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VOLCANUS COLDSNAP

 

VOLCANUS
Identity: Dr. J.M. ("Joseph Marius") Farmer
Group Affiliation: The Elementals of Power
Base of Operations: Mobile
Side: Evil
Sex: Male
Age: 42
Height: 6' 7"
Hair: None
Eyes: Yellow
Level: 8th
Experience: 35, 000
Training: +1 Accuracy with Hand-to-Hand Combat
Powers:
1. Armour (Hardened Lava): Type A (Biological). ADR 120.
2. Body Power (Body of Molten Lava): Farmer's body has been transformed into that of molten lava. This grants him an automatic Flame Power Defense (at zero power cost) and 6 points of Invulnerability. The molten lava nature of his body also grants Volcanus the following powers:
          a. Spit Hot Lava: Attacks as Power Blast; Range 107", 2d12 Damage, PR 2 per blast.
          b. Tunneling: Volcanus can create intense heat which he uses to burn his way through the ground. He may move through the earth (or any materials of a Structural Rating of 12 or less) at half his ground movement speed (60" tunneling).
3. Heightened Defense (Radiates Heat): Volcanus radiates excessive heat in a 2" radius. All within this heat radius suffers -4 to their attack rolls against Volcanus. It costs movement only to turn this field on/off.
4. Heightened Endurance B +36
5. Heightened Intelligence B +25
6. Heightened Strength B +46
7. Weakness (Vulnerability to Cold Attacks): Cold based attacks have a +4 bonus to hit Vocanus and they do double listed damage.
8. Weakness (Vulnerability to Water): Volcanus takes special damage from water. This damage ignores armour (but his Invulnerability still applies). Listed below are standard types of water "attacks" and their damages.
Standard Watergun 1d2
Supersoaker Watergun 1d4
Garden Hose 1d6
Fire Hose 1d8
One-quarter Immersion 1d20
One-half Immersion 2d20
Three-quarters Immersion 3d20
Full Immersion 1d100
Character Data:
Weight: 456 lbs. Basic Hits: 10 Agility Mod: -2
Strength: 58 Endurance: 49
Agility: 12 Intelligence: 40
Charisma: 15 Reactions from:   Good: -2     Evil: +2
Hit Mod. (4.2) (6.2) (1.3) (2) = 67.704 Hit Points: 678
Damage Mod.: +6 Healing Rate: 15.0
Accuracy: +1 Power: 159
Carrying Capacity: 45, 603 lbs. Basic HTH Damage: 4d10
Movement Rates: 119" ground, 60" tunneling.
Det. Hidden: 28% Det. Danger: 32%
Inventing Points: 32.0 Inventing (120%):
Origin and Background: (American) Dr. Joseph Marius Farmer was once a famous Vulcanologist until his accident. The supposedly inactive volcano that he was studying, while under a grant by Choski-Caplan Ltd., erupted and quickly engulfed his laboratory. Dr. Farmer had no choice but to use the experimental environmental suit that was provided by Choski-Caplan Ltd.
          The suit worked perfectly as it protected Farmer from the poisonous gases and the inhuman heat of the lava... at least it did until something went drastically wrong. Farmer felt great pain shoot through his body as the suit responded to its hidden programming. Dr. Farmer screamed as his body began to burn and blister.
          The environmental suit was actually a trap designed to bend and warp the human genetic code to the dictates of outside programming. These Rapture Inducers (as they are known to the organization that created them) bombard the human host with incredible energies often creating monsters in its wake (those that survive that is, many die during the process).
          The transformed Farmer was captured by the secretive criminal scientific organization that manufactured the pretense of "hiring" him in the first place. They were the ones who jumpstarted the inactive volcano back to life, thus placing Dr. farmer in their trap. The organization known only as Shadowfall began to re-educate the newly acquired 'biological weapon' (codename: Volcanus), but their attempts proved to be unsuccessful. Farmer fought the brainwashing attempts as he plotted his escape.
          It was the unlikely team-up with Coldsnap that was their big break. Through the use of their combine powers, they escaped from the hidden Shadowfall base (destroying it in the process). The Elementals of Power emerged free and angry at the world (they blamed the whole world for what happpened to them). While the Elementals of Power are still brilliant men, but their sanities were crushed under the intense physical agony of their transformations. They answer to no one but themselves.
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States of America with no criminal record.
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COLDSNAP
Identity: Dr. Benjamin Rietveld
Group Affiliation: The Elementals of Power
Base of Operations: Mobile
Side: Evil
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Height: 6' 5"
Hair: None
Eyes: Grey
Level: 8th
Experience: 35, 000
Training: +1 Damage with Hand-to-Hand Combat
Powers:
1. Armour (Jagged Ice): Type A (Biological). ADR 140.
2. Body Power (Body of Ice): Rietveld's body has been transformed into frozen ice. This grants him an automatic Ice Powers Defense (at zero power cost) and 3 points of Invulnerability. The frozen nature of his body also grants Coldsnap the ability to create cold/ice (Cold/Ice Attack: Range 88"; 2d12 Damage, creates 2 cubic foot of ice per point of damage done; PR 2).
3. Heightened Attack (Oversized Ice Claws): +1 Damage per level (+8) with HTH damage.
4. Heightened Defense (Frozen Chill): Coldsnap exudes extreme cold in a 2" radius. All within this cold radius suffers -4 to their attack rolls against him. It costs movement only to turn this field on/off.
5. Heightened Endurance B +32
6. Heightened Expertise (Oversized Ice Claws): +4 to hit in HTH combat.
7. Heightened Intelligence B +28
8. Heightened Strength B +26
9. Natural Weaponry (Oversized Ice Claws): +5 to hit, +10 Damage.
10. Weakness (Vulnerability to Fire/Heat Attacks): Fire/heat based attacks have a +4 bonus to hit Coldsnap and they do double listed damage.
Character Data:
Weight: 396 lbs. Basic Hits: 8 Agility Mod: -2
Strength: 36 Endurance: 44
Agility: 14 Intelligence: 42
Charisma: 16 Reactions from:   Good: -2     Evil: +2
Hit Mod. (2.8) (5.4) (1.3) (2.1) = 41.2776 Hit Points: 331
Damage Mod.: +6 Healing Rate: 10.4
Accuracy: +1 Power: 138
Carrying Capacity: 10,109 lbs. Basic HTH Damage: 2d10
Movement Rates: 94" ground.
Det. Hidden: 30% Det. Danger: 34%
Inventing Points: 35.2 Inventing (132%):
Origin and Background: (British) Dr. Benjamin Rietveld was a noted and respected Oceanographer who accepted a position on a SCUBA expedition to the frozen waters of the Northern Arctic Circle. The Choski-Caplan Company was throwing a lot of money around for this dive and Dr. Rietveld didn't mind at all. It was nice to be making some decent money for a change. He has always been tempted by the private sector and he wasn't going to let a good oportunity pass him by.
          He dived deep into the cold Arctic waters as he took picture after picture with his underwater camera. Then suddenly something stranhe happened. His diving suit began to get really cold and tingly. Then suddenly Rietveld felt great pain shoot through his body as his diving suit responded to its hidden programming. Dr. Rietveld screamed as his body began to burn with the intense cold.
          The diving suit was actually a trap designed to bend and warp the human genetic code to the dictates of outside programming. These Rapture Inducers (as they are known to the organization that created them) bombard the human host with incredible energies often creating monsters in its wake (those that survive that is, many die during the process).
          The transformed Rietveld was captured by the secretive criminal scientific organization that manufactured the pretense of "hiring" him in the first place. The organization known only as Shadowfall began to re-educate the newly acquired 'biological weapon' (codename: Coldsnap), but their attempts proved to be unsuccessful. Rietveld fought the brainwashing attempts as he plotted his escape.
          It was the unlikely team-up with Volcanus that was their big break. Through the use of their combine powers, they escaped from the hidden Shadowfall base (destroying it in the process). The Elementals of Power emerged free and angry at the world (they blamed the whole world for what happpened to them). While the Elementals of Power are still brilliant men, but their sanities were crushed under the intense physical agony of their transformations. They answer to no one but themselves.
Legal Status: Citizen of the United Kingdom with no criminal record.
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'Volcanus' and 'Coldsnap' are copyright © 2002 Tim Hartin. The Paraelemental image is used without permission from the WOTC's "Manual of the Planes" (D&D, Third Edition).