Skydive

Strength 6d

Agility 5d

Intellect 4x

Willpower 6b

Hand Size: Edge:

4 (25) 2

Powers:

(none)

Equipment:

Helmet (s): Lynton's helmet actually serves two purposes. It offers him defense against head injuries, providing him his Strength +2 protection from physical attacks that strike him in that location, and also has a nifty visor that polarizes his vision, giving him a +1 to spot enemy targets in dim lighting conditions.

Knife (s): all paratroopers carry a knife on them while heading into action - you never know when you'll need to cut yourself loose from you parachute, after all. Made from m.s. 12 materials, Lynton can use this tool to cut through items of like m.s., or to inflict his Strength +2 damage in melee combat.

M-16 Machine Gun (a): his principal weapon, Lynton can use this rifle to potent effect in combat. He may fire it to inflict his Agility +4 damage with a single shot, his Agility +5 damage in a short, controlled burst of fire, or his Agility +6 damage in a full-auto, 'rock and roll' blast of imminent pain.

Parachute (a): naturally useful when leaping out of an airplane (whether it's going to crash or just making a mid-air drop), Lynton obviously needs one of these when doing the whole paratrooper thing. This item allows him to exit a flying vehicle from extreme heights and easily land on the ground without flattening himself.

Semi-automatic Pistols (a): Lynton carries two of these weapons with him into battle, in the event his main gun is either unavailable or inconvenient at a given moment. He can fire these cannons to inflict his Agility +4 damage in a single shot, or his Agility +5 damage in a semi-auto, clip-burning spread of lead.

Hindrances:

(none)

Skills:

Boxing (s): a part of his Army basic training, this skill describes Lynton's ability to defend himself should he suddenly find himself unarmed. Lynton has the ability to divide his pre-cardplay action score between two unarmed melee strikes, the last of which will occur as a contingent action.

Leadership (w): Lynton was chosen to assemble and lead the Sky Patrol due to his considerable leadership skills. When leading a team, its members may add a +1 to all their actions while following one of his plans, although if his leadership goes missing for some reason, this will change into a -1 penalty instead.

Marksmanship (a): another facet of his Army basic training, Lynton can use almost all conventional firearms with proficiency. Whether he's toting standard, semi-automatic or fully automatic rifles or pistols, regardless of their nation of origin, Lynton may fire such weapons at a reduced difficulty level.

Military / United States (w): the source of Lynton's many and varied talents, this skill serves as a handy origin for the man and his capabilities. Lynton's Army training has given him an inherent understanding of military policies and procedures (you know, the S.O.P.), in addition to the many perks of government service.

Survival (w): as one of the Army's elite Rangers, Lynton can usually get by just about anywhere, without any handy food or supplies or... anything really. No matter how horrible a situation he finds himself in, Lynton can typically scrounge up enough food, water and shelter to survive - the man actually enjoys eating snakes and water bugs!

Calling:

Soldier, with a secondary calling of Mentor: Lynton loves being an Army Ranger - his whole lifestyle revolves around it. What's more, though, is that he truly enjoys helping others to be the best Rangers they can be. He's constantly pushing his subordinates to train hard and to ultimately prepare them for the worst they may face.

Costume:

When working with the Joes, Lynton wears a simple skydiving uniform. It includes a deep blue jacket, deep blue trousers, dark gray leather boots and gloves, a white knife sheath around his lower right leg, a white holster around his left thigh for one of his guns, and silver webbing that holds some gear, and that he can strap a parachute onto.

Personality:

Lynton is a strong man both physically and mentally, and truly enjoys the survivalist lifestyle of a Ranger out on the job. Known throughout the Army for his sheer toughness, he's spent years shaping the best Rangers the military has on staff, and is a born leader - probably one reason he's risen as high in the ranks as he has.

Real Name: Lynton N. Felix, grade E-8
Occupation: soldier
Legal Status: citizen of the United States with no known criminal record
Marital Status: single
Alias(es), if any: none
Group Affiliation: Gi Joe

Height: 6'
Hair: brown
Eyes: brown
Weight: 195 lbs
Other Distinguishing Characteristics: Lynton wears a large, thick black moustache at all times, as well as the stereotypical 'buzz cut'.

Story:

Lynton is the quintessential Ranger. He's been in the Army all of his adult life, and has enjoyed just about every minute of it. The man loves nothing more than to go on a twenty mile march and then drop himself into the wilds with nothing to eat but whatever he can manage to scrounge up.

In addition to this, he's spent ten years on staff at the Ranger School in Fort Benning, and has earned a very specific reputation for being the toughest NCO in the program. He tends to train his men as hard as he possibly can, in order to prepare them for virtually anything they'll encounter in the field.

His tendency to 'train hard and fight easy' is what got him noticed by the Gi Joe bigwigs. Needing to produce a special team to take on the threat posed by Cobra's Python Patrol, they recruited him to put them together and, picking the best folks he could find, Lynton did just that in short order.

Calling them the Sky Patrol, Lynton assembled five men to serve under him, all of which became Gi Joes in their own right (once they managed to make their way through the grueling entrance exam). With Airborne 2, Airwave, Altitude, Drop Zone, and Static Line, he fights the good fight against Cobra's Pythons.

Matching them move for move, he had a small arsenal of Joe and captured Cobra vehicles fitted with an experimental chromium stealth technology, which allows them to rapidly get anywhere necessary on a mission with the same radar invisibility that the Patrol enjoys. Not that they really need it.

Their true capabilities lie in their individual skills, after all. Lynton and his team performed a variety of missions against the Python Patrol, almost all of which were highly classified. They performed these so-called 'Special Missions' against they Python Patrol until they were no longer needed.

Soon after, the Gi Joe team went through various periods of inactivity, depending on Cobra actions world wide. Though not active at this point, Lynton has made himself available should the team require his assistance, as they often do when Cobra activities get out of control.

Such as when they triggered none other than World War III, and almost took over the entire world in one fell swoop.

Extra Goodies:

Gi Joe directories featuring a version of Skydive:

1990