Marvel Monday: NFL SuperPro for Claim The Sky & the Cypher System

SuperPro (Tier 1) for the Cypher System and Claim the Sky

A Tough Warrior Who Defends the Weak

Might:         14     Edge:  1

Speed:          10    Edge:  0

Intellect:      10    Edge:  0

Effort: 1

Armor: 8

Cypher Use: 2

Practiced: All Weapons

Trained:  Initiative, Intellect Defense, Jumping, Might Defense, Running

Specialized: Climbing

Inability: Heavy Weapons

Special Abilities: Bash, Courageous, Healthy, No Need for Weapons, Physical Skills, Practiced in Armor, Resilient, Warding Suit*

Exists in Two Places at Once: Duplicate

Power Shifts: Dexterity x1, Singe Attack: Light Bashing Weapon x2, Strength x2

Equipment: Light Bashing Weapon (2 damage), SuperPro Suit (7 armor)

*Warding Suit is simply Warding Shield but requires the SuperPro Suit

"Phil Grayfield was a football player who was injured saving a small child from a terrible accident. This injury ended Grayfield's football career, but he soon embarked on a career as a sports reporter. While interviewing an eccentric superfan, who happened to be a chemist, he was shown a priceless custom football uniform, which was almost invulnerable to damage. Thieves arrived during the interview, stole some of the memorabilia, and set the house on fire. An incapacitated Grayfield accidently knocks over some chemicals, which, combined with the rare souvenirs' fumes, turn him into the nearly invulnerable SuperpPro."

Marvel Monday: Super-Adaptoid for Claim the Sky and the Cypher System

Art by by Darryl Young

Super Adaptoid 8 (24) for Claim the Sky and the Cypher System 

Motive: Serve A.I.M.

Environment: Earth 616
Health: 36
Damage Inflicted: 8 points
Armor: 6
Movement: Long
Modifications: Might Defense 9, Speed Defense 9

Combat: The Super Adaptoid is an artificial intelligence that contains a shard of the Cosmic Cube and has the powers, equipment and training of Captain America, Giant Man, Thor, Hawkeye, and Iron Man.

Bow: Ranged attack with a range of Long that ignores 3 points of Armor

Hammer: Melee attack that deals 9 points of damage

Pym Particles: Can shrink and gain Stealth 12 or grow and gain 12 Health

Repulsor Blast:  Ranged attack with a range of Short if the d20 roll is even the target is knocked back a Short distance 

Shield: When hit by an attack if the roll is odd it deals 2 less damage to the Super-Adaptoid

Interactions: The Super-Adaptoid possesses exceptional artificial intelligence, but limited imagination and an inability to understand the human condition has led to defeat.

Use: A.I.M. has set their sights on a graduate student's quantum computer at Empire State University and they send the Super Adaptoid to Time Square to create a diversion for Manhattan's heroes.

"The original iteration is an artificial construct created by A.I.M., and courtesy of a shard of the Cosmic Cube artifact, the machine was capable of mimicking the powers and skills of numerous super beings. It has mimicked over a dozen meta-human characters, with the effect extending to including specific weapons and equipment, such as Captain America's shield, Iron Man's armor, Hawkeye's bow and arrows, Thor's mystical hammer Mjolnir."

Claim the Sky: Flash Mob for Claim the Sky & the Cypher System

Art by Storn Cook

FLASH MOB (Tier 1) for the Cypher System and Claim the Sky

An Intelligent Explorer Who Exists in Two Places at Once

Might:         13     Edge:  1

Speed:          10    Edge:  0

Intellect:      14    Edge:  1

Effort: 1

Armor: 2

Cypher Use: 2

Practiced: Light Weapons, Medium Weapons

Trained:  Biology, Engineering, Medicine, Remembering

Specialized: Climbing

Inability: Heavy Weapons

Special Abilities: Improved Edge, Knowledge Skills, No Need For Weapons, Practiced in Armor

Exists in Two Places at Once: Duplicate

Power Shifts: Accuracy x1, Dexterity x1, Healing x1, Power Duplicate x2

Equipment: ECHELON Action Suit (2 armor)

*When Flash Mob uses Duplicate he can create up to 3 duplicates.

Jon Martin Cooper Jr. is the oldest son of Jon Martin Cooper Sr. and Dr. Lena Cooper.  His parents met while going to college at Texas State University in Houston.  After graduating, they married and moved to San Diego, California with Lena becoming a biochemist at Future Perfect and Jon Sr. becoming an guidance counselor at Sizemore High School.

Jon Jr. or JJ's science and math scores were off the chart and after graduating high school at 15, he was offered a full scholarship from Future Perfect in exchange for a 3 year contract upon graduation.

JJ, only 19 when he gained his PhD in Biotechnology, took a position on a Future Perfect team in Abilene, TX led by his Mom's best friend, Dr. Jill Chandler.  Jill's team was working on several solutions to help veteran's that had lost limbs and they were given access to material from Project Apogee which lead to the creation of the first Minuteman, the speedster who helped pacify Iraq in a matter of hours during the first Gulf War. Unknown to JJ one of his co-workers botched opening the container housing the extraterrestrial Isotope X that was used to create Minuteman and the whole team was exposed to it.

JJ woke up 22 days later to find that he, Jill, and Dr. Ajax Zang were the only survivors of the breach. Within hours after waking he was interviewed by the the U.S. Defense Department and the United Nation's anti-metahuman task force, ECHELON, with both organizations seeking to put him through a barrage of tests to determine if he was a metahuman.

He chose to work with ECHELON as they also had an interest in his biotechnology background in their quest to trace illegal derivates of Isotope X such as Summit and Apotheosis. On the second day of testing they discovered that he could create duplicates and he eventually chose the codename Flash Mob. 

For ECHELON he is part of King Savage's INDIGO team with Headstrong, Jumpjet, and the Operator.

Marvel Monday: Badoon for Numenera, the Cypher System, & Claim the Sky

       

Badoon 4 (12) for Numenera, the Cypher System, and Claim the Sky

Motive: Conquest

Environment: Beyond the Farthest Star
Health: 12
Damage Inflicted: 4 points
Armor: 3
Movement: Short
Modifications: Invisibility 6, Speed Defense 5 

Combat: Their personal armor can render them invisible but they reveal themselves when they attack. On the round after they attack, roll a d6 and on a 5 or 6 they become invisible again.

Interactions: Badoons are braggarts and will extoll their conquests through history, however if diplomacy is possible flattery will ease the roll by 1 level.

"The Badoon Exfulgence is older than the Kree and the Skrulls and their species thrived at conqueroring of worlds. Among the Brotherhood's conquest attempts are the Zen Whoberi, the Spartax Empire, and the extra-dimensional world of Polemachus. They have been known to form alliances with the Brood (against the Shi'ar and Earth's superhumans of a prior World), the Kree (against the Skrulls), and Byrrah of Atlantis.  They were also responsible for killing a woman who would have become the universe's greatest peacemaker."

Marvel Monday: Annihilus for the Cypher System, Claim the Sky, & Numenera

 Annihilus 10 (30) for Claim the Sky and the Cypher System 

Motive: Conquest

Environment: Negative Zone
Health: 39
Damage Inflicted: 10 
Armor: 9 
Movement: Long 
Modifications: Might Defense 11, Speed Defense 11

Combat: Annihilus is loud and obnoxious foe who will attempt to use every advantage in his path of conquest or destruction.

Interactions: He will bully, pontificate, and even destroy anyone who gets in his way.

"Finding the wreckage of a starship, he used a special helmet to transfer all information about the advanced Tyannan technology to himself. This caused him to grow stronger and smarter, gaining a Cosmic Control Rod and body armaments. The creature eventually became known as Annihilus and he set out to destroy anything that was a threat to his existence. He planned to conquer or destroy all planets nearby Arthros.
   Annihilus feared only one thing: death. Because his Cosmic Control Rod extended his lifespan, he defended it from every potential threat, real or imagined. His first impression of the Fantastic Four, then, was not favorable: they took away his rod to treat Susan Richards during her pregnancy, although they returned it when they were through with it."