Obviously, if you’re going to go into a radioactive area, you’d wear protective gear. Sometimes, the gear isn’t as protective as you’d like. The lucky die quickly of radiation poisoning, but some people become a horrifying atomic monster, fused to their suit. The most famous astroghast, and the source of the name, is school teacher Arya Jonasson, who in 1971, was exposed to radiation when the Space Shuttle Daedalus exploded during routine testing. Most astroghasts aren’t astronauts, however. Instead, most are nuclear power plant operators, scavengers working in irradiated areas, uranium mine workers, and the like.
HP: 30 PP: 42
Type: Human
A: -1 B: 4 C: -5 D:4 E: 0 F: 0
Physical Defense: 4 Mental Defense: 0
Movement Speed: 9 yd/round
Defense: 8 protection, immune to poison and nausea
Radiotherapy: Whenever an astroghast would take poison damage, they instead heal that much.
Ataxia: At the beginning of each of their turns, the astroghast must spend either a move or major action, or they lose 1d6 HP.
Irradiate: As a major action, the astroghast can spend 8 PP and 1d6 HP to make up to four particle blast attacks against different targets.
Helmet Bash
Attack Mode
Kind: Physical: B v. B
Damage: 1d10 crush + 1d10 poison
Accuracy: 8
Range: 1
Critical Threshold: 8
Effect: If the attack hits and deals at least 1 damage, the attacker loses 1d6 HP
Critical Effect: The attacker loses no HP from the attack
Particle Blast
Attack Mode
Kind: Physical: D v. D
Damage: 1d4+8 poison
Accuracy: 10
Range: 4
Critical Threshold: 10
Effect: None
Critical Effect: The defender is blinded and nauseated for 3 rounds.