities, Speed Demons unrestrained
personality has resulted in her being deemed the bad girl of the team by the popular media.
This doesnt sit well with Rachel, and she has a tense relationship with the press. Only the
Sentinels powerful legal representation has prevented ugly incidents with certain paparazzi.
Speed Demon possesses incredible superhuman speed and reflexes. She can cross cities
with the same ease that most people cross the street. Thanks to growing up with her abilities,
and receiving instruction from her mother, who herself has decades of experience with speed
powers, Rachel is quite comfortable with her capabilities, and quite versatile. About the only
application she really hasnt mastered is vibrating her molecules through solid objects, and
this is because she steadfastly refuses to even try it for fear of doing it fatally wrong.
Speed Demon is all over the map in combat. She can cross a battlefield in less time
than most people can even think about beginning to react, and uses that edge to great
effect. She likes hit-and-run assaults, moving in and out of range faster than her
targets can respond. She also likes disarming opponents before they can even realize
theyve been disarmed.
But, her favorite combat pastime is provided by the normal support personnel
some criminals use in their activities tearing through dozens of gunmen in the
blink of an eye never fails to bring a smile to her lips.
An attractive Hispanic woman, Speed Demon has light brown skin, luminous black eyes, and
long black hair she keeps tied back so as not to be a hazard at high speed. The modifications to
her team uniform are obvious reinforcements to the boots and striking surfaces, and an
aerodynamic visor.
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Sentinels
+0 Speedster
-3 Tabloid favorite
-5 Daughter of Blur
-8 Granddaughter of Jack B. Quick
-10
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Speed Demon
Val
10
36
20
10
13
10
15
20
4
4
9
12
40
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
60
6u
4u
4u
4u
125
12u
6u
3u
7u
6u
4u
34
10
7
9
Cost Roll
0 1178 1620 130 113 120 115 125 132
1
44
12
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 12/DCV: 12
5
5
10
8
3
0
40/10,000
40/160
40/80
(-)
1) Velocity Punch: EB 6d6 (versus PD), Continuous
(+1), Damage Shield (+), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +); No Range (-)
2) Vertigo: Suppress DEX and STUN 4d6, Variable Effect
(Two Characteristics at Once, +), Continuous (+),
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); No Range (-) plus
Flash Sight 1d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END, +);
Gestures (Running in Circle, -), No Range (-)
3) Vortex: Telekinesis (20 STR), Affects Porous, Area of
Effect (One Hex Doubled, +), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +); Affects Whole Object (-), Gestures
(Running in Circle, -), No Range (-)
4) Vacuum: EB 6d6, NND (Self-Contained Breathing,
+1), Area of Effect (One Hex, +), Reduced Endurance
(0 END, +); Gestures (Running in Circle, -), No
Range (-)
END
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
Talents
Combat Luck (x4)
Evasive (FH105)
Lightning Reflexes +10
Speed Reading (x100)
18
1
5
2
2
5
Perks
Contact: The Superhero Community 11Medical License
Membership: Sentinels
Reputation: Speedster 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
16
Skills
Martial Arts: Speedjutsu
Maneuver
OCV DCV Notes
Escape
+0
+0
+35 STR
Rapid Punch
+1
-2
+8d6
Flying Dodge
+4
FMove
Flying Grab
-2
-1
2 Limbs, +30 STR, FMove
Passing Disarm
-1
-1
+30 STR, FMove
Passing Strike
+1
+0
+4d6+v/5, FMove
Passing Throw
+0
+0
+4d6+v/5, Target Falls, FMove
+4 Damage Classes (Already Added in)
6
8,5
+2 with Running
Defense Maneuver III, Rapid Attack (HTH)
3,3
1,3
1,3
2,2
2,1
3,3
3,2
1,3
3,1
2,2
2,1
3
Acting 12-, Breakfall 16Computer Programming 8-, Concealment 12Demolitions 8-, Forensic Medicine 12KS: History 11-, KS: The Speedster World 11KS: The Superhuman World 11-, Lockpicking 8Oratory 12-, Paramedics 12Persuasion 12-, PS: Paramedic 12Security Systems 8-, Seduction 12Speed Tricks (DEX-Based) 16- SS: Anatomy 8SS: Biology 11-, SS: Chemistry 11SS: Medicine 11-, SS: Pharmacology 8Teamwork 16-
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15
6
Powers
Equipment
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0
0
0
Disadvantages
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Speed Metal 8- (As Pow)
Hunted: Terminal Velocity 8- (As Pow)
Physical Limitation: Increased Metabolism, Always Hungry
(Frequently, Slightly)
5 Psychological Limitation: Distrusts Media (Uncommon,
Moderate)
10 Psychological Limitation: Flirty (Common, Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Freewheeling and Uninhibited (Very
Common, Moderate)
10 Reputation: Media Bad Girl 1120 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 700
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DESCRIPTION
Dr. Isaac Augustus Steele is the younger son of Dr. Solomon Ulysses Steele, better known
as Doc Steel. Doc instilled in his son from an early age strong values and a sense of duty to
mankind.
Though many children fantasize about growing up to be superheroes, Isaac never actually
grew out of his dream he grew into living it. He made his choice about the direction of his life
when he was five. At the age of ten, he had chosen the name Technomancer and began
working on the first design of what would be many costumes. At fifteen, he began pestering his
father to let him start his career. It took years of constant effort, but he finally received his
fathers blessing when he turned twenty-one. He immediately began petitioning his brother and
the other Sentinels for a place on their team; after a month, they finally acquiesced. That was
several years ago, and hes gone a long way in that time toward making a name in his own right.
A genius with few peers, Isaac is more comfortable around machines than people; brave to
a fault, much like his brother, hes nonetheless a little shy, especially around women, and his
fascination with (some would say fixation on) technology has resulted in social skills that are
sometimes a little problematic. In short, Isaac pretty much epitomizes the concepts of nerd
and cybergeek.
Technomancer is a cyberkinetic and cybermorph. He not only can communicate mentally
with computers, he also can mentally seize control of any machines functions, and even alter its
shape and general composition. This transmutation is limited to processed materials comprising
mechanical structures such as glass and plastic. Robots and computers become extensions of his
own mind, and anything from air conditioners to Humvees are fodder for his sculpting efforts. His
programming and electronics skills are almost supernatural, and in some ways reflect his intuitive
rapport with machines.
Despite his best efforts when designing the skin-tight battlesuit he wears, Isaac simply has
never grasped the whole combat thing very well. After a couple of painful object lessons, he now
avoids closing with the opposition if at all possible. Staying at range and attacking the opposition
with a never-ending variety of quickly designed and scratch built weaponry is his forte. He also
enjoys and excels at seizing control of and cannibalizing enemy tech (much to the horror of any
number of battlesuit wearers, androids, and exotic weapon users).
A slimly athletic young man, Isaac has sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, and a mischievous halfsmile that never completely leaves his face. He wears a black, gray, and silver tight-fitting
battlesuit with many storage compartments for spare parts and materials he uses as fodder for
his powers.
Sample Cyberkinesis Powers
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
28
HT
510
WT
180#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Sandy
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Sentinels
+0 Cyberpath and cybermorph
-3 Son of Doc Steel, brother of
Hardcore
-5 Brilliant scientist
-8
-10 Romantically linked to ARACHNE
60
70
48
60
30
30
44
90
82
87
90
45
87
45
70
51
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Val
10
10
15
10
35
15
10
10
4
4
4
5
30
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
180
Cost Roll
0 110 1110 120 1125 1610 120 110 112
1
20
0
0
7
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
18
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 3/DCV: 3
5
5
2
2
8
20
6
4
20
18
Powers
END
10
Range (-)
Life Support (Immune to Disease, Longevity: Ages at
Normal Rate)
Luck 2d6
80
8u
11
8u
7u
12
37
5
3
Talents
Eidetic Memory
Lightning Calculator
75
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+2 Overall Levels
+2 with Power Suit Attacks
+2 OCV with Power Suit Bash
+4 with Intellect Skills
+6 with Analyze Technology, Computer Programming, and
Security Systems
Analyze Technology 16-, Computer Programming 16Cryptography 16-, Electronics 16Inventor 16-, KS: The Scientific World 16KS: The Superhuman World 16-< KS: Technology 16Mechanics 16- Security Systems 16SS: Astronomy 16-, SS: Computer Science 16SS: Cybernetics 16-, SS: Engineering 16SS: Mathematics 16-, SS: Physics 16Systems Operation 16-, Tactics 8Teamwork 11-
Equipment
8u
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,1
3
Perks
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: Sentinels
Money: Well-Off
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Reputation: Ubergeek 11- (Scientific Community), +2/+2d6
Secret Security Clearance
0
0
15
20
5
400
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Assembly 8- (As Pow)
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Mean Machine 8- (As Pow)
Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Scientific Curiosity (Common,
Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Shy, More Comfortable with
Technology than People (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Sense of Duty (Common, Strong)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
Social Limitation: Wouldnt Know a Normal Life if It Bit Him
(Infrequently, Minor)
Experience Points
0
0
0
0
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DESCRIPTION
Arkady Gennadyevitch Sukinov had always heard and dismissed the legend passed down in
his family, that long ago a heroic Sukinov knight, one of the Bogatyr, had thwarted the great
witch Baba Yaga and had been cursed. Supposedly, she had said that should any of his family
ever show his courage or heroism again, that they would suffer a horrible fate, and become the
monsters that his great ancestor had fought.
Arkady always thought this was just a way to justify the uncounted generations of thieves,
pirates, and swindlers that he knew his family had always been. He might have gone onto a
career Russian military man (with all that implied after the collapse of the Soviet Union) if he
hadnt selflessly endangered himself to drag his comrades out of a burning tank in Chechnya.
Collapsing, he later woke up to find himself changed enormous, vastly strong and
resilient, and uglier than a Politburo members backside. Resigned to his fate as only a
Russian could be, Arkady attempted to be a hero in his native land, only to find out
there wasnt much room for a hero in a land where corruption was king. Leaving the
Rodina and his family (who now considered him an outcast), Arkady moved to
America. Starting his career over here as a part-time hero, part-time celebrity,
Troll found himself in the right place at the right time when the opportunity
came by to join the Sentinels. Hes never had cause to regret taking that
opportunity.
Troll is a party animal, whose extrovert tendencies and endearing
personality more than compensate for his looks. When off-duty, he can
always be found club hopping or attending premieres of movies or Broadway
shows. And hes seldom alone when he goes to these places he usually has
two to three pretty young women on each arm. An inveterate joker and
tease, he gets along well with Technomancer (often helping the younger
Steele in the commission of various pranks), and since he always shares the
frontline with Hardcore, they have a very good relationship. Despite constant
tabloid reporting to the contrary, Troll and Speed Demon have never been an
item.
Arkady is larger than human and immensely strong, stronger even than
Hardcore. Though not quite as resilient as the older Steele brother, he more
than makes up for this with a healing factor that has many wounds closing and
disappearing before the very eyes of the person inflicting them. His senses are
animal-keen, and he is just as comfortable below the water as he is above it. Most
abilities that rely on illusions fail against Arkady, since he can literally smell magic.
Troll shares the frontline with Hardcore, closing to engage most opponents
hand-to-hand. He is a canny fighter, though not a terribly honorable one. He loves
humiliating his opponents as much as beating them, and his vitriolic jibes are as
feared as his almost inescapable grip.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
(43)
HT
83
WT
1120#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Cosmetically challenged Member
of Sentinels
+0 Russian, very strong
-3 Tabloid favorite
-5 Party animal reputation
-8 Former member of Crimson Cadre
-10 Victim of curse
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Val
85
10
40
14
10
15
25
8
20
20
4
25
80
80
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
48
3u
3u
10
40
24
12
9
15
16
10
30
8
4
40
6
5
3
5
10
10
0
Cost Roll
75 260 1160 178 120 1110 1215 14-1 113
12
20
0
0
3
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
3
7
Notes
Lift 3200 tons; 17d6 HTH [8]
OCV: 3/DCV: 3
10
10
7
7
10/20
25/3200
10/20
Powers
END
Range (-)
1) Shockwave: HA 4d6 (8d6 with STR), Area Of Effect
(12 Radius, +1), Double Knockback (+), Indirect
(from Ground, +); HA (-), Only versus Targets on
Ground (-), Reduced by Range (-)
2) Thunderclap: Flash Hearing 8d6, Area Of Effect (12
Radius, +1), Does Knockback (+), Personal Immunity
(+); No Range (-), Reduced by Range (-)
7
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
Commlink, GPS Unit, iPod
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4
4
3
4
3
Skills
Martial Arts: Brawling
Maneuver
OCV
Choke Hold
-2
Crush
+0
Fast Strike
+2
Grab
-1
Strike
+0
Throw
+0
18
5
2
5
Perks
Contact: The Humanoid Magical Beast World 11- (Very
Useful, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: Sentinels
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
12
0
0
0
0
Talents
Aquatic Movement
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense); Only to Detect
Dangerous Illusions (-2)
Fascination (FH105)
Fear-Inspiring (DC107)
Fearless (FH111)
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
20
20
12
2,1
1,1
1,3
3,2
3,2
2,1
3
3,3
1,3
2,3
3,3
3
DCV
+0
+0
+0
-1
+2
+1
Notes
2d6 NND, 2 Limbs
+4d6, Follows Grab
+2d6
2 Limbs, +10 STR
+2d6
+v/5, Target Falls
+2 Overall Levels
+4 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
+4 with Brawling Martial Arts
AK: Soviet Union 11-, AK: United States 8Bribery 8-, Bureaucratics 8CK: New York City 8-, Climbing 11Conversation 14-, Gambling (Card Games) 11Interrogation 14-, KS: Popular Culture 11KS: Russian Culture 11-, KS: World Politics 8Language: English (Fluent, Russian is Native)
Language: Chinese, French (Fluent)
Navigation (Land) 8-, Persuasion 14PS: Black Marketer, Streetwise 14Tactics 11-, Teamwork 11Tracking 11-
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Background
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Level 1
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Level 2
Level One
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LEVEL 4
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 2
Level Two
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Level Three
Level Four
Level Five
Level Six
LEVEL 7
5
LEVEL 6
ROOF
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SUBLEVEL 1
Sublevel One
Sublevel Two
The geothermal tap the facility
uses for power is the most advanced
and sophisticated of its kind known to
exist. It more than adequately provides
for all the power needs the site has thus
far required.
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SUBLEVEL 3
SUBLEVEL 2
Sublevel Three
The vaults represent the highest
degree of security present on the island.
Containing valuable and/or dangerous
items gathered over decades by the
various teams, the walls are solid
Omnium steel over a meter thick. Their
construction took a year and the cost,
while carefully concealed as an
industrial secret by Omnitech, was
enormous. In addition to the their sheer
physical strength, the walls are
reinforced by force fields whose
frequency harmonics constantly and
randomly change, preventing passage
by all known phasing, teleportation,
temporal, and dimensional travel
effects.
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Fortress
Val
14
20
20
Cost
5
8
30
10
35
2
8
3
CHA
SIZE
BODY
DEF
Cost
28
18
54
Notes
5000
16
Attributes
Location: City, Island
Grounds: 2 sq. km.
10
40
30
25
30
30
30
60
30
27
3
8
180
38
11
30
32
30
22
35
Communications: Cryptography 15-, Systems Operation 15Garage/Hangar: Mechanics 15-, Navigation (Air, Land) 11Gym: Acrobatics 11-, Breakfall 11-, Climbing 11-, Tactics
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0
0
0
Equipment
203
30
45
21
18
6
14
30
30
17
2
17
7
6
1
5
11
15
7
1
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THE KESTREL
The Mk VI Kestrel is the cutting
edge in Steele Omnitechs aerospace
designs. It is true VTOL, using a gravitic
displacement array for lift-off and tight
maneuvering, and supplementing the
array with jets for normal flight. The jets
themselves are prototype MHD
(magnetohydrodynamic) thrusters
capable of channeling dense fluids like
water just as easily as air allowing for
the Kestrel to function as a submersible
as well as an aircraft. Its top recorded
speed is Mach 5.8 airborne, and 110
knots submerged.
Though unarmed, the Kestrel is
radar-invisible, and can scramble most
targeting signals, making it very difficult
to hit with conventional weaponry.
XR 22 Omnitech Kestrel, MK VI
Omnitech Aerodyne Special Designs Group
Bascomb Testing Grounds, Utah
Kessler and Kirby, Lead Designers
Wing Span
Length
Height
Normal Takeoff
Weight
Max Level Speed
@ Sea Level
Max Rate of Climb
Service Ceiling
Range with Max
Fuel + Reserve
Accommodations
Operational
Equipment
Power Plant
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326
585
610
34,200 lbs
Mach 5.8
9,200 ft/min (Rated +14/-6 G)
150,000 ft (220,000 ft w/ Afterburner)
19,500 miles
Necessary Flight Crew of one, with avionics configurable for additional
one crew. Safety seat and harness for additional 6 passengers.
Fully pressurized and atmosphere regulated, tested in hard vacuum
and at depths of 20,000 ft. EM Cloak and omni-directional active
targeting radar scrambler. Secure commlink and satellite interface
with integrated navcomp. Holographic HUD. Omnium Steel skeleton
with metalloceramic composite sheath paneling for airframe.
Computer configured wing station adjustment.
Kessler & Kirby MJ-4850 Plasma Induction, Variable-Fluid RCRAM
Multi-stage Turbine. Four Synchronized Release Ports with 38,500 lbs
static thrust maintainable at each. Supplemented by OASDG
Configurable Gravitic Displacement Array allowing perfect VTOL and
Zero Stall Speed.
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Val
6
40
23
16
15
5
CHA
SIZE
STR
DEX
BODY
DEF
SPD
Destrier
Cost
30
0
39
0
39
17
Notes
4x2, -4 DCV, -6 KB
6 tons; 8d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 8/DCV: 6
Val
1
25
23
11
2
5
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
CHA
SIZE
STR
DEX
BODY
DEF
SPD
Cost
5
10
39
0
0
17
Notes
1x, -0 DCV, -1 KB
800 kg; 5d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 8/DCV: 8
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Movement:
Movement:
Cost
151
Running:
Flight:
Swimming:
6/12
40/2560
42/84
Attributes
Flight 40, 64x Noncombat Movement [4800 mph], Combat
Acceleration/Deceleration (+), Usable as Swimming (+)
Cost
55
16
8
Equipment
13
11
2
17
7
7
8
18
30
25
3
20
7
10
8
3
Running:
Flight:
Swimming:
6/12
25/100
2/4
Attributes
Flight 25, 4x Noncombat Movement [187 mph]
Sturdy: +8 DEF; Coverage Does Not Protect Passengers (-)
Stabilizers: Knockback Resistance -4 (-5 Total)
Equipment
12
2
2
11
25
1
1
1
5
14
4
0
0
0
5
2
1
3
0
0
Skills
7
6
3
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THE DESTRIERS
The Destrier is a one-person
vehicle resembling a flying motorcycle.
It uses a smaller and more efficient
version of the same gravitic
displacement array as the Kestrels. As
the cycle approaches its higher speeds,
the front section extends down to allow
a more streamlined and aerodynamic
profile than the more comfortable
default mode. The Destrier generates a
relatively weak force field to help the
rider stay on the vehicle during turns
and at higher speeds. The field provides
no protection for the rider versus
attacks.
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880 lbs
85
35
350 mph (Max safe speed for field emitter
to hold seating positions; breathing masks
required above 110 mph)
3200 ft/min
14,580 ft
1,520 miles
600 lbs
Secondary shell OASDG Configurable Gravitic Displacement Array
allowing perfect VTOL and Zero Stall Speed. Supplemented by
Kessler & Kirby MJ-290 (Third Scale) Plasma Induction Turbine
Full avionics display with holographic HUD. Force screen emitter
slaved to gravitic power coupler aids in maintaining structural
integrity while holding pilot/passengers in seating positions; NOT
rated for defensive countermeasure.
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Think Tank
George Barrons family was poor and barely had enough to make ends meet. His parents
worked hard to keep him in school though, as they saw this as his only chance to escape the life
that they had led. George performed well both in the classroom and on the athletic field. After
college, George went to work back in his old neighborhood, where he worked as a teacher at the
local public school and as a mentor at the after-school programs.
On a walk home from school, a chemical tanker spun out of control, covering
him in strange compounds. The accident had awakened latent metahuman abilities,
granting him the ability to generate a force field around himself. This field could
boost his strength and toughness as well as reshape itself into objects at his
command. George shortly thereafter used his powers to help stop the rampage of
The Hierophant which had led to great devastation throughout the city. After this
fight, George, taking the name Think Tank, joined Wildflower and others in
reforming the Sentinels.
Think Tank finally left active service for reserve status after a battle with Lord Erebus. He
was disillusioned by all the fights with world-conquerors and megalomaniacs, and by the fact that
his neighborhood was still recovering from one of his first battles. He has returned to his old
neighborhood and started up a community center, where he works to improve conditions for the
people in his area.
Spoil Sport
Marcus Tolliver had the world by the tail. He had landed an internship at the prestigious
New York Times, eager to Make a Difference. However, the newsroom was targeted by the Cold
Front, a superpowered terrorist group. The super terrorists held the entire staff hostage for a
period of several hours before beginning to murder some of the less valuable personnel.
Marcus watched the bloody execution of five of his coworkers before it was his turn. As he was
made to kneel in front of the terrorist leader, a strange sense of power overcame Marcus. To
everyones surprise, he emerged unscathed from the leaders blast of frigid air. While the
terrorists stood stunned, Marcus leaped to the attack, displaying the same powers as several of
the terrorists. No one was more surprised than he.
Marcus is a mutant with the ability to mimic the powers and skills of anyone he sees, and
for as long as he wishes. Unfortunately, he also takes on their weaknesses as well. Marcus took
the name Spoilsport, and would still Make a Difference, just not in the way he had originally
planned. Eventually he joined the Sentinels, where he proved instrumental in a terrible battle
against Lord Erebus. Sadly, the stress of mimicking such an incredible power took its toll
Spoilsport briefly went into a coma and was hospitalized. Upon his release, he took a leave of
absence from the Sentinels to deal with his new-found fear of using his powers to their fullest
extent, and his new inability to drop a power unless he can switch to a new power. Whether he
will return to his old level of control has yet to be seen.
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Val
15/45
18
20
10
15
18
18
20
5
5
5
8
40
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
90
Cost Roll
5 1812 1320 130 115 1216 138 135 132
1
22
2
0
2
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Swinging:
Notes
Lift 12 tons; 9d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6(16)
PER Roll: 14ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 3d6
6u
3u
30
20
33
30
6
11
7
4
7
10
6
Equipment
Commlink
GPS Unit
9
6
5
Talents
Ambidexterity (Full)
Combat Luck
Lightning Reflexes: +5 to Turn on Force Field
5
2
5
4
4
4
4
Skills
Martial Arts: Basic Self Defense
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Block
+2
+2
Escape
+0
+0
Grab
+0
+0
Strike
+0
+2
18
18
Powers
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Perks
Contact: The Criminal World 11- (Very Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Law Enforcement World 11- (Very Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely
Useful, Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: Sentinels
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
18
60
4u
0
0
16
6
3,3
1,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
1,3
1,1
3,3
2,2
2,2
1,3
3,1
1,3
3,3
3,1
3,1
Notes
Block, Abort
+15 STR
2 Limbs, +10 STR
+2d6
Disadvantages
DNPC: Community Center Children 8- (Normal, Group x16)
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Lord Erebus 8- (Mo Pow)
Psychological Limitation: Burned Out on the Big Leagues
(Uncommon, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Fights for the Little Guy (Common,
Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Protective of Innocents
(Uncommon, Strong)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Infrequently, Major)
Experience Points
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Spoil Sport
Val
15
15
15
10
18
10
15
10
4
4
4
6
30
25
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
467
Cost Roll
5 1215 1210 120 118 130 115 120 111
1
15
0
0
-1
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 200 kg; 3d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
10
3,3
3,1
1,3
3,1
3,1
1,3
3,3
3,3
2,1
3,1
3,3
3,2
3,3
1,3
1,1
Powers
10
10
var.
0
0
Equipment
Commlink
GPS Unit
6
3
4
Talents
Combat Luck
Lightsleep
Speed Reading
9
15
12
18
5
1
2
5
6
0
0
Skills
+1 Overall Level
+2 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
0
0
0
Perks
Contact: The Business World 8- (Useful, Institutions,
Organization)
Contact: The Journalism World 11- (Very Useful, Contacts,
Organization)
Contact: The Law Enforcement World 8- (Very Useful,
Institutions, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: Sentinels
Press Pass
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
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Sundance
The things that most defined Jim Santos early life were the smell of well-oiled leather, a
flashing white smile behind a big, booming laugh, and a sense of complete safety and security.
All of these came to him from his father. The Texas Ranger was a larger than life hero to his son,
and taught him early on about such concepts as duty, honor, and loyalty, as well as instilling
within him a love of all things Texan, including such legendary Rangers as John B. Armstrong,
Manuel Lonewolf Gonzaullas, and William Big Foot Wallace. Jimmys course in life was set
he wanted to be the hero, to fight the bad guy, and to protect the innocent. This decision was
only strengthened when his father was severely wounded rescuing a kidnapped child and retired
from activity duty.
It was also about this time that Jimmy discovered he had the ability, though
imperfectly, to both absorb and release energy. He secretly trained with his fathers help, and
took the name Sundance. Sundance quickly came to the attention of Steele Omnitech, who
helped him develop a vest that offered him more control over his powers. Sundance served with
distinction as one of the founders of the third Sentinels team following an epic battle against the
Hierophant, only to take a leave of absence after a sudden, uncontrolled power flare up proved
dangerous to those around him. It was during this time that his personal tragedies compounded
James Santos Sr. was killed attempting to aid a woman being robbed at gunpoint. Though his
problems with his abilities have been wrestled back under control, Sundance still stays mainly in
Texas to help out around the old homestead.
Wildflower
Lillian Alton had always been a smart girl. It was through hard work and natural intelligence
that she was awarded a scholarship to UCLA in the early 60s. She excelled in biology, especially
botany, and her time in the greenhouse was to be the turning point in her life. During her junior
year, she was tending the hybrid vegetable beds when Evergreen attacked to free the enslaved
plants in the greenhouse. Evergreen impaled poor Lillian on the Erl Kings Staff, only to feel a
shard break off and empower Lillian to resist the continuing assault. In that moment, a new
Ambassador of Arcadia was born. Her plant powers grew over the course of the struggle as they
were transferred from Evergreen, who withered and died as Arcadia was finally able to reject her.
After that day, Lillian began work on two levels. She worked towards a better understanding
of environmental balance, and fought those criminals that would despoil it. In addition to her
ability to control plant life, Wildflower became much stronger and resilient as time went on.
The constant battles with power-hungry megalomaniacs were leaving a horrible wound
in the environment, however. It was her need to heal this wound that led Wildflower to
eventually go to reserve status. She now feels her time would be better spent with Greenpeace
than fighting just another costumed crazy though she remains ready to aid her friends if
needed.
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Val
18
18
18
10
13
15
20
10
6
6
5
8
40
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost Roll
8 1324 1316 130 113 1210 1210 130 112
2
22
0
2
2
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 300 kg; 3d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
90
9u
9u
9u
9u
9u
9u
6u
9u
9u
40
5
6
Powers
END
0
0
Endurance (0 END, +)
0
2) Gentle Blast: EB 9d6, STUN Only, Armor Piercing
(+), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
0
3) Killing Blast: RKA 4d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+)
0
4) Long Blast: EB 9d6, No Range Penalty (+), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +)
0
5) Ricochet Blast: EB 9d6, Indirect (originates from
attacker but fired in any direction, +), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +)
0
6) Salvo Blast: EB 7d6, Autofire (5 Shots, +), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +1)
0
7) Spread Blast: EB 7d6, Area Of Effect (12 Cone, +1),
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); No Range (-)
0
8) Trick Blast: EB 6d6, +1 Variable Advantage (+2)
var.
9) Zapper Blast: EB 6d6, Continuous (+1), Damage
Shield (+), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
0
0
0
0
Equipment
20
8
12
16
18
12
3,3
2,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
2,2
3,3
2,3
2,3
3,1
200+
10
15
10
15
Talents
Combat Aim (Combat Archery, FH104)
Combat Luck (x2)
Crippling Blast (Crippling Blow, FH104)
Evasive (FH105)
Lightning Reflexes +8
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0
0
RMod
+0
+0
+0
+0
Notes
+0d6
+2d6
+4d6
FMove
Customized Destrier
Commlink
GPS Unit
DCV
+2
+0
-1
+0
15
0
0
0
16
20
12
12
5
10
5
3
4
4
3
Skills
Martial Arts: Blast Fu
Maneuver
OCV
Defensive Shot
-1
Martial Shot
+1
Offensive Shot
-1
Running Shot
+0
24
Cost
20
5
2
5
Perks
Contact: The Blaster World 8- (Useful, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely
Useful, Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Texas Rangers 14- (Useful, Great
Relationship, Organization)
Membership: Sentinels
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
6
18
15
10
5
400
Disadvantages
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: The Hierophant 8- (Mo Pow)
Psychological Limitation: Always Gets His Man (Uncommon,
Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Moody, Blames Himself for His
Fathers Death (Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Protective of Innocents (Common,
Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Texan to a Fault (Uncommon,
Moderate)
Social Limitation: Secret Identity (Jim Santos) (Frequently,
Major)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Infrequently, Major)
Unluck 1d6
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30
25
30
20
18
25
20
25
8
8
5
12/20
50
50
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
50
40
50
27
43
50
17
18
4
2
7
15
18
52
Cost Roll
20 1545 1440 1520 138 1330 1410 1313 142
2
15
0
-5
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Tunneling:
Swinging:
12
Wildflower
Notes
Lift 1600 kg; 6d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 8/DCV: 8(10)
2
13
30
3
25
6
6
Powers
17
11
END
25
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
Combat Luck (x2), EM: No Penalties in Undergrowth
Fascination (FH105), Fearless (FH111)
Inspire (FH106), Simulate Death
12,4
10,7
11,3
Perks
Contact: The Arcadian World 17- (Useful, Slavishly Loyal,
Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely
Useful, Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: Sentinels
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
36
0
18
5
2
5
Skills
+5 Overall Levels
+2 Overall Levels; Only when in Wooded Areas (-1)
50
10
12
3,2,3
3,3,2
2,3,3
3,3,3
4,3,3
3,3
Acrobatics 14-, Breakfall 14-, Climbing 14-, Concealment 13Green Thumb (Power) 14-, KS: Arcane Lore 11-, Oratory 13Persuasion 13-, PS: Artist 13-, PS: Botanist 13PS: Singer 11-, Seduction 13-, SS: Biology 13SS: Botany 13-, SS: Chemistry 13-, Stealth 14Survival (Temperate, Tropical) 13-, Tactics 13-, Teamwork 14Tracking 13-, WF: Farming Implements, Vehicle Weapons
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
200+
10
5
15
15
10
20
15
10
600
Disadvantages
Hunted: Doc Steel 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Smog 8- (Less Pow)
Physical Limitation: Moods are Driven by the Seasons (All
the Time, Slightly)
Psychological Limitation: Protective of the Environment
(Common, Strong)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Infrequently, Major)
Social Limitation: Beholden to the Peoples of Arcadia (Very
Frequently, Major)
Susceptibility: 2d6 from Plant-Killing Chemicals (Common)
Vulnerability: 1x STUN from Fire (Common)
Experience Points
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Background
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DESCRIPTION
Natalia Natalie Milosz is the daughter of immigrants who barely escaped the Russian response
to the Czech uprising. They prospered after they came to America, and were quite happy when
Natalia was born. Their elation turned to apprehension when she hit puberty and her abilities
began to manifest. Fearful for their daughters well-being and her soul, they went to their priest
and asked for his advice.
Luckily, Father Pietro was an intelligent and educated man who recognized the child
as probably being a nascent metahuman. Through his own contacts, he eventually got in
touch with a sympathetic worker at Steele Omnitechs Medical Sciences Division, who in
turn brought Natalie to the attention of the workers own superiors. Due to the policies
put into place by the founder of Steele Omnitech, the director of the division
immediately brought Natalie and her parents into their home office and promised all
the help they could give the girl.
Over the next decade, Natalie spent a great deal of time with the doctors and
scientists at the Chicago office of the medical division. During that time she learned
many things. She learned how to control her abilities, to mentally control shadows,
create them, shape them, and even make them solid temporarily. She learned that her
abilities defied scientific definition, as they were proven not to be psionic in origin, and
none of the people who worked with her were comfortable even admitting the existence of
magic. Finally, with a little assistance from the archivists at the Department for Metahuman
Studies that Steele Omnitech helped fund at MIT, she was able to trace her family back
to a line of powerful eastern European nobles reputed to be in league with terrible
demons of living darkness. How much trust she puts into that research she still isnt
sure of, as it also ties her to the European criminal Nachtknig, known to the
American press as Shadowlord, who claims descent from those same men. She still
keeps tabs on reports of the self-proclaimed mastermind, just in case.
When the Sentinels originally formed, the idea of being a costumed hero excited
Natalie and she used her existing connections with Steele Omnitech to bring herself to
the teams attention. She served well on the team, and adapted well to the lifestyle.
She probably would have stayed with them indefinitely if she hadnt met and fell in love
with Jefferson Talbot. Noir then left the Sentinels, and Cyberhawk gained a partner
named Blackbird.
Blackbird is a thorough thinker. Levelheaded, she seldom acts just on impulse, and
works well in the role of peacemaker. Preferring the planning and preparation she learned from
her hardworking parents and which was
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SEX
Female
AGE
29
HT
55
WT
120#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Aerie
+0 Controls shadows
-3 Former Sentinel
-5
-8
-10 Somehow connected to
Shadowlord
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Val
10
18
13
10
10
18
18
18
4
4
5
6
30
25
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
75
7u
7u
7u
7u
7u
7u
120
40
35
5
13
Cost Roll
0 1124 136 120 110 1116 128 134 131
2
12
2
2
3
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
5
4
4
16
12
6
Total: 13 PD (9 rPD)
Total: 13 ED (9 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 80
6/12
2/4
2/4
15/60
Powers
+)
2) Shadow Block: Suppress 8d6 Darkness-Based
Powers, One at a Time (+), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +)
3) Shadow Choke: EB 6d6, NND (No Need to Breathe,
+1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
4) Shadow Snare: Entangle (4 DEF, 2d6 BODY),
Opaque to Sight Group, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+), Takes No Damage from Physical Attacks (+)
5) Shadow Tendril: Telekinesis (30 STR), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +)
6) Shadow Wall: Force Wall (8 PD/8 ED), Opaque to
Sight Group, Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
18
11
7
3
7
15
5
3
RMod
+4
+0
Notes
Shot
Block, Abort
+2d6
END, +)
3
2
3
1
3
1
3
1
3
1
2
2
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Skills
Martial Arts: Shadow Mastery
Maneuver
OCV DCV
Far Shot
+1
-1
Martial Block
+2
+2
Quick Shot
+1
+0
Perks
Contact: The Sentinels 11- (Very Useful, Contacts,
Organization)
Member: The Aerie
ex-Member: The Sentinels
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
33
HT
510
WT
175#
DESCRIPTION
Cyberhawk is Jefferson Talbot, founder and CEO of Talbot Innovative Concepts, an electronics
and computer design corporation. After most of his family fortunes were wiped out by a corrupt
board of directors running what was once Talbot Industries, Jefferson went around the world on
a soul-searching trip. During this time, he continued pursuing his two true loves, electronics and
ornithology their study being two of the very few things which enabled him to keep his
perspective while trying to rebuild his self-esteem and sense of identity following his disastrous
failures to keep his family business viable. Eventually he learned that the men who had driven
into the ground the dream his father had built were one and all in the pocket of a criminal named
Mr. Big, a man who had had known and hated Jeffersons father as well as envied Talbot
Industries assets. Jefferson knew he had found a purpose.
Jefferson Talbot disappeared while in Europe. After a few months
of searching, Mr. Bigs men, who had been keeping tabs on the young
Talbot, finally gave up. Shortly thereafter, a strange armored figure
began a one-man war against Mr. Bigs various front organizations,
eventually forcing the giant metahuman into the open to deal
with him. Revealing himself as Talbot, Cyberhawk battled Mr. Big,
humbling him after a brutal combat. His family name and honor
avenged, Talbot proceeded to slowly rebuild, taking back what had once
been his and adding to it. However, nothing he experienced in the
boardroom or lab matched the excitement he had encountered under the
helmet of Cyberhawk. He often found himself working out his frustrations on the
criminal element as the armored avian, and loving every minute of it. His dual identity
spilled to the press by one of Mr. Bigs former lieutenants, Talbot saw no reason he
couldnt keep active as both. He has never looked back since that day.
Jefferson Talbot is an athletically built black man in his early thirties. He keeps his hair
trimmed short and maintains a beard small enough not to interfere with the operations of his
helmet. The Cyberhawk suit is cobalt blue with black trim and silver highlights. Its artificial
wings provide a gravimetric displacement effect which enables him to fly. In addition, its multipolymer and advanced alloy construction provide protections against most weapons and
attacks. His weapon systems are varied and powerful, and he is constantly upgrading and
redesigning them. Finally, there is a cybernetic endoskeleton that enhances his strength far
above human limits. Despite the suits many features, it is incredibly lightweight, massing less
than 100 pounds total.
A genius in every sense of the word, Talbot is an engineer and designer with few peers.
Unfortunately, his lifestyle screams Type A personality and his competitive streak sometimes
overwhelms his better judgment. He has a temper that he works to keep under control and a
chip the size of Montana on his shoulder which he has far less success keeping in check.
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Leader/Face of the Aerie
+0 Armored gadgeteer
-3 Really Jefferson Talbot
-5 Engaged to Blackbird
-8 Abrasive personality
-10 Not on good terms with many
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Val
13/35
15
14
10
30
10
18
10
4
4
5
6
30
25
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
10
Cost Roll
*16 1615 128 120 1120 150 1116 130 111
1
25
6
1
1
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
90
8
3
17
Notes
Lift 3 tons; 7d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
11
PER Roll: 15ECV: 3
PRE Attack: 3d6
11
8
15
20
11
6
6
6/12
2/5
2/4
20/40
Powers
Luck 2d6
END
0
Equipment
50
5u
5u
5u
32
30
15
45
7
OIF (-)
2) Stunner: EB 10d6, STUN Only (+0), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); OIF (-)
3) Dazzler: Sight and Hearing Group Flash 6d6; Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); OIF (-)
0
0
0
0
0
0
17
3
6
0
0
Talents
Combat Aim (Combat Archery, FH104)
Combat Luck; Linked to Flight (-)
Inspire (FH106)
Lightning Calculator
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
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Base: The Aerie
CEO of Talbot Innovative Concepts
Connected
Contact: The Business Community 11- (Very Useful,
Contacts, Institutions, Organization)
Contact: The Military World 8- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Organization)
Contact: The Scientific Community 8- (Very Useful,
Institutions, Organization)
Leader: The Aerie
Money: Filthy Rich
Skills
+2 Overall Levels
2,2
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,2
3,3
3,3
2
2,3
3,2
3,3
2,2
3,1
2,3
1,3
3,4
8
AK: America 11-, AK: Europe 11Analyze Technology 15-, Animal Handler (Birds, Raptors) 13Bribery 13-, Bureaucratics 13Combat Piloting 12-, Computer Programming 15Conversation 13-, Demolitions 15Electronics 15-, Forgery (Machine/Vehicle Parts) 15High Society 13-, Inventor 15KS: Current Events 15-, KS: The Cybernetic World 15KS: The Military/Mercenary World 11KS: The Superhuman World 11-, KS: Technology 15Mechanics 15-, Navigation (Air) 15Oratory 13-, Persuasion 13PS: Businessman 11-, PS: Inventor 15Security Systems 15-, Streetwise 8Survival (Temperate, Urban) 8-, Systems Operation 15Tactics 8-, Teamwork 12Trading 13-, Weaponsmith (Energy, Firearms, Missiles) 15WF: Emplaced Weapons, Flamethrowers, Grenade
Launchers, Heavy Machine Guns, Shoulder-Fired Weapons,
Small Arms
3
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2
Scientist
SS: Aeronautics 15-, SS: Avionics 15SS: Cybernetics 15-, SS: Engineering 15SS: Gravimetics 15-, SS: Mathematics 15SS: Metallurgy 15-, SS: Ornithology 15SS: Physics 15-
Disadvantages
Enraged: when Losing a Contest (Common, Go 8-, Rec 14-)
Hunted: Mr. Big 8- (As Pow, NCI)
Hunted: The Orchard 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
Psychological Limitation: Abrasive (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Ambitious (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Loves Blackbird (Uncommon,
Strong)
15 Psychological Limitation: Scientific Curiosity (Common,
Strong)
10 Social Limitation: Public Identity (Jefferson Talbot)
(Frequently, Minor)
400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 700
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DESCRIPTION
James Tenfeathers had always been a good hunter, even as a child. He was happy on the
reservation, with his family, in a life where he was left alone to live the way he wanted and
answered to no one but himself and the older men that he grudgingly respected. That all
changed when the Orchard decided the residents of his area were remote enough not to be
missed. The terrorist weaponeers kidnapped James and two dozen others and used them for
experimental subjects to test a group of mutagens the criminal consortium had recently
acquired.
James remembers vividly the mind-shattering pain as his skeleton and musculature
warped and restructured itself, as well as the tearing pressure as the wings erupted
from his back. He remembers the agonizing months it took for the doctors to help him
to relearn how to use his body. He remembers the frustration of the months it took
for him to learn to use his wings, and the ability to fly that the doctors told him
came from his mind not the wings themselves. And then he remembers the
absolute freedom that came with his first flight. Watching Blackbird and
Cyberhawk, who he felt he owed his life to, he came up with an idea how he could
repay them, and use his glorious wings to their fullest.
Beyond the friendship which has grown between them over the years,
Tenfeathers feels he owes his teammates a blood debt, not only for his own life but
for those of his friends and family that they helped rescue. He doesnt know how
long its going to take for him to feel that hes off worked that debt he may never
feel that hes done enough. As Raptor, Tenfeathers feels truly free, moreso than at
any other point in his life. He loves to fly, and when not working with the team can be
found at parks and canyons just soaring and doing aerial maneuvers over and over
again. He also tends to lose himself in the impulses he feels when flying, impulses which
have earned him a reputation as a dangerous hothead.
Unlike his teammates, Raptors wings actually are real wings. However, his flight comes
from a focused form of telekinesis, with the wings themselves only providing maneuver control.
He can reach incredibly high rates of speed and is practically unmatched in his aerobatic ability,
literally flying circles around many of his opponents. His senses are enhanced, and both his agility
and recuperative abilities are now superhuman. Raptor wears a set of bracers which generate a
force construct around his wrists and hands in the shape of enormous talons. These constructs
contain an intense plasma which discharges on contact with physical objects. With effort,
Tenfeathers can strike with them in ways that limit this damage to a concussive blow, but he
often uses their full effect to shred equipment and surrounding terrain for great dramatic impact.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
25
HT
58
WT
165#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Aerie
+0 Fast, agile flyer with mutant
wings
-3 Violent reputation
-5 Vendetta versus the Orchard
-8
-10
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Val
20
35
18
20
10
10
9
10
6
6
6
12
40
40
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
STUN
Movement:
Cost
20
Cost Roll
10 1375 1616 1320 130 110 11-1 110 112
2
15
8
2
1
1
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 12/DCV: 12
PER Roll: 11-/14ECV: 3
PRE Attack: 1d6
Powers
Claws
17
4
85
6
9
27
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
62
6u
6u
3
9
16
24
30
4
18
7
0
0
0
Perks
Member: The Aerie
5
4
5
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Raptor Fu
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Flying Dodge
+4
Martial Strike
+0
+2
Passing Strike
+1
+0
Use Art with Energy Claws
10
7
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
1
3
1
2
1
3
3
2
3
1
3
4
Notes
Dodge, Abort, FMove
+2d6
+v/5, FMove
Talents
Absolute Range Sense
Ambidexterity (Full)
Berserk Fury (FH104)
Combat Luck (x4)
Danger Sense 14- (Immediate Vicinity, Out of Combat,
Sense)
Double Jointed
Evasive (FH105)
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
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DESCRIPTION
Hanson Greer grew up in a small farming town in Iowa. Like all his friends, Hanson wanted
nothing more than to grow up and be the best sports star ever. Unlike the rest of his friends,
however, Hanson had the natural talent to at least attempt his dream, winning first a football
scholarship to college, and then a place in professional football before he even graduated. He
was well on his way towards his dream when that fateful game happened. In the middle of the
third quarter, he was pincered between two equally large linemen and he heard a sickening snap.
His left leg had been broken. He came to his senses on the sidelines with the team doctor
working on him. Despite his rough activities, Hanson had never been hurt quite as bad before
that day, and the level of pain was a new experience for him. So, when the pain began to
subside, he was a much happier man. He was happier still when the pain went away entirely.
Testing his leg, he found that not only did it not hurt at all any more, but he could actually stand
up, much to the shock of those around him, especially the doctor. Hanson just thought the
doctor had made a mistake, and he went to his coach to ask for more playtime. Thats
when he began to notice what those around him were already talking about his uniform
was shrinking, and then his helmet, and then everybody around him. No, they werent
shrinking, he was growing larger.
His career was over. Metahumans werent allowed in professional sports, no
matter how much they wished they were still normal. At least his height finally stopped
changing he stabilized at a hair over seven feet. And he was strong, strong enough to
use his daddys best tractor as a shot-put when he let his temper take hold. Replacing
that tractor bit into his savings quite a bit. He hadnt really gotten into saving a lot of his
money at that point, thinking his career would last a good long while. When he was at his wits
end as to what he would now do with his life, a man named Talbot showed up on Hansons
parents farm and made him a well-timed offer: a chance to play for a new team. Sure, it
wasnt football, but at least it was physical, it used his skills to some extent, and he still got paid
well for knocking people around. Best of all, he still had fans. All things considered, not a bad life
at all as far as he was concerned.
Hanson Greer is a large and powerfully built man, standing over seven feet tall and massing
over a third of a ton. He is immensely strong and can absorb vast amounts of punishment.
Cyberhawk even outfitted him with a flight harness modeled after the equipment in the
Cyberhawk suit though it looks strangely small on his frame. As Roc, he is the teams heavy
hitter, and he still thinks in terms of football plays, using blocks, body slams, and tackles
extensively. Though he thought of Cyberhawk as the coach at first, hes gradually changed that
view. Cyberhawk is the quarterback, Blackbird is the coach (and a pretty good one, though hed
never admit that to her).
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
26
HT
71
WT
740#
EYES
Green
HAIR
Blonde
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of Aerie
+0 Big and strong
-3 Former NFL player
-5 Fights like a football player
-8
-10
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Roc
Val
65
14
40
16
8
8
15
10
25
25
4
20
80
80
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
16
12
6
8
8
7
3
24
1
4
Cost Roll
55 2212 1260 1712 12-2 11-4 115 120 1113
17
16
0
2
9
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 200 tons; 13d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
4
4
4
3
4
3
5
5
5
4
4
4
3
10
6
5
5
12/24
6/12
3/6
12/24
Powers
END
65 STR
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
Equipment
28
12
6
6
10
1
7
5
3
6
5
2
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3
3
1
3
3
2
3
2
2
2
1
3
2
2
1
1
2
1
3
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Football and Brawling
Maneuver
OCV DCV Notes
Charge
+2
-2
+v/5, FMove
Choke Hold
-2
+0
2d6 NND
Crush
+0
+0
+4d6, Follows Grab
Defensive Throw
+1
+1
Block, Target Falls
Flying Grab
-2
-1
2 Limbs, +10 STR, FMove
Flying Tackle
+0
-1
+v/5, Both Fall, FMove
Offensive Strike
-2
+1
+4d6
Passing Disarm
-1
-1
+10 STR Disarm, FMove
Passing Strike
+1
+0
+v/5, FMove
Root
+0
+0
+15 STR to Resist Shove,
Block, Abort
Shove
+0
+0
+15 STR Shove
Strike
+0
+2
+2d6
Throw
+0
+1
+v/5, Target Falls
+2 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
+2 with Football Martial Arts
Defense Maneuver II
Rapid Attack (HTH)
AK: Iowa 8Animal Handler (Bovines, Equines) 12Breakfall 12Bribery 8Climbing 12Conversation 12Gambling (Sports) 11Interrogation 12KS: Country Music 11KS: Football 11KS: The Athletic World 11Navigation (Land) 8Paramedics 11PS: Farming 11PS: Football 11Riding 8Streetwise 8Survival (Temperate) 11Tactics 8Teamwork 12TF: Agricultural Vehicles
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THE AERIE
The Aerie (the actual Aerie that is, which is to say the
headquarters used by the team) occupies the top four floors of the
Waterston building, a 20 story high-rise situated downtown just
inside the business district. Jefferson Talbot owns the entire building
through Talbot Innovative Concepts, Inc. He leases the other 16
floors to various enterprises. Surprisingly, not only does the
proximity of a site that could be frequently targeted by metahuman
criminals and madmen not deter potential lessees, proximity to the
celebrity residents on the top floors actually draws lessees in even
greater numbers. There are no empty commercial spaces in the
building, and as soon as one lessee leaves another immediately
moves in.
The 15th floor is comprised of structural reinforcements, backup
electronics, and maintenance subsystems. The stairways all end at
the 14th floor. Aside from roof access, the only way to reach the top
floors is to possess a special key card for the central elevator, or to
have an appointment. People who make appointments are
instructed to use the intercom in the central elevator to notify the
computer of their arrival. Upon reaching the reception area, either a
member of the team is present to greet them, or they are greeted
by a pleasant computerized voice asking them to take a seat.
The top floors are lit externally by the enormous glass A
structures that ring the building on those levels. The strength of this
lighting is sufficient to be seen at night from any point in the city
where the building itself can be seen.
At an earlier point in the teams history, there existed a special
subway tunnel to take them to a hangar outside of the city. This
was where the Steelwing, an advanced air transport was housed.
However, their vehicle was rarely used, as the team concentrates its
activities predominantly in the city. After an ambush by Chiller and
Subzero of the criminal group known as the Coldfront resulted in the
destruction of both the second Steelwing and its hangar (the first
having been destroyed the year before), Cyberhawk decided a third
vehicle was an unnecessary expense. The special subway access
from the central elevator has long since been closed over.
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THE AERIE
The Aerie (HQ)
Val CHA
Cost
13 SIZE
26
12 BODY
10
15 DEF
39
Cost
0
3
Notes
3200
Total Characteristics Cost: 75
Attributes
Location: City
25
38
39
20
12
3
8
16
11
Labs
35
35
79
47
54
Systems Operation 14Gym: Acrobatics 11-, Breakfall 11-, Climbing 11-, Tactics 11, Teamwork 11Infirmary: Forensic Medicine 11-, Paramedics 14-, SS:
Medicine 11-, SS: Pharmacology 11-, SS: Toxicology 11Labs: +4 with Science Skills, Criminology 11-, SS:
Aeronautics 11-, SS: Astronomy 11-, SS: Biology 11-, SS:
Chemistry 11-, SS: Cybernetics 11-, SS: Engineering 11-, SS:
Genetics 11-, SS: Geology 11-, SS: Mathematics 11-, SS:
Metallurgy 11-, SS: Physics 11-, SS: Robotics 11Library: AK: Earth 11-, KS: Famous People 11-, KS: General
Reference 11-, KS: History 11-, KS: Law 11-, KS: Recent
News 11-, KS: Superhumans 11-, PS: Research 11-,
Streetwise 11Workshop: Demolitions 14-, Electronics 14-, Inventor 14-,
Weaponsmith (Energy, Firearms, Missiles) 14-
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THE ARSENAL
Background
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The Arsenal of Democracy is nominally an extension of the
Federal Marshals office, though they can be seconded to direct
military service at the drop of a hat. Thanks to a special act of
congress creating an exception to The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878,
defining their legal powers and circumventing those pesky divisions
between military and civilian law enforcement authorities, the Arsenal
has a hand-picked Air Cavalry unit at their beck and call even when
fulfilling their civilian function. When in pursuit of a federal fugitive,
these soldiers can follow the Arsenals members into the field. In
other situations, however, the presence of the Arsenal must
specifically be requested by local authorities. Various mayors and
governors around the country have been receiving not-so-subtle
pressure more and more frequently from the White House and highranking congressional members to call in the team as soon as
possible when dealing with problems of a metahuman nature.
Responses have varied so far, much as might be expected with the
mixed and sometimes volatile opinions floating around about the
governments new superpolice with descriptions ranging from
godsends to jackboots as well as the ready assistance of the
FDSI, who are never slow to invoke their jurisdiction when warranted.
The Arsenal uses standard military vehicles and equipment as
required, with transport normally being provided by a number of
Chinook helicopters seconded to them. They can and have called on
combat arms support up to and including Apache assault helicopters,
Abrams MBTs, and any number of other armed vehicles. Their
primary staging HQ is a section of Fort Bragg in North Carolina,
though they
have access to
any number of
other military
and federal
facilities
throughout the
country and the
world.
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DESCRIPTION
Major William Oliver Wright was a super soldier even before the experimental
procedures. Like his father and grandfather, Wright was a career military man with a stellar
record.
He had all the qualifications necessary for the new supersoldier program, Project Twelve,
along with almost 700 other candidates. The government absolutely did not want another Project
Nine on their hands, and tested all their candidates to a ridiculous degree. After almost three
years of psychological screening by every relevant governmental agency, Wright and eleven
others proved stable enough for the project leaders to clear them for the procedures. Of the
volunteer patients, only Majors Wright and Baron developed substantive abilities to any degree.
Major Baron went on to serve in the field as strike force leader on many covert black ops, while
Major Wright, who scored slightly higher on the people skills side, become the centerpiece for
the new government-sponsored superhero team, the Arsenal Of Democracy (later shortened by
the press to just the Arsenal).
Anthem (the second person to use that superhero identity) is stronger, faster, and tougher
than before. He can lift over two tons, run faster than an olympic-level sprinter, heal from
debilitating injuries in a matter of minutes, and can withstand inhospitable environmental
conditions that normal soldiers would require special equipment to weather. The only downside is
that his enhanced metabolism processes toxins faster than before, leaving him particularly at risk
to biochemical weapons. His immune system resists diseases to a remarkable degree, but
poisons, especially ingested and inhaled poisons, have become his
Achilles heel.
Thus far, the public has had only limited exposure to Wrights
carefully-molded and presented persona every instance being carefully orchestrated by the
teams handler. As a public relations gimmick, Wright has been trained to fight with a special
steel staff. The committees idea was that by not using a sidearm, he shows that America is
moral enough that she doesnt have to resort to lethal violence when a government-trained
operative can handle the problem with just a stick. This hasnt quite worked as planned as the
image of Anthem and his big club gets frequent play on comedy circuits and late-night TV.
To his credit, Wright has yet to show the strain that stress and public friction inflict on him, but
his temper with his people and their opponents has been getting noticeably shorter, especially
after American Dreams death, and his handlers have started limited the teams direct media
contact more and more to compensate.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
34
HT
64
WT
240#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
White
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Leader of the Arsenal
+0 A true American hero
-3 Faster, stronger; the ideal man
-5 Arrogant and smug
-8 Doesnt get along well with most
civilian superheroes
-10 Deadweight against poisons
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Val
35
30
30
15
15
15
30
14
10
10
6
15
60
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
12
18
4
4
28
8
5
6
17
18
22
2u
1u
13
3
5
Cost Roll
25 1660 1540 1510 125 1210 1220 152 123
4
20
4
0
12
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 3200 kg; 7d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
1
Powers
END
0
39
3
10
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Perks
Contact: The Superhero Community 8- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: US Government & Military 15- (Extremely Useful,
Great Relationship, Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Federal Police Powers
Leader: The Arsenal
Top Security Clearance
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Block, Abort
2d6 NND
d6K
+2d6
+10 STR
+15 STR
3 Limbs, +10 STR
+v/5
0
0
3,3
1,3
3,2
3,3
3,1
1,3
3,3
3,2
3,3
3
2,3
2,3
3,3
3,1
1
1
1,1
4,3
3,3
2,2
3,3
3,6
1,3
5
3,2
9
(-)
Talents
9,12 Ambidexterity (Full), Combat Luck (x2)
18,11 Evasive (FH105), Inspire (FH106)
3,3 Resistance, Supreme Balance
15
10
3
8
5
Skills
Martial Arts: Commando Training
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Block
+2
+2
Choke
-2
+0
Chop
-2
+0
Cross
+0
+2
Disarm
-1
+1
Escape
+0
+0
Hold
-1
-1
Throw
+0
+1
Use Art with Knife, Staff
200+ Disadvantages
10 Distinctive Features: Commando Style Martial Arts (Not
Concealable, Detectable by Large Group)
15 Hunted: The Black Knights 8- (Mo Pow)
15 Hunted: US Government 11- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
15 Psychological Limitation: Patriot (Common, Strong)
5 Reputation: Arrogant 11- (among Other Superheroes)
10 Social Limitation: Secret Identity (William Wright)
(Infrequently, Major)
20 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
10 Vulnerability: 2x STUN from Poisons (Uncommon)
400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 700
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DESCRIPTION
Judson Roberts has always felt the need for speed thats why he became a
NASCAR driver. When his brother Wade, the eccentric genius mechanical engineer,
needed a test driver for his prototype engine accelerator, he naturally called on his
younger sibling. The accelerator was intended to boost engine performance tenfold, and
had worked well enough at low speeds, but it was discovered that engine efficiency had
also been boosted, giving the engine the capability of traveling at speeds far in excess of other
land vehicles.
The accelerator, however, did more than boost the engine it actually warped time to do
so. Where Wade acquired the parts or technology to push the envelope even farther than his
past eccentricities had gone is a secret he didnt share (and now, never can). Once the strippeddown racecar with the temporal engine hit and passed the speed of sound, the fields it generated
infused Judson with indefinable temporal energies. The engine destroyed itself in the process,
and its creator Wade paradoxically ceased to exist. No one, not even Judson, remembers him, or
how Judson got his powers.
Now, Judson Roberts can manipulate time around himself. It appears to others that he has
speed-based powers, and can run very fast, but actually Roberts alters the timestream so that he
can move a great distance in a short time. What appears to be super-fast punches are actually
Roberts accelerating the aging process and disintegrating the target with a touch. What seem to
be supernaturally fast reflexes are actually Roberts speeding up time for himself subconsciously
so that the world seems to be traveling in slow motion around him.
Since he is manipulating time, instead of speed, his enhanced reflexes also work to his favor
when hes driving or using other skills that rely on coordination. After all, to him, even though he
might be driving at 150 MPH, it feels like 15 MPH, so maneuverability is not a problem. Its a pity
that its taken most of the fun out of sport racing.
As a result of this temporal manipulation, Roberts is harshly affected by attacks that are out
of phase with the normal space-time continuum. His timestream excursions seem to be aging him
prematurely, as well, since he appears to be in his late 40s, despite his actual age of 27.
He joined the Arsenal under the name of Minuteman. The team needed a speedster, and
Minuteman appeared to fit the bill. Hes a bit worried about the consequences if certain villains,
Praetorian in particular, find out that he controls time, so he hides the fact that hes warping time
by pretending to be a normal speedster.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
48(27)
HT
510
WT
130#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Brown
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of the Arsenal
+0 Very fast
-3 Can punch through a brick wall
-5 Very hard to hit
-8 He heals rapidly
-10 He can even heal others
-13 Phase-based powers work well
against him
-15 Leaves a temporal energy
signature
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Val
10
38
15
10
10
13
10
10
3
3
10
15
30
25
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
106
7u
7u
8u
7u
7u
5u
7u
3u
Cost Roll
0 1184 1710 120 110 116 120 110 111
0
52
20
0
2
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
3
24
17
18
3
3
8
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 13/DCV: 13
PER Roll: 11ECV: 4
PRE Attack: 2d6
15
3
3
5
1
8
Powers
END
0
30
5
13
3
5
0
0
Talents
Absolute Time Sense
Combat Luck (x4)
Danger Sense (In Combat, Sense)
Evasive (FH105)
Lightning Calculator
Simulate Death
Speed Reading (1000x)
Perks
Contact: The Superhero Community 8- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Anonymity
Federal Police Powers
Membership: The Arsenal
Racing License
Security Clearance
8
10
12
Skills
+1 with All Non-Combat Skills
Defense Maneuver IV
Rapid Attack (HTH, Ranged); Usable by 1 Other (+)
3
3
3
3
15
3
3
1
2
9
2
3
3
1
1
3
2
3
1
0
0
0
1
Equipment
(-)
0
0
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DESCRIPTION
Blair Carter grew up the only daughter of a career Army officer. She learned of her
mutant powers as a teenager and was miraculously able to keep them hidden. Determined
to use her abilities to help people, and spurred on by the sense of duty she learned from her
father, she took on the identity of Miss Liberty.
She was already working through the government at the start of her costumed career
(secretly changing identities while working her job as an archivist under General Rector and his
appropriations committee), when she heard of the new government-sponsored superhero
team forming. She talked to the committee, and they agreed that shed be a perfect choice a
dream combination of training, power, and demographics.
As Miss Liberty, Carter wears a modified Statue of Liberty costume. When shes fully grown,
shes over 50 feet tall with the strength and durability that go with it. Her gear, including tablet,
torch, and clothing, all grow with her, somehow subconsciously being included in whatever
morphogenic field alters Blairs own size. Her crown spikes make her seem even taller than that.
Her maximum height had been increasing by about a foot per year, but the constant and
stressful usage of her powers since the Arsenal was formed have pushed her abilities again and
again, with her top limits constantly being redefined.
In addition to her innate abilities, Liberty can throw the eight spikes from her crown for
serious damage when propelled by her incredible strength. Her most common opening action is
to use her armored tablet to protect bystanders, first, or teammates, second. Shell often dive
into the open to draw fire away from her teammates, and attempt to deflect it all. It doesnt
always work, but it gives her a chance, anyway.
Carter is Puerto Rican (her father anglicized the family name many years ago), with
shoulder-length wavy black hair. Shes 57 tall (normally), with an athletic build. As a civilian or
in costume as Miss Liberty, Carter is direct, often to the point of being brash or pushy. She has a
military mindset, and is used to having her orders followed. She was quite close to American
Dream. Blaming herself for not being able to protect her friend, Liberty has grown more brusque
and closed off, much to the chagrin of the handlers who were used to using her as their
centerpiece in PR opportunities.
QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
27
HT
611
WT
8 tons
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of the Arsenal
+0 Extremely tall
-3 Very strong
-5 Hard to hit, what with that tablet
and all
-8 Protective of bystanders
-10 Bossy, maybe a little bit manhating
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13/63 STR
15 DEX
15/30 CON
10/20 BODY
10 INT
18 EGO
18/33 PRE
20 COM
4/12 PD
4/12 ED
5 SPD
6 REC
30 END
25/50 STUN
Movement:
Cost
75
Cost
3
15
**30
0
0
16
*18
5
*6
*6
25
0
0
*10
Roll
12-/211212-/1511-/13111313-/1613-
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
3
8
3
6
5
3
7
Notes
Lift 150 tons; 12d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5(0)
PER Roll: 15ECV: 3
PRE Attack: 3d6/6d6
6(24)/12(48)
2(12)/5(25)
2/4
Powers
END
10
15
25
2
31
5
5
36
8
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
1u
1u
1u
21
28
5
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6
Skills
+2 Overall Levels
+4 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
+4 versus Range Penalties with Crown Spikes
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2
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3
2
3
1
3
5
5
AK: America 11Bureaucratics 13Conversation 13Interrogation 13-/16KS: American History 11KS: Current Events 11KS: Law 11KS: Military Protocol 11KS: The Military World 11KS: The Superhuman World 11KS: World Leaders 11Language: Military Code Words (Basic)
Navigation (Air, Land, Marine) 8Oratory 13Persuasion 13PS: Soldier 11Seduction 13Tactics 8Teamwork 13TF: Combat Aircraft, Helicopters, Large Motorized Boats,
Military Wheeled Vehicles, Parachuting
WF: Small Arms, Thrown Spikes, Vehicle Weapons
(Helicopter, Jet Fighter)
0
0
3
5
2
10
Perks
Contact: The Superhero Community 8- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: US Government & Military 15- (Extremely Useful,
Great Relationship, Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Federal Police Powers
Membership: The Arsenal
Reputation: Symbol of Freedom 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
15
Total: 12 PD (8 rPD)
Total: 12 ED (8 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
* Linked to Growth (-)
** Linked (-) and No Figureds (-)
Total Characteristics Cost: 134
Talents
Ambidexterity
Defense Maneuver III
EM: Normal-Sized World
Lightning Reflexes: +6 to Grow
Rapid Healing (FH107)
Resistance
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
200+
15
10
10
15
10
10
20
10
300
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Black Knights 8- (Mo Pow)
Hunted: US Government 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Physical Limitation: Limited Fine Manipulation when Grown
(Frequently, Slightly)
Psychological Limitation: Patriotic (Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Protective of Innocents (Common,
Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Pushy (Common, Moderate)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
Vulnerability to Find Weakness Attacks
Experience Points
0
0
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DESCRIPTION
George Dunn was meant to save lives. His mother was a cop, his father was a fireman,
and his brother was a nurse. Its practically a family legacy.
So, when he joined the Air Force right out of medical school, it came as something of a
shock to his family, at first. But when he explained that he wanted to save the lives of people
who were putting their lives on the line every day in order to protect their nation, it made
sense.
With a stellar service record, and a background in most types of rescue operations, George
was chosen to test out a new device. The battlesuit was a non-lethal source of rescue,
emergency, and crowd control technology. In a joint venture between the National
Firefighters Association, the Department of Defense, and Homeland Security, built
by private contractors as a prototype for a possible nationwide rollout, the Fire,
Rescue, and Emergency Device (FRED) was ready for testing. And the Arsenal is the
perfect testmarket opportunity. Under the name Peacekeeper, George acts as the
conscience of the group, as well as the triage corpsman.
FRED comes equipped with the latest technology, including heatproof armor,
boot jets, a complete sensor array, a battle computer, and a full complement of
non-lethal weaponry. Even the power suit itself is sheathed in a hard rubber that
renders its hydraulic punches non-lethal.
Quick-dry glue, tear gas, smoke bombs, a firehose, oil slicks, immobilizing
agents, and sleep gas are all on board FRED. FRED somewhat blurs the line
between large battlesuit and small mech, making it somewhat difficult to operate
in small or confined quarters. Despite the zero body-count thus far during the test
period, there has been a substantial property damage tab.
When not wearing/operating FRED, George himself is a slight figure,
510 and 140 pounds. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and from a physical
perspective is pretty forgettable which contributes mightily to his handlers
never letting him be seen outside of FRED when PR is involved.
Note: Due to the rubber coating all around the battlesuit, Peacekeeper cannot
cause BODY damage with a punch, kick, or velocity attack. He can cause damage
with a squeeze or escape, which use the pressure of strength, but not through
direct impact.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
31
HT
76
WT
4 tons
EYES
Green
HAIR
Sandy
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of the Arsenal
+0 Big metal suit
-3 Used to be a fireman or whatever
-5 He calls his armor FRED, heh
-8 Never hurts anyone
-10 Has a medical degree
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Val
10/50
15
14
10
13
15
13
10
3
3
4
5
30
25
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
64
6u
6u
5u
5u
5u
6u
6u
6u
13
51
24
14
8
36
48
20
Equipment
6/12
2/4
15/120
27
46
12
12
14
21
END
OIHID (-)
0
1) Firehose: Drain Fire and Electricity Powers 2d6, All
Fire and Electricity Powers at Once (+2), Area Of Effect
(One Hex, +), Multiple Special Effects (Fire and
Electricity Simultaneously, +); OIHID (-)
[16]
2) Immobilizer: Drain STUN 4d6, Area Of Effect (Accurate,
+), Ranged (+); 16 Charges (-0), OIHID (-)
[16]
3) Instant Glue: Entangle (5 DEF, 3d6 BODY), Area Of
Effect (Accurate, +), Backlash (+); Can Be
Dispelled (-), Cannot Form Barriers (-), 16 Charge
(-0), OIHID (-)
[16]
4) Instant Solvent: Dispel Entangle 27d6; 16 Charges
(-0), No Range (-), OIHID (-)
[16]
5) Oil Slick: Change Environment, 8 Radius [20], -4 to
DEX Rolls and Agility Skill Rolls [16 - 4], -4 Running
[12], Long-Lasting (Roughly 20 Minutes) [5], Multiple
Combat Effects [5], Does Knockback (+), Personal
Immunity (+) [Total: 54 * 1 = 67]; 16 Charges (-0),
OIHID (-), Only Affects Characters Who Are Moving on
the Ground (-)
[16]
6) Sleep Gas: EB 4d6, Area Of Effect (8 Radius, +1),
Continuous (+1), No Normal Defense (No Need to Sleep,
Self-Contained Breathing, +1); 8 Charges Lasting 1 Turn
(-0), OIHID (-)
[8cc]
7) Smoke Bombs: Sight Group Darkness 8 Radius; 8
Charges Lasting 1 Turn (-0), OIHID (-)
[8cc]
8) Tear Gas: Flash 4d6 to Sight Group, Area Of Effect
(8 Radius, +1), AVLD (Smell/Taste Flash Defense,
+), Continuous (+1); 8 Charges Lasting 1 Turn (-0),
OIHID (-)
[8cc]
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0
0
0
0
0
0
13
28
3,4,3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
EM: Underwater, EM: Zero-G, Resistance
3,1
5,8
Perks
Contact: The Superhero Community 8- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Federal Police Powers, Licensed Physician
Membership: The Arsenal, Security Clearance
2,3
3,3
1,1
1,2
2
1,1
2,5
3,3
2,2
3,1
3,3
2
3
Skills
Animal Handler (Canine) 12-, Bureaucratics 12Computer Programming 12-, Conversation 12Criminology 8-, Electronics 8Forensic Medicine 8-, KS: Air Force Protocol 11KS: The Superhuman World 11Language: Military Code Words (Basic), Mechanics 8Navigation (Air) 12-, Paramedics 13Persuasion 12-, PS: Doctor 12PS: Firefighter 11-, PS: Pilot 11SS: Medicine 12-, Survival (Temperate) 8Systems Operation 12-, Teamwork 12TF: Helicopters, Small Motorized Boats
WF: Mecha Weaponry, Small Arms
15
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DESCRIPTION
Todd Coleman was an ordinary guy that loved explosives. That could describe any guy,
right? Well, Coleman made it his profession (or obsession, depending on who you talked to).
As a young recruit in the citys bomb squad, Coleman was on a training exercise when a
real emergency came up just a block away. The supervillain Surefire (page 236) was making
off with an experimental weapon from an Omnitech facility. His own abilities augmented by
whoever his employer was at the time (presumably either the Orchard or the Magi), he was
using the high-tech facilitys own weapons against its staff by mentally remolding the gun
turrets and sidearms to explode upon firing, and had left a number of explosive devices to
cover his escape. As a member of the bomb squad, Coleman felt that he could defuse the
situation, and ran to assist, beating his supervisor there by a good margin. He had the
misfortune of running into Surefire, still in the process of escaping the facility, who took the
opportunity to warp Colemans sidearm which was in the midst of being fired at the
experimental weapon Surefire was carrying. This resulted in some unexplained backlash of
Surefires abilities, or perhaps some exotic side effect of the weapon, or maybe even
something else entirely the truth of the matter has never been verified to anyones
satisfaction.
The resulting accident bonded Colemans body with a sort of malleable metal sheath as he
absorbed his sidearm and Surefires stolen weapon into himself. When he awoke, he found that
he could move, speak, and perceive as before, but that his mass had been immensely multiplied,
as had his strength. He no longer has many of the normal human biological functions, such as
eating and sleeping, and he can now sense magnets and radio waves. His metallic body reflects
light-based attacks such as lasers and dazzles, but does not protect him from the effects of those
attacks. His mass and metallic form are extremely unsuited to stealth, and Coleman has little
appreciation of the concept of subtlety regardless.
Coleman went on to have a successful career as the solo superhero Gunmetal before he was
recruited into the Arsenal. Changing his name to US Steel was recommended by the
Congressional Subcommittee that approved the teams formation (and funding); enjoying the
jump in prestige, as well as the sizeable paycheck involved, Coleman didnt balk at such a minor
request.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
32
HT
61
WT
1 tons
EYES
Silver
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of the Arsenal
+0 Made of solid steel
-3 He must weigh tons!
-5 He reflects light
-8 He doesnt show up on IR
-10 He knows about explosives
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US Steel
Val
60
13
25
20
10
15
18
10
20
10
3
20
50
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
19
19
Cost Roll
50 219 1230 1420 130 1110 128 130 118
5
7
6
0
-3
Notes
Lift 100 tons; 12d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 4/DCV: 4
4
5
5
4
4
4
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
6/12
2/4
0/0
Powers
END
0
Hardened (+)
7
30
5
20
45
16
-2
17
5
34
37
5
3
3
7
5
3
3
5
21
15
3
5
8
Perks
Contact: FBI 11- (Extremely Useful, Contacts, Institutions,
Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 8- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Federal Police Powers
Membership: The Arsenal
Security Clearance
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Skills
Martial Arts: Brick Tricks
Maneuver
OCV
Bearhug I
+0
Bearhug II
-2
Charge
+1
Grab
+0
Punch
+2
Toughness
+2
DCV
+0
+0
+0
-1
+0
+2
Notes
+4d6, Follows Grab
2 Limbs, 2d6 NND
+4d6+v/5, FMove
2 Limbs, +10 STR Grab
+2d6
Block, Abort
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6
12
3
1
3
3
1
3
1
3
7
1
3
2
2
1
2
2
2
1
1
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Black Knights 8- (Mo Pow)
Hunted: US Government 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Physical Limitation: Interferes with Radio Communication
(Infrequently, Slightly)
Physical Limitation: Reduced Leap (Infrequently, Slightly)
Physical Limitation: Weighs 100 tons (All the Time, Greatly)
Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Common, Strong)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
Vulnerability: 1x Effect from Magnetic Attacks (Common)
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The Covenant
7
20
12
12
5
5
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The Order of Michael are the soldiers, the sword and the flame
brought to bear against the Covenants enemies. They are drawn
from armed forces and law enforcement agencies from around the
world. The current Disciple for the Order of Michael is a former SAS
colonel named Dorian Killgrave, and he runs his people like an
efficient military machine from the orders motherhouse in Madrid.
STR
EGO
SPD
18
18
7
DEX
PRE
REC
15
10
30
CON
COM
END
10
5
30
BODY 13
PD
5
STUN
INT
ED
Typical Michael
18
10
3
STR
EGO
SPD
14
13
7
DEX
PRE
REC
15
10
30
CON
COM
END
10
5
30
BODY 10
PD
5
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INT
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The Order of Solomon are the archivists and historians for the
Covenants hard-earned stores of lore and the many items of power
taken from the organizations fallen enemies over the years. It is said
that, if the members of this order, nicknamed the solemn men, do
not know a piece of information, that it isnt worth knowing. Nkebo
Achebwe, an ancient looking Nigerian man who never speaks in
anything other than a soft and cultured voice, is the Disciple for this
order, and their motherhouse is in Paris.
Nkebo Achewbe
8
18
2
STR
EGO
SPD
10
18
4
DEX
PRE
REC
8
10
20
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 33
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
Typical Solomon
8
15
2
STR
EGO
SPD
10
8
4
DEX
PRE
REC
8
10
20
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 23
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
Abilities: Eidetic Memory; Contact: The Historical World 11(Organization), Membership: The Order of Solomon; +2 with Intellect
Skills, Bureaucratics 11-, Deduction 13-, PS: Historian 13-, Linguist,
Four Languages, Scholar, KS: Arcane Lore 13-, KS: Current Events
13-, KS: History 13-, KS: Mythology 13-, KS: The Occult 13-, KS:
Religion 13-, Scientist, SS: Archaeology 13-, SS: Anthropology 13-,
SS: Paleontology 13-, SS: Sociology 13-, Two Other Sciences, [Two
of: Computer Programming, Criminology, Cryptography, Electronics,
Forensic Medicine, Forgery, Inventor, Streetwise, Systems Operation]
75+ Disadvantages: Hunted: Covenant 8- (Mo Pow, NCI,
Watching), Psychological Limitation: Curious (Common, Moderate),
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Infrequently, Minor)
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18
3
STR
EGO
SPD
15
20
5
DEX
PRE
REC
15
25
30
CON
COM
END
10
3
25
BODY 18
PD
3
STUN
INT
ED
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Typical Simon
10
20
3
STR
EGO
SPD
10
18
4
DEX
PRE
REC
10
10
20
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 18
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
The Order of Caleb are the eyes and ears of the Covenant, the
spies and monitors that keep track of the Covenants enemies, both
within and without. Among their other duties, internal security also
falls under the mandate of the Calebites. The members of this order
are called Spooks by the other orders, but never to their faces.
Barnabas Frost is the Order of Calebs Disciple, and their
motherhouse is believed to be in Falls Church, Virginia, hidden
among so much of the Americans own intelligence community. This
presupposes that the Order would depend on any site known to all of
the other orders.
Typical Caleb
10
14
3
STR
EGO
SPD
11
13
4
DEX
PRE
REC
10
10
20
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 13
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
STR
EGO
SPD
27
25
6
DEX
PRE
REC
13
10
30
CON
COM
END
10
6
30
BODY 23
PD
6
STUN
INT
ED
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The fifth and final order is the Order of Joseph. The Josephites
are the backbone of the Covenant, the support personnel who
maintain and administer the organization as a whole. As a group, the
Josephites are sometimes called the invisible men, as their presence
is seldom noted when they are doing their jobs. It is only when they
fail, and problems result, that they come to the attention of the rest
of the organization. Umberto Corvaggio, a rotund and personable
Italian man, provides the leadership for the Order of Joseph from
their motherhouse in San Francisco.
Umberto Corvaggio
10
15
2
STR
EGO
SPD
10
20
4
DEX
PRE
REC
10
10
20
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 15
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
Typical Joseph
8
15
2
STR
EGO
SPD
10
13
4
DEX
PRE
REC
10
10
20
CON
COM
END
10
2
20
BODY 13
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
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DESCRIPTION
Brimstone is the only name anyone has for this contentious mage. He has purposely kept
his past shrouded in mystery, including things such as age or even where hes from. His former
teammates in the Sentinels believed he did this for dramatic effect, but the Covenant knows its
one more line of defense against his mystical enemies of whom he has many, including a
number of members in the organization hes currently being forced to help. Unfortunately for
Brimstone, while the Sentinels knew next to nothing about his history, trading their protection for
his help solely because of their need for his mystical expertise, the Covenant has exact records
concerning his predations on the unwary throughout the occult community and a list of the items
he has stolen. As fractious and tense as his relationship was with the Sentinels, his current
situation is ten times worse not only does he need the protection of the Covenant, he has no
choice but to aid them on their terms, not his, while under the influence of the powerful geas
placed on him. He is watched like a hawk whenever he is in any chapterhouse, and strenuously
avoided by Covenant members that dont have to spend time with him. What little trust he had
earned with the Sentinels is in the past the Covenant know his reputation thoroughly, several of
its members have suffered from his thieving ways, and if their seers werent certain he was a
necessary evil, they would be dealing with him through warded bars instead of across oak tables.
Brimstone is very reserved. Whether this is a normal part of his personality, or simply a
survival trait picked up over the years is anyones guess. His current teammates know his cryptic
demeanor is a front, the furthering of his self-embraced image as an all-knowing man of mystery.
He speaks little, and though not overtly rude, is noticeably a stranger to concepts of empathy,
common courtesy, and private property. He stays worried all the time about what will happen after
his usefulness is over. Very worried.
A sorcerer of no mean skill, Brimstone enhances his mystical prowess with the use of an
ancient spellstaff of Atlantean origin. His knowledge of occult matters is extensive, and
complemented by his Book of Shadows, a tome of seemingly infinite and useful information on all
manner of subjects (and apparently sentient, frequently commenting on its lack of appreciation
for its servitude to an ungrateful dilettante). Brimstone is also one of the most accomplished
liars to be found anywhere. He has proven guileful enough to trick even powerful demons into
believing his fabrications (earning even more enemies in the process).
In combat, Brimstone stays back from the frontline and supports his teammates by sniping
at opponents with black hellfire or filling their minds with pain, disrupting enemy tactics by
raising sorcerously created walls of glowing sigil-covered moonsilver, or spreading inky fields of
impenetrable darkness.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
30(?)
HT
511
WT
190#
EYES
Red
HAIR
White
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Former member of Sentinels
+0 Magical powers
-3
-5
-8 Bad reputation in mystical
community
-10 Ties to the Manus Gloriae
80
INT
33
EGO
DEX
SPD
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15
15
10
23
20
25
10
5
5
4
5
30
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
45
4u
4u
4u
4u
4u
4u
4u
18
Cost Roll
3 1215 1210 120 1113 1420 1315 140 112
2
15
0
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
6
17
10
17
3
12
7
Notes
Lift 150 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
PER Roll: 14ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 9d6
3
40
21
4
5
5
2
5
Powers
END
2
0
0
4
4
4
2
Gestures (-), Incantations (-), Magic Spells Only (), Requires a Magic Roll (-)
20
10
0
0
45
Equipment
4u
4u
4u
4u
4u
4u
40
31
9
30
(-1)
1) Mystic Blast: EB 12d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+)
2) Mystic Burst: EB 12d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+); STUN Only (-0)
3) Mystic Block: Force Wall (10 PD/10 ED), Hardened
(+), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
4) Mystic Bloodhound: Mind Scan 10d6, +5 ECV,
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
5) Mystic Blackout: Darkness to Sight Group 6,
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
6) Mystic Bluster: Telekinesis (40 STR), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +)
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0
0
0
0
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6
4
6
18
12
3,3
3,1
3,3
3,1
1,1
3,1
4,3
3,2
2,2
2,3
3,4
2,1
5,1
3,3
3,2
1,1
3,3
1,1
3,3
4
Talents
Combat Luck
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense, Intuitional)
Fascination (FH105)
Magesight (FH106)
Simulate Death
Spell Augmentation (FH107)
Spellslinger (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Perks
Anonymity
Base: Sanctum Sanctorum
Contact: The Mystic World 14- (Extremely Useful, Contacts,
Unfriendly, Organization)
Deep Cover (x2)
Membership: The Covenant
Money: Well-Off
Reputation: Superhero 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Security Clearance
Skills
+2 with Ranged Combat
+2 with Spellstaff
+2 with Mystic Blast
+4 versus Range Penalties for Mystic Blast
+6 with KS: Arcane Lore, KS: The Mystical World, and Magic
+4 with Acting, Conversation, and Persuasion
Acting 14-, Analyze Magic 14Bribery 14-, Bureaucratics 8Concealment 14-, Conversation 14Cryptography 14-, Forensic Medicine 8Forgery (Scrolls) 14-, High Society 8Interrogation 18-, Inventor (Spell Research) 8KS: Arcane Lore 15-, KS: Cantrips 14KS: The Mystical World 14-, KS: Philosophy 11KS: Religion 11-, KS: Riddles 11Language: Abyssal (Conv.), Language: Atlantean (Fluent)
Language: Enochian (Fluent), Language: Latin (Native)
Language: Sanskrit (Conversational), Lockpicking 8Magic (EGO-Based) 14-, Navigation (Air) 8Oratory 14-, Paramedics 12Persuasion 14-, PS: Mage 13PS: Thief 8-, Riding 8Sleight of Hand 12-, Stealth 12Streetwise 8-, Tactics 8Teamwork 12-, Trading 14WF: Small Arms, Staff, Swords
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According to ancient legend, when man was first put upon this earth, Heaven gave to the
lowest order of angels the task of watching over mankind. Unlike the other angelic choirs,
these angels, known as Grigori, would stay on Earth alongside man. At least, thats what the
legends say. Those within the Covenant who recruited the man who only calls himself
Chronicle make no secret of their belief that he is one of that ancient breed. He himself has
never corroborated nor denied the truth of that belief, and has only pointed out, after violent
circumstance once forced him to manifest wings in front of witnesses, that there are always
many explanations for the different things the Covenant has dealt with in the shadow world in
which they move. He has mentioned in passing, however, that he has brethren, and that they
were exiled among humanity a statement many take as supporting the Grigori legend -though he hasnt mentioned why they were exiled. What is known to his associates is that
Chronicle is old. Very, very old. Only one mystery surrounding him has been answered as yet,
the reason behind his involvement with the Covenant, as they have never found another like
him. Thanks to records liberated from the Skein Sisters, secretive allies of the Eightfold Web,
the Covenant, and Sabbath, now know that she is Chronicles daughter. He has since admitted
that, yes, he came seeking Sabbath after learning of her existence and membership there.
This has complicated their relationship, but both are making efforts to work through it.
Chronicle has proven capable of moving in any circle or group, with people just seeming
to accept his presence as if he belonged among them. Different people seem to see him
differently. A black man may see him as a distinguished black gentleman, while a Nordic
businessman would look and see a tall blond man with striking blue eyes. People see what
makes them comfortable. Further, and seemingly the source of his odd name, with no more
than a look Chronicle also seems to know everything about any person, from the name of their
3rd grade teacher to how much they cheated on last years taxes; and he can force feed all
that experience back to a person, at least the negative aspects of it, in a withering mental
assault that normally leaves that person curled into a crying, fetal ball, overcome with guilt
over their past actions.
Chronicle very seldom joins combat directly. He acts more as the reconnaissance and
infiltration specialist. When forced, he can demonstrate greater than human strength and a
preternatural awareness of his surroundings, but only moderate fighting skills. He doesnt like
fighting, and much prefers using his guilt-stare to disable opponents without doing lasting
harm.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
Varies(?)
HT
Varies
WT
Varies
EYES
Varies
HAIR
Varies
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5
-8 Reputed to be an angel
-10 Associated with the Covenant
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Val
35
20
35
20
18
35
35
20
15
15
4
15
80
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost Roll
25 1630 1350 1610 138 1350 1625 165 138
8
10
2
5
4
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 3 tons; 7d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
Total: 23 PD (8 rPD)
Total: 23 ED (8 rED)
Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 250
6/12
7/14
2/4
15/30
50
8
45
6
15
20
Alert: +2 PER
Foolproof: +15 PER; Only to Penetrate Illusions (-2)
The Eyes are the Window to the Soul: Detect Evil (Sight
20
20
98
15
6
10
14
7
17
3
3
15
25
12
Powers
END
0
0
Defense
0
0
END, +)
0
0
0
Analyze, Discriminatory)
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3
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
6
Skills
Acting 16Analyze Behavior 13Bribery 16Bureaucracy 16Concealment 13Conversation 16Deduction 13Gambling (Card Games) 13High Society 16KS: Arcane Lore 13KS: History 13KS: The Supernatural World 13KS: What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men 13KS: Whats Really Going On 13KS: Whos Who 13Magic (EGO-Based) 16Mimicry 13Navigation (Air) 13Oratory 16Paramedics 13Persuasion 16Seduction 16Shadowing 13Stealth 13Streetwise 16Tactics 13Teamwork 13Tracking 13WF: Common Melee, Common Missile, Small Arms
18
Cost
20
15
10
5
3
15
Perks
Contact: The Mystic World 16- (Extremely Useful, Contacts,
Great Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: The Covenant
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SEX
Male
AGE
?
HT
510
WT
180#
DESCRIPTION
At the moment that Geoffrey Crowley took possession of the fragment from the Gates of
Hell that would give him his nom de guerre, Shard, somewhere in the world a child was born.
From an early age, that child lived and breathed magic, able to accomplish feats reflexively and
instinctively that other practitioners spent years learning and striving to master. Spells and
bindings came to him unbidden, with the ease that others learned new words. And as
he grew, he found he could tap and channel energies on a scale that disconcerted the
few teachers he encountered and left them filled with awe.
When the stars finally aligned for the choosing of the first Magus Maximus to hold
the title since the Renaissance, none of the powerful and learned remembered seeing
that particular young man enter the Tower of Testing but all remember his exit from the
Jade Gate, having defeated willworkers and entities of legendary power. Some
Magus Maximi had chosen to become conquerors and tyrants, others had
isolated themselves and made great workings that cemented their place in the
history of their craft. Dr. Rune chose (or had been chosen for) the role of defender, guarding
Earths peoples from the many threats the mystical world began birthing with regularity. It
was he who stalemated Sepulchres ambitions during the fiends most active period, he who
defeated and sealed Earth off from the Empire of Thorns, he who defeated and imprisoned the
Eidolon, the Prophet of Tears, the Nightmonger, and so many others. But, it was Shard and his
compatriots, the self-styled Seven Sins, that most often returned to torment Rune.
When Shard finally attempted the ritual he had built toward for years to swing open the
Gates of Hell, Rune defeated him once and for all, trapping him within the structure of the gates
the villain had tested. But the price of victory was high. Rune had few friends and allies, all of
whom gathered with him to face his greatest challenge and all of whom died for their loyalty.
Cradling the body of his lover Thiera, Rune wandered off the battlefield, disappearing for three
decades. The majority of Earths mystical community eventually wrote him off as dead.
Then Shards children grew into their own power, intent on freeing their father and mighty
enough to shake the courage and resources of what few willworkers stood against them. Lady
Absinthe of the Covenant, loathe to break her word but seeing no other choice, sent the
Seraphim to a small tavern in a forgettable little town in New England, where they found Rune.
Forcing him out of the bottle that had been his refuge all these years, the Seraphim have made
Rune once again accept the mantle of his destiny -- grudgingly, angrily, and with much
resistance. Someday, he may even forgive them for it.
Rune is a tremendously powerful sorcerer, despite the years hes refused to use his gifts.
Though his dissolute lifestyle has managed to wear away most of his defensive enchantments, or
make them unreliable, hes still quite hard to hurt, and capable of truly impressive displays. Still
incredibly versatile, his rustiness makes tapping reserves beyond a certain point unpredictable,
however. His staff acts to draw in ambient magical energies to heal him, though he seldom uses
it for defense against the arts as he is every bit as immune to external magical effects today as
he has ever been instinctively channeling even the greatest magical energies right back into the
cosmos around him. He still refuses to use the appellation Doctor himself, as he always has,
though those around him continue to use it as a show of respect.
EYES
Hazel
HAIR
Grey
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5 Some kind of mystic hero from
the 60s and 70s
-8 Magus Maximus
-10 Forced out of retirement recently
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Val
13
14
15
15
20
30
25
10
5
5
5
15
30
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
180
40m
40m
24m
37m
40m
40m
24m
18m
38m
75
40
45
45
30
15
12
Cost Roll
3 1212 1210 1210 1210 1340 1515 140 112
2
26
18
2
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Teleport:
Notes
Lift 150 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
PER Roll: 15ECV: 10
PRE Attack: 5d6
6
33
Alert: +2 PER
Regeneration: Regeneration (1 BODY per Turn),
2u
END
Magesight
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
20,15 Animal Friendship (FH103), Beast Speech (FH103)
21 Danger Sense (Any Danger, Any Area, Sense); Magical
Dangers Only (-1)
7,17 Fearless (FH111), Magesight (FH106)
3,3 Resistance, Simulate Death
12 Spell Augmentation (FH107)
7 Spellslinger (Deadly Blow, FH105)
0/?
18
0/?
5,10
10
Perks
Anonymity, Contact: The Mystic World 16- (Extremely
Useful, Contacts, Great Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: The Covenant, Perk: Magus Maximus
Reputation: Magus Maximus +5d6 (Mystical Community) 14-
30,8
12
12
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+3 Overall Levels, +1 with All Combat
+4 with Magic Spells
+6 versus Range Penalties with Magic Spells
12
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1,3
3,3
3,2
5,5
5,13
2,3
3,3
3,1
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2,2
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0/?
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Among the many places behind which the Covenant has hidden over the years are a
number of charities. In the early years of the 20th Century, a foundling was left on the steps of
an orphanage with ties to the organization. The note attached to the infants basket made it
clear that whoever left the baby girl knew of the orphanages true patrons. She was named
after the day she was found, the Sabbath.
As the girl grew into a woman, she displayed a remarkable serenity and a calming influence
on all those around her. Eventually she demonstrated remarkable mystical abilities as well, such
as being able to heal with a touch, to turn blows and attacks with a word, and most importantly,
to effectively shut down all magic, spells or otherwise with no more than a glance. Originally
assigned to the Order of Solomon due to her tremendous (and seemingly innate) knowledge of
Demonology, an assault on her chapterhouse by dark forces, during which she helped repulse
the attackers when all others fell, showed her true value to the Covenant. She has spent the last
few decades serving ably in the Seraphim, never sparing herself the time to worry about origins.
The revelation that her long-time teammate and confidante is her father, and has always known
this, has finally allowed her associates to see the emotional turmoil hidden behind Sabbaths
normally serene demeanor. She has grudgingly accepted his excuses, and the insistence that he
will tell her everything he can when he can but she isnt pleased with the situation and both are
having to struggle to regain the easy working relationship they held before. The only pieces of
information he has yet shared are that he only discovered her mother had been pregnant long
after the birth, and that Sabbath is only the second of her kind neither item doing more than
raising new questions.
Sabbath hasnt aged physically in quite some time, still appearing as the attractive darkhaired beauty of her twenties. She carries herself gracefully, showing respect to everyone she
meets. Her curly black hair is worn long, but is sometimes covered in a hooded cloak she wears.
Her clothing is old fashioned, with many layers, all in dark and somber colors.
Like Chronicle, Sabbath isnt generally a direct combatant. Shes more useful in support of
her teammates. Coordinating with Dr. Rune and Templar, she shuts down enemy magicks, giving
the two of them a serious tactical edge in most fights. Defensively, most attacks against her or
whomever she wants to protect also fail. Spells veer off course, bullets slow and drop from the
air before they reach her, and so on. Finally, her healing abilities, unsurprisingly, go a long way in
keeping her associates up and able to continue their own parts.
QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
25(104)
HT
58
WT
121#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5
-8 Natural magical void
-10 Associated with the Covenant
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12
10
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7
11
17
3
5
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Talents
Combat Luck (x2)
Divine Favor (FH105)
Evasive (FH105)
Fearless (FH111)
Inspire (FH106)
Magesight (FH106)
Resistance
Rapid Healing (FH107)
Turn Undead (FH107)
141
100
50
15
8
15
17
6
30
18
18
5
Analyze Demon 13Analyze Magic 13Conversation 16KS: Arcane Lore 13KS: Demonology 18KS: The Mystic World 13KS: Religion 13Magic (EGO-Based) 16Oratory 16Persuasion 16PS: Protector 16Seduction 16Teamwork 11-
6/12
1/3
2/4
Skills
+3 Overall Levels
0
0
0
0
200+ Disadvantages
5 Distinctive Features: Supernatural Aura (Not Concealable,
Unusual Senses)
5 Hunted: Chronicle 8- (As Pow, NCI, Watching)
10 Hunted: Covenant 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
15 Hunted: Demons 11- (As Pow)
10 Psychological Limitation: Old-Fashioned Manners (Common,
Moderate)
10 Psychological Limitation: Polite to a Fault (Common,
Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Protective of Innocents (Common,
Strong)
5 Reputation: Demon Slayer, 85 Social Limitation: Orphan (Infrequently, Minor)
20 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
600 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 900
0
0
0
0
Perks
Contact: The Mystic World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Membership: The Covenant
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DESCRIPTION
One of the many smaller groups absorbed into the Covenant over the years was a splinter
sect of the once powerful Knights Templar. In gratitude for the sanctuary granted them by the
Covenant, that sect gave in return the services of their champion. This champion is and has
always been the recipient of a ritual blessing that grants him the skills and knowledge of every
champion before him. Upon the death of the current champion, a new one is
chosen and the ritual is performed on him. With all of the memories, skills, and
knowledges (and a glimmer of the personalities) of all of his predecessors, all of these
champions, whom the Covenant refers to simply as the Templar, seem somewhat
self-absorbed when not active. The second trait shared by all Templars, which
sometimes makes his teammates uncomfortable, is that none of them ever have
any fear of death they know their replacement awaits and that they will live on
through him.
A frighteningly well-skilled combatant with practically unmatched experience to
draw on, any Templar can, with effort, also draw on a mystical storehouse of
weapons called the Arsenal of Mithras, which is maintained in the Paris motherhouse.
Due to the artistic temperament of the man who arranged the magic that makes
access to the Arsenal possible, whenever calling on the Mithran weaponry, a stylized T
appears emblazoned on the face of the Templar.
Templar is the primary combatant in the group and always takes point. He is
implacable, relentless, and without pity, viewing all of the battles hes involved in as a holy
war. He simply wades in, trusting to his abilities, but completely unafraid to die, regardless.
Appearance varies with Templar, as its more of a role, not just a person. The order
always has the successor candidates ready, at least three at any one time, spread apart
geographically. Once the current Templar falls in battle, his successor is immediately brought
to the nearest chapterhouse where he is shortly met by the ritual team and invested with the
attributes of his new role. Though as of yet there have been no female Templars, this is due to
the old-fashioned views of the order, not any limitation of the magic involved.
During the current line-up of the group, Templars associates have seen no less than
eight different men fill the position. Theyve learned the hard way not to get too emotionally
attached to him.
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Changes
AGE
Changes
HT
Changes
WT
Changes
EYES
Changes
HAIR
Changes
28
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5
-8 Mystic warrior
-10 Associated with the Covenant
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Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Notes
Block
+2
+2
Block, Abort
Dodge
+5
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Escape
+0
+0
+30 STR Escape
Grab
-1
-1
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Jab
+1
+3
+3d6
Kick
-2
+1
+7d6
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+0
+2
+5d6
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+0
+1
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Use Art with Axes/Maces/Picks, Bayonet, Cane, Clubs,
Garrote, Karate Weapons, Knives, Nets, Polearms, Spear,
Staffs, Swords
+3 Damage Classes (added in)
+3 Overall Levels
+5 with All Combat
+2 with Martial Arts
Accurate Concentrated Rapid Skipover Sprayfire
Defensive Maneuver IV
Rapid Attack (HTH), Rapid Attack (Ranged)
Acrobatics 14-, Acting 13AK: Everywhere 21-, Analyze Combat Technique 13Animal Handler (Camels, Canines, Equines, Raptors) 13Breakfall 14-, Bribery 13Bureaucratics 13-, Climbing 14Combat Driving 14-, Combat Piloting 14Computer Programming 13-, Concealment 13Contortionist 14-, Conversation 13Demolitions 13-, Disguise 13Electronics 13-, Faith (EGO-Based) 13Fast Draw 14-, Forgery (Documents) 13High Society 13-, Interrogation 13KS: Everything 21-, Lockpicking 14Mechanics 13-, Mimicry 13Navigation (Air, Land, Marine) 13-, Oratory 13Paramedics 13-, Persuasion 13PS: How to Do Everything 21-, Riding 14Security Systems 13-, Shadowing 13Sleight of Hand 14-, Stealth 14Streetwise 13-, Survival (Arctic, Mountains, Temperate,
Tropical, Deserts, Marine, Urban) 13Tactics 13-, Teamwork 14Tracking 13-, Trading 13Weaponsmith (Muscle HTH, Muscle Ranged, Firearms) 13All TFs and WFs (see previous page)
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10
39
Notes
2000
Attributes
Location: Suburb
Grounds: 12 Acres
Concealment 17Divine Favor (FH105)
Spell Augmentation (FH107)
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15
20
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14
Operation 9Gym: Acrobatics 9-, Breakfall 9-, Climbing 9-, Tactics 9-,
Teamwork 9Infirmary: Forensic Medicine 11-, Paramedics 14Library: +5 with Intellect Skills, AK: Earth 11-,
Cryptography 11-, Inventor (Spell Research) 11-, KS:
Arcane Lore 11-, KS: Famous People 11-, KS: General
Reference 11-, KS: History 11-, KS: Literature 11-, KS:
Magic 11-, KS: The Mystic World 11-, KS: Mythology 11-,
KS: Religion 11-, KS: Philosophy 11-, KS: The
Supernatural World 11-, PS: Research 11Workshop: Mechanics 11-, Weaponsmith (MusclePowered HTH, Muscle-Powered Ranged) 11-
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
29
HT
6
WT
175#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Brown
DESCRIPTION
Davis Seth Jameson has it all, and hes giving it away.
He was born into a respected wealthy family 29 years ago. He was given both love and
discipline growing up, and inherited the ambition of his father, the financial wizard, along with
the compassion of his mother, the nurse.
But all of these gifts and fortunate circumstances were just the start. Jameson was a natural
athlete and leader. He excelled at physical tasks, and lettered in every sport he ever played,
normally as team captain. He is also a born leader, and quite the eligible bachelor.
Speaking of bachelorhood, it was while he was at the church, waiting to fulfill his role as
best man at a friends wedding that he received his gift from God.
He heard a crash and some screams from outside. He ran to see what was happening, and
saw that there was smoke rising from the building next door. Shouting back for some other
bystander to call the fire department, he ran into the burning building, and began to pull out
injured people. Some chemicals in the plant were filling the air with a foul green smoke, and
although Jameson kept his mouth covered by a handkerchief tied around his head, by the time
he pulled the last victim to safety, he was a little lightheaded. Just as the fire department and
news crews showed up, he exited the building staggering, with a smoking body over his
shoulder.
Who are you? The news crews were intrigued by this masked man in the tuxedo.
Im the best man, came his answer.
After a few hours of observation in the hospital, he regained his sensibilities. His friend, the
groom, was there by his side, and laughed, telling him that hes been crowned the citys newest
superhero, the Best Man.
And the name suited him, to a degree. Something in the fumes had changed his body
somehow, enhancing his physical abilities. He was faster, stronger, and more resilient than
before. He felt that since he gained his newfound powers while at a church, that they were a gift
from God, and that he should continue to devote his life to the ideals of heroism.
Since that time, Jameson has taken it upon himself to act as role model and spokesman for
the superhero community. He does a lot of public appearances for charity work; he visits kids in
the hospital at least once a week; and he spends time on community service projects. He gives
as he sees need, but gives his time and his heart to causes more often than he gives his money.
Although hes the best-dressed hero on the block, hes not at all afraid to roll up his sleeves and
get to work. He tries his best to look at the long-term big picture, and determine what any given
action in the present will predicate in the future.
In combat, Jameson fights defensively as much as possible not because hes concerned
for his own welfare, but because hes genuinely concerned for his opponents conscience, and
prefers to give them the opportunity to surrender with dignity. But, when the culprits guilt and
continued evil are clear, he has no problem apprehending him swiftly.
Hes quite the chivalrous swashbuckler as well, and doesnt see the point in doing
mundanely what could instead be done with panache.
The Flat: 6 SIZE, 5 BODY, 6 DEF; Attributes: Location: City, High Society 11-; Radio
Perception/Transmission, Computer Programming 11-, Systems Operation 11-, Security Systems
17-, KS: History 11-, KS: Literature 11-; 75+ Disadvantages: Social Limitation: Publicly Known
(Frequently, Minor)
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Such a hunk
+0 Millionaire
-3 Very polite and cultured
-5 Sucker for a good cause
-8 Actually does more behind the
scenes than youd expect
-10 Believes himself to be chosen
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COM
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10
4
0
7
Notes
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OCV: 10/DCV: 10
4
4
5
4
5
5
3
1
30
3
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
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2
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Equipment
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1u
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5
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Skills
Martial Arts: Cane Fencing
Maneuver
OCV
Bind
+1
Dodge
Lunge
+1
Parry
+2
Takeaway
+0
Thrust
+1
Trip
+0
Use Art Barehanded
Acrobatics 15Acting 15Analyze Fencing Style 13Breakfall 15Bureaucracy 15Cane Tricks (DEX-Based) 15Climbing 15Combat Driving 15Conversation 15High Society 15KS: Code of Chivalry 11KS: Current Events 11KS: Fencing 11KS: History 11KS: Law 11KS: The Superhuman World 13Language: French (Fluent)
Language: Italian (Fluent)
Oratory 15Persuasion 15PS: Finance 13Seduction 15Teamwork 15Trading 15WF: Canes, Blades
OAF (-1)
Perks
Base: The Flat
Contact: Business 11- (Useful, Institutions, Organization)
Contact: Government 11- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Organization)
Contact: High Society 11- (Useful, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: Law Enforcement 11- (Very Useful, Organization)
Local Police Powers
Perk: Best Dressed List
Perk: Notary Public
Reputation: Gentlemanly Superhero +2d6 (Large Group) 11Money: Well-Off
Well-Connected
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+10 STR
Dodge, Abort
+4d6
Block, Abort
+10 STR Take Weapon
Strike
+v/5, Target Falls
+3 Overall Levels
+1 with Fencing
OAF (-1)
Talents
Combat Luck
Inspire (FH106, PH261)
Rapid Healing (FH107)
DCV
+0
+5
-2
+2
+0
+3
+1
200+ Disadvantages
10 Enraged: When Seeing a Woman Harmed (Uncommon, Go
8-, Rec 11-)
15 Hunted: Adonis (As Pow, 8-, NCI)
10 Hunted: Smog (As Pow, 8-)
10 Psychological Limitation: Code Against Killing (Uncommon,
Strong)
20 Psychological Limitation: Code of Chivalry (Very Common,
Strong)
10 Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Common,
Moderate)
10 Psychological Limitation: Proud (Common, Moderate)
5 Reputation: Code of Chivalry 810 Social Limitation: Famous (Frequently, Minor)
200 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 500
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SEX
Male
AGE
46
HT
57
WT
90#
EYES
Yellow
FUR
Brown
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Seriously ugly half-bat
+0 Wanted for murder
-3 Has deadly claws and powerful
shrieks
-5 Formerly a scientist
-8 Possibly innocent of murders
-10 Hangs out in old church district
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Dr. Nicholas Lewis was once a biologist specializing in chiroptology the study of bats.
Pound for pound, bats had the strongest arms and heart in the mammal kingdom. His longterm hope was that by studying bat genes, he could find a way to help humans with heart
conditions, having lost his own mother to a heart attack when he was just a boy.
Nearing the completion of his experiment to crossbreed varieties of bats to find a new
species of bats whose cardiovascular system was compatible with humans, Nicholas himself fell
victim to the hereditary heart condition his mother had left him. He fell unconscious onto the
vials of serum of super-bat DNA he had been synthesizing. When he woke, he was appalled to
find that not only had he been transformed into a bat-human hybrid, but his lab assistant
(who had been out to lunch during Nicholas life-and-death struggle) lay dead on the
floor, torn to pieces.
Desperately hoping that he himself was not to blame, the newly created Doctor
Chiropterus (kih-ROP-teh-russ) set out to prove his own innocence, and to use his
new gift/curse to help others less fortunate than himself.
Hes taken up residence in the bell tower of an abandoned church in the seedy
part of town, and has set up a miniature genetics lab from equipment and
materials that hes been able to scrounge together over the last several months.
Doctor Chiropterus is somewhat lacking in the social skills department, and
somehow it seems that his good intentions are always misconstrued.
The most unusual aspect of his new personality is that he has the mind of a
man, and the instincts of a bat. He constantly battles to retain control over his
dark side, and fears to let any friend become too close, lest they put themselves
at risk.
Hiding the hurt inside with a macabre sense of humor, Doctor Chiropterus taunts
his foes with wisecracks, attempting to distract them and open themselves up to attack.
He wants to regain his good name, and clear himself of the murder charge brought
against him, but the newspapers slanderous attacks certainly dont help his reputation
with the public, or the Police.
His greatest hope is to find some cure for his condition, and return to human form
once again.
Doctor Chiropterus is a humanoid bat, complete with wings and fangs. He can fly very
aerobatically, and often uses a swoop attack combining his flight and his talons.
His sensitive ears enable him to see via ultrasonic pulses of sound. At his muchlarger-than-normal-bat size, his sonar shrieks can even be used offensively.
His body has a leathery feel to it, and is covered in a short dark brown fur. His ears are
about six inches wide and over a foot tall, poking up past the top of his head. His eyes are
yellowish, pupilless, and lidless. His nose is pugged up high, and two fangs protrude from his
mouth. His arms have become large wings, with about a ten-foot wingspan. He no longer has
hands, and instead uses his clawed feet to take their place. He normally wears a pair of speciallyfitted blue jeans, and sometimes a white lab coat with wingholes cut out.
Chiropterus has recently been given reason to regret his affiliation with the Aerie, as
Cyberhawk turned him over to the authorities. Contemplating his fate at the hands of an
unsympathetic justice system is giving the transformed scientist ample opportunity to revise
his views of what constitutes trustworthiness and what doesnt.
The Belfry: 6 SIZE, 8 BODY, 8 DEF; Attributes: Location: City, Accessible Only through
Flight, Concealment 14-; Computer Programming 11-, Systems Operation 11-, Security Systems
11-, Animal Handler (Bats) 14-, SS: Chiroptology 14-
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Leaping:
Swimming:
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Notes
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OCV: 9/DCV: 9
PER Roll: 13-/17ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 8d6
Total: 21 PD (11 rPD)
Total: 21 ED (11 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 175
6/12
5/10
2/4
15/30
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Incantations (-)
1) Directed Beam: EB 8d6, Armor Piercing (+),
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); Incantations (-)
2) Ultrasonic Pitch: EB 6d6 NND (Hearing Flash Defense,
+1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); Incantations (-)
3) Spread Shriek: EB 6d6 Area Of Effect (12 Cone, +1),
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); Incantations (-), No
Range (-)
Endurance (0 END, +)
Leathery Skin: Armor (5 PD/5 ED)
Wings: Flight 15, Reduced Endurance (0 END, +);
Restrainable (-)
Echolocation: Active Sonar plus Ultrasonic Hearing plus
+4 Hearing
Unyielding Grip: Clinging; Feet Only (-)
Talents
Combat Luck (x2)
Contortionists Feet (DC141)
EM: Upside-Down
Fear-Inspiring (DC107)
Lightsleep
Perfect Pitch
Rapid Healing
Perks
Base: The Belfry
Membership: Sentinels (Scientific Advisor)
Contact: Doc Steel 11- (Extremely Useful, Contacts,
Institutions)
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3
2
3
3
1
3
1
Skills
Acrobatics 15Analyze Biochemical Samples 13Animal Handler (Bats) 13Computer Programming 13Criminology 13Deduction 13Demolitions 13Forensic Medicine 13Interrogation 13Inventor 13KS: Law 8KS: The Superhuman World 11Mimicry 13Navigation (Air) 8Paramedics 13PS: Scientist 13Power (Flying) 14Stealth 13Streetwise 8Systems Operation 13Teamwork 8-
3
1
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
Scientist
SS: Anatomy 13SS: Biology 13SS: Chemistry 13SS: Chiroptology 13SS: Genetics 13SS: Medicine 13SS: Pharmacology 11SS: Psychology 11-
0
0
0
0
200+
15
5
5
Disadvantages
Distinctive Features: Bat-like Humanoid (Not Concealable)
Physical Limitation: Colorblind (Infrequent, Slight)
Physical Limitation: Unusual Food Requirements (Infrequent,
Slight)
15 Physical Limitation: Uses Feet as Hands (Frequently,
Greatly)
10 Psychological Limitation: Code Against Killing (Common,
Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Scientific Curiosity (Common,
Strong)
20 Psychological Limitation: Warring Instincts (Very Common,
Strong)
5 Susceptibility to Hearing Flashes (1d6 damage, Instant)
5 Unluck 1d6
5 Vulnerability to Hearing Flashes, (Uncommon, 1x Duration)
200 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 500
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AGE
50
HT
510
WT
0#
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DESCRIPTION
Some detectives are hard-boiled, and some are far-fetched. Film Noir is a black-and-white
movie detective come to life.
At a detective film festival, while some of the old classics were being shown, the Assembly
(page 176) merged with the projection equipment during a battle against Horus, Son of Ra (page
100). No one is sure why the image of Nat Nails peeled off the screen and came to life then; it
may have been a divine event or an electronic one. But the classic film detective has been in our
reality since then, and in fact, all of his old movies are missing their former star. His memory
hasnt been erased from the public consciousness in fact, hes still quite famous but his image
is no longer a part of the old films, leaving hours of dead air in those movies. The other
characters are seen talking and reacting to someone who isnt there.
Film Noir is two-dimensional. His telekinesis substitutes for his Strength. He cant be hurt by
normal methods, but that doesnt work against him he can attack the real world very
effectively. In fact, he can ignore most defenses and cause great damage with his bullets. Even
though they have no mass, and no apparent substance in the real world, they still hurt like the
dickens.
He can also scramble electronics on contact. Whether thats because hes semi-electronic
himself, being a projection of light, or because of his insubstantiality in our reality is unknown.
As if all that wasnt strange enough, he can also talk to photographs and movies as if they
were alive. He can ask a photograph hanging on the wall if anyone has walked by in the last two
minutes, and it will animate long enough to audibly answer him. He can also enter a
photograph or movie. If hes searching an office and hears someone coming, he can jump into a
family portrait, and instead of a husband, wife, and child, for a while it becomes a husband, wife,
child, and himself. He can still see and hear whats going on in the room, and as long as hes not
spotted, hell be hidden in plain sight. As a result of his ability to interact with other images, it is
quite easy to trick or harm him with illusions.
Film Noir tends to narrate his life, as if hes expositing for an audience. Hell say things like,
It was getting on in the evening, so I poured myself another cuppa joe, or Harvey hadnt been
seen for two days, so I staked out his apartment, or I shoulda known better than to trust a
dame, but there she was, large as life. Oddly enough, these comments are always made in the
past tense, but when he speaks to a person, he speaks in the present tense like anyone else,
although he does use a lot of pulp detective slang. Hes surprised to find that people around him
know his inner thoughts, not understanding that he narrates them to the audience.
Also, he doesnt seem to realize that the things he does are unusual. He could walk through
a wall, to gain entry to a private office, but if asked, hell say that he came in through the
window, even if there is no window.
Although he tells his clients that he charges $20 a day plus expenses, hes never collected
(probably because it was never shown happening in the movies).
EYES
Grey
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Its that famous detective!
+0 Ahh, its only a movie
-3 Hes not really even there
-5 Can talk to pictures
-8 An average aim, but more
damaging than youd think
-10 Greatly affected by image
manipulations
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DEX
CON
BODY
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EGO
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Cost
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Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
18
Notes
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OCV: 5/DCV: 5
2
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Powers
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0
1
0
0
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Skills
+1 with All Combat
+2 with Pistol
+2 versus Range Modifiers with Pistol
6
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
1
3
2
2
2
3
2
3
1
3
2
3
0
0
0
200+ Disadvantages
15 Distinctive Features: Two-Dimensional (Not Concealable)
15 Psychological Limitation: Always Takes the Case
(Uncommon, Total)
25 Psychological Limitation: Believes Himself to be a Detective
in a 1940s Film (Very Common, Total)
5 Psychological Limitation: Sucker for a Pretty Face with a Sob
Story (Uncommon, Moderate)
15 Social Limitation: Narrates His Life (Frequently, Greatly)
10 Social Limitation: Public Identity (Frequently, Slightly)
5 Unluck 1d6
10 Vulnerability: 2x Effects from Illusions (Uncommon)
200 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 500
17
7
3
8
4
3
Equipment
41
Perks
Contact: The Criminal Underworld 13- (Very Useful,
Contacts, Institutions, Unfriendly, Organization)
Private Investigator License
Reputation: Famous Movie Detective 11- (Medium Group),
+2d6
Talents
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense, Intuitional)
Fearless (FH111)
Resistance
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Glorious Heliopolis stood shining in the heavens long before the children of the Nile found
the teachings of Osiris. Chief among the enemies that envied the Heliopolitans and worked
against them was the monstrous Apophis, the Terrible Serpent, the Nightbringer. After
uncounted years of battle, she was finally subdued and imprisoned. The House of Ra had stood
strongest against her, and Horus the Sunhawk, Son of Ra, was chosen to act as Apophis jailor.
He performed his duties thereafter, century after century, long after his fellow Heliopolitans
chose to remove themselves from contact with the earthly realms. In all the long count of years,
his attentions never failed save once, and for that failure he paid dearly.
While Horus attention was on a battle occurring in the deserts north of his solitary post,
fate intervened and a group of bandits found their way into the temple that served as the
physical anchor for the celestial prison. Before Horus attention returned to his charge, Apophis
had managed to invest a fraction of her divine might into a makeshift avatar, a physical host she
had found among the bandits. Horus knew he would have to intervene, to hunt down the newly
born Serpent Queen, but following his fathers dictates after his brethren had left the Earth, he
couldnt return fully to the Earth. A solution came moments later, as the archaeologist Matthew
MacTyre wandered into the temple, himself an earlier victim of the bandits depredations.
MacTyre was initially overwhelmed with what he was presented with, and what was asked of
him; but, when shown what chaos and destruction Apophis would wreak unopposed, he acceded
and granted his form to Horus. When the next figure appeared upon the temples doorstep, it
was the new avatar of the Sunhawk, and Horus, Son of Ra flew away into the world of men.
Horus fought many battles over the next two decades, not only against his age-old enemy,
but also against many new threats that he couldnt stand aside and allow to prey on mankind.
His quest finally culminated a decade ago in a mighty battle that destroyed not only the temple
from which he came, but also apparently both Horus and the Serpent Queen. MacTyre was finally
freed of his duty as host and, not having aged a day in the intervening years submerged within
Horus, spent quite a while rebuilding his mortal life. But recently, with the reappearance of the
Serpent Queen, friends of the professor have noted not only his disappearance, but also sporadic
sightings around the world that match the description of the Sunhawk, in conflict once again with
agents of the Serpent Queen.
Horus is a god made flesh, even though he possesses only the smallest fraction of his power
while invested in MacTyres frame. He is unbelievably strong and very difficult to hurt, as well as
resistant to most mortal frailties and possessed of healing faculties far faster than human.
Though he possesses enough of MacTyres memories and personality traces that he can function
in modern society, such as MacTyres language skills, he is very much, and noticeably, out of his
element. He can be confused by the subtleties of the modern world, many of which he doesnt
even see the need to try to understand. This arrogance can easily rub people the wrong way.
Dr. Matthew MacTyre is an athletically built man in his early 40s, with sandy blond hair
and an infectious smile. As Horus, he is a powerfully built man of apparent Middle-Eastern
origin, standing well over six foot in height and wearing shining gold armor of Egyptian design.
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SEX
Male
AGE
35(?)
HT
64
WT
270#
EYES
White
HAIR
Blonde
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Famous 60s hero
+0 Strong with light-based abilities
-3 Acts like he really is a god
-5
-8
-10 Somehow connected with the
Serpent Queen
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Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
9u
Notes
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OCV: 6/DCV: 6
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9u
IIF (-)
1) Blast: EB 16d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END, +);
IIF (-)
2) Blind: Sight Group Flash 16d6, Reduced Endurance (0
END, +); IIF (-)
3) Brighten: Darkness 1, Megascale Radius (1 = 1 km,
Scaleable, +), Personal Immunity (+), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); IIF (-)
4) Banish the Night: Dispel Darkness 20d6, Cumulative
(+), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); IIF (-)
0
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13
3
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14
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22
3
12
Talents
Animal Friendship (FH103, PH261)
Awe-Inspiring (DC107)
Bump of Direction
Combat Sense
Fearless (FH106)
Fearless (FH111)
Inspire (x2, FH106, PH261)
Resistance
Turn Undead (FH107)
20
4
Perks
Perk: God of the Sun
Reputation: Sun God +4d6 (in Egypt) 14-
20
40
6
12
Skills
+2 Overall Levels
+5 with All Combat
+2 with Mantle Attacks
+8 versus Range Penalties for Blast
2,2
3,3
2,2
2,2
2
3
3,3
3,2
3,2
2,2
1,1
4
AK: Egypt 11-, AK: Heliopolis 11Divine Light (EGO-Based) 14-, Interrogation 16KS: Ancient Egypt 11-, KS: Arcane Lore 11KS: Mythology 11-, KS: History 11KS: The Sun 11Language: English (Fluent, Coptic Egyptian is Native)
Navigation (Air, Space) 11-, Oratory 16Persuasion 16-, PS: Deity 16Seduction 16-, SS: Astrology 11SS: Astronomy 11-, SS: Archaeology 11Tactics 8-, TF: Chariots
WF: Common Melee, Common Missile
Equipment
96
IIF (-)
1) Short-Range: Flight 40, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+); IIF (-)
2) Long-Range: Flight 10, Megascale (Scalable to 1 =
100km, +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); IIF (-)
3) Stellar-Range: FTL Travel (Speed of Light); IIF (-)
4) Underwater Flight: Swimming +38 (40 Total),
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); IIF (-)
Radius (1 = 1 km, Scaleable, +), Reduced Endurance
(0 END, +); Only to Create Light (-1), OIF (-)
Divine Light: Find Weakness with Blast 14Divine Clap of Thunder: Flash Hearing 6d6, Area Of
0
0
0
0
0
200+ Disadvantages
10 Distinctive Feature: Divine Aura (Not Concealable, Unusual
Senses, Major)
20 Hunted: The Serpent Queen 11- (Mo Pow)
10 Enraged: Fighting the Serpent Queen (Uncommon, Go 8-,
Recover 11-)
5 Physical Limitation: Reduced Leap (Infrequently, Slightly)
15 Physical Limitation: Unfamiliar with Modern Culture (All the
Time, Slightly)
10 Psychological Limitation: Ashamed Over Serpent Queens
Escape (Uncommon, Strong)
20 Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Very Common,
Strong)
10 Social Limitation: Famous (Frequently, Minor)
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Total Disadvantages: 1150
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Female
AGE
16
HT
55
WT
110#
EYES
Green
HAIR
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DESCRIPTION
The Wildes had always been an unconventional family. Many families earned acclaim for
turning out businessmen, actors, or such. The Wildes bred adventurers, men and women who
explored lost worlds, righted wrongs no one else was around to right, and dashed the schemes of
more than one would-be world-beater. The family tradition continued unabated until Randolph
Wilde. Randolph tried to live up to the family ideals when he was a child for all of five
minutes. Self-absorbed and petty, Randolph hated his family and the restraints his role in the
family tradition placed on him. He played along, but only because he couldnt really figure out
exactly what he would be doing if not working with his family. Also, he knew his family would see
it as a duty to stop him if he went astray, and some of them were much too good at all the
fighting and clue-finding for him to go looking for a confrontation. He bided his time, indulging in
his private little crimes on the side (just enough to tide his ego over, nothing that would attract
too much attention) while he tried to figure out what to do next.
Randolphs opportunity finally came when he, his brother, and his two sisters were fighting
one of their familys oldest enemies, a prematurely senile megalomaniac called Simple Simon.
Somewhere, somehow, the lunatic had acquired a piece of experimental technology called a
Cosmic Ray Fluctuator. Neither Randolph nor his siblings knew what the device did, but they
knew it sounded impressive, and if Simple Simon wanted it bad enough to steal it, they needed
to get it back before he could put it to use. It took them only a few days to track him down, and
to Randolphs consternation, his oldest brother brought along his daughter. It was to be Wendys
first real case with the rest of them, her introduction to the family business proper. Apparently
Randolphs niece had been having her own little adventures without brother Patricks consent,
and the elder Wilde wanted her to get the proper training to do it right. Randolph didnt care, but
didnt see the point in arguing. While the rest of the Wildes were dealing with Simon and his
rent-a-thugs, Randolph went to look over the machine in question. Always very good with
machines, Randolph immediately saw a chance, a chance he knew would probably never come
again. A switch flipped here, an input converted to an output and presto-chango, instant bomb.
As his siblings came to find their brother, young Wendy saw him in the distance making himself
scarce and exiting Simons sanitarium hideout. Behind her, the exotic device reached a critical
stage and detonated. Her fathers last act was to throw himself onto his daughter in an effort to
shield her. He died instantly in the wave of radiation that spilled in every direction from the
improvised bomb. Cassandra, the eldest sister and the closest to the device, also died. Only
Wendy and her aunt Samantha survived, and Aunt Sam was crippled in the blast.
Through the kind of luck which only comes through the not so subtle application of destiny,
Wendy not only suffered no lasting injuries, but came out of the blast infused with energies that
gave her actual metahuman abilities. At her Aunts suggestion, Wendy decided to use her abilities
in the grand old family tradition. Attempting to modernize things a bit, Wendy changed her last
name to Wildstar. So far, putting her life in constant danger hasnt fazed her surviving relatives
half as much as the shock of the name change.
Wendy is a walking talking cosmic energy battery. Her strength and speed have been
greatly enhanced, and she can emit destructive energy discharges. But these powers pale in
comparison to the impact of her personality. Wendy is 100% All-American Heroine with the
ideals, the moves, and the witty banter to back it up one part traditional icon combined with
two parts pop star, mixed well and shaken, shaken, shaken. Shes indefatigable, bright, and
relentlessly good-natured. The only time her spirits sag is when she has to occasionally face her
uncle Randolph, now a full blown criminal mastermind in his own right (well, criminal anyway,
working on the mastermind part).
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Member of famous family
+0 Perky to an annoying extreme
-3
-5
-8 Chases black sheep uncle
-10 Family unhappy about name
change
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Cost Roll
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4
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2
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3
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Notes
Lift 800 kg; 5d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
PER Roll: 14ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 16 PD (6 rPD)
Total: 16 ED (6 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 163
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
15/30
10/20
7/14
Powers
END
0
0
(0 END, +)
33
6
10
END, +)
Swift: Leaping +5 (10 Total), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +), Usable as Swimming (+)
Alert: +2 PER
Heros Fortune: Luck 2d6
12
18
5
3
Talents
Combat Luck (x2)
Evasive (FH105)
Rapid Healing (FH107)
Perfect Pitch
18
24
2
5
Perks
Contact: High Society 14- (Useful, Institutions, Contacts,
Organization)
Contact: The Superhero Community 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Reputation: Perky Heroine +2d6 (Medium Group) 11Money: Well-Off
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+2 Overall Levels
+2 with Energy Control
+6 versus Range Modifiers with Blast
Rapid Attack (Ranged)
Acrobatics 15Acting 13Breakfall 15Bribery 8Bureaucratics 8Climbing 15Contortionist 15Conversation 13Energy Tricks (DEX-Based) 15High Society 13KS: The Fine Arts 11KS: The High Society World 12KS: The Superhuman World 11Paramedics 12PS: Cheerleading 11PS: Debutante 13Seduction 13Trading 8-
0
0
0
0
200+
15
0
15
15
15
15
15
10
200
Disadvantages
DNPC: Aunt Samantha 8- (Incompetent)
Hunted: Wilde Family 8- (Less Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: Uncle Randolph 11- (Less Pow, NCI)
Hunted: Opaque 8- (Mo Pow)
Psychological Limitation: Code Against Killing (Common,
Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Perky Optimist (Very Common,
Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Hunting Uncle Randolph (Very
Common, Moderate)
Social Limitation: Well-Known Family (Frequently, Minor)
Experience Points
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SEX
Male
AGE
30(65)
HT
510
WT
180#
EYES
Green
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Vigilante
-3 Superhuman agility and healing
-5 Very violent reputation
-8
-10 Once hero known as Killjoy
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Pain. His world began again in pain. He opened his eyes and he was partially buried in a
great pit. For the longest time, his first and oldest memory was of digging himself out of that pit.
The pits edges were blackened by the force of whatever had blasted it into the Earth, and it was
enormous. Visible from its edges were the lights of a city. Slowly but surely he made his way
toward those lights. The stares drove him into the shadows, stares that told him he wasnt quite
like those he encountered in the city. He looked at his reflection in the glass of a storefront
horrible scars, a face like melted wax. He learned to hide, to fend, and to forage in the urban
jungle. He was finally drawn out of his little world when he heard the screams. He came upon
the scene of a group of young men preparing to do something terrible to a young woman and
her child. Without thinking, he acted, throwing himself into the men, a blur of fury moving with
lightning speed and iron purpose. In the space of seconds he had disabled and incapacitated all
of his opponents. The woman looked at him, but she didnt stare in horror as those before her
had done. She thanked him and left, running away from the scene. For some reason, looking
down on the beaten bodies of the human refuse at his feet felt right. And then the flood of
memories rushed in.
A name, no, two names Stephen Pierce was the first. The second was strange. Who or
what was Killjoy? A mask held in a mirror. A costume. Something about an allergic reaction to
some strange medicine. Frustration over failures as a what was it? A district attorney. The
medicine had given him abilities different from those around him unmatched agility and
reflexes. And he healed so very fast. Wait. Healed? Finding a puddle of water, he looked at his
reflection again. The scars had gone, leaving a face not so very different from those he had seen
on the streets outside his shadows. More memories. Killjoy was an alias. His alias. He had used it
to enact the justice he hadnt seen in the courtroom. He had been a hero, with other heroes at
his side. But it had all ended fighting some woman. No, some kind of enormous snake. Both
she had been both a woman and a snake. There had been a bright light and a deafening roar,
and then nothing. How long had he been gone? Finding an old newspaper, he compared dates.
Years? Years?!? And what had happened to the city? Why had it gotten so much darker and
colder than he now remembered it to have been? He had to start thinking again, stop running
form shadow to shadow. Looking at the coat dropped by the child as her mother pulled her
swiftly away, he thought to himself after all, Im still needed.
Stephen Pierce once fought crime as the masked avenger Killjoy, known for his incredible
agility and his non-stop torrent of taunting banter. His career under that mask was long and
varied, ending only when he was caught in the massive blast that tore the Serpent Queens
essence from her body and sent it back to its celestial prison. Unable to find their friend or his
body, Killjoys associates believed he had died in the blast. But he hadnt died. Well, not
permanently, anyway. Pierces heightened healing factor had continued working to restore his
body even from its almost completely incinerated state, pushing its limits far beyond what he had
ever needed before. It took years to rebuild his body, and months for his memories to come back
after he awakened. His memories are still incomplete, and probably always will be. He works
more on a street level now, having left his old life as D.A. Stephen Pierce completely behind. His
tactics are much the same in combat, but his name, costume and demeanor have all changed.
He no longer sees the benefit of humor in his work. Where once he taunted, now he simply
pummels. His reflexes havent slowed any, but his skills have been honed in terms of his stealth,
which is now practically unmatched. He is the angel of justice to a hundred hopeless souls on the
street who had long given up on justice at all. Killjoy is dead. Long live Wraith.
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Cost
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15
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Cost Roll
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6
5
0
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 1600 kg; 6d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 15/DCV: 15
PER Roll: 14ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 15 PD (3 rPD)
Total: 15 ED (3 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
11/22
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Disease)
10
6
12
6
15
17
18
3
10
7
5
10
5
Talents
Blend with Shadows (DC139)
Combat Luck
Combat Sense
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense, Intuitional)
Evasive (FH105)
Eyes in the Back of His Head (DC133)
Fascination (FH105)
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Ultimate Climbing (DC132)
Unimpressed (DC129)
Unpredictable Tactics (DC129)
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6
10
31
4
4
4
4
4
3
5
5
4
3
0
0
0
0
6
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
Skills
Martial Arts: Brawling
Maneuver
OCV
Block
+2
Choke
-2
Disarm
-1
Dodge
Escape
+0
Grab
-1
Jab
+1
Kick
-2
Punch
+0
Throw
+0
DCV
+2
+0
+1
+5
+0
-1
+3
+1
+2
+1
Notes
Block, Abort
2d6 NND
+10 STR Disarm
Dodge, Abort
+15 STR Escape
2 Limbs, +10 STR
Strike
+4d6
+2d6
+v/5, Target Falls
+2 Overall Levels
+4 versus Sweep Penalties
Defense Maneuver IV
+2 with Concealment, Security Systems, and Shadowing
Acrobatics 18Agility Tricks (DEX-Based) 18Analyze Combat Technique 12Breakfall 18Climbing 18Concealment 12Contortionist 18Conversation 13Criminology 12Interrogation 13KS: Law 12Persuasion 13PS: Attorney 13Stealth 18Streetwise 13Tactics 12Lockpicking 18Security Systems 12Shadowing 12-
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The artificially created humanoid called Carapace, and the symbiotic living armor that he
wears, both represent advancements in bioweapon technology far ahead of that possessed by
any of the competitors of his creators, the Orchard. Though they would be loath to admit, his
successful completion resulted more from a series of laboratory accidents than the Orchards
focused efforts. It is for this reason that they were inordinately proud of his development,
at least outwardly. It is for this reason that they were murderously livid upon what some
viewed as his theft, others his defection, as they have yet to even come close to
determining exactly how he was actually created, much less to duplicate the feat.
Since leaving the facility that birthed him, Carapace has amassed a
formidable reputation as the anchor for the Black Knights. Hes fought most of
the big names from around the world, and thoroughly trounced most of them.
Happiest for him, he continues to receive praise from the only person whose
opinion actually matters to him, Prodigal.
Carapace, who has no other name, has the intellect and
emotional development of a child. He speaks slowly and with great effort.
The only time this shortcoming isnt visible is in combat, where hardwired
biological programming takes over and he displays skills far surpassing
what an observer might expect given his deficiencies. His one absolute is
Prodigal, to whom he is fiercely devoted, and who above all other things
in his existence he strives to please.
Carapace personifies strength and durability. His vast superhuman
strength knows few equals on this planet and he has yet to encounter
anything that has been able to inflict lasting wounds through his armored
exterior. He is immune to practically everything that has been used
against him, and he has healed with lightning speed what little damage
hes ever taken. The symbiotic union with his armor even manages to
protect him from most mental intrusions, though raw telepathic damage has
proven one of the few things that actually affects him. The armor itself
seems to have no more than the most rudimentary of intelligence, though it
does seem to possess some highly sophisticated sense of spatial awareness,
similar to a kind of radar, that it shares with its host.
In combat, Carapace is a virtually unstoppable engine of destruction, moving
slowly from one opponent to another, and concentrating on that single opponent
until he drops actually ignoring others around him while doing so.
Enormous, Carapace stands almost seven feet tall and five feet wide. Little can
be seen of his skin beneath the all-encompassing set of orange/brown, shell-like
armor that covers practically every inch of his body. Large red eyes peek out from
the facial covering, the only feature not obscured by the armor.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
?(11)
HT
611
WT
1350#
EYES
Red
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Member of the Black Knights
-3 Big, dumb, and one of the
strongest things on Earth
-5 Artificial being
-8
-10
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100
12
40
20
8
8
20
6
20
20
3
30
80
100
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
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Cost
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40
75
20
20
40
20
10
36
22
23
32
50
60
4
8
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12
8
4
0
10
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 25 ktons; 20d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 4/DCV: 4
PER Roll: 11ECV: 3
PRE Attack: 10d6
5
4
20
5
3
3
3
1
Powers
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15
14
7
5
Talents
Ambidexterity (Full)
Fear-Inspiring (DC107, Strong)
Fearless (FH106)
Fearless (FH111)
Resistance
Perks
Membership: The Black Knights
Reputation: Strongest One There Is 11- (among
Superhumans) +4d6
Skills
+4 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
Rapid Attack (HTH)
Climbing 12Indestructibility (CON-Based) 17Interrogation 13Teamwork 8-
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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0
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SEX
Female
AGE
31
HT
53
WT
105#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Brown
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Member of the Black Knights
-3 Illusionist mercenary
-5 Once a heroine named
Spellbinder
-8
-10
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DESCRIPTION
Daphne Laurences life was never what it seemed, to those that knew her. No one who
went to school with her or worked with her ever knew about the poor family background or
the abusive upbringing. No one ever saw or knew anything that she didnt want them to see
and know. It was a gift she had, to give the wrong image, to hide what she wanted hidden.
Then one day, after almost being killed in a freak automobile accident, she awoke to discover
that her gift had improved. Daphne could project what she wanted right into peoples minds.
At first, she wasnt really sure what she wanted to do with her newfound abilities. After
inadvertently stumbling into a robbery and making quick work of those involved, she found out
that she liked the admiration those she rescued showered on her. On the spur of the moment,
she decided to become a hero. She assumed that people were less likely to see through her
illusions if they had no reason to suspect she was actually using illusions, so she fashioned the
identity of Spellbinder, Mistress of Magic, and hid the truth of her abilities behind a carefully
constructed front as sorcery and magic. This worked well, and she had a successful career in
the superheroing business for several years. She even did well enough to be invited into a new
team of heroes calling themselves the Sentinels (page 5).
However, over time, Daphne came to realize that she was caring less and less for her public
life. The adulation had been its own high in the early days, but that had worn off. The excitement
had been interesting for a while too, but you can only have people trying to kill you for so long
without any real reward to show for it, before it begins to wear on you. On the same kind of
whim upon which she had become a hero, Daphne decided one day to try the other side. She
constructed the idea of Glimmer, an invisible thief, and entered the world of larceny. This was
much more enjoyable than what she was doing with the Sentinels. Truth be told, her goody-twoshoes teammates had started to grate on her nerves even more than the rest of the job, and she
was quite ready to sever her connections and have Spellbinder simply disappear, when
opportunity raised its head.
Facing a group of mercenaries called the Black Knights, who were still very new as a team
at that time, and who had been contracted by the Magi to steal a very valuable set of rare
computer components, the Sentinels were on the verge of taking the mercenaries down
completely, when Prodigal pulled a desperate and very surprising tactic. He blurted out the offer
of a million dollars apiece to any of the Sentinels willing to switch sides then and there. She still
doesnt know who was the most surprised when she took him up on the offer: Prodigal, her
former teammates, or herself. With the shock of her betrayal and the adept use of her illusions,
she was able to help the Knights turn the tide of battle long enough to make their escape, with
her accompanying them. She was then in a bad way due both to her unplanned and very public
entry into the criminal lifestyle, and because she had been very seriously hurt by one of her
teammates, the enraged Sundance, while escaping the scene. Impressed by her performance,
and intrigued at the prospect of having her abilities at his disposal, Prodigal paid for the surgery
that restored her, surgery extensive enough that it involved the implanting of cybernetics to
replace those parts of her that were beyond help. Since that day, Daphne, now known as
Faade, has become very comfortable in her role as spy and infiltrator for her new teammates.
For the first time in her life, shes actually presenting the real Daphne to the world, and to
herself. And shes enjoying every violent second of it.
Faade has the psionic ability to generate hyper-realistic illusions over a large area with
incredible precision. These illusions range from simple disguises to vivid landscapes, from
imaginary shapes to attacks that seem so real that they injure her targets psychosomatically. She
also possesses cybernetic implants that augment her physical form to some extent. Faade has
quickly become one of the most sophisticated spies in the world, and has proven capable of
infiltrating some of the most secure of facilities in existence.
In combat, Faade stays in the background, hiding herself and Prodigal from view, while
altering opponents perceptions around the battlefield. When facing The Black Knights, it isnt
unusual to have members seem to vanish and appear elsewhere around the area, or to have
bystanders suddenly become them or worse, have them suddenly shown to actually be
bystanders.
Faade can appear to be anything she wants, but Daphne Laurence is a petite brunette with
china doll features and a disarmingly mischievous smile.
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18
20
10
18
20
15
10
6
6
5
10
40
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
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Movement:
Cost
216
10
22
9
15
10
6
17
Cost Roll
13 1424 1320 130 118 1320 135 120 111
2
22
2
0
8
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 600 kg; 4d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
PER Roll: 15ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 18 PD (12 rPD)
Total: 18 ED (12 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 125
6/12
4/9
2/4
Powers
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
2
12
18
5
5
5
3
14
15
15
5
10
15
9
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
Linguist
Language:
Language:
Language:
Language:
Language:
Chinese (Fluent)
French (Fluent)
German (Fluent)
Russian (Fluent)
Spanish (Fluent)
Talents
Combat Luck (x2)
Evasive (FH105)
Fearless (FH111); Linked to Mental Illusions (-)
Lightning Reflexes +5 with Mental Illusions
Rapid Healing (FH107)
Resistance
Sneak Attack (x2, Deadly Blow, FH105)
Perks
Contact: The Cybernetic World 11- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Organization)
Contact: The Mercenary World 11- (Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Membership: The Black Knights
Money: Wealthy
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+1 Overall Level
+2 with All Combat
+6 with Mental Illusions
Equipment
10
16
12
200+
15
5
10
Disadvantages
Hunted: Most Superhero Teams 8- (Mo Pow)
Hunted: Prodigal 11- (As Pow, Watching)
Physical Limitation: Some Cybernetic Parts, Requires
Specialized Medical Attention (Infrequently, Greatly)
15 Psychological Limitation: Ambitious and Greedy (Common,
Strong)
10 Psychological Limitation: Conceited (Common, Moderate)
10 Psychological Limitation: Secretive and Mysterious
(Common, Moderate)
10 Reputation: Traitor to the Sentinels 1120 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
5 Susceptibility: 1d6 STUN from Electromagnetic Disruption
(Uncommon)
400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 700
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DESCRIPTION
As a child, Mohan Nahadi drifted from village to village. An orphan, he accompanied the
missionaries who taught him English as they passed from Northern India into Nepal. It was there
that his mutant abilities manifested, when his family was ambushed by a group of Chinese
soldiers who were looking for target practice on indigenous rebels but werent being too choosy.
Unused to the amount of energy he burned through using his newfound powers, Mohan
collapsed unconscious after incinerating most of the attacking soldiers.
He woke in a strange lab surrounded by soldiers and scientists, all speaking what he
assumed to be Chinese. Unfortunately for him, they had some experience dealing with mutants,
and his restraints proved more than adequate for the job of containing him. He probably would
have died under the harsh conditions of the camp where he was being kept and studied, if not
for the fact that someone cared enough about one of the other prisoners there to pay for a
rescue. When the armored man and his large companion broke into the camp and began making
quick work of the soldiers, Mohan managed to escape his restraints and help them.
Prodigal was suitably impressed, and immediately agreed to take the young Sikh with them
when they moved on. Since then, he has continued to help the boy explore his continually
growing powers, while putting them to well paid use.
Kid Shiva has never been the most stable individual. The people who kept sending him away
from their villages recognized this, as did the missionaries who took him under their wing. The
manifestation of his abilities has only exacerbated his mood swings and violent rages. At the best
of times, he is barely in control; at the worst, he lives up to his name as a living harbinger of
imminent destruction. Fearing that the boy may eventually turn on him, Prodigal has taken
precautions. Unknown to Mohan, one of his meals was laced with a complex set of nanites
designed to imbed an organic bomb along his intestinal lining. Prodigal keeps the trigger for this
bomb with him at all times.
Kid Shiva is a mutant and a powerful one. He is, in essence, a living star, constantly
channeling electromagnetic energies up and down the spectrum. He can project and control a
staggering range and magnitude of energy forms, from microwaves to photons, from sound
waves to gamma rays. And he is still only in his late teens though his powers have accelerated
his bodys natural growth. As he continues to grow older, his abilities undoubtedly will continue
to grow with him.
His role in combat is primarily to act as air support, but Kid Shiva seldom simply shoots from
far away. He much prefers closing to short range, barreling in among his enemies and blasting
away indiscriminately.
Kid Shiva is a young man of obvious eastern descent, with dark skin, and black hair worn in
a long ponytail. He wears a one-piece black body suit with gold trimming down the left side of his
torso.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
21(15)
HT
510
WT
162#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Member of the Black Knights
-3 Very powerful mutant
-5
-8 Borderline psychotic
-10
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Kid Shiva
Val
10
18
30
15
10
10
18
10
7
7
6
8
60
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
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Cost
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40m
40m
40m
27m
18m
27m
20m
45
4u
2u
Cost Roll
0 1124 1340 1510 120 110 118 130 116
2
32
0
0
5
13
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
52
6
3
20
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20
20
20
12
20
11
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4
4
4
4
4
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0
0
0
0
0
Running:
20/40
Leaping:
2(14)/4(28)
Swimming:
20/40
Flight:
20/625
4u
2u
11
Equipment
3u
4
5
5
15
5
5
10
6
4
3
2
2
3
2
1
3
1
2
1
2
3
Talents
Combat Luck; Only when Flying (-)
Rapid Healing (107)
Fearless (FH111); Linked to Force Field (-)
Perks
Contact: The Mercenary World 11- (Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Membership: The Black Knights
Money: Well-Off
Skills
+2 with Ranged Combat
+2 with Flight
+2 with Blast
+2 versus Autofire Penalties for Blast
AK: India 11AK: Nepal 11Interrogation 13KS: Sikh Culture 11KS: World Religions 8Language: English (Fluent, Hindi is Native)
Language: Military Sign Language (Basic)
Navigation (Air) 11Streetwise 8Survival (Tropical) 11Teamwork 13-
Disadvantages
Hunted: Most Superhero Teams 8- (Mo Pow)
Hunted: Prodigal 11- (Mo Pow, Watching)
Physical Limitation: Will Die when Prodigal Activates a Secret
Bomb Inside Him (Infrequently, Fully)
Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Very Common,
Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Violent Tendencies, Borderline
Psychotic (Common, Strong)
Reputation: Extremely Powerful Mutant 8Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
38
HT
61
WT
220#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Blonde
DESCRIPTION
Lucas Hennesy tried to be the model soldier his father would have wanted him to be. The
son of a career military man, Hennesy never had any other ambition than to follow in his fathers
footsteps until he actually began walking in those footsteps. He excelled and rose meteorically
through the ranks. The only thing he discovered he couldnt do was like it. Hennesy hated the
military, hated the job, hated the people. Eventually, burnout would have forced him from the
military, if he hadnt been offered a chance at Project Nine.
Hennesy became the first of the only three successes the project would produce, but at the
time, neither he nor his superiors knew it. At first, the only signs of any changes at all were
debilitating weakness and constant migraines. His involvement was deemed a failure. Hennesy
was quickly and quietly discharged, set up with a meager pension, and the heartfelt thanks of a
grateful nation. If only the project had continued watching, their assessment would have
changed dramatically. Two months after he was left alone, Hennesy began to feel better. Much,
much better. Stronger than he had ever been, and faster. Further, he found that the voices he
had begun hearing, voices that had begun to make him question his own sanity, werent voices
after all. They were thoughts, the thoughts of the people around him. He had developed
telepathic abilities, which, unfortunately, with a little use quickly served to reinforce his cynical
views of his fellow man. Any chance of his reporting his condition to his superiors quickly died
during those formative weeks.
Using contacts he had developed during his active military days contacts he had kept off
the books Hennesy was quickly able to find new and lucrative employment. He started off
small, working as discreet and well-paid muscle for the Magi, powerful brokers and middlemen
for deals and arrangements throughout the global underworld. But this quickly began to bore and
annoy him much as his soldiering had. He moved on, leaving unhappy former employers behind.
He continued this way, finding work, building an employers dependence upon him, and then
leaving when he would inevitably begin to grow bored with the limitations of his employment. Its
likely that he would eventually have angered the wrong employer and wound up dead if fate
hadnt once again intervened in the form of Boneyard. Once a small-time terrorist for hire, the
man calling himself Boneyard built an effective biowarfare concern he called the Orchard. While
working for the Orchard, Hennesy became involved in training the result of one of their more
involved experiments, an artificially created humanoid with symbiotic living armor. The creatures
loyalty and considerable physical power ultimately got Hennesy to think of the possibilities. Why
not put himself to work for the only person who had never lost his respect namely, himself?
Hennesy left the Orchard facility in flames after looting it for all the equipment he thought he
could put to use, including Carapace. The rest, as they say, is history.
Hennesy possesses superhuman strength and agility, as well as a suite of telepathic abilities.
He complements this with a small arsenal of high-tech weaponry and a frightening amount of
combat training. The result is a highly effective fighting machine with few equals, and the
reputation to match. In a fight, Hennesy, or Prodigal, which hes adopted as his professional
name, acts as the coordinator for his associates, standing back and directing them to the most
efficient use of their individual abilities. He rarely enters combat first, but is frequently the
cleanup for his crew. Efficient and almost pathologically professional, he is unafraid to be as
brutal and expedient as he deems necessary to complete the contract at hand.
Lucas Hennesy is a tall and well-built blonde man with an athletic build. In the field he
wears a suit of advanced body armor and carries at least his signature gun, a large and powerful
rifle of advanced design, when not armed with a staggering array of other large weapons.
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Member of the Black Knights
-3 Mercenary criminal
-5
-8 Former soldier for US
-10 Uncle Sam is responsible for his
powers
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29
28
15
18
18
20
10
10
10
6
15
60
50
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
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Cost
30
30
3u
3u
8
9
Cost Roll
20 1557 1536 1510 128 1316 1310 130 114
4
21
6
2
6
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
9,12,15
17
14,18
6,7
11,4
3,8,5
Notes
Lift 1600 kg; 6d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
PER Roll: 15ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 4d6
Perks
70 Base: The Hole in the Wall
24 Contact: The Mercenary/Military World 14- (Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
30 Contact: The Supervillain World 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
10,10 Leadership: The Black Knights, Money: Wealthy
8 Reputation: Leader of the Black Knights 14- (among
Superhumans) +4d6
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0
0
3
3
5
6
9
15
Swimming (+)
Adaptive Sight: Nightvision
Alert: +2 PER
Healing Factor: Regeneration (1 BODY per Turn)
Fortunate SOB: Luck 3d6
42
2
0
0
0
0
Equipment
4u
4u
3u
13
9
13
4
4
10
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Talents
Combat Intuition (DC107), Combat Luck (x2), Combat Sense
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense, Intuitional)
Deadly Shooter (DC109), Evasive (FH105)
Favorite Gun (DC111), Fearless (FH111)
Inspire (PH261), Lightning Reflexes: +4 with BFG
Lightsleep, Pistolero (DC119), Resistance
[125]
[125]
[125]
[125]
Skills
35 Martial Arts: Commando Training (Block, Choke, Chop, Cross,
Disarm, Dodge, Escape, Hold, Throw)
43 Martial Arts: Gun Fu (Accurate Shot, Basic Shot, Defensive
Shot, Distance Shot, Diving Shot, Far Shot, Leg Shot,
Offensive Shot, Quick Shot, Ranged Disarm, Trained Shot)
30
16,10
9,9
3,10
5,5,5
+3 Overall Levels
+2 with All Combat, +2 with Ranged Combat
+6 versus Range Penalties with BFG and Find Weakness
+2 versus Autofire Penalties with BFG, Defensive Maneuver IV
Rapid Attack (HTH, Ranged), Rapid Autofire
3,3,3
3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
2,2
3,1
2,1
3,3
3
1
1,3,3
4,3,3
3
3,3,3
6
Acrobatics 15-, AK: America 13-, AK: Europe 13Analyze Combat Technique 13-, Analyze Strategy 13Breakfall 15-, Bribery 13-, Bureaucratics 13Climbing 15-, Combat Driving 15-, Concealment 13Demolitions 13-, Fast Draw 15-, Interrogation 13KS: Advanced Firearms 11-, KS: Commando Fighting 11KS: Current Events 13-, KS: History 8KS: The Intelligence Community 11-, KS: The Magi 8KS: Military Protocol 13-, KS: The Military World 13KS: The Superhuman World 13Language: Military Sign Language (Basic)
Navigation (Land) 8-, Oratory 13-, Paramedics 13PS: Soldier 15-, Stealth 15-, Streetwise 13Survival (Desert, Temperate, Mountain) 8Systems Operation 13-, Tactics 13-, Teamwork 13TF: Basic & Advanced Parachuting, Small Motorized Boats,
Snowmobiles, Two-Wheeled Motorized Ground Vehicles,
Wheeled Military Vehicles
1,3 Trading 8-, Trick Shots (DEX-Based) 152 Weaponsmith (Firearms) 135 WF: Flamethrowers, Grenade Launchers, Heavy Machine
Guns, Small Arms
0
0
0
0
0
200+ Disadvantages
10 Distinctive Features: Commando Style Martial Arts (Not
Concealable, Detectable by Large Group)
15 Hunted: The Magi 8- (As Pow, NCI)
20 Hunted: Most Superhero Teams 11- (Mo Pow)
15 Hunted: The Orchard 8- (As Pow, NCI)
15 Psychological Limitation: Cynical and Arrogant (Very
Common, Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Methodical and Professional (Very
Common, Moderate)
10 Reputation: Killer 8- (Extreme)
700 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 1000
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SEX
Male
AGE
35
HT
57
WT
170#
DESCRIPTION
Rene Duchard doesnt have much of a memory for his life before five years ago. In fact, he
has none. He remembers waking up in an alley in Marseille with the clothes on his back and
nothing else. He knows his name, but not his age, family, or even place of origin. He speaks
four languages and simply assumes French is his native one because of his name and the
simple fact that he speaks it best. He also quickly discovered that he wasnt exactly human.
Stealing food that first day, a shopkeeper caught him in the act and he began to run. Before he
could get his bearings, he was in Paris. He literally had covered hundreds of kilometers in those
few seconds.
Duchard then began putting his abilities to good use, first as a thief, then moving up to
assassin. He began working for any one that would pay him, earning a considerable amount of
money and the reputation to match. Then he took a contract to eliminate the head of an upand-coming Triad known as the Heavenly Thunder Dragons. The Triads have a long memory,
and this one was special. The Heavenly Thunder Dragons were rising so quickly above their
competition due to the fact that they included a substantial number of metahumans in their
ranks. Duchards life became very complicated. He was no longer able to take contracts,
because he was too busy dealing with the hefty contract that had been put on him. Even with
his powers and skills, he knew it was only a matter of time before his luck simply ran out.
Then Prodigal entered his life. Prodigal had just completed several lucrative jobs for the
Dragons, and while doing so, had learned of the deadly speedster and the contract on his head.
In lieu of monetary payment for the last of these jobs and a discount on a few agreed-on
future jobs, Prodigal asked the Triad for Duchards life. Intrigued at the prospect of having
Prodigal and the elusive speedster assassin working for them, the Dragons agreed. Prodigal
presented Duchard with a simple proposal work with me and live, or refuse me and die at the
Triads hands. Initially accepting just to stay alive until he could find a way out of the
agreement, Duchard, now operating almost exclusively under the name Terminal Velocity,
slowly realized how much more interesting his life became with Prodigal planning jobs and
picking targets. He was actually enjoying himself for the first time since he left that miserable
little back alley, and that has cemented his loyalty even more than Prodigals intercession with
the Triads.
Terminal Velocity is a high-speed killing machine, flitting from one end of the battlefield to
another faster than his opposition can track. He enjoys suddenly appearing in the middle of his
targets, his hands full of ball bearings, immediately accelerating into a spin of several thousand
RPM, and then releasing the ball bearings to shoot outward in all directions. Another favorite
tactic is to partially phase his hands into a targets body and use high-speed vibrations to pure
internal organs. That he can do these things and then leave the area before most opponents
can even think about reacting only adds to his already fearsome reputation.
Duchard excels in his role as combat support, picking off stragglers around the battlefield
and helping Faade sow chaos among people already reeling from brutal assault under the
numbing combination of Carapace and Kid Shiva.
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Member of the Black Knights
-3 Assassin with superhuman speed
-5
-8 Tense relationship with Triads
-10
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80
Terminal Velocity
Val
20
33
20
10
15
15
18
10
5
5
8
10
40
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
90
4u
8u
6u
5u
6u
4u
4u
100
10u
6u
3u
7u
6u
4u
Cost Roll
10 1369 1620 130 115 1210 128 130 111
1
47
4
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 11/DCV: 11(17)
6
7
0
0
1
0
0
Equipment
Powers
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0
30
18
12
5
7
4
12
5
5
0
0
0
0
0
12
6
8
5
3,2
3,3
1,1
2
3
3,3
3,2
3,3
3,3
0
0
0
Talents
Combat Luck (x5)
Evasive (FH105)
Lightning Reflexes +8
Rapid Healing (FH107)
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Speed Reading (x10)
Perks
Contact: The Mercenary World 8- (Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Membership: The Black Knights
Money: Well-Off
Skills
+8 versus Sweep Penalties
+2 with Running
Defense Maneuver III
Rapid Attack (HTH)
Acting 13-, AK: France 11Contortionist 16-, Interrogation 13KS: The Mercenary World 8-, KS: The Speedster World 8KS: The Superhuman World 11Language: English (Fluent, French is Native)
Language: German (Fluent), Language: Spanish (Fluent)
Persuasion 13-, PS: Assassin 12Speed Tricks (DEX-Based) 16-, Stealth 16Teamwork 16-, WF: Small Arms, Thrown Pellets
0
0
0
0
0
0
200+
15
10
15
10
10
10
10
20
450
Disadvantages
Hunted: Most Superhero Teams 8- (Mo Pow)
Hunted: Prodigal 11- (Mo Pow, Watching)
Hunted: Triads 8- (Mo Pow)
Physical Limitation: Amnesiac (Infrequently, Greatly)
Psychological Limitation: Arrogant, Showoff (Common,
Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Seeks to Learn His Past
(Uncommon, Strong)
Reputation: Killer 8- (Extreme)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Major)
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Hells Belles
Hells Belles are that rarity in the metahuman world, people
that have chosen to stay out of the game almost entirely
choosing neither side of the proverbial fence. As a group, they
range somewhere between rock band and rabble-rousers, outlaws
and folk heroes. The label they bear depends pretty much on whose
being asked to define them: the people theyve helped, or the
people theyve crossed. Given the girls intense and often chaotic
history, either perspective is equally valid.
The formation of the group, as such, began coincidentally,
when Goth saved Sanguine from being overwhelmed by sheer
numbers during a disastrous concert turned riot. Sanguine was
singing in an amateur summer metalfest outside of Atlanta. Goth
had been in the audience, admiring the performances from afar,
since none of the bands would have her, as they were
predominantly male and heavily intimidated by her size and
demeanor. When a mosh session got out of hand and escalated into
a full-scale riot, the audience swept up onto the stage. Still unused
to her abilities, Sanguine went under the crush of the crowd, only to
have a large woman come to her rescue, tossing audience members
aside like so many rag dolls. It seemed that in addition to enormous
strength, the woman who called herself simply Goth also possessed
an appreciation for Sanguines vocals. Discovering that the large
woman was also a guitarist of some skill, and utterly unhappy with
the people in the band she was fronting, Sanguine struck upon the
idea of forming a new band with the two of them as the nucleus.
Though she didnt have a clear idea quite yet of what she was
looking for then, the faux vampiress slowly began to develop the
idea of an image, and set out to find the members that would
click.
They soon found a keyboard player while making the rounds of
the local underground music scene. Part-time member of a garage
band, and part-time pin-up girl for the local NASCAR circuit (among
others), Perdition jumped at the chance to join the pair and leave
behind a band that appreciated her more off-stage than on. That she
would no longer have to hide her pyrokinetic talents behind the
faade of special effects was merely the icing on the cake for her.
All they needed after that was a drummer, and while doing a
nightclub gig in Baton Rouge they came across Charlotte Duquesne.
The ladies were interested after hearing her play at a talent night
they were attending. But when a local gang attempted to rob the
club, and gunned down the manager in front of the girls, only to have
Duquesne reanimate the poor mans body to avenge himself on his
murderers, they knew they had found their last member, who
Sanguine soon dubbed Carrionette. Afterward, they discovered they
had acquired their fifth member, as the young bayou girl was
accompanied by her sister, a disembodied astral form that gave
Sanguine all sorts of ideas.
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QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
22
HT
56
WT
125#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Drummer for Hells Belles
+0 Killer drum sets
-3
-5 Shes a real necromancer
-8
-10 Bad reputation in the Bayou
DESCRIPTION
The Duquesnes had a black reputation in the bayou. Always had. Witches and conjurewomen were what people said about them, while the less superstitious just scoffed. Truth be
told, the reputation wasnt entirely undeserved. The Duquesne women were witches. They had a
long family tradition of power in the art, and they were proud of it. Charlotte and her sister
Renee were just the latest inheritors in a long line. Renee showed great promise in the arts their
grandmother tried to teach them, but Charlotte was never interested, despite her potential. She
lost herself, instead, in music. Her grandmother had given up hope for the girl until the day came
when they were set upon by a group of good ol boys working on liquid courage. That was the
day Old Mother Duquesne learned what her granddaughter could do. She had always dismissed
Charlottes ramblings about her friends (friends that she never saw) as the imaginary playmates
of a girl growing much too old for such things. But when the corpses came staggering out of
the woods answering Charlottes call, Mother Duquesne knew differently. Charlotte could
animate the dead by will alone, without the aid of ritual or spell. From that point on, Charlotte
was never again pestered by her grandmother about missing her lessons.
As Charlotte grew older, she developed a good deal of wanderlust. She left home,
accompanied by her sisters ghost (Hauntress, page 124), and wandered around Louisiana,
working in one band after another to earn money to live. It was while playing in one of these
forgettable bar bands that she met the other Belles, and showed Sanguine her powers while
interfering with a robbery occurring at the bar. After animating the murdered bar owners body to
use against his murderers, she was approached by the other Belles with an offer to join them.
When they not only didnt balk at her sister coming along, but became even more excited upon
meeting her ethereal sibling, she knew shed found a home.
Carrionette is a necromantic engine. Originally able to do little more than talk to the recently
deceased and weakly animate their shells, shes grown much more powerful as shes gotten
older. She can now channel energies from the lands of the dead, energies which can heal her
and which vitalize her frame even to the point of bringing herself back from deaths door. She
can animate a veritable army of corpses to do her bidding. Her constant connection to the
shadowlands tends to bleed into the real world around her as an unsettling feeling that she can
strengthen to an aura of cold fear.
Shes sometimes accompanied by an animated corpse when she feels like she needs
protection or a little grunt work if this is in front of an audience, its generally played off as a
man in make-up. Only the other band members know the gruesome truth.
Though not an unattractive woman, Charlotte Duquesne looks a little disturbing, having
gone for the slightly off-kilter punker look. Being accompanied by something looking like an
animated corpse doesnt help.
STR
EGO
SPD
10
20
10
DEX
PRE
REC
20
8
0
CON
COM
END
10
10
BODY
PD
STUN
5
5
INT
ED
Abilities: Automaton: Takes No STUN, Does Not Bleed, No Hit Locations, Life Support: Total
(including Longevity: Immortality), Damage Resistance (10 PD/5 ED), Tunneling 1 Through 1
DEF, Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); Extra Time (1 Turn, -1), Running -1 (5 Total),
Infrared Perception (Sight Group), +4 PER with All Senses; Only to Perceive Images Created by
Means Other than Necromancy (-1), Regeneration (1 BODY per Minute), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +) for STR, Running, Leaping, and Swimming; Combat Sense, Fearless (FH111),
Simulate Death; Anonymity; +2 with Shotgun, Concealment 10-, Climbing 11-, KS: History 11-,
Navigation (Underground) 10-, PS: Bodyguard 11-, Stealth 11-, Teamwork 11-, Weaponsmith
(Firearms) 8-, WF: Common Melee Weapons, Small Arms
Equipment: Shotgun: RKA 2d6, +1 Increased STUN Multiplier (+), Area Of Effect (One
Hex, +); 5 Charges (2 Clips, -), Limited Range (20, -), OAF (-1), Real Weapon (-),
Reduced by Range (-), Reduced Penetration (-), STR Minimum (8, -), Two Handed (-)
250+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Feature: Zombie (Concealable, Major), Physical Limitation:
Machine Intelligence (Frequently, Greatly), Physical Limitation: Reduced Leap (Infrequently,
Slightly), Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Frequently, Major)
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15
15
10
15
20
15
10
4
4
3
5
30
25
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
37
79
50
11
38
Cost Roll
0 1115 1210 120 115 1220 135 120 112
1
15
0
0
2
Powers
10
37
6
4
34
10
0
0
0
0
Resistant Defense
Deathwatch: Detect Corpse (Mental Group), 360o,
Analyze, Discriminatory, Ranged, Sense, Targeting
Alert: +2 PER
0
Eyes of the Undead: Nightvision; Extra Time (Delayed
Phase, -)
Borrow Life from the Dead: Regeneration (3 BODY per
Turn), Regrow Limbs, Resurrection; Requires Corpse
Nearby (-1)
Borrow Life from the Dead: +10 REC; Requires Corpse
Nearby (-1)
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
6
15
4
7
3
3
9
END
Powers
1) Animate the Dead: Summon 100x 250-point
Zombies, Expanded Class (Variety of Zombies, +),
Slavishly Loyal (+1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +);
Arrives Under Own Power (-), Requires Corpse
Nearby (-1)
2) Dominate the Dead: Mind Control 10d6 [Undead
Class of Minds], Telepathic (+), Reduced Endurance
(0 END, +)
3) Encapsulate the Dead: Clairsentience for Sight and
Hearing Groups (Mental Sense), Rapid, Retrocognition,
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); No Range (-),
Only through the Sense of Others (-1), Retrocognition
Only (-1), Vague and Unclear (-)
4) Interrogate the Dead: Telepathy 10d6 [Undead
Class of Minds], Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
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Talents
Combat Luck
Creepy (Fear-Inspiring, Strong, DC107)
Double Jointed
Fearless (FH111)
Resistance
Simulate Death
Universal Translator 18-; Only to Speak to the Dead (-2)
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50
3
2
Total: 7 PD (3 rPD)
Total: 7 ED (3 rED)
Phases: 4, 8, 12
12
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Perks
Contact: The Underground Music World 11- (Contacts,
Organization)
Contact: The Necromantic World 11- (Very Useful,
Organization)
Follower: Dead Man Walking
Membership: Hells Belles
Reputation: Hells Belle Musician (Underground Music World)
11-, +2/+2d6
Reputation: Necromancer (Mystic World) 8-, +2/+2d6
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
[6]
3,2
2,3
3,3
3,2
3,3
3,2
3,3
2
Acting 12-, AK: New Orleans 11AK: Southern United States 11-, Analyze Necromancy 12Conversation 12-, KS: The Music World 12KS: Arcane Lore 12-, KS: History 11KS: Witchcraft 12-, Necromancy (EGO-Based) 13PS: Drummer 12-, PS: Necromancer 12Streetwise 12-, Teamwork 12WF: Small Arms
Summoned Zombie
20
0
2
STR
EGO
SPD
10
15
6
DEX
PRE
REC
10
6
0
CON
COM
END
10
8
BODY
PD
STUN
5
4
INT
ED
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DESCRIPTION
Candace Candy Alexander grew up in a broken home, learning at an early age that the
only way to keep people from hurting her was to make them like her and keep them liking her.
She ran away from home at the age of 13, and lived off a string of boyfriends for the next
several years. Learning deficiencies kept her dependent upon whoever she was with, and low
self-esteem kept her an emotional hostage on top of her financial needs. She probably would
have wound up another Jane Doe lying in a morgue somewhere if she hadnt chosen to attend a
rave one of her boyfriends was throwing one night.
Unknown to her, her boyfriend was working as a smalltime street salesman for a criminal
combine called the Orchard, an organization that specialized in bioweapons and illicit designer
drugs. His employers decided to use the partygoers as the test market for a new product, a
product they hoped to begin selling on the streets as a highly addictive hallucinogenic. The test
went poorly. Several people died almost immediately upon exposure, others lingered horribly for
days until finally succumbing. Candy went into a coma and stayed there for several months. As
she would later find out, Candy was apparently a mutant, one who just needed the right trauma
to kick-start her mutations into gear. While she was comatose, her body changed, growing larger
and much stronger. When she finally woke up, she also discovered that her brain chemistry had
also improved. She was much, much smarter than the Candy of old. Smart enough to look at her
life and decide she needed to change. After tracking down her boyfriend, retrieving her stuff, and
hospitalizing him (the new, smart Candy had needed very little time to figure out who was behind
the drugs at the rave), she disappeared back onto the streets. Somewhat later, a large and
immensely strong woman who only went by the name Goth began finding work as bouncer in
local clubs. She also began making sporadic appearances behind a guitar in several short-lived
bands. But it was a chance meeting at a disastrous concert turned riot that she met Sanguine.
The two hit it off immediately, becoming as close as sisters as the Belles formed, and Goth has
never looked back.
Candy no longer answers to that name; instead, she uses the name Goth exclusively. After
spending most of her life desperately trying to please those around her, she now lives for herself
and her friends in the band, giving off a sullen vibe that borders on barely-restrained violence.
She is no longer a nice person. Quite the opposite, in fact, except where her friends are
concerned. Before the Belles, Goth never really knew acceptance, true friendship, and affection.
She is devoted to her friends with an intensity that borders on the fanatic, and anyone who hurts
any of them better stay as far away from her as possible. Her intellect now heightened to genius
levels, Goth can usually be found reading when she isnt playing her guitar or hanging with her
friends in the band. Shes discovered that she likes being smart, and reads anything she can get
her hands on.
Goth is immensely strong and difficult to hurt. Her physical reflexes, movement speed, and
the speed at which her brain processes information have all been enhanced, as have her general
intellectual faculties.
QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
24
HT
64
WT
200#
EYES
Black
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Guitarist for Hells Belles
+0 Very strong, and pretty smart,
too
-3 Multiple assault indictments no
convictions
-5
-8 Grudge against the Orchard
-10
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5
4
Skills
Martial Arts: Quick Brick Fu
Maneuver
OCV DCV
Grab
+0
-1
Kick
-2
+1
Punch
+2
+0
10
6
5
Goth
Val
55
14
33
15
23
10
15
10
12
12
6
18
70
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
35
3u
3u
3u
30
8
8
36
Cost Roll
45 2112 1246 1610 1213 140 115 120 111
5
36
0
2
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 50 tons; 11d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
PER Roll: 16ECV: 3
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 23 PD (11 rPD)
Total: 23 ED (11 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 175
16/32
11/22
5/10
Powers
Tough:
Tough:
Tough:
Tough:
6
27
16
6
17
20
5
7
3
5
3
7
4
Talents
Berserk Fury (FH104)
Combat Luck
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense, Intuitional)
Drug Tolerance (Tough Defense, DC125)
Eidetic Memory
Fearless (FH111)
Lightning Calculator
Rapid Healing (FH106)
Resistance
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Speed Reading
6
8
43
3
2
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Perks
Membership: Hells Belles
Reputation: Hells Belle Musician (Underground Music World)
11-, +2/+2d6
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3
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3
3
1
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2
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
2
3
2
1
3
1
3
Acting 12Bribery 8Combat Driving 12Computer Programming 8Conversation 12Criminology 8Cryptography 14Deduction 14Forgery (Identity Cards) 14Interrogation 12Navigation (Land) 14Paramedics 14PS: Bouncer 12PS: Guitarist 12Seduction 12Shadowing 14SS: Mathematics 14SS: Pharmacology 14SS: Toxicology 11Streetwise 12Survival (Urban) 14Tactics 8Teamwork 12Trading 8WF: Blades, Small Arms
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Scholar
KS: Art 14KS: Current Events 14KS: The Drug World 14KS: History 14KS: Music 14KS: The Music World 14KS: The Orchard 14KS: Philosophy 14KS: Religion 14-
Notes
2 Limbs, +10 STR
+4d6
+2d6
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DESCRIPTION
Unlike her sister Charlotte, Renee Duquesne took immediately to the studies of witchcraft
and necromancy her grandmother offered the sisters. Though she might not have possessed
the innate faculty for interacting with the dead that her sister did, Renee made up for this in
terms of effort and application to her studies. She was inordinately delighted when she finally
mastered the art of projecting her astral self. She would spend hours projecting, sending her
astral body off on one jaunt after another. Finally, she pushed her abilities past her physical
bodys tolerance. When returning to her body after her longest trip, she found she could no
longer enter it her physical form had died while she was away. So strong was her mastery of
the arts of projection, however, that her astral form hadnt immediately
disincorporated; instead, it held together by her force of will. Feeling the onset of
the end of astral self, she fought to hold onto the physical world and was
surprised when the pressures eventually abated. She had kept herself together
and would not pass over but she was also now trapped as a disembodied astral
projection, a ghostlike figure. Strangely, this didnt bother her as much as it should
have. She had never been happier than when she had been exploring the world while
projecting, and now she no longer even had to worry about what would happen to
her meat body. Her family didnt share in her elation, however. Only her sister
understood and accepted her new condition. When Charlotte left home to go on the
road, she didnt go alone, but instead was accompanied by her very own guardian
angel.
Renee Duquesne, or Hauntress as Sanguine has dubbed her, is a selfsustaining astral body. Her normal state is invisible and intangible, and she can
move with great speed through the astral landscape. Through force of will, she can
make herself visible, appearing similar to the way she looked when she had a
physical body, but with a few cosmetic tendencies imposed by Renees imagination. She
can project an aura of fear around her that can send most people running away. She also can
fill a persons mind with painful astral interference at a touch, or enter and take control of
those without the will or art to stop her.
Duquesne was a mousy brunette, a perennial wallflower. As Hauntress she appears as a
beautiful, almost sensual, ghostlike woman constantly floating a small distance above the ground
and enveloped in a flowing cloak. When she wants to instill fear in those around, her features
become more skeletal, and her voice rings with sepulchral tones.
QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
19
HT
55
WT
0#
EYES
White
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Assumed to be special effect
creation for Hells Belles
+0
-3
-5 Actually, shes a ghost
-8
-10
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Val
10
18
10
10
15
18
20
20
3
3
3
4
20
20
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
55
55
55
36
49
60
6u
4u
45
50
6
22
Cost Roll
0 1124 130 110 115 1216 1310 135 131
1
2
0
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
15
15
7
Notes
Lift N/A; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
Powers
END
0
2
2
3
3
3
3
1
3
2
3
2
3
1
3
3
4
Skills
AK: New Orleans 11AK: Southern United States 11Conversation 13Haunting (EGO-Based) 13Interrogation 19KS: Arcane Lore 12KS: History 8KS: Necromancy 13KS: The Supernatural World 11KS: Witchcraft 12PS: Witch 12Seduction 13Streetwise 8Teamwork 13AK: The Astral Plane 12Navigation (Air, Astral) 12-
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Contact: The Necromantic World 11- (Very Useful,
Organization)
Membership: Hells Belles
12
PER Roll: 12ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 10d6
Talents
Disquieting Aura (DC109)
Fear-Inspiring (Strong, DC107)
Fearless (FH111)
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DESCRIPTION
Margaret Rose Miller was born the granddaughter of good, god-fearing Catholics, and the
daughter of a woman who had given her parents fits in every way she could. Her mother had
been thrown out and disowned when she turned up pregnant without a husband. Rose grew up
in the trailer park that was all her hardworking mother could afford. Her mother told her that
her father had been a traveling salesman from the deep south, but Rose found out the truth
when she hit puberty and her father came back to check on his little girl. Her father was from
the south, in a way the deep south, where good Christians didnt end up. And what he sold
may have changed from customer to customer, but the price was always the same. She rejected
him that evening, but as he left, he told her it was only a matter of time before she learned
which side bred true. As she continued to grow, she discovered what he meant, as she became
wilder and wilder, almost without a conscious decision on her part. Finally, her mother couldnt
take it anymore and sent her to a convent. Two nights later, crying herself to sleep, Rose
unconsciously called on her inner self and watched first in horror, then in rapt fascination as
the buildings burned down around her. Renaming herself Perdition due to her peculiar talents,
Rose went to a nearby bar and walked out with the first in a series of sugar daddies. One of her
many conquests took the time to teach her how to play his keyboards, and it was while playing
with his band that she came to the attention of Sanguine and Goth.
Perdition is part human and part something else, presumably from a much warmer clime.
She can create and control flame completely, making it do whatever she feels like, sculpting it,
and even soaking in it without any harm coming to her. Her elementals always appear as small
and rambunctious imp-like entities. Shes also quite fast and very agile. As shes gotten older,
shes found that shes frighteningly adept at getting men to do what she wants to call it
seduction would be to grossly understate the effect she can have on her evenings
entertainment.
Perdition is a voluptuously built young woman with a fondness for red and black leather
outfits in a variety of devil motifs. Shes recently noticed that her skin is developing a dusky,
almost reddish, tone, and shes growing a little concerned about the pointy growths hidden, for
the moment, by her shiny black hair growths shes worried might wind up becoming horns. She
currently uses fake horns to help hide the growing real ones.
Summoned Imp
QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
20
HT
56
WT
118#
EYES
Red
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Keyboard player for Hells Belles
+0 Popular pin-up girl
-3
-5 Currently has more websites
devoted to her than any other
known metahuman
-8
-10 Not actually human, but some
kind of cambion
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8
3
STR
EGO
SPD
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20
3
DEX
PRE
REC
10
6
20
CON
COM
END
5
2
16
BODY
PD
STUN
8
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Abilities: HKA 2d6, +1 Increased STUN Multiplier (+), Affects Real World (+2), Continuous
(+1), Damage Shield (Offensive, +), Persistent (+), Personal Immunity (+), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); Always On (-), No Knockback (-), No STR Bonus (-),
Desolidification [affected by magic/supernatural attacks], Inherent (+), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +), Persistent (+); Always On (-), Full Life Support, Armor (3 PD/3 ED), Power
Defense (5 points), Armor (40 ED); Only versus Fire Attacks (-), 75% Damage Reduction,
Resistant; Only versus Fire Attacks (-1), Sight Group Flash Defense (10 points); Only versus
Flashes Based on Light (-), Infrared Perception (Sight Group); +4 with Damage Shield, KS:
The Demonic World 11200+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Features: Supernatural Aura (Not Concealable, Unusual
Senses), Distinctive Features: Living Tongue of Flame (Not Concealable, Major), Hunted: The
Covenant 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Capture/Exorcism), Psychological Limitation: Evil (Very Common,
Total), Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently, Severe), Unluck: 1d6, Vulnerability:
2x STUN from Holy Attacks (Uncommon)
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10u
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Leaping:
Swimming:
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Notes
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OCV: 8/DCV: 8
12
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Total: 10 PD (5 rPD)
Total: 10 ED (5 rED)
Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12
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Talents
Absolute Temperature Sense
Cinematic Flirting (Easy, DC141)
Evasive (FH105)
Fascination (FH105)
Perks
Contact: The Underground Music World 11- (Contacts,
Organization)
Contact: The Demonic World 11- (Very Useful, Organization)
Membership: Hells Belles
Reputation: Hells Belle Musician (Underground Music World)
11-, +2/+2d6
Reputation: Demonic (Mystic World) 8-, +2/+2d6
Skills
+2 with Interaction Skills
+5 with Conversation, Persuasion, and Seduction
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Female
AGE
26
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DESCRIPTION
A failed relationship and a lost job were on Teresa Kinneys mind as she was out riding
her motorcycle. Perhaps thats why she didnt see the wire until it was too late, until she was
hitting it and being thrown off of her ride. When she woke up, she found herself bound in a
laboratory right out of some 50s B-movie, complete with a mad scientist gloating over her.
The man known as Dr. Diablo had seen much better days. In fact, heroes and the public
alike had once feared him. Sadly, failed scheme after failed scheme had take their toll over the
decades and he was now reduced to waylaying hapless motorists just to procure subjects for his
experiments. Once an acknowledged master of an unholy hybrid of science and magic, even his
experiments had sunk into the same downward spiral as he had, for he was merely trying to
recreate earlier triumphs. In this case, trying to isolate elements from the blood of a vampire he
had captured long, long ago. Kinney discovered that her senses were much more acute than they
had ever been, and she felt stronger. Strong enough that while the doctor was distracted dealing
with other victims, she was able to free herself from her restraints. Confronting her captor,
Kinney would have made short work of the aged doctor if pity hadnt stayed her hand. Obviously
deranged and lost in the depths of senility, Diablo was alone in his own world. Sadly again, while
running away from her, Diablo ran directly into the grasp of his other victims, coming to a
gruesome and ignoble end. The other subjects went wild after killing the doctor, and during this
chaos, Kinney simply fled the scene. It took her quite a while to begin getting used to her new
abilities, but ever the entrepreneur and performer, the smalltime musician saw opportunity in her
vaguely vampiric abilities and appearance, capitalizing on both for a stage image.
Among Sanguines fans, the question of whether she is or is not an actual vampire is hotly
debated. She works to fuel the image, never allowing herself to be seen during the daytime,
keeping a glass of what looks like blood beside her on stage, and so on. Her flair for creating
dramatic imagery and exploiting the commercial appeal of her own and her teammates not-somundane talents is one of the keynotes of their success as a band, and the girls all know it. Also
the only one with a head for business, Sanguine is the undisputed leader among the girls.
While still very much alive and breathing, Sanguine possesses many other attributes
traditionally associated with vampires, including remarkably pale skin and noticeable fangs. She is
inhumanly strong and fast, and has preternaturally keen senses. Her canines can extend out into
proper fangs, and her nails are quite resilient able to act as very effective claws. However, she
is no more vulnerable to the rays of the sun than any other sunbather with pale skin, nor does
she need to drink blood (the glass she carries onto stage with her contains cranberry juice
treated with food coloring).
A slightly built redhead, Kinney has intense blue-grey eyes and exceedingly pale skin. In
keeping with the image her fans prefer, she dresses nouveau Victoriana, but the clothes are cut
at lengths that would have driven actual Victorians into conniptions.
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Red
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+3 Lead vocalist for Hells Belles
+0 Vampire shtick
-3 Gives great interviews
-5 Not actually a vampire
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Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
10
Notes
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OCV: 8/DCV: 8
PER Roll: 16ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 4d6
Total: 20 PD (14 rPD)
Total: 20 ED (14 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 150
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Perks
Base: The Cathedral
Contact: The Underground Music World 14- (Useful,
Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Goth/Wicca World 14- (Contacts, Organization)
Leadership: Hells Belles
Reputation: Hells Belle Musician (Underground Music World)
14-, +4/+4d6
Reputation: Possible Vampire (Mystic World) 8-, +2/+2d6
Vehicle: Baby
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Skills
+2 with Interaction Skills
AK: The United States 12Acrobatics 14Acting 13Breakfall 14Bribery 13Bureaucratics 8Climbing 14Combat Driving 14Concealment 12Contortionist 14Conversation 13Gambling (Card and Dice Games) 8High Society 8Interrogation 13KS: Arcane Lore 11KS: Current Events 12KS: The Goth/Wicca World 12KS: The Supernatural World 11KS: The Underground Music World 12Lockpicking 8Navigation (Land) 12Oratory 13Paramedics 12Persuasion 13PS: Band Manager 12PS: Singer 13Seduction 13Shadowing 12Stealth 14Streetwise 13Tactics 8Teamwork 14TF: Motorcycles
Trading 13WF: Blades, Small Arms
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The Cathedral
The rest of the band had learned early on how to read the
I have an idea expression on Sanguines face. They saw that
look again when she gazed longingly at the abandoned St.
Yorba Cathedral in Birmingham, a structure the realtor told
them was on the verge of being condemned. Once they all had
a chance to look it over, they agreed with her it was perfect.
A bit of money in the right hands to have some repairs and
remodeling done, and they had a new place to crash that fit
their peculiar tastes.
It is a headquarters, but like the girls themselves,
not quite what might normally be expected. The cathedral
is more of a crazy bachelorette pad. They dont have the
fancy computers and hangars and weapon systems of
some teams, but then they hardly think of themselves as
a superteam, either. Theres a large, empty, and
reinforced area that Goth calls their Training Room, but it
sees little use. The expensive stereo and TV setup in the
communal lounge gets a lot more exercise. At Goths
insistence and the rest of the girls great amusement,
elevators have been hidden in the confessionals, and a
secret door constructed in the bell tower. Spacious private
rooms, and a set of long-abandoned crypts for the
Duquesne sisters to play with, and theyre all happy as
reckless little bugs in a creepy little rug.
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Total Characteristics Cost: 56
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Location: Suburb
Disguise 11-
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Library: KS: Religion 14Training Room: Breakfall 11-, Teamwork 11Workshop: Mechanics 11-
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Attributes
Ground Movement +18 (24 Total), 4x Noncombat
Movement
Swimming -2 (0 Total)
Hidden Compartments: Concealment 15-
19
Equipment
(32 Line, Conforming, +1); OIF (Vehicle Equipment, 1), Limited Arc of Fire (Behind, -), 4 Charges Lasting 1
Minute (-), No Range (-)
[4]
Oil Slick: Change Environment, 2 Radius, -4 to Driving
Rolls, Lasts Roughly 5 Minutes (-0); OIF (Vehicle
Equipment, -1), No Range (-), Limited Arc of Fire
(Behind, -), 6 Charges (-)
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The Prometheans
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DESCRIPTION
Sometime in the last years before the beginning of the 20th Century, a foundling was
discovered on the steps of a Baltimore orphanage. The nuns named him Anthony. An outcast
among the other children due to his deformities, dwarfism and clubfoot, the boy demonstrated a
remarkable intelligence. His refuge from the taunts of the other children was the orphanages
small library. He read every book he could get his hands on, consuming the information like a
starved man at a banquet. He particularly concentrated on books of science, anything dealing
with technical matters, from clockmaking to mathematics. But his truest treasure among them
was a battered book full of myths and folktales. He would lose himself in stories of larger-thanlife people doing astounding things, gods and demigods who changed the world around them to
suit their needs and whims. Those stories would have a profound effect on how he later viewed
the world.
When the young man first left the orphanage, he kept the name he had grown up with,
Anthony Smith. Traveling north to Boston, Smith demonstrated his intellectual gifts to the
entrance boards of several universities, ultimately winning himself any number of prestigious
scholarships. Sadly, a lifetime of rejection had ill-prepared him for the social demands of dealing
with academic and intellectual circles. Quickly disillusioned and disgusted with those around him,
none of whom could teach him anything he had not already mastered, none of whom sparked
any kinship in a mind so far surpassing their own, the young man left the ivory towers of
academia and attempted to enter the professional world. Unfortunately, despite his many and
tremendous gifts, his appearance was always the first thing people judged him by, a strike
compounded by his now poisonous reputation following his brief foray into university. What grace
his abilities might have won him in industry was quickly and assuredly squandered by his harsh,
dismissive, and vitriolic demeanor. He soon found honest work almost impossible to find, and
harder still to keep as his personality alienated even those around him who could look past his
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physical frame to his genius. He most likely would have continued in this downward spiral if it
Do you know how many of
werent for a chance remark made by one of a handful of government specialists he briefly
worked with a comment upon how much the young Anthony was reminiscent of another
your annoying ilk my intellect
genius, one who, in decades past, had made life very difficult for a pair of the specialists old
has put in the grave, Mr.
acquaintances within the government. His curiosity piqued, the young man began delving into
Hero? Hmm?
the past, discovering not only the breadth of a criminal genius handiwork, which the government
had strenuously covered up, but his own connection a family connection. His investigation led
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also known rejection. Anthony Smith disappeared, gone forever. In his place returned Anton
Loveless, who would mold the world to his whim, as the gods and demigods of his childhood
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fancies had done.
Anton began to put his vast inventive genius to work for his own interests and no one elses.
+3 Criminal genius
He soon made a name for himself as an inventor par excellence; unfortunately, his inventions
+0 Father of the Prometheans
werent generally used for the betterment of society. Weapons that would see use against law
-3 Decades-old feud with Steele
enforcement authorities, deadly chemicals used to blackmail and assassinate, fiendish engines of
family
destruction responsible for vengeance against those with whom he had personal grudges, these
-5 Wanted by practically every
were the instruments of his genius. On rare occasions, he would be faced by the first generation
nation on Earth
of what would later be termed Mystery Men. Few of these masked men did anything but annoy
-8 Spent last 30 years on an
him, and he collected the mask off of more than one corpse.
alternate Earth
It would be an incident in the late 30s that would set the course for his future.
-10
Experimenting with advanced radio technology, Loveless discovered a signal being transmitted
from Antarctica, a signal far beyond the technical capabilities of anyone else on Earth to find or
trace. Tracking it to its source, he found a crashed section of a craft that was not built on this planet. Taking possession of the wreckage,
Loveless would spend the next several decades working out its mysteries and deciphering its technology. Even the initial benefits he gained
from what he could understand pushed his already peerless mastery of science and engineering far, far beyond anything else on Earth. He
adapted what he learned, and sold what he didnt want to use for himself (through various middlemen, some of these inventions found their
way into nazi hands one reason the Reichs achievements seemed so far ahead of the Allies in the early years of the war). In Loveless eyes,
the alien technology represented fire taken from the gods for mortal use. Taking inspiration from the masked men that occasionally vexed
him, Anton Loveless chose yet another name, one as colorful as their monikers. He began calling himself Dr. Prometheus. Not longer after
adopting his professional name, Prometheus encountered the adventurer known as Doc Steel for the first time. Unlike those of his ilk before
him, Steel managed not only to hold his own against Prometheus plans, he actually managed to confound them. The mastermind had finally
met someone who could challenge him on his own level, and he was surprised to find himself actually enjoying it. The two of them began a
contest of intellects that would play out over the next thirty years. His clashes with Steel brought Prometheus an exhilaration and sense of
challenge he had never known before, and he reveled in it, at least at first. Unfortunately, over time this sense of challenge would sour into a
bitter hatred and a desperate need for one-upmanship, as this contest brought something else new to Prometheus life the taste of defeat.
Again and again, they clashed. Again and again, the best Prometheus could manage was a stalemate. His frustration festered into an
obsession. He would face many of the new generation of post-war heroes as they emerged, but Prometheus always returned to his one true
foe.
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Swimming:
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Absolute Range Sense
Absolute Time Sense
Bump of Direction
Combat Sense
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Immediate Vicinity, Sense)
Deductive Observation (DC133)
Eidetic Memory
Fascination (FH105)
Fearless (FH111)
Lightning Calculator
Speed Reading (100x)
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Access: Extraterrestrial Technology
Base: Elysium
Contact: The Political World 14- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Great Relationship (i.e. Blackmail), Organization)
Contact: The Scientific Community 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Supervillain Community 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Great Relationship, Organization)
Computer Link
Followers: 6x Guardian Drones
Money: Filthy Rich
Leadership: The Prometheans
Reputation: Genius 11- (Worldwide), +4/4d6
Reputation: Supervillain 11- (Worldwide), +4/4d6
Skills
+5 Overall Levels
+5 with All Science Skills
+3 with All Life Science Skills
+8 versus Time Penalties for Mental Tasks
+6 versus Penalties with All Science Skills
+6 versus Penalties with All Life Science Skills
Acting 12Analyze Technology 20Bureaucratics 8Computer Programming 20Concealment 20Conversation 12Cramming
Criminology 20Cryptography 20Deduction 20Demolitions 20Electronics 20Forensic Medicine 20Inventor 20-
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Mechanics 20Navigation (Air, Dimensional, Land, Marine, Space) 20Oratory 12Paramedics 20PS: Scientist 20Power (Intelligence) 20Scholar
Scientist
Security Systems 20Sleight of Hand 8Streetwise 12Systems Operation 20Tactics 20Weaponsmith (Biological, Chemical, Energy, Firearms,
Incendiary, Missiles & Rockets) 18WF: Cane, Small Arms, Military Vehicle Weapons
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KS: Current Events 20KS: Doc Steel 20KS: The Genius World 20KS: Government 20KS: History 20KS: Mythology 20KS: Philosophy 20KS: The Scientific Community 20KS: The Superhuman World 20KS: Technology 20-
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Scientist
SS: Aeronautics 20SS: Anthropology 11SS: Archaeology 11SS: Astronomy 20SS: Bacteriology 11SS: Biochemistry 20SS: Biophysics 20SS: Biology 20SS: Botany 20SS: Chemistry 20SS: Computer Science 20SS: Cryptozoology 20SS: Cybernetics 20SS: Engineering 20-
Arabic (Native)
Atlantean (Native)
French (Native)
German (Native)
Greek (Native)
Japanese (Native)
Latin (Native)
Russian (Native)
Saeduun (Conversational)
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Exobiology 20Genetics 20Geology 11Inorganic Chemistry 20Marine Biology 11Mathematics 20Medicine 20Metallurgy 20Microbiology 20Nuclear Physics 20Organic Chemistry 20Pharmacology 20Physics 20Psychology 20Quantum Mechanics 20Robotics 20Sociology 11Speculative Sciences 20Subatomic Physics 20Toxicology 20Xenobiology 20-
3
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AK: Alternate Earth 20AK: Antarctica 11AK: Asia 11AK: Atlantis 11AK: Europe 11AK: Luna 20AK: North America 11AK: Sol System 11AK: South America 11AK: The United States 20-
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Bellerophon is able to create objects out of psionic force and animate them. Hes very
artistic, and spends a considerable amount of time practicing his sculpting. Though hes
capable of generating more mundane or pedestrian shapes, he almost never does so in a fight,
preferring creatures out of mythology that he then talks to and treats as real animals until
such time as he sends them home. Hes very versatile in his creations, and though all are
obvious constructs, vaguely transparent with glowing edges, their outline and shapes are
startlingly realistic. Bellerophon uses his friends for almost his entire combat role, and rarely
resorts to using his own fists.
Cadmus
Cadmus is able to generate duplicates of himself a large number of duplicates. Each has a
unique, albeit similar personality, and each thinks of himself as an individual. It isnt uncommon
to find his duplicates having involved debates with each other over various esoteric subjects, and
in the past hes even staged plays for his siblings entertainment, with himself playing all of the
different roles at once. In combat, his standard tactic is to have as many active duplicates as
possible before entering a fight, and overwhelm his enemies by sheer numbers, one enemy at a
time.
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Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
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OCV: 8/DCV: 8
PER Roll: 12ECV: 8
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 23 PD (14 rPD)
Total: 23 ED (14 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
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Acting 13AK: The Moon 11Analyze Force Field/Wall 12Conversation 13Force Constructs (EGO-Based) 14Forgery (Sculpture) 12KS: Art 12KS: Art History 12KS: History 11KS: Mythology 12KS: Philosophy 11KS: Psionics 12KS: Sculpture 12KS: The Sentinels 11Persuasion 13PS: Psionic Sculpting 14Seduction 13Tactics 8Teamwork 14-
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1
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 1600 kg; 6d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 8/DCV: 8
PER Roll: 12-/16ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 20 PD (14 rPD)
Total: 20 ED (14 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 125
6/12
6/12
2/4
Powers
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
10
1
6
7
7
Typical Talents
Combat Luck (x2)
Combat Sense; Linked to Duplication (-)
EM: Moons Gravity
Lightning Reflexes +4 with All Actions
Fearless (FH111)
Gang Up (Deadly Blow, FH105)
12
Typical Skills
+4 with Coordinated Attacks
5
2
3
3
2
2
3
3
3
2
3
5
3
2
1
8
Acting 13AK: The Moon 11Conversation 13Duplication (INT-Based) 12KS: The Duplicator World 11KS: History 11KS: Philosophy 12KS: Plays 12KS: Religion 12KS: The Sentinels 11KS: Theater 12Oratory 13Persuasion 12PS: Acting 12Tactics 8Teamwork 14-/18- (+4 Teamwork; Only with Duplicates -)
0
0
0
Perks
Membership: The Prometheans
Reputation: Promethean (Worldwide) 11-, +2/+2d6
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Charon
Charon is a teleporter, opening holes in space and through other dimensions that he can
enter himself, or allow his brethren to use. He can also refine his apertures, using them to spy on
other people at great distances. Charon is also a pathological voyeur, and when not in combat
can routinely be found peeping into peoples bedrooms in Hong Kong, eavesdropping on lovers
spats in Los Angeles, and so on. He varies his targets on a day-to-day basis, but does have a few
favorites that he treats as his own personal soap operas. He also is inordinately fond of
teleporting new clothes onto himself at odd times, sometimes going through the equivalent of an
entire wardrobe in just a few moments. Charon is a match for most humans in a fight, but is
strictly support when facing other metahumans. He avoids direct confrontation almost as
effectively as Tiresias does, staying in the rear and helping his more martially-oriented brothers
move around the battlefield.
Damocles
Able to generate fields of destructive force around his hands, fields which disassociate
matter on a molecular level, Damocles prefers to shape them into either two vaguely sword-like
shapes, or a sword and a shield. His swords will cut through practically anything, and his
shield can destroy (or at least deflect) most incoming attacks. He is a highly accomplished
melee combatant, and revels in using his powers. With concentration, he can even generate a
rapidly expanding lattice of molecular disassociation through surrounding solid matter, causing a
sort of shockwave effect. Unfortunately, since he views everything, living and inanimate, as
matter waiting to come apart, Damocles is detached, verging on sociopathic. He disturbs even his
siblings, all of whom avoid him when possible.
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Charon
Val
20
24
15
15
15
18
13
10
6
6
5
7
30
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
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STUN
Movement:
Cost
200
20u
20u
20u
124
8u
7u
12u
12u
12u
12u
20
20
144
Cost Roll
10 1342 1410 1210 125 1216 133 120 112
3
16
0
0
7
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Teleport:
6
19
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 8/DCV: 8(11)
11
19
14
Powers
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
Combat Luck (x4)
EM: Moons Gravity
Evasive (FH105)
Perfect Pitch
Surprise Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
5
4
Perks
Membership: The Prometheans
Reputation: Promethean (Worldwide) 11-, +2/+2d6
3
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
Skills
Acting 12KS: History 8KS: Music 11KS: The Sentinels 11KS: The Teleporter World 11Persuasion 12PS: Singer 12Teamwork 14Teleport Tricks (INT-Based) 12-
3
6
6
6
Traveler
AK: Earth 16AK: The Moon 16AK: Other Dimensions 16-
0
0
0
0
200+
10
15
15
15
15
10
20
500
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Lord of Mirrors 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow)
Psychological Limitation: Avoids Confrontation (Common,
Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Showoff (Very Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Voyeuristic (Very Common,
Moderate)
Rivalry: Promethean Siblings (Professional, Superior)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Frequently, Severe)
Experience Points
0
0
0
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Val
30
28
20
15
14
18
18
10
8
8
5
10
40
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
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Movement:
Cost
172
17u
4u
26
30
17
20
20
11
25
19
14
Cost Roll
20 1554 1520 1310 124 1216 138 130 112
4
12
0
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
6
16
1
18
10
10
6
10
5
7
Notes
Lift 1600 kg; 6d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 9/DCV: 9/13
PER Roll: 12ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 7d6
Total: 19 PD (11 rPD)
Total: 19 ED (11 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
6/12
6/12
2/4
Powers
END
0
4
4
3
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Fencing
Maneuver
OCV
Charge
+2
Parry
+2
Trip
+2
Use Art Barehanded
10
6
6
3
5
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Membership: The Prometheans
Reputation: One of the Most Dangerous Men Alive
(Worldwide) 11-, +4/+4d6
Reputation: Promethean (Worldwide) 11-, +2/+2d6
5
8
Talents
Combat Luck
Crippling Blow (FH104)
EM: Moons Gravity
Evasive
Fascination (FH105)
Fear-Inspiring (DC107)
Fearless (FH111); When Holding His Shield (-)
Follow-Through Attack (FH106)
Resistance +5
Sword Master (Deadly Blow, FH105)
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
1
3
1
DCV
-2
+2
-1
Notes
+v/5, FMove
Block, Abort
+1d6, Target Falls
200+
10
15
15
15
15
10
20
400
Disadvantages
Distinctive Features: Detached from Reality (Concealable)
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow)
Psychological Limitation: Detached, Almost Sociopathic (Very
Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Loves Using His Disintegration
Powers (Common, Strong)
Reputation: One of the Most Dangerous Men Alive 11(Extreme)
Rivalry: Promethean Siblings (Professional, Superior)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Frequently, Severe)
Experience Points
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Geryon
Geryon is deformed grossly deformed with extra
arms, both vestigial and useable, as well as no neck and
multiple partial-faces and eyes, as if other heads had begun
to form, but then stopped. Enormous, he can grow even
larger when he wants, and is terribly strong. Surrounded and
mocked by his physically perfect siblings all of his
life, Geryon is proof to the adage that if you
mistreat a puppy long enough hell grow into
a vicious animal. Treated as a monster for
so long, he now thoroughly acts like one.
Geryon is a savage combatant,
attacking multiple opponents at once,
charging into groups, or jumping
into the air at normal size and
landing at full, devastating
growth on top of targets. His
multiple sets of eyes are all
functional, effectively
giving him 360o vision.
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Geryon
Val
50/70
20
25/40
20/24
8
8
15
6
10/13
10/13
4
16/19
50/80
60/75
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
56
4u
3u
4u
40
49
5
8
11
18
12
15
5
4
32
5
21
6
14
9
1
10
7
5
6
12(18)/24(36)
10(14)/20(28)
5/10
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6
6
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Equipment
Commlink: Mind Link with Other Prometheans, No LOS
Needed; Affected as Hearing (-), IIF (-), Others Must
Have Mind Link (-1)
Talents
Ambidextrous (Fully)
EM: Moons Gravity
Fear-Inspiring (DC107)
Fear-Inspiring (DC107); Linked to Growth (-)
Fearless (FH111); Linked to Growth (-)
Lightning Reflexes +4
5
4
Perks
Membership: The Prometheans
Reputation: Promethean (Worldwide) 11-, +2/+2d6
3
3
4
4
4
5
4
Skills
Martial Arts: Brick Fighting
Maneuver
OCV DCV
Grab
-1
-1
Throw
+0
+1
Reversal
-1
-2
Crush
+0
+0
Fast Strike
+2
+0
Sacrifice Strike
+1
-2
Strike
+0
+2
10
6
6
5
5
13
3
3
1
2
Notes
+10 STR
+v/5, Target Falls
+15 Escape, Grab 2 Limbs
+4d6, Follows Grab
+2d6
+4d6
+2d6
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Perseus
A living tactical computer, Perseus is able to instantly analyze any battlefield situation, any
set of tactics, any attack or set of attacks used by opponents, and come up with the best possible
counter. He is a terrifying opponent, able to predict what his enemy is going to do before that
person even begins to do it, determine the exact spot to hit a person or a defense to do the most
damage, and outmaneuver practically anyone. Hes also autistic, only vital and functioning when
actively engaged in combat, when ordered to enter combat, or when forced to defend himself or
his father. Otherwise, he just shuts down, with no noticeable interaction with his surroundings.
Other than at their fathers order, the only time the Prometheans have been known to retreat
from a fight is when they notice Perseus disengage a target. If he decides a battle cant be won,
his siblings take his judgment as gospel and act accordingly.
Telemachus
Telemachus is the only Promethean whose genetic donor is known without a doubt: Dr.
Ulysses Steele. Telemachus possesses many of the metahuman gifts that Doc Steel does, but to
Prometheus vast disappointment, not Docs intelligence. Telemachus is brilliant, with a thorough
mastery of a number of scientific disciplines, but it is only human-scale brilliance, which isnt what
Prometheus intended. Prometheus has always made sure that Telemachus has seen and
understood that he simply doesnt measure up in his fathers eyes. Telemachus hates Hardcore
and Technomancer for having the familial love and acceptance he never received, and he is
almost insanely jealous of Hardcore in particular. This antipathy is reciprocated, as both Hardcore
and Telemachus view the other as a pale reflection and perverse mockery of themselves.
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4
4
4
5
Skills
Martial Arts: Intuitive Combat
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Choke Hold
-2
+0
Fast Strike
+2
+0
Escape
+0
+0
Flash
-1
-1
Disarming Throw +0
+0
5
5
5
Flying Dodge
Kick
Passing Strike
Perseus
Val
30
30
20
15
8
8
8
8
12
12
6
10
40
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
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STUN
Movement:
Cost
45
Cost Roll
20 1560 1520 1310 12-2 11-4 11-2 11-1 116
8
20
0
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 1600 kg; 6d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
PER Roll: 11ECV: 3
PRE Attack: 1d6/9d6
Total: 35 PD (23 rPD)
Total: 35 ED (23 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
40
64
12
Powers
END
60
100
20
19
14
8
11
0
0
0
0
Equipment
30
6
21
16
48
1
14
14
7
3
13
10
5
5
4
Talents
Combat Luck (x5)
Combat Running (DC130, Slow II)
Combat Sense 17Crippling Blow (FH104)
Danger Sense 17- (Sense, Out of Combat, Any Danger,
Immediate Vicinity), Discriminatory, Analyze
EM: Moons Gravity
Fear-Inspiring x2 (DC107); Only in Combat (-)
Fearless x2 (FH111)
Got a Lungful of Air (DC126)
Lightsleep
Perfect Timing (DC119, Masters Super-Skill)
Take Cover (DC128)
Unpredictable Tactics (DC129)
Perks
Membership: The Prometheans
Reputation: Promethean (Worldwide) 11-, +2/+2d6
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+1
+4
+1
+0
Notes
1 Limb, 2d6 NND
+2d6
+15 STR
Flash 4d6
Grab Weapon, +5 STR,
Target Falls
Dodge, Abort, FMove
+4d6
+v/5, FMove
10
10
+4 Overall Levels
+8 with All Combat
+4 versus Range Modifiers for All Attacks, including Find
Weakness
Defense Maneuver IV
Rapid Attack (HTH, Ranged)
15
3
3
15
2
2
2
15
11
50
Analyze Combat Technique 17Breakfall 13Climbing 13Combat Tricks (INT-Based) 17KS: Combat Tactics 11KS: The Prometheans Powers and Tactics 11KS: The Sentinels Powers and Tactics 11Tactics 17Teamwork 17WF: All Weapons
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0
0
0
0
0
0
6
4
8
15
10
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Telemachus
Val
65
18
35
20
20
20
20
18
25
25
5
20
70
75
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
20
60
3u
4u
5u
2u
2u
12
31
8
5
10
50
16
6
12
5
6
20
9
14
Cost Roll
55 2224 1350 1620 1310 1320 1310 134 1312
18
22
0
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 200 tons; 13d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
PER Roll: 15ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 4d6
Total: PD (rPD)
Total: ED (rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 250
12/24
20/80
5/10
Powers
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Find Weakness 11- with Hand-to-Hand Combat
0
Brick Tricks: Multipower, 60-point Reserve
Defense
0
0
0
0
3
0
2
1
0
Alert: +2 PER
Acute Senses: Nightvision plus Ultrasonic Hearing plus
150
0
0
Equipment
15
5
1
7
22
Talents
Combat Sense
Eidetic Memory
EM: Moons Gravity
Fearless (FH111)
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Immediate Vicinity,
Intuitional, Sense)
6
3
4
3
Lightning Reflexes +4
Lightning Calculator
Speed Reading (10x)
Perfect Pitch
5
4
Perks
Membership: The Prometheans
Reputation: Promethean (Worldwide) 11-, +2/+2d6
4
5
4
4
4
3
4
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Brick Tricks
Maneuver
OCV
Bearhug I
+0
Bearhug II
-2
Grab
+0
Punch
+2
Slam
-1
Throw
+0
Toughness
+2
Use Art with Giant Club
20
12
6
5
3,3
3,3
5,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
2,3
3,3
3,7
3
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
1,1
1,2
DCV
+0
+0
-1
+0
-1
+1
+2
Notes
+4d6 Crush
2 Limbs, 2d6 NND
2 Limbs, +10 STR
+2d6
+2d6, 2 Limbs, Throw
+v/5, Throw
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Tiresias
Tiresias is a highly effective and accurate precognitive. Though physically blind, he has
learned to always use his abilities to see a fraction of a second into the future, circumventing his
handicap almost completely. With a touch, he can share his visions with whomever he chooses.
Tiresias could, theoretically, sway a battle with precise intervention at key points in accordance
with his visions, but he has never chosen to develop the skill to do so. In fact, he likes watching
the physical abuse his brothers take during a fight, and would hate to cut such suffering short.
On occasion, when recognized by people who he then knows are aware of his abilities, he likes to
make up futures for them and tell them, either getting them not to do something that would
have worked out well for his target, or instead getting them to do something he knows will end
badly for the unfortunate soul. He also likes going on the internet and ruining sporting event
outcomes, or posting winning lottery numbers so that far too many can win to make it worth
even entering the lottery in question. In short, hes something of an arrogant little sadist. Like
Charon, he makes it a point to never enter combat directly, instead acting as a support player,
such as warning of traps or surprise attacks. When forced, he fights defensively, usually baiting
his opponent and setting him up to step into others attacks, or to hurt himself accidentally, and
so on.
Guardian Drones
A recent addition to Dr. Prometheus arsenal are
his apparently autonomous Guardian Drones. Estimates
place their number around half a dozen or so given
whats been seen in the field. Why he has chosen to
supplement his personal protection beyond his progeny
is as yet unknown, though it has led a few interested
parties to speculating if theres something amiss in the
family.
Constructed out of some unidentified, hyperdurable ceramometallic composite, the drones hover
using gravitic displacement and have proven very
maneuverable and deceptively fast. Impressive combat
programming combined with a brutal baryonic-shunt
beam capable of a variety of settings make them
unpleasant opponents to contend with even
individually. Their true deadliness, however, becomes
readily apparent when they have the opportunity to
work as a unit a flawlessly cooperating, nearhivemind with overlapping fields of fire and coordinated
targeting.
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Val
20
23
18
15
18
18
15
10
5
5
6
10
40
40
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
69
Cost Roll
10 1339 1416 1310 128 1316 135 120 121
1
27
2
2
6
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 8/DCV: 11
PER Roll: 17ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 25 PD (20 rPD)
Total: 25 ED (20 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 145
4/8
3/6
2/4
Powers
END
5
10
19
14
48
14
-5
12
30
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
Equipment
3
9
9
24
20
57
18
7
7
16
3
12
3
13
10
5
152
Talents
Absolute Time Sense
Battlefield Dodging (DC124)
Combat Intuition (DC107)
Combat Luck (x4)
Combat Sense 18Danger Sense 18- (Sense, Out of Combat, Any Danger,
Any Area), Discriminatory, Analyze
Evasive (FH105)
Fearless (FH111)
Got a Lungful of Air (DC126)
I Know How He Fights (DC113)
Lightning Calculator
Lightning Reflexes +8
Lightsleep
Perfect Timing (DC119, Masters Super-Skill)
Take Cover (DC128)
Unpredictable Tactics (DC129)
Perks
Access: Knowledge of the Future
EM: Moons Gravity
Favors: Various People Hes Warned
Membership: The Prometheans
Reputation: Knows the Future (Superhuman World) 8-,
+5/+5d6
Reputation: Promethean (Worldwide) 11-, +2/+2d6
5
5
Skills
Martial Arts: All-Out Defense
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Defensive Block +1
+3
Flying Dodge
+4
10
1
40
5
5
Notes
Block, Abort
Dodge, Abort, FMove
20
15
12
10
+2 Overall Levels
+3 DCV (already added in)
+4 with Block, Dodge, and Dive for Cover
Defensive Maneuver IV
21
6
3
3
3
3
9
3
5
3
4
3
1
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow)
Physical Limitation: Blind (Infrequently, Slightly)
Psychological Limitation: Aloof and Arrogant (Common,
Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Manipulative (Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Party Pooper (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Rarely Intervenes in Battle
(Common, Strong)
Rivalry: Promethean Siblings (Professional, Superior)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Frequently, Severe)
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Val
35
21
0
10
20
20
20
10
6
6
6
6
0
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
35
180
18u
12u
18u
101
22
60
50
30
30
36
18
60
-10
15
15
90
Cost Roll
25 1633 13-20
3
3
3
15
18
14
5
1
18
3
6
8
Notes
Lift 3200 kg; 7d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 7/DCV: 7
PER Roll: 18ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 4d6
Total: 18 PD (18 rPD)
Total: 18 ED (18 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
5
Total Characteristics Cost: 125
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
1/2
0/0
24/48
24/48
Powers
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0
0
0
0
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0
0
(+)
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Talents
Absolute Time Sense
Absolute Range Sense
Bump of Direction
Combat Sense
Combat Luck (x1)
Deadly Shooter (with Baryonic-Shunt Beams, DC109)
Eidetic Memory
EM: Moons Gravity
Evasive (FH105)
Lightning Calculator
Lightning Reflexes: +4 with Beams
Team Effort (DC147)
Perks
Computer Link
24
12
Skills
+8 with Beams
+6 versus Range Penalties with Beams
20
10
5
3
2
3
3
11
0
0
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Elysium
The Prometheans reside in a facility hidden on the dark side of
the moon. Built by their father in the mid-60s, the facility is still
decades ahead of anything any conventional nation has managed to
construct as yet, and its existence remained hidden after all of these
years behind a holographic cloak that continued operating in its
creators absence. In fact, walking undetected through the halls of
Goddard Station on the other side of the moon and laughing at the
equipment and personnel (particularly the lack of an artificial gravity
field) is a pastime that sometimes amuses the brothers. The
technology curve is likely to stay disparate as Prometheus is
constantly refurbishing and upgrading the facility as the whim
strikes him. Should anyone have the misfortune of actually
discovering the base, they will find that the weapon emplacements
are every bit the same formidable technological marvel as the rest
of the facility.
The moon base contains space for all of the Prometheans to
live and train and amuse themselves. The facility is large enough
that not all of it even sees use. The garage, for example remains
empty, as lunar craft are unnecessary given the teleportation
technology the group use. In addition to the brothers, its also home
to Delphi, the supercomputer Prometheus built in a moment of
jealous pique over Algernons successful inception.
The only part of the station that is off limits to even the
brothers is the isolated lab connected only by a single monorail
transit tube. The Prometheans assume their father has a good
reason to keep them out of his private lab, but the curiosity weighs
heavily on them. However, after Charon was painfully chastised for
attempting to spy on its interior, the brothers have left their fathers
sanctuary unmolested.
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16
20
Cost
35
3
CHA
SIZE
BODY
DEF
Cost
32
14
54
Labs
Notes
12,000
Total Characteristics Cost: 100
Attributes
Location: Distant, In Space
0
Food Stores: Life Support (Need Not Eat); Fuel Charge (1
Charge Lasting 1 Year, -0)
0
63
65
72
83
106
Equipment
13
54
25
12
12
3
6
8
30
56
11
8
42
74
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Medicine 18-, SS: Pharmacology 18-, SS: Toxicology 18Labs: +7 with Science Skills, Criminology 18-, SS:
Astronomy 11-, SS: Biology 11-, SS: Chemistry 11-, SS:
Cybernetics 11-, SS: Engineering 11-, SS: Genetics 11-, SS:
Mathematics 11-, SS: Metallurgy 11-, SS: Physics 11-, SS:
Robotics 11Library: AK: Earth 18-, KS: General Reference 14-, KS:
History 14-, KS: Superhumans 18Workshop: Demolitions 18-, Electronics 18-, Inventor 18-,
Weaponsmith (Biological, Chemical, Energy, Firearms,
Incendiary, Missiles) 18-
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Not all people or groups have the luxury of choosing the name
they become known by. A case in point would be the Sinister Circle.
There have been six different groups to carry that name. Not a one of
them did so by choice. The first was in the mid-60s and consisted of
over a dozen of the various adversaries each of that eras Sentinels
had garnered individually. As a group, this formidable force had been
put together by the diminutive mastermind Dr. Prometheus (page
136) in order to deal with those Sentinels and keep them from
becoming involved in stopping another of his plans. In other words,
as sizable and as powerful as that first Circle was, ultimately they
were nothing more than an elaborate diversion. A news report
following their defeat and imprisonment dubbed them a sinister
circle of criminals and the name simply stuck. Two more
conglomerations of that eras Sentinels enemies also found
themselves saddled with the appellation. At some point, the media
simply decided that any group comprised of the enemies of a
complement of the Sentinels was to be called the Sinister Circle, and
the tradition has simply survived, regardless of the chagrin of those
involved.
The first circle, the one gathered by Prometheus as an elaborate
diversion, was comprised of White Lightning and Moonshine, teenage
brother and sister energy projectors that had often run afoul of Jack
Frost and Hotshot; Kid Cobalt, nuclear-powered juvenile delinquent,
and also an enemy of Jack and his sister; Timepiece, self-proclaimed
temporal thief who, along with the sticky, shape-changing Tar Baby,
numbered among the Blurs many sparring partners; the Iron Knight,
delusional robot warrior with a grudge against Dynamo; I.V.A.N. the
Terrible, renegade Russian machine intelligence that had learned how
to hate following one too many losses at Dynamos hands; the mutant
plasma generator Manstar, finally freed from the prison Dynamo had
placed him in; Fenris the Hunter, legendary shape-changing wolfen
demi-god who had followed Horus back through the planes lusting for
a challenge; the Eye, immortal Egyptian Sorcerer and ancient enemy
of all Ras family; Rictus, Empathic master of emotional control whose
paralyzed face robbed him of the ability to express the very emotions
he forced on others, and who desperately wanted to teach fear to the
wise-cracking Killjoy; and the Muse, criminal mastermind obsessed
with his precious arts.
Smallest and most powerful of the gatherings, the second
grouping was put together by the Alchemist, archmage and sworn foe
of Dynamo, who opted for quality over Prometheus quantity. He
somehow managed to get Starbane, a living fusion reactor and
sentient alien superweapon, Dementia, the insane extra-dimensional
mistress of time, mind, and space, and Simon Sez, psionic
powerhouse with the ability to mold reality at his whim, to somehow
all work together. This group only lasted for the duration of one
afternoon and one fight, but what a fight it was.
Oddest, last to face the second Sentinels team, and least logical
of the incarnations of this group, the third set were brought together
on a whim by the dread Starbreed known as Lord Erebus, who hated
all of the team, but Horus with the greatest passion. Apparently
Erebus wanted to gather a more detailed set of data on how the
Sentinels operated, and opted for the direct approach in gathering
said information. In addition to his man-dragon ally and fellow
Starbreed Drakko, who had a score to settle with the expatriate
Atlantean prince Sea Devil, Erebus brought together a cross-section
of people he knew to be Sentinels enemies -- the telepathic Mother
Mayhem, looking for revenge on the Blur; Warhead, one of the many
Russian soldiers wearing that suit of combat armor, this one with a
major hate-on for Dynamo in particular; Deadpan, mutant master of
disguise, and long-time nemesis of Troubleshooter; Nocturne,
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Male
AGE
?
HT
64
WT
240#
EYES
Yellow
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3 Mercenary with impressive record
-5 Works for the Black Dawn a lot
-8 Claims to be an alien
-10 Actually is an alien
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In PAhq creation myth, the twin deities responsible for their race, known only as Mother
and Father, created the universe solely as a testing ground to cull the weak, hone the mighty,
and ultimately prepare the PAhq for their spiritual destiny as their gods armies in the afterlife.
Their culture therefore elevated the idiom survival of the fittest to the central tenet of their
racial faith. Millennia ago,
unending warfare coupled with exceptional destructive ability
resulted in a cataclysm
that destroyed the PAhq homeworld and almost drove them
into extinction.
From that near-demise, they took one very important lesson:
the Mother
and the Father created the rest of the universe as a test
PAhq shall not war against PAhq.
Since that time, the clans of the PAhq have sailed the
spaceways in their city-sized clan ships, seeking new battlefields on
which to prove their worth. As they simply dont have the patience, the
mindset, or the logistical manpower for empire building, the PAhq instead look
for Mehet (MAY-heet, literally the Unworthy, which is the name PAhq use for all
other races) in need of their services. The Warmasters of the PAhq hire out their people
as tactical advisors, trainers, and extremely expensive mercenaries to any one that can
meet their price. With their reputation, they have never wanted for employers among
other races, their battle prowess is legendary. They dont much care who they work for, as
long as the fighting is good and their price is met. In their view, any lack of honor in their
employers is a stain on their employers soul, not the PAhq who take his coin and purify
themselves repeatedly in the fire of battle.
When the alien Thraxas Nisaal returned to Earth recently, his attempts at smuggling
non-terrestrial contraband to the interesting little backwater world having been thwarted
decades earlier by local authorities and their exotically powered allies, he was no longer an
independent operator. He now represented the VVohd VChote (Vee-VOHD vee-CHOHTuh, gutter-Saeduun for Black Dawn), an interstellar crime syndicate with deep pockets
and a long reach. The crimeboss wanted to make certain he was prepared to deal with
kind of annoying interlopers that had interfered before and so he hired a very special
bodyguard, a PAhq bladelord. He promised the jaded mercenary a potential panoply of
opponents the likes of which the warrior would never find elsewhere. Giving his hired killer
the intimidating name Bloodstar, Nisaal got great use out of him until the pair ran afoul
of Blackheart and the Sentinels.
Bloodstar was defeated. In single combat. It was one thing to lose to storied
opponents, fighters with reputations among the stars to match the PAhqs own, such as
the Saeduun Paladins or the Voths Tatachna shocktroops, but on a no-name planet to a member
of a race virtually unknown outside their own sector intolerable. Shamed, Bloodstar was
stripped of his clan ranks, his name removed from the rolls of his clans honored warriors. He was
left on Earth, either to die there or somehow redeem himself (itself a legendary task among the
notoriously unforgiving warmasters).
Bloodstar, the only name he uses now that his clan-name has been stripped from him, is a
living weapon. Before his loss of face, he was an honored warrior among a people trained to
fight from the moment they can stand. His powerpike and sophisticated body armor are
secondary to his training, experience, and racial abilities in the deadly package he presents. He
is stronger and faster than human, absolute master of any number of martial disciplines, and,
most dangerous of all, utterly obsessed with proving himself once again worthy of eventually
entering his peoples vision of Valhalla. Blackhearts head is only one of the many trophies hell
need to win on that journey.
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6
20
50
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DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
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COM
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5
3
5
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5
15
13
Cost Roll
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5
17
16
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Gliding:
Notes
Lift 3200 kg; 7d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 11/DCV: 11
PER Roll: 15ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 20 PD (10 rPD)
Total: 20 ED (10 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 201
12/24
12/24
6/12
6/12
Powers
Living Weapon: Find Weakness with All Combat 13Protected Sight: Sight Group Flash Defense (6 points)
Swift: Running +6 (12 Total), Position Shift
Swift: Leaping +5 (12 Total)
Swift: Swimming +4 (6 Total)
Trackless: Gliding 6; Ground Gliding (-)
Hyper-Aware: +3 PER
Hyper-Aware: Nightvision
Hyper-Scent: Discriminatory Tracking Scent
Healing Factor: Regeneration (1 BODY per Turn), Can
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0
2
2
1
0
0
0
0
Heal Limbs
10
75
7u
0
0
Equipment
7u
4u
25
30
7
15
7
10
15
3
18
6
7
0
0
0
OIF (-)
0
0
Talents
Combat Sense
EM: Zero-G
Evasive (FH105)
Lightning Reflexes +4
Piker (Deadly Blow, FH105)
0
0
0
6
3
5
4
Perks
Contact: Aliens on Earth 11- (Organization)
Contact: Superpowered Mercenary World 8- (Organization)
Membership: Sinister Circle
Reputation: PAhq Bladelord 11- (Small Group), +2/+2d6
4
4
5
4
4
3
5
5
3
3
Skills
Martial Arts: PAhq Combat Arts
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Bind
+1
+0
Block
+2
+2
Defensive Strike +1
+3
Disarm
-1
+1
Fast Strike
+2
+0
Legsweep
+2
-1
Offensive Strike
-2
+1
Passing Strike
+1
+0
Trip
+0
+1
Use Art with Pike, Staff, Sword
Notes
+10 STR
Block, Abort
Strike
+10 STR Disarm
+2d6
+1d6, Target Falls
+4d6
+v/5, FMove
+v/5, Target Falls
20
16,10
7
3
10,5
+2 Overall Levels
+2 with All Combat, +2 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
+2 DCV; Requires an Acrobatics Roll (-)
+2 versus Sweep Penalties
Defensive Maneuver IV, Rapid Attack (Melee)
3,1,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,1
2
2
3,3
3
3
3,4
3,3
3,3
2,2
2,2
2,3
1,4
3,3
3,2
3,2
7
Acrobatics, AK: Earth 8-, Analyze Combat Technique 12Breakfall 16-, Climbing 16-, Combat Piloting 16Concealment 12-, Deduction 12-, Demolitions 12Electronics 12-, Fast Draw 16-, KS: Earth Culture 8KS: Galactic Culture 11KS: The Superpowered Mercenary World 11KS: PAhq Combat Arts 12-, KS: PAhq Culture 12Language: English (Fluent, PAhq is Native)
Language: Saeduun Standard (Fluent)
Lockpicking 16-, Navigation (Air, Land) 12Paramedics 12-, PS: Mercenary 12Security Systems 12-, Shadowing 12SS: Chemistry 11-, SS: Geology 11SS: Mathematics 11-, SS: Metallurgy 11SS: Physics 11-, Stealth 16Streetwise 8-, Survival (Mountains, Desert) 12Systems Operation 12-, Tactics 12Teamwork 16-, TF: Science Fiction & Space Vehicles
Tracking 12-, Weaponsmith (Muscle-Powered HTH) 12WF: Common Martial, Common Melee, Common Missile,
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WT
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As space folded around it in an ever-tightening funnel, the artificially induced wormhole
shunting it across unfathomable distances, the one thought running through its inhuman mind
was that its prey would never escape, no matter what it had to do. It consumed the remainder of
its hosts mass for energy as it struggled to pierce the subspace membrane blocking escape from
the wormhole at the terminal point, but finally it broke through. As it floated through the
vacuum, analyzing its position while simultaneously scanning for its preys energy signature, the
hunter noted two equally disconcerting facts: the star patterns its sensors registered matched
nothing it had in its memory contents, not even remotely, and its preys trail was much colder
than it should have been. The small distance it had trailed its quarry had translated through the
wormhole into a substantial time differential between their exits.
No matter.
Those were concerns for later, after its mission was completed and the other symbiote was
destroyed and consumed. Shrugging off whatever amounted to fear and doubt in its utterly alien
psychology, the entity that would soon be known as Carnelian continued on its way to the
habitable planet it detected nearby, the one with so many interesting transmissions and to which
its quarry apparently thought it could flee.
Carnelian is a symbiote of unknown origin. Statements it has made through hosts in the
past have led many to conclude that it is similar to the symbiote hosted by the Sentinel Onyx.
Despite the ferocity with which it has attacked her, Onyx herself has little information to go on
regarding her hunter. Her symbiote has managed to convey the impressions of a great war and
that Carnelian was its enemy in that conflict, but little else is known. Thus far, none of the other
non-terrestrials from whom the Sentinels can get information has been able to help them in
regards to Carnelians background, leading them to conclude that if the Saeduun Commonwealth,
the Mihral Dominion, and the Voth Imperium (not to mention the Black Dawn) are all equally
clueless, that both symbiotes come from very, very far away indeed.
Carnelian is single-minded, but patient, more than willing to work with others in pursuit of
its goals, even going so far as to work for the occasional patron in exchange for needed
resources. However, it has always returned to threaten Onyx existence, time and time again. It
has no appreciation for sentient life except for temporary value as tools or food. It fills time
between jobs and strikes at Onyx by indulging a certain curiosity regarding Earth, apparently
mentally documenting information about her peoples and cultures but to the concern of
many, focusing more intently on her defenses and exploitable resources. In its natural form,
Carnelian is a small sphere, glowing red and hovering in mid-air. It is seldom seen in this state,
however.
When encountered it is almost always in possession of a human host, where it appears as
a crystalline humanoid figure filled with moving, dark red fluids and black, light-consuming
ganglia-like structures floating with it. Unlike Onyx, Carnelian apparently needs no consent
from its host to initiate the bond, acting much more parasitical than symbiotic. It is always in
control of the merge and immediately begins consuming its host, only moving to a new one
when it has gained all the sustenance it requires from the previous victim. While it has shown
many of the same powers as Onyx, including strength and control of various energies, a lack
of preoccupation with the welfare of its host gives Carnelian facility with abilities that Onyx has
not demonstrated, specifically changing its shape which it does with great speed and skill,
though its coloration and make-up does not seem to change regardless of whatever shape it
wears. Apparently, it can also accelerate its conversion of a host into fuel when it needs to
effect immediate repairs on itself.
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Strange looking killer
-3 Fights Onyx a lot
-5
-8 Claims to be an alien
-10 Actually is an alien
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18
10
20
18
18
10
8
3
3
3
2
0
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
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Cost
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10u
10u
3u
5u
60
6u
6u
5u
4u
4u
15
37
135
60
50
120
102
25
13
Cost Roll
*33 2124 130 1120 138 1316 130 11-1 113
3
2
0
-10
Running:
Leaping:
Flight:
Swimming:
11
Notes
Lift 100 tons; 12d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
6
47
33
39
7
Powers
END
Endurance (0 END, +)
3) Planetary: Flight 10, Megascale (Scaleable up to 1
= 1000 km, +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
4) Galactic: FTL (1 Light Year per Hour)
5) Underwater: Swimming +23 (25 Total), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +)
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9,3
15,5
10,7
0
0
0
0
0
0
Perks
Membership: Sinister Circle
4
5
5
3
5
4
Skills
Martial Arts: Alien Grappling
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Choke Hold
-2
+0
Flying Grab
-2
-1
Grappling Block
+1
+1
Martial Grab
-1
-1
Offensive Strike
-2
+0
Nerve Strike
-1
+1
32
3,3
3,3,3
1,1
3,3
3,1,1
1,1,1
3,3
0
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
Absolute Range Sense, Absolute Time Sense
Ambidexterity (Full), Bump of Direction
Combat Sense, Eidetic Memory
Fear-Inspiring (DC107), Fearless (FH111)
Notes
2d6 NND
+10 STR, FMove
1 Limb, Block
+10 STR
+4d6
2d6 NND
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Male
AGE
39
HT
6
WT
189#
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Terrorist
-3 Terrorist-for-hire
-5
-8 Product of illegal Iraqi
experiments pre-Gulf War
-10
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HAIR
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The Middle East has always been a region torn by factional strife, and the 1980s were no
exception. It was during this time that the call went out for volunteers to take part in a secret
project being developed under the control of the Magi and their partner in the region, the
infamous psychic called Tiamat, with the cooperation of the Baath party in Iraq. They offered
their participants one thing: a chance at becoming demi-gods. In some cases, they even
delivered, though the covert genegeneering program racked up a horrific mortality rate in its
search for a means to mass-produce supermen.
Mahmoud al-Hasir was Palestinian, from a family with deep ties to various extremist
factions. While he himself felt no compulsion to martyrdom, he grew up surrounded by men and
woman with just such convictions and no compunctions about the taking of human life. The one
thing he wanted was power TRUE power. And so he went to Iraq to see if he could find it.
What he received there elevated him beyond what he now considers crude humanity. In his own
mind, he has been touched by Allah and given the merest fraction of Gods power. His sanity
somewhat suspect following the experiments, al-Hasir took the name suggested by his Magi
handlers, that of Dervish, because it both described his powers and showed his link to divinity.
The brutal bio-weapon process granted him superhuman speed and agility, and his feared
spinning ability, not to mention a healing factor that stands him in good stead with his other new
habits, namely that al-Hasir has begun to mutilate himself through self-flagellation. He carries
with him a flanged whip that he uses on himself often. His back is a horrific network of slowly
healing wounds and scar tissue from his self-inflicted wounds. The healing factor that came with
his enhance metabolism slowly removes the evidence of his past devotions so he needs to use
the scourge often. Those who have seen his back describe it as almost alive, the shifting skin
healing the old wounds even as new ones are inflicted. Dervish spent some time working with
Tiamat and the Magi, before becoming a free agent. Now he works as a terrorist-for-hire, selling
his services to the highest bidder without worry about the politics involved. His name has become
a feared one throughout the region, and the world. He has also become known as very much a
loose cannon, one who will pass up his objective if he is distracted by something elseone who
will kill as many as possible, even when it is not necessary or part of the objective. This has
contributed to his dwindling popularity and use as anything other than an agent of chaos and
destruction. But as an instrument of destruction, he is very, very effective.
Dervish has a particular hatred for other speedsters. He feels that they are but imperfect
reflections of his own glory, a mockery of his own claim to the divine. As such, he singles them
out for special, almost single-minded attention. The one speedster who he currently holds as the
bane of his existence, as the most galling attack on his supremacy and perfection, is Speed
Demon. Not only has she had the temerity to stand between him and his missions on more than
one occasion, not only has she placed herself in contention with him, but the fact that she is a
woman who dares act against a man infuriates him. He considers her shameless, a foul
creature who doesnt know her place. He tolerates the Quantum Mechanic only as a means to
teach Speed Demon her place.
Dervish is a living weapon engineered by a cruel mistress and her heartless backers. His
physical frame slides in and out of realspace as it channels an unidentified force which appears to
accelerate his every movement and spin him in relation to the amount of force being channeled
through him at any given moment. The superficial result is a superfast tornado tearing across the
landscape, leaving an afterimage of an almost hypermorphic gel burned into the vision of those
he passes. His cellular strength has also been reinforced to withstand the rigors of his powers,
giving him enhanced strength, fortitude and regenerative capabilities. His movements are almost
frenetic, and he never seems to actually be at rest, twitching even in his sleep.
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EGO
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8u
7u
3u
7u
6u
6u
3u
32
43
5
3
7
5
5
10
22
10
Cost Roll
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4
35
20
0
25
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Tunneling:
24
18
12
7
7
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 12/DCV: 12/20
PER Roll: 11ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 3d6
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Martial Arts: Spinning
Maneuver
OCV
Passing Strike
+1
Passing Throw
+0
10
7
5
5
2
5
Perks
Contact: The Mercenary/Terrorist World 11- (Extremely
Useful, Organization)
Membership: Sinister Circle
Reputation: Speedster 11- (Worldwide), +2/+2d6
Money: Well-Off
15
0
0
0
0
Talents
Combat Luck (x4)
Evasive (FH105)
Lightning Reflexes +8
Fearless (FH111)
Got a Lungful of Air (DC126)
3,2
2,1
1,1
3,1
3,3
3,3
2
2
3
3,3
3,1
3,2
3,3
2,1
1,1
4
DCV
+0
+0
Notes
+v/5, FMove
+v/5, Target Falls, FMove
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
1
200+ Disadvantages
5 Distinctive Features: Flagellation Scars (Concealable, Not
Distinctive in Some Cultures)
5 Hunted: Magi 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
5 Hunted: Quantum Mechanic 8- (Mo Pow, Watching)
20 Hunted: Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
5 Hunted: Tiamat 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
10 Psychological Limitation: Ambitious (Common, Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Arrogant, Believes Himself to be
Touched by Allah (Common, Strong)
10 Psychological Limitation: Casual Killer (Common, Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Overconfidence (Common, Strong)
5 Reputation: Deadly Speedster 80 Reputation: Loose Cannon 8- (Small Group)
5 Rivalry: Speedsters (Professional, Seeks to Kill, Rivals
Generally Unaware)
400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 700
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RACE
Human
GROUP
Sinister Cir
SEX
Female
AGE
(16)
HT
45
WT
34 ton
EYES
Red
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3 Massive and violent rock creature
-5
-8
-10 Actually a teenager, with serious
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[FROM THE FILES OF DR. ELLEN LI, AS DELIVERED BY THE ESTATE OF DR. WALLACE
GOLDSTEIN PER HIS LAST REQUEST]
What little is known of the girl that calls herself Golem was gleaned through her therapy
sessions at the Hodgsen Institute during her frequent stays. The most information that
was able to be won from Golem in regards to her past was that He cant hurt her
anymore. The therapist was only able to extrapolate a possible history of sexual
abuse that led to the first expression of the girls latent powers. This is only
conjecture, but Golems first appearance in the public can only be
said to add to this hypothesis.
The security cameras captured the scene in
frightening detail. The small girl with a street person
appearance was peering into a window holding a
beautiful display of summer dresses when a male
security officer touched her. The small waif quickly
sunk into the ground to be replaced by a
monstrous juggernaut of earth and stone that
immediately tore up from the dirt in her place.
This stone form viciously reached back and
grabbed the guard by the chest. The earthen
behemoth rose up to its full height screaming
into the face of the poor security guard, only to
cruelly smash him, head first, into the concrete.
The security guard did not survive this
encounter. This Golem then smashed the
display window. The stone form thereupon
quickly dissipated, leaving the small girl to
dispassionately take the dresses and walk away.
Police were later able to tranquilize the little girl, and
placed her in the confines of the Hodgsen Institue,
whose personnel had experience in dealing with broken
minds and strange abilities. Though she has occasionally
escaped, the Institute has been her constant home when
recaptured by a law-enforcement community that doesnt
know what to make of her.
Her stays at the Institute have been peaceful between escapes
as the young girl has rarely showed any emotions at all. This
flattened affect, the lack of desire for any close relationships,
and little or no joy in any activity led to two conclusions on the
part of the Institute staff. They nominally decided on a
diagnosis of Schizoid Personality Disorder, and that a far
more prevalent psychotic etiology may be masked by
her Golem form. They were also able to correlate high
stress situations to the appearance of the Golem form,
such as the recent break-in and removal of the patient by
the Quantum Mechanic which resulted in Dr. Wallaces death.
The Golem form seems to revel in destruction and shows a great fondness for the Quantum
Mechanic and a seething hatred for Troll. The basis for the former is unknown, but the latter
apparently stems from Trolls repeated defeats of Golem despite her earthen forms strength,
toughness, and size. The emotions that seem to never appear in the girl are painted in broad
strokes across the visage of the stone monster.
Sadly, the young girl does not realize that her time at the Hodgsen Institute is only possible
through the direct intervention of Dr. Ulysses Steele, a man whose legacy she is currently trying
to help destroy. He agrees with the staff of the Institute, that there is hope for this poor girl. He
has made sure, through his various governmental connections, that golem is returned to the
institute after her captures, in hope that the poor girls mind can be reached and healed.
[END ADDENDUM]
An orphan, with no apparent knowledge of her own background and little to identify her, is
also the source of some mystery in terms of her abilities. She does not register as a metahuman
on any test. Her ability to summon a shell of augmented earth and stone seems to be mystical in
nature, but has defied analysis from even what few experts on those matters could be found. In
her normal form, this Jane Doe is a frail young women in her teens, though her size and build
could easily lead one to believe her younger until they get a good look at her face. As Golem, she
is a towering engine of destruction, her stone frame and boulder-sized fists raining mayhem
down without rhyme or reason.
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15
13/33
8/20
10
10
10/40
10
3/9
3/9
3
4/15
30
17/60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
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Cost
98
15
Cost Roll
-5 2815 12#*26 16-4 130 110 11#20 110 11#7
#4
5
#12
2
#23
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 12kt; 19d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 0
PER Roll: 11ECV: 3
PRE Attack: 8d6
Total: 30 PD (15 rPD)
Total: 30 ED (15 rED)
Phases: 4, 8, 12
* No Figured Characteristics (-)
# Linked to Growth (-)
Total Characteristics Cost: 105
Powers
3u
3u
95
37
45
8
40
10
3
56
-1
15
Perks
Anonymity
EM: Earthy Areas of Rock and Rubble
Membership: Sinister Circle
3
2
1
1
1
3
2
Skills
Climbing 12Interrogation 17-; Linked to Growth (-)
Lockpicking 8Seduction 8Shadowing 8Streetwise 11Survival (Urban) 11-
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3
4
5
30/60
11/22
0/0
Talents
Disquieting Aura (DC109); Linked to Growth (-)
Growth (-)
0
1) Shockwave: HA 4d6 (8d6 with STR), Area Of Effect
(12 Radius, +1), Double Knockback (+), Indirect
(from Ground, +); HA (-), Linked to Growth (-),
Only versus Targets on Ground (-), Reduced by Range
(-)
6
2) Thunderclap: Flash Hearing 6d6, Area Of Effect (24
Radius, +1), Does Knockback (+), Double Knockback
(+); Linked to Growth (-), No Range (-)
6
200+ Disadvantages
5 Accidental Change: to Golem when Frightened 8(Uncommon)
20 Distinctive Features: Walking Mountain (Concealable,
Extreme)
5 Hunted: Quantum Mechanic 8- (Mo Pow, Watching)
20 Hunted: Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
10 Physical Limitation: Needs Areas of Earth to Change Forms
(Infrequently, Greatly)
10 Psychological Limitation: Overemotional in Golem Form
(Common, Moderate)
10 Psychological Limitation: Unemotional in Girl Form
(Uncommon, Strong)
15 Reputation: Giant Rock Monster 11- (Extreme)
5 Unluck: 1d6
300 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 600
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SEX
Female
AGE
29
HT
56
WT
114#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
White
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She was always told that she was special. Vivians mother constantly doted on her and
made sure that all her needs were met. Vivian Fontana never questioned the things that she was
given as they were just her due. She spent most of her early formative years in the
Mediterranean being moved from mansion to mansion, and from tutor to tutor. This lavish
lifestyle coupled with her mothers seemingly unreasonable need to keep others far away left
Vivian poorly suited to deal with the real world. She had no idea that it was unusual for the
owners of mansions to gladly welcome strangers into their homes. That her mother never spoke
of family was also never an issue to little Vivian. Her mother made sure that soon Vivian would
understand why she was special, and that then they wouldnt need to move any more. The true
meaning of her mothers statement was not made apparent until a short time after Vivians
thirteenth birthday. This was the day that she would learn about her past and what made her so
special.
Upon returning from a swim in the pool, Vivian was roughly grabbed and dragged into the
main room. Tied to a chair in the middle of the room was her mothers bruised and bloody body.
The scream never escaped her mouth as a giant hand clamped across her face and the pain
began. Vivian could remember very little of what was said next as they slowly began making
shallow cuts into her skin. Her mothers cries to stop went unheeded as the brutal men continued
asking their questions. It was as her mother coughed her last that the pain also stopped for
Vivian. Her one word howl of Stop changed everything. The men stopped and dropped to the
floor writhing in pain, and Vivian could see in her minds eye each man going through the most
horrible memory that he had ever experienced. She clung to her mothers still form for some
time, before turning her attention to the writhing forms of her assailants. She ripped her way
through each mans mind until their hearts burst from the pain. It was from this conglomeration
of memories that the mystery of her past was revealed. It seemed that the men had been sent to
finish an old vendetta. Her grandfather, Walter Fontana, had also been special. He too could
manipulate the minds of others. He had the unfortunate luck of utilizing a very vengeful mobster
in one of his many bank heists. The Mobster had sworn to destroy Fontanas entire line, and had
just discovered that the only remaining family was hiding in Europe. The men were also aware
that her mother was special as well, but had utilized a drug that kept her mothers powers at
bay. It was serendipitous that the drug wore out at the exact moment that Vivians latent
telepathic powers awakened.
It took some time, but Vivian, now calling herself Lament, returned to America. She quickly
eliminated the mobster and his vendetta. She has also since discovered the Goth subculture,
which delights her as their embrace of pain so easily meshes with her pathological love of
causing it. She was quickly able to find employ with the wonderful men of The Magi. They had
need of a psychic of her caliber as she has yet to find many minds that arent an open book to
her, spilling all those valuable secrets. Her work also provides new subjects to see how much
pain she can dish out as her telepathic probes are never free from the emotional agony shes
come to enjoy inflicting. One of the few minds that have proven able to spurn her talents is that
of Iron Angel. For some reason, this resistance infuriates Lament, who wants desperately to
prove her mind the stronger Thats why she so readily jumped at Quantum Mechanics offer to
help Lament bring that whiny pollyanna to her knees.
Lament dresses in typical Goth style, with excessive mascara, tattoos, and dyed bone-white
hair. This affectation is further supported by her employers as they have provided her with
contacts that make her eyes appear pupiless. The lenses provide her with protection from various
visual affects, but Lament wears them mostly to look cool.
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5 Telepathic thief into industrial
espionage
-8 Works for the Magi
-10 Granddaughter of Malice A.
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Lament
Val
13
15
15
10
15
15
15
20
4
4
4
6
30
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
75
75
75
105
Cost Roll
3 1215 1210 120 115 1210 125 125 131
1
15
0
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
20
Powers
10
6
4
12
6
7
14
26
20
20
17
17
17
17
Skills
+5 with Mind-Reeling Powers
+3 DCV; on Targets Under Telepathic Contact (-1)
+3 with Interaction Skills
+4 with Bribery, Interrogation, and Streetwise
17
15
10
15
12
20
Notes
Lift 150 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5/8
24
5
10
3
Equipment
Costume: Armor (5 PD/5 ED); Activation 11- (-1), OIF
(-)
Protective Lenses: Sight Group Flash Defense (10
points), IIF (-)
Adaptive Lenses: Nightvision; IIF (-)
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3,2,2
3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
9,3
1,1
3,3,1
3,2
3,3
3,3
3,3,9
1,3
Acting 12-, AK: America 11-, AK: Europe 11AK: The Middle East 12-, Analyze Psychological Weakness 12Bribery 12-, Computer Programming 12-, Concealment 12Conversation 12-, Deduction 12-, High Society 12Interrogation 15-, Lockpicking 12Language: Arabic (Basic), Language: Farsi (Basic)
Mind Jobs (EGO-Based) 12-, Oratory 12-, Riding 8Persuasion 12-, PS: Mercenary Mind Reader 11Security Systems 12-, Seduction 12SS: Abnormal Psychology 12-, SS: Criminal Psychology 12SS: Psychology 12-, Stealth 12-, Streetwise 15Tactics 8-, Teamwork 12-
3
2,2
2,2
1
1
2
1,1
2,2
2
2
2,2
Scholar
KS: The Business World 12-, KS: The Criminal Underworld 12KS: Current Events 12-, KS: Dirty Little Secrets 12KS: The Espionage World 11KS: The Law Enforcement World 11KS: The Mercenary World 12KS: The Military World 11-, KS: The Political World 11KS: The Psionic World 12-, KS: Psionics 12KS: The Sadomasochistic World 12KS: The Superhuman World 12KS: Whats Really Going On 12-, KS: Whos Who 12-
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Male
AGE
25(68)
HT
65
WT
300#
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DESCRIPTION
Mike Hertzog had only ever been good at two things: breaking legs and riding
motorcycles. Luckily for him, he came of age during a time when that was a very popular
image. He celebrated his 21st birthday by sneaking into the Bijou to see the opening of Rebel
Without a Cause. When he wasnt drinking, thinking about drinking, or beating people up for
beer money, he was riding his Harley, the one true love of his life. Slowly but surely, he
became known to the right people as a legbreaker worth the money. So when he started doing
thugwork for a few of the costumed crowd, not many of his few friends were all that
surprised; after all, that was where the real money was. Eventually, he started working for this
guy named Diablo, Dr. Diablo. The guy was strange, but he paid really, really well, so Mike
didnt care. One day, the doctor approached Mike with a proposal hed pay Mike more money
than the big man had ever seen in one setting if Mike would only help out in an experiment. If
it succeeded, Mike would be even stronger than he already was, strong enough to stand up to
some of that other costumed crowd the ones that were always interfering with Mikes good
times. Not really understanding the potential problems, and liking the money, he agreed.
The experiment succeeded. When Mike came out of Diablos lab, he was immensely
strong, the strongest thing he or anyone else had ever seen or would see for decades. And
there was a bonus he could make duplicates of himself. At first, this only happened when he
was excited or stressed, but soon Mike learned how to do it with just a little mental effort. He
even had a cool name to go with his powers. Diablo called him Phalanx (and then explained
what it meant). He was in the big time.
Then Doc Steel beat him and put him behind bars. He broke out. The Journeymen beat
him and put him back. He broke out. The Sentinels beat him and put him back. And so on.
After a few years, Mike found himself in a prison actually designed to hold people like him. He
was told that he had Steel and a few other eggheads to thank for it. He still managed to ride
along with a few larger jailbreaks on occasion, but they were fewer and far between.
Sometimes even years apart. Mike noticed that he wasnt really aging, that he looked pretty
much as he had since his career as high-powered muscle-for-hire began he could afford to
wait, even if he didnt like it much.
And so he continues to get out, one way or another. And he continues being put back in,
one way or another.
Phalanx possesses vast superhuman strength and durability. In addition, he can psionically
generate exact duplicates of himself. Many of them. Unlike some other duplicators, Mike can only
make exact duplicates hes never bothered to learn much more control than that. Hes an
effective brawler, and hes never seen the need to learn any techniques more complicated than
hit and hit again. Phalanx isnt a stupid person; he just doesnt see the need to tax his brain
when violence has always been an effective solution to most problems hes faced. Hes spent
most of the last 40 years cycling in and out of different prisons, and is a little out of touch with
the modern world. As far as hes concerned, cool reached its natural pinnacle during his early
twenties, and everythings been downhill since. He therefore takes a very dim view of people who
dont appreciate his pompadour.
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Superhuman thug
+0 Been around for a long time
-3 Antiquated speech
-5 Major grudge against the Steeles
-8
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55
18
35
20
10
10
18
10
25
25
4
20
70
70
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
342
20
15
45
18
22
6
42
22
40
Cost Roll
45 2024 1350 1620 130 110 118 130 1114
18
12
4
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 50 tons; 11d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
4
3
5
30
5
Powers
12
7
Talents
Combat Sense; Only when within 8 of a Duplicate (-)
Fearless (FH111)
5
11
Perks
Membership: Sinister Circle
Vehicle: Harley-Davidson
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
3
2
3
1
3
3
3
3
1
3
2
2
1
1
2
1
3
2
3
3
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Street Fighting
Maneuver
OCV DCV
Fast Strike
+2
+0
Flying Tackle
+0
-1
Offensive Strike
-2
-1
Notes
+2d6
+v/5, Both Fall, FMove
+4d6
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
42
HT
57
WT
150#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3 Thief with impressive tech
-5 Claims to be from the future
-8
-10 Actually is from the future
DESCRIPTION
The brutal dystopia represented by Praetorians shattered future is, it seems, only one
possible timeline leading from the modern age. The future represented by the Quantum
Mechanic is another. In fact, it is almost quite the opposite, a paradisiacal vision where
technology has all but eliminated virtually all of the woes and harms confronted by man, from
the physical to the existential where social engineering and cultural evolution has eliminated
crime and war.
Of course, perfection is very much a matter of perspective. Where one person may look
at a vista and see perfection, a precisely realized design operating seamlessly, another may
see a sterile and soulless landscape, where the spirit of adventure has been crushed into a
societal mandate of conformity. One mans leisure is another mans mind numbing tedium. This is
what Francisco-09Sec9956 told himself during his long preparation for the journey he dreamed of
taking. He wanted to live where excitement ruled, where he could be the intrepid stalwart he saw
in the (heavily dramatized) historical holovids he devoured one after another. He wanted to be
the object of adoration in a time and place where someone actually received accolades for being
impressive and generally standing out from his peers not lectures on juvenile self-indulgence
or dangerous and archaic egoisms. His world was never again going to be such a place, he
knew. He had to find another world the past, where his technology would make him a god
among grateful savages. Interesting, challenging in some respects, but manageableand,
importantly, unlikely to result in the loss of life or limb. Planning the break-in to appropriate the
time-travel technology he needed was exciting. Everything seemed to be going according to plan.
He had acquired the necessary supplies, the equipment, the historical texts he might need to
consult, and he had even gotten his hands on one of the Explorers Unions Utility Suits. Francisco
was on top of the world as he activated the Temporal Jump Coils and stepped through to His
Destiny.
Then everything went to Hell.
The time travel apparatus hadnt been used in quite a while, and wasnt really up for a 5000+
year jaunt. Many of his supplies were destroyed as the system overloaded and unceremoniously
dumped him in the late 20th century. Even the utility suit was damaged, its higher-order
interactive functions barely able to superimpose the local language in his cortex before cascading
failures rendered the compu-agent silent. Earth, Earth-of-Old, wasnt anything like the holovids
had presented. It was filthy and crowded and loud and very, very rude. His precious
historical texts werent quite so precious after all, as it seems that five millennia is ample time for
misconceptions and a general loss of detail to set in, for historians and their preconceptions to
get things wrong and then compound that error over and over. Francisco decided hed had all the
challenge and excitement he needed, but with his Jump Coils destroyed he would have to rebuild
his time travel gear from scratch. He had some of the know-how, but not all. And then there was
the question of materials. The smelly primitives that surrounded him still relied on some archaic
form of currency exchange they essentially bartered for goods and servicesactually
barteredand they became quite upset when he tried to circumvent their small-minded systems.
He was finally able to meet some of the legendary metahumans history told sketchy stories
about; unfortunately, it was more painful then enlightening, as their abilities countered his
technological advantages and he found himself imprisoned. Escape was childs play, but
inevitably his contempt for his surroundings and desperate hunt for materials would routinely end
with him back behind bars.
Francisco still wants to go home to a proper world, a civilized world. But having been
abused and humiliated by these hopeless primitives, he wants to teach a number of lessons
before he goes. His monumental arrogance and near-pathological sense of self-entitlement is
offset by a general technical expertise, relatively average for his society, that far outstrips that of
the early 21st century. His utility suit has few of its functions left, but has some defensive systems
still operational, and is more than capable of using replenishing nano-factories to construct
necessary tools and equipment out of any materials, even air molecules when necessary. The
combination of expertise and an unmatched resource would make him a far more serious
threatwere it not for his cowardice (which he denies even to himself) and his woefully
overestimated planning skills.
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40
20
21
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Quantum Mechanic
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10
10
10
18
20
15
10
3
3
5
4
20
20
Cost
6
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Cost Roll
0 110 110 110 118 1320 135 120 111
1
30
0
0
0
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 3/DCV: 3
50
27
27
6
26
Powers
Alert: +2 PER
12
END
0
12
Equipment
110
11u
11u
18
19
20
17
15
17
18
30
120
12u
12u
12u
OIHID (-)
1) Alter: Major Transform 5d6, Improved Results Group
(Any Technology, +), Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+); Limited Target (Technology, -), OIHID (-)
2) Befriend: Summon 300-point Technological
Construct, Expanded Class (Variety of Technological
Constructs, +), Loyal (+), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +); OIHID (-)
3) Enslave: Summon 250-point Technological Construct,
Expanded Class (Variety of Technological Constructs,
+), Slavishly Loyal (+1), Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+); OIHID (-)
0
0
0
0
0
4,3
5,3
50
18
10,5
4
0
0
0
0
0
Skills
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0
0
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3,3,3
3,3
3
3
3,2,3
3,1,3
2,2
3,2,2
2,2,2
2,2,2
2,2,2
2,2
2,2
Analyze Technology 13-, Computer Programming 13Concealment 13-, Criminology 13-, Cryptography 13Demolitions 13-, Electronics 13-, Inventor 13KS: The Superhuman World 13-, KS: Technology 13KS: The Time-Traveling World 13Language: Modern English (Fluent, Future English is Native)
Mechanics 13-, PS: Scientist 11-, Security Systems 13Systems Operation 13-, Tactics 8-, Teamwork 11TF: Sci-Fi & Space Vehicles, Weaponsmith (Energy) 13Scientist, SS: Astronomy 13-, SS: Biology 13SS: Chemistry 13-, SS: Computer 13-, SS: Cybernetics 13SS: Engineering 13-, SS: Genetics 13-, SS: Mathematics 13SS: Medicine 13-, SS: Nuclear Physics 13-, SS: Physics 13SS: Quantum Mechanics 13-, SS: Robotics 13SS: Subatomic Physics 13-, SS: Temporal Physics 13-
0
0
200+ Disadvantages
5 Distinctive Features: Temporal Aura (Not Concealable,
Unusual Senses)
20 Hunted: Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
15 Hunted: Time Travelers from His Era 8- (Mo Pow)
20 Psychological Limitation: Arrogant (Very Common, Strong)
10 Psychological Limitation: Self-Absorbed (Common, Moderate)
5 Psychological Limitation: Sense of Entitlement (Uncommon,
Moderate)
10 Psychological Limitation: Wants to Return to Future
(Uncommon, Strong)
10 Social Limitation: Sees the 21st Century as a Primitive Prison
(Frequently, Slightly)
5 Unluck: 1d6
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The Vozich family has a long tradition in a very specialized profession. Theyre
witch hunters. Not the kind of faith-blinded fanatics who view all practitioners of the
art as profane and evil; no, the Vozich family is simply pragmatic they spotted a
niche and long ago staked it out as their own. Good, evil, they couldnt have cared less
at any point. The only thing thats ever mattered is whether or not someone was
willing to pay the asking price for bringing the poor soul in dead or alive (preferably dead;
thats always easier and less risky). This was the atmosphere into which little Janos was born.
Until very recently, hed never done his family anything less than proud. Janos took a
commission from one of the many people that the former Sentinel known as Brimstone (page
80) had offended. His client wanted the mage dead. Slowly, painfully dead. Janos made the
trip to America to find and complete his commission, as hired, to the letter. For the first time in
his life, Janos, or Seventh Son as hes known in the mystical community, failed. His family was
less than understanding, and the shame burns in Janos day and night. He continues to take
contracts in North America now mostly so he can continue to watch Brimstone. Watch, and
plan, and wait. With Brimstone disappearing into the Covenant, Janos knows his job just got
a lot harder but taking the Quantum Mechanics offer to deal with the youngest of the
Arcane family opens a new possibility. Seventh Son plans on questioning the mage at length
before completing the contract, extracting every detail of the security of the Covenant that can
be wringed from the former Seraphim.
Janos Vozich is the latest in a long line of professional witchfinders and mageslayers. Hes
very good at it, as hes been raised for the role since he was old enough to walk. The Vozich
family are very accomplished workers of the art themselves (they sort of have to be
considering what they do) and Janos has benefited in both training and gifts. Hes an adept
sorcerer with a broad repertoire of spells gleaned from the many, many spellbooks his family
has taken off their fallen targets over the years. Hes been the subject of rituals which have
enhanced his physical abilities to impressive levels. And he carries the Sword of Wrath, an
ancient and highly enchanted blade capable of cutting through practically anything. More
dangerous than just the sum of his abilities, Janos is methodical, a resourceful planner, and
absolutely ruthless in the pursuit of a commission. He will use any and all means he deems
appropriate, and so long as he doesnt endanger his kin with unnecessary publicity, he has no
appreciation of the concept of collateral damage.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
40
HT
66
WT
360#
EYES
Green
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5 Hitman of some kind
-8 Specializes in mystic types
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Seventh Son
Val
40
27
25
15
18
20
20
10
10
10
5
20
60
50
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
61
6u
5u
6u
5u
4u
6u
5u
5u
2u
25
4
6
9
10
5
Cost Roll
30 1751 1430 1410 128 1320 1310 130 112
5
13
14
5
2
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
125
Notes
Lift 6 tons; 8d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 9/DCV: 9
Talents
Combat Luck (x2), Evasive (FH105)
Danger Sense (Intuitional, Sense); Only vs. Magic (-1)
Fearless (FH106, FH111); Only versus Magical Fear (-1)
Lightsleep, Magesight (FH106)
Mageslayer (Deadly Blow, FH105), Resistance
12,18
6
7,3
3,17
4,3
18
21
27
6/12
4/8
2/2
Powers
6,5,1
4
END
6
0 2,3,0
2,3
3,1,3
3,3,3
0 3,1,3
3,1,1
1,3,3
0 2,3,1
1,1
3
0 1,1,1
1,1,2
1,3
3,2,1
3,3,3
0 2,3,3
1,3,3
5
0 1,1,1
6
Skills
Martial Arts: Basic Swordfighting (Cut, Lunge, Thrust)
+2 with All Combat; Only versus Magical Opponents (-)
+2 with Hand-to-Hand Combat, Defense Maneuver II
+2 with KS: Analyze Magic, Mystical World, and Streetwise
AK: America 11-, AK: Europe 13-, AK: Romania 13AK: Russia 11-, Analyze Combat Technique 13Analyze Magic 13-, Breakfall 8-, Bribery 13Climbing 14-Concealment 13-, Contortionist 14Conversation 13-, Criminology 8-, Deduction 13Fast Draw 14-, Forensic Medicine 8-, Forgery (IDs) 13High Society 8-, Interrogation 13-, KS: Arcane Lore 13KS: History 11-, KS: The Mystical World 13-, KS: Philosophy 8KS: Religion 8-, KS: Swordfighting 8Language: English (Fluent, Romanian is Native)
Language: Arabic (Basic), French (Basic), Greek (Basic)
Language: Italian (Basic), Latin (Basic), Russian (Conv.)
Language: Spanish (Basic), Lockpicking 14Magic (EGO-Based) 13-, Navigation (Land) 13-, Oratory 8Paramedics 13-, Persuasion 13-, PS: Witch Hunter 13Riding (Horses) 14-, Security Systems 13-, Shadowing 13Sleight of Hand 14-, Stealth 14-, Streetwise 13Survival (Deserts, Mountains, Temperate, Tropical, Urban) 8Tactics 8-, Teamwork 8-, Tracking 8WF: Common Melee, Common Missile, Small Arms
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
Alert: +2 PER
Healing Factor: Regeneration (1 BODY per Turn)
Fit: Reduced Endurance ( END, +) on STR
Minor Enchantments: Luck 1d6
Perks
Contact: The Mercenary World 11- (Very Useful, Contacts,
Institutions, Organization)
Contact: The Mystic World 14- (Extremely Useful, Contacts,
Unfriendly, Organization)
Contact: The Witch Hunting World 14- (Very Useful,
Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Deep Cover (x3), Money: Well-Off, Passport
Reputation: Assassin 8- (Mystic World), +4/+4d6
13
11
10,5
200+ Disadvantages
5 Enraged: Facing Brimstone (Go 8-, Recover 14-, Uncommon)
5 Distinctive Features: Mystical Aura (Not Concealable, Unusual
Sense)
20 Hunted: Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
20 Hunted: The Mystic World 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
15 Psychological Limitation: Methodical (Common, Strong)
5 Physical Limitation: Reduced Lead (Infrequent, Slightly)
10 Psychological Limitation: Ruthless in Pursuit of His Contract
(Common, Moderate)
10 Psychological Limitation: Investigating the Covenant
(Uncommon, Strong)
5 Hunted: Quantum Mechanic 8- (Mo Pow, Watching)
5 Reputation: Witch Hunter 8- (in the Mystic Community,
Extreme)
500 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 800
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
30
HT
64
WT
260#
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Businessman (as Ribaldi)
-3 Very wealthy
-5 Rumored to be a mutant
-8 Crime boss
-10 Superhuman strength and
resilience
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EYES
Blue
HAIR
Blonde
DESCRIPTION
Michael Ribaldi has always been blessed with good looks. But it wasnt until early adulthood
that he discovered the other outcomes of his genetic lottery he discovered that he was a
metahuman, immensely strong and difficult to hurt. He immediately began experimenting, not
only to find the limits of his abilities, but also to see if he had any other blessings to count. After
trial and error, he found to his delight that the charm he carried with him through his life was
also not completely normal. In fact, with some effort, he found that he could do more than
persuade people to do what he wanted them to do, he could actually make them do what he
wanted no matter what that persons actual desires were. This was far more entertaining than
being able to benchpress a garbage truck. Unfortunately for society, these newfound gifts did not
inspire Ribaldi to feats of altruism. A child of privilege long used to getting his way, Ribaldi, or
Adonis as he had been nicknamed during childhood, saw his abilities as one more means to an
end. He wanted wealth, he wanted women, and he wanted the life of leisure and affluence that
he knew in his heart he always been destined to have. Starting small, he used his overwhelming
charisma and intimidating physical strength to literally muscle his way into the bottom tiers of a
local numbers racket. His following ascent was meteoric, as he shot up the ranks of the criminal
network that ultimately controlled the rackets he had mastered. Today, Adonis finally has the
throne hes always felt was his by right. As the master of a network extending throughout his city
and beyond, he controls or influences decisions made at every level, from the percentage of the
take he gets from an armored car hold-up to the names of who does and doesnt get municipal
contracts from city hall. He recently finished cementing this status, finishing off a gang war
between his own outfit, Sammaels people, Cardinal Sins crew, and some of the older criminal
organizations holding on in the city. His competitors have no idea how much assistance Adonis
received from the Magi in this endeavor, or how he has given them a powerful anchor in the city.
Rex Mundi is well-pleased with his investment and has taken a personal interest in future
development projects with Adonis.
Adonis isnt so much an evil or malicious man as he is a spoiled child who never had to grow
up and is now and forever too powerful to ever be disciplined unbridled and self-consuming
ego taken to an extreme. Other people exist as the extensions of his own ambitions. He revels in
all the levels of control he can exert, more the mental influence than the physical, though. But
most of all, he wants to be worshipped by those around him. Worshipped for his looks,
worshipped for his power, and obeyed in all things. As far as hes concerned, hes well on his way
to reaching that stature.
Ribaldi is a mutant. He possesses an enhanced musculature and skeletal structure that gives
him superhuman strength and resilience. In addition, he has a personal presence, which, when
aided by his bodys robust pheromone production, is almost intoxicating. Prolonged exposure to
these pheromones renders most individuals highly amenable to suggestion. Hes learned to
combine these social talents to a disturbingly effective degree. Hes also learned to use his
connections to outfit himself with a few hi-tech and well-hidden toys. One never knows when a
weapon or one-shot teleporter might come in handy.
Adonis avoids combat. In his eyes, its beneath him to have to dirty his fists when he has
other people to do that. It might also mess up his clothes or his looks, both of which would be an
unacceptable bother. If forced into a confrontation, he will first attempt to control his attacker
through his superhuman presence and pheromones. Failing that, he will fall back on his brutal
strength and bulletproof skin, abilities that have taken more than one enemy by surprise given
the image that he has carefully constructed. But, given a choice in the matter, he far prefers to
buy or scare off potential threats long before they ever move past the potential stage.
Ribaldi is a tall and massively built man with long blonde hair worn past the shoulders. He
is, by any standards, an incredibly handsome man, and one who accentuates his startling good
looks both with the constant reinforcement of his mutant pheromones, and excellent taste in
exceedingly expensive clothing and accessories.
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60
15
30
15
18
18
45
20
15
10
4
20
60
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
22
37
2
5
15
Cost Roll
50 2115 1240 1510 128 1316 1335 185 133
4
15
4
0
0
20
15
20
Notes
Lift 100 tons; 12d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
PER Roll: 13ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 9d6
Total: 30 PD (15 rPD)
Total: 20 ED (10 rED)
Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 205
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
6/12
12/24
2/4
Powers
10
75
26
END
0
0
0
0
3
0
Equipment
var.
[12]
(-1)
10
22
6
5
3
29
41
20
23
20
25
55
55
20
10
5
4
4
3
Talents
Fascination (FH105)
Inspire x2 (FH106, PH261)
Lightning Reflexes +4
Rapid Healing (FH107)
Resistance
Perks
Contact: The Business World 14- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Criminal Underworld 17- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Law Enforcement World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Political World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Favors (50 from Various Figures)
Followers: 500 Criminals (Competent Normals, 5ER 346)
Followers: 8 Crime Lords (200-point Normals)
Money: Wealth Beyond Measure
Perk: Criminal Mastermind
Perk: Plausible Deniability
Reputation: Criminal Kingpin 11- (Criminal World), +4/+4d6
Reputation: Respected Businessman 14- (Business World),
+2/+2d6
Well-Connected
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3
3
3
2
4
3
3
2
3
1
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
Skills
+2 Overall Levels
+3 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
+4 with Interaction Skills
Acting 18Bribery 18Bugging 8Bureaucratics 18Concealment 13Conversation 18Criminology 13Forgery (Documents) 13Gambling (Card, Casino, Dice, Sports) 8High Society 18Interrogation 18KS: Current Events 11KS: Fashion 13KS: History 8KS: The Business World 13KS: The Criminal World 13KS: The Law Enforcement World 13KS: The Political World 13KS: The Superhuman World 13Lockpicking 8Oratory 18Persuasion 18PS: Crime Lord 18Security Systems 8Seduction 18Shadowing 13Stealth 12Streetwise 18Tactics 8Teamwork 12Trading 18WF: Small Arms, Swords
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DESCRIPTION
Out of the dumpster behind OmniTech's Research and Development Laboratory, a
mechanical joint twitched. Soon, it crawled over to a discarded desk lamp and a broken pocket
calculator, and infused them with energy. The three pieces melded together and became one.
Gathering more electronic debris, the machine lifeform advanced on the
high-tech facility to find new parts for its growing bulk. The electronic
surveillance equipment and security devices posed no threat, and in fact
became valuable additions to its increasing array of powers. After it
found its way to the prototype lab which was "calling" it, the living
contraption attached itself to the experimental equipment to make
it its own. And its intelligence grew.
The Assembly is a robotic consciousness that is not
limited to an individual body, existing in an electronic hive
mind. Once the Assembly inhabits an individual
machine, it can animate it. From there, it can inhabit
many others and either join them all together into a
gestalt machine entity, or stay divided into dozens of smaller
machines (or any combination thereof). The fewer individual
resources it controls, the larger and more powerful its single form
can become. Conversely, the more machine bodies it inhabits, the
smaller those piecemeal machines become.
The Assembly must continue to consume raw materials
(machines) in order to maintain its power structure. If it does not
assimilate fresh electronics, its powers (most notably its growing
mass) will slowly diminish.
The Assembly's greatest weakness is its own incredible
intellect. Unable to understand emotion, intuition, or anything
other than flawless logic, it can be easily fooled by clever heroes.
In at least one possible future timeline, the Assembly seizes
control of the Earth and exterminates humanity. Heroes exposed
to that timeline discovered information pointing to the possibility
that the Assembly is the result of a minor RhaZhaKeth escaping
to Earth through Ex Machinas twisted space.
QUOTE
SEX
None
AGE
N/A
HT
Varies
WT
Varies
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Giant evil robot!
+0 Absorbs technology
-3 Can divide itself
-5 Needs tech to feed itself
-8 Logical to the extreme
-10 Hates/fears Technomancer
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EYES
N/A
HAIR
N/A
Notes: For every 15 points Transferred, the Assembly gains 1 level of Slot 1; for every 15, 1
level of Slot 2; for every 10 points, 1 level of Slot 3 (adding 1 DC to the RKA); for every 15
points, 1 level of Slot 4 (increasing the Duplicates point totals by 15, doubling the number of
Duplicates he can spawn, and linking their minds); and for every 15 points, 1 more level of Slot
5.
If the Assembly ever reaches full power, it will have +50 STR, +10 BODY, +50 INT, +30
EGO, +30 PRE, RKA 6d6, -10 KB, Mental Defense +10, Power Defense +30, Running +10,
Healing 11d6. It will be 20m (10) Tall, weigh 100 tons, and have a reach of 5, and a DCV of 2.
While its Duplication can technically grow up to one million duplicates, all mentally linked, since
each Duplication takes away from the rest of its powers, it has a practical upper limit of a few
dozen.
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20
23
0
10
25
15
15
8
10
10
4
5
0
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
307
30
7
7
7
23
240
35
40
52
40
55
23
45
60
Cost Roll
10 1339 14-20
0 1115 1410 125 12-1 1125
30
7
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 8/DCV: 8
PER Roll: 14ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 10 PD (10 rPD)
Total: 10 ED (10 rED)
Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12
21
30
-2
37
34
22
22
6/12
4/8
0/0
Powers
END, +)
2) Override: Mind Control 10d6, Telepathic (+),
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +)
3) Reprogram: Mental Illusions 10d6, Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +)
4) Trace: Mind Scan 10d6, +5 ECV, Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +)
5) Monitor: Clairsentience (Sight, Hearing, and Radio
Groups), 8x Range, Reduced Endurance (0 END, +);
Only through the Senses of Machines (-1)
6) Nullify: Dispel 12d6, Any One Electrical Power at a
Time (+), Cumulative (+), Reduced Endurance (0
END, +)
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3
3
9
5
3
6
0
0
10
33
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
3,3
3,3
3,3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
points)
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
Absolute Range Sense
Absolute Time Sense
Ambidexterity (Full)
Eidetic Memory
Lightning Calculator
Speed Reading (100x)
Perks
Computer Link
Skills
+10 with Hand-to-Hand Combat; +1 per Level of Growth
(-)
+2 with Technological Skills
Analyze Technology 14-, Climbing 12Computer Programming 14-, Cryptography 14Electronics 14-, Inventor 14-, KS: Technology 14Mechanics 14-, Power (Duplication) 14PS: Evil Robot 14-, Security Systems 14SS: Chemistry 14-, SS: Computer Science 14SS: Engineering 14-, SS: Mathematics 14SS: Metallurgy 14-, SS: Physics 14SS: Robotics 14-, Systems Operation 14-
ED)
5
1150
Disadvantages
Distinctive Features: Robot (Not Concealable)
Hunted: The Quantum Mechanic 8- (As Pow)
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
Physical Limitation: Machine Intelligence (Frequently,
Greatly)
Psychological Limitation: Easily Fooled (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Seeks New Technology (Very
Common, Moderate)
Reputation: Giant Killer Robot 11- (Extreme, Only in
Superhuman Community)
Unluck: 1d6
Experience Points
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QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
(?)
HT
54
WT
250#
EYES
Yellow
HAIR
Grey
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Very powerful witch
+0
-3
-5 Rumored to be the real Baba
Yaga
-8
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Mother Winter. Old Ironteeth. the Spirit of the Rodina. She has gone under many names in
her vast time on this earth, but none are as well known as Baba Yaga. The truth behind the
stories told of her will probably never be known, nor will the reasons behind her unfathomable
motives. The only things known to any real extent are that she seems to care about the fate of
her beloved Russia, and that she has always shown the power she has needed to do what she
has wanted. Regardless of her concern for the land itself, her attentions have never been healthy
for individuals. Whenever she has dealt with mortals, the Crone has never been anything but a
force of nature made flesh pitiless, unrelenting, and unforgiving.
Apparently absent during the long years the Soviet Union held sway over her Russia, the
Crone recently reappeared in response to the actions of the Russian-born hero Troll. According to
an ancient legend passed down in his family, Baba Yaga had cursed an ancestor of his, a curse
that would manifest itself should any of the Sukinov family ever display heroism. That the target
of her curse not only did not succumb to depression and self-hatred given his new condition, but
that he has embraced his situation, even reveled in it, did not sit well with the entity that now
goes under the name the Crone. Initially attacking Troll while he was active in Kiev, she has
since followed him across the ocean to America. As much as she didnt like his flaunting his
situation in his homeland, that he would leave and continue to use his new abilities for the
benefit of outlanders has galled her all the more. The Crone follows no discernible rhyme or
reason in her actions, going months without showing her face before suddenly appearing to
complicate life for Troll and anyone unfortunate enough to be in his general vicinity. She has thus
far sent him, the rest of the Sentinels, and a goodly section of downtown hurtling into limbo;
turned the population of an entire Midwestern town into monsters; stolen all the children under
the age of 10 throughout the entire city; and many other acts of prodigious albeit terrifying
magic. To this point, her continued attempts to avenge what she apparently perceives as Trolls
insults have thankfully been unsuccessful. But the large hero and his teammates dread her
expected and inevitable return.
The Crone is an immensely powerful magical entity. Assuming that she is the same Baba
Yaga as portrayed in Slavic folklore, she is virtually ageless. In addition to her great sorcerous
powers, she has also proven to be inhumanly strong, and her legendary iron teeth can bite
through practically anything. As fearful as her one-on-one magic has proven, it pales in
comparison to the acts shes perpetrated with time and preparation. Whether she has access to
other sources of power outside her personal reserves is open to speculation. In addition to her
walking house, she is also always accompanied by a multitude of spirit servants of all kinds.
Squat but powerfully built, the Crone possesses a singular ugliness that is as legendary as it
is difficult to put into words. Resembling only in dress the stereotypical gypsy wise woman of her
native lands, the Crones enormous nose and immediately captivating evil eye, once seen, are
never forgotten. Her great iron teeth only serve to add to this dreadful visage.
Actually reaching the Crone to place her in direct combat is extraordinarily difficult. She uses
her spirit servants and magics to place obstacles between herself and her targets. Hostages,
dilemmas, and demanding choices are hallmarks of her appearances. Those actually able to close
the distance are likely to be surprised by her ferocity, her strength, and her horrible teeth, before
she disappears in a puff of smoke.
It is worth noting that the Crone never forgets a slight or a loss. Defeating any of her
schemes is rewarded with lifelong enmity and a grudge that she will never forget.
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45
12
30
15
18
34
25
6
10
10
4
20
60
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
400
24m
30m
30m
40m
40m
30m
40m
27m
180
Cost Roll
35 186 1140 1510 128 1348 1615 14-2 101
4
18
10
0
7
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Powers
Notes
Lift 12 tons; 9d6 HTH [4]
OCV: 4/DCV: 4
40m
98
6/12
4/8
2/4
40
19
22
6
0
19
2
8
37
15
5
9
10
22
5
8
7
7
17
3
12
25
90
27
60
80
100
60
15
12
95
END
var.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense)
Eidetic Memory
Fear-Inspiring (DC107, added in); Does Not Work Against
Holy Targets (-)
Fearless (FH106); Only versus Magical Fear (-1)
Fearless (FH111)
Magesight (FH106)
Resistance
Spell Augmentation (FH107)
Universal Translator 18Perks
Base: Dark Reflections of the Motherland
Contact: The Mystic World 14- (Extremely Useful, Contacts,
Organization)
Followers: Lorusski x250
Followers: Puzushka x64
Followers: Rusalka x12
Followers: Vodyanoi x32
Money: Filthy Rich
Reputation: Powerful Witch 14- (Mystic World), +6/+6d6
Vehicle: The Hut
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3
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
2
7
2
2
2
2
2
2
7
2
2
3
3
3
1
Skills
+1 Overall Level
+4 with All Knowledge Skills
+8 with KS: Arcane Lore, KS: The Mystical World, and
Magic
Acting 13AK: Asia 13AK: Europe 13AK: Russia 13AK: The Outer Planes 13Analyze Magic 13Conversation 14Forgery (Scrolls) 13Interrogation 14Inventor (Spell Research) 13KS: Alchemy 13KS: Arcane Lore 18KS: Cantrips 13KS: Flora and Fauna 13KS: History 13KS: Legends and Lore 13KS: Religion 13KS: The Mystical World 13Magic (EGO-Based) 18Navigation (Dimensional) 13PS: Wizard 16Riding 11Scholar
Tracking 13Trading 8-
The Hut
8
18
SIZE 50
BODY 10
STR
DEF
18
4
DEX
SPD
INT
10
EGO
18
DEX
SPD
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CHA
SIZE
BODY
DEF
Cost
58
18
24
Notes
2400x2400
Attributes
Location: Another Dimension
Powers
94
27
67
9
75
70
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All of the Crones minions are spirits given physical form by her will, and so can be reformed
if their physical bodies are destroyed by anything other than magic more powerful than hers.
Their bodies resemble creatures out of Slavic mythology and folklore, with the personalities and
abilities to match.
Lorusski
The goblin-like Lorusski roam the Crones lands in bands of a dozen or more, staying only in
the darkest reaches while they hunt prey foolish enough to think that distance from the
Vodyanoi-infested rivers equals safety. These little monsters are playful in their malice, far
preferring to visit misfortune on the unsuspecting while hidden in the shadow than to face any
but the weakest looking targets directly. When the weight of their whispered curses finally results
in death or incapacity, they swarm in for the kill.
Though intelligent, they are single-minded, and only really creative when it comes to their
vicious little pranks.
Lorusski
5
13
3
STR
EGO
SPD
18
13
4
DEX
PRE
REC
15
6
30
CON
COM
END
8
3
20
BODY 10
PD
2
STUN
INT
ED
Abilities: HKA 1 pip (d6 with STR), Power Defense (3 points), +2 DCV, +2 to Stealth, +2 to
Concealment; Self Only (-), Invisibility to Sight Group; Chameleon (-), Only when Not
Attacking (-), Requires a Stealth Roll (-), Life Support (Safe in Cold), Running -1, Swimming
-1, Teleport 5, +2 PER, Nightvision, Luck 3d6; Fearless, Lightsleep, Sneak Attack (Deadly
Blow), Trackless Stride; Martial Arts: Ambush (Flying Dodge, Offensive Strike, Use Art with
Claws), +1 with Martial Arts, Acting 12-, AK: Dark Reflections 11-, Concealment 15-, KS: Arcane
Lore 8-, Navigation (Land) 8-, Oratory 12-, Persuasion 12-, Shadowing 13-, Stealth 15-, Survival
(Arctic) 11-, Tactics 8-, Teamwork 13-, Tracking 8100+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Features: Short Green Big-Headed Creatures (Not
Concealable, Not Unusual in Some Cultures), Hunted: The Crone 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching),
Physical Limitation: Short (Infrequently, Slightly), Psychological Limitation: Malevolent (Very
Common, Moderate), Psychological Limitation: Impish Prankster (Common, Moderate), Social
Limitation: Subject to Orders (Frequently, Severe), Unluck: 1d6
Puzushka
Despite being considerably smaller than the Vodyanoi, the Puzushka are the backbone of
any of the Crones plans that actually require numbers. They take instruction best of any of the
creatures that she calls servant, and they reproduce with their larger spores quickly to fill out any
manpower needs. These man-sized fungal creatures, whose durable exterior sheathes and woodlike claws make them dangerous to underestimate, also produce smaller spores at will spores
that fill the air and when inhaled cause debilitating hallucinogenic effects. Since even a handful of
Puzushka can frighteningly quickly become an army of Puzushka, an enemy incapacitated by
nightmarish delusions brought on by exposure to the fungal spores seldom has the opportunity
to recover before meeting a gruesome end.
Puzushka
15
10
3
STR
EGO
SPD
14
10
8
DEX
PRE
REC
25
6
50
CON
COM
END
10
8
30
BODY 10
PD
8
STUN
INT
ED
Abilities: Multipower, 60-point Reserve, 1) Drain STUN 2d6, Area Of Effect (12 Radius, +1),
Delayed Return Rate (5 Minutes, +), Personal Immunity (+), 2) Drain INT 2d6, Area Of
Effect (12 Radius, +1), Delayed Return Rate (5 Minutes, +), Personal Immunity (+),
HKA 1d6 (2d6 with STR), Damage Resistance (8 PD/8 ED), Physical Damage Reduction 50%,
Resistant; STUN Only (-), Power Defense (5 points), Life Support (Breathe Carbon Dioxide
instead of Oxygen, Eat Once per Week, Sleep 8 Hours per Week, Safe in Cold, High Pressure,
and Vacuum, Immune to All Phytotoxins), +2 PER, Duplication (300-point Duplicates), 4x
Duplicates, Mind Link with 4 Duplicates; Fearless; AK: Dark Reflections 8-, KS: Fungi 11-,
Teamwork 12250+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Features: Fungus Creature (Not Concealable), Hunted:
The Crone 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching), Physical Limitation: Cannot Leap (Infrequently,
Slightly), Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Frequently, Severe)
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The Rusalka are the Crones hounds, her bloodthirsty huntresses reveling in their rabidly
anticipated kill. Capable of turning insubstantial as fog with no more than a thought, the Rusalka
can give their ghostly bone claws just enough substance to pierce living tissue, bypassing
mundane protection as if it didnt exist. The Rusalka are quicksilver fast and seldom stay still or
even put their feet on the ground. They also sulk when denied their bloody sport for too long,
looking all the while as some deranged picture of teenaged sullenness at its worst.
Though quite pretty in an exotic sort of way, there is nonetheless something about them
that registers as not quite right, discomforting those around them.
Rusalka
15
18
6
STR
EGO
SPD
30
20
6
DEX
PRE
REC
15
25
30
CON
COM
END
10
6
25
BODY 13
PD
6
STUN
INT
ED
Abilities: HKA 1d6 (2d6 with STR), +2 STUN Multiplier (+), Affects Solid World (+2), Autofire
(2 Shots, +), Penetrating (+), Reduced Endurance ( END, +), Desolidification [Affected
by Air and Gas Attacks], Reduced Endurance (0 END, +), Invisibility (Sight Group, Hearing
Group), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); Linked to Desolidification (-), Only When Not
Attacking (-), Life Support (Full); Linked to Desolidification (-), Flight 10; Linked to
Desolidification (-), Cannot Exceed 10 Off the Ground (-), Detect Life (Smell Group),
Targeting, Tracking, +2 PER, Nightvision; Combat Luck (x2), Crippling Blow (FH105), Fearless
(FH111), Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105); +3 with DCV, Rapid Attack (HTH), Concealment
12-, Ethereality (DEX-Based) 15-, Navigation (Air, Land) 12-, PS: Hunter 11-, Seduction 13-,
Shadowing 12-, Stealth 15-, Teamwork 8-, Tracking 12400+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Features: Beautiful Woman with Aura of Uneasiness
(Concealable, Not Unusual in Some Cultures), Hunted: The Crone 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching),
Psychological Limitation: Bloodthirsty (Common, Strong), Social Limitation: Subject to Orders
(Frequently, Severe)
Vodyanoi
Vodyanoi
40
8
4
STR
EGO
SPD
10
30
15
DEX
PRE
REC
20
4
40
CON
COM
END
15
10
50
BODY 8
PD
10
STUN
INT
ED
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SEX
Male
AGE
?(220)
HT
511
WT
191#
EYES
Mauve
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Powerful psi
+0 Hates Iron Angel
-3 Claims to be an alien
-5 Arrogant racist
-8
-10
Note: Crucible cannot mentally attack
human and alien minds at once; he
must choose between targets.
DESCRIPTION
The Saeduun were an ancient race when Earths last ice age covered the land under a
frozen mantle. They trace their civilization back over 200 millennia to the fall of the Acathii
progenitors, whom they look upon as almost religious figures. The Saeduun, or Pale Ones as
they are called by many of the other races with whom they deal, are naturally psionic as a
species, with a long tradition of telepathic and telekinetic development. Oldest among their
traditions still observed is the warrior brotherhood the Paladins of the Inner Stars, or simply the
Paladins, and their place as the defenders of Saeduun law and culture. It was the Paladins
who first brought to the attention of the mighty Commonwealth the state of their
continuing growth as a people. As the keeper of such records, the Paladins knew that
their races evolutionary development had stagnated, that their best Psi-talents were
shadows of their ancestors strength, and grew weaker every generation. They
proposed that teams of scientists spread among the stars to study the younger and lessdeveloped races in order to determine if there was a biological key to be found that
could renew their own evolution.
One such scientist was hidden among the peoples of Earth, cosmetically disguised to
pass as one of them. He met, fell in love with, married, and much to his surprise had a child
with a human woman. This shocked his superiors as much as it shocked him, as it was a longheld canon of Saeduun medical science that they had never been inter-fertile with any other
species. When the child later began to manifest Psi abilities markedly above those of the
strongest Saeduun living, the Paladins thought they had found if not the key itself, at least its
location the human genetic structure. But one of the oldest and most respected of the order
spoke out against this idea. CeTeVaal had been one of the opponents of the search from its
beginning and was appalled at the mating of one of his people with a lesser life form. The
Saeduun, he said, were the highest order of creation and it was an abomination to sully their
perfect genetics with the fruit of those he deemed little better than beasts. He was shouted
down in his opposition, just as he had been before the search had begun. He tried time and
again over the following years to have the child destroyed and her father removed back to
Saeduun Prime to be tried and imprisoned, but he was ignored. Eventually he decided to take
matters into his own hands. Donning his familys ancient battle armor and stealing a ship, he
himself went to Earth to prove to the Order that they grossly overestimated the abilities of the
half-breed trash, Sarah Thompson (a.k.a. Iron Angel, page 28). He failed in his self-appointed
mission. Instead of humbling the half-breed and killing her, he was thoroughly defeated in fair
and honorable combat at her hands. This was the final outrage, and something within him
snapped. Since that day, TeVaal, or Crucible as he has begun calling himself, has worked
tirelessly toward not only destroying Iron Angel, but obliterating the world that gave her life.
Crucible is a racist fanatic, absolutely convinced of his species innate superiority over all
others. He hates humanity with a passion only surpassed by his singular hate of Iron Angel and
her father. The Saeduuns have tried several times to capture him so that he can be treated for
what they consider his mental illness. He has always escaped or eluded them, returning to Earth.
His ambition is nothing less than genocide, and he can barely tolerate the presence of nonSaeduuns around him. In addition to psionic abilities of his own, somewhat more powerful than
the norm for his race, including being able to form a telekinetic sword and shield (traditional for
the Paladins), he wears a highly sophisticated suit of powered armor and carries a thin staff that
projects intense microwave bursts. As an elder member of a militant order, he has also had
extensive combat training.
4
4
4
5
5
4
4
5
+5
Deprival
-1
+1
Furious Charge
+2
-2
Jab/Thrust
+1
+3
Lunge
+1
-2
Parry
+2
+2
Reprisal
+2
+2
Slash
-2
+1
Notes
Dodge, Abort
Disarm +10
+v/5, FMove
Weapon
+4 DC
Block, Abort
+2d6, Follows Block
+4d6
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18
18
10
18
21
18
10
5
5
5
8
40
40
Cost
75
7u
6u
5u
7u
25u
7u
5u
5u
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Cost Roll
10 1324 1316 130 118 1322 138 130 111
1
22
0
2
11
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
PER Roll: 13ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 3d6
70
40
35
Powers
END
0
16
42
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
0
0
75
7u
Equipment
5,10
3
17
9
35
16,9
3,6
3,3,3
2,3,3
1,1,3
3,3
3,3,3
1,3
3,3,1
3,1
2,2
2,3,3
3,2
2,2,2
3,3
1,2
3,3
3,2,3
3,2,3
3,3,3
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7u
0
0
1,1,1
3,3,3
3,2
3
4
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0
0
0
QUOTE
"What a delicious
minnnnnnndddddddd you
havvvvvvvvvvvve......I'll just
take a tassssssstttttttte......"
RACE
Tulpa
GROUP
None
SEX
N/A
AGE
824
HT
N/A
WT
0#
EYES
Clear
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3 Invisible mental being
-5 Practically indestructible
-8 Damaged when interfacing with
strong minds
-10 Psychic Predator
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DESCRIPTION
The Astral Plane is a vast and dangerous realm, encompassing an interstitial network that
ties together not only other planes, but the minds of all intelligent beings, each of whom brushes
against its fabric with every mental exertion. The great majority of minds cause such a trivial
ripple in the surface of the astral that those who call that plane their home (yes, it is inhabited)
rarely notice them. But, occasionally, a being of heightened mental power,
someone with the ability to tap into the astral aether, does cause
enough of an echo to be noticed. These psychically active people,
telepaths and espers, sometimes find themselves the focus of those
astral denizens curious enough to follow their echoes, and not always
with pleasant results. One such curious visitor was Mindstalker.
Apparently a being of pure mental energy, the enigmatic Mindstalker
was drawn to the material plane accidentally during the experiments
involved in Project Six (Project Mindscape) that resulted in the formation of
Ghostworks. Finding itself trapped in proximity to Earth and unable to return to
the Deep Astral from which it came, Mindstalker acted on its innate benevolent
nature and soon accrued a reputation as something of a hero. Eventually, it joined
other heroes in the group called the Pantheon. Mindstalkers existence was thought to
have ended when its form was violently dispersed through the Astral landscape connected
to the Shadowlands in an intertemporal conflict between a number of heroes and the
entity called Umbra. This common knowledge was proven inaccurate recently when a
research group from Ghostworks came upon pieces of Mindstalkers psyche scattered
across a section of the Astral they were exploring. Having encountered Figment, a
wandering entity thought similar to what is known in Tibetan legend as a tulpa, the
group was soon able to discern that Figment was only one part of the puzzle to
which they now had found further pieces. To their later regret, they put together
what they had and helped the result merge. The new being escaped immediately
from the facility, only to return later and hunt down each of its rescuers draining
their mental energies and killing them one by one.
Figment is a being of mental energy. Although not inherently malicious in the
core shard that wandered amnesiac around Earth for a number of years following the
Umbra incident, Figment changed drastically when the other pieces found by
Ghostworks were reintegrated. It is theorized that what existed before was a childlike
representation of Ego, whereas what exists now is a dark, predatory manifestation of raw Id. It is
naturally invisible and incorporeal, though telepaths and others with mental senses can perceive
its form directly. To creatures that cannot see him, he instills a general feeling of anxiety and
distrust in its immediate area. For those creatures that can detect him, Figments lack of a set
physical form can be disconcerting, as he changes his mental appearance seemingly randomly.
As a creature of pure mental energy, Figment has no physiology to target, and cannot be harmed
by the physical world, nor can it affect that world directly. Any time he tries to make contact
with a shielded mind, however, it can cause painful (and even debilitating) feedback to him
(when he comes within a foot or so of a shielded mind). Figment is drawn to sources of psychic
energy, and will target and hunt psychic characters. It has quickly become a consummate
predator in the psychic landscape, and the terror of psychics worldwide. No matter how human it
may seem, Figment is still alien to this plane and its thought processes as well as its
understanding of what it sees reflects this.
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30
0
10
25
35
25
10
10
10
5
5
0
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
157
10u
7u
62
Cost Roll
15 1460 15-20
0 1115 1450 1515 140 1125
30
10
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 800 kg; 5d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
3
PER Roll: 16ECV: 12
PRE Attack: 5d6
Total: 10 PD (10 rPD)
Total: 10 ED (10 rED)
Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 200
6/12
5/10
2/4
Powers
240
60
60
30
50
75
60
5
37
43
6
15
15
9
60
22
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Talents
Disquieting Aura (DC109)
Resistance +5
Universal Translator +4
Perks
Reputation: Nightmare Psychic Killer 8- (Among Psychics),
+3/+3d6
Skills
+2 with Mental Prowess
3
3
2
2
3
AK: The Astral Plane 14Analyze Mental Power 14KS: The Psionic World 11Navigation (Astral) 14Psionics (EGO-Based) 15-
END
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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SEX
Male
AGE
150(32)
HT
63
WT
180#
EYES
Yellow
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3 Mercenary criminal
-5 Plays mind games with his victims
-8 Hunted by US government
-10 Product of Project Nine
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DESCRIPTION
Joshua Kale, as all of the Special Forces subjects selected for Project Nine, excelled in all
the things his military training and discipline trained him to handle. Kales preeminent facility
was psychological warfare. Playing with other peoples minds in the field was almost as much
fun as playing with the shrinks who administered the profiling each of the P9 subjects
endured. Their tests were so childishly simple to circumvent when you knew how to give
exactly the right answers in exactly the right way. Classified Black Ops was a premiere career
track, and Kale fiercely wanted to climb that ladder. Unfortunately, his ambition clouded his
caution this time around; otherwise, he would have made himself more aware of the risks
inherent in P9s aims: the engineering of the perfect American supersoldier. Kales body
chemistry seemed perfect for the project. It was a rude shock, then, when he responded so
badly to the treatments. On the one hand, he did develop all the physical traits the project
leaders wanted. On the other hand, his appearance changed drastically as he mutated. His
gums receded, displaying his teeth to a gruesome extent; his musculature seemed to diminish
even as it grew preternaturally strong, giving him a gaunt, almost emaciated appearance; his
skin color and eyes both took a sickly cast, and most of his hair simply fell out. The most
dangerous change, however, was the one that didnt show externally. Always borderline in
many respects, Kales personality sank into a cold but functional psychosis. He was the last of
Project Nines high-profile failures; during his escape from observation, his liberation from his
former masters as he prefers to remember it, he managed to kill or cripple practically every
project involvee of any importance.
Kale has since taken the name the Ghoul, capitalizing on his grotesque appearance, and
gone into business for himself as a very expensive mercenary, assassin, and agent
provocateur.
As the Ghoul, Kale revels in both his abilities and the fear they provoke in his targets, his
employers, and any associates he grudgingly accepts for specific assignments. As a master of
psych-ops, Kale knows how best to promote his monstrous image for the greatest effect. The
question becomes how much of his savage behavior, from ripping out throats with his teeth to
making bestial spectacles of any prolonged combat, is a matter of calculation and how much is
his ever-degrading mental state showing through.
The Ghoul is inhumanly strong and fast, his skin has proven capable of resisting
penetration from small caliber firearms, and he heals phenomenally fast. Further, his senses
are animal-keen, and his teeth and fingernails have grown almost steel-hard. In combat, he
only goes for the kill after milking the situation for any psychological advantage he can gain.
This means precision brutality, crippling and maiming attacks, working from the most
vulnerable targets outward. Kale is callous in the extreme and has a disregard for human life
so cold that it has shaken even other hardened killers.
As the Ghoul, Kale dresses to display his inhuman appearance. He wears skin-tight black
pants and nothing else. Occasionally, when he has need of equipment on an assignment, Kale
also adopts a torso harness to hold said equipment.
4
6
13
2
Sample Equipment
Binoculars: +6 versus Range Modifiers for Sight Group; OAF (-1)
Radio Headset: Radio Perception/Transmission; IAF (-), Affected as Hearing and
Radio (-)
GPS Unit: Bump of Direction; OAF (-1), Affected as Sight (-) plus Detect Location,
Discriminatory, Analyze, Sense; OAF (-1), Affected as Sight (-) plus AK: Earth 18-;
OAF (-1), Affected as Sight (-)
Waterproof Watch: Absolute Time Sense; OIF (-1)
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4
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4
4
8
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Commando Training
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Aikido Throw
+0
+1
Boxing Cross
+0
+2
Choke
-2
+0
Escape
+0
+0
Hold
-1
-1
Judo Disarm
-1
+1
Karate Chop
-2
+0
Kung Fu Block
+2
+2
+2 Damage Classes (added in)
Use Art with Knives
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Val
40
33
30
20
15
18
18
6
12
12
6
20
60
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost Roll
30 1769 1640 1520 135 1216 138 13-2 104
6
17
12
0
5
Notes
Lift 6 tons; 8d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 11/DCV: 11
PER Roll: 12-/16ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 3d6
Total: 20 PD (8 rPD)
Total: 20 ED (8 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
12
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
13/26
15/30
9/18
Cost
15
19
13
Powers
5
3
20
21
15
10
11
9
10
31
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1
0
0
0
0
(+)
(Sight)
Rolls
0
0
2
Equipment
6
15
16
22
22
4
10
7
3
12
5
7
8
2
15
27
27
Talents
Combat Luck
Combat Sense
Crippling Blow (FH104)
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Sense)
Disquieting Aura (DC109)
Double Jointed
Fascination (FH105)
Fearless (FH111)
Lightsleep
Pain Tolerance (Weak, DC127)
Resistance
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Terror of the Underworld (DC122)
Trackless Stride (FH107)
Ultimate Stealth (DC148)
1,3
3,3
3,1
1,1
3,3
3,1
3,1
3,1
2,9
3,2
3,2
3
2
3,1
2,1
3,3
3,2
1,3
3,3
3,2
3,3
3,4
3,3
3,3
4
Notes
+2d6+v/5, Target Falls
+4d6
1 Limb, 3d6 NND
+25 STR Escape
3 Limbs, +10 STR
Disarm +10
HKA 1d6+1
Block, Abort
Perks
Contact: The Criminal World 13- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Military/Mercenary World 13- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
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SEX
Female
AGE
30
HT
58
WT
125#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Blonde
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Mercenary criminal
-3 Wanted by US government
-5
-8 Former soldier
-10 Product of Project Nine
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DESCRIPTION
Madeline Maddy Price grew up in a cold and loveless household, the daughter of a
man who had wanted a son and blamed Maddy for her mothers death during childbirth.
Throughout her life, Price worked twice as hard as anyone around her, just to prove to her
father that she was good enough. She never succeeded. On his deathbed, his last words
were that at least he wouldnt have to endure her presence anymore.
Unsure of what to do with her life without her father indirectly driving her, Maddy joined the
army. Again she was surrounded by people she had to prove herself to, and she took to it
readily. Her determination and pathological work ethic served her well and she excelled.
Eventually she came to the attention of a group of high-ranking officers responsible for the top
secret supersoldier program, Project Nine (Prodigal, page 114, the Ghoul, page 190). When
presented with the opportunity, she didnt hesitate for even a moment. The regrets came later.
After finishing the last series in the treatments, she went into convulsive shock, followed by a
coma.
While she was comatose, her body underwent several changes, as did her brain chemistry.
Price was a latent telepath, unbeknownst to her or to the project team. The projects genetic
tampering activated this ability, but damaged the areas of the brain responsible for it warping
the talent. About halfway through her coma, she temporarily awakened, though in a berserker
state. She seriously injured several soldiers, and ended up in heavy restraints before slipping
back into a coma. When she woke up the second time, she was lucid, but still restrained. She
asked an orderly to help her and he did. Immediately. He jumped to the task with gusto, and
then backed away blushing, unable to look at her. Just talking to the other doctors and soldiers
had the same effect. Attraction that went beyond simple attraction; their reactions bordered on
worship. As she left the main medical wing she found herself surrounded with besotted men
falling over themselves to do anything for her she asked. And then she ran into one of the female
doctors assigned to the project. This person reacted normally, though astounded by what she
saw. Afraid that the woman would raise an alarm about her being out of bed, Price grabbed her
shoulder and spun her around, intending to talk to her. She then discovered that she was very,
very strong, as the doctor went spinning off her feet and into a wall, the impact knocking the
doctor out cold. Panicking, Maddy fled the facility, ably assisted by all the males she encountered
along the way.
Once she had made it back to her home, Maddy reappraised the situation. She found that
she had liked the reactions she had gotten. She certainly enjoyed the enhanced strength and
speed she was displaying. Captain Price quit the army then and there (though her superiors
viewed this action somewhat differently), and left the area. She initially stole what she needed
and kept moving. Eventually she discovered that people were willing to pay her for what she
could do, and Heartbreaker was born.
Madeline Price was an athletic, if mousy, blonde who had never taken much interest in her
appearance. Heartbreaker (who has developed as an almost distinct new personality in her own
right) capitalizes on all her assets. Properly presented, Price is a very attractive woman, whose
natural appearance is grossly exaggerated in the minds of any men who encounter her to them
she is beautiful beyond the power of words to describe. She wears hi-tech, form-fitting body
armor in various shades of red and white. Heartbreaker is almost never without a very large and
serious looking piece of firepower. Her combat skills are all that might be expected from a former
top-notch Special Forces officer, and now improved by her mercenary experience.
Heartbreakers physical abilities have been augmented. In addition to her superhuman
strength, speed, and senses, she also possesses limited psionic ability. Any male coming within
50 feet of her is subject to a constant telepathic command that she must actually concentrate to
mute. The command is to love her, absolutely and slavishly. She revels in the control and
attention this power generates.
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30
30
15
13
18
25
25
15
15
5
15
60
50
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
36
3
29
3
8
23
9
10
17
50
25
20
9
7
8
2
5
4
Cost Roll
25 1660 1540 1510 123 1216 1315 148 148
9
10
4
0
2
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
3,22
6,18
7
8
6
7
Notes
Lift 3 tons; 7d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
PER Roll: 14ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 5d6/7d6
23
25
5
2
13
3
Powers
END
3
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
8
1
Talents
Ambidexterity, Cinematic Flirting (DC141)
Combat Luck, Evasive (FH105)
Fascination (FH105); Only versus Men (-)
Inspire (FH106, PH261); Only versus Men (-)
Lightning Reflexes +4
Sneak Attack (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Perks
Contact: The Military/Mercenary World 12- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Institutions, Organization)
Favors: 50 Favors throughout the Military/Mercenary World
Money: Well-Off
Reputation: Professional Mercenary 11- (The
Military/Mercenary World), +2/+2d6
Vehicle: Motorcycle (DEX 23, SPD 4, 32 x 4)
Well-Connected
Skills
Martial Arts: Commando Training
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Aikido Throw
+0
+1
Boxing Cross
+0
+2
Choke
-2
+0
Escape
+0
+0
Hold
-1
-1
Judo Disarm
-1
+1
Karate Chop
-2
+0
Kung Fu Block
+2
+2
+2 Damage Classes (added in)
Use Art with Knives
Notes
+2d6+v/5, Target Falls
+4d6
1 Limb, 3d6 NND
+25 STR Escape
3 Limbs, +10 STR
Disarm +10
HKA 1d6+1
Block, Abort
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SEX
Female
AGE
39
HT
54
WT
105#
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5 Spy for hire
-8
-10 Family of spies
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Blonde
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DESCRIPTION
Angelique De Winter is a spy. Not a staid and conservative little gray person populating a
listening outpost or computer center. No, Angelique is a spy in the grand tradition of physical
insertion, of disguised infiltration and covert theft, of sabotage and the silent knife from the
shadows. Shes a player in the Great Game, not a trudging pencil-pusher or glorified
government clerk. She works for the highest bidder and her services are always in demand, as
she is unsurprisingly quite good at what she does just as she was raised to be. The De
Winters have always been professionals in the shadow community, dating back before it was
even recognized as such, to the court intrigues of the Sun Kings France. Considered one of the
worlds most dangerous women by her peers in the intelligence community, she has lived up to
that reputation time and again. An expert tactician, she performs her missions ruthlessly.
Nothing comes before the mission she is driven by the need to succeed and nothing really
comes after the mission, to tell the truth. From childhood, she has been trained to constantly
be on the job, to use people as tools, and to win. Always, to win.
Her heartless path of bodies was stopped short, though, when she was sent to steal
information from the Sentinels (page 5). Using her expertise, her equipment, and precision
planning, she was able to infiltrate Fortress undetected, and to disable Algernon (or, more
accurately, to render herself invisible to Algernon), a feat matched by none before or since.
It was when she first met Hardcore (page 26) face-to-face that she felt that something was
missing. In a bedroom voice, he asked her what she was doing, and she coyly dodged his
advances. Angered at her spurn, he clumsily attacked, but he was too distracted by her beauty
and grace to effectively defend himself. She allowed him to take the disc back, but not before
she gave him a kiss and escaped. To hear Hardcore tell the tale to his teammates, however, she
ambushed him and he kept her from stealing the information, but Angelique knows that she
knows his true feelings. Shes made it a point to encounter the older Steele brother on a few
occasions since then, enjoying the chase as much as she knows he must though she credits
him for hiding it well.
Ice Queen, a nickname given her both due to her demeanor and as a play on her family
name, is all business in battle. Shell take the most direct route to solve any problem, which
may include torture, death, seduction, or simple theft. But she always has her moves planned
out three steps ahead of her opposition, and prepares for any conceivable contingencies. De
Winter is in extraordinarily fit physical condition and is formidably trained in both close-quarter
and ranged combat. Her equipment is the best money can buy, and her reflexes are long
honed by experience in a field with little margin for error and no tolerance for failure.
Equipment: Variable Power Pool, 50-point Reserve; Change Only at Base (-), Focus (-),
RKA 2d6+1, +1 OCV, +1 RMod, +1 Increased STUN Multiplier (+), Invisible to Hearing Group
(+); 12 Charges (2 Clips, -0), OAF (-1), Real Weapon (-), STR Min 10 (-),Armor (6 PD/6
ED); OIF (-),Mental Defense (10 points Total); OIF (-), Clinging; OIF (-), Swinging 10;
OIF (-), Life Support (Self-Contained Breathing, Safe in Cold and Heat); OIF (-), Nightvision;
OIF (-), Ultrasonic Hearing; OIF (-), Sight and Hearing Group Flash Defense (6 points); OIF
(-), Invisibility to Sight and Hearing Group, No Fringe, 1 Continuing Fuel Charge (1 Hour, +0);
Chameleon (-), Only when Not Attacking (-), IIF (-), Radio Perception/Transmission
(Radio Group); OAF (-1), +4 to Lockpicking Rolls; OAF (-1), Bump of Direction; OAF (-1),
Affected as Sight (-) plus Detect Location, Discriminatory, Analyze, Sense; OAF (-1), Affected
as Sight (-) plus AK: Earth 18-; OAF (-1), Affected as Sight (-), Mind Link (Radio Group)
with One Specific Vehicle, No LOS Needed; OAF (-1), Vehicle Must Have Mind Link (-1)
Stately Manors: 10 SIZE, 7 BODY, 12 DEF; Attributes: Location: Suburb, Grounds x32;
Mechanics 11-, Computer Programming 14-, Systems Operation 14-, KS: General Reference 14- ,
High Society 14-, Lockpicking 14-, Security Systems 14Underground Lair: 5 SIZE, 5 BODY, 5 DEF; Attributes: Location: Distant, Underground,
Concealment 14-, Life Support (No Need to Eat), Variable Power Pool, 150-point Reserve;
Change Only by Bringing New Inventory (-), Focus (-), High Range Radio Perception,
Security Systems 18-, Paramedics 17-, Criminology 14-, KS: History 14-, KS: Literature 14-,
Tactics 14-, Electronics 14-, Mechanics 14-, Weaponsmith 17-
Spymobile: 3 SIZE, 25 STR, 24 DEX, 13 BODY, 8 DEF, 4 SPD; Abilities: Ground Movement +29 (35 Total), 4x Noncombat Movement, +4x
Noncombat Movement (16x NCM Total); 1 Continuing Charge Lasting 1 Minute (-1), +4 with Ground Movement, Knockback Resistance -2,
Security Systems 14-, Lockpicking 14-, Concealment 14-, Navigation (Land) 14-, Bump of Direction; Detect Intrusion (Radio Group), Sense,
Transmit, Change Environment, 2 Radius, -4 to Driving Rolls, Lasts Roughly 5 Minutes (-0); OIF (Vehicle Equipment, -1), No Range (-),
Limited Arc of Fire (Behind, -), 6 Charges (-), Mind Link (Radio Group) with Any Willing Mind, No LOS Needed; OIF (-1), Target Must Have
Mind Link (-1), Images to Sight Group, -6 PER, Extra Area (32 Line, Conforming, +1); OIF (Vehicle Equipment, -1), Limited Arc of Fire
(Behind, -), 4 Charges Lasting 1 Minute (-), No Range (-); 250+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Features: Sportscar (Not Concealable, Not
Unusual in Some Cultures)
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10,10
9
9
9
9
Ice Queen
Val
10
20
15
10
18
20
20
18
5
5
4
8
30
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
20
4
9
12
20
13
183
18,9
18,10
6,20
4
40,80
26
32
32
29
20
29
32
14
26
20,25
1,15
1,1,1
50,3
5
39
40,32
Cost Roll
0 1130 1310 120 118 1320 1310 134 133
2
10
6
0
7
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Swinging:
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 7/DCV: 7
PER Roll: 17ECV: 7
PRE Attack: 4d6
Total: 20 PD (15 rPD)
Total: 20 ED (15 rED)
Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 110
9/18
5/10
5/10
10/20
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0
0
1
0
0
0
Perks
Base: 4 Stately Manors, Base: Underground Lair
Contact: The Business World 14- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Criminal Underworld 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Espionage World 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: High Society 14- (Very Useful, Institutions, Contacts,
Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Law Enforcement World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Military/Mercenary World 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Political World 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Scientific World 11- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman World 14- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Organization)
Deep Covers (x10), Favors (50 from Various Figures)
International Drivers License, Money: Filthy Rich
Passport, Pilots License, Weapon Permit
Vehicle: Spymobile, Well-Connected
Reputation: Dangerous Spy 11- (Espionage World), +5/+5d6
Skills
Martial Arts: Commando Training (Aikido Throw, Boxing
Cross, Choke, Escape, Hold, Judo Disarm, Karate Chop, Kung
Fu Block, +2 Damage Classes)
+4 Overall Levels, +4 with All Combat
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3,3
3,3,6
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,2,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,2
3,3
3,3,3
3,4
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
19
3,3
4
11
3,1,2
2,2,2
3,1,1
1,1,1
1,1
30
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Espionage World 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Mild)
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
Normal Characteristic Maxima
Psychological Limitation: All Business in Battle (Common,
Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Infatuated with Hardcore
(Uncommon, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Plans Her Moves Well in Advance
(Common, Moderate)
Reputation: Heartless Bitch 8Reputation: Only Person to Break into Fortress 8- (Espionage
World, Extreme)
Rivalry: Other Spies (Professional)
Experience Points
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SEX
Male
AGE
36
HT
510
WT
185#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Black
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DESCRIPTION
Joseph Ryan had started having the headaches while in high school. They went away
after a few years, so he didnt really worry about them. But later, while undergoing a routine
physical during his army induction, a blood test showed some irregularities in his blood
chemistry. These irregularities sent up red flags on a computer system that didnt exist at a
facility that didnt exist manned by an agency that didnt exist. Ryan soon found himself
recruited by a highly secret arm of the NSA that called itself the Ghostworks. His medical tests
had been flagged because they matched early testing signs for psi-potential. Within a few
short months, the scientists he worked with had succeeded in awakening his talents and he
started training in how to use them. Unlike his compatriots, all of whom were low-powered
telepaths and telekines, Ryan was a powerful psionic void. He was very difficult to affect with
psionics and could, with effort, shut down the functions of most forms of psionics. This made
him both respected and feared by his peers. It made him highly valued by his superiors,
however, as it set him up as the perfect counter to psi-agents working for hostile
governments. Further work in developing his talents also led to discovering other applications.
He could affect not only the parts of the brain responsible for active psionics but also standard
mental functions. He could modify the minds ability to process sensory input, making people
unaware of his presence their minds simply refusing to acknowledge that their senses were
picking him up. And he could disable the voluntary nervous system, effectively paralyzing a
target, or knocking him out.
Codenamed Krait, after the diminutive but incredibly venomous snake whose presence is
often overlooked until much too late for its victims, Ryan served Ghostworks faithfully for
several years. But his job took its toll. Given the nature of his work, relationships simply didnt
last. He never received recognition for his abilities or his work by the world at large, and never
could. And the people he did encounter on a daily basis tried to avoid him, as his ability to
suppress the traits that made them special disturbed practically all of his co-workers. Finally,
he decided to leave. Unfortunately, Ghostworks wasnt a country club. No one simply resigned
and walked away from the shadow community any of the shadow communities. When his
requests were denied, he disappeared. The rest of the agency frantically tried to find him, but
to no avail. He had learned his lessons much too well, and no trace of him could be found at
least for a while. Eventually, reports of a private operator matching Kraits description
surfaced. Agents were dispatched to bring him in. Those agents were later found dead. The
note attached to one of their bodies read, I know who gives the orders. I know their names,
their faces, and where they live. Dont make me prove it. Im not your enemy yet. His file
was appended with the descriptor: Resignation Accepted.
Krait is an assassin. He specializes in psi-active targets, but is just as lethal against targets
who arent psi-active. His tradecraft is world-class, and his ability to cloud mens minds and
paralyze their bodies has left him the winner against more than one opponent who was far
superior to Ryan physically. He is always prepared before entering into any assignment, and he
will spend as much time as he deems necessary to get a job done right.
Warehouse Hideout: 10 SIZE, 8 BODY, 10 DEF; Attributes: Location: City, Disguise 14-, KS:
Current Events 14-, KS: Superhuman World 14- , Streetwise 14-, Lockpicking 14-, Security
Systems 14-, Weaponsmith (Firearms) 11-
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5
-8 Psionic assassin
-10 Former operative for Ghostworks
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14
5
Krait
Val
20
15
20
10
13
20
15
10
5
5
4
8
40
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
75
4u
7u
120
Cost Roll
10 1315 1220 130 113 1220 135 120 111
1
15
0
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
4
37
3
35
17
Powers
23
END
0
14
3
20
6
2
3
6
10
10
26
50
32
60
40
5
10
23
Equipment
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23
Skills
20,10 +2 Overall Levels, +2 with Ranged Combat
6,6 +2 with Pistols, +4 versus Range Modifiers with Pistols
10 Two-Weapon Fighting (Ranged)
3,3,3
3,1,3
3,1,3
3,3
3,2
3,3
9,3,2
3,9,3
3,3,1
1,2,2
Acting 12-, Analyze Mental Powers 12-, Bribery 12Bugging 12-, Bureaucratics 8-, Concealment 12Conversation 12-, Criminology 8-, Deduction 12Interrogation 12-, KS: Current Events 12KS: The Espionage World 12-, Mercenary/Military World 11KS: The Psionic World 12-, KS: The Superhuman World 12Lockpicking 15-, Persuasion 12-, PS: Soldier 11PS: Assassin 12-, Security Systems 15-, Shadowing 12Stealth 12-, Streetwise 12-, Systems Operation 8Tactics 8-, Weaponsmith (Firearms) 12-, WF: Small Arms
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DESCRIPTION
Long ago a great war raged among the stars between two powerful races. The Acathii,
one of the oldest and most advanced civilizations in this universe, came into contact and
conflict with an invading extra-dimensional species known as the RhaZhaKeth, terribly
powerful and utterly amoral avatars of living chaos. The war was long and costly, ending the
Acathiis peaceful reign across the stars and culminating in the destruction or imprisonment of
what RhaZhaKeth made it into this reality. One such imprisoned entity was a lord among his
kind when thrown into the pocket dimension designed to hold him for eternity. But time and
separation from any source of sustenance for his power diminished him over the ages. Eons
after its imprisonment, the entity was mistakenly contacted by young sorcerer attempting to
invoke an entirely different power. Feigning the intended entitys identity, the chaos lord found
that he was able to latch onto the summoners focus before the mage realized his error. In
that moment, a bond was forged between the entity and the symbol of that focus: a small
mirror. Through trial and error, the RhaZhaKeth found it could contact the home of that
mage, a place called Earth, through the use of that and other mirrors, but it was still much too
weak to do more than communicate. Over the centuries, as it was able to make contact again
and again, it was slowly able to bargain for strength in exchange first for information, and then
the use of its own power for those with whom it entreated. The Wishgiver, the Whisperer,
Master of Secrets, all of these names it earned over the years. But its most common
appellation comes from the means by which today, even mortals without real magic can invoke
the entity with nothing more than the proper words the Lord of Mirrors.
Possessing only the smallest fraction of the power it once commanded, the Lord of Mirrors is
still trapped within the dark prison dimension into which the Acathii banished him. He cant
manifest on the physical plane yet. He is entreated mostly by mid-level practitioners, those with
more power than wisdom. They ask for things like beauty or strength or long life, etc. More
experienced sorcerers know to take precautions when dealing with him, as hes proven a deadly
mistake for those incautious enough to trust him. As he bargains with more and more people, his
strength grows from the fleeting touches with this plane. Within the last few centuries, it has
grown strong enough to form fetches, small reflections of itself that it can actually send
through the mirrors used to invoke it and possess those foolish enough to give it an opening.
What it plans to do with its small but growing number of possessed servants is unknown to any
but their master.
The Lord of Mirrors has no corporeal form nor set appearance. He traditionally appears to
his summoners as their own reflection, though animated. However, he can appear as anything
or anyone he desires; its entirely illusion, with no substance to it whatsoever, but few can tell
the difference unless he desires it.
QUOTE
SEX
N/A
AGE
Varies(?)
HT
Varies
WT
Varies
EYES
Varies
HAIR
Varies
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5
-8 Extra-dimensional bargaining
entity
-10 Ancient imprisoned evil
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Duplicates Powers
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
60
150
60
60
50
60
60
105
6000
1740
142
578
40
Cost Roll
0 110 11-20
20 1125 1680 1940 190
74
6
20
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
90
9u
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 3/DCV: 3
9u
6u
3u
295
Powers
END
0
52
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
23,5
20,14
7,17
22
20,3
8
50
10
Primarys Powers
var.
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3
3,3
3,2
3,3
3,3
END, +)
2) Planetary Movement: Flight 10, Megascale
(Scaleable up to 1=100 km, +1), Reduced Endurance
(0 END, +)
3) Galactic Movement: FTL Travel (1 LY/second)
4) Dimensional Movement: Extra-Dimensional
Movement (Any Dimension, Any Location), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); Must be Invited (-1), OIF
(mirror of opportunity, -)
0
0
0
Talents
Disquieting Aura (Strong II, DC109), Eidetic Memory
Fear-Inspiring (x2, DC107), Fearless (FH106)
Fearless (FH111), Magesight (FH106)
Universal Translator 18Perks
Access: That Which Man Cannot Know, Anonymity
Contact: The Interdimensional Mystic World 11- (Useful,
Contacts, Institutions, Unfriendly, Organization)
Favors: 100 Favors from Those Foolish Enough to Seek It
Reputation: The Unnamed One 8- (Mystic World),
+10/+10d6
Well-Connected
Skills
Animal Handler 19- (All Categories); Only to Cause
Fear/Unease (-1)
Acting 19-, Bribery 19-, Conversation 19Deduction 16-, Disguise 16-, High Society 19KS: Acathii 16-, KS: Arcane Lore 16KS: Cosmic Secrets 16-, KS: The Mystic World 16KS: RhaZhaKeth 16-, Navigation (Dimensional) 16Oratory 19-, Persuasion 19Seduction 19-, Trading 19-
0
0
500+ Disadvantages
15 Distinctive Feature: Extra-Dimensional Horror (Not
Concealable, Unusual Senses, Extreme)
10 Hunted: The Mystic World 11- (As Pow, NCI, Watching)
25 Physical Limitation: Imprisoned in Another Dimension (All
the Time, Fully)
25 Psychological Limitation: Seeks to Escape Its
Interdimensional Prison by Gaining Power from Humans
(Very Common, Total)
25 Psychological Limitation: Utterly Evil (Very Common, Total)
9400 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 10,000
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DESCRIPTION
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
(?)
HT
91
WT
1380#
The Sikkai are warriors. From the youngest child to the oldest wise man,
they constantly train to fight. They are one of the few races that seem
indigenous to the interdimensional area between worlds known as the
Gray. Upon discovering a series of naturally occurring portals leading to
Earth, a lush paradise in the eyes of those living in an endless wasteland,
they immediately worked to transform their entire people into a cohesive
invasion force. The first invasion was defeated in the 60s by the
adventurers that called themselves Danger, Inc., the second by the Steele
family in the early 80s, and the third by the current team of
Sentinels a little over two years ago. This last invasion was marked
by a new type of Sikkai, a genetically altered breed with enhanced
physical abilities.
Where and from whom these alterations were received is a
question still in search of an answer, as none of the Sikkai have
ever been captured alive to ask. When faced with their immediate
failure and inevitable capture, the beachhead force retreated back
through their portals. Left behind was only the leader of these new
Sikkai, a monstrous fighter whose failure to lead his people to
success resulted in this involuntary exile.
Dubbed Magog by an imaginative reporter,
this master warriors real name is
unpronounceable by human tongue. He also
hasnt answered questions, as hes never
been captured, at least not for very long.
Consumed with shame over his exile, and
determination to earn his way back into his
peoples good graces, Magog has led a oneman guerilla war while on Earth. How hes
adapted to function in this world well enough to
hide from the authorities so well is also a mystery.
He appears, sometimes attacking targets whose value
is military, and at other times, confusingly, of no discernible
value except to him. What is known with certainty is that he
is very dangerous, and takes a special interest in those who
successfully stand against him, such as Hardcore (page 26)
of the Sentinels and Nimbus of The Atomic Youth, both of
whom have earned his personal enmity.
Magog is a large gray-green-skinned humanoid with
artificially placed external bone structures located at
strategic places along his body. He is immensely strong
and well trained in the arts of war. His body
apparently generates a paralytic neurotoxin that he
can spit at great range and with respectable
precision. Hes mastered the dominant languages of
his primary battlefield, namely North America, and
somehow continues to make allies enough to help him stay
underground as he continues his private war.
EYES
Orange
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Alien warrior
-3 Leader of failed invasion
-5 Continues to fight a guerilla war
-8
-10
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5
4
4
4
5
4
Skills
Martial Arts: Brick Tricks
Maneuver
OCV
Bearhug I
+0
Bearhug II
-2
Grab
+0
Escape
+0
Punch
+2
Fast Haymaker
+1
Slam
-1
DCV
+0
+0
-1
+0
+0
-2
-1
3
3
4
Tackle
Throw
Toughness
+1
+1
+2
Magog
Val
75
15
40
15
10
10
25
4
15
15
5
25
80
75
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
20
Cost Roll
65 2415 1260 1710 120 110 1115 14-3 100
7
25
4
0
2
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 800 tons; 15d6 HTH [3]
OCV: 5/DCV: 3
12/24
15/30
2/4
Powers
END
Combat
15
75
37
48
10
7
10
10
15
12
4
19
5
15
17
1
10
7
6
3
5
7
9
2
24
15
9
6
5
1
2
3
5
3
3
3
3
3
7
2
1
1,1
2,2
1
3
3
1
2
3
3
3
8
3
3
3
2
+2
+0
+2
Notes
+4d6 Crush
2 Limbs, 2d6 NND
2 Limbs, +10 STR Grab
+15 STR Escape
+2d6
+4d6
+2d6, Grab 2 Limbs,
Target Falls
STR, Both Fall
+v/5, Target Falls
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QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
38
HT
64
WT
520#
EYES
Artificial
HAIR
Black
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Former Sentinel
+0 Hates Technomancer
-3 Has killed several metahumans
-5 Generally causes a lot of property
damage
-8
-10
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DESCRIPTION
Curt Weathers still doesnt know why the Assembly (page 176) chose him. Out of the
thousands of people the Assembly captured as hostages during one of its many assimilate-theworld attempts, Curt was one of the few that it used a lab experiment in creating cyborg minions.
Most of those it chose died, but Curt had always been the toughest person hed ever known. In
fact, he prided himself on it. He survived the rapid and agonizing surgical implantations with his
mind intact. Mostly. He was rescued from digital slavery shortly thereafter by the intervention of
the Best Man (page 94) and a few of the Sentinels (page 5).
It took the hospitals months of examining before they had no choice but to pronounce him
healthy. Half-machine, with no chance of regaining his humanity, but healthy nonetheless. Of
course, he couldnt go back to work for his construction company. After one look at him, the
company sent a legal representative to blather on about health insurance coverers objecting and
half a hundred other things that Curt zoned out on after a few minutes. The point was, and he
understood it clearly, they didnt want him there. It was something he got used to over the
following weeks the words were different, but the point always stayed the same. Finally, not
knowing where else to turn and having no idea where rent and food money were going to be
coming from, he took the first offer he was made, to play the part of rent-a-thug. Just stand
around and look intimidating. No problem. Until the two-bit wannabe that had hired him snafued
his masterplan and brought down the cops and then took hostages. Curt could handle looking
the part, but when it actually came down to hurting innocent people, he balked. His employer
folded over on the first punch.
For a few weeks, he was something of a celebrity; VILLAIN SEES LIGHT/SAVES DAY read the
headlines. The prosecutors dropped most of the charges, indicting him only for the lesser
offenses for which he received a slap on the wrist. Many people in the city looked at him as
some kind of underdog, some kind of hero, just for showing a conscience. Curt didnt understand
it, but he went with it. Went with all the little perks, like getting paid to stand in the background
in commercials good money, and very easy.
Over time he did more and more of the corporate sponsorships. Occasional encounters with
no-name second rate metacriminals set up by his sponsors, continued to enhance his reputation,
especially with a corporate officer or two helping the presentation. Eventually, one of his
sponsors finagled an even higher profile gig. Early in their career, the current Sentinels made
the mistake of taking assistance from a few government and corporate organizations. During that
period, one of those sponsors attached strings and they wanted Mean Machine (as he had
become known) on the team. Weathers suddenly found himself in the bigtime.
Unfortunately for Curt, there were two problems. The first was that he now had to do more
than just act the part; he was facing real opponents who actually wanted to kill him (and the
others). The second was that the constant activity was putting a strain on his systems his
neural interfaces started to affect his brain chemistry. He found it harder to control his temper,
and experienced extreme mood swings. One punch was no longer as satisfying as administering
a good beating. After a particularly brutal episode ending in severe hospitalization for a couple of
opponents who didnt have it coming, he was suspended from the group and faced the very real
likelihood of assault charges. He responded violently, but before either Hardcore or Sundance
could intervene, Technomancer overrode Curts systems. He was shut down, quickly, completely,
and in a humiliating fashion. Something inside him died in that shame, and when he had control
again he escaped custody, determined that he would never again dance to someone elses tune.
Though hes often worked for other people since his psychotic breakdown, hes always been
the one to dictate the terms. Mean Machine will work for anyone who meets his steep prices.
Gone are the days of the sympathetic anti-hero, as well as the conscience that spawned them.
He reserves a special hatred for Technomancer and other cyberpaths, who hell target first if he
has the option. He also responds with incredible violence whenever he feels hes been
embarrassed or deceived. Mean Machine is a large and intimidating (obvious) cyborg with a
number of weapons attachments. Over the years, hes occasionally accepted payment in the form
of upgrades to his systems. Hes superhumanly strong, fast, and durable, and his Omnium-tipped
chainsaw can cut through most obstacles, regardless of their construction. Hes an accomplished
brawler, but seldom displays any real grasp of tactics.
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BODY
INT
EGO
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8
11
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0
0
Notes
Lift 50 tons; 11d6 HTH [5]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
15/30
20/40
2/4
75
Powers
22
37
19
(+)
2
0
Hardened (+)
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0
8
5
75
12
7
15
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7
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1
2
AK: Fortress 8Breakfall 15Bribery 8Computer Programming 11Conversation 13Electronics 11Gambling (Craps) 11Interrogation 13KS: The Cybernetic World 11KS: The Mercenary World 11KS: The Sentinels 8KS: The Superhuman World 11Mechanics 11PS: Handyman 11PS: Mercenary 11PS: Power Suit Repair 8Security Systems 11Streetwise 13Systems Operation 8Teamwork 8TF: Construction Vehicles
Trading 8Weaponsmith (Firearms) 8WF: Small Arms
Notes
+10 STR Disarm
+2d6
+4d6
Equipment
25
4
4
5
1
Skills
Martial Arts: Dirty Brick Fighting
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Disarm
+1
-1
Punch
+2
+0
Smash
+1
-2
Use Art with Chainsaw Arm
15
Cost
120
5
32
Perks
Contact: The Cybernetic World 11- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Unfriendly, Organization)
Contact: The Mercenary World 11- (Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Reputation: Former Corporately Sponsored Pitchman 8(Business World), +1/+1d6
Money: Well-Off
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SEX
Male
AGE
Varies
HT
Varies
WT
Varies
EYES
Varies
HAIR
Varies
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5 Shapeshifting bounty hunter
-8 Has a thing against so-called
aliens
-10 Works for Majestic-20
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DESCRIPTION
The Chidoro were once a powerful race. Long ago they held dominion over a grand
empire spanning dozens of star systems, violently annexing neighboring systems one by one
as they expanded their sphere of influence. And then they encountered the Saeduun. the
Chidoro tried to overwhelm the Saeduun as the Chidoro had done every other race they had
ever come across only to find themselves greatly outmatched by the psionically-endowed
and militarily-advanced Pale Ones. In the aftermath of their failed conquest, the great
houses of the Chidoro rose against each other, exploiting the chaos to settle old debts. By the
time the last dagger was dropped, the Chidoro were in shambles as a society.
This all happened centuries before Xeregal was dragged from his birthing crche. Xeregal
was born in the caste of the Hunter, the onetime enforcers of the empires harsh laws and edicts.
To survive after the demise of their patrons, the Hunters began offering their services to any
patron that could meet their price, even going so far as to work for the power that had moved
into the fringes of the space they once ruled over, the reptilian Voth Hegemony, as well as their
species now-hated enemies, the Saeduun Commonwealth. Their genetic enhancements made
them feared bounty hunters throughout known space, and they took efforts to embellish their
reputation whenever possible.
Xeregal still doesnt know the name of his current patron only that a portion of his
commission was paid upfront, that the coordinates of the targets world were far into the
backwaters of charted space, and that the energy signature of his target matched nothing he
had ever even heard of before. Still, the greater the challenge, the greater the prestige. The
targets world was a place called Earth, and he soon discovered that it was an even greater
challenge than he had anticipated. This world contained powerful enhanced individuals among its
population, and a paranoid set of competing authorities. The target itself was called Onyx, and
the energy signature was generated by a crystalline symbiote the target wore. After a few failed
attempts to trap and overpower his quarry, Xeregal began looking into other options. Eventually
he found another enemy his target had made Majestic 20, a covert organization devoted to
watching and neutralizing Alien Threats such as it had labeled Onyx. It amused him greatly to
deceive them as to his true background, convincing the people behind Majestic 20 that he was a
poor human who had been the victim of alien experimentation and looked for revenge against
all non-terrestrials. Advanced as their scanning tech was, his technology was far greater, more
than enough to make it give them the results he wanted, the results that supported his story.
Now, acting as Majestic 20s newest special asset, Xeregal, or Nemesis as theyve dubbed him,
continues to prove his value with his ever-surprising breadth of knowledge concerning (other)
alien species, and his dedication in the hunt.
The Chidoro are baseline humanoids with charcoal gray skin, sparse hair, and eyes of
a watery yellow. They are tattooed with their caste markings at birth. Members of the Hunter
caste have been extensively modified on a genetic level. They are accomplished and versatile
shapeshifters, and they can synch with most lifeforms biofields to duplicate a broad range of
exotic abilities as possessed by their targets. Xeregal is an experienced bounty hunter, and an
experienced combatant. He is also rare among his people in that he possesses certain telepathic
abilities as well. In combat he switches forms fluidly, a deadly blur of spikes, spines, claws, and
teeth. If given the opportunity, he will get close to his target appearing as someone the target
trusts, all the while duplicating the targets abilities in preparation for the deathblow. All of
Xeregals caste are adept at learning and blending in with populations among whom they hunt.
Xeregal has taken this a little further with Earth. During the time hes spent here, hes become so
enamored with the cultures and opportunities Earthside that he has effectively gone native. He
works constantly at improving colloquial mannerisms and speech, paying special care to adopt
slang whenever possible.
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10
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DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
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Cost
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Cost Roll
10 1360 1520 130 115 1210 125 12-1 111
1
10
4
0
0
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
9,12
4,4
18,6
3,3
3
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Lift 400 kg; 4d6 HTH [2]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
PER Roll: 14ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 3d6
3,2
30
3,1
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16
98
87
20
27
19
10
6
27
10
20
21
Equipment
0
0
0
0
4
4
5
3
5
4
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3,3,3
3,3
3,3
1,3,3
3,3,3
2,3
2,3
3,3
1,3
3,3
3,3
2,1
3,2
3,2,3
3,3,3
3,1,1
2,3,1
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Talents
Ambidexterity (Full), Combat Luck (x2)
Double-Jointed, EM: Zero-G
Evasive (FH105), Lightning Reflexes +4
Perfect Pitch, Resistance
Simulate Death
Perks
Anonymity, Deep Cover
Contact: Majestic-20 14- (Very Useful, Institutions, Great
Relationship, Organization)
Federal Police Powers, Passport
Skills
Martial Arts: Fighting Techniques of a Hundred Worlds
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Notes
Choke Hold
-2
+0
2d6 NND
Escape
+0
+0
+15 STR Escape
Flying Dodge
+4
Dodge, Abort, FMove
Grab
-1
-1
2 Limbs, +10 STR Grab
Passing Strike
+1
+0
+v/5, FMove
Punch
+2
+0
+2d6
Throw
+0
+1
+v/5, Throw
+2 Overall Levels, +2 with Martial Arts
+1 with All Interaction Skills
Acrobatics 15-, Acting 12-, AK: Earth 12AK: United States 12-, Analyze Combat Tactics 12Analyze Mimicked Powers/Abilities 12-, Breakfall 15Bureaucratics 8-, Climbing 15-, Concealment 12Contortionist 15-, Conversation 12-, Interrogation 12KS: Alien Technology 11-, KS: Chidoro Culture 12KS: Chidoro History 11-, KS: Current Events 12KS: Earth Cultures 12-, KS: Earth History 12KS: Earth Law 8-, KS: Earth Popular Culture 12KS: Galactic Cultures 13-, KS: Galactic History 13KS: Majestic-20 12-, KS: The Saeduun 11KS: The Superhuman World 11-, KS: The Voth Hegemony 8Mimicking (INT-Based) 12-, Navigation (Space) 12Persuasion 12-, PS: Bounty Hunter 12-, PS: Impersonator 12Shadowing 12-, Sleight of Hand 15-, Stealth 15Streetwise 12-, Tactics 8-, Teamwork 8TF: Spacecraft, Tracking 12-, Trading 8WF: Common Melee, Small Arms
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Male
AGE
45(3287)
HT
Changes
WT
Changes
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5
-8 Sorceror
-10 Violently incarnates
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HAIR
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He has used so many names and faces over the last few millennia, he no longer
remembers the ones he was born with, or died with the first time. Nergal began as a priest in
the days of ancient Babylon. As he grew older and his body began to betray him, he searched
feverishly for a way to stem off death. Desperate, he finally bargained with entities from
outside the daylit worlds of the netherverse. In exchange for certain favors, they would share
with him a ritual whereby he would cheat death, for a time. The ritual involved the sacrifice of
another living soul, and the usurpation of their body. The priest thought for only a moment
before agreeing after all, wasnt he much more important than some slave or farmer. He
chose his young apprentice as the first candidate.
As the ritual dagger sank into the fools heart, Nergal heard a scream that never came
from the young mans lips, as his soul was consigned to whatever hellish place Nergals new
mentors presided over. Darkness overtook his own vision. When he opened his eyes, he was
laid out on the altar. He rose, feeling the strength in his new, young, and fully healed body.
Looking down at the base of the altar, he saw a discarded old husk that no longer had any
value to him. He left the temple without a second look or a second thought. He chose a new
name, the only one he has carried all through the ages he has lived, moving from one body to
another Nergal, after the guardian demon that watched the paths of the dead in the
Babylonian underworld.
Nergal is a sorcerer with a broad array of spells and mystic artifacts acquired over
centuries. He is quite wealthy and well-situated, as hes had centuries to amass his wealth and
connections. He can well afford to take the long view, and has often benefited from plans and
schemes that took decades, if not hundreds of years, to come to fruition. Whenever a body
begins to grow too old for his tastes, hell begin searching for a worthy replacement. Nergal
prides himself as a connoisseur, only choosing the best looking and healthiest of targets, and
only those without any pesky connections to notice odd behavior. Hell befriend and bedazzle
his new acquaintance, learn everything he needs to know about him, and then invite away to a
secluded party. Next comes the announcement of his old identitys passing away, and leaving
everything to the next face he wears. Its a game hes grown both fond of and skillful at over
the years.
Actually dragging Nergal into combat is an accomplishment all by itself. Hes a planner,
not a fighter. If forced to defend himself, hell hit his attackers with everything hes got in
hopes of staggering them long enough to escape. Worse, hell then make it a priority to use
every connection he deems appropriate, any favors hes owed, to make his attackers lives
miserable. Hell create a new identity if he has to (hes always keeping a list of potential new
hosts), and then just add the inconvenience to his list of items to make his newfound foes pay
for, and dearly. He will use all means at his disposal, magical and mundane, to discover hidden
identities, secrets, weaknesses, anything that can be used against his new enemies. Subtle
curses carried over months and years, fines and audits leveled toward the attackers by
everyone from the post office to the IRS these are Nergals style. A little spice to liven a
boring eternitys tedium is a good thing now and again, and he does enjoy his work.
Lavish Mansion: 13 SIZE, 12 BODY, 15 DEF; Attributes: Location: Distant, Grounds x1000;
Inventor 17-, Magic 18-, KS: Arcane Lore 17-, KS: General Reference 17- , KS: History 17-, High
Society 17-, Lockpicking 17-, Security Systems 17-
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30
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14m
14m
14m
14m
14m
10m
14m
18
21
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
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REC
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0
6
0
2
3
6,3
17,3
3,12
Notes
Lift 200 kg; 3d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
PER Roll: 15ECV: 10
PRE Attack: 6d6
Total: 4/19 PD (0/15 rPD)
Total: 4/19 ED (0/15 rED)
Phases: 4, 8, 12
Total Characteristics Cost: 120
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0
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0
0
0
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Talents
Combat Spellcasting (FH104), Lightsleep
Magesight (FH106), Resistance
Simulate Death, Spell Augmentation (FH107)
Perks
10,45 Access: Memories of a Hundred Lifetimes, Base: Mansion
38 Contact: The Business World 17- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
41 Contact: The Criminal Underworld 17- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
41 Contact: High Society 17- (Extremely Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
41 Contact: The Law Enforcement World 17- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
38 Contact: The Mystic World 17- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
41 Contact: The Political World 17- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
38 Contact: The Religious World 17- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
41 Contact: The Superhuman World 17- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
50 Favors (100 from Various Figures)
35 Followers: 32 Criminals (Competent Normals, 5ER 346)
25,1 Money: Wealth Beyond Dreams of Avarice, Passport
4 Reputation: Killer Immortal 8- (Mystic World), +4/+4d6
3 Well-Connected
32
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3
2,3
3,3
4,4,4
3,3,3
3,2,3
3,3,3
7
3,2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,3
2,2,2
2,2,2
2,2
Skills
+4 with All Noncombat Skills
Acting 15-, Analyze Magic 13-, Bribery 15Bureaucratics 15-, Conversation 15-, Deduction 13Forgery (Art, Scrolls) 13-, High Society 15-, Interrogation 15Inventor (Spell Research) 13-, Magic (EGO-Based) 13Language: Abyssal (Conversational), Aramaic (Fluent)
Language: Atlantean (Fluent), Enochian (Fluent)
Language: Farsi (Native), French (Native), Latin (Native)
Navigation (Land, Marine) 13-, Oratory 15-, Paramedics 13Persuasion 15-, PS: Wizard 13-, Riding 12Seduction 15-, Streetwise 15-, Trading 15WF: Common Melee, Common Missile, Small Arms, Staff
Scholar, KS: Business 13-, KS: The Business World 13KS: Cantrips 13-, KS: The Criminal Underworld 13KS: History 13-, KS: The Law Enforcement World 13KS: Lifetimes of Memories 13-, KS: The Mystic World 13KS: Philosophy 13-, KS: The Political World 13KS: Religion 13-, KS: The Religious World 13KS: The Superhuman World 13-, Traveler
AK: Africa 13-, Asia 13-, Central America 13AK: Europe 13-, Middle East 13-, Near East 13AK: North America 13-, South America 13-
Disadvantages
Distinctive Features: Mystic Aura (Not Concealable, Unusual)
Hunted: The Covenant 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
Psychological Limitation: Arrogant (Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Obsessed with Immortality
(Uncommon, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Patient, Thinks Long-Term
(Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Self-Centered (Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Vengeful (Uncommon, Strong)
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DESCRIPTION
Night Archer is an old man, but hes showing up the younger generation.
Nicholas Teller got his love of bows from hunting with his father, who thought guns took
the sport out of hunting. He got his love of poisons from his stint as a mercenary after being
discharged from the military.
Teller used to be the leader of a societal group, the ALPHA (Association for the Legitimate
Preservation of Human Achievement). This group desired purity of the species, and saw
superhumans as a threat to mankinds position in the world. The group petitioned for
superhuman registration acts, civil suits covering property damage, bans on genetic research,
and otherwise hassled the superhuman community.
The groups methods seemed futile and weak, but Teller kept with it, hoping for a
peaceful revolution. That changed when his only son was killed by falling rubble from a
superhuman battle. It was time for the man to take up arms and remedy the situation
violently.
Night Archer carries needle-tipped poisonous arrows in addition to his standard
arrowheads. Dipped in different kinds of poisons, which he keeps track of by the color of the
shaft, the arrows can inject his targets for several effects: immobilizing, slowing, and sleeping
are the most common.
Teller is an excellent tactician, and will use his environment to his greatest
advantage, using range and cover. Although he will never put human bystanders at
risk, he has no qualms about sniping or otherwise fighting dirty.
He will often attempt to psyche out his opponents to gain the upper hand. He is fairly
well known for using poisonous arrows, and he plays up on peoples fears about that.
Teller is past his prime, and not happy about it. He secretly wishes he was as young as
the brash idiot supers he hunts. But since he cant change that, he grates on the nerves of
his youthful opponents by overtly embarrassing them.
Night Archer is a normal human man, seemingly in his late forties, although hes actually in
his mid-sixties. Teller himself has a weak heart, and must take great care with his poisons.
He wears two quivers of arrows on his back, and a utility belt around his waist. He carries a
bow that looks like it's made of sturdy wood. The rest of his costume is brown with black trim,
including his visor/mask. He keeps the special arrows grouped in his quiver such that he can pull
out the correct arrow without looking. Hes skilled enough that he can fire off several arrows in
succession quickly.
Warehouse Hideout: 10 SIZE, 8 BODY, 5 DEF; Attributes: Location: City, Unobtrusive:
Disguise 14-; Archery Range: Trick Shots 20-, Security: Lockpicking 14-, Security Systems 14-,
Workshop: Inventor 14-, Weaponsmith (Muscle-Powered HTH) 14QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
45(66)
HT
59
WT
130#
EYES
Brown
HAIR
White
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Highly skilled bowman
+0 Hunts superhumans
-3 Gotta be getting up there in
years, yknow?
-5 Actually in his sixties
-8
-10 Has a bad heart
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5
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10
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24
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8
30
30
Cost
35
4
3
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
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3
7
4
0
4
Notes
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OCV: 8/DCV: 8
25
20
32
26
29
26
15,3
4
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0
6
6
10
10
18
0
1
0
0
0
Equipment
20
2u
2u
2u
55
10
5
8,18
9,6
7,18
10,7
6,14
Skills
Martial Arts: Master Archery (Accurate Shot, Basic Shot,
Defensive Shot, Disarming Shot, Diving Shot, Far Shot, Leg
Shot, Offensive Shot, Quick Shot)
20,32 +2 Overall Levels, +4 with All Combat
20,12 +4 with Ranged Combat, +4 with Archery
8,8 +4 versus Range Modifiers with Bow, with Find Weakness
8,5 +4 versus Hit Location Modifiers, Rapid Attack (Ranged)
8,15 Defense Maneuver III, +3 with Agility Skills
9 +3 with Conversation, Oratory, and Persuasion
9 +3 with Fast Draw, Trick Shots, and Weaponsmith
9 +3 with Concealment, Security Systems, and Tactics
9 +3 with Criminology, Shadowing, and Tracking
9 +3 with Deduction, KS: Superhuman World, and Streetwise
3,3,3 Acrobatics 14-, Acting 14-, Analyze Combat Tactics 133,3,3 Breakfall 14-, Bribery 14-, Climbing 143,3,3 Concealment 13-, Contortionist 14-, Conversation 143,3,3 Criminology 13-, Deduction 13-, Demolitions 133,1,3 Fast Draw 14-, High Society 8-, Interrogation 143,3,2 Inventor 13-, Lockpicking 14-, Navigation (Land) 133,3,3 Oratory 14-, Paramedics 13-, Persuasion 143,2,2 PS: Archer 13-, PS: Fletcher 11-, PS: Hunter 112,3,3 PS: Mercenary 11-, Riding 14-, Security Systems 133,2,2 Shadowing 13-, SS: Biology 11-, SS: Chemistry 112,3,3 SS: Medicine 11-, SS: Toxicology 13-, Stealth 146 Survival (Mountains, Temperate, Tropical) 133,3,3 Streetwise 14-, Tactics 13-, Teamwork 143,3,3 Tracking 13-, Trading 14-, Trick Shots (DEX-Based) 142,4 Weaponsmith (Bows) 13-, WF: Common Melee and Missile
3,2,2 Scholar, KS: ALPHA 13-, KS: Archery 132,2 KS: The Archery World 13-, KS: The Criminal Underworld 132,2 KS: The Human Supremacist, Military/Mercenary Worlds 132,2 KS: Poisons 13-, KS: The Superhuman World 1336
var.
Talents
Combat Archery (FH104), Combat Luck (x3)
Combat Running (DC130), Disappearing Act (DC130)
Drawing a Bead (DC110), Evasive (FH105)
Fascination (FH105), Fearless (FH111)
Lightning Reflexes +4, Master Archer (Deadly Blow, FH105)
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15
15
10
5
10
700
Disadvantages
Age (40+), Normal Characteristic Maxima
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
Physical Limitation: Weak Heart (Infrequently, Fully)
Psychological Limitation: Code versus Killing Normal Humans
(Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Vengeful (Uncommon, Strong)
Rivalry: Young Superhumans (Professional, Superior,
Unaware)
Vulnerability: 1x STUN from Poisons (Common)
Experience Points
209
QUOTE
SEX
Female
AGE
33
HT
58
WT
132#
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Light-based battlesuit
-3 Major hate-on for Onyx
-5 Top-notch scientist
-8
-10
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EYES
Brown
HAIR
Purple
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DESCRIPTION
Claudia Weiss always had a reputation as diligent and dedicated to her work. Her work had
been her life for as long as she could remember. It was that level of dedication that brought her
to the attention of Kessler Technodynes management. She rapidly rose through the ranks of
their project managers before finally being given her own design team. Project Kaleidoscope was
their first major assignment an experimental battlesuit using exotic applications of laser
technology as the primary design frame.
The project was a mixed success. Claudia and her team succeeded in developing some very
effective applications of the various laser systems, even to the point of creating a way for the suit
to efficiently use other electromagnetic energies to channel through the laser array. Anything
from microwaves to IR emissions could be converted to power for the lasing process. They were
even able to take this idea a step further and use the laser array to manipulate magnetic fields
in effect creating a very high powered gravity lens. Theoretically, this would have let the suit
wearer fly. Theoretically being the key word, as the suit part of the equation was the problem.
The design team hadnt been able to resolve a number of problems with the cybernetic
interface it wasnt fluid enough, nor could it provide the interface speed the wearer would need
to control the incredibly complex systems involved in the suits capabilities. Nothing they tried
seemed to solve more than a few of the many problems. The time involved stretched out and
cost overruns became an issue. Claudia began to panic. She was certain, despite the many
lucrative advances that her team had developed during their work on Kaleidoscope, that her
employers would still consider it a failure her failure. She had several ideas all her own on how
to fix the interface, but her coworkers and her superiors had all decried them as too radical and
far too dangerous. On the verge of a nervous breakdown because of the pressure she put on
herself, Weiss snuck back into the labs late one evening, after everyone else had gone home. It
took most of the night, but she made the modifications she wanted on the suits control systems
and power harness. It only needed a few tests before she could show it to anyone. She put on
the harness and then connected the suit on over that. The first few tests went perfectly. The suit
functioned exactly as she had intended and she felt vindicated. Then the discomfort began.
Before she could disengage the suit, the discomfort became pain, and then agony strong
enough to drive her unconscious.
When Claudia woke up, she was in the hospital. She was told that the harness had
apparently fused to her body, integrating itself into her nervous system. It couldnt be removed
without killing her, at least not in the opinion of the surgeons consulted. Further, her employers
were quite upset. Not only was she facing termination of her employment, but they were also
considering a number of charges. She cried herself back to sleep. She woke much later that
evening, when she felt a feather light touch in her mind. She got of bed and went to the window
floating outside of her window was the suit. Somehow she had called it to her while she slept,
and it had responded automatically. She brought it in and put it on, leaving the hospital and her
old life behind her. She spent the next few days acclimating herself to what the suit could really
do with her in control, and then began to take out some stress release on her former
employers. When the heroine Onyx intervened, Claudia discovered that she enjoyed the
exhilaration of the fight and using the suit in extreme conditions. She introduced herself to her
opponent as Opal, after the color of the light she was omitting, but a nearby reporter heard her
incorrectly and called her Opaque in his report. The name stuck, and she has gradually gotten
use to using it.
Opaque has a cybernetic harness, lightweight and about the size of a thin vest, fused to her
torso. Over the years, she has modified the suit to be smaller and more comfortable; its now
easily mistaken for just another costume. Using the suit, she has a broad range of light
manipulation powers, including the ability to destructively interfere with light emission over an
area, an intense laser blast, and something she calls hard light focusing a light construct
through a gravitic lens to give it something approximating substance. She is extremely intelligent
and resourceful, and very versatile in using her abilities. The fusion with the interface has also
changed her personality somewhat, instilling a less stable element and a far more flexible moral
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10
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15
18
20
3
3
5
6
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CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
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STUN
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Cost
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Cost Roll
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0
12
0
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
6
7
3
Notes
Lift 150 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 6/DCV: 6
15
PER Roll: 16ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 3d6
18
1
10
6
9
Powers
END
0
Equipment
110
11u
9u
8u
7u
10u
3u
42
13
100
13
34
21
(-)
1) Hard Light: RKA 6d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+); IIF (-)
2) Hard Light (Narrow): RKA 4d6, +1 Increased STUN
Multiplier (+), Armor Piercing (+), Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); Beam (-), IIF (-)
3) Hard Light (Spread): RKA 4d6, Area Of Effect (27
Cone, +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); IIF (-),
No Range (-)
4) Laser (Blinding): Sight Group Flash 10d6, Area Of
Effect (27 Cone, +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+); IIF (-), No Range (-)
5) Laser (Wide): Darkness 7 Radius, Personal
Immunity (+), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); IIF
(-)
6) Lightshow: Images, +4 PER, Increased Size (64
Radius, +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); Only
to Create Light (-1), IIF (-)
0
0
0
0
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Contact: The Scientific Community 11- (Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman World 8- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Reputation: Scientist 8- (Scientific World), +1/+1d6
Skills
+2 with Ranged Combat
+2 with Battlesuit Weapons
+3 with Flight
3,3
3,3
3,1
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,2
3,2
3,3
3,1
2
Analyze Technology 16-, Bureaucratics 13Computer Programming 16-, Concealment 16Conversation 13-, Criminology 8Cryptography 16-, Demolitions 16Electronics 16-, Inventor 16KS: Technology 16-, Laser Tricks (DEX-Based) 13Mechanics 16-, Navigation (Air) 16Persuasion 13-, PS: Scientist 16Security Systems 16-, Seduction 13Systems Operation 16-, Teamwork 8Weaponsmith (Energy Weapons) 16-
3
1,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
2,2
1,2
1,2
2,1
1
Scientist
SS: Aeronautics 11-, SS: Battlesuit Design 16SS: Biophysics 16-, SS: Computer Science 16SS: Cybernetics 16-, SS: Electromagnetics 16SS: Engineering 16-, SS: Gravitics 16SS: Lasers 16-, SS: Mathematics 16SS: Metallurgy 11-, SS: Microwaves 16SS: Nuclear Physics 11-, SS: Optics 16SS: Physics 16-, SS: Robotics 11SS: Subatomic Physics 11-
Talents
Combat Luck
Laser Gunner (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Lightning Calculator
0
0
0
0
0
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SEX
Female
AGE
30
HT
511
WT
138#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Platinum
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DESCRIPTION
Kathleen Carrington was a successful computer programmer with a good career ahead of
her. That all changed after a horrible accident on the ski slopes during an ill-fated vacation. As
she lay in her hospital bed, contemplating life as a cripple due to her extensive spinal injuries,
a stranger approached her. With no explanation of who he was or how he had gotten into her
room, he began to tell her that he represented people who were very interested in someone
like her, someone with exactly the right kind of injury. The people he represented could
promise her an opportunity, her only opportunity, to walk again, if she would agree to take
part in an experiment for them. She agreed almost immediately.
The experiment was in the field of cybernetics. Whisked to a hidden facility somewhere far
away from the hospital bed in which she had expected to spend the rest of her life, Carrington
was the recipient of a considerable number of highly sophisticated cybernetic implants. The
implants replaced a good amount of her nervous system and parts of her brain, but were
designed primarily to allow the recipient to mentally interface with computer systems. Regaining
consciousness before the doctors expected her to, and unused to the amount of mental control
she would later learn in order to keep herself from reflexively entering systems around her,
Kathleen unintentionally went on a quick tour of the facilitys systems from the inside. There
she found, to her horror, that her benefactors were using her as a guinea pig for what they
hoped would be a technology allowing them to build an army of superhackers. These people,
who called themselves the Magi, were criminals, with a large organization that would use these
cyberthieves to rape and pillage systems worldwide, systems that would be defenseless before
their armys capabilities.
Perhaps it was some instability brought upon by her neural rewiring, but Carrington
immediately developed a strong, practically fanatical stance against what she would begin
viewing as crimes against technology, or what she decided was the misuse of technology. She
eventually used her newfound capabilities to escape from her erstwhile patrons, doing enough
damage in the process to set back their experiments by a considerable margin. Since then she
has worked tirelessly to prevent technology abuse wherever and whenever she finds it, growing
in the eyes of the Magi (a frequent target of hers) from a nuisance to a position on their top ten
enemies list. When not playing techno-terrorist, Carrington is plying her other trade: information.
Using her abilities, shes amassed not only a frighteningly comprehensive network of expert
systems and know-bots that she has used to infiltrate systems all over the planet for their own
protection but also a large number of human confederates shes recruited from disaffected
internet denizens and computer junkies. She can be contacted through an elaborate set of
protocols and bargained with for what she knows, which could be just about anything.
Carrington was initially bald after her surgery. Among the other upgrades shes made to
herself was adding a nest of metallic filaments leading out from her primary neural interface (her
modified brain). These filaments can be used as a prehensile mass. The filaments themselves
increase the efficiency of her mental linkage, but are limited to physical contact. They have also
been constructed to generate an electrical charge she can use offensively, or defensively as a
protective field. Carrington, now better known by the nickname Platinum Blonde, which she
was given due to the appearance of her cyber-filaments, avoids combat as much as possible. If
forced, she can generate an electrical force field to block incoming attacks, and she will usually
have some hi-tech toy on her to facilitate self-defense or escape. Generally speaking, she must
be found before she can be attacked, and shes made it a priority not to be found physically.
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3
-5 Information broker
-8 Cyberhacker
-10 Vendetta against the Magi
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14
23
10
33
30
20
28
8
8
4
8
50
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
70
3u
4u
3u
4u
2u
3u
Cost Roll
3 1212 1226 140 1123 1640 1510 139 155
3
16
0
2
1
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
30
29
Notes
Lift 150 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
32
29
29
44
29
10
25
20
2
8
Powers
62
30
3
END
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
+)
5
10
0
0
0
75
4
2
3
5
3
3
3
11
3
Talents
Absolute Time Sense
Eidetic Memory
Lightning Calculator
Lightsleep
Resistance
So Thats Whats Going On (DC137)
Speed Reading (x100); Only for Digital Data (-1)
1,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,3
3,2
3,2
2,2
2,2,2
2,2
2
2
2,2
Skills
+5 with Intellect Skills
+4 with Computer Programming, Electronics, and Security
+6 versus Time Penalties for Computer Programming,
Electronics, and Security
Teamwork 8-, Analyze Technology 16Bribery 13-, Bugging 16Bureaucratics 13-, Computer Programming 16Concealment 16-, Conversation 13Criminology 16-, Cryptography 16Deduction 16-, Electronics 16High Society 13-, Information (INT-Based) 16Interrogation 13-, Inventor 16Lockpicking 12-, Oratory 13Persuasion 13-, PS: Information Broker 13Security Systems 16-, Seduction 13SS: Computer Science 16-, SS: Fiber Optics 16Stealth 12-, Streetwise 13Trading 13-, WF: Small Arms
Scholar, KS: Current Events 16KS: Technology 16-, KS: Computers 16KS: The Business, Criminal, and Military/Mercenary World 16KS: The Political World 16-, KS: The Magi 16KS: The Superhuman World 16KS: The Technological World 16KS: Whos Who 16-, KS: Whats Really Going On 16-
Equipment
15
12
12
Perks
Computer Link: Vast Systems Around the World
Contact: The Business World 14- (Very Useful, Institutions,
Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Criminal Underworld 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Military/Mercenary World 14- (Extremely
Useful, Institutions, Good Relationship, Organization)
Contact: The Political World 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman World 14- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Technological World 18- (Extremely Useful,
Institutions, Contacts, Good Relationship, Organization)
Deep Covers (Various Computer System Identities)
Favors (50 from Various Figures)
Money: Wealth Beyond Measure
Private Investigator License
Reputation: Can Find Out Anything 11(Technology/Mercenary World), +4/+4d6
Well-Connected
var.
0
0
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SEX
Male
AGE
Unk
HT
65
WT
312#
EYES
?
HAIR
?
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DESCRIPTION
In a possible future, the discovery of time travel led to seemingly interminable temporal
warfare that has left the timestream a tattered mess and the Earth a wasteland. In this desolate
era, a single strong leader rose to prominence and rebuilt the Earth into a great and terrible
power. A military genius and the product of grueling scientific experimentation in eugenics, this
leader adopted both name and appearance from an ancient period of history he admired:
Praetorian. Aside from small bits and pieces, practically nothing else is known about him. Using
technology stolen from across the timescape, and cannibalizing hapless souls kidnapped from
countless centuries as genetic fodder for his bioengineered armies, the man known only as
Praetorian has conquered one era after another. His only rivals seem to be a mysterious and
pseudo-religious consortium calling itself the Chronumvirate, who have engaged him in a brutal
guerilla conflict throughout all the eras over which he holds sway.
Barely kept in check by the necessity of dealing with the Chronumvirates attacks, Praetorian
has also encountered difficulty extending his grasp to modern times. He knows from fragmented
historical records that the period spanning the second half of the 20th Century and the first half of
the 21st Century is, for some reason, a vital link in the temporal chain for his continuing conquest
of the entire temporal continuum. However, for several hundred years in both directions from the
21st Century, there is a temporal storm, which makes it impossible to accurately travel to and
from this period using the technology he has acquired, and exceedingly difficult for his
extratemporal incursions to stay here for any real duration. Oddly, this storm has neither been
noticed by nor interfered with the travels of others using different forms of time travel than
Praetorians bulk quantum tunnelers. There seems little rhyme or reason as to the dates on which
Praetorian has attempted his invasions, with encounters ranging from as little as a few months
apart to decades from one another. What is known is that he must secure beachheads of a sort,
using his terrible Time Tower weapons to literally tear holes in the fabric of time. These holes
must then be continually reinforced to allow him to bring his troops through, or they will
collapse and his armies and equipment vanish, abruptly yanked back through time to their
rightful origin. Not that these obstacles have in anyway deterred him from attempting his
temporal invasions on the contrary, the difficulties involved just seem to goad him into
stronger resolve. Praetorian holds the dubious distinction of being the sole enemy shared
by all three incarnations of the Sentinels, having fought each in their own era.
The product of comparatively primitive eugenics (technology is unevenly
distributed through Praetorians home era in the aftermath of the Temporal Wars),
the man called Praetorian is an impressive physical specimen. To some, his
physique may even seem abnormally or overly well-developed. He wears a suit of
highly advanced combat armor he calls his warskin. This suit is stylized to resemble an idealized
Roman centurions uniform. It contains weapons systems practically unmatched by anything that
exists on modern Earth, even one where superhuman inventors have been at work for decades.
A favorite of his is an energy sword that has proven able to cut through a meter thick section of
Omnium steel. The combination of his own considerable combat prowess matched with the suits
internal weaponry makes for a daunting opponent. The self-repairing smart-tech in the suit has
even proven capable of reconfiguring itself to produce whatever systems Praetorian has needed,
and includes a personal version of the time-tunneling technology he uses for his army, but on a
more stable scale. The helmet has an opaque and featureless faceplate simulating something like
an LCD on which a stylized face is projected. No one in this century has even seen the true face
of the man inside. On those few occasions where he has been personally overcome, the
individual in the suit has proven to be an android or genetic homunculus.
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Would-be world conqueror
+0 Reputed to be from the future
-3 Scary weapons and an army
-5 Apparently the same guy as in
the 40s through the 70s
-8
-10
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Praetorian
Val
20/60
20
20
15
18
18
35
10
10
10
6
10/20
60
60
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost Roll
10 2130 1320 1310 128 1316 1325 160 116
6
30
4
10
25
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 100 tons; 12d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 7/DCV: 7
PER Roll: 15ECV: 6
PRE Attack: 7d6
Total: 35 PD (25 rPD)
Total: 35 ED (25 rED)
Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Cost
4
5
6
15
10
Powers
14u
20u
24u
49
4u
4u
4u
4u
3u
216
75
10
12
8
36
54
55
END
50
0
0
0
0
0
6
32
240
13u
10
Equipment
250
48
var.
(-)
1) Interface: Telepathy 8d6, Reduced Endurance (0
END, +); OIHID (-)
2) Override: Mind Control 7d6, Telepathic (+),
Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); OIHID (-)
3) Reprogram: Mental Illusions 8d6, Reduced
Endurance (0 END, +); OIHID (-)
4) Trace: Mind Scan 8d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
+); OIHID (-)
5) Monitor: Clairsentience (Sight, Hearing, and Radio
Groups), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); OIHID (-),
Only through the Senses of Machines (-1)
24
0
0
18
14
7
22
7
5
3
140
175
155
10
18
300
130
0
0
0
0
0
4
3
5
4
4
30
64
8
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Talents
Evasive (FH105)
Fearless (FH106)
Fearless (FH111)
Inspire (x2, FH106, PH261)
Swordsman (Deadly Blow, FH105)
Perks
Access: Knowledge of the Future
Anonymity
Follower: Bloodhawks x64,000
Follower: Stridermechs x4,000
Follower: Wardogs x500,000
Leadership: Praetorians Army
Reputation: Invader from the Future 14- (Superhuman
Community), +6/+6d6
Vehicle: Battle Spheres x16
Vehicle: Time Towers x4
Skills
Martial Arts: Swordfighting
Charge +2 -2 +v/5, FMove
Cut +2 +1 Wpn
Lunge +1 -2 +d6K
Parry +2 +2 Block, Abort
Slash -2 +1 +d6K
+3 Overall Levels
+8 with All Combat
Defense Maneuver III
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15
15
15
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
7
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
5
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
3
3
3
Time Tower
Val
20
110
8
30
30
2
Cost
102
134
-14
CHA
SIZE
STR
DEX
BODY
DEF
SPD
Cost
100
0
-6
0
84
-5
Notes
20x20x12, -20 DCV, -30 KB
100 ktons; 22d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 2/DCV: 0
Total Characteristics Cost: 180
Powers
100
35
3
29
29
17
500+ Disadvantages
25 Psychological Limitation: Megalomaniac (Very Common,
Total)
15 Psychological Limitation: Obsessed with Conquering
20th/21st Centuries (Common, Strong)
20 Hunted: The Chronumvirate 11- (Mo Pow)
25 Hunted: The Sentinels 11- (Mo Pow, NCI)
15 Reputation: Extremely Powerful Temporal Conqueror 11(Extreme)
2000 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 2600
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Val
30
160
8
50
30
3
Cost
22
20
27
CHA
SIZE
STR
DEX
BODY
DEF
SPD
Stridermech
END
0
0
22
45
180
140
90
54
16
6
5
32
44
42
42
82
Bridge: Combat Piloting, Navigation (Air, Space, Time) 18Communications: Cryptography, Systems Operation 18Computer: Computer Programming, Systems Operation 18Infirmary: Paramedics, SS: Anatomy, Genetics, Medicine,
66
72
Security: Lockpicking 24-, Security Systems 24Science Labs: SS: Biology, Chemistry, Engineering,
106
3,3
3,5,3
40
218
45
15
0
15
13
10
13
10
8
8
4
9
0
Cost
245
15
9
60
30
12
15
24
42
15
25
10
30
6,7
10,3
24,9
3,3,3
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
35
15
-20
10
3
0
3
0
15
24
15
0
0
18121212111210-
Powers
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Val
15
15
15
15
13
14
15
8
6
6
4
6
30
30
Cost
10
5
15
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Cost Roll
5 1215 1210 1210 123 128 125 12-1 113
3
15
0
0
-1
Wardog
Notes
Lift 200 kg; 3d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
Val
25
14
25
15
8
10
15
8
8
8
4
10
50
50
Powers
END
Alert: +2 PER
0
0
Equipment
70
18
30
5
7
40
7
7
18,7
7
2
9,9
6,9
5
9
3,3
3,2
2,3
3,5
0
0
0
0
Skills
+3 with Small Arms, +3 with Coordinating Attacks
+2 with Flight, +6 versus Range Penalties with Blast Rifle
Rapid Attack (Ranged)
+3 with Analyze Combat Technique, Tactics, and Teamwork
Analyze Combat Technique 12-, Bureaucratics 12Interrogation 12-, Navigation (Air) 12PS: Soldier 12-, Tactics 12Teamwork 12-, WF: Common Melee, Lance, Small Arms
67
4u
7u
30
Notes
Lift 800 kg; 5d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 5/DCV: 5
Powers
END
Large: Knockback Resistance 1
0
Genetically Engineered: Life Support (Immune to Disease) 0
Genetically Engineered: Power Defense (5 points)
0
Perked Ears: Ultrasonic Hearing
0
Olfactory: Discriminatory Tracking Scent, Targeting
0
Tireless: Reduced Endurance (0 END, +) on STR,
Running, Leaping, and Swimming
0
0
0
Cost Roll
15 1412 1230 1410 12-2 110 115 12-1 113
3
16
0
0
9
Cost
2
10
5
3
30
21
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
4
30
7
7,7
1
24
9,9
9
3,3
3,2,3
3,3
5
Equipment
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0
0
Skills
+3 with All Combat
+3 with Power Lance, +3 with Coordinating Attacks
+3 with Analyze Combat Technique, Tactics, and Teamwork
Analyze Combat Technique 11-, Climbing 12Interrogation 13-, PS: Soldier 11-, Tactics 11Teamwork 12-, Tracking 11WF: Common Melee, Lance, Small Arms
200+ Disadvantages
5 Distinctive Feature: Feral Humanoid (Concealable, Not
Distinctive in Some Cultures)
10 Hunted: Praetorian 11- (Mo Pow, Watching)
20 Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
25 Psychological Limitation: Loyal to Praetorian (Very Common,
Total)
15 Reputation: One of Praetorians Army 11- (Extreme)
25 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently,
Severe)
300+ Disadvantages
5 Distinctive Feature: Tall Feral Humanoid (Concealable, Not
Distinctive in Some Cultures)
10 Hunted: Praetorian 11- (Mo Pow, Watching)
20 Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
25 Psychological Limitation: Loyal to Praetorian (Very Common,
Total)
15 Reputation: One of Praetorians Army 11- (Extreme)
25 Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Very Frequently,
Severe)
Total Disadvantages: 400
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Male
AGE
50(183)
HT
510
WT
145#
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Occult world-beater
-3
-5
-8 Once a hero
-10 Once associated with the
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White
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The seventh son of a seventh son, born to a family that could trace its bloodline to the
Slavic witch-kings of old, Lazarius Arkannos knew his abilities made him special long before he
came of age and left his native Lithuania. Immigrating to London in the early part of Victorias
reign, he anglicized his name to Lazarus Arcane, the vanity of its connotations amusing him, and,
thanks to his abilities, soon came to the attention of the organization known as the Covenant.
Their ethos appealed to him and his sense of adventure. In short time he
became one of their most respected members, continuing to
grow stronger and stronger in his natural gifts as he faced
the depredations of the Parliament of Shadows, the
Skinmiser, the Lord of Mirrors (page 198), Amos Isaacson and
his Unbelievers, and all the other enemies the Covenant found for
him to fight. He grew stronger, and ever more disenchanted with the
path he had chosen. Year after year, decade after decade, the fight
continued with no end in sight, and only the smallest signs that his
successes actually mattered. The Parliament continued to return time after time,
as did his other foes. And what satisfaction could be garnered in defending
humanity, when they themselves became ever more efficient in seeking the
death and pain of their fellows? Arcanes old world sensibilities, especially as
tempered by his adopted Victorian outlook, left him little prepared for the
appalling brutality of the 20th Century.
Still, he might have eventually come to grips with the pains of
progress, might have recovered his inner focus, if
not for Montressor. The self-styled Baron Brimstone, Montressors
experiments with siphoning anguish-filled life-energies from the hellish
Dachau provided the key for Arcanes horrible metamorphosis. When
Montressors guilt-ridden ex-protg eventually brought details of his
experiments to the attention of the Covenant in the years following the war, it
was Arcane whose experience, skills, and power, resulted in his being appointed to
study the aftermath of the experiment. What finally happened in the ruins of that
concentration camp can only be speculated upon. Some members of the Covenant insist that
Arcane was warped by his exposure to the tortured spiritual residue of the site. Others believe
that he finally decided that a race capable of perpetrating such an evil, aside from Montressors
involvement, was no longer worthy of protection. But those closest to him, and they are few, say
that Dachau simply provided Arcane with one last glimpse too many into the abyss, and that
Nietzsches fatal pronouncement claimed another victim as the abyss became him.
Regardless, Arcane returned from his journey weeks earlier than anticipated, speaking to
no one as he removed his few belongings from the London Chapter House. On a cold and
windless midwinters night, he entered the Covenants Motherhouse in Paris, storehouse of the
groups most treasured secrets and collections. Murdering those unlucky enough to be standing
guard that fateful night, he quickly found and took a number of items from the vaults items
that the order had kept hidden and warded for fear of their foul and malicious power, such as
Typhons Teeth and the Shroud of Belial. He left a hastily scrawled note in their stead that read
only, I no longer suffer the company of fools.
Under the name Sepulchre, Arcane then began a three-decade-long reign of terror,
quickly rising to the status of major threat in the minds of the worlds authorities. Again and
again his schemes met defeat at the hands of those few champions brave enough to face him,
but always by only the narrowest of margins.
Finally, on All Hallows Eve in 1995, he met his most telling defeat when, in combat with
the metahuman teams known as the Sentinels and the Vanguard, he was tricked into using a
tainted focus for one of his Great Summonings and the resultant backlash sent him falling
through the trackless Netherwastes. Though the mundane authorities breathed a collective sigh
of relief at the apparent end of Sepulchres threat, wiser members of the Covenant know it is
only a matter of time before the man who was the greatest willworker in their history eventually
finds his way back to this plane.
Even before he adopted the Sepulchre identity and delved into the darker aspects of the
art, Lazarus Arcane was a mighty sorcerer; his peers, men not given to exaggeration, had long
ago started calling him arch magus. Easily one of the most powerful mages on Earth,
Sepulchre also has in his possession any number of powerful artifacts he uses to support his
schemes. Further, he has shown no compunction in calling on the influence of eldritch entities
from outside Earths spheres, entities in some cases so powerful that lesser summoners tremble
at the mere thought of invoking them. Given time and sufficient preparation, there is little he
cannot and will not do.
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Val
20/50
14
30
20
23
45
45
8
10
10
5
10
60
50
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4
26
0
0
5
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Leaping:
Swimming:
44
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Mystic Master: Find Weakness with Magic Spells 18Magic Spells: Variable Power Pool, 400-point Reserve,
No Skill Roll Required (+1), Zero Phase Change (+1);
Magic Spells Only (-), Variable Limitation (- in
Limitations, -)
90
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47
40
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var.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
32
30
17
3
3
14
60
33
12
10
8
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
(-) plus Speed Reading; Only for Arcane Lore (-) plus
Universal Translator 18-; Only for Arcane Lore (-)
Combat Spellcasting (FH104)
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Any Danger, Immediate
Vicinity, Sense)
Disquieting Aura (Strong I, Strong II, Masters, DC109)
Magesight (FH107)
Resistance
Simulate Death
Spellslinger (Deadly Blow x2, 105)
Perks
Base: Sanctum Sanctorum
Contact: The Mystic World 18- (Extremely Useful, Contacts,
Unfriendly, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Unfriendly, Organization)
Money: Wealthy
Reputation: Magical Supervillain +4d6 (Worldwide) 11Reputation: Greatest Willworker in History +6d6 (Mystical
World) 14-
0
0
0
30
16
20
Skills
+3 Overall Levels
+2 with All Combat
+4 with Magic Spells
0
0
30
25
1
11
3
3
1
3
1
3
0
0
0
0
Talents
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Inventor (Spell Research) 14Magic (EGO-Based) 18Navigation (Air, Dimensional) 14Oratory 18Paramedics 14PS: Sorceror 14SS: Chemistry 14SS: Engineering 14Stealth 12Streetwise 18Tactics 14Teamwork 12WF: Staff, Swords
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1
2
2
2
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Linguist
Language:
Language:
Language:
Language:
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Language:
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Language:
Language:
Language:
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2
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1
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Scholar
KS: The Acathii 11KS: Arcane Lore 18KS: Art 14KS: The Covenant 14KS: Cthonian Worms 11KS: The Demonic World 14KS: The Evil That Men Do 14KS: Geography 14KS: History 14KS: The Mystical World 18KS: Philosophy 14KS: Religion 14KS: Riddles 11KS: The RhaZhaKeth 11KS: The Superhuman World 14-
3
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Traveler
AK: The Dreamlands 11AK: England 14AK: Lithuania 14AK: Netherwastes 14AK: North America 14AK: The Outer Planes 14CK: London 14CK: Paris 14-
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She roamed the black skies before the first man walked the Earth, unopposed in her
lordship over all she claimed. As new powers rose, as new gods declared themselves, she warred
with them, forced to adapt as she found rivals and equals she could not cow with her displays of
strength. She adopted different aspects as her enemies changed and grew, and she has known
many names. To the people of the Fertile Crescent she was Tiamat, Queen of Darkness; the
Greeks knew her as Echidna, Mother of Monsters; but the name under which the great powers
imprisoned her was Apophis, the Nightbringer. As Apophis, she shook the pillars of Heliopolis and
chased the sun in her hunger. Finally, she was thrown down and imprisoned. The son of her
greatest enemy was set as her jailor, and her enemies allowed themselves to breathe easy in her
long anticipated absence.
Millennia passed as the great serpent railed against the walls of her prison to no avail.
During this time her strength continued to ebb, removed from the power of sacrifice at her
followers hands, and as the years and centuries passed, her followers died away themselves,
further diminishing her. Eventually her name was remembered only as legend and myth, her
great power dismissed as fables told by the ignorant and savage.
In the early 60s, fate chose a new path. A group of brigands and thieves fled into the deep
desert to evade capture by the authorities. Lost in the midst of a terrible sandstorm, they
stumbled upon the temple that acted as the physical anchor for Apophis prison, a temple that
had gone undisturbed for thousands of years. The great serpent roused from its long slumber
when it sensed mortals wandering close to her prison. She didnt know where her jailor was, and
she didnt care. For the first time in millennia she was close to small and petty mortal hearts,
hearts she could speak to, hearts that she could call to her. A plan came to her in her
desperation; the pit that kept her did so by holding on to her full form and power a smaller
shard of her could leave, but it would need a mortal host immediately, else it would perish. She
searched through the minds and hearts of the petty criminals sheltering within the temple walls.
None were strong enough to hold even the smallest fraction of her essence. She had almost
given up when she entered the mind of the young woman accompanying the men. This was the
daughter of the mens leader, and her will was strong, as was the anger, the hate, and the
ambition she carried within her. This was a worthy vessel. In the space of a heartbeat, it was
done. She took the girls body, and a moment later, the lives of the poor men surrounding her,
replenishing a small measure of the fraction of strength she held. She walked out into the storm,
unharmed by the elements that were once again hers to command and dreaming of the
conquests that would aid her in returning fully to Earth.
Moments after she left, another person staggered into the temple. Before the thieves had found
what they thought was sanctuary within the temple walls, they had attacked a remote
archaeological expedition, slaughtering most of the people there. One man, the expedition
leader, had survived and had become lost while escaping from the brigands. Dr. Matthew
QUOTE
MacTyre stumbled into the temple to find the bodies of those who had earlier attacked him and
We are eternal. You are not,
his group. Continuing further into the structures interior, he came across a room containing an
as you are about to
enormous ankh standing upon a small altar. As he approached the altar, a voice rang in his head.
Apophis jailor had let his attention wander but a moment, and she had used his failing. Now he
discover painfully.
was forced to ask of Dr. MacTyre what the great serpent had taken from the young girl by force.
Much had changed since Apophis walked the earth before, and those once called gods had long
RACE
SEX
HT
EYES
since ceased interacting with the physical world. Seeing what had been released, and the evil she
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Female 57
Green
would do, Dr. MacTyre agreed to provide a host so that her jailor could retrieve his charge. In a
GROUP
AGE
WT
HAIR
burst of light Dr. MacTyres frail mortal frame was changed into the powerful Horus, Son of Ra
None
25(?)
120#
Black
(page 100). He left to pursue his ancient foe, starting a series of battles between the two. Now
calling herself the Serpent Queen, Apophis quickly grew in power once she was free. Over the
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
next two decades, she and Horus would fight again and again as she strove to acquire enough
+3 World conqueror, hasnt been
power to bring herself fully out of the celestial prison. Finally, after a quarter century, it seemed
around in a while
that she had achieved that level of power. In a terrible battle, Horus and several of his former
+0 Turns into GIGANTIC SNAKE
allies in the second Sentinels team, as well as the current Sentinels team in one of their first
-3 Claims to be a goddess
major challenges, fought the Queen to a standstill. The battle ended with what seemed like
-5 Has worldwide cult following
Horus sacrificing himself to destroy the Queens physical form. Horus was mourned, and the
-8
world went on.
-10 Somehow connected to Horus
For many years, both Horus and the Serpent Queen were considered dead and gone. But
recently, there was a tumultuous change in the way many other dimensions interact with Earth
after the Hierophant once again attempted to bring his patron Ex Machina onto the physical
plane. Agents of the Covenant reported to several of their allies in the mundane world that something very large and powerful had also come
through the break in Earths natural defenses during the Hierophants assault. Then an Egyptian army unit, while on maneuvers deep in the
desert, reported encountering a large contingent of the serpent cultists that had followed Apophis in her prime and who hadnt been seen
since her apparent demise. This report was a radio communication, which ended with a description of a giant serpent coming to the cultists
defense. Reinforcements found the remains of that unit, with several of their armored vehicles dissolved in a manner consistent with the
acidic venom the Serpent Queen displayed in her Divine Manifestation form.
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(Fluent), Magic 16- (EGO-Based), Oratory 13-, PS: Cult Priest 11-,
Teamwork 11Equipment: Athame (Dagger)
200+ Disadvantages: Distinctive Feature: Mystic Aura (Not
Concealable, Unusual Senses), Hunted: Horus, Son of Ra 8- (Mo
Pow), Hunted: The Serpent Queen 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching),
Normal Human Characteristics, Physical Limitation: Snake Blood,
Requires Specialized Medical Attention (Infrequently, Greatly),
Psychological Limitation: Devoted to the Serpent Queen (Common,
Total), Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Frequently, Severe)
Pit Vipers
25
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EGO
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10
DEX
PRE
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10
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CHA
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DEX
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BODY
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EGO
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Cost
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35u
23u
36u
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35u
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35u
150
56
50
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25
2
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4
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Leaping:
Swimming:
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7
33
17
10
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Talents
Awe-Inspiring (DC107)
Fascination (FH105)
Fear-Inspiring (DC107)
Fearless (FH106)
Fearless (FH111)
Inspire (x3, FH106, PH261)
Magesight (FH106)
Resistance +10
Universal Translator 18-
55
60
70
20
4
2
75
Perks
Base: 100 Underground Temples
Followers: 4000 Acolytes (Skilled Normals, 5ER346)
Followers: 250 Pit Vipers
Perk: Serpent God
Reputation: Serpent God +4d6 (in Egypt) 14Reputation: Supervillain +2d6 (Worldwide) 11Followers: 100 Initiates
20
16
12
Skills
+2 Overall Levels
+2 with All Combat
+4 with Divine Powers
12
2,2
2,3
1,3
3,3
3,3
8,2
3,9
5,5
5,8
3,3
2,13
3,2,1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Resistant Defense
Discriminatory, Sense)
0
0
500+ Disadvantages
10 Distinctive Feature: Divine Aura (Not Concealable, Unusual
Senses, Major)
10 Hunted: Horus, Son of Ra 11- (Less Pow)
25 Hunted: The Sentinels 11- (Mo Pow, NCI)
25 Psychological Limitation: Seeks to Regain Control of Earth
(Very Common, Total)
15 Psychological Limitation: Overconfident (Common, Strong)
5 Physical Limitation: Reduced Leap (Infrequently, Slightly)
10 Reputation: Supervillain 8- (Extreme)
1800 Experience Points
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Cost
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Cost Roll
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30
32
0
0
5
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Tunneling:
Notes
Lift 25 ktons; 20d6 HTH [0]
OCV: 3/DCV: 0
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137
40
60
22
40
50
10
18
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20
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Talents
Beast Speech (FH103); Snakes Only (-1)
Disquieting Aura (Strong II, DC109)
Fear-Inspiring (x2, DC107)
Lightning Reflexes +8
Magesight (FH106)
Resistance +10
Universal Translator 18-
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60
70
20
4
2
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Perks
Base: 100 Underground Temples
Followers: 4000 Acolytes (Skilled Normals, 5ER346)
Followers: 250 Pit Vipers
Perk: Serpent God
Reputation: Serpent God +4d6 (in Egypt) 14Reputation: Supervillain +2d6 (Worldwide) 11Followers: 100 Initiates
80
Powers
29
17
25
4
6
24
3
Skills
+5 with Hand-to-Hand Combat
+2 versus Grab Maneuver Penalties for Swallowing Whole
Attack
+2 with Running
Animal Handler (Reptiles) 28Contortionist 11-
500+ Disadvantages
10 Distinctive Feature: Divine Aura (Not Concealable, Unusual
Senses, Major)
25 Distinctive Features: Gigantic Snake (Not Concealable,
Extreme)
35 Enraged: in Combat (Go 11-, Recover 11-, Very Common,
Berserk)
10 Hunted: Horus, Son of Ra 11- (Less Pow)
25 Hunted: The Sentinels 11- (Mo Pow, NCI)
5 Physical Limitation: Cannot Leap (Infrequently, Slightly)
20 Physical Limitation: Colossal (All the Time, Greatly)
10 Physical Limitation: Limited Manipulation (Frequently,
Greatly)
10 Reputation: Supervillain 8- (Extreme)
1750 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 2400
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SEX
Male
AGE
26
HT
6
WT
180#
EYES
Brown
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Myron Franklin grew up in a little gray tenement in a little gray part of a large gray city.
As he grew older, his heroes were the people he saw around him who thumbed their noses at
all of the little gray rules that added to his dreary existence, the gang members and leaders
who were the only pieces of color and excitement around him. At the age of 8, he committed
his first robbery. By the age of 10, he was starting to gather his friends into the semblance of
a gang. By the age of 14, he had been arrested, convicted, and had served time. And by the
age of 16, he was lying in a coma, shot in the head by a policeman as he was fleeing the
scene of his first murder. After six months, Myron (or M Dogg as he was then known) woke
up. Changed. Myron discovered that he was a mutant, albeit a latent one until that point. The
trauma had apparently awakened his abilities. No longer would he be a smalltime banger
powerz meant bigtime, meant money, meant prestige. Within a day of regaining
consciousness, he not only had discovered his abilities, he had mastered them sufficiently to
break himself out of the prison hospital. Within a few weeks, he had developed enough skill to
make his first heist using his control over the forces of gravity to completely stymie the local
authorities. He fell in love with his new life the moment he sent the SWAT van flying away. He
continued deliriously happy and full of himself, right until the first time he met another
metahuman. Trounced within an inch of his life by that meddling do-gooder, Myron, or
Krusher K as he was calling himself, was sent back to prison again, though this time it was
special prison, one designed to hold people like he had become. During his stay in the pen,
Myron immersed himself in his press clippings, almost as enthralled by his publicity as he was
by his powers. He came across the word singularity while reading what some egghead had
written about Myrons powers. He didnt really understand what the word meant, but he liked
the way it sounded. After all, Krusher K was so smalltime, and Myron was definitely not
smalltime any more. Escaping during a mass prison break a few months later, Myron began
hiring himself out as high priced muscle to experienced professionals.
Singularity had realized that he still had a few things to learn before he moved up to the
status he knew awaited him. And Myron, M Dogg, Krusher K, and Singularity had always been
a quick study when it came to learning the things that really counted.
Mr. Franklin is a thug with aspirations. Aspirations and the power to achieve them. He
watches employers closely, noting the how and why behind decisions, the tactics, and the
capabilities of his opponents. One day, one day, hell be the one calling the shots. And when that
day comes, hell be ready.
Singularity has power over the forces of gravity. He can manipulate gravitational fields over
a large area and with great precision. He can increase the force of gravity on incoming objects to
slam them into the ground before they reach him, project fields of conflicting micro-gravities to
tear objects apart, and hes even learned how to read changes in the local gravitational fields to
effect what he calls his gravity radar.
In combat, Singularity likes to scatter the opposition in all directions, holding off all but one
who hell target and beat on until that target drops; then, hell move on the next. Its not very
complicated, but its worked for him so far. While hell usually follow any reasonable tactics his
employers set for him, hes slowly learning not only to adapt in the field, but also to voice his
own ideas beforehand. His stable of employers grows regularly, and most are beginning to look
past the hood persona to the inquisitive mind behind it.
Myron Franklin is a young and athletically built black man. He wears a utilitarian black
leather jumpsuit and boots, sometimes with a matching long coat. He shaves his head bald, but
sometimes leaves himself a small goatee.
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+3
+0 Former gangsta
-3 High-priced muscle for hire
-5
-8 Tactical thinker
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Powers
Acting 13Conversation 13Interrogation 13Persuasion 13PS: Thug 11Shadowing 11Stealth 13Streetwise 13Trading 13-
6/12
3/6
2/4
20/40
Skills
+4 with Telekinesis
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Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Perks
Contact: The Criminal Underworld 11- (Very Useful,
Contacts, Institutions, Organization)
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0
0
0
0
200+ Disadvantages
5 Distinctive Features: Mutant (Not Concealable, Unusual
Senses)
20 Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
20 Normal Characteristic Maxima
10 Psychological Limitation: Glory Hound (Common, Moderate)
15 Psychological Limitation: Greedy (Common, Strong)
15 Psychological Limitation: Power-Hungry (Common, Strong)
10 Psychological Limitation: Wants to be Thought of as a
Powerful Metahuman Mercenary instead of a Thug (Common,
Moderate)
5 Reputation: Thug 8300 Experience Points
Total Disadvantages: 600
Equipment
Talents
Lightning Reflexes +4
OAF (-1)
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Tony Lucien thought life stank, even before he generated a constant stench himself. A twobit Mafioso plagued by a jinxed life, Tony considered it his lucky break to be sent by the boss on
an actual mission by himself. He was supposed to break into a chemical plant and steal some
chemicals that the boss needed for framing somebody. He didnt quite understand the details,
but he inked the name of the chemical and the location within the factory on his hand.
For once, things seemed to be going smoothly for Tony. He was able to get into the
plant undetected by breaking into a back door, unmonitored by security. He even made it to
the right part of the plant, and found the right batch of chemicals. But thats when tragedy
struck, harder than it ever had before.
Tony slipped in a puddle of something, and crashed headlong into a shelf full of various
experimental chemicals. The ensuing chemical reaction immersed him in dozens of
concoctions. The miniature flood of mixtures hit an exposed electrical circuit in the
laboratory, and started a fire, with Tony at its center. Oddly enough, although he
passed out from the fumes, he felt as if he were awake but unable to move during
the conflagration. He did not burn, but felt himself swept away in the chemical fog, as
if he were light as a ghost.
When Tony came to, his body had become a cloud of noxious gas. He could still
speak, and could turn from a gas into a liqueous form, but he was no longer a solid being.
Now, he exudes a terrible stench most of the time, and can expand this smell over a wide area.
The odor is so overpowering that those within its limits experience vomiting and cramps. He can
emit a variety of chemical substances: a slimy substance that makes the ground slippery, an
acidic substance that erodes or burns through many materials, and a dense malodorous black
smoke that obscures vision.
Since that time, Smog, as he has become known, has acted mostly as a confused ecoterrorist. He attacks refineries, power plants, corporate headquarters, and other environmentally
dangerous targets, since he holds them all responsible for his current condition. But he also
attacks botanical gardens, nature preserves, and other nature/ beauty foundations, since they
reinforce (in his mind) how disgusting he has become.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
?(43)
HT
6-ish
WT
0#
EYES
Green
HAIR
None
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3 Eww! Gross me out!
+0 A living cloud of gunk
-3 Destroys beautiful things
-5 Just a guy that caught a bad
break
-8
-10
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Val
13
14
18
10
10
13
13
4
5
5
3
7
36
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
210
21u
21u
19u
21u
90
5u
9u
10
Cost Roll
3 1212 1216 130 110 116 123 12-3 102
1
6
0
0
4
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Flight:
Notes
Lift 150 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 4/DCV: 4
Powers
END
0
25
15
5
45
10
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3
3
1
1
1
3
3
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
3
2
1
1
2
Talents
Fear-Inspiring (DC107)
Perks
Contact: Old Mob Buddies 8- (Very Useful, Contacts,
Institutions, Unfriendly, Organization)
Skills
Concealment 11Conversation 12Criminology 8Forensic Medicine 8Forgery (Identity Cards) 8Gambling (Cards, Dice, Sports) 8Interrogation 12KS: The Mafia 8Lockpicking 8Pollution (Power) 8PS: Mob Thug 8Security Systems 8Shadowing 11Stealth 12Streetwise 12Survival (Urban) 11Teamwork 8Trading 8WF: Small Arms
0
0
0
0
0
0
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SEX
Male
AGE
29
HT
59
WT
181#
EYES
Blue
HAIR
Red
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Speedster thief
-3 The suit is what has the power
-5 Surprisingly good lawyers make
sure he never spends much time
in jail
-8
-10 Rumored to have ties to the Magi
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DESCRIPTION
Ronny Marston has always liked speed. He never walked anywhere when he could run, and
he was driving long before it was legal for him to do so. It was a short step from there to racing.
But racing for pink slips alone, regardless of the course, just wasnt interesting enough after a
while; now, racing against the police that was interesting. Ronny started driving getaway cars,
hiring out to various gangs and organizations. He loved it. Eventually he came to the attention of
the Magi, those shadowy underworld middlemen who kept their fingers in everyone elses pie.
They were always looking for reliable couriers, willing to take whatever risks were needed for the
job. Ronny excelled. He impressed his employers so much that when they came into possession
of the Speed Metal armor, the only tester they even considered was Marston.
Five minutes after he started exploring the suits capabilities and design limits, Ronny
was in heaven. No pedals and steering wheels needed to come between him and his rush
he just had to think about moving faster and he almost blinked from one position to
another. He didnt want to ever take it off.
Over time, he learned everything he could about what the suit could and couldnt do.
The Magi were very pleased. The investment in acquiring the suit from
Steele Omnitech was going to pay off handsomely. They would have the perfect courier, the
perfect getaway vehicle for talent to leave the scene of a heist, there were so many
possibilities. It was only after they made Marston give up the suit and had their technicians start
taking it apart to duplicate the technology that they came across a problem. The suits interface
had been the trickiest piece the engineers had to deal with in integrating the control systems. It
actually accelerated the neural activity of the wearer to the point where he could match the
movement capabilities of the suits null-friction field and magnetic displacers. It still hadnt been
tested completely when the suit was stolen. And the moment Ronny interfaced with the system
for the first time, it calibrated to his neural patterns. His patterns only. Suddenly, Ronny was
sitting in the catbird seat. They could replicate the suit as many times as they could afford but
the interfaces programming would all be based on the initial model and that only worked for
Ronny. It wouldnt even turn on for anybody else.
The Magi werent unreasonable people. Quite the contrary, they hadnt been as successful
as they had without being realists, without being willing to compromise when they saw no other
option. They made Ronny a very nice offer. Not being stupid (or suicidal for that matter), Ronny
accepted. The Magi had their operative, and Ronny had killer job security. After a while,
his employers saw the benefit of having an asset that they alone knew was theirs.
Ronny became a solo operator, hiring out to help any number of people commit
crimes. Of course, its almost always The Magi that arrange the jobs, but they do that for
any number of people. And no one outside of the core Magi cell knows that Ronny
always gives The Magi a discount when he works for them. A 100% discount. In
exchange for keeping his mouth shut as to his true role in the suit, Ronny receives all
the technical and legal support the considerable machinery of his true employers can bring to
bear. They even give him the flexibility to take outside commissions, for a cut. The bigger and
better the reputation, the higher the price that can be charged after all.
Ronny Marston is an adrenaline junkie. Hes only really happy when hes going very, very
fast.
Hes also highly competitive he doesnt like Speed Demon (page 32) because she can beat
him on his own turf, and he doesnt like the criminal Afterburner because Ronny views him as
horning in on his schtick. In addition to superhuman speed, one of the suits secondary abilities is
to interfere with function of friction, in effect generating a field of null-friction. The suits traction
surfaces arent affected by this field, and Ronny has mastered a number of applications with
great precision. He can also expand the suits propulsion aura to include people near him,
accelerating others to something close to the speeds he can normally reach. The Magi have made
certain that Ronny has a number of back-up suits in case of problems (altering the systems is
one thing, duplicating is another), and they have added an effective laser emitter to increase his
offensive capabilities. The construction of the suit is incredibly sturdy, and can protect its wearer
from injury up to and including small arms fire (assuming he can actually be hit by it).
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2
5
4
5
5
Skills
Martial Arts: Speed Fighting
Maneuver
OCV
DCV
Flying Dodge
+4
Passing Strike
+1
+0
5
6
3
1
1
1
3
3
1
3
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
1
3
3
3
2
2
2
3
3
1
3
7
2
3
1
3
Speed Metal
Val
15
15/30
15
10
13
15
15
10
4
4
4/8
6
30
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
6
5
Cost Roll
5 1215 1510 120 113 1210 125 120 111
1
15
0
0
4
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 10/DCV: 10
PER Roll: 12ECV: 5
PRE Attack: 3d6
36/4500
3/6
32/4000
Powers
END
0
0
Equipment
72
5u
3u
51
29
32
OIHID (-)
30
56
190
16
5
14
5
12
4
5
27
33
0
0
0
[60]
0
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0
0
0
0
0
Notes
Dodge, Abort, FMove
+v/5, FMove
Navigation
Acting 12Analyze Power Suit 8Breakfall 8Bureaucratics 8Combat Driving 12-/15Concealment 12Contortionist 8Conversation 12Cramming
Criminology 8Demolitions 8Electronics 8Fast Draw 8Forensic Medicine 8Forgery (Identity Cards) 8Gambling (Cards, Dice, Sports) 8Interrogation 12KS: The Magi 8KS: The Criminal Underworld 12Lockpicking 12-/15Mechanics 12Navigation (Land) 12PS: Driver 12PS: Mercenary 11Security Systems 12Shadowing 12Sleight of Hand 8Stealth 12-/15Streetwise 14Survival (Urban) 12Teamwork 12-/15Trading 8WF: Blades, Small Arms
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Magi 14- (Mo Pow, NCI, Watching)
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
Normal Characteristic Maxima
Psychological Limitation: Competitive (Common, Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: Thrill-Seeker (Common, Moderate)
Rivalry: Afterburner (Professional)
Social Limitation: Subject to Orders (Infrequently, Severe)
Experience Points
233
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
?
HT
111
WT
9#
EYES
Green
HAIR
Red
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0 Fairy tale legend
-3 Cunning magician
-5
-8
-10 His magic is somehow restricted
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DESCRIPTION
Time and generations of concerned parents have slowly worn away the harsh edges and
brutal contents of the stories known today as fairy tales. Cautionary stories that once gave
hardened warriors reason to fear the dark are now harmless entertainments. One beneficiary of
this is the entity called Stiltskin. Details of his vile exploits having been watered down for
consumption by todays children, Stiltskin is quite happy to take advantage of a time that views
the wee folk as little more than cute or a way to sell holiday cards. After all, misdirection is
one of his keenest tools.
Many centuries ago, after watching the level of carnage the Fomori inflicted both on the
citizens of Avalon and the related lands on Earth proper, the Sidhe that had formed the Unseelie
Court decided to try an experiment. Physically weak themselves, but mighty and cunning
practitioners of magic, they used outcasts from among their own kind as fodder to see if
crossbreeding with the Fomori would work. It did, to an extent. Smaller than the Fomori, but far
hardier than the Sidhe, the results were initially quite pleasing to their creators. That is, with the
exception of the runt of that first litter. It was tiny, far smaller even then the average Sidhe.
The Court promptly discarded it and went back to their experiments, never realizing the
dangerous qualities their reject possessed. The rest of its kind had inherited their Fomori parents
brutal mentality more than the Sidhes cunning, the combination of temperaments forming a
vicious and murderous mix albeit dimwitted. This was acceptable to the Unseelie as it made
them controllable. Stiltskin was different he had inherited the devious intellect of his weaker
parent, and a good portion of her magical abilities. As his creators used his brethren to great
effect as a roving death squad, later named Redcaps, after their habit of wearing the stillbloody flayed skins of their victims as hoods and cloaks, they never suspected that their precious
army was being co-opted. Stiltskin used his genetic connection to the other Redcaps, combined
with his magic, to dominate his brothers and sisters, eventually leading them in an attempted
coup against the Court that came very close to succeeding. Much too cruel to simply kill him in
punishment, the Unseelie banished Stiltskin to the physical plane of Earth, mystically stripping
him of much of his power and cursing him. Forever after unable to act directly upon his hatred of
his creators, Stiltskin instead transferred his seething spite to the hapless humans who so
resembled the despised Sidhe. Though not as physically monstrous and intimidating as the other
Redcaps, Stiltskin has used his native cunning and mystical gifts to trick, murder, and torment a
legion of victims in the centuries following his exile.
Stiltskin, in his natural form, resembles greatly the gnomes, leprechauns, and kobolds of so
many legends and myths from Northern Europe. This almost always makes his target
underestimate him, to unconsciously apply the benevolent nature of the modern rendition of
those myths to the figure before thema terrible and costly mistake. Stiltskin is evil and he revels
in it. Cunning beyond measure, the fiendish imp is a born shapeshifter and weaver of illusions,
able to play with perception at his whim, cycling through names and faces with the same ease
that a person changes clothing. He is able to see the thoughts of his victims as well as read many
possible futures from the smallest traces. The Unseelie may have stripped him of the greatest
portion of his mystical might, but he has had centuries to learn to live within those limitations
and prosper regardless. He has even learned how to operate around his curse though creatures
of magic have much of their existence tied into their true names, Stiltskin has ALL of his talents
hampered by that knowledge. He has had to undergo horrible rituals to change his true name in
the eyes of the cosmos on more than one occasion, as the magic of the curse also insures that
his name will be discovered eventually. He wears the name Stiltskin as a reminder of one of the
most humiliating of these instances, immortalized in a story that he loathes.
Stiltskins temper and ego are equally great, and he hates to lose one of his little games.
Once he exclusively targeted the pure and the innocent, but today more often goes after more
challenging prey these heroes who think so much of their superhuman abilities and their
ideals. There are any number of costumed do-gooders whove earned his attentions and his
anger, but Troll figures prominently both for his resemblance in Stiltskins eyes to some of the
Fomori and because his abilities make him so much of a challenge also, Trolls incessant
taunting after hes won one of Stiltskins games have left their mark on the little monsters
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Val
5
18
9
9
33
30
18
10
3
3
4
3
20
20
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
47
5u
5u
5u
50
74
24
40
17
25
5
9
-7
20
20
6
Cost Roll
-5 1024 13-2 11-2 1123 1640 158 130 112
1
12
0
1
3
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Teleport:
Powers
15
4
15
10
(-2)
Notes
Lift 50 kg; 1d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 6/DCV: 8
12,4
32
18,10
7,18
3,17
20
3
18
27
3/6
1/2
1/2
15/120
15
END
10,5
4
4
Talents
Combat Luck (x2), Double Jointed
Danger Sense (Out of Combat, Any Danger, Sense, Vicinity)
Evasive (FH105), Fascination (FH105)
Fearless (FH111), Lightning Reflexes +12
Lightsleep, Magesight (FH106)
Universal Translator
Perks
Anonymity [Altered True Name]
Contact: Alumni of the Sinister Circle 11- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Organization)
Contact: The Mystic World 16- (Extremely Useful, Contacts,
Unfriendly, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Institutions, Unfriendly, Organization)
Money: Pot o Gold, Perk: Sidhe Blood
Reputation: Evil Sidhe Illusionist 14- (Mystic World),
+2/+2d6
Reputation: Harmless Faerie Lad 11- (among the Innocent),
+4/+4d6
Skills
30 +3 Overall Levels
20 Agile: +4 with All Agility Skills
12 Glib: +4 with Acting, Oratory, and Persuasion
9 Sidhe: +3 with Analyze Magic, KS: Arcane Lore, and Magic
3,3,13 Acrobatics 13-, Acting 13-, AK: Earth 260
3,3,3 Analyze Magic 16-, Breakfall 13-, Climbing 133,3,3 Concealment 18-, Conversation 13-, Deduction 163,2,3 Disguise 16-, Forgery (Art Objects) 16-, KS: Arcane Lore 160
3,3,3 KS: Cantrips 16-, KS: Current Events 16-, KS: History 163,3 KS: The Mystic World 16-, KS: Riddles/Puzzles 16Glamour: Shape Shift (Sight, Hearing, Smell/Taste,
2,3 KS: The Sentinels 11-, KS: The Sinister Circle 16Touch, and Radio Groups), Imitation, Instant Change,
3,5 KS: The Unseelie Court 16-, Magic (EGO-Based) 16Makeover, Reduced Endurance (0 END, +); Does Not
Effect Targets Who Know His Current True Name (-)
0 3,3,3 Oratory 13-, Paramedics 16-, Persuasion 133,3,3 Shadowing 16-, Sleight of Hand 13-, Stealth 15Glamour: Variable Power Pool, 40-point Reserve, No Skill
3,4 Streetwise 13-, Survival (Mountains, Temperate) 16Roll Required (+1), Powers Can Be Changed as a Zero
3,3,3 Tactics 16-, Teamwork 13-, Ventriloquism 16Phase Action (+1); As Appropriate for Shape Shifted Form
1 WF: Daggers
(-), Does Not Fool Targets Who Know His Current True
Name (-)
var.
Total Skills & Powers: 795
Cantrips: Variable Power Pool, 20-point Reserve; Variable
Total Cost: 900
Limitation (-1 in Limitations, -), Magic Spells Only (-),
200+ Disadvantages
Requires a Magic Roll (-)
var.
5 Distinctive Feature: Cute Little Elf (Concealable, Not Unusual
Sixth Sense: Telepathy 8d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END,
in Some Cultures)
+); Does Not Effect Targets Who Know His Current True
5 Distinctive Features: Mystic Aura (Not Concealable, Unusual
Name (-), Variable Limitation (- in Limitations, -)
0
Senses)
Small: +2 DCV plus +2 Concealment; Self-Only (-)
20 Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
plus +2 Stealth
0
5 Social Limitation: Banished from the Unseelie Court
Sidhe: Life Support (Immortal, Immune to Disease and
(Occasionally, Minor)
Poisons)
0
10 Enraged: Reminded of His Defeats (Common, Go 8-,
Sidhe: Power Defense (10 points); Only versus Magic (-1) 0
Recover 14-)
Immune to Illusion: Mental Defense (30 points Total);
15 Psychological Limitation: Egotistical (Common, Strong)
For Mental Illusion Only (-2)
0
15 Psychological Limitation: Enjoys Tormenting Mankind
Small Legs: Running -3 plus Swimming -1
1
(Common, Strong)
Advanced Magesight: Analyze, Targeting, and Tracking
10 Psychological Limitation: Vengeful (Uncommon, Strong)
for Magesight
0
10 Reputation: Dangerous Supervillain 8- (Extreme)
Sixth Sense: Clairsentience (Sight Group, Hearing, and
5 Unluck 1d6
Magesight), Mobile Perception Point, Precognition;
600 Experience Points
Precognition Only (-1), Vague and Unclear (-)
5
Alert: +2 PER
0 Total Disadvantages: 900
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Winston Dale is what might be called a ballistikinetic. He can control guns with the power
of his mind. He can accurately control the path of a bullet once its left the barrel, meaning that
he almost never misses. If he can see it, he can almost always hit it. As well, he has a limited
form of telekinesis that he can use to reload, assemble, fire, and grab guns. His superhuman
accuracy only applies to guns that he fires himself, but he is fully capable of making someone
elses gun fire at a target of his choosing.
Dale was a strong-willed child, with a strong sense of pride and determination basically a
control freak. The only time he ever felt at peace, if it could be called that, was when he was
holding something over someone else. It was no surprise, then, when he joined the military and
found his home among the officer ranks.
His military career was checkered by his conflicts with authority. He deeply felt the need for
structure, but resisted it when he was not in charge. So, while he excelled in the command of his
own unit, and always achieved his mission objectives, he bucked against his superiors when he
did not agree with their decisions, and was charged with insubordination a number of times.
When his psionic powers emerged after a head injury, his path was clear it was time to
strike out on his own. He didnt need someone else giving him orders when he was now powerful
enough to handle any opposition by himself. He began a new career, this time as a mercenary
sniper. Although he never missed his target, he soon began to miss his passion. Without a
mountain to climb, his life became empty. The thrill of the kill was no longer there. So he
changed his demographic. Instead of targeting ordinary men, he would now only kill
superhumans. The thrill came back.
Too many of these freaks bill themselves as being bulletproof, but all it takes is the right
man to shoot that bullet.
Surefire uses his natural telekinetic abilities to enhance his mastery of firearms. Range is
meaningless to a man who can mentally force his bullets to defy the natural ballistic effects of
gravity, for starters. Any firearm that he gets his hands on can be used as the focus for his
telekinetic energies, bullets hitting with the force of his projection rather than the limitations of
their own propulsion. Even when a weapon is more powerful than what he can project himself,
Dale can add a little extra oomph behind it. Combined with his already exceptional
marksmanship, Surefires abilities allow him a level of control and precision that makes even
impossible shots look easy.
QUOTE
SEX
Male
AGE
32
HT
511
WT
205#
Notes: Common choices for his Variable Advantage are Area Of Effect, Armor Piercing, Autofire,
Double Knockback, Explosion, Increased Maximum Range, Increased STUN Multiplier, Indirect,
No Range Modifier, Penetrating, and Trigger. By default, its set to a second layer of Armor
Piercing, and an additional +2 Increased STUN Multiplier.
When he puts everything into damage, including converting his Combat Skill Levels, he can
muster up 6d6+5.
Each of his Heavy Pistols actually has 12 charges and 8 clips, but he can reload the bullets
with a mere thought, taking no time. Plus, as bullets a fired around him, he can catch them in
midair and turn them into fresh ammunition for himself, so his weapon was bought with
unlimited charges, and its Real Weapon limitation ceased to be wholly accurate, and so was
reduced in value.
EYES
Brown
HAIR
Brown
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
+3
+0
-3 Superhero killer
-5 Mentally controls bullets
-8 Can jam guns with his mind
-10 Puts the psycho in
psychokinesis
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18,6
2,4
7,3
8,3
Surefire
Val
13
18
18
10
13
23
13
10
4
4
4
7
40
30
CHA
STR
DEX
CON
BODY
INT
EGO
PRE
COM
PD
ED
SPD
REC
END
STUN
Movement:
Cost
56
5u
5u
6u
6u
65
120
Cost Roll
3 1224 1316 130 113 1232 143 120 111
0
12
0
2
4
Running:
Leaping:
Swimming:
Notes
Lift 150 kg; 2d6 HTH [1]
OCV: 7/DCV: 7
17
2
6
40
15
10
9
5
14
3
24
12
6
37,8
27
21
END
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0
0
0
0
0
var.
var.
0
0
0
Equipment
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4
3
5
3
5
4
3
4
4
4
4
Skills
Martial Arts: Gun Fu
Maneuver
OCV
Accurate Shot
+2
Basic Shot
+0
Defensive Shot
-1
Distance Shot
+0
Diving Shot
+0
Far Shot
+1
Gunbutt Strike
+2
Leg Shot
+0
Offensive Shot
-1
Quick Shot
+1
Ranged Disarm
+0
Trained Shot
+2
21
Powers
5
2
Perks
Contact: The Military/Mercenary World 11- (Extremely
Useful, Contacts, Institutions, Organization)
Contact: The Superhuman World 11- (Extremely Useful,
Contacts, Institutions, Organization)
Money: Well-Off
Reputation: Killer 11- (Superhuman World), +2/+2d6
21
DCV
-2
+0
+2
-2
+2
-1
+0
-1
-1
+0
+0
+0
RMod
+2
+2
+0
+6
+1
+4
+0
+0
+0
+0
+0
Notes
Wpn
+d6K
Wpn
Wpn +1 Segment
Wpn, HMove, Fall
Wpn
+2d6
+d6K, Throw
+1d6+1K
+d6K
+15 STR
Wpn
16,40
15
3
20
3
10
18
3,1,1
3,3,3
3,3,3
3,3
3,3
3,2,3
2,3,3
3,3,3
6
1,3,3
1,11
2
8
Disadvantages
Hunted: The Sentinels 8- (Mo Pow, NCI)
Normal Characteristics Maxima
Physical Limitation: Loses Accuracy Powers (but not Skills)
when Mentally Flashed (Infrequently, Greatly)
Psychological Limitation: Control Freak (Very Common,
Moderate)
Psychological Limitation: LOVES Guns (Common, Strong)
Psychological Limitation: Needs the Thrill of the Hunt
(Common, Strong)
Rivalry: Other Gunfighters (Professional)
Experience Points
237
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Appendix
APPENDIX I
TIMELINE
1 Billion BC?
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Set begins his campaign acting as agent provocateur,
fomenting discord and exacerbating tensions between the
various pantheons. He also disseminates any number of false
and inconsistent stories among humans about the various
gods, attributing victories to rivals of the true victors,
spreading demeaning lies about the acts of others, even
creating new entities entirely, such as the fiction of Osiris,
whose stories detract from the power of Sets father Ra.
Conflicts erupt between the various tribes of Travelers over the
following millennia. This is primarily between individuals or
small groups, but full war is only narrowly averted by calmer
heads more and more frequently as time passes.
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Morgaine, half-human and half-Sidhe, agent of the
Unseelie, succeeds in bringing down Arctoros and Camelan.
Her victory is pyrrhic, as Merlin succeeds in destroying the
most powerful of the Unseelie, while strengthening the border
between earth and the Sidhe domain so that the remainder
cannot return to this plane easily or for very long. In the
absence of both her enemy and her masters, Morgaine builds
her own small empire. Vercenoix and Gwynhaevr, wife to
Arctoros, whose love affair helped Morgaines schemes, escape
Camelans destruction. Gwynhaevr is carrying Arctoros child, a
daughter that the Gaul trains practically from birth, attempting
to work through the crushing guilt he carries for betraying his
friend, her father.
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The Annunaki, aside from the Serpent Queen long
thought dead by the Travelers, are discovered to have coopted the worship of the Mayan and Toltec peoples (and the
Olmecs before them). Worse, they have also found a way to
free their RhaZhaKeth brethren using the dimensional
shallows such as the spatial pockets used by the Travelers.
Banding together for the first time in almost a millennia, the
pantheons of Travelers irrevocably sever the easy
connections between their homes and Earth to thwart the
RhaZhaKeth should the Travelers fall before their enemies.
They then attack en masse the Annunaki and escaping
RhaZhaKeth escape in a terrible battle. The majority of the
Travelers are killed in the fight, but not before completely
wiping out their enemies. The survivors are only able to reach
Earth afterwards through great effort and intimate knowledge
most finding it not worth the investment and never venturing
across the dimensional gulf again. Psychic echoes of the battle
felt by sensitives around the world result in a number of
apocalyptic tales seeding global legends, such as a resurge of
stories of Ragnarok among the fatalistic Norse.
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Theodor Munz operates openly as the first metahuman of
modern times as Eisenkruez, an agent of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Jameson Steele operates covertly for the British as Codename:
Lionheart, while Jamie Richardson works in the public eye as
John Bull.
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March: Germany takes Austria. The village surrounding
Castle Frankenstein is given to the Frau Doktor as a reward for
services rendered; its inhabitants disappear en masse into the
bowels of the castle, practically overnight.
June: Ulysses Steele is involved in a lab accident granting
him superhuman powers.
August: The Soviets and Germans sign a nonaggression
pact.
September: Germany is given part of Czechoslovakia in
a farcical diplomatic arrangement. Malachite the Magician
disappears while chasing Iblis of the Circle of Brass through the
Shadowlands.
October: Praetorian attempts the first of his invasions
of the 20th Century, as his Warwalkers appear in Grovers Mill,
New Jersey. Doc Epoch, the Timesavers, and a variety of
heroes recruited by Epoch all manage to help the US Army
repel the invasion. The government uses entertainer Orson
Welles to help cover up the incident and avoid further panic.
December: By the end of the year, the Japanese control
most of populated China. Quincy Harkness avenges his parents
by finally destroying the vampire known as Der Drache. FDR
commissions the formation of the Veil after surviving a failed
assassination attempt by a deranged occultist.
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January: The Battle of Anzio. Praetorian is stopped from
giving the Nazis 64th Century weaponry by the Timesavers and
the Sentinels. Captain Ryan Hunter and his Ragin Roughnecks
set the record, unbroken to this day, for the highest number of
unit decorations during a single engagement.
February: The Nazi super-submarine Jormungandr is
finally completed, where it is immediately used to great effect
against the Allied Fleet in the Atlantic.
April: Jormungandr is sunk through combined efforts of
the Sentinels, the Defenders of the Crown, and the British
Navy. Japan loses the Marshall Islands.
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January: Agents of Rex Mundi assassinate Zavier Zodiac.
Elements of Zodiacs Tarot Crime Cartel are absorbed into the
nascent Magi organization.
March: Ulysses Steele and Robert Marston (last of the
men to carry the Silent Knight identity) defy direct orders and
enter North Korea to rescue Alexander Steele from Chinese
captors after the Steele brother is betrayed by a South Korean
double agent. Considerable destruction is involved. Afterwards,
the UN Security Council adopts the Tournier Resolution,
prohibiting the use of metahuman assets in military actions.
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January: Brimstone is reticently offered membership in
the Sentinels after helping foil a plot by the Empire of Thorns
to control the Eidolon in an attempt to wipe out humanity.
March: The Hypersapiens attempt to conquer Earth with
mind-control satellites. They use UNSOCIS (United Nations
Special Operating Commission on International Security) small
team of metahumans, S.A.B.E.R. (Special Activities Branch Elite
Response) as mind-controlled pawns. They are narrowly
stopped by Vanguard.
September: The Sentinels return from an off-world
mission to find that terrorists have destroyed the World Trade
Center.
November: Using the Well of Worlds uncovered from
beneath the Antarctic ice, the Warlord finally returns to
Caernas, where he begins a bloody campaign of conquest.
December: Wildflower resigns from the Sentinels to join
Greenpeace.
2002
March: Gauntlet discovers his patrons, the Mihral, have
been using him and the rest of the corps as groundwork for
their eventual takeover of a large swath of the known galaxy.
As release of this information triggers violence throughout
known space, the disillusioned Gauntlet becomes a high-priced
mercenary.
July: Hells Belles release their first album, Danse
Macabre, to record-breaking sales.
August: The Black Knights roster completes after
Spellbinder betrays the other Sentinels and switches sides midfight.
October: Stiltskin makes a deal with the Lord of Mirrors
to help the RhaZhaKeth lord bring an army of fetches into the
real world. While the entire hero community is forced to work
together to stop the Lord of Mirrors, Stiltskin recruits his new
Sinister Circle.
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APPENDIX II
WAR IN THE HEAVENS:
THE ACATHII AND
RHA ZHA KETH
Eons ago, long before there was any known civilization on
Earth to even consider recording history, our planet was the site
of experimentation by a star-spanning race of immense power.
The Acathii were one of the oldest and most advanced races in
existence then, and their influence was felt over the span of entire
galaxies. Their technology allowed for terraforming, vast and
complex genetic manipulation, and the construction of a stargate
network linking points hundreds of thousands of light years apart.
One of the great houses of the Acathii sponsored exploration
into the area containing Sol. Constructing one of their gates on
the fifth world in our system, the Acathii began studying the
phenomenon that first attracted them here. This phenomenon
was an interspatial nexus or spacetime shallow which made this
area a natural juncture not only for the spacefolds used by the
Acathii for their gates, but for transit between this and other
dimensions, other realities.
Expanding their research out among the other worlds in the
system, the lords of this house wanted to determine what effects
this unusual but seeming natural spatial anomaly had wrought on
the lifeforms indigenous to this region of space. They discovered
that life existed in abundance on only one planet within the
system, the third in orbit from the star though the fourth and
fifth could theoretically also sustain life, all three planets being
narrowly within the green zone. To their great surprise, several
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Blackbird
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Nicodemus
Hauntress
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Dorian Killgrave
Phalanx
Initiate
The Hut
Jasper Caldwell
Carnelian
Lorruski
Dr. Prometheus
Cyberhawk
Iron Angel
The Serpent Queen (Human)
Miss Liberty
Brimstone
Spoil Sport
Lament
Film Noir
Krait
Peacekeeper
Bloodhawk
Lady Absinthe
Carrionette
Golem
Goth
Sepulchre
Dr. Rune
Platinum Blonde
Sebastian Arcane
Onyx
Roc
Wardog
Nergal
Puzushka
Smog
Dr. Ellen Li
Stan Kirby
Emily DeCosta
US Steel
Sabbath
The Crone
Carapace
Darren Long
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Quantum Mechanic
Technomancer
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Troll
Vodyanoi
Pit Viper
Dead Man Walking
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