3.- MATERIAL, EQUIPO, REACTIVOS, MEDIOS DE CULTIVO Y MUESTRAS

them quietly so “they” won’t notice. This makes the pattern more random and harder to track.

8  The weapon was a military prototype designed for special forces but needed field testing. The lab gave the weapon to a known criminal and murderer to test it’s effectiveness but they put in weak shielding around the weapon to make it slowly poison the user with radiation. In time the criminal realizes he’s been tricked and turns the gun on the lab people in revenge.

(by Joe Zurla)

The hidden stockpile of a (now-arrested) gadgetter supervillian is discovered by

common criminals who use the advanced weapons to suddenly gain power and prestige on the streets. All of these items are one-of-a-kind prototypes and fairly formidable. The power of these items is enough to make each of these criminals (each one only got one item) into minor supervillians on their own. They continue to be a thorn in the side of local law-enforcement and heroes who have to deal with these high-tech criminals.

EXPLANATIONS:

8  The orginal supervillian is currently in jail and he’s actually secretly pleased his items are being field-tested for him. He’s willing to tell the heroes how to defeat the items in exchange for some sort of price or favor such as an early parole or

an easier prison.

8  The high-tech items are all fairly sophisticated and the street punks don’t know how they work completely so they are unreliable. This can cause situations where the high- tech punks go overboard (plasma pistol fires on full auto, causing massive fires) on accident or they can’t get them to work when they need to.

8  One of the high-tech punks with some sort of passive defensive item (like invisibility or teleportation) is biding his time and waiting for each of the punks to get beaten and fall into the hands of the police. He might even be snitching on the other punks to heros and the police so that they are beaten and he can sneak in and steal the other items from his rivals. He’s letting the police and

heroes do his dirty work while he collects his own set of high- tech items.

ARSENAL

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(by Joe Zurla)

The heroes get reports from media and officials of a loud “thrumming” sound coming from an isolated location. The thrumming sound is getting louder and louder by the minute and within minutes it’s so loud it’s shattering glass and creating seismic pulses in the ground. The heroes get to the site and find a strange spherical object, surrounded by a pulsing, thrumming field of energy...

EXPLANATIONS:

8  The device is a alien/high-tech/supernatural sonic “dynamo” of sorts, absorbing local energy and changing it into sound. The device was found and being tested in an isolated location and now it’s out of control and each pulse is stronger than the last, shattering rock and glass. The device absorbs energy, it can’t be just blown up or blasted, it needs to be taken somewhere that it can’t absorb energy or release it, like out of the atmosphere. If unable to release it’s buildup of energy, it will feedback on itself and detonate.

Rob Czaplewski was an average meatpacker just working the line. When management brought in that experimental rapid freezer Ron was torn. On one hand the machine was tripling the amount of meat they were producing so everybody was getting bonuses for meeting quotas. On the other hand Jimmy with the Union pointed out that three guys had been fired since the machine went in and rumor was 3 more guys were going to get laid off too. Jimmy’s plan was simple just leave a knife on the conveyor. The machine said to keep all metal away from the freezing zone so whatever happened would probably bust the machine and that would give the union time to talk to management about how unreliable it was.

Rob tucked the knife under the side of beef he was working on and watched as the hunk of meat entered the freezing zone. Ron couldn’t recall what happened next, an explosion or a flash. The closest thing he ever saw to it was that thing that happens when somebody takes a picture but they’re moving the

camera too fast.

Rob has been struck by a bizarre energy wave created when the steel was exposed to the experimental device. The researchers who built the device worked with doctors to figure out what happened to Ron. Not only was he frozen but he was cooling everything around him as well. By keeping Rob really hot he was able to interact with people again.

When Rob woke up in the lab he was really confused and afraid he was going to be fired. The researchers apologized for the accident and promised to do what they could to make Ron’s life as normal as possible. They never expected Ron had attempted sabotage.

The lab designed a thermal suit for Rob that allowed him to interact normally by generating an extreme internal temperature and shielding his environment from his chilling effect. Rob left the lab after learning how to care for the suit and started to enjoy the settlement money.

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