5 minutes ago, Mark Rand said:

Claire Sturgeon, D.V.M., is Director of Animal Health at the local zoo.    Her dark secret is her animal telepathy.  She can talk to all of the zoo's animals.

Is any of the animals worth talking to?

24 minutes ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

Is any of the animals worth talking to?

To Claire?  Yes.  To other supers?   Maybe, depending on where they are.

I think there's a lot of great ideas here.

 

The thing is, Chuck Dixon noted that he took the 3-part build of soap operas as the ideal way to maintain an ongoing comic book series.  Each issue you have the A story, which is the main story of the moment (Aphid-Man, no more!), the B story, which is an arc that you are wrapping up from the previous issues (Aphid-Man gets fired and looks for a new job!), and the C story, which begins in this new issue, and carries through to several issues (Aphid-Man's sister thinks she knows where her brother has being going every night!). 

 

This structure allows for a continuous flow of stories that interact and give the feeling of a big, ongoing life of a character (or characters) and requires a large cast of supporting characters and a clearly defined setting to work.  That's why Spawn (at least the early issues) felt empty and aimless, but Batman felt like a big and full epic.

 

So stuff like this isn't just a mind game, its ammo for the GM to load up his story with and keep a steady stream of plotlines and characters interacting in an ongoing campaign.

Is there a specific city in mind as the show's setting?

20 minutes ago, Mark Rand said:

Is there a specific city in mind as the show's setting?

Generic big city.

33 minutes ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

Generic big city.

Okay.  It's on a river.  On one river bank is a former railroad station that was converted into a shopping and entertainment complex.  That's where the drawbridge is.  The building beside it, the former passenger station, has a restaurant on the ground floor and offices, with their own entrance, with a security desk.  A 7th floor office, overlooking the bridge, was converted to the apartment/control center for the draw bridge crew, the Snow sisters, and their cousin, Priscilla.  Their cars are in leased spaces in one of the complex's parking lots. 

1 hour ago, Mark Rand said:

Okay.  It's on a river.  On one river bank is a former railroad station that was converted into a shopping and entertainment complex.  That's where the drawbridge is.  The building beside it, the former passenger station, has a restaurant on the ground floor and offices, with their own entrance, with a security desk.  A 7th floor office, overlooking the bridge, was converted to the apartment/control center for the draw bridge crew, the Snow sisters, and their cousin, Priscilla.  Their cars are in leased spaces in one of the complex's parking lots. 

There is a nice area where a section of the train tracks still intacted but which is no longer attached to a train line. There are a few fun cutouts where you can put your head through to have a photo of yourself as a damsel in distress/villain/hero person against the tracks.

 

That has nothing to do with anything really.

2 hours ago, Stanley Teriaca said:

There is a nice area where a section of the train tracks still intacted but which is no longer attached to a train line. There are a few fun cutouts where you can put your head through to have a photo of yourself as a damsel in distress/villain/hero person against the tracks.

 

That has nothing to do with anything really.

Maybe not, but it's a fun area.  There's also a hotel and a number of bars and restaurants in the complex.

On 8/27/2024 at 6:28 PM, Mark Rand said:

Claire Sturgeon, D.V.M., is Director of Animal Health at the local zoo.    Her dark secret is her animal telepathy.  She can talk to all of the zoo's animals.

While Claire's animal telepathy is a dark secret, she's known, to certain people, to have a way with animals and that they all instinctively trust her.

Caroline Brown and her daughter, Catherine, are respected fashion models with a dark secret.  They're also cat burglars who prefer to steal jewelry (possibly because it's easy to conceal).