VOLLA BACKGROUND ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Real Name: Valla
STATISTICS Occupation: Prophetess
Legal Status: Dead
F FE (2) Identity: Unknown on Earth
A PR (4) Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
s FE (2) Base of Operations: Hel and Nifle-
heim
E AM (50) Present Group Affiliation:
R RM (30) KNOWN POWERS
I RM (30) Precognition: CL5000 rank
p UN (100) Ghost Body: Valla is a ghost who can
Health: 58 occasionally manifest a physical form.
Karma: 160
Resources: FE (2)
Popularity: 0
,.~
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ASTRONOMER
~STATISTICS
F TY (6)
A TY (6)
S TY (6)
E IN (40)
R ShY (200)
I ShX (150)
P AM (50)
Health: 58
Karma: 400
Resources: AM (50)
Popularity: 0
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Unknown
Occupation: Astronom er
Legal St atus: Inapplicable
---Identity: Existence unknown
,>lace of Birth : Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Elders of
the Universe
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
~cosmic Awareness: Shift-Y rank
mmortality: He can never die.
Self Sustenance: Shift-X rank
Telescopic Vision: CL5000 rank.
Telepathy: Good rank
Teleportation: CL1000 rank
Tt-ue invulnerability: Good rank
Talents: is an expert on astronomy
and cosmology.
Contacts: Elders of the Universe
,...--....
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
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ROLE PLAYING NOTES HISTORY The Astronomer helped the---,,
The Astronomer has learned Grandmaster devise their curren
patience through his long observa- Very little is known about the Astron- plot. He reasoned that if Galactus
tion of the the slowly evolving stars. omer before his recent involvement were destroyed, the Universe itself
He does everything slowly and delib- in the Elders' plot to destroy Galac- would swiftly collapse. A new Big
erately. tus and our universe. Long ago he Bang would result in the creation of a
.chose to dedicate himself to chroni- new universe. Since they would all
cling the slow evolution of the stars survive the great detonation, all the
and galaxies themselves. He long Elders would be transformed into
ago lost interest in living beings, _Galactus-like beings in this new Uni-
which may explain why he went verse. The plan began with their
undiscovered for so long. decision to slay the Silver Surfer lest
he aid Galactus. Ironically, it is only
As a benefit of the Grandmaster's the Elders' attack that brought the
contest with Death, the Astronomer Silver Surfer into the fray. This may
is now apparently permanently be proof that, despite their age and
immortal. The truth of th is is of experience, the Elders make mis-
course unknown. takes.
•,
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ATTUMA
- STATISTICS
I
F IN (40)
A GD (10)
S MN (75)
E AM (50)
R TY (6)
I TY (6)
P EX (20)
Health: 175
Karma: 32
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: - 20 (20 in Skarka)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Attuma
Occupation: Barbarian Chieftain
...-~l.egal Status: Citizen of Skarka
:dentity: Unknown on surface
Place of Birth: North Atlantic sea-
floor
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Atlantic Ocean
Past Group Affiliations: None
Present Group Affiliation:
~KNOWN POWERS
-typer-Swimming: Good speed
Water Freedom
Water-Breathing
Talents: Expert in oceanic warfare
Contacts: Past alllies include Byrah,
Krang, lkthon, Dr. Dorcas, Tiger
Shark, Tyrak, and the Red Ghost
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Attuma once learned of a prophecy
foretelling the coming of a conquer-
or. He decided he was that conquer-
or. Despite his many setbacks, he
continues on in the belief that Fate
will eventually support him. While he
prefers to work alone or with his
horde, he will seek others with
powers and abilities he can use.
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HISTORY Attuma has launched numerous them created the Octo-Meks,
attacks on the city of Atlantis and its octopus-shaped fighting machines ,,-.
Attuma was born into the tribe of regent Prince Namor. Another proposed that he mate with
Homo mermanus who eschewed civ- human mutants in order to produce a
ilization to live as nomadic barbari- Unable to best Namor in personal sire stronger than Namor himself.
ans. For some unrecorded reason, combat, Attuma has frequently tak- Toward this end he abducted the
Attuma was endowed with strength en allies to further his ambitions. mutant Phoenix, but she thwarted
far surpassing that of his people. These alliances have also met with his plans. Although Attuma has nev-
Nearing adulthood, Attuma learned defeat. The first time Attuma er been able to claim a lasting victory
of a prophecy, in the lost Atlantean attacked Atlantis, the Fantastic Four over Namor, he was a party to the
Chronicles, of a conqueror who aided Namor in repulsing his attack. death of Namor's bride, Lady Dorma.
would take the empire of Atlantis by In recent years, Attuma has battled Attuma is still at large in the Atlantic
force. Believing he is that conqueror, the Avengers as well. Not renowned Ocean, having never been impris-
for his intelligence, Attuma has fre- oned for any of his deeds.
quently employed renegade Atlante-
an and human scientists. One of
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- STATISTICS AURORA
, 55
F EX (20)
A EX (20)
s TY (6)
E EX (20)
R PR (4)
I GD (10)
p PR (4)
Health: 66
Karma: 18
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 6
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jeanne-Marie Beaubier
Occupation: Ex-history teacher,
Adventurer
~Legal Status: Citizen of Canada
identity: Classified
Place of Birth: Montreal, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Jean-Paul
Beaubier (brother), Jean-Claude
Baptiste (father), Danae (mother).
Base of Operations: Lavelle, Que-
bec
Past Group Affiliations: Alpha
~Flight
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Light Generation: Monstrous rank Aurora is a classic split-personality.
Hyper-Speed: Incredible speed. The Aurora personality that governs
Non-Detectability: Monstrous rank her most of the time is an passion-
Ti'ue Flight: Shift X speed ate, irresponsible exhibitionist. At
Power Gestalt (lost): Contact with times she reverts to her childhood
Northstar was required for Light persona of Jeanne-Marie, a painfully
shy and timid creature. When Aurora
~Generation. loses over half her Health, failure to
make a Red Psyche FEAT causes
Weakness: Contact with Northstar her to become Jeanne-Marie.
negates all their powers for 1-1 O
turns.
Talents: She speaks English and
French fluently. She is an accredited
history teacher.
Contacts: Alpha Flight, X-Men
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
verted and far more uninhibited, Each personality thinks of the other
emerged. Under the influence of this
second personality, Beaubier secret- as if it belonged to an entirely differ- ~
ly left the school that same night. On
HISTORY returning three days later, she had ent person. As Jeanne-Marie the
no memory of where she had been or
Jeanne-Marie Beaubier and her twin what she had done. She was again teacher, Beaubier has little memory
brother Jean-Paul were separated in physically punished. The resulting
infancy after their parents (a human trauma was so great that Beaubier of her activities as Aurora. Each per-
father and an elven mother) were repressed her second personality for
killed in an accident during their the next five years. sonality strongly dislikes the other.
flight from pursuing elves. Jean-Paul
was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Louis At the end of the time, Beaubier's Fear or despair will sometimes
Martin, who were cousins of his application to become a teacher at
mother. The Martins could not afford the school was accepted . By this cause Aurora to shift back into her
to adopt Jeanne-Marie as well, how- time Beaubier had adjusted to life at
ever, and so they arranged for her to the school, and her everyday per- Jeanne-Marie/teacher persona.
be raised at Madam DuPont's sonality was that of a prim, proper,
School for Girls in LaVelle, Quebec, repressed woman. But the same Recently, Beaubier underwent still
a reactionary religious school. Soon night that her application was
afterward the Martins moved to accepted, her second personality re- further personality changes. For a
northern Quebec, Mr. and Mrs. Mar- emerged, and she left to enjoy her-
tin were killed in an accident several self in Montreal. Confronted by time her Aurora and Jeanne-Marie
years later, and Jean-Paul was muggers, she knocked one uncon-
placed in a foster home, unaware scious by moving at superhuman personae have manifested traits of
that he had a sister. speeds. This was the first time that
she had used her superhuman each other, while nevertheless
Extremely nervous and intro- powers in five years. The second
verted, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier was mugger was halted by Wolverine, remaining distinctly separate per-
miserable at Madame DuPont's who had witnessed the attempted
School, and at the age of thirteen, assault. Recognizing that Beaubier sonalities. Most of the time now, she
she attempted suicide by throwing had superhuman powers, Wolverine
herself from the roof of one of the invited her her to go to Ottawa to manifests a third personality, which
school's buildings. Instead of falling meet James MacDonald Hudson,
to her death, however, Beaubier dis- who was organizing a team of super- is basically Aurora's, but with more
covered that she could fly at great humanly powerful agents for the
speed. Unaware that she was a Canadian government's Department of a sense of responsibility than
superhumanly powerful mutant, the H. Hudson accepted her as a recruit
deeply religious Beaubier believed and reunited her with her brother. before. Whether or not Beaubier's ,,---...
that her flight was the result of a After a period of training, both
divine miracle. The next morning Beaubier siblings joined the team split personality will continue to
she explained to the school's head- that Hudson created, Alpha Flight,
mistress, Soeur Anne, what she under the code names Aurora and evolve remains to be seen. The late
believed had happened. Believing Northstar.
the young girl to be guilty of blasphe- Dr. Walter Langkowski, who was a
my, Soeur Anne had her severely Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, however,
disciplined through means including continues to have a split personality. member of Alpha Flight as Sasquat-
corporal punishment. This incident She may unexpectedly shift from
triggered schizophrenia in the young one of her personalities to the other. ch, performed an experiment in
woman. A second personality, extro-
molecular rearrangement upon
Beaubier which altered her superhu-
man abilities. It brought about three
specific changes. First, it enabled
her to create a bright light without ,.--....
being in physical contact with her
brother Northstar. Second, it greatly
reduced the potential limits of her
superhuman speed. Third, accord-
ing to Langkowski, it made it impos-
sible for present day technology to
detect that she is a mutant.
Aurora split herself into two beings
to cure herself and her brother
Northstar. The elven Aurora joined ,-....
her motohtehredrimanednsNioonrtahlsthaor mineAlofhfetimh~
the
Elves. The human Aurora was tele-
ported by Loki to a convent where
she remains while she recovers. It is
unknown what of her personality,
memories, and powers remain.
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AVALANCHE
...--STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A GD (10)
S GD (10)
E IN (40)
R GD (10)
I GD(10)
P TY (6)
Health: 70
Karma: 26
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: - 5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dominic Petros
Occupation: Professional criminal
,,-..._Legal Status: Naturalized American
,;itizen .
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Crete
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Helen (wife)
Base of Operations: Pentagon
Past Group Affiliations: Brother-
hood of Evil Mutants II a.k.a. Free-
dom Force
,...--..Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Disruption: Amazing rank
Vibration: Monstrous rank
Matter Animation: Remarkable rank
BodyArmor: His suit gives him Good
protection from physical attacks.
Weakness: Powers only affect non-
living matter or his own body.
~Talents: Speaks Greek and English.
;ontacts: None
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Avalanche is a mercenary and a
powerseeker. He is aware of his limi-
tations and will work with others to
further his own cause. If he can
come up with a scheme that he can
pull off alone, he will work solo. He
sees his job with the freedom Force
simply as a way of wreaking havoc
on a legal basis.
57
HISTORY Brotherhood when they unsuccess- earthquake there. Avalanche fought
fully attempted to assassinate Sena- the Hulk on this occasion, and suf...-
Avalanche's past before Mystique tor Robert Kelly during his hearings fered serious injury. He has since
recruited him for the second Brother- on the menace that mutants alleg- returned to the Brotherhood.
hood of Evil Mutants is almost entire- edly pose to humanity in general. Recently, Mystique offered the
ly unknown, except for the fact that Avalanche briefly left the Brother- Brotherhood's services to the United
he is an immigrant from Greece. He hood to attempt to blackmail the States government. Their first mis-
first publicly appeared with the state of California into paying him an sion under their new name of Free-
enormous sum to prevent him from dom Force was to capture the
using his power to trigger a major
mutant Magneto.
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BALDER
~ ~TATI STICS
,
F IN (40)
A EX (20)
S AM (50)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P AM (50)
Health: 140
Karma: 80
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: 80
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Balder
Occupation: Warrior-God , God of
---.u ght, Asgard Regent
Legal Status: Citizen of Asgard
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Asgard
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Asgard
Past Group Affiliations: Gods of
Asgard (Aesir), Warriors Three
Present Group Affiliation:
,..-..,_
.<NOWN POWERS
Immortality
Regeneration: CL1000 rank
Self Sustenance: CL1000 rank
Tt'ue Invulnerability: CL1000 rank
Weakness: Balder may be harmed or
killed by weapons using mistletoe
wood. Mistletoe completely negates
his Regeneration and Invulnerability.
,......._Talents: Balder is an expert swords-
man and scholar in Asgardian lore.
Contacts: Gods of Asgard, Beta Ray .
Bill. -.....;
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE PLAYING NOTES lover of Sit but he feels no enmity
Balder is an adventurous god who towards her other lovers, Thor and
enjoys battling alongside his friends. Beta Ray Bill.
This is tempered by his strong sense
of responsibility towards friends and 59
Asgard ian society. Balder rarely
leaves Asgard unless a friend or task
requires his aid. Balder is a former
Frigga's part, since she has not save him from entrapment in mar-
made him invulnerable to harm from
mistletoe since his vulnerability to it riage by Karnilla, and Balder was so,,.........
became known. It is more likely that
HISTORY his vulnerability to mistletoe is a distraught that he has resolved nev-
necesary side effect of the spell mak-
Due to his many heroic deeds over ing him invulnerable to harm from er to speak of this incident or of her
the ages, Balder has long been other things.
regarded as Asgard's noblest god again. Anguished by Nanna's death
and its greatest warrior next to the Loki, the god of mischief, learned
thunder god Thor, who has long of the prophecies tying Balder's and by what he had seen in the land
been Balder's closest friend. Balder death to the coming of Ragnarok,
has been unsuccessfully sought as a and also learned of Balder's vulnera- of the dead, Balder forswore the life
lover by the sorceress Karnilla, the
Norn Queen. bility to mistletoe. Seeking to bring of a warrior, attempted unsuccessful-
about Ragnarok, Loki tricked the
Because of prophecies that Bald- blind god Hoder into firing an arrow ly to forget his misery through eating,
er's death would help trigger the tipped with mistletoe wood at Balder.
coming of Ragnarok, the destruction Balder was fatally wounded, but gaining considerable weight in the
of Asgard and its inhabitants, Odin, Odin's power prevented him from
ruler of Asgard, commanded his wife actually dying and kept him in a state process, and finally rode out into the
Frigga to make Balder invulnerable resembling suspended animation.
to harm. Frigga cast spells that Nevertheless, Balder's spirit jour- desert, hoping to die there. Instead,
would protect Balder from harm by neyed to Hel, one of the Asgardian
any living or inanimate thing while he realms of the dead. There Balder Balder encountered the Norns, the
was in the Asgardian dimension. was appalled at seeing the horrors
(The legends describe her as endured by the spirits of so many of three goddesses who oversee the
extracting promises from all of these those whom he had slain in battle.
things not to harm Balder, as if they workings of destiny. The Norns gave
were all sentient and capable of Odin finally restored Balder fully to
speech.) The sole exception was life, but Balder's hair turned white as Balder a vision that restored his faith
mistletoe. This omission was proba- a result of his experiences in Hel. His
bly not due to forgetfulness on beloved, Nanna, sacrificed her life to in the value of life and in the need for
him to continue living. Balder rode
back to Asgard and was sent by Odin
to Karnilla to seek her aid in the.r "
Asgardians' battle against Surtur
and the legions of Muspelheim.
Balder was successful in his mis-
sion , and his relationship appears to
have changed in the process. Balder
has also returned to his normal
weight through vigorous exercise.
After Odin's departure from
Asgard, Balder became regent of
Asgard. r----
1
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BARDNBLDDD
~STATISTICS
'
F EX (20)
A RE (30)
S RE (30)
E IN (40)
R GD (10)
I EX (20)
P RE (30)
Health: 120
Karma: 60
Resources: EX (20) (in the Third
Reich)
Popularity: - 30 (1 O in the Third
Reich)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Lord John Falsworth
~ occupation: Nazi Assassin
Legal Status: British aristocrat
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Falsworth Manor,
England
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Union Jack
(Montgomery, Lord Falsworth, broth-
er), Union Jack II (Brian Falsworth,
nephew), Lady Crichton (Jacqueline
~Falsworth Crichton, niece), Kenneth
Crichton (grandnephew)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Super-Axis
Present Group Affiliation:
Talents: Bilingual (English and Ger-
man), Espionage
Contacts: Super-Axis
ROLE PLAYING NOTES Animal Control: He had Remarkable use the normal vampiric shape-
~ Blood is bitter over having been command over certain forms of ani- changing powers due to an unusual
mals such as mice and rats. cosmetic treatments given him by
denied the Falsworth inheritance. As Weather Control: Baron Blood was German scientists which enabled
a result, he has developed a strong able to exert Poor control over the him to endure direct sunlight for brief
hatred for England and the weather in a small area. periods of time (about a half hour)
Falsworth line in particular. He True Flight: Unlike other vampires, without feeling pain and finally disin-
enjoys being an agent of the Third including Dracula himself, Baron tegrating as other vampires would
Reich because it enables him to Blood was able to fly at Typical have.
wreak great havoc legally. speeds without transforming himself
into a bat. It is possible becoming a Additionally, Baron Blood had the
KNOWN SUPERPOWERS vampire awakened in him a latent same vulnerabilities as other vam-
Bio-Vampirism: Normally, Baron psionic capacity for self-levitation.
Blood possessed all the standard Limitations: During at least part of pires, including wooden stakes
powers of a vampire, but to a degree World War II, Blood was unable to through the heart, silver, the pres-
greater than that of most vampires, ence of religious symbols, garlic,
with the obvious exception of Dracu- and beheading. Unless utilizing the
la (see Dracula). His ability to derive
on-going life from the blood of others
was of Remarkable power.
~ Hypnosis: Baron Blood had the
Remarkable ability to hypnotize
potential victims by staring into their
eyes.
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special means of protection tesque bat of human size, and which to London, and ordered one of his ,..-....
described earlier, he was, like other helped to inspire terror in his victims. mortal pawns, Dr. Charles Cromwell ,
vampires, vulnerable to direct sun- to resurrect Baron Blood. With the·
light. Although most vampires fell Blood became the Germans'
into a trance-like state during day- greatest secret weapon in the final aid of several vampires, Cromwell
light hours, Blood always seemed months of the war. He battled the succeeded in getting into the Tower,
capable of daytime activity, whether Freedom's Five, a group of cos- reviving Blood, and substituting
he had protection or not, as long as tumed agents from the United another skeleton in his place. Dracu-
he avoided direct sunlight. States, Great Britain, and France la then left the London area, and
several times but always managed Cromwell fell under Blood's domina-
HISTORY to escape when he was defeated. He tion.
was finally found by the original
Lord Falsworth was the younger of Union Jack, who was not only a Blood learned all that he could
the two sons of William, Lord member of the Freedom's Five but about Cromwell and his medical
Falsworth, one of the wealthiest also was secretly Blood's brother practice, and then ordered him to
members of the British aristocracy in Montgomery (Union Jack I). Union move to a village near Falsworth
late Victorian and Edwardian times. Jack wounded Blood with a silver Manor. Here, Blood began attacking
Upon William's death shortly before blade, causing him to flee England. villagers, although he took care not
the outbreak of World War I, his title to be identified, and the mysterious
was inherited by his elder son, Mont- After World War I, Baron Blood vampire was eventually traced to
gomery, who, according to the Brit- devoted himself to studying the Cromwell's house by local citizens,,...-....
ish tradition of primogeniture, also occult. Following Adolf Hitler's rise to who set it afire. Baron Blood killed.
inherited the bulk of his father's power and seeing Hitler and his fol- Cromwell and his daughter, and left
estate. Embittered, Lord John set lowers as kindred spirits, he again their bodies in the burning house.
out for the European continent to offered his services to German intel-
seek his fortune. ligence. German scientists per- However, Blood's vampiric com-
pulsions finally forced him to attack
Eventually he came to Romania, formed painful operations on Blood victims once more. He took care to
where he sought to find Castle Drac- to enable him to resist, for a limited kill them before draining their blood,
ula, about which he had read in period of time and at the cost of so they would not themselves
Bram Stoker's 1897 work Dracula some of his powers (such as the abil- become vampires, and the police
(see Dracula). Most people believed ity to change shape). the effect that attributed his killings to a 'slasher.' ~
that Stoker's book was a work of fic- direct sunlight has upon vampires. The now extremely aged Lord
tion, but Lord John was convinced Falsworth, though, suspected that
that the letters and journal entries it Once again , he began a reign of the murders were the work of his
contained were real and described terror in England, and nearly killed brother, and summoned Captain
actual events. Lord John believed his brother's daughter, Jacqueline, America, who had fought Blood as a
that if he could find and control Drac- with his bite. This time, however, member of the Invaders. Meanwhile,
ula, he could use the vampire as a Blood was opposed not only by his Blood, as Cromwell, was acting as
means of achieving immense wealth brother Montgomery, who came out Lord Falsworth's own physician.
and power. However, on locating the of retirement to become Union Jack Blood was waiting until his now
vampire at Castle Dracula, Lord once more, but also by the Invaders, ancient brother was at his weakest, -.
John fell victim to his hypnotic a team of super heroes serving the so that he could then turn him into a
powers. Dracula bit him, and John Allied cause. Union Jack and the
died, only to rise three nights later as Invaders quickly discovered that vampire, forcing him to remain old
a vampire himself. John, Jr. was Baron Blood and con- and feeble for all eternity.
fronted him. As the ensuing battle
Because of Lord John 's British raged on, Blood fell onto and was Captain America quickly discov-
background, Dracula sent him back impaled by a stalagmite that had ered that the skeleton in Blood's
to England to wreak havoc upon that traces of silver in it. tomb was not authentic, and clashed
country where he had run afoul of with the Baron soon afterwards. Lord
Abraham Van Helsing and other However, Baron Blood was resur- Falsworth's grandson Kenneth dis-
opponents. In order to better pursue rected months later and joined the covered that Blood was impersonat-
this goal once World War I Broke out, Super-Axis, a group of superhuman- ing Dr. Cromwell, and in the battle
Lord John offered his services to ly powered beings who served the that followed, Baron Blood was killed
German intelligence and was given Axis powers. The complete history of when Captain America severed his
the code-name Baron Blood. As Baron Blood's activities during World head with his shield. The baron's
Blood, Lord John concealed his true War II has not yet been revealed . By head and body were then burned
identity with a mask and costume the end of the war, though, Blood separately, and the two sets of ashes
which made him resemble a gro- had again been killed with a wooden were scattered in different areas,
stake through his heart, and, since thus ensuring that the Baron could
62 he was a member of the aristocracy, never be revived again. Thanks to -.
he was entombed in the Tower of the Montesi Formula, even the
London. ashes have now dematerialized.
In recent years Dracula returned
.,...._~TATISTICS BARDNMDRDD
F TY (6)
A TY (6) ROLE PLAYING NOTES
s TY (6) Mordo is a man obsessed with
E RE (30) power. He wants to be the Sorceror
R GD (rn) Supreme for the Earth dimension.
I RE (30) He recognizes Dr. Strange as his
p AM (50) chief obstacle, hence he is devoted
to Strange's destruction. Mordo
Health: 48 almost never attacks non-magical
opponents unless they can be used
Karma: 90 as pawns to get at Dr. Strange.
Resources: TY (6) 63
Popularity : - 5
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Karl Amadeus Mordo
Occupation: Sorcerer
Legal St atus: Transylvanian Noble-
,,.---..,man with no criminal record
.Ctentlty: Secret
Place of Birth: Varf Mardra, Tran-
sylvania
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Viscount Crowler
(grandfather)
Base of Operations: Castel Mordo,
Vart Mardra, Transylvania
Past Group Affiliations: Former
~isciple of the Ancient One, former
hinion of Dormammu
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Astral Projection: Monstrous rank
Conjure: Incredible rank
Eldritch Bolts: Amazing rank
Magical Shield: Amazing rank
Mesmerism: Monstrous rank
----Necromancy: Incredible rank
3ummoning: Monstrous rank
Telepathy: Unearthly rank
Teleportation: Unearthly rank
Talents: Mordo is an expert in occult
lore and Transylvanian history.
Contacts: None
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
I
HISTORY to keep watch over him. One if he too could become his disci-
While still living at his mentor's ple. The Ancient One, who wa~
Karl Mordo acquired an interest in aware of Mordo's schemes, freec.
the occult from his maternal grandfa- palace, Mordo plotted to destroy the Strange of Mordo's spell and accept-
ther, Viscount Crowler, at an early Ancient One. Mordo's scheming was ed Strange as his disciple.
age. When he became an adult, he overheard by the Ancient One's
sought out the mystic master known guest, Dr. Stephen Strange, a jaded Eventually Mordo left the Ancient
as the Ancient One in Tibet. The physician . Witnessing Mordo's O~e , and Strange, over the years,
Ancient One recognized that Mordo power and learning of his intent gamed mastery of the mystic arts.
had the innate ability to become a shocked Strange into a recognition Strange and Mordo were thus rivals,
sorcerer of great power, but that Mor- of the meaning of evil. Strange and have clashed repeatedly over
do was motivated solely by lust for sought to warn the Ancient One, but the years. Mordo has served the
power. The Ancient One decided to Mordo placed mystical restraints extradimensional entity Dormammu
accept Mordo as a disciple in order upon Strange that prevented him in the past, but he also seeks to
from telling the Ancient One of Mor- amass more power for himself. Mor-
do's plans. Strange, however, seek- do is obsessed with destroying Doc-
ing a way to get around Mordo's tor Strange, who is now the sorcerer
spell, sincerely asked the Ancient supreme of Earth's dimension.
.,..---.,,,
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BARON STRUCKER
-,~TATISTICS
.F EX (20)
A EX (20)
S GD (10)
E EX (20)
R EX (20)
I EX (20)
P GD (10)
Health: 70
Karma: 50
Resources: IN (40)
Popularity: - 20 (20 in the Third
Reich)
BACKGROUND he wore it, but also emitted Excellent HISTORY
Real Name: Baron Wolfgang Von electrical shocks (from which the
Strucker Claw insulated its wearer). Baron Wolfgang van Strucker was
.-....._occupation: Nobleman , Solder, the last known member of a long line
Axis agent, Supreme Commander of Note: Strucker always had com- of Prussian noblemen, all of whom
HY DRA plete access to the full range of had distinguished themselves as
Legal Status: German noble and weapons and equipment used by his military leaders. He was recruited in
international criminal current group, weather that was the the 1930's by the Nazi government's
Identity: Publicly known Third Reich or HYDRA While asso- intelligence service and sent on vari-
Place of Birth: St rucker Castle, ciated with HYDRA, Baron Strucker ous secret missions. When Germany
Bavaria, Germany took special serums developed by went to war, St rucker was transfer-
Marital Status: Married their scientists which maintained his red to full time service where he met
Known Relatives: Andrea and physical vitality and strength as he with repeated successes as a mili-
,,-..,Andreas (a.k.a. Fenris) aged.
aase of Operations: Strucker Cas-
tle, HYDRA headquarters
Talents: Espionage, Guns, Swords,
and Military
Contacts: The Third Reich, HYDRA,
Fenris
Past Group Affiliations: T hird
Reich, HYDRA
Present Group Affiliation :
~
ilOLE PLAYING NOTES
Strucker was vain , treacherous,
and a superb strategist who is out to
glorify himself through conquests. If
anyone successfully opposed him ,
he became obsessed with that per-
son's humiliation and destruction .
Strucker was aware of his own physi-
cal limitations and was constantly
seeking ways to improve himself.
KNOWN SUPERPOWERS
None
EQUIPMENT
Satan Claw: Baron Strucker's most
notorious personal weapon was the
- Satan Claw, developed by HYDRA
3cientists. This metal gauntlet, worn
on Strucker's right hand, not only
magnified t hat hand's strength while
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tary leader, and rose to become wing Skull. The Skull intended to supplant agent John Bronson, Strucker smug..,,-
commander of Germany's special Hitler eventually, or to achieve world gled the so-called Death-Spore
Death's-Head Squadron. domination himself if Hitler lost the bomb aboard SHIELD's helicarrier
war. To these ends, the Skull headquarters. When the bomb
The many defeats inflicted upon assigned Strucker to create a power exploded, it would destroy the heli-
German forces by the American Sgt. base in the Far East for him. Then, carrier and release deadly spores
Nick Fury and his 'Howling Com- with the aid of the Skull's agents and which air currents would carry
mandos' squad enraged Adolf Hitler, some loyal men of his own. Strucker throughout the world. By now
who ordered Strucker to humiliate was able to escape Germany. The Strucker had built a new Hydra
Fury in such a way as to destroy his embittered Strucker, however, now Island, a 'synthetic atoll' on the site
effectiveness (see Fury, Nick) . had no intention of serving anyone
Strucker therefore challenged Fury but himself and he later severed all of the original. Here was gathered
to personal combat on the island of of his ties with the Red Skull when he HYDRA's leadership and elite guard,
Norsehaven in the English Channel. became Supreme apan, Strucker since the new fortress's impenetra-
Fury accepted and went in violation made contact with Japanese subver- ble dome would afford maximum
of orders. Before beginning their sives who informed him that they protection from the Death Spores. In
duel. Strucker and Fury drank a were forming a secret society bent a telecast from the island, Strucker
toast on the farmer's request; Fury on world conquest. Strucker rapidly demanded that the world surrender
did not know that Strucker had had a became the mastermind behind this to HYDRA, for only those nations
powerful sleeping pill placed n his which surrendered would be sup-....-....
drink. Strucker won the duel with ply- society's rise to power. This secret plied with antidotes for the spores.
wood swords when the pill caused society became known as HYDRA.
Fury to collapse. Still photographs Upon building HYDRA's army and However, Fury had found the
and films of Fury's defeat were circu- arsenal to what he judged to be max- Death Spore bomb on the helicarrier.
lated in Germany, giving the Ger- imum strength, Strucker slew the He singly invaded Hydra Island, and
mans a great propaganda victory. planted the bomb there. Fury and
organization's original Supreme Strucker confronted each other and
Shortly thereafter, the 'Howling Hydra, and became their leader him- fought. The battle ended when Fury
self. While building HYDRA's arse- knocked Strucker unconscious and
Commandos' encountered Strucker, nal, Strucker had also recruited a rapidly used the epiderm-mask
and Fury challenged him to another staff of brilliant scientists, who would machine to make a Strucker mask,,.-.,..
fight. Strucker coolly agreed and later become the nucleus of the for himself and both a Strucker masK
proposed a toast, but one of the HYDRA branch known as the and a Fury mask for Strucker. Fury
American commandos, Dino Manel- Advanced Idea Mechanics or AIM. placed both the latter masks on
li, warned Fury that the drink was HYDRA was close to obtaining Strucker, who revived almost imme-
probably drugged. The angry Fury nuclear weaponry, and thus achiev- diately. HYDRA guards then inevita-
refused to drink and easily defeated ing the means to conquer Earth, bly burst in, only to find what
Strucker in a hand-to-hand fight. when its Pacific base, Hydra Island, appeared to be two Struckers fight-
Commando Timothy 'Oum Oum' was invaded by Captain Simon Sav-
Dugan took photographs of Fury's age's U.S. Marine commandos and ing one another, each of whom
triumph, which were widely pub- their Japanese counterparts, the so- claimed that the other was actually
lished, called Samurai Squad. Hydra Island Fury in disguise. Fury then pulled the---
was destroyed, but Strucker Strucker mask off of the real Struck·
Finally, enraged over Strucker's escaped. er, revealing a Fury mask beneath.
many defeats by Fury, Hitler ordered The HYDRA guards began firing at
Strucker to go to Cherbeaux in occu- He moved HYDRA's principal the real Strucker who in utterly con-
pied France and, if the Resistance fused panic, fled through the nearest
base to America, and created a new doorway to escape. He found him-
Agents there refused to give them- central committee code-named self in a nuclear reactor chamber
selves up, to execute every citizen of THEM within HYDRA, which would and was immediately incinerated.
the town. Fury confronted Strucker supervise the operations of HYDRA
and made a deal with him: Fury and its sister societies. Strucker Fury fled the island just before the
would fight in personal combat with made himself Grand lmperator of Death Spore bomb, which had been
Strucker once more if Strucker evac- THEM, its highest position, and mas- trigged by the unsuspecting Struck-
uated Cherbeaux before Hitler had it queraded under a number of aliases er, detonated, virtually sinking the
destroyed. Strucker did so, but his in public life. In his false identities
battle with Fury ended in stalemate, Strucker wore astonishingly con- island. The dome prevented any of
and the two became separated. vincing face masks created by the spores from escaping to the out-
When Hitler learned that Strucker HYDRA's 'epiderm-mask' machine. side world. Hence all HYDRA mem-
had evacuated the citizens of Cher- bers present on the island were
beaux, he ordered the Gestapo to Only a small fraction of HYDRA killed. HYDRA fragmented after
find and assassinate Strucker. knew of the Grand lmperator's exist- Strucker's death and has yet to.--.,
ence, and even fewer knew that he regain the power it had under hi~
Strucker would have had little was Baron Strucker. leadership.
hope of escaping the Gestapo if he
had not found an ally in the Red Impersonating captured SHIELD
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BARON ZEMD I & II
STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A GD (10)
S TY (6)
E GD (10)
R IN (40)
I PR (4)
P GD (10)
Health: 46
Karma: 54
Resources: RE (30)
Popularity: - 20 (20 in the Third
Reich)
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Baron Heinrich Zemo
-- Occupation: Scientist, Axis agent
'-egal Status: German nobleman
and international criminal
Identity: Known to authorities
Place of Birth: Castle Zemo, Ger-
many
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Hilda (wife), Bar-
on Helmut Zemo (son)
Base of Operations: Nazi Germany;
---·Amazon Jungle, Brazil
Past Group Affiliations: Third
Reich, original Masters of Evil
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE PLAYING NOTES I GD (10)
All Baron Zemo's powers were Baron Zemo is a power-hungry con- p GD (10)
derived from equipment. queror. He delights in researching Health: 46
EQUIPMENT: exotic weaponry. He is a sadist who Karma: 50
Adhesive X: an adhesive of Unearth- prefers to put people in inescapable Resources: RE (30)
..-...•y strength that sets in a single turn . deathtraps rather than kill them out- Popularity: - 10
:..aser Cannon: Inflicts Amazing dam- right.
age at a range of 1/2 mile. BACKGROUND
Laser Pistol: Inflicts Excellent dam- STATISTICS Real Name: Helmut Zemo
age at a range of 5 areas. Occupation: Scientist
Talents: Zemo is an expert in the F GD (10) Legal Status: German nobleman
fields of adhesives, physics, weap- A TY (6) with no criminal record.
ons design, and artificial life. Identity: Known to authorities
Contacts: The Third Reich, the origi- S GD (10) Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
nal Masters of Evil Marital Status: Single
E EX (20)
ADDITIONAL NOTES: R IN (30)
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Known Relatives: Heinrich Zemo
(father), Hilda (mother)
Base of Operations: Castle Zemo,
Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains,
Mexico
Past Group Affiliations: former
allies of Primus, Mother Superior,
and the Red Skull
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
All Baron Zemo's powers are derived
from equipment.
EQUIPMENT:
Adhesive X: an adhesive of Unearth-
ly strength that sets in a single turn.
Laser Cannon: Inflicts Amazing dam-
age at a range of 1/2 mile.
Laser Pistol: Inflicts Excellent dam-
age at a range of 5 areas.
Talents: Baron Zemo (II) is an expert
in the creation, use, and repair of his
father's devices, as well as being a
master in chemistry, biology, and
biochemistry (treat Reason as
Amazing).
Contacts: The Red Skull , the origi-
nal Masters of Evil
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE PLAYING NOTES ca. During World War II, the elder South America to battle him. The
The junior Baron Zemo is a power- Zemo made many scientific discov- elder Zemo eventually died in battle
hungry conqueror like his father. He eries for the Third Reich, among with Captain America, when the
is interested in avenging his father's which was Adhesive X, a powerful former accidentally triggered a rock-
defeats and destroying those who bonding agent. In battle with Captain slide with his disintegrator gun and
opposed him. He is obsessed with America, Zemo was doused with was buried by it.
destroying Captain America. Adhesive X, permanently affixing the
mask Zemo wore to conceal his iden- Eventually learning ,the circum-
HISTORY tity to his face. Zemo's only son,
Helmut, believed this led to his stances of his father's demise,
Helmut Zemo is the son of Baron father's insanity. When Captain young Helmut Zemo blamed Captain
Heinrich Zemo, the master Nazi sci- America was revived from his America and decided to follow in his
entist and enemy of Captain Ameri- decades-long suspended animation, father's footsteps and avenge him.
the elder Zemo, estranged from his
wife and son, came out of hiding in
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BASILISK
....---.. STATIST ICS
F TY (6)
A TY (6)
s EX (20)
E AM (50)
R TY (6)
I TY (6)
p EX (20)
Health: 82
Karma: 32
Resources: PR (4)
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Basil Elks
Occupation: Criminal
Legal Status: U.S. Citizen with a
---criminal record
identity: Secret
Place of Birth : Norristown, Pennsyl-
vania
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation:
,...--.,.KNOWN POWERS ,,., ./ /·~ ,
.
,:>owers:
Body Armor: Incredible protection . ==-
against physical attack
Cold Generation: Poor rank ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Geotorce: Excellent rank
Heat Generation: Excellent rank
Plasma Generation: Incredible rank
Radiowave Generation: Incredible
ran k
,..--..._,self-Sustenance: He can go several
.veeks without food.
Teleportation: Amazing rank
True Invulnerability: Excellent rank
Whirlwind: Remarkable airspeed
Talents: Criminal skills.
Contacts: None
ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Basilisk is an insecure person who
wants to lash out at the world that he
thinks mocks him. He revels in his
power as a means of making the
world acknowledge him. He resents
those who oppose him and will
develop monomaniacal obsessions
with destroying such persons.
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HISTORY how the two gems ended up on eventually found by members of the..---
underground race of Melian Subter'.
Basil Elks was a convicted burglar Earth. The explosion of the Alpha- raneans, one of whom somehow
with an undistinguished criminal Stone transformed Elks into a super- unintentionally released the Basilisk
career. One of his fellow prison human being, who overpowered the from the Omega-Stone by touching
inmates, who was more erudite than guard and escaped. Elks adopted it. The Basilisk now possessed the
the rest, mocked Elks by making a the name " Basilisk" as one that was powers given him by both the Alpha-
pun on his name and calling him appropriate to his newfound powers, Stone and the Omega-Stone. He
" Basilisk," after the mythological and sought the Omega-Stone in caused a volcano to rise in the Sav-
creature which could kill with its order to increase them . In the course age Land in Antarctica, and fought
glance. Other prisoners seized upon of his search, the Basilisk clashed the Thing within the volcano. The
the new nickname as a means of ridi- with both Spider-Man and the Kree Basilisk had used his increased
culing Elks, thus ironically contrast- Captain Mar-Vell. The Omega-Stone powers to begin volcanic chain reac-
ing the basilisk's fearsome was embedded underground in the tions with which he intended to
reputation with Elks' own image of Wall Street area of lower Manhattan. destroy civilization, thereby gaining
being a loser. Mar-Vell found the gem, but when he vengeance for the ridicule he had
touched it, the gem grew to gigantic endured in the past. The Basilisk
After leaving prison, Elks attempt- size and enveloped him. teleported himself and the Thing into
ed to steal a large gem from a New a volcano he caused to rise just off,,,.--...
York City museum. Elks was discov- The enlarged Omega-Stone was New York City, in the Hudson River.
ered by a museum guard and then teleported to the underground The Basilisk proceeded to wreak
reached for his gun, unwilling to domain of the Mole Man, who intend- havoc in New York City, but was
return to prison and face further ridi- ed to use its energies to power the fought by Spider-Man and the Thing,
cule. The guard fired his own gun, immense laser-cannon he planned who knocked him toward his own
but his bullet missed Elks and struck to use to attack the surface world. volcano. As the Basilisk lost con-
the gem, causing it to explode. Spider-Man and Mister Fantastic sciousness, his destructive eye-
Unknown to Elks and the museum opposed the Mole Man, the Basilisk beams went out of control and blew
authorities, the gem was actually the arrived at the scene, and Captain up the volcano. The Basilisk found
so-called Alpha-Stone, a power Mar-Vell freed himself from the himself trapped underground.
object once possessed by the alien Omega-Stone, which returned to its
Kree. A Kree starship crewman had original size. The laser cannon mal- Months later, the Basilisk finallr
stolen both the Alpha-Stone and functioned, causing magma pits to reached the surface, emerging at the
another such gem, the Omega- erupt. When the Basilisk reached for site where the Fantastic Four's new
Stone, and escaped in a small the Omega-Stone, he was covered
spaceship which exploded ; some- by molten lava. headquarters, Four Freedoms Pla-
za, was being constructed. However,
However, the Omega-Stone had no sooner had the Basilisk appeared
grown and encased the Basilisk at than he was ignominiously mur-
his touch, protecting him from the dered by the vigilante Scourge, who
lava. The Basilisk was immobile was disguised as a workman.
inside the Omega-Stone, which was
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BATRDC1S BRIGADE
BATROC THE LEAPER Health: 50 KNOWN POWERS
Karma: 32 Powers: None
3TATISTICS Resources: N/A Talents: He is bilingual in English and Span-
ish.
F IN(40) oPopularity: -1 Weapons: He can attack with swords,
machetes. and knives at Incredible rank. He
A RE (30) BACKGROUND carries two machetes and eight to ten daggers
Real Name: Arthur Parks at all times.
s GD (10) Occupation: Mercenary Gauntlets: Directional electromagnets in the
Legal Status: US citizen (deceased) palm enable Machete to attract a chosen tar-
E EX (20) Identity: Publicly known get up to 200 pounds in weight at a distance of
R GD (10) Place Of Birth: USA 1 area. The electromagnets pull with Excellent
I EX (20) Marital Status: Unknown Strength.
p GD (10) Known Relatives: None
Health: 100 Base of Operations: Mobile ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Karma: 40 Past Group Affiliations: Batroc's Brigade
Resources: GD (10) (original) ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Popularity: - 5 Present Group Affiliation: Machete sees himself as the liberator of San
Diablo. He is working to raise the money to
BACKGROUND KNOWN POWERS fund a successful revolution.
Real Name: George Batroc Powers: None
Occupation: Mercenary Weapons: PORCUPINE
Legal Status: French citizen with criminal Laser Projectors: Laser on each wrist releases
record a beam of Incredible rank. STATISTICS
Identity: Publicly known Talents: Par~s was a physicist specializing in
Place of Birth: Marseilles. France lasers. F EX (20)
Marital Status: Single A GD (10)
,....._ Known Relatives: None ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Base of Operations: Mobile s EX (20)
Past Group Affiliations: French Foreign ROLE PLAYING NOTES
Legion When he was still human, he developed a fixa- E RM (30)
Present Group Affiliation: tion on the Wasp. He believed that by defeat- R GD (10)
ing Wasp's male colleagues, he could make I GD (10)
KNOWN POWERS her love him. p TY (6)
Powers: None Health: 80
Talents: MACHETE Karma: 26
Savate: He is skilled in this Martial Art that Resources: EX (20)
uses leaps and kicks. He can Slam or Stun STATISTICS Popularity: - 5
opponents larger than himself. He can do
Excellent damage each attack. F AM (30) BACKGROUND
,........_, eaping and Tumbling: He can leap more than A EX(20) Real Name: Alex Gentry
Occupation: Criminal
2o feet. If he makes a successful Agility Feat s GD (10) Legal Status: US citizen with criminal record
(deceased)
when Slammed or thrown, he lands on his feet E RM (30) Identity: Publicly known
and negates any harmful effects he might oth- R TY (6) Place of Birth: USA
erwise have suffered. I GD (10) Marital Status: Unknown
p TY (6) Known Relatives: None
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Health: 90 Base of Operations: New York City
Karma: 22 Past Group Affiliations: Batroc's Brigade
ROLE PLAYING NOTES Resources: TY (6) (second)
In his early adventures, Batroc was an egotist Popularity: O Present Group Affiliation:
who believed his skills were enough to do
what he wanted. In his later capers, he BACKGROUND KNOWN POWERS
became aware of the need to select allies able Real Name: Ferdinand Lopez Powers: None
Occupation: Ex-revolutionary, mercenary Talents: He is skilled as a Weapons designer.
to assist him in specific tasks. He is a merce- Legal Status: Citizen of San Diablo Body Armor:
nary and has no real loyalty to his henchmen. Identity: Secret Battle Suit: Incredible protection against phys-
Place of Birth: San Diablo ical attacks and Incredible protection against
LIVING LASER (Orlglnal Human form) Marital Status: Unknown energy attacks. The quills covering the suit
Known Relatives: None automatically do Good damage to any unpro-
STATISTICS Base of Operations: Mobile tected person contacting it.
Past Group Affiliations: Batroc's Brigade
F GD (10) (current)
GD (10) Present Group Affiliation:
- sA GD (10)
EX (20)
E EX(20)
TY(6)
R TY(6)
I
p
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Quills: The steel quills covering the suit do Flame Blast: Remarkable intensity ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Excellent slashing damage. Electrical Bolt: Remarkable intensity
Electricity: Incredible damage at a range of 3 Stun Gas: Remarkable intensity ROLE PLAYING NOTES
areas. Whirlwind's goal isto get rich. He will help any-
Rocket: Poor airspeed ADDITIONAL NOTES: one who can help him.
Self-Sustenance: The suit carries an internal
6-hour air supply. ROLE PLAYING NOTES: ZARAN
Concussion Bombs: Incredible damage During this period, the Swordsman was simply
against a single target 3 areas away. trying to earn a living by using his weapon in STATISTICS
Knock-out Gasbombs: Amazing intensity gas the most profitable way.
in a 20-foot diameter. F RM (30)
WHIRLWIND A RM(30)
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
STATISTICS s EX (20}
ROLE PLAYING NOTES F GD (10)
Porcupine was one of the first of the modern A IN(40) E EX (20}
supervillains. He resented the greater suc- R GD (10)
cess achieved by later villains. He saw himself s GD (10)
as a two-time loser despite his best efforts. I GD (10)
E RM (30} p GD (10)
SWORDSMAN R TY (6) Health: 100
I TY(6}
STATISTICS p TY (6) Karma: 30
Health: 90 Resources: GD (10}
F RM (30) Karma: 18
A EX (20} Resources: TY (6) Popularity: 0
Popularity: 0
s GD (10) BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Real Name: David Cannon
E EX (20) Occupation: Criminal Real Name: Maximillian Zaran
R TY (6) Legal Status: US citizen with criminal record
I TY (6) Identity: Known to authorities Occupation: Mercenary, assassin
p TY(6) Place of Birth: USA
Health: 80 Marital Status: Single Legal Status: Citizen of Great Britain with('""""'
Karma: 18 Known Relatives: None ~
Resources: EX (20} Base of Operations: Mobile criminal record
Popularity: 30 Past Group Affiliations: Batroc's Brigade
(second), Masters of Evil Identity: Secret
BACKGROUND Present Group Affiliation:
Real Name: Unrevealed KNOWN POWERS Place of Birth: Unknown
Occupation: ex-Circus performer, ex-
criminal, mercenary, adventurer Hype~Speed:Goodspeed Marital Status: Single
Legal Status: US citizen (deceased}
Identity: Secret Spinning: He can rotate at 400 RPM. This Known Relatives: None
Place of Birth: Unrevealed gives him Invulnerability to vertigo, Remark·
Marital Status: Married posthumously to able body armor against physical and missile Base of Operations: Mobile
Mantis attacks, and Monstrous Strength when break-
Known Relatives: None ing a hold. Past Group Affiliations: Batroc's Brigade
Base of Operations: Mobile Wind Control: He can focus his power to create
Past Group Affiliations: Batroc's Brigade air-rams that do Remarkable damage or cre- (current)
(original), Avengers ate tornadoes of Remarkable strength.
Present Group Affiliation: Flight: Good airspeed Present Group Affiliation:
Talents: Cannon is a wrestler, ice skater, cir-
KNOWN POWERS cus performer, and chaffeur. KNOWN POWERS
Powers: None
Talents: He is skilled in swordplay. Powers: None ,,,--...
Weapon: His Makluuan Sword is made of
Monstrous material. It does Excellent damage Talents: He is a master with all forms of armed
when used as a sword. Other powers incorpo-
rated into the sword include: combat. Any use of weapgns adds + 1 CS. His
Force Beam: Remarkable intensity
Disintegrator: Remarkable damage against extensive Martial Arts training enables him to
nonliving targets
Slam or Stun opponents whose Endurance
ranks are higher than his Strength.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ROLE PLAYING NOTES:
Zaran likesto pit himselfagainstother masters of
martial arts. He engages in long-running feuds ,.........,_
against equals but will either ignore or quickly
dispose of lesser adversaries.
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.------STATISTICS
F EX (20)
A RM (30)
S RM (30)
E RM (30)
R TY (6)
I GD (10)
P GD (10)
Health: 110
Karma: 26
Resources: TY (6)
Popularity: 10
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Lemar Hoskins
Occupation: Former soldier, now
agent of the United States govern-
_,. . . . .,_ment
,dentity: Secret
Legal Status: American citizen with
a criminal record
Other Known Aliases: Bucky
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Washington,
D.C.
~Group Affiliation: Member of the
3uckies (Bold Urban Commandos),
partner of Super Patriot, partner of
Captain America
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES: ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Body Armor: Battlestar has Good Battiestar is a rather vicious individ-
protection against physical and ual who does not take his job as seri-
energy attacks. ously as John Walker, the Super
,,,.--...Talents: Hoskins has Martial Arts B Patriot Captain America. Battlestar
and E, and has been trained with has no qualms about using exces-
Acrobatics and Tumbling skills. How- sive force against his opponents, or
ever, Hoskins is illiterate. about killing people. He has a very
Contacts: Hoskins has contacts bad temper that is easily provoked.
with John Walker, the Super Patriot/
Captain America, and may still have 73
connections with the Unlimited
Class Wrestling Federation and old
military friends.
HISTORY Wrestling Federation. However, they was imprisoned . After bein ~
were approached by a hustler
Lemar Hoskins was born in a large named Ethan Thurm, who created released on bail (with Thurm't
urban area, and is believed to have the Super Patriot scam. Hoskins, money), Hoskins continued to assist
fought his way out. Little is known Hector, and Jerry would dress up as Walker with his scam when the Unit-
about his childhood. He became a the Buckies (Bold Urban Comman- ed States Taskforce on Superhuman
soldier, and in doing so, became dos dressed up in Captain America Resources asked Super Patriot to
good friends with John Walker, later masks), while Walker, as the Super replace Steve Rogers as Captain
Steve Rogers' replacement as Cap- Patriot, would stop them, and America. Walker asked for his old
tain America. Together with another enhance the Super Patriot's reputa- partners to join him. Hoskins was the
pair of soldiers (known only as Hec- tion. In addition, the Buckies com- only member of the Buckies to pass
tor and Jerry), they left the army and mitted acts of terror against people through the security check, and was
joined the Power Brokers' augmen- whom Walker believed were corrupt- named the new Bucky.
tation program . They were success- ing the morals of the nation and spy-
fully augmented, and would likely ing against the United States. Recently, Hoskins had become
have joined the Unlimited Class tired of the name Bucky, and
Hoskins and the other Buckies changed his name to Battlestar.
attacked Captain America, but Whether Hoskins can continue to
Hoskins was easily defeated, and serve in the role of Captain Ameri-
ca's partner remains to be seen.
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BEAST
--..STATISTICS
F IN (40)
A IN (40)
S RM (30)
E EX (20)
R EX (20)
I GD (10)
P EX (20)
Health: 130
Karma: 50
Resources: RM (30)
Popularity: O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Henry ("Hank") McCoy
Occupation: Biochemist, adventur-
er, member of X-Factor
--Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.
Nith no criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Dundee, Illinois
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Norton (father),
Edna (mother), Robert (uncle)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Former
member of the X-Men, the Avengers,
~and the Defenders, founding mem-
Jer of X-Factor.
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS considered Amazing for leaping pur- the round in which he stops.
Feet and Hands: The Beast can use poses. Enhanced Strength: During his
his feet as a second set of hands,
Hank has one power stunt he has recent fight with Pestilence of the
giving him a + 1 CS when wrestling. developed with his leaping tech- Four Horsemen, the Beast was
nique:
Both are substantially larger than the • The Beast can make a "banked infected with a bizarre disease that
human norm. shot" which allows him to bounce allows him to boost his Strength, but
~climbing: The Beast's dexterity is so from several walls and stop his at the cost of his Reason . He can
JOOd and the muscles in his feet and momentum by crashing into an enhance his Strength up to Amazing
hands are so developed that he can opponent. When the Beast performs rank, but his Reason decreases by 2
climb any wall or hang from any ceil- this maneuver, he is considered to rank numbers {although Karma
ing that can give him purchase {such be Dodging with Remarkable Agility, remains unchanged). As of this writ-
as brick or concrete, but not smooth ing his Reason is down to Typical (6).
steel or glass) with Remarkable skill. and strikes on the Charging column Talents: Hank McCoy is skilled in
Balance: The Beast's balance is with Remarkable Endurance. Biochemistry, Genetics, and Elec-
such that he can walk a tightrope Lightning Speed: The Beast's tronics. He uses Acrobatics, Tum-
automatically, and a slack rope with ground speed should be considered bling, and Martial Arts C in combat.
an Agility FEAT roll. His sense of bal- Excellent when sprinting. He must He speaks fluent French, Italian,
ance helps him to fall up to three sto- make a successful Endurance FEAT Russian, and perhaps other lan-
ries (30 feet) without receiving roll {modified by -1 CS for every guages.
damage, provided he lands on his round of continuous sprinting) or suf- Contacts: The Beast is a current
feet (Agility FEAT roll). He can pre- fer -1 CS in all actions taken during member of X-Factor and a former
vent damage from a longer fall by
grabbing and swinging off protru-
sions in the fall's path every 3 stories
~ (flagpoles, lampposts, etc.), as long
as he keeps making Agility FEAT
rolls.
Leaping: The Beast's Strength is
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member of the Avengers and HISTORY learned that he could not return to,.-....
Defenders. His contacts with the his former appearance. He latel
Brand Corporation, his former Henry McCoy is a mutant whose learned to accept his more beast-like
employer, and with universities powers were in evidence since birth. looks. Leaving Brand, he joined the
where he has acted as a campus The probable cause of his mutation Avengers and became a full-time
speaker, are tenuous at best. was his father's exposure to massive adventurer. The Beast left the Aveng-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: amounts of radiation during a nucle- ers after a distinguished stint of serv-
ar power plant "incident." As a ice and joined the Defenders, which
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES youth, McCoy's superhuman agility he decided to reorganize into a more
The Beast is usually as bright, witty, and athletic prowess earned him rec- formal and cohesive team. Still later,
and erudite as he is agile and strong, ognition in school as a star football he and the other members of
often speaking in pretentious phras- player. It was then that Professor Xavier's first " class" of X-Men
es. Tragically, his weakened mind Charles Xavier learned of him and reunited to form the team known as
can now only hold such concepts as invited him to join his School for Gift- X-Factor.
loyalty and revenge. ed Youngsters. As a member of Pro-
fessor Xavier's original X-Men, Early in his X-Factor career,
McCoy was given the code name McCoy was subjected to experi-
" Beast." Upon graduation, McCoy
was hired as a genetic researcher at ments by a former co-worker, Carl
the Brand Corporation. There he iso- Maddicks, that inadvertantly
lated a chemical catalyst that trigger- restored him to his original human ---.
ed mutations and sampled the form. As a member of X-Factor he
serum in hopes of changing his also played the part of an "X- Termi-
appearance enough so he could fer- nator," a cover identity that allowed
ret out enemy agents at the facility. the members of X-Factor to operate
The serum caused fur to grow over covertly as mutants. During a battle
his entire body, enlarged his canine with Apocalypse's Four Horsemen,
teeth , and increased his already pro- the Beast was infected by Pesti-
digious athletic ability. By remaining lence. As a result, his intellect now
too long in this altered state, McCoy decreases every time he "pushes"
his strength. Only time will tell ,......__
whether this "disease" wears off ot.
can be cured.
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BEETLE
------~TATISTICS
I
F GD (10)
A GD (10)
S RM (30)
E EX (20)
R EX (20)
I RM (30)
P TY (6)
Health: 70
Karma: 56
Resources: EX (20)
Popularity: -10
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Abner Jenkins
Occupation: Former mechanic, now
professional criminal
~Jdentity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with a criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: New York
Group Affiliation: Former employee
of the Collector and Justin Hammer,
,..--.,_former partner of the Gladiator, form-
ar member of the Sinister Syndicate,
former member of Masters of Evil Ill
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Body Armor: All of Jenkins' superhu-
man powers derive from his micro-
wave powered armor. Jenkins'
normal stats are:
F AS ER P
GD GD TY TY EX RM TY
The armor provides Excellent pro-
tection from physical attacks and
Remarkable protection from energy
attacks. As it is powered by micro- areas away. Daredevil, Iron Man (Tony Stark, old
Battle Computer: Mounted in the suit), and Captain America (Steve
waves, he jams microwaves within Rogers).
chestplate of the battlesuit, Beetle's Talents: Beetle has Electronics and
three areas with Incredible intensity. Repair/Tinkering Skill.
Battle Computer can be pro- Contacts: Beetle is a former
Wall-Crawling: Suction cups on his employee of Justin Hammer and the
grammed with the fighting styles of Foreigner, and is a former member of
gloves and feet allow Beetle to wall- Egghead's Masters of Evil. He has
particular foes, so that Beetle can purchased modifications of his
crawl with Excellent ability. anticipate their movements and armor from the Tinkerer.
Flight: Beetle normally flies at Poor attack accordingly. Against pro-
Speed (4 areas/turn). This is raised grammed foes, Beetle is +2CS on
Fighting FEATs, + 1CS on Agility
to Good Speed (8 areas/turn) if FEATs, and + 2CS on Intuition
power is shunted from all other sys- FEATS, including initiative. The
tems. The wings are made of mylar fighting style must be filmed and
(Good material strength). analyzed by computer to be pro-
- Electro-bite: By placing t he second grammed for these abilities. Pro-
and third fingers of a gauntlet togeth- grams exist for Spider-Man,
er, the Beetle may fire an Excellent
electrical (Energy) attack up to ten
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ADDITIONAL NOTES: world financier Justin Hammer, who.-
ROLE PLAYING NOTES HISTORY kept various superhuman criminalt
Jenkins was a master mechanic who on retainer. His offer accepted, the
turned to crime to alleviate the bore-
dom in his life. As the Beetle, Beetle was dispatched against the
Jenkins works as a mercenary for Abner Jenkins was a master original Iron Man, as part of a battal-
anyone willing to use his services. mechanic at an aircraft parts factory ion of costumed criminals. His Bee-
His major goal is to impress potential who became dissatisfied with his tle armor was severely damaged by
employers. Jenkins has a minor boring, low-paying job. Using his Iron Man during the fight.
grudge against Spider-Man, but considerable mechanical knowl-
would rather make money than pur- Jenkins then invested all of the
sue it. edge, Jenkins built an armor-plated, capital he could acquire into the
strength-augmenting suit, a pair of modification and refinement of his
gravity-defying wings, suction- Beetle armor. With the assistance of
fingered gloves, and a cybernetic the Tinkerer, he produced a new
control helmet. Calling himself the battle-suit with far greater capacities
Beetle, Jenkins decided to use his than his old one. Before launching
battle-su it for fame, wealth, and his come-back, the Beetle recruited
adventure. The Beetle chose to lure the criminal Ringer to put Spider-
the Human Torch and the Thing into Man through his paces. The Beetle
battle, believing a victory over half wished to study Spider-Man's fight~--
the Fantastic Four would make him ing style and program it into a com...
an overnight sensation. Unfortu- puter system so he could anticipate
nately, the Thing and the Torch his opponent's moves. Despite his
defeated him, and he was sent to preparations and new battle-suit, the
prison. Paroled a short time later, he Beetle was defeated by Spider-Man.
sought revenge on the Torch, but He was later freed from prison by
found himself in battle with Spider- Egghead who recruited him for his
Man instead. Once again he was Masters of Evil organization. The
defeated. Upon his release, he Beetle and the other Masters of Evil
decided to forego petty revenge and were defeated by the Avengers. .,,.-...__
concentrate on the acquisition of Following this defeat, the Beetle
wealth. He battled Spider-Man and worked for the Foreigner and
Daredevil separately on various . attempted to kill Spider-Man and Sil-
occasions, and once was recruited ver Sable as a member of the Sinis-
by the Collector to serve as his ter Syndicate. Again , he was
unwilling agent. Under the Collec- defeated. Recently, Iron Man discov-
tor's domination, the Beetle faced ered that the Beetle's suit used tech-
the Avengers.
nology stolen from his own armor,
Losing every battle against cos- and destroyed the Beetle armor.
tumed crimefighters and failing to Whether the Beetle can recover from ---.
accumulate very much wealth, the this defeat remains to be seen.
Beetle offered his services to under-
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BELASCO
--$TATISTICS
i
F EX (20)
A GD (10)
S GD (10)
E UN (100)
R EX (20)
I RM (30)
P UN (100)
Health: 140
Karma: 150
Resources: RE (30)
Popularity: 150
BACKGROUND
Real Name: (allegedly) Belasco
Occupation: Sorcerer serving the
Elder Gods
~dentity: His existence is unknown
,o the general population of Earth.
Legal Status: Citizen of Italy
believed to be dead
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: (allegedly) Florence,
Italy
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Formerly Flor-
--ence, Italy, formerly Pangea, former-
.y Limbo, currently unknown.
Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Magic: Belasco is a Master level sor-
cerer, who knows the following
spells:
.--..._personal
imitation (Amazing)
Mind Control (Monstrous)
Psi-Screen (Monstrous)
Sensing - Magic Detection (Mon-
strous)
Universal Dimensional ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Body Transformation - Others Immortality
(Monstrous: Belasco can transform Summoning (Elder Gods): Belasco
others into monster versions of must have the five Bloodstones in
themselves, most notably turning place to perform the ritual.
Kitty Pryde into the bestial Cat.) Susceptibility to Sword: Belasco is
Eldritch Beams (Amazing) susceptible to Magik's (lllyana Ras-
Ensnaring (Monstrous): Belasco has putin's) magic sword. Each time he
ensnared people in crystal, and then
extracted their skeletons (while the is struck by it, he must make a yellow
victims remain alive). Endurance and Psyche FEAT roll, or
--- Fire Control (Amazing) he will lose one rank of Endurance
Raise Dead (Amazing) and/or Psyche.
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY pipe, releasing a freezing liquid ontq-..
Belasco is a truly evil fiend, who con- According to probably erroneous himself. He entered a state of sus
fidently exults in his abilities. Belas- accounts, Belasco was a sorcerer in pended animation. Theoretically he
co 's deeds are all done for the 13th century Italy who used his remained in this state for several
benefit of the Elder Gods, who pun- alchemical and black arts knowl- centuries. Volcanic activity in Pan-
ish him horribly for failure. Belasco edge to contact the so-called Elder gea caused an electrical accident
plans to recapture Limbo and take Gods, extradimensional beings bent which melted the frozen liquid and
vengeance on those who have on invading and dominating Earth. returned him to life.
wronged him. He struck a bargain with them: he
would enable their passage into the These accounts are contradicted
Earth dimension via a spell using by the historical data on Dante and
mystical bloodstones, in exchange Beatrice. It is also highly unlikely that
for them granting him unbelievable the Atlanteans could have replicated
powers and immortality. The Elder the Greek and Christian visions of
Gods designated Belasco the father Hell so closely. More likely, Belasco
of a new race of demons, and made used Pangean technology to con-
him partially demonic, giving him struct the exhibit. Finally, Belasco's
horns and a tail among other fea- account conceals the loss of his right
tures. This much of the accounts is arm.
probably true.
Upon regaining the locket tha~
Next it is asserted that Belasco
kidnaped Beatrice, lover of the poet would enable him to bring the Eide\
Dante Alighieri, to be the mother of Gods to Earth, Belasco controlled
the new demon-race. They fled Shanna O'Hara with the intent to
aboard a ship (pursued by Dante) make her the mother of the demonic
and landed in Pangea, formerly set- race. The rite to bring the Elder Gods
tled by Atlanteans before the cata- into the Earth dimension was ruined
clysm. By this time Beatrice was in by Ka-zar's rescue of Shanna. The
her ninth month of pregnancy. Elder Gods then sent Belasco to
Limbo as retribution.
After a grueling chase to the cen-
ter of an exhibit which the Atlanteans Time flows differently in Limbo. lh
had allegedly designed for their own is not known how long Belasco ha~
amusement to resemble Hell, Bea- been there. He was absolute master
trice died while giving birth. Dante of that realm until his apprentice,
attacked Belasco, and during the lllyana Rasputin (Majik of the New
fight, Belasco broke an overhead Mutants) defeated him. Belasco
manipulated events in Limbo to facil-
itate his release, but was defeated
again by Ka-zar and Shanna. His
current whereabouts are unknown.
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BETA FLIGHT
.- .GROUP BACKGROUND Resources: FB Body Armor: Goblyn's black skin
Beta Flight was founded by the Popularity: 0 serves as Good body armor against
physical and energy attacks.
Canadian Government as a training BACKGROUND Hiding: Goblyn's indigo skin allows
ground for superheroes considered Real Name: Goblyn her to hide in shadowy areas; any-
to be almost experienced enough to Occupation: Member of Beta Flight one trying to spot her takes a - 2CS
join Alpha Flight. The original mem- Identity: Secret penalty.
bers included Box (Roger Bochs), Other Known Aliases: None Tracking: Goblyn can track and rec-
Maria, Puck, and Flashback. Beta Place of Birth: Unknown, believed
Flight was disbanded at the same to be somewhere in Canada ognize other creatures with Remark-
time the government disbanded Marital Status: Single able ability.
Alpha Flight, and its members scat- Known Relatives: Laura Dean (twin
tered. sister), Susan Dean (mother, pre- Alter-ego: Laura Dean, Goblyn's twin
sumed living), Darby Dean (father, sister, has a psychic link with
Alpha Flight was later reinstated presumed living) Goblyn. When Goblyn appears in the
by the Government. One day, while Base of Operations: Mobile real world (which Laura calls
Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar) was Group Affiliation: Former Member Deadworld), Laura goes to a seem-
demonstrating his skiing skills, he of the Derangers, Current Member ingly innocent dimension (called
encountered a young girl with purple of Beta Flight Liveworld). The exchange requires a
skin and mind control powers who Present Group Affiliation: Psyche FEAT roll. She can carry at
...--.. commanded him to take her to Alpha least one person with telepathic abil-
Flight. After several misadventures, KNOWN POWERS ities with her in the exchange.
Madison Jeffries befriended her, and Claws: Goblyn's claws can do Laura's stats are:
the Purple Girl became the first . Remarkable Edged damage.
member of the new Beta Flight. FASER I P
FB PR FB EX FB TY TY
Months later, while Alpha was try-
ing to get Madison Jeffries' brother,
Scramble, to restore Roger Bochs'
sanity, Scramble turned on Alpha
Flight to create the monster con-
- struct Omega. Omega horribly
i:leformed Madison Jeffries and his
assistant, Whitman Knapp. Th is
brought out Knapp's mutant abilities,
and after Omega's defeat, he joined
Beta Flight as its second member,
Manikin.
Scramble had experimented with
a group of superhumans, called the
Derangers , at his clinic. The
---.. Derangers were captured by Bed-
lam, a creation of James MacDonald
Hudson's that went awry. In Bed-
lam's defeat, all of the Derangers
except Goblyn were killed. Despite
Goblyn's savagery, and Vindicator's
doubts, the Purple Girl befriended
the creature. Goblyn became the
third member of the New Beta Flight.
It is unknown whether the group will
continue to grow, or whether its
members will graduate to Alpha
Flight.
GOBLYN
STATISTICS
FASER I P
EX RM EX IN PR EX GD
Health: 110
Karma: 34
81
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Health: 100 friends with the Purple Girl.
Karma: 14
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Resources: FB PURPLE GIRL
Little is known of Goblyn's t rue Popularity: O
nature: she is very young, and quite FASER I P
savage, although she appears to be Highbrow TY GD TY GD TY EX AM
tamed by Purple Girl 's sentimental Health: 32
nature. So far, Goblyn is not a team FASER I P Karma: 76
player; she follows her instincts, not FB TY FB EX RM TY AM Resources: PR
orders. Health: 30 Popularity: O
Karma: 86
MANIKIN Resources: FB BACKGROUND
Popularity: O Real Name: Kara Killgrave
FASER I P Occupation: Student
GD GD TY RM EX GD GD Teleport: Highbrow can teleport at Identity: Secret
Health: 56 least five individuals an undetermin- Other Known Aliases: None
Karma: 40 ed distance, and has been known to Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario,
Resources: GD teleport one person several thou- Canada
Popularity: 5 sand miles. He apparently does not Marital Status: Single
need familiarity with the destination Known Relatives: Purple Man-~
BACKGROUND in order to teleport people, although (father, deceased), Melinda Killgrave
Real Name: Whitman Knapp it is probable that one of the people (mother)
Occupation: Surgeon teleported must have a memory of Base of Operations: Mobile
Identity: Secret the place. Highbrow's abilities are Group Affiliation: Beta Flight
Other Known Aliases: None largely a mystery. Present Group Affiliation:
Place of Birth: Unknown, believed Proto
to be somewhere in Canada KNOWN POWERS
Marital Status: Single FASER I P Pheromones: Kara has pheromones
Known Relatives: None TY GD FB GD FB TY TY that give her Amazing powers of
Base of Operations: Mobile Health: 28 Mind Control in a ten area radius. All
Group Affiliation: Beta Flight Karma: 18 targets turn purple while under,.,-.,.
Present Group Affiliation: Resouces:FB Kara's control, and then they will
Popularity: 0 obey any command to the best of
Corrosion: Proto has a touch that their ability, although it will not affect
acts as an Incredible corrosive the body's involuntary responses.
attack (treat as a corrosive missile Contacts: Kara is on very good
with no range). terms with Madison Jeffries, and the
new Box. She is Goblyn's only
Talents: Whit has a medical skill at a friend.
Remarkable level.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
KNOWN POWERS ROLE-PLAYING NOTES ROLE-PLAYING NOTES
Evolutionary Selves: Whit Knapp can Very little is known about Whit; he Kara is somewhat impetuous, and
create three counterparts from stag- seems to be a nice person, and sometimes makes mistakes with her
es in his evolutionary development: showed sufficient principles to turn powers and with people. She tries
Ape-Man, Highbrow, and Proto. against Omega. Manikin seems to
These counterparts must act on be the most powerful of the mem- very hard to correct them. Kara is
Knapp's orders; they cannot act of bers of Beta Flight, and is close very young and still has much to ,---....
their own volition. learn .
Ape-Man
FASER I P
RM GD RM RM FB GD FB
82
BEVONDER
,..-..... STATISTICS
F CL1000
A CL1000
S CL1000
E CL1000
R CL1000
I CL1000
P CL1000
Health: 4000
Karma: 3000
Resources: UN
Popularity: 0
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Inapplicable
Occupation: Inapplicable
Identity: The Beyonder's existence
,..-..... is unknown to the general population
'of Earth.
Legal Status: Inapplicable
Other Known Aliases: Frank
Place of Birth: Inapplicable
Marital Status: Inapplicable
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Group Affiliation: None
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ness; the Beyonder could not create ADDITIONAL NOTES:
a paradox in time. If he attempted to
Omnipotence: Until " his" apparent do so, he would destroy the uni-
verse, himself included. This restric-
destruction, the Beyonder was the tion was only a theory, never tested.
sum total of power of its entire uni- Talents: The Beyonder had no skills,
verse. As such, he was limited only no human experience, but could per-
by the restrictions that he placed on form nearly any action with his awe-
himself. The Beyonder could create some powers.
and destroy matter as he chose. He Contacts: The Beyonder is well
could heal any and all damage to known to most of the world's most
~ himself, and while taking the visible powerful superheroes, and almost
effects of damage, could immedi- joined the Avengers.
ately heal himself and others. He
could negate any poison, correct any
fault, and restore to life any being
whose astral spirit was still available.
The statistics given above are for
the Beyonder in his "human " form.
His original form had the following
statistics:
FASER I P
BY BY BY BY BY BY BY
He also possessed a transitional
form, which he created when he tried
to become fully human, which was
as follows:
FAS E R IP
- I 0 0 0 CL1000 0 0 0
According to Reed Richards, the
Beyonder's powers had one weak-
83
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Earth, most of them possessing conquest of Earth (although he ..---...
Initially, the Beyonder was extremely superhuman powers, went to New allowed some people to retain a
naive about human nature, and his York City's Central Park to investi- vague reminiscence of it).
early experiences involved his dis- gate an enormous circular construct
covery of such basic human con- which had materialized in the park's The Beyonder continued his expe-
cepts as hunger, money, and life. Sheep Meadow. Entering the con- rience with love and human beings.
Once he mastered these concepts, struct, the adventurers and the con- He tried to force Alison Blaire to be
he began to experiment with human struct were teleported to an area of his lover, but failed. He also experi-
values, creating villains such as outer space near a galaxy far from mented with revenge, transforming
Kurse, and falling in love. Eventually, Earth's. Similarly, a large number of Thor's enemy the Dark Elf Algrim
he found that he derived no satisfac- costumed criminals, found them- into Kurse. The Beyonder's mood
tion from his discoveries, got selves in another construct in the began to change. Desire was
depressed about human nature and same area of space. Aboard the con- becoming a nuisance, and he was
himself, and threatened to destroy structs the passengers watched in not sure he wanted to continue
the world. awe as the nearest galaxy was anni- studying it. Briefly, he took the young
hilated by an unseen force, save for mutant Boom-Boom as a compan-
The Beyonder has three per- a single star. Then, before their eyes, ion, but terrified her when he threat-
sonas; Explorer, Manipulator, and a planet which became known as ened to destroy the entire universe
Destroyer, which the Judge can use on a whim. She alerted the Aveng-
in adventures involving him. Battleworld, was created to orbit that ers, and they in turn called in other ,......_
star. Finally, a rift opened in space, superhuman adventurers.
HISTORY from which a blinding light poured,
and the passengers on the con- On advice from Doctor Strange,
Originally, the entity known as the structs heard a voice that told them the Beyonder became a super hero
Beyonder comprised all of the other "I am from beyond! Slay your ene- on Earth and on other planets, trying
dimensional universe, called the to find a purpose in life. He obliterat-
" Beyond-Realm," in which he exist- mies and all you desire shall be ed Death from the universe, only to
ed. The entity was entirely unaware yours! Nothing you dream of is bring it back when advised that life
of the existence of other beings, until impossible for me to accomplish!" was meaningless without it.
several years ago when the atomic The passengers on the constructs
accident that transformed laboratory were then sent down to Battleworld. He briefly stayed on a South Seas
worker Owen Reece into the super- There, over the next several days, island, where he was attacked by a ,,-......
human Molecule Man opened an they engaged in a "secret war" group of supervilains led by Mephis-
interdimensional "pinhole" between among themselves, most of the crim- to. The Thing saved him and inspired
the Beyond-Realm and the multi- him again, this time to encourage
verse in which Earth exists. Through inals sought to destroy the heroic others to find their meanings in life.
this gap the Beyonder observed the adventurers in order to gain the prize This backfired, and left him furious.
Earth for a number of years. The that the Beyonder promised. Now he decided he should destroy
Beyonder was fascinated, since he the multiverse so he would be alone
himself was his entire reality, but After a power struggle between again, leading him to slaughter most
each denizen of Earth was but a sin- the Beyonder and Doctor Doom of the New Mutants in the process.
gle entity that was part of the greater involving Klaw and Captain America, This action alerted many of Earth's ,......_
whole that was the multiverse. the Beyonder vanished, and the par-
Hence, each sentient being on ticipants in the "secret war" costumed heroes, who met him in an
Earth, in the Beyonder's point of returned to the places from which underground sanctum where a mas-
view, was " incomplete," and strove they had come. sive battle took place, resulting in the
to remedy its incompleteness. Beyonder's life energy being project-
Hence, the Beyonder believed, the Months later, the Beyonder arrived ed into another dimension where it
driving force of the minds of all senti- on Earth to continue his study of created a new universe.
ent beings was desire, in other humanity and desire. He had never
words, wanting to have or become possessed a form of his own before,
something one is not. Indeed, now but now he created a physical body
that the Beyonder realized that he to allow him to walk among humanity
himself was not all that existed, he and fulfill his desire for experience in
saw himself as incomplete and felt the world. After experiences with
desire. various adventurers and the criminal
underworld, the Beyonder used his
To investigate the nature of desire, powers to take complete control of
the Beyonder undertook an experi- every mind, and in fact every atom,
ment. Various adventurers based on on Earth. He was still dissatisfied; he
took no pleasure in having all those
84 servants if they were in effect autom-
atons. He then released everyone
and everything from his control, and
erased everyone's memories of his
BINARY
- STATISTICS
F IN (40)
A IN (40)
S UN (100)
E SZ (500)
R GD (10)
I RM (30)
P MN (75)
Health: 680
Karma: 115
Resources: EX
Popularity: 0
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Carol Danvers
Occupation: Cosmic Rebel, Former
NASA security chief, former maga-
,,-. zine editor, former freelance writer,
former military intelligence agent.
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: Ms. Marvel
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachu-
setts
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mother
,........,_ Base of Operations: Outer Space
Group Affiliation: Current member
of the Starjammers, former member
of the Avengers (as Ms. Marvel),
occasional companion of the X-Men
(as Carol Danvers).
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS when flying . above) with a six area radius which
does Shift Y damage (36 area radius
Ti'ansformation: Carol can transform Focused Energy Release: Binary can in space or in the air.)
,,.--... herself into her Binary form at will. In do many things by altering the focus • Light Burst (intense light waves)
of her cosmic energy release. She that can blind everyone in a 6 area
this form, her personality, memories, can emit and hear light, and the rest radius for 1-10 rounds if they do not
etc. do not alter, only her appear- of the electro-magnetic spectrum as make an Endurance FEAT roll vs.
ance. Her skin turns deep red and well as gravity. Whenever she wish- Unearthly.
her hair turns to cold flame. She can- es to focus her cosmic energy and
not stay in this form indefinitely, but utilize it, she must make a Psyche • Repower any type of battery that is
the length of time has yet to be deter- FEAT roll. She may fire Monstrous charged with electro-magnetic
mined. The length of time would intensity beams of heat, gravity/ energy. This ranges from hi-tech
depend on her expenditure of power pressure, microwave, etc. up to 8 weapons to starship batteries. The
(if she were to be used as a sort of liv- areas. In addition, she may perform amount of time required and the
ing battery, her powers could be any of the following Power Stunts: drain on her power is up to the
depleted in a matter of hours). Judge.
• Blasts (of identical energy forms as
Flight: Binary can convert her cosmic 85
energy to enable her to fly at an Air
Speed of CL3000. Because of an
energy release when she does this,
Binary may not fly faster than six
areas per round when in a planetary
,,,-.. atmosphere, as she could ignite the
landscape or any organisms that live
there. She has Monstrous Agility in
flight. Her Strength is not lessened
Cosmic Perception: While she is in Binary for her part in the destruction
her Binary form, Carol has a CL1000 of their homeworld. On Earth, Carol
Psyche for the purposes of percep- is aggressive, and self-confident, but
tion on a universal scale. This means occasionally depressed about her
she has heig htened perceptions role as a combatant.
concerni ng the flux of energy used in
the space around her. If on a planet, HISTORY
she can detect the use of any energy,
dimensional apertures, stargates, Carol Danvers entered the Air Force
etc. In space, she can detect warp- at an early age and rapidly rose to
ing starships, suns going nova, become one of the leading agents in
space battles using massive energy military intelligence, usually teamed
weapons beyond sight, etc. This with Michael Rossi, who became her
does not mean that she knows how lover. Upon leaving her work as a spy,
the specific energy is used, but she she became security chief at Cape
can tell its level and its general pur- Canaveral for the National Aeronau-
pose (dimensional travel, high inten- tics and Space Administration, where
sity weapon, etc.) she met the Kree Captain Mar-Vell.
Alter Ego: In her human form, Carol During a battle between Mar-Vell and
has the following stats: his Kree foe Yon-Rogg at a hidden
Kree base on Earth, Carol Danvers
FASER I P was accidentally irradiated by the
IN EX EX RM GD RM RM unknown energies of the Psyche-
Health: 110 Magnitron, a device built _by the Kr~e.
Karma: 70 The radiation from this machine
Resources: TY eventually augmented her entire
Popularity: O genetic structure, giving her superhu-
Talents: Carol Danvers has Military, man strength, the ability to fly, and a
Espionage, and Detective talents, clairvoyant "seventh sense." With
and Pilot skills. Many of her skills these powers, she assumed the
were lost when her mind was drained guise of Ms. Marvel and established
by Rogue. herself as a champion of Earth. Dur-
Contacts: On Earth, Carol Danvers ing this time she worked as a maga-
has contacts in the Avengers, X- zine editor and freelance writer in
Men, SHIELD, and NASA. In space, New York City. Later, in battle with the
she has only the Starjammers on power-absorbing mutant named
which to rely. Rogue, Danvers lost virtually all of ~er
Ms. Marvel abilities, leaving her with
ADDITIONAL NOTES: only her augmented genetic struc-
ture. Rogue also drained her of her
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES memories, most of which however
As Binary, Carol Danvers is an out- were restored by Professor Charles
law, hunted along with Lilandra and Xavier, although he could not restore
the Starjammers, by the Shi'ar Impe- to her the emotional bonds linked to
rial Guard and many mercenaries. those memories. Later still, Danvers
Surviving Brood would also hunt was abducted by the alien Brood and
subjected to an evolutionary_ray
which triggered the latent potential of
her augmented genes. Thus she
became the cosmic-powered mutant
named Binary. No longer feeling the
strong emotional ties to people and
places on Earth that she felt before
falling victim to Rogue, Danvers
decided to leave Earth and pursue
adventure as a member of the space-
faring band known as the Starjam-
mers.
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.--- STATISTICS BLACK BOLT
F EX (20) ROLE PLAYING NOTES
A IN (40) Black Bolt is completely self-
S RE (30) controlled. He never acts rashly or
E IN (40) without ample forethought. He is
R EX (20) devoted to Medusa and the lnhu-
I EX (20) mans. Because he is a mute, players
P EX (20) are under special limits. They can
only freely speak in character to
Health: 130 Medusa. All other speech is limited
Karma: 60 to describing Black Bolt's actions.
Resources: MN (75)
Popularity: 15(95 among lnhumans) 87
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Blackagar Boltagon
Occupation: Monarch
.,..-..,, Legal Status: Attilan ruler
Identity: Existence not believed by
humans.
Place of Birth: Attilan (Atlantic
Ocean site)
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Medusa (wife);
Maximus (brother); Agon (father.de-
ceased); Rynda (mother, deceased);
Gorgon, Triton, Karnak (cousins)
.----..... Base of Operations: Attilan
Past Group Affiliations: The Royal
Family of the lnhumans
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Electrical Conversion: Unearthly
rank
Electrical Generation: Monstrous
rank
~ Energy Detection: Monstrous rank.
Energy Solidification: He can create
masses of Monstrous material that
last for 1-10 turns.
Force Field Generation: Monstrous
rank in a single area.
Hyper-Strength: Strength temporari-
ly increases to Monstrous rank.
Magnetism: Monstrous damage to
electronics.
True Flight: Monstrous speed.
Vibration: CL1000 rank
Weakness: Voluntarily mute; speech
unleashes his most destructive
powers.
Weakness: Fork on forehead needed
to channel his powers (excluding
Vibration).
- Talents: Black Bolt is a leader and
tactician.
Contacts: The Fantastic Four
HISTORY Kree. Attempting to stop the Kree were transformed into energy ,.-.....
ship before it escaped, Bolt used the beings. The Trikon enabled Maximus
Black Bolt was born to two of Atti- forbidden power of his quasi-sonic to wrest the rule of the lnhumans
lan's top geneticists, Agan, head of from his brother and send Black Bolt
the ruling Council of Genetics, and voice to knock the ship out of the sky. and the other members of the Royal
Rynda, director of the Prenatal Care When the ship crashed to Earth, it Family into exile. For the next few
Center. Subjected to the mutagenic landed on the parliament building, years, Black Bolt and his kinsmen
Terrigen Mist while still an embryo, killing several key members of the wandered Asia, Europe, and finally
Bolt was born with strange powers Council of Genetics, including his the Americas, in search of Medusa,
surpassing even the lnhumans' parents, Agan and Rynda . The his betrothed mate, who had been
norm. As an infant, he demonstrated reverberations of his brother's shout separated from the others during the
certain energy-manipulative abilities affected Maximus's sanity and sup- battle with the Trikon. Eventually
which he could not yet control, par- Black Bolt was reunited with Medusa
ticularly that of producing quasi- pressed his nascent mental powers. and the Royal Family returned to
sonic energy of great destructive Despite his guilt and silent protests, Attilan and resumed the crown .
potential. To protect the community, Black Bolt was obligated to accept
he was placed inside a sound- the mantle of leadership of the lnhu- Black Bolt has led the lnhumans
proofed chamber and given an mans at the age of twenty. through some of the most turbulent
energy-harnessing suit. There he times in their history, including sev-
was schooled in the art of controlling Black Bolt's first crisis in leader- eral more attempts to by Maximus to ,,,.--
his powers until the age of nineteen, ship came when his cousin Triton usurp the throne , revolts by the
when he was permitted to enter soci- worker class, attacks by human ren-
ety. was briefly held captive by humans. egades, the kidnaping of Medusa,
Learning of Triton's encounter upon the destruction and rebuilding of Atti-
A month after being awarded his his escape, Black Bolt decided that lan, the revelation of the lnhumans'
freedom , Black Bolt discovered his the lnhumans' island of Attilan was existence to humanity, and finally the
younger brother Maximus in the in imminent danger of discovery by second relocation of Attilan. Recent-
process of making a treacherous humanity. Black Bolt scouted out ly, following the traditionally lengthy
pact with emissaries of the alien possibile sites to which to move, and period of betrothal , Black Bolt and
settled on the remote Himalayan Medusa were wed.
mountains. After the great migration,
Black Bolt faced his second great cri-
sis when his now mad brother Maxi-
mus unleashed the Trikon, three of
the lnhumans' worker drones who
88
,-.,STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A AM (50)/EX (20)
S TY (6)
E EX (20)
R GD (10)
I GD (10)
P EX (20)
Health: 86/56
Karma: 40
Resources: TY
Popularity: 2
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Felicia Hardy
Occupation: Adventurer, Cat Bur-
glar
~dentity: Known to authorities
_egal Status: Citizen of the United
States with a criminal record, grant-
ed legal amnesty
Other Known Aliases: Felicity Har-
mon
Place of Birth: Queens, New York
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Walter (father,
deceased), Lydia (mother)
~ase of Operations: New York City
~roup Affiliation: Former partner of
Spider-Man, former ally of the For-
eigner
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS dexterity as special talents with her excellent material, and the Black Cat
Felicia's powers are mostly a mys- new abilities. These may be the uses it as a swing line or a tightrope.
~ery; according to Doctor Strange, extent of the change in her powers, Contacts: Although their relation-
they are mutating, changing, and the but then again, they may change fur- ship is strained, the Black Cat still
~ull results have yet to be seen. Her ther. has Spider-Man as an important con-
;urrent Agility is Amazing, while her Talents: Felicia has Martial Arts A tact.
and E, Acrobatics and Tumbling,
previous Agility score was Excellent. Lock-picking, Security Systems 89
She used to have the following abili- Knowledge, and Tightrope Walking.
Equipment:
ties: Tightrope: Felicia often carries a
Luck Manipulation: Felicia uncon- length of thin cable which ends in a
sciously created a probability alter- ball of glue. She can throw the ball
ing field around her, causing bad three areas or use a launcher with a
luck to befall all who attack her. This 1Oarea range. The cable is made of
luck often manifested itself in spec-
tacular ways: guns explode in an
assailant's hands, an attacker falls
through a loose floorboard, etc. The
limitation of Felicia's unluck was that
her associates suffered the effects of
bad luck with a weekly Psyche FEAT
roll. (Before and after losing her.
powers, she used booby traps and
~ careful planning to simulate this abil-
ity.)
lnfravision: So far, she has only mani-
fested infravision and heightened
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Man, that she did indeed have the the origin of her new powers from,......,._
power to affect probability.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Spider-Man, but he eventual!}
The Black Cat lives for adventure Upon finally being captured, the
and excitement. Felicia still works as learned that the Kingpin was respon-·
a cat burglar, but only steals from Black Cat feigned insanity, and some
criminals. Felicia often appears to be time later escaped imprisonment. She sible for them. The Black Cat then
confused and easily manipulated in had become greatly attracted to
her personal relationships, but this Spider-Man, and joined him in battling confronted the Kingpin, who
confusion is usually a pretense. Feli- criminals, thereby winning amnesty
cia's father spent most of his life in from the New York City legal authori- informed her that he had fiven her
prison, and Felicia would rather die ties for her own past crimes. She
than be jailed. sought to become the regular crime- her powers in order to get revenge
fighting partner of Spider-Man, who
HISTORY had by now reciprocated her love for both on her and on Spider-Man. The
him, going so far as to reveal his
Learning that her father had been an secret identity to her. However, she Kingpin revealed to her that her
infamous cat burglar, Felicia Hardy revealed to him that she had no super-
decided to follow in his footsteps. human powers, and, after she was powers would, in time, bring "bad
She undertook a rigorous physical severely injured in one of his clashes
training program that increased her with Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man con- luck" to anyone who was regularly in
strength, endurance, and agility, sidered it to be too dangerous for her
learned such criminal skills as lock- to join him in fighting his superhuman her presence. Indeed, Spider-Man
picking and safecracking, and adversaries.
gained a knowledge of martial arts had been uncharacteristically clum-
such as karate. Donning a costume Distraught, the Black Cat deter-
to conceal her identity, she set out to mined to gain superhuman powers sy recently when near the Black Cat.
seek her fortune as the Black Cat. by some means. Meanwhile, the
Kingpin, the most powerful orga- The Kingpin said that the Cat's
In keeping with her chosen nom du nized crime leader on the East
crime, the Black Cat decided to create Coast, sought vengeance on the powers would increasingly affect
the impression in her adversaries' Black Cat. She had stolen a detona-
minds that she could give them "bad tor for a nuclear device from him that Spider-Man the more he stayed with
luck" through some power of her own. had later fallen into the hand of Doc-
Hence, before committing a crime in a tor Octopus. Feeling helpless to stop her, and implied that the end result
certain area, she would carefully pre- Octopus, the Kingpin vowed to pun-
pare objects in the area so that appar- ish the Black Cat for her theft of the would be his death. .--.....
ent "accidents" would befall any of detonator. Concealing his identity
her pursuers later on. For example, from her, the Kingpin offered to grant The Kingpin pledged to Spider·.
she would rig brick walls so that they the Black Cat superhuman powers in
would break, prepare ropes so that exchange for her services. The Man never again to force the Black
they would break, and rig fire escapes Black Cat suspected that her
so that they would fall. Through tricks unknown benefactor was a criminal, Cat to do his bidding. T he Black Cat
such as these, she managed to con- but accepted the offer, telling herself
vince her principal opponent, Spider- that she would turn him over to the decided that, to save Spider-Man's
law after fulfilling her debt to him.
life, she would end her affair and
The scientists in the employ of her
benefactor discovered that the Black partnership with him, but before she
Cat had latent abilities in her genes,
and were able to activate those could tell him this, he put an end to
powers, using information from the
notes of the late Dr. Farley Stillwell, them himself due to his dissatisfac-
who had given the Fly and the Scor-
pion their superhuman abilities. She tion with her amorality and her dis-
now had the power to cause her
adversaries "bad luck" that she had dain for his life apart from being ......._
only pretended to possess before.
Moreover, the Black Cat's agility and Spider-Man.
speed had also been enhanced.
Only after she received these However, Spider-Man's bad luck
powers did the Black Cat learn that
her benefactor was the Kingpin. did not immediately change. Finally,
At first the Black Cat concealed Spider-Man consulted Dr. Strange,
who removed the source of his bad
luck, Felicia Hardy's powers. This
resulted in the unknowing Black Cat
being badly beaten in an encounter
with a criminal when she was
depending on her powers to protect,..--..
her. Enraged by this, and also by
Spider-Man's treatment of her, she
vowed to get revenge on him.
Felicia joined the master assassin
known as the Foreigner in a scheme to
destroy Spider-Man. The Foreigner
framed Spider-Man for the murder of a
villain named the Blaze, and Felicia
pretended to help Spider-Man clear
his name. Spider-Man discovered that
Felicia was helping Foreigner with the
frame, and while confronting her, end-
ed up in battle against the Foreigner.
The Black Cat promptly turned on her
true target, the Foreigner, and cleared
Spider-Man's name. Finally, trying to
guard against the Foreigner's expect-
ed retribution and having made her ,..-....
peace with Spider-Man, Felicia left
New York. Her current whereabouts
are unknown.
90
BLACK CROW
,~TATISTICS
F AM (50)
A AM (50)
S RM (30)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I AM (50)
P AM (50)
Health: 180
Karma: 110
Resources: Poor
Popularity: 1O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Jesse Black Crow
Occupation: Former construction
worker, now Mystic
~dentity: Secret
~egal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Navaho Indian Res-
ervation, New Mexico
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Queens, New
York
.-Group Affiliation: None
1resent Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS
Alter-ego: Jesse Black Crow's nor-
mal stats are:
F A S ER P
PR FB TY TY GD GD TY
Crow Form: The Black Crow can
~ransform himself into a normal or
Jiant crow. Either crow can fly with
Good speed (8 areas/round). In giant
form, the crow does Remarkable
Edged damage.
Fog: The Black Crow can generate a
thick fog with a Psyche FEAT roll.
Those trying to spot Black Crow in Telepathy: The Black Crow has ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Telepathy of Amazing ability. This
this fog take a - 2CS penalty. may or may not work exclusively with
Captain America.
Healing: The Black Crow knows a rit- Talents: Black Crow has Martial Arts
A, C, D, and E, and knowledge of
ual that can boost Resistance to Poi- American Indian mysticism.
Contacts: Black Crow is well-known
son by + 1CS with an Endurance to Steve Rogers, the original Captain
America.
FEAT roll.
Lightning Form: In his energy form,
Black Crow travels at CL3000 (near-
light) speed. He can move up to 50
areas per round, but attacking in this
form still takes one round. It does
~~ncredible damage.
'ara/ysis Gaze:·The Black Crow can
paralyze an opponent with his gaze.
He can do this with Incredible Ability.
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY first mission for the Earth spirit wao/--
As Captain America represents the to challenge Captain America to a tri
virtues of mainstream American Jesse Black Crow is a Navaho Indian al by combat. Black Crow told him
society, Black Crow represents the who left the reservation at the age of that as a symbol of modern America,
innate powers and magic of the land, 18 to become a construction worker Captain America must die to balance
the virtues of ancient America. The on skyscrapers in the New York area. the cosmic scales and appease his
Black Crow appears to be an enig- One day some scaffolding gave way ancestral spirits. After a battle that
matic figure, a stereotypcial " noble and he plunged twenty stories. culminated in a plunge off the Brook-
savage" from the 18th and 19th Cen- Miraculously, he survived the fall, lyn Bridge, Captain America made a
but became paralyzed from the waist gesture of surrender to the Earth
tury. Jesse Black Crow seems to be down. While lying comatose in the spirit, thereby ending the conflict
unaware of the activities of Black hospital, he had a vision of the Indi- and creating a spiritual bond
ans' plight in America, and was between the two American champi-
Crow. transformed into a mystic warrior ons. Weeks later, when Captain
and protector of the Indians' dream America was dying of a poison inject-
by a "spirit of the Earth" sacred to ed in him by the Red Skull, the Black
his ancestors. Now whenever this
Earth spirit has a mission for him, it Crow materialized minutes before he
causes him to lose consciousness succumbed and performed a ritual
and bodily transform into his totem , a which enhanced the Captain's will t~
black crow, or the mystical human live. The poison burned out of hil.
warrior Black Crow. Black Crow's system, Captain America awoke,
with only the vaguest recollection of
the Black Crow's assistance.
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BLACK KING
--STATISTICS
i
F RM (30)
A GD (10)
S GD (10)
E AM (50)
R EX (20)
I EX (20)
P RM (30)
Health: 100
Karma: 70
Resources: IN
Popularity: 15
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Sebastian Shaw
Occupation: CEO and principle
shareholder in Shaw Industries, Inc.
. ---\dentity: Publicly known, however,
.he general public is unaware of
Shaw's criminal activities.
Legal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
,..-.Base of Operations: Worldwide, the
iellfire Club is based in Manhattan,
New York.
Group Affiliation: Hellfire Club
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS age Shaw does receive (magic, men- 5d10 weeks.
Kinetic Absorption: Shaw is able to tal, non-kinetic attack forms such as Talents: Shaw has incredible reason
cold and humidity) is taken off his in matters of business and Remark-
absorb kinetic energy and convert it excess Health first, then his own, able reason in the area of defense or
to physical Strength, Agility, and and he takes no damage from those armament design (Shaw redesigned
r--tiealth. He must be in contact with attacks he absorbs. and upgraded the modern Sentinels).
.he energy to absorb it.. Whenever Contacts: Shaw is the chief execu-
Shaw is attacked physically (slug- If Shaw is at his maximum of 400 tive officer of Shaw Industries, a
fest, missile weapons, concussive Health and struck by an attack that multi-national corporation that is
rays, etc., but not wrestling) or by he would normally absorb, Shaw is involved in U.S. defense projects.
energy attacks that must strike him in danger of overloading. He must He has contracts with the U.S.
to hurt him (Cyclops' optic blast, make an Endurance FEAT roll; if he defense department, including Pro-
lightning bolts, etc.) the appropriate fails, roll a second Endurance FEAT ject: Wideawake, for which he builds
amount of damage is added to his and consult the Kill Table. If a Kill Sentinels. They do not suspect that
Health, not deducted. His Health, if result is indicated, then Shaw will he is a mutant. His chief ally is Emma
boosted in this manner, can go as either die, or may spend 50 Karma Frost, the White Queen.
high as 400. For every 50 points over and merely become comatose for
100 Health that Shaw gains, he
shifts his Strength and Agility ranks
+ 1CS; therefore, at 150 Health his
Strength and Agility would both be
Excellent; at 200, Remarkable; and
so on up to a maximum of 400 Health
~nd Unearthly Strength and Agility.
fhis energy dissipates after ten
rounds by increments of 100 Health
until he is back to normal. All dam-
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ADDITIONAL NOTES: HISTORY then became Black King, leader o
the Council of the Chosen (which h,
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Sebastian Shaw was born into an renamed the Inner Circle) and mas-
Sebastian Shaw is a stylish rogue impoverished family, but with his ter of the entire Hellfire Club. As
who admires the ruthless, indulgent superb business skills, he became a leader of the Inner Circle, Shaw
habits of the late 18th-Century upper millionaire by the age of 20. He even- works closely with another member,
class. His primary goal is the accu- tually became the head of Shaw Emma Frost, the White Queen , who
mulation of power. His secondary Industries, a multinational corpora- like Shaw is a superhumanly power-
goal is the death of Selene, the new tion which is heavily involved with ful mutant. Recently Shaw survived
Black Queen. Shaw enjoys fighting, United States defense contracts and an attempted challenge to his lead-
but he never enters a fight personally the production of munitions. Shaw ership of the Circle by its renegade
unless there is a good reason. Shaw was invited to join the Hellfire Club, White Bishop, Donald Pierce. Shaw
intends to seize control of mutants the leading organization for the elite is also cooperating with the United
by secretly masterminding the gov- of society. Soon after joining, Shaw States government's covert Project:
ernment's Sentinel program , and by learned of the Club's secret Council Wideawake, which is an attempt to
pitting powerful mutants, such as of the Chosen, a group of members deal with what is perceived as the
Magneto and Selene, against each who, unknown to the others, con-
other. spired to achieve world domination possible menace presented by
through economic and political mutants. Shaw Industries is secretly
means. Through the force of his per- manufacturing Sentinels for use bv-"
sonality, Shaw became one of the the Project. The governmeri.
leaders of the Council, rising to the remains unaware of Shaw's criminal
rank of Black Bishop. (Members of activities and of the fact that he him-
the Inner Circle are given titles cor- self is a superhumanly powerful
responding to the names of chess mutant.
pieces.) The leader of the council, a
White King, had the Council give Recently Shaw has permitted sev-
considerable financial backing to Dr. eral additions to the Hellfire Club's
Stephen Lang's attempt to create Inner Circle, including Magneto,
new mutant-hunting Sentinels. Upon Storm, Selene, and Emmanuel
the collapse of Lang's enterprise, Decosta, father of the New Mutanh
Shaw seized the opportunity to turn Sunspot. Despite the power of thesl
the White King out of office. Shaw individuals, and Selene's almost
open challenge to his position, Shaw
continues to maintain control of the
Hellfire Club.
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BLACK KNIGHT
- STATISTICS
I
F RM (30)
A EX (20)
S GD (10)
E GD (10)
R GD(10)
I TY (6)
P TY (6)
Health: 70
Karma: 22
Resources: EX
Popula.rlty: 40
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Dane Whitman
Occupation: Former scientist, form-
er crusader, now crimefighter
~ dentity: Secret
_ egal Status: Citizen of the United
States with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Gloucester, Massa-
chusetts
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Nathan Garrett
(alias the Black Knight, uncle,
deceased}; Sir Percy of Scandia (ali-
.-..as the Black Knight); Lady Rosa-
.nund, Eobar Garrington (ancestors,
deceased)
Base of Operations: Hydrobase,
Atlantic Ocean, formerly Avengers
Mansion, New York City
Group Affiliation: Current member
of the East Coast Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:
~KNOWN POWERS an attack of equal rank. (This is not him or teleport himself to the sword
3ody Armor: The Black Knight wears considered to be an established with CL3000 ability, crossing time
a full suit of chain mail armor, which power stunt, and must be developed and dimensions to do so.
provides him with Good protection normally). The sword has a blood- Atomic Steed: This device is used by
against physical attacks. curse on it; if the wielder takes a life, the Black Knight as his mount. The
Ebony Blade: The Black Knight's is he becomes bloodthirsty (Psyche vehicle's stats are:
made of Unearthly strength material, FEAT roll to avoid this).
and in the Black Knight's hands Control Speed Body Protection
inflicts 1O points Edged damage or The sword contains a mystic boo- RM ShX EX None
16 points Blunt damage with the flat by trap. If an enemy picks up the
Ebony Blade, or makes a successful Flying Horses: Earlier in his career,
of the blade. The sword's anti- Grab attempt, the sword inflicts Dane Whitman used two winged
magical properties allow it to deflect Incredible damage each round the horses, Aragorn and Valinor. Both
spells and energy as if it were a villain holds the blade. had the following similar abilities:
shield of Unearthly strength, as well
as cut through mystic barriers and Finally, through complete concen- FASER I P
enchantments as if they were normal tration (red Psyche FEAT) the Black GD EX RM GD GD TY TY
materials. It can affect normal ener- Knight may summon his sword to
gies as a power stunt; the sword can
~ cut through energy barriers, and
jeflect non-magical energy. It can
also absorb energy blasts, which
may be flung back at the assailant as
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~ ~ ~·· -.· ... .: ;;:: -
--
_...;:_~ -~--L--~-~
Talents: Dane is a weapon specialist HISTORY Upon learning he had inherited-..
Garrett Castle, Whitman travelel
with sword ( + 2CS), and has horse- The original Black Knight was Sir there and found Sir Percy's tomb
Percy of Scandia, a member of the where his ancestor's ghost contact-
manship skills. He is also an accom- Round Table in King Arthur's sixth- ed him. Dane was able to draw the
plished geneticist, physicist, and has century Camelot. Merlin gave him Ebony Sword, and after defeating its
Repair/ Tinkering ability. the Ebony Sword, made from a demonic guardian, fought an agent
Contacts: Black Knight is a member meteorite and enchanted . Sir Percy of Mordred. Dane decided to keep
of the Avengers, and a close ally of was slain in an ambush by his great- Garrett Castle.
Doctor Strange. He still has ties to est enemy, Mordred, killed by a dag-
the extra-dimensional land of Ava- ger made from the same meteoric He later met Doctor Strange and
lon. material as the Ebony Sword. How-
ever, his spirit was enabled by Merlin assisted him on several adventures.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: to return to the Earthly plane should Still later, he fell to Casiolena the sor-
ceress, who turned him to stone.
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES Mordred's spirit threaten. Sir Percy's Doctor Strange was unable to
Dane Whitman is a man who has body and sword were interred reverse the magic. In attempting to
dealt with the impossible on a regu- beneath his castle. restore the Black Knight, he and the
lar basis. He is a scientist who went Defenders found themselves trans-
back to the time of the Crusades and In the 12th century Eobar Gar- ported to the Crusades, where they
fought for a protracted period of rington became the Black Knight found Dane Whitman in the body of --....
time. Despite his unusual life, he is and wielded the Ebony Sword in the Eobar Garrington, battling Arabs.
one of the most "normal " people in Crusades, as an ally of King Richard Dane stayed in this condition for five
the Avengers, at home in the 20th as the Lionhearted. During the last five years , during which he aided
well as the 18th Century. He is devel- years of his life, Garrington 's body Amergin in the battle against the
oping an affection for Janet van was inhabited by the spirit of Dane Fomor. With help from the Avengers,
Dyne, the Wasp. Whitman, a 20th century descen- Dane and Amergin closed the portal
dant of Sir Percy and the Black from Avalon to Earth, but Gar-
Knight of that time. Whitman pos- rington 's body was destroyed in the
sessed Garrington's body until the process. Amergin's magic restored
Dane to his 20th century body, and---_
time of its death. gave him the Ebony Sword and ~
In the mid-20th century Nathan new winged steed which went into
the future with him.
Garrett found Sir Percy's tomb and
the sword. He was unworthy, but In his absence, Garrett Castle had
took on the name of the Black Knight been sold. This made the transition
and, using his scientific knowledge, to modern life more difficult for
mutated a winged horse and created Dane. In addition, he discovered
an energy lance. In this guise Garrett with Doctor Strange's help that the
committed crimes to amass wealth. sword was cursed. This blood curse
Mortally wounded in battle with Iron was lifted, and Sir Percy's spirit wa~
Man, on his deathbed Garrett told freed from the Earthly plane. ThE.
his nephew, Dane Whitman, about Black Knight returned to America
his life of crime and begged him to and renewed his active Avenger sta-
put his discoveries to good use. tus.
Dane decided to assume the Black Whitman was recently attacked by
Knight's identity, and using Garrett's a spirit claiming to be his descen-
notes, mutated another winged dant, seeking to end the blood-curse
steed. of the sword by slaying his ancestor.
The Black Knight defeated him, but
Whitman's first encounters as the vowed never to use the blade
Black Knight were with the against a living creature again. The
Avengers-at the initial meeting they effects of the vow remain to be seen.
mistook him for his uncle, and parted
on bad terms.
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BLACK PANTHER
STATISTICS
F AM (50)
A IN (40)
S EX (20)
E RM (30)
R GD (10)
I RM (30)
p EX (20)
Health: 140
Karma: 60
Resources: Amazing
Popularity: 66
BACKGROUND
Real Name: T'Challa
Occupation: King of Wakanda, sci-
entist
~ Identity: Publicly known
_egal Status: Citizen of Wakanda
with no criminal record
Other Known Aliases: Luke
Charles
Place of Birth: Wakanda, Northern
Africa
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: T'Chaka (father,
deceased), N'Yami (mother,
- deceased), Khanaata, Joshua ltobo,
shanti , Zuni (cousins), Jakarra (half-
brother)
Base of Operations: Wakanda
Group Affiliation: Reserve Member
of the East Coast Avengers
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS Equipment: Wakandan technology ADDITIONAL NOTES:
/nfravision: The Black Panther has is highly advanced, including such
,- excellent infravision and can see
devices as the Falcon 's wings and
Nell on moonless nights. However,
he cannot see well in absolute dark- · Captain America's van. In Wakanda
ness.
itself, it is nearly impossible to find
Tracking: The Black Panther's keen-
ly honed senses give him Amazing this high technology, as it is carefully
Tracking ability. Outdoors, he c~n fol-
low a trail up to 12 hours after 1t was hidden in the natural setting of the
made. In a city environment, the time
limit is six hours. Wakandan jungle. Its technology is
Talents: In combat, the Black Pan-
ther uses Martial Arts A, B, C, E, as possible because Wakanda is the
well as Acrobatics and Tumbling
skills. He has an Excellent reason in world's only supplier of a unique
regard to physics and electronics.
Contacts: In addition to his member- gmueatradl~d Vibranium. Wakanda is
ship in the Avengers, the Black Pa~ by lasers camouflaged in
ther is a close friend of the Fantastic
,.... Four. In his youth, he befriended the scenery ( - 4CS to spot, Remark-
3torm , of the X-Men. In addition to
this, he has diplomatic immunity in able Material Strength material
the United States.
which causes all sonic attacks
directly against it to take a - SCS
penalty).
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ROLE-PLAYING NOTES HISTORY secret heart-shaped herb that grant~
The Black Panther is a fiercely proud great physical strength and heigh·,
warrior-ruler of his people, and yet a T'Challa is the son of T'Chaka, king ened senses. T'Challa passed the
civilized, honorable man. He is of the African nation of Wakanda. tests and donned the ceremonial
caught in a conflict between the trib- When his father was slain by Ulysses garb of the Black Panther, the totem
al traditions of his ancestors, and the Klaw, a lawless American ivory of the Wakandan people. As .the
customs of the technological world, hunter who sought to possess Black Panther, T'Challa has both
a technology that he has encour- Wakanda's Vibranium mine, the protected his land from outside
aged the Wakandans to adopt. He young T'Challa swore vengeance. invaders and led his small nation into
respects people who are strong and The young boy succeeded in thwart- .greater industrialization and wealth.
honorable. ing Klaw's raid. He was then sent off After meeting Captain America, the
to be educated at the finest schools Panther was offered membership in
in Europe and America. T'Challa the Avengers. Taking a leave of
returned to his homeland, bearing a absence from his royal duties, he
degree in Physics, to assume the served with the Avengers for a
mantle of leadership. He was given lengthy interval, acquainting himself
two tests: to triumph against six of with American methods of crime-
Wakanda's greatest warriors in fighting. Inevitably, he resumed the
unarmed combat and to obtain the active kingship of the Wakandan~
and returned to his native land when.
he has ruled ever since.
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BLACK GlUEEN
~-..STATISTICS
F GD (10)
A EX (20)
S RM (30)
E AM (50)
R GD (10)
I AM (50)
P AM (50)
Health: 110
Karma: 110
Resources: AM
Popularity: -1 O
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Selene
Occupation: Goddess (self-styled)
Identity: Selene's powers and histo-
---.ry are unknown to the general public
legal Status: Former citizen of the
Roman Republic and Nova Roma.
Other Known Aliases: The Black
Priestess
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Marcus Domitius
Gallio (husband, deceased), Amara
Juliana Olivians Aquila (aka Magma)
.- (relationship unknown, although
Selene has hinted that they are
related)
Base of Operations: New York City
Group Affiliation: Inner Circle of the
Hellfire Club
Present Group Affiliation:
KNOWN POWERS free will, but becomes a psychic absorbing her power.
Psychic Vampire: Every use of vampire like Selene (though not sub- Telekinesis: Selene has Unearthly
,....-....,,,Selene's powers (Excellent level or ject to her will). control over inanimate matter, and is
over) requires an Endurance FEAT Psi Screens: Selene possesses a able to manipulate it with Monstrous
roll. Failure indicates loss of 1O ability. She can disintegrate inani-
Health. Once below 20 Health, she psychic shield that is always up and mate items up to Monstrous Material
begins to age rapidly, growing older acts as Amazing protection from psi- Strength that are in the same area
in minutes. Her Health can only be onic attacks. She cannot use her Psi with a Psyche FEAT roll.
Screens at the same time as her
regained by stealing it from others. telepathy, force bolts, telekinesis, Pyrokinesis: Selene has Unearthly
She steals Psyche by touch, at and pyrokinesis powers. control over fire, and is able to extin-
Unearthly ability. She will then guish it, or increase it (up to Amazing
regain as many Health points as her Psychic Body Armor: Selene's psy- damage) with a successful Psyche
prey has Psyche. By depriving a vic- chic vampirism has affected her FEAT roll.
tim of some of his life force, she plac- body, giving her the equivalent of
es ·him under her control , at the Good body armor against physical Telepathy: Selene can read the
Monstrous level of effectiveness attacks. It also prevents others from thoughts of others and contact senti-
(this requires two rounds of concen-
tration). The victim loses as many
Health points as he had Psyche
points. If his Health points are
- depleted as a result, the victim dies
and his body disintegrates. If the vic-
tim's Psyche is depleted but he
remains alive, then he retains his
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