Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the CU

[Mark Rand]

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Could that also include white gloves and white nurse's caps ?

Not funny.

It's probably black BDUs, combat boots and web gear, along with whatever gear The Initiative troops wear.

[CBikle]

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Not funny.

Dude, sorry , but that is funny.

 

Often in your many other postings related to your Batman-Buffy-Pittsburgh Champions campaign, the whole white glove/nurse thing will suddenly show up out of left field.

 

No offense intended.

[Mark Rand]

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Dude, sorry , but that is funny.

 

Often in your many other postings related to your Batman-Buffy-Pittsburgh Champions campaign, the whole white glove/nurse thing will suddenly show up out of left field.

 

No offense intended.

None taken.

Although I haven't seen a nurse or a student nurse in a regular uniform, much less a white cap in Pittsburgh in ten years, there are nurses in the United States that still wear them.

In campaigns where a nurse wears them while working for a superhero team, she has access to a parallel universe where buildings from universes where all life has died out. Some nurses wear them instead of scrubs. Others simply try them on and let someone else take photos for posterity. Batman's nurse likes it enough to wear it all the time. The nurse caring for PRIMUS Pittsburgh's superhero team wore them, and other uniforms only while photographs were being taken.

[Mark Rand]

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Along with Buffy we have to have our favorite evil law firm, Wolfram & Hart.

Are they just an evil law firm or something more sinister?

[Mark Rand]

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This idea came to me yesterday. The campaign city has three Slayers. All are 17-year old high school seniors (and cheerleaders). Unknown to everyonebut those who guard it, there's a Hellmouth under the stage of the high school's auditorium.

Midiri Yamashiro is one of the three Slayers. A Japanese-American woman from a family that was the result of the merger of a ninja clan into a samurai family in the early 1900s, she was a skilled ninja before becoming a Slayer. She is the current bearer of the clan's honor swords. Her katana, Amaterasu's Mirror, rests across her back while her short sword, Amaterasu's Tears, sits on her left hip. Both swords are invisible and intangable until called for. Also, according to clan legend, the swords are blessed. What Midori doesn't know is this: Amaterasu's Mirror, like Buffy's scythe, is, in D&D terms, a +5 Holy Avenger.

Midori's mother, Fujiko, owns a dojo in the campaign city and trains the Slayers and their team mates in combat. Fujiko's sister, Kimiko, owns a gymnastics school that's next to Fujiko's dojo and lets her sister's students work out there. Midori's father, Hikaru, works for the county crime lab.

More Slayers and team mates to follow.

[OddHat]

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Along with Buffy we have to have our favorite evil law firm, Wolfram & Hart.

Are they just an evil law firm or something more sinister?

 

In the Wheedonverse they are owned by a group of three ancient demons (The Wolf, The Ram, and The Hart) who already almost rule our world through the Circle of the Black Thorn (IIRC). Essentially, they are behind Demon, the Circle of the Scarlet Moon, and probably others. There is a great deal of fighting among the factions, but ultimately they answer to the same masters. The origins of those masters vary from Buffy/Angel writer to writer. Personally, I like to think that some of the Ancient Demons felt that the Earth was best left to Humanity, and wished to pass on to higher dimensions. Others wished to keep their hold on Earth. Those that ascended pushed out those that wished to remain. The Higher Powers and the Elder Demons thus share the same origins. Wolf, Ram and Heart were weak enough at the time of the great wars to escape notice, and have been accumulating power for millenia since.

 

To simplify your storytelling as GM, I'd suggest folding all of the Good-Government stories into one agency. The Initiative, Primus, the OSI, all of them are under CURE, and do share intel. Steve Austin was an early prototype for the Silver Avengers. All of the Evil Mystic groups are under the Senior Partners of Wolfram and Hart, except for "free" ancient evils like Takafones or The Dragon. The Higher Powers are behind the Watchers, the Slayers, The Council, and most Good mystical supers.

 

I've always used variations on this world background myself: http://www.pjfarmer.com/secret/secret.htm

[Mark Rand]

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To simplify your storytelling as GM, I'd suggest folding all of the Good-Government stories into one agency. The Initiative, Primus, the OSI, all of them are under CURE, and do share intel. Steve Austin was an early prototype for the Silver Avengers. All of the Evil Mystic groups are under the Senior Partners of Wolfram and Hart, except for "free" ancient evils like Takafones or The Dragon. The Higher Powers are behind the Watchers, the Slayers, The Council, and most Good mystical supers. QUOTE]

Oh, I like this idea. The Firm, from Airwolf, is part of Cure, too, and Airwolf herself secretly exists and is still used by the firm. (In our version, Airwolf went AU after the third season. Now, there are two copters named Airwolf. The original, flown by Stringfellow, Dom and Caitlin, has a sentient and psi active AI. The other, piloted by Saint John, Mike, and Jo, doesn't.)

The Jugglers, a group of corrupt bureaucrats, is under the control of the Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart. This group includes the rogue elements of the NID, Vice President Kinsey, and a group of people that keep the senators voting the way they want to by paying their campaign bills. (If the senators don't vote the way they want, they'll pay their opponents' bills.)

[Mark Rand]

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I forgot to mension that Midori's hair falls to the center of her back.

Ronna Taylor is the second of the campaign city's three Slayers. She's an African-American girl whose braided, black hair, touches her jaw line. Her mother, Ann, is the school nurse and her father, John, is the school librarian and the team's Watcher. Secrets abound in the Taylor family. Ann is a Jedi Knight who fled the Empire 20-years ago in the Starchild, a Ghtrok Industries Class 720 Light Freighter. Inside it are her Incom T-65B X-Wing Space Superiority fighter and R2-Z4, or Zephyr, her astromech droid. Keeping with Jedi tradition, Ann trained Ronna. Both Ann and Ronna have lightsabers. Ann's has a green blade while Ronna's has a red blade.

The third Slayer is Elena Valdez, a Hispanic girl whose black hair caresses her shoulders. Since her father, Michael, and mother, Gloria, a United States Senator, didn't want her in the political spotlight, Gloria's parents are raising her.

As a side note, Henry Hayes, the President of the United States, has proof that now Vice President Kinsey has been involved in criminal activity and plans to turn it over to the Attorney General and House Judiciary Committee. If Kinsey is forced from office, President Hayes plans to name Gloria Valdez Vice President.

[Mark Rand]

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One team mate of the three Slayers is Willow Caplan, a redheaded Jewish computer hacker and eighth-generation Guardian Witch. Her mother, Susan, a seventh -generation Guardian Witch, teaches chemistry at the school. Both help out with research and magic.

Like the rest, Willow has secrets.

King Arthur existed. Thanks to a magical being known as the Green Knight, various individuals were given what is called the Pendragon Power to fight evil. One of these was Arthur's sister, Morgaine, who succeeded Vivianne as High Priestess of Avalon and Lady of the Lake. Willow is Morgiaine's reincarnate and the current wielder of her Pendragon Power.

More to come.

[Mark Rand]

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The Pendragon Power is properly called The Champion Spirit of Pendragon.

Three British heroes, the Knights of Pendragon, also carry this spirit. They are Francesca Lexley Grace, Joey Chapman and Kate McClellan. The power gives them, and Willow, heightened abilities, powers and senses. The Knights have mystical armored battlesuits that appear around them with a mental command and high-tech two-person vehicles that can travel on land or jump, through ley space, to other realities.

Francesca Lexley Grace, who prefers to be addressed as Grace, carries the power of Aleta, the Queen of the Misty Isles and one of Arthur's three female knights. When in combat, she's always in armor.

Joey Chapman, the current Union Jack, carries Sir Lancelot's power. He fights either in armor or his superhero costume.

Kate McClellan, Astra TV's fearless and much loved reporter, carries Queen Guinevere's power. She prefers street clothes and has been receltly seen in the black leather jumpsuit, boots and gloves she bought before doing a five-part report on England's motorcycle culture. Her armor has a medieval look, It consists of scale mail covered by a black tabard and hooded cape. A shield and brown boots, sword belt, and gloves complete the costume. On the tabard and shield are Queen Guinevere's coat of arms.

Since the main foes of the Knights of Pendragon are the Bane, the servents of a demon known as the Red Lord, it is possible that the Green Knight either is associated with or is one of The Powers That Be.

[Mark Rand]

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The last four teamn mates of the Slayers, more secrets and other playfulness.

Cathy Thompsan and Gail West are the same age as the other high school students. Their mothers, Connie and Katie respectfully, are gym teachers at the high school. All four are expert archers and swordswomen.

Their secret is this. All four are Amazons, decendants of the tribe once led by Gabrielle. In the ancient days, 200 Amazons stood against 2 Roman legions while their sisters fled into the outside world. The Amazons died, as did half the Romans.

There is, of course, the "popular" group, which is led by a brain-dead fashion slave. The vampire hunters may tease them in school, but they'll hurt anyone who attacks the airheads, or anyone else.

[Mark Rand]

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All federal law enforcement agencies are aware that vampires and such exist and keep in touch with Slayer Central, where the new Watcher Council is located. Federal agents in various cities also keep in touch with their local Slayers do, as do certain officials in each police department and crime lab.

Secret Service Agent Alex McGregor, who heads the Executive Protection Division, has no problem working with Slayers, or other superheroes, as long as they're either federal employees or federally-sanctioned and willing to do what she wants them to.

[Mark Rand]

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It just occurred to me that there might not be enough trained Slayers to have a team of three in every location that needs one. Therefore, only Elena will be the campaign city's Slayer. John Taylor is still her Watcher and the school librarian. Ann Taylor, R.N., is still the school nurse and the one that tends her injuries. Willow, her mother and the Amazons are still here, too.

[Mark Rand]

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A Slayer team in a city could should consist of a Watcher, up to three Slayers, the Slayers parents, siblings and friends, and, possibly, people they've rescued that want to contribute. Some associates will be fighters, while others won't.

I'm assuming that most Watchers will be researchers with some fighting skills. A linguist would be a great asset, as would people, like physical education teachers, who train others for a living. A priest would also be a good contact, as would a mage or a trauma surgeon.

[Mark Rand]

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It occurrs to me that some of the characters from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series could be good templates for characters.

The Slayer is the attractive daughter of a wealthy family. she has long, dark hair, hangs out with the "popular" croud, and always makes sarcastic comments. This is all a mask. In truth, her parents are rarely at home and their housekeeper acts as her guardian.

Her Watcher, who was assigned to her once the old council knew she was a Potential, is the school librarian. He wears tweed, is good at research, likes books, hates computers and wears glasses.

The school nurse is a kind, middle-aged woman who currently wears light-blue scrubs. She joined the team, as its nurse, after being saved from a vampire.

The computer hacker is a shy, redheaded Jewish girl.

The resident witch is a blonde, eighth-generation guardian witch and cheerleader. Her mother, who is her mentor and teaches chemistry at the school, sometimes joins the team.