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    WWYCD: Foxbat The Mighty!

    (My first What Would Your Character Do!)

    However is appropriate for your hero, s/he catches wind that Foxbat is holding up the First National Bank of Your Hometown. Figuring he'll probably have knocked himself out by the time you get there, you cruise over there only to find out that 'holding up the bank' wasn't a figure of speech.

    Though he looks no different, Foxbat has Grond-level super-strength, super-agility, invulnerability, and as he revels in telling you, flight ... as he laughs off your initial attacks and absconds with the entire bank!

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    Starguard -- I am reliably informed by my DM that Foxbat has a crush on her. Simply showing up should cause him to drop the bank on his own head.

    Dr. Pain -- recoil in horror at the thought that Foxbat might actually beat him up on live TV. Frantically move to head off that possibility by engaging in conversation with him about "Hey! You must have been working out! Who's your personal trainer?". If he can distract Foxbat with a lengthy discussion on weightlifting techniques and health food, maybe he can resolve this situation... *gulp*... without violence.

    Baron von Darien -- feel a very sharp stabbing pain just behind his left eye. Goodness knows he's had enough tension headaches in his long unlife, but /this/ takes the cake.

    Then he proceeds to see if Foxbat also got new Mental Defense along with the rest. Upon finding out that he didn't, sigh discreetly in relief.
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    Style - Quietly scope out the "new" Foxbat's resistance to Ego Powers, Transformations, etc, all the while keeping up a conversation. If Foxbat is somehow now immune to Everything (and with a Magic VPP and many KS, Style can try a very wide range of things), Style will try to find the source of this new power and remove it. If anything can affect FB, he is eventually toast.

    Flesh Gordon - "Whoa! You're holding up a bank! Groovy!" Flesh would charge in head first, get smacked around, and by pure luck find in the rubble the business card of the witch / beautiful female mad scientist who empowered Foxbat. The female in question would fall madly in love with Flesh, and give him the secret to de-powering Foxbat. Later, after a few weeks with Flesh, she would stop at notheing in her quest to destroy him.

    Tick-Toc Man - Way out of his league. He'd try to confuse Foxbat, tricking him into giving away the source of his new powers. Failing that, he'd search for someone to help.
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    Soulbarb: Do the same thing she just did with the evil version of supes that just popped up in her campaign world. Worry about what he's doing with the bank afterwards; it's not like she can stop him up front, so she'll work on containing him. Investigate, find out how he got the power boost, find out how to undo it, implement a plan to trick him into a position where she can do so, probably in less than a day. From there, recovering the money from the bank shouldn't be too hard... though the bank itself might be another matter. She's not that strong.

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    Brand X - Stand there dumbfounded a second and then ask Foxbat the serious questions:

    You know this means the big boys are going to start showing up, right?
    Did you know that super strength can lead to sterility and impotence?
    Your robbing a bank? Honestly, why are you thinking so small?
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    Grizzly Goes home, flushes out the power armor, assembles the team and tells them that they have a problem.

    Whisper of the Shadowed Mind (a mentalist, now retired) thinks: Hrm, Foxbat has Grond-like levels of strength, toughness and invulnerability. Presumably, he may have Grond-like mental defences as well. Unless Foxbat's mental defences have made the same leap upwards as his strength, Whisper will easily be able to get Foxbat to set the bank down gently and turn himself in.
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    Millennium Will try to gather as much info as possible. Will try a Presence attack to see if he can get him to monolog about his new powers, if that doesn't work will tr telepathy.

    Cheeta Thinks "I'm getting waayy to old for this!" Figures this has to be an inobvious focus. Does a superspeed pat down of Foxbat to see if he can locate it. If not, tries tickling Foxbat to see if he can get him to drop the bank on himself while Cheeta leaps out of the way.

    Iron Will Will hang back, shift as much of the pool as he can to enhanced senses, and see if he can figure out what caused the power ramp up.
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    Astro-Knight: How tough could he be? Go charging in, first priority to protect innocents inside, but other than that, he'll get his butt kicked. Wake up later and decide next time he needs a plan

    Gaze: Mind Control Foxbat to put the bank down gently, and tell him how he got this power boost. then put him to sleep and have Stronghold take him in. End of story.

    Max Thunder: Try to talk him out of this, but when Foxbat flies away, well, stare at him helpless. Try to think of a plan next time.

    Recluse: Shrink, and and try to sneak a ride on Foxbat to see where he goes.
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    Gamma Girl -- "Oh, wow! Man, you've got some far out super-strength going there. That's really cool." <big bright smile> "Matter of fact, Eff Bee, you're pretty cool...and you always were one hot-looking guy." <wink> <big grin> "Hey, you wanna go grab some coffee? I know a great caf&#233;...."

    And over coffee, flirt cheerfully. Get Foxbat talking about what it's like being part of the "super-scene", and commiserate with his bad experiences. Encourage Eff Bee to tell her all about his new "far out super-strength"...and anything else that crosses his mind. Play it by ear until she works out how to take him down, but in the meantime, make it a fun date!
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    Hell's Angel would quietly curse to herself that this is happening again, then buckle down and try to take him out. She's currently involved in a plot wherein Bulldozer has gotten his hands on Mjolnir, Thor's hammer. She just got her *** kicked when she confronted him. Got smacked a couple of blocks and woke up with an UNTIL medic looming over her. She's got a broken arm and cracked ribs, among other things. Having a dimwit like Foxbat displaying similarly enhanced abilities would bring up unpleasant memories....

    The Man-Ape would be amazed and more than a little intimidated. As a newbie superhero who spent most of his life as an actor, he's wary enough as it is. Having a laughable guy like Foxbat suddenly showing off top-level superpowers would be an alarming prospect.
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    Jessica - Is under the impression she can take anything in a physical fight. She'd start hitting. Maybe lose, maybe win. Depends on who gets the better hits in faster.

    Silence - She'd .... wait for backup. And hope he's go down to Soul/Ego attacks.
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    Re: WWYCD: Foxbat The Mighty!

    Quote Originally Posted by CrosshairCollie
    (My first What Would Your Character Do!)

    However is appropriate for your hero, s/he catches wind that Foxbat is holding up the First National Bank of Your Hometown. Figuring he'll probably have knocked himself out by the time you get there, you cruise over there only to find out that 'holding up the bank' wasn't a figure of speech.

    Though he looks no different, Foxbat has Grond-level super-strength, super-agility, invulnerability, and as he revels in telling you, flight ... as he laughs off your initial attacks and absconds with the entire bank!

    Your next step?
    Please don't hit me, but I only heard of Foxbat in passing in a couple books. No idea who he is, or what's so special about him being more powerful. That said:

    Thena: Apport the bank back where's it's supposed to be.

    Glarg: If he hasn't flown away yet, run in and hit him. I've seen something about Grond, and Glarg could take Grond (except for the 4 arms, that would prolly defeat Glarg).

    Panweesio: Foxbat is standing there, perceiving himself as flying off with the bank, but he isn't. Panweesio sends out a call for a superstrong hero to come and remove the bank and put it back, and wrap up Foxbat. Then Panweesio ends the Mental Ill., and laughs at the bad guy.

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    Starmite: FOxbat how many times have I told you to leave my spare supersuit alone? Now put the bank down. Before I just shut it off on you. I said now...(spots other superbeings arriving) Hey can I have your Autograph? Pleaase? pleeeeeeeeaaaassssseee?(completely ignoring Foxbat. In fact he has completely forgotten about FB).

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    Quote Originally Posted by HeroPink!
    Please don't hit me, but I only heard of Foxbat in passing in a couple books. No idea who he is, or what's so special about him being more powerful.
    Think of the nuclear launch button in the hands of a C- student who cannot even name the capital of Afganistan. No, bad example.

    Did you ever see the campy 60's Adam West Batman TV show? Think of the sillyest villian from that. That's Foxbat on a good day. Like the old Batman villians, he's obsessed, focus dependent, and inclined to elaborate plots that somehow just don't work out. On top of that, he believes he's a comic book character. So you give Freddy this kind of power boost, and the loose cannons scurry for cover.

    Odds are that Foxbat did not even need the money, he just wanted a hero to see him holding up a bank, literally.
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