Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

Biography
Ryan Frost had it all. Stunning apartment with
a view of the Rook City skyline, ‘67 Jaguar in the
parking lot, dream job on the way, and a gorgeous
fiancee who always knew how to make him laugh.
The night it all fell apart was an ordinary one. They
were stressed because of wedding planning, and
a stupid argument about groceries had escalated
into a yelling match. They’d weathered arguments
before, frequently facilitated by Christine going for a
drive to cool off. But she never came back from this
drive. The police told him that she had died instantly.
The other car had been going nearly a hundred
miles an hour. Drunk driving, repeat offender…
Ryan stopped listening. He stopped doing a lot of
things. He never showed up for the interview, didn’t
pay rent, stopped showering, just moved through a
gray and lifeless world like a walking corpse.
Absolute Zero
Alias: Ryan Frost
Gender: Male
Age: Middle-Aged
Height: 5’7”
Eyes: White
Hair: none
Skin: Bluish White
Build: Slight
Costume/Equipment: When not in a cryo
chamber, always wearing his white, blue, and
carbon-black coolant suit, complete with glowing
blue faceplate, palm apertures, chest vents, and a
mid-chest triangle.
Background: Tragic
Power Source: Accident
Archetype: Elemental Manipulator
Personality: Sarcastic
When the money ran out, he took the first job
he stumbled across, doing janitorial work at Pike
Cryogenics. He signed where they told him to sign,
mopped up unidentifiable substances, and during the
day he slept. He got used to the chill of the vapors
rolling off of the liquid helium tanks, the leaks from
the vats, and the moisture everywhere. The nights
ticked by until the shoddy maintenance practices
caught up to the lab. Ryan was waxing the floor
when a pressurization value failed, and the resulting
explosion doused him in cryogenic compounds. In
fractions of a second, his body cooled to subzero
temperatures, and then, unbelievably, kept dropping.
The alarms brought the response team, but it was
too late. Ryan was lying in a gelatinous chemical
mixture that was rapidly crystallizing around him.
Somehow he was still alive, but his biology had
changed drastically. He was put in stasis right away,
and eventually orders came from higher up in the
corporate hierarchy that they were to put him in
cold storage. Pike Industries had military contacts
that might want him later.
“Later” ended up being ten years, when the
military decided that they would give him to Dr.
Stinson to be part of the F5 initiative. Devising a
cryogenic surgical ward, she brought him out of
the coma. The military gave him a choice: he could
stay in the cryo chamber, or he could put on the
mobility suit that she had created and be a part
of something bigger. The world needed heroes, and
his unique biology in combination with Tachyon’s
technology could give him a measure of freedom
as he helped to save the world. Ryan didn’t have
to think twice about it: he said no. “Better bored in
here than dead out there.”
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