Hammer and Tong is a member of the Gorgon Gang. He’s an East Ender speedster with very large bludgeon weapons… A triple entendre on the name!

Concept and Art: Thom Chiaramonte
Abilities and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Hammer and Tong

Name: Rodney Geel
Affiliation: Gorgon Gang

Attributes:

Melee: 30
Reflex: 50
Muscle: 20
Vigor: 30
Acumen: 5
Observation: 30
Will: 5

Life: 130
Influence: 40

Abilities:

Hyper-Speed: Hammer and Tong enjoys hyper-speed [40 IV], technically one rank more powerful than the original recipient of the same process, Mercury. He does not, however, utilize the subdermal cooling system Mercury employs, and as such, runs the constant risk of hypo-glycemic-induced biofeedback collapse. He must consume energy stores equal to his rate of expenditure or suffer almost immediate counter-reactions that are predicted to be potentially fatal. He carries a special hip harness containing a hardy supply of specially-formulated energy gels in synthpacks that are enzymatically soluble. He carries a range of concentrated doses, good for varying amounts of expenditure, as calculated by the pharmaceutical company that developed the formula for his original handlers and now sells them to him at exorbitant rates. In game terms, Hammer and Tong must consume gel paks after each action employing hyper-speed. This can either be a single action with no penalty, or a combined action at -1CS to the subsequent action. The supply can be assumed to be feasibly limitless for a period of 24 hours of moderate power use. While he does not technically require the energy supplements to survive when not consciously using his hyper-speed ability, he is, at rest, constantly suffering from moderate starvation and requires either a steady supply of food, or periodic small doses of the energy gel. If without gel or food sources for more than 10 rounds of combat, despite … Read on for more awesome…

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Adder is a member of the Gorgon Gang!

Concept and Art: Thom Chiaramonte
Abilities and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Adder

Name: Abdusalam Ali Abubakar
Affiliation: Gorgon Gang

Attributes:

Melee: 20
Reflex: 40
Muscle: 30
Vigor: 30
Acumen: 10
Observation: 10
Will: 5

Life: 120
Influence: 25

Abilities:

Bio-Mutation- Tentacles: Adder’s natural physical form includes arms segmented into semi-elastic, regenerative tentacles, which can elongate up to double their average length (max. 8 feet) and cause bludgeoning damage [30 DP]. On a successful grapple, they cause 40 points of damage and for every subsequent round of successful grapple , the target’s Escape Action is penalized an additional -1CS. The tentacles regenerate [50 IV], though Life is only restored at 5 points per round.

Chemical Secretion: Adder’s tentacles release a mild neurotoxin that causes, on skin contact, paralysis [10 IV]. Targets affected are rendered immobile for 1-4 rounds, and the effect is additive. Tentacle attacks that cause physical damage can be assumed to breach skin and cause a secretion attack automatically.

Origin:

Adder is Abdusalam Ali Abubakar, the illegitimate son of General Abubaker, former Nigerian head of state. He served in the Nigerian secret police for several years, before his ability to hide his puberty-induced bio-mutation wavered, and he was ostracized and fled the country. He was recruiting mercenaries for an insurgency force intended to help him execute a coup in his home country, when he was blackmailed into joining the Gorgon Gang. He remains resentful of his teammates and harbors intentions to resume his attempted overthrow of the Nigerian government.

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The Winter Queen is a member of the Cabal…

Concept and Art: Thom Chiaramonte
Abilities and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Winter Queen

Name: Tapiriit Ayilik
Affiliation: Cabal

Attributes:

Melee: 30
Reflex: 30
Muscle: 20
Vigor: 20
Acumen: 10
Observation: 20
Will: 05

Life: 100
Influence: 35

Abilities:

Memory Cloak: Winter Queen wears a cloak woven from a mysterious fabric of unknown origin and material, which causes abrupt changes to brain chemistry on physical contact with human and animal skin. The effect begins as disorientation and confusion, and quickly increases to a debilitating form of short-term memory loss that can, under prolonged exposure, become permanent. In hand-to-hand combat, Winter Queen has trained herself to use the cloak as an entanglement weapon. With a Red Melee Attack, she may enshroud her target within the folds of the lacy, ultralight garment, causing the following effects:

1. Same round- target makes Will Action or becomes disoriented for 1-10 rounds, causing -2CS to all attacks and defenses;

2. Round 2- Winter Queen gains +2CS initiative, and +2CS to grapple her target. If successfully grappled, target becomes incapacitated from memory dysfunction, causing forfeiture of unused attacks, and -4CS to all attributes. Target must make Vigor Action or lose consciousness from psychological strain.

3. Subsequent rounds, target may attempt to break free, with the penalties previously described, or make hand-to-hand attacks as desired. Every round target remains grappled, Acumen is reduced 1CS. At the end of combat, target rolls a Will Action, and if failed, the Acumen reduction is permanent, as target suffers debilitating short-term memory errors, looping sensory input and anxiety.

Note: if Winter Queen’s initial entanglement attack is successful, but target is unaffected by same-round disorientation, subsequent rounds effects are halved, due to target’s natural physiological resistance to brain chemistry alteration.

Weapon Proficiency- Rapier : … Read on for more awesome…

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This was done for the This Week jam, the subject this particular week being the popular flirting powerhouse of the X-teams, Rogue.

She’s best known, by longtime readers, as a lonely, isolated personality, trapped by her uncontrollable mutant ability to absorb the memories, thoughts, and power of anyone she touches physically. But slightly younger fans will know her primarily as a tough-talkin, super-strong, flying sassafrass. I decided to do a version of Rogue from what I think was the late 80s. a classic panel in my memory, done by Art Adams, of her flying around wondering hwy Storm is wigging out about whatever. I did embellish the costume a bit and make it two-tone, but otherwise, it’s the same deal… ditto with the wacko 80s hairstyle… though in the 90′s it got worse.

Anyway, hope you like it. If you’re a BMW-hater, all the more power to you.

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This was a gift for self-publishing artist Tweenerjay, who has been writing, drawing, and producing his Frontier comic and recently launched his first print run in time for the tail end of the convention scene in 2005. His book is an ambitious effort, classic space opera with imaginative politics, a well-developed backstory, and characters you care about very quickly. Check it out at http://www.good-comics.com/ for bi-weekly strip updates of the online version of the comic! And see Tweenerjay’s other art, as well as Frontier insider tidbits, on the R3 Forum, which you can join through the link at the top of the page. Good work, man!

Oh, regarding the pic itself, Liu Connel is a good old-fashioned space ranger, so I wanted to capture her ruggedness, her confidence and not a little bit of swagger. Also, this one definitely veers towards the more natural proportions and detail for me. I wanted to try and capture my mental image of the character, and one great thing about Tweenerjay’s book is that his characters are easily imaginable in your mental film reel…

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This was done for the This Week Jam, the subject this particular week being the sometimes leader of the Authority, Jack Hawksmoor, King of Cities. This was an ambitious one this week for me. I had the image in my head, but damn it all if it wasn’t a bitch to draw. Two bitches to color! For those not familiar with the history of the remarkable series, Jack was abducted by aliens and given hordes of weird alien tech transplants, allowing him, among other things, to be literally life-linked to urban environments… he can phase through a built environment, sink into the ground and reappear in another city, climb vertical surfaces, leap tall buildings, etc. and the bigger the city, the stronger he becomes. So take him OUT of the city, and he’s hurting, big time. And factor in hillbilly assassin cyborg SETH, who single-handedly almost killed the whole team at the end of Authority Vol. 1… and you’ve got some trouble!

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Outré looks really cool!

Outré was designed on the plane, on an early flight to NY. I was playing with the concept of the bosses or alpha characters who have a right-hand man or advisor whispering in their ear, and who’s counsel is critical to their leader’s power. I fused that with the character archtype of the one on the team sleeping with the leader, but instead of making it a negative thing, I imagined it that she is actually a power-booster, so probably one of the most powerful members of the team, just less offensive in power manifestation. Frankly, I just think she looks cool.

Concept and Art: Thom Chiaramonte
Abilities and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Outré

Name: Patricia Wilder
Affiliation: Crew Mururoa

Attributes:

Melee: 20
Reflex: 30
Muscle: 10
Vigor: 20
Acumen: 20
Observation: 20
Will: 5

Life: 80
Influence: 45

Powers:

Weapon Proficiency- Pistol : Patricia Wilder was an experienced SAS officer and has experience with pistols, sub-machine guns, and other small arms associated with her military training. She is an excellent marksman, particularly with a pistol, and gains a +2CS when using this weapon. She carries a Glock 20 in a reverse-mounted back holster [10 DP] and may also use an FNP90 bullpup SMG [ 20 DP]. These are primarily for use on normal targets.

Akido-Jujitsu : Wilder trained in the use of aiku-jujitsu, and enjoys all combat bonuses associated with this art.

Power Enhancement / Catylization: Wilder’s posthuman abilities essentially unlock the untapped abilities of others around her. Posthumans in close range enjoy +1CS Power’s Intensity Value within 2 areas, and +3CS when under direct physical contact. Additionally, over a sustained period of close exposure, posthumans may enjoy new, previously dormant abilities which manifest themselves after 96 hours of close, frequent physical contact [roll Red … Read on for more awesome…

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This piece was done for the inaugural edition of This Week jam version 2.0, hosted here on TRDL’s R3 Forum.

The subject, carried over from last week, is DC’s Huntress, who was, I think, Batman’s daughter in pre-Crisis Earth-2, then an entirely new person in the post-Crisis DC universe. At some point, she gave her costume a bare midriff. Or at least Ed Benes. did. And this was my inspiration for the week, because listen, it’s not practical for her character, but it looks pretty cool to me.

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Anisoptera is my first Australian national hero (not THE first Australian national hero int he TRDL Universe….) and was a hell of a lot of fun to design.

Concept and Art: Thom Chiaramonte
Abilities and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Anisoptera

Name: Mila Saleen
Affiliation: Gaia

Attributes:

Melee: 20
Reflex: 50
Muscle: 20
Vigor: 20
Acumen: 20
Observation: 20
Will: 10

Life: 110
Influence: 50

Abilities:

Flight: Anisoptera wears a unique flight harness employing what the designers dubbed ‘buoyant energy’ technology, which when distributed over an ultra-light polymer membrane, allows her to perform feats of agility while suspended from the ground. She can fly [30 IV; 30 RV] and accelerate/decelerate to full Power Intensity Value in a single turn. She may levitate, carry loads of up to her Muscle Level in weight, and perform sudden turns and maneuvers in mid-air with virtually no drag. She has trained extensively in utilizing the harness, and as a result suffers only a fraction of the disorientation and discomfort the average user might experience under similar forces.

When executing an extremely sudden maneuver, Anisoptera must make a Yellow Vigor Action. The first ten rounds of continuous or frequent flight, she performs this Action at +2CS bonus. From 10 to 15 rounds, at +1CS, from 15-20 rounds with no bonus, and then suffers equally proportionate penalties the longer she remains in the air. The bonuses and penalties are a result of nervous system manipulation the harness interface uses while making it’s unique control connection via her spinal chord. If Anisoptera fails this Action, she becomes temporarily disoriented for one round. The harness and wings are armored [30 AP], and have figurative Life of 50 points, surrounded by a minor energy field. Additionally, the harness is powered by a solar battery that retains enough energy for 24 … Read on for more awesome…

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This guy was fun to develop, particularly the backstory. Sometimes the most superficially silly of characters, looking straight out of a videogame, can be given backbone with a decent origin. Hopefully, that’s true, here.

Concept and Art: Thom Chiaramonte

Abilities and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Mako

Name: Narayanan Kanan

Affiliation: 風 [Wind]

Attributes:

Fighting: Amazing [50]

Agility: Remarkable [30]

Strength: Excellent [20]

Endurance: Remarkable [30]

Reason: Incredible [40]

Intuition: Excellent [20]

Psyche: Typical [6]

Health: 130

Karma: 66

Abilities:

Hard Light Rake Claws: Mako wears a pair of armored gauntlets of his own design that utilize a hard-light shaped energy weapon of his own design, in the form of extendible energy claws. These do Incredible damage and will literally cut through any material of Excellent material strength or less. They are powered by a self-regenerating power core, and are armored at Incredible rank, with virtual health of 110 points per gauntlet. At half health, a damaged gauntlet may no longer hold the rake claws to form, and if they remain extended or are deliberately extended under these conditions, energy leak will lead, after 2 rounds of continued use, to a massive energy discharge of Monstrous rank damage, permanently destroying the gauntlet. Similarly, if the gauntlet reaches zero virtual health, the energy discharge will occur within 2 turns. It takes complete turn to remove a single gauntlet. Gauntlets may also be used as a blunt combat attack causing Excellent physical damage.

Body Armor: Mako’s lightweight armor is streamlined and contoured to allow minimal surface refraction, and as a result protects him from energy attacks with Incredible rank. It also employs ballistic weave to grant him Excellent rank resistance to physical and thermal attacks.

Combat Proficiency: Mako is an accomplished martial artist, having studies several styles. He enjoys +2CS to fighting Feats … Read on for more awesome…

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