Eduardo Giotti Melee: RV 10 Coordination: RV 6 Brawn: RV 10 Fortitude: RV 6 Intellect: RV 10 Awareness: RV 6 Willpower: RV 10 Health: 32 Fortune: 26 Lifestyle: RV 10 Repute: RV 0 Origin: Eduardo Giotti, in a strictly physical sense, is a normal human. Intellectually, however, he is quite exceptional. So much so, in fact, that he was able to break down Karl Swensen's MAX heuristics paradigm to transform it into his very own, strength-enhancing partial exoskeleton! Known Powers: (none) Limitations / Enhancements: (none) Equipment: Strong-Arms: this partial exoskeleton, built by Giotti using technology derived from Jenny Swensen's MAX armor, greatly enhances the strength of its wearer. In game terms, it boosts a body's Brawn by +3 RS, with a maximum rank value of 40. Quirks: Stubborn: Eduardo is extremely pig-headed, and as such, people have a hard time making him change his mind. Once he's decided to do something, he must pass a Willpower ACT roll at -2 RS to reconsider his actions, should he feel the need to bother. Skills: Engineering: Giotti, like the other Troubleshooters, was an engineering student in Jenny Swensen's MIT course. As such, he can add +1 RS to all ACT rolls required of him when attempting to build anything. Martial Arts style B: a true brawler at heart, Eduardo is more than happy to mix it up with his foes - as long as they truly deserved it, anyway. His unarmed melee attack rolls are made with a +1 RS, whether punching, kicking, or even biting his opponent. Student: an MIT collegiate, Eduardo was still learning his final Skills. This thus reduces the final Fortune cost of any other skills he attempts to learn while in school to 800 points, which is a very generous discount, indeed! Contacts: As one of the five Troubleshooters, Eduardo could readily rely upon his fellow engineering students for aid in a pinch, since they had all gone adventuring together for a while. As he's now dating Terry, the two can also consider each other contacts as well. Costume: For the most part, Eduardo wore ordinary clothing while adventuring with the Troubleshooters, though sometimes he made sure it was dark - like when, say, committing crimes. The only 'special' accessory he added to his usual ensemble was his Strong-Arms partial exoskeleton. Personality: Eduardo Giotti is a stubborn, thick-headed sort, yet inexplicably charming. Sure he's smart, but he lacks common sense in most things he does. In fact, it took him about a year to finally figure out that Jenny Swensen wasn't ever going to get involved with him. However, he's since started to 'grow up', even getting rid of his Strong-Arms unit, to return to a normal life. Real Name: Eduardo Giotti Occupation: student, former adventurer Legal Status: American citizen with no known criminal record Marital Status: single Alias(es), if any: none Group Affiliation: the Troubleshooters (defunct) Height: 5' 11" Hair: brown Eyes: brown Weight: 195 lbs. Other Distinguishing Characteristics: none Story: Eduardo Giotti was an engineering student at MIT, a student that was at the top of his class, along with four other students of note. These five youths, known on campus as the Troubleshooters, were notorious techno-pranksters, and were good friends with their main engineering instructor, Jenny Swensen. Of course, Giotti liked Jenny more than the others; in fact, he had a crush on her. As such, when her father was killed, and she had to break into Krotze International to get proof that his death wasn't accidental, Giotti was the first Troubleshooter to offer his aid to the beleaguered instructor. The others eventually went along with the plan, and helped Jenny to get inside, where she and her students discovered her father's greatest work: the Mark 2 MAX armor! In order to prove that Krotze was a bad man, Jenny took the armor and the mobile lab it was built in, though Krotze launched several aborted attempts to retrieve both. During this time, Giotti and the other Troubleshooters were breaking down the MAX technology, and Giotti managed to build the first derivative suit from it: the Strong-Arms partial exoskeleton. Giotti used this thing to help deflect Krotze's tech retrieval scheme, though he did get beat up several times in the process. Further, after the other Troubleshooters (save for Eric) also built up MAX suits, they managed to prevent an assassination attempt against the visiting English Prime Minister. Of course, this caused them some hardship down the road. You see, the Steel Hawk, that assassin whose plan they foiled, was kind of ticked off about that. And, on top of that, he decided to get even, which he was able to do once he managed to figure out just who the Troubleshooters were. He started by taking down Ferris and killing poor Andy. In this fight, however, Giotti and Terry managed to defeat the man... barely. Enraged, the two remaining (and effective) Troubleshooters sought him out in turn, breaking into the FBI database to find all the info they needed on their foe. Armed with the data they needed, the two tracked him down and put the beat down on him, and how! In fact, Giotti would've killed Steel Hawk if he hadn't been saved at the last minute by his female companion. At it sat, he broke practically every bone in the assassin's body, and apparently inflicted some brain damage upon the man, effectively ruining his career as a terrorist and assassin for the Club. After this incident, Giotti and Terry got together, as the girl apparently had a big ol' crush on him, and with Jenny gone, Eduardo didn't really have anybody else to lust after. The further adventures of the Troubleshooters have yet to be revealed. Chronology: Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 1, Star Brand # 2, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 2, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 3, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 4, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 5, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 6, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 7, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 8, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters # 9.