UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign

[hooligan x]

Unpainted minis? Unmodded clix? They must not be in next week's game, huh?

[Red Knight]

<Finishes reading and sits back with eyes glazed over>

AH.... That was a good fix!!!

I have to give you credit Keyes_Bill, you keep coming up with great advetures and you keep the combats fresh and exciting.

My hat is off to you.

[TheRavenIs]

I was so happy to get to read another undate for your team Bill. I love it. Keep it coming.

[Scifi_Toughguy]

Do they ever get a real vacation? I know those are boring to play out. I seems as though every time they have 'down time' they end up doing the same thing as their work.

[Lonewalker]

Do they ever get a real vacation? I know those are boring to play out. I seems as though every time they have 'down time' they end up doing the same thing as their work.

It's not our fate to ever be able to relax. Information has been revealed that our world and its people will soon face a great danger. And it may be possible that said people will not want us to protect them.

In such circumstances, there is no time for vacations.

(That...or Bill is just a malevolent, sadistic cuss...)

Stay tuned, true believers, I think the ride gets bumpy from here...

Straight Arrow
(aka Lonewalker)

[teh bunneh]

Do they ever get a real vacation? I know those are boring to play out. I seems as though every time they have 'down time' they end up doing the same thing as their work.

They had a full week off, actually. We just didn't play the whole thing out. UNTIL was even gracious enough to comp them one day since they did end up getting into a fight.

It's not our fate to ever be able to relax. Information has been revealed that our world and its people will soon face a great danger. And it may be possible that said people will not want us to protect them.

In such circumstances, there is no time for vacations.

(That...or Bill is just a malevolent, sadistic cuss...)

Who says the two things must be mutually exclusive?

[Cardinal]

...must...get...unity...fix....

Anything happen this past week or do we have to wait another week for some more crunchy UNITY C goodness?

BTW, love the description of the multiway fight and the pictures. I am surprised that your head did not explode trying to track that many actors. I have enough problems with just my character.

[Fedifensor]

Finally managed to read through the entire thread. Great stuff, Bill! If only I had more time...Fort Collins isn't that far away from Thornton.

By the way, do you happen to have a website for the campaign?

[teh bunneh]

...must...get...unity...fix....

Anything happen this past week or do we have to wait another week for some more crunchy UNITY C goodness?

BTW, love the description of the multiway fight and the pictures. I am surprised that your head did not explode trying to track that many actors. I have enough problems with just my character.

I'll try to post something tomorrow.

I'll let you in on a little secret... I wasn't really tracking all the heroes from PRIMUS and UTB. I was just moving them around on the board more-or-less randomly, rolling a few fist-fulls of dice, and saying, "Ooh, So-And-So just took a serious hit from Whoozit!"

[teh bunneh]

Finally managed to read through the entire thread. Great stuff, Bill! If only I had more time...Fort Collins isn't that far away from Thornton.

By the way, do you happen to have a website for the campaign?

Thanks! No, I don't have a website for the campaign. I'm too lazy and too non-technically-inclined. I just put most everything up here.

Some of the Coloridians on the board are planning on gang-rushing Genghis Con in February. Check out the thread on the Conventions board. Wanna join us?

[Fedifensor]

Thanks! No, I don't have a website for the campaign. I'm too lazy and too non-technically-inclined. I just put most everything up here.

Ah, then you just need to offer one of your players bonus points to do it for you!

Some of the Coloridians on the board are planning on gang-rushing Genghis Con in February. Check out the thread on the Conventions board. Wanna join us?

I'll be playing a mix of things at Genghis, and probably will be drafted into running some d20 stuff (Living Arcanis). But I plan to keep at least one slot free for a HERO game, maybe two slots. It all depends on how generous my family is about babysitting, and my wife's mood at the time.

[Vanguard00]

Just wanted to pipe in and say, "I can't believe I haven't been following this!"

Well, I'm gonna from now on, I can tell you that.

Good stuff, BunnyMan.

[teh bunneh]

Yay! A recap!

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UTC arrived back in Midgard after the mission in China. The first thing they were told is that their new aircraft had arrived. It had already been in production for Team A when Team C's jets were wrecked, so the timetable was changed and UTC got the craft. To their surprise, it was not a new Mjolnir, but rather the next generation aircraft – the Grungnir. It has all the features of the Mjolnir, but it is capable of one more feat – interstellar space travel. It is outfitted with a hyper-light drive (though the team did not have the opportunity to test this capability out).

Straight Arrow requested clearance to get some practice time in the new plane, and after some debate about where to go, the team headed to Japan for lunch. On arrival, they left Tank to guard the plane, took off their uniforms and their LOKI communicators, and found a quiet, out-of-the-way place where they could talk.

Ifrita brought up the subject that was weighing on all their minds: they had evidence that a second alien invasion was only months or weeks away, and it seemed like Earth's first line of defense – UNTIL – was doing nothing about it.

They talked for some time, trying to figure out their best course of action. They decided that they needed to find out who their allies were, and if they would be available in case of emergency. Vilkacis suggested that they look not only to the world's superhero community, but also to the super-criminals. "They have just as much a stake in this as we do," he said. "The Earth is their home as well as ours." However, given the psychopathic quality of most of the villains that UTC had fought, this idea was vetoed by the others.

They also considered the possibility of taking the fight to the Mon'dabi, but decided that space was too big to search, and that the enemy fleet would see them coming long before they got there.

So the heroes divided up their duties as follows:
Mitarbeit and Vikacis would prepare a brief dossier on the recruits in UNITY Team D. Then, with the help of Thich Nat Han, they would do a little digging into the Chinese and African superheroes.

Red Dragon would find out which Japanese heroes could be trusted (and weren't posers, like the Science Ninja Team). He would also approach El Picaro and serriptitiously ask what the hero knew about the upcoming alien invasion.

Ifrita would look into Middle-Eastern heroes. She would try to get Myrmidon to talk about what he might know (again, without revealing what she knows), and also would try to speak with Gadget Man when he recovers from his battle injuries.

Aurora would call up a couple of her would-be boyfriends (Lionheart in PRIMUS and Bielo in EuroGuard) and see what their organizations knew about the upcoming invasion.

Straight Arrow would contact Albion and his government friends in London. He also wanted to track down Major Aries and have a little powwow with him. With the help of Aurora, he would look up background information on all the members of UNITY (using a backdoor link in LOKI's database). He would also try to find out what it was that Gadget Man had found in LOKI that had gotten him so worked up. He was also still very curious about how the team's communicator's functioned, so at his first opportunity he was planning to take one apart. Finally (and most distastefully), he was going to try to get access to speak to his old enemy, The Scarlet Specter. He felt that the man knew something that might be important in the coming weeks.

(If I've forgotten anything, please let me know!) =

Now with a clear course of action, the heroes returned home – and just in time. Bec had received orders to send them on a new mission. UTC had been assigned to track down and capture the escaped members of EuroBlast. UNTIL received a tip from EuroGuard that Raising Caine, Lyonesse, and Amazon had fled Europe and headed for South America. UTC is to find them and bring them back to prison.

The tip came from an anonymous source, a telephone call to EuroGuard's Eurostar Hotline. The Europeans followed it up and found it to be accurate – an airport security camera reveals Caine and two women (all in disguise and using pseudonyms, but the camera got a really good shot of Caine’s face) boarding a plane to Bogata. However, Columbia is outside of their jurisdiction, so they sent the information to UNITY.

Columbia shares a border with Destruga, and is known as a portal into Dr. Destroyer's land. It is a lawless place, ruled by ineffectual bureaucracy and the site of constant fighting between various drug barons, rebels, and supervillains. Dr. Destroyer, Eurostar, and VIPER all have many agents in this part of the world, all of them acting to keep the government destabilized so as to create an environment friendlier to their criminal deeds.

Intel suspects that Caine is trying to get into Destruga. If he does so, he will be untouchable, so the heroes are to find him and capture him before he crosses the border. Of course, Dr. Destroyer keeps his borders tightly controlled, so it's not like Caine can just slip in. Eurostar may be hunting Caine as well (Fiacho doesn’t take kindly to splitters), so the heroes are to watch for Eurostar agents who might also be on the trail.

Because of the sensitivity of the mission, the heroes can't show up in flashy costumes and start knocking heads together. If they do, Caine and his people will fade away quickly and without a trace. So UTC decided to go incognito. They would fly the Grungnir to Mexico City, then take a commercial civilian flight to Bogata. Unfortunately they would have to leave Tank behind, because Tank doesn't do "subtle."

UNTIL has a small base in the city, and Intel will supply the team with a few potential leads when they arrive. Bec supplied the heroes with UNTIL’s bios on the villains. Of the three, Caine is considered the biggest prize (as well as the biggest threat). As a former lieutenant of Eurostar, he may be privy to information that can finally bring the organization down, thus this mission takes the highest priority.

Raising Caine
The eldest son of a prosperous family, Caine Demarco grew up thinking that he "deserved" everything and that he was better than other people. The fact that he had mutant powers just made him that much more superior to the "little people" that surrounded him. He joined Interpol and was a brilliant detective, but grew bored. He was so much smarter than those around him -- and incredibly smarter than the criminals that he caught. He decided that he would show everyone how it was done. He found Eurostar and offered his assistance and worked his way up the ranks. After Rasputin suffered his humiliating defeat, Caine decided that he could do it better than the mad Russian, and formed his own splinter group.

Caine is a tall, handsome man with striking, noble features, short curly brown hair, and deep set, dark eyes. He dresses impeccably in the finest clothes available -- tailored suits, tuxedos, and the like. He doesn't wear a costume (he finds them silly and even insulting), and never wears a mask. This quirk may be his undoing, since his face was caught on film in Monte Carlo, and again at the Florentine Airport.

Amazon
No one is quite sure of Amazon's origins. It is thought that she is simply another villainess with delusions of grandeur, but there is evidence to suggest that she indeed of a warrior race long thought lost to the world. She claims to be from an ancient time when magic and skill with a blade mattered. Unfortunately, her claims were ignored for quite some time and she was...mistreated. She now takes every opportunity to take her revenge on modern society. Amazon (she claims her name is Leitha) is very strong, quite agile, and deadly with a blade.

Amazon isn't quite a berserker, but she's quite gung-ho about battle. She never hesitates, always springing into the thick of things. She seeks out honorable warriors to fight in single combat; failing to find one she will lash out at anyone she sees.

Amazon is a tall, lithe, dark-skinned, dark haired beauty. She wears battle armor that looks Macedonian in design, and carries two huge swords. Her arms are decorated with tribal tattoos, and she wears her curly black hair long. UNITY does not have a good picture of her face (she wears a helmet), but has several pictures of her tattoos.

Lyonesse
Lyonesse is a highly skilled martial artist, trained in several European and Asian styles. She possesses greater-than-average strength, a low degree of invulnerability, and speed and agility that would put any Olympian athlete to shame. Lyonesse is something of a flirt and is not considered highly dangerous.

Intel believes she was convinced to quit Eurostar and join EuroBlast by Caine, with whom UNTIL thinks she is in love. She enjoys the excitement and grandeur of super-crime, but isn't interested in hurting people. She only does it because Cain tells her to. Really rather insecure emotionally, she is easy to manipulate.

Lyonesse wears a dark blue bodysuit with a thick red belt. Across her breasts are three white roses, and another white rose adorns her loincloth. She wears a dark blue mask that covers the upper half of her face but leaves her long, brown hair free. Again, there are no clear pictures of her face since she wears a mask.

[teh bunneh]

I love my players. Red Dragon's player just sent me this:

> Saigo realizes that the earth is in grave danger, with
> the news that an invasion is eminent. So he is ready
> to make his own personal sacrafice to help insure the
> Earths freedom. He knows that his suit/sword hold great
> potential, but the evil Kami only allows so much of
> that power to leak through to Saigo. This is because
> Saigo is at heart a good person and a Hero. The
> Kami finds this insulting, for he was consumently
> evil and forsoke his herodom for vilany. The Kami
> has only allowed Saigo what power he gives him,
> because Saigo allows the Kami to experience battle
> once again. This is why Saigo, when donning his
> arms, is more blood thristy and darker. For when
> in battle the Kami is closer to control of Saigo then
> Saigo is.
>
> So Saigo has started to meditate and comune with the
> Kami. In hopes to gain the power to save Earth from
> doom. So in short I want to start spending exp. of the
> next part of the campaign to boost my suit/sword powers.
> But at the same time I will start to play Saigo in a slightly
> more darker(yet not evil) sense. This is because the Kami
> is starting to take a more active (if not controling) aspect
> within Saigo.
>
> I invision Red Dragon as slowly becoming more
> powerful, but more evil. and maybe after the
> invasion Red Dragon will become a vilian for a
> session or two. Then Saigo will confront the Kami
> and win. What I will do is save up enough exp. to
> buy off the evil kami disadvantage. And at the
> height of Red Dragons evil Saigo (maybe after being
> thrashed by the group) will psychicaly battle the
> Kami and win. This will free Saigo from his dark
> side and make for one hell of a kewl plot line.
>
> Of course this is all up to you if you want to fall
> the evil Red Dragon plot line. If not Saigo will
> reamain a slightly darker hero, yet not evil. But at
> the same time poor Saigo will be forever haunted by
> his dark kami.
>
> Also I know I could just spend the exps to make my
> armor/swords better, but thats not as fun as adding
> story and depth to my character. Which is something
> exp. can't do.
>
> Please get back at me with your ideas on how I
> should proceed with Red Dragons Transformation.

[hooligan x]

Ohhhh, player like that make the GM job fun!

I'll let you in on a little secret... I wasn't really tracking all the heroes from PRIMUS and UTB. I was just moving them around on the board more-or-less randomly, rolling a few fist-fulls of dice, and saying, "Ooh, So-And-So just took a serious hit from Whoozit!"

I SO do that. Or I forget the NPC hero's phase.