Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 From the Champions Genre book-A pert young lady who works for the Champions as their Housekeeper and Cook.... Wendy dreams of being a super hero herself someday.... You may remember the sassy lass 4th Ed version from Nomals Unbound. Well, in my campaign, it actually happened in a sort of mystic empowerment. Wendy has... uhm windy powers. She can now transform into a living air elemental. The Champions are still trying to decide what to do about this, and have taken her under their wing. However... I love picking the brains of you folks, so... how would you have done it? What 'powers' if any would you have given her? Power Armor from her boss for Christmas? Martial Training? What? Come on folks, dreams really do come true right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Her meta-gene pops and she develops speedster powers. Hey, she was always hyper anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monolith Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I thought that was where The Monster came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Didn't someone on the board go to Defender's rescue in one of his spare suits? I can see martial training from Nighthawk. Afterall he wouldn't want her to be a weak link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Well, in truth, I can also see Wendy's desire for super powers being used against the Champions by some Mephisto type. Someone tricks her with the offer, she gives in, gets powers, and boom, new villainess... either thouroughly corrupt and loving it, or no longer free willed and in a puppet like living hell. But I'm too darn nice to do that to pert housekeepers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Oh, if you want to go /that/ route, just have Teleios show up with his 'genetic pimp' routine. "The first DNA-spike's for free, baby, but after that, it'll cost ya..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Chuckg Oh, if you want to go /that/ route, just have Teleios show up with his 'genetic pimp' routine. "The first DNA-spike's for free, baby, but after that, it'll cost ya..." Nah, as I said, I'm being nice... but good point, Teleios strikes me as pulling just that game on people... minus the hat with the feather in it of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I never have enough "radiation accidents" in my game. Someone would open a dimensional portal into the base. The alarms go off, everyone shows up to fight. After beating back the hordes and the portal closes, they would find her unconscious beneath it. It seems the portal opened right on her location. She'd be in the infirmary for a day but would exhibit no side effects. She'd start repeating entire conversations verbatim (Eidetic Memory); Then while cleaning the lab she'll solve the problem on the board (Like in Good Will Hunting); She'll start showing up with things before they are needed--not because she's psychic, but because her mind has gone into overdrive causing her to extrapolate probabilities. She'll even show up on the scene of a crime and stop it before it starts through some ingenious method that involves nothing more than, say, leaving an umbrella on the sidewalk for the bank robbers to trip over, causing a chain reaction that leaves them in jail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Very good, but would she suddenly have the urge to wear more revealing clothes or costumes? Sorry.. excuse me. *Puts inner adolescent back in his cage* I like the idea. Nighthawk would definitely take her under his wing then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 A hyper-intelligent Wendy Brooks wouldn't need to be taken under his wing -- when Nighthawk makes his offer, he'll find out that she's already been signed up for lessons down at Zsu Hsaio's for the past month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 And anyway, such an intelligent Wendy Brooks would realise that Nighthawk only knows three moves and couldn't teach her that much anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 True enough--the 4th Edition Seeker was a much better martial artist anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Hermit Very good, but would she suddenly have the urge to wear more revealing clothes or costumes? Well, that's a given. Actually, I'm kind of liking this idea, but more as a Deus Ex Machina for something else (I have a chef on my base). Picture "Team Luck". Through a strange quirk of probability all of this goes down. With the character suddenly able to see probabilities, he now acts as several dice of luck for the team. When a combat begins, I throw the dice and record it. During the fight things may happen in favor of the heroes. Say, a hero runs out of ammunition--I decide to use some of the luck here. He glances up and sees that a clip of ammunition has been taped to the back of the dumpster he's hiding behind. Say a hero is knocked out of a window. For some reason the window-washing rig is right there on the next floor. Why?-----Because our chef went about town earlier in the day and planted these items. After a period of this happening, some kind of probability police show up (I have something like that in my game; an organization called ANACH that try to preserve the timeline). They demand the heroes turn over the chef. Chaos ensues. This could be kind of fun. Especially if I don't explain the chef is doing it, but these things just keep happening for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Hmm Wendy as a "Weirdness Magnet" has promise, nice idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starblaze Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Make her a Brick with 75 Str, 7'6" tall and a pair of 44 EEE breast. Then name her IMAGE girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by starblaze Make her a Brick with 75 Str, 7'6" tall and a pair of 44 EEE breast. Then name her IMAGE girl. I refuse to surrender dear Wendy to Rob Liefeld. I'll give her to a lesser evil first... like Teleios or Takofanes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Women have been empowerd since the sixties. She doesn't need our help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Von D-Man Women have been empowerd since the sixties. She doesn't need our help. Not quite what I meant... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Shrike Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Blue Picture "Team Luck". Through a strange quirk of probability all of this goes down. With the character suddenly able to see probabilities, he now acts as several dice of luck for the team. There was an NPC, with Leo Getts used as his base persona, that acted more or less in this fashion in our Section M campaign years ago. Of course, nobody realized he had subconcious probability manipulation abilities, but the wildest stuff would happen around him.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I just can't get the term WENDY HOUSE out of my head (Wendy houses are children’s play houses in the UK I think named after the little house the lost boys built Wendy in peter pan) So I think she would have to be a brick. I'm just picturing this prime neat young lady who has suddenly developed invulnerability to harm of course your choice entirely if you decide to instigate the Fairchild rule and have only her body be invulnerable and not her clothing of course she could always buy some unstable molecule undies. As for an origin how about a nice piece of jewelry she buys at a small antique shop or yard sale ort what have you. No one notice anything odd about it until the next base attack and when an energy blast bigger than a Buick hits her she walks away unscathed if a little embarrassed that her neat suit is slightly vaporized. Of course the jewelry carries a strange curse whilst you become to all intense and prepossess invulnerable you are also liable to find your self needing to be on a regular basis people try to kill you and improbable events happen every day you get caught in a dimensional rift and spend a hundred years as queen of the lizard people your kidnapped and thrown into a volcano to appease the gods your vacation is interrupted by aliens mistakenly seeking you as mediator in an intergalactic war. Not to mention working for a super team would make matters even worse I’d probably go with some luck powers as well just to get her out of all those scrapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Originally posted by Hermit I refuse to surrender dear Wendy to Rob Liefeld. I'll give her to a lesser evil first... like Teleios or Takofanes. Or Doctor Destroyer, Tyrannon, the Kings of Edom, hell, even the frickin' Solipsist... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 As I recall, in the Champions section of the Morphius (sp) Unbound website, there's a character known as Pulsecat. It's Wendy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 I prefer the normal getting super via power armor. Occasionally the Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat martial arts route. As for your genetic makeup, I only go that idea with the teen years (when all the other wierd stuff is happening to you.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckg Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 I disagree. While most mutant powers manifest by puberty, there's always 'latent genetic factors that needed a radiation accident before they manifested'. As of the time of the origin of the Fantastic Four, for example, they ranged in age from late 20's or early 30's (Reed and Ben), to very early 20's or late teens (Susan), down to teenaged punk (Johnny). And yet they're all people with latent meta-genes that were made active by the same cosmic radiation dose. Besides, who the hell would spend N million dollars making a powersuit for the maid to wear, when they could give it to somebody like Teknique? Another reason for going the 'meta-gene' theory is because nobody would spend the vast amount of time, effort, and cash it would take to /deliberately/ empower Wendy Brooks unless they had a major ulterior motive, which Defender obviously wouldn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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