ROLE-PLAYING NOTES with his superior weaponry. He established a new identity as the -
As Monarch of Egypt, Rama-Tut was became the ruler of Egypt under the
a just and fair ruler. He would tolerate name of Pharaoh Rama-Tut. Scarlet Centurion, and manipulatec.
no possible threat to his power, but
his ambitions went no further than Rama-Tut had ruled Egypt for the founding members of the Aveng-
ruling Egypt. about ten years when the superhu-
man adventurers of the Fantastic ers into conquering Twentieth-
HISTORY Four arrived in a time machine
invented by Doctor Doom. The Century Earth for him. This
The early life of Rama-Tut remains a Fantastic Four were captured and
mystery. It is known that he is a were brought before the Pharaoh, conquered Earth is not the Earth of
descendant of the brilliant scientist who knew of the Fantastic Four from
Nathaniel Richards, who traveled in records in his native time period. "mainstream" history but one that
a time machine from his own Earth, Rama-Tut used his advanced sci-
where he had fathered Reed ence to sap the wills of the Fantastic diverged from it. A group of Aveng-
Richards, to an alternate Earth. On Four. He intended to wed one of their
this alternate Earth, Nathaniel members, the beautiful Invisible Girl, ers from the mainstream time line
Richards became known as the War- and he put her three teammates,
lord, married a woman named Cas- Mister Fantastic, the Thing, and the journeyed to this divergent one and
sandra, and fathered a son who was Human Torch, to work as his slaves.
Rama-Tut's ancestor. Nathaniel But thanks to Stephen Strange and thwarted the Scarlet Centurion, free-
Richards began the work of rebuild-
ing Earth's civilization. the West Coast Avengers, who were ing that Earth of his rule. A divergent
also present in Egypt at this time, the
At the time corresponding to 3000 Thing was freed from the will- counterpart of the Centurion then
deadening effects of Rama-Tut's
A.O. on our own Earth, the man who weapon. He freed his three team- fled to yet another alternate time
mates, and the Fantastic Four fought
became known as Rama-Tut was a against Rama-Tut and his forces. line, where he became a nemesis of
young man, and being a man of Rama-Tut escaped to his now-
adventure in a time of world peace operative time machine and left the Squadron Supreme.
and prosperity, he was discontented. Egypt, destroying all evidence of his
He visited a citadel that Nathaniel In the other reality that diverged
Richards had erected, and within a remaining technology.
long-sealed chamber in the citadel, On his way through time, Rarna- after Rama-Tut's meeting with
he discovered part of a time machine
and the plans for its operation. He Tut's time machine encountered Doom, Rama- Tut continued his jour-
planned to loot various time periods chronal interference (a "time
for weaponry and technology while storm"), which forced him to leave ney into the future, but, due to turbu-'
making his base in ancient Egypt, the time stream and enter the Twenti-
which he would use his advanced eth Century. There he found Doctor lence in the timestrearn, lost control
science to rule. To play upon the Doom adrift near the orbit of Jupiter
ancient Egyptians' religious beliefs, following a battle with the Fantastic of his time craft. On regaining con-
he created a sphinx-like idol to Four after their own return to the
house the time machine. Twentieth Century. Hoping to induce trol, he found himself on the war-torn
the disoriented Doom to accept him
Finally he traveled in the time as an ally, Rama-Tut led Doom to Earth of 4000 A.O. in an alternate
machine (which carried its giant believe that he, Doom, was the
sphinx-like housing with it) to Egypt ancestor who had invented his time future . There, Rama-Tut renamed
of 2950 B.C . (the Second Dynasty). machine. Rama-Tut sent Doorn back
A miscalculation caused the time to Earth in a pre-programmed land- himself Kang the Conqueror. He cre-
machine to crash, leaving the pas-
senger stranded in that time period, ing module. ated an empire for himself in that
until he could repair the machine. He At this point, a divergence
subjugated the native Egyptians time period and frequently attacked
occurred, creating two alternate
realities, each with its own Rama- the Twentieth Century. .-....,
Tut. In one reality, Rama-Tut decided At sixty years of chronologica~·
after encountering Doom to travel a
short time into the past, where he age, Kang returned to ancient Egypt
to a point sometime after he had
originally departed from it as Rama-
Tut. Reassuming the role of Rama-
Tut, he ruled Egypt benevolently for
ten years.
Rama-Tut no longer had a working
time machine with which he could
travel into the future. Knowing that ..-.,,
Rama-Tut had helped thwart Kang,
his other self, in the latter's attempt
to capture the Celestial Madonna,
Rama-Tut had himself placed in sus-
pended animation until the Twentieth
Century when he did indeed aid the
Avengers in thwarting Kang 's
designs on the Celestial Madonna.
In the course of his struggles with
Kang, Rama-Tut encountered the
time master lmmortus and realized
that lmmortus was his future self.
Journeying to the extratemporal
realm of Limbo, he became lmmor-
tus.
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RED GHOST
- STATISTICS
} GD (10)
A EX (20)
S GD (10)
E AM (50)
R RM (30)
I TY (6)
P GD (10)
Health: 90
Karma: 46
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: - 5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Ivan Kragoff
Occupation: Scientist, criminal master-
mind
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.S.R. in
exile
Identity: Secret
.~lace of Birth: Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
.\llarital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former ally of
Attuma and Mole Man
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Phasing: Unearthly rank. He can alter his
appearance to be solid-looking or mist-
---.like.
falents: Kragoff is a scientist skilled in
the fields of rocketry, engineering, phys-
ics, and animal training.
Contacts: His three trained Super Apes.
In his initial exploits, the Red Ghost was
a favored minion of the Soviet Politburo.
He has formed temporary alliances with
the Mole Man, Attuma, and the Unicorn.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
_,.-....
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES advanced theories on cosmic radiation Unknown to Soviet officials, however,
The Red Ghost, while once a patriot for and its mutagenic effects. These theo- Kragoff timed his launch to coincide with
Communism, is now a paranoid recluse. ries were based in large part upon his a mission that the Fantastic Four's lead-
He prefers to avoid all superheroes if observation and study from afar of Amer- er Reed Richards, alias Mister Fantastic,
possible, but if he must fight, he will go ica's Fantastic Four, who had gained had planned to the mysterious Blue Area
for the kill to prevent information about their superhuman powers from exposure of the moon. Kragott intended to journey
him from being released. Kragott is cur- to cosmic rays. Kragoff calculated that there himself and use whatever superhu-
rently engaged in small crimes, the the circumstances that caused the high man powers he might develop to defeat
profits from which go toward rebuilding radiation levels that gave the Fantastic the American scientist, whom he fiercely
his scientific devices. Four their superhuman powers were envied.
about to be repeated. He proposed to
HISTORY party leaders that he and a team of train- Kragoff launched his spaceship, and
ed simians be sent in a spaceship into during a cosmic ray storm he gained the
Ivan Kragoff, a scientist working for the Earth orbit to be exposed to cosmic radi- ability to make himself intangible at will.
Soviet government, had distinguished ation in the hopes that they too would His three trained simians-a gorilla, an
himself among party leaders with his develop superhuman abilities. orangutan, and a baboon-gained
supersimian abilities at the same time.
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Kragoff dubbed himself the Red Ghost. THE KNOWN POWERS ,,,..--.
Both the Fantastic Four and the Red SUPER-APES
7i"ue Invulnerability: Incredible protectior
Ghost's group landed on the Blue Area IGOR
of the moon, which proved to be an against physical and energy attacks
ancient blue city constructed by the alien STATISTICS
Kree. The Red Ghost and his simians F GD (10) Talents: Miklho is trained to assist in lab-
attacked the Thing, but the battle was A EX (20)
halted by Uatu, a member of the race of S GD (10) oratory work and rocketship piloting
Watchers, who had made his base in the E IN (20)
Blue Area The Watcher decreed there be R TY (6) ADDITIONAL NOTES:
a battle between the Fantastic Four and I TY (6)
the Red Ghost and his simians. Mister P TY (6) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Fantastic defeated the Red Ghost, and Health: 60 Miklho is a lowland gorilla. Although hel
the Watcher, impressed with the Karma: 18 has a rudimentary human intelligence,
Fantastic Four, gave them his blessings. Resources: N/A his animal nature still controls his tem-
Popularity: O perament.
Sometime later, the Red Ghost forced
the Fantastic Four to return to the moon for KNOWN POWERS PEOTOR
a rematch. He was again defeated at the Shapeshifting: Amazing ability, but he is
site of the Blue Area, and at the end of the limited to shapes roughly equal to his STATISTICS
battle, fell into a matter transporter belong- normal size. If he attempts to resemble a F TY (6)
ing to the Watcher. This device teleported human or humanoid , he can only make
Kragoff back to the Soviet Union. baboon sounds. A EX (20)
Talents:
The Red Ghost somehow recovered his Igor is trained to assist in lab work and in S GD (10)
simians, and they attempted to attack the operating spaceships. While it was origi-
nally thought the Super-Apes needed E IN (40)
Fantastic Four on the day of Reed the Red Ghost's direct control, they can R TY (6)
Richards' wedding to his partner, Susan now function independently of a human
Storm. Kragoff and the simians were tel&- controller. I TY (6)
ported to an unknown location by one of p TY (6)
the Watcher's machines, and Soviet ADDITIONAL NOTES:
authorities again impounded the simians. Health: 76
Kragoff escaped imprisonment, but he ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Karma: 18
was erroneously informed that the simians Igor is a well-trained baboon. While he Resources: N/A
had been killed. now possesses the rudiments of human
intelligence, his animal nature still con- Popularity: 5
Somehow the Red Ghost discovered trols his temperament.
that his original super-simians were still KNOWN POWERS power to attrac~.,.--...._
alive and recovered them. He experi- MIKLHO Magnetism: Amazing
mented with a cosmic-ray intensifier to
attempt to increase his own superhuman STATISTICS: and repel metallic objects.
powers but instead unintentionally
caused himself to be unable to leave a F GD (10) Talents: Peotor is trained to assist in lab-
state of intangibility. He had his super- A GD (10)
simians kidnap Anthony Stark and S AM (50) oratory work and to pilot a rocketship
forced him to build a "cosmitronic can- E IN (40)
non" and return him to a tangible state. ADDITIONAL NOTES:
But when next Kragoff became intangi- R TY (6)
ble, his atoms began to disperse as a I TY (6) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
side effect of his treatment with the can- P TY (6) Although he now possesses a rudimen-
non. But Kragoff's consciousness man- Health: 110 tary human intelligence, his orangutan
aged to force h is atoms to remain Karma: 18 nature controls his temperament.
together, although his body remained in Resources: N/A
an intangible state. Popularity: 0
Months later, Mister Fantastic went
into space to expose himself to cosmic
radiation to revitalize his own powers.
Unknown to Richards, Kragoff, still
intangible, was also aboard the space-
ship, and the cosmic radiation restored
his powers to what they originally had
been. The Red Ghost could again
become tangible or intangible at will. He
even gained the power to make other
objects in his vicinity intangible.
The Red Ghost again regained his
super-simians and has subsequently
clashed twice with Spider-Man. The Red
Ghost and his super-simians are current-
ly still at large.
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,.... ~TATISTICS RED GUARDIAN I
F IN (40) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A RM (30) Despite his career as a KGB lackey,·
the Red Guardian had a strong
S GD (10) sense of honor. In his battles with
Captain America, he refused to take
E RM (30) advantage of the Captain when the
R TY (6) latter had been struck down from
I TY (6) ambush .
P GD (10)
Health: 110
Karma: 22
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: -10/25 (to the Russian
people)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Alexi Shostakov
Occupation: Former test pilot, spe-
~ial operative for the intelligence
l gencies of the Soviet Union and of
the People's Republic of China
Legal Status: Citizen of the
U.S.S.R. with no criminal record
Identity: Secret, known to his supe-
riors in Soviet and Communist Chi-
nese intelligence
Place of Birth: Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Marital Status: Married
--\(nown Relatives: Natalia
."Natasha") Romanova (wife)
Base of Operations: Various KGB
and military headquarters in the
Soviet Union, later a secret base in
the People's Republic of China
Past Group Affiliation : KGB
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
~elt Disc: The Red Guardian wore a
Jisc of Remarkable strength materi-
al which he could throw up to 3 areas
away to inflict Remarkable Blunt
Damage. Magnets within the disc
and his belt allow him to recover it in
the same round that he throws it.
Talents: The Red Guardian was a
Weapons Specialist with his belt
disc, allowing him to hit with
Amazing Agility. He was trained in
Martial Arts A, B, and E, Acrobatics,
Tumbling, and Wrestling. He has the
Pilot skill.
Contacts: The Red Guardian was a
trusted agent of both the KGB and
the Red Chinese intelligence agen-
cies.
203
HISTORY counterpart to Captain America. low Avenger Hercules. The Red--
During the years of his training, Guardian captured Hawkeye an"-
Alexi Shostakov was one of the Sovi- Shostakov became a cruel, ruth- lured Hercules into the psychotron,
et Union's most acclaimed test less man, very different in person- where he was beset with hallucina-
pilots. Because of his extraordinary ality than he was while living with tions. The Red Guardian then
skill, Shostakov was chosen for the his wife. unmasked before Hawkeye and the
most secret and dangerous flight Widow, and she realized with horror
tests for the Soviet Union. However, The People's Republic of China that he was her husband. The
the Soviet state-controlled news developed a device called the psy- Avengers, led by Captain America,
media greatly publicized certain oth- chotron, which could induce mass arrived at the base, and the Red
er missions of his, and Shostakov hallucinations. This gave the Red Guardian saw his long-awaited
was decorated as a Hero of the Sovi- Chinese a weapon against which opportunity to prove himself the
et Union. Shostakov was also suc- the United States and the Soviet superior of his American counter-
cessful in his private life, having Union had no defense, letting them part, and the two fought.
married the equally famous ballerina conquer one of these superpowers,
Natalia (familiarly known as eliminating it as a rival and threat. Captain American was defeating
Natasha) Romanova. However, the Red Chinese needed the Red Guardian when Ling electri-
a means of bringing psychotrons fied a grid that the captain was
It was decided at the KGB, the within range of the countries they standing upon, rendering him
department of the Soviet govern- intended to conquer. They realized unconscious. The Red Guardian;-
ment which serves as its intelligence they would need the submarines of was outraged at Ling's action. Th~
agency and secret police, that the one nation to carry the psychotrons Black Widow escaped and climbed
Shostakovs would make particularly near the shores of the other. Decid- toward the nerve center of the psy-
good special operatives. While Alexi ing that the Soviet Union would chotron to destroy it. The Red
Shostakov was away from home on a help them conquer another coun- Guardian, who still loved her, tried to
mission, he was informed of the try, the Red Chinese government stop Ling from killing her, but Ling
state's new plans for him and told informed the Soviets about the psy- shot him instead. The Widow used
that from then on he could have no chotron and their plan to conquer her electronic "widow's bite" to
America. Intrigued at the idea of so destroy the psychotron, thereby also
contact with any of his past friends easily ending their rivalry with the
and acquaintances, or even his own United States, the Soviet Union starting explosions and fires in the.-..
complex. Ling saw Hercules carry-
wife. Meanwhile, a Soviet official told sent a high-ranking military officer, ing the unconscious Captain Ameri-
Natalia Shostakova that her hus- General Yuri Brushov, and Shosta- ca to safety and, determined on
band had died in the explosion of an kov, now known as the Red Guard- vengeance, aimed a laser gun at the
experimental rocket he was testing. ian, to the secret military base in Captain . However, the dying Red
China where the prototype of the Guardian would not allow Ling thus
Distraught, Natalia Shostakova said psychotron was kept. Brushov was to kill a brave but helpless opponent,
that she wanted to do something to to determine the effectiveness of and with his last energy, shoved
be worthy of the memory of her hero- the machine, and the Red Guard- Ling 's gun aside. The laser beam hit
ic husband. The KGB had antici- ian was to protect both him and it. some gas pipes, and the resulting,.-.
pated her reaction and was able to For this assignment , the KGB explosion and fire triggered an erupl.
immediately put her into training to made the Red Guardian subject to tion of the supposedly dead volcano
become the spy known as the Black orders from Colonel Ling, the head upon which the base had been built.
Widow. Eventually the Black Widow, of the Red Chinese military base; The base, including the Red Guard-
who was again using her maiden the Red Guardian had had no pre- ian and Ling, was consumed in the
name, defected to the United States. vious contact with Brushov. resulting catastrophe, while the
Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hercules,
The KGB trained Alexi Shostakov The Black Widow came to the Captain America, and the other
to become the Red Guardian, a spe- base on a mission for SHIELD, and Avengers all returned safely to the
cial costumed agent who was in- was captured. Her then current lover United States.
tended to be the Soviet Union's Hawkeye followed her, along with fel-
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REC GUARDIAN II
.~TATISTICS
F RM (30)
A RM (30)
S GD(10)
E RM (30)
R RM (30)
I EX (20)
P GD (10)
Health: 100
Karma: 60
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: 0
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dr. Tania Belinskya
Occupation: Neurosurgeon
Legal Status: Citizen of the
~U. S.S. R. with no criminal record
pentity: Known to Soviet Intelli-
gence
Place of Birth: Leningrad , U.S.S.R.
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Dr. Andrei
Belinsky (father)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Defenders;
partner of Sergei Krylov, the Pres-
~ence
?resent Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS: Weapons talent, and was trained in ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Martial Arts A & E, as well as Acro-
Belt Disc: Tania's belt disc could be batics and Tumbling. She was a
thrown or wielded in hand-to-hand skilled neurosurgeon with the Medi-
combat to do Excellent Edged dam- cine and First Aid talent. She spoke
age. The device lacks the magnetic fluent Russian.
retrieval capability of the first Red
Guardian's. Contacts: Tania helped the original
---J;!uc/ear Form: After her transforma- Defenders on several occasions.
1on, the Red Guardian was perma- She became the partner of the Pres-
nently irradiated and gave off ence (Sergei Krylov).
Remarkable levels of radiation at all
times, within a 2-area range. She
mastered the following Power
Stunts:
• Flight at Incredible speed (20
areas/round)
• The ability to fire Energy of
Amazing damage up to 5 areas
away
• The ability to generate a heat
shield providing her with Incredi-
ble protection against physical
attacks. Any physical object of
less than Incredible material
would melt in contact with the
.- shield
• Absorption of radiation of up to
Unearthly levels
Talents: Tania had the Thrown
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: Belinskya was motivated by a deep Belinskya succeeded in regammg..._
Before her transformation, Dr. love of her native country and a control of her mind during the battle
Belinskya was a dedicated physi- desire to move it towards liberaliza- and demanded that Krylov leave he~
cian, using all of her talents and tion . claiming that he did not truly love her,
skills to help the helpless and infirm, and was trying to force her into his
no matter the cost. It is difficult to Dr. Stephen Strange obtained per- own image. Krylov really did love her,
determine what effects her transfor- mission for Belinskya to come to the but departed, crushed. Since in her
mation has had on her personality, or United States to perform a compli- new form Belinskya emitted harmful
whether she is yet free of the Pres- cated operation on Kyle Richmond, radiation constantly, she allowed
ence's mental domination. who was also known as Nighthawk. herself to be taken into custody by
After completing the operation, ·the Soviet government, which kept
HISTORY Belinskya went into action in Ameri- her in a chamber at a research insti-
ca as the Red Guardian when Rich-
Dr. Tania Belinskya was the daughter mond was abducted from the tute.
of Dr. Andrei Belinsky, a leader of the hospital by the Plantman. She acted But later, the Presence was sight-
Soviet dissident movement which as a member of the superhuman
protests the repressive policies of team of adventurers known as the ed back in the radioactive Siberian
.the Soviet Union. Despite her youth , Defenders for the rest of her time in area called the Forbidden Zone,
Belinskya herself had become one of the United States. After having been where Krylov had detonated a nucle-
the world's greatest and most shun ned in the Soviet Union for ar bomb in order to transform himself
renowned neurosurgeons. After her years because of her father's opin- into his superhuman state. The Red ,-....
father was exiled to Siberia for his ions, Belinskya found her first true Guardian, released to investigate...-
public denunciations of Soviet poli- friends in her colleagues in the found him battling a gargantuan life
cies, Belinskya decided to adopt a Defenders. form created by Krylov's past genetic
secret costumed identity, unknown engineering and mutated by nuclear
to the state, in order to help other dis- Belinskya was forced to return to waste . In fighting the life form beside
sidents and to fight crime. Belinskya the Soviet Union by Sergei Krylov, Krylov, Belinskya began to fall in
named herself after the deceased also known as the Presence, a bril- love with him, and she chose to
Red Guardian, a special intelligence liant scientist who had become a remain in the Forbidden Zone with
operative for the Soviet government, powerful figure in the Soviet govern- him.
and modeled her costume after his. ment. Krylov had selected Belinskya
She knew the original Red Guardian as the woman he believed most wor- Later, the renegade Soviet scien~
had been intended to be the Soviet thy to be his mate once he had tist Professor Pieter Phobos use<
Union 's counterpart to Captain achieved his goal of transforming means of his own to drain energy
America. She, too, intended to be himself into a superhuman being. from the Presence and the Red
her own country's version of Captain Krylov placed Belinskya's mind Guardian in order to extend the For-
America, but whereas the original under his mental domination. bidden Zone's radiation over all of
Red Guardian served the policies of Through exposure to cobalt radia- the Soviet Union . In order to thwart
the state, she would attempt to tion and a nuclear explosion , Krylov this plan, the Presence and Red
uphold the spirit of liberty which Cap- transformed both himself and Guardian absorbed the radiation of
tain America represented and which Belinskya into superhumans capa- the Forbidden Zone into themselves.
the Soviet Union suppressed . ble of generating nuclear energy and They then left Earth, claiming thar
using it in various ways. The they would transform themselve(
Defenders battled the Presence and into inert matter once they were far
the entranced Red Guardian . from this planet. Whether this is truly
their final fate remains unknown.
206
RED RONIN
~TATISTICS :
F EX (20)
A TY (6)
S AM (50)
E UN (100)
R RM (30)
I TY (6)
P FE (4)
Health:176
Karma: 40
Resources:GD (10)
Popularity:O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dr. Earl Cowan
Occupation: Robotics Technician
Legal Status: U.S. citizen judged
r'"'-legally insane
'dentlty: Known to the authorities
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Employee
of Stark International, Detroit
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS the Solar Blade and Laser Device, Contacts: Cowan was a former
can generate a magnetic field giving employee of Stark International, but
;lobotic Body: The Red Ronin him Remarkable protection against he is not on good terms with them
automaton is a huge robot. It has energy attacks. It can also be thrown after his rampage.
Monstrous protection against physi- 2 areas away for Monstrous Thrown
cal and energy attacks. It stands Blunt damage. ADDITIONAL NOTES:
over 100-feet tall, giving it Shift-Z Power Blaster: Red Ronin's left hand
gauntlet can fire an electron beam
Growth and a + 3 CS to be hit. The capable of doing Incredible damage.
robot can move at Typical land Talents: Earl Cowan has the Electron-
speed (3 areas/round) or fly at Excel- ics, Physics, and Computer talents.
lent speed (10 areas/round)
- . The Red Ronin robot is controlled
~ybernetically, and therefore pos-
sesses the mental statistics of its
operator. The user sits in a control
cabin within the helmet and mentally
directs the robot's actions.
The robot can be accessed by
hatches in the feet or an emergency
hatch in the rear of the helmet. The
interior is a maze of conduits and
cables.
Solar Blade: Red Ronin wields a
solar blade from his shield that can
do Monstrous energy damage. It has
no range, but the blade extends out
to 3 areas.
Gatling Laser Device: Red Ronin can
use his shield to project a laser beam
capable of doing Amazing damage
.o a range of 1Oareas.
Shield: The shield which Red Ronin
uses, as well as allowing him to use
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES where it was being held, Robert re- Ronin's robotic head was severed,........_
Cowan was mentally unstable, entered the mammoth robot and
believing that the only way to save activated it. Robert Takiguchi from its body in the fray. Robert Taki
the world was to start World War Ill. believed Godzilla was not evil, just
This obsession blinded him to the misunderstood, and he hoped to use guchi was unharmed. ·
obvious, such as the fact that in all the robot to protect Godzilla from
likelihood there would be no survi- accidentally destroying a nuclear The Red Ronin robot was shipped
vors of such a war to unite into one arsenal. Inside Red Ronin , Takiguchi
nation. An inferior technician, he managed to remove Godzilla from by train back to Stark lnternational 's
preferred to rely on the brute force of the missile base, but due to SHIELD
the Red Ronin construct. intervention, he was unable to drop Detroit plant where Dr. Earl Cowan
the creature into the middle of the
HISTORY was given the task of repairing and
sea. Instead, they both plunged into
The Red Ronin is a hundred-foot-tall San Diego's harbor, and continued reprogramming the giant automa-
robot designed by Dr. Yuriko Taki- their battle there. The boy eventually
guchi and built at Stark lnternation- convinced the monster that he ton. Unknown to the Stark manage-
al's Detroit factory for the express meant it no real harm, and he
purpose of subduing the mutated allowed it to escape inland, to .ment, Dr. Cowan was mentally
dinosaur called Godzilla. Although it SHIELD's consternation. When God-
was intended that the robot would be zilla was reported to be in Nevada, in unstable, and when told he would
piloted by an agent of SHIELD, Taki- combat with a huge mutated prehis-
guchi's young grandson Robert toric hominid dubbed Yetrigar, after have to give the robot to the testing
sneaked aboard the huge automa- the legendary shaggy men thought
ton and donned the cybernetic hel- to live in the mountains of Japan, crew, Cowan slew his immediate
met by which the robot's actions are Robert sneaked into Red Ron in
controlled. The robot's computer again and followed the trail. Entering superior and hijacked the robot. Fly-
system calibrated itself to the boy's the battle, the Red Ronin tried to
brain patterns, making the robot keep both creatures from harm, but ing the robot to New York, Cowan
inoperable by anyone except the Robert Takiguchi finally decided to
young Takiguchi without time- bury Yetrigar beneath a rockslide in was attacked by the Avengers and
consuming reprogramming. Robert order to save Godzilla. Ashamed of
Takiguchi named the robot "Red his actions, Takiguchi fled. SHIELD. Cowan's intent was to
Ronin," after the Japanese word for
a samurai without a master. Shortly afterward, he returned to attack the U.S.S.R. in order to start
the fray in Red Ronin in order to help
When Godzilla escaped from Godzilla repulse an invasion by the World War Ill so that humanity would ,,-.....,
alien Megans who dispatched be united in its struggle to surviv~'
Godzilla-scale monsters to rampage
outside Salt Lake City. However, Red nuclear holocaust. Apparently, Cow-
an did not realize that it would be
quicker to fly over the North Pole to
the U.S.S.R. and so he passed over
New York. After a protracted battle,
the Avengers managed to stop Red
Ronin by using its own laser blade
against it to carve it to pieces. Mirac-
ulously, no one was killed during Red~
Ronin's rampage through the Brom;
and Queens, and its parts were tak-
en into custody by SHIELD. Dr. Cow-
an was institutionalized. It has been
rumored that SHIELD has contract-
ed Stane International, the succes-
sor to Stark International, to
reassemble Red Ronin for emer-
gency use.
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RED SKULL
--.,.STATISTICS
i
F EX (20)
A EX (20)
s GD (10)
E" RM (30)
R RM (30)
I EX (20)
p MN (75)
Health: 80
Karma: 125
Resources: IN (40)
Popularity: - 75
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Johann Schmidt
Aliases: Bettman P. Lyles, the Agent of a
Thousand Faces (whom he once imper-
sonated in World War II), The Man (head
of the People's Militia), Clyrus Fenton,
..-....,Teacher, Tod March (president and own-
er of Galactic Pictures)
Occupation: Former beggar, thief,
laborer and bellboy; later terrorist leader
for the Third Reich and would-be world
conqueror
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of Germany
sought by legal authorities worldwide
Place of Birth: an unidentified village in
Nazi Germany
----.. Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Hermann Schmidt
(father, deceased), Martha Schmidt
(mother, deceased), Mother Superior
(daughter)
Base of Operations: Nazi Germany; lat-
er many hidden bases throughout the
world
Past Group Affiliations: Special opera-
tive of the Third Reich in World War II ,
former leader of Nazi subversives
---throughout the world, former ally of
fHEM and AIM, former leader of the
Nevada-based fragment of HYDRA,
leader of the People's Militia (now
defunct), former partner of Hate Monger
I
KNOWN POWERS • He made use of various Amazing FASER I P
Weapons: The Red Skull used a number Mind Control devices. RM RM GD RM GD GD AM
of weapons during his career. The follow- Health: 100
ing are among the most noteworthy: • Pre-programmed war machines Karma: 70
(known as "Sleepers") were created by
• A Remarkable intensity poison KNOWN POWERS:
known as the "Dust of Death" that the Third Reich to be used against their Psionics: Mother Superior was a tele-
caused those failing an Endurance FEAT allies in the event of their defeat. These path of Amazing ability, and could pro-
to die, with their heads changing to machines, which were controlled by the ject bolts of mental force with Monstrous
resemble a red skull. He could fire the Red Skull for his plans of world con- Ability.
dust in a pellet form from a specially quest, have Monstrous physical stats
designed handgun. and Incredible material strength. Red Skull II: There still exists a second
Mother Superior: The Red Skull aged his Red Skull, a communist spy of the
• The "Skull Infection" was a mutated daughter, Mother Superior, and her com- 1950s, who, now that the original is
disease of Remarkable intensity that patriots, the Sisters of Sin, and gave dead, is active once more. He imitates
- caused any victim failing an Endurance them superpowers. His daughter, easily the devices of the original wherever pos-
FEAT to resemble the Red Skull and the deadliest of the group, had the fol- 209
become more susceptible to his Mind lowing characteristics:
Control devices ( - 3CS on all Psyche
FEATs.)
sible but is not as brilliant. He has the fol- The Skull undertook a wide variety of spy ring posed as the Red Skull, in which.-
lowing characteristics: missions for Hitler, most of which involved guise he battled Captain America IV. Sine<
the Skull's specialty, the spreading of ter- the original Red Skull's return, the Com-
FASER I P ror. In the early 1940s, the United States munist Skull has remained hidden in Alge-
GD GD GD EX EX GD EX government created the costumed per- ria. The current whereabouts and activities
Health: 50 sona of Captain America so that there of the second Red Skull, if he is still alive,
Karma: 50 would be a costumed counterpart to the
Resources: EX (50) Red Skull. are unknown.
Popularlty: -30 Some years ago, the original Red Skull
Hitler gave his protege free rP.in to fight
Talents: The Red Skull has the Leader- his fight around the world. The Skull was was found by a search team sent by the
ship, Marksmanship, and Martial Arts A, particularly interested in procuring techno- subversive organization called THEM,
C, and E talents. logical weapons that could be used for the which was actually the ruling council of
Contacts: Red Skull used a number of purposes of subversion and warfare. Dur- HYDRA, headed by Baron Strucker.
superpowered individuals and organiza- ing the war, he stole plans for the " nulla- Strucker carefully concealed his identity
tions as his " allies" (pawns) during his tron;· a device that could control human from the Skull after the latter was revived.
years of evil , including: AIM, Hate Mon- minds, adapted a space-warping device By this time the first three Sleepers had
ger, Baron Zemo, and Arnim Zola. developed by the cyborg scientist code- already been destroyed by the original
named Brain Drain, and commissioned Captain America. The Skull agreed to
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Nazi scientists to develop a projector cooperate with THEM and did so just long
Evil once had a name on Earth, the name which could encircle and suspend sec- enough to steal the Cosmic Cube from a
of the Red Skull. Unlike Dr. Doom, who tions of cities within spheres of energy. subsidiary organization. This theft led to
always justifies his actions, or ignores
morality, the Skull knew that he was evil; After the renowned military officer Baron the Skull's first postwar clash with the origi- -
knew it and relished it. His goal was not Wolfgang von Strucker had a falling out nal Captain America, who again defeatec
just world conquest {though he wanted with Hitler, the Red Skull sent Strucker to him. Many clashes followed as the Red
that) but the utter destruction of the spir- Japan to found an organization that would Skull tried to pursue his aim to dominate
its of all the valiant people who would prepare the way for takeovers in the Far
oppose him , especially that of Captain East under the Skull's leadership. In the the world.
America. The world is a better place for Far East, Strucker joined a subversive Seeking an heir, the Red Skull fathered
the Skull's death. organization that came to be known as
HYDRA, broke his ties with the Skull, a daughter by a washerwoman on Exile
HISTORY became head of HYDRA, and built it into a Island relatively soon after his revival. This
woman died in childbirth. The Red Skull
Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull, was the major threat. had the mansion called Skull House built
son of a coarse, drunken German who As World War II raged on, Hitler vowed and raised the child there. Through
committed suicide. advanced biological means he caused her.-..
that if he could not conquer the world, he to reach adulthood within an unnatural!\
Johann ran away from the orphanage would destroy it. To help him achieve this short period of time and endowed her with
when he was seven years old and lived in end, the Skull proposed the construction of superhuman powers. He named her Moth-
five gigantic war machines, to be called the er Superior.
the streets as a beggar and a thief. As he Sleepers, which would be hidden in vari-
ous locations while they generated and Recently, the Red Skull discovered that
grew older, he worked at various menial the effects of the experimental gas that
jobs but spent most of his time in prison for stored the power they would need, and had kept him from aging while he was in
crimes ranging from vagrancy to theft. then be released at a future date, Der Tag suspended animation were reversing
("The Day"), to destroy the Earth if the themselves; as a result, he aged at an
As a young man, Schmidt was from time Allies won. Hitler enthusiastically instruct- unnatural rate of speed until his physical
ed the Skull to construct the Sleepers, age matched his chronological one, mak·..-..
to time employed by a Jewish shopkeeper, unaware that the Skull intended to use ing him so elderly that he would soon die o
whose daughter, Esther, treated Schmidt them to conquer the world himself if old age. Determined that he and Captain
kindly. Seized with passion for her, Sch- America should perish together, the Skull
midt tried to force himself upon her, only to Hitler's Third Reich fell. managed to feed the superhero a chemical
be rejected. In unthinking fury, Schmidt The Allies secretly parachuted Captain that caused him, too, to age at an unnatu-
murdered her, and discovered an outlet for rally rapid rate. Skull captured the now-
the rage at the world that had been build- America into beleaguered Bertin to investi- elderty Captain America and injected both
ing up in him throughout his young life. gate Der Tag. There he tracked the Skull of them with a poison that gave them only
down to his hidden bunker. In the ensuing hours to live. The two ancient adversaries
After the Nazis came to power In Germa- fight, the Skull was seriously hurt and parti- engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and one
ny, Schmidt was working in a hotel where ally buried in debris. Thinking he was final time Captain America overpowered
he encountered the dictator of Germany's dying, the German defiantly told Captain the Skull. Defeated, the Skull finally
Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. Hitler declared America that the Sleepers would avenge expired from old age. Captain America
that he would make the bellboy into a " per- the Nazis' defeat. Just then, an Allied was cured and returned fully to normalcy.
fect Nazi" who would serve as his right- bomb landed on the bunker, causing a
hand man. Schmidt eagerly agreed to do cave-in that Captain America barely Since then, the criminal Doctor Faustus
whatever Hitler wished. escaped. Support pillars that crisscrossed was apparently attacked by the ghost of
over the Red Skull saved him. The cave-in the Red Skull after Faustus used holo-
Hitler personally took over Schmidt's released an experimental gas from canis- graphic images of the Skull against Cap-
training. He gave Schmidt a lifelike red ters in the bunker which put the Skull into
skull-like head mask and named him the suspended animation during which his tain America.
Red Skull. The Skull was answerable only Thus, the Red Skull, after so manv-
to Hitler himself. wounds slowly healed.
In the 1950s, while the original Red Skull escapes from apparent death, seems to bl
210
lay hidden in suspended animation, the truly deceased at long last. But whether
Communist leader of an Algerian-based the evil of the Red Skull has truly passed
from the Earth remains to be seen.
REDWDLF
STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A EX (20)
s GD (10)
E EX (20)
R GD (10)
I IN (40)
p EX (20)
Health: 80
Karma: 70
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity:S
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Will Talltrees
Occupation: Former soldier, former
construction worker, now profession-
,... al adventurer
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
·criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Wolf Point, Montana
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Thomas (father,
deceased) , Rebecca (mother,
deceased), William (uncle)
Base of Operations: American
Southwest
Past Group Affiliations: Rangers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS the Rangers. He has worked with the ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Weapons: Red Wolf carries two East Coast Avengers.
weapons. The first is a 6-foot-long Red Wolf is a stern, no-nonsense
wooden coup-stick (fighting staff) ADDITIONAL NOTES: type of superhero. In a fight he pre-
which can be used as a bludgeon or fers to come across as a grim cham-
as a javelin to do 10 points of Blunt pion of the Indian people. He does
damage and be thrown up to 3 areas. not make wisecracks during a battle
IJ"he second weapon is a flint-edged and is not a particularly showy fight-
tomahawk which can inflict 1Opoints er, preferring to dispatch his oppo-
of Edged damage or 16 points Blunt nents as quickly and effectively as
damage. Both items have Remark- possible.
able material strength.
Wolf: Red Wolf has a trained wolf,
Lobo, with the following statistics:
FAS ER I P
EX GD GD GD FE FE TY
Health: 50
Karma: 10
Good Edged Damage
Lobo is trained to follow Red Wolf's
verbal commands, and can track
with Excellent ability.
Talents: Red Wolf has Wrestling ,
,Thrown Weapons, and Acrobatics.
He has had Military training, and can
track at Excellent rank.
Contacts: Red Wolf is a member of
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HISTORY by a kindly white couple who named by a corrupt businessman, Cornelius ,...-.....
him Johnny Wakeley. Wakeley van Lunt. That night Talltree~
Among the Cheyenne Indians of the became an orphan again when Indi- became the sole survivor of the mas-
American Plains is the widespread ans slaughtered his foster parents.
belief in Owayodata the Wolf-Spirit. Pursued by renegade members of sacre of his family at the hands of
This spirit, one of the Native Ameri- his own tribe, Wakeley stumbled into Lunt's henchmen. Swearing venge-
can gods, is an entity on the order of a spot where the ceremonial garb of ance, Talltrees donned the ceremo-
the Asgardians or Olympians, but the Red Wolf was buried. There he nial garb of the Red Wolf kept by his
generally chooses to imbue his was visited by the spirit Owayodata. tribe's spiritual leaders and per-
essence and attributes within a Bidden to don the ceremonial garb formed the ritualistic dance he had
human host, rather than to physi- and given the totem of power, the once witnessed as a youth. He was
cally materialize on the earthly coup-stick, Wakeley became the lat- then visited by Owayodata, and
plane. Within the bloodline of a cer- est incarnation of the Red Wolf. A imbued with his spiritual legacy.
tain · Cheyenne family, Owayodata wolf, Lobo, joined him at the burial Talltrees soon found a wolf cub
has often chosen to manifest him- place. As the Red Wolf, Wakeley whom he named Lobo and trained to
self, · creating a quasi-superhuman used the great skills and prowess he be his companion, as in the legends
champion of the people called the had acquired from Owayadata to try of the previous Red Wolves. Stalking
Red Wolf. How long the Wolf-Spirit to bring peace between the white van Lunt back to New York, Red Wolf
has been manifesting himself in this and red peoples. How he eventually exacted vengeance from him with
way is not known , nor is why he has met his demise has not yet been the aid of the Avengers. Upon his ,,-.
chosen the particular bloodline he recorded. return to the Southwest, he began a
career as a masked vigilante and
has. In the latter half of the Twentieth champion of freedom.
The first Red Wolf was said to Century, another man assumed the
mantle of Red Wolf. Will Talltrees, Red Wolf was one of several
have tamed the first horse, and driv- the son of Thomas Talltrees, one of heroes of the American Southwest
en his people's enemies such as the the Cheyenne tribal leaders, grew up who responded to a distress call
Sioux from the plains so that the on a reservation, hearing tales of the from Rick Jones to rescue the Hulk
Cheyenne would have a land of their Red Wolf from the spiritual leaders of from the Corrupter. He remained
own . The first Red Wolf about whom the tribe. Reaching adulthood, with the loosely organized group that
there are historical details is the Talltrees left to enlist in the U.S. came to be known as the Rangers.,.-
young full-blooded Cheyenne who, Army, and after serving his time, he Recently the Rangers were pitted.
after his tribesmen were massacred became a construction worker in
by the U.S. Army cavalry, was raised New York City. Returning home, against the West Coast Avengers by
Talltrees witnessed his father being a demon in Shooting Star's form.
intimidated into selling his property With the disappearance of the real
Shooting Star, and Firebird's depar-
ture, the Rangers have disbanded.
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RHINO
,... STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A EX (20)
S MN (75)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I TY (6)
P PR (4)
Health: 175
Karma: 20
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: - 15
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Professional criminal
- Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
criminal record
Identity: Known to the authorities
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former ally
of the Leader, former partner of the
Abomination, former member of
-.. Egghead's Emissaries of Evil, mem-
ber of the Sinister Syndicate
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES: desire to remove the suit in which he
Body Armor: The Rhino's suit pro- ROLE-PLAYING NOTES has been imprisoned for many
vides him with Amazing protection Originally a small-time muscle man years. He cooperated with the Thing
from physical attacks and Remark· for the mobs, the man now known as when it looked as if he could gain
able protection from energy, heat, the Rhino has as his primary goal the help at Project: Pegasus, but when
and acid attacks. The horns on the they proved unsuccessful , he
returned to crime as a means to pay
- headpiece can do Remarkable for further operations.
Edged damage.
Charging: The Rhino can move up to
4 areas per round in a straight line.
He receives a + 2 CS when Charging
and his Body Armor provides with
him Unearthly protection against
damage he might take from charg-
ing.
Contacts: In the past, the Rhino has
been a pawn of the Leader, a former
partner of the original Abomination ,
and a member of Egghead's Emis-
saries of Evil. He is currently a mem-
ber of the Synister Syndicate, whose
other members consist of Boomer-
ang, Hydroman, the Beetle, and
Speed Demon.
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HISTORY resistance. The Rhino was recap- er's mind controlling his every move., •
tured, tried, and convicted. When the Leader released the Rhi-
The man who would become the Rhi- no, he was aboard a space shuttle
no was a small-time muscle man The Rhino's sentence was com- battling the Hulk. The fight continued
who worked miscellaneous jobs for muted. Discharged, he was again until the shuttle crash-landed on the
professional criminals. He was then approached by the spies who had artificial planet called Counter-Earth
hired by two foreign-born spies to be transformed him, apparently bearing on the opposite side of the sun . The
the subject of an experiment to no malice over his previous betrayal. ship automatically repaired its dam-
develop a superhumanly powerful They offered to strengthen him using age and when the Leader telemetri-
assassin. They selected him a gamma-ray process. They had also cally signaled for it to return, the Hulk
because of his muscular physique devised an improved, acid-resistant fought his way back on, the Rhino in
and low intelligence, which they material rhinoceros suit. Having no tow. When the ship crash landed on
believed would insure his loyalty. He other prospects of gainful employ- Earth, the Rhino lay buried in the
was subjected to several months of wreckage for some time until he
chemical and radiation treatments ment, the Rhino accepted the offer. revived.
which ultimately granted him super- The new series of radiation treat-
human strength. A team of special- ments were successful in doubling He was then recruited by Egghead
ists, in the meantime, had developed the Rhino's previous strength level. as part of the criminal scientist's
a material of extraordinary tough- The augmented Rhino's first mission Emissaries of Evil. The Rhino was
ness and coarseness, like a rhino- was to abduct Dr. Bruce Banner, an paired off with Solarr and sent to Dr. -.
ceros's hide, and fabricated a authority on biochemical gamma-ray Strange's sanctum to fetch the Star.
skin-tight bodysuit out of it. The experimentation, who was also the of Capistan, a jewel of power the
strength-augmented muscleman Hulk. The spies planned to coerce Egghead mistakenly had thought
was given the codename Rhino. Banner into developing an army of Strange possessed. This mission
gamma ray-treated , superhuman brought the Rhino in conflict with his
The spies who transformed the assassins. When the Rhino tried to old nemesis, the Hulk, as well as the
Rhino assigned him to abduct John abduct Banner, Banner transformed Defenders. The Rhino was ulti-
Jameson, son of Daily Bugle pub- into the Hulk and overpowered the mately defeated by the Red Rajah, a
lisher J. Jonah Jameson and an Rhino. Again, he was sent to a state being in possession of Doctor
astronaut in the United States Space facility and was kept under heavy Strange. He later battled and was ,..........
Program, for the purpose of "sale" defeated by Doc Samson. Taken to
to the highest bidding nation. Feel- sedation and high security. Project: Pegasus, an upstate energy
ing cocky, the Rhino turned on his The Rhino's battle with the Hulk facility, for study, the Rhino was
benefactors and destroyed their observed for some months, until he
headquarters. The Rhino then came to the attention of the Leader, joined in a mass escape attempt,
attempted the Jameson kidnapping the Hulk's foremost nemesis, who along with fellow prisoners Moon-
under his own initiative. decided that further gamma-ray stone, Blackout, and Electro. The
treatments would give the Rhino
Spider-Man intervened and enough power to overcome the Hulk. escape was thwarted by the Aveng-
defeated the Rhino during the The Leader freed the Rhino from the ers. While being transferred to
attempt. The Rhino was placed in a state facility and further increased another facility, the Rhino was treed ,,.--._
special state correctional hospital his strength by gamma-ray bom- by the Miracle Man who wanted the
where he was kept under heavy bardments. The Rhi no was dis- Rhino to help him regain his mystical
sedation. After a few weeks, patched to crash the wedding of powers. The Rhino did not wish to be
between doses of sedative, the Rhi- Bruce Banner and Betty Ross. Suc- freed, however, preferring to seek
no broke out of the hospital and ceeding in interrupting the wedding, medical treatment to remove the
escaped, seeking revenge upon the Rhino was engaged in battle with Rhino costume, which had affixed
Spider-Man. Spider-Man again the Hulk when the Leader shot him itself to his skin following the fiery
defeated him, using a specially- with a radiation blast intended for the shuttle crash. With the aid of the
formulated version of his web fluid, Hulk. The Rhino turned on the Lead- Thing, the Rhino opposed the Mira-
devised with the aid of Dr. Curt Con- er and caused the Leader's escape cle Man and accompanied the Thing
nors, which contained encapsulated module to explode. (Bruce Banner back to Pegasus, where they could
acid pellets whose containers dis- would not succeed in marrying Betty again attempt to transfer him to the
solved upon contact with air. The Brant until years later.) The Rhino's
special webbing rendered the Rhi- body was eventually found coma- medical facility as arranged.
no's costume weak and brittle, tose but otherwise unharmed and When the treatments failed to
depriving him of needed impact taken to a state hospital.
restore him to normal, the Rhino
The Leader used his mental ener- escaped and joined the Beetle's Sin-
gies to revive him. He then reoutfit- i~ter Syndicate to earn money to
ted him and sent him against the finance further operations.
Hulk again, this time with the Lead-
214
RICHTDR
~STATISTICS KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Earth Control: Richtor can generate
F TY (6) earth tremors. These tremors begin
A TY (6) at Poor intensity and range, and
S TY (6) expand one intensity/range per
E GD (10} round until they reach Unearthly
R TY (6) rank. Richtor's control over this
I GD(10} power is not well- developed. When-
ever he finds himself in a stress situ-
P GD (10) ation, he must make a Yellow Psyche
FEAT roll to prevent his power from
Health: 28 spontaneously erupting, once a
Karma: 26 round until he is no longer under
Resources: FE (2) stress. Once his Earth Control does
Popularity: - 5 erupt, he must make Psyche FEAT
rolls to dampen it: a red result means
BACKGROUND that he succeeds in quitting the trem-
Real Name: Unrevealed ors. A white result, on the other
Occupation: Student hand, means that the tremors
./"-..Legal Status: Minor citizen of Mexi- increase one rank in intensity
::o with no criminal record towards Unearthly.
Identity: Secret Contacts: Richtor has several
Place of Birth: Cuernavaca, Mexico friends within the X- Factor organiza-
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None tion.
Base of Operations: X-Factor
Headquarters
Past Group Affiliations: Trainee of
X-Factor
,.,......_Present Group Affiliation:
215
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES . mitted him to a barrage of brain- ,,.-...
The young man calling himself R1c~ washing techniques. As a result, ,
tor has recently grown to accept his HISTORY Richtor was programmed to destroy
powers. However, the key to his per- The lad we know as Richtor began a large portion of San Francisco. If
his earth-shattering career in Mexico
sonality is still a (perfectlX reason- the X-Factor members had rescued
tCritey~ewnhdeoruesheeawrathsqrueaskpeonwsihbilcehfolrefat
able) fear that his powers might o~~e Richtor, it would have been a public-
tens of thousands dead or injured.
more be the cause for terrific This brought him to the attention ity coup for the Right. .
destruction. Richtor is hot-headed of The Right, a maniacal anti-mutant X-Factor did indeed save R1chtor,
organization led by Cameron Hodge.
by nature, but cautious regarding the The Right captured Richtor and sub- but they did it in their guises as th~ X-
use of his powers. Terminators. Richtor began studying
under X-Factor, and aside from a
brief conflict with The Right, has
made even progress over the past
few months controlling his powers.
216
STATISTICS RINGER
F GD (10) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A GD (10) A petty criminal with advanced
S GD (10) weaponry, the Ringer was simply a
E TY (6) small fry. He never intended to be a
R GD (10) "supervillain ," and hated fighting
I TY (6) superheroes. After his two defeats
he committed crimes in the Midwest,
P TY (6) staying far away from any hero inter-
ference .
Health: 36
Karma: 22 217
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: - 4
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Anthony Davis
Occupation: Professional criminal
_ Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
:riminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: New York City,
later mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Unwilling
ally of the Beetle
- Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Rings: The Ringer employed wrist
projectors which would throw rings
of Remarkable explosive damage,
Remarkable freezing cold, and
Incredible strength constriction. He
could simply fire a constant stream
of metal rings, which would inflict
Excellent Blunt damage. He normal-
Y carried enough rings to do five
attacks of each of the special types
listed above, and five projectile
blasts. He later used " particulate-
matter condensors" which gave him
an unlimited series of projecti le
blasts. He could fire any ring up to 2
areas away.
The Ringer also used assorted
rings on his costume to form an
Incredible strength Lasso (range of 1
area), a ladder (up to 2 stories high),
or a whip (Excellent Blunt damage or
a Incredible Strength Grapple
attack).
Talents: Davis has the Repair/
Tinkering talent.
Contacts: None
HISTORY Before the Ringer could take pos- battle from afar, pressed a detonator,.........._
session of the new battlesuit, the which caused a small explosivE.
Nothing is known about the history of New York City Police Department charge in the ring to go off that did ·
the Ringer before he publicly com- learned the location of the Tinkerer's not harm the Ringer in the least. The
mitted his first crime in his costumed workshop and stationed guards Beetle had tricked the Ringer: the
identity. He burglarized a safe in a around it. Nevertheless, the Ringer ring about his midsection actually
building owned by Kyle Richmond, secretly broke into the workshop, had contained devices that relayed
only to be opposed and defeated by found his new battlesuit, put it on, information about Spider-Man and
Richmond himself in the latter's and began testing it. Then, however, his battle techniques to the Beetle's
identity of Nighthawk. In the course another criminal, the Beetle, broke computers. Spider-Man delivered
of their battle, half of the Ringer's into the workshop to find the new the Ringer to the police, and the
teeth were severely damaged. The battlesuit that the Tinkerer had con- Ringer was imprisoned once more.
Ringer was sent to jail, where it took structed for him. The Beetle easily
months for a prison dentist to rebuild knocked out the Ringer and carried After next leaving prison , the Ring-
his teeth. him and the Beetle's own new cos- er avoided New York City and its
tume away. superheroes and operated as a cos-
This disastrous encounter with tumed criminal, primarily in the Mid-
Nighthawk convinced the Ringer The Ringer revived to discover west. On a visit to the " Bar with No
that he was not meant for a life of that he was the Beetle's prisoner. Name" in Medina County, Ohio, one
crime and that he definitely never The Beetle demanded that the Ring-
wanted to clash with a costumed cri- er battle the costumed crimefighter ?f a number of similar secret meet-,.-...
mefighter ever again. Therefore, Spider-Man on his behalf. The Ring-
after leaving prison, the Ringer hired er was afraid of fighting another ing places for costumed criminals1
the criminal inventor called the Tin- superhero , but the Beetle had the Ringer was contacted by Gary ·
kerer to construct him a new cos- placed a large ring around the Ring- Gilbert, who was formerly the cos-
tume with improvements that the er's midsection. The Beetle claimed tumed terrorist called Firebrand. Gil-
Ringer himself had designed. But that his ring was made of a powerful bert invited the Ringer to attend a
the Ringer did not intend to use the explosive material and that he would meeting at the bar to discuss strate-
new battlesuit himself to commit detonate it if the Ringer refused to do gies for dealing with Scourge, the
crimes, much as he felt the tempta- his bidding. Reluctantly, the Ringer mysterious vigilante who had mur-
tion to do so. Rather, he intended to compl ied. dered a large number of costumed
sell it to "business contacts" of his. crimi~als . The Ringer came to the,,.....__
The Ringer proved to be no match meeting, but, unfortunately for him~
for Spider-Man, who soundly defeat- so did Scourge, disguised as the bar-
ed him. As a cruel joke, the Beetle, tender. Scourge slaughtered the
who had been mon itoring the Ringer and all the other criminals
who were present.
218
ROCKET RACCOON
~TATISTICS
F RM (30)
A RM (30)
S GD (10)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I RM (30)
P GD (10)
Health: 100
Karma: 50
Resources: EX (20) (on Halfworld)
Popularity: 0/40 (on Halfworld)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Rocket Raccoon
Occupation: Interplanetary explorer
~Legal Status: Former chief law offi-
er, Halfworld
Identity: Publicly known to the
natives of Halfworld. Rocket Rac-
coon's existence is not commonly
known to the general populace of
Earth
Place of Birth: Halfworld, Keystone
Quadrant Star System
Marital Status: Single
.--~nown Relatives: None
Jase of Operations: Formerly the
Cuckoo 's Nest, Halfworld, now
aboard Ship
Past Group Affiliations: Captain of
starship Ship
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS Bruce Banner transforms into the ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Acute Senses: Like his Earth equiva- green behemoth. Rocket is tough but fair, a highly
--lent, the terran raccoon, Rocket has trained law officer accustomed to
~xcellent senses of smell and vision, ADDITIONAL NOTES: command. His attitude is that he is
and is able to see in the dark with no not a "hero," but simply a policeman
penalty. doing his duty. With little to do once
Weaponry: Rocket normally uses a the Loonies were cured, and
laser pistol capable of doing intrigued by the presence of an out-
Remarkable force damage (energy side universe with creatures such as
damage to non-organic material, the Hulk, Rocket has taken to the
including robots) with a range of role of space explorer wholehearted-
three areas. ly.
Rocket Skates: Rocket wears rocket-
powered boot jets that allow him to
fly at Excellent Air Speed (1 O areas/
round).
Talents: Rocket Raccoon has
Marksmanship, Martial Arts A, Pilot-
ing, and Acrobatics.
Contacts: Rocket is considered a
- '1ero on Halfworld by the cured Loo-
•ies and the animal population. He is
on relatively good term with the
Incredible Hulk during the time when
219
HISTORY The animals continued to care for Toy War ensued. Both coveted the.-
the humans, and the robots provided otter Lylla, who was legal heir to thl
Centuries ago, a group of human- equipment, weapons, and part for toy empire and romantically involved
oids settled the largest planet in the toys. The psychiatric diary left by the
Keystone Quadrant star system. physicians (now known in legend as with Rocket Raccoon.
They built a complex to house and the "Shrinks") became an indeci- Rocket Raccoon opposed Jakes
treat the insane, recording their pherable icon called Gideon's Bible.
medical observations in a psychiat- Toys played an important part in and Dyvyne and tried to end the war.
ric diary. When their funding was cut, Halfworld society as entertainment The two joined forces in a mutual
they abandoned the project, but not for the Loonies. Without toys, the attempt to kill him, even as Pyko
before they created a staff of robots Loonies lapsed into a deep melan- joined Rocket. Pyko, Lylla, Rocket,
to provide for the humanoids. They choly, so the animals made certain and his first mate, Wal Russ, took
then separated the quadrant from Gideon's Bible to the robots and pre-
the rest of the galaxy with an impen- nothing interrupted production. Two sented it to the Head Robot, who
etrable force field. otters formed the first toy factory, combined the information contained
and upon their death it was taken in the volume with the robots'
When a nearby star went nova, over by the mole Judson Jakes, who advanced technology to create hel-
ensuing radiation gave sentience to established his headquarters in the mets that would cure the Loonies.
the robots, who quickly chafed at the Spacewheel space station built by The four animals distributed the hel-
illogic of the humanoids, or " Loo- the tortoise Uncle Pyko. Pyko mets. A last assault by Jakes and
nies." Seeking to end their servi- designed toys, weapons, an army of Dyvyne was narrowly foiled by the,..--
tude, the robots used genetic robots clowns, and the batlike Drakil- animals, the robots, and the newly
engineering to give intelligence and lers.
awareness to the animals that had aware humanoids.
been left as companions for the Jakes' first attempt to steal Gide- The grateful humanoids began to
patients. They charged the animals on's Bible, decipher its secrets, and
with the patients' care and protec- turn them to profit was stopped by plan the future, and offered Rocket,
tion, then relocated to the far side of the Hulk, aiding Halfworld's chief law the other animals, and the robots
the planet, which they proceeded to officer, Ranger Rocket Raccoon. positions as assistants and enter-
strip bare through industrial endeav- The book was recovered, but not tainers. Not interested in those roles
ors, one of which was construction of before Pyko secretly translated it, the animals and automatons entered
a vast, humanoid spacecraft called and returned the Hulk to Earth. Ship and launched an expedition to
Ship. The half-industrial, half-
verdant planet became known as Jakes' " Mayhem Makaniks" explore space and its many worlds. ,-....
" Halfworld." encountered its first competition One such planet was Hallaile, oi
when the serpentine Lord Dyvyne
organized " Dyvynities, Inc." and "Witch World," where Rocket Rac-
forced Jakes from Spacewheel. coon met the wandering Prince Way-
Jakes retreated underground and a farer of lthicon. The two fought the
sorceress and a group of rogue ani-
mals. The outcome of that conflict is
unknown .
220
ROGUE
----STATISTICS
'
F GD (10)
A EX (20)
S AM (50)
E GD(10)
R TY (6)
I GD (10)
P TY (6)
Health: 90
Karma: 22
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: 0
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Adventurer
_,........,,,Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no
·~nown criminal record, sought by
SHIELD for murder (a charge for
which she was framed), still a minor
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown location in
Caldecott County, Mississippi
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Great Central
~esert, Australia
;>ast Group Affiliations: X-Men,
former member of the Brotherhood
of Evil Mutants II
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ful powers of those available. To pure energy in human form, is
PowerAbsorption: Whenever Rogue some degree she also takes on the beyond her ability to affect.
touches another character, flesh-to- appearance of those victims she
flesh, she absorbs that person's absorbs who are visually distinctive. To date, the only individual whom
,...--... memories, any talents and powers, For instance, while using Rogue has completely absorbed is
1nd even some degree of the vic- Nightcrawler's powers, her skin Ms. Marvel. All of Rogue's other
tim's personality. Each round of con- becomes the same color. Her mass powers are those of Ms. Marvel.
tact gives her these abilities for 4 remains constant, however, so she Flight: Rogue can fly at Excellent Air
rounds. As long as Rogue possess- cannot duplicate gross physical Speed (1 Oareas/round).
appendages such as the Angel's Body Armor: Rogue has Incredible
es a victim's powers, that victim goes wings or the Blob's sheer mass. protection against physical and
into a catatonic state and cannot be energy attacks.
awakened. For each round past the Rogue cannot absorb powers from Metabolic Resistance: Rogue has
first of contact, Rogue must make a non- humans, including artificial and Amazing resistance to drugs and
Psyche FEAT roll or she totally mechanical beings. It should be disease.
absorbs the victim's memories and noted that Wonder Man, a being of Combat Sense: Rogue has a "sev-
powers, leaving the victim a mental
blank. Each time Rouge absorbs 221
another personality in such a man-
ner, her Psyche is reduced one rank.
When it reaches Feeble, she goes
insane and becomes a NPC.
Rogue's power works uncontrolla-
-._bly on anyone she comes in contact
Nith. She can absorb more than one
victim simultaneously, giving her the
highest ability scores and most use-
enth sense" that allows her to make ROLE-PLAYING NOTES hood from prison. Rogue battled Ms,..,...._
an Incredible Intuition FEAT roll to Rogue tends toward cockiness, but
sense danger and react appropri- has matured during her time with the Marvel and absorbed her memorie
ately. The power works automatically X-Men. She is straightforward and
and no Karma can be spent on the prefers direct attacks. She is and superhuman powers, but some'-
roll. extremely sensitive to the possibility
Split Personality: The presence of of coming into contact with other thing went wrong, and the transfer
Ms. Marvel's thought and memories people, preferring to rely on her Ms.
provides Rogue with CL1000 protec- Marvel abilities in combat. Originally became permanent, rather than tem-
tion against mental probes and viewed with suspicion by the other X-
direct attacks (although not related Men, she is now a core member of porary, as is usual with Rogue.
effects such as Illusions). If she is in the new group.
a situation familiar to Ms. Marvel but Hence, Rogue now permanently
not herself, Rogue must make a HISTORY
Psyche FEAT roll or Ms. Marvel's possesses the superhuman powers,
personality becomes dominant for 1- Very little is known about Rogue's life
10 minutes. before she discovered her superhu- and memories of the original Ms.
Talents: Rogue speaks Russian. man power, not even her real name.
Contacts: Rogue was adopted by She grew up in Caldecott County, Marvel, and Carol Danvers, the first
Mystique of the second Brotherhood Mississippi, near the banks of the
of Evil, and considers the woman her Mississippi River. One day she was Ms. Marvel, has permanently lost
mother. She is still on good terms kissing a boy named Cody Robbins
with Mystique, as the latter realized under a tree by the river. When she those powers (although, with the aid
that she could not help Rogue with kissed him, he fell unconscious, and
her uncontrollable power. Mystique she discovered that her mind was of Professor Charles Xavier, she has
currently believes her to be dead, filled with Robbins' memories.
however. Unable to shut them out, she fled. regained most of her memories). In
After a while, Robbins' memories
ADDITIONAL NOTES: faded away in her mind, but this is absorbing Ms. Marvel's powers and
how Rogue began to learn that she
had developed the mutant power to memories, Rogue, going temporarily
absorb a person's memories and
abilities by touching him or her with insane, threw the defeated, uncon-
her bare skin. Moreover, she learned
that she could not control this ability. scious Danvers from the Golden
Rogue joined the second Brother- Gate Bridge, the site of their battle:,---..
hood of Evil Mutants, whose leader,
Mystique, came to regard her as a Danvers, however, survived . ;
surrogate daughter. (The second
Brotherhood became known as As a member of the Brotherhood,
Freedom Force after Rogue left the
group.) Mystique assigned Rogue to Rogue battled the X-Men, the Aveng-
ambush the costumed adventurer
known as Ms. Marvel (the original, ers, the original Spider-Woman, the
now called Binary) and to absorb the
latter's superhuman powers so that Dazzler, and Rom. However, Rogue
Rogue could use them in an attempt
to free other members of the Brother- was anguished over the fact that she
could not control her absorption
power. Moreover, she feared she was
going insane because she could not
rid herself of Carol Danvers' memo;...--..
ries and emotional patterns, an(
often was unsure whether her emo-
tional reactions were her own or
Danvers'. The Brotherhood was
unable to provide her with sufficient
help, and so, in anguish, she begged
Professor Charles Xavier, mentor of
her enemies, the X-Men, for aid.
Xavier admitted her into the X-Men
on a provisional basis, but she quick-,..--.,,
ly proved herself to be a loyal, brave.'
and capable member of the team.
She is now a full-fledged member of
the X-Men, regarded as a friend by
her teammates. Although she has
still not learned how to control her
absorption power (if indeed it is at all
possible for her to learn how to do
so), the emotional support Rogue
has found from her fellow X-Men has
greatly helped her state of mind.
222
ROM
~STATISTICS
F IN (40)
A EX (20)
S IN (40)
E MN (75)
R EX (20)
I EX (20)
P GD (10)
Health:175
Karma:50
Resources: AM (50) (government
backed)
Popularity: 20
BACKGROUND him to fly at Unearthly speed in the emit special waves visible to Rom's
Real Name: Rom vacuum of space or at Monstrous Air optic sensors. The device could also
~ Occupation : Former Spaceknight of speeds in an atmosphere. Rom also be used to sense the energy poten-
3alador, now progenitor of a new possessed sensors that enabled him tial of other items and beings. It
Galadorian race could trace energy trails of Excellent
Legal Status: Citizen of Galador to locate space warps with Mon- or high Rank with Amazing ability.
Identity: Rom 's existence was strous ability and range, allowing Translator: This micro-computer
known to the people of Galador, the "shortcuts" through space with could translate any language it
Dire Wraiths, and to many in the U.S. CL1000 range. heard for at least 6 consecutive
government and military, as well as Regeneration: Rom's armor has a turns. Once it had learned that lan-
to many of Earth's super-human self-repair capability that provided guage, it could store the information
adventurers and the populace of him with Good Regeneration. in Rom 's memory banks, allowing
.--~\Clairton, Virginia. The general public Energy Analyzer: This item could him to speak and understand it at
) f Earth, however, did not know of emit ultra-high frequency waves that will.
Rom's existence. scanned a being's molecular struc- Neutralizer: Rom's only actual weap-
Place of Birth: The planet Galador, ture. This caused Dire Wraiths to
location unknown. Although the 223
Galadorians claimed that Galador
existed in the " Golden Galaxy" and
was then moved to another galaxy
by Galactus, it is unclear where
Galador's past and current locations
-._,are. Possibly Galador has always
gxisted in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Marital Status: Now unofficially
married
Known Relatives: Brandy Clark
(unofficial wife)
Base of Operation3: Galador, for-
merly Earth
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of the Spaceknights of
Galador
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Body Armor: Rom's suit of armor pro-
vided him with Incredible protection
against all physical, radiation, heat-
based, and cold-based attacks. He
~ could survive indefinitely in the vac-
Jum of space.
Flight: Rom's armor was equipped
with twin rocket pods which enabled
on. Capable of neutralizing energy HISTORY The Wraiths intended that Wraithworlct.-.__
fields, when the Neutralizer's beam merge with the Earth, taking Earth'
is trained on a Dire Wraith, the target The Prime Director of Galador, learn- place in space. A large number of Earth's
is hurled into a dimensional Limbo. ing of the Dire Wraith attack which superhuman champions joined Rom in
Full- power, the Neutralizer could kill battling the Wraiths as Wraithworld
any being, but Rom rarely did this as destroyed the entire space fleet, asked approached. Then, in space, Rom used
full Karma penalties were applied. the general populace of the planet for his Neutralizer weapon to power a gigan-
volunteers to sacrifice their human tic neutralizer designed by the Earth sci-
At its lowest setting, the Neutraliz- bodies and undergo surgical conversion entist who calls himself Forge. Rom
er can neutralize radiation poison- into an army of cyborg warriors called turned the power of the gigantic neutral-
ing. Only Dire Wraiths could be sent Spaceknights, who would be adapted for izer against Wraithworld itself, canceling
to Limbo; humans could not with- the rigors of combat in outer space. out its mystical energies, and thereby
stand the energy release necessary. Rom, the first of millions to volunteer in causing Wraithworld to cease to exist.
Anyone trying to use (not merely response to the public call, was one of a Since the Dire Wraiths throughout the
touch) the Neutralizer, except Rom, universe drew their mystical energies
would take Monstrous damage. few hundred to be accepted and from Wraithworld, no Wraith sorcerer
undergo conversion. He underwent sur- could use magic. Rom used his Neutral-
Note: The previous three pieces of gery in which his brain was transplanted izer to banish all the remaining Wraiths
equipment are normally stored in a into an exoskeleton of cybernetic cir- on Earth to Limbo . (However, Dire
hyperdimensional pocket when not cuitry and armor, onto which his auto- Wraiths still exist elsewhere in the uni-
in use. nomic and central nervous systems were verse.) His mission on Earth completed,,..--._
Contacts: Rom was considered the grafted. The rest of Rom's original body, Rom left Earth to journey in outer space
greatest of the original Spa- along with the rest of the original bodies
ceknights. He worked with several of the rest of the Spaceknights, was safe- Later, the alien Beyonder sent Brandy
groups of heroes on Earth, including ly preserved on Galador. The Galador- Clark to Galador. She discovered that the
the X-Men and the New Mutants. He ians intended to restore the new generation of Spaceknights had tak-
was a close friend of Rick Jones and Spaceknights to human form once the en over the planet and destroyed most of
the human Brandy Clark, who later war with the Dire Wraiths was over. its humanoid population. Thanks to a
became Starshine. He had the full Shi'ar Stargate, Rom and a number of
cooperation of the citizens of Clair- Rom and the other Spaceknights left Spaceknights known as the Spaceknight
ton, West Virginia, and Brock Peters, Galador to stalk Dire Wraiths throughout Squadron also reached Galador. One of
the Torpedo. When the Wraiths the universe, and did so for nearly 200 the second-generation Spaceknights,
threatened to displace Earth from its Earth years. When a Galadorian probe Heatwave, destroyed the cryogenically,.-.
orbit, Rom cooperated with the U.S. detected a major concentration of Dire preserved bodies of the first- anl.
Government, both Peter Gyrich and Wraiths on Earth, where shape- second-generation Spaceknights with-
SHIELD. Rom assisted the mutant changing Wraiths disguised themselves out orders to do so from his leader,
Forge in the creation of a larger pro- as human beings, Rom volunteered to Dominor. The second-generation Spa-
toype of his Neutralizer to banish the go to Earth to deal with the Wraith men- ceknights killed the remaining humanoid
Wraithworld to Limbo. ace alone, lest the presence of the Spa- Galadorians.
ceknight armada unduly alarm the local
ADDITIONAL NOTES: populace. Mentus, ruler of Galdor, Dominor had hoped that the second-
agreed to Rom's proposal and dis- generation Spaceknights would return to
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES patched him. Rom arrived on Earth in human form and act as progenitors of a
In many ways, Rom is the archetypi- recent years, landing in the town of Clair- new, stronger Galadorian race. How-
cal "good guy." He believed strongly ton, West Virginia. ever, Dominor now planned to mate with~
in the triumph of good over evil and Brandy Clark, so that they woult
never took a life when he could avoid Believing themselves defenseless become the parents of the new Galador-
it. Even when he did so he always felt without the Spaceknights, the Galador- ian race. Opposed to Dominor's plans,
great remorse. ians created a new generation of cyborg Rom defeated him in battle. In despair,
Spaceknights, who were designed to be Dominor used Rom's Neutralizer to com-
224 more formidable than the originals. mit suicide.
Rom returned to Earth and continued The rest of the first-generation Spa-
his war against the Dire Wraiths. The ceknights found Rom on Galador, and
Wraith sorcerers succeeded in destroy- Clark found the cryogenically preserved
ing most of the population of Clairton, portions of Rom's body within an ancient
whose people had befriended Rom, crypt: they had not been destroyed after
including Brock Jones, the Torpedo. all. Rom returned to human form, and
now he and Brandy Clark live happily
However, Brandy Clark, who had together on Galador, protected by the
fallen in love with Rom, was not killed by first- generation Spaceknights. They
the Wraiths. Seeking to become like intend to become the progenitors of the
Rom, she had been magically united new Galadorian race themselves.
with the Spaceknight armor of the
deceased Spaceknight Starshine by the
Dire Wraith called Doctor Dredd. As the
new Starshine, she became Rom's clos-
est ally in the war against the Wraiths.
However, Clark was returned to human
form by the creature called Hybrid.
RONAN THE ACCUSER
F AM (50)
A GD (10)
S IN (40)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I GD (10)
P IN (40)
Health: 150
Karma: 60
Resources: FE (2)
Popularity: -20/85 (in t he Kree
empire)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Ronan
,,,--..,. Occupation: Supreme Public
Accuser of the Kree Empire
Legal Status: High-ranking citizen
of the Kree Empire
Identity: Publicly known throughout
the Kree Empire; his existence is not
known to the general populace of
Earth
Place of Birth : The planet Hala,
Pama system, Kree Empire, Greater
,..-.....Magellanic Cloud
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Citadel of
Judgement, the planet Kree-Lar,
Turanal system , Kree Empire,
Greater Magellanic Cloud
Past Group Affiliations: Leader of
the Kree Accusers, member of the
Supreme Council of the central gov-
.-....ernment of the Kree Empire, former
.partner of Zarek in a conspiracy
against the Kree Supreme Intelli-
gence
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS but he cannot attack through it Excellent rank.
Anyone not wearing Ronan's Talents: Ronan is a Weapons Mas-
Cosmi-Rod: This weapon, made of ter with the Cosmi-Rod, and is skilled
Unearthly material, can manipulate protective armor takes Monstrous in navigating through hyperlight. He
cosmic energy at Monstrous rank. damage every round they are in is the ultimate enforcer of Kree law.
He can use it as a club, inflicting contact with the Cosmi- rod . Contacts: For most of his life, Ronan
Unearthly damage. He has devel- Armor: Ronan wears a special suit has served the Kree Empire.
oped the following Power Stunts: that protects him from the effects of ADDITIONAL NOTES:
the Cosmi-Rod and provides him
• Power blasts of Monstrous with Incredible protection against 225
Force or Energy, 4-area range heat, cold, energy, and radiation,
• Reconstruct existing matter and Amazing agai nst physical
(but not transmutation) within 2 attacks. It also raises his Strength
areas. and Endurance one rank each to
• Flight at Remarkable speed (15 Monstrous levels. And finally, he can
areas/ro und) in atmosphere,
CL5000 in space use it to turn himself invisible at
• Force Field of Monstrous rank,
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES the Accuser corps, winning high and imprisoned. Ronan, though, had--
The Accuser has always been arro- commendations for his bravery and widespread and powerful support
gant and self-righteous, carrying out skill in capturing many rings of from the entire Accuser corps, the
the justice of the Kree empire as he alleged traitors and in helping to put
sees fit. He enjoys a good fight, fight- down various rebellions. He held a aristocracy, and much of the armed
ing honorably when it is not to his number of planetary governorships, forces. Some of his supporters freed
extreme disadvantage to do so. each time receiving a more impor- him from prison, whereupon Ronan
tant world to rule. Finally, as a result killed the Supreme Intelligence's
HISTORY of his great success in leading a fleet guards and seized control of the
of warships against the Skrulls in a Empire. Shortly thereafter, a major
Ronan was born into one of the lead- major border incident, Ronan was new Kree-Skrull War broke out, dur-
ing families of the Kree aristocracy, promoted by the Kree Supreme Intel- ing which the captive but not yet
which purports to trace its ancestry ligence to the office of Supreme Pub- helpless Supreme Intelligence acti-
back millions of years to the original lic Accuser. In this role, the third vated the vast latent psionic powers
Kree tribes of the planet Hala. most important in the entire Kree of the Earth youth Rick Jones. Jones
Empire (only the Supreme Intelli- used his powers to paralyze Ronan
Due to his high social rank, Ronan gence and the Imperial Minister rank and his armed loyalists on Kree-Lar,
was immediately admitted into the above him), Ronan is addressed as and the Supreme Intelligence took
Accusers at junior officer rank upon " Ronan the Accuser," a simple title power once again.
completing his education. The which inspires great awe throughout
Accusers are an elite corps of Kree The Supreme Intelligence put ,,......
government officials, entirely made the Empire. Ronan under its psionic control and1
up of blue Kree, that has been in As Supreme Public Accuser, used him in an unsuccessful battle
existence for millions of years. It is against the Kree Captain Mar-Veil.
the responsibility of the Accuser Ronan personally went on missions Ronan's will, which had been greatly
class to enforce and administer jus- only of the highest importance to the strengthened through years of using
tice throughout the galaxy-wide Kree Empire. Such was his mission to the Universal Weapon, continually
Empire. Ordinary Kree police, and all Earth given him by the Supreme but unsuccessfully resisted the
government officials of planets with- Intelligence to punish the superhu- Supreme Intelligence's control until
in the Empire and not inhabited by man Earth beings known as the finally, Ronan's mind snapped. The
Kree, are responsible to the Fantastic Four for their disabling of a Supreme Intelligence, in need of ,,.......
Accusers. The Accusers prosecute, Kree Sentry, a feat that very few influential allies when it had fallen.
judge, sentence, and execute all from power, restored Ronan's sanity
Kree below their aristocratic class could accomplish . However, the and formed an alliance with its form-
who are accused of crimes. (Except Fantastic Four defeated Ronan. The er opponent. The Supreme Intelli-
in special cases, only Kree high offi- Supreme Intelligence blamed Ronan gence now believed that the
cials or aristocrats receive jury tri- for his failure. Ronan, determined to
als.) The Accusers also act as avenge his defeat, was angered by exploitation of Earth humans, with
prosecutors, judges, and execution- the Supreme Intelligence's decision their potential for vast psionic
ers in cases on Kree-ruled planets, to put Earth under observation rather powers, was the key to revitalizing
or even planets like Earth on which than to sanction any full-scale repris- Kree genetic stock, and was there-
the Kree have established bases, als. Ronan had long disagreed with fore no longer as intent on pushing .r--
which involve real or alleged activi- the Supreme Intelligence's liberal blue Kree integration with other,
ties judged by the Kree to be against policies toward racial integration and races still further. After an unsuc-
the interests of the Kree Empire. The intermarriage of blue Kree with pink cessful encounter with Captain Mar-
Accusers strictly adhere to the Kree or with non-Kree humanoids so vell and Ms. Marvel, Ronan returned
severe Kree legal code, which per- that the genetic make-up of the blue to Kree-Lar and his old position as
mits death, exile, and forms of brain- Kree race might be revitalized. As an Supreme Public Accuser under the
washing as punishment for ambitious, aristocractic blue Kree Supreme Intelligence, which is again
numerous offenses. In special with strong racial pride, Ronan did firmly in control of the Kree Imperial
cases, the Accusers themselves go not believe that the Empire should Government. Ronan's position in the
forth to capture alleged criminals. be ruled by a non-humanoid entity Kree Empire now that Supremor is
The Accusers oversee Kree military like the Supreme Intelligence. insane, is as yet nebulous.
operations conducted for punitive Hence, when Kree Imperial Minister
and imperialistic reasons. Accusers Zarek, another blue Kree aristocrat
also act as governors and high offi- who shared Ronan's opposition to
cials of planets that the Kree place racial integration, proposed that the
under martial law. two of them form a conspiracy to
depose the Supreme Intelligence,
Ronan made a rapid rise through
Ronan readily accepted.
The Supreme Intelligence learned
of the conspiracy, however, and both
Ronan and Zarek were apprehended
226
RUNNER
$TATISTICS
F AM (50)
A UN (100)
S MN (75)
E UN (100)
R EX (20)
I MN (75)
P AM (50)
Health: 325
Karma: 145
Resources: N/A
Popularity: 85
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Traveler, free spirit
- Legal Status: Unknown
dentity: The Runner's existence is
not generally known to the citizens of
Earth
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Known Uni-
verse
Past Group Affiliations: Elders of
- the Universe
>resent Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS cation of Cosmic Energy, the Runner ADDITIONAL NOTES:
can speak any language he cares to
Body Armor: The Runner's golden pay attention to.
skin is tougher than ordinary flesh,
Talents: The Runner is nimble, and
giving him Excellent protection is considered to have Martial Arts E
against all attacks. and Acrobatics skills. He is also
Immortality: The Runner is immortal. charismatic, gaining a + 1 CS to any
He will not die if reduced to 0 Health
- ~nd Shift OEndurance. rolls he might make in conversation
hvulnerability: The Runner is invul- with another sentient being . He is
nerable to all hostile environments, also conversant with Astro-
including hard vacuum. He is invul- navigation, for such times as he
nerable to heat, cold, energy, elec- might want to know where he is.
tricity, and radiation attacks. He is
immune to the effects of poisons, Contacts: The Runner is a member
diseases, or aging. He can be affect- of the Elders of the Universe.
ed by slams and stuns, and is vulner-
able to mental and magical attacks.
Cosmic Energy Control: The Runner
is skilled with the manipulation of
cosmic energy, and can use it to
" run" at CL5000 speeds without
fatigue. He can also channel the cos-
mic power into beams of energy or
force at Shift-X intensity. The Runner
can raise his Agility or Intuition to
Shift-X rank for 1O rounds, and he
,an also use his power to track any
unusual disturbance in the universe
at Unearthly rank. As a trivial appli-
227
Surfer that he is five billion years old. is the key to his immortality. .,,--..
Although both his galaxy and his
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Runner lives to see all there is i1
The Runner gained entry into the race died long ago, the Runner
Elders of the Universe due to his found some key to longevity that the universe and derives his greatest
monomania for speedy exploration. enabled him to escape the fate of the
He has dedicated his eternal life to rest of his species. The exact nature joy in the simple act of runn ing
being the first entity to witness the of this key remains unclear, but it
entire universe. The Runner has seems related to total freedom. On through the universe. Presumably,
almost no other interests, and he one occasion, he told the Silver Surf-
often appears to others as frivolous. er that had he been forced to endure he does not wish to die until he has
This easy- going attitude (perhaps captivity on one planet, he would
augmented by discrete uses of Cos- seen the entire universe-a task
mic Power) makes it easy for the have died.
Runner to make friends with almost At the same time, Runner's free- close enough to impossible that he
anyone he meets in his journeys.
dom seems to prohibit the assump- will not lose the will to live for billions
HISTORY tion of any responsibility for mortal
life. He once informed Moondragon of years.
Like all Elders of the Universe, the that a star would go nova in a decade
Runner's true origins are lost in or so. When Moondragon asked him If he ever does see the entire uni-
antiquity. He is the sole survivor of a to warn the inhabitants of the planets
race that inhabited one of the first orbiting the star, Runner responded, verse, however, Runner faces an
galaxies formed in the wake of the "Alas, I don't think I have the power
Big Bang. He once told the Silver to do that. I gave up much when I eternity of boredom. Grandmaster
chose the path of freedom." Appar-
ently, the responsibility for warning recently tricked Death into barring all
the occupants of the star system
would interfere with the freedom that Elders from its realm. Perhaps the
prospect of the universe's finiteness
compared to everlasting life is what
convinced Runner to join the other
elders in their recent bid to destroy,.._
Galactus. The destruction of Galac
tus might bring the end of the uni-
verse and the birth of a new one to
destroy. The Elders were foiled in
their attempt by the Silver Surfer,
Mantis, and Nova. The Runner's fate
at this time remains uncertain.
228
'STATISTICS SABRETDDTH
F IN (40) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A RM (30) Sabretooth is a savage berserker in
combat, resembling Wolverine with-
S GD (10) out the self-control. He never spends
Karma to avoid killing an opponent,
E RM (30) preferring to spend it to get " Kill"
results.
R TY (6)
229
I GD (10)
P RM (30)
Health: 110
Karma: 46
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: -5
Background
_,.....,Real Name: Unrevealed
.:>ccupation: Professional assassin
Legal Status: Convicted criminal in
several countries, citizenship
unknown
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital Status: Unrevealed
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
""Past Group Affiliations: Maraud-
~rs, former partner of the Constrictor
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
lnfravision: Sabretooth lacks color
vision but has Remarkable infravis-
ion.
Heightened Senses: Sabretooth's
senses of hearing, smell and taste
are all at Amazing level. He can track
,:>eople at Amazing rank and use his
heightened senses to perceive ill u-
sions for what they really are.
Claws and Bite: Sabretooth has ADDITIONAL NOTES:
claws and teeth capable of rending
materials of up to Incredible
strength. He can do Remarkable
Edged damage with his claws and
with his teeth if he has Grappled his
opponent.
Talents: None
Contacts: Sabretooth was a steady
partner of the Constrictor for a while,
but the two have since gone their
separate ways. He was a member of
the Marauders but tended to act as a
- toner.
HISTORY rescue Hogarth. Later, Sabretooth join the organization of assassin~
and his then-partner, the Constrictor, headed by the Foreigner. Sabretootl
The origin of Sabretooth is unknown. came to New York City to carry out an tracked down the Black Cat, who
At one point, however, he was the assignment for the criminal leader had clashed with some of the For-
student of the man called the For- Montenegro. However, Sabretooth, eigner's men, but Spider-Man saved
eigner, who now heads the world's in disguise, persisted in stalking vic- the Black Cat and defeated Sabre-
leading organization of assassins. tims he himself selected and mur- tooth.
Sabretooth is said to be the ultimate ~ering them with a knife, thus giving
warrior and survivor, and he loves to nse to news reports of a mysterious Subsequently, Sabretooth joined
hunt, fight, and kill opponents. He Slasher. Private investigator Misty the Marauders, a cadre of superhu-
and the X-Man Wolverine have Knight happened upon one of Sabre- .man assassins brought together by
known each other for an undetermin- tooth's attacks and fought the killer. the mysterious Mister Sinister. Mis-
ed number of years. It has been This battle led to a confrontation ter Sinister assigned the Marauders
speculated that Sabretooth 's per- between the masked Sabretooth to massacre the underground com-
sonality resembles Wolverine's in and the Constrictor on one side and mun ity of mutants called the
the years before Wolverine achieved Knight and her adventurer allies, Morlocks. In the course of helping to
his current level of self-discipline. Iron Fist, Power Man, and El Aguila carry out this massacre, Sabretooth
on the other. Sabretooth and the encountered and fought Wolverine,
In Sabretooth's first recorded Constrictor were forced to retreat, but their battle ended unresolved.
exploit, he held the celebrated law- abandoning their assignment for
yer Jeryn Hogarth captive. Hogarth Montenegro. Subsequently, Sabre- In the course of helping to carry~
was the lawyer of Daniel Rand, who, tooth sought to kill Knight in out this massacre, Sabretoott:'
in his costumed identity of Iron Fist, revenge, but he and the Constrictor encountered and fought Wolverine
defeated Sabretooth, thus helping to instead again clashed with Iron Fist on several occasions. All of their bat-
and Power Man and were defeated. tles ended in standoffs, and Sabre-
tooth escaped. He remains with the
Recently, Sabretooth sought to Marauders, although the group has
vanished from sight once more.
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SALEM1S SEVEN
GROUP BACKGROUND However, the Fantstic Four over- result, Vertigo lost control of the
Salem's Seven was a group of magi- came Salem's Seven , found Hark- community's magical forces, which
cally mutated superhumans, all of ness in time to prevent her threatened to kill all the New Salemi-
whom shared the same father, execution , and turned the commu- tes. The Scarlet Witch channeled
Nicholas Scratch, and all of whom nity against Scratch. The New much of these tremendous magical
lived in New Salem, Colorado. New Salemites then mystically banished forces into a mountain, which then
Salem was a community of practi- Scratch to another dimension. exploded, killing Salem's Seven and
tioners of an ancient religion who apparently all the other New Salemi-
possessed occult powers. Its citi- Sometime later, Salem 's Seven tes. The Vision and the Scarlet
zens remained in isolation from the traveled to New York City and Witch, however, both survived.
rest of the world to avoid being per- attempted to bring Nicholas Scratch
secuted as witches and warlocks. back to Earth. Agatha Harkness Later, the spirit of the deceased
The most powerful sorceress in New used her occult powers to strip Thornn captured the Scarlet Witch
Salem was its leader, Agatha Hark- and brought her into a supernatural
ness. Her only known child was the Salem's Seven of their abilities to dimension ruled by a mystical entity
warlock known as Nicholas Scratch assume their magically mutated known as Samhain. There she
(which may be an assumed alias). forms and banish them back to New encountered the spirits of the rest of
Scratch had a number of wives, who Salem. She also cast a spell further Salem's Seven (except for Gazelle),
__ bore him the many children who entrapping Scratch in the dimention who all sought vengeance upon her,
to which he had been exiled. intended to return to Earth, and were
-were known collectively as Salem's now allied with Samhain. There the
Seven: Brutacus, Gazelle, Hydron, Over a period of years, Salem's Scarlet Witch also discovered Hark-
Reptilia, Thornn , Vakume, and Verti- Seven used their remaining mystical ness's spirit, which had been bound
go I. (Vertigo of Salem's Seven is not abilities to turn the spells Harkness helplessly to an ethereal stake ever
to be confused with the Vertigo of the had used to deprive them of their since her physical demise. But Hark-
Savage Land Mutates, who is now a magically mutated forms back upon ness had mystically contacted the
member of the Marauders.) her. As a result, Salem 's Seven Vision, telling him how to help fight
regained their abilities to assume Samhain by destroying a book of
Like all the citizens of the New these forms , and Harkness was druidic magic to which Samhain was
Salem Community, the members of greatly weakened. Salem 's Seven
--, Salem's Seven were human beings turned the New Salem Community mystically bound. By doing so, the
and were ordinarily human in against Harkness, and the Seven Vision made it impossible for
appearance. In human form they all became the supreme sorcerers of
possessed certain skills at wielding Samhain to retain his humanoid
magic just as the other New Salemi- the community. Vertigo, the eldest of form. Harkness could not defeat this
tes do. The members of Salem's Harkness's granddaughters and the entity as long as he had Samhain's
leader of the Seven, became high form, but now she broke free from
Seven, however, could mystically priestess (queen) of the Nevi Salem the stake and used her magical
assume magically mutated forms in community. Salem's Seven captured powers to entrap the entity within the
which they possessed the unusual the weakened Harkness and exe- spirits of his allies, the six members
superhuman powers described cuted her by burning her at the of Salem's Seven other than
--..... below. Except for Vertigo and possi- stake. Gazelle. Harkness's spirit then went
bly Vakume, all members of Salem's to her resting place in the hereafter,
Seven looked inhuman in their magi- Harkness's spirit apparently influ- and the Scarlet Witch returned to
cally mutated forms. enced her pupil, the Scarlet Witch, to Earth.
go to New Salem, where she jour-
Salem's Seven's grandmother, neyed with her husband, the Vision. Real Names: Unknown
Agatha Harkness, left New Salem to There, both the Scarlet Witch and Occupations: Warriors
live in the outside world, where she the Vision were captured by six Legal Status: Citizens of New
became the governess of Franklin members of Salem's Seven. The Salem
Richards , the son of Reed and seventh member, Gazelle, had Identities: Public unaware of their
Susan Richards of the Fantastic opposed the others' plan to entrap existence
Four. Scratch hated Harkness and the Scarlet Witch. As punishment, Places of Birth: New Salem, Colo-
had her and Franklin abducted to Gazelle was sentenced to be slain as rado
New Salem, intending to have her a human sacrifice. Vertigo asked the Marital Status: All single
executed for treason to their commu- Scarlet Witch to join their coven. But Known Relatives: Nicholas Scratch
nity. (In fact, Harkness had never (father), Agatha Harkness (grand-
done anything to betray the New the Scarlet Witch refused, so Vertigo mother, deceased)
Salemites.) The Fantastic Four went planned to sacrifice her as well as Base of Operations: New Salem,
after Harkness and Franklin but Gazelle and the Vision. Colorado
- were captured as well. The Fantastic
Four escaped their cell only to be The Vision broke free after dawn
confronted by Salem's Seven, who of the following day and battled Verti-
served as Scratch's elite warriors. go, who took upon herself and wield-
ed the combined magical powers of
all 665 New Salemites. The Vision
defeated her nonetheless, and as a
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BRUTACUS GAZELLE HVDRON
STATISTICS STATISTICS STATISTICS
F AM (50) F EX (20) F GD (10)
A GD (10) A RM (30) A . GD (10)
S MN (75) S GD (10)
E AM (50) E EX (20) S GD (10)
E EX (20)
R TY (6) R GD (10) R GD (10)
I TY (6)
I TY (6) I GD {10) P EX (20)
P EX (20) P EX (20)
Health: 50
Health: 185 Health: 80 Karma: 36
Karma: 32 Karma: 40 Resources: TY (6)
Resources: TY (6) Resources: TY (6) Popularity: O
Popularity: 0 Popularity: 3
KNOWN POWERS Demihuman
KNOWN POWERS Natural Weapon- KNOWN POWERS Hyper-running: Body/ Liquid Life: Hydron resembles
Gazelle can run at Good speed (60 a piscean or fish-man. However, his
ry: His fingers end in claws that do mph). skin is actually a transparent shell
Hyper-Leaping: Gazelle can make covering his true form, a purely
Remarkable damage. Remarkable leaps of up to 40 feet aqueous body.
Talents: Brutacus is trained in sor- across or straight up. She can Water Generation: Hydron can gen-
cery. descend 60 feet without harm. Her erate an infinite supply of water with-
kicks do Remarkable damage. in his body. He can release it through
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Talents: Gazelle is a superb gym- the nozzle covering his left hand.
Brutacus is almost bestial in his fury. nast. The stream is capable of doing
He constantly rages against anyone Remarkable physical damage. It can
who has ever crossed him. ROLE-PLAYING NOTES also short-out electronics and
Gazelle was originally a loyal mem- negate fiery attacks.
ber before the others' cruel streak
turned her against them. Now, it is ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
likely her spirit would return to aid Hydron prefers to attack without ~
victims of the others' supernatural warning and to keep the fight within '.
plots. close quarters where his effective-
ness is greater.
232
IREPTILLA THORNN SALEM1S SEVEN
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
STATISTICS STATISTICS
F GD (10)
F IN (40) A EX (20)
A RM (30) S GD (10)
S EX (20) E EX (20)
---._E G D (1 0) R TY (6)
l TY (6) I TY (6)
I TY (6) P EX (20)
P EX (20) Health: 60
Karma: 32
Health: 100 Resources: TY (6)
Karma: 32 Popularity: -3
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: -5 KNOWN POWERS
Missile Creation: Thornn's body is
.--.J<NOWN POWERS covered in thorns that he can fire at
_amian Body: Reptilla's legs have will. The thorns have Remarkable
been transformed into a sinuous ser- accuracy, a range of 1 area, and do
pentine tail. Her arms have been Remarkable damage. He possesses
transformed into snakes as well; 76 thorns; lost thorns regenerate 1O
each arm-snake has its own head in rounds later.
place of hands. The arm-snakes can
constrict to do Excellent damage ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
each round. Thornn prefers to fight at a distance
Poison Bite: The arm-snakes have with his thorns rather than engage in
Excellent-intensity poison. Victims hand-to-hand combat.
must make an Endurance FEAT or
fall unconscious for 1-10 hours. Fail-
ure to make a second FEAT
decreases the victim's Endurance-1
cs.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
- In combat, Reptilia attacks the weak-
3St target, often holding the victim
hostage to order her other foes to
surrender.
233
VAKUME VERTIGO ADDITIONAL NOTES:
STATISTICS STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A GD (10) F TY (6)
A TY (6)
S GD (10) S TY (6)
E EX (20) E RM {30)
R EX (20) R GD (10)
I GD (10) I GD (10)
P EX (20) P EX {20)
Health: 50
Karma: 50
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 1
KNOWN POWERS Health: 48
Karma: 40
Phasing: Vakume has the Excellent Resources: TY (6)
ability to become intangible and pass
Popularity: 2
through objects with less than
Remarkbale material strength. He can- KNOWN POWERS
not travel through a magical barriers. Biophysical Control (Disruption): She
Air Animation: Vakume has Unearthly has the Monstrous ability to induce
control over the atmosphere. His con- severe nausea in a victim. She can
trol is limited to removing the air from a affect everyone she chooses to with-
target area. Beings within the target in a 20-foot cone extending from her
area must make an Endurance FEAT. face. Failure to make an Endurance
FEAT means the person loses con-
Failure means they begin to suffocate sciousness for 1-10 hours.
from lack of air; victims fall uncon-
scious for 1-10 minutes.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Vakume is a team player. He sees Vertigo calmly waits for the optimum
that acting in unison is the only way moment to strike. She is one of the
to accomplish anything meaningful. most level-headed of the Seven.
He considers ego a waste of time
and energy.
234
SANDMAN
~STATISTICS
F RM (30)
A RM (30)
S IN (40)
E MN (75)
R TY (6)
I GD (10)
P RM (30)
Health: 175
Karma: 46
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 0
BACKGROUND
Real Name: William Baker
Occupation: Ex-professional crimi-
,...., nal turned adventurer and merce-
nary
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with crimi-
nal record
Identity: Current identity is secret
Place of Birth: Queens, New York
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: Mrs. Baker
(mother)
Base of Operations: Brooklyn , New
,----. York; France
Past Group Affiliations: Frightful
Four; current employee of Silver Fox
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS rank or water-based lifeforms absorb ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Mineral Body: He can transform his the Sandman into a mindless Sandman began his career as a
body into sand-like particles under sludge. basic blue- collar criminal who used
his direct control. Talents: Petty criminal skills his powers to rob rather than con-
Topology: Amazing ability to reform Contacts: The Thing and Silverfox's quer. Even when he joined the
,......._ his body at will organization Frightful Four, he retained this out-
look. After his disasterous "partner-
• Hammers do Amazing damage ADDITIONAL NOTES: ship" with Hydro-Man, the Sandman
• Incredible Material cages decided to abandon the criminal life.
• "Phasing" through openings He is now out to make amends for
with Remarkable ease his past misdeeds by battling current
criminals.
• Elongate up to 2 areas
Armor Skin: Amazing protection
against physical attacks and Incredi-
ble protection against most energy
attacks (see below).
Sandblast: Incredible Intensity
attack with a range of 2 areas
Molecular Conversion: Amazing abil-
ity to transform sand into his special
form
Healing: Up to half his damage per
day
Weaknesses: Heat- and flame-
,_ based attacks fuse his body into
glass. Incredible Intensity winds tear
his body into helpless particles.
Water-based powers of Monstrous
235
HISTORY through an unguarded drainpipe, the named Hydro-Man who could trans-.--
knowledge of which he had pur- form his body into animated water. In
William Baker was born and raised in chased while in confinement. He a freak mishap, Sandman and
a rough section of New York City. His attempted to travel south to start a Hydro-Man combined into a gro-
father deserted him and his mother new life. However, Marko was pur- tesque mud-like creature. The
when he was three years old, leaving sued by the FBI as well as state and authorities subdued the mud crea-
them impoverished. Baker learned local police departments. Narrowly ture with a special dessicating gas,
to steal at an early age, and cheated evading the law numerous times, he which partially dehydrated the crea-
and bluffed his way through public made his way down the East Coast. ture, rendering it harmless. The
school. He excelled at football in remaining mud was sent to the
high school but ruined his chances At one point, Marko found refuge police's forensic laboratory in Man-
for a legitimate career when he in a military nuclear testing site near hattan. There, police scientists
accepted money from a local gam- Savannah, Georgia. Marko was sought to analyze the composition of
bling ring to intentionally lose an lying on a nearby beach when an the unusual mud, but determined
important game. Baker was found experimental nuclear reactor's with the instruments at their disposal
out, thrown off the team, and steam system exploded, bombard- that it was completely inanimate. It
expelled from school. He then found ing him with a massive dose of radia- was decided to seal it in a container
steady work as a henchman for a tion. After a short period of and dispose of it. Apparently as a
protection racket gang. At this point, unconsciousness, Marko awoke to delayed effect of some of the analyt- ,,.,.....
Baker adopted the name " Flint find that his body had weirdly taken ic procedures, the mud spontane-
Marko." Marko became successful on the properties of animated sand, ously separated back into the two
in the New York City underworld, but and that he could transform himself criminals, who then burst free of
entertained thoughts of reforming to into a sand-like form. Now able to their container. Hydro-Man quickly
marry his girlfriend, Marcy Conroy. elude the authorities with ease, the departed to unknown destinations.
Arrested for a series of crimes, Sandman, as he now called himself, Sandman was so traumatized and
Marko was convicted and spent sev- embarked on a career of criminal humiliated by the experience that he
eral years in solitary confinement activity which brought him into con- renounced his criminal ambitions.
growing increasingly hostile. Upon flict with Spider-Man, the Fantastic
release, Marko discovered that Con- Four, the Hulk, and many other pow- The Sandman formed a friendship
roy had left him for a member of his erful crimefighters. with his former enemy, the Thing, r--.
gang named Vic Rollins. After exact- who encouraged him to pursue an
ing brutal revenge on Rollins, Marko The Sandman teamed with the honest life. Although still wanted by
embarked on a one-man crime wave the police for past crimes, the Sand-
throughout New York City. Eventu- Wizard, the Trapster, and Medusa, man has forsaken his criminal
ally he was captured and imprisoned who together became known as the career. He lives quietly in Brooklyn,
in the maximum security ward of Frightful Four. The Sandman served New York, under the alias Sylvester
Rykers Island Prison, New York. as a member of the Frightful Four Mann. However, Sandman recently
After a short time, he escaped over many years, during which he entered the service of Silver Fox, a
sometimes acted independently of European woman who operates a
the team as well. mercenary superhero service con- ,.....-....
~acted to the government of Symka-
The Sandman's criminal career na.
recently came to an apparent end. To
battle Spider-man, he had joined
forces with a superpowered criminal
236
SASBUATCH
, STATISTICS
I
F RM (30)
A RM (30)
S MN (75)
E AM (50)
R RM (30)
I GD (10)
P RM (30)
Health: 185
Karma: 70
Resources: GD (10)
Popularity: 10
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dr. Walter "Wanda"
Langkowski
~ Occupation: Adventurer, former
professor of physics, former profes-
sional football player
Legal Status: Citizen of Canada, h
legally deceased
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Bibe
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Member of ~ ·
Alpha Flight, possesses the body of •..
one of the Great Beasts, former ~\
member of the Green Bay Packers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Bestial Form: In human form,
Langkowski has the following statis-
.--..J ics:
FASE
RM GD TY EX
Health: 66
Whenever Langkowski changes Claws: As Sasquatch, Walter/Wanda ADDITIONAL NOTES:
forms, all damage instantly heals. It gains Claws, which can do Remark-
takes him one round of uninterrupt- able Edged Damage.
ed concentration to transform him- Talents: Langkowski has the Phys-
self. Sasquatch's current body is that ics and Radiation studies talents. He
of the deceased Snowbird. As such, is familiar with American football.
when he reverts to human form, it is Contacts: Langkowski is a charter
member of Alpha Flight. He and
to a female human form. Bruce Banner were fellow students.
Body Armor: As Sasquatch, Walter/ Langkowski has also assisted Bill
Wanda has Remarkable body armor Foster (Black Goliath) when dying of
and Excellent Resistance to cold. radiation poisoning.
Leaping: As Sasquatch, Walter/
Wanda can leap up to 3 areas per
round.
237
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Langkowski. During a leave of an mythology. A mystic link was....--
Although extremely educated, absence from McGill University, formed between Langkowski and th6
Langkowski comes across as a Langkowski designed and construct- Great Beast called Tanaraq, ena-
rough-and-tumble man. Prior to his ed a means to generate gamma radi- bling Langkowski, without knowing
transformation to " Wanda," he had a ation bombardments similar to those what he was really doing, to take on
weak spot tor an attractive woman . which had create the Hulk, but under Tanaraq's form and control it. But
In the last year or so he has " died" laboratory conditions. with each " transformation" of
and been " reborn" on at least two Langkowski into Sasquatch,
occasions, existing as one of the Because of the potential for radia- Tanaraq's mind was able to supplant
Great Beasts, the Box robot, an tion leakage, Langkowski performed Langkowski's personality whenever
ethereal spirit, Smart Alec, and now his experiment in self-transformation Langkowski, in Sasquatch's form,
a woman . He has adapted well to his in the isolated laboratory north of the felt intense anger or pain . Finally,
new body, which ls fairly normal Arctic Circle. There he used the Tanaraq took full control of Sasquat-
compared to some of his other equipment he had designed to bom- ch. Snowbird, realizing what had
" incarnations." bard himself with gamma radiation, happened, transformed herself into
and was transformed into a ten-foot- a being like Sasquatch and tore out
HISTORY tall, superhumanly powerful creature Tanaraq's heart, killing Langkowski's
which went on a savage rampage for physical form, which reverted to nor-
Dr. Walter Langkowski was born and hours before finally reverting to mal in dying. Six members of Alpha ....-..
raised in British Columbia, Canada. human form . One of Hudson's Flight journeyed into the otherdi-,
He attended Pennsylvania State agents, Snowbird, found Langkowski mensional realm of the Great Beasts
University on a football scholarship. in human form lying in the snow after and recovered Langkowski's soul,
During his freshman year, his rampage, took him to a hospital, intending to return it to his body.
Langkowski met Bruce Banner, who and summoned Hudson. Another of Langkowski's body had mystically
would later become noted for his Hudson's agents, Dr. Michael Twoy- been crystallized to preserve it, but
work in gamma ray research and oungmen, asked Snowbird, who was the body entirely crumbled away
infamous for becoming the mon- herself able to change shape, to wh ile the Alpha Flight members
strous Hulk as a result of overexpos- teach Langkowski how to maintain were recovering Langkowski's soul.
ure to gamma radiation. his normal personality and intelli- So, instead, Michael Twoyoungmen, ,_
gence in his bestial form. This teach- then known as Shaman, projected:
When the fact that Bruce Banner ing proved to be entirely successful Langkowski 's soul into the robotic ·
was the Hulk became public knowl- until only recently. body that its inventor Roger Bochs,
edge, Langkowski conceived a new called Box.
goal for his life. He entered a gradu- Langkowski called himself " Sas-
ate program in physics at the Massa- quatch" when he was in his bestial Langkowski thus remained alive in
chusetts Institute of Technology and form, after the Canadian word for Box while he and Bochs sought for a
rapidly earned his Ph.D. He was new body for Langkowski's soul to
then appointed to the faculty of Canada's legendary " Bigfoot" crea- inhabit. They finally located a nearly
McGill University in Montreal. Since ture, which he resembled. Once he mindless humanoid form existing at
leaving his football career, an interdimensional nexus. .,..,.......
Langkowski had accumulated all the had learned how to maintain his nor- Langkowski abandoned Box and his1
information he could find on the Hulk mal human personality and intelli- spirit was projected to that nexus,
and on other human beings who had where he discovered that the body
been transformed through exposure gence as Sasquatch and had was that of the Hulk. Unwilling to
to gamma radiation. Langkowski undergone a period of training in take over the body belonging to his
intended to recreate, under con- Department H's team of apprentice old friend Bruce Banner, Langkowski
trolled circumstances, the condi- superhuman agents, Beta and seemingly allowed his spirit to van-
tions which produced the Hulk. Gamma Flight, Langkowski became a ish from the mortal plane.
Langkowski spent over a million dol- member of James Hudson's fully train-
lars of his own money on his ed team of superhuman agents, Alpha Langkowski was later able to use
research into this area, and finally Flight. He became the lover of another the physical body of Smart Alec,
applied to the Canadian government Alpha Flight member, Aurora, and is within Shaman's medicine bag, to
for additional funding. James Mac- responsible for the alteration in her return to reality. He briefly reentered
Donald Hudson, who was organizing superhuman powers. the Box robot and then transferred to
a group of superhuman agents for Snowbird's body (in its Sasquatch/
the Canadian government's Depart- However, Langkowski was wrong Great Beast form), which had been
ment H, arranged for the funding in believing that he had gained his re-animated by Pestilence. Although
and procured an isolated laboratory Sasquatch form from gamma radia- he can now transform back to human
near the Arctic Circle for tion . The equipment he used in the form, it is the form of the female ,,-
experiment in the Arctic laboratory Snowbird. Langkowski now calls1
had actually unleashed for a fraction himself " Wanda" and has remained
of a second enough physical energy with Alpha Flight.
to sunder the mystical barrier sepa-
rating Earth from the otherdimen-
sional realm of the Great Beasts,
enemies of the god of native Canadi-
238
SAVAGE LAND MUTATES
-QROUP BACKGROUND Mutates, Lorelei, somehow came to AMPHIBIUS
he Savage Land Mutates are a group join Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil
Mutants. She has apparently not STATISTICS
of Swamp People from the Savage returned to the Savage Land since F GD (10)
Land, a tropical jungle that existed then, and her whereabouts also A EX (20)
within Antarctica, who, except for Ver- remain a mystery. S TY (6)
tigo, were originally artificially mutated E EX (20)
through technological means by Mag- Somehow the Savage Land
Mutates (other than Equilibrius, Lore- R PR (4)
neto so as to give them superhuman lei, and Piper) returned to the Savage
Land from Chile. It is unknown what I GD (10)
powers. happened to the Mutate Equilibrius P TY (6)
(Under a strict definition of the term since he entered Chilean custody with
the others. Another of the Mutates, Health: 56
"mutant" superhuman mutants are Brainchild, originally thus named Karma: 20
said to be beings who possess their because he had superhuman intelli- Resources: FE (2)
unusual forms or abilities, or the gence and childlike emotions, Popularity: O
potential for having them, from birth.
Superhuman mutates, on the other achieved greater emotional maturity BACKGROUND
hand, are mutated at some point dur- and became the Mutate's leader. Real Name: Unrevealed
ing their lives. Hence they did not pos- Apparently to replace Equilibrius, he Occupation: Warrior
sess their unusual forms or abilities, or used a genetic transformer device to Legal Status: None
- the genetic potential for them from mutate a female Savage Land native Identity: Amphibius's existence is
1irth, but developed them later. An into Vertigo, who had a power similar unknown to the general population
evolutionary offshoot of humanity to Equilibrius's. Brainchild and the of Earth
called the Deviants uses the term Mutates joined forces with the high Place of Birth: The Savage Land
"mutate" differently, to describe Devi- priestess Zaladane to take control of Marital Status: Unrevealed
ants who genetically differ from the the Savage Land. Under Brainchild's Known Relatives: None
majority of Deviants in extreme ways.) leadership, the Savage Land Mutates Base of Operations: Formerly the
battled the Angel, Ka-Zar, and Spider- Savage Land, now unknown
Magneto gave the Savage Land Man in the Savage Land. Working for Past Group Affiliations: Member of
Mutates their superhuman powers the monstrous Sauron, Brainchild and the Savage Land Mutates, servant of
during a period he spent living in the his Mutates subsequently fought Ka- Magneto
-Savage Land. The Mutates battled the Zar; the Angel, and his fellow X-Men. Present Group Affiliation:
:-Men and Ka-Zar on Magneto's Ka-Zar and the X-Men defeated the
behalf, but after Magneto's own defeat Mutates, who were returned by Ka- KNOWN POWERS
in the Savage Land by the X-Man zar, using one of Brainchild's devices, Water-Breathing: Amphibius can
Marvel Girl, the Mutates returned to to their original states. breathe air indefinitely or water for
their original non-superhuman state up to one hour.
for unknown reasons . But it appears that the effect of the Leaping: Amphibius has Amazing
mutation-inducing technology that leaping ability (50 feet up or across). He
Subsequently, the Savage Land gave the Savage Land Mutates their has developed two Power Stunts:
Mutates regained their superhuman powers causes them eventually to **The ability to "leap-kick" at an oppo-
powers and unusual forms for reasons regain their superhuman abilities and nent, inflicting Remarkable damage.
~~hat remain unclear. This time the unusual forms should they lose them. * *The ability to do a "bank shot":
JOwers of the Mutates had allegedly It is unknown if all the Savage Land bouncing from wall to wall. While doing
increased. The Mutates, who have Mutates somehow escaped the recent so, he uses his Monstrous rank leaping
also been called the Beast Brood, cap- apparently total destruction of the Sav- ability as his Agility for Dodging pur-
tured three scientists and tried to force age Land. poses. By making a Yellow FEAT roll
against his Leaping rank, he can also
them to mutate other Savage Land The Piper and Equilibrius are appar- use his " leap-kick" power stunt.
natives into superhuman beings. The ently still in the hands of the legal Talents: Amphibius is an excellent
Avengers and the Asgardian goddess authorities in New York and Chile, swimmer.
Sif came searching for the scientists respectively, and, presumably, Lorelei Contacts: Amphibius is a former
and defeated the Mutates. The Aveng- never returned to the Savage Land agent of Magneto and a member of
ers rescued the scientists and deliv- after her time as a member of the the Savage Land Mutates.
ered the Mutates to legal authorities in Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Vertigo,
Chile, the nearest nation to the Sav- one of the Mutates working for ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
age Land. One of the Savage Land Sauron, was apparently recruited by An unimaginative fighter and tacti-
Mutates, the Piper, was not present at Mister Sinister prior to the Savage cian, Amphibius follows the lead of
the battle with the Avengers. Shortly Land's destruction and is a member of the group's leader.
thereafter, he aided Magneto in bat- his team of assassins, the Marauders.
tling the Avengers back in the United
~ States. However, the Vision defeated
.JOth Magneto and the Piper, and the
Piper's whereabouts since then
remain a mystery. Later another of the
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BARBARUS R AM (50) possessed the emotional maturity oJ--
I EX (20)
STATISTICS P GD (10) a 14 year old. When the Mutate
F EX (20) somehow " re-evolved" after their
Health: 42 first defeat, Brainchild gained more
A TY (6) Karma: 80
S AM (50) Resources: FE (2) maturity and acted as the Mutates'
E RM (30) Popularity: O leader, providing them with guidance
R PR (4) and leadership. He rarely attacks
I GD (10) BACKGROUND direct ly in combat, preferring to
P TY (6) Real Name: Unrevealed strike by surprise because of his rel-
Occupation: Strategist atively weak physical stature.
Health: 106 Legal Status: None
Karma: 20 Identity: Brainchild's existence is EBUILIBRIUS
Resources: FE (2) unknown to the general population
Popularity: 0 of Earth STATISTICS
Place of Birth: The Savage Land F TY (6)
BACKGROUND Marital Status: Unrevealed A GD (10)
Real Name: Unrevealed Known Relatives: None S TY (6)
Occupation: Warrior Base of Operations: Formerly the E EX (20)
Legal Status: None Savage Land, now unknown
Identity: Barbarus' existence is Past Group Affiliations: Member of R PR (4)
unknown to the general population the Savage Land Mutates, servant of I GD (10)
of Earth Magneto P GD (10)
Pl.ace of Birth: The Savage Land Present Group Affiliation:
Marital Status: Unrevealed Health: 42
Known Relatives: None KNOWN POWERS Karma: 24
Base of Operations: Formerly the Computer Mind: Brainchild's brain Resources: FE (2)
Savage Land, now unknown was genetically enhanced to func- Popularity: O
Past Group Affiliations: Member of tion as a computer. In addition to
the Savage Land Mutates, servant of augmenting his Reason, Brainchild BACKGROUND ~
Magneto possessed the following Power Real Name: Unrevealed
Present Group Affiliation: Stunts: I
KNOWN POWERS • Any group under his tactical Occupation: Warrior
Multi-Arms: Barbarus possesses
leadership gains a + 1 CS to their Legal Status: None
four arms, giving him a + 2 CS in
Intuition when following his Identity: Equilibrius's existence is
Grappling combat. He can make orders.
multiple attacks at Incredible rank • He gains the ability to anticipate unknown to the general population
instead of his Fighting rank. his opponent's actions, allowing
Talents: Barbarus has the Blunt him to use his Reason when mak- of Earth
Weapons skill. ing Dodge rolls. He could also use
Contacts: Barbarus was a former his Reason instead of his Fighting Place of Birth: The Savage Land
agent of Magneto and a member of ability when using thrown weap-
the Savage Land Mutates. ons. Marital Status: Unrevealed
• He gains the equivalent of the
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Leadership talent. Known Relatives: None
Barbarus is the best fighter of the Stone Axes: Brainchild carries up to
group, and enjoys his role as the four hand axes which can be thrown Base of. Operations: Formerly th~
"strong-arm" of the Mutates. He is for Good Blunt or Edged damage.
extremely simple and uses brute Talents: Brainchild's heightened Savage Land, now unknown 1
force to solve all of his problems. intellect provides him with the
RepairfTinkering skill. He gained the Past Group Affiliations: Member of
BRAINCHILD Genetics talent while under Magne-
to's command . the Savage Land Mutates, servant of
STATISTICS Contacts: Brainchild was Magne-
F GD (10) to's most trusted Mutate. He leads Magneto
his fellow Mutates.
A TY (6) Present Group Affiliation:
S TY (6) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
E EX (20) When first encountered, Brainchild KNOWN POWERS
Equilibrium Distortion: Anyone look-
ing into Equilibrius's eyes has a
chance of being affected by his
Incredible rank power. If eye contact
is made, a Psyche FEAT roll must be
made against Equilibrius's Intensity
rank. Those failing this roll receive a
-4 CS to all actions and cannot stand
up for 1 + 1-10 rounds. A victim
must make a roll each time he makes
eye contact with Equilibrius. AnyonE}--.
attacking while deliberately avertin'"
or covering their eyes receives a -2
cs.
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----... Talents: None Savage Land Mutates. thezoid) are immune to the effects of
Contacts: Equilibrius is a former her power.
agent of Magneto and a member of ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
the Savage Land Mutates. A " gentle giant," Gaza is not as Lorelei uses her singing voice as a
blood-thirsty as Barbarus and only focus. She can continue singing for
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES fights when necessary. Unfortu- up to 20 rounds. When she finishes
Although technically a warrior, nately, he is devoted to his fellow singing, those paralyzed by her song
Equilibrius deplores physical com- M utates and follows their lead in
bat and prefers to render his victims their attacks on humanity. He must take two rounds to come to
helpless, so his more physical com- believes that their actions are justi- their senses. Anyone resisting her
rades can handle them. fied for the good of the Savage Land. voice may act on the round they
resist, but must make more rolls o n
GAZA LORELEI
subsequent rounds as long as they
STATISTICS STATISTICS are within range. Anyone who is deaf
F TY (6) or who has blocked ears is immune
F EX (20) A TY (6) to her powers.
Talents: None
A TY (6) S TY (6) Contacts: Lorelei is a former mem-
E GD (10) ber of the Savage Land Mutates,
r--... S RM (30) R PR (4) although she has not seen them in
several years. She is a trusted agent
E IN (40) I GD (10) of Magneto, but was viewed with dis-
P TY (6) trust by the other, male members of
R PR (4) the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants dur-
ing her time with them .
I EX (20)
P TY (6)
Health: 96 Health: 28 ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Karma: 30 Karma: 20 Lorelei is (no pun intended) a one-note
Resources: FE (2) Resources: PR (4) character. She will always use her
Popularity: O power to render male opponents help-
Popularity: O less, then let her allies (males either
BACKGROUND use earplugs or strike in the two
Real Name: Unrevealed BACKGROUND rounds after she has stopped singing)
Occupation: Warrior Real Name: Unrevealed do the dirty work. Against opponents
Legal Status: None Occupation: Mercenary who are immune to her power, she is
Identity: Gaza's existence is Legal Status: Unrevealed helpless. As such, she never attacks
unknown to the general population Identity: Publicly known, although on her own, but as part of a team. Dur-
of Earth her identity as a Savage Land ing her time with the Brotherhood, she
Place of Birth: The Savage Land Mutate is not commonly known to was completely dependent on Magne-
Marital Status: Unrevealed the general population of Earth, who to because of her unfamiliarity with the
- -Known Relatives: None simply believe her to be a mutant. modern world.
Base of Operations: Formerly the Place of Birth: The Savage Land
Savage Land, now unknown Marital Status: Presumed single LUPO
Past Group Affiliations: Member of Known Relatives: None
the Savage Land Mutates, servant of Base of Operations: Formerly the STATISTICS
Magneto Savage Land, now mobile F GD (10)
Present Group Affiliation: Past Group Affiliations: Former A GD (10)
member of the Savage Land
KNOWN POWERS Mutates, servant of Magneto, mem- S TY (6)
Psionic Vision: Although technically ber of the Brotherhood of Evil E EX {20)
blind, Gaza possessed psionic abili- Mutants R PR (4)
.ties which p rovided him with the Present Group Affiliation:
equivalent of normal eyesight. How- I GD (10)
ever, he is immune to purely visual KNOWN POWERS P TY (6)
(as opposed to psionic) illusions, Sonic Hypnosis: Lorelei has the
blinding attacks, and any attacks Amazing rank ability to paralyze men Health: 46
that require eye contact. within a 10 area range. Any male Karma: 20
Talents: A skilled fighter, Gaza pos- within this area must make a Psyche Resources: FE (2)
- '6esses Martial Arts C and the Wres- FEAT roll vs. Amazing Intensity at a - Popularity: O
:ling Talent. 2 CS or be paralyzed. Immortal
Contacts: Gaza was a former agent beings, such as Thor and Hercules, BACKGROUND
of Magneto and is a member of the and robots, such as Machine Man Real Name: Unrevealed (possibly
and Ultron (but not the Vision, a syn- Timberius)
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Occupation: Warrior Health: 38 Resources: PR (4)
Legal Status: None Karma: 24 Popularity: -3
Identity: Lupo's existence is Resources: FE (2)
unknown to the general population Popularity: O BACKGROUND
of Earth Real Name: Unrevealed
Place of Birth: The Savage Land BACKGROUND Occupation: Mercenary
Marital Status: Unrevealed Real Name: Unrevealed Legal Status: None
Known Relatives: None Occupat ion: Musician Identity: Vertigo's identity as a Savage
Base of Operations: Formerly the Legal Status: None Land Mutate is not generally known to
Savage Land, now unknown Identity: The Piper's existence is the general population of Earth
Past Group Affiliations: Member of unknown to the population of Earth Place of Birth: The Savage Land
the Savage Land Mutates, servant of Place of Birth: The Savage Land Marital Status: Unrevealed
Magneto Marital Status: Unrevealed Known Relatives: None
Present Group Affiliation: Known Relatives: None Base of Operations: Formerly the
Base of Operations: Formerly the Savage Land, now mobile
KNOWN POWERS Savage Land, now unknown Past Group Affiliations: Former
Animal Communication: Lupo can Past Group Affiliations: Member of member of the Savage Land
summon and control mammalian the Savage Land Mutates, servant of Mutates, former servant of Magneto,
carnivores with Remarkable ability, Magneto current member of the Marauders
wolves with Amazing. This ability Present Group Affiliation: Present Group Affiliation:
has a range of one mile, but Lupo
must make a series of high-pitched KNOWN POWERS KNOWN POWERS
cries to obtain this range. Otherwise, Animal Control: The Piper has the Vertigo: Vertigo has the ability to
he can summon such animals only Remarkable rank ability to summon instill vertigo in her victims at Incredi-
from 100 feet (1 Oareas) away. and command any animal or mind- ble rank. Her victims, upon encoun-
less monster or primitive, within a tering her power for the first time,
As a Power Stunt, Lupo can control range of 12 areas in the country or 2 must make a Psyche FEAT roll
in the city. He must play the pan- against the intensity of her power or
feral/carnivore-type characters such as pipes or flutes in order to use this receive a -4 CS to all actions and -...
Wolverine, Sabretooth, Wild Child, and power, as these instruments act as a
Jack Russell , the Man-Wolf. They focus for his power. become unable to stand for 1 + 1-1 G
receive a Psyche FEAT against Lupo's Talents: The Piper is a skilled musi-
Power Rank of Remarkable (or cal Performer with any woodwind rounds. Victims who have previously
Amazing if they were directly wolf· instrument. experienced the effects of her power
related, but only the Man-Wolf quali- Contacts: The Piper was a former
agent of Magneto and a former receive a +2 CS against the vertigo
fies) with a +2 CS in their favor. member of the Mutates.
effect, and characters with the Acro-
Talents: None ROLE-PLAYING NOTES batic Talent may use their rank in this
Contacts: Lupo was a former agent A quiet type who prefers a solitary
of Magneto and is a member of the existence, the Piper is nonetheless skill (Agility + 1 CS) instead of the
Savage Land Mutates. intensely loyal to Magneto. Like
Lupo, he cares little for the creatures Psyche when resisting, as they are
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES he controls and will sacrifice them familiar with inner ear imbalances
Although feral in appearance, Lupo is willingly to obtain his objectives. (these advantages are cumulative,.....--...
not a berserker-type like Wolverine or when applicable).
Sabretooth. He is not much of a fight- VERTIGO
er, preferring to rely on his summoned Vertigo can affect any characters
creatures to fight his battles for him. STATISTICS
He has no particular empathy for the F TY (6) within a 2-area volume within 5
creatures he controls and will willingly A TY (6)
sacrifice them if necessary. S TY (6) areas. She must be able to actually
E EX (20) view the area that she is affecting.
PIPER R TY (6) Talents: None
I GD (10) Contacts: Vertigo is a former Sav-
STATISTICS P TY (6) age Land Mutate and a former agent
F TY (6) of Magneto. She now serves Mister
A TY (6) Health: 38 Sinister, head of t he Marauders, and
S TY (6) Karma: 22 is a valued member of that team.
E EX (20)
R PR (4) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
I GD(10) Originally a quiet type who used her
P GD(10) powers on the orders of either Mag-
neto or Brainchild, Vertigo now gets
a sadistic fulfillment out of inducing
vertigo in her victims. Unlike the othY--
er Mutates, she is familiar with tht.
modern world, and is the only mem-
ber to have traveled extensively in it.
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SCARECROW
STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A RM (30)
S GD (10)
E GD(10)
R TY (6)
I EX (20)
P FE(2)
Health: 70
Karma: 28
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: -6
BACKGROUND i~. ~''l11,l,,,~~-
Real Name: Ebenezer Laughton f~'~~
Occupation: Former carnival per- .
- former, now professional criminal '
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
criminal record
Identity: Known to the police
Place of Birth: Rhinebeck, New
York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Ralph (brother)
Base of Operations: New York area
Past Group Affiliations: Former
operative of Count Nefaria and the
1Cowled Commander
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS thick and thin, despite knowledge of
Contortionist: The Scarecrow is Ebenezer's insanity.
double-jointed and can fit his entire
body through any aperture at least ADDITIONAL NOTES:
one foot wide. This same flexibility
allows him to Escape as if his ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
,.....,._ Strength were Amazing. Originally a youth who sought fame
Pet Crows: The Scarecrow has a
flock of two dozen pet crows, which as an escape artist and contortionist,
have been taught by him to kill on Laughton turned to crime as a way to
command, or when anyone attacks better himself. Over the years, he
their master. Their statistics are: has slowly gone insane from frustra-
tion and imprisonment. He is now a
FASE sadistic killer and thief who takes
PR GD FE PR offense at any slight.
Health: 20
The crows have Poor Air Speed,
Poor Edged damage with claws and
beak.
Talents: The Scarecrow is a trained
Acrobat and Tumbler. He has
Remarkable skill in lockpicking,
safecracking, and escapology.
· Contacts: The Scarecrow has been
'employed by both Count Nefaria and
the Cowled Commander. His brother,
Ralph, has stood by him through
243
HISTORY the ticket vendor outside. Seeking cupine in Nefaria's bid to capture -...
publicity, Laughton stopped the thief and hold Washington for ransom .
Ebenezer Laughton was a naturally with a simple acrobatic move. As When Nefaria's plans failed , the
flexible, lithe, double-jointed youth Iron Man carried the criminal away, Scarecrow and his fellow henchmen
who saw a " rubber man" perform at Laughton realized the potential in his fled. They were later recruited by the
a traveling carn ival and became particular skills for illegitimate gain. Cowled Commander and pitted
obsessed with emulating him. Train- against Captain America and the
ing himself almost incessantly, After stealing a scarecrow outfit Falcon, who defeated them.
Laughton learned to twist and bend from a costume shop, he chose for
his body into numerous unusual his first outing as a costumed crimi- While serving a several-year
positions and perform various acro- nal, the apartment of wealthy social- prison term, including a year in soli-
batic stunts. A brief audition of his ite and industrialist Anthony Stark. tary confinement, the Scarecrow
abilities gained him a job at a live At first attempting to steal Stark's went insane from his hatred of vari-
variety show where he billed himself valuables and money, the Scarecrow ous enemies. When · he was finally
as Umberto the Uncanny. During discovered top secret industrial paroled, the Scarecrow set out on a
one of his performances, Iron Man designs in the apartment and decid- campaign to murder supporters of
entered the theater in pursuit of a ed to sell them to the highest bidder. the Coalition for an Upstanding
criminal whom he observed robbing This theft led him into battle with America, a morality-in-media organi-
Anthony Stark's alter ego, Iron Man, zation. He managed to kill two of
and imprisonment. them and take over a fund-raising ,,........_
telethon before Captain America
He later was freed by Count defeated him. The Scarecrow is cur-
Luchino Nefaria and was teamed rently in prison again.
with the Eel, Plantman, and the Por-
244
SCARLET WITCH
,...--. STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A GD (10)
S TY (6)
E EX (20)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P RM (30)
Health: 46
Karma: 60
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 16
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Wanda Maximoff
Occupation: Professional
adventurer-turned-housewife
r ' Legal Status: Former citizen of Tran-
sia, naturalized citizen of the U.S.
with no criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Wundagore Moun-
tain, Transia, Europe
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Vision (husband),
Thomas (son), William (son), Pietro
,,,........ (brother, alias Quicksilver), Magneto
(father), Magda (mother, presumed
deceased), Django Maximoff (adop-
tive father, deceased), Marya Max-
imoff (adoptive mother, deceased),
Crystal (sister-in-law), Luna (niece),
Black Bolt, Medusa, Gorgon,
Karnak, Trigon (sister-in-law's cous-
ins), Simon Williams (brother-in-law,
alias Wonder Man), Eric Williams
,,-._ (brother-in-law, alias Grim Reaper,
deceased), Martha Williams
(mother-in-law), Sanford Williams
(father-in-law, deceased)
Base of Operations: Leonia, New
Jersey
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of the Brotherhood of Evil ation of air from a given volume, etc.
On one occasion she even managed
Mutants, reserve member of the to put a crack in the adamantium protection against Mystical
casing of Ultron. Against unnatural attacks.
Avengers materials or energies, such as com- • Good rank Telekinesis.
plex alloys or force fields, she Talents: Wanda has the Mystic
Present Group Affiliation: receives a -1 CS when making the background and has the Occult Lore
FEAT roll. talent.
KNOWN POWERS Contacts: The Scarlet Witch has
Wanda can affect probabilities in contacts with both East and West
Probability Field Alteration: The any place that she can view directly. Coast Avengers as a reserve mem-
Scarlet Witch can disrupt probabili- Magic Manipulation: Wanda has ber. She is not on particularly good
ties at Amazing rank so that unlikely mastered the following magical terms with her father, Magneto, but
(but not impossible) events occur. Power Stunts: he would come to her aid if she were
This can include the shorting out of in danger. She and the Vision are
r- mechanical equipment, spontane- • Eldritch Bolts of Excellent Rank close friends of the mutant couple
ous combustion of flammable • Shields providing Incredible Glamour and Illusion. On occasion
objects, the disruption of energy
245
fields and transmissions, the evacu-
she has been able to contact the her and learn of the children, Magda the barest details of their childhood.
shade of her deceased teacher, Aga- left Bova a note explaining her fears, The next few years, Wanda and Pie-
tha Harkness. and walked into the frozen mountain tro wandered central Europe, living
wilderness to perish. Feeling that it
ADDITIONAL NOTES: was not right to raise two seemingly off the land.
normal babies in the environment of
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES the evolved animal-men of Wunda- One day, Wanda accidentally
Early in her career, the Scarlet Witch gore, Bova was relieved when sev- caused a house to burst into flames
had low self-esteem. As she grew in eral nights later, an American couple with her uncontrollable hex powers.
the use of her powers, she became a vacationing in Europe, Robert and Despite Pietro's attempt to defend
force to be reckoned with and now Madeline Frank, also came to Wun- her from enraged townspeople, they
faces any danger with iron resolve. dagore seeking assistance with a were soon overpowered and about
She has unflinchingly taken on such birth. Bova intended to award the to become victims of mob violence
menaces as Chthon and Ultron. She couple the days-old twins to raise when Magneto came to their rescue.
is also a devoted mother and wife, along with their own newborn. Unfor- Unaware that he was their natural
and is overly protective of her hus- tunately, the couple's child was still- father, Magneto pressed them into
band, the Vision, who is still in many born, and Madeline died in service in his Brotherhood of Evil
ways new to "humanity." childbirth. Bova presented Robert Mutants, costumed them, and
Frank with the twins, representing
HISTORY them as his own natural children , in named them Scarlet Witch and
the hope it would assuage his grief. Quicksilver. For months they served
Wanda Maximoff was the daughter Frank, refusing the children, fled Magneto out of a sense of obligation ,......
of the mutant later known as Magne- from Wundagore nearly insane with and fear of his reprisal. When the
to and a gypsy woman named grief. (Years later, Frank and the chil- extraterrestrial Stranger transported
Magda. Just prior to her birth, her dren would come to believe that he Magneto from Earth, the Scarlet
mother fled from her father, terrified was their natural father.) Bova then Witch and Quicksilver left the Broth-
of the bizarre powers he suddenly presented the twins to her master, erhood and petitioned for member-
manifested and his intentions of the High Evolutionary, who agreed to ship in the Avengers. They were
world domination. Seeking refuge in find human foster parents for them . inducted along with Hawkeye to take
the scientific citadel of Wundagore in the place of the charter members,
the Balkan Mountains of the tiny The High Evoluationary did find
nation of Transia, Magda was taken such parents for them in the persons who wished a leave of absence.
in by Bova, a woman evolved from a of Django and Marya Maximoff, a At one point during her career as ,,-
cow by the master of genetic accel- gypsy couple camped nearby who
eration , the High Evolutionary. had lost their own twin children, Ana an Avenger, the Scarlet Witch under- i
Magda gave birth to twins, a boy and and Maleo, during World War II. The went training in sorcery under the
a girl, with Bova as her midwife. Still Maximoffs accepted the strange tutelage of a true witch named Aga-
afraid that her husband might find gifts from the High Evolutionary and tha Harkness. The mental discipline
were told their names were Wanda of sorcery aided the Scarlet Witch's
and Pietro, the names their natural powers of concentration, enabling
mother had given them at birth. The her to exercise much greater control
Maximoffs cared for the children as if over her mutant hexes than ever
they were their own. (Years later, before. While an active member of
Django would believe that Wanda the Avengers, the Scarlet Witch met ,.
and Pietro were his natural children, and married the synthetic man \
called the Vision. For a few years •
Ana and Maleo.) after their marriage, the two lived in
As adolescents, Wanda and Pietro Avengers Mansion, saving their
Avengers' salaries. Eventually, the
discovered that they had peculiar tal- couple bought a house in Leonia,
ents. With a particular gesture while New Jersey, and retired from active
she was in a certain frame of mind, membership. They returned to
Wanda found that she could cause active duty when the Baxter Building
unusual phenomena to occur. When was threatened by Annihilus 's
Django began to steal food to feed nullfield. The Vision assumed chair-
his starving family, enraged villagers manship when most of the Avengers
attacked the gypsy camp. Using his disappeared while fighting the first
phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from
the camp with his sister. The trau- Secret War. After a several-week
matic circumstances of the separa- stint, the Vision stepped down as
tion from their family were so severe leader and the couple returned to
that not until well into adulthood Leonia. By warping probabilities,
could they remember anything but Wanda managed to be impregnated
by the artificial Vision. They have ,
since had twin sons named Thomas
and William.
246
STATISTICS SCORPION
F RM (30) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
A IN (40) Gargan is not a particularly sophisti-
S IN (40) cated criminal , preferring to pick an
E IN (40) opponent and bludgeon him. He
R TY (6) considers Spider-Man his main
I TY (6) opponent and the two have fought
on many occasions. Gargan also
P GD (10) hates Jonah Jameson, the man who
arranged for him to receive his
Health: 150 powers. His plans often include gain-
Karma: 22 ing revenge against Jameson.
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: -15 247
BACKGROUND
Real Name: MacDonald "Mac"
Gargan
.......... Occupation: Former private detec-
tive, now professional criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a
criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Member of
the Masters of Evil Ill, former partner
of Mr. Hyde
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Climbing: Gargan can climb any wall
he can get a grip on with Excellent
ability.
Body Armor: Gargan's suit provides
him with Excellent protection against
...--.. physical damage and Remarkable
protection against electrical attacks.
Cybernetic Tail: The Scorpion's tail is
made of Incredible strength material
and can do Amazing Blunt damage.
He can coil it like a spring to propel
him up to 3 stories up or 2 areas
away. He cannot grapple with it ,but
it is equipped with a plasma projec-
tor which can fire a bolt that does
Remarkable Energy damage up to
10 areas away.
Talents: Once a private detective,
Gargan is out of practice and gains
no benefits for using Detective/
Espionage skills.
Contacts: The Scorpion was a one-
time partner of Mr. Hyde, but the two
have not been together for several
1ears. Gargan has a number of crim-
inal contacts in the New York under-
world .
designed by the Tinkerer, the Scorpi- Scorpion decided to get revenge on ,---
on sought battle with Spider-Man.
While they fought, Stillwell observed J. Jonah Jameson, who was respon-
violent psychotic behavior in the test
HISTORY animals upon whom he performed sible for his transformation into the '
his experiments. He concluded that
MacDonald Gargan, a private inves- Gargan would lose his ability to dis- Scorpion and his subsequent humili-
tigator, was hired by Daily Bugle pub- tinguish right from wrong. Stillwell
lisher J. Jonah Jameson to follow tried to administer an experimental ation. Twice he attacked Jameson
Peter Parker in order to find out how antidote to Gargan, but died in the
Parker managed to photograph attempt. Gargan went on a crime but was beaten off first by the origi-
Spider-Man. While Gargan was on spree, but was defeated by Spider-
the case, a press release came to Man. The Scorpion was again nal Ms. Marvel and then by Spider-
the attention of Jameson about a sci- defeated by Spider-Man in another ~an. During this time, the Scorpion,
entist named Dr. Farley Stillwell, who encounter months later.
had developed a means of mutagen- his sanity deteriorating, began to
ically endowing animals with various After being paroled, the Scorpion
believe that he could not remove his
uncharacteristic features. At the was contacted by an unnamed spy
time of the press release, Stillwell's ring who hired him to follow SHIELD costume. After his defeat at Spider-
experiments had given a rat gills and agent Sharon Carter. He was beaten
a fish lungs. Jameson called in in combat by Captain America and Man 's hands, he learned otherwise
Gargan and arranged for them to taken into SHIELD custody, where
meet with Stillwell. He offered the android assassin known as Mis- when police· authorities removed it.
Stillwell $10,000 to develop a way to ter Kline somehow acquired him and
give a person superhuman abilities Mister Hyde. Kline made android Feigning mental incompetence to
that could defeat Spider-Man, and duplicates of the Scorpion and Mis-
also offered $10,000 to Gargan to ter Hyde which it dispatched against get more lenient treatment, he was
undergo whatever treatments would Daredevil. Following Mister Kline's
be involved. Stillwell needed the defeat, the Scorpion and Hyde placed in a mental institution rather
money to further his research, so he escaped imprisonment. Under the
accepted Jameson 's offer. Gargan, assumption that it was SHIELD that than prison . Escaping, he once
had held them all this time, the two
intrigued, also accepted. launched a campaign of terror again tried to get revenge on Jame-
Stillwell put Gargan through a bat- against SHIELD agents. They were
finally stopped by Captain America son, but was thwarted by Captain
tery of chemical and radiological America and Spider-Man.
treatments to grant the detective and the Falcon. ,...........
superhuman powers. Equipped with
a special costume and a cyberneti- Eventually escaping prison, the Scorpion was freed from prison by ·
cally controlled mechanical tail agents of Egghead, who wanted him
as part of his new Masters of Evil.
The Scorpion's participation in the
group was cut short by the Avengers,
however, and he was returned to
prison.
Most recently the Scorpion once
again escaped JaonndahtrJiaemd etsoongbeyt~
revenge upon J.
kidnapping his son John and bride-
to-be Marla Madison. Spider-Man
once more defended Jameson, res-
cued his loved ones, and defeated
the Scorpion. The Scorpion is cur-
rently in police custody.
,,,,---
248
...........STATISTICS SCOURBE
F TY (6) ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Scourge is the ultimate, pitiless
A EX (20) "Nemesis." There is no reprieve
S TY (6) from his death sentence. A master of
E EX (20) disguise who never lingers at the
R TY (6) scene of his murders, nothing is
I RM (30) known of his true personality or
motives.
P GD (10)
249
Health: 52
Karma: 46
Resources: EX (20}
Popularity: - 5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Vigilante assassin
,,-Legal Status: Unknown
,,.- identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: Unverified
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
,,.-... Scourge's Gun: Scourge uses a cus-
~omized 0.50 caliber submachine-
gun. It fires an armor-piercing
explosive bullet that reduces the tar-
get's body armor (or vehicle protec-
tion) by -2 CS and causes Excellent
damage. The gun holds 20 rounds of
ammunition and can fire a 5-shot
burst that does Remarkable dam-
age. Scourge's gun has a range of 5
..-._areas and is made of Excellent
~trength material.
Scourge's Van: Scourge drives a van
which contains spare weapons,
ammo, costumes and disguises, a
computerized crime-file, and a two-
way TV. The van has:
Control Speed Body Protection
TY EX GD GD
Talents: Scourge was a Weapon
Specialist with his gun ( + 2 CS) and
had Criminology, Disguise, and
Marksman Talents as well.
Contacts: Scourge's main contact
was a detective known only as
" Domino," who had Monstrous
knowledge of the underworld and its
,........ secrets. Scourge was often able to
·nfiltrate various organizations and
locales by gaining the proper forged
papers.
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