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BIO-MUTATION- HYPER-SPEED // BODY ARMOR // BLUDEGEON WEAPONS // BATTLE COMPUTER OPTIC HELM

MARVEL RPG STATS:

NAME: RODNEY GEEL

GROUP AFFILIATION: GORGON GANG

ATTRIBUTES:

FIGHTING: REMARKABLE [30]

AGILITY: AMAZING [50]

STRENGTH: EXCELLENT [20]

ENDURANCE: REMARKABLE [30]

REASON: TYPICAL [6]

INTUITION: REMARKABLE [30]

PSYCHE: TYPICAL [6]


HEALTH: 130

KARMA: 42

POWERS:


HYPER-SPEED: HAMMER & TONG ENJOYS INCREDIBLE RANK HYPER-SPEED, TECHNICALLY 1 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-REATCIONS 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 FORUMLA FOR HIS ORIGINAL HANDLERS AND NOW SELLS THEM TO HIM AT EXHORBITANT RATES. IN GAME TERMS, HAMMER & 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 USEING HIS HYPER-SPEED ABILITY, HE IS, AT REST, CONSTANTLY SUFFERING FROM ODERATE 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 NOT ACTIVELY USING HIS POWER, HAMMER & TONG WILL BEGIN TO LOSE HEALTH AT A RATE OF 10 PTS PER ROUND. IN NON-COMBAT SITUATIONS, GOING WITHOUT FOOD FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES, OR WITHOUT A MAINTENANCE DOSE FOR MORE THAN 8 HOURS, WILL CAUSE THE SAME EFFECT.

BODY ARMOR: HAMMER & TONG'S BIO-MUTATION GRANTED HIM HARDENED MYELIN SHEATHING, GRANTING HIM EXCELLENT STRENGTH NATURAL RESISTANCE TO PHYSICAL AND ENERGY ATTACKS, AND INCREDIBLE STRENGTH RESISTANCE TO HEAT ATTACKS. THIS IS TIED DIRECTLY TO HIS PHYSICAL HEALTH: ONCE HIS HEALTH IS REDUCED BY 50%, THE BODY ARMOR IS REDUCED AT THE SAME RATE AS HIS HEALTH (IE. AFTER 67 POINTS OF HEALTH LOSS, THE BODY ARMOR IS CONSIDERED COMPROMISED, AND SUBSEQUENT ATTACKS ARE RESISTED AT BODY ARMOR RANK RATE, BUT ANY DAMAGE THAT PROCEEDS TO REDUCE HEALTH, REDUCES BODY ARMOR SIMULTANEOUSLY: 40 PTS OF PHYSICAL DAMAGE WOULD CAUSE 20 PTS OF HEALTH LOSS, PLUS REDUCE BODY ARMOR FOR THE NEXT AND SUBSEQUENT ROUNDS BY 20 PTS , TO ZERO.

BLUDGEON WEAPONS- HAMMER, TONGS: BOTH HAND WEAPONS CARRIED BY HAMMER & TONMG ARE STRAPPED TO HIS HIP HARNESS WHEN NOT IN USE, ANCHORED NEAR HIS NECK ALONG THE BACK. HE MAY DRAW THEM AND USE THEM IN A SINGLE ROUND (WITHOUT USE OF POWERS) WITH A -1CS PENALTY TO THE FIRST ATTACK(S). HE DOES NOT ENJOY AMBIDEXTERITY, SO EACH WEAPON MAY BE USED IN A ROUND, BUT AFTER THE FIRST ATTACK, SUBSEQUENT ATTACKS MUST BE RESOLVED USING MULTIPLE-ATTACK RULES AS NORMAL. WHEN EMPLOYING HYPER-SPEED, ON A POWER FEAT, HE MAY ATTACK UP TO ONE HALF THE NUMBER OF POINTS OF HIS POWER RANK, WITH MULTIPLE ATTACK PENALTIES APPLYING EVERY 5 ATTACKS, AND FIGHTING FEATS REQUIRED EVERY 5 ATTACKS. EXAMPLE: HAMMER & TONG WISHES TO STRIKE A TARGET WITH BOTH WEAPONS USING HYPER-SPEED, REPEATEDLY STRIKING WITH EACH WEAPON. HE MAY MAKE 20 STRIKES (ONE-HALF HIS POWER RANK NUMBER) IN THAT ROUND. HIS FIRST FIVE ATTACKS WITH ONE WEAPON ARE AT NO PENALTY, RESOLVED WITH ONE FEAT, DAMAGE APPLIED 5 TIMES. HIS SECOND ATTACK WITH THE ALTERNATE WEAPON IS AT -1CS, DAMAGE RESOLVED THE SAME. THE NEXT FIVE ATTACKS ARE WITH THE FIRST WEAPON, NOW AT -2CS, RESOLVED THE SAME. THE FINAL FIVE ATTACKS ARE AT -3CS, RESOLVED THE SAME. THEORETICALLY, HE COULD CAUSE 20X THE WEAPON DAMAGE IN A SINGLE HYPER-SPEED ATTACK. THE HAMMER AND TONGS ARE EACH MADE FROM REMARKABLE STRENGTH MATERIAL.

BATTLE COMPUTER OPTIC HELM: HAMMER & TONG UTILIZES A MODIFIED COMBAT COMPUTER ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR VR TRAINING SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED INTO A HEMET WITH GOGGLES EMPLOYING TELESCOPIC, THERMAL, IR AND MULTI-TARGET ARRAYS. THE USE OF THIS HELMET ALLOWS HIM TO INTERACT WITH TARGETS AT HYPER-SPEED. WITHOUT IT, HE SUFFERS -5CS TO ATTACK AND TAKE ACTIONS AT HYPER-SPEED,AS HIS SENSES ARE NOT ENHANCED ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SENSORY INPUT AT POWER RANK SPEEDS. THE HELMET AND GOGGLES ARE MADE FROM REMARKABLE STRENGTH MATERIAL.

Rodney Geel was a local East Ender street tough, running with the Black Plague mob, incarcerated after a botched robbery/extortion score that saw many of his cohorts killed while resisting arrest. He was identified by a covert private military sourcing program which involved psychiatric profiling of violent crime offenders in the prison system, coordinated with the government, to locate potential candidates for posthuman bio-engineering experiments. Pulled out of solitary, Geel was given the simple choice: cooperate or face life in prison. He was one of the earliest attempts at a second wave of posthuman production sponsored by the Combine, an international military-industrial consortium instrumental in developing the world's first posthumans and establishing the corporate-sponsorship system that brought them into the global media mainstream. However, unlike the popular first generation, these were designed to be perceived as competitive foils for the public-relations symbols the previous generation had become. In fact, not only was Geel the first to receive a duplicate process proven successful in the first wave of experiments (he underwent the same bio-engineering that created the popular Rampart member, Mercury) he was also inundated with heavy courses of sublimnal programming designed to instigate negative, violent impulses in the subject, triggered by a designated target: in his case, his destined nemesis, Mercury himself. The process was successful, despite an otherwise extremely low success rate in the bio-engineering process, and even lower in duplication of an initially successful but otherwise unique procedure. Unfortunately, the combination of untested drug therapy, sublimnal programming, and physical strain drove the marginally-sociopathic Gees completely unhinged, jovial and enthusiastic, yet sadistically savage. After being presented with the costume and gear designed for him as Hammer & Tong, he brutally slaughtered his handlers and fled the facility, spending several months hunting down and murdering former rivals in the London underworld before scouts employed by the fledgling Gorgon Gang learned of his vocal and vehement hatred for Mercury, and recruited him into the Gang on promise of an opportunity to confront his nemesis.

So, as you can see, he's an East Ender speedster with very large bludgeon weapons... a triple entendre on the name!