UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign

[Libra]

Cheer up Lonewalker, you might meet her British cousin Penny Black . . . All the looks and none of the mental problems. .

(Mind you, Penny Dreadful would probably be a bit of a handful between the sheets, I mean Supervillains are probably into all sorts of kinky stuff . . . )

[Red Knight]

(Mind you, Penny Dreadful would probably be a bit of a handful between the sheets, I mean Supervillains are probably into all sorts of kinky stuff . . . )

That might be true.... but it is the quiet ones that can turn out to be the bigger freaks!!

Penny: "Who's your bowmaster now? Say my name b***h."
Straight Arrow: " You are! You are my Bowmaster!!"

[Lonewalker]

That might be true.... but it is the quiet ones that can turn out to be the bigger freaks!!

Penny: "Who's your bowmaster now? Say my name b***h."
Straight Arrow: " You are! You are my Bowmaster!!"

You lot are nuts. This is the absolute last thing I need.

(To say nothing of the PR hit UNTIL will take if the gossip magazines hear about your jests!)

Lonewalker
aka Straight Arrow (who is trying SO hard to be good!!)

[Red Knight]

Well... You could spin it to your advantage....

Embrace Penny as a convert... Hold a big press conference to declare to the world that Penny is turning to the good side and that she is going to be assisting UNITY with thier quest to stop the bad guys. Also hint that she is providing intel.

Once you do this... you will make UNITY look good for being able to "convert" a bad girl and also you will have alerted all the bad guys to her presense. They will probably be afraid of what she is going to tell UNITY so the first order of business will be to silence her.

One assassination later....

You don't have a love-sick psycho on your hands
UNITY gets GOOD PR for converting the bad girl
One less super criminal in the world.

After the assassination, you hold another press conference and state that you are deeply saddened (try squeezing out a tear) by her loss but that it only goes to show that UNITY had in fact converted her and that the baddies were afraid of what she might say.

Like I said... A WIN WIN situation.

Of course there is always that moral issue of whether or not you are responsible for her death.....

[Libra]

Lonewalker: Will you hit him or shall I?

Red Knight: That is one nasty megavillain-esque suggestion. Are you sure you actually want to be a Superhero?

[teh bunneh]

I once had a character in a different Champs game who would do exactly the sort of thing that RK suggested. He was a right bastard in a team full of goody-two-shoes (remember Johann, LW?). He did all sorts of really awful (but totally necessary) things so that the rest of the team wouldn't ever have to. He sullied his own soul so the rest of the group could keep theirs pure. He was a lot of fun to play. But that's definitely not Straight Arrow's style.

My favorite time playing him was when the good guys knew the megavillain had about 20 nukes in various places, all set to launch towards Washington DC. We staged an elaborate attack on one of the missile silos in the hope of disabling it completely before they could warn the other silos to launch. Once we disabled the missile, we got word that the bad guy had launched his other missiles.

Everyone else: Oh my god! He launched the missiles!
Johann: Excellent, and right on schedule, too.
Everyone else: WHAT?!?
Johann: Think about it. We didn't know where all the missiles were. Now we do. And we have 20-someodd of the world's most powerful supers here, each of which is more than capable of stopping an ICBM in fight. Our enemy just shot his wad; all we have to do is bring tissues.



Bill.

[Lonewalker]

Lonewalker: Will you hit him or shall I?

No, no, let's hear him out...

Lonewalker
aka Straight Arrow

[Lonewalker]

I once had a character in a different Champs game who would do exactly the sort of thing that RK suggested. He was a right bastard in a team full of goody-two-shoes (remember Johann, LW?).

Ah, yes, Johann. Now that was a helluva superheroic game.

He did all sorts of really awful (but totally necessary) things so that the rest of the team wouldn't ever have to. He sullied his own soul so the rest of the group could keep theirs pure. He was a lot of fun to play. But that's definitely not Straight Arrow's style.

Oh, never doubt Straight Arrow's willingness to take a hit for one of his teammates. If someone has to do the dirty, he'll be happy to do so if it means his comrades are unstained. Better him than them in his opinion.

Everyone else: Oh my god! He launched the missiles!
Johann: Excellent, and right on schedule, too.
Everyone else: WHAT?!?
Johann: Think about it. We didn't know where all the missiles were. Now we do. And we have 20-someodd of the world's most powerful supers here, each of which is more than capable of stopping an ICBM in fight. Our enemy just shot his wad; all we have to do is bring tissues.

That was awesome. The whole lot of us...I think we were up to eight players at the time...were just staring at you with that "WTF?" expression on our faces. Until if finally dawned on us that Johann was right. I mean, what was a couple of missiles (even nuclear capable) to a Green Lantern Power Ring, huh?

That was neither the first nor the last time that the lot of us (sans Brian, of course) were of the mind: "Just do what Johann says; at least he knows what the heck's going on!"

Lonewalker

[teh bunneh]

That was awesome. The whole lot of us...I think we were up to eight players at the time...were just staring at you with that "WTF?" expression on our faces. Until if finally dawned on us that Johann was right. I mean, what was a couple of missiles (even nuclear capable) to a Green Lantern Power Ring, huh?

Not just a Green Lantern, but also the son of Power Girl, the new Fire Elemental, the new Earth Elemental, the new Wonder Woman, a seriously ramped-up Booster Gold, the spiritual descendent of Superman, and the Big Blue Boyscout himself!

(We were one helluva team. We called ourselves the Justice League Universal -- JLU before there was a JLU!).

That was neither the first nor the last time that the lot of us (sans Brian, of course) were of the mind: "Just do what Johann says; at least he knows what the heck's going on!"

All that power, with Johann in charge. A lesser man would have quailled at the responsibility.

Bill.

[Scifi_Toughguy]

Filthy must spread rep around before giving it to keyes_bill! Man, what a slick move that was, getting him to launch all the missiles so they could be stopped. Whew, hopefully it was blissfully tense with the questions of whether they would be able to stop them or not.

[Red Knight]

My favorite time playing him was when the good guys knew the megavillain had about 20 nukes in various places, all set to launch towards Washington DC. We staged an elaborate attack on one of the missile silos in the hope of disabling it completely before they could warn the other silos to launch. Once we disabled the missile, we got word that the bad guy had launched his other missiles.

Everyone else: Oh my god! He launched the missiles!
Johann: Excellent, and right on schedule, too.
Everyone else: WHAT?!?
Johann: Think about it. We didn't know where all the missiles were. Now we do. And we have 20-someodd of the world's most powerful supers here, each of which is more than capable of stopping an ICBM in fight. Our enemy just shot his wad; all we have to do is bring tissues.

Well it's unique.. I'll give you that..

Sometimes doing the right thing means doing the "not so right" thing.

If your moral compass gets too messed up don't forget... helping cats out of trees and little-old-ladies to cross the street always indicate a true north.

[Libra]

Hmmmmph. Ruthlesness has it's place, but not when millions of lives are on the line. How could this Johann know that you could actually catch all of those missiles? Anway, back to the real show.

[Red Knight]

Anway, back to the real show.

I agree... all Machivellian schemes aside.... Let's continue with the show.


<grabs popcorn and large soda>

[hooligan x]

Appearance: Penny Dreadful is a beautiful and buxom blonde woman with an athletic build, bright green eyes, and a crazed grin. She appears to be an American (based on her accent), but was nevertheless welcomed into Eurostar. She wears blue and green tights, pointed elf-shoes, and a harliquin's mask (complete with bells).

Um, so...where's the mod photo?

[Libra]

What a ridiculous question you dirty old man. Everyone knows it's at www.Superherobabes.jla/ right under Sapphire in a thong.