What would your character do #59?

[farik]

The Invasion.

 

The aliens are invading! Large motherships have taken positions around the globe and robotic soldiers are taking captives by the thousands. The aliens controlling the robots are not revealing themselves and the robots aren't excedingly tough by superhuman standards it's just that there are billions of them herding people into spacecraft.

 

Who do you defend? What target do you aim for? How do you intend to get information?

[Mayday]

Mayday has two options. Take apart a robot and devise a thingie to disrupt their positronic brains over a wide area, which she does until the world's heroes are ready to launch their assault on the mother ships. She travels in a space suit and once on board goes into stealth mode to find the aliens' computer centers and hack them, download all data possible and stop the motherships from leaving and stop the robots, not necessarily in that order, while the worlds heroes provide a major distraction.

 

Linedrive goes along with the robots until inside the mothership, then cuts loose with his powers and with the help of his (baseball) teammates and whatever military or police were captured also, takes over the mothership.

[Mayday]

Sabre captures a robot for study then concentrates on destroying the shuttles on the ground. As her field is not positronics she then focuses on destroying the robots and mother ships once her corporate scientists have examined the robot technology and provided data.

 

ShadowCross runs around destroying robots until she finds Adam and drags him off to a safe hideout spot in the subways until its all clear.

 

Our GMs have never encouraged DNPCs so I dont often have characters with family or jobs, so they are 'saving everyone' rather than a particular someone.

[farik]

Husky will brawl with the masses until eventually running home to rest. After changing into Kenneth, Kenneth will try to arrange some kind of coordinated effort with other supers to assault a mothership and while waiting for a reply he'll examine the robots for any standard weakness. After changing into Husky to meet up with the other Powers. Husky will hurry to the meeting spot but if he's kept waiting at all he'll start wading knee deep into the robots again.

[SomeAsianKid]

Jade- get on the laptop, contact UNTIL and wait for orders. Something worldwide of this magnatude is just beyond his level of thinking. In the meantime, he'd be helping defend Millenium City by teleporting out/in people and casting healing spells.

 

Paradox- Call the CIA and demand a really, really big gun. Puny 7d6 martial arts isn't going to cut it, and neither will the ability to shapeshift into people vs. robots. Paradox would then fight his/her way to a command robot, take it apart and attempt to hack into whatever network the robots are all on.

[AnotherSkip]

The Rook would consider the following course of actions : Option one is a nigh infinite cumulative MInd control against robot class minds with sticky and a few other advantages(Oh wait is there someone ELSE hacking?) . Option two would be call in the cavalry, the galactic allies that he has have a stake in Earth being and staying as it was before this incident as it is. Option three: mind scanning for alien class of minds and mentally doing the same with them as too the robots in option one possibly using a mental transform on their psy lims (to essentially make them from bad aliens to good aliens) that is also sticky.

 

Dallas has enough metahumans to defend it. Den City needs the assisitance

 

Fir Bolg: probably not enough to take them out (being the 300 point equivalent of an agent) would probably try to work from inside the ship to defeat the aliens however he can best do that. Dallas has enough metahumans to defend it. Wherever he currently is probably needs some defender.

[Metaphysician]

Microman II: Sneak onboard the mothership, either spy for allies, and/or start destroying stuff. If possible, ask PRIMUS to "borrow" a tactical nuke, and bring it along. . .

[Lord Mhoram]

Blackcat would marshall the ground defenses (tactics and related skills in the 16+ range), and organise a counter-offensive with available supers, and co-ordiante efforts worldwide.

 

Ballistic a veteran of intersteller travel, and a space capable supermage would fly up and scout around and scry on the aliens. If a weakness he could exploit was found, he go blow 'em up.

[Vex]

Hmmmm, let's see....

 

Adrenaline would protect the general populous.

 

Realm would protect the streets of Dallas and the surrounding area, but try to save enough energy to help teleporting the inevitable counter attack of superheros.

 

Hecabus would automatically go after the big alien dude running the show hoping to reconfigure the robots programming so they work for him ("hmmm, a planet full of robots I control....." =] ). If he couldn't take control of the robots he would most likely gather all the robots and start sending them at the people that have angered him (Lloth could very likely get a visit from several hundred thousand shiny envoys and the Council of Dragons would have to deal with a plaque of little metal "vermin".) As Hecabus always says, "If you can't beat them, taunt them!"

[Vanderbilt_Grad]

Tesseract would immediately decide to scout. He knows that he is not well suited to take out legions of robots. With powerful teleportation and intangibility he will attempt to learn as much as he can about the invaders.

 

After that he will report to UNTIL.

 

He could be useful for evacuating captives or inserting a superteam after that and will want to find out what UNTIL is planning.

[Blue]

As the robots are likely guided, you always go to the controller (Cut off the head...)

 

All heroes available should be concentrating on capturing a ship for the purpose of finding out about the alien masters and figuring out everything they could about the fleet and the robots.

[Ken Solo]

White Dwarf would have some issues as his powers begin to act unpridictably when in the presence of extraterestial objects. Since the robots are undoubtably of extraterrestial manufacture, WD would be pretty much reduced to sniping at them from extreme range with his energy blast. Which will probably destroy one, but it will be slow going. And of course, all they have to do is walk in his direction in mass to force his retreat.

Another chapter of looserness for WD. Sorry Earth.

[ParagonAlpha]

WWID

 

Another cool one.. Hey any chance one ot the board moderator types could gather up all thes WWYD threads and the Alternate Earth Threads and put thim in one handy-dandy area? Please? I'll buy more Hero Products.

 

Okay on to my Heros...

 

Paragon: At first would worry about the local area, but as he realized the scope of the threat he would begin massive robot destruction. Seeing as how they're not super tough just lots, he'd grab a hunk of wall and begin smashing dozens at a time. Eventually he'd realize that others are fighting.. Gather as man as possible and coordinate a massive effort against the motherships. (He is after all the Superman of my universe.)

 

The Patriot: Agent smashing galore. But he knows he'd be at risk fighting aboard a space ship so would coordinate with ground fighting and lead Rick Rage and the Agents of SWORD against the robotic invaders.

 

StarKnight: To qoute StarKinight: "Why you intergalactic suckas gotta mess wif my home?" StarKnight,no stranger to the warring space nations contacts his fellow Knights of the Andromeda Star Empire and they gather the full might of the ASE and bring the pain. Granted it takes them a few days to show up, damn faster than light travel limits. In the mean time he'd get is family to safety. Beat up some robots. Fly to the moon and rip a piece off and smash it into a mothership. He'd play space frisbee and see if they can withstand the heat of the sun. (FYI StarKnight is basically what would have happened if the Nova Powers had gone to Lucas Cage. That will me very little to you young folk)

 

Peace

[zakueins]

Ghost Sniper would begin taking the robots down, one by one. Assume gurilla/covert ops warfare-rallying the populace, getting them trained and armed, destroying more robots, taking down the starships, and organizing the resistance. She'll leave the heavy intellectual lifting to other people.

[Battlestaff]

Battlestaff would immediately begin kicking alien ro-butt. When he realized that they just kept coming, he would move on to try and figure out how to stop them at their source. He would hook up with other heroes who knew the score with the motherships.

 

Battlestaff would volunteer to infiltrate the ship, scout around, disrupt things, etc. He would get someone who could keep him alive while they traveled to the mothership. Once there, he would begin scouting the area, picking off small groups of aliens, damaging equipment, that kind of thing. The aliens would realize someone was there, and when he knew where the command center was, he would signal the heros waiting just out of sensor range to come and do what they do best: massive amounts of collateral damage.

[Wanderer]

Re: What would your character do #59?

 

Hmm, this is just the kind of threat Nova sought superpowers for in the first place and self-appointed himself defender of Earth. Would first begin massive robot destruction, then go for the motherships when he realizes there are just too many of them. Would attack and disable/destroy one ship after another until he's able to locate and hack the aliens' computers to send a "deactivate" signal to all robots on Earth. Then he would try to find out the aliens' motivation. If it turns out malevolent, he would try to find the aliens' home base(s) and teach them the hard way the wisdom of leaving Earth alone.

[SKJAM!]

Re: What would your character do #59?

 

Mask of Justice: "So, the Martians decided to protect themselves from the germs this time, eh?" The Mask will assume his civilian guise of Nick Philips, ace reporter, and allow himself to be captured. Once aboard the mother ship, he'll start a revolt of the human captives. He'll quickly resume being the Mask, locate the alien leader, and challenge said leader to single combat. Since the Mask of Justice is fighting for America, not to mention the world, he wins and extracts a promise from the aliens never to attack Earth again. Just as people are beginning to wonder where that reporter fellow went to, Nick will show up with a plausible excuse for his absence. I love the Golden Age.

 

Rock Bottom: Helps protect Baltimore by smashing robots. The Global Guardians will be dealing with the motherships.

 

Calculus: He and Prototype II will devise some method of disrupting the robots' communications, making them useless. Presumably the Global Guardians will be dealing with the motherships (It's a previous, less galactic version of the team.)

 

Kira Midori: "I hate robots." Will be helping the police deal with crisis management by using her precog to spot upcoming attacks.

 

Talion: Utterly useless against robots, and no one will call him up to deal with the aliens themselves. Probably gets captured early and stuck in a cage for the duration.