I've a few pages left to cover, and just a little time left to get this in before the year ends!
Our final story is called Typhon, and it's a submarine adventure story with a twist; the pilot, Typhon, is also a sort of superhero with a combination of hi-tech and magic gear.
Here, he and his crew are exploring the bottom of the ocean in their super submarine when a giant electric eel attacks. That's way bigger than the giant eel I already had statted in the Mobster Manual; indeed, it looks more like a sea monster! If it's longer than the submarine, that is one gigantic eel, easily 15 HD, and probably with dinosaur-level Hit Dice (d12's?).
A sea suit not only lets you breathe underwater, but survive unharmed at any water pressure. And because it's transparent, it can show off your fashion sense underneath!
I'm not sure what an underwater raygun does, except that it shoots underwater.
This new monster is pretty crazy! This is our first siren in comics, and it is a strange combination of human woman cursed to become part of a hydra. This one appears to be an eight-headed hydra. The woman doesn't even need to sing; her appearance alone is magically enhanced so that anyone encountering her has to save or be charmed.
It hardly seems fair that Typhon gets both hi-tech and magic items, but in truth, most high-level Hideouts & Hoodlums heroes will wind up the same way. This seems like a Ring of Spell Storing with Dispel Magic and Remove Curse stored in it.
I'm not sure why the woman is wearing a helmet. If the curse joining her to the hydra-siren doesn't let her breathe underwater, then it seems like the curse should have killed her by now.
Serpent-men are at least as creepy as that siren. They're like D&D nagas, except they all have the same face as their master! They are "men" only in the loosest sense, looking more like bat-winged eels. Curiously, when they entwine the submarine, the submarine gets captured, whereas when the giant electric eel did that Typhon just went out and killed it.
The Ring of Spell Storing also had a Hold Person spell in it too!
Happy New Year!
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