RATIONS #6: CASUS BELLI

[ANSWERING MACHINE TONE] FIST: consider this an ultimatum. I'm sure you all understand why the price on your head, both in the financial and sociopolitcal senses, is quite high. You are, after all, career meddlers. I do not like meddlers, nor do my esteemed colleagues in the Templar Unit, nor do my ever-diligent CYCLOPS supervisors. Again, I'm sure you must understand why. My CROs and I have taken to thinking to you as a sort of game as of late—dangerous, challenging game, asking to be bested. You will be a thrilling hunt. When I deliver your mounted heads to my superiors, I expect they shall be quite pleased. [AUDIO ENDS]

CASUS BELLI is a themed miniboss team pamphlet for FIST about a special branch of CYCLOPS Recon Operations agents (also known as CROs). These four are the last remaining members of the Knights Templar, retooled for the modern era as the CRO Templar Unit. You can drop the Templar Unit into any mission to work against FIST's primary objective. All four bosses can be deployed solo or thrown at your players as a group to take advantage of their mechanical synergy.

You'll come face to face with:

• TOUGH ENEMIES - Feel the wrath of King Arthur's heat seeking missiles. Marvel as Merlin returns from death when subjected to a strong electric charge. Fear the rail grinding acrobatics of Guinevere and the trajectory manipulation field of Morgana, whom bullets can barely touch.
• BOSS MOVES - Adapt to devastating metanarrative attacks as you're forced to stop narrating with words penned in the Book of Aquinas, or imprisoned by chains of hate and made to answer a series of riddles. Battle intelligent, rainbow-colored quantum reinforcements called in by a corrupted time traveler.
• NEW LOOT - "Acquire" King Arthur's blessed LMG Excalibur. Have your enemies on their knees with the formidable power of the agony orb, or give them a shock with Merlin's electric quarterstaff. Outfit yourself with multiple accessories which can be shattered to keep fighting when you'd otherwise die. All it takes is a few good shots and sticky fingers.