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ICEMAN

Affiliations BUDDY TEAM PP Distinctions Hapless Romantic Heroic Prankster OR

Terrifying Potential STRESS/TRAUMA Power Sets CRYOKINESIS Enhanced Durability Enhanced Senses

Enhanced Speed Enhanced Stamina

Ice Blast Control SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a d6 and keep an additional effect die. SFX: Constructs. When using a CRYOKINESIS power to create assets, add a d6 and step up your effect die.

SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from cold‐ based attacks. SFX: Multipower. Add more than one CRYOKINESIS power die to your pool. Step P back each CRYOKINESIS power die in your pool once for each die beyond the first. SFX: Omega‐Level . Step up or double any CRYOKINESIS power for one action. If that action fails, add a die to doom pool equal to the normal rating of that power die. Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any CRYOKINESIS power to gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity or participate in a Transition Scene to recover that power. Limit: Mutant. When affected by mutant‐specific complications or tech, earn 1 PP.

Specialties Business Expert Psych Expert [You may convert EXPERT d8 to 2d6, or MASTER d10 to 2d8 or 4d6.]

Milestones Living Up To The Ice 1 XP when you discuss how you can use your powers. E 3 XP when you take stress while using your powers. 10 XP when you either seek out a to help you unlock your full mutant potential, or abandon your friends and teammates in your quests to reach your limits.

Coping With Humor 1 XP when you crack a joke while inflicting stress on an opponent. 3 XP when you point out how absurd a situation has become. 10 XP when you either stop joking and declare a situation deadly serious, or you vow to retire from superheroing forever. XP

Robert “Bobby” Louis Drake [secret]

History Abilities & Resources Bobby’s powers first manifested when he froze a Iceman can lower the temperature around him and bully solid. was sent to recruit him, but a mob gather moisture to create ice. Originally, this manifested closed in on both young mutants. Professor Xavier as snowman‐like appearance and later as translucent saved them from the angry crowd and Bobby joined the ice. He often makes sleds of ice to replicate flying. He X‐Men as Iceman, where he quickly became best friends can use his ice to bulk himself up for battle, to create with . Iceman was involved in their early weapons and objects, and to hinder or bind his foes. As encounters against numerous foes and was one of the an original member of the X‐Men, he is well known in original X‐Men comrades Beast and Angel. Eventually, the mutant community and counts much of the X‐Men the original X‐Men all reunited as X‐Factor. as close friends. He has connections to other heroes Bobby was kidnapped by to use in a plan from when he was on the and . alongside the Frost Giants. Iceman was rescued, but not Iceman can rely on countless heroes to answer his call before his powers were augmented to such an extent should there ever be a need. that he needed a dampening belt to safely use them. His powers stabilized and he rejoined the X‐Men, where a confrontation with the mutant Mikhail made Bobby realize he had not yet tapped the full extent of his powers. When a comatose hijacked Iceman’s body and demonstrated even further abilities he never thought to use, Iceman’s confidence was shaken. Currently, he remains at the Xavier Institute, but he is frustrated with how shallow his understanding of his own powers is.

Personality As the youngest of the original team, he was unsure of himself and adapted by becoming the team’s resident prankster. Iceman has had a number of failed romances; behind his exuberance and smiles, Iceman is a man deeply troubled with his own powers and sorely lacking confidence. He is one of the few Omega Class mutants in the world, and ought to be unrivaled by most of his teammates, but his powers have languished; the breakthroughs he experiences are often inspired by the ideas of others. Iceman went back to college for an accounting degree, seeking an identity outside of his powers. If he ever overcomes his trepidations about unleashing his full potential, Iceman may be one of the most powerful X‐Men of all time.