Miscreants, Malefactors and Megalomaniacs - Final
Miscreants, Malefactors and Megalomaniacs - Final
Abilities
Prowess: 5
Coordination: 4
Strength: 3
Intellect: 4
Awareness: 3
Willpower: 4
Stamina: 8
Determination ~
Powers
Absorption 4 (Kinetic Energy / Healing)
Blast 6 (Stinger Blast)
Secondary Effect: Affliction 3
Strike 6 (Stinger Fist)
Secondary Effect: Affliction 3
Shrinking 6
Extra: Passengers
Secondary Effect: Flight 4 (Psionic Wings)
Specialties
Aerial Combat Expert
Military
Power Expert (Blast, Strike)
Stealth
Weapons (Shooting)
Qualities
“I’m the best at what I do” (Shrink and Sneak).
In love with Doctor Wilson
Public Image: Superhuman Robin Hood
While job searching, he was contacted by the The DoD maintains that Wilson is controlling
decidedly not dead Dr. Wilson, who brought Psi-Wasp through mind-control nanotechnology
him to her own underground lab for in her super-soldier serum. No firm proof has
debriefing. Trent was paid handsomely for not been produced yet, and the general public
only saving Dr. Wilson, but for not revealing regards this assertion skeptically. The popular
the formula’s existence (or his new powers). view of Psi-Wasp and Dr. Wilson is as star-
She explained to him that Project: Red Wasp crossed lovers fighting an oppressive
was a US military program designed to create government conspiracy against them.
metahuman assassins, spies, and saboteurs.
The local militia in the warzone had been
Adventure Hooks
tipped off out about Dr. Wilson’s experiments
• The authorities have received a tip that Psi-
and she wasn’t sure if the information had
Wasp will be attempting to stage a heist at a
been fed to them by her rivals within the
university in the PCs’ city which is hosting a
Department of Defense (DoD) or perhaps by
the intelligence agency of an unfriendly symposium on the use of cutting edge
nation. She was staying undercover until she nanotechnology to treat neurological
could find out exactly who had leaked the disorders. A vial of the experimental nanites is
information and why. believed to be his target. Although the
university has tightened security for the event,
As she was operating in secret, Wilson needed the heroes are recruited to provide additional
help procuring material, research data and the security. NOTE: a friendly professor in the
cash she would need to continue her Advanced Physics Department might be on
operation. Trenton had exactly the skills to hand and have the necessary technology on
help her with these problems. Dr. Wilson hired hand to shrink the heroes should they need to
him and sent him on a variety of missions that follow Psi-Wasp at smaller sizes.
usually involved getting secrets from locked
rooms, breaking into secure buildings to pilfer • The authorities believe they have the
top secret technology, and stealing loads of location for Psi-Wasp and Dr. Wilson’s current
cash. base of operations. The PCs have been tapped
to try to capture the famous supervillains
When he voiced some ethical concerns, Wilson where the police and FBI have failed in the
assured Trenton that all of their targets were past.
“morally compromised” — war profiteering
corporations, corrupt agencies working
towards dubious agendas or companies who
were fronts for foreign governments
unsympathetic to America. Trenton easily
accepts Wilson’s rationale. (He’s deeply in
love with her and has been since their time
overseas. He has no idea if his feelings are
reciprocated.)
Abilities
Prowess: 3
Coordination: 3
Strength: 3
Intellect: 6
Awareness: 3
Willpower: 4
Stamina: 7
Determination ~
Powers
Gadgets 7
Limit: Must be in a lab to create items.
Gadgets:
Tactical Outfits (Damage Resistance 3)
Limit: Device, Does not cover the head.
Pheromone Perfume (Emotion Control 4)
Limit: Love, Close Range - (must be close
enough to smell), Degrades
Drug Injectors: (Slashing 1
Extra: 2nd Effect – Affliction 8
Limit: Device, Charges (5 Doses)
Charm Bracelet Explosives (Blast 5)
Extra: Burst
Limit: Device, Charges (10)
Attitude Adjuster Gun (Mind Control 5)
Limit: Device
Specialties
Martial Arts
Occult
Science (Physics) Expert
Technology Master
Weapons Shooting
However, the uncontrolled energies of the
Qualities disaster displaced Dr von Skorn's mind into the
It's All About The Toys (Grand Laboratory) body of his young female hostage, who was
Misogynist Mad Scientist Trapped in a rescued from the inferno. In his previous life,
Woman’s Body he was a spiteful, misogynistic beast of a man.
Wants Out Of Current Form Now, trapped in the body of a young girl,
every glance in a mirror fills Dr von Skorn with
Backstory: The supervillain Dr. Wendell von scornful, self-loathing rage.
Skorn (aka the Diabolical Doctor Scorn!) was
presumed dead five years ago, after a massive The doctor's new supervillain identity is known
explosion in his arcanowave lab when his as Bombshell. (He is paranoid that any of his
nefarious experimenting was interrupted by former colleagues in the ranks of villainy might
the heroic Colonel Chrome and his superteam. discover that Bombshell is secretly the
fearsome villain Doctor Scorn and takes pains
to hide this fact.) At turns sultry and hateful,
he/she bewitches and abducts male mutants
and other metahumans. His/her goal is to
recreate the terrible experiment that resulted
in the original body swap and once again swap
bodies — perhaps, this time, to land in a
powerful male form with immense
superpowers to go along with an already-
enhanced intellect.
Adventure Hook
A team of superheroes is terrorizing Downtown
University! Bombshell has cleverly used her
mind-control and pheromones to force these
do-gooders to wreak havoc, while she seduces
her way into the Hypercausality Science Lab to
steal equipment, copy data, and kidnap Doctor
Valence, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist! Can
the heroes stop their heroic counterparts
without maiming them? Will they be able to
resist Bombshell's artificial allure? What will
they do when the artificially-lovestruck Dr.
Valence unleashes his Bad Luck Beamgun
(Probability Control 7: Bad Luck) to save his
“beautiful assistant”?
Holo-Master
Real Name: Connor Reed
Abilities
Prowess: 3
Coordination: 4
Strength: 3
Intellect: 8
Awareness: 4
Willpower: 3
Stamina: 6
Determination ~
Powers
Energy Control 5 (Hard Light Creation)
Limit: Device (Holo-Master gear)
Extra: Flight
Illusions 8 (Hard Light Holograms)
Limit: Device (Holo-Master gear)
Extra: Images
Invisibility 6
Limit: Device (Holo-Master gear)
Specialties
Science (Physics) Expert
Science (Holography) Master
Technology Expert
Qualities
Driven to punish his Alma Mater
Wanted by Police
Partially Deaf
Supervillain Illusionist
Adventure Hook
The Heroes respond to a distress call. A horde
of zombies is terrorizing a rush hour traffic
downtown. There are multiple situations to
defuse (crowds of civillains on the verge of
panicking, car wrecks caused by gawkers, an
overturned fuel tanker leaking diesel etc).
Meanwhile, Holo-Master is using the chaos
caused by his illusions to quietly hold up
several jewelry stores.
STARLOK VII
(STARLOK is an acronym of Space Traveler
Ambassador & Ranger w/ interLOcK
Technology)
Abilities
Prowess: 7
Coordination: 6
Strength: 8
Intellect: 6
Awareness: 6
Willpower: 5
Stamina: 13
Determination ~
Powers
Damage Resistance 5
Energy Control: 4 (Electromagnetism)
Extra: Flight
Interface 5
Extra: Broadcast
Immortality 3
Mind Control 5
Extra: Continuous Effect
Limit: Must make a ranged attack to
activate a control
Specialties
Computers Master
Electronics
Qualities
Humanity will be assimilated or destroyed!
My Body Betrays me (+2 to damage from
magnetic attacks)
Robotic Conqueror From The Stars
and transportation.
Backstory: Calvin Briggs was a brilliant scientist
who believed the movies were wrong. He
After several failed attempts at a working
believed that first contact with alien life
prototype, Model VII exceeded all expectations
would be an enlightening and positive
and was loaded aboard the Argo, an unmanned
experience for both species. While working for
starship with a faster-than-light gravity drive
NASA, Calvin created the STARLOK program.
capable of travelling out of the solar system
Much like the Voyager satellite, the STARLOK
and into deep space. The ship left the solar
robot (Space Traveller, Ambassador, & Ranger
system three months after launch and
w/ interLOcK technology) was a machine that
promptly fell silent. Despite the best efforts of
could withstand the rigors of space while
Calvin Biggs and other scientists it was nearly
carrying a message of peace and cooperation
three years went by before NASA received a
to the stars. Additionally, STARLOK could also
single two word message from the Argo:
use specialized electromagnetics for defense
“Coming home.”
The Argo landed at Johnson Space Center in
Texas to extreme fanfare. The STARLOK robot
exited the Argo and saluted, drawing cheers
from the crowd. “I bring a message of peace
... through assimilation,” the robot said before
launching a cloud of nanites into the crowd.
Dozens of attendees dropped to the ground as
the nanite swarm spread and wrapped their
bodies in a gleaming metallic shell. The
infected people rose as mind-controlled drones
under the command of STARLOK.
Adventure Hook
News of a STARLOK VII attack has gone across
all media outlets. Talco Energy has reported
that the Vega Star Oil Drilling Platform is being
assaulted by the robot. At five miles offshore,
the Coast Guard thought it would be an easy
feat to mount a rescue operation. They were
mistaken and STARLOK has made short work of
all boats and helicopters they sent. With the
workers assimilated and under his control,
STARLOK is modifying the drilling platform for
some unknown purpose. A government scientist
has a credible theory that the robot intends to
use the drill to touch off a major, continent
shaking earthquake. Can the heroes find a way
to get out to the platform and stop STARLOK
VII?
Nova Star
Real Name: Kara Braeyal (formerly Karen
Braley)
Abilities
Prowess: 7
Coordination: 7
Strength: 8
Intellect: 4
Awareness: 6
Willpower: 6
Stamina: 14
Determination ~
Powers
Damage Resistance 7
Elemental Control 8 (Nova Fire)
Extra: Affects Insubstantial
Flight 8
Life Support Breathing,Cold, Heat,
Radiation and Vaccum
Specialties
Aerial Combat Expert
Business
Leadership Expert
Martial Arts
Power (Nova Fire) Expert
Hazani Technology
Qualities
No one knows she’s an alien princess.
Hunted by Hazani Securitor Robots small, cloaked starship. They told her that her
Regarded with Skepticism by International actual name was Kara Braeyal. She was the
Community daughter of Dormak, the Silent King, who had
Exiled Cosmic Dictator been ruler of the Hazani Star Empire before
being deposed by the Vandian Democratic
Backstory: Karen Braley was a child of the Uprising and imprisoned on the planet Haziel.
foster care system. She couldn’t get along
with any foster family for very long and so she Her mother, the queen, had died during the
bounced from one home to another. She had revolt. Her last command had been for her
grown jaded about love when it was offered Royal Guardsmen to spirit her daughter to
and resented those that had it when it wasn’t. Earth in order to make sure that her she could
grow up in freedom and one day retake the
throne. As a Hazani “royal” she had powers far
One day, shortly after her 16th birthday, her superior to any human.
life was rocked when two men in strange
uniforms showed up and stunned her foster The Guardsmen had secretly watched her grow
parents with quick energy blasts. They took up. Now that she had come of age, it was time
her to the outskirts of town where they had a for her to live in a manner befitting a princess
of the Hazani Empire (or the proper Hazani her father’s enemies to assassinate her.
title: Nova Star) and be trained in matters of
war and statecraft so that she might one day Kara sometimes leaves the island in search of
free her father and regain his throne. materials for the plan. She tries to buy or
barter when she can. So far she has always
Kara (and the Guardsmen who had rescued been successful. If she is ever refused, the
her) conquered an independent island chain world will see her power as Nova Star as she
off the coast of Chile called El Mar de Estrellas takes what is rightfully hers.
(Sea of Stars). After deposing the government
and declaring it a sovereign state under their Adventure Hook
rule, they set about developing the nation’s Cerberus Portal Solutions (CPS) (based near
economy. the PCs’ city) has devised a portable
teleportation system specifically for
Part of that effort includes Novis United, a transporting people or cargo vast distances
tech company that set the world on fire with instantly. There’s even talk of using it for
their innovations (secretly based on off-world space exploration Novis United has made
technology.) Novis’ smart phones and personal several bids to buy this tech from CPS but have
computing devices (smart watches, fit trackers been turned down every time. Nova Star
and wearable computers) are several storms into the CPS facility with the intent of
generations ahead of anything the competition taking possession of the technology. She
offers. Although many nations are deeply releases a powerful Hazani sentry robot drone
critical of Kara and her Guardsmen taking over in berserker mode to distract the security
a sovereign nation — most (encouraged by personnel. While chaos ensues, Nova Star
consumers’ eagerness to obtain Novis’ devices) searches for the teleportation system (or just
now have trade relations with them (even if the CPS engineer who designed it). Can the
diplomatic relations are still touchy at best.) Heroes get to Cerberus and stop the mayhem?
The world is not aware that Kara and her Berserk Sentry Drone: PRO: 4, COO: 4, STR:
Guardsman are aliens. They are regarded as 6, INT: -, AWA: 2, WIL: - / Powers: Blast 7,
metahumans who violently “liberated” an Flight 3, Damage Resistance 10/ Qualities:
island from a despot who also happen to run a Susceptible to EMP, Unliving
successful tech company. Their best kept
secret is their plan to use their nation and
company as the base from which to launch
their plans to take back the Hazani throne.
Many of their citizens are now secretly
employed to build star cruisers in hidden
underground facilities. Additionally, Novis
installs covert mind control devices into many
of their popular lines of products. When the
time comes, an unsuspecting populace wearing
Novis smart watches, fit trackers and other
devices will come under Kara’s mental control
and board her starships as slave soldiers.
Abilities
Prowess: 4
Coordination: 5
Strength: 7 (4 w/out armor)
Intellect: 7
Awareness: 6
Willpower: 6
Stamina: 13
Determination ~
Powers
Damage Resistance 6 (Armor)
Limit: Device
Flight 4 (Armor)
Limit: Device
Blast 6 (Armor)
Limit: Device)
Magic 6
Extras: Mastery -Servant (Zombies-
ICONS Assembled Pg. 192)
Specialties
Business
Computers
Drive
Leadership Expert
Martial Arts Expert
Occult
Pilot
Power (Blast) Expert
Science (Physics) Master war, the country seemed fated to a future of
Technology suffering that is until King Abiodun arrived.
Weapons (Long Blades - Machetes)
Until King Abiodun came. His name means
Qualities “born during war” and he lived up to it —
I WILL protect my people slaying the bickering warlords who had divided
My word is currency... spend it wisely. (A Imara and deposing the weak and corrupt
man of few words) government who had failed his country for so
Superhuman Dictator long. With this technical genius, he rapidly
revolutionized Imara: rebuilding crumbling
Backstory: King Abiodun is the supreme leader infrastructure, restoring depleted fields and
of the small, prosperous African nation of establishing an education system that is the
Imara. envy of the world. Where once there was
starving and suffering, now there was
Up until a few years ago, Imara was a strife- prosperity and peace.
torn, failed state in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Battered by famine, natural disasters and civil Once firmly installed as ruling monarch,
Abiodun revitalized his country's industrial Adventure Hook
sector with the discovery of Imarite — a King Abiodun’s son is visiting the heroes’ city
wondrous mineral found only in the hills and on a good-will tour. During an impromptu visit
mountains of Imara. Imarite provides a clean to a government office he shocks the
burning energy source with many times the assembled media when he asks for immediate
energy output of coal or petroleum. Its political asylum. He states that his father is a
discovery has ushered in a slew of inventions brutal dictator and he doesn’t wish to grow up
that have helped enrich Imara. to fill his tyrannical boots.
With a standard of living exceeding most Within minutes, King Abiodun himself appears
industrialized nations and a booming economy in the financial district and blasts several
that thrives on exporting exotic electronics office buildings to “get the city’s attention.”
and computers, no citizen wants for anything Abiodun broadcasts a message across all TV
— as long as they bend knee to Abiodun. The and radio frequencies claiming that his son has
king maintains an iron-fisted rule over Imara. been brainwashed as part of a propaganda
Dissent is not tolerated and is dealt with campaign against Imara. The King demands
harshly. Critics complain about human rights that his son be returned to him immediately or
violations in Imara, but Abiodunn disregards the city will feel his “full wrath”. The PCs are
their concerns as “the insults of naive called in to deal with the situation
outsiders” who do not understand what is
necessary to keep Imara safe and prosperous.
Abilities
Prowess: 3
Coordination: 4
Strength: 5
Intellect: 5
Awareness: 7
Willpower: 5
Stamina: 10
Determination ~
Powers
Cosmic Power 7 (The Azure Expanse)
Extra: Telekinesis
Flight 5
Specialties
Aerial Combat
Dance Expert
Occult Master
Qualities
Driven to Find the “Key”
Not on Hallowed Ground (+2 to all Tests’
Difficulty)
Skinriding (she’s living in a possessed body
whose original owner wants it back)
Abilities
Prowess: 3
Coordination: 4
Strength: 3
Intellect: 5
Awareness: 4
Willpower: 4
Stamina: 7
Determination ~
Powers
Blast 5 (Quantum Spheres)
Limit: Tiring
Extra: Burst
Dimensional Travel (Teleport) 5
Teleport 8
Specialties
Athletics
Drive
Investigation
Martial Arts Expert
Medicine
Military
Power (Quantum Spheres) Expert
Science
Weapons
Knife (Slash 4
Pistol (Shooting 3)
Qualities
Driven to find Col. Sinclaire
Hunted By ECHO
Fallen Hero Obsessed With Revenge
an amazing life if she worked for him on a
Backstory: Sirina Rostovich discovered her team he oversaw (when she was old enough.)
mutant powers of teleportation and
dimensional travel in junior high school. She After graduation, Sirina took him up on his
was quickly recruited into a Department of offer and joined the Colonel to work for
Defense (DoD) security program that studied Sanction Alpha, his covert metahuman strike
and tested young metahumans. team. Sanction Alpha was responsible for
stopping dimensional invasions into our world.
Colonel Carter Sinclair was one of the officers The team was made up of highly trained
in charge of the DoD program and he worked metahuman military operators with
with Sirina and her parents to help her master teleportation and dimensional travel powers.
her powers. He promised them she could have Sirina was a natural and, after assuming the
code name Blue Shift, she quickly became a Despite the forces working against her, her
model agent. reign of terror continues. She has broken into
government facilities, stolen and leaked top
Sanction Alpha enjoyed a long, distinguished secret information, and gated government and
run and defended Earth from several threats — military officials who she felt were corrupt to
ranging from interdimensional raiders and inhospitable locations. During her vendetta,
slavers to full-fledged invasions. Sirina and the Sirina always continues to look for clues to the
other soldiers on the team were decorated whereabouts of her friend and mentor, Col.
repeatedly for courage under fire. Sinclair.
Stamina: 8
Determination ~
Power
Gadgets 6 (Technotheurgy)
Limit: Device, Must be constructed with
materials on hand
Interface 3
Extra: Broadcast
Mind Control 5
Limit: Only works on Technology (robots,
AIs, androids, etc)
Weapons
Cortex Rifle – Blast 6
Extra: 2nd Effect: Nullification 3 (EMP)
Limit: Device, Shooting Only
Shoulder Missiles – Blast 6
Extra: Burst, Homing (a miss constitutes a
second attack roll on the next panel)
Limit: Device, Only against aerial targets
Gravity Grenades - Blast 3
Secondary Effect: Elemental Control 3
(Gravity loss)
Limit: Device, Ammo (4)
Specialties
Power (Technotheurgy) Expert
Science (Astro Navigation)
Weapons (Alien Robot Firearms
Technology Master
Qualities
Automaton (no need to eat, sleep, or breath) infiltrating power plants, raiding factories, and
“Fourth Adjunct to the Kariakos Legacy” breaking into cutting-edge science labs — in
Escaped Alien Warbot from Area 51 search of both fuel and compounds to add to
the living proto-plastic material that makes up
Backstory: This bipedal construct escaped its structure.
from Area 51 in a hail of gunfire and has since
tangled with various supergroups up and down In addition to harvesting power and chemicals,
the West Coast. It has a propensity for Sa'var has been observed to have the ability to
physically bond with technology. Physical
contact allows it to communicate with,
subvert, and control any technological system.
Given time and fuel, it can create extra-
terrestrial morphing in such technologies and
currently carries several dangerous weapons of
mass destruction that it created during its
raids, including an energy-throwing rifle,
shoulder-mounted anti-air missiles, and
grenade-like orbs with varying properties.
Adventure Hook
Thunderclap, a powerful hero with a suite of
lightning abilities, has been captured by
Sa'var! The dastardly construct has made a
cross-country run and is headed toward the
Oswald Nuclear Power Facility, where it
intends to use Thunderclap as a living
capacitor in order to power its bizarre alien
technology, using the entire output of the
nuclear plant at once - causing a region-wide
cataclysm as well as unleashing the terrors of
his warpgates! Can the heroes travel in Sa'var's
wake, destroy the semi-sentient cybertech
constructs left on guard, break into the
technologically-fortified facility, and
neutralize Sa'var before time runs out?
Tariq, “The Tyrant”
Abilities
Prowess: 6
Coordination: 4
Strength: 7
Intellect: 5
Awareness: 5
Willpower: 3
Stamina: 10
Determination ~
Powers
Dimensional Travel 4
Limit: Others Only, Difficulty 6, Only
summon one Djinn per Panel
Extra: Summon (Tariq may summon minor
Djinn).
Elemental Control 6 (fire)
Extra: Flight (Wings of Fire)
Slash 7 (Ashbringer: Flaming Sword)
Limit: Device
Secondary Effect: Aura 2 - Fire
Specialties
Leadership Expert
Martial Arts
Occult Master
Power (Elemental Control) Expert
Weapon (Sword) Expert
Qualities
Suffering When Wet (+2 Dmg / Difficulty from
Water)
Has an eye for the LADIES!
Evil Djinni in The Mundane World
Fire Eye Cultists: PRO: 3, COO: 3, STR: 3, INT: As the 66th in line for the Ever-Burning Throne
3, AWA: 3, WIL: 3, STA: 5 / Powers: Knives of the City of Brass, Tariq was fated for a life
(Slash 3), Pistol (Shooting 3) of boredom and petty intrigue. But when the
rift between worlds beckoned, he saw an
Minor Djinn Vassals: PRO: 4, COO: 3, STR: 5, Earthly realm that he could conquer and bend
INT: 2, AWA: 3, WIL: 3, STA: 5 Aura 4, to his will.
Slash 3 (Claws)
Tariq intends to bring the world to its knees,
Backstory: When volcano cultists stumbled with him as the sole ruler over all of humanity.
across a spellbook of actual power, they tore He is a ruthless killer who will slay millions if it
the veil between worlds long enough to draw means the remainder will swear fealty to his
the gaze of a bored Djinni prince. rule. If summoning volcanoes to smite his
enemies' strongholds is not enough, he would
be willing to harness the power of nuclear fire
if such a device could be stolen by his cultists.
Adventure Hook
The heroes are alerted when cultists assault
the Museum of Art with both rifles and minor
magicks. After defeating the cult, they
discover the attack was merely a distraction,
as Tariq the Tyrant took the opportunity to
raid the Falstaff Gallery of Antiquities across
the street. He made away with a torc taken
from a Viking tomb, imbued with the power of
Surtr, the Norse giant “whose flames will
engulf the Earth,” per the Edda — an ancient
viking poem that prophesies the end of the
world.. The terrible Tyrant intends to use the
Blazing Torc at the top of a nearby mountain —
a dormant volcano — in a ritual that will
reawaken the magma, destroy the city below
and gift him with even stronger stolen flame
powers.
The Shadow Count
Abilities
Prowess: 3
Coordination: 3
Strength: 4
Intellect: 8
Awareness: 3
Willpower: 4
Stamina: 8
Determination ~
Specialties
Leadership Master
Occult Master
Pilot Expert
Science Expert
Technology Master
Powers
Damage Resistance 4
Gadgets 3
Life Support 10
Stretching 1 (Telescopic Limbs)
Qualities
“I always have a means to escape”
Psychic ghost in a bottle
Steampunk Villain in the Modern Day
Backstory: Very little is known about the • His second attack utilized a giant burrowing
supervillain known simply as the Shadow Count machine that dug through the foundations of
before his appearance in a giant flying the Houses of Parliament. He was driven off
machine over the skies of London in 1851 my London Police before he could assassinate
intent on killing Queen Victoria as she opened the assembled Members of Parliament.
the Great Exhibition.
• In 1868, in an advanced submarine, he
It was rumored that he is the son of Prussian attacked the Chatham Dockyard and severely
aristocracy and associated with Otto Von damaged the battleship HMS Monarch before
Bismark but there is no clue as to what being driven off by the Victorian Era robotic
inspired his hatred of the United Kingdom. hero Ironclad.
More is known of the dastardly deeds over the Subsequent attacks were less elaborate. By the
years: time of Queen Victoria’s death in 1901, it was
assumed that the Count too had died; his
• During his first attack in 1851, he bombed dreams of conquest unfulfilled.
several locations in London before his machine
was taken down by a barrage of artillery. He If not for the Count’s occult interests that is
managed to escape London alive. exactly what would have happened.
However, as time crept up upon him he Adventure hook
devoted more time to studies of the mystics A massive bronze flying machine the size of an
arts and to researching the possible aircraft carrier drops through the clouds above
confluence of sorcery with technology. the heroes’ city. It disgorges squadrons of
Unfortunately, as his rune inscribed robotic planes that bomb key sites (police and
body was about to be completed, he passed on emergency services, City Hall, prisons etc).
— leaving only his henchmen to complete the Other planes land and their crews loot banks
job. and kidnap scientists from biotechnology
firms. When the PCs investigate, they find the
For over a century, the Count’s minions (led flying machine and its planes are crewed by
by the diabolical and preternaturally long- mystically empowered bronze automatons (use
lived Scottish mystic Rufus Learmont) worked Robots, Icons Assembled, Pg. 191) If the
on the means for restoring their master to life heroes become too much of an obstacle to his
and eventually succeeded. They retrieved the plans (or they board the carrier) they’ll face
Count’s head from his burial site in Bavaria the wrath of the Shadow Count himself...
and placed it within a tank of psionic
enhancing fluid in the chest cavity of the
robotic frame. The residual personality and
psychic energy lingering in the skull
empowered the robotic body and brought the
Shadow Count back to the living — ready to
bedevil the world again