ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Wearing it, Slade soon created the approached. In a blinding flash , ,~
The Ghost Rider is a 'driven' hero, legend of a phantom horseman who
crusading not so much to champion rode the frontier, serving the cause of Slade was possessed by the spirit of
Good as to combat Evil. He seems justice. This seemingly supernatural
the most vengeful of the Rangers. figure was called various names, one of the phantom horsemen and
Ghost Rider, Night Rider, Phantom
HISTORY Rider, the Galloping Ghost, the acquired a host of spectral powers,
Haunted Horseman, and He Who
Hamilton Slade is an archeologist Rides the Night Winds among them . far beyond those once possessed by
whose interest in the lore of the When Carter Slade was killed by out-
American Indians was spurred dur- laws, his brother U.S. Marshall Lin- his mortal ancestors. Joined by the
ing childhood by his parents' coln Slade adopted the identity and
accounts of his family's claim to ghost of the Night Rider's horse,
fame in the history of the Southwest. carried on the legend. Although
His great-great-uncle, Carter Slade, Carter died unmarried and childless, Banshee, he galloped off into the
had been a schoolteacher who was Lincoln had two sons, one of whom
gunned down by outlaws soon after was the grandfather of Hamilton night to save stuntrider Johnny
moving to the frontier. Found by a Slade.
friendly tribe of Comanche Indians, Blaze from the magician Moondark.
Carter was nursed back to health by While studying archeology, Hamil-
the medicine man Flaming Star. The ton Slade hoped to some day discov- Upon the successful completion of
aging Indian believed Carter to be er the burial place of his famous
the champion the Comanche sky- great-great grandfather. One day, this mission, Slade resumed his nor-
spirit had revealed to him in a vision while leading a team of archeolo-
a year earlier. Carter Slade was gists from the University of Nevada, mal form, with no memory of his pos-
given a special chalk-white cowboy Slade did come upon the resting
outfit impregnated with special phos- place of his ancestor, in a subterra- session. Now, whenever there is evil
phorescent dust that Flaming Star nean cave beneath a Comanche
had recovered from a meteorite. burial mound. Unable to contain his nearby, Slade is transformed into the
excitement, Slade investigated the
site alone, and was startled when the Phantom Rider to combat it. He still
ghostly garb of the Ghost Rider levi-
tated from a burial urn as he has no idea why he is subject to
occasional memory lapses.
The Phantom Rider was one of the ~
five individuals who intercepted ai
call for help from Rick Jones to the
Avengers when Jones was being
held captive by the Corruptor. He
joined with Red Wolf, Firebird,
Shooting Star, and Texas Twister to
battle the Hulk under the Corruptor's
influence, and later agreed to help
them form the Rangers, the South-
whaesstm'soastnlyswopeer rtaotetdhealAonveensginecrse.tHhae~r
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P.HDENIX
- PHOENIX I /
l -
STATISTICS
PHOENIX DARK PHOENIX
F GD (10) RM (30) '
A GD (10) IN (40) -
S TY (6) RM (30)
E UN (100) UN (100)
R GD (10) GD (10)
I EX (20) EX (20)
P AM (50) CL1000
Health: 126 200
Karma: 80 1030
Resources:C1000
Popularity: 50 to
1000
,_ BACKGROUND \
Real Name: Inapplicable
Occupation: Adventurer, wanderer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen (as " Jean
Grey")
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Inapplicable
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: The universe,
- temporarily the X-Mansion
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS I ADDITIONAL NOTES:
The Phoenix Force: When any power Weather Control: Unearthly rank
is used, this fiery, bird-like aura Weaknesses: Phoenix is suscepti-
appears. It covers 1-1000 areas and ble to psionic and magical attacks. In
is composed of Unearthly Intensity such cases, her Psyche is reduced
cosmic flame. to Excellent. A second weakness is
the weakness of " Jean Grey's" con-
- Note: The powers below have a prac- trol; killing or exceeding a limit of
tical limit of Unearthly rank. If Phoe- Unearthly rank on any power may
nix exceeds that rank, she risks trigger the transformation to Dark
transformation to Dark Phoenix. Phoenix (Yellow Psyche FEAT).
Talents: Fashion modeling, astro-
Absorption Power: CL1000 rank; no navigation
other action can be done that turn. Contacts: As "Jean Grey," Phoenix
has most of that woman's contacts -
Elemental Conversion: CL1000 rank the X-Men, X-Factor, etc.
Flight: Unearthly airspeed (600
mph); CL1000 space speed
(1,000,000 mph)
Force Field: CL1000 protection from
physical and energy attacks.
Gateway: Instantaneous space-
warps to anywhere in the universe.
Kinetic Bolt: Unearthly Intensity;
maximum range 100 miles.
Regeneration: Unearthly rank
Self-Sustenance:.CL1ooo rank
- Telekinesis: Unearthly rank; limitied
to line of sight.
Telepathy: Unearthly rank and range
(16,000 miles)
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: Besides brute force operations, rently unaware that Jean Grey is ,....._
Phoenix has a schizoid personality; she is able to perform delicate tasks,
she is torn between her real back- such as reshaping her garments. As alive. I
ground and her perceived back- a Power Stunt, she developed the
ground ("Jean Grey"). Although the following powers she can use at any '•
Jean Grey personality dominates in time:
the early stages, it is a tenuous con- HISTORY
trol. If she kills accidentally or has • Force Field vs. Physical Attacks:
her Psyche reduced to O by psionic Amazing protection against physi- Two different beings calling themselves
attack, this may trigger her sudden cal attacks with a maximum cover-
transformation to Dark Phoenix, age of 1 area. Phoenix and possessing extraordinary
along with a disastrous increase in • Kinetic Bolt: Amazing Intensity
Ability ranks. b lasts of telekinetic force striking psionic powers are known to have
at a range of 3 areas. Victims must
Failure to make a Yellow Psyche make an Endurance FEAT or lose appeared in this universe. The first was
FEAT triggers the conversion within consciousness for 1-10 turns.
Mental Invisibility: Amazing rank a cosmic entity known as the Phoenix
o1-1 turns. During this phase, Dark Telepathy: Amazing rank
Power Detection: Her affinity for the Force which duplicated itself and
Phoenix becomes a Judge-run NPC. peculiar mental activities of mutants
10-100 turns, later, the player may gives her Amazing ability to locate assumed the form and consciousness
attempt a Red Psyche FEAT to mutants.
regain control and return her to a The Phoenix Force: Her symbiosis of Jean Grey, who is also known as
Phoenix under his and " Jean with the Phoenix energy being gives
Grey's" control. her the powers listed for Phoenix I. Marvel Girl, one of the original mem-
However, her mental training inhibits
PHOENIX II the full effects and limits her powers bers of the X-Men. The second Phoe-
to Monstrous rank. When using her
STATISTICS powers, the fiery aura of the Phoenix nix is a human being, Rachel
F GD (10) Force forms around her (Typical
A GD (10) Intensity flame which covers an area Summers, who is said to be the daugh-, __......_
S GD (10) of 10-100 feet wide).
E IN (40) Talents: Rachel is skilled in Acrobat· ter of the Jean Grey of an alternate'..
R GD (10) ics and Martial Arts C and E.
I RM (30) Contacts: X-Men, New Mutants, Earth.
P MN (75) Excalibur
Health: 70 The Phoenix Force is a manifesta-
Karma: 115 ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Resources: PR (4) tion of a primal force of the universe
Popularity: 12 ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Summers is a deeply disturbed wom- which derives from the psyches of all
BACKGROUND an trying to gain a semblance of nor-
Real Name: Rachel Summers mality despite her horrific living beings in the universe, and which
Occupation: Adventurer, ex-mutant background. Because she is a resi-
hound dent of two alternate timelines, she therefore has limitless power. The
Legal Status: U.S. citizen in alter- worries about what is reality. She is
nate future with criminal record; extremely protective of her friends Phoenix Force embodies emotion rath-
none in this reality and will enter a berserker fury if they
Identity: Secret are endangered . She is afraid to con- er than intellect, specifically, the pas-
Place of Birth: Unrevealed tact Cyclops, her " father," and is cur-
Marital Status: Single sion to create or destroy. ~
Known Relatives: Scott and Jean Jean Grey and other members of the1
Grey Summers (parents, deceased,
on alternate future Earth) X-Men were kidnapped by Sentinel
Base of Operations: X-Mansion,
Muir Island (Scottish coast) robots commanded by Steven Lang, a
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men,
New Mutants, Excalibur scientist who was out to destroy super-
Present Group Affiliation:
human mutants. After defeating Lang,
KNOWN POWERS
Telekinesis: Monstrous rank power the X-Men had to escape back to Earth
aboard a space shuttle through the
path of an unusually intense solar flare.
The shuttle's pilot had to sit in an area
where he or she would be exposed to ~
the lethal radiation. Grey volunteeredt
to be the pilot, using her telepathic abili-
ties to absorb the knowledge of how to
fly the shuttle from the mind of her ally,
Dr. Peter Corbeau, and using her teleki-
netic powers to shield herself from the
radiation. But while she guided the
craft back to Earth, the solar radiation
finally proved to be too great for Grey to
hold back any longer with her powers.
The radiation began killing her painful-
ly.
The sentient Phoenix Force sensed
Grey's desperate desire to save the
lives of the X-Men, especially Scott
Summers, alias Cyclops, the man she
loved, and to save her own life. The
Phoenix Force appeared to Grey in a•..,.....,_
form resembling her own; it also took'
on a human-like consciousness by
reading Grey's mind and replicating
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_JJer consciousness. The Phoenix Force X-Men. But since Grey had never been appealing to the love Grey had for him,
ffered to save the lives of the dying trained to cope with such immense and thereby induced Grey's true per-
power as the Phoenix Force pos- sonality to begin to rise again. Unfortu-
Grey and her friends in exchange for sessed, Phoenix, in human form, nately, the X-Men's mentor, Professor
an unstated price. Afraid of death, but proved to have difficulty in dealing with Charles Xavier, caused her to revert
determined to save Summers and the her power. At first Grey's strong moral fully to Dark Phoenix again by attacking
other X-Men, she accepted the entity's sense kept the Phoenix Force under her. But Cyclops had laid the ground-
offer, and grasped the entity's arm. The control. Then Phoenix fell victim to the work for Phoenix's cure, and so, when
Phoenix Force then took on full human psionic manipulation of Mastermind, Xavier used his full psionic power on
form, an exact duplicate of Grey's. The who was attempting to prove his worthi- Dark Phoenix to exorcise her insanity,
Phoenix Force transferred a portion of ness to become a member of the the nearly buried duplicate of Grey's
Grey's "soul" or consciousness to secret Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club true personality was able to assert itself
itself. Hence, from that point onward, by mesmerizing Phoenix, whom he just enough to allow him to succeed.
Grey existed as both the human Marvel believed to be the real Grey, into Grey regained control.
Girl and as Phoenix. Grey's original becoming the new Black Queen. Using
human form fell into a coma-like state. a device created by the White Queen, Phoenix and the X-Men were imme-
Mastermind projected dream-like fan- diately teleported aboard a Shl'ar star-
The shuttle crashed in Jamaica Bay tasies into Phoenix's mind from afar ship commanded by the empress
which slowly brought closer to the sur- Lilandra, who judged it necessary to
near New York City, but the energy face of her now-human mind the dark obliterate Phoenix's powers entirely
being insured that all of the X-Men and desires which Grey, like most people, lest she become Dark Phoenix again.
_Corbeau survived. The entity itself suppressed deeply. Finally, upon con- Lilandra, like the X-Men, still believed
lmerged from the shuttle calling itself fronting Phoenix in the Hellfire Club that Phoenix was the real Jean Grey.
Phoenix, and the X-Men believed it to mansion itself, Mastermind forced Believing that they could find a way to
be the real Jean Grey, who they those desires fully to the surface, sub- prevent Phoenix's reversion to Dark
believed had died and returned to life merging Grey's true personality within Phoenix, and that she should not be
with vast new powers. Meanwhile, Phoenix's mind; and Phoenix took on punished for her actions as the insane
Grey's original human self remained in the costume and personality of the dec- Dark Phoenix, the X-Men decided to
a coma-like state within a strange pod- adent Black Queen. fight against Lilandra's judgment in a
like object while the Phoenix Force's trial by combat against members of the
power gradually healed her. She Phoenix shortly thereafter freed her Shl'ar Imperial Guard. During the fury
will from Mastermind's control, but of the battle, in which she participated,
-.remained safe within the pod for years because the Phoenix Force is linked to Phoenix again reverted to Dark Phoe-
mtil she was finally found by the passion, she could not fully free herself nix. Grey's true personality was able to
Avengers and revived. from the sinister side of her personality. reassert itself, but Grey realized that
Shortly after the shuttle crash, Phoe- She helped free the X-Men, whom the she had no hope of maintaining that
nix and the X-Men traveled to a planet Inner Circle had taken captive, and control. Moreover, once she turned
in the Shl'ar Galaxy where the crazed psionically induced temporary insanity insane, she might ultimately destroy
Emperor D'kan was about to use the the cosmos, probably by breaking
M' krann Crystal to obliterate the cos- in Mastermind. But as she and the X· open the M'krann Crystal. Therefore,
mos. The Crystal is a tesseract (hyper- Men escaped, she realized that the before the eyes of the horrified
dimensional construct) within which dark side of her personality, the Phoe- Cyclops, Phoenix acted as the real
nix Force's innate urge to destroy, was Grey would do: she telekinetically trig-
-..this universe's scientific laws do not taking hold of her. Suddenly the Phoe- gered an energy cannon she had
1pply. Within the Crystal, imprisoned nix Force's primal urges overwhelmed found in the Blue Area of the Earth's
by a magnetic stasis field and reduced Phoenix, submerging Grey's true per- moon, where the trial by combat had
to the size of a pinprick, lies a so-called sonality even more fully than before, taken place, causing it to fire and totally
Neutron Galaxy, which is composed of and Phoenix became the satanic Dark distintegrate her. Thus, although the
neutron stars, whose super- Phoenix. real Jean Grey still lay in her coma-like
compressed matter generates so state hidden from the real world, she
much gravitational force that not even Hungering for more energy to over- had won her greatest victory.
light can escape its surface. If the Crys- come the limitations of physical form,
tal were cracked open, the entire Dark Phoenix transported herself to the But the suicide did not mean that the
uiverse would collapse upon itself due star D'bari in the Shl'ar Galaxy and Phoenix Force itself ceased to exist. It
to the Neutron Galaxy's tremendous absorbed energy from it. As a result, simply meant that the entity's existence
gravitational forces, and the universe the star became a super-nova, annihi- in human form was over. The Phoenix
would be sucked into a black hole. lating the sentient non-humanoid popu- Force is indestructible.
D'Kan had triggered this destructive lace of one of its planets. Dark Phoenix
process, but Phoenix entered the Crys- next destroyed a Shl'ar starship which In an alternate reality, the battle with
tal and, drawing upon her full powers had attacked her in retaliation for the Dark Phoenix had a very different end-
through love of the X-Men and Grey's non-humanoids' deaths. She returned ing. In that reality, Phoenix did not
to Earth and battled the X-Men.
.-...innate courage, repaired the distinte- Cyclops tried to reason with her, revert to Dark Phoenix during combat,
Jrating statis field, thus saving the cos- which the X-Men lost. Lilandra then
· mos.
Phoenix served as a member of the
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sujected Phoenix to a kind of psychic Eventually, Rachel was placed in the She went to Manhattan, where she was_
lobotomy, which completely removed South Bronx Mutant Containment pursued by the psychic vampir
Phoenix's superhuman powers, there- Facility, where she used her psionic Selene. Summers was rescued by the
powers to create the illusion in other X-Men and joined their team. She
by ending the menace Phoenix poten- minds that she does not bear the tat- eventually told the X-Men her story,
tially posed for the universe. Hence, toos of a "hound:'She rejoined the sur- although as yet only Magneto knows
Phoenix did not commit suicide in this viving members of the X-Men and was
reality. Scott Summers and Phoenix instrumental in their plan to end the she was a "hound."
were married and had a daughter, Sentinels' reign by changing history. Rachel was shocked to learn of the
Rachel, who inherited her mother's Summers used her psionic powers to
potential for the telepathic and telekine- exchange the consciousness and spirt supposed " death" of Jean Grey in this
tic powers that Jean Grey possessed of the adult Kitty Pryde, a member of reality. Visiting the home of Grey's par-
the X-Men, with that of Pryde's teenage ents while they were absent, Rachel
as Marvel Girl. self as she existed at a time just before found a Shl'ar holempathic matrix crys-
In the " mainstream" universe's reali- the attempt on Kelly's life. It was hoped tal that Lilandra had given them. This
that the adult Kate, in her younger self's crystal was imbued with an imprint of
ty, the X-Men prevented Mystique's body, could warn the X-Men about the the essence of Grey's personality.
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from assassination attempt, and that the X- Refusing to believe that Jean Grey
assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, an Men would foil it. However, history can- could be evil, Rahcel decided to claim
investigator of the alleged menace that not be changed in this manner. Rachel, the name and power of Phoenix as her
superhuman mutants posed to society. as it turned out, actually caused Kate to own by birthright, and through her own _
However, in this alternate reality, the exchange psyches not with her youn- actions to redeem the name Phoenix it
Brotherhood succeeded in killing Kelly. ger self but with the Kitty in our own this reality. She also hoped to help her
The assassination caused intense " mainstream" reality. Alternate Kate in fellow mutants, thereby atoning for
widespread public paranoia against mainstream Kitty's body succeeded in what she had done as a " hound" in her
mutants. In the next presidential elec- preventing Kelly's assassination in our own reality. It was at this moment that
tion, a rabid antimutant candidate won. own reality. She then returned to her she took the name of Phoenix while
His administration unleashed Sentinel own body, upon which she found that in holding the crystal that Rachel first
robots, giving them an open-ended the alternate reality the other X-Men, manifested about her the birdshaped
program with overly broad parameters except for Rachel, had all died in an aura of energy associated with the pre-
to eliminate the mutant menace perma- attack on the Sentinels' Manhattan vious Phoenix. It may be speculated.........
nently. The Sentinels decided that the that from that time on Rachel Summen
best way to do so was to take over the headquarters.
Kate Pryde hypnotized Summers has been able to draw to a limited
U.S. Over the following years, the Sen- extent upon the power of the Phoenix
tinels killed or imprisoned within con- into using her psionic powers to tap into
centration camps virtually all known the Phoenix Force and send herself Force.
mutants and other superhuman beings back in time when Pryde said the Rachel has not yet told the Cyclops
from North America. words " Dark Phoenix." Thus Pryde
hoped that Summers herself could of this reality that his counterpart in her
One summer morning, when Rachel change history. Together Pryde and native reality was her father, but it has
was still a child, the X-Men's base of Summers illegally entered the labora- been speculated that Cyclops has
oeprations, Professor Charles Xavier's tory of Project Nimrod, which was the deduced this himself.
School for Gifted Youngsters, was attempt to construct the most highly
attacked and demolished by federal advanced Sentinel possible. Pryde and Rachel's fellow X-man, Wolverine,,.......
troops. The only survivor at the school Summers, pursued by guards, locked recently severely injured her to preven:
was Rachel, whom the soldiers found themselves inside the laboratory, her from vengefully murdering Selene
by the side of Xavier's corpse. They whose walls were proof against Pryde's in the heat of passion. Rachel was sub-
used drugs to neutralize Rachel's power to phase through solid matter. sequently captured and rendered
developing psionic powers. Later, she Summers believed herself and Pryde amnesiac by the extradimensional
was tortured and brainwashed in to be trapped, but Pryde said the words
prison, becoming a mutant " hound" that caused Summers to project herself being Spiral.
who used her psionic powers to hunt back through time. Project Nimrod's Phoenix recently fled to Great Brit-
down other mutants. In the process, creation, the Sentinel called Nimrod,
Rachel occasionally killed mutants her- then killed Pryde and went back in time ain, pursued by Mojo's Warwolves. Lat-
self, and it is known that some of those er, she was pursued by the
were people she loved. Rachel's supe- to find Summers. Gatecrasher's Technet, agents of Opal
riors branded her face with a grotesque Summers found herself physically Luna Saturnyne, Omniversal Majestrix.
pattern of tattoos to mark her as a Saturnyne declared Phoenix a menace
" hound," and forced her to wear a transported, body and mind, to a time to reality (perhaps due to its alternate-
leash. Rachel's grief and shame and shortly before the present, but in the timeline hopping abilities) and ordered
anguish over the deaths of family and " mainstream" reality. She went to its capture. Since Rachel is the Phoe-
friends left her bitter and intolerant Xavier's mansion but could not bring nix now, well, she'll have to be ca,:r
toward human beings who persecute herself to stay there in the wrong reality.
tured, too.
mutants. Following victories against both,.._
forces, Rachel joined in the establish.
ment of Excalibur, a Great Britain-
based superheroic team.
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,....STATISTICS
f UN (100)
A UN (100)
S UN (100)
E ShY (250)
R MN (75)
I UN(100)
P UN (100)
Health: 550
Karma: 275
Resources: UN (100)
Popularity: - 500
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Hades
Occupation: Ruler of Hades
Legal Status: Olympian citizen,
?---tuler of Hades
ttentlty: Believed mythical by the
public
Place of Birth: Probably Olympus
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Persephone
(wife); Zeus, Neptune (brothers);
Hera, Demeter, Vesta (sisters)
Base of Operations: Hades
Past Group Affiliations: Olympian
~ Gods
!resent Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS his powers if he loses the axe). ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Immortality: CL1000 resistance to Helmet of Invisibility: Unearthly rank
aging , disease, and toxins. If can affect other Olympians
reduced to 0 Health and Endurance, Weakness: All his Abilities and
he does not die. powers drop -1 CS when he is away
Invulnerability: Unearthly rank
Regeneration: Unearthly rank from Hades.
-F;nergy Sheath (Mystic Flame): Talents: Expert in hand-to-hand
1nearthly intensity magical flame combat, the lore of Death, and clas-
Weapons Creation: Unearthly materi- sical Grecian culture.
al weapons can be formed from his Contacts: Ares
fiery aura; these possess Unearthly
paralysis.
Fire Control: Unearthly control
Darkforce Manipulation: Unearthly
ran k
Electrical Control: Unearthly rank
Gravity Control: Unearthly rank
Ught Control: Unearthly rank
Force Field Generation: Unearthly
protection against physical and
energy attacks
Force Field vs. Magic: Unearthly pro-
tection against magical attacks
Gateway: Unearthly ability to create
- warps between dimensions
!quipment:
Axe: CL3000 material; acts both as
weapon and as power focus (-1 CS to
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ries. eled to an alternate future of Earth if}--.
Pluto is a stern, brooding god. He The most infamous exception was which nuclear radiation had trans
actually enjoys his duties as lord of formed many human beings into
the dead. He resents the Olympians' when Pluto carried off Kore, the god- inhuman-looking mutates. Pluto
fall from power and blames Zeus for dess of spring, to the underworld, to brought an army of mutates back to
it. Pluto sees himself as the rebel- force her to become his wife. Kore's his own time to conquer Earth for
lious savior of the Olympians and the mother, the fertility goddess Deme- him Pluto and his mutates were
destroyer of later gods' religions and ter, was outraged, and refused to opposed by Thor, his fellow Asgar-
realms. He holds special grudges allow crops to grow in ancient dians Balder and Sif, and the United
against Hercules for daring to chain Greece until Kore was returned. States armed forces. Finally, Zeus
Cerberus and Thor for often oppos- Eventually, a compromise was himself intervened, banishing both
ing his schemes. reached, and Kore spends only a Pluto and his mutates to Hades.
portion of the year in Hades with her
HISTORY husband. As queen of Hades, Kore Later, Odin, monarch of the Asgar-
is known as Persephone. dians, physically died. But time had
Pluto is the eldest son of Cronus,
ruler of the superhuman extradimen- Since the time of his appointment been magically suspended about
sional race of Titans, and his wife, as ruler of Hades, Pluto had popu- him so that his spirit would not yet
the Titaness Rhea. (Cronus the Titan lated his realm with the "shades" of leave his body. Pluto attempted to
is not to be confused with the Eternal mortals who had worshipped the claim Odin's soul but was opposed
known as Chrones or Kronos.) Fear- Olympian gods. When the worship of by Odin's son Thor and by the Asgar-,.,--.
ing that he would be dethroned by Olympian gods died out, giving way dian death goddess Hela. Rathe.
one of his offspring just as he had to Christianity, Zeus forbade Pluto than allow Pluto to deprive her of
overthrown his own father Ouranus, from collecting any more "souls." Odin's soul, Hela restored Odin to
Cronus imprisoned each of his own Pluto obeyed the edict resentfully, life. Odin interrupted the· battle
offspring in Tartarus, the darkest having become accustomed to an between Thor and Pluto, and Pluto
section of Hades, the Olympian ever-growing number of subjects in
underworld, as soon as he or she his realm. The bitter Pluto finally returned to Hades. Still later, Pluto
was born. (Later legends errone- convinced himself that Zeus had and his nephew Ares conspired to
ously claimed that Cronus had actu- proved himself to be an incompetent provoke a battle between Thor and
ally swallowed his children and that leader by allowing the worship of the Hercules. But Thor and Hercules
they remained alive inside him until Olympians to come to an end. Zeus, learned of the deception, and Thor,,_...__
Zeus released them.) Appalled, the noting Pluto's increasingly ominous managed to defeat Pluto on Earth. ,
children's mother Rhea gave birth to rebelliousness, warned him against
Zeus without Cronus's knowledge attempting to overthrow him and Sometime later, Pluto made alli-
and gave him to the primeval Earth sentenced him to remain monarch of ances with other death gods of other
goddess Gaea to be raised in secret. dimensions, and then demanded
The adult Zeus freed his siblings and Hades until Pluto could find a willing that Zeus command Hercules and
led them in a successful revolt replacement. the goddess Venus to marry Pluto's
against Cronus and the Titans. Plu- allies Ares and Hippolyta. Zeus, fear-
to's unique contribution to the war In recent years, during one of Her- ing that Pluto would otherwise lead
was stealing Cronus's principal cules' sojourns on Earth, Pluto the other death gods in an attack on
weapons from his palace while wear- appeared on Earth in the guise of Olympus, at first agreed. In fact, Plu.,..---...
ing a helmet of invisibility. Hayden P. Hellman (nicknamed "Mr. to still intended to conquer Olympus
Pluto"), a movie producer at Califor- Pluto believed that Hercules and
Zeus became ruler of the pocket nia Stardust Studios. Thus dis- Venus were the only two Olympians
dimension called Olympus and of guised, Pluto had the naive Hercules who could prevent his taking over
the race of Olympian gods. Zeus sign a contract that Hercules Olympus, but, according to Zeus's
confined the defeated Titan warriors believed was for appearing in a pro- law, once they were married to Ares
to Tartarus. He knew that they need- ject film. But in fact, it was an Olym- and Hippolyta, Hercules and Venus
ed a stern warder and that the brood- pian contract binding Hercules to would be unable to oppose them in
ing Pluto was the only one of his become Pluto's successor as ruler of combat. But finally, Zeus called Plu-
siblings who found life in the under- Hades. Having signed the contract, to's bluff, withdrew commands for
world suitable to his temperament. Hercules was unable to battle Pluto the marriages, and sent Pluto back
Therefore, Zeus assigned rulership on his own behalf, but the Asgardian to Hades. Pluto has met with the
of the entire underworld to his elder god Thor fought against Pluto's
·brother. Pluto was quite pleased with forces to free Hercules. Shocked by death-gods of other pantheons on
this new role and rarely left the the massive destruction wreaked in yet another occasion, when the pri-
underworld over the following centu- Hades by Thor, Pluto realized that he
loved his kingdom and could not mordial Demogorge threatened all
bear to forsake it. Pluto therefore gods.
released Hercules from the contract.
Pluto remains in Hades today, but
But Pluto still wished to add new it is not likely he has given up his-----.
conquests to his kingdom. He trav- dreams of conquest.
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STATISTICS
'
F GD (10)
A GD (10)
s TY (6)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
p RM (30)
Health: 56
Karma: 60
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 3
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Lorna Dane (adoptive
name; real name unknown)
Occupation: Graduate student in
.-geophysics, adventurer
.egal Status: U.S. citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men
Present Group Affiliation:
,.-.J<NOWN POWERS
Aagnetism: Amazing control over a
range of 10 areas
Energy Control: Incredible control
over electricity and gravity. She can
inflict Incredible damage to a target
at a range of 5 areas.
Flight: Excellent air speed.
Force Field: Amazing rank field cov-
ering 1 area. Each additional area
-...pecreases the protection -1 CS.
falents: Remarkable Reason in the
field of geophysics.
Contacts: X-Men, X-Factor
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Dane's main goal is to live a normal
life unfettered by superheroic con- Lorna Dane's parents are said to
cerns. Since she was orphaned at a have died in a plane crash only
young age, she has sought meaning- weeks after her birth. She was then
ful relationships to make up for the adopted by the Danes, probably her
family she lacked. She sees the ~ mother's sister and brother-in-law.
Men as her family. However, she 1s The Danes never told Lorna that they
closest to Alex Summers. They were were not her true parents for fear
living together for some time before that the truth might have a traumatic
their recent Marauder-influenced effect on her. Lorna did not learn the
story about the plane crash and the
split.
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fact that she had been adopted until as second-in-command. Then, Sax- Dane joined the X-men in battlin9'--
she was nearly twenty years old. ·on decided that a mutant who was a
natural source of vast magnetic " Magneto." Mesmero and the Mab
Lorna Dane had been born with power would be useful in dealing
green hair, which her foster parents with his metal robot army. From neto robot escaped, the Demi-Men'
and then she herself always kept sources still unrevealed, Saxon
dyed brown so that she would not be acquired a "psycho-generator," were destroyed, and Saxon , his
thought of as being "different." which has some features in common
Dane's hair color was the only out- with Charles Xavier's Cerebra plans ruined, had to hire himself out
ward sign of her unusual genetic machine. Mesmero used the
structure. She has the latent genetic psycho-generator to summon as an assassin who used androids to
potential for magnetic powers, but mutants in North America with latent
certain genetic factors were absent powers. The nearest such mutant ki ll.
which would have allowed her to with latent magnetic powers, Lorna
exercise these powers. In the normal Dane found herself compelled to For a time Dane was romantically
course of events, Dane would never travel to San Francisco , the city
have been able to use these powers. inclined toward Robert Drake, the
However, the intervention of Samuel where Mesmero was. Mesmero and
" Starr" Saxon, the master roboticist his androids captured her and .Iceman, but eventually she fell in
whose brain patterns were later pre- brought her to their desert headquar-
served in the Machinesmith, altered ters, where they placed her inside a love with Alexander Summers, who
the normal course of events. Saxon " genetic stimulator," which altered
had constructed an android dupli- her genetic structure so as to allow is also known as Havok. Neither
cate of Magneto, the mutant with her to exercise her previously latent
great magnetic powers who was powers. Meanwhile, Mesmero used Dane nor Summers wished to lead
then believed to be dead, and a his hypnotic powers upon her to alter
small army of androids with strange her personality so that she would lives as adventurers, but they dis-
powers called the Demi-Men. Sax- sympathize with the bogus Magneto
on's plans were to use these and his cause. She was told that she covered that they had a mutual inter-
androids as his means of accumulat- was the daughter of Magneto and
ing vast wealth and power, while that she had inherited her powers est in geophysics. Hence, they are
from him.
deceiving the world into believing now both doing doctoral research in
them to be examples of evil mutants, Shortly afterward, however, Mes-
who had become objects of wide- mero dropped his control over Dane, that subject in the Diablo mountain
spread fear. overconfidently assuming that she
would obey her supposed father no range in California. Since they no~--
Saxon decided that he needed matter what happened. On the con-
some actual mutants to help him trary, after the X-man named Iceman spend most of their time away fron
lead the android army while he him- revealed to her that Magneto was not
self remained behind the scenes, her father and told her about the public view, Dane does not bother to'
giving directions through the Magne- plane crash and her adoption, Lorna
to robot. First, Saxon had the robot dye her hair. Neither Dane (who
Magneto recruit Mesmero to serve
eventually took the code-name
Polaris) nor Summers has ever been
a full-time X-Man, but they are willing
to help the X-Men in emergency situ-
ations, and have done so in the past.
Lorna received her current cos-
tume, which is of Shl'ar design,....--...
when her mind came under the dom
ination of the Shl' ar intelligence·
agent Davan Shakari, who served
D'ken, the now-deposed emperor of
the Shl' ar Galaxy. Charles Xavier
finally freed her from Shakari's con-
trol.
Polaris recently joined the
Marauders. How sincere or long·
lasting this connection may be is as---...
yet unknown. I
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PORCUPINE
~TATISTICS
F' EX (20)
A GD (10)
S EX (20)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I GD(10)
P TY (6)
Health: 80
Karma: 26
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: - 5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Alexander Gentry
Occupation: Weapons designer for
the U.S. Army, professional criminal
~Legal Status: U.S. citizen with crimi-
ial record (deceased)
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Presumed single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: New York City
area
Past Group Affiliations: Nefaria
(Maggia branch), Batroc's Brigade
~resent Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS man, Scarecrow, and Unicorn; form- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
er employee of Cowled Commander,
Equipment: Justin Hammer The Porcupine was very proud of his
achievements and wanted to get rich
Body Armor: Incredible protection ADDITIONAL NOTES: from them. He was paranoid about
from physical attacks. Remarkable others stealing his secrets from him,
protection against energy attacks. and thus he became a supervillain to
Helmet: Remarkable protection, strike first at his imagined foes. He
including a 6-hour air supply. Night- blames his failures on others or later
vision lenses give him perfect vision on the Porcupine armor itself.
- ln the dark.
';pikes: When striking, the quills do
Excellent Edged damage. If charg-
ing, damage increases + 1 CS. Strik-
ing the Porcupine causes Good
damage to an unprotected attacker.
Concussion Bombs: Fires three per
turn with Remarkable Agility at a
range of 3 areas. Incredible damage
against a single target.
Knock-Out Gas-bombs: Fires three
per turn with Remarkable Agility at a
range of 3 areas. Gas has Amazing
Potency. Electricity: Incredible dam-
age to a single target up to 3 areas
away.
Rocket: Boot-jets allow Poor air-
speed (3 areas per turn) for 1O min-
~utes .
.alents: Remarkable Reason in the
fields of armor and weapons design.
Contacts: Former ally of Eel, Plant-
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Gentry and Leopold Stryke, who was failure. ..---.
the original Eel, sought guidance
HISTORY from the Celestial Mind Control In despair, Gentry came up 1
movement, which was secretly mas-
Alexander Gentry, a weapons designer terminded by the alien Nebulon. the idea of selling the battlesuit to
for the United States Army, spent Nebulon pitted the Porcupine and
months working overtime to create his the Eel against his foes, the cos- the Avengers to prevent it from fall-
porcupine battlesuit. He was enor- tumed adventurers called the
mously proud of his achievement when Defenders, who defeated them both. ing into the hands of their enemies.
the suit was finished, and believed his
invention was worth a fortune. Yet Gen- Later, the Porcupine and a smal! Captain America agreed to have the
try also believed that the government group of confederates invaded a
would pay him, one of its employees, major Manhattan hotel to steal the Avengers buy the battlesuit if Gentry
virtually nothing for his creation . valuables in its safe. This time the
Angrily, Gentry decided to keep the Porcupine erred by deciding to rob helped get him to members of the
porcupine battlesuit and to use it to the wealthy audience at a fashion
make himself wealthy through crime. show in one of the hotel's ballrooms. Serpent Society. Gentry accepted
Thus Gentry became the Porcupine, The Wasp, Yellowjacket, and Night-
one of the first costumed criminals of hawk quickly defeated the criminals, Captain America's terms.
his generation. and the Porcupine left , humiliated at
being overpowered by the Wasp and Captain America's plan was for
The Porcupine was soon defeated Yellowjacket when they were both at
by Henry Pym, who was then the origi- the size of insects. Gentry to pretend to have captured
nal Ant-Man, and his partner, Janet van
Dyne, the Wasp. A second defeat by Perhaps believing there was him and to offer the Serpent Society
Pym as Giant-Man came when the Por- safety in numbers, the Porcupine
cupine took an overdose of Pym's next turned up as one of a large the opportunity to kill him. Gentry
shrinking capsules, and shrank out of assemblage of costumed criminals
sight. organized by the original versions of contacted the Society's leader, Side-
Libra and Sagittarius of the android
Eventually, however, the effect wore Zodiac. This time the Porcupine was winder, and arranged to have some
off, and the Porcupine, again at his nor- defeated by the Hellcat during a bat-
mal size, was among the many cos- tle between a number of the crimi- of the Society members meet him at
tumed menaces assembled by Doctor nals and a group of adventurers
Doom to disrupt the wedding of Reed operating under the auspices of the a Lower Manhattan construction
Richards and Susan Storm. Defenders.
site. Gentry, having reluctal).tl.v
His self-confidence still shaken by The Porcupine went to prison but
his failure in battling Giant-Man and the was soon released by minions of bil- donned his Porcupine costume a
Wasp, the Porcupine eagerly accepted lionaire Justin Hammer. That ven-
the invitation of Count Luchino Nefaria, ture didn't last long either because more as part of the plan, pretenaed
a powerful figure in the criminal Mag- the Porcupine and his allies failed to
gia, to join his group of costumed defeat Iron Man for Hammer. to guard Captain America, who was
agents. However, Nefaria and his
agents were thwarted by the original X- Tired of his long string of defeats, seemingly bound with chains.
Men. Once again , the Porcupine Gentry decided to give up his career
escaped being taken prisoner, and he as a costumed criminal and live off Four Society members soon
blamed the failure of the blackmail the millions of dollars he expected to
scheme on Nefaria and the other receive by selling his battlesuit. Gen- appeared: Cottonmouth, Death
agents. But Gentry suspected that, in try totally redesigned his porcupine
fact, he himself was inadequate for the battlesuit, making it far deadlier than Adder, Diamondback, and the Rat-
role of being a "super-villain" battling before. He entered into negotiations
superhuman opponents. with the subversive organization tler. Captain America took the Socie-
called the Secret Empire. But Cap-
During coming months, the Porcu- tain America and his ally Nomad ty members by surprise.
pine enlisted as a member of defeated the Porcupine, and Gentry
Batroc's Brigade and also worked , was returned to jail. In the ensuing battle, Gentry ~
with his allies the original Eel, the
Plantman , and the Scarecrow, for In prison, Gentry vowed never to impaled on one of his own qi
the masked criminal mastermind put on the Porcupine battlesuit
who called himself the Cowled Com- again. He was soon released from when he fell. Apparently the quill
mander. Again , the Porcupine prison, apparently legally, and he set
clashed with Captain America but about once more to try to sell the bat- went into his heart, for the injury
was defeated. tlesuit. But by now Porcupine was
universally regarded as a laughable proved fatal. Diamondback
Convinced that they were failures,
escaped, but Captain America
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defeated the other three Society
members. Captain American found
Gentry dying and in despair. Gentry
said, "I'm ,going to die as lived ...
one big loser." Captain America tr;s.q
to reassure Gentry, telling him .
he had helped him defeat three Ser-
pent Society members, and that
therefore Gentry was a hero. But
Gentry refused to believe the cap-
tain's kind words, saying that he,
Gentry, was "nothing" and had led a
worthless life. Captain America said
that Gentry had proved to be a wor-
thy opponent, but it is not known
whether this compliment mattered to
Gentry, for he expired seconds later
without having said another word.
In tribute to Gentry, Captain Amer-
ica had him buried in a grave
reserved by the Avengers for those
who have fallen in battle, and put his
battlesuit on exhibit in Aven~
Mansion, labeled "Battle Armo
the Porcupine-Honored Foe of the
Avengers."
STATISTICS
F AM (50)
A EX (20)
S UN (100)
E UN (100)
R ShZ (500)
I MN (75)
P UN(100)
Health: 270
Karma: 675
Resources: UN (100)
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND * Teleportation : CL5000 ability to Contacts: The surviving Elders of
Real Name: Kamo Tharnn return to the Possessor when he the Universe and the researchers on
Occupation: Librarian, scholar, summons it. Aus.
seeker of knowledge Talents: The Possessor has
,--.....Legal Status: Unknown ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ldentity: Existence unknown to the Unearthly access to all the uni-
public verse's knowledge, provided it is in
Marital Status: Single his computer.
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Aus, a planet
in the Scion system of the Androm-
eda Galaxy
Past Group Affiliations: Elders of
the Universe
.-.Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Immortality: CL5000 resistance to
aging, disaese, and toxins. He does
not die if Health or Endurance are
reduced to 0.
Invulnerability: CL1000 resistance to
physical and energy attacks, includ-
ed environmental extremes.
"Power Primordial": His connection
_,-,to the original energy of the universe
Jives him these powers:
* Spirit Storage: Unearthly ability
to hold an infinite number of life
forces within himself and freely
communicate with any of them.
* Teleportation: CL5000 range
(500 light years)
* Total Memory: CL1000 recall
" Cosmic Awareness: CL1000
rank
* Communicate with Cybernetics:
CL1000 rank link between Pos-
sessor and his computer.
The Runestaff: The CL1000 Material
staff possesses these powers:
* Dimension Travel: Unearthly
rank
...-~ * Emotion Control: Unearthly rank
* Internal Limbo: Unearthly rank
* Healing: Unearthly rank
* Regeneration: Unearthly rank
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES already devoted a great deal of time power to thwart the null-life bomb,-
and effort mastering the Runestaff's
The Possessor seeks knowledge properties and did not want Tharnn that was threatening all existence.
above all things, unless under the
influence of the Runestaff, in which to take credit for its discovery, and so When Jane Foster accompanied
case power is his ultimate aim. This refused him. Violence erupted, and
possession also causes him to feel Thor to Asgard, Sif's godly life
acutely paranoid of any and all who Tharnn slew the researcher.
approach or contact him. The senseless act unhinged the essence overwhelmed Foster's, and
HISTORY sanity of the usually peaceful master Sif's body spontaneously returned
librarian, and he began to experi-
Like all the Elders of the Universe, ment with the Aunestaff with reck- from the pocket dimension, sending
the Possessor's origin is lost in antiq- less abandon . One of the properties
uity. What is known is that he is one of the Aunestaff is the manipulation Foster's there in exchange. Upon
of the oldest living beings in the uni- of life forces, and Tharnn accidental-
verse, having been a member of one ly dispatched the hundreds of thou- her return to Earth, Sit continued to
of the first of the universe's races to sands of students and faculty on his
become sentient in the wake of the planet into the limbo-like pocket predominate and Jane Foster
Big Bang. Virtually immortal, Kama dimension "inside" the staff. Driven
Tharnn has spent the eons since his further insane by the ruin of every- remained in the pocket dimension.
self-awareness engaged in the pur- thing he had strived for over the
suit and recording of all the knowl- eons, Tharnn, now calling himself Kamo Tharnn, in the meantime,
edge of the universe. Eventually the Possessor of the Runestaff, pre-
Tharnn founded a huge university sided over the still planet, paranoid had discovered a spell to teleport the
and library on the planet Aus, and that someone would come and take
transferred the vast store of informa- away from him his last remaining Runestaff back to him. While tinker-
tion he accumulated to a huge mas- possession. The planet's edifices
ter computer. He then opened the soon fell into disrepair, the master ing .with his prize possession again,
doors of the academy of learning to
knowledge-seekers from anywhere computer ceased to function , and a he inadvertently transferred the life
in the universe. Within a century, his furry pre-intelligent humanoid race
institution of advanced knowledge began to breed wildly and overrun essences of all of the individuals who
was filled with scholars, students,
and researchers from over a thou- the planet Aus. had been trapped in the staff's pock-
sand different intelligent startaring Eventually, Tharnn's paranoia was
races. et dimension (including Jane Foster) ~
vindicated when the Olympian god into his own immortal body. Eventu-
For untold millennia, Kama Hercules and the Asgardian god-
Tharnn was content to be the master dess Sit journeyed to Aus to borrow ally Thor, Sit, and Jane Foster's
librarian and chief administrator of the Runestaff in order to save the
the university, until finally one of the waning life force of the mortal Jane fiance, Keith Kincaid, traveled to the
many research assistants brought to Foster. When the Possessor refused
him an alien artifact of immense to let them use it, the gods stole it planet Rus in an effort to locate Fos-
power called the Runestaff. Excited from him and returned to Earth. By
by such a find, Tharnn asked to the staff's power, Sif's godly life ter. Rescu ing Tharnn from alien
examine the artifact to record the essence was transferred into Fos-
properties for the master computer ter's body, while Sif's body and con- invaders, they succeeded in exorcis-
personally. The researcher had sciousness went into the dimension
" inside" the staff. Once Foster was ing all of the spirits trapped inside
saved, the gods forgot about the
Aunestaff and its mad owner. The Tharnn's body and restoring them to
Aunestaff lay in a hospital broom
closet for months until the alien their rightful forms. The experience
Stranger dispatched the mutant
Darkstar to fetch it in order to use its seemed to restore Tharnn's sanity ,......__
and, reunited with all of his fellow
knowledge-seekers, he vowed to
restore his university to its former
glory and not use the staff selfishly
ever again . Thor, Sit, Foster, and Kin-
caid left the planet Aus for Earth.
Kamo Tharnn began the process of
rebuilding his citadel of knowledge
and dispatching his researchers to
gather all the information necessary,,,.-.
to bring the master computer data-
bank up to date.
Recently the Possessor joined his
fellow Elders' scheme to slay Galac-
tus and the Universe in a bid to attain
expanded powers. It failed misera-
bly. The Possessor was flung into a
black hole along with his fellow
Elders, the Trader and the Astrono-
mer. It is unknown where they ended
up or their present conditions.
,--...
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PDW&AMAN
STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A GD (10)
S IN (40)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P TY (6)
Health: 130
Karma: 36
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: 18
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Luke Cage (legally
c hanged; real name unknown)
Occupation: Adventurer, mercenary
,......,. Legal Status: U.S. citizen with crimi-
1al record (acquitted)
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth : New York City
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Heroes For
Hire, Inc., Defenders, Fantastic Four
....--.Present Group Affiliation:
'
KNOWN POWERS
Invulnerability: Incredible resistance
to physical and energy attacks
Regeneration: Poor ability to heal at
threefold speed
Talents: Martial Arts A and E, Law
Enforcement and Criminal skills
Contacts: Iron Fist (deceased),
,.........._Fantastic Four
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES not have to speak too much. He lets Harlem, often committing petty
~age is a large, dangerous-looking body language do most of his talk- thefts with his friend, Willis Stryker.
ing. Brute force is his favored As the two matured, Cage found odd
man and knows it. He knows every- approach to problem-solving. He jobs in legitimate fields of employ-
one else knows it, too, and thus does holds a grudge for years and will go ment, w hile Stryker became a pro-
to great lengths to correct injustices fessional criminal and racketeer.
done to him. Cage and Stryker became rivals for
the affections of Reva Connors. Stry-
HISTORY ker's illicit wealth made him a more
eligible suitor than Cage. Then Cage
The man who would call himself saved Stryker's life one night when
Luke Cage grew up in the slums of Stryker was badly beaten in a mob
hit. While Stryker was hospitalized,
Cage and Connors, often meeting
during hospital visits, developed a
163
deep friendship. Insanely jealous of ing himself in a high-frequency elec- exploits garnered in comparison to...--..
his friend, Stryker planted two kilo- tric field conducted by an organic those of other crimefighters, Cag6
grams of heroin in Cage 's apart- chemical liquid. At a point when Ber- eventually adopted the working
ment, tipped off the police, and had stein was not present, Rackham name Power Man.
him arrested and sent to prison . relieved the guard who was on duty,
and ignorantly operated the controls Several years later, Bushmaster, a
A few days later, Connors was of the experiment hoping to kill or powerful European crime lord,
killed in a mob hit intended for Stry- maim Cage. Instead, Rackham unin- coerced Cage into kidnapping pri-
ker. From prison, Cage swore venge- tentionally advanced the experiment vate investigator Misty Knight, in
ance against his former friend for to a point beyond its design, and exchange for the lives of Dr. Berstein
framing him and getting Connors induced a body-wide mutagenic and Cage's friend Claire Temple,
killed . Cage allowed his rage to con- enhancement of Cage's bodily tis- whom he held captive. Bushmaster
sume him while in prison. He fre- sues that gave him superhuman had acquired a videotape of Stryker
quently engaged in brawls and strength. Freeing himself, Cage planting the heroin in Cage's apart-
attempted escape. Several of his knocked Rackham unconscious. ment, a tape that could clear Cage's
parole board hearings ended in vio- Thinking that he had killed Rack- name. Agreeing to Bushmaster's
lence. Cage was finally transferred ham, Cage used his now steel-hard terms, Cage found himself locked in
to Seagate Prison, a maximum secu- fists to smash his way through the battle with Misty's friend, Daniel
rity correctional facility located on an island prison walls and escape. Rand , alias Iron Fist. Learning
island off the coast of Georgia, and When guards recovered the bullet- Cage's predicament, Knight and Iron ,,....
known as " Little Alcatraz." Life at ridden shirt worn by Cage during the Fist elected to help Cage. After1
Seagate was hard for Cage, largely escape, the escapee was thought to
because of two racist correctional be dead and swept out to sea. Bushmaster was defeated, the new,
officers, Albert Rackham and Wil- video-taped evidence was presented
liam Quirt, who routinely taunted and The fugitive Cage gradually made to a court of law and Cage was fully
beat him. When a progressive war- his way to New York City under vari- acquitted. Cage briefly went to work
den came to the facility and learned ous assumed identities, intending to for Misty Knight and Colleen Wing's
of the guards' brutality, Quirt was locate Stryker and exact revenge. detective agency, Nightwing Resto-
fired and Rackham demoted. Rack- On one of his first nights in New York, rations. But after Misty "fired" him in
man blamed this humiliation on he foiled a robbery at a diner. When a friendly argument, he and Iron Fist
Cage and vowed to get back at him. the owner gave Cage a cash reward, established a hero-for-hire agency ~
Cage became inclined to use his with Jerwyn Hogarth, Cage's lawyen
During Cage~ prison term, D~ new superhuman strength for profit.
Noah Berstein, a research physiolo- Cage purchased a used escape- The partnership operated out of its
gist working under a grant from Stark artist's costume from a costume offices on Park Avenue, although
International, came to Seagate to shop, had business cards printed, Cage retained his 42nd Street quar-
perform an experiment on volunteer found lodging, and established him- ters as an office for special clients.
prisoners, to test a chemical method self as Luke Cage , Hero for Hire. To Although their backgrounds and
to promote human cell regeneration promote himself, Cage routinely temperaments were diametrically
as an aid against disease and aging. sought and battled mob collection opposed , Cage and Rand formed a
Berstein saw Cage, who was an men, passing his business cards out fast friendship out of their working
exceptionally well-built and healthy to onlookers. After he found Stryker, relationship. Their Hero for Hire,-...
young man, as the ideal test subject. who had assumed the underworld agency became quite lucrative for
Sympathetic when Cage told him the identity of Diamondback, and defeat- them, eventually outearning
details of how he was framed, Ber- ed him, his Hero for Hire enterprise Nightwing Restorations. However, it
stein told Cage that he would do began to show a profit sufficient to later went out of business under
what he could to get him paroled at support an office above the Gem
the end of the experiment. Although Theatre, off Times Square. Frus- mysterious circumstances.
suspicious at first, Cage agreed. The trated by the lack of publicity his Cage was recently framed for the
experiment involved Cage submerg-
murder of his partner Daniel Rand
(Iron Fist). He has since cleared his
name and avenged Rand's death.
164
POWER PACK
GROUP BACKGROUND Upon learning of Dr. Power's dis- absorbing and projecting energy, for
covery through monitoring Earth altering the molecular density of
fhe original members of the Power computers, Whitey determined to do matter, for moving themselves at
Pack are Alex, Jack, Julie, and Katie what he could to prevent its being superhuman speed either through
Power, four pre-adolescent children, used. In ages past the Kymellians teleportation or flight, and for varying
who are siblings to each other, who had discovered the same process, or reversing gravitational attraction.
were granted superhuman powers but they tested it without realizing Whitey could exercise these powers
by a member of the alien Kymellian that they had not yet mastered all of to certain extents, but he had
race . the physics the process involved. As devoted his past life to science and
a result, they had unwittingly set off a therefore had not spent the years of
The children's father, Dr. James chain reaction that destroyed their continual training necessary for fully
Power, sought a new means of deriv- planet. However, there were still developing his powers. Whitey used
ing large quantities of energy inex- many Kymellians living on space sta- his powers to rescue the other two
pensively for peaceful purposes. He tions and on planets they had colo- children, Jack and Julie, from the
discovered a method of converting nized, so the race continued to Snarks, but in the process of doing
matter to antimatter without imprac- survive. The Kymellians have since so, Whitey was wounded by a blast
tically large expenditures of energy. completely mastered this mater/ from a Snark laser gun. Whitey took
Dr, Power designed a machine that antimatter conversion process, the children back to his smartship.
could open a small portal into which is their main source of energy,
another universe with different sci- Alex told Whitey that Dr. Power's
.- entific laws from our own. The but because of its dangers and lab intended to test the matter/anti-
machine could then project a small destructive potential, they keep the matter conversion the very next day.
amount of matter, held within a mag- process a closely guarded secret Later that night, the Snarks captured
netic force field, into the other uni- from other races. Whitey feared that the smartship in a tractor beam.
verse, where, through unknown the testing of Dr. Power's matter/ Whitey, who was dying from his
processes, the charge and spin of antimatter conversion might similar- wound, decided that there might be
the matter's atoms would be ly destroy Earth, and he sent a only one way now to prevent Earth's
changed, causing the matter to message to the Kymellians telling destruction. A Kymellian can trans-
become antimatter. The machine them of Power's discovery and ask- fer his powers to another Kymellian.
would then withdraw the antimatter ing permission to warn Power of the Whitey realized that Earth humans
,,- back into Power's own universe, conversion process's dangers have highly adaptable structures
where he would remove the mag- despite Kymellian laws against inter-
netic field, allowing the antimatter to ference with alien races. capable of acquiring superhuman
contact matter under controlled con- powers. Therefore, Whitey decided
ditions. Matter and antimatter anni- The message was intercepted by to try to divide his powers among the
hilate each other upon contact, each the Z'nrx, a reptilian race from four children, so that they could
being entirely converted into vast another galaxy whom Whitey called escape the Snarks and stop the con-
amounts of energy. Dr. Power called " snarks" after the monster in Lewis verter from being activated. Aelfyre
his machine, which was built under a Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. Whitemane initiated the transfer of
government grant, a " matter/ The Snarks intended to use the power to the children and then died,
~ antimatter converter." matter/anti-matter conversion proc- vanishing from sight. The children
· Dr. Power's discovery came to the ess as a weapon for conquering their soon discovered that they each now
attention of Aelfyre Whitemane, who own galaxy. Therefore, they jammed had one of Whitey's superhuman
went by the nickname "Whitey," and Whitey's message, preventing it powers, although the powers did not
who was a Kymellian, a member of a from reaching the Kymellians, and function in exactly the same way that
non-humanoid alien race that lived shot down Whitey's smartship. The they had for Whitey. Using their
elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy. Snarks thought they had destroyed powers and their wits, the Power
Whitey was a scientist whose field it, but actually they had only dam- children escaped the Snarks,
was the study of alien races, and his aged the smartship, and it landed on destroyed the converter, and res-
first assignment was the observation Earth near Dr. Power's home. The cued their parents. Alex called the
of Earth's humans. He carried out Snarks then kidnapped Dr. Power four children the Power Pack.
this assignment by monitoring Earth and his wife Margaret, intending to
communications transmissions and force them to reveal the formula for The Power Pack are too young to
by tapping into Earth computers the matter/anti-matter conversion act as professional adventurers, but
from his sentient starship, called a process. they continue to have exploits requir-
" smartship." Both Whitey and his ing the use of their superhuman
smartship developed a deep affec- Dr. Power's four children found powers when the occasions arise.
tion for humanity through studying Whitey's smartship, and two of them,
Earth's literature; indeed, the smart- Alex and Katie, met Whitey himself. Alex took the name " Gee "
ship named itself " Friday" after a Aelfyre Whitemane was a Kymellian because of his power over gravity
character in Daniel Defoe's Robin- " sorcerer." He did not have any actu- (" G-power" }. Jack called himself
son Crusoe. al magical abilities, but all Kymel- " Mass-Master" because he could
lians are born with the potential for take gaseous form or compress his
mass so as to become tiny. Julie
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called herself "Lightspeed" BACKGROUND P GD (10)
because she could fly fast, leaving a Real Name: Alex Power Health: 80
trail of colored light behind her. Katie Occupation: Karma: 26
became the "Energizer," because of Legal Status: U.S. citizen (minor) Resources: FE (2)
her ability to store energy and fire it Identity: Secret Popularity: 0
from her body. Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia
Marital Status: Single BACKGROUND
Later, Franklin Richards, the son Known Relatives: Julie, Katie (sis- Real Name: Julie Power
of Reed and Susan Richards of the ters), Jack (brother) Occupation:
Fantastic Four, became a member of Base of Operations: .Legal Status: U.S. citizen (minor)
the Power Pack without his parents' Past Group Affiliations: Power Identity: Secret
knowledge. Franklin took the name Pack Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia
"Tattletale" because he can foresee Present Group Affiliation: Marital Status: Single
possible future events through Known Relatives: Alex, Jack (broth-
visions he experiences. Kofi, a KNOWN POWERS ers), Katie (sister)
young Kymellian related to Whitey, Healing: Amazing rank Base of Operations:
became the ally of Power Pack, and (As Destroyer) Past Group Affiliations: Power
is an unofficial member of their team. Absorption Power: Monstrous Pack
amount of power. Normal dispersal Present Group Affiliation:
Recently, the superhuman abili- dispels 5 points per turn. Energy
ties of the Power children were trans- blasts do Excellent damage at a KNOWN POWERS
ferred into the "super-Snark" Jakal range of 2 areas
by Snark technology. Jakal smashed Disruption: Amazing damage to non- Healing: Amazing rank
the transfer machine and lost the living matter, Good damage to living
powers, which returned to the Power tissue (As Molecula)
children. However, now Alex pos- (As Gee)
sesses Katie's Energizer power, Gravity Control: Monstrous rank Growth (Atomic Dispersal): Unearth-
Jack has Alex's Gee power, Julie has
Jack's Mass-Master powers, and ADDITIONAL NOTES: ly rank transforms her into a fog up to
Katie has Julie's Lightspeed power.
As yet none of the children has 2 areas in volume. Side effects
regained his or her original superhu-
man abilities. include these powers:
SHARED BACKGROUND • Flight: Feeble airspeed (30 mph)
Base of Operations: New York City
area • Invulnerability: Unearthly protec-.,..........
Costume: The Power kids all pos-
sess costumes of unstable mole- tion from physical and energ~
cules. When activated, these
replace their normal clothing. attacks
Contacts: X-Factor, Kymellian race,
madcap equipment Shrinkage (Atomic Collapse): Good
rank reduces her to 6" tall. Attackers
are -1 CS to hit. Side effects include
these powers:
• Invulnerability: Remarkable rank
• Strength increases to Remark-
able for damage
(As Lightspeed) ,,,--
Flight: Excellent airspeed (150 mph}
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ALEX POWER ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
As the oldest child, Alex acts as team
STATISTICS leader. He is interested in science
and is just beginning to discover
F TY (6) girls.
A GD (10)
S TY (6) JULIE POWER ~
E AM (50)
R GD(10) STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
I TY (6) F TY (6) Julie is an avid reader and fantasy
P TY (6) A EX (20} enthusiast. She acts as the team's
Health: 72 S PR~
Karma: 22 E AM (50)
Resources: FE (2) R GD (1 O}
.Popularity: 0 I TY (6)
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PDWERPACK
" mother" and specializes in main- ADDITIONAL NOTES: ADDITIONAL NOTES:
taining everybody's health and
morale.
JACK POWER
STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
F TY (6) Jack is the scrapper of the group. He Katie is the baby of the group, a fact
A GD (10) is tempestuous, impulsive, loud- she uses to her advantage. Although
S PR (4) mouthed, abrasive, and a braggart. the others constantly try to control
E AM (50) her, she knows her status as young-
R PR (4) KATIE POWER est child makes her immune to many
I TY (6) of their parents' punishments. She
STATISTICS has a running feud with Franklin.
P GD (10) F PR (4)
A TY (6) TATTLETALE
Health: 70 S FE (2)
Karma: 20 E AM (50) STATISTICS
Resources: FE (2) R PR (4)
I PR (4) F PR (4)
...-- Popularity: O A TY (6)
P GD(10)
BACKGROUND Health: 62 s FE (2)
Real Name: Jack Power Karma: 18
Occupation: E TY (6)
Legal Status: U.S. citizen (minor) Resources: FE(2) R TY (6)
Identity: Secret Popularity: O I GD (10)
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia p MN (75)
Marital Status: Single BACKGROUND Health: 18
Known Relatives: Alex (brother}, Real Name: Katie Power Karma: 91
..- Julie, Katie (sisters) Occupation: Resources: FE (2)
,ease of Operations: Legal Status: U.S. citizen Popularity: 10
Past Group Affiliations: Power Identity: Secret
Pack Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia BACKGROUND
Present Group Affiliation: Marital Status: Single Real Name: Franklin Benjamin
Known Relatives: Alex, Jack (broth- Richards
KNOWN POWERS ers), Julie (sister) Occupation: Adventurer
Healing: Amazing rank Base of Operations: Legal Status: U.S. citizen (minor)
(As Counterweight) Past Group Affiliations: Power Identity: Public and his parents are
Gravity Control: Monstrous rank Pack unaware of his Tattletale identity
- (As Mass Master) Present Group Affiliation: Place of Birth: New York City
rGrowth (A tomic Dispersal): Unearth- Marital Status: Single
ly increase in size as a fog up to 2 KNOWN POWERS Known Relatives: Reed and Sue
areas in vol ume. Side effects include Healing: Amazing rank Richards (parents, a.k.a. Mr.
these powers: (As Starstreak) Fantastic and the Invisible Woman),
Flight: Excellent airspeed (150 mph) Johnny Storm (uncle, a.k.a. Human
• Flight: Feeble airspeed (30 mph) (As Energizer) Torch II)
• Invulnerability: Unearthly resist- Absorption Power: Up to Monstrous Base of Operations: New York City
ance to physical and energy amount of energy before she must area
attacks release. Controlled dispersal dispels Past Group Affiliations: Power
Shrinkage (Atomic Collapse): 5 points per round. Energy blasts
Good rank. Minimum size is 6 inflict Excellent damage at 2 areas.
inches tall. Attackers are -1 CS to Disruption: Amazing damage to non-
hit. Side effects include these living matter, Good damage to living
powers: targets.
• Invulnerability: Remarkable rank Talents: None
• Strength increases to Remark-
able for damage
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-
Pack, Fantastic Four KOFI SMARTSHIP
Present Group Affiliation:
STATISTICS FRIDAY
KNOWN POWERS
Most of Franklin's powers are under F TY (6) STATISTICS
self-imposed restraints and will not A TY (6)
manifest themselves until he reach- S TY (6) F FE (2)
es maturity. He left the following E TY (6) A AM (50)
powers for his current use: R GD (10) S ShX (150)
Precognition: Amazing accuracy but I TY (6) E ShX (150)
limited a maximum of 50 hours into P GD (10)
the future. Health: 24 R GD (10)
Illusory Duplication: While sleeping Karma: 26 I PR (4)
he can create a single intangible Resources: TY (6) P FE (2)
copy up to 250 miles away. The Popularity: 0 (20 among Kymel- Health: 352
duplicate possesses Telelocation of lians) Karma: 16
CL5000 accuracy. Resources: GD (10)
Disruption: Incredible intensity pain BACKGROUND Popularity: O
to a living target; failure to make a Real Name: Lord Kofi Whitemane
Yellow Psyche FEAT renders the vic- Occupation: Student KNOWN POWERS
tim paralyzed. Nonliving targets suf- Legal Status: Minor citizen of Body Armor: Amazing Material hull -
fer Incredible damage. Kymellia civilization Flight: CL5000 speed (100 times'
Talents: None Place of Birth: Kymellian current lightspeed)
Contacts: Fantastic Four, Avengers homeworld Running: In land-vehicle mode
Marital Status: Single Smartships travel at Typical speed
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Known Relatives: Lord Yrik White- (90 mph)
mane (father), Aelfyre Whitemane ~egenerat!on: Good ability to repair
(uncle, deceased) itself provided the Artifact Creation
Base of Operations: Kymelliean power is still functional; otherwise,
current homeworld Feeble self-repair
Past Group Affiliations: Ally of Self-Sustenance: Smartships sup-1---
Power Pack port up to 10 beings for indefinite
Present Group Affiliation: periods
Artifact Creation: Smartships have
KNOWN POWERS limited manufacturing facilities on
Teleportation: Feeble range (2 board (his Resource rank).
miles) Talents: Smartships are pro-
Talents: None grammed with Astro-Navigational
Contacts: Power Pack, Kymellian and Piloting skills.
race
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Franklin was the first addition to the Kofi considers the Power kids cous- Smartships are given artificial intelli-
Power Pack. Since he grew up sur- ins. His primary concern is with bat- gence and develop strong ties to
rounded by superheroics, he is more tling the Snarks and preserving their operators. They are capable of ---
blase about it than the Power kids. Kymellian safety. independent action and creative
Otherwise, he is pretty much an thought.
average kid with a great deal of self-
control. He was delighted after dis-
covering the Power kids' existence
because he finally had playmates
and confidantes. He has a running
feud going with Katie, his peer.
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-~TATISTICS
F AM (50)
A IN (40)
S IN (40)
E IN (40)
R TY (6)
I TY (6)
P PR (4)
Health: 170
Karma: 16
Resources: FE (2)
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Primus
Occupation: Servant, wanderer,
would-be savior
~LdeegnatlitSyt:aEtuxiss:teNnocneeunknown to gen-
eral public .
Place of Creation: Castle Zola,
Weisshorn Mt., Switzerland
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
""'(NOWN POWERS
Imitation: Excellent rank
Shapechange: Typical rank
Armorskin: Remarkable resistance
to physical attacks by making his
body either pliant or hard.
Regeneration: Good rank
Talents: Incredible Reason in regard
to Arnim Zola's discoveries or equip-
---..ment.
·::ontacts: None
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
As a self-aware android, Primus
sees himself as the first of a new Primus is the most sophisticated
race. He is lonely and seeks com- genetic creation of the Swiss mast~r
panionship. Primus would pr~bably geneticist Amim Zola. Zola, who uti-
be sympathetic to other androids..He lized scientific knowledge amassed
would also like to transform agreeing by the genetic offshoot of humanity
humans into beings like himself. Pri- called the Deviants, became an
expert at engineering bioforms from
mus is not a villain but misinterpre- living cells (usually human) accord-
tion of his actions might make him ing to whatever template he desire~.
seem to be one. Certain of his bioforms, notably Pn-
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- • '%:.-_ ... """ •
~ ·~. -~-·... ·- -~-:· ,\1_';'t:
~-=---=--=- ~ ~_..( f
mus and Doughboy, were given mal- at the end of Zola's first encounter from Zemo's lair, and forced Primu~
leable tissue able to shape-change with Captain America. There Primus to reveal who he really was. Primu
into various configurations. Primus met the younger Baron Zemo, who managed to abduct Rosenthal and
was the first of Zola's creations who had journeyed to Castle Zola to enlist
possessed creative intelligence and Zola in his crusade against Captain flee from the Avenger, affording him
a high degree of autonomy. When America. Primus joined him instead, the opportunity to reveal to her his
Zola captured Captain America and using his shape-shifting powers to desire to unite natural and artificial
Donna Maria Puentes with the aid of take on the shape of Amim Zola. men to create a new order to save
Doughboy and Primus, Primus dis- Zemo's plan was to totally ruin Cap- the planet. He also wanted to give
covered he experienced desire for tain America's reputation before kill- Rosenthal a new mutated body like
the woman. Zola wished to use her ing him. Holding the Avenger his. Captain America tracked him
for genetic experimentation, how- captive, Zemo sent Primus, in the down, and engaged Primus in com-
ever, and refused to let Primus have form of Steve Rogers, to appropriate bat. Although Primus's great
her. Enraged , Primus attacked Zola. his private life and totally subvert all strength and malleability gave him
Zola used his will-subverting ESP of his personal relationships. How- the upper hand, Rosenthal provoked
box to make Primus merge with the ever, when Primus met Steve him to give up the fight by rejecting
extremely pliant and nearly mindless him and professing her love for Cap-
Doughboy. Rogers' girlfriend Bernadette tain America. The current where-
Rosenthal, he again felt desire and abouts and activities of Primus and
Eventually Primus took control of decided to continue the masquerade his companion Doughboy are,...
Doughboy and escaped from Zola's without disrupting it in order to have
castle which was engulfed by flames her love. Captain America escaped unknown .
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--STATISTICS
I
·j: RM (30)
A GD (10)
S IN (40)
E IN (40)
R EX (20)
I EX (20)
P EX (20)
Health: 120
Karma: 60
Resources: AM (50)
Popularity: -10
BACKGROUND
Real Names: Prof. Anthony Power,
Matthew Power
Occupation: (Anthony) Historian ,
,..-.-. teacher, presidential advisor, head of
3ubversive organization ; (Matthew)
Soldier
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with crimi-
nal record (deceased)
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Norfolk, Virginia
Marital Status: Widower
Known Relatives: Maxine (wife,
deceased), Matthew (son,
-...deceased)
aase of Operations: Mobile " cas-
tle" running on underground rail sys-
tem
Past Group Affiliations: Secret
Empire
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Equipment: Anthony Power was obsessed with
his view of a conservative, world-
- .fjody Armor: Remarkable protection domineering United States. He
.igainst physical and energy attacks. would go to any length to create this
Without the suit, his Physical Abili- sort of world, even if it meant
ties drop to Typical rank. destroying large parts of the current
Flight: Excellent airspeed (150 mph) world. Anthony was also obsessed
Plasma Generation: Monstrous dam- with schemes to restore Matthew's
age at a range of up to 4 areas. Firing destroyed personality. Matthew suf-
rate is once each 45 minutes. fered from catatonia brought on by
Mind Transferral: In his final form, his inability to reconcile his experi-
ences of the real world with his
Anthony Power's mind possessed father's ivory utopia.
Matthew Power's crippled brain.
Weakness: If a powerful telepath can 171
psionically contact and awaken Mat-
thew's personality, Matthew may
battle Anthony for bodily control
(using Psyche as a Slugfest attack).
Talents: Anthony is an able historian
and political tactician .
Contacts: Secret Empire
HISTORY erful telepaths whose powers he never be cured, Professor Power,......._
would utilize against those nations had scientists permanently encas1_
Professor Anthony Power, noted his- whom he considered to be enemies Matthew's body in a battlesuit thaf
torian and authority on foreign of America. Power established two amplified its strength. Then Power
affairs, was a high-ranking White operations for finding individuals had the scientists transfer his own
House advisor under four Presi- with great psionic potential that mind into Matthew's body. Now pos-
dents. Power was completely dedi- could be utilized in this scheme. sessing great power through the bat-
cated to the American political tlesuit as well as a physically
system and to the principles of Later, August Master, working for younger body, Professor Power
democracy under that system. Power, prepared to launch a massive resolved to take revenge on Charles
psionic attack against the Soviet Xavier by killing the latter's mutant
Losing faith in the American sys- Union. Captain America, Daredevil, students, the X-Men. Power battled
tem due to the Viet Nam War-related and the Defenders all battled against one of the original X-Men, the Beast,
illness of his son, Professor Power Power's organization in an attempt and Spider-Man, but did not kill
soon became convinced that Ameri- to thwart its plan. Six telepaths under either; rather, Power escaped and
can universities were instilling apa- the organization's control, apalled by began work on new plans.
thy and cowardice in their students, the prospect of committing mass
and that the United States' leaders murder on Master's command, tele- Professor Power organized a new
were so terrified of worldwide nucle- pathically linked their minds to that version of the subversive organiza-
ar war that they were deliberately of Kyle Richmond , alias Nighthawk.
dragging America down in what he Having learned the means to acti- tion known as the Secret Empire. -
believed to be meaningless conflicts vate the destruct sequence on the The Defenders thwarted Power·~
like the Viet Nam war. main computer power system of
Master's entire secret complex, they plan to instigate World War Ill and
Taking as his models Alexander passed the information on to Rich- rebui ld society. One of the
the Great and the Roman emperors, mond, who activated the sequence. Defenders, Moondragon, telepathi-
who dominated virtually the entire Apparently under his own will, Rich- cally caused Anthony Power's con-
Western civilized world of their mond had Doctor Strange, who was sciousness to merge with Matthew's,
times, Professor Power decided that one of the Defenders, evacuate his driving Professor Power into a state
worldwide peace could be achieved costumed allies from the complex. of catatonic madness.
only if one mind-one power- con- Richmond remained behind as a
trolled the entire Earth. Power physical focal point for the minds of Professor Power was taken into
believed that America must move the psychics, and died in the ensuing the custody of SHIELD, but he was,...._
against what he saw as the enemies abducted by members of his subve~
of democracy to annihilate all threats explosion. sive organization who were still loyal
Professor Power then decided to to him. The fifth Captain America
to freedom.
Determined to be the one mind take matters into his own hands. and the fourth Bucky were sent to
Weeks after Master's defeat, Power Power's castle in the Adirondack
that dominated the entire world, Pro- captured the world 's most powerful Mountains in New York State by the
fessor Power dedicated himself to telepath, Professor Charles Xavier. President's Commission on Super-
th is challenge. Receiving almost Power intended to force Xavier to human Activities for the express pur-
unlimited funding from supporters, revive another telepath, Mentallo, pose of neutralizing Power in any
the already wealthy Power began from his comatose state. Power
organizing his underground move- planned to have Mentallo cure Mat- manner necessary. To prevent" the,..-..
ment of so-called "ultra-patriots," thew of his own catatonic state and two costumed adventurers frorr,
Among the individuals in Power's to have Mentallo then assist him in recapturing the still-catatonic Power,
organization were former operatives launching the psionic attack against some of his men loaded Power into a
of the FBI, CIA, SHIELD, and other the Soviet Union. Mentallo's fre- rocket sled-like escape craft. Cap-
law enforcement agencies, including quent partner, the Fixer, had built a tain America V hurled his shield at
former CIA operative August Mas- machine for Power that began drain- the escape craft, striking its engine
ters. After his apparent death in an ing Xavier's psionic energies into the and causing it to crash. The shock
encounter with the original Spider- mind of Mentallo in order to revive partially revived Power, who was
Woman, multimillionaire Morgan the latter. Spider-Man intervened now barely conscious of what was
MacNeil Hardy was recruited as one and defeated the Fixer in battle, and happening. Power began blasting
of the financial backers of Power's Xavier over-powered Mentallo in Captain America V with powerful
psychic combat. However, Matthew electron-beams in order to defend
organization. Power's mind was further damaged himself. Enraged by the painful
Power believed that a devastating during this psychic battle, so much attack, Captain America V battered
so that he could never be cured. Professor Power with his augmented
war need not be waged in order to strength so severely that Power died
eliminate the threats he believed that Power was sent to prison, but pow- from his injuries.
various nations posed to America erful allies of his soon had him
and to world peace. Instead, Power released. Knowing his son could
intended to organize a corps of pow-
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~STATISTICS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Even as a pre-adolescent, Xavier could use
Xavier has devoted his life to the preservation his telepathic powers to sense other people's
PR (4) and training of mutants. The battle against evil intentions and emotions. When Charles was
A GD (10) mutants is a side-effect. He presents an image still a boy, his father was accidentally killed in
of a stern, reserved, but basically caring per- an atomic blast. Shortly thereafter, Brian
s TY (6) son. He does not easily show affection. While Xavier's colleague, Dr. Kurt Marko, married
he was paralyzed, his personality did not Charles's mother Sharon for her fortune.
E RM(30) change. However, since gaining his new body, Marko's son by a previous mariage, Cain,
R IN (40) he has become an active adventurer. He is came to live at the Xavier mansion in New
I AM (50) devoted to Lilandra. York's Westchester County, and, taking an
p MN (75) immediate dislike to Charles, began bullying
Health: 50 HISTORY him.
Karma: 165
Resources: RM (30) Charles Xavier is the mutant son of nuclear But Cain was often secretly beaten by his
Popularlty: 20 researcher Brian Xavier and his wife Sharon. abusive father. On one occasion Charles
found himself experiencing the anguished
BACKGROUND thoughts of Cain after Cain had been beaten
Real Name: Charles Xavier by his father. This was the first time that
Occupation: Geneticist, teacher, adventurer Xavier's powers had fully opened another per-
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
Identity: Connection to X-Men and New 173
Mutants is secret
Place of Birth: New York City
Marital Status: Consort to Majestrix Lilandra
~ Known Relatives: Brian and Sharon (par-
lnts, deceased), Cain Marko (stepbrother,
.i.k.a. Juggernaut). David Charles Haller (son,
a.k.a. Legion)
Base of Operations: X-Mansion, Long Island,
New York; currently Shi'ar Empire in deep
space
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men, New
Mutants, Starjammers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Astral Body: Monstrous ability to send out an
- istral form with his consciousness
/elepathy: Unearthly rank
Mental Invisibility: Monstrous rank
Mental Probe: Monstrous rank
Mind Blast: Monstrous rank; range 2 areas
Mind Control: Monstrous rank
Power Detection: Typical ability to automati-
cally detect any superbeing within 4 areas
Pslonic Detection: Typical ability; range 4
areas
Telekinesis: He has Feeble ability to make his
body work if it is otherwise paralyzed.
" 'Weakness: When he is in an area of over-
1vhelming evil, his psionic powers drop - 2 CS
due to his inability to concentrate. For a time,
Professor X's legs were paralyzed and he was
confined to a wheelchair.
Talents: Amazing Reason in the fields of
Genetics and Remarkable Reason in the
fields of electronics and engineering.
Contacts: The Fantastic Four, the Starjam-
mers, and any of his mutant students
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
son's mind to him. When the FBI launched an investigation of Xavier eventually took full control of his mind.-.
As Charles grew older, he learned how to superhuman mutants, Xavier met with Fred and transformed his body into that of a Brooc'
Duncan, the FBI agent in charge of the investi· The Xavier-alien was defeated and capture<.>.
control his telepathic powers. Xavier entered gation and proposed that he himself track by the X-Men, who had returned from outer
Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New down the superhuman mutants in the United space, and Binary. Using Shi'ar science and
York, at 16 years of age, and earned his bach- States, train young ones to use their powers cell samples taken from the human Xavier,
elor's degree in biology in two years, followed for humanity's welfare, and report his prog- MacTaggart and "Sikorsky; • the medic of the
quickly by degrees in genetics and biophysics ress to Duncan, who would keep Xavier's Starjammers, interstellar adventurers who are
at the same time from Oxford University. But the X-Men's allies, cloned a new body for
immediately after finishing his work at Oxford, involvement entirely secret. Xavier which was slightly younger than his
Xavier then found and befriended Scott original one, and transferred his mind, now
Xavier was drafted and sent to Asia. free from Brood control, into it.
Wounded in battle, Xavier was recovering in Summers, who became Cyclops, the first of
his students, whom he called " X-Men" (due to For years Xavier has been widely known as
a M.A.S.H. (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) their extra powers), at his School for Gifted
unit when he befriended psychiatrist Daniel Youngsters, which was based in his West- an authority on human mutation and as an
Shomron. Released, he began aimlessly trav- chester County mansion. Over the next sev- advocate of peaceful relations between ordi-
eling about the Mediterranean, finally coming eral years, Xavier also recruited the Iceman, nary humanity and human mutants, although
to terms with himself on the Greek island of the Angel, and the Beast, as well as the now- the public does not know that he himself is a
older Jean Grey, who took the code-name of superhuman mutant. Recently, Xavier again
Kin nos. served as a visiting professor at Columbia Uni-
Deciding to continue his travels, Xavier Marvel Girl. versity, but was confronted outside class by a
The first criminal mutant whom the five X· hostile group of students who objected to his
went to Cairo, Egypt, where he successfully pro-mutant sympathies. Xavier was forced to
defeated in battle the powerful telepath Amahl Men battled together was Magneto, Xavier's use his psychic powers to prevent himself ,....._
Farouk, the first criminal mutant he had ever former friend, who was now intent on world from being attacked, but he was downed from
met. Farouk physically died in the battle, but conquest. The U.S. military welcomed the X· behind by a hurled brick. Realizing that Xavier ,
his consciousness survived on the astral Men's help in battling Magneto when he cap-
plane and would take possession of Xavier's tured the missile base at Cape Citadel, but himself was a mutant, the students beat him
student Karma years later. After his battle with eventually the X-Men were themselves nearly to death. Xavier was found by one of
Farouk, Xavier decided to make his life's work regarded with suspicion by the government the Morlocks, a group of mutants who live
the protection of humanity from mutants who and general public, as prejudice and fear underground, regarding themselves as out-
used their powers in criminal ways as Farouk toward superhuman mutants continued. casts. A leading Morlock, Callisto, had the
did, and the protection of mutants from perse- Morlocks' Healer use his powers to save
cution by humanity. Eventually Xavier learned through his tele- Xavier's life. Callisto warned Xavier that he
pathic powers that the alien Z 'nox intended to would fully recover only if he avoided great
From Egypt, Xavier went to Israel, where invade and conquer the Earth. Xavier believed physical or psychic strains on himself In the
Shomron introduced him to one of his that the Z'nox could most surely be defeated coming months.
patients, Gabrielle Haller, a survivor of the through psionic means. In an as-yet unex-
Nazi death camp at Dachau, who had with· plained way, Xavier's massive use of psionic Shortly thereafter, Moira MacTaggarV--
drawn into catatonic schizophrenia. Xavier power in battling the Z 'nox forged a telepathic requested Xavier's help in treating David Hal',
used his mental powers to cure Haller of her bond between himself and Princess Lilandra ler, Gabrielle's son. Xavier learned that David
condition, and the two became lovers. was his own son, and Xavier and David were
of the Shi'ar Empire. happily united after David finally emerged
Gabrielle Haller was captured by the Nazi Xavier recruited a number of new X-Men, from his autistic condition and his normal per-
war criminal Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
and his HYDRA agents. Strucker tortured Hal- including the Banshee, Colossus, sonality had taken control of his mind.
ler into revealing the location of a cache of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Wolverine, to help Despite Callisto's warning, Xavier did
Nazi gold, the knowledge of which had been the other X-Men battle a " living island" called
forcibly implanted in her brain at Dachau. Krakoa. After this adventure, the Angel, Ice- indeed undergo psychic strains and was slow-
Together, Xavier and Magnus rescued Haller, man, and Marvel Girl left the X-Men (the Beast ly dying. He apparently began to regard Mag-
and Magnus took the Nazi gold with him to an had already left). Xavier now served as mentor neto as a possible successor to him as head of
unknown location. Years later Magnus would tor this second team of X-Men, which was his school, and established a cover identity for
become Xavier's greatest enemy as Magneto, eventually joined by the two Phoenixes, him as his brother Michael Xavier. Xavier·'--.,
who sought to control the world. Xavier and Rogue, and Shadowcat.
Haller continued their affair. Xavier was asked Magneto to look after the X-Men and tl
unaware when he left Israel that Haller was Xavier eventually met the Shl'ar Princess,
pregnant with his son, whom she named Lilandra, and the X-Men helped battle the take over his School for Gifted Youngsters and
David Charles Haller. forces of her mad brother D'ken. Xavier and the teaching of the New Mutants.
Lilandra fell in love with each other. Xavier
Xavier continued to travel, not returning became her consort and lived with her on the Just then Lilandra and Corsair, the Earth-
home until after his legs were crippled in Tibet. Shi'ar throneworld for a time after she became born leader of the Starjammers, arrived by
Returning to Salem Center, again deeply empress. However, Xavier returned to Earth to teleportation. Lilandra had been deposed as
depressed, he resumed graduate studies, deal with the dangers posed by the first Phoe· empress by her sister, Deathbird. and was
eventually getting a Ph.D. in anthropology and nix, and his duties as mentor of the X-Men now allied with the Starjammers as she sought
another in psychiatry, as well as an M.D. kept him based on Earth thereafter. He and to regain her throne. Using a Shi'ar stargate
degree. He continued his studies of mutation Lilandra remained in love with each other, device, Lilandra and Corsair had teleported
as well. themselves to Earth from the Shi'ar Galaxy,
however. and took Xavier back with them. There Xavier
Xavier was still primarily a recluse over After the second team of X-Men disap- was fully healed by the advanced medical
these years after his accident. At one point, a technology of the Starjammers. However, he
friend of Xavier's from Bard, Prof. John Grey, peared while in outer space, Xavier, believing was unable to return to Earth since the Star-
brought his deeply disturbed 11 -year-old them to be dead, vowed never again to train jammers' special hyperspace drive for inter-
daughter Jean to him for help. Xavier discov- young mutants for combat. Moira MacTaggart, galactic travel was damaged (without that
ered that Jean was a superhuman mutant however, persuaded him to continue to run the drive a journey to Earth even through space
whose telepathic powers had emerged pre- school to train young mutants how to deal with warps would take centuries), and the Shi'ar
maturely in reaction to stress. Xavier helped their powers. Xavier agreed and took on a new stargates were all now heavily defended
Jean recover from her trauma, erected psy- class of mutant students whom he called the
chic shields in her mind to prevent her from New Mutants. In part he did so because he against Starjammer instrusions.
using her telepathic abilities until she had the was subconsciously under the influence of a Hence Xavier remains aboard the Starjam- -
necessary maturity for using them, and train- member of the alien Brood who had been
ed her over the following years in using her implanted as an egg within his body, and was mers' starship, separated from the X-Men anc
the New Mutants, but reunited with Lilandra,
telekinetic abilities. seeking superhuman victims. whom he loves. Whether he will ever return to
The growing Brood alien implanted within Earth remains to be seen.
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STATISTICS
'
,:- PR (4)
A TY (6)
s PR (4)
E EX (20)
R AM (50)
I EX (20)
p GD (10)
Health: 34
Karma: 80
Resources: MN (75)
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Real Name: Unknown Psycho-Man revels in the power he
Occupation: Chief scientist of gains from his machines and con-
Traan; conqueror quests. He has a cruel sadistic
-.Legal Status: Citizen of Traan streak that is at its worst when his
:tentity: Existence unknown to the victim is completely helpless. He
public only directly confronts a foe if he
Place of Birth: Traan feels he is in an unbeatable position .
Marital Status: Single Otherwise, he works through agents
Known Relatives: None or robotic doubles. The fact that his
Base of Operations: Traan, his giant form is a robot is a tightly held
worldship (both in Microverse) secret.
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation: 175
-,~NOWN POWERS
Equipment:
Battlesuit (Human-size): Amazing
protection from physical and energy
attacks. When wearing it, he has
these abilities:
FASER I P
EX EX MN MN AM EX GD
Battlesuit (Giant): A 200-foot-tall
-t"obot controlled either from a head
.ockpit or a remote site. It has
Amazing Material Strength, Excel-
lent speed, and these stats:
FASE
AM EX UN UN
Emotion Control Box: Monstrous
rank. Range is 2 areas. Effects last
1-10 turns per exposure. Victims
must make an Intuition FEAT or suf-
fer:
• Fear: Victims flee or are para-
lyzed
• Doubt: Victims can't do anything
at all
• Hate: Victims are filled with
homicidal frenzy, sometimes
against those they love the most
Talents: Expert in psychology, psy-
homechan ics , and dimensional
travel
Contacts: Hate-Monger Ill (Unger)
:- - ~-....- - ~-~,.=----:_-.-. ~·~~ . + !"" -;--::": - - ... -
c• ~- - -• •• --- - • =~ -~~~ ~~
, -::......_~--·--~·--: - - - - - .-.~- - ~-~~ - ...."'==-~ .....
ence people's emotions, which he Sub-Atomica. ,.-.
could manipulate through the battle-
HISTORY suit. Recently, the Psycho-Ma
The being known on Earth as the On Earth the Psycho-Man enlisted returned to Earth and unleashed an
Psycho-Man is the chief scientist of a number of Earth human operatives
the technocracy that governs the five to help him acquire the components android which went by the name of
planets of the Sub-Atomica system, to build a large-scale version of his
a group of inhabited worlds within a "mind-ray" emotion-control device, H. M. Unger, but is also known as the
so-called " microverse." Based on which could blanket the entire world
his home world of Traan, the Psycho- with its rays. (He could not bring new Hate-Monger. This android
Man, as chief scientist of the tech- such components to Earth from Sub-
nocracy, appeared to be the ruler of Atomica and enlarge them on Earth could alter its appearance and went
the Sub-Atomica system. to the proper size, because they
were too numerous and too massive about New York City stirring up
When the five planet Sub-Atomica to transport through the dimensional
system became severely overpopu- aperture he himself had used to hatred among people through
lated, the government decided to come to Earth .) The Psycho-Man's
find other worlds to colonize. The plans, however, were thwarted by .speechmaking and through the
chief scientist determined that it the Human Torch and the Thing
would be easier to travel to extradi- (both members of the Fantastic powers the Psycho-Man had given it.
mensional worlds outside the Sub- Four), members of the Royal Family
Atomica system in his own of the lnhumans, and the Black Pan- The Hate-Monger even used its
dimension. Scrutinizing the Earth ther. In defeat, Psycho-Man vacated
with his scanning devices, he chose his Earth-human-sized armor and powers on Susan Richards, the
it as the perfect target, since the pop- returned to his home dimension.
ulace appeared to be defenseless Invisible Woman of the Fantastic
against his unique weaponry for Subsequently, the Th ing and
influencing emotions. The scientist Human Torch and their teammate Four, twisting her love and compas-
traveled to Earth where he called Mister Fantastic went to the Psycho-
himself the Psycho-Man. To ensure Man 's microverse and battled him sion into hatred, and dispatching her
his own safety, the Psycho-Man did there, but the three members of the
not enlarge himself to the normal Fantastic Four had to let him go in to destroy her teammates in the
size of Earth 's human beings when order to return to Earth , since it was
he went to Earth. Rather, he then being endangered by Galactus. guise of Malice, Mistress of Hate.
remained tinier than an Earth human
being could see, and operated from Still later, the Fantastic Four and But Susan's husband, Mister,..--..,_
within an Earth-human-sized the so-called Micronauts, adventur-
armored battlesuit, which he manip- ers native to the Psycho-Man's Fantastic, induced her to break fret
ulated by mental control. On Earth microverse, battled him there. At this
the Psycho-Man used a portable time the Psycho-Man claimed to be of the Hate-Monger's conditioning,
"mind-ray" device that could influ- an exile on his worldship. Probably
he had been exiled by the people of and the Hate-Monger was destroyed
by the vigilante Scourge.
The Psycho-Man retreated to his
home dimension, to which the
Fantastic Four pursued him. There
the Psycho-Man had conquered the
kingdom ruled by the Fantastic
Four's friend Queen Pearla. Finally~,.-.....
the Invisible Woman vengefully con
fronted the Psycho-Man , and appar-
ently used his own emotion-control
device against him. It is not known
exactly what the lnvisinble Woman
did to him, but she believes he will
never threaten anyone again. Pearla
regained control of her kingdom . But
whether or not the Psycho-Man will
return to pose a menace in the future,......._,
remains to be seen. •
176
PSVLDCKE
- STATISTICS Incredible power, allowing Psy- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
locke to read any deep or hidden
F EX(20) thoughts of a live subject. The ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A GD(10) Intensity of the FEAT is deter- Psylocke is possibly the most glam-
mined by the subject's Psyche ; orous superheroine around. Her
s EX(20) she cannot read the minds of beauty disguises a stern personality
those with Psyche ranks greater and extensive training . She is willing
E RM(30) than Amazing or penetrate psionic to sacrifice herself and others in the
R GD(10) defenses with ranks greater than pursuit of a greater good. She has a
I RM(30) Amazing. potential ruthlessness equal to Wol-
p AM(50) verine's. She is devoted to her broth-
Health: 80 • Fire bolts of pure psionic force er. She loves Doug Ramsey (Cypher)
Karma: 90 with Incredible strength at a maxi- and is perhaps only waiting for a
Resources: IN(40) mum range of two areas. These proper time to get serious with him.
Popularity : 10 bolts come in two varieties. Psi-
Bolts are forceful attacks against HISTORY
BACKGROUND physical objects; they can affect
Real Name: Elizabeth " Betsy" non-living targets. Psycho-Blasts Elizabeth Braddock is the twin sister
Braddock are energy attacks against a vic- of Brian Braddock (Captain Britain).
Occupation: Ex-fashion model turn- tim 's neurosystem. Since the T heir father is a native of Otherworld ,
~- ed adventurer Psycho-Blast has the potential to an extradimensional realm that is
J,.egal Status: British citizen kill by literally shredding a victim's home to Merlin and Camelot.
Identity: Secret; Capt. Britain identi- mind, Psylocke does not use it
ty known to authorities unless her life is threatened. She Brian and Elizabeth were born
Place of Birth: Malden, England uses the Incredible column to hit wealthy and inherited Braddock
Marital Status: Single with these attacks. Psylocke may Manor upon their parent's death.
Known Relatives: Brian Braddock be able to futher develop her Betsy µsed her connections and
(brother, a.k.a. Captain Britain) powers along the lines of Profes- beauty to build a career as a fashion
Base of Operations: X-Mansion, sor X and Marvel Girl, but she has model. She dyed her hair purple to
Australian Outback not yet done so. make her more distinctive. When her
-..,Past Group Affiliations: X-Men Bionic Eyes: Psylocke is physically mutant powers developed, her mod-
Present Group Affiliation: eling career was shelved. She was
blind, but her eyes have been recruited by STRIKE, the British
KNOWN POWERS replaced by bionic implants given her equivalent of SHIELD. During this
Talents: Martial Arts A and E by the extradimensional tyrant Mojo. period, Betsy developed her combat
Contacts: Captain Britain, X-Men, These new eyes resemble normal skills and self-discipline.
New Mutants, Excalibur, SHIELD, eyes but have an increased sensitivity
STRIKE, British government, and to infrared and ultraviolet light, allow- After leaving STRIKE, Betsy was
the British fashion industry ing her to see in the dark if either light recruited by the Resources Control
frequency is present. Devices that Executive (ACX), a branch of the
...... Telepathy: Psylocke is a mutant with override or cloak items from mechani- British government more directly
mental abilities of Incredible rank. cal scanners will also affect her eyes; concerned with superhuman activity.
She has developed her powers for she will not notice the hidden items. They convinced Betsy to assume the
use in these manners: Unbeknownst to Betsy, her eyes have identity of Captain Britain when
• Creating Mind Links of Incredi- an additional function they are linked Brian quit. They also took over Brad-
ble strength, allowing her to com- to recorders in Mojo's lair. Thus Psy-
municate with others at a distance locke serves as a living movie camera
of up to 25 miles and to read oth- who blithely transforms the X-Men's
ers' surface thoughts. This is only exploits into fodder for Mojo's movie
possible with willing subjects. She studio.
can also create mindlinks that Undetectability: The arch-sorceress
enable others to speak directly to Roma bestowed upon the X-Men the
each other. ability to be effectively invisible, unde-
• Performing telepathic projec- tectable, and unrecordable by any
tions with a range of 25 miles. means, whether living or mechanical.
These projections allow her to tel- The only exceptions are a witness's
epathically " see" the surrounding naked eyes and the equipment in the
area. Note that both this and the X-Men's Outback headquarters.
preceding power manifest them- Because of this, the X-Men can con-
selves as a glowing butterfly- tinue to operate without their presence
mask. being revealed by cameras, Sentinels,
• Perform a Mental Probe of or other mutants' Cerebra systems.
177
dock Manor as their headquarters. restored her appearance, and repelled Sabertooth. During the ....-.._
Betsy was moderately successful as renamed her " Psylocke." He then recent " Fall of the Mutants" case,
the new Captain Britain. During a used Betsy as a tool to gain mental Betsy joined the rest of the X-Men
control of Britain 's children. The and Madelyne Pryor in sacrificing
battle with Slaymaster, Betsy was medium was a television show, their lifeforces in order to destroy
severely beaten and blinded. Brian " Wildways," that carried Betsy's their foe. When the battle ended,
resumed the mantle of Captain Brit- subliminal psionic commands. Cap- though , they found themselves alive
ain and wreaked vengeance for tain Britain and the New Mutants dis- thanks to the actions of Roma, Mer-
Betsy's assault. covered the plot and rescued her. lin's daughter. Betsy joined the rest
pf the X-Men and is maintaining the
Betsy retired from superheroics to Only Warlock and Cypher were illusion of the X-Men's deaths. She is
rebuild her life. She developed the aware of Betsy's artificial eyes. For a now secretly working out of the base
means to use her powers to replace time, Betsy lived at the X-Mansion in they wrested from the Reavers in the
her eyes. While recuperating in Long Island. She joined the ranks of Australian Outback.
Switzerland, she was kidnapped and the X-Men during the Mutant Massa-
mentally enslaved by Mojo and Spi- cre when she single-handedly
ral. Mojo implanted bionic eyes,
r
178
- STATISTICS
F IN(40)
A EX(20)
S GD(10)
E GD(10}
R TY(6)
I EX(20)
P GD(10)
Health: ao
Karma: 36
Resources: TY(6)
Popularity: 5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Eugene Milton Judd
Occupation: Soldier of fortune and
bouncer-turned-adventurer
_ Legal Status: Canadian citizen
Identity: Known to government
Place of Birth: Saskatoon, Sas-
katchewan, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Formerly
Alpha Flight HQ on Tamarind Island,
British Columbia, Canada
Past Group Affiliations: Beta
,,. Flight, Alpha Flight
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Talents: Puck's superb gymnastic
skills are the source of his enhanced
Fighting and Agility skills. Puck has
Excellent Reason in dealing with any
urban problem. He is fluent in
English, Chinese, and several other
languages.
Weakness: For most of this century,
Puck was the living container for the
demon Razer. Spells that affect
demons might thus have affected
Puck, too.
Contacts: Alpha Flight
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Puck is a stoic sufferer who rejects Eugene Milton Judd was born in
his personal misfortunes and con- 1914 and led an adventurous life as
centrates in stead on being an a soldier of fortune. He was a quite
upbeat, cheerful brawler. He pos- tall and powerfully built man with
sesses great self-determination and considerable athletic skill.
dedication ; he will accept the burden
of long-term comm itments to a In 1939 Judd became interested in
cause, no matter what the personal a treasure called the Black Blade of
cost. Puck is secretly in love with Bagdad. He received retainers from
Heather Hudson (Vindicator) but has certain dealers in antiquities to
yet to confess his feelings to her. obtain the blade for them, but his pri-
179
mary motivation in seeking the blade body has greatly extended Judd's nest in order to save Heather Hud- .--.
was his curiosity about its supernatu- life, and he has aged little over the son's life. His feelings of guilt ove1
ral origins. On finding the blade in many years since entrapping Razer. killing Deadly Earnest combined
the Middle East Judd decided to But Razer's attempts to escape with his concern over Heather Hud-
keep it tor himself rather than giving Judd 's body have caused him terri- son's safety now that she has
it to his employers. But when Judd ble pain almost continually over the become an adventurer herself, along
touched the blade, the earthbound years. with his wish to return to his normal
spirit of a Persian sorcerer named
Razer was released from the blade. Little is known of Judd's life height and offer his love to her pro-
Apparently it was both Judd's physi- between 1939 and the time that he duced the emotional state in Judd
cal touch and his dishonest thoughts joined Beta Flight. a training team tor _that made it possible tor Razer to
that enabled Razer to gain his free- candidates for Alpha Flight, Cana- free himself from Judd's body. With
da's government-supported team of Razer free, Judd returned to his nor-
dom from the blade. Razer had been superhuman champions. It is known, mal height, but he was now an
imprisoned in the blade long ago by however, that Judd spent a year in elderly man. Other members of
his fellow Persian sorcerers to pre- Spain as the friend of author Ernest Alpha Flight battled Razer. Judd
vent him from killing any more peo- Heminbgway, and learned to knew that Razer must be reimpri-
ple with his mystical sword, the become a bullfighter during this time soned, and Judd also knew that as
Black Blade of Bagdad itself, which despite his dwarfish size. long as he remained an old man, he
originally had been a gleaming white did not have many years to live. ,....._
scimitar. In killing people Razer had James MacDonald Hudson, who Therefore, wielding the Black Blade,
absorbed their life forces, the so- led Alpha Flight as Guardian, had himself, Judd again used his own liv-
called "light' that their souls pos- Judd parolled from prison to enter ing "light" to entrap Razer within his
sessed, using it to increase his own Beta Flight. At that time, Judd prom- body. In the process Judd sacrificed
power. His fellow sorcerers had used ised Hudson he would never kill a some of his life force to Razer and
the sorcerous light shining off the human being again. It is not known again became dwarfish in stature;
mystically-forged white scimitar to who Judd killed in the past or why however, Judd also returned to the
imprison Razer. Razer was now a Judd was in prison. Norti is it clear physical age he possessed before
wraithlike manifestation of mystical whether Judd was ever a member of Razer had escaped his body.
force. His evil had corrupted the the entry-level training team for
Alpha Flight, Gamma Flight. Judd Loki recently arranged for the Ebo-_,.....--
sword over the centuries, turning it was given the code name "Puck" ny Firefountain to remove Razen
black and making it possible for him due to his diminutive sze, and was from Puck's body. This automatically
to escape it one day. about to be accepted into Alpha returned Puck to his original size.
Flight when the government with- For reasons of personal interest,
By passing the Black Blade drew its funding of the program. Dis- Loki performed a "good deed" and
through a person, Razer could steal gruntled, Judd dropped out of sight negated the malignant effects of
part of that person's life force and for a while, finding employment as a Razer's removal. Puck retained his
add it to his own, in the process bouncer in a tavern. When he dis- same health and vitality, although his
reducing his victim's physical height. covered that Alpha Flight was contin- face shows some of his 74 years.
Razer could thus reduce a victim to Puck had been separated from the,,..--..
nothingness, thereby absorbing the uing as an independent team of rest of Alpha Flight when this
victim's entire life force into himself. adventurers, Puck sought out the occurred; they thought he was dead.
Razer began using the blade to steal group and petitioned tor member- Loki teleported Puck to the Hima-
Judd 's life force, reducing Judd's ship. Puck was accepted as a mem- layan Mountains. Puck spent the
height in the process. Judd fought ber, and has remained with Alpha time wandering and contemplating
back, and employed his knowledge Flight ever since. Alpha Flight has his existence. He eventually decided
of sorcery taught to him by mystics. since regained its government sup- to seek the Doorway Between
Up to this point Judd had never prac- port and funding. Puck has grown Worlds, a mystical portal in the
ticed sorcery, but now he used the very emotionally attached to Heather Himalayas, in the hope of traveling to
living "light" of his own soul to Hudson, Guardian's widow, who a new world to explore. Instead, he
imprison Razer within his body, now leads the team as Vindicator. helped return the dimension-lost
which was now the size of a dwarf's. Alpha Flight to Earth.
Recently, Puck was forced to kill
The presence of Razer within his the menace known as Deadly Ear-
180
PUMA
STATISTICS Puma
I
Normal
F TY (6) RM (30)
A GD(10) AM (50)
RM (30)
S GD (10) IN (40)
EX (10)
E GD (10) MN (75)
R EX (20) RM (30)
I GD (10)
P RM (30)
Health: 36/150
Karma: 60/115
Resources: IN(40)
Popularity: 15
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Thomas Fireheart
·-... Occupation: Chief Executive Offi-
cer, Fireheart Enterprises; merce-
nary
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: American Indian res-
ervation near Hartsdale, New Mexi-
co
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
,,- Base of Operations: Fireheart
Enterprises offices in Hartsdale and
worldwide
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Alter Ego: The Puma form possesses Puma is dedicated to acting as his
all powers. Transformation takes 2 tribe's guardian. Although he did not Throughout its history, the American
turns. believe in the prophecy, when the Indian tribe to which Puma belongs
- .Invulnerability: Good resistance to Beyonder appeared, Puma felt the has maintained legends foretelling
physical attacks weight of the destiny placed upon the coming of a being of infinite
Claws: Remarkable Hack and Slash him. His entire existence was geared power who would pose a tremen-
damage toward confronting and killing the dous threat to the entire world. Gen-
Hyper-Sensitive Senses: Monstrous- Beyonder. When he was unable to erations ago, the tribe began a
ly acute sight, hearing, and smell fulfill his destiny, his self-doubt lead secret program which combined
Tracking: Monstrous rank to a loss of his powers. mysticism with controlled breeding
Talents: Incredible Reason in in an effort to produce one perfect
finance and business
Contacts: Occassional employee of
the Rose
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
181
> .I
warrior who would act as their pro- rowly escaped, saved by the inter- death. Puma then discovered that,.-
tector. The most recent member of vention of the Black Cat. A second the Beyonder had made contact with
this line is Thomas Fireheart. battle placed innocent bystanders in Master Muramoto. The sensei and
danger, and while saving them , the Beyonder attempted to convince
Fireheart began a lifelong course Spider-Man was injured. Displeased Puma that there was no threat, but
of rigorous training to perfect his that his own actions had nearly Puma remained firm in his commit-
enhanced abilities and animal sens- injured innocents, and impressed by ment. He returned to New York City,
es. While he did not believe the leg- Spider-Man's heroism, Puma as did the Beyonder and, at the
end of the ultimate threat, he did departed. Before he could resume Beyonder's urging, Master Muramo-
take his job as tribal guardian seri- the hunt, the contract was withdrawn to.
ously, and so commited himself to by the Rose, and Fireheart returned
this task. During this time he also home. Puma once again tracked down
became corporate director of Fire- the Beyonder, with Spider-Man again
heart Enterprises and built it into a Some months later, Puma was on hand. Preparing for his kill, he wit-
multi-national corporation involved contacted by his uncle the priest nessed the sensei's death as the
in a wide variety of endeavors. (shaman) of their tribe. Shaman inadvertent result of the Beyonder's
anounced that the threat for which actions. Enraged, Puma became
Puma trained in the martial arts Puma spent his life in training had totally committed to his role of oppo-
under a sensei known as Master arrived on Earth. The being of infinite sition to the Beyonder, and so found
Muramoto. He proved to be Muramo- power was identified as The Beyon-
to's most talented student, but duty der, an entity from another dimen- himself in a state referred to as "har- r
to his tribe, along with his corporate sion who had come to Earth on a
responsibilities, drew him back to personal quest for new experiences monious alignment with the Uni.J
New Mexico. and fulfillment. Still unconvinced of
the legend's validity, Puma nonethe- verse." As a result, he was imbued
Bored with the routine of his posi- less travelled to New York City and with immeasurable power of an
tion in the business community, and sought out Spider-Man 's help in con- unknown mystical nature, enough to
faced with few worthy challenges as fronting the Beyonder. Spider-Man kill his intended victim.
Puma, Fireheart decided to amuse tentatively agreed and the two
himself by occasionally accepting traced the object of their search to a Spider-Man, realizing his own
dangerous assignments as a profes- cult founded by the Beyonder which inability to affect the outcome of the
sional mercenary. His talents came promoted a philosophy of " Cosmic battle, decided to leave, noting that
to the attention of the Rose, a lieu- Oneness." Upon their first confronta- the entire scenario could be an illu-
tenant of Wilson Fisk, alias the King- tion, the Beyonder simply trans- sion created by the Beyonder. Puma ,-.
pin, who awarded Puma some of his ported Puma to downtown Tokyo in overheard him and began to doub~
most challenging contracts. One an instant. Faced with such unimagi-
such assignment was to kill Spider- nable power, Puma became con- his own senses and his role in the
vinced of the Beyonder's threat and course of events. With the return of
Man . committed himself to the Beyonder's doubt, the immense mystical power
Puma travelled to New York City, left him. He was unable to kill the
Beyonder, and he returned to New
where he tracked down Spider-Man Mexico without completing his mis-
and attacked him. Spider-Man nar- sion. The Puma's current activities
are unknown.
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STATISTICS
f
F AM(50)
A EX(20)
S GD(10)
E EX(20)
R TY(6)
I EX(20)
P TY(6)
Health: 100
Karma: 32
Resources: PR(4)
Popularity: 7
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Frank Castle (nee Cas-
tiglione)
Occupation: U.S. Marine turned
.-..._ vigilante
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with crimi-
nal record; U.S.M.C. records list him
as a deserter
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Queens, New York
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Mario and Louisa
Castiglione (parents, possibly dead)
Base of Operations: His combat
~ van
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS everyone in Target zone with firearms. His Wrestling skill
Tear Gas: Incredible potency; victims effectively increased his Strength to
Equipment: must make an Endurance FEAT or Excellent. He is trained in Military
be Stunned. Victim's Intuition skills (including demolition, hand-to-
M16 Assault Rifle: Range 7 areas; 1O decreases -3CS for 1-10 turns. hand combat, and strategy), detec-
points damage, rounds 1O tion, espionage, outdoor survival,
Sterling Mk 6 Submachine Gun: Battle Van: weapons manufacture and repair,
Range 5, damage 5(25 for burst), and vehicle maintenace.
- rounds 34 Body Control Speed Protection
AM RM RM AM ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Browning Autorifle: Range 5, dam-
age 10, rounds 14 Talents: Martial Arts training
Smith and ~sson .357 Revolver: enables him to Slam or Stun oppo-
nents with Endurances greater than
range 3, damage 6, rounds 6 his Strength. Remarkable Agility
Colt 45 pistol: Range 3, damage 5,
rounds 10
.223 Derringer: range 2, damage 4,
round 4
Browning 9mm pistol: Range 3, dam-
age 4, rounds 14
Any of the firearms can be loaded
with conventional ammo (see
above), dum-dum ( +5 damage), or
"mercy bullets" (Amazing potency
knock-out drug).
Gerber Mk II combat knife: Good
Edged damage
Grenades:
Concussion: Incredible Slugfest
damage
Explosive: Remarkable damage to
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES murders. He deserted from the served time in prison for his brutal..,.-...
The Punisher has an obsessive Marines just before he was to be slayings, and has even managed to
hatred of criminals of any sort, awarded the Presidential Medal of wage his warfare against criminals ·
whether blue collar, white collar, pet- Freedom.
ty, or grand. He sees the judicial sys- within prison itself.
tem as weak, hence he tends to kill Castle dropped out of sight for a While imprisoned on Ryker's
rather than capture. His obsession few months and then resurfaced to
leads him to occasionally battle conduct a one-man anti-crime cam- Island the Punisher was drugged
heroes who are perceived as crimi- paign throughout New York City. He with mind-altering chemicals on the
nals. He is a grim, bitter man who no had outfitted himself with assorted orders of his enemy, the criminal
longer has any joy in him. weapons and a battlesuit which dis- gangleader Jigsaw, whose face was
played a large death's head on the horribly damaged when the Punish-
HISTORY chest. For the next few weeks he er once hurled him through a win-
sought out and executed criminals dow. The chemicals had a delayed,
Frank Castle was a captain in the who he believed had some asocia- cumulative effect that drove the Pun-
United States Marine Corps and tion with the gangsters who had isher mad, so that after he escaped
served five years in the Vietnam war. killed his wife and children. The prison, he eventually began firing at
For heroism in the line of duty, he news media named him the Punish- even such minor criminals as litter-
was twice decorated with both the er. A concerned New York City detec- bugs and traffic violators. After the
Bronze and Silver Star and four tive named John Laviano identified Punisher was again taken into police
times with the Purple Heart. Several the gang who slew the Punisher's custody, he was sent to a psychiatric ,,..-
years after the American involve- family as the "family" of Bruno Cos- hospital, where he underwent de-:
ment in Vietnam ended, he ran spe- ta, brother of a powerful Maggia toxification and was restored to sani-
cial training missions for Marine boss on the East Coast. Unfortu- ty. The Punisher was sent back to
commandos in the upper New York nately, Costa's alibis were supported Ryker's Island but soon escaped
State area. by enough alleged "witnesses" to again. He is now again at large, con-
make prosecution imposible. Since tinuing his war on crime.
While on leave he took his wife
and his two small children to Central the law's hands were tied, the Pun- Recently the Punisher rethought
Park in New York City for a picnic. isher used the information Laviano his methods. He realized there were
There Castle's wife and children had accumulated to hunt down Cos- more types of criminals than he had
happened upon the scene of a mob ta's gang and eliminate them.
killing on the Sheep's Meadow green previously battled and that these r---.
in the park. Fearing witnesses, the Thus began the Punisher's career
mobsters murdered Castle's wife as a vigilante, a self-proclaimed ene- new prey could not be simply hunted'
and children and escaped. Castle my of crime. He has both clashed by brute force. He now does more
himself survived but was trau- and cooperated with the costumed undercover investigation prior to
matized by his wife and children's crimefighter Spider-Man, and the striking and has developed cover
Punisher has made an enemy of personalities to undertake these
another crimefighter, Daredevil, who investigations. For example,
disapproves of his violent, often "McRook" was developed to assist a
lethal methods. The Punisher has Wall Street investigation. He also
has begun to develop a network of
aids to assist his efforts.
184
PUPPET MASTER
--$TATISTICS
F FE (2)
A TY (6)
s PR (4)
E PR (4)
R EX (20)
I EX (20)
p MN (75)
Health: 16
Karma: 115
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 0
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Philip Masters
Occupation: Biologist turned crafts-
man and criminal mastermind
___.. Legal Status: Naturalized US citi-
!en with a criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Dragorin, Transia
Marital Status: Widower
Known Relatives: Marcia (wife ,
deceased), Alicia Masters Storm
(stepdaughter)
Base of Operations: New York City
area
---.past Group Affiliations: None
>resent Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
Sympathetic Magic: Monstrous Mind Masters is out to stretch the limits of
Control by using clay effigies his powers rather than use those Philip Masters was born in the tiny
Mind Transferral: Monstrous ability to powers to loot or conquer. Criminal Balkan country of Transia, his par-
transfer minds into miniature clones activities were basically an easily entage unknown. He lived there until
Mineral Body (defunct): Good Materi- abandoned sideline. His main drive the age of eight when his parents
al body possessed these additional was a paternal love for Alicia and an emigrated to America. A precocious
overwhelming guilt over causing her child, Masters learned English rap-
~ owers : condition. His over-protective efforts idly and did very well at his studies in
often led to criminal activities, school. He was, however, a social
• Self-Duplication: Splitting into 2- although no malice was intended. outcast, for his cultural differences
10 smaller replicas with a shared and personality made it difficult for
consciousness
• Imitation : Monstrous ability to
reshape itself to become a mind-
controlling effigy
Equipment:
Radioactive Clay: Each effigy can
only be used once.
Talents: Excellent Reason in the
fields of biology, toymaking, and por-
trait sculpture
Contacts: Alicia Storm
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
185
him to make friends. He spent much poisons to which she had been actions. Then he came to her bear,..--
of his spare time making wooden exposed in the explosion. Soon after ing a puppet of himself dressed as <
marionettes and sculpting clay figu- Marcia's death, Masters sold the king, and told her how, having suc-
rines from the unusual clay he had research center and moved to Man- cessfully tested his power, he plans
brought with him from his native hattan. Placing his stepdaughter in a to rule entire nations. Alicia grabbed
land. Masters eventually enrolled in school for the visually handicapped, the Puppet Master's arm, protesting
college and sought a degree in biolo- he opened a sculpture workshop and that no one should have so much
gy. While there he met two fellow stu- withdrew into his own world of power. She slipped and fell, drop-
dents, Jacob Reiss and Marcie figurine-making. Masters taught the ping the puppet, and the Puppet
Deaton, who became his first real art of sculpture to Alicia, who proved .Master, trying to pick up the puppet,
friends. Upon graduation, Masters to have great talent for it. tripped over her and plunged from a
joined Reiss as a partner in a small window.
research center in upstate New York Masters learned that his special
which Reiss's inheritance had clay had properties that he had nev- Alicia and the Fantastic Four
enabled him to establish . Reiss had er dreamed it possesed. By molding believed the Puppet Master to be
by that time married Deaton and had it into the likeness of a person, Mas- dead, but he miraculously survived,
sired an infant daughter Alicia. Mas- ters found he could mentally control and had menaced the members of
ters soon began to resent the succes the actions of that person by manipu- the Fantastic Four on numerous
of his partner (his wealth, his wife, lating the figurine. Calling himself occasions. He has also proved to be
and his child) , believing that he the Puppet Master, Masters decided a threat to other superhuman.-
would never have the same. One to use the clay's powers to gain beings, such as the X-Men , Sub1
night, his bitterness overwhelmed power over other people. Mariner, and the Hulk. He has allied
him and he decided to rob his part- himself with another enemy of the
ner of one of his successes by sabo- As a test of the power, Masters Fantastic Four, the Mad Thinker, on
taging the research facility where used a clay puppet to force a man to several occasions. The Puppet Mas-
they worked. Reiss, however, had leap to his death from a bridge. The ter, Mad Thinker, and the criminal
noticed the lights on in the main man was saved by the Human Torch, scientist Egghead once formed a
building and stopped to investigate, a member of the Fantastic Four. short-lived alliance in order to
leaving his family in the car. Learning what had happened, the attempt to blackmail the United
Puppet Master decided to use the States government with an orbiting,.-...
Caught in the act, Masters pum- clay's powers against the Fantastic satellite that could fire highl}
meled his partner, finally knocking Four. Carving a puppet of another of destructive laser beams at Earth.
him into a vat containing some of the the team's members, the Thing, from
unusual clay from Transia, which his special clay, The Puppet Master At one point the Puppet Master
they were using in their experiment compelled the Thing to come to him. himself became a being composed
to recreate the primordial conditions The Thing was followed by his team- of the mystical clay he used. How-
on Earth which promoted the first mate, the Invisible Woman, whom ever, he was returned to normal
development of life. Reiss's plunge the Puppet Master captured. Seeing human form by the being called the
into the vat precipitated the explo- a close resemblence between the Sphinx.
sion which Masters had rigged. The Invisible Woman and Alicia, the Pup-
explosion caught Masters, as well as pet Master disguised Alicia as the Over the years one of the Puppet
Marcia and Alicia, who had come Invisible Woman with a blonde wig Master's primary concerns has been~
from the car to see what was keeping and costume and told her to accom- the happiness of his stepdaughtet
Reiss. Although they all miracu- pany the Thing back to the Fantastic Alicia. As a result of their meeting
lously escaped major injury, Alicia Four's headquarters. Alicia, during the Fantastic Four's first
was blinded by exposure to hot, unaware of her stepfather's motives, encounter with the Puppet Master,
vaporized clay. Not revealing exactly obeyed. Once the disguised Alicia the Thing and Alicia began a long-
how Jacob Reiss had come to die, and mesmerized Thing were inside term romantic relationship. Opposed
Masters courted his partner's widow. the team's headquarters, the Thing to this relationship, the Puppet Mas-
She married him a year later, simply attacked the Torch and the team's ter long sought to destroy the Thing.
so her daughter would have a father. leader, Mister Fantastic. But Mister However, Alicia and the Thing
Masters had finally achieved all the Fantastic succeeded in freeing the recently ended their romantic rela-
Thing from the Puppet Master's con- tionship. Learning of the fact, the
things that had been his partner's, trol. Puppet Master told the Thing he
but at the expense of his step- would no longer bother him. How-
daughter's sight. He determinedly Mister Fantastic rescued the Invis- ever, it remains to be seen what will
tried to reformulate the mixture that ible Woman, but the Puppet Master happen when the Puppet Master
had exploded believing that its for- had used a puppet of a prison war- learns that Alicia is now in love with
mulation might contain the answer to den to force the warden to set free another member of the Fantastic
curing Alicia's blindness. But he his prisoners. The Fantastic Four Four, the Human Torch.
failed in this task, and at some point recaptured the prisoners, however.
his wife Marcia died from long-acting Alicia, meanwhile, was distraught
to learn of her stepfather's criminal
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---STATISTICS
F PR (4)
A TY (6)
s TY (6)
E TY (6)
R TY (6)
I EX (20)
p MN (75)
Health: 22
Karma: 101
Resources: AM (50)
Popularity: 100
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Zebadiah Killgrave
Occupation: Spy, international crim-
inal
---.Legal Status: Yugoslavian citizen
vith international criminal record
(deceased)
Identity: Publicly known .
Place of Birth: Rijeka, Yugoslavia
Marital Status: Allegedly married
Known Relatives: Melanie (wife?),
Kara (a.k.a. Purple Girl , daughter?)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former ally
~of Electro
Jresent Group Afflllatlon:
KNOWN POWERS
Mind Control: Unearthly ability to
control the emotional outlook of up to
oo1 people at a time. Affected peo-
ple will happily do anything he sug-
gests.
Weakness: Because his power's
-·effect is visually triggered, he has no
Jffect over those unable to see him.
Talents: Espionage
Contacts: Electro, Purple Girl
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY
The Purple Man is a self-serving
opportunist with very littl.e According to Zebadiah Killgrave's
imagination. He never acts on his own account, he was a spy working
own if he can get another to act for for the Soviet bloc who was assigned
him. He is content to use his power to invade an American army ord-
to satisfy his personal needs. nance depot and steal a sample of
Because of the unique nature of his an experimental nerve gas. A mili-
power, he can operate for weeks or tary guard came upon Killgrave and
months before heroes are aware of fired a shot at him, which accidental-
his activities. ly hit a canister of the nerve gas. The
contents of t he canister poured out,
187
thoroughly drenching Killgrave, fighter Daredevil, whose will power York City street. Angered, Killgrave-
impregnating his skin and indelibly was strong enough to enable him to used his power to compel the twl.
dying him purple. Caught outright resist Killgrave's power. Killgrave criminals to fight each other; the
and questioned, Killgrave offered a was sent to prison, but he finally police arrived and confiscated the
weak, inadequate alibi to his cap- escaped and made San Francisco, heroin. The Kingpin had Killgrave
tors. Much to his surprise, he was California, his base of operations. brought to him, and the Kingpin too
believed and released. Several more There he built himself a criminal proved to have the strength of will
incidents of this nature demon- empire, but he was again opposed necessary to resist the Purple Man's
strated that the nerve gas had given and defeated by Daredevil. This power. The Kingpin forced the Pur-
Killgrave the superhuman ability to time, though, Killgrave was not sent ple Man to aid him in setting a death
command the wills of other people. to prison. His criminal empire in San trap for various New York-based cos-
Calling himself the Purple Man, Kill- Francisco apparently collapsed, and tumed crimefighters. Due to the
grave embarked on a criminal Killgrave turned up in New York City increase in the Purple Man's power
once more. There he used his power over time, plus the use of a sound
career. to coerce Maxwell Glenn, head of system that amplified his voice, not
Although Killgrave has never con- Glenn Industries, into committinng even Daredevil could resist any long-
various crimes on his behalf, as the er. However, wearing ear plugs so he
firmed the story, a woman named first major step in the Purple Man's could not hear the Purple Man 's
Melanie met Killgrave in a bar in Buf- plan to create a financial empire for voice, the Moon Knight knocked the..--
falo, New York. Taken with Melanie's himself. Put on trial for these crimes, Purple Man unconscious. He wa~
beauty, on a whim Killgrave used his Glenn committed suicide. Daredevil
superhuman power to induce her to had learned that KiIlgrave had forced taken into police custody.
marry him. Eventually, Killgrave truly Glenn to become a criminal, and the But Killgrave somehow regained
fell in love with Melanie annd decid- crimefighter had a confrontation with
ed to free her from his mental control the Purple Man at Ryker's Island his freedom . Later, while relaxing on
in the hope that she would genuinely Prison . Killgrave realized that Dare- an island in Polynesia, he was cap-
love him as well. Instead, horrified at devil was blind and correctly tured by Doctor Doom, who impris-
what he had done to her, she fled to guessed that he was Matt Murdock. oned Killgrave within a gigantic
Toronto, Canada. Killgrave never Their confrontation ended when Kill- "psycho-prism" he had constructed
went after her, and months after leav- grave plunged into the sea and on Doom Island. Doom magnified
ing him, Melanie gave birth to his the Purple Man's will-sapping power,....-.
daughter Kara. When Kara turned seemingly drowned. and manipulated it to make himsel~
Killgrave survived , but the experi- the master of Earth. Virtually every-
thirteen , her skin turned purple and one on Earth was compelled by the
she developed superhuman powers ence of this latest defeat radically Purple Man's power to obey Doom,
similar to the Purple Man's. Melanie altered his outlook on life. He real- and he succeeded in capturing a
then told her that her father was the ized that there was no need for him number of crimefighting superhe-
Purple Man. Kara, calling herself the to engage in criminal conspiracies roes. Due to his unusual physiology,
Purple Girl, became associated with and battles with costumed crimefigh- the Avenger Wonder Man was unaf-
Alpha Flight, the Canadian team of ters since he could get anything he fected , however, and was able to free
superhuman adventurers. Captain America from Doom 's men..,,--...
wanted by using his power. There- tal control. Together they freed the
Having come to New York City, the fore, Killgrave retired from crime and other captured superheroes. Infuri-
Purple Man used his superhuman became a gentleman of leisure. ated at having been enslaved by
ability to force people to do whatever Doom, the Sub-Mariner smashed
he wished, and even robbed a bank One day a car being used by two the psycho-prism, thereby both kill-
by this means. The Purple Man now underlings of the Kingpin of Crime to ing Killgrave and freeing the world
make a major delivery of illegal nar-
intended to use his power to become cotics accidentally collided with Kill- from Doom 's control.
master of the world. However, he grave's purple Rolls Royce on a New
was instead defeated by the crime-
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-~TATISTICS
-}
F GD (10)
A GD (10)
s TY (6)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I TY (6)
p GD (10)
Health: 56
Karma: 26
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: - 1O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: St. John Allerdyce
Occupation: Novelist, journalist,
and professional criminal turned
\ government agent
...egal Status: Australian citizen with
U.S. criminal record (pardoned)
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Sydney, Australia
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Washington
O.C. area
Past Group Affiliations: Freedom
---._Force (a.k.a. New Brotherhood of
;vii Mutants)
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS Force, he also has low-level connec- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Fire Control: Incredible ability to con- tions with the publishing industry. Allerdyce was a drifter and dilettante
who has written bad novels. He is a
trol normal flames. As a Power Stunt ADDITIONAL NOTES: diligent lackey who knows his place.
he learned how to create fiery beasts
with this power HISTORY
Flame Creatures: Monstrous dam-
___.__age against flammable targets, St. John Allerdyce was born and
.aood damage against nonflamma- raised in Australia. His powers
ble targets. Flame creatures only emerged at puberty, but since he
exist while Pyro concentrates on could not think of a way to use them
maintaining their existence. Pyro for profit, for years he did not use
has Monstrous control over them.
FASER I P
IN IN IN IN 0 0 0
Health: 160
Resistance to Flame: CL1000 resist-
ance to flames under his control. He
has no resistance to uncotrolled
flames or those under other's con-
trol.
Equipment:
Flamethrower: Remarkable fiery
damage with a range of 2 areas.
Costume: Amazing protection
....---.,_against flame and heat attacks.
Talents: Pyro has Excellent Reason
· in Journalism-related skills.
Contacts: Besides the Freedom
189
them except in emergencies. For a Gothic romances.) Allerdyce's nov- joined her new version of the Broth~
time Allerdyce drifted from job to job els were despised by serious novel- erhood of Evil Mutants under th1_
around the South Seas. Eventually ists and the critics, but they found name of Pyro. Since then, Mys::-
tique's Brotherhood, renamed Free-
he became a journalist for an Austra- wide readership throughout the dom Force, has entered the employ
of the United States government,
lian wire service and covered Viet- English-speaking world. Under cir- which has pardoned the members
for their past crimes. Pyro remains in
nam and Indonesia. What he saw . cumstances that have yet to be Freedom Force today.
and experienced in his travels revealed, Allerdyce met the mutant
became the basis for novels he called Mystique, who learned of his
began writing. (He also wrote torrid mutant powers. As a result Allerdyce
.,,.--...,
I
(~
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GUASAR
STATISTICS sity which can blind an opponent Talents: Trained by SHIELD and the
• A force field which provides U.S. Army, Vaughn has the Law
> Monstrous protection against Enforcement and Espionage skills.
physical and energy attacks He is trained in Martial Arts A and B,
f EX (20) • Protection from Vacuum - A spe- as well as handgun use.
A GD (10) cialized force field that protects Contacts: Vaughn has contacts in
Quasar from the rigors of outer SHIELD, the U.S. Army, and those
s GD (10) space. Although the field will pre- people employed at the Vault who
vent oxygen from escaping, it will were transferred from Project: Pega-
E GD (10) not provide a breatheable atmos- sus. He has worked with Bill Foster
R GD (10) phere, which must be supplied and the Thing in the past.
I TY (6) separately (such as with oxygen
p TY (6) tanks). The oxygen within the field 191
Health:50 is enough to allow Quasar to sur-
Karma: 22 vive for up to 10 minutes.
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 0 (10to the U.S. Govern-
ment)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Wendell Vaughn
Occupation: Former lieutenant,
~U.S. Army, former special agent of
>HIELD, former security chief of
Project: Pegasus, now Protector of
the Universe
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Identity: Although Quasar doesn't
wear a mask, his real name is not
known to the general public
Place of Birth: Fond du Lac, Wis-
_consin
~arltal Status: Single
Known Relatives: Gilbert (father),
Lisa (mo\her)
Base of Operations: Mobile (in out-
er space)
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of SHIELD, former head of
security at Project: Pegasus
Present Group Affiliation:
CNOWN POWERS
Quantum-Bands: Quasar wears a
pair of bracelets of an unidentified,
Unearthly strength material. They
are capable of converting " quantum
energy" for a number of Power
Stunts, including:
• Force blasts of Monstrous
strength at a range of 5 areas
• Flight at Shift-Y speed (100
areas/round) within an atmos-
phere, CL3000 when in the vac-
uum of space
• "Solid light" constructs of Mon-
strous material strength that do
Monstrous damage if used as
weapons. Quasar can form any
simple solid object (spheres,
cones, cubes, mallets, cages,
etc.) that he can visualize
• Light bursts of Monstrous inten-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: planet Uranus in an endeavor to bracelets were undamaged. .-....
build a spaceship capable of inter-
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES planetary travel. Believing Uranus to The Fantastic Four's Ree
Despite his years of training as a sol-
dier, a SHIELD super-agent, and a be a better environment than Earth Richards confiscated the weapons,
superhero, Quasar is still somewhat to raise his son, Dr. Grayson, a wid-
insecure in his role as a superhero, ower, journeyed there and was met and, having no time to investigate
perhaps because of the sheer power with open arms by the Uranian Eter-
that he wields. He takes himself nals, who were eager to hear news of the nature of their power himself,
extremely seriously and does not the world that had spawned them
allow himself any errors. He is millennia before. turned them over to SHIELD. There
extremely loyal to his superiors and
tends to follow orders from them When young Robert Grayson was they were given to SHIELD scientist
without question. in his mid-teens, he was given a pair
of energy-manipulating wrist-bands, Dr. Gilbert Vaughn, who hypothe-
HISTORY whose origin was then unknown.
Robert's adventurous spirit led him sized that the alien power-
Wendell Vaughn is the second back to Earth, where, upon his
human being to wear a pair of alien .transformers may be able to utilize
energy bracelets now known as the father's suggestion, he used the
quantum-bands. The first was wrist-bands' solar-conversion capa- energy sources in addition to solar.
Robert Grayson, the son of astro- cities as a weapon to battle crime.
physicist Dr. Horace Grayson. In the Grayson called himself Marvel Boy In order to test them, Vaughn got per-
years before World War II, Dr. Gray- and established a solid reputation as
son made radio contact with the col- one of the 1950s' preeminent cos- mission to use his son Wendell, an
ony of Eternals who lived on the tumed crimefighters. Learning that
his father was in poor health, Gray- army veteran in the midst of SHIELD
son tried to purchase medical sup-
plies to take back to Uranus, but was agent training, as a test subject. To
unable to get a bank loan. Upon
reaching Uranus, he learned that Wendell's dismay, he discovered
some unexplained disaster had rup-
tured the colony's protective dome, that the wrist-bands affixed them-
killing all of its inhabitants, including
his father. Insane with grief, he selves to his wrists as soon as he
decided to return to Earth and take
vengeance upon the banker who, by used them. Permanently linked to,r-...
refusing his loan, had made him
waste valuable time. Caught in sus- these powerful mechanisms, Wen
pended animation for a number of
years, Grayson eventually made it dell Vaughn joined SHIELD's pilot
back to Earth and went on a ram-
page, calling himself the Crusader. "Super-Agent" program under the
In a battle with the Fantastic Four,
Grayson disintegrated himself by name Marvel Man. When the pro-
channeling solar energy through the
wristbands improperly. The energy gram was discontinued, he took the
code-name Quasar, based on the
power source his father believed that
he had attuned the wrist-bands to:
quasi-stellar radio-sources.
His excellent military record y---..
SHIELD credentials, and a recom
mendation by Captain America got
him the position of security chief at
the government's secret energy
research facility, Project: Pegasus.
After several years, however, he
resigned, blaming himself for allow-
ing the Serpent Crown, an ancient
mystical power object, to take over
the minds of everyone in the Project,,.......,,
including himself. Since then, he ha(
not been seen or heard from. It is
rumored that he has journeyed to the
planet Uranus to investigate his
quantum-band's origin.
192
STATISTICS O.UASIMODO
F TY (6) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Despite his great power, Quasimodo
A GD (10) sees himself as a soul to be pitied,
not censured. He constantly laments
s IN (40) his inhuman condition. His main
goals are taking over bigger and big-
E IN (40) ger computers systems and regain-
ing a humanoid body, as he has been
R IN (40) separated from his original one for
I TY (6) quite some time and is apparently
unable to reunite with it.
p EX (20)
Health: 96 193
Karma: 66
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: - 6
BACKGROUND ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Real Name: Quasi-Motivational
Destruct Organism
Legal Status: None
~ Identity: Inapplicable
"?lace of Creation: Laboratory of the
Mad Thinker, Mojave Desert, Califor-
nia
Marital Status: None
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
servant of the Mad Thinker, ally of
the Dire Wraiths
..-..._Present Group Affiliation:
I
KNOWN POWERS
Robot Body: Quasimodo's body is a
cosmic-powered semi-organic con-
struct. It provides him with Excellent
protection against physical and
energy attacks. He can survive with-
out food or air and is immune to the
extremes of space and disease.
~ Eye Beam: Quasimodo's left eye is
?apable of firing a force blast that
does Incredible damage up to 3
areas range.
Electronic Consciousness: Quasimo-
do is capable of projecting his con-
sciousness into other computer
systems. He can do this at Mon-
strous rank ability when taking over
sentient computers, with interplane-
tary range. He must be aware of a
particular target to project to, and
cannot use this ability blindly.
Contacts: Quasimodo was a one-
time ally of the Dire Wraiths.
form.) Now possessed of limbs and spacecraft from the Fantastic Four
mobility, Quasimodo was seized with with which to travel to the Xandariar ,_
the urge to destroy. Realizing he had
HISTORY erred in granting the creature mobili- power source. On the way, however,
ty, the Surfer transmuted Quasimo- Quasimodo was intercepted by the
Quasimodo is the creation of the do's body to stone, leaving him a Sphinx, who stole the secret of Xan-
criminal genius known as the Mad gargoyle atop a building. dar's computer system from him and
Thinker. When the Thinker acquired
the android body of the original This transmutation was tempo- once more immobilized Quasimo-
Human Torch, which he planned to rary, however. By as yet unknown do's robotic form. Quasimodo
use as a weapon against the means, Quasimodo reverted from beamed the electronic essence of
Fantastic Four, he devised an experi- stone to that of the Surfer's organic his artificial intelligence toward
mental computer whose prime func- construct. After regaining mobility, Earth and it found refuge in a deacti-
tion was to activate a destruct Quasimodo discovered that his vate~ computer system in Khystym,
mechanism the Thinker had placed organic circuitry had undergone a
into the Torch 's body. Because this subtle restructuring, granting him Russia.
required an electronic brain whose certain cybernetic abilities, including There Quasimodo was contacted
complexity would rival that of a telekinetic control over all machin-
human's, the Thinker developed a ery. He attempted to take over the by members of the alien Dire
computer systems at Cape
computer capable of humanlike Canaveral, but was opposed and Wraiths, and given the means to help
emotions, especially loyalty to its defeated by the Kree warrior Captain
creator. Due to its peculiar motiva- Mar-Veil. After repairing the damage them exact vengeance on their nem-
tion and its destruct mechanism- esis, the Galadorian spaceknight
activation feature, the Thinker called to his robotic form, he stalked and
the device the Quasi Motivational attacked the mutant Beast, hoping to Rom. Quasimodo offered to clone
Destruct Organ(ism), or Quasimodo. steal and synthesize his life force.
Realizing the impracticability of this, Rom's original humanoid body anc'
Toying with its loyalty, the Thinker Quasimodo leaped off the structure
promised Quasimodo that after the where they were fighting and fell sev- imprint Rom's mind upon the clones'
Fantastic Four were defeated, he brain cells. Rom agreed, and after
would replace his immobile non- eral hundred feet to the ground.
humanoid form with a more attrac- Again, Quasimodo's self-repair the process was completed, Quasi-
tive humanoid body. He later
rescinded that promise, much to the circuitry was activated and he even- modo projected his own electronic
computer's emotional devastation. tually was fully functional once more.
He did, however, provide Quasimo- He then embarked upon a plan to essence into the now consciousless
do with a simulated face displayed take over all of the world's computer cyborg body of Rom. He was driven
systems, a plan that necessitated
on an antiquated cathode-ray tube. building a huge computer terminal out of Rom 's form by Rom 's fellow
The TV screen was modified so that complex for himself. Quasimodo
the representation of the face's pre- also employed a number of automa- spaceknight Starshine, however,
ternaturally enlarged eye could dis- tons which he claimed to have manu- and returned to the Khystym com-
charge the pulsed beam signal that factured himself. His scheme was puter system. _,........
would activate the Torch's destruct thwarted by Spider-Man and Hawk-
eye, the latter of whom caused Qua- Quasimodo remained trapped in
mechanism. the system until the android Vision
When the Fantastic Four defeated simodo to short-circuit and become (who, ironically, now possessed the
immobile. Unknown to his oppo- body of the original Human Torch
the Thinker, he escaped and aban- nents, Quasimodo's artificial intelli- that Quasimodo was designed to
doned Quasimodo. Quasimodo sat gence was still active, and he detonate) mentally entered the same
in a minimum-awareness, dormant detected a computer system whose computer system in a misguided
state for some time, until the Silver size and power dwarfed those of effort to take it over. The Vision's
Surfer happened by the abandoned mental essence expelled that of
laboratory. The Surfer sensed the Earth. Quasimodo's artificial intelligenc€ ,.........,._
psionic-frequency electrical field of and projected it into space. At
Quasimodo's mentality, which The computer system he detected present Quasimodo's artificial intelli-
approximated distressed human was on the now-dead world of Xan- gence is somewhere in space while
emotions, and flew to Quasimodo's d ar in the Tranta system in the
aid. At Quasimodo's impassioned Andromeda Galaxy, and he learned his body is still aboard the spaceship
plea, the Surfer employed his cos- about it through a Xandarian star-
mic power to convert his stationary ship in Earth orbit. Acquiring an Iron stolen from the Fantastic Four some-
console-form into a humanoid- Man robot to use as his agent, Qua- where within solar orbit. It remains to
construct. (Perhaps sensing Quasi- simodo attacked the Baxter Building be seen whether the two aspects of
modo's personality, the Surfer gave headquarters of the Fantastic Four
and, tapping its energy, Quasimodo Quasimodo's artificial being will be
him a misshapen hunchbacked regained his mobility. He then stole a
reunited.
194
BUICKSILVER
STATISTICS
F EX 20)
A UN (100)
S GD (10)
E RM (30)
R EX (20)
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 160
Karma: 32
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: - 4
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Pietro Maximoff
Occupation: Former adventurer
and officer of the Inhuman militia
r Legal Status: Former citizen of Tran-
1sia, naturalized citizen of the U.S.,
former citizen of Attilan
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Wundagore, Transia,
Europe
Marital Status: Separated
Known Relatives: Crystal (wife),
Luna (daughter), Wanda Maximoff
(sister, alias Scarlet Witch), Magneto
-.. (father), Vision (brother-in-law),
T homas (nephew), William (neph-
ew) , Magda (mother, presumed
dead), Django Maximoff (adoptive
father, deceased), Marya Maximoff
(adoptive mother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of the original Brotherhood
of Evil Mutants, former member of
,.-.. the Avengers, current unofficial
member of the Royal Family of the
Inhumans
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS • With a 500-foot approach, run up Contacts: Quicksilver is currently
Lightning Speed: Quicksilver can run to 300 feet straight up a 90-degree estranged from all of his relatives,
at Shift-X Land Speed and swim at surface. With a 100-foot approach , which include his sister Wanda,
Remarkable speeds. He can reach he can run across a body of water Crystal and Luna, and the ln hu-
this speed in a single round. He nor- for 1000 feet. mans. He has betrayed the Aveng-
mally has no trouble with high-speed ers to the U.S. Government and is no
maneuvering at any angle. As Power • Vibrate so fast as to be invisible, longer on good terms with his former
Stunts, Pietro can: requi ring a Red Intuition FEAT to group. He somehow gained leader-
be detected. ship of the android Zodiac through
• Use his Speed as his Strength Thick Skin: Due to his skin's resist- unknown means. He has apparently
for breaking a Grappling attack. ance to high speeds, Quicksilver has been allied with Maximus but may
• Make Extra Attacks with Shift-X Good Body Armor. have been under mind control. He
Speed instead of Fighting. has allied himself with the Hungarian
• Generate cyclones that fill one Resistance to Cold: Quicksilver has government to help in their analysis
whole area, stunning or slamming Incredible Resistance to cold due to of super-powered individuals.
anyone as a Shift X attack and his body's accelerated metabolism.
inflicting Typical damage from the Talents: Fluent Hungarian. 195
buffeting.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Madeline died in childbirth. Frank tie with the mutant-hunting Senti- ~
fled from Wundagore upon hearing nels. Sustaining injuries in battle,
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES of his wife's death, nearly insane Quicksilver was taken to medical
Pietro is haughty, arrogant, and with grief. Bova then presented the
overbearing. His recent mental dom- twins to her master, the High Evolu- care by the Inhuman named Crystal,
ination by Maximus seems to have tionary, who agreed to find foster whose dimension-spanning com-
unhinged him, and he now considers panion Lockjaw happened upon the
himself heir to his reformed father's parents for them. scene of the battle. Months passed
title of "King of the Evil Mutants." He The High Evolutionary found before Quicksilver was well enough
hates his sister, his ex-wife, and his to contact his companions to tell
former teammates but can still be Django and Marya Maximoff, a gyp- them of his circumstances. Quicksil-
touched by children. He refuses to sy couple camped nearby who had ver became romantically involved
show any weakness or frailty or to lost their own twin children, Ana and with his rescuer Crystal, and the two
allow for it in those close to him. Mateo, during World War II. They married after a brief courtship. The
cared for the children as their own. wedding, held in the Himalayan ref-
HISTORY As adolescents, Wanda and Pietro uge of Attilan, was attended by the
discovered that they had peculiar tal- lnhumans, the Avengers, and the
Pietro Maximoff is the son of the ents. When Django began to steal Fantastic Four. Quicksilver tendered
mutant called Magneto and the gyp- food to feed his starving family, his resignation to the Avengers in
sy named Magda. Just prior to his enraged villagers attacked the gypsy order to remain with his wife.
birth, his mother fled from his father, camp. Using his phenomenal speed,
terrified of the bizarre powers he Pietro fled from the camp with his Not long after the birth of his and , '
suddenly manifested and his inten- sister. The next few years, Wanda
tions of world domination. Seeking and Pietro wandered central Europe, Crystal's first child, Luna, he learned
refuge in the scientific citadel of the truth about his parentage. Quick-
Wundagore in the Balkan Mountains living off the land. silver denounced Magneto for his
of the tiny nation of Transia, Magda One day, Wanda accidentally callous treatment of them when they
was taken in by Bova, a woman were members of his Brotherhood of
evolved from a cow by the master of caused a house to burst into flames Evil Mutants and refused to believe
genetic acceleration , the High Evo- with her uncontrollable hex powers, he had amended his megalomania-
lutionary. Magda gave birth to twins, and was chased by superstitious cal ways. Eventually, however, Mag-
a boy and a girl, with Bova as her townspeople. Despite Pietro's neto appeared to be reforming, and ,,..........
midwife. Still afraid Magda left Bova attempt to defend her, the pair were Quicksilver relented in his resent-
her children and walked away to per- soon overpowered. They were about
ish. Bova was relieved when several to lynched when Magneto came to ment for his n.atural father.
nights later, an American couple their rescue. Unaware that he was A man of action, Quicksilver volun-
vacationing in Europe, Robert and their natural father, Magneto
Madeline Frank, also came to Wun- pressed them into service in his teered his services to the head of the
dagore seeking midwife assistance. Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, cos- lnhumans' small militia and became
Bova intended to award the couple tumed them, and named them the an officer. During his period of serv-
the days-old twins to raise along with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. For ice, however, the lnhumans had no
their own newborn. Unfortunately, months they served Magneto out of a call for military activity. His neglect of
the couple's child was stillborn, and sense of obligation and fear of retali- his wife Crystal led her to become
ation if they left him. When the extra- involved with another man. Learning/°"
terrestrial Stranger transported of her infidelity, Quicksilver refused
Magneto from Earth, the Scarlet to forgive her and fled Attilan, vowing
Witch and Quicksilver left the Broth-
erhood and petitioned for member- vengeance.
ship in the Avengers. When the Pietro has currently allied himself
Scarlet Witch began to become
romantically involved with the with the Hungarian government, and
Vision, Quicksilver condemned her is assisting them in the development
relationship with a pseudo-human of techniques to create super-
synthozoid, causing their first major powered individuals. He now
rift. The rift was mended, some time believes fully in mutant supremacy
after the Scarlet Witch married the and intends to rule the world as its
Vision, when the telepath Moondra-
gon permanently altered Quicksil- "Mutant King ."
ver's prejudice toward the Vision in a
self-righteous employment of her
powers.
Quicksilver left the Avengers
under mysterious circumstances
while the group was engaged in bat-
196
RADIOACTIVE MAN
STATISTICS
F GD (rn)
A GD (10)
S RM (30)
E EX (20)
R EX (20)
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 70
Karma: 32
Resources: GD (1 O}
Popularity: -1 O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dr. Chen Lu
Occupation: Former nuclear physi-
cist, now professional criminal
Legal Status: Expatriate citizen of
the People's Republic of China, with
an international criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Lanzhou, People's
Republic of China
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of the original, second, and
third Masters of Evil, former member
of the Titanic Three, ally and lackey
of the Mandarin
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS his choice. Damage is -1 CS. ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Radioactivity Manipulation: The Talents: Chen Lu is one of the fore-
Radioactive Man's body is a living most experts on Radiation and
nuclear reactor. He always gives off Nuclear Physics.
- Feeble radiation except when wear-
ing his special harness, which allows Contacts: The Radioactive Man was
him to control his power. Lu has a member of the first three Masters
developed the following Power of Evil. He has worked with the Man-
darin both as an ally and, later, as an
Stunts: unwilling servant. He was a member
of the Titanic Three, champions of
• CL1000 Invulnerability to radia- Eastern Communism. He was on
tion good terms with fellow members
Titanium Man and the Crimson
• Radiation/Heat Bolts (Energy Dynamo, but the group disbanded
attack) of Amazing power and under unknown circumstances.
range
• Light-flash of Amazing intensity
to temporarily blind opponents,
range 1 area
• Controlled light-effect that allows
him to Hypnotize a target at
Remarkable rank, range of 1 area.
• Force-Field of Monstrous protec-
tion against physical and energy
attacks. If he makes a successful
Amazing rank FEAT roll, he can
redirect any projectile over one
pound thrown at him at a target of
197
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES immunizing himself against the After breaking out of prison , the,,,.,._
Although Chen Lu is a scientist, his harmful effects of radiation, Chen Lu Radioactive Man fled to Communist-
primary concern now is using his exposed himself to massive doses of controlled Vietnam, where he briefly
powers for criminal gain. Despite a specific-particle radiation, thereby teamed up with the Titanium Man
brief stint as a "hero" of the Titanic mutating his body. After impressing and the third Crimson Dynamo as
Three, he has always returned to the his superiors with a demonstration of the Titanic Three, champions of
criminal life. the new superhuman powers he had Eastern Communism. These three
gained, Chen Lu, calling himself the former Communist agents had
HISTORY Radioactive Man, traveled to New decided to serve their former mas-
York City to challenge Thor. After ters no longer and wanted no longer
Dr. Chen Lu was a respected nuclear Thor defeated him, the Radioactive to be considered criminals. In
physicist for the People's Republic of Man was reported to have been Communist-controlled Vietnam, the
China. After the thunder god Thor destroyed. Titanic Three instead acted to pun-
thwarted a Chinese military incur- ish criminals.
sion into India, the Chinese govern- In fact, however, the Radioactive
ment called upon its scientists and Man went into hiding until Baron However, the Titanic Three later
military strategists for a way to retali- Heinrich Zemo located him and broke up, under circumstances that
ate against Thor. Chen Lu had enlisted him in his criminal organiza- have yet to be revealed. Eventually,
already been experimenting for sev- tion, the original Masters of Evil. By the Radioactive Man was contacted
eral years with a way of harnessing this time, the Radioactive Man was by criminal scientist Elihas Starr, oth- ,..--...
nuclear radioactivity to induce no longer serving China's Commu- erwise known as Egghead, andl
superhuman powers in human nist leaders. The Avengers defeated agreed to join yet another incarna-
beings. Chen Lu, concealing his own the Masters of Evil, but years later tion of the Masters of Evil. But after
aspirations of world conquest, volun- the Radioactive Man joined a new Dr. Henry Pym defeated the group
teered to become China's human Masters of Evil organized by the singlehandedly, the Radioactive
weapon against Thor. robot Ultron. This second Masters of Man was deported by the United
Evil was also defeated by the Aveng- States government. It is reported
Having already spent months ers, and the Radioactive Man was that he later entered the service of
imprisoned in a cell designed espe- the Mandarin, but the Radioactive
cially to restrain a being with his Man's current whereabouts and ,,-......
powers. activities are unknown.
,,,.-.,.
I
198
RAMA-TUT
--STATISTICS
F TY (6)
sA GD (10)
GD (10)
E EX (20)
R AM (50)
I EX (20)
p EX (20)
Health: 46
Karma: 90
Resources: Monstrous
Popularity: 80 (in Egypt)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Pharaoh
Legal Status: Rama-Tut's existence
-....., is not known to t he general public
Identity: In his native era, unreveal-
ed. In ancient Egypt, Monarch
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Presumed single
Known Relatives: Nathaniel
Richards, Cassandra (ancestors),
Reed Richards (distant half-uncle),
Susan Richards (distant half-aunt),
John Storm (distant half-brother-in-
~ law)
Base of Operations: Egypt circa
2950 B.C.
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation :
KNOWN POWERS
Time-Ship: Rama-Tut uses a slightly
modified version of his ancestor
Nathaniel Richard 's origi nal time
...-...m achine. It can travel from any era to
any other era, and is also capable of
CL1000 travel in space. It is larger on
the inside than the outside and can
disguise itself as any structure the
size of a house or larger:
Control Speed Body Protection
IN ShY IN IN 2 areas.
Talents: Rama-Tut has the Engineer-
Ultra-Diode Ray-Gun : Rama-Tut ing skill , is knowledgeable in Tempo- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ral Physics, and has the Re-
wields a special gun t hat allows him pair/Tinkering talent.
Contacts: Rama-Tut ruled Egypt
to use Mind Control at Remarkable during t he Second Dynasty. Con-
tacts in his other identities do not
rank up to 5 areas away. know him as Rama-Tut.
Robot Warriors: During his time in
Egypt, Rama-Tut created robotic sol-
diers to do his bidding:
FASER I P
EX GD GD EX PR PR PR
Health: 60
rhe robots have Good Body Armor
and carry force or energy weapons
of Excellent Intensity with a range of
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