///UPDATE: NEW ILLUSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE THIRD RAIL COMIC ART [MISCELLANEOUS] AND D:HT CHARACTER ARCHIVE GALLERIES, WHICH CAN BE VIEWED THROUGH THE COMICS AND SEQUENTIAL ART GATEWAY PORTAL. SEE THE D:HT CAMPAIGNS SECTION FOR THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE D:HT - COVERT OPERATIONS CAMPAIGN MISSION PROFILE, VIEWED THROUGH THE DYSTOPIA: HOSTILE TAKEOVER GATEWAY PORTAL. FINITY, TRDL'S WEB-BASED GRAPHIC SERIAL, BEGINS FALL 03.

POSTHUMAN ADVANTAGES:

HARDENED PHYSIOLOGY // COMBAT ACUITY // ACTIVE DODGE // MUY THAI KICKBOXING TRAINING // ADRENAL RAGE // TELESCOPIC SIGHT

TRUE NAME: PAIGE LINCOLN

AFFILIATION: BAD SEEDS

FIGHTING: AMAZING [50]

AGILITY: REMARKABLE [30]

STRENGTH: REMARKABLE [30]

ENDURANCE: AMAZING [50]

REASON: GOOD [10]

INTUITION: EXCELLENT [20]

PSYCHE: GOOD [10]

HEALTH: 160

KARMA: 40

ABILITIES:

HARDENED PHYSIOLOGY: MICRO-WEAVE KINETIC MESH AND POLYMER CELLULAR SHEATHING PROVIDES REMARKABLE PROTECTION FROM PHYSICAL ATTACKS, EXCELLENT PROTECTION FROM ENERGY ATTACKS, AND REMARKABLE PROTECTION FROM THERMAL ATTACKS. THIS HARDENED PHYSIOLOGY IS SELF REPAIRING AT HER NORMAL HEALING RATE.

COMBAT ACUITY: PUGILISTA HAS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN GURELING HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT, AND AS SUCH, TAKES TWO ACTIONS TO HER OPPONENTS SINGLE ACTION. SHE ALSO ENJOYS INCREASED REACTION TIME, INFLUENCING HER SPEED OF ATTACK AND RESPONCE: AT TH EBEGINNING OF EACH TURN, ALL OPPONENTS ROLL D100 HIGH TO DETERMINE ACTION ORDER. PUGILISTA MAY REVERSE DICE ORDER TO OPTIMIZE PERCENTILE 9IE. A ROLL OF 3 AND 7 MAY BECOME 73.

MUY THAI: PUGILSTA UTILIZES MUY THAI KICKBOXING TECHNIQUE IN HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT, WITH +2CS FOR DETERMINING STUN/ SLAM (OR OPPONENT DEFENDS AT -2CS) WHEN USING KICK ATTACKS. SHE ALSO RECEIVES +1CS TOWARDS LEG PARRIES.

ADRENAL RAGE: PUGILISTA MAY VOLUNTARILY ENTER AN ADRENAL RAGE, WHICH ALLOWS HER TO IGNORE THE EFFECTS OF DAMAGE LOSS UNTIL THE RAGE IS OVER. THIS MEANS THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE RAGE, SHE ROLLS 1D10 TO DETERMINE DURATION. DURING THIS PERIOD, SHE SUFFERS NO PENALTIES AS A RESULT OF TAKING PHYSICAL DAMAGE, AND MAY CONTINUE TO FIGHT, DESPTE HEALTH DROPPING BELOW 0. ONCE THE RAGE WEARS OFF, SHE WILL EXPERIENCE THE EFFECTSOF THESE INJURIES, IMMEDIATELY MAKING AN ENDURANCE SAVE OR FALL UNCONSCIOUS FROM THE STRAIN. IF HER HEALTH IS REDUCED TO 0 OR LOWER, SHE IMMEDIATELY SLIPS INTO A COMA, AND ROLLS AN ENDURANCE SAVE EVERY 4 TURNS. IF SHE SAVES, SHE REMAINS IN A COMA, AWAITING MEDICAL TREATMENT. IF SHE FAILS, SHE DIES. THE RAGE IS ALSO TRIGGERED INVOLUNTARILY BY SUFFERING MORE THAN HALF HER HEALTH IN DAMAGE IN A SINGLE/COMBINED ATTACK.

TELESCOPIC SIGHT: PUGILISTA CAN VIEW DETAIL AT GREAT DISTANCES, WITH EXCELLENT RANGE AND ABILITY.

This is one of my favorite original characters. Pugilista is skilled hand to hand combatant with an appetite for combat and willingness to fight dirty. She is currently shown as being a member of the Bad Seeds, one of my super-villain teams, but later on, the plan was to have her join one of the "good guy" groups, as that questionably-reformed dark horse characters, like Rogue, Juggernaut etc have been in X-Men. Never trusted, and rightfully so, because her motivation for switching sides was a bounty on her head from a former teammate she left to die. But anyway, she's essentially a pit fighter who rose in the ranks of female kick-boxing and muy thai before being banned for wrongful death greivances on behalf of the families of two of her opponents who didn't survive the matches. She was taken in and enhanced with a combination of nanotechnology and bone sheath grafts to increase her strength, endurance, and resistance to injury. Her natural inclination for uncontrolled 'berzerker' rage in violent encounters was tapped and refined through glandular enhancements, to allow greater control and precision of attacks when overcome with adrenal imblancement. Her function, and usefullness, is in her moral ambiguity and lack of restraint, though she is not a loose cannon. She is merely unconcerned with consequences. That said, she is kept in check in the Bad Seeds by personal motivation, a relationship with a teammate who disapproves of her violent past and is attempting to teach her to hold back. She harbors a secret guilt over the death of that first opponent, considering it the unforgivable act that pushed her over the edge, though she won't admit it.

Pugilista's second victim in the ring is actually not dead, having barely survived, though suffering servere spinal injury. She was rehabilitated and acquired powered gauntlets, taking the mantle of The Boxer. The two have never met, and Pugilista is not aware of The Boxer's existence... yet. But her former victim is biding time in the superhero game, using team resources to seek out her nemesis, gunning for retribution.

The ink, if not legible, is kinda neat: on her shoulders, the targets contain the words "lady" and "killer", which was her handle in her competition days. The script over her breast is the name of the first victim to die in the ring. She also has ink on her back and on the back of each hamstring.

You'd think I had a penchant for kickpoxing or something, but I really don't. But given that I have tried to base my TRDL universe in a more realistic setting, I thought fighting championships were a good rationale for female characters to have some combat training exclusive of a military background. But I do have a good friend in that sport, and it's fascinating stuff.