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[Christopher]

The Staff of Fens Rigs Xi.

 

There are a lot of magic wielding creatures across dimensions. Some are more and some are less powerfull but most utilise some form of magical artifacts.

Many of those species are similar to humans, but by no means all of them are. The staffs creators were one of the unusual ones:

They were 6 fingered and predominantly left handed. They are also quite bigotted against the non-magical, righthanded minority. As a result, most of their Artifacts have some odd rules:
- They must be wielded in the dominant hand

- Gestures must be made with the right hand

- Gestures need 6 fingers

- the wielder needs some innate magical potential to make the item respond at all

 

And Retroactively retrained dominancy or retroactively added extra fingers (magical or mundane) do not seem to count

 

Needless to say that finding this specific combination of traits was difficulty even with the entirety of humanity. So the staff of Fens Rigs Xi is one of the most powerfull Artifacts on the human world. That nobody is able to even use. And as such, it is has been gathering dust in various magical vaults of the last few centuries. No wielder has yet emerged.

 

As for the Illustration: That is only a rendition of how a wielder of the staff might look. A maker of Magical Almanachs felt artistically inclined and tried his hand at drawing a potential wielder of the staff in action. While the drawing is very good quality, it is unfortunately not the real deal.

[death tribble]

Bolo wins. But I am seriously put out by the six finger bit

[Burrito Boy]

Bolo wins. But I am seriously put out by the six finger bit

If it's any consolation, I don't know what they're talking about. I only see five fingers.

[BoloOfEarth]

I only see 5 as well.  I think the thumb, folded down, might be confusing people.

 

As for the next pic, how about this one:

 

[death tribble]

Gunner

 

While rumoured to be part of an army or air force project, the Gunner armoured suit is actually nothing of the sort. It is true that it is piloted by soldiers, marines, sailors or airmen. The cost is thought to be prohibitive which is why there are no other suits in use. But the heavy weaponry means it must be in the control of the services. It has not been used abroad but has been in use in the desert of the United States, at altitude in the Rockies and has come ashore from the Great Lakes, in San Francisco Bay and in New York harbour.

It has sustained high impacts, energy discharges and concentrated fire but details are unavailable as to the condition of any pilot. Use of the suit seems to be in support of small unit actions much to the gratitude of police forces across the country who have benefited from its presence.

[Christopher]

The Valor Suit/Fallout Man

 

The Suit is of alien design, but oddly not that far in advance. Their creators had a "mixed" relation with technology but a rather high reproductive rate. As a result, they prefer to only use rather "primitive" or "rugged" designs. As a happy side effect getting a edge on them via reverse-engieering is hard.

 

Still, for human standarts the suite is very adavanced and rather easy to repair. The gatling gun always was a energy weapon, evne in the original. However it was retrofitted to allow non-lethal options.

Due to it's similarties with the Poweramor of a certain Franchise, the name "Fallout Man" somehow got stuck in the Social Media and finally Media.

[phoenix240]

Do we have a winner?

[Christopher]

Do we have a winner?

2 weeks have passed sicne posting. Death tribble seems to have the better piece.

[phoenix240]

Death Tribble has more Likes, makes sense to go with that. 

[death tribble]

Ok let's try this

 

 

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[Christopher]

Kinetec

 

Superstrenght can come in many forms and shapes beyond "really strong mucles". There are other ways to move something beside having a lot of force in your arms, legs and back. Especially as for Superhumans, Mass and Inertia are not nessesarily fixed or stricly tied properties.

 

The Lifter Suit was originally designed as a Industrial Powerarmor of sorts, except it does not increase the strenght of the wearer. Instead it can change the mass and/or innertia of the "gauntlets" and anything they touch. A 5 ton load can weight very little, if the mass is reduced. While it can be easy to get a large vehicle rolling (or stopping) if it's innertia is suddenly lower then it normally would be.

But as it happens with many groundbreaking technologies, some villain tried to steal it. A tester had to don it. And a hero was born.

 

In this case is was the Facility Manager Karina Hectic, now better know as "Kinetec". Even at normal human strenght, the suit allows her to do amazing feats:

A punch thrown at normal mass + reduced innertia can be devastating if it connects with a few tons worth of mass and innertia.

A out of control car can be stopped easily if it's innertia can be reduced the moment of contact.

She can also use it to "glide" of sorts, by simply reducing her own mass and innertia while in the air.

However the suit itself only gives very limited durability. As a result Kinetecs Fightign style is more a form of "fist and feet" based martial arts, then the usual brick reportioe.

[phoenix240]

Copperhead: Being the younger sibling of super villain had its perks, one of them being an inconsistent but copious flow of money from a protective older brother among them. But Joy Jannick would have given all of them up and more to see her brother leave the crazy dangerous life he was leading. 

 

Little chance of that though, Roy had inherited their father's macho streak and hardheadedness; the thing that had gotten him killed in a pointless bar fight when she and Roy were kids, her barely walking. Their mother had taken over as best she could. She had a stubborn streak too and worked herself to the bone to support two kids and give them the best home she could. 

 

Her brother, Roy had decided early on that he had to be the man of family and take care of them. There weren't many ways for a kid to earn substantial money, not many legal ways so Roy got mixed up in the bad stuff. Unfortunately it stuck with him. He quit school and took on string of small time crimes, mostly heists and burglaries. He was caught fairly often, served some time but went right back to crime, too stubborn and headstrong to even consider giving up. 

 

Then came that fateful encounter with Defender...

 

Driven to avenge himself on the armored hero,  the high school drop out built a powered exoskeleton and became the villain Exo. While not exceptionally powerful, he was good enough to perform several high profit crimes and sent most of his gains to his mother, then his sister when she passed away. Joy shared her brother incredible talents and used the money along with generous scholarship to get into MIT. 

 

Then her brother was caught again, set up by Viper as a patsy and distraction possibly even targeted as there were parties that worried about Exo's talents and what he might grow into. This didn't sit well at all with Joy, especially after years of seeing her brother derided as a “C-lister” among villain fandom. Her own hotheaded streak took over. Using her brother's notes, some covert help from him and the innate inventive genius they shared Joy not only recreated the Exo suit but improved it, adding more armor and systems. 

 

Unlike her brother, she wasn't driven by her short fuse and realized that going at Viper head on wouldn't end well for her and possibly her brother. But if she could gather allies while she picked at their operations and harassed them she could slowly do some major damage to the organization. So Joy became the newest local superhero, hoping to befriend some other heroes to help in her fight against Viper. She decided to call herself “Copperhead” reflecting her armors coloration and vaguely reptilian styling. It also fits her sense of humor to use Viper's snake motif against them. 

 

Exo can be found on page 72 of Villains vandals and Vermin

[phoenix240]

Do we have a winner, Death Tribble? (Its more exciting when you have some skin in the game)

[mrinku]

Gunner

 

Needs an acronym

 

General Utility Nexus - National Emergency Response

[death tribble]

I am again disappointed that we only had so few entries. I am thinking that we might want to give the thread a rest. I give the win to Phoenix240.

[phoenix240]

I am again disappointed that we only had so few entries. I am thinking that we might want to give the thread a rest. I give the win to Phoenix240.

 

Thank you, Death Tribble. Its an honor to be chosen out of such stronger contenders. 

 

I'll submit:

 

[Christopher]

I am again disappointed that we only had so few entries. I am thinking that we might want to give the thread a rest. I give the win to Phoenix240.

Few entries? The original schedule was "after 1 week or 3 answers, wichever comes first". So having 2 is pretty decent.

[death tribble]

We still could have and should have had more entries.

[steriaca]

Thank you, Death Tribble. Its an honor to be chosen out of such stronger contenders.

 

I'll submit:

 

This young man is named Xavier Osborne, but started fighting crime as the Extreme X O. He cares not for a secret id, cause he sees crime fighting as the next extreme sport.

[BoloOfEarth]

Nobu Okabe was a brilliant Japanese engineer who designed and built the Nihon battlesuit in hopes of making his country a better place for his wife (Dublin Ireland-born Kate) and their son (Kengo "Ken" Okabe, who was attending college in America).  Unfortunately, the Yakuza learned Nihon's true identity and kidnapped Nobu and Kate in an attempt to get the battlesuit for themselves.  Knowing the terrible ways they'd use the battlesuit, Nobu refused to tell them where it was hidden, even when they tortured and eventually killed his wife.  He also resisted when they tortured him, eventually dying of a heart attack.

 

When Ken heard of his parents' deaths, he rushed back to Japan.  Not a fool, Ken contacted UNTIL for protection, telling them of his father's secret and offering his services as an UNTIL-registered superhero for five years in exchange for their protection while he recovered the hidden battlesuit.  All went well, and soon Ken Okabe was operating as the new Nihon (though some wags in UNTIL refer to him as the "Rising Son").  Realizing the Yakuza would surely realize who he was, Ken eschewed the face mask his father wore and operates as a public hero.

 

The Nihon battlesuit has enhanced strength, bootjets, and pulse blasters mounted on the backs of his hands.  When activated, a force field also protects his otherwise-exposed head.  A pretty good engineer in his own right (Ken was attending MIT prior to his parents' deaths), he's added a few tricks of his own to the battlesuit, such as the ability to super-heat the battlesuit's exterior to help escape from grabs and entangle. 

[phoenix240]

We still could have and should have had more entries.

 

I'd like more too but as long as people are having fun with it I'm good.

[Christopher]

Stars. They come in many sizes, weights and especially spectral classes. The Solar Suit is designed to simulate the properties of a Blue Supergiant or Red Dwarf, depending on wich option the user chooses. Depending wich option is choosen, the blue and red color of the suit switch places and the powers granted change drastically.

 

Red Dwarfs are cool, small and longelived. They are also somewhat hard to spot due to their low luminosity. But only a fool would think about getting to close to one. While in this mode, the Solar Suit grants the wearer increased endurance and durability. It also granst longelevity and the ability to survive hostile environments. This form is shown in the image above.

 

Blue Supergiants like all Supergiants are violent, powerfull and especially shortlived. In this mode the suit grants incredible attack powers, at the cost of exhausting his wearer quickly and not granting nearly as much durability.

 

Of course both modes still grant some level of superhuman ability, just where teh focus lies varries greatly. Oddly they grant almost no heat based powers, instead focussing on the secondary properties of their parent stars (endurance/lifespan).

 

The current wearer is perhaps the last person you would expect, because he is a "inverse Captain Marvel": He is actually over 80 in his civil Identity.

While using the Red Dwarf Form, the suit turns him into his younger self - including restoring his original red haircolor - and allows him to take it up with the best of them. While a bit of the power is drained into that transformation/reverse aging, he learned to compensate for it with his life experience. He eshews using the Blue Supergiant form at all, as he would be much closer to his original age when using that option and simply could not use it anywhere near it's full potential.

Also he is in a "kind of" secret identity despite not hiding his face: As few people still remember how he looked when he was that age originally and even fewer people listen to those people, enemies have yet to piece together his real identity.

[phoenix240]

That's three submissions and all of them are quite good. I will give it to BoloofEarth. It felt the most complete to me and in keeping with illustration. 

 

BoloofEarth, you're up! 

[BoloOfEarth]

Sorry, I tried up upload a pic to Tinypic yesterday but it was giving me fits.  It's still not wanting to work for me, so I'll attach a thumbnail pic

[bubba smith]

not bad