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Your username for signing your edits. Write it as a WikiWord (eg JoeBloggs)

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''Ingredients:''

* 1 1/4 tsp black pepper
* 1/4 tsp salt
* 4 6-oz tuna steaks (about 3/4 inch thick)
* 1/4 cup chicken broth
* 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
* 4 tsp dark brown sugar
* 1 tbsp soy sauce
* 1/2 tsp cornstarch
* 1/4 cup diagonally sliced green onions


''Production:''

* Place a grill pan coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat until hot.
* Sprinkle pepper and salt over fish.
* Place fish in grill pan and grill for 3 minutes on each side until medium-rare or desired degree of doneness.
* Remove from heat.
* Combine broth, vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, and cornstarch in a small saucepan.  Use a whisk to insure all dry ingredients are dissolved.
* Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium.  Continue stirring, checking the thickness of the sauce in one-minute intervals.  When the sauce is the consistency of maple syrup, remove from heat.
* Spoon the glaze over the tuna and top with the green onions.

All written material presented in //''Black Hats And White Capes!''// is copyright (C) by Jack V. Butler, Jr. unless otherwise specifically noted.

All artwork presented here is copyright (C) by Storn Cook unless otherwise specifically noted.  Artwork is used here with permission from the artist.

In this exciting issue of //''Black Hats And White Capes!''//

*[[Who's Who In The Butlerverse:  Aurora]]
*[[Encyclopedia Entry: "The Gods of Mythology"]]
*[[Encyclopedia Entry: "The Great and Poweful Oz"]]
*[[Encyclopedia Entry: "Hamilton, Bermuda"]]
*[[Encyclopedia Entry: "The Icehouse"]]
*[[Time Capsule: World War II]]

[[Welcome, Hero!]]
[[Current Issue]]

By dictate of Lord Doom, no one in Bermuda is homeless, hungry, or unemployed, and Hamilton is his personal social engineering laboratory.  Within the city, all labor is performed by domestic robots, while the citizenry is "encouraged" into high tech, scientific, artistic, and athletic pursuits.  Adults spend three months of every year in intensive training in their professional pursuits and one morning a week in "social instruction".  Failure to score well in mandatory yearly aptitude testing results in "counseling" and potential "career reassignment".  The population of Hamilton is the best educated of any city in the world.

All of the gods described in ancient mythology are real, or at least they were.  The belief of their worshippers made them real.  By that same token, as time went on and other religions supplanted the ancient beliefs, without worshippers they grew weak and faded into nonexistence.  Many gods who long ago lost all their worshippers went into a state of dormancy rather than just let themselves fade away.  In the modern age, some of these sleeping gods awoke and, seeing the state of the world, decided to try another method to garner the belief they need to keep them in existence.

Deciding to take advantage of the existence of mass media, they chose to act openly as superheroes or supervillains, depending on each god's own morals.  The wonder or fear the general public feels watching their actions on the news or reading about it in the papers gave the same effect as they experienced from being worshipped long ago, sustaining them.

Tunde Adebule (1974-1996) was a Somalian-born immigrant to the United States who worked as a street performer in Times Square, New York City.  He was an active metahuman with the power to cosmetically transform himself into the various characters from the film //The Wizard of Oz// (including Dorothy and her companions, the various Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the West, and even a flying monkey).  He performed under the name "The Great and Powerful Oz".

A volunteer subject in several studies of metagene expression, no reason why his ability to shapeshift was so limited was ever found.

His street show consisted of recitations of entire scenes of dialog from //The Wizard of Oz//, accompanied by appropriate changes in appearance.  He was killed during a mugging in January of 1996.  Considered by many to be a "living landmark" of New York City, his funeral was attended by over 12,000 mourners.

More formally known as the United Nations Antarctic <nowiki>Super-Maximum Detention</nowiki> Facility, this prison houses those prisoners who are deemed too much for standard prisons to hold, but not quite dangerous enough to warrant sending them to Stronghold.  The prison is carved into the side of the Vinson Massif, and has space enough to hold fifty-seven hundred inmates.

[[Credits]]
[[Current Issue]]
[[What Is The Butlerverse?]]

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A Champions APA for the Clobberin Times! by Jack Butler

Black Hats And White Capes!

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''September 30, 1938:'' Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, intended to head off German aggressiveness.  The pact seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing that nation over to German control in the name of peace.  Although the agreement was to give into Hitler's hands only the Sudentenland, that part of Czechoslovakia where 3 million ethnic Germans lived, it also handed over to the Nazi war machine 66 percent of Czechoslovakia's coal, 70 percent of its iron and steel, and 70 percent of its electrical power.

''October 24, 1938:'' Warcraft sent by the Daribi Confederation land near Grover's Mills, New Jersey and begin an invasion of the Earth.  The military might of the United States is useless against the Daribi's superior technology.  The invasion stalls after three days, however, when the Daribi begin dying from various Terran diseases, most of which humans are resistant to.  A week after the invasion begins, all landing forces are dead.  The United States government confiscates as much of the Daribi technology as they can.

''October 31, 1938:'' Well-known radio writer/producer Orson Welles is hired by the U.S. government to assist in the cover up of the Daribi invasion.

''December 2, 1938:'' A glowing meteorite crashes near Burke Falls, New York, and is recovered by auto mechanic Silas Tucker.

''December 9,1938:'' Silas Tucker uses the meteorite to help power his prototype rocketpack and flies for the first time as the superhero Barnstormer.

''December 23, 1938:'' Discovering Barnstormer's secret identity, rich kid Archie Burke blackmails the man into building him his own rocketpack.  They reconcile after Archie saves Barnstormer from the mad scientist Doctor X-Ray, christening himself as Barnstormer's sidekick, Tailgunner.


''February 12, 1939:'' Frenchman Marc Robitaille uses his ever-growing invulnerability and knowledge of Savate to foil a robbery at the Louvre, in Paris.  Donning a mask, he becomes known as Resolu!  The papers quickly dub him the "Gallant Warrior of France" for his bravery and joie-de-vivre.

''March 15, 1939:'' German forces pour into Czechoslovakia, blatantly violating the Munich pact.

''May 3, 1939:'' A new hero calling himself Valor first appears in San Diego, stopping a group of Tommy Gun-toting thieves from stealing materials being used to build Miramar Naval Air Station at Camp Kearny near San Diego.

''July 29, 1939:'' The teleporting American superhero Airdrop makes his debut, teleporting Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of the Oval Office just moments before a bomb disguised as FDR's Scottish terrier Fala explodes in the room.

''September 1, 1939:'' German troops invade Poland, led by the Nazi superman called Sturmfurhrer.  He is the first "supervillain" to gain widespread notoriety.

''September 14, 1939:'' U39, a German submarine, attacks a British battlegroup and is sunk.

''September 18, 1939:''
*  American journalist David Danner is kidnapped for use as a guinea pig by Baron Ulysses Maltus, a Nazi scientist searching for a reliable means of manufacturing superhuman soldiers for Hitler's army.  The experiment goes awry when Danner manages to escape before the procedure is concluded.  He presents himself to President Roosevelt and later is seen in the skies over America as "Power Man."
*  Five crewmembers of the lost U39 submarine wash up on a German beach, claiming to have been rescued from their dying sub by mermaids.  Their claims are not believed.

''October 30, 1939:'' Several survivors from recently sunk British ships wash ashore on the coast of Britain after having been presumed lost.  Their fantastic claims of rescue by water-breathing people are discounted as delusions.

''January 14, 1940:'' Power Man and Sturmfuehrer meet each other for the first time in Krakow, Poland.  Their battle manages to destroy half the city before Power Man drives Sturmfuhrer off.  Despite the fact that the Nazi villain retreated, most military analysts who study the battle declare the fight an even match with no clear-cut victor.

''June 2, 1940:'' Resolu opts to stay in France after the Nazis invade, rather than escape to England.  His spirited determination becomes a backbone of inspiration for the French Resistance.

''July 1, 1940:'' Surfrider, a new superhero in Honolulu, beaks up an opium-smuggling ring trafficking from Southeast Asia through Hawaii to San Francisco.

''March 23, 1941:'' Noting the success of German superhumans supplementing armed forces in the European conflict, the Imperial Japanese Navy begins the search for superhumans.  They task a sorcerer code-named Haiku to recruit superhumans.  Haiku sets up hidden bases throughout the Pacific.

''March 30, 1941:'' Surfrider disappears while on a case.  He is presumed dead after a month.

''December 5, 1941:'' Valor fights a Japanese spy ring hiding in the Koolau Mountains of Oahu.  During this fight, he rescues a captive Surfrider.

''December 7, 1941:'' Valor and Surfrider aid in the rescuing of civilians and servicemen injured and trapped during the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Finding they work well together, the pair decide to become a permanent team.

''January 1, 1942:'' President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue a declaration, signed by representatives of 26 countries, called the "United Nations." The signatories of the declaration vowed to create an international postwar peacekeeping organization.

''February 8, 1942:'' A team of American superhumans gathered and sponsored by the U.S. Military and calling themselves "The Liberty Legion", begins fighting Axis saboteurs and counterpart superhumans on behalf of Allied forces.

''June 4, 1942:'' Admiral Chester Nimitz receives intelligence reports of superhumans supporting an approaching Japanese Fleet.  He makes several urgent requests for superhuman assistance, but is told that most of the Allied superhumans are in Europe fighting Nazi Germany.  Valor and Surfrider responded to the call and arrive in time to neutralize the Japanese superhumans, Oni and Kuei, allowing the U.S. Navy to achieve a stunning victory at Midway that turned the tide of the war.  One creative journalist on Midway Island described the duo as "Surf and Turf" and the moniker sticks.

''November 22, 1942:'' The Chinese superhero and kung fu master Go battles Japanese forces alongside Chang Kai-shek in northwestern China.  His duels with Japanese karate master Itazurakko become legendary.

''December 16, 1942:'' Traktor, the first Soviet metahuman, makes his public debut in the Battle of Stalingrad.  The steel-skinned Soviet distinguishes himself by single-handedly destroying several German panzer battalions.

''March 17, 1943:'' With an amazing feat of foresight, a German SS officer in Africa realizes the fate of the Nazi party.  He sends his entire unit into hiding in Belgian controlled Rwanda.  They stay in hiding until well after Rwandan independence in 1962.

''April 12, 1944:'' Power Man disappears during a battle in which he and the Liberty Legion fight Sturmfuhrer and several other Nazi superhumans in Stuttgart, Germany.  While no body was ever found, it is believed that the star-spangled hero died during the battle and his body recovered and carried away by retreating Nazi forces.

''April 16, 1944:'' Resolu faces Sturmfuhrer in colossal battle, his adaptive invulnerability making him nearly a match for the Nazi superman.  The two battle for hours near Antipolis, as Resolu keeps Sturmfuhrer occupied and contained, allowing a large group of the French Resistance leaders to escape.  The battle ends as Sturmfuhrer's beating takes its toll, and France's "Gallant Warrior" finally falls dead from his wounds.

''October 9, 1944:'' The first commercial advertising featuring a metahuman is released over the radio.  Featuring well-known Boston masked adventurer Lawdog, and running only in that city, the commercial hawks Bukowski's Tavern.  The Tavern's business increased 214% within the next year, all because of Lawdog's commercial.

''March 3, 1944:'' Intelligence is received by U.S.  that the Japanese army has found a method for the successful production of super soldiers, to begin immediately in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.  President Truman orders immediate use of atomic bombs at these locations.  The Japanese operation is destroyed, along with Japan's secret to successfully manufacturing super-solders.

''April 6, 1944:'' The Iron Hedgehog, a power-armored Soviet hero, leads elements of the Red Army into Berlin.  The Hedgehog is personally responsible for much destruction and loss of civilian life in the city, though he does come close to capturing Adolph Hitler alive.

''May 30, 1944:'' Adolph Hitler commits suicide.

''June 7, 1944:'' Nazi Germany surrenders.

''August 8, 1944:'' Rumors emerge that the delivery of the Fat Man plutonium bomb to Nagasaki was accomplished not by the B-29 named "Boxcar", but by the American superhero Airdrop.  A haggard Airdrop, hounded by the press at every turn, vanishes from public sight shortly afterward.

''September 4, 1944:'' Japan surrenders.

''January 17, 1946:'' Stalin orders the arrest and inprisonment of all known Russian metahumans "for the safety of the State."

''April 16, 1946:'' A statue of Resolu is erected in Paris.  The face of the statue bears the hero's trademark irrepresible grin, and points toward the nearby Arc de Triomphe.

''October 4, 1946:'' The surviving members of the Liberty Legion announce that, with two exceptions, the surviving members of the Legion will continue protecting the people of the United States.  Of the two holdouts, Sergeant Victory retires because of wounds received in combat, and Liberty Belle announces her attention to settle down and start a family.

Welcome to the seventh issue of //''Black Hats And White Capes!''//, currently the online home of the Butlerverse, my homebrew Champions campaign world.

Things have been going pretty well for me since the last issue.  We got the house ready to sell, listed it with the agent, and have already had someone make an offer.  They were lowballing us, but hey, at least it was an offer.  There's another couple talking to their bank who have expressed an interest, so maybe this won't take as long as I thought it would.

The big news is that I now have three kids!

Way back in the late 80s, I was in one of those serious-but-not-permanent relationships with beautiful girl named Caridad Sifuentes.  We met during my first foray into college, fell in love, and moved in together.  After about a year, Cari was asked by her folks to return to Puerto Rico (where her family lived), and thus we broke up involuntarily.  She went back to the island, I went into the army, and we never saw each other again.  I hadn't even thought about her in almost as long.

So about a month and a half ago, I get an email from a young student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando named Elizabeth Lastra.  She apologized for bothering me, explained that she was the daughter of Caridad Lastra, whose maiden name was Sifuentes.  Her mother had died, and shortly thereafter the man who she grew up thinking of as dad told her that a) he wasn't actually her father and b) he didn't think there was any real reason for her to contact him again.  She spoke to her grandparents and some of her mom's long-time friends, and they identified a trio of men who might actually have been her dad.

I was the second one she contacted.  She told me about herself and her life, and said that she was looking for her dad.  After some careful vetting by way of a friend of mine in the Orange County Sheriff's Department, I agreed to a third-party DNA test.

[img[My Daughter Elizabeth|http://legendspbem.angelfire.com/elizabethlastra.jpg]]

Congratulations, Mr. Butler!  It's a girl!

Since then, we've all been getting to know each other.  She's a lovely young lady who is studying to become a teacher.  She loves that she has brothers (she'd been an only child... apparently step-dad didn't want any kids, period, much less more after Elizabeth), and finds my being a chef to be nifty neato keen.  I've come to love her a lot, and am very proud of her accomplishments at school and her goals to be a teacher.  And the first time she called me Dad, I broke down and cried.

Anyway, here is another exciting issue of //''Black Hats and White Capes!''//  Hope you all enjoy it.

And because you demanded it, antoher recipe: [[Balsamic Glazed Tuna]]

By the by, if anyone knows a character artist who is willing to do work pro bono...

The Butlerverse is a roleplaying gameworld used in several different Superhero Roleplaying campaigns over the course of about 24 years.  In it's last major incarnation, it was a series of 25 superhero PBEM campaigns all taking place in the same shared world.  In all cases, it used the the Hero System, published by Hero Games, as a rules base.

The Butlerverse is a parallel world, quite similar to our own in some ways, and in others very different.  The geography is almost identical.  Life developed along the same lines.  Wars were fought, and nations rose and fell, all like they did in the real world.  Historical events and notable individuals are usually identical to those you find in the real world.  The biggest difference between the Butlerverse and the real world is the existence of people endowed with powers and abilities far beyond those of common mankind.  And their influence is readily apparent.

The Butlerverse is simultaneously as realistic as possible while also as four-color as possible.  My aim was to recreate some of the best elements of comic book "reality" in a gameworld while acknowledging that the real world is a pretty neat place as well.

[img[Aurora|http://legendspbem.angelfire.com/aurora.jpg]]

''Aurora'', Second in Command of the Global Guardians

''Real Name:'' Annfrid Sigurdsdottir
''Archetype:'' Blaster
''Hair/Eye Color:'' Blonde/Glowing White
''Height/Weight:'' 5' 11"/135 lbs
''Nationality:'' Icelandic
''Date Of Birth:'' 31 October 1975
''Place Of Birth:'' Laugarvatn, Iceland
''Played By:'' Conrad Davis
''Created By:'' Conrad



''Characteristics''

|!Cost|!CHAR|!Value|!Roll!|!Notes!|
| 3 | ''STR'' | 13 | 12- |''Lift:'' 150 kg  ''Dice:'' 2 1/2d6  ''END:'' 2 |
| 39 | ''DEX'' | 23 | 14- |''OCV:'' 8  ''DCV:'' 8 |
| 0 | ''CON'' | 30 | 15- ||
| 0 | ''BODY'' | 10 | 11- ||
| 8 | ''INT'' | 18 | 13- |''PER Roll:'' 13- |
| 6 | ''EGO'' | 13 | 12- |''ECV:'' 4  ''Mental Defense:'' 3 |
| 8 | ''PRE'' | 18 | 13- |''PRE Attack:'' 3 1/2d6 |
| 4 | ''COM'' | 18 | 13- ||
| 4 | ''PD'' | 7 ||''rPD:'' 13 |
| 5 | ''ED'' | 11 ||''rED:'' 19 |
| 17 | ''SPD'' | 5 ||''Phases:'' 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 |
| 0 | ''REC'' | 9 ||''Running:'' 6" (12" Noncombat) |
| 0 | ''END'' | 60 ||''Leaping:'' 3" (6" Noncombat) |
| 8 | ''STUN'' | 40 ||''Swimming:'' 2" (4" Noncombat) |
|!102|!CHAR Cost|!|!|!|



''Powers''

|!Cost|!Powers|!END|
| 20 |//''Living Nuclear Reactor:''// Elemental Control (40 Point Powers) | N/A |
| (6) |1) //''Aura of Light:''// Images (Sight Group) - Increased Size (4" Radius; +1/2), Reduced Endurance Cost (0 END Cost; +1/2), Persistent (+1/2)(25 Active Points); Always On (-1/2), No Range (-1/2), Proportionate to Endurance Reserve (-1/2), Only to Create Light (-1) | 0 |
| (20) |2) //''Body of Highly Energized Matter I:''// Constitution +20 (40 Active Points) | 0 |
| (25) |3) //''Body of Highly Energized Matter II:''// Life Support (Total Life Support)(45 Active Points) | 0 |
| (27) |4) //''Energy Absorption:''// Energy Damage Reduction 75%, Resistant (60 Active Points) - Only vs. Heat and Light Attacks (-1/2) | 0 |
| (30) |5) //''Prismatic Barrier:''// Force Field (+13 PD/+19 ED) - Hardened (+1/4)(40 Active Points) | 4 |
| (20) |6) //''Thermal Propulsion:''// Flight 20", 8 x Noncombat Flight (50 Active Points) | 5 |
|  |  |  |
| 100 |//''Light and Heat Powers:''// Multipower (100 Points Pool) | N/A |
| (18) |m) //''Heat Beam:''// Energy Blast 18d6 (90 Active Points) | 9 |
| (10) |m) //''Light Beam:''// Flash (Sight Group) 10d6 (50 Active Points) | 5 |
| (5) |u) //''Light Manipulation I:''// Images (Sight Group) - Increased Size (4" Radius; +1/2), +/-5 to Perception Rolls (37 Active Points) | 4 |
| (2) |u) //''Light Manipulation II:''// Invisibility (Sight Group)(20 Active Points) | 2 |
|  |  |  |
|  |  |  |
| 34 |//''Internal Reactor:''// Endurance Reserve (200 Endurance, 5 Recovery) plus Endurance Reserve (0 Endurance, 15 Recovery) - Only in Sunlight or in Temperatures Exceeding 40 Degrees   (-¼) | N/A |
| 15 |//''Eyes of Light:''// Flash Defense (Sight Group) 12 Points - Hardened (+1/4)(15 Active Points) | 0 |
| 4 |//''Thermal Rocketry:''// Flight 1" - Megascale (1" = 100 kilometers; +¾), Scaleable (+¼)(4 Active Points) | 1 |
|!336|!Total Powers Cost |!|



''Skills''

|!Cost|!Skill|
| 10 |+1 Overall |
| 4 |+2 With Flight |
| 3 |Conversation 13- |
| 6 |Defense Maneuver III (8 Active Points) - Only While Airborn (-1/4) |
| 3 |Electronics 13- |
| 0 |!Everyman Skills |
||Acting 8- |
||Area Knowledge: Laugarvatn, Iceland 11- |
||Climbing 8- |
||Concealment 8- |
||Conversation 8- |
||Deduction 8- |
||Language Skill: Icelandic (Native) |
||Paramedic 8- |
||Persuasion 8- |
||Professional Skill: Diplomat 11- |
||Shadowing 8- |
||Stealth 8- |
||Transport Familiarity: Small Ground Vehicles |
| 3 |!Global Guardians Package |
||Criminology 13- |
||Deduction 13- |
||Knowledge Skill: Known Superhuman Criminals 13- |
||Paramedics 13- |
||Perk: international Police Powers |
||Perk: Team Base Donation |
||Perk: Team Communicator |
||Hunted: TAROT 8- (More Powerful, NCI, Harshly Punish) |
||Monitored: News Agencies Around The World 11- (More Powerful, NCI, Monitoring) |
||Social Limitation: Celebrity (Frequently, Minor) |
| 3 |High Society 13- |
| 3 |Knowledge Skill: General Trivia 13- |
| 3 |Knowledge Skill: Literature 13- |
| 3 |Knowledge Skill: Philosophy 13- |
| 2 |Language Skill: English (Completely Fluent) |
| 2 |Language Skill: French (Completely Fluent) |
| 3 |Language Skill: German (Completely Fluent) |
| 3 |Oratory 13- |
| 3 |Paramedics 13- |
| 4 |!Scientist Package |
||Fringe Benefit: Doctorate in Physics |
||Knowledge Skill: Research Methods 13- |
||Professional Skill: Academic Researcher 11- |
||Professional Skill: Physicist 13- |
||Science Skill: High Energy Physics 13- |
||Science Skill: Mathematics 13- |
||Science Skill: Nuclear Engineering 13- |
||Science Skill: Nuclear Physics 15- |
||Science Skill: Thermodynamics 13- |
||Social Limitation: Occupation (Scientist) |
||Social Limitation: Publish or Perish |
| 3 |Systems Operation 13- |
| 3 |Teamwork 14- |
|!68|!Total Skills Cost |



''Disadvantages''

|!350+|!Disadvantages|
| 20 |Distinctive Feature: Glows Brightly |
| 10 |Hunted: Jumping Jack 8- |
| 15 |Physical Limitation: Weird Biochemistry Requires Special Medical Care |
| 15 |Psychological Limitation: Adventurous and Funloving |
| 10 |Psychological Limitation: Calm and Philosophical |
| 15 |Psychological Limitation: Cannot Stand By And Let Evil Occur |
| 20 |Psychological Limitation: Will Not Kill |
| 15 |Social Limitation: Public (Annfrid Sigurdsdottir) |
| 15 |Susceptibility: 2d6 Stun Per Turn From Intense Magnetic Fields |
| 15 |Vulnerability: 1 1/2 x Effect From Darkness Attacks (Obvious) |



''Character Cost Summary''

|!Characteristics Cost: | 102 |!Base Points: | 350 |
|!Powers Cost: | 336 |!Total Disadvantage Points: | 150 |
|!Martial Arts Cost: | 0 |!Total Experience Points Earned: | 26 |
|!Skills Cost: | 68 |!Experience Points Spent: | 6 |
|!Talents Cost: | 0 |!Experience Points Unspent: | 20 |
|!Perquisites Cost: | 0 |!Total Points: | 506 |
|!Total Cost: | 506 |||



''Background:'' Annfrid Sigurdsdottir had it all; a PhD from MIT, stellar grades, an astronomical IQ, and a positively brilliant doctoral dissertation. And, she had the kind of once-in-a-lifetime job that came from such obvious excellence. She was working at the Joint European Torus fusion power project in Culham, England. It was a physicist’s dream.

That dream came to an end, however, when a metahuman genius named Jumping Jack decided that the immense power the Tokamak generated could be used to increase his already impressive abilities. He created a variety of devices designed to stimulate his metagene, hired a bunch of mercenaries, and teamed up with some other superhuman criminals. They watched the facility, waiting for a trial run of the reactor. Eventually, their moment arrived and they descended on the plant in a lightning strike.

It didn’t take them long to wrest control of the place from its lightly armed security force, thanks mainly to the element of surprise and Jumping Jack’s prodigious teleportation abilities. Soon, all of the scientists had been herded into the reactor’s control room. The villainous mastermind threatened them with death if they didn’t cooperate with him. Just to prove that he was serious, he reached out and grabbed Annfrid. Mistaking her for non-essential personnel because she was substantially more attractive than the stereotypical scientist, he announced that he was going to teleport her into the reactor’s core. And then Annfrid disappeared with a loud pop, only to reappear in the midst of the nuclear furnace.

She screamed in terror for a few seconds before realizing that she shouldn’t have had even the opportunity to scream. All around her, deuterium and tritium were fusing at a temperature of fifteen million degrees Centigrade. She should have become ash in an instant, and yet she didn’t even feel warm. Beyond that, she could see in light that should have literally burnt her optic nerves out of her skull. The corruscating bands of gold, white, purple, and red were beautiful beyond comparison. Impulsively, she reached out to touch a particularly bright stream.

The superheated matter moved toward her, contrary to the flow of the fusion reaction that Annfrid floated in. Her brows furrowed in wonder, and Annfrid tried an experiment. She began attempting to pull a larger collection of the plasma toward her. The effort was startlingly successful. Suddenly, the entire contents of the reaction chamber began pouring into her body, exhilerating and terrifying her to no end.

Outside, Jumping Jack noticed a sudden and accelerating drop in the reactor’s core temperature. He assumed that one of the scientists had decided to sabotage his brilliant plan, and he began threatening them with slow deaths if the reactor wasn’t turned back on post haste. Their protestations of innocence and ignorance fell on deaf ears.

Just as he was about to give the order for his men to start shooting his hostages, the wall on the reactor side of the room glowed an angry red and turned to slag. Annfrid floated through the hole that remained, burning like a miniature sun and crackling with power. Jumping Jack’s goons wasted their ammunition in a vain attempt to hurt her, but their bullets melted to steam before they got close. The metahuman thugs he’d brought attempted to assault her, but were sent flying back by the heat beams she casually tossed their way. Their boss decided that the better part of valor was discretion and teleported away.

The next few months went by in a blur. The JET was going to be down for repairs indefinitely. The press was all over her, and the papparazzi hounded her every step. She had been gifted with powers beyond her wildest imaginings. Eventually, she decided to go home to Iceland in an effort to get some space. She needed time to come to terms with what had happened to her.

Fate gave her roughly a week of relative peace. Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, had been discussing her, and they offered her the chance to become Iceland’s national superhero. She’d have to undergo a series of tests to determine how stable her powers were, and she’d be required to appear before the press regularly, but she’d also have a lot of help learning just what she could do at state expense. Asking only that her free time be kept reasonably private, Annfrid donned Iceland’s flag and adopted the code name Aurora.

For a year and a half, she underwent a wide variety of grueling tests that showed that she’d gained frighteningly powerful abilities. While she learned how to control those abilities, she spent precious little time doing anything that she’d call useful. Iceland isn’t exactly ridden with crime, after all. Instead, she traveled the globe as a good will ambassador for her country. Accustomed to putting her gifts to good use, Annfrid grew restless and eventually began complaining about her lack of activity to her superiors.

Fortunately, they, too, had come to the conclusion that she was meant for better things. Her ambassadorial duties had been every bit as much of a test as anything else she’d been through. It was obvious that her powers were on a par with the most powerful heroes on the planet.

And the rest, as they say, is history.



''Quote:'' "I am a living star. I am a nuclear reactor in human form. It would be better for you to surrender before I show you what that means."



''Personality:''  Before her transformation, Annfrid lived for her work. She loved exploring the secrets of the universe and working on a project that would clearly benefit mankind. Now, she’s transferred that devotion and enthusiasm to the Guardians. She’s dedicated to the team and does her best to live up to the heroic ideal the Guardians embody.

Despite her dedication, Aurora is no wet blanket. Most people find her gregarious and charming. She enjoys meeting new people, and is generally optimistic about human nature. She loves dancing and rock music, and misses being able to just go for a night on the town. She’s had a wide variety of hobbies in her life. She picks something up for a while, raves about it and really gets into it, then drops it like a stone for the next cool thing after a few months. The two constant companions of her free time are hiking and philosophy.

If she has a serious fault, it’s that she cares too much. She has a tendency to get emotionally involved with the people she saves and the cases on which she works. She’ll push herself to the limit and let herself fly off the handle when she’s really wound up about the jobh. Se knows this and watches for it, but still can’t stop it from happening.



''Appearance:'' Already an attractive woman, Annfrid’s transformation in the reactor did nothing but improve her appearance. She’s built like a supermodel, and has perfect, lightly tanned skin. Her complexion is pale, and she has long, straw-colored blonde hair.  She also glows with an inner light. When her energy reserves are full, she’s difficult to look at because she’s so bright. Her skin glows with a golden radiance from within, and white light pours from her eyes and orifices. When they’re exhausted, she can pass for normal if she wears very dark sunglasses to hide the ember-like glimmer in her eyes. Even then, she still luminesces slightly in a darkened room and her skin is extremely warm to the touch.

As Aurora, she wears a skimpy, form-fitting gold and white costume that displays Iceland’s blue and red flag on each shoulder. When her force field is going, she’s surrounded with a faint nimbus that becomes brightly prismatic, gives off sparks, and crackles when it’s struck.  When she’s not on the job, she typically wears jeans, tennis shoes, and a comfortable blouse.



''Powers:''  Aurora’s body is an incredibly powerful energy storage device. She stores and amplifies any light and heat that come her way, and can control that energy to create a variety of effects. She is a nimble flier who can attain supersonic speeds. She can fire beams of heat and light, focusing them to burn through objects or spreading them to simply knock people out. She can also project and manipulate light, creating images or turning herself invisible. And, she can surround herself with a nimbus of crackling energy that protects her from most harm. However, there is a limit to her reserves. If she exerts herself too much without access to heat and light, she can temporarily deplete the energy in her body enough to interfere with the use of her light-based powers.

Beyond that, her body is no longer entirely human. Energy suffuses her cells, making her tougher than normal and sustaining her even in the vacuum of space. Even without her force field, she can withstand small arms fire reasonably well. Her eyes are protected against bright lights, and she is practically immune to heat and light attacks.

In combat, she prefers to use her superior maneuverability and range to her advantage, blinding and confusing her enemies with her light powers and setting them up for her team mates to take out. She’ll only close with an opponent if she has to.

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