A super-tech arms dealer who's definitely sampling her own wares..
KILL-A-TON
Cleo Akamai has loved firearms since she first handled her father's pistol at the tender age of five, and she's only become more enthusiastic over time. Not content to simply fire them (although that is the fun part) she quickly moved on to use her super-genius intelligence to improve on the and then eventually design her own. At some point after her college days the expenses for new material and repairs to her workspace exceeded her legitimate income. Deciding to join the super-crime community was not a difficult decision for the young Miss Akamai.
In the ten years since she's established a reputation for reliability and built a well-paying clientele in the market for advanced weaponry and gadgetry. Unlike some "tech head" villains she also takes irregular "road trips" operating under the supranym KILL-A-TON. Her principle goal during these outings seems to be getting an opportunity to shoot her big-ass cannon conduct field testing on her latest upgrades, but she'll usually have some scheme in the works as well. Whether she's looting exotic materials or technology she can't get otherwise, doing a favor for some villainous ally, or attempting to proactively eliminate some hero that's annoyed her somehow, she regularly varies her approach. Sometimes it's just her a pack of robot minions or guns-for-hire (often being paid in her own weaponry), sometimes it's another villain, and once in a while she'll show up with a whole team made up of her customers.
KILL-A-TON's casual approach to mass destruction has many heroes looking for her, but she doesn't reciprocate their feelings and has no real nemesis. The closest she gets to ongoing enemies are the agents of the Science Integration Network (SIN), who have repeatedly attempted to recruit of steal from her and continues to do so despite their failures and some fairly vigorous chastisement from KILL-A-TON.
Description: Seen outside her power suit, she's a short, lightly built woman of native Hawaiian ancestry, including a slight Islands accent. When working, all you'll see is a menacing anime-style battlesuit studded with thrusters and auxiliary equipment pods and holding a massive energy cannon that links to one shoulder via an articulated armature. The gun glows and hums more and more ominously the more it builds up a charge. The suit is all-concealing and modulates her voice into an obviously artificial tone.
Gender: Female Age: 30 Height: 5'2" (6'9" suited up) Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Black, Cut Short Skin: Golden Tan Build: Slim
Approach: Mastermind Archetype: Inventor
Health: 30 + (5 x H)
Powers: Mk. 25 Doom-Cannon d12, Inventions d10, Power Suit d8
Qualities: Ranged Combat d10, Criminal Underworld Information d8, Gun-Crazy Schemer d8, Imposing d8, Science d8, Technology d8
Status: (# of Inventions/Mods) 4+ - d12 / 2-3 - d10 / 1 - d8 / 0 - d6
Abilities:
Intimidation Ploy (A) Attack one hero using using Technology. Hinder all heroes using your Max die.
Overcharger (R) At the start of your turn, if you have no bonuses in play, roll your single Science die to Boost yourself.
Warning Shot (A) Boost using Mk. 25 Doom-Cannon. Hinder using your Max die. Attack using your Min die.
You Were Warned (A) Attack using Mk. 25 Doom-Cannon and at least one bonus. Use your Max + Mid + Min dice. Add all your bonuses to the Attack, destroying them.
Upgrades & Masteries (optional):
Defense Shield (I) You cannot be damaged by anything except yourself until the defense shield is destroyed. The shield has 40 Health, or can be deactivated with three Overcome successes. If a hero takes a minor twist working on the shield, you can use a Reaction to Attack that hero by rolling your single Mk. 25 Doom-Cannon die. Gain Reestablish Shield (A) Overcome using Inventions. Use your Max die. On a success remove one success from the deactivation challenge. Alternatively, instead of an Overcome, use your Max die to Recover that much of the shield's Health. This ability cannot be used if the shield has been completely removed.
Master of Annihilation (I) If you can cause massive collateral damage without regard for casualties, automatically succeed at an Overcome in a situation where a show of overwhelming force would help.
Tactics
Unless KILL-A-TON has a strong reason to be subtle about things, she'll happily spend her time cutting loose with her ridiculous powerful energy cannon turn after turn. That said, she's a decent tactician and does everything she can to make every shot count. When possible she spends her bonuses as fast as they come so she can get all the mileage possible out of Overcharger. She often opens a fight with an Intimidation Ploy (using the bonus from her reaction, of course), loosing brilliant, noisy and confusing micro-pulses while building up her status die with the penalties handed out. She'll then take a Warning Shot at whatever the greatest threat appears to be, which can generate more mods for status effects if she uses Science or Technology instead of Ranged Combat. KILL-A-TON follows that up with her signature move, a full-power shot using You Were Warned on the same target they they keep fighting, repeating they've learned their lesson..
Her upgrade significantly improves her durability, either through blocking damage or costing the heroes time doing Overcome actions, the latter of which may also grant her a chance to take a few snap-shots if her reaction is available (in which case she'll at least be less focused on exploiting Overcharger since it's a reaction too). She has zero qualms about using her mastery when it might help, and is overall pretty casual about killing or seriously injuring innocents and heroes alike.
Trivia
Almost all of the bonuses she generates will be "Ominous Hum" with the number of m's at the end equal to the size of the bonus. Yes, this is a Schlock Mercenary reference.
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KILL-O-BOT Minion d8 minions
Description: Basic humanoid automaton, not fancy (and certainly not smart) but equipped some pretty good zap guns. KILL-A-TON doesn't put much effort into these things, robots aren't really her passion. They do get issued with her usual high-quality guns, though.
Made Them Myself: Each group of H (or fraction thereof) of these minions counts as an invention for purposes of KILL-O-TON's status die. You can only take Attack and Defend actions.
Only the Finest In Zap Guns: When you Attack, any rolls of one can be rerolled once.
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