Campaign Help Request: Presenting "Sidekick", another Mark Burnett Production...

[TheEmerged]

Basic concept: after the success of "Survivor: Destruga" (otherwise known as Sanctuary/Neutral Ground), Pooka and Mark Burneet (the guy behind "Survivor" and "The Apprentice" have decided to run a Apprentice-like show centering on novas (campaign term for people with superpowers).

 

Basic premise: the contestants are low-powered novas (250 pts). They are going to be paired up with established, higher-powered novas -- including the PC's. The established novas are to mentor the lower-powered novas through a series of challenges. There will be four teams -- two black hat, two white hat. The team that wins each challenge gets a reward, the team that comes in last has one of its pairs (established and newbie) eliminated by a "captain".

 

I've already established that Merry Andrews is going to come out of retirement to play Captain for the two teams of black hat novas.

 

Issue The First. Who should be the Captain (taking Don Trump's role) for the two white hat teams: Warbird (an almost direct translation of the Marvel character)? Or Foxbat (who made it to the round of 4 in Survivor: Destruga)?

 

Issue The Second: Challenges! I'll need 15 of them. The final round will have the two remaining sidekicks leading a team of their fellow sidekicks in a direct confrontation.

 

The first round is similarly pre-decided: a series of "moneybags" are being hid throughout a fake town, in places representing "targets". The challenge is timed. The black hat teams get a point for each moneybag they successfully bring out of the town; the white hat teams get individual credit for each "moneybag" they intercept and split credit for those not found (for every 2 unfound "moneybags", each white hat team gets 1 point).

 

Another idea I have for a late-round challenge (when it's down to one team on each side) is for a "bombing". The black hats have one hour to build and place a 'bomb' somewhere in the fake city. The white hats then have one hour to find and disarm the bomb. The black hats cannot confront the white hats (with intention to delay) until two minutes after they've found the bomb. If the bomb goes off the black hats win, otherwise the white hats win.

 

Any other ideas?

 

Issue the Third: Obviously at some point the teams with the same hat color are probably going to have to merge, or perhaps one team will simply be eliminated leaving the other. Any other plot twists sound good?

[SKJAM!]

Re: Campaign Help Request: Presenting "Sidekick", another Mark Burnett Production...

 

One of the "black hat" players proves him or her-self the most conniving, backstabbing, ruthless person ever to appear on reality TV. Which is saying something. Do the other black hats vote him off, or concede that this person is *exactly* what a villain should be and make him their leader?

 

Ooh, one of the "black hats" turns out to be an actual "name" villain competing under an assumed identity. But this is only revealed after he's kicked off the island for a truly humiliating performance in one of the challenges. Now he's sworn revenge.

[Agent X]

Re: Campaign Help Request: Presenting "Sidekick", another Mark Burnett Production...

 

This sounds a lot like a plot seed from Millennium City for Cavalier. I'm actually using it in my game right now.