Post by Claire Redfield on Apr 6, 2015 14:39:25 GMT -8
The Will and the Worthy
The cities of Earth lie in burning ruin. The insectoid soldiers of the Annihilation Wave sweep across the planet, decimating the dwindling pockets of resistance. Legions of chitinous Wave ships fill the skies. Above the Earth hovers the conqueror's flagship and those of his Queens. As the world crumbles and burns, ANNIHILUS reigns supreme in his victory. His old foes the Fantastic Four have fallen, as have all of Earth's mightiest heroes.
All save one.
Annihilus stands atop the burnt-out Baxter Building beside a flag made of a torn Fantastic Four costume. From here he can survey the shuddering demise of Manhattan, and with it, Earth's hopes. "I am the will and the way!" he shrieks, his voice echoing through cracked and broken city streets. Bio-technological insectoid warriors crawl through the wreckage, searching for survivors and other prizes. Smoke fills the air. "This world is mine! MINE!"
Clouds roil overhead, and thunder shatters the sky. The rumbling boom drowns out Annihilus and makes the very city tremble. Lightning crashes, lancing from the storm-wracked skies down about the Baxter Building. Annihilus looks to the sky as a long figure descends from the heart of the storm. He is no man—he is a god, an Asgardian. The Odinson. The mighty THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. His red cape billows in the fierce winds that buffet the Baxter Building. In his grip lies the Uru hammer Mjolnir, one of the most powerful weapons in any universe. In his eyes, rage. The wrath of the storm pales in comparison to the anger of the Thunder God.
"Well you have come!" sneers Annihilus. "The Earth is fallen, Asgardian. Your friends lie dead at my hands. My Annihilation Wave devours the very heart of this universe, and soon we shall turn our attention to other realms. You should return to your home to enjoy what precious little time remains."
Thor's grim visage is unmoved. He has no words to bandy with a would-be conqueror. His rage is the calm before the storm, before he lets loose all of the ire in his heart—and the power in his limbs. "You have destroyed lives, insect. Countless lives. How many memories of a father cherishing his daughter, a mother her son, a sister her brother, a lover her other half?"
"You should thank me, Thunderer!"
Mjolnir's leather-bound handle creaks as Thor's grip tightens. "Thank you, monster? You have murdered an entire world. A good world. My world. E'en now I hear their cries as this world drowns in its own blood."
"Yes. I have spared you concern over this pathetic little bauble. You may return to Asgard and await the end among your mead-swilling louts you call family. Go now back to your home, and pray that Annihilus saves it for last, that you might live in fear that much longer. You have no more reason to fight for Earth. How shall you fare when you fight for a dead, ashen world? From whence comes your righteous fury now, Asgardian?"
Thor grits his teeth. "Enough, murderer. You are the fool playing at a game he cannot win. What of my purpose? You have not taken it from me." Thor hefts Mjolnir to the sky and serpentine streaks of lightning pour into it from on high. "Midgard was as much my home as is Asgard. You have simply given me nothing left to lose."
Annihilus brings to bear a glowing rod crackling with cosmic energy. "So be it! Battle, then? You wish to face me for the honor of your once-home? I should expect no more reason from a brute. You will join your fellows in this grave, and then I will claim your weapon as my trophy."
"Mjolnir against your Cosmic Control Rod, then. Let battle be joined. Thor will strike you down this day or perish in the attempt, but by my will Midgard will have her voice. This world goes not quietly into oblivion. Let me herald its ending...WITH A VOICE OF THUNDER!"
VS. 
Next: The Odinson...alone against the Horde!
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THOR
Solo D10 • Buddy D6 • Team D8
God of Thunder
Legendary Ego
Righteous Warrior
Earth Mastery D10 • Enhanced Reflexes D8 • Enhanced Senses D8 • Enhanced Speed D8 • Godlike Stamina D12 • Godlike Strength D12 • Mystic Resistance D8 • Superhuman Durability D10 • Weather Influence D6
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from disease or fatigue.
SFX: Invulnerability. Spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or trauma results unless caused by mystical attacks.
SFX: Second Wind. Before you make an action including a Son of Asgard power, you may move your physical stress die to the doom pool and double the Son of Asgard power for this action.
Limit: Thunderer's Guilt. Step up emotional stress caused by guilt or the suffering of those you have sworn to protect to gain 1 PP.
Expert Sorcery D8 • Godlike Durability D12 • Supersonic Flight D10 • Teleportation D10 • Weapon D10 • Weather Supremacy D12
SFX: Anti-Force. On a successful reaction against an energy-based attack, add a doom die equal to the reaction effect die to inflict your attacker's effect die against your attacker.
SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: I Say Thee Nay!. Double or step up a Mjolnir power for your next action, then step back that power. Recover the power during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown Mjolnir to gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. the doom pool to recover Mjolnir.
Combat Expert D8 • Cosmic Expert D8 • Medical Expert D8 • Menace Master D10 • Mystic Expert D8
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ANNIHILUS
Solo D10/D10/D10 • Buddy D8/D8 • Team D6
Lord of the Negative Zone
The Living Death That Walks
Unimaginative
Enhanced Senses D8 • Subsonic Flight D8 • Superhuman Durability D10 • Superhuman Reflexes D10 • Superhuman Stamina D10 • Superhuman Strength D10
SFX: Annihilus is the Will and the Way!. When you add a die from the doom pool to Annihilus' pool including a Chitinous Exoskeleton power, double that die. Keep an extra effect die to add to the doom pool.
SFX: Healing Factor. Spend a doom die to recover physical stress or step back physical trauma.
SFX: Words? You Offer Me Words?. Reduce the Team trait of a mob or fleet of ships under your command by one die to recover your emotional stress.
Limit: Paranoid. Step up emotional stress from attacks capitalizing on your paranoia to step up the lowest doom die or add a D6 doom die.
Cosmic Blast D12 • Cosmic Supremacy D12 • Godlike Durability D12 • Leech D12 • Space Flight D12 • Transmutation D8
SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: Drain Vitality. When using Leech to create a Power Loss complication on a target, add a D8 and keep an extra effect die for physical stress.
SFX: Energy Siphon. On a successful reaction against an action that includes an energy-based power, convert opponent's effect die into a Power Loss complication or a Cosmic Control Rod stunt. If opponent's action succeeds, spend a doom die to use this SFX.
SFX: Give Me Your Power, I Wish to Feast Upon It. When Annihilus creates a Power Loss complication on a target that possesses a cosmic energy-based Power Set, add a D6 and step up the effect die. If the target has Power Loss complication stepped up above D12, Annihilus gains the full energy-based Power Set and the target's Power Set is shutdown.
SFX: Immunity. Spend a doom die to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from disease attacks.
Limit: Mine! Mine!. Shutdown Cosmic Control Rod to step up the lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6 doom die. Spend a doom die to recover Cosmic Control Rod.
Combat Expert D8 • Cosmic Master D10 • Menace Grandmaster D12 • Science Expert D8 • Tech Master D10 • Vehicle Expert D8
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ANNIHILATION GROUND FORCE HORDE
Solo - • Buddy - • Team D6/D6/D6/D6/D6
Mindless
They Are Legion
Enhanced Durability D8 • Enhanced Senses D8 • Enhanced Strength D8 • Flight D6 • Guns D8
SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: Claws & Jaws. Step back the highest die in an attack action to add a D6 and step up physical stress inflicted.
SFX: Focus Fire. Against a single target, step up or double a Guns die. Remove the highest rolling die and use three dice for your total.
SFX: Massive Destruction. Instead of adding your effect die to the doom pool, add two dice at -1 step, or three dice at -2 steps.
SFX: Without Number. Spend a doom die to add another Team die to the mob, to a maximum of 5D6. Spend a D10 doom die or larger to add another Annihilation Ground Force Horde.
Limit: Hive Control. If the flagship or hive queen controlling the horde has been stressed out, step back Team dice. Now D6 stress inflicted removes a Team die. Recover Team dice after a Transition Scene.
Limit: Nom Nom Nom. Shutdown a The Swarm power to step up the lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6 doom die. Activate an opportunity to recover the power.
Limit: Team Cohesion. Team dice may be targeted individually or by Area Attack SFX. Each D8 physical stress inflicted removes a Team die. Recover Team after a Transition Scene.
Combat Expert D8 • Menace Expert D8
Panel X:
•Thor: 0 PP • Traits
•Annihilus: Stress • Traits
•Horde: Stress • Traits
Doom Pool: 3D10
The cities of Earth lie in burning ruin. The insectoid soldiers of the Annihilation Wave sweep across the planet, decimating the dwindling pockets of resistance. Legions of chitinous Wave ships fill the skies. Above the Earth hovers the conqueror's flagship and those of his Queens. As the world crumbles and burns, ANNIHILUS reigns supreme in his victory. His old foes the Fantastic Four have fallen, as have all of Earth's mightiest heroes.
All save one.
Annihilus stands atop the burnt-out Baxter Building beside a flag made of a torn Fantastic Four costume. From here he can survey the shuddering demise of Manhattan, and with it, Earth's hopes. "I am the will and the way!" he shrieks, his voice echoing through cracked and broken city streets. Bio-technological insectoid warriors crawl through the wreckage, searching for survivors and other prizes. Smoke fills the air. "This world is mine! MINE!"
Clouds roil overhead, and thunder shatters the sky. The rumbling boom drowns out Annihilus and makes the very city tremble. Lightning crashes, lancing from the storm-wracked skies down about the Baxter Building. Annihilus looks to the sky as a long figure descends from the heart of the storm. He is no man—he is a god, an Asgardian. The Odinson. The mighty THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. His red cape billows in the fierce winds that buffet the Baxter Building. In his grip lies the Uru hammer Mjolnir, one of the most powerful weapons in any universe. In his eyes, rage. The wrath of the storm pales in comparison to the anger of the Thunder God.
"Well you have come!" sneers Annihilus. "The Earth is fallen, Asgardian. Your friends lie dead at my hands. My Annihilation Wave devours the very heart of this universe, and soon we shall turn our attention to other realms. You should return to your home to enjoy what precious little time remains."
Thor's grim visage is unmoved. He has no words to bandy with a would-be conqueror. His rage is the calm before the storm, before he lets loose all of the ire in his heart—and the power in his limbs. "You have destroyed lives, insect. Countless lives. How many memories of a father cherishing his daughter, a mother her son, a sister her brother, a lover her other half?"
"You should thank me, Thunderer!"
Mjolnir's leather-bound handle creaks as Thor's grip tightens. "Thank you, monster? You have murdered an entire world. A good world. My world. E'en now I hear their cries as this world drowns in its own blood."
"Yes. I have spared you concern over this pathetic little bauble. You may return to Asgard and await the end among your mead-swilling louts you call family. Go now back to your home, and pray that Annihilus saves it for last, that you might live in fear that much longer. You have no more reason to fight for Earth. How shall you fare when you fight for a dead, ashen world? From whence comes your righteous fury now, Asgardian?"
Thor grits his teeth. "Enough, murderer. You are the fool playing at a game he cannot win. What of my purpose? You have not taken it from me." Thor hefts Mjolnir to the sky and serpentine streaks of lightning pour into it from on high. "Midgard was as much my home as is Asgard. You have simply given me nothing left to lose."
Annihilus brings to bear a glowing rod crackling with cosmic energy. "So be it! Battle, then? You wish to face me for the honor of your once-home? I should expect no more reason from a brute. You will join your fellows in this grave, and then I will claim your weapon as my trophy."
"Mjolnir against your Cosmic Control Rod, then. Let battle be joined. Thor will strike you down this day or perish in the attempt, but by my will Midgard will have her voice. This world goes not quietly into oblivion. Let me herald its ending...WITH A VOICE OF THUNDER!"
VS. Next: The Odinson...alone against the Horde!
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THOR
| Affiliations |
| Distinctions |
Legendary Ego
Righteous Warrior
| Power Sets |
| Son of Asgard |
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from disease or fatigue.
SFX: Invulnerability. Spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or trauma results unless caused by mystical attacks.
SFX: Second Wind. Before you make an action including a Son of Asgard power, you may move your physical stress die to the doom pool and double the Son of Asgard power for this action.
Limit: Thunderer's Guilt. Step up emotional stress caused by guilt or the suffering of those you have sworn to protect to gain 1 PP.
| Mjolnir |
SFX: Anti-Force. On a successful reaction against an energy-based attack, add a doom die equal to the reaction effect die to inflict your attacker's effect die against your attacker.
SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: I Say Thee Nay!. Double or step up a Mjolnir power for your next action, then step back that power. Recover the power during a Transition Scene or by activating an opportunity.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown Mjolnir to gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. the doom pool to recover Mjolnir.
| Specialties |
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ANNIHILUS
| Affiliations |
| Distinctions |
The Living Death That Walks
Unimaginative
| Power Sets |
| Chitinous Exoskeleton |
SFX: Annihilus is the Will and the Way!. When you add a die from the doom pool to Annihilus' pool including a Chitinous Exoskeleton power, double that die. Keep an extra effect die to add to the doom pool.
SFX: Healing Factor. Spend a doom die to recover physical stress or step back physical trauma.
SFX: Words? You Offer Me Words?. Reduce the Team trait of a mob or fleet of ships under your command by one die to recover your emotional stress.
Limit: Paranoid. Step up emotional stress from attacks capitalizing on your paranoia to step up the lowest doom die or add a D6 doom die.
| Cosmic Control Rod |
SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: Drain Vitality. When using Leech to create a Power Loss complication on a target, add a D8 and keep an extra effect die for physical stress.
SFX: Energy Siphon. On a successful reaction against an action that includes an energy-based power, convert opponent's effect die into a Power Loss complication or a Cosmic Control Rod stunt. If opponent's action succeeds, spend a doom die to use this SFX.
SFX: Give Me Your Power, I Wish to Feast Upon It. When Annihilus creates a Power Loss complication on a target that possesses a cosmic energy-based Power Set, add a D6 and step up the effect die. If the target has Power Loss complication stepped up above D12, Annihilus gains the full energy-based Power Set and the target's Power Set is shutdown.
SFX: Immunity. Spend a doom die to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from disease attacks.
Limit: Mine! Mine!. Shutdown Cosmic Control Rod to step up the lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6 doom die. Spend a doom die to recover Cosmic Control Rod.
| Specialties |
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ANNIHILATION GROUND FORCE HORDE
| Affiliations |
| Distinctions |
They Are Legion
| Power Sets |
| The Swarm |
SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a D6 and keep an additional effect die.
SFX: Claws & Jaws. Step back the highest die in an attack action to add a D6 and step up physical stress inflicted.
SFX: Focus Fire. Against a single target, step up or double a Guns die. Remove the highest rolling die and use three dice for your total.
SFX: Massive Destruction. Instead of adding your effect die to the doom pool, add two dice at -1 step, or three dice at -2 steps.
SFX: Without Number. Spend a doom die to add another Team die to the mob, to a maximum of 5D6. Spend a D10 doom die or larger to add another Annihilation Ground Force Horde.
Limit: Hive Control. If the flagship or hive queen controlling the horde has been stressed out, step back Team dice. Now D6 stress inflicted removes a Team die. Recover Team dice after a Transition Scene.
Limit: Nom Nom Nom. Shutdown a The Swarm power to step up the lowest die in the doom pool or add a D6 doom die. Activate an opportunity to recover the power.
Limit: Team Cohesion. Team dice may be targeted individually or by Area Attack SFX. Each D8 physical stress inflicted removes a Team die. Recover Team after a Transition Scene.
| Specialties |
Panel X:
•Thor: 0 PP • Traits
•Annihilus: Stress • Traits
•Horde: Stress • Traits
Doom Pool: 3D10